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…insert the key, leaving the barrel and ring outside. Put the elastic band round the book, so as to fix the key firmly in it. Balance the whole arrangement by putting your thumb and that of the Assistant Magus of Art under the ring, thumb against thumb. (An important but, as I hold, heterodox school of adepts employ the forefinger.) Keep very still; and ask your question: ‘‘ Adam, Adam, tell me true! Shall I——” &c. If the Bible turns in a dextro-rotary manner the answer is “ yes”; if in the opposite direction, “no.” This sublime method of tearin…
1909 · PDF PAGE 78
…insert the key, leaving the barrel and ring outside. Put the elastic band round the book, so as to fix the key firmly in it. Balance the whole arrangement by putting your thumb and that of the Assistant Magus of Art under the ring, thumb against thumb. (An important but, as I hold, heterodox school of adepts employ the forefinger.) Keep very still; and ask your question: ‘‘ Adam, Adam, tell me true! Shall I——” &c. If the Bible turns in a dextro-rotary manner the answer is “ yes”; if in the opposite direction, “no.” This sublime method of tearin…
1912 · PDF PAGE 75
…rce only to invoke A (VELLE) The vow of Obedience is to concentrate the Will on A alone. (TACERE) The vow of Silence: so to regulate the whole organism that so vast a miracle as the Com- pletion of the Great Work excites therein no commotion. vm c 33
1912 · PDF PAGE 75
…rce only to invoke A (VELLE) The vow of Obedience is to concentrate the Will on A alone. (TACERE) The vow of Silence: so to regulate the whole organism that so vast a miracle as the Com- pletion of the Great Work excites therein no commotion. vm c 33
1961 · PDF PAGE 105
…he Nature of these twain aforesaid albeit in Degree less notable than either of them, and Alcohol, which is Food, that is, Fuel, for the whole Man. To Water, attribute Hashish and Mescal, for they make Images, and they open the hidden Springs of Pleasure and of Beauty. Morphine, for its Ease, hath also part in Water. Air ruleth Ethyl Oxide, for it is as a Sword, dividing asunder ever Part of thee, making easy the Way of Analysis, so that thou comest to learn thyself of what Elements thou art compact. Lastly, of the Nature of Earth are the direc…
1907 · PDF PAGE 63
…es men know not what false flower : Ere the cup is drained , the wine Grows unsweet , that was divine . These last two lines contain the whole secret of this story . The beauty of the clinging love of childhood is tinged with a glowing desire , the pink desire of the bud bursts into the passionate crimson of the rose , and 1 The Tale of Archais , vol . i, p . 9. 2 Ibid . vol .i, pp . 9, 10 .
1910 · PDF PAGE 7
…ttention of the hostess to their interior pangs. Joyful too was the great tea at Mr. Nunnerley’s where we delayed the prayer meeting one whole hour by plying Mrs. Musty with avalanches of food after everyone else had finished. Ah joy ! as piglike she munched on ! while the hapless brethren (torn between impatience and polite- ness) wrung their hands in anguish. Only my natural reluctance to strike a tragic chord so early in my narrative obliges me to omit some account of the circumstances in which the well-named Mrs. Clapham the fishmonger’s wi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 10
…am Road), London, S.W. ‘There are many other officers, but they do not concern those to whom the present manifesto is addressed. ‘9. The whole of the Knowledge dispersed among the bodies mentioned in paragraph 2 has been sifted and con- centrated in the following degrees: O° Minerval. r 1 nr M.. IV° Companion of the Holy Royal Arch of Enoch. Prince of Jerusalem. Knight of the East and of the West. . 9
1954 · PDF PAGE 430
66 Vampires Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. So you want me to tell you all about Vampires? Vampire yourself! I ask you, how does this come within the scope of your enquiries? Is this information essential to your Accomplishment of the Great Work? As the Government might say "Is your journey really necessary?" So musing, I rang you up for details. Vampires, you say, might be a temptation to yourself, or they might sap your energy. Very good. I will tell you the little I know. Listen to Eliphas Levi! He warns us again…
1909 · PDF PAGE 45
… here complain of serious trouble with fountain pens, and the waste of priceless time fixing them up. They have been wrong throughout the whole operation, a thing that has not happened to me for near eight years. I hope I’ve got a good one at last—yes, thank God ! this one writes decently.) 43
1912 · PDF PAGE 82
…cal eye cannot behold the sun, one is compelled to make the statement that this “ Sun” is far more brilliant than the sun of nature. The whole thing takes place on a higher level. Also the conditions of thought, time, and space are abolished. It is impossible to explain what this really means :i only experience can furnish you with apprehension. (This, too, has its analogies in ordinary life; the conceptions of higher mathematics cannot be grasped by the beginner, cannot be explained to the layman.) Α further development is the appearance of th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 14
…actices for this purpose. If you keep on praying with your lips long enough, you will one day find yourself pray- ing in your heart. The whole question has been threshed out and organized
1954 · PDF PAGE 81
4 The Qabalah The Best Training for Memory Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Now you must learn Qabalah. Learn this Alphabet of Magick. You must take it on trust, as a child does his own alphabet. No one has ever found out why the order of the letters is what it is. Probably there isn't any answer. But our Magical Alphabet is primarily not letters, but figures, not sounds but mathematical ideas. Sir Humphrey Davy, coming out of his famous illumination (with some help from Nitrous Oxide he got in) exclaimed : The Unive…
1954 · PDF PAGE 275
37 Death-Fear-Magickal Memory Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You ask me, very naturally, for details of the promise of Nuit (AL, I: 58) "certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death." In the first place, I think that it means what it says. There may be, probably is, some Qabalistic inner meaning: Those four nouns most assuredly look as if there were; but I don't feel at all sure what the Greek (or Hebrew, or Arabic) words would be; in any case, I have not yet made any attempt in this direction. To the straightfo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 177
…ke, not sundering lips, But winged against the black eclipse Of sense: my soul on wings did poise Her glory in the vast turquoise Of the whole sky : expanded far Beyond the farthest sun or star, Beyond all space, all time. I saw The very limits of the law That hath no bounds: beheld the bliss Of that first wonder of the kiss In its true self: how very love Is God, and hath its substance of Pure light : and how love hath its cause Beyond religions, worlds, and laws; Is in itself the first : and moves All evolution, and disproves God in affirming…
1901 · PDF PAGE 102
… soul The first time knew true sympathy. Elate, That pure joy filled her body’s broken bow! With infinite fresh fire and purer wine; Her whole life grew one exquisite divine Flower of the sunlight; memory alone Held its stern sceptre on a cruel throne. She simply fled and would not see his face. A noble folly! In the countryside Where her harsh youth was nurtured, in the place Where she revolted, she lay down and died. With crossed hands folded on her budded breast She closed her eyes, and slept the sweet long rest Where the true peace of purit…
1911 · PDF PAGE 6
…he Angel of the East hath a book of red written in letters of Blue A.B.F.M.A. in Enochian. The Book grows before my eyes and filleth the Whole Heaven. Within: “It is Written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord Thy God.” I see above the Book a multitude of white-robed Ones from whom droppeth a great rain of Blood: but above them is a Golden Sun, having an eye, whence a great Light. I turned me to the South: and read therein: Seal up the Book! Speak not that which thou seest and 4
1913 · PDF PAGE 58
… a reciprocating engine ; and his counsel is only good for the beginner. Ultimately the Magical Will so identifies itself with the man's whole being that it becomes unconscious, and is as constant a force as gravitation. One may even be surprised at one's own acts, and have to reason out their connection. But let it be understood that when the Will has thus really raised itself to the height of Destiny, the man is no more hkely to do wrong than he is to float off into the air. One may be asked whether there is not a conflict between this develo…
1905 · PDF PAGE 95
…ur loves may make a mirror of the dreadful soul of war ! For love is an equal soul, and shares an equal breath. I am nought—and thou the whole ? It were not love, but Death. Give me thy life and strength, let us struggle for mastery, As the long shore’s rugged length that battles with the sea. I am thine, I am thine indeed ! My form is vaster grown, And our limbs and lips shall bleed on the starry solar throne. My life is made as thine ; my blessing and thy curse Beget, as foam on wine, a different universe. I foam and live and leap : thou laug…
1914 · PDF PAGE 24
…e and being discede, Mine is the magic that has made me thine, Mine from sublime unconsciousness to deed. Laylah! oh God! the love of my whole life, ‘My life concentred in a single act, More than a mistress, wilder than a wife, ‘Who ratified our diabolic pact? God grant my life and yours be one, be one, One beyond possibility, no hour ‘But bring to ripeness in the royal sun ‘Some fruit of our fecundity, some flower Such as no spring of earth or heaven can show ;— Laylah! my Laylah! Laylah! Laylah! mine Irrevocably from the hour of woe When I br…