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Page 1 of 41954 · PDF PAGE 225
…und that owing to some stupid miscalculation of mine, it was all over in Hong Kong some hours before I had started from Honolulu! Again, don't ask me why, or how, or anything! In the summer of 1910 e.v. I was living at 125 Victoria Street , in a studio converted into a Temple by means of a Circle, an Altar and the rest. West of the Altar was a big fireplace with a fender settee; the East wall was covered with bookshelves. Enter the late Theodor Reuss, O.H.O. and Frater Superior of the O.T.O. He wanted me to join that Order. I recommended him, i…
1954 · PDF PAGE 141
108 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS thought or distressing problems. Don't say "he passed on" when you mean "he died," and don't call a spade a bloody shovel! I shall break off this brief note at this point , so that you may have time to tell me if what I have so far said covers the whole ground of your enquiry. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 184
…hing from which it was trying to wander. "Yes, I get you Stephen! ... But, Uncle Dudley, come clean, do you always do all this yourself? Don't you sometimes feel embarrassed, or fear that you may destroy the effect of your letter, or 'create a scene' in the public street when you suddenly stop and perform these incomprehensible antics, or simply forget about the whole thing?" Yes, I do. Well now, have I any shadow of an excuse? Yes, I have, after a fashion; I don't think it good manners to force my idiosyncrasies down people's throats, and I do…
1954 · PDF PAGE 58
… practice par excellence where you have to do it all yourself. The Vibration of God-names: that perhaps, I can at least test you in. But don't you dare come up for a test until you've been at it-and hard-for at least 100 exercises. 6. Minerval. What is the matter? All you have to do is understand it: just a dramatization of the process of incarnation. Better run through it with me: I'll make it clear, and you can make notes of your troubles and their solution for the use of future members. 7. The Book of Thoth. Surely all terms not in a good di…
1954 · PDF PAGE 478
…re, and the forerunner of failure. Be thou therefore without fear; for in the heart of the coward virtue abideth not ." Good-night ; and don't look under the Ibed! Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 57
…ck." Of course, if you "missed an Egyptian Incarnation," you would not be so likely to be a little Martha, worried "about much serving." Don't get surfeited with knowledge, above all things; it is so very fascinating , so dreadfully easy; and the danger of becoming a pedant-"Deuce take all your pedants! say I." Don't "dry-rot at ease 'till the Judgment Day." No, I will NOT recommend a book. It should not hurt you too much to browse on condensed hay (or thistles) such as articles in Encyclopedias . Take Roget's Thesaurus or Smith's Smaller Class…
1954 · PDF PAGE 370
…onable human beings, (But they never are, she sighed) one could perhaps do wiseliest by explaining the situation. "This Work of mine-you don't understand it, no need that you should-is the only important part of my life. I mean to be scrupulously careful of your feelings, and I see no reason why my chosen career should damage our relations. There is only one thing to remember: IF I ever get the faintest suspicion that you are opposing me, or condemning my plans, or interfering in any way, even with the best intentions , THEN-with a single blow …
1954 · PDF PAGE 41
…ink clearly. You will be immensely stimulated by having all the useless trimmings stripped from your thinking apparatus. For instance, I don't think you know the first principles of logic. You apparently take up a more or less Christian attitude, but at the same time you like very much the idea of Karma. You cannot have both. The question about money does not arise. This old and very good rule (which I have always kept) was really pertinent to the time when there were actual secrets. But I have published openly all the secrets. All I can do is …
1954 · PDF PAGE 421
… Perhaps you thought that I should take circles and pentagrams etc. for granted; but you give no hint of the object of your journey. (No don't quote AL, I: 44 at me; it doesn't mean that. I don't expect you to answer the clerk at the booking-office "Where to, madam?" with "I don't mind
1954 · PDF PAGE 331
…i says: "In the Suns we remember; in the planets we forget." Most of this is the merest speculation, useless and possibly harmful; but I don't mind relaxing occasionally to that extent. What is important is the Oath. One who is vowed to the A :. A:. 's Mission for Mankind, who takes it dead seriously, and who will be neither frightened nor bored from Its majestic purpose, may at any time bind himself by an Oath to reject the rewards of Devachan, and reincarnate immediately again and again. By "immediately" is meant about 6 months before the bir…
1954 · PDF PAGE 209
…be Doubt (see that beastly Book of Lies again-there's a gorgeous chapter about it) and the practical moral is this: these contradictions don't occur (or don't matter) in Neschamah. And if the above remarks should embolden you to exclaim: "Perhaps a little drink would do me no great harm" I shall feel that I have deserved well of my country! For-see Liber Aleph, after Rabelais-the Word of the Last Oracle is TRINe. This plaint of yours tails off-and perks up in so doing-with confession of Ambition, and considerations of what you must leave over t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 308
"SELF" INTROVERSION 275 Latin and Greek don't help us at all; and when we try Eastern languages, it seems, dimly, to give the idea of the Ego, whatever that may be. Or perhaps "that combination which is unified by Ahamkara, the 'Ego-making faculty'." Decidedly not illuminating! One can't use the word as an ordinary noun . Skeat doesn't even label it as such. One can hardly say: Mr. Blenkinsop's self is good, or rheumatic, or gone for a walk. It makes nonsense . Yet Philosophy has picked out this hapless Tetragrammaton, and made endless mud pies…
1954 · PDF PAGE 197
… Jupiter in the mid-heaven, and so on; see if you can find a similarity in their lives with what the books will have led you to expect . Don't be afraid to criticise; on the contrary, do some research work on your own, and find cases which seem to contradict tradition . Instance: Saturn in the M.C. is said to cause a spectacular rise in a man's career, ending in an equally notable crash. Examples : Napoleon I and III, Oscar Wilde, Woodrow Wilson, Lord Northcliffe , Hitler. Look for figures with Saturn thus placed, whose natives have jogged alon…
1954 · PDF PAGE 186
…Work in accordance with my true Will. The Gods have got to see to it that I'm not baulked by any blinking messenger. (But take care They don't overhear you ; They might mistake it for Hybris, or presumption . Do it all in the Sign of Silence, under the aegis of Harpocrates, the "Lord of Defence and Protection"; be careful to assume his God-form, as standing on two crocodiles.) Then you increase your consumption, and at the same time put in a whole lot of extra Work. If you perform this "Act of Truth" properly, with genuine conviction that nothi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 453
… which facilitates the task in hand." A line of conduct becomes a custom when experience has shown that to follow it makes for success. "Don't press!" "Play with a straight bat!" "Don't draw to five!" do not involve abstract considerations of right and wrong. Orthodox Hinduism has raped this pure system, and begotten a bastard code which reeks of religion. A political manoeuvre of the Brahman caste. Suppose we relax a little, come down to earth, and look at what the far-famed morality of the Holy Man was, and is, in actual practice. You will fi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 218
…, devilish deep; and it is chock-a-block with the mysteries of Fascination. Dig into this, dear sister! dig with your Qabalistic trowel; don't blame me if you don't get a Mandrake with the very first thrust! But most certainly I shall say nothing here. Yes, indeed, nothing was ever more sternly forbidden than prattle on subjects like this! Look! It goes right on: "There is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. He shall fall down into the pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs o…
1954 · PDF PAGE 49
16 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS legitimate successors of the original brotherhood-I don't know. But from them the O.T.O. derived its authority. The late O.H.O. Theodor Reuss possessed a certain number of documents which demonstrated the validity of his claim according to him; but I only saw two or three of them, and they were not of very great importance. Unfortunately he died shortly after the last War, and he had got out of touch with some of the other Grand Masters. The documents did not come to me as they should have done; they were seized by his w…
1954 · PDF PAGE 384
({ONEY 351 he whole doctrine of so-called renunciation-which is lothing of the sort. You don't "renounce" five shillings if 'ou pay that for a country house with 3000 acres of hooting, and the best salmon fishing on Deeside, do you? llis is the Greater Interpretation of the Injunction, that no quation is possible: Magical Power is immeasurably more aluable than any amount of money. But the Epigram is everely practical. It may sound a little romantic, but-here :oes! A community which thinks in terms of wealth is rich; rl terms of money, poor. Ho…
1954 · PDF PAGE 474
…ith this very idea in mind, turned out to be completely beyond the average man's (or woman's) understanding. I had some Mass Observation done on it. "But this is rank Socialism," "Sy, ayn't this all Fascism?" "Oh Golly!" "Cripes!" "Coo!" "How dreadful!" about the nearest most of them got to Ralph Straus and Desmond MacCarthy! Words of one syllable! Louis Marlow had already told me what a fool I was to expect that. "All they can digest," said he, "is a mess of stewed cliches with Bird's custard Powder." Damn everything-it's true, it's true. So d…
1954 · PDF PAGE 275
…ans what it says. There may be, probably is, some Qabalistic inner meaning: Those four nouns most assuredly look as if there were; but I don't feel at all sure what the Greek (or Hebrew, or Arabic) words would be; in any case, I have not yet made any attempt in this direction. To the straightforward promise, then! Certainly no word more reassuring could be given. But avoid anxiety, of course; remember "without lust of result," and AL, III: 16: "Deem not too eagerly to catch the promises." Now, full speed ahead! Like most promises of this type, …