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…not to Our immediate purpose in this epistle. Note, pray thee, the in- struction in the 38th and 39th verses of the Third Chapter of the Book of the Law. It must be quoted in full. “So that thy light is in me; and its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order.” That is, the God himself is aflame with the Light of The Beast, and will himself push the order, through the fire (per- haps meaning the genius) of The Beast. 176
1929 · PDF PAGE 28
…ch conduct in the light of inconvenience or even of cruelty. I hope that the principles outlined above will help them to understand this book, and prevent them from being deterred from its study by the more or less technical language in which it is written. The essence of MAGICK is simple enough in ail conscience. It is not otherwise with the art of government. The Aim is simply prosperity; but the theory is tangled, and the practice beset with briars. In the same wav MAGICK is merely to be and to do. I should add: ato suffer”. For Magick is th…
1904 · PDF PAGE 21
… added the wily ecclesiastic. You shall take down in that clever shorthand of yours the true story of my life. Mr N.ch.ls will buy the book and cheat you out of the money ; so theres fame and fortune at a stroke. Put away John Thomas now ; permit me, pray ! Yes, a fine long battering-piece, with a nice hard [19]
1907 · PDF PAGE 51
…hear not. But I am not talking; I am making my Table of Correspondences. I drink to my Table of Correspondences. [Drinks BONES picks ufia book on Indian Mystialrm. Tlum der. Slow music.
1922 · PDF PAGE 231
…l, and we could hear keys turing and bolts being pushed. We wanted to roar with laughter, but we had to keep on with the invocation. The book said you mustn’t stop it while you were outside the magic room, or the Devil could get you. The. strange thing is that I don’t remember at all what happened. Did the Devil come or not ? I don’t even remember getting back to the magic room. I must have gone to sleep, for I’ve woken up frightfully hungry. Cockie’s awake too. He’s kneeling at the window with a shot gun. He aimed it two or three times, but di…
1904 · PDF PAGE 65
…tleman would care to dwell upon a flaw in an otherwise perfect character ? And because otherwise the English gentry would not buy your book, just as without [63]
1913 · PDF PAGE 135
… Thereis life and vigour and realityin it, and a personality sincerely expressed in spite of what appears to be wilful eccentricities.” —Book- man. The Winged Beetle. ros. A collection of lyrical poems. ‘In the face of the whole horde of reviewers, critics, and in the face of the British public,I declare that Aleister Crowleyis among the first of living poets. It will not be many years before this factis generally recognized and duly appreciated. ‘Rosa Coeli’ and ‘Rosa Decidua ’ are two mag- nificent poems. The latteris ‘no tragedy of little te…
1913 · PDF PAGE 36
…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 4¢ the Feet 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…
1913 · PDF PAGE 36
…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 4¢ the Feet 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 460
…Here is a poet of promise.”—The Daily Chronicle. “Tt is not often that energy and poetic feeling are united so happily as in this little book.”— The Morning Leader. “There is promise and some fine lines in these verses.”—The Times. TO BE OBTAINED OF PROBSTHAIN & CO. 41 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, LONDON, W.C. And all Booksellers
1929 · PDF PAGE 338
…isman which he had never seen before, and ask him to discover its nature. We would then compare the result of his investigation with the book from which I had taken the talisman, and he would find that he had judged correctly. (For instance, I would give him a square containing thirty-six characters in Enochian, which he could not read. He would pass in his astral body through an imaginary door on which this square was inscribed, and tell me that he had come out upon a balcony overlooking the sea, where a violent storm was raging. I would then …
1911 · PDF PAGE 66
…ous dreams, of greater sustenance than sleep itself. And there was given unto me by my fair brother (for so I may now call him) a little book, wherein it was written how a man might build himself a shallop, and have for steersman one appointed thereunto. This then I laboured to build, and the toil was great. Moreover, certain vile fish rose from the water, and with their fins beat upon the planks of my boat, that I might not end it. However, at last I had it perfect, and was about to set sail at dawn. But first the dark man my brother departed fro…
1911 · PDF PAGE 66
…ous dreams, of greater sustenance than sleep itself. And there was given unto me by my fair brother (for so I may now call him) a little book, wherein it was written how a man might build himself a shallop, and have for steersman one appointed thereunto. This then I laboured to build, and the toil was great. Moreover, certain vile fish rose from the water, and with their fins beat upon the planks of my boat, that I might not end it. However, at last I had it perfect, and was about to set sail at dawn. But first the dark man my brother departed fro…
1911 · PDF PAGE 110
…g Sword, so that the thirty Aethyrs go into the ten Sephiroth. And the first nine are infinitely holy. And he says, It is written in the Book of the Law, “Wisdom says, be strong. Then canst thou bear more joy.” “If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of Art.” And this shall signify unto thee that thou must undergo great discipline; else the Vision were lost or perverted. For these mysteries pertain not unto thy grade. Therefore must thou invoke the Highest before thou unveil the shrines thereof. And this shall be thy rule: A thousan…
1913 · PDF PAGE 55
…he half: unite by thine art so that all disappear. 48. My prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the Ox, and none by the Book? 49. Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. Ra-Hoor-Khuit hath taken his seat in the East at the Equinox of the Gods ; and let Asar be with Isa, who also are one. But they are not of me. Let Asar be the adorant, Isa, the sufferer; Hoor in his secret name and splendour is the Lord initiating. 50. There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are three ordeals in one…
1913 · PDF PAGE 55
…he half: unite by thine art so that all disappear. 48. My prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the Ox, and none by the Book? 49. Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. Ra-Hoor-Khuit hath taken his seat in the East at the Equinox of the Gods ; and let Asar be with Isa, who also are one. But they are not of me. Let Asar be the adorant, Isa, the sufferer; Hoor in his secret name and splendour is the Lord initiating. 50. There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are three ordeals in one…
1919 · PDF PAGE 412
…tion of mistranslation alone renders the majority of Buddhist documents, if not valueless, at least unreliable. We, however, taking this book as an original work by Bla- vatsky, need not be bothered by any doubts more deadly than that as to whether her command of English was per- fect; and in this treatise, in spite of certain obvious senti- mentalities and bombasticisms, we find at least the founda- tions of a fairly fine style. I think that what she says in this sub-section refers to a statement which I got from my Guru in Madura to the effec…
1929 · PDF PAGE 66
… does not work. It would be fairer to state this proposition in slightly different terms: magic is science in posse. The compiler of The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts is not only the most ponderously platitudinous and priggishly prosaic of pretentiously pompous pork butchers of the language, but the most voluminously voluble. I cannot dig over the dreary deserts of his drivel in search of the passage which made me write to him. But it was an oracular obscurity which hinted that he knew of a Hidden Church withdrawn from the world in whose san…
1911 · PDF PAGE 25
THE VISION AND THE VOICE his hand is a sword that is a book. In his hand is a spear that is a cup of fornication. Upon his mouth is set the great and terrible seal. And he hath the secret ofV. His ten horns spring from five points, and his eight heads are as the charioteer of the West. Thus doth the fire of the sun temper the spear of Mars, and thus shall he be worshipped, as the warrior lord of the sun. Yet in him is the woman that devoureth with her water all the fire of God. Alas! my lord, thou art joined with him that knoweth not these thin…
1913 · PDF PAGE 427
…when, some one having just said that they were waiting for a qabalist, well known in the world of occult science by the publication of a book entitled Dogme et rituel de la haute magie, Mr. Home suddenly changed countenance, and said, stammering, and with a visible embarrassment, that he could not remain, and that the approach of this Professor of Magic caused him an incomparable terror. Everything one could say to reassure him proved useless. “TI do not presume to judge the man,” said he; “I do not K 129