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…irtue 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, and one door only. Then, a set which opens all the doors on one floor only . And so on, until the one responsible who has one unique key which opens every lock in the building. There is another point about this whole System of the Qabalah. It does more than merely increase the mnemonic faculty by 10,0…
1954 · PDF PAGE 252
…an operation, if true magick were employed, would be beyond the power of any magician of my acquaintance; for it would mess up the solar system completely. (You remember how this happened, and what came of it, in a rather clever short story by H.G. Wells.) For true Magick means "to employ one set of natural forces at a mechanical advantage as against another set" -I quote, as closely as memory serves, Thomas Henry Huxley, when he explains that when he lifts his water-jug-or his elbow-he does not "defy the Law of Gravitation." On the contrary, h…
1954 · PDF PAGE 193
…scendant might have been Jupiter, suggesting many of the qualities of Pisces: and so forth. Now let me start! You want me to explain the system-or no-system-which I use. I do not "move in a mysterious way My wonders to perform"; for nothing could be simpler. For its origin I have to thank Abramelin the Mage, who empties the vials of his scorn upon the astrologers of his time with their meticulous calculations of "the hours of the planets" and so on. I think he goes too far when he says that a planet can have no influence at all, or very little,…
1954 · PDF PAGE 52
…ough the O.T.O. rituals to 111° as soon as you are fairly familiar with them. The plan of the grades is this: 0° Attraction to the Solar System 1° Birth W Life IIIo Death IVo "Exaltation" P.1. "Annihilation" yo -IXo Progressive comment on 11° with very special reference to the central secret of practical Magick. There is thus no connection with the A :. A:. system and the Tree of Life. Of course, there are certain analogies. Your suggested method of study: you have got my idea quite well. But nobody can "take you through" the Grades of A:. A : …
1954 · PDF PAGE 156
SYSTEM OF THE O.T.O. 123 Yirtue of its successive Grades. This I will now try to supply, at least in a brief outline. Let us begin at the beginning . What is a Dramatic Ritual? It is a celebration of the Adventures of the God whom it is intended to invoke. (The Bacchae of Euripides is a perfect example of this.) Now, in the O.T.O., the object of the ceremonies being the Initiafion of the Candidate, it is he whose Path in Eternity is displayed in dramatic form. What is the Path? l. The Ego is attracted to the Solar System. 2. The Child experienc…
1954 · PDF PAGE 174
…y 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 out for a walk, and the first thing you see is a car; that represents the Atu VII, the Chariot , referred to Cancer. Then you come to a fi sh monger , and notice certain crustacea, very malachost…
1954 · PDF PAGE 532
…aw. The suggestion in your last letter to me is a very sensible one. I do think that people in general would like to get some idea of my system of training as a whole, in a comprehensive form. In the past there has been far too much of referring them to one quite unprocurable document and then to another which probably has not even been written. No wonder that they go away sorrowful. So I am going to put in as the last of this series of Letters an account, as clear and as succinct as the gods enable me to do, of what they may expect to have to …
1954 · PDF PAGE 506
…ver gently you touch it; more, all the other bits of you give a painful jerk, however disconnected they may seem. Still more, the entire system undergoes a spasm of apprehension; and the total result is that the mental as well as the physical system is quite unable to grasp the situation with any accuracy , and the whole man is temporarily engulphed in what is naturally not far from a condition of insanity. In-shall I say "Anglo-Saxondom," or "Teutonic breeds," or "bourgeoisie ," so as to include some of the French whom when they are good are v…
1954 · PDF PAGE 377
…clan, gens, or nation, acting as a unit and standing upon armed neutrality with respect to similar groups. But in the Aeon of Horus this system has broken down. That such is the case is already abundantly manifest. Totalitarianism in any of its forms tends to break down the family structure. It considers only the Individual, and him, merely as a unit in the welter of the state . Experience will doubtless prove that this idea simply will not work. The Individual will come to his own, but it will be impossible to reconstruct the Family System. It…
1954 · PDF PAGE 428
… 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 indeed the basis of all our classification, and I hope by now you have got fairly familiar with the process of sticking everything that turns up on its correct branch of the Tree. In your last letter you thank me for having made clear to you the initiated teaching with regard to the Universe; and you now very rightly enquire "this being so, where do we com…
1954 · PDF PAGE 519
…n 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, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 126
…is a matter of Their convenience. Have They attained Their position by passing through all the grades of the A :. A :. ? Yes and no: the system which was given to me to put forward is only one of many. "Above the Abyss" all these technical wrinkles are ironed out. One man whom I suspect of being a Secret Chief has hardly any acquaintance with the technique of our system at all. That he accepts The Book of
1954 · PDF PAGE 308
…rks, miners and Privy Councillors so often mistake for Buddha, the faculty of discrimination. Pretty much like the o = 2 equation in our system. Next, the Higher Manas, which is our Neschamah, as near as a toucher; and the Lower Manas, which, as every Lovely and Cutie well knows, is our Ruach. The rest of the Hindu system can easily be fitted in. Note, however, the Ahamkara, usually translated "Ego-making faculty," which collects what it can from this dump, and labels it "I." Well, then, what is this "Higher Self' that you roll out upon me? Act…
1954 · PDF PAGE 5
…d, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher, except for brief quotations in critical articles, books and reviews. International Standard Book Number: D-941404-17-X Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 82-083310 First Edition, 1973 Second Printing, 1973 Third Printing, Falcon Press, 1982 Fourth Printing, 1983 Fifth Printing, 1986 Sixth Printing, 1987 Seventh Printing, 1989 Falcon Press 1209 Sou…
1954 · PDF PAGE 546
… -Diaries from , 244 Cantaur, 399 Centuries of Nostradamus, 182 Ceres, 115 Chamelion, Path of, 92 Chaldea, School of, 80 Chaldean Square system (AstrologY),163 Chant, Mrs. Ormiston, 284 Chaos, 113 Charybdis, 224,447 Chaucer, 461 Cheron, Jane, 330, 331 Chesterton, J.K., 408 Chiah, 251, 297,309,310,473 Chimaera, 146 China, walk across, 232, 301, 485 Chinese system of thought, 60, 61,72,232,233 Chokmah,92,130,474 Choronzon, 11 7, 119, 120 Christ, 54,185,241,357 Christian-attitude, 8 -path,8,138,420,458 -Home, 342 -Science,76,77,324 Christian Scien…
1954 · PDF PAGE 6
…Chiefs 91 10 The Scolex School 97 II Woolly Pomposities of the Pious "Teacher" 101 12 The Left-hand Path-The "Black Brothers" 109 13 The System of the O.T.O. 122 14 Noise 125 IS Sex Morality: Including Artemis Iota 128 16 On Concentration 138 17 Astral Journey-How to Do It: 141 How to Verify Your Experiences 18 The Importance of Our Conventional Greetings 149 19 The Act of Truth 152 20 Talismans: The Lamen: The Pentacle ISS 21 My Theory of Astrology 159 22 How to Learn the Practice of Astrology 163 23 Improvising a Temple 167 24 Necromancy and …
1954 · PDF PAGE 558
… these last years than in his youth. Magick Without Tears is no le: ickal instruction, annotated by e language, covering: the Qabalah,hi system of reference; the symbols o the three major schools of mag} approach to life and use of power; tion; the Yi King; The Book of thi tance of talismans, lamens and pent: cointidence; etc., etc. Magick Without Tears is the Coming soon from Falcon Pr: compilation of Crowley's m: volume Equinox; The Law the moss definitive comment ing the creative work of th than a personal encyclopedia of mag-_ rience and ex…
1954 · PDF PAGE 157
…lways have been, the leader of the Extreme Left in the Council-Chamber of the City of the Pyramids, so that if I acquiesce at all in the system of the O.T.O. so far as the "secret of secrets" of the IXo is concerned, it is really on a point of personal honour. My pledge given to the late Frater Superior and O.H.O., Dr. Theodor Reuss. For all that, in this particular instance it is beyond question a point of 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 ma…
1954 · PDF PAGE 303
270 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS gambling! And a good riddance, at that! Well, there is one advantage in the system; it does help the intelligent man to steal a march on his neighbours! In all this the important point for my present purpose is to show you how entirely this question of probability and coincidence is dependent on your attention . The sequence BBBBBBB at roulette is most unlikely to occur; but so, in exactly the same degree, is the sequence B R B R R B R or any other sequence. The one passes unnoticed, the other causes surprise, only beca…
1954 · PDF PAGE 335
…t. I put this first, because your troubles belong to this part of the Book. But let me sort out the principal parts of it. I. There is a system of the most su blime philosophy which stands altogether apart from any Aeon, or from any other limited condition . 2. There is a considerable proportion of the contents which appears to refer to "The Beast" and "The Scarlet Woman" personally ; but these titles may be assumed to refer to anyone who happens to hold either of those offices during the whole period of the Aeon- approximately 2000 years. 3. T…