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Page 56 of 741922 · PDF PAGE 124
IIO The Diary of a Drug Fiend ‘Oh, I see,” said Lou wisely and bent over to him and whispered in his ear. The words were :— ** Secret Service." “That’s it,” said Feccles softly. ‘‘ And this is where you come in. Look here.” He brought out a passport from his pocket and opened it. He was Monsieur Hector Laroche, of Geneva, so it appeared; by profession a courier. We nodded comprehensively. “I was rather at my wits’ end when I saw you,” he went on. “I’m on the trail of a very dangerous man who has got into the confidence of some English people li…
1954 · PDF PAGE 42
…mmittee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contribute? Secrets. There is one exception to what I have said about publishing everything : that is, the ultimate secret of the O.T.O. This is really too dangerous to disclose; but the safeguard is that you could not use it if you knew it, unless you were an advanced Adept ; and you would not be allowed to go so far unless we were satisfied that you were sincerely devoted to the Great Work. (See One Star in Sight.) True…
1954 · PDF PAGE 226
… but consider the dates. That scene in Victoria Street, is as clear and vivid in my mind, in every detail, as if it were yesterday. That secret is published only in that passage of that book. And-the book was not published until three years later, and from an address of which in 1910 I had not so much as thought of. The date of my adhesion to the O.T.O. (which, by the way, upset every principle and plan that I had ever held) is equally certain by virtue of subsequent published writings. Now go away and explain that! Well I've given you a fair a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 126
…ed to a great size. Besides this no other change took place. D. A.’s comments on these remarkable experiments are as follows: The hidden secret is that the change of size and distance is not in accord- ance with optical laws. No one has kept living objects “dead still.”{ One of two things may occur: a) The figure remains in one spot, but alters in size, ig Pp (4) The figure remains same apparent size, but alters in distance. * Normally this isso. + In the position many of the Egyptian gods assume. t Qy.: Is this from habit of expecting living t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 126
…ed to a great size. Besides this no other change took place. D. A.’s comments on these remarkable experiments are as follows: The hidden secret is that the change of size and distance is not in accord- ance with optical laws. No one has kept living objects “dead still.”{ One of two things may occur: a) The figure remains in one spot, but alters in size, ig Pp (4) The figure remains same apparent size, but alters in distance. * Normally this isso. + In the position many of the Egyptian gods assume. t Qy.: Is this from habit of expecting living t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 236
222 The Diary of a Drug Fiend acts as if he had learnt some terrible secret which he had to keep from me. He always seems afraid of being spied on or overheard. I went up to the magic room to-night, Peter was sitting in the old man’s chair writing in a book. I couldn’t understand it at first. I had come straight up, and he was fast asleep downstairs! Then, of course, the whole mystery became clear. While he’s asleep, his astral double comes up and does magic. I knew it was very dangerous to disturb any one’s astral double, so I tiptoed out of t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 206
…ssing over some actual snag for a snag in itself! You put the blame on to your own quite rational attempts to overcome difficulties. The secret of the trick of getting past the rocks is elasticity; yet it is that very quality with which you reproach yourself! We even, at the worst, reach the state for which Buddhism, in the East presents most ably the case: as in the West, does James Thomson (B. V.) in "The City of Dreadful Night"; we come to wish for-or, more truly to think that we wish for "blest Nirvana's sinless, stainless Peace" (or some s…
1954 · PDF PAGE 215
…ption to this rule-and have no knowledge whatever of the technique of the business. Worse, they are usually of the type that delights in secret dirty affinities, and so naturally and gladly attract entities of the Qliphothic world to their magical circle. Hence tricksters, of the lowest elemental orders, at the best, come and vitalize odds and ends of the Ruach of people recently deceased, and perform astonishing impersonations. The hollow shells glow with
1929 · PDF PAGE 529
…asonry, which I had re-discovered, thus linking up the mysteries of the O.T.O. with those of the A.'. A.'.. 93 is also the number of the Secret Word of the Neophyte of A.'. A.'., a word indicating symbolically the whole course of existence. It is in fact a completion of the ideas contained in the Sacred Word of the Hindus, AUM. It was to be discovered later that the Secret Key of The Book of the Law is the number 31, 1/3 of 93. There are three words, each of the value of 31 which represent perfectly the whole mystery of existence. That Aiwaz sh…
1996 · PDF PAGE 24
…godhead of every man and every woman! Further, as Khabs1 (see verse 8) is “Star,” there is a further meaning; this Book is to reveal the Secret Self of a man, i.e. to initiate him. 1 [Usually khaib in modern Egyptian transliteration.] 2 [A Crowley diary from 1919 e.v.; the relevant passage is quoted on p. 26.] 3. Every man and every woman is a star. Commentary: This thesis is fully treated in The Book of Wisdom or Folly. Its main statement is that each human being is an Element of the Cosmos, self-determined and supreme, co-equal with all other…
1996 · PDF PAGE 207
…Law is for All 38. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. 39. A feast for Tahuti and the child of the Prophet—secret, O Prophet! 40. A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. 41. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! 42. A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! 43. A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! 44. Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eterna…
1954 · PDF PAGE 53
… Still, yours the gain! l. That verse (AL, I: 44) condenses the whole magical technique . It makes clear-when you have understood it-the secret of success in the Great Work. Of course at first it appears a paradox. You must have an aim, and one aim only: yet on no account must you want to achieve it!!! Those chapters of The Book of Lies quoted in my last letter 4 do throw some light onto this Abyss of self-contradiction; and there is meaning much deeper than the contrast between the Will with a capital W, and desire, want, or velleity. The main…
1922 · PDF PAGE 83
…e. And science ignores it because it can’t be measured by mechanical instruments| The whole of the woman’s vitality was directed to some secret interior shrine of her own soul. Now she began to speak for the first time. The only subject that interested her in this wide universe was heroin. Her voice was monotonous. Lou told me later that it reminded her of a dirge droned by Tibetan monks far off across implacable snow. “It’s the only thing there is,” she said, in a tone of extraordinary ecstatic detachment. One could divine an infinite unholy j…
1929 · PDF PAGE 2
…r neatness and correctness; which circumstance, although his English was purer than that of his compan- ion in distress, made the latter secretly incline to suspect him of being a Frenchman. In spite of the quietness of his dress and the self-possession of his demeanour, the sombre glitter of those black eyes, pin-points below shaggy eye-brows, inspired the large man with a certain uneasiness. Not at all a chap to quarrel with, was his thought. However, being himself a widely-travelled manBoulogne, Dieppe, Paris, Switzerland, and even Veniceh…
1996 · PDF PAGE 122
…Morning!1 1 Crowley, The World’s Tragedy (1910), p. 31, paraphrase; the original poem has “O let us away to / The city of morning!”! The Secret of Magick is to “enflame oneself in praying.” This is the ready test of a Star, that it whirls flaming through the sky. You cannot mistake it for an Old Maid objecting to Everything. This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity. Observe that we must “rise up” before we “awake!” Aspira tion to the Higher is a dream—a wish-fulfilment which…
1910 · PDF PAGE 102
…he eternal seed, brilliant as the autumnal moon. The wise anchorite by knowing this is never destroyed. 98. This is the great light held secret in all the Tantras; by contemplating on this, one obtains the greatest psychic powers, there is no doubt in it. 99. I am the giver of salvation, I am the third linga in the turya (the state of ecstasy, also the name of the thousand petalled lotus.{| By contemplating on this the Yogi becomes certainly like me.§ The Sushumna following the spinal cord on reaching the Brahmarandhra (the hole of Brahman) the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 102
…he eternal seed, brilliant as the autumnal moon. The wise anchorite by knowing this is never destroyed. 98. This is the great light held secret in all the Tantras; by contemplating on this, one obtains the greatest psychic powers, there is no doubt in it. 99. I am the giver of salvation, I am the third linga in the turya (the state of ecstasy, also the name of the thousand petalled lotus.{| By contemplating on this the Yogi becomes certainly like me.§ The Sushumna following the spinal cord on reaching the Brahmarandhra (the hole of Brahman) the…
1919 · PDF PAGE 57
…phet and his Bride! A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. A feast for Tahuti and the children of the Prophet—secret, O Prophet! A feast for the Supreme Ritual and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! Aye! Feast! Rejoice! There is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kiss…
1898 · PDF PAGE 75
…ry analysis. That I have made Jephthah a Magician is also in accordance with tradition. Great captains were always great priests, in the secret Qabalistical sense. The priests themselves, then as to-day, were foolish old men trained to bolster up the externals of religion. The real rulers, then as to-day, were not, officially, priests ; the sceptre was wielded by those who, swathed in thick darkness, and enthroned on their own thunderclouds, looked with the eye of gods upon this earth, and carried out the designs of God with tranquil power. I h…
1904 · PDF PAGE 68
… I said before oh yes, you are a clever fellow, I know slavery has been abolished in most of the West Indies, but my father lived on a secret island, which is not on the map, being protected from observation by the fogs produced by the in- cessant farting of its sea-faring population his numerous negro slaves, I hope everything is quite clear ! had been detected a little while be- fore in a ramified and deep-seated conspiracy to shit outside the tubs of molasses, and thus rob their employer of the fruits of his careful system of dieting…