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Page 76 of 1071944 · PDF PAGE 70
…sible at the present time to explain this card thoroughly, for only the course of events can show how the new current of initiation will work out. It is the aeon of Horus, of the Child. Though the face of the Hierophant appears benig‐ nant and smiling, and the child himself seems glad with wanton innocence, it is hard to deny that in the expression of the initiator is something mysterious, even sinister. He seems to be enjoying a very secret joke at somebody’s expense. There is a distinctly sadistic aspect to this card; not unnaturally, since i…
1954 · PDF PAGE 137
… always in proper order and proportion; organize, structuralize your thought, always with the one aim in view of accomplishing the Great Work. Well, now, before going further into this, I must behave like an utter cad, and disgrace my family tree, and blot my 'scutcheon and my copybook by confusing you about "realism." Excuse: not my muddle; it was made centuries ago by a gang of cursed monks, headed by one Duns Scotus-sQ-called because he was Irish-or if not by somebody else equally objectionable . They held to the Platonic dogma of archetypes…
1954 · PDF PAGE 402
GEOMANCY 369 other financial necessities of the Work by Geomantic divination" Now, then , he thought , in and about Johannesburg we have both gold and diamonds; that is exactly the chance for these tricky earth spirits to take advantage of the ambiguity . I will therefore frame the question so as to cover both sources of riches. I will not specify gold or diamonds. I will say simply "mineral wealth." The answers to his series of questions indicated that he was to go out of the city where he would find a deposit. The next questions in his series…
1954 · PDF PAGE 232
… not any gleaner in the field of a priori; no, a mere devotee of natural history and biology: Ernst Haeckel. Enormous , elephantine, his work's bulk is almost incredible; for us, his one revolutionary discovery is pertinent to this matter of Sammasati and the revelations of one's inmost subtle structure. He discovered, and he demonstrated, that the history of any animal throughout the course of its evolution is repeated in the stages of the individual. To put it crudely, the growth of a child from the fertilized ovum to the adult repeats the ad…
1996 · PDF PAGE 123
…ion. Joy and Beauty are the evidence that our func tions are free and fit; when we take no pleasure, and find nothing to admire, in our work, we are doing it wrong. 36. There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. 37. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride! 38. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. 39. A feast for Tahuti and the child of the Prophet—secret, O Prophet! 40. A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. 41. A feast for fire and a feast for wate…
1910 · PDF PAGE 124
…p with the right ear, which however was easy to test by approaching a watch against the ear.”§ During this whole period of rough travel, work is fatiguing, difficult and uncertain. Regularity is impossible, as regards hours and even days, and the * The Akasic egg of spirit set between the Pillars of Mercy and Severity with a ray of light descending upon it from Kether. + The Golden Dawn Symbol here meditated upon consisted of a white triangle surmounted by a red cross. See Diagram 4. } This meditation took place whilst P. was on a journey. § Th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 124
…p with the right ear, which however was easy to test by approaching a watch against the ear.”§ During this whole period of rough travel, work is fatiguing, difficult and uncertain. Regularity is impossible, as regards hours and even days, and the * The Akasic egg of spirit set between the Pillars of Mercy and Severity with a ray of light descending upon it from Kether. + The Golden Dawn Symbol here meditated upon consisted of a white triangle surmounted by a red cross. See Diagram 4. } This meditation took place whilst P. was on a journey. § Th…
1922 · PDF PAGE 253
…that loveth his life shall lose it.” I must dedicate my miraculously restored faculties to his salvation. Only I don’t see how to set to work. If only Basil were here. He would know. He has worked out the technique. All I can do is to love and labour blindly. After all, there must have been angels looking after me in some sense which I don’t pretend to understand. Why should they not be even more vigilant on his behalf ? I am only a foolish flapper not worth throwing into the waste-paper basket. He is a splendid man with a glorious past and end…
1922 · PDF PAGE 349
…at my true will is? Is there really such a thing at all? My mathematics tells me that there must be. However many forces there may be at work, one can always find their resultant. But this was all terribly vague. The desire to take heroin was clear-cut. It no longer produced any particular effect to take it. Now that I was getting down to two or three doses a day, at the most, it seemed as though there were no particular object in taking it, even as dulling the craving for it. I found it in- creasingly difficult to fill column two. King Lamus d…
1954 · PDF PAGE 22
…the magical memory. In this way, he could prepare several very interesting notebooks on specific magical topics based on this particular work. Some reviewers in this country of The Confessions of Aleister Crowley have likened him to a Victorian hippy. Because he was unconventional in his sex life, experimented freely with drugs and dressed exotically at times, he has been pictured as the prototype of the modem hippy. There appears at first to be some justification for this identification-provided one does not examine the thesis too
1954 · PDF PAGE 426
…remark goes to the root of the matter; for all these powers, if we understand them properly, are natural by-products of one's real Great Work. My own experience was very convincing on this point; for one power
1954 · PDF PAGE 454
…s; some of these, by the way, I was able to learn myself, and found surprisingly efficacious. So we have the law of supply and demand at work as uncomplainingly as usual: the Holy Man prays for the threatened Dynasty, blesses the Barren Queen; and they all live happy ever after. This is not an Arabian Night's Tale of Antiquity; it is the same to-day; there are very few Englishmen who have spent any time in India who have not been approached with proposals of this character. Similar conditions, curiously enough, existed in France; the fils a pap…
1996 · PDF PAGE 54
…ave seen in our own times Oscar Wilde, Sir Charles Dilke, Parnell, Canon Aitken and countless others, many of them engaged in first-rate work for the world, all wasted, because the mob must make believe to be “moral.” This phrase abolishes the Eleventh Commandment, Not to be Found Out, by authorizing Incest, Adultery, and Paederasty, which everyone now practices with humiliating precautions, which perpetuate the schoolboy’s enjoyment of an escapade, and make shame, slyness, cowardice and hypocrisy the conditions of success in life. It is also t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 356
…culations, loosely knit together, it is true, but very intense, with regard to an idea which - had not entered my mind for months. I was working out in my mind a plan for constructing a helicopter, the invention of which had occupied me deeply when I was out of a job. It had been driven completely out of my mind by my becoming heir to Uncle Mortimer’s estate. As I regained full wakefulness, I found myself extremely puzzled by my surroundings. In fact, I could not remember who I was. The question seemed in some extraordinary way to lack meaning.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 14
… detail was it perfecteduntil one fatal day. The spy, stricken by yellow fever, dropped suddenly dead in the fields before noon Cease work had sounded. Instantly, without a moments hesitation, Dodu strode across to me and said, at the risk of the lash: The whole plan which I have explained to you in cipher these last four months is a blind. That spy knew all. His lips are sealed in death. I have another plan, the real plan, simpler and surer. I will tell it to you to- morrow. The whistle of an approaching engine interrupted this tragic e…
1954 · PDF PAGE 74
…na. We who accept the Law of Thelema, even should we concur in this doctrine theoretically, cannot admit that in practice the plan would work out; our aim is that our Nothing, ideally perfect as it is in itself, should enjoy itself through realizing itself in the fulfillment of all possibilities. All such phenomena or "point-events" are equally "illusion"; Nothing is always Nothing; but the projection of Nothing on this screen of the phenomenal does not only explain, but constitutes, the Universe. It is the only system which reconciles all the …
1996 · PDF PAGE 27
…and directly, recog nizing the separate function of each Star of her Body. Though all is One, each part of that One has its own special work, each Star its particular Orbit. In addressing me as warrior lord of Thebes, it appears as if She perceived a certain continuity or identity of myself with Ankh-f-n- khonsu, whose Stele is the Link with Antiquity of this Revela tion.1 See Equinox 1(7), pp. 363-400, for the account of this event.1 2 1 [Ankh-f-n-khonsu (Ankhefenkhons i) was an Egyptian priest of Month (Mentu) who flourished in Thebes c. 72…
1929 · PDF PAGE 448
…o without doing much harm. For it cannot be used indiscriminately. Much fun has been made of the alchemists for insisting that the Great Work, an ostensibly chemical process, can only be performed by adepts who fear and love God, and who practise chastity and numerous other virtues. But there is more common sense in such statements than meets the eye. A drunken debauchee cannot perform delicate manipulations in chemistry or physics; and the force with which the secret is concerned, while as material as the Becquerel emanations, is subtler than …
1907 · PDF PAGE 58
…e must he appear a liar to those of his fellows who hear his voice. For he speaks, as beholding the Face of God; they hear, as idols the work of men’s hands that have ears and hear not, neither have they any understanding. Therefore, have the chance words of Adepts been ill-heard through the ages; therefore, has the world run red with blood because the Adepts have spoken Truth,
1930 · PDF PAGE 111
…rely I am not alone in the Hermitage! ” And this practice should be carried out not only at the time of méditation, but during the day’s work. 2. This méditation is to be assisted by reasoning- as, “This foot is not I. If I should lose my foot, I should still be I. This foot is a mass of changing and decaying flesh, bone, skin, blood, I. If armed with wand and lamp let him extinguish the light with his hand. — N. — 411