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… Word identical with being. What is justice ? The motive of acts identical with being. What is the absolute ? Being. Can one conceive anything superior to being? No ; but one conceives in being itself something super- eminent and transcendental. Q. POPO> 0° What is that? The supreme reason of being. Do you know it, and can you define it ? Faith alone affirms it, and names it God. Is there anything above truth? Above known truth, there is unknown truth. . How can one construct reasonable hypotheses with regard to this truth? Go 1020BPOPOPOPO> . …
1913 · PDF PAGE 400
… Word identical with being. What is justice ? The motive of acts identical with being. What is the absolute ? Being. Can one conceive anything superior to being? No ; but one conceives in being itself something super- eminent and transcendental. Q. POPO> 0° What is that? The supreme reason of being. Do you know it, and can you define it ? Faith alone affirms it, and names it God. Is there anything above truth? Above known truth, there is unknown truth. . How can one construct reasonable hypotheses with regard to this truth? Go 1020BPOPOPOPO> . …
1919 · PDF PAGE 415
…escription of the nature of Atma, and Atma is, as elsewhere stated, not a Buddhist, but a Hindu idea. The teaching is here to refer everything to Atma, to regard everything as a corruption of Atma, if you please, but a cor- ruption which is unreal, because Atma is the only real thing. There is a similar instruction in Liber Legis: “Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing and any other thing”; and you are urged not to “confound the space marks,” saying “they are one,” or “they are many.” 20. Before thou standest on the th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
inconsistent with, the plan of his superior. The defect is inherent in all Black Magic, because that art is itself [154] a thing set up against the Universal Will. If it were not negligibly small, it would destroy the Universe, just as the bomb-throwing Anarchist would succeed in destroying society if he amounted to, say, a third of the population. Now Simple Simon, at this time, did not know Douglas for the enemy General; but he was in the closest possible magical touch with him. For he had absorbed the Thing in the garden into himself and tha…
1913 · PDF PAGE 487
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES “A thing is not just because God wills it; but God wills it because it is just.” The idea of a perfect and immutable order in nature, the notion of an ascending hierarchy and of a descending influence in all beings, had furnished to the ancient hiero- phants the first classification of the whole of natural history. Minerals, vegetables, animals were studied analogically; and they attributed their origin and their properties to the passive or to the active principle, to the darkness or to the light. The sign of their ele…
1913 · PDF PAGE 487
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES “A thing is not just because God wills it; but God wills it because it is just.” The idea of a perfect and immutable order in nature, the notion of an ascending hierarchy and of a descending influence in all beings, had furnished to the ancient hiero- phants the first classification of the whole of natural history. Minerals, vegetables, animals were studied analogically; and they attributed their origin and their properties to the passive or to the active principle, to the darkness or to the light. The sign of their ele…
1954 · PDF PAGE 346
THELEMIC MORALITY 313 But I am perfectly happy about it; the one important thing (as Descartes-and Francis Bacon-saw) is that you should acquire and assimilate the METHOD of Thelemic thinking. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1898 · PDF PAGE 81
Fresh arméd foemen to destroy the king. And first, on black imperishable wing, That Nameless Thing. Darkness, a dragon, now devours The vision of those deadly powers, The legions of the lords of sin It is an hour till dawn begin. 71
1919 · PDF PAGE 48
THE EQUINOX absolute to do thy will; but seek to do any other thing what- ever, and instantly obstacles must arise. Every act that is not in definite course of that one orbit is erratic, an hin- drance. Will must not be two, but one. Note further that this will is not only to be pure, that is, single, as explained above, but also “unassuaged of pur- pose.” This strange phrase must give us pause. It may mean that any purpose in the will would damp it; clearly the “lust of result” is a thing from which it must be delivered. But the phrase may als…
1912 · PDF PAGE 51
… for it is not a despair of the Substance, but of the Form. I wish to go from A to B ; and I am not only a cripple, but there is no such thing as space. I have to keep an appointment at midnight; and not only is my watch stopped, but there is no such thing as time. I wish to make a cannon; and not only have I no cue, but there is no such thing as causality. “This I explain to my wife” (I ! I—Ed.), “and she, ap- parently inspired, says, ‘Shoot it I’ (I suppose she means the reason, but, 01 course, she did not understand a word of what I had been…
1912 · PDF PAGE 51
… for it is not a despair of the Substance, but of the Form. I wish to go from A to B ; and I am not only a cripple, but there is no such thing as space. I have to keep an appointment at midnight; and not only is my watch stopped, but there is no such thing as time. I wish to make a cannon; and not only have I no cue, but there is no such thing as causality. “This I explain to my wife” (I ! I—Ed.), “and she, ap- parently inspired, says, ‘Shoot it I’ (I suppose she means the reason, but, 01 course, she did not understand a word of what I had been…
1911 · PDF PAGE 146
THE EQUINOX play the man, for behold! there shall be revealed unto thee the Great Terror, the thing of awe that hath no name. And this is the mystery that I declare unto thee: that from the Crown itself spring the three great delusions; Aleph is madness, and Beth is falsehood, and Gimel is glamour. And these three be greater than all, for they are beyond the words that I speak unto thee; how much more therefore are they beyond the words that thou transmittest unto men. Behold! the Veil of the Aethyr sundereth, and is torn, like a sail by the br…
1961 · PDF PAGE 38
LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 26 w De Differentia rerum (Of the Distinction of Things) UT, o my Son, although thine ultimate Nature be Universal, thine immediate Nature is Particular. Thy Way to the Centre is not oriented as that of any other Being, and thine elements are no kin, but alien, to his. For Shame! Is it not the most transcendent of all the Wisdoms of this Cosmos, that no two Beings are alike? Lo! This is the Secret of all Beauty, and maketh Love not only possible, but necessary, between every Thing and every other Thing. So then, lest thou in…
1922 · PDF PAGE 82
… together. But all the virtue had gone out of us; we might have been convalescents from some very long and wasting illness. “‘ There’s nothing to be alarmed about,” said Feccles, with his curious little laugh. “A trifling indiscretion.” I winced at the word. It took me back to King Lamus. I hated that fellow more than ever. He had begun to obsess me. Confound him |! Lou had confided the whole story to our host, who admitted that he was familiar with these matters. “You see, my dear Sir Peter,” he said, “‘ you can’t take H. like you can C., and …
1905 · PDF PAGE 15
… sweet To help to raise (and no man will upbraid you) Your sisters fallen far ? ’ Tis vain ! God’s worst omission—Heart—has made you The thing you are !
1929 · PDF PAGE 22
I'll give you an address to send my things to, she said, and walked out of the garden. Theodore Bugg sat stunned. Holy things, she had said. She called that lustful French photograph holy! Was this Original Sin; or was it that strange new thing people were talking aboutwhat was it? Ah! heredity. Heredity? His secret sin become her open infamy? Truly the sins of the fathers were visited on the children! By this time he was upstairs and in his bedroom. He must destroy the accursed thing; he must destroyAh! yes. He had contaminated Gertrude …
1909 · PDF PAGE 6
21. With the God and the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are upon the earth; Ι am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord Hadit. 22. Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am infinite space, and the infinite stars thereof do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing and any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. 23. But Whoso availeth in this, let him be the chief of a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 366
HOW TO RECOGNIZE MASTERS 333 when, year after year, the same sort of thing keeps on happening, and when, furthermore, I find myself able to predict, as experience has taught me to do in the last three years, that they will happen, and even how the pieces will fit into the puzzle, I am justified in assuming a causal connection.
1926 · PDF PAGE 5
21. With the God and the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are upon the earth; Ι am Heaven, and there is no other God than me, and my lord Hadit. 22. Now, therefore, I am known to ye by my name Nuit, and to him by a secret name which I will give him when at last he knoweth me. Since I am infinite space, and the infinite stars thereof do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing and any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. 23. But Whoso availeth in this, let him be the chief of a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 520
…ackness, the necessities of your economic situation . You say you must have "regular work," and a "steady income ," and all that sort of thing. My innocent child, that species of Magick is quite simple. Take the horns of a hare ... That's enough for the present: I'll tell you what to do with them when you've got them. In Macbeth we read- ... Security Is mortals' chiefest enemy. but this is another kind of security ; it is the Hybris which "tempts Providence," the insolence of thinking that nothing can go wrong. Anyhow, there's no such thing as …