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Page 1 of 41954 · PDF PAGE 62
WHAT IS MAGICK? 29 treatment injures his patient. There may be failure to apply the right kind of force, as when a rustic tries to blowout an electric light. There may be 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…
1954 · PDF PAGE 341
49 Thelemic Morality Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Right glad am I to hear that you have so astutely detected the bulk of my remarks on morals as little better than plain sophistry . "After all," you tell me, "there is for everyone of us an instinct, at least, of what is 'right' and what is wrong." And it is plain enough that you understand the validity of this sense in itself, in its own right, wholly independent of any Codes or systems whatsoever. I seem to have started up this rock chimney with the wrong leg! W…
1954 · PDF PAGE 345
312 MAGICK WITHOUT . TEARS any shape is a breach 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…
1954 · PDF PAGE 164
…etermined by the impulse itself, without reference to any other motives such as commonly influence action. So with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy Will. Every thought, word, or act without exception is subject to this law. "Do what thou wilt" does not give license to do anything else; lest this be not understood, the doctrine is here explicit: "Thou hast no right but to do thy will. " Every particle of energy must be built into this single-track machine of will; directly or indirectly, it must serve the one purpose. A very small hole …
1954 · PDF PAGE 138
…" apparently to cheer and comfort the student on his rough and rugged road!) Is not Atziluth the "archetypal world"? Is not . .. Oh, all right, all right! Keep your blouse on! I didn't go for to do it. You're quite right: the Tree of Life is like that, in appearance. But that is the wrong way to look at it. We get our number two, for example, as "that which is common to a bird's legs, a man's ears, twins, the cube root of eight, the greater luminaries, the spikes of a pitchfork," etc., but having got it, we must not go on to argue that the numb…
1954 · PDF PAGE 185
…sation, and never mentioned what it is when it's at home, 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 o…
1954 · PDF PAGE 129
…usiness is solely to obey orders: our responsibility ends when we have satisfied ourselves that they emanate from a source which has the right to command. P.P.S. A visitor's story has just reminded me of the possibility that I am a Secret Chief myself without knowing it: for I have sometimes been recognized by other people as having acted as such, though I was not aware of the fact at the time.
1954 · PDF PAGE 192
…s occurrence is very common in my experience ; I have contradicted what sounded like ascertained fact and proved on enquiry to have been right ; so, considering that the statistics I made many years ago showed me to have been right 109 times out of 120, I think two things are fairly near probation ; firstly , I am not guessing- that doesn't matter 159
1954 · PDF PAGE 457
…bstract aspects of the business. But as to your own wit of judgment as to the general rules of your own private Code of Morals, what is 'right' and what is 'wrong' for you, that will emerge only from long self-analysis such as is the chief work of the Sword in the process of your Initiation. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 176
… As in the Yi King, the 3rd hexagram has departed from the original perfection, and it takes all the rest of the hexagrams to put things right again. The result, it is true , is superior; the perfection of the original has been enhanced and enriched by its experience. There is another way of defining the Great Work that explains to us the whole object of manifestation, of departing from the perfection of "Nothing" towards the perfection of "everything," and one may consider this advantage, that it is quite impossible to go wrong. Every experien…
1954 · PDF PAGE 177
144 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS that "wrong" is equally "right." Now then one gets rid of the idea of "effort" which is 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 cons…
1954 · PDF PAGE 68
…) 22. Every individual is essentially sufficient to himself. But he is unsatisfactory to himself until he has established himself in his right relation with the Universe.- (IIlustration: A microscope, however perfect, is useless in the hands of savages. A poet, however sublime, must impose himself upon his generation if he is to enjoy [and even to understand] himself, as theoretically should be the case.) 23. Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions . It is the Art of applying that understanding in action. (Illustrati…
1954 · PDF PAGE 69
…of these trifling mishaps is the difference of a whole stroke, and so probably between halving and losing the hole.) 26. Every man has a right, the right of self-preservation, to fulfill himself to the utmost. 6 (Illustration: A function imperfectly performed injures, not only itself, but associated with it. If the heart is afraid to beat for fear of disturbing the liver, the liver is starved for blood, and avenges itself on the heart by upsetting digestion, which disorders respiration, on which cardiac welfare depends.) 27. Every man should ma…
1954 · PDF PAGE 477
…ess. We all want a big bruvver to tell of him! Hence the Gods and the Classes. It's fear at the base of the whole pyramid of skulls. How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as such knows the futility of appealing to intelligence, indeed to any other qualities than those of brutes. And so, whenever we find one Man who has no fear like Ibsen's Doctor Stockmann or Mark Twain's Colonel Grainger that strolled out on his balcony with his shotgun to face the mob that …
1954 · PDF PAGE 222
…the end farthest from the window, but in a distant corner ten or twelve feet off, still in his knotted position, resting on his head and right shoulder, exactly like an image overturned. I set him right way up, and he came out of his trance. He was quite unconscious that anything unusual had happened. But he had evidently been thrown there by the mysterious forces generated by Pranayama. There is no doubt whatever about this phenomenon; it is quite common. But the Yogis claim that the lateral motion is due to lack of balance, and that if one we…
1954 · PDF PAGE 143
…individuality-reminds one of that "Nordic" twaddle about "race-pollution." "Now, Master!" (What reproach in the tone of your voice!) All right, all right! Keep your hair on!-I know that is the precise term used in The Vision and the Voice, to describe the Great White Brother or the Babe of the Abyss, but to him it means victory; to the Left-Hander it would mean defeat, ruin devastating, irremediable, final. It is exactly that which he most dreads; and it is that to which he must in the end come, because there is no compensating element in his i…
1954 · PDF PAGE 139
…ars a leopard-skin, and the spots suggest the Sun. Also, Sol is Lord of Leo: so there you are! pink leopards are exactly what you have a right to expect! Until you have practiced this method, all day and every day, for quite a long while, you cannot tell how amazingly your mnemonic power increases by virtue thereof . But be careful always to range the new ideas as they come along in their right order of importance. It is not unlike the system of keys used in big establishments, such as hotels. First, a set of keys, each of which opens one door,…
1954 · PDF PAGE 258
…strongly and persistently advocates, tends to make people feel that any positive attitude or gesture is certainly wrong, whatever may be right. They forget that the opposite may, within the limit of the universe of discourse, amount to nothing. They fall into flabbiness. I avoid this-see the example at the very outset of this letter-by saying: "Yes, I hate so-and-so like hell; I want to exterminate the very memory of the bastard from the earth, after I have personally superintended having him 'seven years a-killing' winding up by hanging, disem…
1954 · PDF PAGE 456
…ine. One is only allowed to do anything and everything so as to have more scope for exercising that virtue. Concentrate on "Thou hast no right but to do thy will." The point is that any possible act is to be performed if it is a necessary factor in that Equation of your Will. Any act that is not such a factor, however harmless, noble, virtuous or what not, is at the best a waste of energy. But there are no artificial barriers on any type of act in general. The standard of conduct has one single touchstone. There may be-there will be- every kind…
1954 · PDF PAGE 48
…ercury." I put it into Latin-Mercurius sum, and suddenly something struck me, a sort of nameless reaction, which said: "That's not quite right." Like a flash it came to me to put it into Greek, which gave me Hermes Eimi, and adding that up rapidly, I got the number 418, with all the marvellous correspondences which had been so abundantly useful to me in the past. (See Equinox of the Gods, p. 138.) My troubles disappeared like a flash of lightning. Now to answer your questions ad seriatim; it is quite all right to put questions to me about The B…