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Page 77 of 1071954 · PDF PAGE 28
…had the idea that it would be a good plan to add all sorts of other stuff, so that people who were not in any way interested in the real Work might preserve their copies . ... "They" [the Secret Chiefs of the Order / . . . were agreed on measures calculated to assure the survival of the Wisdom worth saving until the time, perhaps three hundred or six hundred years later, when a new current should revive the shattered thought of mankind. The Equinox, in a word, was to be a sort of Rosetta Stone. It appears that he recognized that he should have …
1954 · PDF PAGE 433
…ath? Yes. How? The traditional method is to get possession of some object or substance intimately connected with the victim. On this you work magically so as to absorb its virtue. It is best if it was as recently as possible part of his living tissue; for instance, a nail-paring, a hair plucked from his head. Something still alive or nearly so, and still part of the complex of energies that he included in his conception of his body. Best of all are fluids and secretions, notably blood and one
1954 · PDF PAGE 473
…s 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 this in for you because an American officer, very dear to me, flitted from the Front for a few days to ask me a few questions-oh, "very much above your exalted grade" my dear-and I thought it might be useful to him to learn this game, nee…
1996 · PDF PAGE 11
…dded. I wish to thank my friend Oliver Marlow Wilkinson, Louis Wilkinson’s son, for his encouragement and support in seeing his father’s work completed. Thanks are also due to Jack Parsons’ widow, the late Cameron, and Scott Hobbs, executor for Cam eron and the Parsons estate, for the generous gift of the Wilkinson typescript. Thanks are due to Richard W. Gernon ix° o.T.o., who bequeathed a typescript of the commentaries to the Order on his death. Dr. W. F. Ryan of the Warburg Institute, University of London, kindly made available early typesc…
1904 · PDF PAGE 78
…it was not D.T. this time, and the humour of the thing striking him, he laughed and made me an Archbishop. Thus God can in his wonderful Work- ings bring good out of apparent evil. I had wished to dwell for awhile upon the de- lightful memory of my Leilas fly-by-night as it ap- peared in the all too brief period of her pregnancy. Imagine the gradual heaving up of her greasy belly under ones very fuck, the constant tickling of ones thumb of love by the innumerable fingers new-made of the many foetuses, the curious slime that filled her, and f…
1904 · PDF PAGE 55
…! unto Whom the praise and glory will for ever and ever belong! Amen!” After thou hast so done, make prayers unto God according unto thy work, as Solomon hath commanded. THE CONJURATION TO CALL FORTH ANY OF THE AFORESAID SPIRITS. I po invocate and conjure thee, O Spirit, N.?; and being with power armed from the Supreme Majesty, I do strongly command thee, by BERALANENSIS, BALDACHIENSIS, PAUMACHIA, and APOLOGI® SEDES; by the most Powerful Princes, Genii, Liachide, and Ministers of the Tartarean 1 In many codices it is written ‘“‘a sceptre or swo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 83
…tly unbalanced needs a milder correction than whoso is obsessed by prejudice. There are men who make a fetish of cleanliness; they shall work in a fitter’s shop, and learn that dirt is the mark of honourable toil. There are those whose lives are rendered wretched by the fear of infection; they see bacteria of the deadliest sort in all things but the actual solutions of carbolic acid and mercuric chloride with which they hysterically combat their invisible foemen; such would I send to live in the bazaar at Delhi, where they shall haply learn that…
1910 · PDF PAGE 177
… “Let me abandon these follies of poesy and Vamacharya (“debauchery,” ze, normal life) and health and vain things and let me put in some work.” 22nd. Began Suddhi and “ Namo Shivaya Namaha Aum.” to.1g-11.15 A’sana, Pranayama. Nine minutes 10, 20. 30. am. am. Dharana on nose ten minutes. 5.55-6.25, Pranayama. Four minutes: 10. 20. 30. p.m. p.m. Pranayama. Ten minutes: 10. 20. 30. Prandyama. One of 30. 15. 60. twice. Two such consecu- tively quite out of the question. 9.12-9.45 Pranayama. Twelve minutes. 10. 20. 30. p.m. p.m. Pranayama. Two conse…
1910 · PDF PAGE 177
… “Let me abandon these follies of poesy and Vamacharya (“debauchery,” ze, normal life) and health and vain things and let me put in some work.” 22nd. Began Suddhi and “ Namo Shivaya Namaha Aum.” to.1g-11.15 A’sana, Pranayama. Nine minutes 10, 20. 30. am. am. Dharana on nose ten minutes. 5.55-6.25, Pranayama. Four minutes: 10. 20. 30. p.m. p.m. Pranayama. Ten minutes: 10. 20. 30. Prandyama. One of 30. 15. 60. twice. Two such consecu- tively quite out of the question. 9.12-9.45 Pranayama. Twelve minutes. 10. 20. 30. p.m. p.m. Pranayama. Two conse…
1919 · PDF PAGE 249
…er case it is administered in the interest of the donor. Property being thus pooled, immense economies are effected. One lawyer does the work of fifty; house agents let houses instead of merely writing misleading entries in books; the O.T.O. con- trols the company instead of half-a-dozen isolated and impo- tent stockholders. Whatever the O.T.O. findeth to do, it does with all its might; none dare oppose the power of a cor- poration thus centralised, thus ramified. To become a mem- ber of the O.T.O. is to hitch your wagon to a star. But if you a…
1922 · PDF PAGE 358
…oney for anything else. I wanted to be an engineer. I was keen as mustard on bicycles and automobiles. Even as a boy I had had a sort of workshop of my own. The greatest pleasure of my childhood had been the rare visits to my mother’s father, who in his time had been a great inventor and done an immense amount of work relative to the mechanical perfection of railway travelling. When the war broke out I had gone straight to the engineering shops; and I became a flying man rather against my will, on account of my weight and the dearth of pilots. …
1954 · PDF PAGE 44
…e telescope! Well, I employ the figure of hyperbole, that I admit ; but it really won't do to have a dozen cooks at the broth! If you're working with me, you'll have no time to waste on other people. I fear your "Christianity" is like that of most other folk. You pick out one or two of the figures from which the Alexandrines concocted "Jesus" (too many cooks again, with a vengeance!) and neglect the others . The Zionist Christ of Matthew can have no value for you ; nor can the Asiatic "Dying-God" - compiled from Melcarth, Mithras, Adonis, Bacch…
1954 · PDF PAGE 213
…tough Bolshevik who naturally disbelieved in Heaven and Hell and a Life beyond the Grave. This man was doing "underground" revolutionary work in St. Petersburg when the War broke out; but he was caught by the police and exiled to the far north of Siberia. In the second winter of the War he escaped from his prison camp and reached an Eskimo village where they gave him shelter until the spring. They lived, he said, in beastly conditions, and the only one whom he could talk to was the Shaman, or medicine man, who knew a little Russian. The Shaman …
1929 · PDF PAGE 361
361 During this walk across Spain, I had much leisure for meditation. I was pledged to do my work in the world, and that meant my becoming a public character and one sure to arouse controversy. I thought out my plan of campaign during this walk. I decided first of all, that the most important point was never to forget that I was a gentleman and keep my honour the more spotless that I was assuming a position whose professors were rarely well born, more rarely well bred, hardly ever sincere, and still less frequently honest even in the most ordin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 178
…d yards and the three miles at Queens. But apart from this, there seems to be some subtle factor which determines the limit of the day's work. But if I could not explain, at least I thoroughly appreciated, the conditions. Another difficulty made it clear that the foreigners in the expedition were simply dead weight. Knowles himself, docile, cheerful and phlegmatic, could not give much active assistance. In view of the character of the glacier, the party could no longer travel as a unit after leaving terra firma. Only Eckenstein and I spoke Hind…
1910 · PDF PAGE 499
…1883. ais. COX (George W.; 47.4.). The Mythology of the Aryan Nations. 2 vols. 8vo. Cloth, uncut, 1870. 215. _ This valuable and erudite work is thus sub-divided: Popular Theories of the Origin and Growth of Mythology; Rela- lation of Mythology to Language; Source of Mythical Speech; Development of Myths; Greek Conceptions of Mythical ‘Tradition; Theory of Greek Mythology as an Eclectic System; Diffusion of Myths: Modern Euemerism; Greek Dyn- astic and Popular Legends in relation to Tribal and National Names; Mythical Phrases fu terials of the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 499
…1883. ais. COX (George W.; 47.4.). The Mythology of the Aryan Nations. 2 vols. 8vo. Cloth, uncut, 1870. 215. _ This valuable and erudite work is thus sub-divided: Popular Theories of the Origin and Growth of Mythology; Rela- lation of Mythology to Language; Source of Mythical Speech; Development of Myths; Greek Conceptions of Mythical ‘Tradition; Theory of Greek Mythology as an Eclectic System; Diffusion of Myths: Modern Euemerism; Greek Dyn- astic and Popular Legends in relation to Tribal and National Names; Mythical Phrases fu terials of the …
1954 · PDF PAGE 57
…mology asserts the identity . In these matters you must be catholic, eclectic, even synchretic. And you must consider the nature of your work. If I wanted to evoke Taphthartharath, there would be little help indeed from any but the Qabalistic system; for that spirit's precise forms and numbers are not to be found in any other. The converse, however, is not so true. The Qabalah, properly understood , properly treated , is so universal that one can vamp up a ritual to suit almost "any name and form." But in such a case one may expect to have to r…
1954 · PDF PAGE 278
…he A :. A: .. You swear to refuse all the "rewards," to acquire your new vehicle without a moment's delay, so that you may carry on your work of helping Mankind with the minimum of interruption. Like all true Magical Oaths, it is certain of success. So then we have a man not only very well prepared to reincarnate at once-this means about six months after his death, for his vehicle will be a foetus about three months old, but to extirpate more deliberately all impressions that may assail its integrity. Alternatively, there may be something in th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 503
…e main line of argument. My most important point is to insist that even with the most familiar forms of energy, man has done no creative work so ever. He has discovered, examined, measured (rather clumsily) and used, but in no case has he understood, still less explained, the causes of phenomena. Sometimes he cannot even reconcile different "laws of Nature ." So we find l.W.N. Sullivan exclaiming "The scientific adventure may yet have to be abandoned," and to me personally he confessed "It may yet turn out that the mathematical approach to Real…