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Page 62 of 731929 · PDF PAGE 42
…Greek enables one to understand some unfamiliar English word derived from those sources. Also, there is the similar case of the Periodic Law in Chemistry, which enables Science to prophesy, and so in the end to discover, the existence of certain previously unsuspected éléments in nature. Ail discussions upon philosophy are necessarily stérile, since truth is beyond language. Tliey are, liowever, useful if carried far enough — if carried to the point when it becomes apparent that ail arguments are arguments in a circle. * But discussions of the …
1996 · PDF PAGE 148
Chapter II * Verse 73 149 element of one’s nature, and develop it as its own laws demand, with absolute impartiality. One need not fear; there is a natural limit to the growth of any species; it either finds food fail, or is choked by its neighbours, or overgrows itself, and is transformed. Nor need one fret about the harmony and proportion of one’s various faculties; the fit will survive, and the perfection of the whole will be understood as soon as the parts have found them selves, and settled down after fighting the matter out in the bal a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 27
…isorders respiration, on which cardiac welfare dépends.) (27) Every man should make Magick the keynote of liis life. He should learn its laws and live by them. (Illustration: The Banker should discover the real meaning of his existence, the real motive which led him to choose that profes¬ sion. He should understand banking as a necessary factor in the économie existence of mankind, instead of as merelv a business whose objects are independent of the general welfare. He should learn to distinguish false values from real, and to act not on accide…
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
Law, these methods may be advantageously combined ; en the one hand infinité frankness and readiness to communicate ail secrets ; on the other the sublime and terrible knowledge that ail real secrets are incommunicable. 1 It is, according to tradition, a certain advantage in conjurations to employ more than one language. In ail probability the reason of this is that any change spurs the flagging attention. A man engaged in intense mental labour will frequently stop and walk up and down the room — one may suppose for this cause — but it is a sig…
1929 · PDF PAGE 81
… One is reminded of the Democracy, who, on being informed by the Minister of the Interior that the scarcity of provisions was due to the Law of Supply and Demand, passed a unanimous resolution calling for the immédiate repeal of that iniquitous measure! Every person, whatever his grade in the Order, has also a “natural” grade appropriate to his intrinsic virtue. He may expect to be “cast out” into that grade when he becomes 8° = 30. Thus one man, throughout his career, may be essentially of the type of Netzach; another, of Hod. In the same way …
1938 · PDF PAGE 22
… this Word, and of the Numeration thereof! Nor may I declare them, save this the simplest, for the sake of little children: Love is the law, love under will. The chart was suddenly furled close, and mine Instructor bade me turn: for there had come into that place a maiden like a golden rose, with curling locks and ruddy, and her breasts were of bright ivory, and her gait the gait of a young lioness. Upon her brows flamed a Star Sapphire, and on her cheek was a stark scar, a circle deep and splendid. In whose hands was a writing; and smiling s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 69
…r subversion that had taken place in her being, Sister Cybele was on her feet, proclaiming: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." Lisa thought that breakfast the most delicious she had ever tasted in her life. A great reaction from the strain of the previous twenty-four hours was
1930 · PDF PAGE 25
… Anglo-Indian’s liver and his temper. The relation appears “vague and indeterminate” only in so far as one happens to be ignorant of the laws which State the case. The situation is analo- gous to that of the chemist before the discovery of the law of “Combining Weights”, etc. 145
1996 · PDF PAGE 113
114 The Law is for All doctrine here put forth is that the initiate cannot be polluted by any particular environment. He accepts and enjoys everything that is proper to his nature. Thus, a man’s sexual character is one form of his self-expression; he unites Hadit with Nuit sacramen tally when he satisfies his instinct of physical love. Of course, this is only one partial projection; to govern, to fight, and so on, must fulfil other needs. We must not imagine that any form of activity is ipso facto incapable of supplying the elements of an Euch…
1996 · PDF PAGE 119
120 The Law is for All Universe. As a is evidently “infinite & unknown”, its equal and opposite A must be so no less. Again, from any proposition “S is P,” reason deduces “S is not p”; thus the apparent finitude and knowability of S is deceptive, since it is in direct relation with p. No matter what n may be, x0, the number of the inductive numbers, is unaltered by adding or subtracting it. There are just as many odd numbers as there are numbers altogether. Our knowledge is confined to statements of the relations between cer tain sets of our o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 41
…im down. "Long later, man developed the idea of connecting phenomena, at least a few at a time. "Centuries elapse; he begins to perceive law, at first operating only in a very few matters. [61]
1996 · PDF PAGE 114
…e moment. They lack purpose, foresight, and intelligence. They are moved by ignorant and irrational instincts, many of which affront the law of self-preservation itself, with suicidal stupidity. The moral Idea which we call “the people” is the natural enemy of good government. He who is “chosen” by Hadit to Kingship must 11:26 11:6
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
…ual questions, the candidate must display no less mastery of his subject than if he were entered in the “final” for Doctor of Science or Law at a first class University. In examination of physical practices, there is a standardised test. In Asana, for instance, the candidate must remain motionless for a given time, his success being gauged by poising on his head a cup filled with water to the brim; if he spill one drop, he is rejected. He is tested in “the Spirit Vision” or “Astral Journeying” by giving him a symbol unknown and unintelligible t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 103
104 The Law is for All invented for the convenience of including all actual triangles, or vice versa. Once the idea Triangle has arisen, actual triangles are related to it as above stated.) One does not want even a comparatively brief extension of these “actual” states; Wedded Love, though licensed for a lifetime, is usually intolerable after a month; and marrons glacés pall after the first five or six kilograms have been consumed. But the “Happiness,” eternal and formless, is not less enjoyable because these forms of it cease to give pleasure.…
1996 · PDF PAGE 56
…th morality, as who should frown at the Himalayas on the one hand, and, on the other, regulate his behaviour by that of an ant-heap. The Law of Thelema is here! (It appears pertinent to add that the above ethical theories have stood the test of practice. Experiment shows that complete removal—in the most radical manner—of all the usual restric tions on conduct results, after a brief period of uneasiness of var ious kinds, in the subject dropping entirely into the background; the parties concerned became natural, and led what would con ventio…
1996 · PDF PAGE 107
108 The Law is for All And he must love this chosen Form, love it with fearful fer vour; it is the face of his Fate that craves his kiss, and in her eyes Enigma blazes and smoulders; she is his death, her body his coffin where he may rot and stink, or writhe in damned dreams, self slain, or rise in incorruption self-renewed, immortal and identical, fulfilling himself wholly in and by her, splashing all space with sparkling stars his sons and daughters, each star an image of his own infinity made manifest, mood after mood, by her magick to mou…
1907 · PDF PAGE 192
…e? Thy name we know not; Thine Is the unbuilded shrine. We doubt us if Thou be among the powers divine ! MINOS. Bound by strict line and law, Fearful with might and awe, We hold the powerless power For many an agéd hour. We move not from our place. We ask nor give not grace, Nor change our lordly looks before a sup- pliant’s face. AL ACUS. Stern in all justice, we Assent aloud to thee, We affirm thy cause as right : We put forth all the might Of aid : and all is done. Our utmost power is none To lift one soul to live and look upon the sun. 1 Eg…
1996 · PDF PAGE 89
90 The Law is for All Now if A and b are identical, the proposition conveys no knowl edge at all. If a is not identical with b, arb implies “a is identical with bc”; this assumes that not less than three distinct ideas exist. In every case, we must proceed either to the identity which means ultimately “Nothing,” or to divergent diversities which only seem to mean something so long as we refrain from pushing the analy sis of any term to its logical elements. For example, “Sugar is sugar” is obviously not knowledge. But no more is this: “Sugar …
1930 · PDF PAGE 7
…aving endured to the end, being Master of Magick, He is mighty to Work His true Will- which Will is, to establish on Earth His Word, the Law of Thelema. He hath none other Will than this j so ail that He doth is unto this end. Ail His Orgia bear fruit; what was the work of a month when He was a full Major Adept is to day wrought in a few minutes by the Words of Will, uttered with the right vibrations into the prepared Ear. — 127 —
1996 · PDF PAGE 60
…our sense of surprised repugnance. It becomes evident that one type of act is forbidden, with the penalty of falling altogether from the law of liberty to the code of crime; and our amazement and horror only increase as we recognize that this single gesture which is held damnable, is the natural exercise of the most fatidical function of nature, the innocent indulgence of irresistible impulse. We glance back to the previous verse—we examine our charter. We are permitted to take our fill and will of love as we will, when, where and with whom we …