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Page 1 of 61954 · PDF PAGE 188
…ou comfort me when you turn from those abstruse and exalted themes with which you have belaboured me so often of late to dear cuddlesome little questions like this in our letter received this morning: "Do please, dear Master, give me some hints about how to make Talismans (that's the same as Telesmata, isn't it?) [Yes, 666] and the Pantacle. The official instructions are quite clear, of course; but somehow I find them just a little frightening." Well, I think I know pretty well what you mean; so I will try to imitate the style of Aunt Tabitha i…
1954 · PDF PAGE 259
…ed!" (AL, II: 71) Remember that which is written: "Moderate strength rings the bell: great strength returns the penny." It is always the little bit extra that brings home the bacon. It is the last attack that breaks through the enemy position. Water will never boil, however long you keep it at 99 0 C. You may find that a Pranayama cycle of 10-20-30 brings no result in months; put it up to 10-20-40, and Dhyana comes instantly . When in doubt, push just a little bit harder. You have no means of finding out what are exactly the right conditions fo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 447
414 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS bring to mind the 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 266
…bsence of any intellectual impertinences from the organ of knowledge. The Tao Teh King revealed its simplicity and sublimity to my soul, little by little, as the conditions of my physical , no less than of my spiritual life, penetrated the sanctuaries of my spirit. The philosophy of Lao-tze communicated itself to me, despite the persistent efforts of my mind to compel it to confonn with my preconceived notions of what the text must mean. This process, having thus taken root in my innennost intuition during those tremendous months of wandering a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 54
…btaining ecstasy from the most insignificant physiological function. Observe that in transferring the whole consciousness to (say) one's little finger or big toe, one is not trying to interfere with the normal exercise of its activities, but only to realize what is going on in the organism, the exquisite pleasure of a function in its normal activity. With a little imagination one can conceive the analogical case of the Universe itself; one can understand the phrase "The stars of the morning sang together"; and, still less fettered by even the m…
1954 · PDF PAGE 174
…ory than the practice of the Holy Qabalah. The whole mechanism of memory depends on joining up independent data. You must go on adding a little to little, always joining the simple impressions by referring them to others which are more general; and so on until the whole of your universe is arranged like the brain and the nervous system. This system in fact, becomes the Universe. When you have got everything properly correlated, your central consciousness understands and controls every tiniest detail. But you must begin at the beginning-you go o…
1954 · PDF PAGE 234
… in the ordinary sense of the word; such would be wholly unintelligible. I leave the rest to your imagination; doesn't it sound to you a little like some of the accounts of "The Dweller on the Threshold?" Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 428
…t which is below," and you ask me for details. What, you enquire, is the constitution of Man? With what parts of the Great System is the Little System to coincide? Perhaps I could hardly do better than call your attention to the description given in my essay on Man in my small book Little Essays Toward Truth. In some respects indeed this description is not as clear as I could have wished. The fact is that this Essay was written 395
1954 · PDF PAGE 133
…h. His business is, firstly, to know himself; secondly, to order and control himself; thirdly, to develop himself on sound organic lines little by little. The rest is only leather and prunella. There is, however, a sense in which the service of humanity is necessary to the completeness of the Adept . He is not to flyaway too far. Some remarks on this course are given in the note to the nex t verse. The student is also advised to take note of the conditions of membership of the A :. A : . . (The Equinox, Vol. III, Supplement p. 57-59.) We come d…
1954 · PDF PAGE 519
486 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS "sunning over with little curls" is that Progress demands Anarchy tempered by Common Sense, and that the most formida ble 0 bstacle is this Biology. The experience of the Magician and the Yogi does suggest that there is room in the human brain as at present constituted for almost limitless expansion. At least our system of Training is more immediately practical than digging up our Corpora Quadragemina and planting them in a Monkey's Medulla just to see what will come of it. So put down that bread-knife! Love is the law,…
1954 · PDF PAGE 471
438 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS them, they learn a little-very little-more, getting their Science from a Shilling Handbook and so on, till they know just enough to become dangerous agitators . No, anything like a real education demands leisure, the conversation of the wise, the means of travel, and the rest. There is only one solution : to pick out the diamonds from the clay, cut them, polish them, and set them as they deserve. Attempt no idiot experiments with the muck of the mine! You will observe that 1 am advocating an aristocratic revolution. And…
1954 · PDF PAGE 111
… in the book of Lapis Lazuli. A single passage is adequate to explain the formula. 7. Moreover I beheld a vision of a river. There was a little boat thereon; and in it under purple sails was a golden woman, an image of Asi wrought in finest gold. Also the river was of blood, and the boat of shining steel. Then I loved her; and loosing my girdle, cast myself into the stream. 8. I gathered myself into the little boat, and for many days and nights did I love her, burning beautiful incense before her. 9. Yea! I gave her of the flower of my youth. 1…
1954 · PDF PAGE 94
…Yin by a broken (- -) line. (The first manifestation in Nature of these two is Thai Yang, the Sun, and Thai Yin, the Moon.) This being a little large and loose, they doubled these lines, and obtained the four Hsiang. They then took them three at a time, and got the eight Kwa. These represent the development from the original I to the Natural Order of the Elements. I shall call the male principle M, the Female F. M 1 Khien: "Heaven-Father" F 1 = = Khwgn: "Earth-Mother" M 2 __ li: The Sun F 2 - - Khan: The Moon F 3 - - Tui: Water M 4 ===== Sun: A…
1954 · PDF PAGE 226
FASCINATIONS 193 curious circumstances, and I was too lazy-or perhaps a little afraid-to reject it and write what I wanted." He fastened on one point: "You don't know what it means?" I repeated that I did not, even now that he had claimed it as important. He explained it to me, as to a child. I was merely surprised; it didn't sound possible. (Sister, all this while I've been lying to you like an Archbishop; it is connected with fascinations; indeed, it has very little to do with anything else!) Finally, he won me over, I went down to his G.H.Q …
1954 · PDF PAGE 114
…y. They joined hands with the Sufis and the Vedantists. But this again led to the mere denial of the reality of evil. Thus drawing away, little by little, from clear appreciation of the facts of Nature, their doctrine became purely theoretical, and faded away, while the thundercloud of sin settled down more heavily than ever. The most important of all the efforts of the White School, from an exoteric point of view, is Islam. In its doctrine there is some slight taint, but much less than in Christianity. It is a virile religion. It looks facts i…
1954 · PDF PAGE 409
376 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS else running around doing what is little better than peddling grades and degrees and secrets. Such practices are of course no better than common fraud. Please fix it firmly in your mind that with Us any degree, any position of authority, any kind of rank, is utterly worthless except when it is merely a seal upon the actual attainment or achievement. This is one of the reasons why the older I grow and the more experience I have of human nature, the more am I convinced of the wisdom of the Chiefs of the A :. A:. , where a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 57
…catholic, eclectic, even synchretic. And you must consider the nature of your work. If I wanted to evoke Taphthartharath, there would be little help indeed from any but the Qabalistic system; for that spirit's precise forms and numbers are not to be found in any other. The converse, however, is not so true. The Qabalah, properly understood , properly treated , is so universal that one can vamp up a ritual to suit almost "any name and form." But in such a case one may expect to have to reinforce it by a certain amount of historical, literary, or…
1954 · PDF PAGE 236
"GOD" AND "SELF" 203 complex," giving rise later on, in certain cases to whole legions of neuroses. Now then make it a little clearer, please, just what you mean by 'higher'. Skeat seems to connect it with hills, swellings, boils, the maternal breast; is that reason enough for us to connect it with the idea of advantage, or-'superiority' merely translates it into Latin!-worth, or-no, it's really too difficult. Of course, sometimes it has a "bad" meaning, as of temperature in fever; but nearly always it implies a condition preferable to "low. " …
1954 · PDF PAGE 470
…ll my might. All my life I have been taught: governesses, private tutors, schools, private and public, the best of the Universities: how little I know! I have travelled all over the world in all conditions, from "grand seigneur," to "holy man"; how little I know! What then of the ninety-and-nine, dragged by the ears through suicide examinations, and kicked out of school into factory in their teens? They have learnt only just enough to facilitate the swallowing of the gross venal lies of the radio and the Yellow Press; or, if mother-wit has chan…
1954 · PDF PAGE 453
…ed 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 find this useful to crush Toshophist and Anthroposophagist cockroaches as well as the ordinary Christian Scolex when they assail you. In the lands of Hinduism and (to a less extent) of Islam, the Sultan, the Dewan, the Maharajah, the Emir, or whatsoever they call "the Grand Pandjandrum …