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Page 53 of 671930 · PDF PAGE 63
…monstrate the continuily of nature and the uniformity of Law5 He will feel that Mis work bas not been wasted. In his original design of Part III he did not contemplate any allusion to alchemy. It has somehow been taken for granted that this subject is entirely foreign to regular Magick, both in scope and method. It will be the main object of the following descrip¬ tion to establish it as essentially a branch of the subject, and to show that it may be considered simply as a particular case of the general proposition — differing from evocatory an…
1954 · PDF PAGE 55
…es in the manner of the Village Idiot. Yours, luckily, is the former trouble. But-is it plain obstinacy?-you do not exercise the sublime Art of Guru-bullying. You should have made one frenzied leap to my dying bed, thrust aside the cohorts of Mourning Archimandrites, and wrung my nose until I made you do it. And you repeatedly insist that it 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 gi…
1961 · PDF PAGE 163
…ret the Sphinx in Terms of the Formula of the Slain God. This did I comprehend even when as Eliphas Levi Zahed I walked up and down the Earth, seeking a Reconciliation of these Antagonisms, which was a Task impossible, for in that Plane they have Antipathy. (Even so may no Man form a Square Magical of Four Units.) But the Light of the New Æon revealeth this Sphinx as the true Symbol of this our Holy Art of Magick under the Law of Thelema. In Her is the equal Development and Disposition of the Forces of Nature, each in its Balanced Strength; als…
1904 · PDF PAGE 62
…s humble and meek, then shalt thou rehearse : THE WELCOME UNTO THE SPIRIT. WELcomME Spirit N., O most noble king’ (or kings)! I say thou art welcome unto me, because I have called thee through Him who hast * In the Latin, “ Bathal vel Vathat super Abrac ruens! Abeor veniens super Aberer !” ? Or whatever his dignity may be. 46
1910 · PDF PAGE 146
… God, and I refuse to discuss what is not!” cries Buddha, “but there is Sorrow and I intend to destroy it.” IfI can only get people to start on the upward journey they will very soon cease to care if there is a God or if there is a No-God; but, if I give them the slightest cause to expect any reward outside cessation of Sorrow, it would set them all * “The Questions of King Milinda,” iii, 4, 6. + Ibid, iii, 5, 10. t It is curious how, inversely according to the amount of morality preached is morality practised in America; in fact there are almo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 146
… God, and I refuse to discuss what is not!” cries Buddha, “but there is Sorrow and I intend to destroy it.” IfI can only get people to start on the upward journey they will very soon cease to care if there is a God or if there is a No-God; but, if I give them the slightest cause to expect any reward outside cessation of Sorrow, it would set them all * “The Questions of King Milinda,” iii, 4, 6. + Ibid, iii, 5, 10. t It is curious how, inversely according to the amount of morality preached is morality practised in America; in fact there are almo…
1930 · PDF PAGE 90
LIBER ASTARTE vel BERYLLI SUB FIGURA CLXXV. o. Fhis is the Book of Uniting Himself to a particular Deity by dévotion. 1. Considerattons before the Threshold:— First concermng the ch01 ce of a particular Deity. Fhis matter is of no import, sobeit that thou choose one suited to thine own highest nature. Howsoever, this method is not so suitable for gods austere as Saturn, or intellectual as Thoth. But for such deities as in them- selves partake in anywise of love ît is a perfect mode. 2. Concerning the frime method of this Magick Art : — Let the …
1996 · PDF PAGE 183
…ll “the royal”: these are the men whose nature is kingly, the men who “can.” They know themselves born rulers, whether their halidom1 be Art, or Science, or aught else soever. 1 [A holy place or sanctuary.] “the lofty”: these are the men who, being themselves high hearted, endure not any baseness. 59. As brothers fight ye! Commentary: Fight! Fight like gentlemen, without malice, because fighting is the best game in the world, and love the second best! Don’t slander your enemy, as the newspapers would have you do; just kill him, and then bury h…
1996 · PDF PAGE 176
…o many unfortunate people; proper precaution against actual dangers will replace unnecessary and absurd precautions against imaginary or artificial dangers; and the quacks who trade on fear will be put out of business. All this must follow as the Light the night as soon as Woman, true to Herself, finds that She can no longer be false to any man. She must hold Herself and Her Will in honour; and She must compel the world to accord it. The modern woman is not going to be dupe, slave, and victim any more; the woman who gives herself up freely to h…
1910 · PDF PAGE 257
REVIEWS DaRE TO BE WISE. By JOHN McTaccarT ELLIs McTaccart Doctor in Letters Fellow and Lecturer of Trinity College in Cambridge, Fellow of the British Academy. Watts and Co., 17 Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street, E.C. Price 3d. Only the Price Threepence saved my reason. “Dare to be Wise” is startling enough; but when one saw Who it was that advised it... “Our object,” quoth he (“our” being the “ Heretics”), “is to promote discussion upon religion, philosophy, and art... .” These desperate conspirators! What is the Parry-lytic Liar about to allow s…
1910 · PDF PAGE 257
REVIEWS DaRE TO BE WISE. By JOHN McTaccarT ELLIs McTaccart Doctor in Letters Fellow and Lecturer of Trinity College in Cambridge, Fellow of the British Academy. Watts and Co., 17 Johnson’s Court, Fleet Street, E.C. Price 3d. Only the Price Threepence saved my reason. “Dare to be Wise” is startling enough; but when one saw Who it was that advised it... “Our object,” quoth he (“our” being the “ Heretics”), “is to promote discussion upon religion, philosophy, and art... .” These desperate conspirators! What is the Parry-lytic Liar about to allow s…
1922 · PDF PAGE 290
…aid, as a hundred half-forgotten incidents bounced into my mind. There were all sorts of stratagems for dodging the regulations, on the part of people who in the ordinary way were plain straightforward law-abiding citizens. “Of course, we must have restrictions about love and drink and drugs. It is quite obvious how frightfully people would abuse their liberty if they had it.” “I’m sorry to have to disagree,’ said Lamus. “ And as you know, I’ve got into endless trouble of one sort or another for holding the views I do. But I’m afraid I do hones…
1907 · PDF PAGE 129
… of ice. Ay! and the petty and the sordid soul, A servile whore’s deformed debauchery,? Grins from the image. Let posterity From Rodin’s art guess Mirbeau’s heart, extol The lethal chamber men ere then will find For the pimp’s pen and the corrupted mind. 1 Le jardin des supplices, Octave Mirbeau. 2 Les mémoires d'une femme de chambre, par Octave Mirbeau, par SOCRATE. (L>HOMME AU NEZ CASSE.) CONSUMMATE beauty built of ugliness, O broken-nose philosopher, is thine. Diamonds are deepest in the blue-mud mine ; So is the secret of thy strong success…
1907 · PDF PAGE 58
… be false to any man. ’Tis a worthy aphorism. Let the consciousness be ever directed towards the Self—by whatever Name I call Thee, Thou art Nameless to all Eternity !—and the possibility of lying is avoided. For one speaketh not, nor, if one spake, is there any to hear. Know that the greater the Adept, the more truthful; should he—in error—speak, the more must he appear a liar to those of his fellows who hear his voice. For he speaks, as beholding the Face of God; they hear, as idols the work of men’s hands that have ears and hear not, neither…
1922 · PDF PAGE 54
40 The Diary of a Drug Fiend “O Thou unvintageable dew, that art moist on the lips of the Morn! I adore Thee, Evoe! I adore Thee, I A O!” At that moment, the practical part of me asserted itself with startling suddenness. I saw the dim line of the coast. I knew the line as I know the palm of my hand. I was a little out of the shortest line for Paris. I swerved slightly to the south. Below, gray seas were tumbling. It seemed to me (insanely enough) that their moving wrinkles were the laughter of a very old man. I had a sudden intuition that some…
1954 · PDF PAGE 535
…above it ought to be clear to you that I have said all that really needs to be said in explaining the whole of Magick as the science and art of extending, first in oneself, one's own faculties, secondly in external nature their hidden characteristics. Before closing the subject entirely I think it well to point out that there are quite a number of worlds on which a good deal of work remains to be done. In particular I cannot refrain from mentioning the work of Dr. Dee and Sir Edward Kelly. My own work on this subject has been so elaborate and e…
1906 · PDF PAGE 211
NOTES 205 corrected, and the involved tissues brought back to tone, in obedience to currents started from the brain. So for all other phenomena. effect which is truly and miraculous. Our Ceremonial Magic fines down, then, to a series of minute, though of course empirical, physiological experiments, and whoso will carry them through intelligently need not fear the result. I have all the health, and treasure, and logic I need; I have notime to waste. ‘‘ There is a lion in the way.” For me these practices are useless; but for the benefit of others…
1907 · PDF PAGE 83
…ths’ experience of the bustle of the stockyards; there are business men in a hurry, and they shall travel in Central Asia to acquire the art of repose. “So much for the equilibrium, and for two months in every year each member of your governing classes shall undergo this training under skilled advice. “ But what of the Great Tao? For one month in every year each of these men shall seek desperately for the Stone of the Philosophers. By solitude and fasting for the social and luxurious, by drunkenness and debauch for the austere, by scourging for…
1954 · PDF PAGE 213
…ante. So let us look. No! Let us first congratulate ourselves that this subject of Necromancy is so admirably documented. As to the real Art, we have not only Eliphas Levi, but the sublimely simple account in the Old Testament of the Witch of Endor, her conjuring up of the apparition of Samuel to King Saul. A third classic must not be neglected: I have heard or read the story elsewhere-for the moment I cannot place it. But it is so brilliantly told in I Write as I Please by Walter Duranty that nothing could be happier than to quote him verbatim…
1910 · PDF PAGE 61
…lly the will to act is denied. Propositions perhaps true to the Master, but certainly not so to the disciple. Because Titian was a great artist and Rodin is a great sculptor, that is no reason why we should abolish art schools and set an embargo on clay. If the will to act is but a mirage of the mind, then equally so is the will to differentiate or select. If this be true, and the chain of Cause and Effect is eternal, how is it then that Cause A produces effect B, and Cause B effect C, and Cause A+B +C effect X. Where originates this power of p…