1922 · PDF PAGE 21
Diary of a Drug Fiend
… worn by practice into perfect easi- ness. Yet the man had a mind for all that. Some instinct told him that he had been meant for better things. D.D.F. B
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Diary of a Drug Fiend
…ions don’t bother us, as soon as we see their object. In civilised life, so-called, at least two-thirds of every one’s time is wasted on things that don’t matter. The idea of this place is to give every one the maximum time for doing his own Will. Of course, if you come here with the fixed determination to resent everything that is different to what you are accustomed to, you can work yourself up into a constant irritation, which is all the worse because there is nothing to interfere with your indulgence. When I came here two years ago, every d…
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1954 · PDF PAGE 153
Magick Without Tears
…uin, and madness, and fever, and destruction . And thou, that art an heap of dry dust in the city of the Pyramids, must understand these things. Beware, therefore, 0 thou who art appointed to understand the secret of the Outermost Abyss, for in every Abyss thou must assume the mask and form of the Angel thereof. Hadst thou a name, thou wert irrevocably lost. Search, therefore, if there be yet one drop of blood that is not gathered into the cup of Babylon the Beautiful; for in that little pile of dust, if there could be one drop of blood, it sho…
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1954 · PDF PAGE 425
Magick Without Tears
392 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS is nearly always a mistake to try to do things entirely off one's own bat . It is much simpler to look for an existing force, in good working order , that is doing the sort of stuff that you need, and take from it, or control in it, just that bit of it that you happen to require . You can, theoretically , walk from Cadiz to Vladivostock; but unless there be some special reason, it will save time and waste of energy to make use of a fraction of the machine-power that happens to be moving in that direction . This is parti…
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1922 · PDF PAGE 73
Diary of a Drug Fiend
… fact in every subtle harmony of glance and gesture. The world had stopped suddenly still. We were alone in the night and the silence of things. We
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1922 · PDF PAGE 220
Diary of a Drug Fiend
…that I had ever had to show him. My only asset had made me bankrupt for ever! Maisie had been talking quietly while I was thinking these things. I slid out of my concentration to hear her voice once more. She was in the middle of an explanation of her relations with Basil. “‘ He claims to be utterly selfish,’ vibrated her tense tones, “ because he includes every individual in his idea of himself. He can’t feel free as long as there are slaves about. Of course, there are some people whose nature it is to be slaves; they must be left to serve. Bu…
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1954 · PDF PAGE 257
Magick Without Tears
… they meant much more than to counsel the avoidance of extremes , whether of measures or of opinions ; and to advocate moderation in all things. James Hilton has a most amusing Chinese in his Lost Horizon. When the American 100 percent he-man, mixer, joiner , and go-getter, agrees with him about broadmindedness in religious beliefs, and ends "and I'm dead sure you're right!" his host mildly rebukes him, saying: "But we are only moderately sure." Such thought plumbs the Abysses of Wisdom; at least, it may quite possibly do so. Forgive me if I em…
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1954 · PDF PAGE 393
Magick Without Tears
…ent to bed with our tails between our legs. (And yet, from a saner point of view, the Operation had been a shining success. "Miraculous" 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 see…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 187
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
…stly due to lack of food and exercise. The latter complaint seems rather ridiculous; but it is an absolute fact. One must not bring damp things into the tent; if one does, it practically destroys the efficacy of one's protection against cold. One must therefore stay cooped up in one's tent as long as the weather is bad. I was in charge of the kitchen and had to go out in all sorts of weather; but that was hardly exercise. I often found that by the time I had filled and lighted the stoves and got the snow melted, I could not stand the cold any l…
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1907 · PDF PAGE 16
Konx Om Pax
…ng truth of thought by mere expertness of mechanic skill. Then, seeing the thought as fear, I quench it masterly. Whence rise other evil things; the thought “ Is this too mere trickery of the mind? ” “ Is this too cowardice? ” and others by the score. So answering one by one, and one and all, reason breaks down, and either deep sleep loosens all my limbs, and darkness falls upon my soul, or else—— But you know well what else, dear children of the Light.
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1922 · PDF PAGE 286
Diary of a Drug Fiend
… were evenly distributed along the line, it was a matter of trench warfare. Great victories and defeats were impossible in the nature of things. But once the troops were massed at points of vantage, aggregated in huge mobile units, it became possible to destroy them on the large scale. When a British square is broken, the annihilation of
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1954 · PDF PAGE 379
Magick Without Tears
…s languor, force and fire, are of us." (A L, II: 20) What's more, meanness does not even pay! I propose to tell you why this is, and how things work out. What is money? A medium of exchange devised to facilitate the transaction of business. Oil in the engine. Very good, then; if instead of letting it flow 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 Fa…
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1996 · PDF PAGE 174
The Law is for All
…ody, and starved in mind; woman, morally fettered by Her heroic oath to save the race, no care of cost, helpless and hard, endured these things, endured from age to age. Hers was no loud spectacular sacrifice, no cross on a hill-top, with the world agaze, and monstrous miracles to echo the applause of heaven. She suffered and triumphed in most shameful silence; she had no friend, no follower, none to aid or approve. For thanks she had but maudlin flatteries, and knew what cruel- cold scorn the hearts of men scarce cared to hide. She agonized, r…
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1907 · PDF PAGE 55
Konx Om Pax
… are his powers? He can watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom ; Nor heed, nor see, what things they be . . . Let Mr. Straightforward and Mr. Veracity and Mr. Scom-tmtell-a lie and Mr. George Washington Redivivus reflect that there are people in the world with sensoria sighted to a different range from themselves! There is such a thing as a point of view. The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto the Man in the Moon, who stood on the shores of Lake Copernicus and said: “What a beautiful
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1912 · PDF PAGE 299
The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)
…the city gate, Allah! Allah! My fingers have gone and my toes as well, And the leprous spots on my body swell, But Allah Eternal does all things well. Allah l Allah! Akbar !" BUNCO. THE 8001: OF REVELATIONS OF Jm CROW, J. & J. BENNETT. 1:. THE best of this book is that it reads well. Ithought a priori (a) it read very well weekly; in a lump it will bore; (b) it only read well weekly because of its pornographic or Prudential surroundings. But, lol it is most excellent, VIII R 257
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1912 · PDF PAGE 299
The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)
…the city gate, Allah! Allah! My fingers have gone and my toes as well, And the leprous spots on my body swell, But Allah Eternal does all things well. Allah l Allah! Akbar !" BUNCO. THE 8001: OF REVELATIONS OF Jm CROW, J. & J. BENNETT. 1:. THE best of this book is that it reads well. Ithought a priori (a) it read very well weekly; in a lump it will bore; (b) it only read well weekly because of its pornographic or Prudential surroundings. But, lol it is most excellent, VIII R 257
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1954 · PDF PAGE 107
Magick Without Tears
…der the destruction of the illusion of evil as the reuniting of the consciousness with Parabrahm. The unfortunate part of this scheme of things is that on seeking to define Parabrahm for the purpose of returning to Its purity, it is discovered sooner or later, that It possesses no qualities at all! In other words, as the fanner said, on being shown the elephant: There ain't no sich animile. It was Gautama Buddha who perceived the inutility of dragging in this imaginary pachyderm. Since our Para brahm, he said to the Hindu philosophers, is actua…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 115
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
… word or action, save such as pertained directly to my magical aspirations. When I took it off I was, on the contrary, to permit no such things; I was to be utterly uninitiate. It was like Jekyll and Hyde, but with the two personalities balanced and complete in themselves. I found this practice of very great service. It was in fact essentially a beginning of systematic control of thought. The method is now incorporated in the instructions of the A.'. A.'. (See Liber Jugorum.) Mexico proved a glorious galloping ground for my Pegasus. The magnifi…
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1904 · PDF PAGE 58
The Goetia
…NESSENFATOAL or INESSENFATALL, PATHTUMON or PaTHaTumoN, and ITEmon; that thou appearest here before this Circle to fulfil my will in all things that seem good unto me. And if thou be still so disobedient, and refusest still to come, I will in the power and by the power of the name of the SuPpREME AND EVERLASTING Lorp Gop Who created both thee and me and all the world in six days, and what is con- tained therein, Ezz, Saray£, and by the power of this name PRIMEUMATON which commandeth the whole host of Heaven, curse thee, and deprive thee of thin…
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1907 · PDF PAGE 70
Konx Om Pax
…present I am quite unconscious of my heart heating; it is not even an illusion! Yet it maintains its just relation to the other illusory things. So, no doubt, an adept is quite unconscious of the acts and thoughts performed by him, acts and thoughts which seem to imply conscious volition. What about your poetry? Bowley. Certainly, I am never—very seldom—very very seldom— aware of what I am going to write, am writing, have written. I know, for example, roughly, that we have been talking about Truth to-night. But Heaven help me if I should try to…
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