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Page 64 of 921954 · PDF PAGE 361
328 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS were Persian Nuts! The stupid coincidence angered me, and yet some irresistible instinct compelled me to take out my note book and pencil and jot down the name written over the gate- Villa Caldarazzo . Idly I added up the letters. Their sum struck me like a bullet in my brain. It was 418, the number of the Magical Formula of the Aeon, a numerica hieroglyph of the Great Work. Ab-ul-Diz had made no mistake. My recognition of the right place was not to depend on a mere matter of trees, which might be found almost anywhere.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 54
… too well that the university curriculum {108} afforded no opportunities. He knew, too, that my school knowledge was amply sufficient to take me through the university examinations without my doing any work for them. In fact, during my three years I only did one day's work for the university, and that consisted in employing a boy to read through a translation of a Greek play while I followed it in the text. I got either a first or second class in every subject. One of the dons at Pembroke, a clergyman named Heriz Smith, ran a sort of secret cul…
1922 · PDF PAGE 85
…ilosopher of any kind; but it was quite evident to the most ordinary common sense that her position was unassailable if any one chose to take it. As G. K. Chesterton says, ‘ You cannot argue with the choice of the soul.” It has often been argued, in fact, that mankind lost the happiness characteristic of his fellow-animals when he acquired self-consciousness. This is in fact the meaning of the legend of “The Fall.” We have become as gods, knowing good and evil, and the D.D.F. F
1922 · PDF PAGE 338
…rant than yourself; you get into the beastly thing and press the proper button, and if it goes it’s an automobile, and you’ve made no mistake. Didn’t you read what it says in the Book of the Law: “Success is your proof?’’ And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won’t find you have any time to get bored.’ ” She threw away her cigarette after lighting another from the butt. She seemed to be brooding, as if much deeper thoughts were passing through her mind than even those to which she was gi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 7
ure that the governor might (and did) indeed restrict, but could not take away. I refer to hopethe hope of escape. Yes, sir, that spark (alone of all its ancient fires) burnt in this breastand in that of my fellow- convicts. And in this I did not look so much to myself as to another. I am not endowed with any great intellect, he modestly pursued, my grandmother was pure Eng- lish, a Higginbotham, one of the Warwickshire Hig- ginbothams (what has that to do with his stupid- ity? thought Bevan) and the majority of my compan- ions were men n…
1954 · PDF PAGE 268
…e matter by an analogy. Consider electricity. It would be absurd to say that electricity is any of the phenomena by which we know it. We take refuge in the petitio principii of saying that electricity is that form of energy which is the principal cause of such and such phenomena. Suppose now that we eliminate this idea as
1954 · PDF PAGE 371
… have and all that you are" to the service of the Order. The advantage of so doing is that the Grand Auditor of the City of the Pyramids takes immediate notice. He brings your account (Karma) up to date, and starts you off with a Cash Ledger. That is, he arranges for your errors to be paid for on the spot, instead of the customary credit system that goes on for centuries. The advantage of this is that you know what you are being punished for, and learn your lesson at once. This process is, naturally , very painful at times; for one thing, you c…
1954 · PDF PAGE 425
392 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS is nearly always a mistake to try to do things entirely off one's own bat . It is much simpler to look for an existing force, in good working order , that is doing the sort of stuff that you need, and take from it, or control in it, just that bit of it that you happen to require . You can, theoretically , walk from Cadiz to Vladivostock; but unless there be some special reason, it will save time and waste of energy to make use of a fraction of the machine-power that happens to be moving in that direction . This is parti…
1909 · PDF PAGE 349
…lander for the loss of his means of livelihood. This story is the only one out of the scores told to me in which the seal may be said to take the offensive, and I cannot trace it to any foreign source. Mr. Walter Traill Dennison in his “ Orcadian Sketches” tells us that the seal held a far higher place among the North- men than any of the lower animals. He had a mysterious connection with the human race, and had the power of assum- ing the human form and faculties, and every true descendant of the Vikings looks upon the seal as a kind of second…
1909 · PDF PAGE 349
…lander for the loss of his means of livelihood. This story is the only one out of the scores told to me in which the seal may be said to take the offensive, and I cannot trace it to any foreign source. Mr. Walter Traill Dennison in his “ Orcadian Sketches” tells us that the seal held a far higher place among the North- men than any of the lower animals. He had a mysterious connection with the human race, and had the power of assum- ing the human form and faculties, and every true descendant of the Vikings looks upon the seal as a kind of second…
1922 · PDF PAGE 357
…e a voice said in my ear :— “We may as well walk over to the refectory for lunch. You haven’t answered my question about how you came to take up flying.” “When you asked me, I wasn’t at all clear in my D.D.F. Zz
1938 · PDF PAGE 21
…ood send forth one of their fellows every two thousand years, bringing one Word to serve Mankind as a new Formula of Magick, that it may take one further step on the long road that leadeth to Perfection. Also, twice in that period, that is, at intervals of a little more than three, and a little less than seven, centuries, they send a lesser prophet to prepare the Way of the next Word, and to maintain or to restore the virtue of the Word then current. And on the unfurled portion of the chart I read the names of certain of these Brethren, and the…
1954 · PDF PAGE 333
…his question and the method of solution, let him study the reasoning of the anatomist who reconstructed an animal from a single bone. To take a simple example: Suppose, having lived all my life among savages, a ship is cast upon the shore and wrecked. Undamaged among the cargo is a "Victoria." What is its use? The wheels speak of roads, their slimness of smooth roads, the brake of hilly roads. The shafts show that it was meant to be drawn by an animal, their height and length suggest an animal of the size of a horse. That the carriage is open s…
1996 · PDF PAGE 33
…cious thought. 11. These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools. 12. Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love! Commentary: The whole doctrine of “love” is discussed in the Book Aleph (Wisdom or Folly) and should be studied therein. But note further how this verse agrees with the comment above, how every Star is to come forth from its veils, that it may revel with the whole World of Stars. This is again also a call to unite, or “love,” thus formulating the equation 1 + (-1) = 0,1 which is the gen…
1910 · PDF PAGE 183
…an early morning walk whilst he was in deep meditation: “Whilst in this meditation, a kind of inverted Manichaeism seemed to develop and take possession of it, Nature appearing as a great evil and fatal force, unwittingly developing within * This is a mere thought-form induced by misunderstanding the instruction of Maitrananda Swami as to observing the phenomenon. 167
1910 · PDF PAGE 183
…an early morning walk whilst he was in deep meditation: “Whilst in this meditation, a kind of inverted Manichaeism seemed to develop and take possession of it, Nature appearing as a great evil and fatal force, unwittingly developing within * This is a mere thought-form induced by misunderstanding the instruction of Maitrananda Swami as to observing the phenomenon. 167
1922 · PDF PAGE 125
…und the lumbering minds of the Huns with their slow pedantic processes. The only drawback to the evening was that we couldn't get him to take any snow. And you know what that means—you feel the man’s somehow out of the party. He excused himself by saying that the regulations forbade it. He agreed with us that it was
1922 · PDF PAGE 130
… as an act of precaution, and Feccles would arrive in due course, with disguises for me and Lou as Neapolitan fisherfolk, and we were to take nothing but a revolver apiece and a little small change, and we were to slip off the terrace of the hotel after dark without any one seeing, and there would be a motor-boat across to Sorrento; and there would be an automobile, so we could get into Naples at about
1954 · PDF PAGE 379
…othing 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, who had been worrying him to settle . He wasn't nasty about it; he really needed the money for his farmer, a worthy man who wanted to build some new outhouses, and the builder couldn't give any credit because he was being pressed by the man who supplied his materials, a man in great tr…
1996 · PDF PAGE 84
…f wine, or beer, or whatever their natural drink may be, and they replace it by morphia, cocaine, or something easier to conceal, and to take without detection.