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Page 64 of 731907 · PDF PAGE 102
…seas; And birds unheard-of darken air With royal wings, like argosies Sailing beneath magnific promontories ! Let Caliphs mete fantastic law And ebon eunuchs swing the sword So swift, so curved,—-let voiceless awe Sit on the palace dome, to draw Some god’s destruction on its smiling lord ! May many a maiden comely clad Revolve in convoluted curls, Till from each pliant pose I had (By virtue of her wondrous whirls) The illusion of a thousand dancing-girls ! Let harlots robed in gold and green Sit slowly waving ivory plumes And wings of palm ; th…
1939 · PDF PAGE 64
YOGA FOR YELLOWBELLIES. FOURTH LECTURE. Salutation to the Sons of the Morning! Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 1. I should like to begin this evening by recapitulating very briefly what has been said in the previous three lectures, and this would be easier if I had not completely forgotten everything I said. But there is a sort of faint glimmering to the effect that the general subject of the series was the mental exercises of the Yogi; and the really remarkable feature was that I found it impossible to discuss them at all thor…
1930 · PDF PAGE 53
… but one document in the world which présents evidence that fui]y satisfies these conditions. This is LIBER AL vel LEGIS the Book of the Law of this New Aeon of Horus, the Crowned and Conquering Child, the Aeon whose Logos is The Beast 666, whose name in the Outer Order was Frater Perdurabo. The nature of the proof of the separate existence of praeter- human Intelligence, independent of bodily form, is extremely complicated. Its main divisions may be briefly enumerated. He telephoned a friend named Feilding at the latter’s house, and was answer…
1904 · PDF PAGE 51
…n defiance of it and its prejudices. Having taken this important step, let us slew round the rest of the play to fit it. If it fits, the law of probability comes to our aid ; every coincidence multiplies the chance of our correctness in 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. Edmund…
1910 · PDF PAGE 207
… rules of Yama and Niyama, that is absolute Chastity in body and mind amongst their pupils.* Now P. proved that the strict letter of the law of Chastity had no more to do with the ultimate success of attainment than refusing to work on a Sabbath had to do with a free pass to the Celestial regions, unless every act of chastity was computed and performed in a magical manner, each act be- coming as it were a link in one great chain, a formula in one great operation, an operation not leading to Chastity, the symbol, but beyond Chastity to the essen…
1910 · PDF PAGE 207
… rules of Yama and Niyama, that is absolute Chastity in body and mind amongst their pupils.* Now P. proved that the strict letter of the law of Chastity had no more to do with the ultimate success of attainment than refusing to work on a Sabbath had to do with a free pass to the Celestial regions, unless every act of chastity was computed and performed in a magical manner, each act be- coming as it were a link in one great chain, a formula in one great operation, an operation not leading to Chastity, the symbol, but beyond Chastity to the essen…
1996 · PDF PAGE 29
30 The Law is for All So we see him fully armed as Bacchus Diphues, male and female in one, bearing the Thyrsus-rod, and a cluster of grapes or a wineskin, while a tiger leaps up by his side. This form is sug gested in the Tarot card, where “The Fool” is shown with a long wand and carrying a sack; his coat is motley. Tigers and croco diles follow him, thus linking this image with that of Harpocrates. Almost identical symbols are those of the secret God of the Templars, the bisexual Baphomet, and of Zeus Arrhenothelus, equally bisexual, the Fa…
1996 · PDF PAGE 74
…we refuse to regard it in any other light than this: it is the organ of the Self. It must never theless be ordered according to its own laws; those of the mental or moral Self do not apply to it. We love; that is, we will to unite: then the one must study the other, divine every butterfly thought as it flits, and offer the flower it most fancies. The vocabulary of Love is small, and its terms are hackneyed; to seek new words and phrases is to be affected, stilted. It chills. But the language of the body is never exhausted; one may talk for an …
1906 · PDF PAGE 71
…ason-tide of spring She rose, being the spring: in utter peace She was with me and in me: thus I saw Ours was not love, but destiny, and law. REINCARNATION. IN Life what hope is always unto men? Stories of Arthur that shall come again To cleanse the Earth of her eternal stain, Elias, Charlemagne, Christ. What matter then ? 1 At Eryx, in Sicily, was a famous temple of Venus, E
1939 · PDF PAGE 21
YOGA FOR YAHOOS THIRD LECTURE. NIYAMA. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 1. The subject of my third lecture is Niyama. Niyama? H'm! The inadequacy of even the noblest attempts to translate these wretched Sanskrit words is now about to be delightfully demonstrated. The nearest I can get to the meaning of Niyama is 'virtue'! God help us all! This means virtue in the original etymological sense of the wordthe quality of manhood; that is, to all intents and purposes, the quality of godhead. But since we are translating Yama 'control…
1996 · PDF PAGE 71
72 The Law is for All I will here add one further pillar to my temple. It happens only too often that two people, absolutely fitted in every way to love each other, are totally debarred from expressing themselves by sheer ignorance of the technique of the act. What Nature declares as the climax of the Mass, the manifestation of God in the flesh, when the flesh is begotten, is so gross, clumsy and brutal that it disappoints and disgusts. They are horribly conscious that something is wrong. They do not know how to amend it. They are ashamed to di…
1996 · PDF PAGE 81
82 The Law is for All thought flashed into my mind that after all the bag was in one sense a part of myself. The two ideas came together with a snap, and I understood the machinery of a man’s delusion that he is a teapot. These two examples may give some idea to the reader of the light which mystical attainment throws upon the details of the working of the human mind. Further developments of this vision emphasized the iden tity between the Universe and the mind. The search for simi les deepened. I had a curious impression that the thing I was…
1929 · PDF PAGE 99
…”, so often used so stupidly and superficially by the ordinary apologist for Nature, and he will also perceive the true operation of the law of Karma. 2 Another notable injunction of the ancient Magick was that whatever appertained to the Work should be single. The Wand was to be eut with a single stroke of the knife. There must be no 1. It is, and the fact is still more important, utterly fatal and demora- lizing to acquire the habit of reliance on others. The Magician must know every detail of his work, and be able and willing to roll up his …
1929 · PDF PAGE 136
…rd Sacrifice, as commonly understaad, rests upon an error and superstition, and is unscientific, besides being metaphysically false. The law of Thelema has totally changed the Point of View as to this matter. Unless you hâve thoroughly assimilated the Formula of Horus, it is absolutely unsafe to meddle with this type of Magick. Let the young Magician reflect upon the Conservation of Matter and of Energy. 2. There is a traditional saying that whenever an Adept seems to hâve made a straightforward, compréhensible statement, then is it most certai…
1929 · PDF PAGE 213
…ink it's about commercial expansion; but I who made it know that it is the baptism of blood of the New Aeon. How could we promulgate the Law of Liberty in a world where Freedom has been strangled by industrialism? Men have become such slaves that they submit to laws which would have made a revolution in any other country since the world began; they have registration cards harder to bear than iron fetters; they allow their tyrants to bar them from every pleasure that even their poverty allows them. There is only one way to turn the counter- jump…
1939 · PDF PAGE 39
YOGA FOR YELLOWBELLIES. FIRST LECTURE. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Let us begin this evening by going briefly over the ground covered by my first four lectures. I told you that Yoga meant union, and that this union was the cause of all phenomena. Consciousness results from the conjunction of a mysterious stimulus with a mysterious sensorium. The kind of Yoga which is the subject of these remarks is merely an expansion of this, the union of self-consciousness with the universe. We spoke of the eight limbs of Yoga, and dealt …
1944 · PDF PAGE 34
…o, or halving eight. It is a thing in itself, with all sorts of moral, sensible, and intellectual qualities. It symbolises such ideas as Law, Restraint, Power, Protection and Stability. In the Qabalistic system the original idea is Zero,1 which appears under three forms, rather as (in Chinese philosophy) the Tao becomes manifested little by little through the Teh, or as (in the best of the Hindu systems) the god of Destruction and Annihilation, Shiva, be‐ comes manifested through the Infinite Energy, Sakti. The system begins therefore with Ain—…
1929 · PDF PAGE 120
…ra Phang has vanished from our gaze; he has probably gone to the Equator to correct the obliquity of the Ecliptic in the interest of the Law of Righteousness. I'm sorry; I believe in that man; I know he's got something that I haven't, and I want it. However, Simple Simon has been nice to me; only he won't talk Phenomena — says that, like a certain Pope, he has seen too many miracles to believe in them. Which is my own case, only he is referring to genuine ones. Hence difficulty in comprehension of his attitude. "I hope you're having a great tim…
1996 · PDF PAGE 170
…oy” idea; one ought to take a refreshing dip in the tao, no more. I think this must be brought forward as the Cardinal Point of Our Holy Law. Thus though Nuit cries “To me!”, that is balanced by the Formula of Hadit: ‘“Come unto me’ is a foolish word; for it is I that go.” Now the Semen is God (the going-one, as shewn by the ankh or Sandal-strap, which He carries) because he goes in at the Door, stays there for a specified period, and comes out 1:62, 65 11:7
1929 · PDF PAGE 189
…he river; rats, damp, and stale alcohol gave it an atmosphere happily peculiar [266] to such abodes. There is no place in the world more law-abiding than a house of ill- fame, with the light of police supervision constantly upon it; and the astuteness of the sorcerer in choosing this for his place of evocation was rewarded by complete freedom from disturbance or suspicion. Any one could enter at any hour of day or night, with every precaution of secrecy, without drawing more than a laugh from the police on guard. The entrance to the sorcerer's …