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Page 53 of 711930 · PDF PAGE 31
…gi, and their Words, are given in Liber Aleph. This does not mean that only one man can attain this Grade in any one Aeon, so far as the Order is concerned. A man can make Personal progress équivalent to that of a “Word of an Aeon”; but he will identify himself with the current word, and exert his will to establish it, lest he conflict with the work of the Magus who uttered the Word of the Aeon in which He is living. The Magus is pre-eminently the Master of Magick, that is, his will is entirely free from internai diversion or external oppositio…
1912 · PDF PAGE 298
… Crowe! (Blow Bro. Crowel Ed.) But for all Masons who wish to know the mysteries of how to address a V.W. P. Pres. Brd. G. Pur., and the order of precedence of a Past Assistant Grand Director of Ceremonies, this is the Book. K. S. Ι. POEMS DRAMATIC AND LYRICAL. By CLIFFORD BAX. Daniel. 4:. 64'. JUST the book of verse we should have expected from C. W. Daniel—the feeble, fluent, derived expression of a decadent and frail personality. Mr. Bax is a pupil of Victor Β. Neuburg, so far as form goes; but oh l what a lot he has to learn ! ST. MAURICE Ε…
1912 · PDF PAGE 298
… Crowe! (Blow Bro. Crowel Ed.) But for all Masons who wish to know the mysteries of how to address a V.W. P. Pres. Brd. G. Pur., and the order of precedence of a Past Assistant Grand Director of Ceremonies, this is the Book. K. S. Ι. POEMS DRAMATIC AND LYRICAL. By CLIFFORD BAX. Daniel. 4:. 64'. JUST the book of verse we should have expected from C. W. Daniel—the feeble, fluent, derived expression of a decadent and frail personality. Mr. Bax is a pupil of Victor Β. Neuburg, so far as form goes; but oh l what a lot he has to learn ! ST. MAURICE Ε…
1954 · PDF PAGE 225
…East wall was covered with bookshelves. Enter the late Theodor Reuss, O.H.O. and Frater Superior of the O.T.O. He wanted me to join that Order. I recommended him, in politer language, to repeat the Novocastrian Experiment. Undeterred, he insisted: "But you must." (Now we go back, or forward, I know not which, to a night when I found myself stranded in London. I asked hospitality of a stranger; it was readily afforded. Some hours later my hostess fell asleep; I could not do so; something was nagging me. I suddenly took my notebook, and wrote a c…
1906 · PDF PAGE 199
…o be reckoned with. Volition is no necessary condition of offence. ‘I didn’t mean to”’ isa poor excuse for an officer failing to obey an order. Enough of this- in any case a minor ques- tion ; since even on the lowest moral grounds— and we, I trust, soar higher !—the error in question may be resolved into a mixture of murder, theft, and intoxication. (We consider the last under the Fifth Precept.) THE Four tH Precerr, Here we come to what in a way is the fundamental joke of these precepts. A com- mand is not a lie, of course; possibly cannot be…
1922 · PDF PAGE 182
…op with a carved ivory handle; the head of a race horse with ruby eyes and a gold collar. I asked her laughingly if it was to keep himin order. But what she was really keen on was H. She had got a whole bottle and gave me quite a lotin an envelope. ‘The first go, oh, whatjoy! And then—how strange we all are! The minute I had it in my bag—in my blood—my mind began to work freely. The irritating stupefaction passed off like waking from a nightmare —a nightmare of suffocation—and it came to me with the force of a blow that the effect was not due t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 35
…s. If so, I will let you have them to read, and you can make up your mind as to whether you wish to affiliate to the Third Degree of the Order. I should consequently, in the case of your deciding to affiliate, go with you through the script of the Rituals and explain the meaning of the whole thing; communicating, in addition , the real secret and significant knowledge of which ordinary Masonry is not possessed. 4. The horoscope; I do not like doing these at all, but it is part of the agreement with the Grand Treasurer of the O.T.O. that I shoul…
1996 · PDF PAGE 111
…. Idealist painters like Bouguereau, awake to the divergence between Nature and their academic standards of Beauty, falsify the facts in order to delude themselves. The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself. This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it would be to blaspheme the whole. The Thelemite is able to revel in any e…
1996 · PDF PAGE 97
… wholly manifested in The Beast. It is to be remembered that The Beast has agreed to follow the instructions communicated to Him only in order to show that “nothing would happen if you broke all the rules.” Poor fool! The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them. Aiwaz here explains that his power over me depended upon II: 12 the fact that Hadit is verily “the core of every star.” As is well known, there is a limit to the power of t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 42
…les into marriage, and stubs her toe. She will soon get tired of the folly. She will perceive how imbecile it is to hamstring herself in order to please her parents, or to legitimatize her children, or to silence her neighbours. She will take the men she wants as simply as she buys a newspaper; and if she doesn’t like the Editorials, or the Comic Supplement, it’s only two cents gone, and she can get another.
1904 · PDF PAGE 3
…ut alas ! the very vivacity of the attack may leave the column without that support which might enable it, if checked, to retire in good order ; and it is with true pity for a gallant opponent — who would be wiser to surrender—that I find myself compelled to despatch half a squadron (no more !) to take him in flank. Our Author’s main argument for the Christian religion is that it is hated. To bring me as a witness to this colossal enthymeme, he has the sublime cou- rage to state that my “ Sword of Song ” begins with an effort to expound Buddhis…
1922 · PDF PAGE 337
…nes whose use we already know, such as the bullock wagon and the steam engine. We make up our minds that an automobile is constructed in order to travel along the high road. ‘Very good,’ says Big Lion, ‘go up top. Examine yourself, your faculties and tendencies, the trend of your mind, and the aspirations of your soul. Allow me to assure you that you will find this investigation leaves you very little time to wonder what in the devil to do with yourself.’ ‘Thank you very much,’ we say, ‘ but suppose our judgment is wrong, suppose that what we h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…n. 1. See Equinox (I, V. Supplément: Tenth Aethyr) for an Account of an Operation where this was done. Magical phenomena of the créative order are conceived and germinate in a peculiar thick velvet darkness, crimson, purple, or deep blue, approximating black: as if it were said, In the body of Our Lady of the Stars. See 777 for the correspondences of the various forces of Nature with drugs, perfumes, etc. 2. Such details, however, may safely be left to the good sense of the Student. Expérience here as elsewhere is the best teacher. In the Sacri…
1904 · PDF PAGE 58
…o be reckoned with. Volition is no necessary condition of offence. “I didn’t mean to” is a poor excuse for an officer failing to obey an order. Enough of this—in any case a minor ques- tion; since even on the lowest moral grounds— and we, I trust, soar higher!—the error in question may be resolved into a mixture of murder, theft and intoxication. (We consider the last under the Fifth Precept.) THE FOURTH PRECEPT Here w e come to w hat in a way is the fundamental joke of these precepts. A command is not a lie, of course; possibly cannot be; yet …
1930 · PDF PAGE 55
… of the problem presented to Amalantrah. Observe that Amalantrah had refused to give the correct solution directly; as it would seem, in order to emphasize the remarkable character of the intervention of this Assynan correspondent. Observe, too, that the latter was totally ignorant of the ordinary Qabalah, it being quite generally known that TO META OHPIONadds up to 666 in Greek. Observe, moreover, that nearly four months had passed since the problem was propounded in The International? The Assyrian lived some distance outside New York, and was…
1996 · PDF PAGE 178
…laborate entertainments, prepared with all possible care, often fall flat. Now one cannot exactly give rules for producing a “genius” to order, a genius in this sense being one who has the Idea, and is fortified with power to enflame the enthusiasm of the crowd, with wit to know, and initiative to seize, the psychological moment. But one can specify certain conditions incompatible with the manifestation of this spontaneity; and the first of these is evi dently absolute freedom from obstacles, internal or external, to the idea of the “genius.” …
1930 · PDF PAGE 91
… him, that he may not feel and resent the agony of this spiritual vivisection, just as bashful lovers get drunk on the wedding night, in order to brazen out the intensity of shame which so mysteriously coexists with their desire ; (d) to concentrate the necessary spiritual forces from every element, and fling them simultaneously into the aspiration towards the Holy Guardian Angel ; and (e) to attract the Angel by the vibration of the magical voice which invokes Him. The method of the Ritual is thus manifold. There is firstly an analysis of the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 138
… the internai purification must be even more carefully performed. We may eat méat, provided that in doing so we affirm that we eat it in order to strengthen us for the spécial purpose of our proposed invocation. 2 the atmosphère would crush us if we “banished” that of our bodies; and we should crumble to dust if we rebelled successfully against cohésion. A man who is normally an “allround good sorr* often becomes intolérable when he gets rid of his collection of vices; he is swept into monomania by the spiritual pride which had been previously …
1930 · PDF PAGE 67
gold as other than metallic, of the same order of nature as the lead from which it had been made. That this gold should possess the power of multiplying itself, or of acting as a ferment upon other substances, seemed so absurd that he felt obliged to conclude that the alchemists who claimed these properties for their Gold must, after ail, hâve been referring not to Chemistry, but to some spiritual operations whose sanctity demanded some such symbolic veil as the cryptographie use of the language of the laboratory. The Master Therion is sanguine…
1954 · PDF PAGE 362
…rdly worth a smile of contempt. As it happens, an almost parallel phenomenon came to pass ten years later. I propose to quote it here in order to show that the most ordinary events, apparently disconnected, are in fact only intelligible by postulating some such people as the Secret Chiefs of the A :. A:. in possession of some such prevision and power as I ascribe to them. When I returned to England at Christmas, 1919, all my plans had gone to pieces owing to the dishonesty and treachery of a gang which was bullying into insanity my publisher in…