1961 · PDF PAGE 17
Liber Aleph
…y about them. Wherein which Party errs is no matter of Moment for our Thought; but the Existence of the War is Evidence of Wrong done to Nature. n
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Songs of the Spirit
…f man’s self He sees cast dimly on a bank of cloud, Thrice his own size ? And I whose life has been [Cry without.] One bitter fight with nature and myself To find Him out, turn, terrible, to-night [Cry without.] To see myself—myself—myself. [Cry without.] Hush ! Hark ! Methought I heard a cry. The seamew wails 14
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1929 · PDF PAGE 131
Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)
…be killed 1 within the Circle, or the Triangle, as the case may be. so that its energy cannot escape. An animal should be selected whose nature accords with that of the ceremony — thus, by sacrificing a female lamb one would not obtain any appreciate quantity of the fierce energy useful to a Magician who was invoking Mars. In such a case a ram 2 3 would be more suitable. And this ram should be virgin — the whole potential of its original total energy should not hâve been diminished in any way. ;; For the highest spiritual working one must accor…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 128
Moonchild
…sults, they were first noticed by that sturdy warrior. And he, considering the situation, argued that the observed phenomena were due to Nature or to Magick, and that in either case the remedy lay in opposing no resistance to the forces, but allowing them to operate in a laudable manner. Accordingly, he took a large dose of a medicine known to the pharmacist as Hydrarg.Subchlor, adding the remark "If this be nature, may it do me good; and if this be magic, may it do himgood!" This occurred just as Arthwait reached his final operation, the evisc…
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1899 · PDF PAGE 52
Tale of Archais
…e grim Abodes of Charicles, for deadly shade Lowered oer their top, nor any light betrayed The horror of their core. Despairing then Of natures prophets, and of gods and men, She cast her arms wide open to the sky, Cried loud, and wept, and girt herself to die. It was a pinnacle of ivory Whereon she stood, the loftiest of three fangs
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1961 · PDF PAGE 18
Liber Aleph
… forth in Fury against them, unless that be thy will. But in this Matter be prudent and be silent, discerning subtly and with acumen the nature of the Will within thee; so that thou mistake not Fear for Chastity, or Anger for Courage. And since the fetters are old and heavy, and thy Limbs withered and distorted by reason of their Compulsion, do thou, having broken them, walk gently for a little while, until the ancient Elasticity return, so that thou mayst walk, run, and leap naturally and with Rejoicing. Also, since these Fetters are as a Bond…
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1930 · PDF PAGE 55
Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)
…rely it, if any one knows, should know! To-day it may Sound impossible for inanimate objects to reveal the inmost secrets of mankind and nature. We cannot say whv divination is valid. We cannot trace the process by which it per- forms its marvels.1 But the same objections apply equally well to the téléphoné. No man knows what electricity is, or the nature of the forces which détermine its action. We know only that by doing certain things we get certain results, and that the least error I. The main différence between a Science and an Art is that…
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1912 · PDF PAGE 196
The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)
… hand branch. The whole is a great and flaming Torch It symbolizes Force—strength, rush, vigour, energy, and it governs, according to its nature, various works and ques- tions‘ It implies Natural, as opposed to Invoked, Force. II THE ROOT OF THE POWERS OF THE WATERS Ace of Cuþs or Chalice: A WHITE Radiant Angelic Hand, issuing from clouds, and supporting on the palm thereof a cup, resembling that of the Stolistes. From it rises a fountain of clear and glistening water: and sprays falling 011 all sides into clear calm water below, in which grow L…
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1912 · PDF PAGE 196
The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)
… hand branch. The whole is a great and flaming Torch It symbolizes Force—strength, rush, vigour, energy, and it governs, according to its nature, various works and ques- tions‘ It implies Natural, as opposed to Invoked, Force. II THE ROOT OF THE POWERS OF THE WATERS Ace of Cuþs or Chalice: A WHITE Radiant Angelic Hand, issuing from clouds, and supporting on the palm thereof a cup, resembling that of the Stolistes. From it rises a fountain of clear and glistening water: and sprays falling 011 all sides into clear calm water below, in which grow L…
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1944 · PDF PAGE 73
The Book of Thoth
…th a silver crown. He is accompanied by the Red Lion, and she by the White Eagle. These are symbols of the male and female principles in Nature; they are therefore equally, in various stages of manifestation, Sun and Moon, Fire and Water, Air and Earth. In chemistry they appear as acid and alkali, or (more deeply) metals and non‐metals, taking those words in their widest philosophical sense to include hydrogen on the one hand and oxygen on the other. In this aspect, the hooded figure represents the Protean element of car‐ bon, the seed of all o…
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1899 · PDF PAGE 23
Tale of Archais
…s, and golden gales Of sound, and breezes of delighted sighs. Bring music, hear me chant the world that is, And how Loves ambush in all nature lies, And I will tell how for one eager kiss My soul is fain to forget Paradise In Archais.
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1903 · PDF PAGE 59
The Star and the Garter
…will availed, nor quailed, Intimate with the naked probe ? I know the husks to strip ; name, form, Sensation, then perception, stress Of nature thither; last, the swarm Of honey-bees called consciousness. These change and shape a myriad shapes. Diverse are these, not one at all. What gain I if my scalpel scrapes, Turning before some final wall Of soul? Not so, nothing is there. The qualities are all : for this I stop as I have stopped; intrude H 57
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1906 · PDF PAGE 23
Collected Works (Vol. II)
…elly rank with exhalations foetid. Upon this rottenness the sun shone deadly straight As if to cook it to a turn, And give back to great Nature hundredfold the debt That, joining it together, she did earn. The sky beheld this carcase most superb out- spread As spreads a flower, itself, whose taint Stank so supremely strong, that on the grass your head You thought to lay, in sudden faint. The flies swarmed numberless on this putres- cent belly, Whence issued a battalion Of larve, black, that flowed, a sluggish liquid jelly, Along this living car…
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1930 · PDF PAGE 99
Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)
… made concrète thereby. 32. Considérations of further danger to those not purged of material thought. — Let it be remembered that in the nature of the love itself is danger. The lust of the satyr for the nymph is indeed of the same nature as the affinity of quicklime for water en the one hand, and of love of Ab for Ama on the otherj so also is the triad Osiris, Isis, Horus like that of a horse, mare, foal, and of red, blue, purple. And this is the foundation of Correspondences. But it were false to say “Horus is a foal” or “Horus is purple”. On…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 51
Book 4 (Part II)
… LXV, "To await Thee is the end, not the beginning." This training may lead through all sorts of complications, varying according to the nature of the student, and hence it may be necessary for him at any moment to will all sorts of things which to others might 39
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1910 · PDF PAGE 97
The Scented Garden
…of the Mevliviyeh dervishes.” Thus far Palmer ; and I can learn no more. But probably the word is used to emphasize the purely religious nature of the passion.
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1910 · PDF PAGE 49
The Winged Beetle
… a curse. I made me ink, and in a little book I wrote one word That God himself, the adder of Thought, had never heard. XV It detonated. Nature, God, mankind Like sulphur, nitre, charcoal, once Blended, in one annihilation blind Were rent into a myriad of suns. Yea ! all the mighty fabric of a Mind Stood in the abyss, Belching a Law for That more awful than for This. XVI Vain was the toil. So then I left the wood And came unto the still black sea, That oily monster of beatitude ! (Hath Thee for Me, and Me for Thee !) There as I stood, a mask of…
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1944 · PDF PAGE 197
The Book of Thoth
…ing the element. At the base of the Cup is the Moon, for it is the virtue of this card to conceive and to produce the second form of its Nature.
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1961 · PDF PAGE 74
Liber Aleph
… Body, and to the Mind the Things of the Mind. Yet because of the interior Harmony of all Things that proceedeth from their Original One Nature, there is Action and Reaction of the one upon the other, as I have already set forth in this mine Epistle. But Law is universal, and between these two Kinds of Illusion there is an ordered Proportion, and it is proper to thy Science to delimit and describe this Law of Interaction, for to deny it wholly (as to extend it to Infinity) is Folly, born of Ignorance, Idleness, and Incapacity to observe Fact. o
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1996 · PDF PAGE 73
The Law is for All
…oets, His makers of beauty in colour and form to adorn Him, His mak ers of music to praise Him? Shall not His theologians, divining His nature, declare Him? Shall not even those who but sweep the courts of His temple, partake thereby of His person? And shall not our science lay hands on Him, measure Him, discover the depths, calculate the heights, and decipher the laws of His nature? Also: to us of Thelema, thus having trained our hearts and minds to be expert engineers of the sky-cleaver Love, the ship to soar to the Sun, to us the act of Lov…
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