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Page 87 of 1081954 · PDF PAGE 138
…w to differentiate and how to integrate your thoughts. Nothing exists in isolation; it is always conditioned by its relations with other things; indeed, in one sense, a thing is no more than the sum of these relations. (For the only "reality," in the long run, is, as we have seen, a Point of View.) Now, this task of organising the mind, of erecting a coherent and intelligible structure, is enormously facilitated by the Qabalah.
1996 · PDF PAGE 82
…ind, but the blue & gold are seen of the seeing. Also I have a secret glory for them that love me. 61. But to love me is better than all things: if under the night stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all; but whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose all in that hour. Ye shall gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall exce…
1930 · PDF PAGE 40
…hat it is unsuited to the solution of the petty puzzles of our earthly existence. In the light'of the Qabalah, the shadows of transitory things are instantly banished. Xhe Y i King is the most satisfactory System for general work. The Master Therion is engagea in the préparation of a treatise on the subject, but the labour involved is so great that He cannot pledge Himself to hâve it ready at any definite time. The ôtudent must theiefoie make his own investigations mto the mean- ing of the 64 hexagrams as best he can. The Yi King is mathematica…
1954 · PDF PAGE 354
…tch Towers anywhere in the house. I daresay I gave up looking rather easily. I had got into a state of disgusted indifference about such things. Rose might have destroyed them in a drunken fit, just as she might have pawned them if they had possessed any commercial value. I shrugged my shoulders accordingly, and gave up the search. The skis that I had promised Ward were not to be found any more than the Watch Towers. After putting Neuburg through his initiation,2 we prepared to go to London. I had let the house, and my 1. The following is from …
1996 · PDF PAGE 42
…se manner, by “marrying” pregnant spinsters to dead soldiers! England has been too deeply hypocritical, of course, to do more than “hush things up”; and is pretending “business as usual,” though every pulpit is aquake with the clamour of bat- eyed bishops, squeaking of the awful immorality of everybody but themselves and their choristers. Englishwomen over 30 have the vote; when the young ’uns get it, good-bye to the old marriage system. America has made marriage a farce by the multiplication and confusion of the Divorce Laws. A friend of mine …
1907 · PDF PAGE 67
…y is a very difficult story to tell—flirted with me his dollar’s worth, and Lord knows how many cents change, not to mention a rare lot of things which I will not specify, thrown in. Any one in this army who denies this can come round any time and get square free of charge. So the river rolled back and Brahmadatta walked across and gave long-armed Bhishma the Togo Touch, and wiped the maidan with Brer Bhima, and bifl'ed Greatly Honoured Frater Dritirasbtra in the eye, and mopped up Old Man Saraswati, and clave Sir Jnanakasha
1929 · PDF PAGE 123
…ds must be excised with ruthless hand; archaisms must be sprinkled like sugar-plums upon the concoction; the fatal human tendency to say things straightforwardly must be detected and defeated by adroit reversals; and, if a glimmer of meaning yet remain under close scrutiny, it must be removed by replacing all the principal verbs by paraphrases in some dead language. This is not to be achieved in a moment; it is not enough to write disconnected nonsense; it must be possible for anyone acquainted with the tortuosities of the author's mind to reso…
1996 · PDF PAGE 182
… for vegetable, as it is poison to animal, life. We have here a picture of the average man, of a fool. He has no will of his own, is all things to all men, is void, a repeater of words of whose sense he knows nought, a drifter, both idle and violent, compact partly of fierce passions that burn up both him self and the other, but mostly of inert and characterless nonentity, with a little heaviness, dullness, and stupefaction for his only positive qualities. Such are the “fools” whom we despise. The man of Thelema is vertebrate, organized, purpo…
1904 · PDF PAGE 56
… Spirit N., forthwith, and without delay, from any or all parts of the world wherever thou mayest be, and make rational answers unto all things that I shall demand of thee. Come thou peaceably, visibly, and affably, now, and without delay, manifesting that which I shall desire. For thou art conjured by the name of the Livine and TRuE Gop, HELioreEn, where- fore fulfil thou my commands, and persist thou therein unto the end, and according unto mine interest, visibly and affably speaking unto me with a voice clear and intelligible without any amb…
1907 · PDF PAGE 56
… Solomon when the young gentleman— ” “ Hush!” said the Angel. “ All this is delusion; examine more closely!” “It is a universe of living things ! ” exclaimed the Man, for it was Thames Water that he examined through the Angel’s 90 h.-p. Mercedes Pocket Microscope. “And oh! if God thought that they were very good, what peculiar tastes He must have!” “Look more closely!” said the Angel, hand ing him a pair of Spectacles from the firm of Kelvin, Boscovitch, Son, and Haeckel. “ Nothing is now visible,” said the Man, “but a purely geometrical concept…
1996 · PDF PAGE 178
…omely, if she is bound to contaminate the purity of her impulse with thoughts of her social, economical, and spiritual status. When such things restrain her, Love may conquer, as often enough it does; but the Beauty engendered is usually stunted or wried, assuming a tragic or cynic mask. The history of the world is full of such stories; it is, one may almost say, the chief motive of Romance. Men and women have to face actual ruin, as well as the prob ability of scandal and disgust, or consent to love within limits which concern not love in the…
1922 · PDF PAGE 162
…ling of absolute repulsion. I don’t know why it is. The least thing irritates me absurdly. I think it’s because every incident, even the things that are pleasant, distracts my mind from the one thing that matters—how to get a supply and go down to Kent and lay off for a bit and have a really good time like we used to last month. I am sure love would come back if we did, and love's the only thing that counts in this world or the next. I feel that it’s only round the corner; but a miss is as good as a mile. It makes it somehow worse to be so near…
1930 · PDF PAGE 63
…his feet. 8. Let there be now placed within his egg a red cross, then a green cross, then a golden cross, then a silver cross j or those things which these shadow forth. Herein is silence j for he that hath rightly performed the méditation will understand the innei mean- ing hereof, and it shall serve as a test of himself and his fellows. 9. Let him now remain in the Pyramid or Cône of Light, as an Egg, but no more of blackness. 10. Then let his body be in the position of the Hanged Man, and let him aspire with ail his force unto the Holy Guard…
1954 · PDF PAGE 362
… practically penniless. I could not see any possible way of carrying on my work. (It will be related in due course how this condition of things came about, and why it was necessary for me to undergo it.) I found myself at Moret, on the edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, with nothing to do but wait. I did not throw up the sponge in passionate despair as I had done once before to my shame-I had been rapped sufficiently hard on the knuckles to cure me of that-but I said to the Gods, "Observe, I have done my damnedest, and here I am at a dead cen…
1996 · PDF PAGE 105
…s perhaps to some no more than a development of the other which happens to be proper to some people. Even in the first Way, it is of all things necessary to begin by exploring one’s own Nature, so as to discover what its pecul iarities are; this is accomplished partly by introspection, but prin cipally by Right Recollection1 2 of the whole phantasmagoria presented to it by experience; for since every event of life is a sym bol of part of the structure of the Soul, the totality of experience must be the “Name” of the whole of that part of the…
1954 · PDF PAGE 245
…ould it possibly matter to the Gospel story that people should think that the Earth moves round the Sun? (Riemann, and oh! such a lot of things, have shown that it didn't and doesn't! This sort of "Truth" is only a set of conventions.) "Oh, don't gas away like this! I want to know what to do about it. Am I to accept this 'caterwauling Gamut, and enlarge my Mind, and call it an Initiation? Or am I to nail my own of-all-Truth Tonic Solfa to the Mast, and go down into the Maelstrom of Insanity with colours flying?" Do you really need Massed Bands …
1907 · PDF PAGE 186
…ebuke your resistance, By mighty Apollo Whose power yet abides, Though his light may not follow Through Stygian tides ! By my power over things Both living and dead, By my influence splendid In heavenly court, The song of me springs. My favour is dread. Be your portals rended! Your bolts be as nought ! The ethereal kings Encompass my head. My soul hath transcended The limits of thought ! Unbar me the gates! Revolve me the hinges! Mine be the Fate! Mine be the springes Wherein ye have taken The spirits forsaken ! But I, shall I quail at a nod? S…
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
…lifies are frivolous and may be deadly. For the great danger of this magical theory is that the student may mistake the alphabet for the things which the words represent. An excellent man of great intelligence, a iearned Qabalist, once amazed the Master Therion by stating that the Tree of Life was the framework of the Universe. It was as if some one had seriously maintained that a ait was a créature constructed by placing the letters C. A. T. in that order. It is no wonder that Magick has excited the ridicule of the unintelligent, since even it…
1905 · PDF PAGE 57
…he contrary. 2 That of Macroprosopus, who ‘‘ neither slumbers nor sleeps.” In which I laugh with hell, And furies chant the knell Of all things clean.
1929 · PDF PAGE 27
… essential impor¬ tance. Such a banker will prove himself superior to others; because he will not be an individual limited by transitory things, but a force of Nature, as împersonal, impartial and eternal as gravitation, as patient and irrésistible as the tides. His System will not be subject to panic, any more than the law of Inverse Squares is disturbed by Elections. He will not be anxious about his affairs because they will not be his; and for that reason he will be able to direct them with the calm, clear-headed confidence of an onlooker, w…