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…e present I am sending you, not for its own sake, but as a token of my deep affection for the loveliest and most charming girl I know. A word in your ear, my dear Lou: the inside is sometimes better than the outside. With my very kindest regards and best wishes to dear Sir Peter and yourself, though I can’t expect you to know that I even exist at the present, “Yours ever devotedly, “* GRETEL.” Lou threw the letter across the table to me. For
1930 · PDF PAGE 133
… the Spirit, the Lord of Création. I am the Eye in the Triangle, the Silver Star that ye adore. 18. I am Baphomet, that is the Eightfold Word that shall be equilibrated with the Three. *9- There is no act or passion that shall not be an hymn in mine honour. 20. Ail holy things and ail symbolic things shall be my sacraments. 21. These animais are sacred unto me 5 the goat, and the duck, and the ass, and the gazelle, the man, the woman and the child. 22. Ail corpses are sacred unto me3 they shall not be touched save in mine eucharist. Ail lonely …
1954 · PDF PAGE 25
…n, who must ultimately turn and use them. "Make love not war" certainly would win his approval. But then he might insist on changing the word "not" and replacing it with "and." The Book of the Law serves as his authority here, governing his every attitude and moral outlook. It gives vast prominence to love-to love under will. But its third and final chapter makes no attempt to soften the hammer blows of violence. "Now let it be first understood that I am a god of War and of Vengeance. I shall deal hardly with them." This is the message of Ra-Ho…
1954 · PDF PAGE 153
…in the outermost Abyss is sickness of the aspiration, and sickness of the will, and sickness of the essence of all, and there is neither word nor thought wherein the image of its image is reflected. And whoso passeth into the outermost Abyss, except he be of them that understand, holdeth out his hands, and boweth his neck, unto the Chains of Choronzon. And as a devil he walketh about the earth, immortal, and he blasteth the flowers of the earth, and he corrupteth the fresh air, and he maketh poisonous the water; and the fire that is the friend …
1954 · PDF PAGE 218
…hardly more.) Skeat, surprisingly, is almost dumb: p. part. of "to enchant" and "from L. fascinum, a spell. " Yes, surprisingly; for the word is one of the many that mean the Phallus. The implication is that there is some sexual element in the exciting and alluring quality, which lifts it altogether above mere "pleasing." To my mind the implication is that there is some quality inherent which is cognate to that too totally irrational quasimagnetic force which has been responsible not only for innumerable personal tragedies-and comedies-but for …
1905 · PDF PAGE 261
…BERTRAM. Only a donkey fastened to a post Moves in a circle. LANDGRAVE. This is noble talk ! THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. Leave the wide circle—word and argument ! Move to the line—the steady will of man, That shall attract the Two, the Breath of Life, The Holy Spirit: land you in the Three, Where form is perfect—in the triangle. TANNHAUSER, My friend, the Three is infinitely small, Mere surface. And I seek the Depth divine! THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. The solid! But the triangle aspires To that same unity that you despise, And lo! the Pyramid! The Sages sa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
… When she was roused, she only muttered: "something about a journey in a letter." Then she suddenly shook herself and went off without a word to her place of business in Bond [16] Street. For she was the representative of one of the great Paris dressmaking houses. Lavinia King never knew how it was managed; she never realized even that it had been managed; hut that afternoon she found herself inextricably bound to her motor millionaire. So Lisa was alone in the apartment. She sat upon the couch, with great eyes, black and lively, staring into e…
1996 · PDF PAGE 83
…e! True Religion is intoxication, in a sense. We are told elsewhere to intoxicate the innermost, not the outermost; but I think that the word “wine” should be taken in its widest sense as meaning that which brings out the soul. Climate, soil, and race change conditions; each man or woman must find and choose the fit intoxicant. Thus hashish in one or other of its forms seems to suit the Moslem, to go with dry heat; opium is right for the Mongol; whiskey for the dour temperament and damp cold climate of the Scot. Sex-expression, too, depends on …
1929 · PDF PAGE 187
…ade. I did not at all realize the cause at first, simple as it was. The true explanation was very far-fetched in the actual sense of the word. My symptoms became unmistakable before long and I had to admit that I was suffering from malaria. The hardships of the journey had removed my physiological protection and the bug stated to buzz about. I was thus the proud possessor of another world's record; the only man who had had malaria at over twenty thousand feet! Incidentally, I was also the only poet at that altitude. I have always been very amus…
1922 · PDF PAGE 130
…us business. You're not going about it in the right spirit. We've got to go about it very quietly and soberly, and then open up when the word comes Over the top.” We pretended to pull ourselves together to please him, but I couldn’t blind my eyes to the fact that I was likely to lose my money, because the white elephant had turned into a quite ordinary Zebu or Brahman cow, or at the best a two-humped or Bactrian dromedary, in any case, an animal entirely unfitted by nature to carry the money of a cautious backer. Agitated by this circumstance, …
1922 · PDF PAGE 286
…the situation into English. The crosses for the last thirty-six hours were crowded into a few spaces, leaving large empty gaps. In other words, the indulgence had become irregular. I stared at the chart as if it had been a ghost. Lamus turned his head and looked down at me over his shoulder with a queer grin. Then he uttered the extraordinary word: ‘ Kriegsptel.”’ I was completely taken aback. What in the name of thunder was the man talking about e And then it slowly dawned upon me that there was an analogy between the chart and the distributio…
1930 · PDF PAGE 57
to 93. 1 Now 93 is thrice 31 ; 31 is LA, “Not” and AL, “The” or “God”; these words run throughout the Book, giving a double meaning to many passages. A third 31 is the compound letter ShT, the two hieroglyphs of Sh and T (many centuries old) being pictures of the “Dramatis Personæ” of the Book; and ShT being a haphazard line scrawled on the MS. touch letters which added to 418, valuing “this circle squared in its failure” as tc correct to six places of décimais, etc. Again: “thou shalt know not”, meaning “thou shalt know LA”; and “he shall disc…
1954 · PDF PAGE 379
…low as freely and smoothly as possible, you baulk its very nature; you prevent it from doing its True Will. So every "restriction" (that word again!) on the exchange of wealth is a direct violation of the Law of Thelema. Parable No. Three, "The Fairy Bank Note." One evening a man walked into an inn and asked for hospitality. In the morning, when his bill came, he found he had nothing but a £ I 00 note. "I'm afraid I've no change till the Banks open." "Oh, stick to it-I'll be back next week-I've enough petrol to take me home." "Handy," thought B…
1954 · PDF PAGE 455
…th our excursions into the "morality" of the Law of the New Aeon, which is the Aeon of Horus, the crowned and conquering child; and-"The word of the Law is eEAHMA ." 3. So much of The Book of the Law deals directly or indirectly with morals that to quote relevant passages would be merely bewildering. Not that this state of mind fails to result from the first, second, third and ninety-third perusals! When Duty bellows loud "Thou must!" The youth replies, "Pike's Peak or Bust!" is all very well, or might be if the bellow gave further particulars.…
1996 · PDF PAGE 84
… of this, and made their reli gious ceremonies orgia, “works.” Puritan foulness, failing to understand what was happening, degraded the word “orgies” to mean debauches. It is the old story of the Fox who lost his tail. If you cannot do anything, call it impossible; or, if that be evidently absurd, call it wicked! It is critics who deny poetry, people without capacity for Ecstasy and Will who call Mysticism moonshine and Magick delusion. It is manless old cats, geldings, and psychopaths, who pretend to detest Love, and persecute Free Women and …
1904 · PDF PAGE 61
… in the fifth I sedulously and conscien- tiously buggered the pieces one by one : but it was no good. Steven Jimson was (in the immortal word of Poe) a nearly liquid mass of loathsome, of de- testable putrescence. Do not think for a moment that my affection was shaken by so slight a cir- cumstance ! But I assure you nay ! I swear it to you upon this holy Relic ! (He produced a piece of the True Touchher home, with the Magdalenes clap-juice sticking to it still, and reverently kissed it) That there was not one ounce of that body of love t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 150
…he scandal and the scorn of men? Than Joseph Smith1 had any man less learning? Yet each of these attained to do his Will; each cried his Word, that all the Earth yet echoes it! And each was able to accomplish this by virtue of that very cir cumstance which seems so cruel. Shall I, who am armed with all their weapons at once, complain that I must go into the fight unfurnished? 1 [Joseph Smith (1805-1844), Mormon prophet who produced The Book of Mormon (1830); Crowley admired his accomplishments.] 2 In previous notes. See also the essay “Time”: …
1906 · PDF PAGE 267
…will go hard with us if we do not!) regard all progress in any direction as morbid. So (as with Lombroso) ‘disease ”’ will become a mere word, like its prede- cessor ‘‘ infidelity,” and cease to convey any obloquy. If Science is never to go beyond its present limits; if the barriers which meta- physical speculation shows to exist are never to be transcended, then indeed we are thrown back on faith, and all the rest of the nauseous mess of medieval superstition, | and we may just as well have vital principle, and creative power as not, for Scien…
1954 · PDF PAGE 19
…6, the number of a Man, he turned all his Qabalistic and philosophical skill in later years toward finding this number in any meaningful word or motto that came his way. Still later, after he had received Liber Legis and was forced, as it were, to obey its precepts, then it was that he began to sign all communications with that significant number. Several of the letters describe a method for studying the Qabalah which deserves more than casual notice. I am calling attention to it specifically for fear that otherwise this approach may be overloo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 88
…e is in Advaitism a most fascinating danger; that is that, up to a certain point, "Religious Experience" tends to support this theory. A word on this. Vulgar minds, such as are happy with a personal God, Vishnu, Jesus, Me1carth, Mithras, or another, often excite themselves-call it "Energized Enthusiasm" if you want to be sarcastic! -to the point of experiencing actual