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Page 40 of 821919 · PDF PAGE 327
… 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 great enemy. This is all very well as mea…
1919 · PDF PAGE 237
…ly 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 honour …
1961 · PDF PAGE 165
…e of Light. And in the Rites of Mithras the Bull is slain, and his Blood poured upon the Initiate, to endow him with that Will and that Power of Work. Also in the land of Hind is the Bull sacred to Shiva, that is God among that Folk, and is unto hem the Destroyer of all Things that be opposed to Him. And his God is also the Phallus, for this Will operateth through Love even as it is written in our Own Law. Yet again, Apis he Bull of Khem hath Kephra the Beetle upon His tongue, which signifieth that it is by this Will, and by this Work, that th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 251
…d 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, one starts to kick holes in it! Yet we both know perfectly well all the time what we do mean. But this is certainly not the sense of the word in your question. It may clear our minds, as has so often happened, if we examine it through the lens of dear old Skeat. Religion, he says, Latin: religio, piety. Collecting or paying at…
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…
1996 · PDF PAGE 12
…ligence discarnate, who wrote this Book of the Law, using my ears and hand. His mind is certainly superior to my own in knowledge and in power, for He has dominated me and taught me ever since.1 1 [Crowley, Commentary to AL 111:19, p. 161 below.] 2 [Quotations from Liber Legis are cited by chapter and verse in the margins throughout this edition, except when occurring in that section of the Commentary where the verse quoted is the subject.] But the writer from this dictation was not, at the time, in sympathy with this “intelligence.” Aiwaz, in …
1913 · PDF PAGE 64
…d all that he has into his pyramid; and if that pyramid is to touch the stars, how broad must be the base ! There is no knowledge and no power which is useless to the Magician. One might almost say there is no scrap of material in the whole Universe with which he can dispense. His ultimate enemy is the great Magician, the Magician who created the whole illusion of the Universe; and to meet him in battle, so that nothing is left either of him or of yourself, you must be exactly equal to him. At the same time let the Magician never forget that ev…
1909 · PDF PAGE 63
…w do its phantoms differ from those of absinthe, reverie, and love, and so on? We may admit their unsubstantiality without denying their power; the phantoms of absinthe and 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 paral…
1911 · PDF PAGE 232
…rth~born’s spell yawns for Heaven’s despotism, And Conquest is dragged captive through the deep ; Love, from its awful throne of patient power In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour Of dead endurance, from the slippery steep, And narrow verge of crag~like agony, springs And folds over the world its healing wings. Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance— These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction’s strength ; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 232
…rth~born’s spell yawns for Heaven’s despotism, And Conquest is dragged captive through the deep ; Love, from its awful throne of patient power In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour Of dead endurance, from the slippery steep, And narrow verge of crag~like agony, springs And folds over the world its healing wings. Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance— These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction’s strength ; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent t…
1912 · PDF PAGE 23
9 they accused Christ of “sedition.” When the Pope had all power it was necessary to prove an enemy a “ heretic.” Advancing to-day towards a medical oligarchy, we try to prove that our opponents are “insane,” and (in a Puritan country) to attack their “morals.” We should then avoid all rhetoric, and try to investigate with perfect freedom from bias the phenomena which occurred to these great leaders of mankind. There is no difficulty in our assuming that these men themselves did not understand clearly what happened to them. The only one who expl…
1904 · PDF PAGE 81
…e servant of fealty and obedience, and because tot3a Das Dorebesa na-e-el oD qua-a-on; eca gobusa: Caunilagi thou art he that obeyeth my power 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…
1909 · PDF PAGE 74
…rue Worshipper of the Highest. Ol sonuf vaoresaji, gono Iadapiel. elonusaha cælazod. 1 rule above ye, said the Lord of Lords, exalted in power. [From Dr. Dee's MSS.—ED.] Will now try the Hanged Man again. Very Vigorous and good, my willing of Adonai. . . . I should like to explain the difficulty. It would be easy enough to form a magical Image of Adonai; and He would doubtless inform it. But it would only be an Image. This. may be the meaning of the command- ment “Thou shalt not make any graven image,” etc., just as “ Thou shalt not have any oth…
1913 · PDF PAGE 410
…e magnetic forces is then to destroy or create forms; to produce to all appearance, or to destroy bodies; it is to exercise the almighty power of Nature. Our plastic medium is a magnet which attracts or repels the astral light under the pressure of the will. It is a luminous body which reproduces with the greatest ease forms corresponding to ideas. It is the mirror of the imagination. This body is nourished by astral light just as the organic body is nourished by the products of the earth. During slumber, it absorbs the astral light by immersio…
1913 · PDF PAGE 410
…e magnetic forces is then to destroy or create forms; to produce to all appearance, or to destroy bodies; it is to exercise the almighty power of Nature. Our plastic medium is a magnet which attracts or repels the astral light under the pressure of the will. It is a luminous body which reproduces with the greatest ease forms corresponding to ideas. It is the mirror of the imagination. This body is nourished by astral light just as the organic body is nourished by the products of the earth. During slumber, it absorbs the astral light by immersio…
1919 · PDF PAGE 44
…Liper XLI. Turen Tao. An Essay on Attainment by the Way of Equilibrium. Liper DCCCLXVIII. Lrzer Viarum Viz. A graphic account of magical powers classified under the Tarot Trumps. Course VIII. publications are specially suited to the grade of Major Adept, whose task is the attainment of the full Magical Power. It is highly desirable that Aspirants to this grade should have attained the 9th degree of O.T.O., in which case much secret knowledge is offered them besides that openly published. The methods of examination for the Inner College differ t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
…the devilish minister Of such a deed as this !! Such was the almost frenzied exclamation of Jared , when he tried to shake off the awful power that was urging him to become participator in the murder of an innocent girl ; and such is also often the terrible struggle that is waged in the mind of the sexual invert . Impelled by energies sometimes in -bred , sometimes self-made, and sometimes but mere matters of locality and education , how often does he struggle-and in vain ! Jephthah , vol . i, p. 84.
1913 · PDF PAGE 82
…e middle, Ida and Pingala on either side {cf. the Tree of Life). The central channel is compressed at the base by Kundalini, the magical power, a sleeping serpent. Awake her: she darts up the spine, and the Prana flows through the Sushumna. See "Raja- Yoga" for more details.
1930 · PDF PAGE 70
CHAPTER XXI OF BLACK MAGIC OF THE MAIN TYPES OF THE OPERATIONS OF MAGICK ART AND OF THE POWERS OF THE SPHINX I As was said at the opening of the second chapter, the Single Suprême Ritual is the attainment of the Knowledge and Conver¬ sation of the Holy Guardian Angel. It is the raisin g of the complété man in a vertical straight line. Any déviation from tliis line tends to become black magic. Any otlier operation is black magic. In the True Operation the Exaltation is equilibrated by an expansion in the other three arms of the Cross. Hence the …
1909 · PDF PAGE 7
…I will drink this wine, and not that wine.” For, as we have now learnt, our happiness does not at all depend upon our possessions or our power. We would all rather be dead than be a millionaire who lives in daily dread of murder or blackmail. Our happiness depends upon our state of mind. It is the mastery of these things that the Magicians of to-day have set out to obtain for humanity; they will not turn back, or turn aside. 5