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Page 90 of 1301919 · PDF PAGE 338
THE EQUINOX morously pretended that this Book is an ancient Tibetan writing.—Eb.] 19. Saith the Great Law: “In order to become the knower of ALL-SELF, thou hast first of SELF to be the knower.” To reach the knowledge of that SELF, thou hast to give up Self to Non-Self, Being to Non-Being, and then thou canst repose between the wings of the GREAT BIRD. Aye, sweet is rest between the wings of that which is not born, nor dies, but is the AUM throughout eternal Ages. The words “give up” may be explained as “yield” in its subtler or quasi-masochisti…
1922 · PDF PAGE 339
…t to do thy will.’ That is why the old hierophants shut up the candidate in silence and darkness. He had the choice between going mad or knowing himself. And when he was brought out into light and life, restored to love and liberty, he was in very truth a Neophyte, a man new-born. Big Lion puts us through it without our knowing what he’s doing. Though I’ve been through it myself, I didn’t know in this clear way what had really happened until I tried to explain it to you.” The sense of being enchanted came over me again very strongly. I looked a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 471
438 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS them, they learn a little-very little-more, getting their Science from a Shilling Handbook and so on, till they know just enough to become dangerous agitators . No, anything like a real education demands leisure, the conversation of the wise, the means of travel, and the rest. There is only one solution : to pick out the diamonds from the clay, cut them, polish them, and set them as they deserve. Attempt no idiot experiments with the muck of the mine! You will observe that 1 am advocating an aristocratic revolution. And…
1907 · PDF PAGE 49
…armer Tyson’s butter and eggs. MOLLY. Must it be now ? GLENSTRAE. Much better now. There, there! Wish me good luck, Percy ! SIR PERCY. I know nothing of your devil’s game. Good luck ! GLENSTRAE. Caste, John Burns.! [Exenunt MARQUIS and MOLLY. LADY GLENSTRAE. Hist! Percy, hither to me. Is no one looking? Sirk PERCY. No, there is no one here. LADY GLENSTRAE, I can cure you. and happy again. I can make you strong O what rapture ! Sir PERCY. What is it ? LADY GLENSTRAE. Here, let me give you this medicine. A little prick of pain, and then—pleasure—…
1954 · PDF PAGE 51
…first gates. The question of noise instantly arises; I think we should have to do it not earlier than nine o'clock at night, and I don't know whether you can manage this. Cara Soror, Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666 Letter G September 4, 1943 Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. "Shall be" (instead of Do what thou wilt is . .. ) not "is." See Liber AL, I: 36,54, and II: 54. Not "Master Perdurabo" : see Magick, p. XXIX. "Care Frater" is enough. 777 is practically unpurchasable: copies fetch £10 or so. Nearly all imp…
1954 · PDF PAGE 339
…lways has to happen, even with well-tried tools, and despite utmost precautions. How many workmen's lives did the Forth Bridge cost? You know, I suppose that a certain number of fatal accidents are always included in the calculations of any project of Public Works. But a new Magical Formula is on a vastly bigger scale. Cast your mind for a moment back to the last occasion, when Osiris succeeded to Isis. In that great cataclysm not only Empires, but civilizations crashed one after another. Three quarters of the Aeon had elapsed before the wine o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 202
… after all these years I glow with boyish pleasure to recall his gracious, unassuming acquiescence in my impertinent existence and his acknowledgement of my Alice, An Adultery as a "little masterpiece". My sonnet on Rodin begins "Here is a man", which Marcel Schwob very properly translated, "Un homme". I took the draft to Rodin's studio. One of the men present was highly indignant. "Who is this Marcel Schwob," He exclaimed, "to pretend to translate from this English? The veriest schoolboy would know that 'here is a man' should be turned into 'V…
1929 · PDF PAGE 395
…rn it. I do not pretend to understand the ritual that runs like a thread of magic through these meetings of the A.'. A.'.. I do not even know what the A.'. A.'. is. But I do know that the whole ceremony was impressive, artistic and produced in those present such a feeling as Crowley must have had when he wrote --- So Shalt thou conquer space, and lastly climb, .............The walls of time: And by the golden path the great have trod .............Reach up to God!
1911 · PDF PAGE 65
…thwart, rowing a strong stroke. We pulled on almost in silence; for when I asked of the fair man his name he answered me only ”I wish to know,” and 01 the dark man “ I wish it were light,” the first clearly a confession of ignorance, the second a patent evasion; which things discomforted me much. Yet we progressed evenly and rapidly, and were mightily 57
1911 · PDF PAGE 65
…thwart, rowing a strong stroke. We pulled on almost in silence; for when I asked of the fair man his name he answered me only ”I wish to know,” and 01 the dark man “ I wish it were light,” the first clearly a confession of ignorance, the second a patent evasion; which things discomforted me much. Yet we progressed evenly and rapidly, and were mightily 57
1907 · PDF PAGE 40
20 KONX OM PAX Via '1 v. Valium and seventy-eight is six times thirteen. To get into the Wake World you must know your thirteen times table quite well. So if you take them both together that makes eleven times thirteen, and then you say “Abrahadabra,” which is a most mysterious word, because it has eleven letters in it. You remember the Houses are numbered both ways, so that the Third House is called the Eighth House too, and the Fifth the Sixth, and so on. But you can’t tell what lovely things that means till you’ve been through them all, and …
1907 · PDF PAGE 295
… is above all , with no other dependence , either on himself or any other ; and is made one , as to his nobler part , with the Utterly Unknown , by the ces sation of all knowing ; and at the same time , in that very know ing nothing , he knows what transcends the mind of man .”— De Mysticâ Theologiâ , cap . i, p . 710 . 2 Eleusis , vol . iii, p . 222 , 3 Ibid . vol . iii, p . 221 ,
1954 · PDF PAGE 90
… nothing one can do about it but put it down boldly as I have done above. It does not matter to our present purpose; all that we need to know is that the strongest prop of the Monist structure has broken off short. Moreover, is it really adequate to postulate an origin of the Universe, as they inevitably do? Merely to deny that there ever was a beginning by saying that this "One" is eternal fails to satisfy me. What is very much worse, I cannot see that to call Evil "illusion" helps us at all. When the Christian Scientist hears that his wife ha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 163
…he dak bungalow at Tret the next morning to find a dignified young gentleman sitting at my bedside. I wondered if I had been ill without knowing it, for his face expressed the sympathetic concern of Luke Fildes' "doctor". Not at all; he was a police inspector who had arrived by tonga, a two-horse rattletrap which is used by pe&127ple in what passes for a hurry in these parts of the world. All he knew was that we mustn't start --- "his not to reason why". I said he had better talk to the leader of the expedition, Mr. Eckenstein. He assumed an aw…
1905 · PDF PAGE 168
…s on your tongue CORA. Learn the momentous horror of thy birth ! [A pause. ULRIC. I would not urge my suit against that plea, But—I have known you, and your own pure soul Should cast no doubt against me—you have said ‘* Rather we love such as the child of love; And pity—he is not unpitiful In this vile system ; and respect him too-- He stands alone, the evidence of Strength !” You move your purpose with no bastardy ! Only you claim to speak the generous thought : For you | wait, for you, to offer love! VOL. [. CORA. All is too true—my own philo…
1922 · PDF PAGE 42
…ped her song at last. My mouth was on her mouth. We were driving in the chariot of the Sun through the circus of the Universe. We didn’t know where we were going, and we didn’t care. We had no sense of time at*all. There was a sequence of sensa- tions; but there was no means of regulating them. It was as if one’s mental clock had suddenly gone mad. I have no gauge of time, subjectively speaking, but it must have been a long while before our mouths separated, for as this happened I recognised the fact that we were very far from the club. She spo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 34
…few moments. Cyril kissed Lisa on the mouth, and walked with his arm still circling her, to the sideboard. "You are hostess here now you know," he said quite simply. All his affectations dropped from him at that moment, and Lisa understood that he was just a simple-minded, brave, and honest man, who, walking in the midst of perils, had devised a formidable armament both for attack and defence. She felt a curious pang of pain simultaneously with a sense of exaltation. For she was no longer merely his mistress; he had accepted her as a friend. It…
1929 · PDF PAGE 150
…y were much astonished when I told them that their servants were right. I explained how I had cut communications at Madras and wanted to know how the servants could possibly have found out the facts. This let to conversation about the "native telegraph". It is an established fact that the bazaars get accurate information of events ahead of electricity. Mouth-to-mouth communication does not explain it. For instance, the death of an officer in a frontier skirmish in some place isolated from India by long stretches of uninhabited country has been …
1954 · PDF PAGE 429
…iefly for the benefit of those people who were already more or less familiar with the Tree of Life and its correspondences. But I do not know even to-day, twenty years later, and writing as I am to you who admittedly had no previous knowledge of any of these subjects, how to set forth the facts in more elementary terms. I warned you in the beginning that there was an essential difficulty in these studies which is not to be by-passed or dodged in any way whatever. But, after all, it is the same difficulty which every child finds when he begins a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 252
…e well, iii. rar The waving surf shone from the Peaceful Sea, il, 64 The Wingéd Bull that dwelléd in the north, li, The woodland hollows know us, ii. 75 The woods are very quiet, i. 36 The world is borne upon thy breast, ii. 130 The world is dusk, expectant of its doom, i. 47 The world moves not, i. 32 The worst of meals is that we have to meet, 1, 181 The young men are girded with swords, i. 72 This forbids the taking life in any form, ii. 192 This is my point; the world lies bleeding, ii, 157 This meditation differs fundamentally from the usu…