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Page 63 of 731996 · PDF PAGE 65
66 The Law is for All like Narcissus, offer oneself loveless to every love like Catherine, or find the body so vain as to enclose one’s lust in the soul and make one lifelong spinthria1 unassuaged in the imagination like Aubrey Beardsley, the means matter no whit. Bach takes one way, Keats one, Goya one. The end is everything: that by the act, what ever it is, one worships, loves, possesses, and becomes Nuit. 1 [“Seeing stars,” or spintherism, from omi^rip, “sparks.”] 2 [Shakespeare, Macbeth i, 7.] The act of love can no more “trammel up the c…
1939 · PDF PAGE 8
YOGA FOR YAHOOS FIRST LECTURE. FIRST PRINCIPLES. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. It is my will to explain the subject of Yoga in clear language, without resort to jargon or the enunciation of fantastic hypotheses, in order that this great science may be thoroughly understood as of universal importance. For, like all great things, it is simple; but, like all great things, it is masked by confused thinking; and, only too often, brought into contempt by the machinations of knavery. (1) There is more nonsense talked and written abo…
1930 · PDF PAGE 41
the children of wisdom, of whom she is justified, well know that the laws of Ethics are a chaos of confused conventions, based at best on customs convenient in certain conditions, more often on the craft or caprice of the biggest, the most savage, heartless, cunning and blood-thirsty brutes of the pack, to secure their power or pander to their pleasure in cruelty. There is no principle, even a false one, to give cohérence to the clamour of ethical propositions. Yet the very men that hâve smashed Moloch, and strewn the earth with shapeless rubbl…
1996 · PDF PAGE 25
26 The Law is for All This theory is the only one which explains why the Absolute limited Itself, and why It does not recognize Itself during Its cycle of incarnations. It disposes of “Evil” and the Origin of Evil, with out denying Reality to “Evil,” or insulting our daily observation and our common sense. I here quote (with one or two elucidatory insertions) the note originally made by Me on this subject. May 14, 1919, 6:30 p.m. All elements must at one time have been separate—that would be the case with great heat. Now when the atoms get to …
1996 · PDF PAGE 79
80 The Law is for All It appears very essential to describe this vision as well as is possible, considering the difficulty of language, and the fact that the phenomena involve logical contradictions, the condi tions of consciousness being other than those obtaining normally. The vision developed gradually. It was repeated on so many occasions that I am unable to say at what period it may be called complete. The beginning, however, is clear enough in my memory. I was on a retirement in a cottage overlooking Lake Pasquaney in New Hampshire. I lo…
1996 · PDF PAGE 172
… day beside us in the Charge of the Battle of Life. “Let the woman be girt with a sword before me”! ni:ll So sayeth this our Book of the Law. We respect Woman in the self of Her own nature; we do not arrogate the right to criticize her. We welcome her as our ally, come to our camp as her Will, free-flashing, sword-swinging, hath told Her, Welcome, thou Woman, we hail thee, star shouting to Star! Welcome to rout and to revel! Welcome to fray and to feast! Welcome to vigil and victory! Welcome to war with its wounds! Welcome to peace with its pag…
1929 · PDF PAGE 66
…rseded by that of HORUS, the Crowned and Conquering Child, remains valid for those who hâve not yet assimilated the point of view of the Law of Thelema. But see Appendix, Liber SAMEKH. Compare also “The Book of the Spirit of the Living Gods,” where there is a ritual given in extenso on slightly different lines: Equinox I, III, pages 269-272. — 30
1996 · PDF PAGE 7
8 The Law is for All on both sides of the Atlantic that is of enduring interest in itself.1 He was a member of the Powys circle — virtually a member of the family — and his wife Frances Gregg was a member of the Phila delphia Imagist group of poets that included Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) and Ezra Pound. 1 For his memoirs see Louis Marlow, Seven Friends (London: Richards, 1953; republished Thame: Mandrake, 1994). See also Oliver Wilkin son and Christopher Wilkinson, eds., The Love Letters of John Cow per Powys to Frances Gregg, vol. 1 (London: C…
1996 · PDF PAGE 299
298 The Law is for All matter 23,24,66,67,74.79.93,96,105, 187 and motion 42,46,88,94 fine 69 Maut 29 Mentu 166,192,193 mercury, fixed 69 Messalina 44,65,138 metaphysics 88,89,170 Microprosopus 89,90 mind 32.34,40.68,69,70.71,72,74,75. 81,82,90, 93.99,117,118,119,121, 125,126,127,132,159,160,161,186, 187 conscious interference with subconscious 118 modesty 128,137 Mohammed 53,128,151,169 Mongolians 84 Mongols 170 monism 26,189 monogamy 55 Montauk, New York 81 moral ideas 59,63,100,115,117 morality 45,50,52,55,57,58.75,92. 131,137,145,153,161 mo…
1906 · PDF PAGE 192
…in defiance of it and its prejudices. Having taken this important step, let us slew round the rest of the play to fit it. Ifit fits, the law of probability comes to our aid ; every coincidence multiplies the chance of our correctness in ever increasing proportion. We shall see—and you may look up your Proctor —that if the stars are placed just so by chance not law, then also it may be possible that Shakespeare was the wool-combing, knock- kneed, camel-backed, church-going, plaster- of-Paris, stick-in-the-mud our scholars have always made him. E…
1929 · PDF PAGE 61
…ve spirit. One 1. The letters Aleph and Lamed are infinitely important in this Aeon of Horus; they are indeed the Key of the Book of the Law. No more can be said in this place that that Aleph is Harpocrates, Bacchus Diphues, the Holy Ghost, the “Pure Fool” or Innocent Babe who is also the Wandering Singer who imprégnâtes the King’s Daughter with Himself as Her Child; Lamed is the King’s Daughter, satisfied by Him, holding His “Sword and Balances” in her lap. These weapons are the Judge, armed with power to execute His Will, and Two Witnesses “i…
1996 · PDF PAGE 30
…ently that of reveal ing; He was the intelligible medium between the Babe God—the New £on about to be born—and myself. This Book of the Law is the Voice of his Mother, His Father, and Himself. But on His appearing, He assumes the active form twin to Harpocrates, that of Ra-Hoor-Khuit. The Concealed Child becomes the Conquering Child, the armed Horus avenging his father Osiris. So also our own Silent Self, helpless and witless, hidden within us, will spring forth, if we have craft to loose him to the Light; spring lustily forward with his Cry o…
1996 · PDF PAGE 158
…gical phenomenon which accompanies any important discovery. It is like First Love, at First Sight, to the one; like the recognition of a Law of Nature, to the other. It inflames one with Love for the Uni verse, and it explains all its puzzles, in a flash; and it gives an interior conviction which nothing can shake, a living cer tainty quite beyond one’s argued acquiescence in any newly acquired facts. I lacked this; I knew that I had to seek further. The Truth uttered by Aiwaz is hidden with such exquisite art that it is always easy to wring …
1917 · PDF PAGE 3
…y!” (Remember that all acts of love and pleasure are rituals, must be rituals.) “There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the The Law of Liberty
1939 · PDF PAGE 7
…y soul, shall not soul win at last to the wit That its changeless perfection is death, itself the assassin of it? Love under will is the law; all that exists, from the dust To the Gods, is but jetsam of Love, cast up by the tide of Her lust. So I hail thee, Astarte, and hymn thee in brothel and temple the same, Who are seed of all change, being Love, by Corruption Thine innermost Name! I know Thy device to deceive Thy servants Thine image that hailed How none, being mortal, might learn Thy name, or behold Thee unveiled. For Thy secret is this, …
1906 · PDF PAGE 52
…ast, the incom- parable security. Whose mind is strenuous and reflects ; whose deeds are circumspect and pure, His thoughts aye fixed on Law, the fame of |. that concentred shall endure. By Earnestness, by centred thought, by self- restraint, by suffering long, Let the wise man an island build against the fatal current strong. Fools follow after vanity, those men of evil wisdonr’s sect ; But the wise man doth earnestness, a precious talisman, protect. Follow not vanity, nor seek the transient pleasures of the sense : The earnest one who meditat…
1935 · PDF PAGE 9
…ic- tion or external obscurity; His word is to comprehend the existing Universe in accordance with His own Mind. He is the Master of the Law of Sorrow (Dukkha). To attain the grade of Magus he must accomplish Three Tasks; the renunciation of His enjoyment of the Infinite so that he may formulate Himself as the Finite; the acquisition of the practical secrets alike of initiating and governing His proposed new Universe and the identification of himself with the impersonal idea of Love. Any neophyte of the Order (or, as some say, any person soever…
1996 · PDF PAGE 295
294 The Law is for All Beast, the 35.37,38,53,54. 89.98.99, 100,134,149,156,163.168,174,176, 178 beatific vision 79 beauty 61.79,82,102.104.112,124. 176,178-180 Beethoven, Ludwig von 50,102 Besant, Walter, and Rice, James, Ready- Money Mortiboy 130 Bible 92.101,180 Binah 79,89 as Understanding 90,119 biology 69,143,145,146,162 bisexual deities 30 Black Brothers 128,182 error of the 90 black dragon 152 Blake, William 102,138,142 body of light 126 bondage and discipline 42 Bouguereau, Adolphe 112 bourgeoisie 36,49, 72,73.75,97,117, 155 Brahms, Jo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 128
…nse The jealous God of Israel is distraught. No jewels in the casket nobly wrought. The shrine is grand; the god is ravished thence. On clawing hands and hardened knees the King Exists, no more; is it a little thing? King Demos, hear my parable! We pass, We poets, see you grovel at our feet, Despise our love, and tender flesh, and wheat, Clamour for lust, and carrion, and grass. MORT D’ADONIS. ADONIS dies. (Imagination hears The hoarse harsh breathing of the ill-nurtured boar) Venus bends low, half mother and half whore, Whole murderess of boy’…
1996 · PDF PAGE 48
…at put their trust in Him, is to tear open the raw ulcer of his soul. We of Thelema are not the slaves of Love, “love under will” is the Law. We refuse to regard love as shameful and degrading, as a peril to body and soul. We refuse to accept it as the surrender of the divine to the animal; to us it is the means by which the animal may be made the Winged Sphinx which shall bear man aloft to the House of the Gods. We are then particularly careful to deny that the object of love is the gross physiological object which happens to be Nature’s excus…