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Page 38 of 951954 · PDF PAGE 501
77 Work Worthwhile: Why? Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Your remarks on my 0 = 2 letter are very apt and inspiriting-that is if I have rightly understood what you want to say. (Really, you know, they are a bit muddled-or I am!) May I frame your question, if it is a question, in my own terms? You say that I have advanced an invulnerable theory of the Universe in philosophical and mathematical language, and you suppose (underlined three times with two question marks) that one could, with a great effort, deduce theref…
1907 · PDF PAGE 105
…! The Self -informing Beauty ! In my heart The many were united : and I knew.1 And yet : I was wed Unto the part and could not grasp the whole . Thus , I was broken on the wheel of Truth . Fled all the hope and purpose of my youth , The high desire , the secret joy , the sin That coiled its rainbow dragon scales within . Hope's being , life's delight , time's eager tooth ; All , all are gone ; the serpent sloughs his skin ! The quest is mine ! Here ends mortality In contemplating the eternal Thee . Here , She is willing . Stands the Absolute Re…
1909 · PDF PAGE 63
…nd love are potent enough to drive a man to death or marriage; while reverie may end in anti-vivisectionism or nut— food-madness. On the whole, I prefer to explain the many terrible catastrophes I have seen caused by magic misunder— stood by supposing that in magic one is working with some very subtle and essential function of the brain, whose disease may mean for one man paralysis, for another mania, for a third melancholia, for a fourth death. It is not äþriarz' absurd to suggest that there may be some one particular thought that would cause …
1910 · PDF PAGE 59
…h upon my mouth That even the body may become the soul : Cry, as the chaind Eagle of the South, A house of death, and make my spirit whole ! Touch with pure balm the five mysterious wounds ! Come ! come away ! but not your mighty sounds ! O wind of all the world ! O silent river ! O sea of seas ! O flower of all the flowers ! O fire ! O spirit ! Beam thou on for ever Through æons of illimitable hours !
1929 · PDF PAGE 77
…e A implies to refuse not-A: at least, that is so, below the Abyss. 2. Supfosed personal gain. There is really no person to gain; so the whole transaction is a swindle on both sides.
1929 · PDF PAGE 142
…ill hâve been perfected by his habit of Magical work. In the truest sense of that Word, he will never step outside the Circle during his whole life. But the consécration, being the application of a positive force, can always be raised to a doser approximation to perfection. Complété success in banishing is soon attained; but there can be no completeness in the advance to holiness. I. The general conception is that the three active éléments co-operate to affect earth; but earth itself may be employed as an instrument. Its function is solidificat…
1961 · PDF PAGE 159
…and the Body hath Charter to fulfil his Nature, even as the Mind hath. So to repress one Function is to destroy that Proportion which is wholesome, and wherein indeed all Health and Sanity have Consistency. Verily, it is the Art of Life to develop each Organ of Body and Mind, or, as I may say, each Weapon of the Will to its Perfection, neither distorting any Use, nor suffering the Will of one Part to tyrannize over that of another. And this Doctrine (be it accursed!) that Pain and Repression are wholesome and profitable in themselves is a lie b…
1907 · PDF PAGE 214
…, implicit in the thought thereof ! Else all our work were vain . These twain be one .? 3 In these five lines we find a clinching of the whole argument . " These twain be one .” No more than this did Berkeley ever arrive at : " But , though it were possible that solid , figured , movable substances may exist without the mind , corresponding to the ideas we have of bodies , yet how is it possible for us to know this ? Either we must know it by sense or by reason . He never denied the material existence of things , and was as much a phenomenalist…
1909 · PDF PAGE 87
…l Siva was united with Sakti in the Sahasrara-Cakkram, I tried—God knows why; I'm stupider than an ass or H . . . C . . . .—-to work the whole operation in Muladhara—with the obvious result. There are only two more idiocies to perform—one, to take a big dose of Hashish and record the ravings as if they were Samadhi; and two, to go to Church. Ι may as well give up. 85
1909 · PDF PAGE 403
…, the veins swell, the breath quicken, the eyes strain, the foot—not a word of the struggle not to show impatience, the tenseness of the whole being ofa man! No! this is indeed a glimmering ghost, a bloodless, vacant phantom. Note, too, the degradation of the symbols. To compare a girl to a “ghost”; to disenchant the glow and glamour of her to a “ glimmer.’ To compare a volcano in eruption to the puffing of a steam- engine; the sun in heaven at high noon to a farthing dip. The vision is accurate enough; but the point of view is throughout that …
1909 · PDF PAGE 403
…, the veins swell, the breath quicken, the eyes strain, the foot—not a word of the struggle not to show impatience, the tenseness of the whole being ofa man! No! this is indeed a glimmering ghost, a bloodless, vacant phantom. Note, too, the degradation of the symbols. To compare a girl to a “ghost”; to disenchant the glow and glamour of her to a “ glimmer.’ To compare a volcano in eruption to the puffing of a steam- engine; the sun in heaven at high noon to a farthing dip. The vision is accurate enough; but the point of view is throughout that …
1913 · PDF PAGE 54
…uth to Yesod. Sixty is Samekh, the path leading leading from Yesod to Tiphereth ; and 3 is Gimel, the path leading thence to Kether. The whole rod therefore gives the paths from the Kingdom to the Crown. ^ In one, the best, system of Magick, the Absolute is called the Crown, God is called the Father, the Pure Soul is called the Mother, the Holy Guardian Angel is called the Son, and the Natural Soul is called the Daughter. The Son purifies the Daughter by wedding her; she thus becomes the Mother, the uniting of whom with the Father absorbs all i…
1913 · PDF PAGE 109
…alysis the spiritual part of Malkuth must be separated from it by the philosophical stone, and then Christus, the Anointed One, makes it whole once more. ''Solve et coagula!" It is noticeable that this takes place at the arrest of Christ, who is the son, the Ruach, immediately before his crucifixion. The Calvary Cross should be of six squares, an unfolded cube, which cube is this same philosophical stone. Meditation will reveal many mysteries which are concealed in this symbol. The Sword or Dagger is attributed to air, all-wandering, all-pene- …
1919 · PDF PAGE 227
… com- mon. Such love is peculiarly holy, and is to be encouraged. 14. All children of Brethren are to be considered as chil- dren of the whole Order, and to be protected and aided in every way by its members severally, as by its organization collectively. No distinction is to be made with regard to the conditions surrounding the birth of any child. 15. There is an especially sacred duty, which every Brother should fulfil, with regard to all children, those born without the Order included. This duty is to instruct them in the Law of Thelema, to …
1954 · PDF PAGE 72
2 The Necessity of Magick for All Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Right glad am I to hear that you have been so thoroughly satisfied with my explanation of what Magick is, and on what its theories rest. It is good, too, hearing how much you were interested in the glimpse that you have had of some of its work in the world; more, that you grasped the fact that this apparently recondite and irrelevant information has an immediate bearing on your personal life of to-day. Still, I was not surprised that you should add: "…
1909 · PDF PAGE 136
…me, and many other inexpressible things were known of me. Also I was given to enjoy the subtle Presence of my Lord interiorly during the whole of this twelfth day. Then Ι besought the Lord that He would take me into His presence eternally even now. But He withdrew Himself, for that I must do that which I was sent hither to do; namely, to rule the earth. Therefore with sweetness ineffable He parted from me ; yet leaving acomfort not to be told, aPeace . . . the Peace. And the Light and the Perfume do certainly yet remain with me in the little Ch…
1911 · PDF PAGE 102
…e! to your mother! [Slimah mien, in his right hand his sword 51111 driþ— ping Haud. SLIMAN. Splendid fun, mother! We should have had the whole city, but those cursed Knights of Malta threatened our flank. And father told me I was a betterleader for withdraw- ing than ifI had gone on and taken the city. There! Aha! little one! you are caged safely, canary. Thanks, mother! Don’t kiss me. I’m all blood. [She smothers him with his-52:. LAYLAH. Oh, you're wounded. Ledmiya, the kerchief, quick. And the Arabian oil, and the balsam. SLIMAN. Nonsense, mo…
1911 · PDF PAGE 102
…e! to your mother! [Slimah mien, in his right hand his sword 51111 driþ— ping Haud. SLIMAN. Splendid fun, mother! We should have had the whole city, but those cursed Knights of Malta threatened our flank. And father told me I was a betterleader for withdraw- ing than ifI had gone on and taken the city. There! Aha! little one! you are caged safely, canary. Thanks, mother! Don’t kiss me. I’m all blood. [She smothers him with his-52:. LAYLAH. Oh, you're wounded. Ledmiya, the kerchief, quick. And the Arabian oil, and the balsam. SLIMAN. Nonsense, mo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 3
As in the past, the persons responsible for the movement will give the whole of their time and energy, as well as their worldly wealth, to the service of the A.*. A.’. Unfortunately, the sums at their disposal do not at present suffice for the contemplated advance, and the Chan- cellor consequently appeals for assistance to those who have found in the instructions of the A... A... a sure means to the end they sought. All moneys received will be applied solely for the purpose of aiding those who have not yet entered the circle of the light. The …
1913 · PDF PAGE 3
As in the past, the persons responsible for the movement will give the whole of their time and energy, as well as their worldly wealth, to the service of the A.*. A.’. Unfortunately, the sums at their disposal do not at present suffice for the contemplated advance, and the Chan- cellor consequently appeals for assistance to those who have found in the instructions of the A... A... a sure means to the end they sought. All moneys received will be applied solely for the purpose of aiding those who have not yet entered the circle of the light. The …