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Page 50 of 2571954 · PDF PAGE 287
…ith a bang. Think of a roulette ball hovering on the edge at the end of a long spin! Think of Buridan's ass! Love is the law. love under will. Yours fraternally, 666 P.S. One ought, perhaps, to give an outline of how these facts work out in the social system of Thelema. It may be useful to classify women in three groups, (I exclude the fourth, which anatomically woman, does not function in that capacity: the "spinster") corresponding to Isis, Osiris and Horus. The Isis-Class consists of the mother-type. To them the man is no more than the neces…
1954 · PDF PAGE 241
…you should wish to communicate , for any good reason, your experiences to other people . Then despairing of your impotence, how glad you will be that you have been trained not to let anyone fob you off with phrases. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally yours, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 388
…be considered as political in the old and proper sense of the word; of modern politics it disdains to speak. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally yours, 666
1898 · PDF PAGE 27
…ill a vantage ground whereon Hard-breathing fighting men get scanty sleep Till the dawn lift his eyebrows, and the day Renew the battle? Will ye follow me Through slippery ways of blood to Ephraim To beat with sturdy swords unwearying Our foemen to their Ammon, and to grapple With red death clutching at the throat of us, With famine and with pestilence, at last To reach a barren vengeance, and perchance An hundred of your thousands to return Victors—so best God speed us—and for worst Death round our cities horrible and vast, And rape and murder…
1901 · PDF PAGE 97
…the end beyond the darkling goal ? These are my passions that my feet must tread ; This is my sword, the fervour of my soul ; This is my Will, the crown upon my head. For see ! the darkness beckons : I have gone, Before this terrible hour, towards the gloom, Braved the wild dragon, called the tiger on With whirling cries of pride, sought out the tomb Where lurking vampires battened, and my steel Has wrought its splendour through the gates of death. My courage did not falter : now I feel My heart beat wave-wise, and my throat catch breath As if …
1903 · PDF PAGE 20
…uty be Broken, and mine a broken brain. Yet we shall know ; delighting still In the sole laughter death derides In vain; the indomitable will, Still burning in the spirit, guides Our hearts to truth ; we see, we know How foolish were the things he said, And answer in the afterglow How good it is that we are dead. Will you not come? Or, where the surf Beats on the coral, and the palm 18
1907 · PDF PAGE 156
…on bid well to exter minate his whole wretched race ; thereupon he dis closed science , which , when it has destroyed his former hobby , will in its turn run riot over all , till it also becomes such a pest , that it too , will have to give way to something better . Never contented , man ultimately finds that his double collection of manna rots . What the end will be no one knows , and few care ; that we shall ever reach a state verging on perfection is most improbable ; man could not stand it for long unless his worldly span were one of unam b…
1922 · PDF PAGE 147
… two men rose to their feet. “T’ve arranged it with my friend here on the basis of his experience of the bold, bad, British tourist. You will come with me to the consulate under the protection of two of his men,” he smiled sarcastically, “ for fear you should get into any further trouble. You can have your things back except the guns, which are forbidden.” How little he knew what a surge of joy went through us at that last remark ! “I will send one of my clerks with you to Capri,” he said, “‘ and you will get your passports and money and whatev…
1909 · PDF PAGE 26
…ay. Close it in locked glass for a proof to the world. I I. This shall be your only proof. I forbid argument. Conquer! That is enough. I will make easy to you the abstruction from the ill- ordered house in the Victorious City. Thou shalt thyself convey it with worship, 0 pro- phet, though thou likest it not. Thou shalt have danger and trouble. Ra-Hoor-Khu is with thee. Worship me with fire and blood; worship me with swords and with spears. Let the woman be girt with a sword before me: let blood flow to my name. Trample down the Heathen; be upon t…
1938 · PDF PAGE 15
III. This is the Harmony of the Universe, that Love unites the Will to create with the Understanding of that Creation: understand thou thine own Will! Love and let love! Rejoice in every shape of love, and get thy rapture and thy nourishment thereof! IV. Pour water on thyself: thus shalt thou be a Fountain to the Universe. Find thou thyself in every Star! Achieve thou every possibility! V. Offer thyself Virgin to the Knowledge and Conversation of thine Holy Guardian Angel! All else is a snare. Be thou athlete with the eight limbs of Yoga; for w…
1961 · PDF PAGE 72
…se proper to his Nature; for in this Restriction is all this Pleasure. Therefore, though he hath All-Power to move the Pieces at his own Will, he doth it not, enduring Loss, Indignity, and Defeat rather than destroy that Artifice of Illusion. Think then that thou hast thyself created this Shadow-world the Universe, and that it pleasureth thee to watch or to actuate its Play according to the Law that thou hast made, which yet bindeth thee not save only by Virtue of thine own Will to do thine own Pleasure therein. c
1901 · PDF PAGE 122
…l thy beauty, even thine, be made As pure and mighty as these hills that roll In mist and sun and shade ? O thou ! the Highest ! make my will as thine, My consciousness, the consciousness divine !
1954 · PDF PAGE 154
…ks me that I cannot give it voice, yet I know it is but as the anguish of Gethsemane . (Ibid., 11 th Aethyr) Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1903 · PDF PAGE 14
… also in “ At Last,” “ Love and Fear,” and “ Lethe,” one or more whole lines have been almost im- possible to read. The literary student will be able readily to detect my patchwork emendations. These I have dared to make because his whole pattern (may I use the word ?) is so elaborate and perfect that I fear to annoy the reader by leaving any blanks, feeling that my own poverty of diction will be less noticeable than any actual hiatus in the sense or rhythm. I attempt neither eulogy nor criticism here. Indeed, it seems to me entirely uncalled f…
1904 · PDF PAGE 84
… would seek in the fourth the Way , the Noble Eightfold Path. “I know, O Arahats, that y ou do not need this instruction : but m y words will not stay here : they will go forth and illum inate the whole system of ten thousand worlds, w here Arahats do not grow on every tree. Little brothers, the night is fallen : it were well to sleep.”
1926 · PDF PAGE 25
…ay. Close it in locked glass for a proof to the world. I I. This shall be your only proof. I forbid argument. Conquer! That is enough. I will make easy to you the abstruction from the ill- ordered house in the Victorious City. Thou shalt thyself convey it with worship, 0 pro- phet, though thou likest it not. Thou shalt have danger and trouble. Ra-Hoor-Khu is with thee. Worship me with fire and blood; worship me with swords and with spears. Let the woman be girt with a sword before me: let blood flow to my name. Trample down the Heathen; be upon t…
1961 · PDF PAGE 67
…Of the Most Subtle Secret) MY Son, there is that within thee of marvellous Puissance which is by its own Nature the Incar- nation of thy Will, most ready to receive the Seal thereof. Therein lie hidden all Powers, all Memories, more than thou hast ten thousand fold! Learn then to draw from that great Treasure-House the Jewel of which thou art in any present Need. For all things that are possible to thy Nature are already hidden within thee; and thou hast but to name them, and to bring them back into the Light of thy Consciousness. Then squander…
1954 · PDF PAGE 484
…51 Greetings and Adorations and all such mnemonics, you are not likely to go very far wrong. Wands: this is obviously a pure question of Will. You will find as you go on that obstacles of varying degrees of difficulty confront you ; and the way in which you deal with them is most carefully watched. The best advice that I can give is to remember that there is little need of the Bull-at-a-Gate method , though that must always be ready in reserve; no, the best analogy is rapier-play. Elastic strength . Warfare shows us. That seems to cover your qu…
1905 · PDF PAGE 80
…ll a vantage ground whereon Hard-breathing fighting men get scanty sleep, Till the dawn lift his eyebrows, and the day Renew the battle? Will ye follow me Through slippery ways of blood to Ephraim To beat with sturdy swords unwearying Our foemen to their Ammon, and to grapple With red death clutching at the throat of us, With famine and with pestilence, at last To reach a barren vengeance, and per- chance An hundred of your thousands to return Victors—so best God speed us—and_ for worst Death round our cities horrible and vast, And rape and mur…
1909 · PDF PAGE 330
…manuscript entitled “Of Travelling in the Spirit Vision,” in which this particular form of gaining contact, so to speak, with the Higher Will is explained as follows: The symbol, place, direction or plane being known whereon it is desired to act, a thought-ray is sent unto the corresponding part of the Sphere of Sensations, and thence by drawing a basis of action from the refined Astral Light of the Sphere of Sensations of the Nephesch, the thought-ray is sent like an arrow from a bow right through the circumference of the Sphere of Sensations …