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Page 1 of 41954 · PDF PAGE 444
…est civilizations are thus named. In Sumer, He was AD, or ADAD, whence the later Egyptian Hadit, and the Semitic Adonai. (There are also words like AVO, the creative Magick.) So also the Greeks in Syria knew Adonis, and the Latin Deus is itself the general word for God. Again, Valhalla houses Odin, Woden; and there are others. When the dental is complicated to a sibilant, as we shall see later, another idea is introduced ; while the lightening of the sound to T has yet another effect. Sanskrit also helps us with such roots as DETH to show, DAM …
1954 · PDF PAGE 229
… a pound, or a factor indispensable, as when one says "A wheel is part of a motor-car," or ... The fact is that very few of us know what words mean; fewer still take the trouble to enquire. We calmly, we carelessly assume that our minds are identical with that of the writer, at least on that point; and then we wonder that there should be misunderstandings! The fact is (again!) that usually we don't really want to know; it is so very much easier to drift down the river of discourse, "lazily, lazily, drowsily, drowsily, in the noonday sun." Why i…
1954 · PDF PAGE 45
…ady-made. Pyramis,' a pyramid , is that force in its geometrical form ; in its biological form it is Phallus ,' the Yang or Lingam. Both words have the same numerical value, 831. These two words can therefore serve you as the secret object of your Work. How then can you construct the number 83l? The letter Kaph,2 Jupiter (Jehovah) the Wheel of Fortune in the Tarot - the Atu X is a picture of the Universe built up and revolving by virtue of those Three Principles , Sulphur , Mercury , Salt, or Gunas , Sattvas , Rajas, Tamas - has the value 20. S…
1954 · PDF PAGE 80
HIEROGLYPHICS 47 meanings, these words again combined into phrases by no less high-handed a procedure . And then folk wonder how it is that there should be error and misunderstanding in the transmission of thought from one person to another! Rather regard it as a miraculous intervention of Providence when even one of even the simplest ideas "gets across." Now then, this being so, it is evidently good sense to construct one's own alphabet , with one's own very precise definitions, in order to handle an abstruse and technical subject like Magick.…
1954 · PDF PAGE 447
414 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS bring to mind the curves in Nature-you will soon discover the words with a few little experiments; the T is a D, only lighter, quicker and younger-and so Good-night! Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 474
…ntiated from the average Learned Pig. All this made me exceedingly sorrowful. I began to understand why my Liber OZ, written entirely in words of one syllable only, with this very idea in mind, turned out to be completely beyond the average man's (or woman's) understanding. I had some Mass Observation done on it. "But this is rank Socialism," "Sy, ayn't this all Fascism?" "Oh Golly!" "Cripes!" "Coo!" "How dreadful!" about the nearest most of them got to Ralph Straus and Desmond MacCarthy! Words of one syllable! Louis Marlow had already told me …
1954 · PDF PAGE 372
FAMILY 339 privileges thus gained is the clean sweep that is made of all pretence. This too is painful beyond words at first. Until the process starts , you have not the faintest idea of how you have wrapped yourself in layers of lies. Now go ahead! Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally , 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 83
…already done for you? Reason: simple. Doing it will teach you Qabalah as nothing else could. Besides, you won't be all cluttered up with words that mean nothing to you; and if it should happen that you want a word to explain some particular number, you can look it up in my Sepher Sephiroth. By this method, too, you may strike a rich vein of words of your own that I have altogether missed. No doubt, a Really Great Teacher would have said: "Beware! Use my Dictionary, and mine alone! All others are spurious!" But then I'm not a R.G.T. of that kind…
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 281
… can give, by all I desire of ye all. (32) 1. Dictated: "the unfragmentary non-atomic fact of my universality .. . (Write this in whiter words. But go forth on)." Ouarda wrote into the MS, later, the five words as in text.
1954 · PDF PAGE 59
… habit, not letting anything get by the sentries. Indeed, I want you to go even further; make sure of what is meant by even the simplest words. Trace the history of the word with the help of Skeat's Etymological Dictionary. E.g. pretty means 'tricky', 'deceitful' ; on the other hand, hussy is only 'housewife'. It's amusing, too, this tabby refers to Prince Attab, the grandson of Ommeya-the silk quarter of Baghdad where utabi, a rich watered silk was sold. This will soon give you the power of discerning instantly when words are being used to hid…
1954 · PDF PAGE 318
…f sanctimoniousness! There, or thereabouts, we must leave it. "Out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh"; and I cannot sing he words of an epithalamium to the music of a dirge. Besides, what says the poet? "Love's at its height in pure ove? Nay, but after When the song's light dissolves gently in· aughter." Oh! "One word more" as Browning said, "Actions speak ouder than words." Do you see what is my mark? It is you that I am going to ut in the dock about "being serious"; and that will take a eparate letter-part of the answer to yours …
1954 · PDF PAGE 184
…en apprehension, or when in one's meditation, one approaches the deepest strata. One need not be dogmatic about the use of these special words. One might choose a formula to represent one's own particular True Will. It is a little like Cato (or Scipio, was it?) who concluded every speech, whether about the Regulations of the Roman Bath or the proposal to reclaim a marsh of the Maremma, with the words: "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 f…
1954 · PDF PAGE 376
…free upon the glittering Ocean, to cast the very Soul of Life upon uncharted and enchanted isles! It is not to these few but well-chosen words that I propose to look to enhance my popularity in the Women's Clubs of the United States. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally , 666 P.S. "Mother-Love" is, of course, a branch of family affection about which I have already written to you in no uncertain terms. Of all its sub-sections this is the worst because it is the strongest, the most natural, that is to say, the most brutish. You hav…
1954 · 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 446
… Elohim, A'alion, etc., and look up the L-idea in your Book of Thoth, and in Magick, pp. 331 sqq.) and other peculiarly sacred names and words. Before cursing my way to dinner-oh! how I hate the need of food unless I am practising the "Ninth Art" and disguise myself as a gourmet-I must mention the letter M. This is the only letter that can be pronounced with the lips firmly closed; it is the beginning of speech, and so the Mother of the Alphabet. (Distinguish from N, the letter of the Female.) Look up Magick again; chapter VII (pp. 45-49) gives…
1954 · PDF PAGE 134
… not think that it 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. Br…
1954 · PDF PAGE 241
… loathe them and da capo and to get on with your practice. Then when you get the results, you can try, albeit uselessly, to fit your own words to the facts, if you should wish to communicate , for any good reason, your experiences to other people . Then despairing of your impotence, how glad you will be that you have been trained not to let anyone fob you off with phrases. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally yours, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 325
…ectly compatible (nay, shall we say friendly?) with it. The Book of the Law has plenty to say on this subject, and it does not mince its words. AL,II: 18, 19, 20, 21 : These are dead, these fellows; they feel not. We are not for the poor and the sad: the lords of the earth are our kinsfolk . Is a God to live in a dog? No! but the highest are of us. They shall rejoice, our chosen; who sorroweth is not of us. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languour, force and fire, are of us. 292
1954 · PDF PAGE 164
…ly, it must serve the one purpose. A very small hole in the hull may sink a very large ship. Every act, therefore, with the thoughts and words which determine its performance, is a sacrament .