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Page 1 of 61954 · PDF PAGE 386
…ll up: "There are seven kinds of wife-like a mother, a sister, a daughter, a mistress, a friend, an enemy and a slave; of these the only good one is the last." But from your questions I gather that what you want is advice on how to advise, how marriage as an institution is regarded by The Book of the Law. Very good. It is not actually mentioned; but that it is contemplated is shown by the use of the word "wife"-AL, I: 41. The text confirms my own thesis "There shall be no property in human flesh." So long as this is observed I see no reason why…
1954 · PDF PAGE 324
…nce: if the young airman crashes, send him up again without a minute's avoidable delay. If you don't, their nerve is liable to break for good and all. I am not saying that this policy is invariably successful; your judgment may have misled you as to the necessity of the Operation which loomed so large at the moment. And so on; plenty of room for blunders! But it is a thousand times better to make every kind of mistake than to slide into the habit of hesitation, of uncertainty, of indecision. For one thing, you acquire also the habit of dishonou…
1954 · PDF PAGE 447
… curves in Nature-you will soon discover the words with a few little experiments; the T is a D, only lighter, quicker and younger-and so Good-night! Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 478
…at "Fear is failure, 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 506
…sanity. In-shall I say "Anglo-Saxondom," or "Teutonic breeds," or "bourgeoisie ," so as to include some of the French whom when they are good are very good indeed , but when they are bad, they are horrid? - the presiding God/Gods of this Trinity is/are: l. Sex, 2. Religion, 3. "Drugs" ; and the greatest of these is Sex, actually the main root of which the other two are tough and twisted stems, each with its peculiar species of poisonous flowers, sometimes superficially so attractive that their nastiness passes for Beauty. I shall leave it to th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 59
26 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Letter I January 27,1944 Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. It is very good hearing that these letters do good, but rather sad to reflect that it is going to make you so unpopular. Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it. Yes, your brain is quite all right; what is wanted is to acquire the habit of pinning things down instantly. (He says 're-incarnation' -now what exactly does he mean by that? He says "it is natur…
1954 · PDF PAGE 404
…that was how to play the masse shot. He kept on explaining and explaining and demonstrating and demonstrating, and none of it seemed any good. I understood intellectually, well enough; but somehow or other it never came off. Presently he said that he guessed he knew what was the matter. Although I had the whole thing perfect in my mind I had not made the link between my mind, my eye, and my hand, and what I must do was not to go to him for teaching, of which I had had already enough and more than enough. He told me if I went on trying it would …
1954 · PDF PAGE 507
…uliarly liable to profanation. Being profaned, it is naturally more unspeakably nasty than any other of the "Mysteries." You will find a good deal on this subject implied in Artemis Iota, attached to another of my letters to you. Before tackling "Sore Spots" seriously, there is after all, one point which should be made clear as to this Trinitarian simplification. One of the most interesting and fruitful periods of my life was when I was involved in research as to the meaning of Sankhara: "tendencies" may be, indeed is, a good enough translation…
1954 · PDF PAGE 238
…hink of, it changes, it grows, it disappears . You have got to train your mind to canter through those leafy avenues of thought upon the good green turf of Indifference; when you can do it without conscious effort, so that up-down, in-out, far-near, black-white (and so on for everything) appears quite automatically, you are already as near an Initiate as makes no matter. 3. 'Self' . For a full discussion of this see Letter 42. 4. 'God.' This is really too bad of you! Of all the hopelessly mangled words in the language, you settle with unerring …
1954 · PDF PAGE 472
EDUCATION 439 chosen for reference. (Nuttall's is fairly good, though some very well-known words are omitted. The Oxford Pocket Dictionary is useless; it is for morons, illiterates, wallowers in "Basic English" -and [I suppose I Oxonians. No proper names, however well-known, unless used as common: e.g. Bobby, a flatfoot, a beetlecrusher , a harness bull; or Xantippe, a shrew, a lady. X-rays is given in the plural only: ditto "Roentgen-rays," and they give "Roentgenogram." "You never can tell!" Participles, plurals and the like are not "words" u…
1954 · PDF PAGE 375
…such drifting particles as come within its scope, is but a parasite on its own dam until the fusion is complete. So, when a woman is "so good," "so devoted to her daughter," God help the daughter! She is never allowed to think for herself in the minutest matters ; she is bound hand and foot remorselessly to the routine of her "decent Christian home"; a wageless kitchen-slut. No hope of escape unless the mother's vampirism takes the form of seIling her off to the highest bidder . Need it be added that the "good mother" is usually quite unaware o…
1954 · PDF PAGE 89
… much better word) of the Universe as a single phenomenon, outside all limitations, whether of time, space, causality, or what not. Very good, then! Here we are with direct realization of the Advaitist theory of the Universe. Everything fits perfectly. Also, when I say "realization," I want you to understand that I mean what I say in a sense so intense and so absolute that it is impossible to convey my meaning to anyone who has not undergone that experience. 3 How do we judge the "reality" of an ordinary impression upon consciousness? Chiefly b…
1954 · PDF PAGE 41
… 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 to train you in a perfectly exoteric way. My suggestion about the weekly letter was intended to exclude this question, as you would be getting full commercial value for anything paid. Your questions about the Spirit of the Sun, and so on, are to be a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 180
…e and therefore he has given you the correct word "Thelema" in a form unfamiliar to you . You may now consider yourself satisfied of his good faith , and may proceed to inspect him more closely. The stars above his head suggest the influence of Binah, whose number also is three , while the most striking thing about him is the core of his being: the letter Yod. (One does not count the termination A H: being a divine suffix it represents the inmost light and the outermost light.) This Yod, this spark of intense brilliance, is of that pale greenis…
1954 · PDF PAGE 179
… divine authority , becomes less formidable and menacing in appearance. He may, in some way, indicate his willingness to serve you. Very good , so far; but it is of course the first essential to make sure of his integrity. Accordingly you begin by asking his name. This is vital; because if he tells you the truth , it gives you power over him. But if, on the other hand , he tells you a lie, he abandons for good and all his fortress. He becomes rather like a submarine whose base has been destroyed. He may do you a lot of mischief in the meantime …
1954 · PDF PAGE 80
…a miraculous intervention of Providence when even one of even the simplest ideas "gets across." Now then, this being so, it is evidently good sense to construct one's own alphabet , with one's own very precise definitions, in order to handle an abstruse and technical subject like Magick. The "ordinary" words such as God, self, soul, spirit and the rest have been used so many thousand times in so many thousand ways, usually by writers who knew not, or cared not for the necessity of definition that to use them to-day in any scientific essay is al…
1954 · PDF PAGE 353
…al physical channels. The importance is that they actually determine one's line of conduct in critical situations. It seemed therefore a good idea to give you three examples from The Spirit of Solitude: and here they are! The first extract refers to the "miraculous" discovery of the MS of Liber AL some years after I had deliberately "lost" it. The second, to the finding of a villa suited to the Work. The third to my rescue from a state of despair. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666 320
1954 · PDF PAGE 241
…when you get the results, you can try, albeit uselessly, to fit your own words to the facts, if you should wish to communicate , for any good reason, your experiences to other people . Then despairing of your impotence, how glad you will be that you have been trained not to let anyone fob you off with phrases. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally yours, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 303
270 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS gambling! And a good riddance, at that! Well, there is one advantage in the system; it does help the intelligent man to steal a march on his neighbours! In all this the important point for my present purpose is to show you how entirely this question of probability and coincidence is dependent on your attention . The sequence BBBBBBB at roulette is most unlikely to occur; but so, in exactly the same degree, is the sequence B R B R R B R or any other sequence. The one passes unnoticed, the other causes surprise, only beca…
1954 · PDF PAGE 373
…ve of the mother for the off-spring is something that no man can understand: and you appear to prize it! Well, some men have had a jolly good shot at it, notably Emile Zola. The Usher goes into the corridor, and calls that name in strident and stentorian tones. In he waddles, the squat, obese, bespectacled, studious Jew, with the most devastating of all his thunderbolts under his arm-La Terre, and so what? La Terre to him is indeed the mother of all men, sole source of our essential nourishment, the earth to which we are all bound in chains by …