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Page 1 of 71954 · PDF PAGE 472
EDUCATION 439 chosen for reference. (Nuttall's is fairly good, though some very well-known words are omitted. The Oxford Pocket Dictionary is useless; it is for morons, illiterates, wallowers in "Basic English" -and [I suppose I Oxonians. No proper names, however well-known, unless used as common: e.g. Bobby, a flatfoot, a beetlecrusher , a harness bull; or Xantippe, a shrew, a lady. X-rays is given in the plural only: ditto "Roentgen-rays," and they give "Roentgenogram." "You never can tell!" Participles, plurals and the like are not "words" u…
1954 · PDF PAGE 180
…then of course you must know if he is "one of the believing J inn." Briefly, is he a friend or an enemy? You accordingly say to him "The word of the Law is Thelema." It turns out that he doesn't understand Greek at all, so you were certainly right in choosing Hebrew. You put it to him, "What is the word of the Law?" and he replies darkly: "The word of the Law is Thora." That means nothing to you; any one might know as much as that , Thora being the ordinary word for the Sacred Law of Israel, and you accordingly ask him to spell it to make sure …
1954 · PDF PAGE 440
…ertainly one of the most delicate , subtle , and difficult experiments that I have ever undertaken .) Bound to flop, obviously, from the word "gun," if only because the same-sounding word in different languages-sometimes even in the same!-has often not merely diverse, but diametrically opposed, meanings. Think of Bog, or Bug, the Russian word for God (I do think 407
1954 · PDF PAGE 251
… is-is-is-well, is what we must try to make clear. True, it's a slogan of A:. A:.: "The method of science-the aim of religion." Here the word 'aim' and the context help the definition; it must mean the attainment of Knowledge and Power in spiritual matters-or words to that effect: as soon as one selects a phrase, one starts to kick holes in it! Yet we both know perfectly well all the time what we do mean. But this is certainly not the sense of the word in your question. It may clear our minds, as has so often happened, if we examine it through …
1954 · PDF PAGE 293
…wn as Magick in Theory and Practice. After numerous misadventures, it was published in 1928. I refer you to that book, page 96. One last word on this subject. There is a Magical Operation of maximum importance: the Initiation of a New Aeon. When it becomes necessary to utter a Word, the whole Planet must be bathed in blood. Before man is ready to accept the Law of Thelema, the Great War must be fought . This Bloody Sacrifice is the critical paint of the World-Ceremony of the Proclamation of Horus, the Crowned and Conquering Child, as Lord of th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 388
…Practically all those parts of the Book which deal with social matters may be considered as political in the old and proper sense of the word; of modern politics it disdains to speak. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally yours, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 244
… all Truth." What Hermes means by this it will be well to enquire. May we call it "a truth of Religion"? (Don't be shocked! The original word implies a binding-together-again, as in a "Body of Doctrine"; compare the word Ligature. It was only later, by corruption, that the word came to imply "piety"; re-ligens, attentive [to the gods] as opposed to neg-ligens, neglectful.) I think that Hermes was contemplating a Ruach closely knitted together and anchored by incessant Aspiration to the Supernal Triad; just such an one, in short, as appears in t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 239
… at once with "Not that! Not that! " And the Buddhists won't admit any God at all in anything at all like the sense in which you use the word. 3 What's worse, whatever you may mean by 'God' conveys no idea to me: I can only guess by the light of my exceedingly small knowledge of YOH and your general habits of thought and action . Then what sense was there in chucking it at my head? Half a brick would have served you better. You think you can explain to me viva voce, perhaps? Don't you dare try! Whatever you said, I should prove to be nonsense, …
1954 · PDF PAGE 349
316 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS in it is the word secret and not only in the English-and thy comment upon this the Book of the Law shall be printed beautifully in red ink and black upon beautiful paper made by hand; and to each man and woman that thou meetest were it but to dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to abide in this bliss or no; it is no odds. Do this quickly." I mistook "Comment" for "Commentary-a word-by-word exposition of every verse (and much of it I loathed with all my heart!) including the Qabalistic…
1954 · PDF PAGE 164
…is Iota vel De coitu Scholia Triviae Dianae sumus in fide Puellae et pueri integri Dianam pueri integri Puellaeque canamus. Catullus The word of Sin is Restriction. 0 man! refuse not thy wife, if she will; 0 lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love; all else is a curse. Accurse'd! Accurse'd be it to the aeons! Consent or refusal are to be determined 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. Ever…
1954 · PDF PAGE 84
THE QABALAH 51 When investigating the name and other words communicated to you by such beings as you meet there, or invoke, many more will come up in their proper connections. Very soon you will have quite a nice little Sepher Sephiroth of your very own. Remember to aim, above all things, at coherence. It is excellent practice, by the way, to do some mental arithmetic on your walks; acquire the habit of adding up any names that you have come across in your morning's reading. Nietzsche has well observed that the best thoughts come by walking; an…
1954 · PDF PAGE 217
…se ninety-nine times in a hundred. Besides, I read your letter carelessly; I overlooked the phrase in which you mention that you use the word as Levi did; i.e., to cover all those types of "miracle" which depend on distracting the attention of, or otherwise composing, the miraclee-I invent a rather useful word, yes? So let us see what sort of miracles those are. To start with, I doubt if we can. Many of such thaumaturgic phenomena contain elements of illusion in greater or less degree; if the miraclee's mind is 100 percent responsible, I think …
1954 · PDF PAGE 248
…ngular is a totally different pair of Bluchers-nicht wahr? Let me go back just for a moment to the meaning of belief. We agreed that the word was senseless except as it implies an opinion , instinct, conviction-what you please!-so fIrmly entrenched in our natures that we act automatically as if it were 'true' and 'certain without error', perhaps even 'of the essence of truth'. (Browning discusses this in Mr. Sludge the Medium. ) Good: the fIeld is clear for an enquiry into this word 'God' . We fInd ourselves in trouble from the start. We must d…
1954 · PDF PAGE 234
…f a gorilla, a crocodile, a rat, a devil-fish, or what have you! One is no longer capable of human thoughts in the ordinary sense of the word; such would be wholly unintelligible. I leave the rest to your imagination; doesn't it sound to you a little like some of the accounts of "The Dweller on the Threshold?" Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 90
THE 0=2 EQUATION 57 experienced "Samadhi" (this word conveniently groups the higher types of vision 4 ) to regard normal life as "illusion" by comparison with this state in which all problems are resolved, all doubts driven out, all limitations abolished. But even beyond Atmadarshana comes the experience called Shivadarshana,s in which this Atman (or Brahman), this limit-destroying Universe, is itself abolished and annihilated. (And, with its occurrence, smash goes the whole of the Advaitist theory!) It is a commonplace to say that no words can…
1954 · PDF PAGE 238
… matter. 3. 'Self' . For a full discussion of this see Letter 42. 4. 'God.' This is really too bad of you! Of all the hopelessly mangled words in the language, you settle with unerring Sadism on the most brutally butchered. Crippen 2 was an amateur . Skeat hardly helps us at all, except by warning us that 'good' has nothing whatever to do with it. Dieu comes from Deus, with all its Sol-Jupiter references, and Deos, which Plato thought meant a runner; hence, Sun, Moon, Planets. The best I can do for you, honest Injun! is the Russian word for god…
1954 · PDF PAGE 148
…ness, and darkness. The eye is called seventy, and the triple Aleph whereby thou perceivest it, divideth into the number of the terrible word that is the Key of the Abyss. I am Hermes, that am sent from the Father to expound all things discreetly in these the last words that thou shalt hear before thou take thy seat among these, whose eyes are sealed up and whose ears are stopped, and whose mouths are clenched, who are folded in upon themselves, the liquor of whose bodies is dried up, so that nothing remains but a little pyramid of dust. And th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 17
… teachings. Crowley has slung the not very salubrious term "nigger" around with far too much carelessness. In one place he has used this word where Krishnamurti is concerned-which is a nasty piece of Anglo-Saxon assumption of superiority-and for the black people in this country. His racist prejudices are far too evident to leave one comfortable. Following the speech quoted from The Equinox, Vol. I, No. 10, there is an account of the legal proceedings in Chingleput, India, where J. Narayaniah was suing Annie Besant to regain custody of his two s…
1954 · PDF PAGE 387
…nted to us in AL, III : 59: Significant, perhaps, that this and a restatement of Thelema came immediately before "There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra's seat, lightening the girders of the soul." (AL III: 61) And this is "As brothers fight ye!" Perhaps the Aeon may give birth to some type of warfare "under Queensbery rules" so to say. A baptism of those who assert their right to belong to the Master class. Something, in short, not wholly dissimilar from the jousts of Feudal times. But on such points I should not care to advent…
1954 · PDF PAGE 89
… to our "Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel," is that called Atmadarshana, the vision (or apprehension, a much better word) of the Universe as a single phenomenon, outside all limitations, whether of time, space, causality, or what not. Very good, then! Here we are with direct realization of the Advaitist theory of the Universe. Everything fits perfectly. Also, when I say "realization," I want you to understand that I mean what I say in a sense so intense and so absolute that it is impossible to convey my meaning to anyone wh…