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…ntious details with regard to the miracles?” “Oh, as many as you like!” And immediately the old priest began to recount things which the whole world would have found impossible, but which did not even turn an eye-lash of the Professor of Transcendental Magic. L 145
… do ye not also say, placing your hands on the signs of the universal communion: “This is our flesh and our blood” ? And you, men of the whole world, you whom the Master calls His brothers; oh, do you not feel that the universal bread, the fraternal bread, the bread of the communion, is God ? Retailers of the Crucified One! All you who are not ready to give your blood, your flesh and your life to humanity, you are not worthy of the Com- munion of the Son of God! Do not let His blood flow upon you, for it would brand your forehead ! Do not appro…
…ntious details with regard to the miracles?” “Oh, as many as you like!” And immediately the old priest began to recount things which the whole world would have found impossible, but which did not even turn an eye-lash of the Professor of Transcendental Magic. L 145
20 Talismans: The Lamen: The Pantacle Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Really you comfort me when you turn from those abstruse and exalted themes with which you have belaboured me so often of late to dear cuddlesome little questions like this in our letter received this morning: "Do please, dear Master, give me some hints about how to make Talismans (that's the same as Telesmata, isn't it?) [Yes, 666] and the Pantacle. The official instructions are quite clear, of course; but somehow I find them just a little frighte…
58 Do Angels Ever Cut Themselves Shaving? Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. A very witty way to put it! "Do angels ever cut themselves shaving?" Rem au tetigisti, again. (English: you big tease?) What sort of existence, what type or degree of reality, do we attribute to them? (By angel, of course, you mean any celestial-or infernal-being such as are listed in the Hierarchy, from Metatron and Ratziel to Lilith and Nahema.) We read of them, for the most part, as if they were persons-although of another order of being; a…
…arries us through all conflicts concerning conduct, because it is perfectly rigid and perfectly elastic:'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.' So: it is not the least use to come and pester me about it. Perfect mastery of the violin in six easy lessons by correspondence! Should I have the heart to deny you? But Yama is different. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. That is Yama. Your object is to perform Yoga. Your True Will is to attain the consummation of marriage with the universe, and your ethical code must
… in parts reminds us of the “ In Memoriam ” is “ The Nameless Quest, ” such lines as : I was wed Unto the part , and could not grasp the whole .? breathe a great and similar doubt . As in many respects the agnosticism of Tennyson's “ In Memoriam " re sembles the atheistic free thought of FitzGerald's “ Omar Khayyam ,” so do both the above -mentioned poems , and the first is of similar metre , its quatrains containing , as those of the poet of Khorassán , flights of great power of thought ; the following five quatrains are well worth quoting : W…
…ing — teaching — teaching — as if you were God Almighty and I were a poor bloody shit in the street ! ” — I could not blame them. On the whole, too, I cannot see that I have left much unsaid in the proem — which was written long ago when I lived, as will be obvious from the style, in Paddington. I will therefore beg my readers to proceed to the same and thence to the work itself ; and leave the Bal Bullier and his Dorothy to their glad work of restoring the victim of Bri- tish stupidity — else why these miles of preface ? — weary Aleister Crowl…
… vision smiteth into a stone, and whom I call must follow. Now I perceive myself standing in a Druid circle, in an immense open plain. A whole series of beautiful visions of deserts and sunsets and islands in the sea, green beyond imagination. ... But there is no subsistence in them. A voice goes on: this is the holiness of fruitless love and aimless toil. For in doing the thing for the thing’s sake is concentration, and this is the holiness of them that suit not 164
…il it is absolutely perfect. The tendency which may manifest itself to pass into Dhyana and Samadhi must be resolutely combated with the whole strength of the mind. Let the Practicus then re-commence the picture, starting from the Sun, and adding the planets one by 39
…il it is absolutely perfect. The tendency which may manifest itself to pass into Dhyana and Samadhi must be resolutely combated with the whole strength of the mind. Let the Practicus then re-commence the picture, starting from the Sun, and adding the planets one by 39
36 Quo Stet Olympus Where the Gods and Angels Live Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. We settled what Gods, angels, demons, elementals were some little while ago; we also wrote of how they live, so now, insatiable Seeker, you ask where. In India the earth was supported by an elephant who stood on a tortoise-who . . . ? No floor above. Nothing but empty space with swarming galaxies; no room for "heaven." Simpler to call Olympus or Meru the home of the Gods-believe it or not! don't ask questions! Yet all the time the dif…
Cara Soror, 50 A.C. and the "Masters" Why They Chose Him Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. "Details about Book 4?" This question lacks precision. I must pull a trigger at a venture. The idea of 4 was due to my observation of St. Peter's in Rome; it is built with an eye unwavering from that number, as you will see when next you go there, aware of the fact. Also, 4 means, on the political plane, Temporal Power. (The Qabalistic Architect of St. Peter's knew that, and designed his talisman ad hoc.) This book was then, according to Ab…
… Pace Perfecta (Of Perfect Peace) MY Son, is it not a marvel, this Light whereof we are the Quintessence and the Seed? By it are we made Whole, dissolved in the Body and in the Soul of Our Lady Nuith even as Her Lord Hadith, so that the Gnostic Sacrament of the Cosmos is perpetually Elevated before us. We behold all that is and comprehend its Mystery, and its Order in this High Mass eternally celebrated among us, acknowledging the Perfection of the Rite, neither con- fusing the Parts thereof, nor discriminating in Worship between them. So unto …
…pen one day that the pain is suddenly forgotten, the fact of the presence of the body is forgotten, and one will realize that during the whole of one’s previous life the body was always on the borderland of con-
Cara Soror , 6 The Three Schools of Magick (1) Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Here is the ftrst section of M. Gerard Aumont's promised essay;! it was originally called The Three Schools of Magick. (Don't be cross, please, because it is not in the form of a personal letter!) There is to-day much misunderstanding of the meaning of the term 'Magick'. Many attempts have been made to deftne it, but perhaps the best for our present purpose of historical-ideological exposition will be this-Magick is the Science of the Incommensurable…
Cara Soror, 8 The Three Schools of Magick (3) Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. There is in history only one movement whose object has been to organize the isolated adepts of the White School of Magick, and this movement was totally unconnected with religion, except in so far as it lent its influence to the reformers of the Christian church. Its appeal was not at all to the people. It merely offered to open up relations with, and communicate certain practical secrets of wisdom to, isolated men of science throughout Europe. This m…
64 Magical Power Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Rightly you remark that most of these letters have dealt with self-development in one form or another; now, what of the causa finalis. the "practical angle" some would call it. What you want now is to learn how to apply the knowledge and power that you have gained to the execution of your True Will, to the accomplishment of the Great Work. Obviously, much must be left to your own common-sense ; the one technical point on which I insist above all others is the Magical …
… Mind, and the Reconcilement of every Contention. O my Son, in he Promulgation of the Law lieth the Reward of our Chief Work, the making whole of Mankind from the Conscience of Sin which divideth him, and afflicteth his Spirit. h
…S. That draws its music from some bubbling well, Looks long, looks deadly, looks desirable, The touch that fires, the next kiss, and the whole Body embracing, symbol of the soul, And all the perfect passion of an hour. Turn to me, pluck that amaranthine flower, And leave the doubtful blossoms of the sky ! You dare not kiss me ! dare not draw you nigh Lest I should lure you to remain ! nor speak Lest you should catch the blood within your cheek Mantling. You dared enough—so long ago !— When to my blossom body clean as snow You pressed your bosom…