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Page 6 of 911954 · PDF PAGE 64
WHA T IS MAGICK? 31 of Nature by the empirical application of certain principles whose interplay involves different orders of idea, connected with each other in a way beyond our present comprehension. (Illustration: We are able to light cities by rule-of-thumb methods. We do not know what consciousness is, or how it is connected with muscular action; what electricity is or how it is connected with the machines that generate it; and our methods depend on calculations involving mathematical ideas which have no correspondence in the Universe as we…
1903 · PDF PAGE 27
Reluctane & weal my grief As of my ficknefs a firange feature. Dea, Ferily! fypond felicf As He machinery of man’s nature! SF Hus [pake Solomon iy Rind OF body, Sf of foul and mind! The Casy accents ffir at Café The fen&d air: “OF, Wherefore, ford, Be Gp foul fad? This Weary fale Strikes & mp feart a fonelp (Word!” Ay Grief Words feammemd forth Sf [poke Moy feat; and tHe long (poll Broke. And noWw tHe gilwd fin of fer Zeapt and Was Cambent iy a (miles “© Bike me But Cate fo mmifter EGHis Kingdom for a Little White! Ele Binepard (hal & Hine. © R…
1961 · PDF PAGE 153
…; therefore thou speedest on thy Path from Glory unto Glory in continual Joy. O Son, o Reward of my Work, o Harmony and Completion of my Nature, o Token of my Toil, o Witness of my Love for thy sweet Mother, the holy and adulterous Hilarion, my Concubine, adorable in thine Innocence as she in her Perfection, is not this verily Intoxication of rhe Spirit in the Innermost, to be free absolutely and eternally, to run and to return upon the Course in the Play of Love, to fulfil Nature constantly in Light and Life? Afloat in the æthyr, o my God, my…
1961 · PDF PAGE 59
…hereby shall be revealed unto thee the Laws of thine own Reason and the Limitations thereof. This Science manifesteth unto thee thy true Nature in respect of the Machinery whereby it worketh; and showeth in pure Nakedness, without Clothing of Personality or Desire, the Anatomy of thy conscious Self. Furthermore, by this thou mayst understand the Essence between the Relation of all Things, and the Nature of Necessity, and come to the Knowledge of Form. For this Mathematics is as it were the last Veil before the Image of Truth, so that there is n…
1906 · PDF PAGE 20
XVI. Wisdom and Love, intenser glow! Beauty and Strength, increase and burn! Be brothers to the law of life! Things as they are—their nature know! Act! Nor for faith nor folly turn! The hour is nigh when man and wife, Knowing, shall worship face to face, Beget and bear the royal race. 12
1913 · PDF PAGE 414
PART III THE MYSTERIES OF NATURE THE GREAT MAGICAL AGENT WE have spoken of a substance extended in the infinite. THE TENTH KEY OF THE TAROT That substance is one which is heaven and earth; that is to say, according to its degrees of polarization, subtle or fixed. 108
1913 · PDF PAGE 414
PART III THE MYSTERIES OF NATURE THE GREAT MAGICAL AGENT WE have spoken of a substance extended in the infinite. THE TENTH KEY OF THE TAROT That substance is one which is heaven and earth; that is to say, according to its degrees of polarization, subtle or fixed. 108
1919 · PDF PAGE 196
… God. This is the central idea of the religion of the Old Zon, but we have left it be- hind us because although it seemed to be based on Nature (and Nature’s symbols are always true), yet we have out- grown this idea which is only apparently true in Nature. Since this great Ritual of Sacrifice and Death was conceived and perpetuated, we, through the observation of our men of science, have come to know that it is not the Sun which rises and sets, but the earth on which we live which revolves so that its shadow cuts us off from the sunlight durin…
1961 · PDF PAGE 22
…ents as have caused Excitement of Anxiety, the more so if they be unfinished or unfulfilled. But this exciting Cause is of a superficial Nature, as it were a Cloke or a Mask; and thus it but lendeth Aspect to the other Cause, which lieth in the Nature of the Sleeper himself. a
1929 · PDF PAGE 586
…med during the passing, is a part of the desire of some people to defile whatever they touch. "As a matter of fact, no ceremonies of any nature took place during his illness, or at the time of his death. (signed) Jane Wolfe
1954 · PDF PAGE 98
THREE SCHOOLS OF MAGICK (I) 65 Nature, or to escape them by appeal to a postulated power which is assumed to have laid them down. The religious man is, as such, incapable of understanding what the laws of Nature really are. (They are generalizations from the order of observed fact.) The History of Magick has never been seriously attempted. For one reason, only initiates pledged to secrecy know much about it; for another, every historian has been talking about some more or less conventional idea of Magick, not of the thing itself. But Magick has…
1954 · PDF PAGE 99
66 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS the Yellow School stands aloof from the other two by the nature of its postulates. But the Black School and the White are always more or less in active conflict; and it is because just at this moment that conflict is approaching a climax that it is necessary to write this essay. The adepts of the White School consider the present danger to mankind so great that they are prepared to abandon their traditional policy of silence, in order to enlist in their ranks the profane of every nation . We are in possession of a certai…
1905 · PDF PAGE 73
… In the abyss beyond all Stars and Suns. I AM, the Resurrection and the Life ! Holy art Thou, Lord of the Universe ! Holy art Thou, whom Nature hath not formed ! Holy art Thou, the Vast and Mighty One ! O Lord of Darkness and O Lord of Light !
1996 · PDF PAGE 95
…apter 6 of “Genesis Libri AL” in The Equinox of the Gods (Book 4, Part ZV).] 3 [Apemantus is the gloomy prophet in Timon of Athens.] The nature of events must be “pure joy”; for, obviously, whatever occurs is the fulfilment of the will of its master. Sorrow thus appears as the result of any unsuccessful—therefore, ill- judged—struggle. Acquiescence in the order of Nature is the ultimate Wisdom. One must understand the Universe perfectly, and be utterly indifferent to its pressure. These are the virtues which constitute a Master of the Temple. Y…
1954 · PDF PAGE 67
…s really fitted. (Illustration: You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. A true man of science learns from every phenomenon. But Nature is dumb to the hypocrite; for in her there is nothing false.5 ) 21. There is no limit to the extent of the relations of any man with the Universe in essence; for as soon as man makes himself one with any idea, the means of measurement cease to exist. But his power to utilize that force is limited by his mental power and capacity, and by the circumstances of his human environment. (Illustration: When a m…
1996 · PDF PAGE 118
…sible. 31. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness. Commentary: It is ridiculous to ask a dog why it barks. One must fulfil one’s true Nature; one must do one’s Will. To question this is to destroy confidence, and so to create inhibition. If a woman asks a man who wishes to kiss her why he wants to do so, and he tries to explain, he becomes impotent. His proper course is to choke her into compliance, which is what she wants, anyhow. Power acts: the nature of the action depends on the informa tion received by the Will; but once the decision i…
1944 · PDF PAGE 115
…. It would not be possible to enumerate the common errors; nay, it may be said that to think of it at all is in itself an error; for its nature is Pure Being, that is to say, Nothing, so that it is beyond all intellection or intuition. Thus, then, the utmost of our Essay can be only a cer‐ tain Wardenship, as it were a Tyling of the Lodge wherein the Mystery of Silence may be con‐ summated. For this attitude there is sound traditional authority; Harpocrates, God of Silence, is called “The Lord of Defence and Protection”. But His nature is by no…
1954 · PDF PAGE 503
…, but in no case has he understood, still less explained, the causes of phenomena. Sometimes he cannot even reconcile different "laws of Nature ." So we find l.W.N. Sullivan exclaiming "The scientific adventure may yet have to be abandoned," and to me personally he confessed "It may yet turn out that the mathematical approach to Reality may have to be supplanted by the Magical." Now in Nature it leaps at one that Will and Intelligence are behind phenomena. Myoid friend and colleague Professor Buckmaster, who wrote a book on "Blood" which, he ad…
1909 · PDF PAGE 63
NOTES 47 THE HEXAGRAMS Figure. Nature. Name. Divination and Spiritual Meaning. + of + O ot O wot A Voy w of + + off y Ooty w of O Khien Khwan Aun Mang. hsii Sung . Sze. Pi. Heaven, &c. (+ for Lingam.) Earth, &c. (©) for Yoni.) Danger and obscurity—yevos. Youth and ignorance. Waiting, sincerity. Contention, opposition, strength in peril. Multitude, age and experience. Help.
1929 · PDF PAGE 22
… on calculations involving mathematical ideas which hâve no correspondence in the Universe as we know it. *) (12) Man is ignorant of the nature of his own being and powers. Even his idea of his limitations is based on expérience of the past, and every step in his progress extends his empire. There is therefore no reason to assign theoretical limits 1 2 to what lie may be, or to what he may do. (Illustration: A génération ago it was supposed theoretically impossible that man should ever know the Chemical composition of the fixed stars. It is kno…