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THELEMIC MORALITY 313 But I am perfectly happy about it; the one important thing (as Descartes-and Francis Bacon-saw) is that you should acquire and assimilate the METHOD of Thelemic thinking. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
HOW TO RECOGNIZE MASTERS 333 when, year after year, the same sort of thing keeps on happening, and when, furthermore, I find myself able to predict, as experience has taught me to do in the last three years, that they will happen, and even how the pieces will fit into the puzzle, I am justified in assuming a causal connection.
…ackness, the necessities of your economic situation . You say you must have "regular work," and a "steady income ," and all that sort of thing. My innocent child, that species of Magick is quite simple. Take the horns of a hare ... That's enough for the present: I'll tell you what to do with them when you've got them. In Macbeth we read- ... Security Is mortals' chiefest enemy. but this is another kind of security ; it is the Hybris which "tempts Providence," the insolence of thinking that nothing can go wrong. Anyhow, there's no such thing as …
…should be enough for an intelligent and assiduous student. Let me insist that all that is worth while comes by experience . Learning one thing will give you the clue to another. Well do I know to my sorrow how hard it is, as a rule, to learn how to do a thing solely from written instruction ; so perhaps you had better arrange to see me one day about the actual setting-up of a figure. Probably , too , there will be a few points that you would like to discuss. I will end by betting you six clothing coupons to a pound of sugar that in two years co…
…ce of it. What he said came out right; one day I found that I had acquired the knack of it. Now with these semi-pupils of yours the same thing probably applies. The point you raise in particular as baffling them is the getting on to the astral plane. It is not much good explaining why the failure occurs, or at what point it occurs; the only thing that is any use is for the pupil to go on and on and on eternally. He must find out for himself where the snag is, and he must continue his experiment until he acquires the knack. All this should be pe…
…le 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 malachostomous. This comes under the same sign of Cancer. The next thing you notice…
…a thousand times better to make every kind of mistake than to slide into the habit of hesitation, of uncertainty, of indecision. For one thing, you acquire also the habit of dishonourable failure; and you very soon convince yourself that "the whole thing is nonsense." Confidence comes from exercise, from taking risks, from picking yourself up after a purler; finding that the maddest gambles keep on coming off, you begin to suspect that there is more than Luck in it; you observe this closely, and there forms, in the dusk dimly, a Shape; very soo…
…And moreover , in my opinion, Carthage ought to be destroyed." Got it? You teach the mind to push your thought automatically to the very thing from which it was trying to wander. "Yes, I get you Stephen! ... But, Uncle Dudley, come clean, do you always do all this yourself? Don't you sometimes feel embarrassed, or fear that you may destroy the effect of your letter, or 'create a scene' in the public street when you suddenly stop and perform these incomprehensible antics, or simply forget about the whole thing?" Yes, I do. Well now, have I any s…
…rdedly utters a chosen word. He may serve the same purpose by resolving that every incident of his life shall remind him of a particular thing, making every impression the starting point of a connected series of thoughts ending in that thing. He might also devote his whole energies to some one particular object, by resolving to do nothing at variance therewith, and to make every act turn to the advantage of that object.) 18. He may attract to himself any force of the Universe by making himself a fit receptacle for it, establishing a connection …
…hat? The Master nodded, and echoed: Also in that. Then what becomes of this privileged 'us'? We are obliged to extend it to include everything. Then, as we have just seen, 'God' also is unfettered by definitions. Net result : "God within us" means precisely nothing at all. And so it does, by Brahman! "Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between anyone thing and any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. But whoso availeth in this. let him be the chief of all!" (AL . I: 22-23) I implore you not to point out that , this b…
…ecrecy know much about it; for another, every historian has been talking about some more or less conventional idea of Magick, not of the thing itself. But Magick has led the world from before the beginning of history, if only for the reason that Magick has always been the mother of Science. It is, therefore, of extreme importance that some effort should be made to understand something of the subject; and there is, therefore, no apology necessary for essaying this brief outline of its historical aspects. There have always been, at least in nucle…
…epticism. Our methods must be exclusively inductive. "Gamble away his life," did I say? Indeed I did. If there is any truth at all in anything, or even any meaning in life, in Nature herself; then there is one thing, one thing only paramount; to find out who one is, what is one's necessary Way. The alternative to the Great Work is the hotchpot of dispersion, of fatuity, or disconnected nonsense. To the performance of this Work the nearest obstacle and the most obvious is the Family. Its presumption is manifest, in that it expects everybody to y…
… . The unusual word unassuaged is very interesting. People generally suppose that 'will' is the slave of purpose, that you cannot will a thing properly unless you are aiming at a definite goal. But this is not the case. Thinking of the goal actually serves to distract the mind. In these few words is included the whole method without all the bombastic piety of the servile doctrine of mysticism about the surrender of the Will. Nor is this idea of surrender actually correct ; the will must be identified with the Divine Will, so-called. One wants t…
…their real object is to persuade some supposed "authority" to flatter them and confirm them in their folly and stupidity. It is the same thing with a terrifying percentage of the people that come for "teaching" and "initiation." The moment they learn anything they didn't know before, off they fly in a temper! No sooner does it become apparent that the Master is not a stupid middle-class prig and hypocrite-another edition of themselves, in short-they are frightened, they are horrified, they flee away on both feet, like the man in the Bible! I ha…
…Reason," "The Way," "TO ON." None of these convey any true conception of the Tao. The Tao is Reason in this sense, that the substance of things may be in part apprehended as being that necessary relation between the elements of thought which determines the laws of reason. In other words, the only reality is that which compels us to connect the various forms of illusion as we do. It is thus evidently unknowable, and expressible neither by speech nor by silence. All that we can know about it is that there is inherent in it a power (which however …
…ce of meditation and playing golf. To do so is to create an internal conflict. "Let there be no difference made among you between anyone thing & any other thing, for thereby there cometh hurt." He who knows the Tao knows it to be the source of all things soever; the most exalted spiritual ecstasy and the most trivial internal impression are from our point of view equally illusions, worthless masks, which hide, with grotesque painted pasteboard false and lifeless, the living face of truth. Yet, from another point of view, they are equally expres…
…ns of becoming aware, as we are in fact aware, of that distinction. Somewhat of this is perhaps intended in The Book of the Law: "Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between anyone thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. But whoso availeth in this, let him be the chief of all!" (AL,I: 22-23) Whoso availeth (i.e., can put to practical service) is of "presidential timber," so to speak, because he is able to understand the Being behind the Function, and is accordingly not liable to be deceived by the facet that …
…sequently, in the case of your deciding to affiliate, go with you through the script of the Rituals and explain the meaning of the whole thing; communicating, in addition , the real secret and significant knowledge of which ordinary Masonry is not possessed. 4. The horoscope; I do not like doing these at all, but it is part of the agreement with the Grand Treasurer of the O.T.O. that I should undertake them in worthy cases, if pressed. But I prefer to keep the figure to myself for future reference, in case any significant event makes consultati…
…: there is no rule to prevent you from quoting against me such of my brighter remarks as "Mystery is the enemy of Truth" ; but , for one thing, I am, and always 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 ques…
…ion means "leading out" ; this is not the same as "stuffing in." I refuse to enlarge on this theme ; it is all-important. To extract something, you should first know what is there. Here astrology ought to give useful hints ; its indications give the mind something to work on. Experience makes "confirmation strong as Holy Writ" ; but beware of a priori. Do not be dogmatic; do not insist in the face of disappointment. Astrology in education is useful as geology is to the prospector ; it tells you the sort of thing to look for, and the direction i…