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Page 79 of 1071919 · PDF PAGE 139
…he day he received his first written instructions from his Neophyte, Frater P.A. As those instructions represent the basis upon which he worked for a considerable period, I shall include them here, in spite of the fact that it may have been out of order for him to work on definite instructions at all, since the Probationer is supposed to choose for himself those practices which please him best, and to experiment there- with for himself. Since however he did not know this at the time, he cannot be blamed for doing his best along the lines laid d…
1944 · PDF PAGE 141
…iris. It is hardly possible definitely to disentangle these complications, but for the student it is sufficient if he will be content to work with one legend at a time. It is natural that the Aeon of Osiris, the regimen of Air, of strife, of intellect, should be thus confused; that its symbols and formulas should overlap, should contradict each other. It is impossible to harmonize the multitudinous fables or parables, because each was invented to emphasize some formula that was regarded as imperative to serve some local or temporal purpose.
1954 · PDF PAGE 252
… to see what you will have gained by so doing, and I feel bound to add that you might easily cause a great deal of misunderstanding, and work a rather stupid kind of mischief. The word does not occur in The Book of the Law. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1922 · PDF PAGE 283
…s healthy person refreshed by sleep; it is able to stimulate you because your sleep has given you some reserves of force on which it can work. When you take it at night, you are administering it to a sick person, which is a very different thing. However, what you should do is to replace it at night by these tablets, with a nice warm drink of whisky or rum and water, and you will find yourself asleep before you know it. Then in the morning, you awake much fresher than usual, and the heroin will have something more to catch hold of. The result of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 24
my thought may so work on the minci of another person as to produce far-reaching physical changes in him, or in others through him.) (17) A man may learn to use any force so as to serve any purpose, by taking advantage of the above theorems. (Illustration: A man may use a razor to make himself vigilant over his speech, by using it to eut himself whenever he unguardedly utters a chosen word. He may serve the same purpose by resolving that every incident of his life shall remind him of a particular thing, making every impression the starting poin…
1954 · PDF PAGE 175
…setting up obstacles , real or imaginary, in your own path; which is what most people do. It is almost laughable to think that the Great Work consists merely in "letting her rip"; but Karma bumps you from one side of the toboggan slide to the other, until you "come into the straight." (There's a chapter or two in The Book of Lies about this, but
1922 · PDF PAGE 203
…s if he had soiled his pencil. The tablet made me feel better; but I think that the atmosphere of the man did more than its share of the work. I felt nearly normal when I got up to go. I didn’t want his friends to see me. I knew too well what I was looking like. He stopped me at the door. “You haven't any of that stuff, I take it?” he said.
1929 · PDF PAGE 23
…of these forces. Imperceptible influences are therefore associated with ail material phenomena; and there is no reason why we should not work upon matter through those subtle energies as we do through their material bases. In fact, we use magnetic force to move iron, and solar radiation to reproduce images.) (14) Man is capable of being, and using, anytbing which he perçoives, for everything thaï he perçoives is in a certain sense a part of his being. He may thus subjugate the whole Universe of which he is conscious to his individual Will. (Ill…
1929 · PDF PAGE 54
…unities. He knew, too, that my school knowledge was amply sufficient to take me through the university examinations without my doing any work for them. In fact, during my three years I only did one day's work for the university, and that consisted in employing a boy to read through a translation of a Greek play while I followed it in the text. I got either a first or second class in every subject. One of the dons at Pembroke, a clergyman named Heriz Smith, ran a sort of secret cult which was disrespectfully called by outsiders the Belly- bander…
1929 · PDF PAGE 92
…s several incarnations of almost uncompensated wretchedness, anguish and humiliation, voluntarily undertaken so that he might résumé his work un- hampered by spiritual creditors. These are the stigmata. Memory is hall-marked by its corre- spondence with the facts actually observed in the présent. This correspondence may be of two kinds. It is rare (and it is unimpor- tant for the reasons stated above) that one s memory should be confirmed by what may be called, contemptuously, external evidence. It was indeed a reliable contribution to psycholo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 356
…to proclaiming the Law of Thelema I should doubtless have found no obstacle in my path. Those which naturally arise in the course of any work soever, would have been quietly removed by the Secret Chiefs. But I had chosen to fight against myself for five years, and "If Satan shall be divided against Satan, how shall his kingdom stand?" The more I strove, the more I encouraged an internal conflict , and stultified myself. I had been permitted to complete my initiation, for the reason that by doing so I was fitting myself for the fight; but all my…
1909 · PDF PAGE 114
… Ramsay. CONTEMPORARY PsycHOLoGy. By GuiDo ViLLA. Translated by HAROLD Manacorba. Swan Sonnenschein, tos. 6d. net. This long and learned work is not exciting: The good translation shames the pedant’s writing. The wise Professor reconstructs duality, Made of mentality and animality. His arguments are forcible and true, But yet his propositions will not do ; For when the full circumference is run We can resolve them gaily into one. Nay, though he talk of monism, we feel He does not mean it. Mind and reason reel At this conception. Only in the sou…
1909 · PDF PAGE 114
… Ramsay. CONTEMPORARY PsycHOLoGy. By GuiDo ViLLA. Translated by HAROLD Manacorba. Swan Sonnenschein, tos. 6d. net. This long and learned work is not exciting: The good translation shames the pedant’s writing. The wise Professor reconstructs duality, Made of mentality and animality. His arguments are forcible and true, But yet his propositions will not do ; For when the full circumference is run We can resolve them gaily into one. Nay, though he talk of monism, we feel He does not mean it. Mind and reason reel At this conception. Only in the sou…
1922 · PDF PAGE 241
Cold Turkey 227 work to be done. I have become quite blind to the spiritual world. Keletiel never comes. I must wait, wait, wait for the Holy Spirit ; but that’s a memory so far, far off ! There are times when I almost doubt it, yet my faith is the only thing that prevents my going insane. I can't endure without H. The sympathy of suffering has brought Peter closer. We lie about and look at each other; but we can’t touch, the skin is too painful. We are both restless as it is impossible to describe. It irritates us to see each other like this, …
1954 · PDF PAGE 330
…in their original ambit. As I pointed out long ago, the Law of Karma is the Law of Inertia. Nor is it necessary to assert that it always works out in this way; "sometimes" is quite good enough. Besides, to say "sometimes" explains (or rather, avoids) most of the evident objections to the theory . I grant you cheerfully that Reincarnation is a comparatively rare occurrence; and it throws upon the objector the onus of proving an A or an E proposition. What is it that reincarnates? We have had this before , in another connection; it is the Superna…
1954 · PDF PAGE 393
…us" things began to happen; in one way and another the gates opened for Allan to migrate to less asthmatic climes; and the object of our work was amply attained.) I give prominence to this phenomenon because what we saw, little and unsatisfactory as it was, appeared to our normal physical sight. I learned later that there is a kind of sight half-way between that and the astral. In a "regular" astral vision one sees better when the eyes are shut; with this in termediate instrument, to close them would be as completely annihilating as if the visi…
1996 · PDF PAGE 289
… of the Latv]. Liber AL vel Legis sub figura CCXX. New York: Magickal Childe Publishing and o.T.o., 1990. 7 ------------ . The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley. Foyers, UK: Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth, 3 vol., 1905-7.; rpt. Des Plaines, IL: Yogi Publication Society, [c. 1974]. “These works contain many mystical and magical secrets, both stated clearly in prose, and woven into the Robe of sublimest poesy.” 8 ------------ . The Commentaries of AL, ed. Marcelo Motta. New York: Weiser, 1976. 9 ------------ . (series editor, 19…
1929 · PDF PAGE 58
…a tenth of the space. I made a very thorough study of logic as being my critical apparatus. It is hard to say what motive impelled me to work so desperately hard as I did. Much of the work was anything but pleasant; and at the time, no {114} 1. There is no such thing as history. The facts, even were they available, are too numerous to grasp. A selection must be made; and this can only be one-sided, because the selector is enclosed in the same network of time and space as his subject. less than now, it appeared quite useless. But I had a strong …
1910 · PDF PAGE 183
…elled spiritual knowledge, and learning the ancient customs of the people and the manner of their lives. Towards the end of November his work in Ceylon being accomplished he arrived at Madura, and from there he journeyed to Calcutta. At this city he remained for about a month, during almost the whole of which time he suffered from sickness and fever. He however records one interesting incident, which took place during an early morning walk whilst he was in deep meditation: “Whilst in this meditation, a kind of inverted Manichaeism seemed to dev…
1910 · PDF PAGE 183
…elled spiritual knowledge, and learning the ancient customs of the people and the manner of their lives. Towards the end of November his work in Ceylon being accomplished he arrived at Madura, and from there he journeyed to Calcutta. At this city he remained for about a month, during almost the whole of which time he suffered from sickness and fever. He however records one interesting incident, which took place during an early morning walk whilst he was in deep meditation: “Whilst in this meditation, a kind of inverted Manichaeism seemed to dev…