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… which you may perhaps choose to adopt later, given in Liber Thisharb sub figura CMXIII, paragraphs 27-38, Magick, pp. 420-422, you must find an answer to the question: "How did I come to be in this place at this time, engaged in this particular work?" As you will see from the book, this will start you on the discovery of who you really
…e Region" and dig out the Unknown. You must construct your own Qaba/ah! Nobody can do it for you. What is your own true Number? You must find it and prove it to be correct. In the course of a few years, you should have built yourself a Palace of Ineffable Glory, a Garden of Indescribable Delight. Nor Time nor Fate can tame those tranquil towers, those Minarets of Music, or fade one blossom in those avenues of Perfume! Humph! Nasty of me: but it has just struck me that it might be just as well if you made a Sepher Sephiroth of your own! What a p…
… be afraid of “going the pace.” It is better to wear out than to rust out. You are unconquerable, and of indefatigable energy. Great men find time for everything, shirk nothing, make reputations in half a dozen different lines, have twenty simultaneous love affairs, and live to a green old age. The milksops and valetudinarians never get anywhere; usually they die early; and even if they lived forever, what’s the use? The body is itself a restriction as well as an instrument. When death is as complete as it should be, the individual expands and …
…wings, the lascivious grins ! I perceive purity. VENUS. Nay, I have loved thee! Fresh pleasure hourly filled the crystal cup. Shalt thou find wine so comely and so keen, So fresh with life to fill each aching vein With new electric fervour? Will she be My equal? She is mortal and a child. Her arms are frail and white. Her lily cheeks Could never take thy kiss. shock, Repel. I scorn to say her love were less Than mine: I tell thee that she could not love Thee even at all as thou wouldst understand. Thy love would TANNHAUSER. So certain art thou?…
… of Ajna go obliquely up (from opening of pharynx about) and direct horizontally forward. This gives an idea to chase consciousness, ze, find by the obvious series of experiments the spot in which the thoughts dwell. Probably however this moves about. If so, it is a clear piece of evidence for the idealistic position. If not, “thinking of it” equals “ it thinking of itself,” and its falsity will become rapidly evident. 12.8 p.m. 12.19 p.m. Pranayama 11 m. [The best so far: the incense troubled me somewhat.] 12.26 p.m. 12.57 p.m. 31m. 30 breaks,…
… of Ajna go obliquely up (from opening of pharynx about) and direct horizontally forward. This gives an idea to chase consciousness, ze, find by the obvious series of experiments the spot in which the thoughts dwell. Probably however this moves about. If so, it is a clear piece of evidence for the idealistic position. If not, “thinking of it” equals “ it thinking of itself,” and its falsity will become rapidly evident. 12.8 p.m. 12.19 p.m. Pranayama 11 m. [The best so far: the incense troubled me somewhat.] 12.26 p.m. 12.57 p.m. 31m. 30 breaks,…
…rs of the two men présent subtle identities in many points. Both seem to be constantly trying to reconcile insuperable antagonisms. Both find it hard to destroy the delusion that men’s fixed beliefs and customs may be radically altered by a féw friendly explanations. Both show a curious fondness for oüt-the-way learning, preferring recondite sources of knowledge they adopt eccentric appearances. Both inspire what can only be called panic fear in absolute strangers, who can give no reason wFatever for a repulsion which sometimes almost amounts t…
8 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS is to be properly directed . You must find your True Will, and make all your actions subservient to the one great purpose. Ra Hoor is the Sun God ; Tahuti is the Egyptian Mercury; Khephra is the Sun at midnight. About your problems : what I have to do is to try to teach you to think clearly. You will be immensely stimulated by having all the useless trimmings stripped from your thinking apparatus. For instance, I don't think you know the first principles of logic. You apparently take up a more or less Christian attitude, …
… to perform in the world, he is cast down into the Sephira, suitable for that work. If his function is to be that of a warrior, he would find himself in Geburah ; if that of a great poet or composer, in Tiphareth ; and so on. He, the Master, inhabits this dwelling; but , having already got rid of it, he is able to allow it to carry on according to its nature without interference from the false Self (its head in Daath) which hitherto had hampered it. ("If I were a dog, I should bark ; if I were an owl I should hoot," says Basil King Lamus in The…
…ut the pioneers of rational investigation into the nature of consciousness on the rack ( i.e. into lunatic asylums) I doubt not we shall find our Bruno. But it will add an additional pang that persecution should come from the house of our friends. Let us , however, turn away from the aspect of criticism which an accidentla controversy has thus caused me to notice, and so to anticipate the obvious line of attack which the more frivolous ty pe of critic will employ, and return to our proper business, the summary of our own position with regard to…
…Not both, unless all meditation lies. I am not sure: if love as great as ours May not be God to part of us at least, Leaving the rest to find its heights and powers In other spheres; that, night’s enamoured priest5 This, on the lake the dewy lotus-flowers That lift their jewelled hearts toward the East. AFTER. Now, when the sun falls in the dismal sky And no light leaps beneath the plunging prow, I know the fulness of my sorrow now :-— That all my talk and laughter was a lie; That as each hour widens the gulfs that sigh Between us; the truth sc…
…st Turned poison or steel On their own bad lives. Here whirls the grim wheel Where the dead soul strives Ever to climb To the iron nave, Find Space and Time, Or a God to save, Or a way o’er the wave. The Fate contrives That he never thrives. Revolving anon, The gleam is gone, And the shadowy smile
…s or weakness, March 6th., 1911. Up to this time, although he had done the exercises regularly no particular result had occurred, and we find this note: “I do not really look for any results now, or expect any, since control of ‘self’ is the object of these exercises.” Now it is to be noted that when one really gets to a state when having worked one is content to continue to do so, ex- pecting no results, one often obtains them. (Of course it’s no use trying to fool oneself on these things, you can’t get a result by just saying you don’t carea …
… spot of its kind that I have ever seen-over a hillside where there wasn't cover for a rabbit, would lose sight of me, look, and fail to find me, though I was walking in their midst. At first, astonishment, bewilderment; at last, so normal had it become: "He's invisible again." One incident I remember very vividly indeed; an old friend and I were sitting opposite each other in armchairs in front of a large fire, smoking our pipes. Suddenly he lost sight of me, and actually cried out in alarm. I said: "What's wrong?" That broke the spell; there …
…he hypocrite and to his victim. To “lust” is to grasp continually at fresh aspects of Nuit. It is the mistake of the vulgar to expect to find satisfaction in the objects of sense. Disillusion is inevitable; when it comes, it leads only too often to an error which is in reality more fatal than the former, the denial of “materiality” and of “animalism.” There is a correspondence between these two attitudes and those of the “once-born” and “twice-born” of William James.1 2 Thelemites are “thrice-born”; we accept everything for what it is, without …
… completely beaten from the very nature of things. In a country where the most week and ignorant, the least intelligent and resourceful, find it easy enough on the whole to earn a fairly decent living, and where the slightest capacity of almost any sort makes it a safe bet that ten years will put its possessor in Easy Street, I was to find myself a candidate for complete destitution. For many months I was, for the first time in my life, constantly preoccupied with the problem of keeping myself alive, and did so only by the operations of periodi…
…sible, then to stop up all chinks with putty, and having satisfied myself that no explanation was possible, to make a further effort and find one. I find it hard to consider this sort of thing as serious literature, and yet so ineradicable is the artistic instinct in me that the Old Adam peeps out sufficiently often to remove these stories from the category of jeux d'esprit. In particular, the story "Suffer the Little Children", whose setting is in Florida as I knew it, flames so fiercely with the passion excited in me by the conditions which I…
…bylon. And they of Babylon, wondering to see such a thing, they did then go wholly into the Lake, to break the Vessel open, expecting to find great store of Treasure therein. But when they had broken it open, out flew the Chief Spirits immediately, with their Legions following them; and they were all restored to their former places except BELIAL, who entered into a certain Image, and thence gave answers unto those who did offer Sacrifices unto him, and did worship the Image as their God, etc. OBSERVATIONS. First, thou shalt know and observe the…
… not so successfully from the point of view of the beginner. There is of course much beyond this elementary study, and the neophyte will find nothing in the book which he does not know; but the book is addressed to those who know nothing. It will supply them with a fine basis for Qabalistic research, ALEISTER CROWLEY. THE PRIESTESS OF Isis, By EDOUARD SCHURE. Translated by F. RoTH- WELL, B.A. W. Rider and Son. 35. 6d. net. Books I and II. I have been trying to read this book for a week, but the rapidly recurring necessity to appear on the stage…
… not so successfully from the point of view of the beginner. There is of course much beyond this elementary study, and the neophyte will find nothing in the book which he does not know; but the book is addressed to those who know nothing. It will supply them with a fine basis for Qabalistic research, ALEISTER CROWLEY. THE PRIESTESS OF Isis, By EDOUARD SCHURE. Translated by F. RoTH- WELL, B.A. W. Rider and Son. 35. 6d. net. Books I and II. I have been trying to read this book for a week, but the rapidly recurring necessity to appear on the stage…