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Page 87 of 1121922 · PDF PAGE 322
…e glance at the incomparable beauty of the place; a beauty which varies every day and never tires. Look at the sunset every night. It is good for two hours of grand opera. It is almost stupefying to sit on the terrace of the villa and watch the ever- changing glories of night-fall. And night itself! There stands the Pole Star over the rock. As the months move the Great Bear wheels about its stable splendour, and one’s mind begins to work on a totally different scale of time. Each revolution of the heavens about the Pole is like the second hand …
1929 · PDF PAGE 117
…l. It is through the mutual destruction of these antagonisms in the mental and moral being of the magician that Samadhi is begotten. III Good examples of the use of change of position are given in the manuscripts Z.i and Z.3; 1 explanatory of the Néophyte Ritual of the G. D., where the candidate is taken to various stations in the Temple, each station having a symbolic meaning of its own; but in pure invocation a better example is given in Liber 831 2. In the construction of a ceremony an important thing to décidé is whether you will or will no…
1954 · PDF PAGE 79
…n by the English, while other nations prefer chien, hund, cane, kalb, kutta, and so on. All symbols, you see, my dear child, and it's no good your kicking! But it doesn't stop there. When we try to convey thought by writing, we are bound to sit down solidly, and construct a holy Qabalah out of nothing. Why would a curve open to the right, sound like the ocean, open at the top , like you? And all these arbitrary symbolic letters are combined by just as symbolic and arbitrary devices to take on conventional
1954 · PDF PAGE 444
THE GOD-LETTERS 411 Good! We'll call it D-Day and drop our paratroops . 0 is a sharp, sudden, forceful explosive sound, cut off smartly. Now then I can't tell whether you will connect this with ejaculation, with the idea of paternity. Whether or no, a vast number of people did so in the dawn of speech. Even to-day children seem instinctively to say "Dad" for "Father," though no allowance can be made for cases of mistaken identity. And the most ancient Father-Gods of the oldest and simplest civilizations are thus named. In Sumer, He was AD, or A…
1954 · PDF PAGE 537
…ight simplify this explanation by constructing some sort of apophthegm; Magic is the journey from 0 to 2, Yoga from 2 to o. It is a very good rule for the Yogi to keep his mind constantly fixed on the fact that any idea soever is false. There is actually a Hindu proverb "That which can be thought is not true." Consequently the existence of any idea in the mind is an immediate refutation of it, but equally the contraries as well as contradictory of that idea are false, and the result of this is to knock the second law of formal logic to pieces. …
1922 · PDF PAGE 106
…at’s what it was. _ Then his face lightened up. He had got the idea all right. You can always trust these chaps when you strike a really good man. What was missing was something red | I told you about Lou’s mouth; her long, jagged, snaky, scarlet streak always writhing and twisting as if it had a separate life of its own and were perpetually in some delicious kind of torture! The man saw immediately what was necessary. The mouth had to be repeated symbolically. That’s the whole secret of art. So he fished out a snake of pigeon’s blood rubies. M…
1954 · PDF PAGE 38
… the cost. I think that it is altogether wrong to allow yourself to be worried by "psychological, moral and artistic problems." It is no good your starting anything of any kind unless you can see clearly into the simplicity of truth. All this humming and hawing about things is moral poison. What is the use of being a woman if you have not got an intuition, an instinct enabling you to distinguish between the genuine and the sham? Your state of mind suggests to me that you must have been, in the past, under the influence of people who were always…
1906 · PDF PAGE 174
…ught I sported Roland’s crest,*° With wisdom saddled, spurred, and booted, (As I my Jesus) with a jest.*! So here is my tribute —a jolly good strong ’un—— 160 To the eunuch, the faddist, the fool, and the wrong ’un ! It’s fun when you say “A mysterious way * God moves in to fix up his Maskelyne tricks. He trots on the tides, on the tempest he rides (Like Cosmo); and as for-his pace, we bethought us 165 Achilles could never catch up with that tortoise !” No flyer, but very “ Who’s Griffiths?” * No jackpot ! I straddle the blind, age! At hymns I’…
1929 · PDF PAGE 50
…n of the Cross and the Rose is a constant 1. There is a much deeper interprétation in which Pentheus is himself “The Dying God”. See my “Good Hunting!” and Dr. J. G. Frazer’s “Golden Bough 2. See “The Book of Lies,” Liber 333, for se vend sermons to this effect. Caps. A, Af H, LE, II, IH, KA, KH, in particular. The réin¬ carnation of the Khu or magical Self is another matter entirely, too abstruse to discuss in this elementary manual. 14
1954 · PDF PAGE 434
… once knew a lady of some seventy summers. She came of a noble Polish family; she was short, sturdy , rather plump but singularly agile; good-looking in a brutal sort of way. But-her eyes! For fifty years she had lived nearly all the year round in her chateau in Touraine. She had plenty of money, and had always surrounded herself with a dozen or more boys and young men. (By young I mean up to forty .) She not only looked twenty-five but she lived twenty-five. It was a genuine , natural , spontaneous twenty-five, not a gallant effort. She would …
1996 · PDF PAGE 144
…turban and a dagger. The “moral” man is living by the no-reason of Laws, and that is stupid and inadequate even when the Laws still hold good; for he is a mere mechanism, resourceless should any danger that is not already provided for in his original design chance to arise. Respect for routine is the mark of the second-rate man. The “immoral” man, defying convention by shouting aloud in church, may indeed be “brawling”; but equally he may be a sensi tive who has felt the first tremor of an earthquake. We of Thelema encourage every possible var…
1929 · PDF PAGE 156
…o everyone from the lieutenant-governor to the hotel-keeper. I think he was rather staggered when I told him that, as he had been a very good servant in other respects, I would give him as backsheesh the bottle of champagne and the three tins which he had already stolen. He appeared very surprised at my having detected this theft. Whereby hangs a tale. On leaving Rangoon I gave him a list of all the provision, with the instructions that when he took anything from the store he was to bring the list to me and have that thing crossed off. On the s…
1910 · PDF PAGE 198
…The best so far: the incense troubled me somewhat.] 12.26 p.m. 12.57 p.m. 31m. 30 breaks, [Mantra evolved into “tartsano.”+ I was not in good form and suspect many breaks of long duration.] I keep Mantra going all day. 4.58 p.m. 5.9 p.m. Pranayama 11m. Perspiration. 5.14 p.m. 5.25pm. Pranayama 11 m. Wound up with a Grand = Prana- yama.t 5.28 p.m. 6.6 p.m. 38 m. 30 breaks. [Very tired towards end and difficult to get settled. To me it seems evident that the first ten breaks or so are rapid.] 6.10 p.m. 6.26 p.m. Pranayama 16 m. 8.15 p.m. 8.47 p.m…
1910 · PDF PAGE 198
…The best so far: the incense troubled me somewhat.] 12.26 p.m. 12.57 p.m. 31m. 30 breaks, [Mantra evolved into “tartsano.”+ I was not in good form and suspect many breaks of long duration.] I keep Mantra going all day. 4.58 p.m. 5.9 p.m. Pranayama 11m. Perspiration. 5.14 p.m. 5.25pm. Pranayama 11 m. Wound up with a Grand = Prana- yama.t 5.28 p.m. 6.6 p.m. 38 m. 30 breaks. [Very tired towards end and difficult to get settled. To me it seems evident that the first ten breaks or so are rapid.] 6.10 p.m. 6.26 p.m. Pranayama 16 m. 8.15 p.m. 8.47 p.m…
1954 · PDF PAGE 18
…n" for this procedure . It implied that by so doing, a tendency would be initiated toward concentration which would stand the student in good stead when, or as, he approached the problem of teaching the mind to center itself. Letter A gives much of this approach, but the concept is scattered throughout the book. His signature appended to all the letters is always "666." This may require a few words of explanation for the reader who has not read other Crowley books and become familiar with the symbol. Crowley was brought up in a household domina…
1996 · PDF PAGE 112
…od;” they are troglodytes, as dangerous to society as any other thieves and murderers. The Christians to the Lions! Yet, in the reign of Good Queen Victoria, Matthew Arnold was considered rather hot stuff as an infidel! Tempora mutantur, p.d.q.,1 when a Magus gets on the job. 1 [Lat. “times change” and slang “pretty damn quick.”] The quintessence of this verse is (however) its revelation of the nature of Hadit as a self-conscious and individual Being, although impersonal. He is an ultifnate, independent, and unique element in Nature, impenetrab…
1954 · PDF PAGE 246
…ly very necessary to have grasped firmly the doctrine that "a thing is only true insofar as it contains its contradiction in itself." (A good way to realize this is by keeping up a merry dance of paradoxes, such as infest Logic and Mathematics. The repeated butting of the head against a brick wall is bound in the long run to shake up the little grey cells [as Poirot might say] , teach you to distrust any train of argument , however apparently impeccable the syllogisms, and to seek ever more eagerly the dawn of that Neschamic consciousness where…
1996 · PDF PAGE 91
…n is Restriction.” To us, then, “evil” is a relative term; it is “that which hinders one from fulfilling his true Will.” (E.g., rain is “good” or “bad” for the farmer accord ing to the requirements of his crops.) The Osirian Rituals inculcating self-sacrifice to an abstract ideal, mutilation to appease an ex cathedra' morality, fidelity to a priori formulas, etc., teach false and futile methods of acquiring false Knowledge; they must be “cast away” or “purged”. The Schools of Initiation must be reformed. 6. I am the flame that burns in every h…
1922 · PDF PAGE 24
…nally alone, is horrible. I slipped out of time altogether into eternity. I felt myself in the presence of some tremendous influence for good or evil. I felt as though I had been born—I don’t know whether you know what I mean. I can’t help it, but I can’t put it any different. ' It’s like this: nothing had ever happened to me in my life before. You know how it is when you come out of ether or nitrous-oxide at the dentist’s—you come back to somewhere, a familiar somewhere; but the place from which you have come is nowhere, and yet you have been …
1929 · PDF PAGE 220
…nged to its old supercilious slurring. "Bloody Bill was afraid for his dynasty?" "Scared green." "Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me — almost as if I were going to think!" Lord Antony obliged with silence. The five minutes became twenty. Then Cyril spoke. "I had better get to Cripps double quick," said he; "I'm his Intelligence Officer, and I think it my duty to inform him of the plans of the German