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Page 66 of 841910 · PDF PAGE 208
…y good boy, if you ever intend becoming strong, the first thing you must do is to buy a pair of my four pound dumb-bells and my sixpenny book on physical culture.” * The Buddha (it is true) did not encourage bloodshed, in spite of his having died from an overfeed of pork, but as Mr. A. Crowley has said, many of his present-day followers are quite capable of killing their own brothers for five rupees. The Western theory that Buddhists are lambs and models of virtue is due to the fact that certain Western vices are not so congenial to the Asiatic…
1954 · PDF PAGE 535
…shall never sufficiently regret that I never had an opportunity of completing it, but I should like to emphasize that the obtaining of a book like Liber 418 is in itself so outstanding an achievement that it should serve as an encouragement to all Magicians. In the case of many worlds, in particular that of Abra Melin, of the greater and lesser Keys of Solomon, of Pietro di Abano, of Cornelius Agrippa, while we have perfectly adequate information as to the methods we have very meagre examples of the results, especially so far as refers to the t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 202
…! He, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the for tress, and the great mystery of the House of God. All these old letters of my Book are aright; but is not the Star. This also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. 58. I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice. 59. My incense is of resinous woods & gums; and there is no blood therein: because of my hair the trees of Eternity.
1954 · PDF PAGE 57
…er of becoming a pedant-"Deuce take all your pedants! say I." Don't "dry-rot at ease 'till the Judgment Day." No, I will NOT recommend a book. It should not hurt you too much to browse on condensed hay (or thistles) such as articles in Encyclopedias . Take Roget's Thesaurus or Smith's Smaller Classical Dictionary (and the like) to read yourself to sleep on. But don 't stultify yourself by taking up such study too seriously. You only make yourself ridiculous by trying to do at 50 what you ought to have done at IS. As you didn't-tant pis! You can…
1954 · PDF PAGE 503
… in Nature it leaps at one that Will and Intelligence are behind phenomena. Myoid friend and colleague Professor Buckmaster, who wrote a book on "Blood" which, he admitted, could not possibly be understood by more than six people, told me that the ingenuity of the structure of the human kidney "almost frightened" him. Yet in all Nature there is no trace whatever of any purpose such as human mentality can grasp. Again, apparent purpose often appears to be baffled . Take one example . Evolution, working through thousands of years to establish a m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 583
…r at New College, Oxford, one of the most brilliant students in the university. He became interested in the mathematical theorems of The Book of the Law, which he thought, no less than myself and O. P. V., capable of revolutionizing mathematical ideas and marking a new epoch in that science. We agreed that to demonstrate this would prove that the author of "The Book of the Law" was an intelligence beyond any hitherto known. He therefore decided to write a thesis on this subject for a fellowship of his college. Early in August, I returned to the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 348
…lification. God bless him! BOLESKINE. IN THE NAME OF THE MEssIAH. By E. A. GORDON. KEISERSHA. Tokyo. N.D. N.P. The only way to read this book is to run at it, shouting a slogan, and to stick a skean dhuibh in it somewhere and read the sentence it hits. Thus, perhaps, with perseverance and a lot of luck, one may find a coherent paragraph in the porridge of disconnected drivel, defaced with italics and capitals and inverted commas like a schoolgirl’s letter. And this is the coherent paragraph. “There are 3 apocryphal descriptions of the man Chris…
1910 · PDF PAGE 348
…lification. God bless him! BOLESKINE. IN THE NAME OF THE MEssIAH. By E. A. GORDON. KEISERSHA. Tokyo. N.D. N.P. The only way to read this book is to run at it, shouting a slogan, and to stick a skean dhuibh in it somewhere and read the sentence it hits. Thus, perhaps, with perseverance and a lot of luck, one may find a coherent paragraph in the porridge of disconnected drivel, defaced with italics and capitals and inverted commas like a schoolgirl’s letter. And this is the coherent paragraph. “There are 3 apocryphal descriptions of the man Chris…
1922 · PDF PAGE 238
…il, and that the angels are protecting me. He has: fired two or three times, and now I see him coming up from the lake. I must hide this book, and then I will go to the garage, and hide till the morning. Keletiel tells me that this is the critical night. I will get into the big car under the sheet. He won't look for me there, and the angels will be on the watch. It came out all right. I slept on the seat of the car. I had a dreadful nightmare, and woke sweating all over. Then I went to sleep again. I was with six angels who carried me through t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 65
… buys a telescope. See Liber Aleph, for a full explanation of the objects attained by the stratagem of incarnation; also Part IV of this Book 4. 2. If not, one is not working properly. 3. See J. G. Frazer, “The Golden Bough:” J. M. Robertson “Pagan Christs;” A. Crowley “Jésus,” etc., etc. 29 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 93
…d swoons. Such weakness is fatal alike to its enjoyment and its appréhension. “Be strong! then canst thou bear more rapture!” sayeth the Book of the Law.1 The Adept must therefore play the man, arousing himself to harden his soûl. To this end, I, the Beast, hâve made trial and proof of divers devices. Of these the most potent is to set the body to strive with I. Liber Al vel Legis, II, 61-68, where the details of the proper tech¬ nique are discussed. — 297 —
1922 · PDF PAGE 232
…ll? Peter says it’s the Germans. Part of a plot to perse- cute him for what he did in the war. But I don’t think so at all. It says in a book that you have to get rid of every one if you're going to start the spiritual life. I expect my spiritual guide put it into their minds to go, but I’m very doubtful about Cockie. He’s not ready for any high development. Men are always revoltingly gross. Think how they are even about love. I must say this for Cockie, he’s all right about that. The very flower of purity—a perfect knight ! Yet we went through…
1996 · PDF PAGE 120
… anything can exist unless it is in motion, secondly by denying that absolute motion possesses any meaning at all. At the time when this Book was written, official Science angrily scouted1 the “factor infinite & unknown”, and clung with pathetic faith to the idea that reason was the touchstone of truth. In a single sentence, Aiwaz anticipates the discoveries by which the greatest minds now incarnate have made the last ten years memorable. 1 [Rejected, scoffed at.] 33. Enough of Because! Be he damned for a dog! Commentary: This is the only way t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 94
…ear future to fight Paillard to a finish. I think Paillard is the best restaurant in Paris, don’t ou? d So out comes a little red pocket-book, and there is Mr. Feccles biting his pencil between his lips, and then cocking his head, first on one side and then on the other. “Confound Paris!” he said at last. “‘ A man gets
1954 · PDF PAGE 252
… that you might easily cause a great deal of misunderstanding, and work a rather stupid kind of mischief. The word does not occur in The Book of the Law. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1905 · PDF PAGE 182
… who is curious of new tendencies in contemporary poetry, and values the articulate expression of an individuality, should miss a little book of unusual quality called ‘ Songs of the Spirit,’ by Aleister Crowley (Kegan Paul and Co., 8vo, pp. 109, 3s. 6d.). We have read it with admiration for its intense spirituality, as well as for its technical superiorities, and with sympathy for its spontaneous reflection of certain moods—byways of poetry, no doubt, that Mr Crowley pursues almost without variation except in the movement of his rhythms, now s…
1919 · PDF PAGE 255
…verse, and Society is but the same on a larger scale. “Learn then that our Holy Order has but Three True Grades; as it is written in the Book of the Law: The Hermit, The Lover, and the Man of Earth. “It is but for convenience that these grades have been separated into Three Triads. “The Third Triad consists of the degrees from Minerval to Prince of Jerusa- lem. The Minerval degree is a Prologue to the First; the degrees subsequent to the Third but pendants to it. In this, the Man of Earth series, there are then but Three Degrees; and these Thre…
1910 · PDF PAGE 87
…Rosicrucian doctrine, by the way. * “ Hatha-Yoga Pradipika,” pp. 5,6. Note the similarity of these conditions to those laid down in “The Book of the Sacred Magic,” Also see “Gheranda Sanhita,” p. 33. 75
1910 · PDF PAGE 170
…d fixes itself upon the Nada to which it is first attracted until it becomes one with it.t Many other passages occur in this little text book on Yoga dealing with these mystical sounds some of them of a combined beauty and wisdom which is hard to rival. Such as: When the mind, divested of its flighty nature, is bound by the cords of the Nada, it attains a state of extreme concentration and remains quiet as a bird that has lost its wings, Nada is like a snare for catching a deer, z.2., the mind. It, like a hunter, kills the deer. The mind, havin…
1910 · PDF PAGE 87
…Rosicrucian doctrine, by the way. * “ Hatha-Yoga Pradipika,” pp. 5,6. Note the similarity of these conditions to those laid down in “The Book of the Sacred Magic,” Also see “Gheranda Sanhita,” p. 33. 75