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Page 73 of 1071910 · PDF PAGE 145
… Truth by the force of which I turned the Ganges back.* In other words, by ignoring all accidents, all matters of chance, and setting to work, without favour or prejudice, to accomplish the one object in view, and so finally “to interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with the soul.” In truth this is an “Act of Truth,” the Power begot by Concentration and nothing else. We have seen at the commencement of this chapter how the Atman (that Essence beyond Being and Not Being) allegorically fell by crying “It is I,” and how the gre…
1910 · PDF PAGE 145
… Truth by the force of which I turned the Ganges back.* In other words, by ignoring all accidents, all matters of chance, and setting to work, without favour or prejudice, to accomplish the one object in view, and so finally “to interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with the soul.” In truth this is an “Act of Truth,” the Power begot by Concentration and nothing else. We have seen at the commencement of this chapter how the Atman (that Essence beyond Being and Not Being) allegorically fell by crying “It is I,” and how the gre…
1919 · PDF PAGE 117
…hat no alien element should intrude. And this is of most particular pertinence to the aspirant in that primary and mundane aspect of his work wherein he establisheth him- self in the method through his natural affections. iI
1922 · PDF PAGE 287
…Luckily there was a baby grand in the room. He sat down and began to accompany her. I found myself enthralled by watching the man’s mind work. It taught me something con- stantly. This last act, for example. We couldn’t go out as we were, and the singing would be an alternative distraction. At the same time, he wanted Maisie’s back turned so that we could take our heroin. We wanted it very badly indeed; and yet—so strange is nature |—we were just as ashamed to take it secretly as a moment before we had been to take it openly. The thought hit me…
1944 · PDF PAGE 87
… the stooping starlight.” This sacrament is the physical‐magical formula for attaining initiation, for the accom‐ plishment of the Great Work. It is in alchemy the process of distillation, operated by internal ferment, and the influence of the Sun and Moon. Behind the figures of the Beast and his Bride are ten luminous rayed circles; they are the Sephiroth latent and not yet in order, for every new Aeon demands a new system of classi‐ fication of the Universe. At the top of the card is shown an emblem of the new light, with ten horns of the Bea…
1929 · PDF PAGE 12
…o take up Magick; for the one document which gripped him was The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage, in which the essential work is "To obtain the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel". It is very important to mention that the mind of the child was almost abnormally normal. He showed no tendency to see visions, as even commonplace children often do. The Bible was his only book at this period; but neither the narrative nor the poetry made any deep impression on him. He was fascinated by the mysteriously prophetic pa…
1904 · PDF PAGE 2
MR. CROWLEY AND THE CREEDS (BY G. K. CHESTERTON) Mr. Aleister Crowley publishes a work, “ The Sword of Song : Called by Christians ‘ The Book of the Beast,’ ” and called, I am ashamed to say, “ Ye Sword of Song ” on the cover, by some singularly uneducated man. Mr. Aleister Crowley has always been, in my opinion, a good poet ; his “ Soul of Osiris,” written during an Egyptian mood, was better poetry than this Browningesque rhapsody in a Buddhist mood ; but this also, though very affected, is very interesting. But the main fact about it is that …
1913 · PDF PAGE 153
…the 17th, and on the next day took the tram to Arba, from which point they started to walk to Bou- Saada. At Aumale he took up again the work of obtaining the Cries of the 30 A&thyrs, to which he had not paid attention since August 1900. It is evident that he was stopped from going beyond that point at that time. A study of these Cries will explain to students of intelli- gence the details of this Initiation, and it will be seen from the remarks at the end of the 13th A&thyr that it is not possible to proceed beyond the 16th for any one who is …
1913 · PDF PAGE 153
…the 17th, and on the next day took the tram to Arba, from which point they started to walk to Bou- Saada. At Aumale he took up again the work of obtaining the Cries of the 30 A&thyrs, to which he had not paid attention since August 1900. It is evident that he was stopped from going beyond that point at that time. A study of these Cries will explain to students of intelli- gence the details of this Initiation, and it will be seen from the remarks at the end of the 13th A&thyr that it is not possible to proceed beyond the 16th for any one who is …
1922 · PDF PAGE 341
…r will,’ ” she smiled. ‘“‘ We exchange this greeting so as to make sure that the sight of our friends doesn’t distract us from the Great Work. Now we can talk about whatever we like. Oh, no, we can’t, I must first inspect your yesterday’s chart.” I brought it out, and we sat down at the table together. Of course, there was only the one cross, She assumed a very severe look. “This is extremely irregular, brother,” she said. “You haven't filled in column two.” D.D.F. ¥
1954 · PDF PAGE 310
…ine that one has undergone, or achieved, all sorts of experiences "as described in the books," when all that one has actually done is to work the results of one's reading into a bubble inflated by imagination. It should be obvious to you that the habit grows on one; every bad quality, from vanity to laziness, lends most willing aid. One replaces reality more and more continuously by these exciting and flattering reveries, which by this time have no longer any shadow of a claim to be called mystic experiences at all. Now do remember this: it is …
1954 · PDF PAGE 477
… plan whereby we may each one of us settle down peaceably to mind his own business, to pursue his True Will, and to accomplish the Great Work. So never lose sight for a moment of the maxim so often repeated in one context or another in these letters: that fear
1996 · PDF PAGE 184
…an has the right to mould as he will. Man has the right to paint as he will. Man has the right to carve as he will. Man has the right to work as he will. Man has the right to rest as he will. Man has the right to love as he will, when, where and whom he will. Man has the right to die when and how he will. Man has the right to kill those who would thwart these rights.1 1 [This is the essential text of Liber Oz sub figura 77.] 2 [See page 132.] This statement must not be regarded as individualism run wild. Its harmony with statecraft is demonstra…
1929 · PDF PAGE 374
374 I observe, after a talk with M. Jules Courtier yesterday, that all their S.P.R. work is proof of extra- human forces. We knew about them all along; the universe is full of obscure and subtle manifestations of energy;we are constantly advancing in our knowledge and control of them. Telekinesis is of the same order of nature as the Hertz rays or {600} the radium emanations. But what nobody before me has done is to prove the existence of extra- human intelligence, and my Magical Record does this. I err in the interpretation, of course; but it …
1904 · PDF PAGE 15
…charm, his sincerity and brilliance. Once they grasped the many-sided nature of his mind an operation which took about two hours hard work on the part of D . . . and L . . . , for K . . . dissimu- lated, with amusing effrontery, the real harmony of his character they knew him for a man, and loved him. It was at the Red Dog that I first had the pleas- ure of meeting him. He was then living apart from his wife, who had returned to Cairo for the sake of its vice, and he occupied a small flat in the Avenue Matignon ; I was myself living not fa…
1954 · PDF PAGE 322
…ed his name, cut himself off completely from the past, and allowed no alien interest of any sort to interfere with his absorption in the Work. His journey to see the Head seemed at that time a fatal interruption; at the least, it involved the waste of one whole year. He was wrong; his gesture of setting the interests of the Order before his personal advancement was counted unto him for righteousness. There should be no need to extend this list; it could be
1954 · PDF PAGE 525
…, illnesses; your vita sexualis; your hobbies and amusements; what you are good at, what not; how you came to be interested in the Great Work; what (if you have been on false trails, Toshophists, Anthroposophagists, sham Rosicrucians, etc.) has been "your previous condition of servitude"; how you found me, and decided to enlist my aid. That, by itself, helps you to understand yourself, and me to understand you. From that point the keeping of the Record is quite easy. All you have to do is to put down what practices you mean to begin, how you ge…
1922 · PDF PAGE 320
… walls, Saracen cisterns, Norman gateways, and houses of all periods were perishing slowly on the gaunt, parched crags. It was very hard work for Lou and myself to climb the hill in the wretched condition of our health. We had to sit down repeatedly on the huge boulders which lined the paths that wound among the well-tilled fields dotted with gnarled gray olives. - The air of the place was a sublime intoxication, and yet its enchantment merely rubbed into our souls the shame of our wretched physical condition. We had to take several goes of her…
1922 · PDF PAGE 334
…the more bored you get. We had two people last year, absolutely hopeless rotters. They called themselves writers, and imagined they were working if they retired solemnly after breakfast and produced half a page of piffle by lunch. But they didn’t know the meaning of work ; and the place nearly drove them insane. They were bored with the Abbey, and bored with each other, and were very insulted because every- body laughed at them. But they couldn’t see the way out, and wouldn’t take it when it was shown them. It made them physically ill, and they…
1922 · PDF PAGE 368
…ed in a knickerbocker suit of black silk. It wore sandals and black stockings. I recognised Lou. “ Big Lion said you might want to begin work this afternoon, Sir Peter,” she said with dignity, ‘‘so I have been trying to put the place in some sort of order.” I stood absolutely aghast. It was Lou, but a Lou that I had never seen or known. I turned to King Lamus for an explanation, but he was not there. A ripple of laughter ran over her face; the sunlight blazed in her magnetic eyes. JI trembled with in- describable emotion. Here was an undecipher…