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Page 1 of 81954 · PDF PAGE 64
… and our methods depend on calculations involving mathematical ideas which have no correspondence in the Universe as we know it. 3 ) 12. Man is ignorant of the nature of his own being and powers. Even his idea of his limitations is based on experience of the past, and every step in his progress extends his empire. There is, therefore, no reason to assign theoretical limits4 to what he may be, or to what he may do. (Illustration: Two generations ago it was supposed theoretically impossible that man should ever know the chemical composition of th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 67
…ss to its dissatisfaction with itself, since it cannot fulfill its function until completed by its counterpart in another organism.) 20. Man can only attract and employ the forces for which he is really fitted. (Illustration: You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. A true man of science learns from every phenomenon. But Nature is dumb to the hypocrite; for in her there is nothing false.5 ) 21. There is no limit to the extent of the relations of any man with the Universe in essence; for as soon as man makes himself one with any idea, th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 213
…ok! but do not speak to them!" as Virgil warned Dante. So let us look. No! Let us first congratulate ourselves that this subject of Necromancy is so admirably documented. As to the real Art, we have not only Eliphas Levi, but the sublimely simple account in the Old Testament of the Witch of Endor, her conjuring up of the apparition of Samuel to King Saul. A third classic must not be neglected: I have heard or read the story elsewhere-for the moment I cannot place it. But it is so brilliantly told in I Write as I Please by Walter Duranty that no…
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 438
…AITH 405 Price's young lady of Brocken fame, who was so timorously careful of her virginity that she never felt it safe unless she had a man in bed with her. What is the other kind of faith? Like its hostile twin, it must have no truck with reason, at least no conscious truck, or it ceases to possess a moral meaning. It is that confidence l in oneself which assures one that the long shot at the tiger will fly true to the mark, that the tricky putt will go down, that the man one never beat before will go down this time; also its horrid contrary,…
1954 · PDF PAGE 287
254 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS this sort; it is one part of Sulphuric in I don't remember how many million parts of water that is enough to tum blue litmus red; and even with our own gross apparatus we can arrange for a ten-thousandth part of a grain to send a scale down with a bang. Think of a roulette ball hovering on the edge at the end of a long spin! Think of Buridan's ass! Love is the law. love under will. Yours fraternally, 666 P.S. One ought, perhaps, to give an outline of how these facts work out in the social system of Thelema. It may be us…
1954 · PDF PAGE 111
…egarded the benighted Hindu. Nietzsche expresses the philosophy of this School to that extent with considerable accuracy and vigour. The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it. The brave man rejoices in giving and taking hard knocks, and the brave man is joyous. The Scandinavian idea of Valhalla may be primitive, but it is manly. A heaven of popular concert, like the Christian; of unconscious repose, like the Buddhist; or even of sensual enjoyment, like the Moslem, excites his nausea and contempt. He under…
1954 · PDF PAGE 66
… of being which exist in the object to which it is applied, whichever of those orders is directly affected. (Illustration: If I strike a man with a dagger, his consciousness, not his body only, is affected by my act; although the dagger, as such, has no direct relation therewith. Similarly, the power of my thought may so work on the mind of another person as to produce far-reaching physical changes in him, or in others through him.) 17. A man may learn to use any force so as to serve any purpose, by taking advantage of the above theorems. (Illu…
1954 · PDF PAGE 63
30 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS by thinking that she prefers love to social consideration, or vice versa. One woman may stay with an unsympathetic husband when she would really be happy in an attic with a lover, while another may fool herself into a romantic elopement when her only true pleasures are those of presiding at fashionable functions. Again, a boy's instinct may tell him to go to sea, while his parents insist on his becoming a doctor. In such a case, he will be both unsuccessful and unhappy in medicine.) 8. A man whose conscious will is at od…
1954 · PDF PAGE 417
…he can." At least, don't let the Gods have the laugh on you! Hello! Here's the Book of Lies again! What fun. The Smoking Dog Each act of man is the twist and double of an hare. Love and Death are the greyhounds that course him. God bred the hounds and taketh His pleasure in the sport. This is the Comedy of Pan, that man should think he hunteth, while those hounds hunt him. This is the Tragedy of Man, when facing Love and Death he turns to bay. He is no more hare, but boar. There are no other comedies or tragedies. Cease then to be the mockery o…
1954 · PDF PAGE 277
…tween successive incarnations? The theory is that the Supernal Triad constitutes (or, rather, is an image of) the "eternal" Essence of a man; that is, it is the positive expression of that ultimate "Point of View" which is and is not and neither is nor is not etc. Quite indestructible. Now when a man spends his life (a) building up and developing the six Sephiroth of the Ruach so that they cohere closely in proper balance and relation, (b) in forging, developing and maintaining a link of steel between this solid Ruach and that Triad, Death mere…
1954 · PDF PAGE 70
…e calm, clear-headed confidence of an onlooker, with intelligence unclouded by self-interest and power unimpaired by passion.) 28. Every man has a right to fulfill his own will without being afraid that it may interfere with that of others; for if he is in his proper path, it is the fault of others if they interfere with him. (Illustration: If a man like Napoleon were actually appointed by destiny to control Europe, he should not be blamed for exercising his rights. To oppose him would be an error. Anyone so doing would have made a mistake as t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 103
… shineth; withdrawing himself, he attracteth notice; humbling himself, he gaineth force to achieve his Will. Because he striveth not, no man may contend against him. XLIII: 1: The softest substance hunteth down the hardest. The Unsubstantial penetrateth where there is no opening. Here is the Virtue of Inertia. XLIII: 2: Few are they who attain: whose speech is Silence, whose Work is Inertia. XLVIII: 3: He who attracteth to himself all that is under Heaven doth so without effort. He who maketh effort is not able to attrac t it. LVIII: 3: The wis…
1954 · PDF PAGE 62
…failure to apply the right degree of force, as when a wrestler has his hold broken. There may be failure to apply the force in the right manner, as when one presents a cheque at the wrong window of the Bank. There may be failure to employ the correct medium, as when Leonardo da Vinci found his masterpiece fade away. The force may be applied to an unsuitable object, as when one tries to crack a stone, thinking it a nut.) 4. The first requisite for causing any change is thorough qualitative and quantitative understanding of the conditions. (Illus…
1954 · PDF PAGE 379
…d again!) on the exchange of wealth is a direct violation of the Law of Thelema. Parable No. Three, "The Fairy Bank Note." One evening a man walked into an inn and asked for hospitality. In the morning, when his bill came, he found he had nothing but a £ I 00 note. "I'm afraid I've no change till the Banks open." "Oh, stick to it-I'll be back next week-I've enough petrol to take me home." "Handy," thought Boniface, "that will just square my brewer." That reminded the brewer to pay his cornchandler, who had been worrying him to settle . He wasn'…
1954 · PDF PAGE 428
65 Man Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. In previous letters I hope I have been able to give you some idea of the initiated conception of the Macrocosm, and also to have made it clear to you why we must all use a symbolic language, and the necessity of constructing a special alphabet as the basis of our conversations about Magick. I have also furnished you with charts of this alphabet. It would of course have been too clumsy and cumbersome to put all the different systems of symbol on to the Tree of Life. That Tree is…
1954 · PDF PAGE 475
73 "Monsters," Niggers, Jews Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. As you say, "Every man and every woman is a star" does need some attention to the definition of "man" and "woman." What is the position, you say, of "monsters"? And men of "inferior" races, like the Veddah, Hottentot and the Australian Blackfellow? There must be a line somewhere, and will 1 please draw it? You make me feel like Giotto! There is one remark which 1 must make at the beginning. It's some poet or other, Tennyson or Kipling, 1 think (I forget wh…
1954 · PDF PAGE 540
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1954 · PDF PAGE 177
… associated with "lust of result." All that one does is to exercise pleasantly and healthfully one's energies. It will not do to regard "man" as the "final cause" of manifestation. Please do not quote myself against me. Man is so infinitely small, In all these stars, determinate . Maker and master of them all. Man is so infinitel y great. The human apparatus is the best instrument of which we are, at present , aware in our normal consciousness; but when you come to experience the Conversation of the higher intelligences, you will understand how…
1954 · PDF PAGE 69
36 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS (Illustration: The least gesture causes a change in a man's own body and in the air around him; it disturbs the balance of the entire Universe and its effects continue eternally throughout all space. Every thought, however swiftly suppressed, has its effect on the mind. It stands as one of the causes of every subsequent thought, and tends to influence every subsequent action. A golfer may lose a few yards on his drive, a few more with his second and third, he may lie on the green six bare inches too far from the hole; bu…