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Page 53 of 761929 · PDF PAGE 483
…I can give his birthday to within a fortnight or so of Christmas. I tabulated my results over a considerable period and found that I was right in a little over two cases in three. Where I was wrong, I found that either the sign I had chosen for his ascendant was that occupied by his sun, which in some people determines the personal appearance more effectively than the ascendant, or else, in erecting his horoscope I found the rising sign occupied by planets whose nature modified the sign so that it could be mistaken for the one I had picked out.…
1910 · PDF PAGE 133
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING rounded by a wonderful pearly lustre, and then among great trees between the branches of which bright birds were flying. After this I saw a captain on his ship and also a lover contemplating his bride. The real inhabitants of this land to which I went were as of flame, and the imaginary ones were depicted as we physical beings are. Then the images of my vision sped past me rapidly. I saw a mountaineer; my father preaching with me in his old home; my mother; his mother; a man doing Rajayoga on white god-form. At la…
1910 · PDF PAGE 133
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING rounded by a wonderful pearly lustre, and then among great trees between the branches of which bright birds were flying. After this I saw a captain on his ship and also a lover contemplating his bride. The real inhabitants of this land to which I went were as of flame, and the imaginary ones were depicted as we physical beings are. Then the images of my vision sped past me rapidly. I saw a mountaineer; my father preaching with me in his old home; my mother; his mother; a man doing Rajayoga on white god-form. At la…
1922 · PDF PAGE 203
…te tablet from a little cedar cabinet, and a big glass of cold water. ‘“‘ Throw your head back, and get it well down, and drink all this right off. Here is another to take home to your husband, and don’t forget the water. It will calm you down; your nerves have all gone west. I’ve got some people coming here in a few minutes. But this will help you through the night, and I’m coming round in the morning to see you. What’s the address ? ” I told him. My face blazed with the disgrace. A house where the top social note was a fifth-rate musician in …
1954 · PDF PAGE 361
…number of the Magical Formula of the Aeon, a numerica hieroglyph of the Great Work. Ab-ul-Diz had made no mistake. My recognition of the right place was not to depend on a mere matter of trees, which might be found almost anywhere. Recognition beyond all possibility of doubt was what he promised . He had been as good as his word. I was entirely overwhelmed. I jumped out of the car and ran up to the house. I found Virakam in the main room. The instant I entered I understood that it was entirely suited for a temple. The walls were decorated with …
1954 · PDF PAGE 453
… follow it makes for success. "Don't press!" "Play with a straight bat!" "Don't draw to five!" do not involve abstract considerations of right and wrong. Orthodox Hinduism has raped this pure system, and begotten a bastard code which reeks of religion. A political manoeuvre of the Brahman caste. Suppose we relax a little, come down to earth, and look at what the far-famed morality of the Holy Man was, and is, in actual practice. You will find this useful to crush Toshophist and Anthroposophagist cockroaches as well as the ordinary Christian Sco…
1922 · PDF PAGE 223
… is the air! How the walls sweat the agony of the damned! “And look at Lala now!’ Maisie went on. ‘“ He had to put her through the most frightful ordeals— for she was very dead indeed—but she got to the other end of the tunnel all right. She’s a Great Soul, if ever there was one in the world, and he has raised her mortal into immortality. Her corruptibility has put on incorruption—and she radiates light and life and love, leaping through the years in utter libert ” “ But what does she do now?” I asked with a dull pain at my heart. | “Why; her T…
1922 · PDF PAGE 278
… my heroin. I took a dose. Lamus immediately broke off his remarks. “Goon,” I said feebly. ‘“ I didn’t mean to interrupt.”’ “ That’s all right,’ said Lamus. ‘I’m only waiting for you to put it down.”
1954 · PDF PAGE 218
…rtainly I shall say nothing here. Yes, indeed, nothing was ever more sternly forbidden than prattle on subjects like this! Look! It goes right on: "There is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. He shall fall down into the pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of Reason." (v 27) The pit is of course the Abyss: see The Vision and the Voice, 10th Aethyr. A very sticky-or rather, unstuck! finish; so 'ware Hawk! To business! Fascination. No! Invisibility, is obviously penny. plain…
1954 · PDF PAGE 356
…ting humanity was perfectly fulfilled. I had merely to establish in the world the Law which had been given me to proclaim: "Thou hast no right but to do thy will." Had I bent my energies from the first to proclaiming the Law of Thelema I should doubtless have found no obstacle in my path. Those which naturally arise in the course of any work soever, would have been quietly removed by the Secret Chiefs. But I had chosen to fight against myself for five years, and "If Satan shall be divided against Satan, how shall his kingdom stand?" The more I …
1922 · PDF PAGE 62
…e have drunk alcohol since the beginning of time; and it is in our racial consciousness that although ‘“‘a hair of the dog” will put one right after a spree, it won't do to choke oneself with hair. But with cocaine, all this caution is utterly abrogated. Nobody would be really much the worse for a night with the drug, provided that he had the sense to spend the next day in a Turkish bath, and build up with food and a double allowance of sleep. But cocaine insists upon one’s living upon one’s capital, and assures one that the fund is inexhaustib…
1922 · PDF PAGE 73
…w words, new symbols. Look at Einstein’s equations. I knew a man once that knew James Hinton, who invented the fourth dimension. Pretty bright chap, he was, but Hinton thought, on the most ordinary subjects, at least six times as fast as he did, and when it came to Hinton’s explaining himself, he simply couldn’t do it. That’s the great trouble when a new thinker comes along. They all moan that they can’t understand him ; the fact annoys them very much ; and ten to one they persecute him and call him an Atheist or a Degenerate or a Pro-German or…
1954 · PDF PAGE 257
…nt he-man, mixer, joiner , and go-getter, agrees with him about broadmindedness in religious beliefs, and ends "and I'm dead sure you're right!" his host mildly rebukes him, saying: "But we are only moderately sure." Such thought plumbs the Abysses of Wisdom; at least, it may quite possibly do so. Forgive me if I emulate the teacher! But this is not as simple as it sounds. There is great danger in this Golden Mean, one of whose main objects is to steer clear of shipwreck, Scylla being as fatal as Charybdis. No, this lofty and equable attitude i…
1996 · PDF PAGE 83
…st find and choose the fit intoxicant. Thus hashish in one or other of its forms seems to suit the Moslem, to go with dry heat; opium is right for the Mongol; whiskey for the dour temperament and damp cold climate of the Scot. Sex-expression, too, depends on climate and so on, so that we must interpret the Law to suit a Socrates, a Jesus, and a Burton, or a Marie Antoinette and a de Lamballe, as well as our own Don Juans and Faustines. With this expansion, to the honour and glory of Them, of Their Natures, we acclaim therefore our helpers, Dion…
1919 · PDF PAGE 164
… one thing, it was during this period that he was forced to stand alone, and to rely upon him- self and his own judgment of what was the right course 156
1922 · PDF PAGE 125
… certainly coming out in the most wonderful way. We had left the cinema people at the post. Here we were, without any effort of our own, right in the middle of the most fascinating in- trigues of the most mysterious kind. And all that on the top of the most wonderful love there was in the world, and heroin and cocaine to help us make the most of the tiniest details. ‘** Well,” said I to Feccles, ‘‘ this suits me down to the ground. I’m trying to forget what you said about my brain, because it isn’t good for a young man to be puffed up with inte…
1922 · PDF PAGE 286
…ut his overland route from Bokhara to Khatmandu |! Ultimately he said, “‘ There seems a very long gap here—fifteen hours—g to 12, that’s right, isn’t it?” He turned to Maisie for confirmation. He was, so he said, quite unable to trust himself to calculate. Maisie entered into the spirit of the absurdity and counted it solemnly out on her fingers. The tone of his voice had been mournful, as if his plans had been seriously disconcerted. That was another trick of his that put people off. It was Lou’s sparkling eyes that told me what he meant. And …
1929 · PDF PAGE 48
…vantage is its directness, its disadvantage its 1. There are much deeper considérations in which it appears that “Everything that is, is right”. They are set forth elsewhere; we can only summarise them here by saying that the survîval of the frttest is their upshot. 2. The ideaî method of doing this is given in Liber 913 (Equinox VII). See also Liber CXI Aleph. 12
1930 · PDF PAGE 57
…er The Beast 666 had gotten a Magical “child” upon His concubine Jane Foster, a “Babe of the Abyss” was born, Frater Achad asserting his right to that grade, and thus “coming after” The Beast 666, who had been the last Adept to do so. And this “child” was definitely “one”, since “one” is the meaning of his motto Achad. Finally, he did in fact adiscover the key of it ail” after The Beast Himself had failed to do so in 14 years of study. (d) His power to conceive and express in concise terms true solutions of the main problems of the Universe. E.…
1930 · PDF PAGE 78
…retained in the lungs. Ail this must be done with ail the force of which you are capable. (e) Then withdraw the left foot, and place the right forefinger I 2 I* This injunction does not apply to gods like Phthah or Harpocrates whose natures do not accord with this gesture. Or the thumb, the hngers being closed. The thumb symbolises spirit, the forefinger the element of water. ~ 378 “