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Page 41 of 951954 · PDF PAGE 377
…he present time when the Aeon of Horus is just getting under way. For the Aeon of Isis, that of the Mother, appears to have regarded the whole of Nature as a spontaneous growth of universal scope. In the aeon of Osiris, the restriction of Family appears for the first time. The world of sentient beings is separated into clusters, each family, clan, gens, or nation, acting as a unit and standing upon armed neutrality with respect to similar groups. But in the Aeon of Horus this system has broken down. That such is the case is already abundantly m…
1954 · PDF PAGE 428
65 Man Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. In previous letters I hope I have been able to give you some idea of the initiated conception of the Macrocosm, and also to have made it clear to you why we must all use a symbolic language, and the necessity of constructing a special alphabet as the basis of our conversations about Magick. I have also furnished you with charts of this alphabet. It would of course have been too clumsy and cumbersome to put all the different systems of symbol on to the Tree of Life. That Tree is…
1906 · PDF PAGE 185
…the normal mind. (As you are pleased to term it, though ! I gather that you do not know ; Merely infer it.) Here’s a test ! What in your whole life is the best Of all your memories? They say You paint—I think you should one day Take me to see your Studio— Tell me, when all your work goes right, Painted to match some inner light, What of the outer world you know! Surely, your best work always finds Itself sole object of the mind’s. In vain you ply the brush, distracted By something you have heard a7 acted. Expect some tedious visitor— Your eye r…
1907 · PDF PAGE 102
…a loving woman . Its failure in the end is a certainty ; certain ascetics may compel their wills to conquer their natures , but men as a whole cannot . Certain maniacs such as Origen may emasculate themselves for the Kingdom of God , but the great human masses will let the Kingdom of God go to the Devil , if a pretty pair of lips is in question . Not for long in any case can we change our natures , as the anchorites of the Libyan deserts only too fearfully proved ; boiling with carnalities they feared to see their own mothers , and were even fo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 9
… that organ, or is there some flaw in our logic? For all depends upon our logic ; not upon the simple identity A is A only, but upon its whole structure from the question of simple propositions, enormously difficult from the moment when it occurred to the detestable genius that invented 117
1911 · PDF PAGE 145
…parnasse before the infection spread to Paris and London. A Polish youth jumped on to the table opposite and joined her; in a minute the whole cafe was aflame with it. But Edgar Rolles, his hands thrust deep into his pockets, and the threat of tears in his eyes, was walking back to his studio. " If only life were folly! " he sighed. “But the silliest things we do are wisdom—somehow, somewhere—" And he let himself in. * * * * at The lunch in the private room at Lavenue’s was secretly amusing. Joe Marie had only dog’s eyes for Ida; Ninon amused he…
1911 · PDF PAGE 145
…parnasse before the infection spread to Paris and London. A Polish youth jumped on to the table opposite and joined her; in a minute the whole cafe was aflame with it. But Edgar Rolles, his hands thrust deep into his pockets, and the threat of tears in his eyes, was walking back to his studio. " If only life were folly! " he sighed. “But the silliest things we do are wisdom—somehow, somewhere—" And he let himself in. * * * * at The lunch in the private room at Lavenue’s was secretly amusing. Joe Marie had only dog’s eyes for Ida; Ninon amused he…
1919 · PDF PAGE 100
…ernal ecstasy of the stars. They did laugh and rejoice exceed- ingly, being clad in purple robes and drunken with purple wine, and their whole soul was one purple flower-flame of holiness. 35. They beheld not God; they beheld not the Image of God; therefore were they arisen to the Palace of the Splen- dour Ineffable. A sharp sword smote out before them, and the worm Hope writhed in its death-agony under their feet. 36. Even as their rapture shore asunder the visible Hope, so also the Fear Invisible fled away and was no more. 37. O ye that are b…
1919 · PDF PAGE 374
…The present ‘Buddha,’ the Master Therion, is doing a similar, but even greater work, by His proclamation: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 32. Sow kindly acts and thou shalt reap their fruition. In- action in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin. Thus saith the Sage. This continues the diatribe against non-action, and points out that the Ascetic is entirely deluded when he supposes that doing nothing has no effect. To refuse to save life is murder. 33. Shalt thou abstain from action? Not so shall gain thy Soul her f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 57
…ed; I was as incapable of thought of any kind as if I had had the toothache. I have a genuine grudge against the system on this account. Whole months of my life, which might have been profitably spent in all sorts of work, were taken up by the morbid broodings of the unsatisfied appetite. Repression is as mentally unwholesome as constipation, and I am furious, to this hour, that some of the best years of my life, which should have been spent in acquiring knowledge, were sterilized by the suffocating stupor of preoccupation with sex. It was not …
1903 · PDF PAGE 15
…of expressing the same thing. And “change” is really not my meaning either; for change, to our minds, involves the idea of time. But the whole thing is incon- ceivable — to ratiocination, though not to thought. Note well too that ifI say “Absence-of-book is not on the table” I cannot convert it into “All books are on the table” but only to “some books are on the table”. The proposition is an “E” and not an “*A” proposition. It is the Advaita blunder to make it so; and many a school- boy has fed off the mantelpiece for less. There is yet another…
1907 · PDF PAGE 319
…vine illumination , the West arrived at a similar position on the circumference of ity , by a diametrically opposite road ; applying the whole of her artificial faculties to a perfecting of her material needs — hence the growing triumphs of the West . ... “ And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord : and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward , by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz " ( 2 Kings , 20 ). All the world round the key which opens the treasure house is Ecstasy . Myself being idle for an hour I dare one thing to speculate …
1913 · PDF PAGE 336
…of theologians and sectarians, the impious desire of appropriating the truth to oneself, and excluding others from it, or of forcing the whole world to submit to the narrow yoke of our judgments. The Antichrist is the priest who curses instead of blessing, who drives away instead of attracting, who scandalizes instead of edifying, who damns instead of saving. It is the hateful fanaticism which discourages good-will. It is the worship of death, sadness, and ugliness. 1 2 Thess. ii. 7,8. This passage is presumably that referred to by the author. …
1913 · PDF PAGE 336
…of theologians and sectarians, the impious desire of appropriating the truth to oneself, and excluding others from it, or of forcing the whole world to submit to the narrow yoke of our judgments. The Antichrist is the priest who curses instead of blessing, who drives away instead of attracting, who scandalizes instead of edifying, who damns instead of saving. It is the hateful fanaticism which discourages good-will. It is the worship of death, sadness, and ugliness. 1 2 Thess. ii. 7,8. This passage is presumably that referred to by the author. …
1954 · PDF PAGE 539
…ry cure, may not one ask oneself it it is really wise to begin one's work with axioms and postulates which are inherently dangerous. The whole controversy might be expressed as a differential equation. Their curves become identical only at infinity, and there is no doubt, at least to my mind, that the curve of Magick follows a more pleasant track than that of Yoga. To take one point alone: it is evidently more satisfactory to have one's malignant demons external to oneself. As I have written it has become clearer to me that this is the case, bu…
1996 · PDF PAGE 6
Foreword Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The Book of the Law was the foundation of Aleister Crowley’s life’s work, and its commentaries a problem that vexed him for most of his adult life, almost since the book’s reception in 1904 E.v. His basic difficulty with producing a commentary was a lack of objectivity. He was too close to The Book of the Law, on too many levels, to be able to easily write about it, let alone judge what other people might find helpful by way of commentary. He made numerous attempts over the years, only t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 68
…nsation (Vedana) of red; an olfactory sensation of fragrance; and so on. Even its weight, its space, are modifications of sense; and the whole statement is transformed into “ Here is a pleasurable set of sensations which we group under the name of a rose.” In such a world lives the sensuous artist. Next, these modifications of sense are found to be but percepts; the pleasure or pain vanishes; and the sensations are observed coldly and clearly without allowing the mind to be affected. This perception (Saiifia) is the world of the surgeon or the …
1909 · PDF PAGE 68
…nsation (Vedana) of red; an olfactory sensation of fragrance; and so on. Even its weight, its space, are modifications of sense; and the whole statement is transformed into “ Here is a pleasurable set of sensations which we group under the name of a rose.” In such a world lives the sensuous artist. Next, these modifications of sense are found to be but percepts; the pleasure or pain vanishes; and the sensations are observed coldly and clearly without allowing the mind to be affected. This perception (Saiifia) is the world of the surgeon or the …
1911 · PDF PAGE 103
… line. There was a mess of varlets between us; before I could sweep them away the Knights had rolled over Sidi Omar and my brothers —the whole wing was destroyed. I rallied the right on the centre, and—why, mother, you‘re not listening! LAYLAH [ta/king his swam’]. This sword killed your father. Listen! Sidi Omar was not your father. Your father ravished me, a virgin and a princess, and left me only this for tokens [She takes the jewelled scorpion from her þraut,] I took it for hate and revenge; wherein I lied, for I loved him, and Ilove him. Go…
1911 · PDF PAGE 155
…f now, boy! I am busy. I must twiddle—twiddle—twiddle." Edgar bowed and went. He could not trust himself to speak: the Love that was the whole being of the Brother melted the snow of his soul. He loved. Not Ida, not the world, not anything. It was pure love, love without object, love as love is in itself. He did not love; he was Love. But he strode straight back to Ida Pendragon. Before she left her bed, they were married. A week later they drove through the cool swift air to the South; and there, among the vines, they learnt how—once in a cent…