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Page 1 of 61954 · PDF PAGE 367
…e Great Work is posed? Bless you, the whole strength of the family is based on the fact that it cares for the family only: therefore its magical formula thus concentrated is of necessity hostile to so exclusively individual an aim as Initiation . Its sentiments are reciprocated. In every Magical, or similar system, it is invariably the first condition which the Aspirant must fulfil: he must once and for all and for ever put his family outside his magical circle. Even the Gospels insist clearly and weightily on this. Christ himself (i.e., whoeve…
1954 · PDF PAGE 424
64 Magical Power Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Rightly you remark that most of these letters have dealt with self-development in one form or another; now, what of the causa finalis. the "practical angle" some would call it. What you want now is to learn how to apply the knowledge and power that you have gained to the execution of your True Will, to the accomplishment of the Great Work. Obviously, much must be left to your own common-sense ; the one technical point on which I insist above all others is the Magical …
1954 · PDF PAGE 524
…ng Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The first and absolutely essential task for the Aspirant is to write his Magical Record. You know some elementary Mechanics-the Triangle of Forces, and all that. Well, if we have a body acted on by two equal forces, one pulling it East, the other South, it will tend to move in a South-Easterly direction. But if the "south" force is (say) twice as strong, it will move south of South-East. Now you, sitting in your study reading this letter, got there and were compelled to do that, as…
1954 · PDF PAGE 394
…is rarely continuous or permanent. The conditions of such intercourse are complex: (a) one must have the necessary degree of initiation, magical efficiency, and natural ability; (b) one must be at the time in the appropriate magical state, or mood; (c) both parties must desire to make the contact, or else one must be lawfully the superior, a master and slave relationship, (d) the magical conditions at the time must be suitable and propitious; e.g., one would not make love to a salamandrine during a sandstorm. Of course, like all operations , an…
1954 · PDF PAGE 7
…? 220 33 The Golden Mean 223 34 The Tao (1) 227 35 The Tao (2) 231 36 Quo Stet Olympus: Where the Gods 240 and Angels Live 37 Death-Fear-Magical Memory 242 38 Woman-Her Magical Formula 247 39 Prophecy 255 40 Coincidence 265 41 Are We Reincarnations of the 271 Ancient Egyptians? 42 This "Self" Introversion 274 43 The Holy Guardian Angel: 279 An Objective Individual 44 "Serious" Style of A.C. or the Apparent 283 Frivolity of Some of My Remarks 45 "Unserious" Conduct of a Pupil 286 46 Selfishness 292 47 Reincarnation 296 48 Morals of Liber AL 302 …
1954 · PDF PAGE 280
38 Woman-Her Magical Formula Issa: Wine rots the liver; fever swells the spleen; Meat clogs the belly; dust inflames the eye; Stone irks the bladder: gout -plague-leprosy! Man born of woman is most full of trouble; God, a gorged fool that belches him, a bubble! But of all plagues wherewith a man is cursed, Take my word for it, woman is the worst! (The World's Tragedy) Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The eternal antagonism between the sexes is mere illusion. As well suppose the male the enemy of the female screw. Und…
1954 · PDF PAGE 215
…we should be stupid to assign everything to conscious fraud. No, by no means always fraud. Yet at any seance the "investigators" take no magical precautions soever-against, say, the impersonation of lophiel by Hismael, or the Doves of Venus by the A'arab Zareg. All they attempt, especially at "demonstrations" and "materializations," is to guard with great elaboration and (as a rule) complete futility against the deceptions of the common conjuror. They are not expecting any genuine manifestation of the "Spirit World" ; and this fact makes clear …
1954 · PDF PAGE 22
…d the carelessness of those around him. Anyway, he offers some meaningful suggestions when he considers the diary in relationship to the magical memory. He is far clearer and more provocative on this subject than he has ever been before. Again, these insights are confined to no one particular letter but are scattered through all of them. The interested student could keep several notebooks, each devoted to some particular subject, such as the magical memory. In this way, he could prepare several very interesting notebooks on specific magical top…
1954 · PDF PAGE 384
…ting, 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. How so? Because the former rlcludes the imponderables. A couple of Japanese wrestlers may be worth more than Ihidias, Robert Browning, Titian, and Mozart in terms of lutchers' meat.…
1954 · PDF PAGE 60
…ccur in conformity with Will. (Illustration: It is my Will to inform the World of certain facts within my knowledge. I therefore · take "magical weapons," pen, ink, and paper; I write "incantations" -these sentences-in the "magical langUage" i.e., that which is understood by people I 27
1954 · PDF PAGE 496
… any election, or for the matter of that any revolution, is an almost wholly insignificant component of those stupendous and inscrutable Magical Forces which determine the destinies of the planet . Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 407
… of degrees, altogether different. For instance, in the theory of the Church of Rome a bishop is a person on whom has been conferred the magical power to ordain priests. He may choose a totally unworthy person for such ordination , it makes no difference ; and the priest, however unworthy he may be, has only to go through the correct formulae which perform the miracle of the Mass, for that miracle to be performed. This is because in the Church we are dealing with a religious as opposed to a magical or scientific qualification. If the Royal Soci…
1954 · PDF PAGE 113
…ion which corresponds to this School at all is that of ancient Egypt; possibly also that of Chaldea. This is because those religions are Magical religions in the strict technical sense; the religious component of them is negligible. So far as it exists, it exists only for the uninitiate. There are, however, traces of the beginning of the influence of the School in Judaism and in Paganism. There are, too, certain documents of the pure Greek spirit which bear traces of this. It is what they called Theurgy. The Christian religion in its simplest e…
1954 · PDF PAGE 363
…my Efficacious Tortoise and look at people till my lower jaw hangs down? Shall I see what the Yi says? Ay. Question: Shall I abandon all magical work soever until the appearance of a manifest sign? Answer: =-= No Symbol could be more definite == and unambiguous. I have invoked Aiwass to manipulate the Sticks; and, wishing to ask "What shall be the Sign?" got instantly the reference in CCXX to our Lady Babalon: "The Omnipresence of my body . " But this is not quite clear; I took it mentally as referring to the expected arrival of Our Lady, but i…
1954 · PDF PAGE 162
…r own business! is the sole sufficient rule. To drag in social, economic, religious and such aspects is irrelevance and impurity. 3. The Magical side. Sex is, directly or indirectly, the most powerful weapon in the armoury of the Magician; and precisely because there is no moral guide, it is indescribably dangerous. I have given a great many hints, especially in Magick. and The Book of Thoth-some of the cards are almost blatantly revealing; so I have been rapped rather severely over the knuckles for giving children matches for playthings. My ex…
1954 · PDF PAGE 294
PROPHECY 261 But now observe how the question of the Magical Link arises! No matter how mighty the truth of Thelema, it cannot prevail unless it is applied to and by mankind. As long as The Book of the Law was in Manuscript, it could only affect the small group amongst whom it was circulated. It had to be put into action by the Magical Observation of publishing it. When this was done, it was done without proper perfection . Its commands as to how the work ought to be done were not wholly obeyed. There were doubt and repugnance in FRA TER PERDUR…
1954 · PDF PAGE 102
…, the theory of religion, as such, being a tissue of falsehood, the only real strength of any religion is derived from its pilferings of Magical doctrine; and, religious persons being by definition entirely unscrupulous, it follows that any given religion is likely to contain scraps of Magical doctrine, filched more or less haphazard from one school or the other as occasion serves. Let the reader, therefore, beware most seriously of trying to get a grasp of this subject by means of siren analogies. Taoism has as little to do with The Tao Teh Ki…
1954 · PDF PAGE 415
…you to invent a practice to meet each specific case. One moment, though, about the fear of death. The radical cure is the gaining of the magical memory. (See also AL, I: 58.) The more previous incarnations one can remember, the less important appears the moment when the curve of life dips below the horizon. (One very curious point: when one looks back at the moment of one of one's deaths, one exclaims: "By love! that was a narrow escape, and no mistake!" Escape from what? Me no savvy; but such is the fact.) How to acquire that Memory? The devel…
1954 · PDF PAGE 276
…w else could one have reasonable "certainty," as contrary with "faith" (=interior conviction), otherwise than by the acquisition of the "Magical Memory" -the memory of former lives. And this must evidently include that of former deaths. Indeed "Freudian forgetfulness" is very pertinacious on such themes; the shock of death makes it a matter of displaying the most formidable courage to go over in one's mind the incidents of previous deaths. You recall the Buddhist "Ten Impurities";-The Drowned Corpse, the Gnawed-by-wild-beasts-Corpse, and the re…
1954 · PDF PAGE 426
MAGICAL POWER 393 your arithmetic!-let me initiate you into one or two other secrets of power! Urn-will I now? Perhaps you're hardly grown up enough. I suspect that your question contemplated not so much Power as powers: things like healing the sick, making oneself invisible, kindling a flame without combustibles, bewitching the neighbours' cows, spoiling your friend's honeymoon, fascinations of all kinds, levitation, lycanthropy, necromancy, all the regular stuff ot the legends and the fables. Most of these matters are discussed in Magick; so …