FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION
Search the corpus.
Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.
1,672 matching pages
Page 69 of 841922 · PDF PAGE 377
…nd come out pure gold. But it won’t do for you to forget the privileges you have won by your ordeal. Do you remember what it says in the Book of the Law ? | ‘“*T am the Snake that giveth Knowledge and Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunken- ness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, and be drunk thereof | They shall not harm ye at all.’” ‘“ Yes,” I said slowly, ‘“ and I thought it a bit daring ; might tempt people to be foolhardy, don’t you think ? ” ‘Of course,”’ agreed Basil, ‘‘ …
1929 · PDF PAGE 116
…g to a dance : while performing it the magician will usually turn on his own axis, either in the same direction as 1. In Part II of this Book 4 it was assumed that the Magician went barefoot. This would imply his intention to make intimate contact with his Circle. But he may wear sandals, for the Ankh is a sandal-strap; it is borne by the Egyptian Gods to signify their power of Going, that is their eternal energy. By shape the Ankh (or Crux Ansata) suggests the formula by which this Going is efîected in actual practice. 2. i. e. 'In the same di…
1905 · PDF PAGE 183
…n spite of a few unaccountable lapses, we think extremely effective.” —Manchester Guardian. Jezebel, etc. Very few copies remain of this book, of which only a small private edition was issued. It is a masterpiece of antique printing, and the subject-matter is of unusual interest to all students of human nature in its moods of darker hue. A few of the poems have never been reprinted. 21 s. during 1904, afterwards 42s., if any remain.
1929 · PDF PAGE 50
…per interprétation in which Pentheus is himself “The Dying God”. See my “Good Hunting!” and Dr. J. G. Frazer’s “Golden Bough 2. See “The Book of Lies,” Liber 333, for se vend sermons to this effect. Caps. A, Af H, LE, II, IH, KA, KH, in particular. The réin¬ carnation of the Khu or magical Self is another matter entirely, too abstruse to discuss in this elementary manual. 14
1954 · PDF PAGE 36
… an answer to the question: "How did I come to be in this place at this time, engaged in this particular work?" As you will see from the book, this will start you on the discovery of who you really
1954 · PDF PAGE 83
…! However, I do suggest it. After all, it's simple enough. Every word you come across, add it up, stick it down against that number in a book kept for the purpose. That may seem tedious and silly; why should you do all over again the work that I have already done for you? Reason: simple. Doing it will teach you Qabalah as nothing else could. Besides, you won't be all cluttered up with words that mean nothing to you; and if it should happen that you want a word to explain some particular number, you can look it up in my Sepher Sephiroth. By this…
1930 · PDF PAGE 47
…ension of his country, and shows him how best he may travel afield, the advice as to Sandals and Staff that make surer his feet, and the Book that tells him how, splitting open his rocks with an Hammer, he may be master of their Virgin Gold. But he will understand that his own — 251
1929 · PDF PAGE 83
…rfection. But they understand why Perfection devises this disguise. The Theory is developed fully in Liber Aleph, and in Part IV of this Book 4. See also Cap V Paragraph on F final of Fiaof. 2. The Vaishnava theory, superficially opposed to this, turns out on analysis to be practically identical. 47
1954 · PDF PAGE 286
WOMAN 253 no means of becoming aware, as we are in fact aware, of that distinction. Somewhat of this is perhaps intended in The Book of the Law: "Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between anyone thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. But whoso availeth in this, let him be the chief of all!" (AL,I: 22-23) Whoso availeth (i.e., can put to practical service) is of "presidential timber," so to speak, because he is able to understand the Being behind the Function, and is accordingly not liable to be deceived by…
1996 · PDF PAGE 91
… Oracle of Apollo, or the tribal Medicine-Man, nonetheless expressed truly his own Wish to abdicate responsibility. In the light of this Book, we now know that the centre is everywhere, the circumference nowhere; that “Every man and every woman is a star”, a “Khabs,” the name of the house of Hadit; that “The word of Sin is Restriction.” To us, then, “evil” is a relative term; it is “that which hinders one from fulfilling his true Will.” (E.g., rain is “good” or “bad” for the farmer accord ing to the requirements of his crops.) The Osirian Ritu…
1930 · PDF PAGE 94
…hanks for this blessing from my Deity, in order that I may he refreshed for new dévotion to Him.” Or: reading. Let him say: “I read this book that I may study the nature of my Deity, that further knowledge of Him may inspire me with deeper dévotion to Him.” Or: working. Let him say: “I drive my spade into the earth that fresh flowers (fruit, or what not) may spring up to His glory, and that I, purified by toil, may give better dévotion to Him.” Or: whatever it may be that he is doing, let him reason it out in his mind, drawing it through circum…
1996 · PDF PAGE 201
…he half: unite by thine art so that all disappear. 48. My prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the Ox, and none by the Book? 49. Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals, all words and signs. Ra- Hoor-Khuit hath taken his seat in the East at the Equinox of the Gods; and let Asar be with Isa, who also are one. But they are not of me. Let Asar be the adorant, Isa the sufferer; Hoor in his secret name and splendour is the Lord initiating. 50. There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are three ordeals in one,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…ick. This is an elementary treatise; one cannot discuss higher Works as for example those of “The Hermit of Aesopus Island”. 2. See “The Book of Lies”; there are several chapters on this subject. But Right Exaltation should produce spontaneously the proper mental and physical reactions. As soon as tho development is secured, there will be automatic reflex “justesse”, exactly as in normal aEairs mind and body respond with free unconscious rightness to the Will. 3. The organic development of Magick in the world due to the créative Will of the Mas…
1929 · PDF PAGE 152
…he combinations of Lover’s Chess, but we may enumerate the principal gambits: the Bouquet, the Chocolatés, the Little Dinner, the Cheque-Book, the Poem, the Motor by Moonlight, the Marriage Certificate, the Whip, and the Feigned Flight. The Magical Link may be classified under three main heads; as it involves (i) one plane and one person, (2) one plane and two or more persons, (3) two planes. In class (1) the machinery of Magick — the instrument — already exists. Thus, I may wish to heal my own body, increase my own energy; develop my own menta…
1954 · PDF PAGE 202
IMPROVISING A TEMPLE 169 but white will serve, or black. (A Masonic carpet is not at all bad.) The Circle itself should be as shown in Book 4, Part II; but as this volume is probably unavailable, ask me to show you the large painted diagram in my portfolio when next you visit me, and we can arrange for it to be copied. This should then be painted in the correct colours on the floor: the Kether square to the North, your "East." The Altar must fit exactly the square of Tiphareth; it is best made as a cupboard; of oak or acacia, by preference. It …
1954 · PDF PAGE 498
…he Golden Bough and the Good Lord knows how many other similar monuments of lexicography (for really they are little more) , is our text-book . We are bound to · note at once that the Gods sympathise , run into one another , coalesce much more closely than any other of the Orders of Being. There is not really much in common between a jackal and a beetle , or between a wolf and an owl, although they are grouped under Pisces or Aries respectively. But Adonis, Attis , Osiris, Melcarth, Mithras, Marsyas-a whole string of them comes tripping off the…
1996 · PDF PAGE 110
…Zanoni: A Rosicrucian Tale. See Works Cited.] 2 Varieties of Religious Experience [(1902), lecture 8; see Works Cited. See also Crowley, Book 4, Part III, ch. 5 (rev. ed., p. 161).] “this folly against self”; altruism is a direct assertion of dual ity, which is division, restriction, sin, in its vilest form. I love my neighbour because love makes him part of me; not because hate divides him from me. Our law is so simple that it constantly approximates to truism. “The exposure of innocence”. Exposure means “putting out,” as in a shop-window. Th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 203
…Cross or the Unicursal Hexagram. So much for the Weapons! Now, as to your personal accoutrements, Robe, Lamen, Sandals and the like, The Book of the Law has most thoughtfully simplified matters for us. "I charge you earnestly to come before me in a single robe , and covered with a rich head-dress." (AL , I: 61.) The Robe may well be in the form of the Tau Cross; i.e., expanding from axilla to ankle, and from shoulder to-whatever you call the place where your hands come out. (Shape well shown in the illustration Magick , face p. 380.) You being …
1996 · PDF PAGE 31
…, and his Confessions, abridged ed., p. 840.] 2 [Usually akh or yekh in modern Egyptian transliteration.] 3 [See the quotation from “The Book of the Great Auk” in the Commen tary to verse 3 on p. 26.] 4 [Grk. rrXqp(i)iia. In Gnosticism, the “invisible spiritual fullness” that hypostases into progressive manifestation (æons), and to which Gnos tics seek to return through the “perfection” of the Self.] This “star” or “Inmost Light” is the original, individual, eter nal essence. The Khu1 2 is the magical garment which it weaves for itself, a “f…
1996 · PDF PAGE 157
…le of the lay reader to become acquainted with the nature of the reasoning which attests the præterhuman character of the Author of this Book. It follows, in the words in which it was originally written, An. xvn, 0 in I, (£ in ®, June 8, 1921 E.v., with no preliminaries, in my Magical Diary, at the Abbey of Thelema in Cephalœdium of Trinacria. These verses are very subtly worded. How should I under stand this allusion to the Stèle; how “count well its name” without knowing it? I tried to count “Abomination of Desolation”, but that is what “the…