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Page 34 of 841942 · PDF PAGE 1
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1913 · PDF PAGE 187
…NLY words nowhere explained in the preceding pages are given in this list. Several others, mentioned in passing in the early part of the book, are sufficiently dealt with later on. In these cases the references in the Index should be turned up. y/ .". A .'. The Great White Brotherhood which is giving this Method of Attainment to the world. See Equinox I. Adeptus Minor. A grade of adeptship, ^S^t'Equinox III. Aethyrs. See Equinox V and VII. Aima. The Great Fertile Mother Nature. Ama. The Great Mother not yet fertile. A?noufi. The God Amen = Zeus…
1961 · PDF PAGE 89
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 77 By Quare Filium creavit: ut fiat Libertas (Why he Created his Son: that there might be Liberty) O what thou wilt! be this our Slogan of Battle in every Act; for every Act is Conflict. There Victory leapeth shining before us; for who may thwart true Will, which is the Order of Nature Herself? . . . thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say nay. For if that Will be true, its Fulfilment is of a Surety as Daylight following Sunrise. It is as certain as the Operation of any other Law of N…
1910 · PDF PAGE 9
…lity. THE P. B. — The word is not “ whale ” in the Hebrew : it probably means “ dog-shark ”. (This “ solution ” is actually printed in a book of the liar and slanderer Torrey). THE W. M. — Our experience of dog-sharks tells us — THE P. B. — What, after all, is human reason ? To the Greeks foolishness, etc. The wisdom of man is foolishness, etc. We must have faith. THE W. M. — In men ? THE P. B. — Never. In God ! THE W. M. — But you believe in the Bible ? THE P. B. — Every word of it, thank God ! THE W. M. — In the Protestant or the Catholic Bib…
1961 · PDF PAGE 78
…on! The Magus, even as the Poet is the Expression of the true Will of his Fellows, and his Success is his Proof, as it is written in The Book of the Law. For his Work is to free Men from the Fetters of a false or a superannuated Will, revealing unto them, in Measure attuned to their Needs, their true Natures. s
1905 · PDF PAGE 184
…bastian Bach.’ Perhaps the poet who has the name of Swinburne flung at him feels some-thing of this, though Mr Crowley has dedicated his book to that distinguished singer. To our mind, whatever may be said of the earlier effort, ‘ Songs of the Spirit,’ the present book is not distinctly Swinburnian. There is no need to compare the writer with any other, but if we had to elect we should declare for Milton ; that is, Milton plus two centuries. We make no comparisons ; rather does Mr Crowley appear to be in style a strong eclectic, with a due meas…
1930 · PDF PAGE 17
…e-World. A poetical allegory of the relations of the soûl and the Holy Guardian Angel. Konx Om Pax, p. 1. Liber XCVI. Liber Gaias. A Handbook of Geomancy. Equinox II, p. 137. Liber CVL A Treatise on the Nature of Deathy and the proper attitude to be taken towards it. Published in “The International”, New York, 1917. Liber CXI (Aleph). The B00k of Wisdom or Folly. An extended and elaborate commentary on the Book of the Law, in the form of a letter from the Master Therion to his magical son. Contains some of the deepest secrets of initiation, wit…
1961 · PDF PAGE 39
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 27 Aa De Voluntate Tacita (Of the Silent Will) LL Disturbances, o my Son, are Variations from Equilibrium; and just as thy conscious Thoughts, Words, and Acts are Effects of the Displacement of the conscious Will, so is it in the Unconscious. For the most Part, therefore, all Dreams, Phantasies, and Gestures represent that Will subliminal; and if the physical Part of that Will be unsatisfied, its Utterance will predominate in all these automatic Expressions. Do thou then note what Modifications thereof follow such Ch…
1961 · PDF PAGE 43
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 31 Ae De Lege Motus (Of the Law of Motion) ONSIDER, o my Son, that Word in the Call or Key of the Thirty Aethyrs: Behold the Face of your God, the Beginning of comfort, whose Eyes are the Brightness of the heavens, which provided you for the Government of the Earth, and her unspeakable Variety! And again: Let there be no Creature upon her or within her the same. All here Members let them differ in their Qualities, and let there be no Creature equal with another. Here also is the Voice of true Science, crying aloud: V…
1904 · PDF PAGE 4
— 5 — that I end up literally raving. My book is possibly difficult in many ways, but only Mr. Chesterton would have tried to understand it by reading it backward. Repartee apart, it is surely an ascertainable fact that while the first 29 pages are almost exclusively occupied with an attack on Christianity as bitter and violent as I can make it, the remaining 161 are composed of (a) an attack on materialism, (b) an essay in metaphysics opposing advaitism, (c) an attempt to demonstrate the close analogy between the canonical Buddhist doctrine an…
1909 · PDF PAGE 35
…e girders of the soul. 62. To Me do ye reverence; to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss. 63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and its comment; and he understandeth it not. 64. Let him come through the first ordeal and it will be to him as silver. 65. Through the second gold. 66. Through the third, stones of precious water. 67. Through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate fire. 68. Yet to all it shall seem beautiful. Its enemies who say not so, are mere liars. 69. There is success. 70. I am the Hawk-HeadedLord of…
1910 · PDF PAGE 26
…ere are embraces which never ask to end...” 3. The few who still suppose that Omar Khayyam was a libertine should read the exposition of Book XI of this Purana. 4. Manes (Mani) the heresiarch was of course a Persian. 5. I cannot agree that such a moment necessarily intervenes between normal and Samadhic con- sciousness, or, as the Buddhists assert, that there is a long series of intervening states invariable and well-defined, though perhaps this may sometimes be so. Nor is the appearance of the “ Dweller ” a sure earnest of success : on the con…
1926 · PDF PAGE 34
…e girders of the soul. 62. To Me do ye reverence; to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss. 63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and its comment; and he understandeth it not. 64. Let him come through the first ordeal and it will be to him as silver. 65. Through the second gold. 66. Through the third, stones of precious water. 67. Through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate fire. 68. Yet to all it shall seem beautiful. Its enemies who say not so, are mere liars. 69. There is success. 70. I am the Hawk-HeadedLord of…
1910 · PDF PAGE 35
… green moss is my seat, Beech is the canopy oer me, Calm and content the retreat ; Man, my worst foe, cannot bore me ; Life is a closed book behindShelley an open be- fore me. Shelleys own birds are above Close to me (why should they fear me ?) May I believe itthat love Brings his bright spirit so near me That, should I whisper one wordShelleys swift spirit would hear me ?
1961 · PDF PAGE 33
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 21 t De Morbis Sanguinis (Of Diseases of the Blood) OW then understand that all Opposition to the Way of Nature createth Violence. If thine excretory System do its Function not at its fullest, there come Poisons in the Blood, and the Consciousness is modified by the conflicts or Marriages between the elements heterogeneous. Thus if the Liver be not efficient, we have Melancholy; if the Kidneys, Coma; if the Testes or Ovaries, loss of Personality itself. Also, an we poison the Blood directly with Belladonna, we have D…
1961 · PDF PAGE 40
…g, there is no more Reason for Names, since Names are given to mark off one Thing from another. And this is that which is written in The Book of the Law: . . . Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. But whoso availeth in this, let him be the chief of all! l
1954 · PDF PAGE 280
…ical formulae; the sublime necessity of the apparent opposition will be apparent. The ultimate of Woman is Nuit; that of Man, Hadit. The Book of the Law speaks very fully and clearly in both cases. I quote the principal passages. A. Nuit. Had! The manifestation of Nuit . (I) Come forth , oh children, under the stars, & take your fill of love! I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy. 247
1961 · PDF PAGE 73
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 61 Bq De Veritate Falsi (Of the Truth of Falsehood) OREOVER this Matter touches the Nature of Truth. For although to thee in thy True Self, absolute and without Conditions, all this Universe, which is relative and conditioned is an Illusion; yet to that Part of Thee by which thou perceivest it, the Law of its Being (or By-coming) is a Law of Truth. Learn then that all Relations are true upon their own Plane, and that it would be a Violation of Nature to adjust them skewwise. Thus, albeit thou hast found thy Self, and…
1961 · PDF PAGE 67
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 55 Bg De Arcano Subtilissimo (Of the Most Subtle Secret) MY Son, there is that within thee of marvellous Puissance which is by its own Nature the Incar- nation of thy Will, most ready to receive the Seal thereof. Therein lie hidden all Powers, all Memories, more than thou hast ten thousand fold! Learn then to draw from that great Treasure-House the Jewel of which thou art in any present Need. For all things that are possible to thy Nature are already hidden within thee; and thou hast but to name them, and to bring th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 69
… of work, Shall I repine? What joys are hid In weariness of idleness ? Rich, young, beloved, shall I rececle? Enjoy? NotI! I work unbid; Book follows book ; ideas press Ilurrying over the green mead 1 This work is good for all men, the thres- hold of real life. ‘Then, once youth is past, Hail! Ease and dignity.