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Page 47 of 841961 · PDF PAGE 193
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 181 #y Sequitur de hac re (Further concerning this matter) HOU knowest right well, o my Son, how a Thought is imperfect in two Dimensions, being separate from its Contradiction, but also constrained in its Scope, because by that Contradiction we do not (commonly) complete the Universe, save only that of its Discourse. Thus if we contrast health with Sickness, we include in their Sphere of Union no more than one Quality that may be predicated of all Things. Furthermore, it is for the most Part not easy to find or to f…
1909 · PDF PAGE 370
…NOX black stain polluted the immaculate white of their leaves. Only the binding bore some words. They were the titles of those unwritten books. Thus they ran: “The book “ Advice to which Mankind contains all that I know for for a better use of their faculties.” certain.” No name of author was to be seen. In the fourth compartment was a little framed picture, and though I examined it very closely I was not able at first to realise what the subject of the picture was. From a shallow little boat a gigantic snake was seen to emerge, fiercely starin…
1909 · PDF PAGE 370
…NOX black stain polluted the immaculate white of their leaves. Only the binding bore some words. They were the titles of those unwritten books. Thus they ran: “The book “ Advice to which Mankind contains all that I know for for a better use of their faculties.” certain.” No name of author was to be seen. In the fourth compartment was a little framed picture, and though I examined it very closely I was not able at first to realise what the subject of the picture was. From a shallow little boat a gigantic snake was seen to emerge, fiercely starin…
1954 · PDF PAGE 304
…at I am myself the chief of sinners in this respect because of Ankh-f-n-Khonsu, but this was not my doing. It was imposed upon me by The Book of the Law, and I do not feel particularly flattered or comforted by this identification. The only interest to me is the remarkable manner in which this is interwoven with the existence of the "Cairo working." Your second and third questions are still worse. I should be ashamed of myself if I were to do so much as to refer to them. That must serve for that. But your fourth question I did 271
1944 · PDF PAGE 78
…t and demanding exact and precise satisfaction. More than this, she is the complete formula of the Dyad; the word AL is the title of the Book of the Law, whose number is 31, the most secret of the numerical keys of that Book. She represents Manifestation, which may always be cancelled out by equilibration of opposites. She is wrapped in a cloak of mystery, the more mysterious because diaphanous; she is the sphinx without a secret, because she is purely a matter of calculation. In Eastern philoso‐ phy she is Karma. Her attributions develop this …
1954 · PDF PAGE 200
…o get everything balanced and tidy. If you propose to erect a regular Temple, the most precise instructions in every detail are given in Book 4, Part II. (But I haven't so much as seen a copy for years!) There is a good deal scattered about in Part III (Magick, which you have) especially about the four elemental weapons. But if circumstances deny you for the moment the means of carrying out this Edification as the Ideal would have it, you can certainly do your best to create a fairly satisfactory-above all, workable-substitute. I was often redu…
1912 · PDF PAGE 99
… Vivekananda, comment- ing on Patanjali, makes Dhyana a mere prolongation of Dharana?,־but says further: “Suppose I were meditating on a book, and I gradually
1929 · PDF PAGE 96
…le and of the Instruments of Art. I “Before there was equilibrium, countenance beheld not count¬ enance.” 1 So sayeth the holiest of the Books of the ancient Qabalah. (Siphra Tzeniutha I. 2.) One countenance here spoken of is the Macrocosm, the other the Microcosm.2 As said above, the object of any magick ceremony is to unité the Macrocosm and the Microcosm. It is as in optics; the angles of incidence and reflection are equal. You must get your Macrocosm and Microcosm exactly balanced, vertically and horizontally, or the images will not coincid…
1909 · PDF PAGE 71
…is section the forms appearing in answer to the rites of ceremonial magic. * Mr. Haddo’s suggestions have been officially taken up and a book of careful instruction compiled. See Liber O.—ED. 61
1909 · PDF PAGE 71
…is section the forms appearing in answer to the rites of ceremonial magic. * Mr. Haddo’s suggestions have been officially taken up and a book of careful instruction compiled. See Liber O.—ED. 61
1913 · PDF PAGE 354
… transforms itself into a star to enlighten the obscurities of History. What it has written by its actions remains graven in the eternal book; it has added a page to the Bible of the human race. Do not say that civilization is bad; for it resembles the damp heat which ripens the harvest, it rapidly develops the principles of life and the principles of death, it kills and it vivifies. It is like the angel of the judgment who separates the wicked from the good. Civilization transforms men of good will into angels of light, and lowers the selfish …
1913 · PDF PAGE 354
… transforms itself into a star to enlighten the obscurities of History. What it has written by its actions remains graven in the eternal book; it has added a page to the Bible of the human race. Do not say that civilization is bad; for it resembles the damp heat which ripens the harvest, it rapidly develops the principles of life and the principles of death, it kills and it vivifies. It is like the angel of the judgment who separates the wicked from the good. Civilization transforms men of good will into angels of light, and lowers the selfish …
1954 · PDF PAGE 256
…ple used to say that I didn't climb them, that I oozed over them! This explains, I think, my deep-seated dislike of many passages in The Book of the Law. "0 prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing. I see thee hate the hand and the pen; but I am stronger." (AL, II: 10, II) Well, what is the upshot of all this? It answers your question about the value to be attached to this Golden Mean. 223
1961 · PDF PAGE 113
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 101 Gf De Femina quadam (Of a certain Woman) NOWEST thou for what Cause I am moved to write this unto hee, my Son only-begotten, Child of Magick and of Mystery? It is that I thy Father am also in this Ordeal of Initiation at this Hour. For the Sun is nigh unto the End of the Sign of he Fishes in the Thirteenth Year of the Æon, and the New Current of High Magick leapeth forth as a Flood from the Womb of my True Lady BABALON. And a Word hath come to me by he Mouth of the Scarlet Woman, whose Name is EVE, or AHITHA, con…
1961 · PDF PAGE 216
…e I made a Beginning of this Letter, beholding thy triumph beforehand; and with Prescience, divining thy next Need, that is to say, this Book of the Words of my Wisdom. b
1907 · PDF PAGE 97
…ligion has wrought. As I looked on Granada and its cathedral, this is what I thought. Can you blame me? And from a little leathem pocket-book he began to read these lines: ON A PROSPECT OF GRANADA CATHEDRAL FROM THE ALHAMBRA BROWN bloated toad that squattest in the sun! Loose thankless mouth whose greed is never done!
1912 · PDF PAGE 26
…ur progress, for we shall find that (as in all physio- logical matters) meditation cannot be gauged by the feelings, We shall have a note-book and pencil, and we shall also have a watch. We shall then endeavour to count how often, during the first quarter of an hour, the mind breaks away from the idea upon which it is determined to concentrate. We shall practice this twice daily; and, as we go, ex- perience will teach us which conditions are favourable and which not. Before we have been doing this for very long we are almost certain to get impati…
1919 · PDF PAGE 445
…o. You can see it in Liber 418, where, as soon as a certain stage is reached, the great curse turns into an inef- fable blessing. In the Book of Lies, too, the same idea is stated again and again, with repetition only unwearying because of the beauty and variety of the form. “Everything is sorrow,” says the Buddha. Quite so, to begin with. We analyse the things we deem least sorrow, and find that by taking a long enough period, or a short enough period, we can prove them to be the most exquisite agony. Such is the attempt of all Buddhist writer…
1961 · PDF PAGE 165
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 153 Ef De Tauro (Of the Bull) ONCERNING the Bull, this is thy Will, constant and unwearied, whose Letter is Vau, which is Six, the Number of he Sun. He is therefore the Force and the Substance of thy Being; but besides this, he is the Hierophant in the Taro, as if this were said: that thy Will leadeth thee unto the Shrine 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 …
1954 · PDF PAGE 448
…o I too leap into the breach with Curtius, and point out that "Language itself asserts the doctrine of the True Will." But what says The Book of the Law? It is at pains to define Sin in plain terms : "The word of Sin is Restriction." (AL, I: 41) From the context it seems clear that this refers more especially to interference with the will of another. 415