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352 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Lack of money is another matter altogether. Isn't it about time you sent me a cheque? Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally , 666
… first of all, historically speaking, defined by Zoroaster, "Nature teaches us, and the Oracles also affirm, that even the evil germs of Matter may alike become useful and good. Stay not on the precipice with the dross of Matter; for there is a place for thine Image in a realm ever splendid. If thou extend the Fiery Mind to the work of piety, thou wilt preserve the fluxible body ."3 It appears that the Levant, from Byzantium and Athens to Damascus, Jerusalem, Alexandria. and Cairo, was preoccupied with the formulation of this School in a popula…
…So, whichever way you vote, you are asking for trouble; or would do, if the vote had any meaning. The result of 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
…ex in a few well-chosen words? Am I to suppose that you want to borrow money? Such fulsome flattery suggests the indirect approach. As a matter of fact, your proposal is not so outrageous as it sounds at first; for as far as the English language goes, there is really hardly anything worth reading. 98.138 percent of it is what Frances Ridley Ravergal used to call "fiddlesticks, blah, boloney, Bull-shit, and the bunk." However, quite recently I issued an Encyclical to the Faithful with the attractive title of Artemis Iota, and I propose that we r…
…r a liar, I shall accept the verdict with mine accustomed imperturbability. Whether what I am about to tell you is "true" or not doesn't matter, as in any case it proves nothing in particular. What does matter is to accept nothing whatever from the "Astral Plane" without the most conclusive and irrefragable internal evidence. That is enough for the caveat part of it; now I plunge direct into the autobiographical. I begin with my childhood. There is one incident, not quite relevant in this place, but yet of such supreme significance that I dare …
…body needs telling nowadays what unfathomable potencies lie hidden in the atom. When I say subtler, moreover, I mean it. The analysis of matter has resulted in the extraordinary discovery that the definition of matter as given by the physicist of to-day is very similar indeed to the definition of spirit as stated by the mystics of the middle ages. Henry Poincare has well pointed out that the results of
… one in loose thinking, and especially in clinging to names which have no counterpart in things. There is only one point of theory which matters to our practice. We may readily concur that the Augoeides, the "Genius" of Socrates, and the "Holy Guardian Angel" of Abramelin the Mage, are identical. But we cannot include this "Higher Self'; for the Angel is an actual Individual with his own Universe, exactly as a man is; or, for the matter of that, a bluebottle. He is not a mere abstraction, a selection from, and exaltation of, one's own favourite…
…ch of the Law of Thelema. It is interference with the right of another to dispose of his property as he will; and if I did so myself, no matter with what tactical justification, I could hardly ask others to respect my own similar right. (The basis of our criminal law is simple, by virtue of Thelema: to violate the right of another is to forfeit one's own claim to protection in the matter involved.) So much for my own position; but let us look at the original case with another protagonist: let us say a young Thelemite, fanatically enthusiastic a…
…moon, 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 all I need tell you is the correct general attitude to all such thaumaturgies. The best excuse for trying to acquire them is that one learns such a lot in the process. Otherwise- Here is another of those Eastern stories for you! A certain Yogi thought it would be an admirable achievement to walk across the Ganges. After forty years he succeeded, and went off to his Guru to d…
…ently violent and arrogant remarks. "It is a lie, this folly against self." (AL. II: 22) This is the central doctrine of Thelema in this matter. What are we to understand by it? That this imbecile and nauseating cult of weakness-democracy some call it-is utterly false and vile. Let us look into the matter. (First consult AL. II: 24, 25, 48, 49, 58, 59, and III : 18, 58, 59. It might be confusing to quote these texts in full; but they throw much further light on the subject.) The word "compassion " in its accepted sense- which is bad etymology-i…
OBST ACLES ON THE PATH 449 accounts; trusting that Thou wilt give this small matter Thine immediate attention, for Jesus' Christ's sake, Amen ." Sure enough, when he came to open his post, there would be just enough, sometimes exactly enough, to cover that amount. This story was told me by an enemy, who thought quite seriously that he would go to Hell for being "Open." ("Open" Brethren were lax about the Lord's Supper, let people partake who were not sound upon the Ramsgate Question; and other Theological Atrocities!) It meant that the facts we…
…s later letter; much meditation was most needful to compress the answer within reasonable limits; even to give it form at all is no easy matter. For this is probably the symptom of the earliest stirring of the mind of the cave-man to reflection, thereunto moved by other symptoms-those of the morning after following upon the night before . It is- have we not already dealt with that matter after a fashion?-evidence of disease when an organ becomes aware of its own modes of motion. Certainly the mere fact of questioning Life bears witness to some …
… was any new kind of electricity. I think it was the passage itself that has given me neuralgia. It disgusts me beyond words. To put the matter in a nutshell, tersely, concisely, succinctly, the world is being corrupted by all this- Asthmatic Thinking Torpid Thinking Nauseous Thinking Bovine T. Uncertain T. Old-maidish T. Chaw bacon T. Venomous T. Purgative T. Diffuse T. Whelp T. Querulous T. Excretory T. Yahoo T. Rat-riddled T. Fog-bound T. Zig-zag T. Superficial T. Gossiping T. Ambivalent T. Tinsel T. Higgledy-piggledy T. Broken T. Unbalanced…
…common prudence , both because the abuse of the Secret is, at least on the surface, so easy and so tempting, and because, if it became a matter of general knowledge the Order itself might be in danger of calumny and pe:-secution ; for the secret is even easier to misinterpret than to profane. Lege! ludica! Tace! Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
…ss, ready to challenge every thought-and woe to the intruder who cannot give the countersign! This time the dear old ruffian thought the matter serious enough to report Higher Up. "It is put plainly enough, emphatically enough, incontrovertibly enough" was the gist of his communication "that the first and most irretrievable trick of the enemy is to dupe you into passing Captain Coincidence as 'Friend', whereas he is naturally the most formidable of all your foes when it comes to a question of proof." Quite right , Sergeant-Major! But it is not …
…nd the Judgment at least toys with the idea. Were I not so ignorant, I could dig up all sorts of support for this thesis. But it doesn't matter so much in any 296
… "Black Brother." The difference between a sneak-thief and a Hitler is not too bad an analogy. The Left-hand Path is a totally different matter. Let us start at the beginning. You remember my saying that only two operations were 109
…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 this. All the greetings, salutations, "Saying Will," periodical adorations, even saying apo pantos kakodaimonos with a downward and outward sweep of the arm, the eyes averted, when one sees a person dressed in a religious (Christian) uniform: all these come under "Don't stroke the cat the wrong…
…Possible Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. "Occult" science is the most difficult of them all. For one thing, its subject-matter includes the whole of philosophy, from ontology and metaphysics down to natural history. More, the most rarefied and recondite of these has a direct bearing upon the conduct of life in its most material details, and the simplest study of such apparently earthbound matters as botany and mineralogy leads to the most abstruse calculations of the imponderables . With what weapons, then, are we to attack so …
…, or why anyone should perform it, or what happens when one does perform it! All right, I will remedy that; luckily, it is a very simple matter; very important, perfectly paradoxical, and devastatingly effective. Analysed, it is to make the assumption that something which seems very wrong is actually all right, that an eager wish is an accomplished fact, a reasonable anxiety, entirely unfounded-and to act accordingly. For instance, I'm in some desolate place, dependent for my food supply on a weekly messenger. If he is a day late, it is awkward…