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Page 22 of 731910 · PDF PAGE 175
… ear with tales of spite, Blasting each bud with bitter blight. I see the poisonous upas-tree, Its shade the ghastly trinity — Religion, law, morality — Sicken with its stifling breath Human loveliness to death. I myself the tool of priests, Tyrants, merchants, hags and beasts, Lawyers, doctors, artizans, Whores and theologians ! All my life misunderstood Built in slime and nursed with blood ! This my death divinely hallows Boot and rack, stake and gallows. Strong men crushed beneath my domes, Children tortured in my homes, Women tricked and ra…
1929 · PDF PAGE 217
…e conversational value of puns. I'm going to turn in; you get busy, and find a neutral ship to rob." "I shall do my best to maintain the law of the sea." "Made by the pirate to suit his game. Good God! I can't see why we shouldn't be sensible. Why must we invoke Law and Gospel every time we want to do a dirty act? My character's strong enough to let me kill all the Germans I can without persuading myself that I'm saving them from Prusian Tyranny! Good-night!" "The youth is unintelligible or immoral," thought Manners, as he turned his face to th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 36
…able before beginning a formal meal to go through the following dialogue: Knock 3-5-3; say, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." The person at the other end of the table replies: "What is thy Will?" You: "It is my Will to eat and drink." He: "To what end?" You: "That my body may be fortified thereby." He: "To what end?" You: "That I may accomplish the Great Work." He: "Love is the law, love under will." You, with a single knock: "Fall to." When alone make a monologue of it: thus, Knock 3-5-3. Do what, etc. It is my Will to, etc., …
1954 · PDF PAGE 48
… like a flash of lightning. Now to answer your questions ad seriatim; it is quite all right to put questions to me about The Book of the Law; a very extended commentary has been written, but it is not yet published.3 I shall probably be able to answer any of your questions from that manuscript, but you cannot go on after that when it would become a discussion; as they say in the "You must take the witness's answer." 2. The Qabalah, both Greek and Hebrew, also very likely Arabic, was used by the author of The Book of the Law. I have explained ab…
1954 · PDF PAGE 337
… have read Hitler Speaks-if not, do so-his private conversation abounds in what sound almost like actual quotations from The Book of the Law. But the public man's private conversation can be repeated on the platform only at the risk of his political life; and he served up to the people only such concoctions as would tickle their gross palates. Worse still, he was the slave of his prophetic frenzy; he had not undertaken the balancing regimen of the Curriculum of A:. A:. ; and, worst of all, he was very far indeed from being a full initiate, even…
1905 · PDF PAGE 135
…ams deceived and maddened ! It might be—the delusive dance, The shadowy form I saw, Apollo’s misty quivering lance Thrown to elude God’s law ; It might be—doth the maid advance, Evanish, or withdraw? So stung by certainty’s mistrust, Or tranced in dream of sin, Or blinded by some Panic dust, By Dionysian din — Deafened, arose the laughing lust To fling my body in! I stood upon the rock, and cried, And held my body high 136
1996 · PDF PAGE 201
200 The Law is for All 41. The word of Sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell. 42. Let it be that state of manyhood bound and loathing. So with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will. 43. Do that, and no other shall say nay. 44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. 45. The Perfect and the Perfect are one Perfec…
1909 · PDF PAGE 304
… probably after the nine hundred and ninety-nine billionth time I might be excused if I con- sidered that catching balls was a necessary law of nature.* Yet nevertheless if I did arrive at such a conclusion without being fully conscious that at any moment I might have to recast the whole of these laws, I should be but a bat-headed dogmatist instead of the hawk-eyed man of science who is ever ready to re-see and to reform.” * Why is it more probable that all men must die; that lead cannot of itself remain suspended in the air ; that fire consume…
1909 · PDF PAGE 304
… probably after the nine hundred and ninety-nine billionth time I might be excused if I con- sidered that catching balls was a necessary law of nature.* Yet nevertheless if I did arrive at such a conclusion without being fully conscious that at any moment I might have to recast the whole of these laws, I should be but a bat-headed dogmatist instead of the hawk-eyed man of science who is ever ready to re-see and to reform.” * Why is it more probable that all men must die; that lead cannot of itself remain suspended in the air ; that fire consume…
1996 · PDF PAGE 161
162 The Law is for All false. The Ethics of Liber Legis are those of Evolution itself. We are only fools if we interfere. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law, biologically as well as in every other way. Let us take an example. I am an antivaccinationist in a sense which every other antivaccinationist would repudiate. I admit that vaccination protects from smallpox. But I should like every body to have smallpox. The weak would die; the strong might have pitted faces; but the race would become immune to the disease in a few generatio…
1919 · PDF PAGE 382
…hyself and fearest to offer help to others—then, thou of timid heart, be warned in time: re- main content with the “Eye Doctrine” of the Law. Hope still. For if the “Secret Path” is unattainable this “day,” it is within thy reach “To-morrow.” Learn that no efforts, not the smallest—whether in right or wrong direction—can vanish from the world of causes. E’en wasted smoke re- mains not traceless. “A harsh word uttered in past lives is not destroyed, but ever comes again.” The pepper plant will not give birth to roses, nor the sweet jessamine’s s…
1912 · PDF PAGE 16
…oge, soldiers, sentinels, bodyguards, the governor of the prison, servants, etc. THE COUNTESS MAGDALENA PISELLI, the widowed daughter-in-law of the Doge. THE COUNTESS LUCREZIA SANZIO, a gay lady. ZELINA VISCONTI, a courtesan. THE PRINCESS MONICA ARETINO, a saint. THE ABBESS OF THE URSULINES. Venetian ladies, women of the people, courtesans, nuns, etc. xv
1939 · PDF PAGE 28
…riculum. Nor can schoolboy tricks adequately excuse the aspirant from the duties of manhood. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Rejoice, true men, that this is thus! For this at least may be said, that there are results to be obtained in this way which will not only fit the aspirant for the actual battle, but will introduce him to classes of hitherto unguessed phenomena whose impact will prepare his mind for that terrific shock of its own complete overthrow which marks the first critical result of the practices of Yoga. Love is th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…he most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent licence, is seen on analysis to be indeed “the whole of the Law”, the sole and sufficient warrant for human action, the self-evident Code of Righteousness, the identification of Fate with Freewill, and the end of the Civil War in Man’s nature by appointing the Canon of Truth, the conformity of things with themselves, to détermine his every act. “Do what thou wilt” is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its levelj man is the only being in Nature t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 146
… last, the incomparable security. Whose mind is strenuous and reflects ; whose deeds are circumspect and pure, His thoughts aye fixed on Law, the fame of that con-centred shall endure. By Earnestness, by centred thought, by self restraint, by suffering long, Let the wise man an island build against the fatal current strong. Fools follow after vanity, those men of evil wisdom’s sect ; But the wise man doth earnestness, a precious talisman, protect.
1930 · PDF PAGE 51
…are necessary, even, to assist that analysis of one’s nature which the Probationer of A.-. A.*, is sworn to accomplish. But "Love is the Law, love under Will”. And Our Lady Nuit is “divided for love s sake, for the chance of union.” These mirror-mirages are therefore not Works of Magick, according to the Law of Thelema. the true Magick of Horus requires the passionate union of opposites. Now the proof that one is in contact with an independent entity dépends on a sensation which ought to be unmistakeable if one is in good health. One ought not …
1913 · PDF PAGE 73
…y name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. 75. The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra. The Book of the Law is Written and Concealed. Aum. Ha. [For doubtful spellings and styles consult facsimile MS. facing p. 386, Equinox I, vii.]
1913 · PDF PAGE 73
…y name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. 75. The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra. The Book of the Law is Written and Concealed. Aum. Ha. [For doubtful spellings and styles consult facsimile MS. facing p. 386, Equinox I, vii.]
1996 · PDF PAGE 17
18 The Law is for All blasphemes against this godhead. In certain aspects, it has shown itself to be an arch-enemy of the soul of man. Long ago Henrik Ibsen declared that “mere democracy cannot solve the social question.” He might have added that there are many other questions that it cannot solve. But he implied this when he said that an element of aristocracy must be introduced into our life. Of course I do not mean the aristocracy of birth or of the purse, or even the aristocracy of intellect. I mean the aristocracy of character, of will, of…
1996 · PDF PAGE 290
…sprt, 1907; facs. ed., Chicago: Teitan, 1990. “Four invaluable treatises and a preface on Mysti cism and Magick.” 15 ------------ . The Law is for All, ed. I. Regardie. St. Paul: Llewellyn, 1975; rpt. Scottsdale, az: New Falcon, 1991. 16 ------------ . [Liber 418.] Liber XXX /Ervm vel Sceculi Sub Figura CCCCXVIII. Being of the Angels of the Thirty /Ethyrs the Vision and the Voice. With commentary, ed. Karl Germer, Bar stow, ca: Thelema Publishing Co., 1952; 2nd ed., with abridged commentary, ed. I. Regardie, Dallas: Sangreal Foundation, 1972.…