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Page 37 of 951954 · PDF PAGE 253
32 How Can a Yogi Ever Be Worried? Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. That question I have been expecting for a very long time! And what you expect is to see my middle stump break the wicket-keeper's nose, with the balls smartly fielded by Third Man and Short Leg! I admit that it looks like a strong case. Here (you put it in your more elegant prose) we have a Yogi, nay more, a Paramahamsa, a Bodhisattva of the best; yea, further, we have a Master of the Temple-and is not his Motto Vi Veri Vniversum Vivus Vici? and yet …
1954 · PDF PAGE 256
33 The Golden Mean Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You would think that one who like myself has the Sun, the Lord of His Horoscope, in Libra, with Venus who rules that sign in close conjunction with him, with Saturn trine, Uranus sex tile , Mars square and Luna Quincunx to him, would wear the Golden Mean as a breastplate, flaunt it on my banneret, quarter it on my escutcheon, and grave it on the two-edged blade of my thrice trusty falchion! Just so, objects that instinct itself! "Had you been born a few hours earlie…
1961 · PDF PAGE 211
…compassionate concerning Sin, in his own Vehicle or another's, unless the Healing thereof were proper to his Will, for he is aware of he whole Truth of the Matter. So goeth he upon his Way, and ighteneth not a Rein upon the Horses of the Universe, but is content, beholding the Speed of their Course. Verily, o my Son, it is well written in the Book of the Magus that it is he Curse of my Grade that I must needs preach my Law unto Men. For I am afflicted in my Tabernacle on this Count, but in my Self, I rejoice, and join in the Laughter of Her lov…
1909 · PDF PAGE 8
…implies thought; Negatur is only a sub-section of Cogitatur. This involves, however, an axiom that the part is of the same nature as the whole; or (at the very least) an axiom that Ais A. Now, I do not wish to deny that 4 is 4, or may occa- sionally be 4. But certainly 4 7s A is a very different statement to our original Cogitatur. The proof of Cogitatur, in short, rests not upon itself but upon the validity of our logic; and if by logic we mean (as we should mean) the Code of the Laws of Thought, the irritating sceptic will have many more rema…
1919 · PDF PAGE 327
PREFATORY NOTE Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. It is not very difficult to write a book, if one chance to possess the necessary degree of Initiation, and the power of expression. It is infernally difficult to comment on such a Book. The principal reason for this is that every statement is true and untrue, alternately, as one advances upon the Path of the Wise. The question always arises: For what grade is this Book meant? To give one simple concrete example, it is stated in the third part of this treatise that Change is the gre…
1944 · PDF PAGE 59
…rious that it seems better to attach to this general description certain documents which bear upon dif‐ ferent aspects of this card. The whole will then form an adequate basis for the full interpreta‐ tion of the card through study, meditation, and use. The French title of this card in the medieval pack is “Le Bâteleur”, the Bearer of the Bâton.1 Mercury is pre‐eminently the bearer of the Wand: Energy sent forth. This card there‐ fore represents the Wisdom, the Will, the Word, the Logos by whom the worlds were created. (See the Gospel according…
1954 · PDF PAGE 413
63 Fear: a Bad Astral Vision Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Your letter of yesterday: so happy that my last was useful; but the vision! I must have failed to make myself clear. We shall come to that later in this letter. It is reassuring to learn that you are two-thirds human! Greed, anger, and sloth are the three Buddhist bed-rock badnesses; and you have certainly given the last a miss in baulk. It is my own darkest and deadliest foe, and oh how mighty! With me he never relaxes. Sounds a paradox! but so it is. Now…
1929 · PDF PAGE 480
… their knowledge. But that was not what worried me. I kept on saying to myself, "Why only half a page?" The Headmaster of Eton had had a whole page about his advocating Platonic pleasures for boys. My own father-in-law, a charming old gentleman with not even a national reputation, and not an enemy in the world, but a worthless curate he had discharged, had had a whole page (inspired by the aforesaid curate) about the way in which he swindled his servant-girls out of their savings. I knew that if the great Patriot seemed to be not giving me my d…
1905 · PDF PAGE 11
…t begun to study the Theosophic writings— their influence, though slight, is apparent. So intent was I on producing a d¢g¢ book that the whole of my “ Argo- nauts” (published separately, 1904) was written for the shadow-play by which Orpheus wins Eurydice to an interest in mortal joys and sorrows. Also—believe it! —I had proposed a similar play in Book III. to be called “Heracles” or “Theseus,” by performance of which Per- sephone should be moved, or Hades overwhelmed. But luckily I was myself overwhelmed first, and it never got a chance at Had…
1909 · PDF PAGE 238
…ss saw nothing, therefore they have held their tongues. But there is an old parable which relates how the hound that had tempted man the whole length of his perilous journey, devoured him on the Summit of that Mystic Moun- tain; and how that Ancient DOG was indeed GOD Himself. 230
1909 · PDF PAGE 238
…ss saw nothing, therefore they have held their tongues. But there is an old parable which relates how the hound that had tempted man the whole length of his perilous journey, devoured him on the Summit of that Mystic Moun- tain; and how that Ancient DOG was indeed GOD Himself. 230
1919 · PDF PAGE 237
…xtremely dangerous, if not impossible, within the Order by a clause in the Obliga- tion of the Third Degree. 74. The Order exercises its whole power to relieve its members of any constraint to which they may be subjected, attacking with vigour any person or persons who may en- deavour to subject them to compulsion, and in all other ways aiding in the complete emancipation of the Brethren from aught that may seek to restrain them from doing That Which They Will. It is to be observed that these privileges being so vast, it is incumbent upon the h…
1954 · PDF PAGE 155
13 System of the O.T.O. Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You inform me that the Earnest Inquirer of your ambit has been asking you to explain the difference between the A:. A:. and the O.T.O.; and that although your own mind is perfectly clear about it, you find it impossible to induce a similar lucidity in his. You add that he is not (as one might at first suppose) a moron. And will I please do what I can about it? Well, here's the essential difference ab ovo usque ad mala: the A:. A:. concerns the individual, his d…
1954 · PDF PAGE 316
Cara Soror, 44 "Serious" Style of A.C. or the Apparent Frivolity of Some of My Remarks Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Far-off indeed those sunny days when life in England was worth living; when one could travel anywhere in Europe-except Russia and Turkey, which spiritually, at least, are in Asia-or America, without a passport; when we complained that closing time was twelve-thirty a.m.; when there was little or no class bitterness, the future seemed secure, and only Nonconformists failed to enjoy the fun that bubbled up on eve…
1954 · PDF PAGE 251
31 Religion Is Thelema a "New Religion"? Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. "Would you describe your system as a new religion?" A pertinent question, you doubtless suppose; whether it may happen to mean anything is-is-is-well, is what we must try to make clear. True, it's a slogan of A:. A:.: "The method of science-the aim of religion." Here the word 'aim' and the context help the definition; it must mean the attainment of Knowledge and Power in spiritual matters-or words to that effect: as soon as one selects a phrase…
1954 · PDF PAGE 382
55 Money Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You ask me for the initiated view about the power of money. As the poet says: "O.k. oke; I'm yer bloke." F. Marion Crawford, a Victorian novelist, now (I think deservedly) obsolescent, though I saw one of his books last week on the shelves of a tuppenny shark-library,' wrote a tale Mr. Isaacs based on the life of one Mr. Jacobs, the Indian Rothschild of two generations ago, financing princes, little wars-everything. One night in Bombay the burden of his wealth broke his nerve…
1954 · PDF PAGE 448
69 Original Sin Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. It was at Dover. I had passed the Customs Inspector. Turning back, I said: "But perhaps I ought to have declared my Browning?" Much agitated, he muttered , "However did I come to miss that?" and began all over again. I helped him out : "You see, you were thinking of pistols, I of poetry ." (There is a lesson in that!) And now you-of all people!-fire him off at me. I laugh! I wondered when you were going to pull me up, and send me packing to my Skeat about what "Sin" me…
1907 · PDF PAGE 81
…male prostitute as ever shrieked his lewd obscenities in the street of Sodom , and down the by ways of Gibeah . Tannhäuser expresses the whole celebration of this union in two pregnant lines : That is true marriage , in my estimate . Aspire together to one Deity ? Yes !3 Or again in the song of Nuith : 1 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 94 . 2 Star and Garter , vol . iii, p . 13 . 3 Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 259 . -
1909 · PDF PAGE 67
…rocess and the general character of the transcendental states of consciousness resulting from its successful practice. XI “He maketh the whole World of Fire, Air, Water, and Earth, and of the all-nourishing Ether.” —ZOROASTER. One truth, says Browning, leads right to the world’s end ; and so I find it impossible to open a subject, however small 57
1909 · PDF PAGE 67
…rocess and the general character of the transcendental states of consciousness resulting from its successful practice. XI “He maketh the whole World of Fire, Air, Water, and Earth, and of the all-nourishing Ether.” —ZOROASTER. One truth, says Browning, leads right to the world’s end ; and so I find it impossible to open a subject, however small 57