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Page 78 of 1141922 · PDF PAGE 253
…one’s individual anguish is abated. Sympathy with universal suffering brings one into a certain sombre serenity. It does not show us the way of escape, if such there be, but at least it makes the idea of escape thinkable. As long as one is trying to get out of the burning theatre for one’s own sake, the panic makes concerted action impossible. ‘‘ Every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost ”’ is not the kind of order that is likely to secure victory. It does not even ensure the safety of any one man. How quickly I had recovered my own…
1922 · PDF PAGE 279
…d that was a mistake.” “We'll be back in about an hour,” said Lamus, “and take you to lunch at Hindhead. Have you a pocket-knife, by the way?” “Why, yes,” I said with surprise. ‘ Why?” “ Otherwise I would have left you mine. You may need one to sharpen your pencil.” : Lou and I fell to talking as soon as they were gone. We were already better in this respect, that we had begun to take an interest in ourselves once more. We resorted once or twice to heroin during the absence of our friend; and we made a kind of little family joke
1954 · PDF PAGE 22
…r. Only a few sections have been lost due to Crowley's constant moving from pillar to post, and the carelessness of those around him. Anyway, he offers some meaningful suggestions when he considers the diary in relationship to the magical memory. He is far clearer and more provocative on this subject than he has ever been before. Again, these insights are confined to no one particular letter but are scattered through all of them. The interested student could keep several notebooks, each devoted to some particular subject, such as the magical me…
1954 · PDF PAGE 237
…he city wall; the "gens," the clan, the tribe, the patrie, to be outside means danger from cold, hunger and thirst, raiding parties, highway robbers, bears, wolves and tigers. To go out was to take a risk; and, your labour and courage being assets to your kinsmen, you were also a bad man; in fact, a "bounder" or "outsider ." Debauch is simply 'to go out of doors'! St. John says: "Without 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 Restrictio…
1954 · PDF PAGE 454
…. More, he has been particularly trained for this form of asceticism by all sorts of secret methods and practices; 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 appr…
1996 · PDF PAGE 180
Chapter III A Verses 56-57 181 She has had no chance to Love unless she first renounced the respect of society, and found a way to drive the wolf of hunger from her door. Her chance is come! In any Abbey of Thelema any woman is welcome; there she is free to do her will, and held in honour for the doing. The child of love is a star, even as all are stars; but such an one we specially cherish; it is a trophy of battle fought and won! 57. Despise also all cowards; professional soldiers who dare not fight, but play; all fools despise! Commentary: T…
1904 · PDF PAGE 71
…cteristic of Tahuti. 157. Rolands crest.30—See “Two poets of Croisic,” xci. 159. A jest.31—See above : Ascension Day. 162. A mysterious way.32— “ God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform ; He plants His foodsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.” Intentional species ? 171. The old hymn.33—This hymn, quoted I fear with some failure of memory—I have not the documents at hand—is attributed to the late Bishop of Natal, though I doubt this, as the consistent and trustful piety of its sentiment is ill-suited to the author of those d…
1929 · PDF PAGE 357
… again and walked home up the boulevard with Neuburg, with me hanging on the outskirts, pleading and gesticulating to be forgiven, and always receiving the most austere rebuffs. At the same time she could not forgive Neuburg either. He took it absolutely to heart; he would never be able to get over having insulted the fairest and dearest and purest of God's creatures. Of course he would never speak to me again either. I let him suffer for two or three days, then one afternoon I went across to his hotel and told him that this nonsense had gone o…
1922 · PDF PAGE 290
…ncidents bounced into my mind. There were all sorts of stratagems for dodging the regulations, on the part of people who in the ordinary way were plain straightforward law-abiding citizens. “Of course, we must have restrictions about love and drink and drugs. It is quite obvious how frightfully people would abuse their liberty if they had it.” “I’m sorry to have to disagree,’ said Lamus. “ And as you know, I’ve got into endless trouble of one sort or another for holding the views I do. But I’m afraid I do honestly think that most of the trouble…
1922 · PDF PAGE 313
Out of Harm’s Way 299 to herself, but to herself as she might have been before I ever knew her. “When those people arrived this afternoon,” she said quite calmly, “‘ I saw at once that they were up to some game. I knew why Gretel wanted to get me out of the room, and I tackled her about it point-blank. She told me the truth, I think, as nearly as a woman of that sort can ever get to it. Something about buying shares in a chemical works ? ”’ “Yes, certainly,” I returned, and I could feel the hostility creeping into my voice. “And why not? It’s a…
1922 · PDF PAGE 351
…and a very, very little would make me feel so very, very good. 26. We can’t stop while we have it—the temptation is too strong. The best way is to finish it. We probably won't be able to get any more, so we take it in order to stop taking it. 27. Claude Farrére’s story of Rodolphe Hafner. Suppose I take all this pains to stop drugs and then get cancer or something right away, what a fool I shall feel| “Help you at all? ”’ asked Lamus. Well, honestly, it did not. I had thought out most of those things for myself at one time or another ; and I se…
1922 · PDF PAGE 356
… 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. The more I regained consciousness of myself, of Telepylus, and of the immediate past, the more these things became unreal. The true “I’’ was the mathematician and engineer working on the helicopter, and the interval had been an elaborate nightmare. I threw it all off like a retriever coming out of a pond with a stick in his mouth, and bent myself to my work. I was disturbed by some person …
1954 · PDF PAGE 409
…tion with any other person except your immediate superior or the one of whom you are yourself in charge is discouraged in every possible way. There are of course exceptions. It is necessary, though regrettably so, for personal instruction in the practices to be given or received. For all that, I wish I could show you 200 or 300 letters that I have received in the last twenty years or so: they tell me without a shadow of doubt that anything like fraternization leads only to mischief. When you wish instruction from your superior, it should be for…
1996 · PDF PAGE 27
… and “good” for coffee. The indivisible essences of things, their “Souls,” are indifferent to all conditions soever, for none can in any way affect them. 6. Be thou Hadit, my secret centre, my heart & my tongue! 7. Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass the minister of Hoor-paar- kraat. Commentary: Aiwass is the name given by Ouarda the Seer3 as that of the Intelligence Communicating.
1922 · PDF PAGE 371
…told us that the evening meal was ready. We shut up the house, and ran laughing up the slopes. They no longer tired and daunted us. Half-way to the house, we met the tiny Dionysus, full of importance. He had been deputed to remind us of dinner. Sister Athena (we laughed to think) must have realised that our honeymoon had begun ; and—this time—it was no spasmodic exaltation depending on the transitory excitement of passion, or stimulants, but on the fact of our true spiritual marriage, in which we were essentially united to each other not for th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 28
…'' and "D" material. But I 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 reco…
1954 · PDF PAGE 414
…owerful of all my passions-bar sloth-is Pride; and here was I, the object of universal contempt. So, when I was able to determine my own way of life, I observed mildly "Pike's Peak or bust!" and chose for my sports the two, mountain climbing and big-game shooting, reputed the most dangerous. It was a desperate remedy, but it worked. No half measures, either! I used to wander into the jungle alone, looking for tigers, and trusting to my sense of direction to take me back to camp. All my mountain climbing was guideless, and a very great deal of i…
1917 · PDF PAGE 1
…vep sy THE O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis) Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law I AM often asked why I begin my letters in this way. I No matter whether I am writing to my lady or to my butcher, always I begin with these eleven words. Why, how else should I begin? What other greeting could be so glad? Look, brother, we are free! Rejoice with me, sister, there is no Law beyond Do What Thou Wilt! I write this for those who have not read our Sacred Book, Il the Book of the Law, or for those who, reading it, have somehow failed to understa…
1922 · PDF PAGE 211
…out of him. This morning has taken everything out of me. I don’t care about saving myself. I know I can’t save Peter. Why must a woman always have a man for her motive ? All I want is H. Both Cockie and I need it heHishly. “Look here, Lou,’ he said with a cunning grin, such as I’d never seen before, quite out of keeping with his character. ‘‘ You doll yourself up and try the doctors. A man told me last night that there were some who would give you a prescription if you paid them enough. A tenner ought to do the trick.” He pulled some dirty crum…
1922 · PDF PAGE 269
King Lamus Intervenes 255 this; that they started taking the drugs because life, in one way or another, was one too many for them. And what is the result? The drugs have not in the least relieved the monotony of life or whatever their trouble was, and yet they have got into a state very like that of death, in which they are impotent to struggle. No, we must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige. e can face that adventure as we've faced the others.”’ The personality of the man radiated en…