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IMPROVISING A TEMPLE 177 And I shall leave anything else to the next letter. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666 P.S. "Next letter," yes, they are running into one another more than somewhat; it is better so, for Life is like that. And we have the bold bad editor to sort them out.
12 MAGICK WITHOUT .TEARS Letter E August 18, 1943 Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Much thought has gone into the construction of your Motto. "I will become" can be turned neatly enough as "Let there be" ; by avoiding the First Pronoun one gets the idea of "the absorption of the Self in the Beloved," which is exactly what you want. "The creative Force of the Universe" is quite ready-made. Pyramis,' a pyramid , is that force in its geometrical form ; in its biological form it is Phallus ,' the Yang or Lingam. Both wor…
68 The God-Letters Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Maybe it was Devanagari that began it! This "sacred" character , used rightly for Sanskrit alone , is supposed (so Allan Bennett told me) to be constructed on-can one call them ideographic?-principles. The upright line is the soft palate ; the horizontal the hard ; and the line between them shows the position of the tongue when one pronounces the letter. He demonstrated this most elegantly for the letter T ( ); but I was never able to follow this up with most of the…
THE GOD-LETTERS 413 sketchy account: always, when one touches the subject, one "goes all woolly." One lacks not only completeness, but precision. Then there is the "over-lapping" nuisance, and the fact that the natures and the names of the Gods change slowly as time goes by. The confusion! The contradictions! I could wish to be the proverbial bargee. Oh! I could go on making excuses for another hour! It can't be helped; and I feel that I shall have rendered you quite a bit of service by calling your attention to the existence of the subject, by…
… 3. The Dictionary is the sole and final arbiter. This produces blasphemy, but averts assassination. 4. The first player starts with the letter A. The second may put any letter he chooses either before or after that A. The other continues as he will, and can. S. The player who cannot add a letter without completing a "word" loses. 6. A player whose tum it is must either add his letter within a reasonable (This is a matter of good feeling, courtesy and consideration) time, may say "I challenge" or, alternatively, "That is a 'word'." The other mu…
PREFACE XVll The reader should notice that every letter begins and ends with a formula-two quotations from The Book of the Law. Crowley felt compelled to open every letter and indeed every meeting with any individual with these quotations . Bidding adieu was also marked by the same type of gesture. Some people have felt that he made a laughingstock of himself by so doing, but for this kind of reproach he cared nothing. So long as he felt commanded by that book to behave in such a manner he proceeded to do so, come what may. The verses used are …
…ut why they are so given. Thus, you find a camel in the number which refers to the Moon, but the Tarot card "the Moon" refers not to the letter Gimel which means camel, but to the letter Qoph , and the sign Pisces which means fish, while the letter itself refers to the back of the head; and you also find fish has the meaning of the letter Nun. You must not go on from this. and say that the back of your head is like a camel-the connection between them is simply that they all refer to the same thing. In studying the Qabalah you mention six months…
…king questions, the kind of problem that naturally comes into the mind of any sensible enquirer, and getting his answer in the form of a letter. "What is it?" "Why should I bother my head about it?" "What are its principles?" "What use is it?" "How do I begin?" and the like. This plan has been put into action; the idea has been to cover the subjects from every possible angle. The style has been colloquial and fluent technical terms have either been carefully avoided or most carefully explained; and the letter has not been admitted to the series…
…nsideration, but the general method of Qabalistic research and construction. Note how new cognate ideas arise to enrich the formula. 666 Letter F August 20, 1943 Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Let me begin by referring to my letter about the motto and make clear to you the working of this letter. In this motto you have really got several ideas combined, and yet they are really, of course, one idea. Fiat, being 811, is identical with lAO, and therefore FIAT YOD might be read not only as "let there be" (or "Let me be…
… come to Town except at rare and irregular intervals, may I suggest a plan which has previously proved very useful, and that is a weekly letter. Eliphas Levi did this with the Baron Spedalieri, and the correspondence is one of the most interesting of his works. You ask such questions as you wish to have answered, and I answer them to the best of my ability. I, of course, add spontaneous remarks which may be elicited by my observations on your progress and the perusal of your magical diary. This, of course, should be written on one side of the p…
…trary , the moderns , whether hippies or not , need him tremendously and what he has to offer could possibly redeem them. The end of his letter 45 is adequate reminder of what he stood for: "to advance-that means Work. Patient, exhausting, thankless, often bewildering Work. Dear sister, if you would but Work! Work blindly, foolishly, misguidedly, it doesn't matter in the end: Work in itself has absolute virtue." Of course the work that he refers to is spiritual work-meditation, Yoga, Magick, in all phases and varieties. Work, not intellectualiz…
20 Cara Soror, MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Letter H November 10-11, 1943 11 pm-2 am Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Yours of yestere'en came to gladden me just when the whole evening lay blank before me: the one job such a big job that I simply can't get down to it until I get help: How annoying! Still, yours the gain! l. That verse (AL, I: 44) condenses the whole magical technique . It makes clear-when you have understood it-the secret of success in the Great Work. Of course at first it appears a paradox. You must have an aim, and on…
…" of which I have elsewhere written at such length. But at the moment I am especially desirous that you should compare and contrast this letter with the S sound. (S or Sh combined with T is discussed rather fully in Magick, pp. 336-8.) You should find it child's play to determine the significance of the sibilant. It is the one letter which necessitates the exposure of the skeleton! (E.g., the SUbconscious.) Hence "Hush!" it is the hiss of the snake, great Lord of Life and Death-(life? yes, the spermatozoon, child!) "Silence! Danger! There is a …
16 On Concentration Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You wisely ask me for a special letter on Concentration; you point out that I have implied it constantly, but never given plain instruction. Concentration does indeed unlock all doors; it lies at the heart of every practice as it is of the essence of all theory; and almost all the various rules and regulations are aimed at securing adeptship in this matter. All the subsidiary w 0 r k - awareness, one-pointedness, mindfulness and the rest-is intended to train you to…
I ntraduction Letter A March 19, 1943 Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I was very glad to gather from your conversation yesterday afternoon that you have a serious intention of taking up the Great Work in the proper spirit. Your criticisms of previous experience in the course of your adventures appeared to be singularly sane and just. As I promised I am writing this letter to cover a few practical points which we had not time to discuss and which in any case I think it better to arrange by correspondence . I. It is o…
Cara Soror, 71 Morality (2) Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The contents of your letter appalled me. I had hoped that you had left behind for ever all that quality of thinking . It is unclean. It is stuffy and flabby. You write of a matter about which you cannot possibly have information, and what you say is not even a good guess: it is simply contrary to fact. It shows also that you have failed to grasp the nature of the O.T.O. Its main raison d'etre, apart from social and political plans, is the teaching and use of a secret m…
…y distinct persons , but belonging to the same families. Can we follow up this line of thought? Yes: but I will defer it to a subsequent letter. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
63 Fear: a Bad Astral Vision Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Your letter of yesterday: so happy that my last was useful; but the vision! I must have failed to make myself clear. We shall come to that later in this letter. It is reassuring to learn that you are two-thirds human! Greed, anger, and sloth are the three Buddhist bed-rock badnesses; and you have certainly given the last a miss in baulk. It is my own darkest and deadliest foe, and oh how mighty! With me he never relaxes. Sounds a paradox! but so it is. Now…
76 The Gods How and Why They Overlap Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Your last letter. I am glad: it shows you have been putting in some genuine original work. Result! You make a very shrewd observation; you have noticed the curious fashion in which Gods seem to overlap. It is not the same (you point out) with Angels. In no other system do we find a parallel for the Living Creatures. Wheels, Wings, Fiery Serpents, with such quasi-human cohorts as the Beni Elohim who beget children on women , to whom the Qabalah has …
THE GOD-LETTERS 409 But the consonants? That is a harder nut to crack. Students of language have been accustomed to group the consonants exactly as we now happen to require . Here, in brief, is the list: Dentals, Labials, Gutturals. Various modifications extend them to fifty-nine and there are twenty-seven vowels. I shall naturally concern myself only with those that matter to the subject : in practice, the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew Alphabet will serve for this preliminary study, especially as in that case, we have already the attributio…