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Page 56 of 831954 · PDF PAGE 323
…ime comes. This "Act of Truth" is already a Magical Formula of infallible puissance; the man who is capable of so thinking and acting is far more likely to get what he wanted from the Sacrifice-when at long last the Camel appears on the premises-than he who, having ample means to carry out the whole Operation without risk of failure, goes through the ceremony without ever having experienced a moment's anxiety about his ability to bring it to a successful conclusion. I think personally that the error lies in calculating. The injunction is "to bu…
1996 · PDF PAGE 84
… manless old cats, geldings, and psychopaths, who pretend to detest Love, and persecute Free Women and Free Men. Verbotenism has gone so far in certain slave-communities that the use of wine is actually prohibited by law!! I wish here to emphasize that the Law of Thelema definitely enjoins us, as a necessary act of religion, to “drink sweet wines and wines that foam.” Any free man or woman who resides in any community where this is verboten has a choice between two duties: insurrection and emigration. The furtive disregard of Restriction is not…
1996 · PDF PAGE 168
…sus.” It is his face — his outward semblance — that is to be covered with His wings. The tenets of Islam, correctly interpreted, are not far from our Way of Life and Light and Love and Liberty. This applies espe cially to the secret tenets. The external creed is mere nonsense suited to the intelligence of the peoples among whom it was promulgated; but even so, Islam is magnificent in practice. Its code is that of a man of courage and honour and self-respect; con trasting admirably with the cringing cowardice of the damnation dodging Christia…
1912 · PDF PAGE 299
REVIEWS PARABLES. By WILSON BELL. Milner & Co. n.? 15101210!-ץצופו IN 11310756/?!ימיFarah/:5, Mr. Bell, with consummate skill, carries the reader back to the Carboniferous Period. He does not trouble himself about scientific facts, but he gives most adequate descriptions, often beautiful, of that happy happy age. It is a quaint conceit of his to write the parable in prehistoric times, and the moral in the twentieth century. I regret that the book is illustrated. The artist's conceptions are far below those of the author, which has a tendency to …
1912 · PDF PAGE 299
REVIEWS PARABLES. By WILSON BELL. Milner & Co. n.? 15101210!-ץצופו IN 11310756/?!ימיFarah/:5, Mr. Bell, with consummate skill, carries the reader back to the Carboniferous Period. He does not trouble himself about scientific facts, but he gives most adequate descriptions, often beautiful, of that happy happy age. It is a quaint conceit of his to write the parable in prehistoric times, and the moral in the twentieth century. I regret that the book is illustrated. The artist's conceptions are far below those of the author, which has a tendency to …
1930 · PDF PAGE 49
…There is no touchstone of truth: the authentic Nakhiel is indistinguishable from the image of the Magician’s private idea of Nakhiel, so far as he is concerned. The stronger one is to create, the more readily the Astral Light responds, and coagulâtes créatures of this kind. Not that such création is necessarily an errorj but it is another branch of one’s Work. One cannot obtain outside help from inside sources. One must use précautions similar to those recommended in the chapter on Divination. The Magician may go on for a long lime being fooled…
1929 · PDF PAGE 332
…orally infamous, politically contemptible and socially pestilential. We agree with Shelley, Keats, Byron, Swinburne and James Thomson as far as they went. We agree with Voltaire, Gibbon, Strauss, Huxley, Herbert Spencer, Tyndall, J. G. Frazer, Ibsen and Nietzsche as far as they went. But we were absolutely opposed to any ideas of social revolution. We deplored the fact that our militant atheists were not aristocrats like Bolingbroke. We had no use for the sordid slum writers and Hyde Park ranters who had replace the aristocratic infidel of the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 148
…enied by the rigid law of Cause and Effect. However the mental eyes of the vast majority of his followers were not so clear as to pierce far into the darkness of metaphysical philosophy, and so it happened that, where the idealism of the Vedanta had failed the realism of Buddhism succeeded.* This denial ofa Universal Atman, and a personal Atman, soon brought the ethical and philosophical arguments of Gotama up against a brick wall (Kant’s “a priori”). As we have seen he could not prop up a fictitious beginning by the supposition of the former, …
1910 · PDF PAGE 148
…enied by the rigid law of Cause and Effect. However the mental eyes of the vast majority of his followers were not so clear as to pierce far into the darkness of metaphysical philosophy, and so it happened that, where the idealism of the Vedanta had failed the realism of Buddhism succeeded.* This denial ofa Universal Atman, and a personal Atman, soon brought the ethical and philosophical arguments of Gotama up against a brick wall (Kant’s “a priori”). As we have seen he could not prop up a fictitious beginning by the supposition of the former, …
1904 · PDF PAGE 58
O Spirit N., and shalt perform all my desires so far as in thine office thou art capable hereof. Wherefore, come thou, visibly, peaceably, and affably, now without delay, to manifest that which I desire, speaking with a clear and perfect voice, intelligibly, and to mine understanding. IF HE come not yet at the rehearsal of these two first conjurations (but with- out doubt he will), say on as followeth ; it being a constraint : THE CONSTRAINT. I po conjure thee, O thou Spirit N., by all the most glorious and efficacious names of the Most GREAT A…
1906 · PDF PAGE 104
…he ship is finished for our quest. Bring thou the glory from the gray ! Bring thou our spirits into rest ! O Wisdom, that hast helped so far, ’ Sink never thou thy guiding star! CHORUS OF WORKMEN. Then let us gather one and all, And launch our dragon on the main With paeans raised most musical, Until our heroes come again. With watching and with prayer we wait The imperious Destinies of Fate ! ExpLicir ACTUS SECUNDUS, ARGONAUTAE. ACTUS TERTIUS. MEDEA. AEETES, JASON, MEDEA, Messengers, Chorus of Heroes. SCENE: 7he Palace of AEETES. AEETES. Were …
1906 · PDF PAGE 267
…iness, the summary of our own position with regard to Buddhism. Buddhism is a logical development of observed facts; whoso is with me so far is Sammadazittht, and has taken the first step on the Noble Eightfold Path. Let him aspire to knowledge, and the stone to success; every mistake is the key | Second Step is under his feet. to a new truth The rest lies with Research. Aum ! I take my refuge holy in the Light and Peace of Buddh. Aum! I take my refuge, slowly working out His Law of Good. Aum ! I take my refuge Jowly in His Pitying Brotherhood.
1922 · PDF PAGE 354
…obvious. I’m afraid you haven’t grasped the meaning of “ Do what thou wilt.” Do you see how the application of the Law has helped you so far?” ‘Well, of course,” I said, “it’s pretty clear I didn’t come to this planet to drug myself into my grave before my powers have had a chance to ripen. I’ve thought it necessary to keep off heroin in order to give myself a show. But I’m left flat. Life becomes more tedious every day, and the one way of escape is barred by flaming swords.” “ Bxactly,” he replied. ‘“ You’ve only discovered one thing that you …
1954 · PDF PAGE 193
…s scorn upon the astrologers of his time with their meticulous calculations of "the hours of the planets" and so on. I think he goes too far when he says that a planet can have no influence at all, or very little, unless it is above the horizon; but he meant well, bless him! And, though he does not say so, I believe that I do my stuff in very much the same way as he did. Here is my system in a Number 000 Ampoule. Put up the figure at birth: study it, make notes of the aspects and dignities, concentrate - and turn on the Magical Tap! Occasionall…
1954 · PDF PAGE 420
…at its bit, to turn the dreary cart-horse drudge into proud Pegasus himself! This is where I want to have you, with us who are come thus far, in a state utterly detached from the Ego, so that you appear the plain Jane Wolfe "doing your duty in the state of life to which it has pleased God to call you" and consequently unremarked-like a Rosicrucian, "wearing the habit of the country in which you are travelling" - but trembling with interior illumination, so that the first relaxation of the constant conscious burden of Jane Wolfe, Soror Estai is …
1910 · PDF PAGE 193
…losely akin to those of Greece, In Philosophy I was a Realist of the Qabalistic School. In 1900 I left England for Mexico, and later the Far East, Ceylon, India, Burma, Baltistan, Egypt and France. It is idle here to detail the corresponding progress of my thought; and passing through a stage of Hinduism, I had dis- carded all Deities as unimportant, and in Philosophy was an uncompromising Nominalist, arrived at what I may describe as an orthodox Buddhist; but how- ever with the following reservations. (1) I cannot deny that certain phenomena d…
1910 · PDF PAGE 193
…losely akin to those of Greece, In Philosophy I was a Realist of the Qabalistic School. In 1900 I left England for Mexico, and later the Far East, Ceylon, India, Burma, Baltistan, Egypt and France. It is idle here to detail the corresponding progress of my thought; and passing through a stage of Hinduism, I had dis- carded all Deities as unimportant, and in Philosophy was an uncompromising Nominalist, arrived at what I may describe as an orthodox Buddhist; but how- ever with the following reservations. (1) I cannot deny that certain phenomena d…
1954 · PDF PAGE 190
…ecially is this true of the Trumps, is a talisman; and the whole may also be considered as the Lamen of Mercury. It is evidently an Idea far too vast for any human mind to comprehend in its entirety. For it is "the Wisdom whereby He created the worlds.") The decisive advantage of this system is not that its variety makes it so adaptable to our needs, but that we already possess the Invocations necessary to call forth the Energies required. What is perhaps still more to the point , they work without putting the Magician to such severe toil and e…
1954 · PDF PAGE 313
…may serve as a standard to which any appearance of him should more or less conform. The question then takes the form of inquiry into how far such beings are immortal or eternal. In the above case, evidently his existence depends on that of the planet Venus; and one might suppose that , if that planet were stricken from the solar system, there would be no more Qedemel. But this is to judge too rasbly; for Venus itself is only an emanation of the number 7, and is therefore indestructible . It is some such idea as the above which is at the back of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 222
…ed — and how he was found by the roadside, his tongue torn out, and the dogs at feast upon his bowels! Do you know what has saved you so far? Only one [312] bar between you and destruction — the love of your wife, whom you have murdered!" With that Cyril cried aloud three words in a strange tongue, and giving the other no chance to reply, marched rapidly away with his friend. Douglas could not have recovered, in any case. He was as one stunned. How did this boy know of the death of his wife? Well, that might be understood; but how did he know h…