Thelema ScholarTHE ALEISTER CROWLEY COLLECTION
← Magick Without Tears
1954 · CLOSE READING

Magick Without Tears

Magick Without Tears (1954), PDF p. 40

Original page

Enlarge ↗
Original scan of Magick Without Tears, PDF page 40

Highlights use the original PDF text layer. OCR-only matches may not be visible on the scan.

Transcription

Download text ↓
raw extractionoriginal embedded textReview: unreviewed
INTRODUCTION 7 Letter C April 30, 1943 Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Thank you for your long letter of no date, but received two days ago. I am very sorry you are still feeling exhausted. I am not too good myself, for I find this weather very trying. I will answer your various points as best I can. I am arranging to send you the official papers connected with the O.T.O. but the idea that you should meet other members first is quite impossible. Even after affiliation, you would not meet anyone unless it were necessary for you to work in co-operation with them. I am afraid you have still got the idea that the Great Work is a tea-party. Contact with other students only means that you criticize their hats, and then their morals; and I am not going to encourage this. Your work is not anybody else's; and undirected chatter is the worst poisonous element in human society. When you talk of the "actual record" of the "Being called Jesus Christ," I don't know what you mean. I am not aware of the existence of any such record. I know a great many legends, mostly borrowed from previous legends of a similar character . It would be better for you to get a copy of The Equinox of the Gods and study it. The Great Work is the uniting of opposites. It may mean the uniting of the soul with God, of the microcosm with the macrocosm, of the female with the male, of the ego with the non-ego-or what not . By "love under will" one refers to the fact that the method in every case is love, by which is meant the uniting of opposites as above stated, such as hydrogen and chlorine, sodium and oxygen, and so on. Any reaction whatever, any phenomenon, is a phenomenon of "love," as you will understand when I come to explain to you the meaning of the word "point-event." But love has to be "under will" if it
Page provenance & review flags

Stable page ID: e7a83bd7c68d4e96894f9e69:p00040

Line breaks are preserved. Reading order and OCR accuracy may need review.

Printed page label has not been verified.

  • No automated review flags. This does not establish transcription accuracy.