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Page 75 of 1071929 · PDF PAGE 537
…on itself is only too likely to fall. I was simply too young, ignorant and bigoted to make any impression on the United States. The real work which I accomplished in my five years was the unconscious preparation for my real mission, which is not a matter of flags and trumpets, but of silent growth in darkness. This preparation was now practically complete. With the appearance of the cynocephalus my journey through the Desert had reached its last stage. I went on struggling for some months to get things done, not understanding that I was attempt…
1929 · PDF PAGE 566
…s. But this was not all. Hearing that my friend Otto Kahn, the famous financier and the admirably judicious appreciator of fine creative work, was in England, I asked him to lunch with me to meet Harrison. His agenda was full, but he proposed to call at the office. We talked matters over some two hours, and laid down the outlines of a scheme, the success of which was that a chronic invalid magazine called the Forum should be bought and amalgamated with the English Review. We were to publish two editions, I to be in charge of the English Review …
1919 · PDF PAGE 377
…those who do so deserve well of their fel- lows. But there is no reason whatever for imagining that to help humanity is the only kind of work worth doing in this universe. The feeling of desire to do so is a limitation anda drag just as bad as any other; and it is not at all necessary to make all this fuss about Initiation and all the rest of it. The universe is exceedingly elastic, especially for those who are themselves elastic. Therefore, though of course one cannot remember humanity when one is wearing the Dharmakaya body, one can hang the …
1922 · PDF PAGE 381
…f the Abbey of Thelema. “Be the Priest pure of body and soul!” The love of Lou had consecrated me to do my will, to accomplish the Great Work. “‘ Be the Priest fervent of body and soul!” The love of Lou not only kept me from the contamina- tion of ideas and desires alien to my essential function in the universe, but inspired me to dynamic ecstasy. I do not know how long we sat under the stars. A deep eternal peace sat like a dove, a triple tongue of flame upon our souls, which were one soul for ever. Each of our lives was one, individual, and e…
1954 · PDF PAGE 13
…introduction, setting the pace, as it were, for the later ones. But they are loaded with the most important details concerning the Great Work, his organization of the A :. A :. , and what is expected of the student once he has become a probationer of that Order. As soon as the chapter letters are reached, however, one is plunged into intellectual and spiritual depths or heights which the author struggles to make reasonably clear. The first letter borrows the axioms, theorems and propositions written for an earlier book, Magick in Theory and Pra…
1954 · PDF PAGE 53
… verse (AL, I: 44) condenses the whole magical technique . It makes clear-when you have understood it-the secret of success in the Great Work. Of course at first it appears a paradox. You must have an aim, and one aim only: yet on no account must you want to achieve it!!! Those chapters of The Book of Lies quoted in my last letter 4 do throw some light onto this Abyss of self-contradiction; and there is meaning much deeper than the contrast between the Will with a capital W, and desire, want, or velleity. The main point seems to be that in aspi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 148
…one hundred and six are the seasons thereof. And the name of every season is Death . (The Vision and the Voice, 14th Aethyr) And for his Work thereafter? So we enter the earth, and there is a veiled figure, in absolute darkness. Yet it is perfectly possible to see in it, so 1. I suppose that only a Magus could have heard this word.
1996 · PDF PAGE 62
…mperfection is perceived as the absolute negative whose appre hension is identical with that duality—is the accomplishment of the Great Work. The anacephalepsis1 of these considerations is this: 1 [Recapitulation.] 1:53
1929 · PDF PAGE 106
…the sight without informing it. By the exercise of dour determination, I succeeded in getting everything ready in good time to begin the work proper at Easter. It is unfortunate that in these days I had no idea of the value of a Magical Record from the historical standpoint. I find few dates, nor have I troubled to set down even such startling occurrences as are related above. I was dead set on attainment. Anything which appeared to me out of the direct road to the goal was merely a nuisance, a hindrance and a distraction. Apart from my memory,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 68
… of Gustave le Bon. This great Frenchman writes: “These fundamental dogmas, the bases of modern science, the researches detailed in this work tend to destroy. If the principle of the conservation of energy—which, by the by, is simply a bold generalization of experiments made in very simple cases—likewise succumbs to the blows which are already attacking it, the conclusion must be arrived at that nothing in the world is eternal.” (“The Evolution of Matter,” p. 18.) In other words, all is full of birth, growth, and decay, that is Maya. Form to th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 68
… of Gustave le Bon. This great Frenchman writes: “These fundamental dogmas, the bases of modern science, the researches detailed in this work tend to destroy. If the principle of the conservation of energy—which, by the by, is simply a bold generalization of experiments made in very simple cases—likewise succumbs to the blows which are already attacking it, the conclusion must be arrived at that nothing in the world is eternal.” (“The Evolution of Matter,” p. 18.) In other words, all is full of birth, growth, and decay, that is Maya. Form to th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 124
…s public was to impress them with the universality of his learning. Arthwait being thus well out of harm's way, Vesquit and Abdul set to work on the less arduous of the preparations. Four black cats were needed for the four points of the compass, and it was desirable to massacre a goat upon the altar, which would be no less than the corpse itself. Vesquit, declaring that the body was to be sent to England, had a dummy shipped off in a coffin, and kept Gates on ice, which may or may not have been a great comfort to him. Abdul had no difficulty i…
1930 · PDF PAGE 63
… Therion effects by tliis book noihing else but to demonstrate the continuily of nature and the uniformity of Law5 He will feel that Mis work bas not been wasted. In his original design of Part III he did not contemplate any allusion to alchemy. It has somehow been taken for granted that this subject is entirely foreign to regular Magick, both in scope and method. It will be the main object of the following descrip¬ tion to establish it as essentially a branch of the subject, and to show that it may be considered simply as a particular case of …
1937 · PDF PAGE 6
… individual, and politically to the State. 8. Let this formula be accepted by every government. Experts will immediately be appointed to work out, when need arises, the details of the True Will of every indivi- dual, and even that of every corporate body whether social or commercial, while a judiciary will arise to determine the equity in the case of apparently conflicting claims. (Such cases will become progressively more rare as adjustment is attained). All appeal to precedent and authority, the deadwood of the Tree of Life, will be abolished…
1954 · PDF PAGE 276
…ae in the exposition; and I may as well now do my best to stop one or two obvious gaps. The period of my life which was the climax of my work on this subject is those weeks of Thaumaturgy on the Hudson River-I fear the Magical Diary The Hermit of A esopus Island is irretrievably lost-when I was shown the Codex of The Tao
1910 · PDF PAGE 102
… Ida. By a similar modification in the opposite direction the * “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. v, 110. t Ibid., chap. v, 49. $~ Though all Hindu works proclaim that the Sahasrara has but one thousand petals, its true number is one thousand and one as depicted in the diagram called the Yogi. 1001 =91 X II (JONX TN); OI =MT+4 TIN 11 =ABRA- HADABRA =418 (38 x 11)=Achad Osher, or one and ten, =the Eleven Averse Sephiroth= Adonai. Also 91=13x7 1NNX ARARITA, etc, etc. 11 is the Number of the Great Work, the Uniting of the Five and the Six, and 91= mystic num…
1910 · PDF PAGE 102
… Ida. By a similar modification in the opposite direction the * “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. v, 110. t Ibid., chap. v, 49. $~ Though all Hindu works proclaim that the Sahasrara has but one thousand petals, its true number is one thousand and one as depicted in the diagram called the Yogi. 1001 =91 X II (JONX TN); OI =MT+4 TIN 11 =ABRA- HADABRA =418 (38 x 11)=Achad Osher, or one and ten, =the Eleven Averse Sephiroth= Adonai. Also 91=13x7 1NNX ARARITA, etc, etc. 11 is the Number of the Great Work, the Uniting of the Five and the Six, and 91= mystic num…
1954 · PDF PAGE 150
… these are the excrement of Choronzon. And for this is BABALON under the power of the Magician, that she hath submitted herself unto the work; and she guardeth the Abyss. And in her is a perfect purity of that which is above; yet she is sent as the Redeemer to them that are below. For there is no other way into the Supernal Mystery but through her and the Beast on which she rideth; and the Magician is set beyond her to deceive the brothers of blackness, lest they should make unto themselves a crown; for if there were two crowns, then should Y g…
1899 · PDF PAGE 254
…y eventually succeededin averting the curse of Zeus. ‘A Gentleman of the University of Cambridge’ wields a powerful pen, and much of his work is exceedingly beautiful. Unfortunately, we are unable to quote at any length, through want of space. The two stanzas appended are from the song on page 19: ‘Ere the grape of joy is golden With the summer and the sun, Ere the maidens unbeholden Gather one by one, To the vineyard comes the shower, No sweet rain to fresh the flower, But the thunder rain that cleaves, Rends and ruins tender leaves. ‘ All the…
1930 · PDF PAGE 97
… of the Crowned and Conquering Child. 2 Thus he fulfilled my will to bring full freedom to the race of Men. Yea, he wrought also in me a Work of Wonder beyond this, but in this matter I am sworn to hold my peace. 1. See the maps “Minutum Mundum” in the Equinex i, 2 & 3 and the general relations detailed in Liber 777, of which the most important columns are reprinted in Appendix V. 2. For the account of these matters see The Equinox, Vol. I, “The Temple of Solomon the King”, Liber 418, Liber Aleph, John St John, The Urn, and Book 4, Part IV. 301…