1996 · PDF PAGE 83
The Law is for All
…ine, Woman, and Song. Intoxication, that is, ecstasy, is the key to Reality. It is explained in “Energized Enthusiasm”1 2 that there are three Gods
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Confessions of Aleister Crowley
…os, Sophocles, ARistobulos, Alcibiades, fortress, unfashionable, sandwich, perorate, silver, bishop (eight rimes for this word), Sidney (three rimes for this), maniac, Leviticus, Cornelius, Abra-Melin, Brahmacharya, Kismet, Winchester, Christ Church, worship, Chesterton, Srotápatti (two rimes to this), Balliol, and so on. I have mentioned hardships. It may be interesting to mention the nature of these. The first and greatest was malaise, which was mostly due to lack of food and exercise. The latter complaint seems rather ridiculous; but it is a…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 48
Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)
…ther there is not some Deity who expresses this Cycle, and yet whose nature is joy. He will find what he requires in Dionysus. There are three main methods of invoking any Deity. The First Method consists of dévotion to that Deity, and, being mainly mystical in character, need not be dealt with in this place, especially as a perfect instruction exists in Liber 175 (See Âppendix). The Second Method is the straightforward cérémonial invocation. It is the method which was usually employed in the Middle Ages. Its advantage is its directness, its di…
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1954 · PDF PAGE 379
Magick Without Tears
… True Will. So every "restriction" (that word again!) on the exchange of wealth is a direct violation of the Law of Thelema. Parable No. Three, "The Fairy Bank Note." One evening a man walked into an inn and asked for hospitality. In the morning, when his bill came, he found he had nothing but a £ I 00 note. "I'm afraid I've no change till the Banks open." "Oh, stick to it-I'll be back next week-I've enough petrol to take me home." "Handy," thought Boniface, "that will just square my brewer." That reminded the brewer to pay his cornchandler, wh…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 266
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
…were so much encouraged by their success that they went out of sight and hearing, contrary to my instructions. I needed them to help the three coolies with loads over the had part. They preferred to leave the whole responsibility to me, but I could not bring three heavily loaded men up such slopes without assistance, and there was nothing to do but await their return. In the meantime, I saw to my surprise that a large party had arrived at Camp 5. When I dot down I found that Tartarin's hysteria and Pighi's malignant stupidity had created yet an…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 97
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
…efore, announced to the most advanced adepts that he had himself made the Magical Link with the Secret Chiefs; and, at an interview with three of them in the Bois de Boulogne, had been confirmed in the supreme and sole authority as the Visible Head of the Order. The adepts entrusted with this information were required to sign a pledge of personal obedience to Mathers as a condition of advancement in the Order. Nevertheless, dissatisfaction continued. The advancement did not arrive. They suspected that Mathers had no more knowledge to give; and …
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1919 · PDF PAGE 141
The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)
…mpanied by a letter from which I quote the fol- lowing: “The enclosed exercises perform regularly, say to yourself: ‘I will do these for three months; even if I get no benefit from them, yet I am deter- mined to do them.’ Write to me whenever you like, but don’t consider any result that you may get as worth much; for these little exercises are only to produce an equilibrium which is essential before really setting out. If you add any exer- cise of your own then do it at a definite hour daily and do it continuously; to take up an exercise and th…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 53
Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)
…we need more particularly concern ourselves.2 Now in order to invoke any being, it is said by Hermes Tris- megistus that the magi employ three methods. The first, for the vulgar, is that of supplication. In this the crude objective theory is assumed as true. There is a god named A, whom you, B, proceed to pétition, in exactly the same sense as a boy might ask his father for pocket-mcney. The second method involves a little more subtlety, inasmuch as the magician endeavours to harmonize himself with the nature of the god, and to a certain extent…
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1944 · PDF PAGE 105
The Book of Thoth
…is path. Here is a weird, deceptive life. The fiery sense is baulked. The moon has no air. The knight upon this quest has to rely on the three lower senses: touch, taste and smell.1 Such light as there may be is deadlier than dark‐ ness, and the silence is wounded by the howling of wild beasts. To what god shall we appeal for aid? It is Anubis, the watcher in the twilight, the god that stands upon the threshold, the jackal god of Khem, who stands in double form between the Ways. At his feet, on watch, wait the jackals themselves, to devour the …
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1944 · PDF PAGE 212
The Book of Thoth
… from Kether, the supreme, descends directly upon him, though the Path of Gimel, the High Priestess, the triune light of Initiation. The Three‐ in‐One, the Secret Mother in her polymorphous plenitude; these, these alone, hail him thrice blessed of the Supernals! The card represents the Sword of the Magus (see Book 4, Part II) crowned with the twenty‐two rayed diadem of pure Light. The number refers to the Atu; also 22=2x11, the Magical manifestation of Chokmah, Wisdom, the Logos. Upon the blade, accordingly, is in‐ scribed the Word of the Law, …
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1954 · PDF PAGE 49
Magick Without Tears
…eodor Reuss possessed a certain number of documents which demonstrated the validity of his claim according to him; but I only saw two or three of them, and they were not of very great importance. Unfortunately he died shortly after the last War, and he had got out of touch with some of the other Grand Masters. The documents did not come to me as they should have done; they were seized by his wife who had an idea that she could sell them for a fantastic price; and we did not feel inclined to meet her views. I don't think the matter is of very gr…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 192
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
…mory of man, and caused the stoves in the city to be sold out in the first forty-eight hours. Then I was once at Wastdale Head for forty-three days when it rained quite continuously except on one morning and one afternoon. On the other hand, during the nine days I was at Akyab it once stopped raining for nearly twenty minutes. I ought to have taken the exact time: but I thought the end of the world had come, so that it never occurred to me to look at my watch till it began again. I had been altogether sixty-eight days on the glacier, two days l…
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1922 · PDF PAGE 222
Diary of a Drug Fiend
… Maisie, ‘‘she’s rather a dear. She’s a queer girl, one of the queerest ever. Swiss or something, I fancy. He’s trained her for the last three years. He met her, I don’t know how, and asked her to pose for him. She told me once how startled she was at the reason he gave. ‘Did you write that psalm,’ he asked her, ‘*’ I can tell all my bones, they look and stare upon me?’”’’ You know the girl hasn’t got an ounce of flesh on her body. She’s perfectly healthy ; she’s just a freak of nature. And while he sketched her he asked her to suggest a title …
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1922 · PDF PAGE 105
Diary of a Drug Fiend
…usiness: I’d be back in an hour and we could do our shopping. We took a big sniff of snow and kissed good-bye as if I were starting on a three years’ expedition to the South Pole. Then I caught up my hat, gloves, and cane, and found my young man at the door. The drink and the air of Paris had given him a sense of his own dignity. Instead of waiting humbly for me to get into the car, he was sitting there already; and though his greeting was still solemnly deferential, there was a little more of the ambassador about it. He had repressed the origi…
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1922 · PDF PAGE 266
Diary of a Drug Fiend
252 The Diary of a Drug Fiend We are playing a. game of chess in which nobody can see more than two or three squares at once, and so it has become impossible to form a coherent plan. King Lamus is trying to train a number of selected people to act as a sort of brain for the world in its present state of cerebral collapse. He is teaching them to co-ordinate the facts in a higher synthesis. The suggestion is that of his old teacher, Prof. Henry Mauds- ley, with whom he studied insanity. Herbert Spencer, too, had a similar idea. But King Lamus is …
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1996 · PDF PAGE 40
The Law is for All
…The word of the Law is OeXrjpia. 40. Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 41. The word of Sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell. Commentary: The first paragraph is a general statement or definition of S…
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1909 · PDF PAGE 282
The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)
…eoricus, as well as the tablet of the seven planes of the Tree of Life, answering to the seven planets, the Supernal Eden containing the three Supernal Sephiroth... . And in the garden were the Tree of Life, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, which latter is from Malkuth .. . and a river Nahar went forth out of Eden, namely, from the Supernal Triad, to water the garden—the rest of the Sephiroth, And from thence it was divided into four heads, in Daath. . . . The first head is Pison, which flows into Geburah... . The second head is …
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1909 · PDF PAGE 282
The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)
…eoricus, as well as the tablet of the seven planes of the Tree of Life, answering to the seven planets, the Supernal Eden containing the three Supernal Sephiroth... . And in the garden were the Tree of Life, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, which latter is from Malkuth .. . and a river Nahar went forth out of Eden, namely, from the Supernal Triad, to water the garden—the rest of the Sephiroth, And from thence it was divided into four heads, in Daath. . . . The first head is Pison, which flows into Geburah... . The second head is …
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1922 · PDF PAGE 97
Diary of a Drug Fiend
… She could wear any amount of the stuff and carry it off superbly. I had bought her a pair of ear-rings in Cartier’s yesterday afternoon—three diamonds in a string, the pendant being a wonderful pear-shaped blue-white, and as she ate, and drank, and talked, they waggled behind the angle of her jaw in the most deliciously fascinating way, and it didn’t vulgarise her at all. : I realised that, as a married man, it was my duty to buy her that string of pearls with the big black pearl as a pendant, and there was that cabochon emerald ring! How madl…
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1922 · PDF PAGE 101
Diary of a Drug Fiend
… getting a trifle like that, but as I told Feccles, it would mean my selling out some beastly stock or something which might take two or three days. There was no time to lose; because the option would lapse if it weren’t taken up within the week, and it was now Wednesday. However, Feccles helped me to draft a wire to Wolfe to explain the urgency, and Feccles was to call on Saturday at nine o'clock with the papers. Meanwhile, of course, he wouldn’t let me down, but D.D.F. G
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