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Page 39 of 731954 · 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 …
1961 · PDF PAGE 211
… 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 love. o
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…
1905 · PDF PAGE 11
…ook III. That also I finished in the Burmese jungle and at Lamma Sayadaw Kyoung at Akyab. During this period I was studying the Buddhist law; and its influence on the philosophy of the poem is as apparent as that of Hinduism on Book II. ‘The summer of 1902 asked another kind of philosophy —the kind that goes with glacier travel in the Mustagh Tagh. Orpheus slept. Book IV. was begunin Cairo on my way to England, and bears marks of confirmed Buddhism up to the death of Orpheus. But a year’s rest, and a certain advance in Scientific Knowledge, gav…
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…
1913 · PDF PAGE 137
… a sort of savage justice, and the idea of justice in our human sense is quite foreign to the constitution of the Universe. Karma is the Law of Cause and Effect. There is no propor- tion in its operations. Once an accident occurs it is impossible to say what may happen ; and the Universe is a stupendous accident. We go out to tea a thousand times without mishap, and the thousand- and-first time we meet some one who changes radically the course of our lives for ever. There is a sort of sense in which every impression that is made upon our minds …
1913 · PDF PAGE 554
…ifts us above the fatal attractions of death. What is mortal sin? It is apostasy from our own liberty; it is to abandon ourselves to the law of inertia. An unjust act is a compact with injustice: now, every injustice is an abdication of intelligence. We fall from that moment under the empire of force whose reactions always crush everything which is unbalanced. The love of evil and the formal adhesion of the will to injustice are the last efforts of the expiring will. Man, what- ever he may do, is more than a brute, and he cannot abandon himself…
1913 · PDF PAGE 554
…ifts us above the fatal attractions of death. What is mortal sin? It is apostasy from our own liberty; it is to abandon ourselves to the law of inertia. An unjust act is a compact with injustice: now, every injustice is an abdication of intelligence. We fall from that moment under the empire of force whose reactions always crush everything which is unbalanced. The love of evil and the formal adhesion of the will to injustice are the last efforts of the expiring will. Man, what- ever he may do, is more than a brute, and he cannot abandon himself…
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 527
…le business in a nutshell, and expressed so that anyone, however ignorant of the subject, may grasp the essentials (I hope). Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1996 · PDF PAGE 22
The Tirst Chapter 1. Had! The manifestation of Nuit. Commentary: The theogony of our Law is entirely scientific. Nuit is Matter, Hadit is Motion, in their full physical sense.1 They are the tao and te of Chinese Philosophy; or, to put it very simply, the Noun and Verb in grammar. Our central Truth—beyond other philosophies—is that these two infinities cannot exist apart. This extensive subject must be studied in our other writings, nota bly Berashith, my own Magical Diaries, especially those of 1919, 1920 and 1921,1 2 and The Book of Wisdom or…
1996 · PDF PAGE 286
…Aleister Crowley Cited These books and papers are cited or quoted by Crowley in the text of the abridged Commentaries to The Book of the Law; see the General Index for page references. They are listed here alphabetically or by their number in the A.’.A.’. and O.T.O. canon. Except where noted, all were written (or received) by Crowley. Parenthetical numbers refer to books in the reference lists below in which the papers appear. The descriptions in quo tations are Crowley’s, from the A.'. A.-. Curricula. “Amath, an Essay on Truth.” In (14). “Ber…
1919 · PDF PAGE 408
…s. Such to the Portals are the golden keys. (Subsection I.) Charity and love are here used in their technical sense, Agape. “Love is the law, love under will.” Both Agape and Thelema (will) add to 93, which identifies them qabalistically. This love is not a sloppy feeling of maudlin sentimental kindness. The majority of people of the Christian Science, Theosophical, New Thought type, think that a lot of flabby thoughts, sending out streams of love in the Six Quarters, and so on, will help them. It won’t. Love is a pure flame, as swift and deadl…
1954 · 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…
1961 · PDF PAGE 210
…deceived by this Play so that they deem it the Division of Hate, She can but speak in Simplicity by that Word written in The Book of the Law: To me! For until thou love, the Play of Love is but Emptiness; and its cruelty is Cruelty indeed, except thou know it to be but a Sauce to whet Appetite, and to give Emphasis of Contrast, as a Painter dimmeth the Light by Cunning of his Shadows. But all this Delight that thou mayst have of the Universe both in its Veils and in its Nakedness is a Reward of thine Attainment of Truth, and followeth after i…
1905 · PDF PAGE 170
…being this world, forget not ! being this world, this universe, the sum of all existence ; so that opposing fierce resistance to the all-law, stood loves and joys, delicate girls, and beautiful strong boys, and bearded men like gods, and golden things, and bright desires with wings, all beauties, and all truths of life poets have ever prized. So showed the microscope, this agèd strife between all forms ; but seen afar, seen well drawn in a focus, 165
1961 · PDF PAGE 99
…HADABRA. First, HAD is the Triangle erect upon twin Squares. Of Hadit need I not to write, for He hath hidden Himself in The Book of the Law. This Substance is the Father, the Instrument is the Son, and the Metaphysical Ekstacy is the Holy Ghost, whose Name is HRILIU. These are then the Sun, Mercury, and Venus, whose sacred letters are R (r), B (b), and D (d). But the last of the Diverse Letters is H (h), which in the Tarot is the Star whose Eidolon is D (d); and herein is that Arcanum concerning the Tao of which I have already written. Of this…
1904 · PDF PAGE 81
…and thy creation; therefore I say Descend unto pujo-faoregita Dorepesa oborela Das e-ola, ge-kiaisi nore-mo-lapt, thy dwelling, obey the law which I have made, without terror to the sons of men, tol-toregi, tofajilo boresa adoranu caosago. creatures, all things upon the surface of the earth. Ciaunilagi, eca, gobus, od bolape ta balozodaresi kokasa: niisa Descend therefore Isay, and be thou as stewards of Time; come forth paida ole oanio, nonuji quonu Das toatare Bianu Enapo; ole in a moment, even as servants that hearken to the voice of the Lor…