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Page 67 of 921905 · PDF PAGE 247
…in With new electric fervour? Will she be My equal? She is mortal and a child. Her arms are frail and white. Her lily cheeks Could never take thy kiss. shock, Repel. I scorn to say her love were less Than mine: I tell thee that she could not love Thee even at all as thou wouldst understand. Thy love would TANNHAUSER. So certain art thou? Let me go to her, Try, and come back ! VENUS. No doubt of that success ! A child is easy to degrade ! TANNHAUSER. Vile thing ! I will try otherwise—to raise myself: But if I fail, I will not drag her down ; I w…
1930 · PDF PAGE 47
…rity; yet courteous, gracious, patient, and sympathetic. 16) There are two opposite methods of exploring the Astral Plane. (a) . One may take some actual object in Nature, and analyse it by evoking its astral form, thus bringing it into knowledge and under control by applying the keys of the Qabalah and of Magick. (b) . One may proceed by invoking the required idea, and giving body to the same by attracting to it the corresponding éléments in Nature. 17) Every Magician possesses an Astral Universe peculiar to himself, just as no man’s expérienc…
1954 · PDF PAGE 48
… of your questions from that manuscript, but you cannot go on after that when it would become a discussion; as they say in the "You must take the witness's answer." 2. The Qabalah, both Greek and Hebrew, also very likely Arabic, was used by the author of The Book of the Law. I have explained above the proper use of the Qabalah. I cannot tell you how the early Rosicrucians used it, but I think one may assume that their methods were not dissimilar to our own. Incidentally, it is not very safe to talk about Rosicrucians, because their name has bec…
1930 · PDF PAGE 100
…s in mortal love arises a distaste for food, or a pleasure in things naturally painful, this perversion should be endured and allowed to take its course. Yet not to the interférence with natural bodily health, whereby the instrument of the soûl might be impaired. And concerning sacrifices for love’s sake, they are natural to this Method, and right. But concerning voluntary privations and tortures, without use save as against the devotee, they are generally not natural to healthy natures, and wrong. For they are selfish. To scourge one’s self se…
1954 · PDF PAGE 41
…less trimmings stripped from your thinking apparatus. For instance, I don't think you know the first principles of logic. You apparently take up a more or less Christian attitude, but at the same time you like very much the idea of Karma. You cannot have both. The question about money does not arise. This old and very good rule (which I have always kept) was really pertinent to the time when there were actual secrets. But I have published openly all the secrets. All I can do is to train you in a perfectly exoteric way. My suggestion about the w…
1996 · PDF PAGE 70
…ion, social and political cliquishness, even family exclusiveness. Out of the millions of humanity the average person is lucky if he can take his pick of a couple of score of partners.
1954 · PDF PAGE 223
…e may have been in Soror Virakam's observation. About invisibility, now? Of this I have so much experience that the merest outline could take us far beyond the limits of a letter. In Mexico D.F., I worked at acquiring the power by means of ritual. I worked desperately hard. I got to the point where my image in a pier-glass flickered, rather like the very earliest films did. Possibly more work, after more skill had come to me, might have done the whole trick. But I did not persist when I found out how to do it by fascination. (Here we are at las…
1929 · PDF PAGE 87
…The date of Eliphas Levi’s death was about six months previous to that of Aleister Crowley s birth. The reincarnating ego is supposed to take possession of the foetus at about this stage of development. i. This latter is a very valuable practice to perforai. See Liber HHH; also read up the Buddhist méditations on the Ten Impurities. — 51 —
1954 · PDF PAGE 358
…s Their messenger, could not use anyone else until she had become irrevocably disqualified by insanity . Not till now could her place be taken by another ; and that Virakam should possess a duplicate of her Magical Robe seemed a strong argument that she had been consecrated by Them to take the place of her unhappy predecessor . She was very unsatisfactory as a clairvoyant; she resented these precautions. She was a quick-tempered and impulsive woman, always eager to act with reckless enthusiasm. My cold scepticism no doubt prevented her from doi…
1996 · PDF PAGE 161
…. We are only fools if we interfere. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law, biologically as well as in every other way. Let us take an example. I am an antivaccinationist in a sense which every other antivaccinationist would repudiate. I admit that vaccination protects from smallpox. But I should like every body to have smallpox. The weak would die; the strong might have pitted faces; but the race would become immune to the disease in a few generations. On somewhat similar lines, I would advocate, with Samuel Butler, the destruction …
1922 · PDF PAGE 336
… ‘ This is all kinds of a place for driving a fellow to drink. And that’s why the Big Lion insists on our going through the mill. But it takes us a very short time to realise that there is not enough heroin in the world to tide us over a single day in such a ghastly place, so we quit.” Here was another of Basil’s paradoxes in full working order. But they came quite differently from the lips of a steady-going serious-minded person of this kind. The personality of the Big Lion is his greatest asset in one way, but in another it handicaps him frig…
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
… He cannot hope to influence his environment efficiently. (Illustration: When Civil War rages in a nation, it is in no condition to undertake the invasion of other countries. A man with cancei employs his nourishment alike to his own use and to that of the enemy which is part of himself. He soon fails to resist the pressure of his environment. In practical life, a man who is doing what his conscience tells him to be wrong will do it verv clumsily. Atfirst!) (9) A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of fhe Universe to assist him. (Ill…
1929 · PDF PAGE 80
…pie, that the farther from original equality are the two sides of the équation, the more difficult is the operation to perform. Thus, to take the case of the personal operation symbolized by the grades, it is harder to become a Néophyte, i° = io°, than to pass from that grade to Zelator, 2° = 90. Initiation is, therefore, progressively easier, in a certain sense, after the first step is taken. But (especially after the passing of Tiphareth) the distance between grade and grade increases as it were by a geometrical progression with an enormously…
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
…ery of the rays which we now use for wireless telegraphy was stérile until reflected through the minds and wills of the people who could take his truth, and transmit it to the world of action bv means of mechanical and économie *» instruments.) (22) Every individual is essentially sufficient to himself. But he is unsatisfactory to himself until he has established himself in his right relation with the Universe. (Illustration: A microscope, however perfect, is useless in the i. It is no objection that the hypocrite is himself part of Nature. He …
1939 · PDF PAGE 28
…aesar the things which are Caesar's before rendering to God the things which are God's. Woe to that seven months' abortion who thinks to take advantage of the accidents of birth, and, mocking the call of duty, sneaks off to stare at a blank wall in China! Yama and Niyama are only the more critical stages of Yoga because they cannot be translated in terms of a schoolboy curriculum. Nor can schoolboy tricks adequately excuse the aspirant from the duties of manhood. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Rejoice, true men, that this is t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 50
…CfION 17 Your sub-questions a, b, and c are really answered by the above. All the terms you use are very indefinite . I hope it will not take too long to get you out of the way of thinking in these terms. For instance , the word "initiation" includes the whole process, and how to distinguish between it and enlightenment I cannot tell you . "Probation," moreover , if it means "Proving," continues throughout the entire process. Nothing is worse for the student than to indulge in these mild speculations about ambiguous terms. 5. You can, if you li…
1954 · PDF PAGE 359
…ld not visit us any more. He gave us his final instructions. We were to go to Rome, though he refused to name the exact spot. We were to take a villa and there write Book 4. I asked him how we might recognize the right Villa. I forget what answer he gave through her, but for the first time he flashed a message directly into my own consciousness. "You will recognize it beyond the possibility of doubt or error ," he told me. With this a picture came into my mind of a hillside on which were a house and garden marked by two tall Persian Nuts. The n…
1929 · PDF PAGE 27
… in Christianity by doing this thing that had never yet been done. This idea, by the way, is very characteristic. I am totally unable to take any interest in doing anything which has been done before. But tell me of an alleged impossibility; and health, wealth, life itself are nothing. I am out to do it. The apparent discrepancy in the gospel narrative aroused no doubt in my mind as to the literal truth of either of the texts. Indeed, my falling away from grace was not occasioned by any intellectual qualms; I accepted the theology of the Plymou…
1905 · PDF PAGE 148
… Malignant, terrible—nay, pitiable, Thou poer fool stricken with senility, How spurred to passion? Yet behold thy god, Horus, lest anger take benignancy From his left hand and smite thee with his strength. Thou hearest? Nay, thou pitiful old man, For I have loved thee. Yet my godhead must Get worship. Anger not the god, but stoop, My faithful priest, and worship at my feet. AMENHATED, Tam most miserable. But truth must leap In this tremendous moment from my lips, Its long-shut barrier. For I pity thee With my old heart’s whole pity. Thou art yo…
1922 · PDF PAGE 187
…sides, it might break the spell of our happi- ness. We're both a little afraid about that. It happened once before, and we don’t want to take any chances. It wants a lot of clever steering to keep the course. For instance, we took too much one night and made ourselves sick. It took three or four hours to get back, and that was absolute hell. My heart is a little fretful at times. It’s certainly great, Peter Pan having medical knowledge. He went out and got some strychnine and put me right. Champagne helps H. quite a lot. Youmustn’t drink it off…