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Page 57 of 841913 · PDF PAGE 133
… who do not it must remain as obscure and ridicu- lous as spherical trigonometry to the inhabitants of Flatland.”— 7zmes. 777, 10S. This book contains in concise tabulated form a comparative view of all the symbols of the great religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time published; also the com- plete secret magical correspondences of the Golden Dawn and R.R. et A.C. It forms, in short, a com- plete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions …
1954 · PDF PAGE 177
…ehending directly such phenomena as magnetism, electrical resistance, chemical affinity and the like. Let me direct you once more to The Book of the Law, Chapter 2: 70-72. There is help & hope in other spells. Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink , drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by
1961 · PDF PAGE 13
…e, o my Son, and that strangely, as thou knowest, upon the Scarlet Woman called Hilarion, as it was mysteriously foretold unto me in The Book of the Law. Now therefore that thou art come to the Age of Understanding, do hou give ear unto my Wisdom, for that therein lieth a simple and direct Way for every Man that he may attain to the End. Firstly, then, I would have thee to know that Spiritual Experience and Perfection have no necessary connection with Advancement in our Holy Order. But for each Man is a Path: here is a Constant, and there is a …
1913 · PDF PAGE 502
…es of the cult of Hermes-Pantheos understood the allegory, and were very careful not to explain it to the profane. Mr. de Mirville, in a book to-day almost forgotten, though it made some noise a few months ago, gives himself a great deal of trouble to compile an account of various sorceries, of the kind which fill the compilations of people like Delancre, Delrio, and Bodin. He might have found better than that in history. And without speaking of the easily attested miracles of the Jansenists of Port Royal, and of the Deacon Paris, what is more …
1913 · PDF PAGE 502
…es of the cult of Hermes-Pantheos understood the allegory, and were very careful not to explain it to the profane. Mr. de Mirville, in a book to-day almost forgotten, though it made some noise a few months ago, gives himself a great deal of trouble to compile an account of various sorceries, of the kind which fill the compilations of people like Delancre, Delrio, and Bodin. He might have found better than that in history. And without speaking of the easily attested miracles of the Jansenists of Port Royal, and of the Deacon Paris, what is more …
1954 · PDF PAGE 243
…byss of Mind, until thou unearth the fox THA T. On, houndsl Yoicksl Tally-hoI Bring THA T to bay I Then, wind the Mortl Once more-what a book that is: I never realized it until now! it says-see that double page at the onset, one with "?" and the other with "!" alone upon the blank. Moreoever you should read the long essay The Soldier and the Hunchback: I and? But everyone of those-rather significant, nicht wahr?-slides into a rhapsody of exaltation, a dithyramb, a Paean} No good here. For what you want is a penny plain pedestrian prose Probabil…
1929 · PDF PAGE 414
…t me directly, but because I hate to think so badly of men. The standards of The Three Musketeers are mine, and the blackest blot in the book is the partial failure of Aramis. It is far worse than the conduct of Milady at its vilest. I believed then, and believe now, that the probationer of A.'. A.'. is nearly always offered the opportunity to betray the Order, just as the neophyte is nearly always tempted by a woman. We read in The Book of the Law, cap. I, verse 34: ...the ordeals I write not: ... ... he(the Beast) may make severe the ordeals.…
1910 · PDF PAGE 366
…after all. We have to thank him for semi-educating a few of our noodles, for applying the caustic of Ibsen (right) and Wagner (wrong—the book’s drivel) to that most indolent of ulcers, the British Public, but for nothing more. His own work, bar “Man and Overman” (why the hybrid Super- man?), is aglib sham. If it proves anything, it proves nothing. But are we to writhe in the ecstasies of Pyrrhonism? For this prophet claims to be Zoroaster. Can we be sure even of that? He has educated the British goat to caper to his discordant Pan-pipe, so that…
1910 · PDF PAGE 366
…after all. We have to thank him for semi-educating a few of our noodles, for applying the caustic of Ibsen (right) and Wagner (wrong—the book’s drivel) to that most indolent of ulcers, the British Public, but for nothing more. His own work, bar “Man and Overman” (why the hybrid Super- man?), is aglib sham. If it proves anything, it proves nothing. But are we to writhe in the ecstasies of Pyrrhonism? For this prophet claims to be Zoroaster. Can we be sure even of that? He has educated the British goat to caper to his discordant Pan-pipe, so that…
1954 · PDF PAGE 11
…as possible) .... The answer should reach you, bar accidents, in less than a month .... It is proposed ultimately to issue the series in book form. This has now been done. January, 1954 Hampton, New Jersey Karl J. Germer
1911 · PDF PAGE 16
…eat, crying: Close the veil; the great blasphemy hath been uttered; the face of my Mother is scarred by the nails of the devil. Shut the book, destroy the breaker of the seal! 14
1954 · PDF PAGE 449
…e very qualities which serve to protect must inevitably destroy the very conditions which they aim to preserve. Hey! Hasn't the dear old Book of Lies got its word on the subject? Never known to fail! The Wound of Amfortas The Self-Mastery of Percivale became the Self-masturbatery of the Bourgeois. Vir-tus has become "virtue. " The qualities which have made a man, a race. a city. a caste, must be thrown off; death is the penalty oj failure. As it is written: In the hour of success sacrifice that which is dearest to thee unto the Infernal Gods! T…
1919 · PDF PAGE 384
…there are two Paths open, the right hand and the left. These are described at length in Liber 418, and we must refer the Student to that book. But the main point is that on the right hand path, stripping self, the Adept becomes Nemo, the Master of the Temple, and re- turns across the abyss, or rather is flung forth, and appears in the Heaven of Jupiter—or sphere of another planet—as a morning Star or an evening Star to bring light to them that dwell upon the earth. On the left hand Path, the Adept, wishing to keep all that he has, shuts himself…
1913 · PDF PAGE 20
…at a number of respectable persons prostrate before him and show other signs of worship. It is also given out that the elder boy Wrote a book called Af the Fee! of the Master, which the plaintiff has reasons to believe to be a compilation made by Leadbeater. In any case, the boy who is not able to write a decent English letter is absolutely incapable of producing such a work. The plaintiff submits that this course of conduct is calculated to warp the moral nature of the boys and to make them moral degenerates. The defendant, beyond putting forw…
1919 · PDF PAGE 400
…a great deal of pious gassing about most Teachers—it is very easy to say “Be good and you will be happy,” and I am afraid that even this book itself has been taken as little better by the majority of its ad- mirers. What the pupil wants is not vague generalisa- tions on virtue, not analyses of Nirvana and explorations in Hindu metaphysics, but a plain straightforward statement of a practical character. When a man is meditating and finds himself interfered with by some particular class of thought, he does not want to know about the glory of the …
1996 · PDF PAGE 133
…. I am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body. Commentary: “uplifted in thine heart”:—compare “The Book of the Heart Girt with a Serpent.”1 1 [“Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente sub figura LXV.”] See Equinox III(l) [(1919), and The Holy Books ofThelema (Equinox 111(9)) (1983).] 63. Thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness of the inspiration; the expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughterful than a caress of Hell’s own worm. Commentary: This verse conceals a certain Magical Formula of the loftie…
1905 · PDF PAGE 253
…? LANDGRAVE. The same. I would have wed her, but (‘tis strange !) The lady had a purpose of her own, And swore by all the Virgins in the Book She would wed nobody but—Tannhauser. So, like the foolish, doting sire I am, I gave her thirty days to find you. This Must dumb you with astonishment. TANNHAUSER. Well, no! The details, unfamiliar! But the theme Iknew. And therefore leaps my bosom up: I rob your verderer of his nag, and he ! Low the long gallop to Elizabeth ! WOLFRAM. Lucky and brave. How we all envy you:
1911 · PDF PAGE 112
… that other darkness, wherein they abide that have lost name and form. Therefore did I kindle him that had not understanding, and in the Book of the Law did I write the secrets of truth that are like unto a star and a snake and a sword. And unto him that understandeth at last do I deliver the secrets of truth in such wise that the least of the little children of the light may run to the knees of the mother and be brought to understand. And thus shall he do who will attain unto the mystery of the knowledge and conversation of his Holy Guardian A…
1913 · PDF PAGE 71
…delight to slay. Success is your proof; courage is your armour; go on, go on, in my strength; & ye shall turn not back for any! 47. This book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the original in the writing of the Beast; for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another: in these are mysteries that no Beast shall divine. Let him not seek to try: but one cometh after him, whence I say not, who shall discover the Key of it all. Then this line drawn is a key: then this circle squared in its failure is a key …
1913 · PDF PAGE 71
…delight to slay. Success is your proof; courage is your armour; go on, go on, in my strength; & ye shall turn not back for any! 47. This book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the original in the writing of the Beast; for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another: in these are mysteries that no Beast shall divine. Let him not seek to try: but one cometh after him, whence I say not, who shall discover the Key of it all. Then this line drawn is a key: then this circle squared in its failure is a key …