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Page 85 of 1081930 · PDF PAGE 102
…re. This method is harder and higher than that of Liber E. For a simple object as there suggested is of the same nature as the commonest things of life, while even the meanest Deity is beyond uninitiated human understanding. On the same plane, too, Venus is nearer to man than Aphrodite, Aphrodite than Isis, Isis than Babalon, Babalon than Nuit. Let him décidé therefore according to his discrétion on the one hand and his aspiration on the other ; and let not one overrun his fellow. 42. Further concerning the value of this Method. — Certain objec…
1954 · PDF PAGE 18
…household dominated by the religion of the Plymouth Brethren in England. This is a fundamentalist Christian sect which, among many other things, regarded the Bible literally as the inspired word of God. Thus it could not be changed in any way, and had to serve as the basis for general daily behavior throughout life. In this household, he was permitted no other
1996 · PDF PAGE 112
…him, who are “hermits”, individualities eternally isolated in reality though they may appear to be lost in their relations with external things. 24. Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall ye find them. Ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there sh…
1922 · PDF PAGE 265
… takes no credit for his marvellous qualities, and has even got over kicking himself for his weaknesses. And so he says the most serious things in the language of absurdity and irony. And when he talks in a serious strain, his language merely accentuates the prodigious sense of humour which, as he says himself, saves him from going insane with horror at the mess into which humanity has got itself. Just as the Roman Empire began to break down when it became universal, when it was so large that no individual mind could grasp the problems which it…
1930 · PDF PAGE 100
…he suprême mortifi¬ cation which is the Absence of the Deity invoked. Yet as in mortal love arises a distaste for food, or a pleasure in things naturally painful, this perversion should be endured and allowed to take its course. Yet not to the interférence with natural bodily health, whereby the instrument of the soûl might be impaired. And concerning sacrifices for love’s sake, they are natural to this Method, and right. But concerning voluntary privations and tortures, without use save as against the devotee, they are generally not natural to…
1954 · PDF PAGE 246
…t , however apparently impeccable the syllogisms, and to seek ever more eagerly the dawn of that Neschamic consciousness where all these things are clearly understood, although impossible to express in rational language.) The prime function of intellect is differentiation; it deals with marks, with limits, with the relations of what is not identical ; in Neschamah all this work has been carried out so perfectly that the "rough working" has passed clean out of mind; just so, you say "I" as if it were an indivisible Unity,
1899 · PDF PAGE 250
…to higher regions, which seem peopled with an unusual number of gory phantoms. They are difficult to read, and where they touch definite things more sensual than sensuous. A poet’s dreams are not often so persistently full of ‘miasmal pestilence- light’ as these. We do not like ‘dawny’ and ‘ frondage,’ and cannot say these verses deserve to be read—sung they could hardly be."— Zhe Athenzum. “Mr. Aleister Crowley has merits as well as faults, although the latter are the more patent. He lacks a sense of humour, but on the other hand he has a high…
1922 · PDF PAGE 209
Below the Brutes 195 The fourth man to whom Peter had gone told the same story, but had been very cordial. He thought he’d help things by standing Peter a dinner and filling him up with alcohol, with the idea that that would help him to support the lack of the other stimulant. It seems that I had to pay for the prescription. No, Lou, you're a naughty girl. You mustn’t be bitter like that. It’s your fault for getting born into a world where ignorance and folly are in constant competition for the premiership of the minds of the educated classes. …
1996 · PDF PAGE 109
…on of hell. Therefore they fly to drink and drugs as to an ansesthetic in the surgical operation of introspection. The craving for these things is caused by the internal misery which their use reveals to the slave-souls. If you are really free, you can take cocaine as simply as salt-water taffy. There is no bet ter rough test of a soul than its attitude to drugs. If a man is sim ple, fearless, eager, he is all right; he will not become a slave. If he is afraid, he is already a slave. Let the whole world take opium, hashish, and the rest; thos…
1910 · PDF PAGE 174
…0. 20=one cycle of 7 minutes) with intervals of 3 minutes after each cycle. Pranayama. Two cycles of 5.10.20. The counting got mixed and things seem to tend to get buzzy and obscure. Found it difficult to follow clearly the second-hand of a watch. One cycle of 4 minutes of 10. 20. 30. * A Mantra, Shi= Peace, Va= Power. It means “Thy peace by power increasing In me by power to peace.” + The four characteristic results of Pranayama are (1) perspiration; (2) rigidity; (3) jumping about like a frog; (4) levitation. P. never experienced this last re…
1910 · PDF PAGE 174
…0. 20=one cycle of 7 minutes) with intervals of 3 minutes after each cycle. Pranayama. Two cycles of 5.10.20. The counting got mixed and things seem to tend to get buzzy and obscure. Found it difficult to follow clearly the second-hand of a watch. One cycle of 4 minutes of 10. 20. 30. * A Mantra, Shi= Peace, Va= Power. It means “Thy peace by power increasing In me by power to peace.” + The four characteristic results of Pranayama are (1) perspiration; (2) rigidity; (3) jumping about like a frog; (4) levitation. P. never experienced this last re…
1922 · PDF PAGE 379
Love Under Will 365 mean that things like heroin and alcohol may be and should be used for the purpose of worshipping, that is, entering into communion with, the ‘Snake that giveth Knowledge and Delight and bright glory’ which is the genius which lies ‘in the core of every star.’ And, ‘Every man and every woman is a star.’ The taking of a drug should be a carefully thought out and purposeful religious act. Experience alone can teach you the right conditions in which the act is legitimate, that is, when it assists you to do your will. If a billi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 189
…ed to go to any length to do so, you are a fool to have the book in your possession at all. Those squares are liable to get loose and do things on their own initiative; and you won't like it. The late Philip Haseltine, a young composer of genius, used one of these squares to get his wife to return to him. He
1919 · PDF PAGE 152
… is content to continue to do so, ex- pecting no results, one often obtains them. (Of course it’s no use trying to fool oneself on these things, you can’t get a result by just saying you don’t carea damn.) Something of the sort seems to have happened in this case, as the following shows. March 12th. “During Lecture on ‘Parsifal,’ I felt illumination within which per- meated my whole being, and I became conscious once more of the Truth of my previous Illumination which I had lost, as it were.” This entry is interesting. Illumination comes, and a…
1922 · PDF PAGE 277
… me up. I must have gone off into a sort of swoon; for I don’t know how it happened, but the fresh, cold air was blowing on my face. Our things had been packed as if by magic, and had been taken out to the motor. The bill had been paid. As I set foot in the car, I heard the landlady asking what she should do if the lady and gentleman came back. I gave the address of my new rooms. As I stumbled into the seat the clear incisive tones of Lala rang across. , “ You'd better tell them that Sir Peter’s far from well. He will probably not be able to se…
1929 · PDF PAGE 525
…aused by failure to harmonize the elements of character.) The essence of the Law is the establishment of right relations between any two things which come into contact: the essence of such relations being "love under will". The only way to keep out of trouble is to understand and therefore to love every impression of which one becomes conscious. Even in my political articles I make the Law of Thelema the sole basis of {828} my articles. I apply it, in short, to every circumstance of life, securing in this way a completely coherent point of view…
1930 · PDF PAGE 30
… propriety permits. Here it is only said this : The Ipsissimus is wholly free from ail limitations soever, existing in the nature of ail things without discriminations of quantity or quality between them. He has identified Being and not-Being and Becoming, action and non-action and tendency to action, with ail other such triplicities, not distinguishing between them in respect of any conditions, or between any one thing and any other thing as to whether it is with or without conditions. He is sworn to accept this Grade in the presence of a witn…
1996 · PDF PAGE 31
…s makes it opaque. The Great Work therefore consists principally in the solution of complexes. Everything in itself is perfect, but when things are muddled, they become “evil.” (This will be understood better in the Light of “The Hermit of AEsopus Island,” q.v.)1 The Doctrine is evidently of supreme importance, from its position as the first “revelation” of Aiwass. 1 [Only fragments survive of this document; see The Equinox IV(2) (1996), and his Confessions, abridged ed., p. 840.] 2 [Usually akh or yekh in modern Egyptian transliteration.] 3 [S…
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
… and at the same time adapt himself to his environment.) (10) Nature is a continuous phenomenon, through we do not know in ail cases how things are connected. (Illustration: Human consciousness dépends on the properties of pi otoplasm, the existence of which dépends on innumerable physical conditions peculiar to this planetj and this planet is determined by the mechanical balance of the whole universe of matter. We may then say that our consciousness is causally connected with the remotest galaxies 3 yet we do not know even how it arises from —…
1930 · PDF PAGE 54
…ith the human mind and with the entire structure of the Universe that the observation of their fall should not enable us to rneasure ail things in heaven and earth. With one piece of curved glass we hâve discovered uncounted galaxies of suns; with another, endless orders of existence in the infinitésimal. With the prism we hâve analysed light so that matter and force hâve become intelligible only as forms of light. With a rod we hâve summoned the invisible energies of electricity to be our familiar spirit serving us to do our Will, whether it b…