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Page 54 of 831954 · PDF PAGE 445
… compare and contrast this letter with the S sound. (S or Sh combined with T is discussed rather fully in Magick, pp. 336-8.) You should find it child's play to determine the significance of the sibilant. It is the one letter which necessitates the exposure of the skeleton! (E.g., the SUbconscious.) Hence "Hush!" it is the hiss of the snake, great Lord of Life and Death-(life? yes, the spermatozoon, child!) "Silence! Danger! There is a man somewhere about." The savage reaction. And, sure enough , Ish is the Hebrew for man. (Mankind is ADM, Adam…
1929 · PDF PAGE 446
…e Word which you have discovered is really the lost Word after all? This may be made clear by an illustration. On the apron of the 18° I find HB:Heh HB:Resh HB:Shin HB:Heh HB:Yod in Hebrew characters. I find that this word means nothing; the context suggests that it may be an error for HB:Heh HB:Vau HB:Shin HB:Heh HB:Yod , Yeheshuah or Jesus; but how do I know that this word and not another has power to make man triumphant over matter, to harmonize and sanctify the blind forces of the universe? Thus: I know that HB:Heh HB:Vau HB:Heh HB:Yod repr…
1910 · PDF PAGE 68
THE EQUINOX Thus we find that “duality” in the East is synonymous with “a mere matter of words,”* and further, that, when anything is (or can be) described by a word or a name, the knowledge concerning it is Avidyd, “ignorance.” No sooner are the eyes of a man opened + than he sees “good and evil,” and becomes a prey to the illusions he has set out to conquer. He gets something apart from himself, and whether it be Religion, Science, or Philosophy it matters not; for in the vacuum which he thereby creates, between him and it, burns the fever th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 68
THE EQUINOX Thus we find that “duality” in the East is synonymous with “a mere matter of words,”* and further, that, when anything is (or can be) described by a word or a name, the knowledge concerning it is Avidyd, “ignorance.” No sooner are the eyes of a man opened + than he sees “good and evil,” and becomes a prey to the illusions he has set out to conquer. He gets something apart from himself, and whether it be Religion, Science, or Philosophy it matters not; for in the vacuum which he thereby creates, between him and it, burns the fever th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 2
screwed mouth, mooched along the platform to his grub, which he would find in an isolated cottage some three hundred yards away. In strong contrast to the Englishman, with his mous- tache afforesting a whitish face, marked with deep red rings on neck and forehead, his impending paunchiness and his full suit of armour, was the small, active man with the pointed beard whom fate had thrown first into the same compartment, and then into the same hour of exile from all their fellows. His eyes were astonishingly black and fierce; his beard was grizzl…
1937 · PDF PAGE 6
…mbugsall pretend to appeal to evidence, not to authority, as did the Kings and the Churches). The problem of Government is therefore to find a scientific formula with an ethical implication. This for- mula must be rigidly applicable to all sane men soever without reference to the individual qualities of any 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 infi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 276
…ift at all for the other , it's just too bad; you'd better buzz off, and get another Holy Guru less one-legged. There are, however, as I find on reading over what I have written elsewhere, quite a few lacunae in the exposition; and I may as well now do my best to stop one or two obvious gaps. The period of my life which was the climax of my work on this subject is those weeks of Thaumaturgy on the Hudson River-I fear the Magical Diary The Hermit of A esopus Island is irretrievably lost-when I was shown the Codex of The Tao
1929 · PDF PAGE 343
…light with love! Shall I see you, shall I kiss you once again? I wander far From the sunny land of summer to the icy Polar Star. I shall find you, my Gitana, my Saliya! as of old With your hair aflame with roses and your body gay with gold. I shall find you, I shall have you, in the summer and the south With our passion in your body and our love upon your mouth --- With our wonder and our worship be the world aflame anew! My Gitana, my Saliya! I am coming back to you!1 This year was indeed my annus mirabilis in poetry. It began with Clouds With…
1954 · PDF PAGE 114
…ons, metaphysical on the one hand, and superstitious on the other, so completely as to mask the Truth altogether. At the Reformation, we find a nugatory attempt to remove the Black element. The Protestant thinkers did their best to get rid of the idea of sin, but it was soon seen that the effort could only lead to antinomianism; and they recognized that this would infallibly destroy the religious idea as such. Mysticism, both Catholic and Protestant, made a further attempt to free Christianity from the dark cloud of iniquity. They joined hands …
1954 · PDF PAGE 418
…nd digging out other people and so as far as your imagination takes you. After that comes yet another stage; your interest declines; you find yourself indifferent to the entire proceedings. After a few nights you can no longer distinguish between the real thing and your own private and peculiar Brock's Benefit. The fear will have vanished; familiarity breeds contempt. Finally, one is no longer even aware that the boys are out again on a lark. Incidentally, one may draw a quite close parallel between these four stages and those accompanying Sama…
1996 · PDF PAGE 183
… Fights of that sort make fast friends. There is perhaps a magical second-meaning in this verse, a ref erence to the Ritual of which we find hints in the legend of Cain and Abel, Esau and Jacob, Set and Osiris, et cetera. The “Elder Brother” within us, the Silent Self, must slay the younger brother, the conscious self, and he must be raised again incorruptible. 60. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. Commentary: There are of course lesser laws than this, details, particular cases, of the Law. But the whole of the Law is Do what thou wilt…
1898 · PDF PAGE 75
…veil, and to put in the mouths of uninitiates words appreciative of those glorious destinies that overrule the cruelties of fate, let me find my excuse in that love for, and faith in, “the holy spirit of man,” which itself may do so much toward the final regeneration of humanity, and the uniting of man once more with that God of whom Porphyry has written, ‘ We are but a little part of Him.”
1904 · PDF PAGE 68
to turn back to the beginning as often as they find necessary to produce the desired erection on the principle of song music, and then finish as below, as it were at the close of the last verse. The child was then unstrapped, and allowed to bathe her injured seat, while the fashionable schoolmistress and the fast milliner sat on a volup- tuous sofa, and refreshed their flagging energies with wine and cake, talking over their past adven- tures and planning fresh scenes of lust and luxury. But my own experiences were of a more serious sort. To …
1922 · PDF PAGE 27
… faint sparks of his genius. I had not the slightest idea where he was taking me ; I did not care. I had gone to sleep inside. I woke to find myself sitting in the Café Wisteria once more. The head waiter was excitedly explaining to my companion what a wonderful scene he had missed. “ Mr. 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 Ford…
1922 · PDF PAGE 126
…igues which somehow lent stronger wing to the real rapture of our love. We neither of us slept. We simply sailed through the darkness to find the dawn caressing the crest of Posilippo and the first glint of sunrise signalling ecstatic greetings to the blue waters of the Bay of Naples. . When the train stopped, there was Hector Laroche at the door, ordering everybody about in fluent Italian. We had the best suite in the best hotel, and our luggage arrived not ten minutes later than we did, and breakfast was a perfect poem, and we had a box for t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 40
…your long letter of no date, but received two days ago. I am very sorry you are still feeling exhausted. I am not too good myself, for I find this weather very trying. I will answer your various points as best I can. I am arranging to send you the official papers connected with the O.T.O. but the idea that you should meet other members first is quite impossible. Even after affiliation, you would not meet anyone unless it were necessary for you to work in co-operation with them. I am afraid you have still got the idea that the Great Work is a te…
1954 · PDF PAGE 178
…r astral body and rise far above the terrestrial atmosphere, while the music continues softly in the background. You open your eyes, and find that it is night . Dark clouds are on the horizon; but in the zenith is a crown of constellations. This light helps you, especially as your eyes become accustomed to the gloom, to take in your surroundings. It is a bleak and barren landscape. Terrific mountains rim the world . In the midst looms a cluster of blue-black crags. Now there appears from their recesses a gigantic being. His strength, especially…
1954 · PDF PAGE 402
…s. I will say simply "mineral wealth." The answers to his series of questions indicated that he was to go out of the city where he would find a deposit. The next questions in his series were directed to finding the direction in which he should start his exploration . That was easy. The next question was the distance involved, and he could think of no way of framing questions which would inform him on that very important point. He got at it indirectly , however, by asking as to his means of transport , and as to that the answer was quite clear a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 179
…Stronger than earth, than the immortal kings Alike of death and life: invoke the sea That I may cross her on the viewless wings Of song, find out the desolating river That girds the earth, unloose the silver quiver, Choosing an arrow of sharp song to run Down to the waters that lament for ever :— And cleave them! spell Rive the strong gates of iron-builded hell, And move the heart of the ill-hearted one. Yea ! let me break the portals terrible, That my song’s insistent And bring her back ! come back, Eurydice! Come back, pale wanderer to Eterni…
1954 · PDF PAGE 387
…ght well quote these two reminders that the real danger is the revolt of the slave classes. They cannot rule of build; no sooner do they find themselves in a crisis than mephitic rubbish about democracy is swept into the dustbin by a Napoleon or a Stalin. There is just one exception to the general idea of ruthlessness; some shadowy vision of a chivalrous type of warfare is granted to us in AL, III : 59: Significant, perhaps, that this and a restatement of Thelema came immediately before "There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra's …