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Page 49 of 791930 · PDF PAGE 87
…ing. 5. Success in these verbal invocations is so subtle a matter, and its grades so delicately shaded, that it must be left to the good sense of the student to décidé whether or not he should be satisfied with his resuit. V. 1. Let the student be at rest in one of his prescribed positions, having bathed and robed with the proper décorum. Let the place of working be free from ail disturbance, and let the preliminary purifications, banishings and invocations be duly accomplished, and, lastly, let the incense be kindled. 2. Let him imagine his ow…
1954 · PDF PAGE 13
… certainly worth reviewing and contain more than appears at first sigh t. The order of the letters does not make for easy reading in the sense of being continuous or consecutive. They could
1929 · PDF PAGE 341
…nd. I do not know how long I stood there holding myself in, but judging from subsequent calculations it must have been over an hour: the sense of time had entirely disappeared. But I became suddenly aware of a terrific reaction; I felt that I had missed my chance by not letting myself go and perhaps been killed for my pains. At the same time I was seized with a sudden sense of alarm. I felt myself to be outside the spiritual circle. I was sure that someone would discover me and a swift shudder passed through me as I apprehended my danger. Fortu…
1937 · PDF PAGE 6
…y one of them. 7. The formula is given by the Law of Thelema. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. This injunction, in one sense infinitely elastic, since it does not specify any particular goal of will as desirable, is yet infinitely rigid, in that it binds every man to follow out exactly the purpose for which he is fitted by here- dity, environment, experience, and self-development. The formula is thus also biologically indefeasible, as well as adequate, ethically to every individual, and politically to the State. 8. Let this fo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 55
… is difficult. It isn't. Is there, however, some deep-seated inhibition-a (Freudian) fear of success? Is there some connection with that sense of guilt which is born in all but the very few? But you don't give it a fair chance. There is, I admit, some trick, or knack, about getting properly across; a faculty which one acquires (as a rule) quite suddenly and unexpectedly. Rather like mastering some shots at billiards. Practice has taught me how to communicate this to students; only in rare cases does one fail. (It's incredible: one man simply co…
1954 · PDF PAGE 276
MAGICKAL MEMORY 243 Yes, of course, in a sense; but don't keep on interrupting! I was coming to something interesting. I insist on putting forth the immediately useful point of view: "devotion to Nuit" must mean the eager pursuit of the fulfilment of all possibilities, however unpleasant. Good: now see how logical this is. For how else could one have reasonable "certainty," as contrary with "faith" (=interior conviction), otherwise than by the acquisition of the "Magical Memory" -the memory of former lives. And this must evidently include that …
1904 · PDF PAGE 24
…s job a treat. Eulogy, you will ad- mit, can no further go. To return : I was a healthy and well-formed boy, and my innate stern moral sense guarded me against the temptations into which so many youngsters fall nowadays. The diminutive size of my meat-skewer baffled all the attempts of my fiery-arsed nurse, for her well-worn snatch-blatch could receive no gratification from anything smaller than a village pump-handle. It is a singular circumstance that my relations with my god-mother (who had ad hoc taken an in- terest in me) were apparently …
1954 · PDF PAGE 279
… the prime essential as one would expect. Of the Mary Queen of Scots persuasion was old Lady Caithness, who seems moreover to have had a sense of humour into the bargain, for she gave a dinner-party in Paris to twelve other ladies, each of whom had also been the luckless victim of Henry VIII's failure to produce of his own loins a durable male succession. (His marriages were so many desperate efforts to save England from a second innings of the devastation of the Wars of the Roses, from which his father, who was not a miser, but a sound financi…
1898 · PDF PAGE 75
…have made Jephthah a Magician is also in accordance with tradition. Great captains were always great priests, in the secret Qabalistical sense. The priests themselves, then as to-day, were foolish old men trained to bolster up the externals of religion. The real rulers, then as to-day, were not, officially, priests ; the sceptre was wielded by those who, swathed in thick darkness, and enthroned on their own thunderclouds, looked with the eye of gods upon this earth, and carried out the designs of God with tranquil power. I have depicted such a …
1899 · PDF PAGE 254
…would counsel him to abandon this dangerous fallacy, and.to devote his undoubted genius to the task of becoming a great poet in the true sense of the word. He can do so if he will."—7he Cambridge Magasine. 8
1922 · PDF PAGE 27
…r. Fordham, he nearly kill’ ze Lord,” he bubbled, wringing his fat hands. ‘ He nearly kill’ ze Lord.” Something in the speech tickled my sense of ir- reverence. I broke into a high-pitched shout of laughter. “Rotten,” said my companion. “ Rotten! That fellow Fordham never seems to make a clean job of it anyhow. Say, look here, thisis my night out. You go ’way like a good boy, tell all those boys and girls come and have dinner.” The waiter knew well enough who was meant; and presently I found myself shaking hands with several perfect strangers i…
1954 · PDF PAGE 137
…themselves; they were mere names (nominalism from Lat. nomen, a name) invented for convenience of grouping. This doctrine is plain commonsense, and I shall waste no time in demolishing the realists. All a priori thinking, the worst kind of thinking, goes with "realism" in this sense.
1929 · PDF PAGE 553
553 Alas for these men who cannot be taught the elements of common sense by any means soever. Not long afterwards some trivial incident touched the same spot. I thought he would be the better for a holiday from the abbey. He was working so hard that his health began to make me anxious. He interpreted {872} my suggestion as a banishment and instead of going, as I proposed, to Palermo, and putting in a month working up the interest of the people there about us, he went off to the top of the Rock without any provisions of any kind. He had taken an…
1910 · PDF PAGE 62
THE EQUINOX Presumably cessation of sense perception. How can we prove our theory? By cutting away every perception, every thought- form as it is born, until nothing thinkable is left, not even the thought of the unknowable. The man of science will often say “I do not know, I really do not know where these bricks came from, or how they were made, or who made them; but here they are; let us build a house and live in it.” Now this indeed is a very sensible view to take, and the result is we have some very fine houses built by these excellent bric…
1910 · PDF PAGE 62
THE EQUINOX Presumably cessation of sense perception. How can we prove our theory? By cutting away every perception, every thought- form as it is born, until nothing thinkable is left, not even the thought of the unknowable. The man of science will often say “I do not know, I really do not know where these bricks came from, or how they were made, or who made them; but here they are; let us build a house and live in it.” Now this indeed is a very sensible view to take, and the result is we have some very fine houses built by these excellent bric…
1922 · PDF PAGE 355
…ssistance, unable to control my thoughts; and I was transported into a totally unfamiliar world. I did not exist at all, in any ordinary sense of the word. I was a mathematical expression in a complex scheme of geometry. My equilibrium was maintained by innumerable other forces in the same system, and what I called myself was in some mysterious way charged with a duty of manipulating the other forces, and these evaded me. When I strove to grasp them, they disappeared. My functions seemed to be to simplify complex expressions, and then to build …
1954 · PDF PAGE 228
MENTAL PROCESSES 195 always be reduced to a series of one or other of these. If not, it is a sham statement; nonsense masquerading as sense in the cloak of verbiage and verbosity. Analysis, and Synthesis; or, Subtraction, and Addition. 1. You can examine A, and find that it is composed of B and C. A = B + C. 2. You can find out what happens to B when you add C to it. B + C = A. As you notice, the two are identical, after all; but the process is different. Example: Raise Copper Oxide to a very high temperature; you obtain metallic copper and oxy…
1996 · PDF PAGE 123
…rtal energy and rapture. 43. A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! Commentary: To sleep is to return, in a sense, to the Bosom of Nuit. But there is to be a particular Act of Worship of Our Lady, as ye well wot.
1929 · PDF PAGE 118
…riend never profited except now and then for a few lucky weeks, though he scooped in that time enough to keep a man with a grain of good sense for the rest of his life. The confidence trick is protean, but in all its forms the essence is to get the victim off his guard. Observe how this fact confirms by general theory that surrender of the will to the guidance of the emotions is destructive of judgment. The first act in every trick is what is called the "come on" or the "build up". Its crudest form is providing to a stranger that you trust him …
1922 · PDF PAGE 253
…as worked out the technique. All I can do is to love and labour blindly. After all, there must have been angels looking after me in some sense which I don’t pretend to understand. Why should they not be even more vigilant on his behalf ? I am only a foolish flapper not worth throwing into the waste-paper basket. He is a splendid man with a glorious past and endless possibilities for the future.