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Page 61 of 831929 · PDF PAGE 4
…the heart of London, throbbing with a clear longing towards Paris. A man who goes to Paris from Victoria will never reach Paris! He will find only the city of the demi-mondaine and the tourist. It was not by appreciation of these facts, it was not even by instinct, that Lavinia King chose to arrive at Charing Cross. She was, in her peculiar, esoteric style, the most famous dancer in the world; and she was about to poise upon one exquisite toe in London, execute one blithe pirouette, and leap to Petersburg. No: her reason for alighting at Charin…
1930 · PDF PAGE 27
…nd vibrate the name of lïarpocrates with the utmost energy; then recover unity of consciousness. If you fail to do this properly you may find vourself in serious trouble. Your Body of Light may wander away uncontrolled, and be attacked and obsessed. You will become aware of this through the occurrence of headache, bad dreams, or even more serious signs such as hysteria, fainting fits, possibly madness or paralysis. Even the worst of these attacks will probably wear off, but it may leave you permanently damaged to a greater or less extent. 1. Se…
1954 · PDF PAGE 358
HOW TO RECOGNIZE MASTERS 325 My first surprise was to find that I had brought with me exactly those Magical Weapons which were suitable for the work proposed , and no others. But a yet more startling circumstance was to come. For the purpose of the Cairo Working, Ouarda and I had bought two abbai; one, scarlet , for me; one, blue, for her. I had brought mine to St. Moritz ; the other was of course in the possession of Ouarda. Imagine my amazement when Virakam produced from her trunk a blue abbai so like Ouarda's that the only difference were mi…
1996 · PDF PAGE 157
…ad finished the work in hand, I returned to them and worked for some hours with a Lexicon, starting from the word APXH, “cause,” 709, to find some phrase equal to 718 which would deny Cause. I found AZA, 9, a word meaning “dryness,” but most espe cially the dirt or mould upon a disused object. APXH AZA is, therefore, a precise expression of the doctrine expounded in our Law about “Because”. So far, so good; but this is in no sense the name of the Stèle. I worked on, and found XOIZA, 718, “Yesterday” which might be grasped as a straw if I sank …
1922 · PDF PAGE 29
…hat I’m going off the deep end about this. Don’t dismiss me as a mystic-monger. Look back each one into your own lives, and if you can’t find half a dozen incidents equally inexplicable, equally
1922 · PDF PAGE 201
…are how I got it. I would try pretending illness. I would appeal to our old relations, and I would look about slyly to see if I couldn’t find some and steal it. And I didn’t mean to let Peter know. On the top of everything else was the torture of shame. I had always been proud of my pride. A subtle serenity made my brain swim when I got into the street. It delighted me to be alone—to have got rid of Peter. I felt him as a restraining influence, and I had shaken him off. I despised myself for having loved him. I wanted to go to the devil my own …
1929 · PDF PAGE 29
…esperate! Y et, once the above principles are firmly fixed in the mind, it is easy enough to sum up the situation very shortly. One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, who one is, what one is, why one is. This done, one may put the Will which is implicit in the “Why” into words, or rather into One Word. Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and deve…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
…up by B. \ et he would be wrong in an infinité number of ways. There are therefore Aleph-Zero possibilities that at any moment a man may find himself totally transformed. And it may be that our présent dazzled bewilderment is due to our récogni¬ tion of the existence of a new dimension of thought, which seems so “inscrutably infinité” and “absurd” and “immoral”, etc. — because we hâve not studied it long enough to appreciate that its laws are identical with our own, though extended to new conceptions. The discovery of radioactivi'ty created a m…
1930 · PDF PAGE 4
…hus, should one, loving a woman, make a spell to compel her embraces, and tiring of her a little later, evoke Zazel to kill her; he will find that the implications of his former Oath conflict with those proper to invoke the Unity of the Godhead of Saturn. Zazel will refuse to obey him in the case of the woman whom he has sworn that he loves. To this some may object that, since ail acts are magical, every man who loves a woman implicitly takes an 1. Compare the remarks in a previous chapter. But this is a particular case. We leave its justificat…
1954 · PDF PAGE 359
…am had become strained. We reached Naples after two or three quarrelsome days in Rome and began house-hunting. I imagined that we should find dozens of suitable places to choose from, but we spent day after day scouring the city and suburbs in an automobile, without finding a single place to let that corresponded in the smallest degree with our ideas. Virakam's brat-a most god-forsaken lout-was to join us for the Christmas holidays, and on the day he was due to arrive we motored out as a forlorn hope to Posilippo before meeting him at the stati…
1905 · PDF PAGE 148
…s at the summons of the hooded death. * This play deals with the effect of shattering all the solid bases of a young man’s mind. Here we find him strong enough to win through. case with a weaker nature. latter good. HElence also in part the tragedy. none but the strongest may strive. In the ‘‘ Mother's Tragedy” is a similar It is well to note that in the former play the mother is evil; in the Fora good mother is an affliction against which It is fortunately rare. 141
1929 · PDF PAGE 134
…evocable Oaths and been received formally, that he discovers what Fraternity he has joined. If he hâve taken false symbols for true, and find himself magically pledged to a gang of rascals, so much the worse for him! 1. This results from the full acceptance of the Law of THELEMA, persistently put into practice. 2. P. S. With the happiest results. P. 3. Yet one might devise methods of execution appropriate to the Weapons : Stabbing or clubbing for the Lance or Wand, Drowning or poîsoning for the Cup, Beheading for the Sword, Crushing for the Dis…
1930 · PDF PAGE 34
…ut it more simply, straight upwards). “4. Instead of stopping, let him continue to rise until fatigue almost overcomes him. If he should find that he has stopped without willing to do so, and that figures appear, let him at ail costs rise above them. Yea, though his very life tremble on his lips, let him force his way upward and onward ! “5. Let him continue in this so long as the breath of life is in him. Whatever threatens, whatever allures, though it were Typhon and ail his hosts loosed from the pit and leagued against him, though it were fr…
1930 · PDF PAGE 41
…answer which is literally true, and yet deceives. For instance, one might ask whether some business transaction would be profitable, and find, after getting an affirmative answer, that it really referred to the other party to the affair! There is, on the surface, no difficulty at ail in getting replies. In fact, the process is mechanical; success is therefore assured, bar a stroke of apoplexy. But, even suppose we are safe from deceit, how can we know that the question has really been put to another mind, understood rightly, and answered from k…
1996 · PDF PAGE 93
…28 space as a sphere. “None” — “and two”: extension and potenti ality are Her only projections of Naught. It is strange, by the way, to find that modern mathematics says “Spherical space is not very easy to imagine”1 2 and prefers to attribute a geometrical form whose resemblance to the kteis3 is most striking. For Nuit is, philosophically speaking, the archetype of the kteis, giving appro priate Form to all Being, and offering every possibility of fulfil ment to every several point that it envelops. But Nuit cannot be symbolized as three-di…
1929 · PDF PAGE 45
…70-190, where he will see exactîy why these things are to be used. Of course, as the student advances in knowledge by expérience he will find a progressive subtlety in the magical universe corresponding to his own; for let it be said yet again! not only is his aura a magical mirror of the universe, but the universe is a magical mirror of his aura. In this chapter we are only able to give a very thin outline of magical theory — faint pencilling by weak and wavering fingers — for this subject may almost be said to be co-extensive with one’s whole…
1996 · PDF PAGE 96
…y exalted, of proof piled on proof of His power, His vigilance, His love, after being protected and energized with incredible aptness, I find myself still only too ready to grumble, nay even to doubt. It seems as if I resented the whole business. There are times when I feel that the amoeba, the bourgeois, and the cow represent the abc of enviable creatures. There may be a melancholic strain in me, as one might expect in a case of venal weakness such as mine. In any event, it is surely a most overwhelming proof that Aiwaz is not myself, but my m…
1996 · PDF PAGE 98
…ternative form such that even your stupidity can scarcely fail to observe that I have sealed my psychological explanation in cipher.” We find accordingly that the arising “of me in Thee” constitutes a state wherein “thou knewest not.” By “knewest” we may under stand the function of Hadit, intellectually and conjugally united with Nuit.2 And “not” is Nuit, as in Cap. I. Now this idea explains that the arising “of me” (Hadit) “in Thee” (the Beast) is 1 [“Because” is however clearly capitalized in both the ms. as well as the text of Liber CCXX as…
1907 · PDF PAGE 38
32 WHY JESUS WEPT ANGELA. Now let him find it! This will puzzle him. When Limburger replaces Patchouli, Why—moonrise ! [Sir Percy, radiant, reaches the land- ing stage, moors his boat and mounts. He sees a pink note on the wharf. Sir PERCY. Ah! she has dropped this! A cruel fool am I; I took an honied kiss ; I revelled in true bliss ; Yet never thought to try A keepsake to obtain To wear my heart upon. Now God is great and gracious; Iere’s medicine for my pain. She has left it; she has gone! How sweet the air and spacious ! I am happy—let me se…
1922 · PDF PAGE 182
…ade. She looked fine, all over smiles, a very short, white skirt and a new pair of patent leather boots almost up to her knees. She must find them frightfully -hot. She rushed me into a tea place, awfully smart with rose-shaded lights reflected up to a blue ceiling; the combination made a most marvellous purple. We got an alcove shut off by canary-coloured curtains ~ and a set of the loveliest cushions I ever saw. Two big basket chairs and a low table. They have the most delightful tea in egg-shell china and Dolly cigarettes with rose leaves. M…