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…ional Headquarters P.O. Box 684098 Austin TX 78768, U.S.A. Introduction Copyright © 1996 Oliver Marlow Wilkinson All rights reserved. No part of this book, in part or in whole, may be reproduced, transmitted, or utilized, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher, except for brief quotations in critical articles, books and reviews. International Standard Book Number: 1-56184-090-4 Library of Congre…
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…A Rosicrucian Tale. See Works Cited.] 2 Varieties of Religious Experience [(1902), lecture 8; see Works Cited. See also Crowley, Book 4, Part III, ch. 5 (rev. ed., p. 161).] “this folly against self”; altruism is a direct assertion of dual ity, which is division, restriction, sin, in its vilest form. I love my neighbour because love makes him part of me; not because hate divides him from me. Our law is so simple that it constantly approximates to truism. “The exposure of innocence”. Exposure means “putting out,” as in a shop-window. The preten…
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…omed by my doctors to die in my teens, into a robust ruffian who throve on every kind of hardship and exposure. On the contrary, every department of life in which, from dis taste or laziness, I did not “exceed”, is constantly crippling me in one way or another—and I recognize with savage remorse that the weakness which I could have corrected so easily in my twen ties is in my forties an incurably chronic complaint. 72. Strive ever to more! and if thou art truly mine—and doubt it not, an if thou art ever joyous!—death is the crown of all. Comm…
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…e of delight, its rhythm an infinite rapture that never can weary or stale. Our personal pleasure in it is derived not only from our own part in it, but from our conscious apprehension of its total perfections. We study its structure, we expand ourselves as we lose ourselves in understanding it, and so becoming one with it. With the Egyptian initiate we exclaim “There is no part of us that is not of the Gods”;1 and add the antistrophe: “There is no part of the Gods that is not also of us.” 1 [See Liber 777, col. 11 (and note to first edition); …
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…Being, and may soon prove false to itself. The Khu in each of us includes the Cos mos as he knows it. To me, even another Khabs is only part of my Khu. Our own Khabs is our one sole Truth. 10. Let my servants be few & secret: they shall rule the many & the known. Commentary: The nature of magical power is quite incom prehensible to the vulgar. The prophet Ezekiel besieging a tile in order to destroy Jerusalem,1 and the adventures of Hosea with Gomer,2 seem as absurd to the “practical” man as do the researches of any other scientific man until…
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…tim because they are artificial and unnatural aberrations. Such moral cripples resemble those manufactured by beggars by compressing one part of the body so that it is compensated by a monstrous exaggera tion in another part. But on the other hand we have no right to interfere with any type of manifestation of the sexual impulse on a priori grounds. We must recognize that the Lesbian leanings of idle and volup tuous women whose refinement finds the grossness of the average male repugnant, are as inexpugnably entrenched in Righteousness as the…
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…nowledge is Not. Hadit is hidden in Nuit, and knows Her, She being an object of knowledge; but He is not knowable, for He is merely that part of Her which She formulates in order that She may be known. 5. Behold! the rituals of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be cast away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! Then shall this Knowledge go aright. Commentary: The “old time” is the /Eon of the Dying God. Some of his rituals are founded on an utterly false metaphysic and cosmogony; but others are based on Truth. We mend these, and …
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…ommentary: Here Nuit appeals, simply and directly, recog nizing the separate function of each Star of her Body. Though all is One, each part of that One has its own special work, each Star its particular Orbit. In addressing me as warrior lord of Thebes, it appears as if She perceived a certain continuity or identity of myself with Ankh-f-n- khonsu, whose Stele is the Link with Antiquity of this Revela tion.1 See Equinox 1(7), pp. 363-400, for the account of this event.1 2 1 [Ankh-f-n-khonsu (Ankhefenkhons i) was an Egyptian priest of Month (…
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…s it is. They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself. This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it would be to blaspheme the whole. The Thelemite is able to revel in any experience soever; in each he recognizes the tokens of ultimate Truth. It is surely obvious, even intellectually, that all phenomena are interdependent, and therefore involve each other. Suppose a + b + c = d, a = d - b - c, just as much as b = d - c - a. It is senseless to pick out one…
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…lly the difference between the sexes.1 1 [Surviving fragment from “The Book of the Great Auk.” See also The Book ofThoth, pp. 15-16, and Part III of Book 4, Parts I-IV, rev. ed., p. 248n.] 2 [The “Star-Sponge” Vision was usually characterized by Crowley as “Nothingness with Twinkles”; see p. 79.] 3 [A lake in Bristol, New Hampshire.] 4 [A lengthy technical commentary to this verse, omitted by Dr. Wilkin son, is given as Appendix B in 777 Revised (1955); see Works Cited.] 4. Every number is infinite; there is no difference. Commentary: This is …
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… 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 Soul which
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…nveil it; or (2) to reject all images of the Absolute, knowing that attainment thereof would be the signal for the manifestation of that part of its nature which necessarily formulates itself in a new universe of images. Realizing that these two courses (the materialist’s and the mys tic’s) are equally fatuous, we may engage in either or both of two other plans of action, based on assent to actuality. We may (1) ascertain our own particular properties as partial projections of the Absolute; we may allow every image presented to us to be of equ…
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… are convinced by our limitations that “a factor infinite &c unknown” must be concealed within the sphere of which we see but one minute part of the surface. As to reason itself, what is more certain than that its laws are only the conscious expression of the limits imposed upon us by our animal nature, and that to attribute universal validity, or even significance, to them is a logical folly, the raving of our megalomania? Experiment proves nothing; it is surely obvious that we are obliged to correlate all observations with the physical and me…
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… printed, 1903. In (7). 3 ------------ . Book 4. Frater Perdurabo and Soror Virakam [pseuds. for Crowley and Mary Desti Sturges], 2 vol. Part 1. Mysticism. London: Wieland, 1912. Part 2. Magick: Preliminary Remarks. London: Wieland, [1913]; rpt. (2 vols. in 1) Dallas: Sangreal, 1969, 1972; rpt. York Beach, ME: Weiser, 1992.
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82 The Law is for All thought flashed into my mind that after all the bag was in one sense a part of myself. The two ideas came together with a snap, and I understood the machinery of a man’s delusion that he is a teapot. These two examples may give some idea to the reader of the light which mystical attainment throws upon the details of the working of the human mind. Further developments of this vision emphasized the iden tity between the Universe and the mind. The search for simi les deepened. I had a curious impression that the thing I was…
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…hall be the seal of the promise of our agelong love. Come! lift up thine heart & rejoice! We are one; we are none. Commentary: The first part of this text appears to be a digression in the nature of a prophecy. The word “Come!” is a summons to reenter the full Trance. Its essence is declared in the last six words. Notice that the transition from one to none is instantaneous. 67. Hold! Hold! Bear up in thy rapture; fall not in swoon of the excellent kisses! Commentary: The instructions in the text of this and the next verse were actual indicatio…
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… Kenneth Grant. London: Duckworth, and Mon tréal: Next Step/93 Publishing, 1972. 21 ------------ . Magick in Theory and Practice (being Part III of Book 4). The Master Therion [pseud.] 4 vol. Paris: private printed, 1929-30. 1 vol. subscriber’s ed. issued as Magick in Theory and Practice (London, 1930). 22 ------------ . Orpheus. A Lyrical Legend, 2 vols. Foyers, uk: sprt, 1905. In (7). 23 ------------ . Liber LXXVII. [Liber] Oz. 1st ed., London and Los Angeles, O.T.O., 1941; numerous reprints. 24 ------------ . 777 vel Prolegomena Symbolica a…
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… Hadit, the core of our Khabs, our Star, one of the Company of Heaven; but this Khabs needs a Khu or Magical Image, in order to play its part in the Great Drama. This Khu, again, needs the proper costume, a suitable “body of flesh,” and this costume must be worthy of the Play. We therefore employ various magical means to increase the vigour of our bodies and the energy of our minds, to fortify and to sublime them. The result is that we of Thelema are capable of enormously more achievement than others, even in terrestrial matters, from sexual or…
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… what happens to them does not matter. If you insist upon identifying yourself with Hecuba, your tears are natural enough. 2 See Book 4, Part III [Chap. 7, §5], for 7gn, the root meaning both “to know” and “to beget.”
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… the King,” The Equinox 1(7) (1912); this account was republished as Chapter 6 of “Genesis Libri AL” in The Equinox of the Gods (Book 4, Part ZV).] 3 [Apemantus is the gloomy prophet in Timon of Athens.] The nature of events must be “pure joy”; for, obviously, whatever occurs is the fulfilment of the will of its master. Sorrow thus appears as the result of any unsuccessful—therefore, ill- judged—struggle. Acquiescence in the order of Nature is the ultimate Wisdom. One must understand the Universe perfectly, and be utterly indifferent to its pre…