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Page 77 of 1051996 · PDF PAGE 53
…rong the soul by damning it to the hell of abstinence, or by defiling it with the abhorred embraces of antipathetic arms. 1 [An obsolete word for a gay male.] Every star must calculate its own orbit. All is Will, and yet all is Necessity. To swerve is ultimately impossible; to seek to swerve is to suffer. The Beast 666 ordains by His authority that every man, and every woman, and every intermediately-sexed individual, shall be absolutely free to interpret and communicate Self by means of any sexual practices soever, whether direct or indirect, …
1996 · PDF PAGE 185
… Fat Man as Gilbert Keith Chesterton in The Flying Inn.1 1 [G. K. Chesterton, The Flying Inn (1914), ch. 17.] 61. There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra’s seat, lightening the girders of the soul. Commentary: Note that Heru-ra-ha is not merely a particu lar form of Ra, but the God enthroned in Ra’s seat. That is, His Kingdom on earth is temporary, as explained in verse 34. And he is here conceived as the Hierophant, “lightening the girders of the soul”, that is, bringing man to initiation. These “girders” imply the skeletal str…
1910 · PDF PAGE 258
…s tracing of the history of the Slain God. But why is there no life in any of our Slain God rituals? It is for us to restore them by the Word and the Grip. For us, who have the inner knowledge, inherited or won, it remains to restore the true rites of Attis, Adonis, Osiris, of Set, Serapis, Mithras, and Abel. ALEISTER CROWLEY. 240
1910 · PDF PAGE 258
…s tracing of the history of the Slain God. But why is there no life in any of our Slain God rituals? It is for us to restore them by the Word and the Grip. For us, who have the inner knowledge, inherited or won, it remains to restore the true rites of Attis, Adonis, Osiris, of Set, Serapis, Mithras, and Abel. ALEISTER CROWLEY. 240
1922 · PDF PAGE 280
…n. I was conscious of a distinct shade of annoyance at having to get up and make a little cross. It had never occurred to me to break my word. There was a fascination in watching the record. The drive was a revelation. It was like coming out of a charnel house into the fresh air. A keen cold wind beat against our faces, almost blinding us. It was not until we reached the inn that we re- membered that we had come out without any heroin. Lamus was immediately all sympathy when he heard of our plight. He offered to go out and get some immediately;…
1954 · PDF PAGE 237
…ut are dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and adulterers and idolaters and ... " -so on. We of Thelema challenge all this briskly. "The word of Sin is Restriction" (AL, I: 41). Our Formula, roughly speaking, is to go out and grab what we want. We do this so thoroughly that we grow thereby, extending our conception of "I" by including each new accretion instead of remaining a closely delineated self, proud of possessing other things, as do the Black Brothers. We are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting oneself is anything from n…
1899 · PDF PAGE 93
NOTE. 71 of the written Qabalah, though, perhaps (a word to the wise is enough), truth lies hidden deeper yet in the ten volumes of that Qabalah which is unwritten, and which is only granted to those who by previous incarnations have fitted themselves for so sublime a knowledge. The brief sketch above will, however, make clear the Oath of the people and the Prayer of Jephthah, among other phrases which may seem at first sight less unin- telligible to ordinary analysis. That I have made Jephthah a Magician is also in accordance with tradition. G…
1922 · PDF PAGE 352
…it.” I hated to put that down on my paper. It was confessing that I was an automaton. But something in his eye compelled me. I wrote the word, and broke out as I did so into a spasm of internal fury. I re- collected a story from my hospital days, of a man who had committed suicide when it was proved to him that he couldn't move his upper jaw. Meanwhile Lamus was looking at my average. I had got down to less than two doses daily. But the rest of the twenty-four hours was spent in waiting for the time when I could indulge. I knew that Lou was ahe…
1954 · PDF PAGE 166
…ifestly thwart the True Will more than it would help to fulfil it; any such case must be judged on its merits. "But always unto Me." The word "always" admits of no exception; "unto Me" may be paraphrased as the "fulfilment of one possibility necessary to the achievement of the Great Work." Every act is a sacrament, but this pre-eminently so. The text continues with a plain threat: "if the ritual be not ever unto Me, then expect the direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit." To profane this sacrament of sacraments is the most fatal of errors and offen…
1954 · PDF PAGE 326
…58, 59, and III : 18, 58, 59. It might be confusing to quote these texts in full; but they throw much further light on the subject.) The word "compassion " in its accepted sense- which is bad etymology-implies that you are a fine fellow, and the other so much dirt ; that is, you insult him by pity for his misfortun es. But "Every man and every woman is a star" ; so don't you do it! You should treat everybody as a King of the same order as yourself. Of course, nine people out of ten won't stand for it, not for a minute ; the mere fact of your tr…
1954 · PDF PAGE 491
…w, there does not seem to be much point in taking an action so fundamentally revolutionary (on the surface) as the proclamation of a New Word. But then (you will object, if an objection it be) people like Lenin, Hitler, Mussolini, the Mikado, et hoc genus omne, are loyal emissaries of the Masters, or the gods! Well, why not? An analogy, once more. In the Christian legend we find God (omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent) employing Judas, Pilate and Herod, no less than Jesus, as actors in the Drama which replaced Isis by Osiris in the Great Formu…
1910 · PDF PAGE 208
…tes in the presence of a Margate jackass. Discarding Chastity (Brahmacharya)—a good purgative for the prurient—he wrote in its place the word “ Health.” Do not worry about this code and that law, about the jibber of this crank or the jabber of that faddist. To hell with ethical pigs and prigs alike. Do what you like; but in the name of your own Higher Self wilfully do xo injury to your own body or mind by over indulgence or under indulgence. Discover your normal appetite; satisfy it. Do not become a glutton, and do not become a nut-cracking ski…
1910 · PDF PAGE 208
…tes in the presence of a Margate jackass. Discarding Chastity (Brahmacharya)—a good purgative for the prurient—he wrote in its place the word “ Health.” Do not worry about this code and that law, about the jibber of this crank or the jabber of that faddist. To hell with ethical pigs and prigs alike. Do what you like; but in the name of your own Higher Self wilfully do xo injury to your own body or mind by over indulgence or under indulgence. Discover your normal appetite; satisfy it. Do not become a glutton, and do not become a nut-cracking ski…
1922 · PDF PAGE 262
…nity. There was a momentary regret about leaving it. Yet we had already left it so long, so long ago, in every intelligible sense of the word. We should, I suppose, have been classed as human beings by statisticians, but surely by nobody else. We could never return to their midst. And even in the midst of our wretchedness, we felt a repulsion of contempt for the ruck of humanity which made us content to widen the gap between them and ourselves. Why preserve the outward semblance of these futile insects? Even their happiness disgusted us; it was…
1954 · PDF PAGE 473
…nt of chance comes in; and this is hateful to really fine players and diminishes the excitement . The rapier-play of two experts, when a word changes from one line of formation to another, and then again, perhaps even a third time, is as exhilarating as a baseball-game or a bull-fight. And what the Tartarus-Tophet-lehanna has all this to do with Education, and the Great Work? This, child! H.G. Wells and others have pointed out with serene justice that a gap in your vocabulary implies a gap in your mind; you lack the corresponding idea. I put th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 118
…erses 28-32 119 The Qabalists represent the mind as a complex of six elements, whereas the Will is single, the direct expression as “The Word” of the Self. The mind must inform the Understanding, which then presents a simple idea to the Will. This issues its orders accord ingly for unquestioning execution. If the Will should appeal to the mind, it must confuse itself with incomplete and uncoordinated ideas. The clamour of these cries crowns Anarchy, and action becomes impossible. 31. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness. Commentary: It is…
1922 · PDF PAGE 348
… temptation to indulge, that the period between doses, however prolonged it might be, were being regarded merely in that light. In other words, it was a negative thing. Life consisted in taking heroin. The intervals be- tween the doses did not count. It was like the attitude of the normal man with regard to sleep. It suddenly dawned upon me that this painful process of gradually learning to abstain, was not a cure at all in any right sense of the word. Basil was perfectly right.. I must reverse the entire process and reckon my life in positive …
1922 · PDF PAGE 82
…llness. “‘ There’s nothing to be alarmed about,” said Feccles, with his curious little laugh. “A trifling indiscretion.” I winced at the word. It took me back to King Lamus. I hated that fellow more than ever. He had begun to obsess me. Confound him |! Lou had confided the whole story to our host, who admitted that he was familiar with these matters. “You see, my dear Sir Peter,” he said, “‘ you can’t take H. like you can C., and when you mix your drinks there’s the devil to pay. It’s like everything else in life; you’ve got to find out your li…
1954 · PDF PAGE 106
… Nirvana or Nibbana means something different from what etymology, tradition, and the evidence of the Classics combine to define it. The word means, quite simply, cessation: and it stands to reason that, if everything is sorrow, the only thing which is not sorrow is nothing, and that therefore to escape from sorrow is the attainment of nothingness.) Western philosophy has on occasion approached this \ doctrine. It has at least asserted that no known form of existence is exempt from sorrow. Huxley says, in his Evolution and Ethics, "Suffering is…
1954 · PDF PAGE 508
…hen apoplectic Fear puts on the mask of Indignation and Disgust. As for a serious discussion of anything concerned therewith, why, every word is a new rasping tear. The mind takes refuge in irrational and irrelevant outbursts of feigned rage and horror. I wonder how many lunatics there are in the "bughouse"