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Page 64 of 841954 · PDF PAGE 490
…lanet-wide catastrophe, but were agreed on measures calculated to assure the survival of the Wisdom worth saving until the time, perhaps three hundred or six hundred years later, when a new current should revive the shattered thought of mankind. The Equinox. in a word, was to be a sort of Rosetta Stone. There is one other matter of incomparable importance: the wars which have begun the disintegration of the world have followed, each at an interval of nine months, the operative publications of The Book of the Law. This again seems to make it alm…
1907 · PDF PAGE 182
… lifted against me in vain. Thrice girded with brass, My lyre shall charm ye, Thrice bound with iron, My voice disarm ye, The gate is in three For I am the soul overshadowed of Pillars of gold, pain ! But I will pass (My heart as a lion, Hail to ye, wardens My lyre as a key !) Of Death’s grey gardens ! To the gates of old, O flowerless and vineless your bower- To the place of despair less vale ! And the walls of dread, But I must alone The halls of the doomed, To the wonderful throne. The homes of the dead, Let fall the vain spears, shadows! Th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 222
…you so far? Only one [312] bar between you and destruction — the love of your wife, whom you have murdered!" With that Cyril cried aloud three words in a strange tongue, and giving the other no chance to reply, marched rapidly away with his friend. Douglas could not have recovered, in any case. He was as one stunned. How did this boy know of the death of his wife? Well, that might be understood; but how did he know his most secret fear, the fact that since the crime his demons had lost their courage? He shook the feeling off, and turned again t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 14
…ough as though it were a novel, or an otherwise conventional textbook. Letters (divided here into chapters) 6, 7 and 8 are entitled "The Three Schools of Magick." They were written to expatiate upon a short quotation from Liber 418: The Vision and the Voice, a series of transcendental experiences based upon the Enochian system of Magick. Crowley states that they were written by a Mr. Gerard Aumont, and that he is quoting from that long essay. I met Gerard Aumont late in 1928. He was at that time a French journalist who lived and worked in Tunis…
1954 · PDF PAGE 108
THREE SCHOOLS OF MAGICK (2) 75 positive benediction. The Tantric is not obsessed by the will-to-die. It is a difficult business, no doubt, to get any fun out of existence ; but at least it is not impossible. In other words, he implicitly denies the fundamental proposition that existence is sorrow, and he formulates the essential postulate of the White School of Magick, that means exist by which the universal sorrow (apparent indeed to all ordinary observation) may be unmasked, even as at the initiatory rite of Isis in the ancient days of Khem. …
1922 · PDF PAGE 92
…r. We had found out how to work the machine, and there was no reason in the world why we shouldn’t fly from here to Kalamazoo. So I took three quite small sniffs at reasonable intervals, and I was on the job once more. I chased Lou around the suite; and I dare say we did upset a good deal of the furniture, but that doesn’t matter, for we haven't got to pick it up. The important thing was that I caught Lou; and by-and-by we found ourselves completely out of breath ; and then, confound it, just when I wanted a quiet pipe before lunch, the telepho…
1954 · PDF PAGE 121
…int of view, the greatest value of this formula is that it affords, for the first time in history, a basis of reconciliation between the three great Schools of Magick. It will tend to appease the eternal conflict by understanding that each type of thought shall go on its own way, develop its own proper qualities without seeking to interfere with other formulae, however (superficially) opposed to its own. What is true for every School is equally true for every individual. Success in life, on the basis of the Law of Thelema, implies severe self-d…
1910 · PDF PAGE 120
…and brood as it were upon the very centre or soul of the object held by the will, it becomes known as Samadhi or Superconsciousness. The three last stages Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi, which are so intimately associated, are classed under the one name of Samydma.* Thus meditation should rise from the object to the object- less. Firstly the external cause of sensations should be per- ceived, then their internal motions, and lastly the reaction of the mind. By thus doing will the Yogi control the waves of the mind, and the waters of the great Ocea…
1910 · PDF PAGE 120
…and brood as it were upon the very centre or soul of the object held by the will, it becomes known as Samadhi or Superconsciousness. The three last stages Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi, which are so intimately associated, are classed under the one name of Samydma.* Thus meditation should rise from the object to the object- less. Firstly the external cause of sensations should be per- ceived, then their internal motions, and lastly the reaction of the mind. By thus doing will the Yogi control the waves of the mind, and the waters of the great Ocea…
1922 · PDF PAGE 80
…apparently listening to what Feccles was saying; but she made no remark, and preserved a total detachment. The whole scene had not taken three minutes. We reached the Petit Savoyard and took our seats. The patron appeared to know our friends very well. He welcomed them with even more than the usual French fussiness. We sat down by the window. The restaurant overhangs the steep slopes of the Montmartre like an eyrie. We ordered supper, Feccles with bright intelligence, the rest of us with utter listless- ness. I looked at Lou across the table. I…
1929 · PDF PAGE 117
…rent forms, each God having his spécial dance. One of the easiest and most effective dances is the ordinary waltz-step combined with the three signs of L.V.X. It is much easier to attain ecstasy in this way than is generally supposed. The essence of the process consists in the struggle of the Will against giddiness; but this struggle must be prolonged and severe, and upon the degree of this the quality and intensity of ecstasy atained may dépend. With practice, giddiness is altogether conquered; exhaustion then takes its place as the enemy of W…
1907 · PDF PAGE 26
…ANGELA, LADY BAIRD, HORTENSE, er maid, MOLLY TYSON, daughter of Tyson, Aged (Plymouth) Sisters, &c,, &c. The action of the play occupies three years. DEDICATIO MINIMA. My dear Christ, A person, purporting to be a friend and disciple of yours, and calling himself John, reports you to have wept. Hts testimony is now considered by the best authorities to be of avery doubtful order. But if you did weep, this (vide infra) is why. Or if not, surely tt would have made you weep, had it met your eye. Excuse the rhyme! ~ You ask me (on ait) to believe yo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 172
… my head, principally at the spot concentrated on. August 28th. I hereby formulate unto myself a Vow of Silence for a period of at least three days, My time to be occupied by Nadi-Yama and A’sana, also by meditations of the Buddha and “Aum Mani Padme Hum.” The vow to begin from Midnight. This vow I took ceremonially. 29th. 11.40-12.7 Suddhi.* Very painful and jerky, especially Rechaka. pm. am. A’sana much pain on moving. 7:40-7.55 Suddhi. Result was better, but goes off whilst meditating am am. on“ Aum Mani Padme Hum.” 10.3-10-50 Began Mental M…
1910 · PDF PAGE 172
… my head, principally at the spot concentrated on. August 28th. I hereby formulate unto myself a Vow of Silence for a period of at least three days, My time to be occupied by Nadi-Yama and A’sana, also by meditations of the Buddha and “Aum Mani Padme Hum.” The vow to begin from Midnight. This vow I took ceremonially. 29th. 11.40-12.7 Suddhi.* Very painful and jerky, especially Rechaka. pm. am. A’sana much pain on moving. 7:40-7.55 Suddhi. Result was better, but goes off whilst meditating am am. on“ Aum Mani Padme Hum.” 10.3-10-50 Began Mental M…
1996 · PDF PAGE 59
…xcess of the substance that the reproduction of the human race need not slacken, though the proportion of men to women were no more than three to the thousand. The problem of efficiency consequently appears practically insoluble. We are now struck with the fact that Nuit commands us to exercise the utmost freedom in our choice of the method of utiliz ing the services of this our first, our finest and our fieriest talis man; the license appears at first sight unconditioned in the most express and explicit terms that it is possible to employ. T…
1910 · PDF PAGE 113
…constant practice and by indifference.” * The Kundalini whilst it is yet coiled up in the Mdladhara is said to be in the MahakAsa, or in three dimensional space; when it enters the Sushumna it enters the Chittakdsa or mental Space, in which supersensuous objects are perceived. But, when perception has become objectless, and the soul shines by means of its own nature, it is said to have entered the Chidakasa or Knowledge space, and when the Kundalini enters this space it arrives at the end of its journey and passes into the last Chakkra the Saha…
1910 · PDF PAGE 113
…constant practice and by indifference.” * The Kundalini whilst it is yet coiled up in the Mdladhara is said to be in the MahakAsa, or in three dimensional space; when it enters the Sushumna it enters the Chittakdsa or mental Space, in which supersensuous objects are perceived. But, when perception has become objectless, and the soul shines by means of its own nature, it is said to have entered the Chidakasa or Knowledge space, and when the Kundalini enters this space it arrives at the end of its journey and passes into the last Chakkra the Saha…
1954 · PDF PAGE 48
…etting loose the most devastating floods of nonsense. What is really known about the original Rosicrucians is practially confined to the three documents which they issued. The eighteenth century Rosicrucians may, or may not, have 'been
1996 · PDF PAGE 200
…said: the ordeals I write not: the rituals shall be half known and half concealed: the Law is for all. 35. This that thou writest is the threefold book of Law. 36. My scribe Ankh-af-na-khonsu, the priest of the princes, shall not in one letter change this book; but lest there be folly, he shall comment thereupon by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor-Khu-it. 37. Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these he shall learn and teach. 38. He must teach; but he may make severe the ordeals. 39. The wo…
1938 · PDF PAGE 6
…g warns me that not all were sleeping; that there were watchers like myself, men more intent than I. I hear a murmur on my left. I catch three words: The Zero Hour. They call me back to myself: I know now that I am one of a great armyan army baffled and broken, but yet in being. Sharp comes a whisper of swift absolute authority: Zero is Two. Somehow I am awarelike a man stricken of lightning, in the same moment slain and initiatedthat the strange phrase declares a final Mystery of Truth, the word of the Plan of Battle, the Key of the Campa…