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Page 131 of 1731929 · PDF PAGE 521
…inks as firmly as ever and was, in fact, unbreakable; for it is an essential element of my being to be pledged to the performance of the Great Work. They also taught me by this means the {822} consequences of any such error; and this has been very useful to me in dealing with those who may be in danger of making a similar blunder. The penalty itself was also the means of arranging events in such a way as to be of service to me in subsequent initiation. I don't know whether I thought the world would come to an end, because I chose to turn nasty …
1910 · PDF PAGE 12
…ve to have something better. But I dine at the Café Royal, instead of munching nuts and “ sirloin of carrots.” I make expeditions to the great mountains of the Himalayas, and hunt buffalo and tiger in the jungles of the Terai ; I love beauty in painting and sculpture ; I love poetry and music ; and I love flesh and blood. There is nothing that you enjoy that I do not enjoy as much as you do ; and I bear witness that nothing is worthy to be com- pared with ecstasy. What is the path to this immortal land ? To the Oriental, whose mind is, so to sa…
1954 · PDF PAGE 22
…re. Though the title of the book may be amusing, the contents are far from being so. Crowley's reputation as a writer and teacher of the greatest magnitude must be enhanced by these letters, which are thus strongly recommended to all who seek the Light. There are some magnificent flashes of profundity in this book as when Crowley examines the necessity of keeping a diary, a personal record of all practices undertaken. A great deal of what we know about him is due to the fact that he kept a diary throughout his life. Most of these are intact and…
1954 · PDF PAGE 426
… that remark goes to the root of the matter; for all these powers, if we understand them properly, are natural by-products of one's real Great Work. My own experience was very convincing on this point; for one power
1954 · PDF PAGE 409
… necessity. I know that it must seem hard to the weaker brethren of the Order that we should make so little appearance of success in the Great Work to which we are all pledged. It is so universal a convention that success should be measured by members. People like to feel that they have hundreds of Lodges from whom they can obtain assistance in moments of discouragement. But a far truer and deeper satisfaction is found when the student has contentedly gone on with his work all by his own efforts. Surely you have had sufficient example in these …
1954 · PDF PAGE 491
…iscient, omnipresent) employing Judas, Pilate and Herod, no less than Jesus, as actors in the Drama which replaced Isis by Osiris in the Great Formula. Perfectly true; but this fact does not in any way exculpate the criminals. It is no excuse for the Commandants of Belsen and Buchenwald that they were acting under orders. The Drama is not mere play-acting, in which the most virtuous man may play the vilest of parts. Your further objection, doubtless, will be that this theory
1929 · PDF PAGE 78
… in order to perform the work of redemption. The in-dwelling of the Holy Ghost was a sanctification resulting from the completion of the great work when the self had been crucified to itself and raised again in incorruptible immortality. I did not yet see that this conception reposed on metaphysical bases as untenable as those of orthodoxy. There was no attempt to explain the origin of evil and similar difficulties. But these things were mysteries which would be revealed to the saint as he advanced in the way of grace. Anyhow, I was certainly n…
1919 · PDF PAGE 148
…art of a sentence remaining unspoken. I never before noticed how unneces- sary some of our speech is; in fact I have now no doubt that a great many things are better left unsaid. Monday, Jan. oth. Bedtime. Said word to-day for the first time at Lunch. I. at 1.20 P.M. Lunch. 1. at 2.25 P.M. at Office. 2. at 4 PM. { Was careless enough to repeat a sentence containing it. Gave extra sharp cut. I. at 5.10 P.M. I. at 5.30 P.M. Total 6 I am glad this shows further improvement. I was working and talking at the Office all the evening up to 10 o’c. and …
1922 · PDF PAGE 54
…. I thought of him as the sea, shaking with derisive laughter. All the time I had been chuckling over my dear old squad commander. Not a great flyer, am I? This will show him! And that was true enough. I was incomparably better than I had ever been before. And yet I had omitted just one obvious precaution. I suddenly realised that things might be exceedingly nasty. The only thing to be done was to shut off, and volplane down to the straits. And there were points in the problem which appalled me. Oh, for another sniff! As we swooped down towards…
1954 · PDF PAGE 28
… original intent as expressed in Magick without Tears. Magick without Tears demanded that some careful pruning be done. I have exercised great caution and deliberation in the editing, if only because I am fully aware of the fanatical attitude of some Crowley disciples. Every word that he wrote
1954 · PDF PAGE 473
…, is as exhilarating as a baseball-game or a bull-fight. And what the Tartarus-Tophet-lehanna has all this to do with Education, and the Great Work? This, child! H.G. Wells and others have pointed out with serene justice that a gap in your vocabulary implies a gap in your mind; you lack the corresponding idea. I put this in for you because an American officer, very dear to me, flitted from the Front for a few days to ask me a few questions-oh, "very much above your exalted grade" my dear-and I thought it might be useful to him to learn this gam…
1954 · PDF PAGE 535
…ievement that it should serve as an encouragement to all Magicians. In the case of many worlds, in particular that of Abra Melin, of the greater and lesser Keys of Solomon, of Pietro di Abano, of Cornelius Agrippa, while we have perfectly adequate information as to the methods we have very meagre examples of the results, especially so far as refers to the technical side of the work . I must conclude with a warning. So many of these branches of magick are so fascinating that anyone of them is liable to take hold of the Magician by the short hair…
1904 · PDF PAGE 6
…Osiris My th of the Egy ptians. These ideas are all right, but they have no more to do with Christianity than the Metric System with the Great P yramid. But s ee Piazzi Smyth!† Henry Morley has even the audacity to claim S helley—Shelley !—as a Christian “in spirit.” Talking of Shelley :—With regard to m y open denial of the personal Christian God, may it not be laid to my charge that I have * As represented by his E ncylopædia ar ticle; not in such works as “Limits of Religious Thought.”—A.C. † An astronomer whose br ain gave way . He prophesi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 211
… may impress upon our scornful men of science that the study of the bacillus should give place to that of the baculum, the little to the great— how great one only realises when one identifies the wand with the Mahalingam,* up which Brahma flew at the rate of 84,000 yojanas a second for 84,000 mahakalpas, down which Vishnu flew at the rate of 84,000 crores of yojanas a second for 84,000 crores of maha- kalpas—yet neither reached an end. But I reach an end. There is no necessarily 23. The cryptic Coptic.2—Vide the Papyrus of Bruce. 24. ANET' AER-…
1907 · PDF PAGE 83
…d for two months in every year each member of your governing classes shall undergo this training under skilled advice. “ But what of the Great Tao? For one month in every year each of these men shall seek desperately for the Stone of the Philosophers. By solitude and fasting for the social and luxurious, by drunkenness and debauch for the austere, by scourging for those afraid of physical pain, by repose for the restless, and toil for the idle, by bull-fights for the humanitarian, and the care of little children for the callous, by rituals for t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 177
…No perspira- am.am. tion. 10.30-10.45 Pranayama. Twelve minutes: 10. 20, 30. am. am. Pranayama. Eight minutes: 10, 20. 30. 6.0-6.30 With great effort. p.m. p.m. Cannot do Pranayama 30. 60. 15. more than once through, I tried twice, Dhéarana on nose ten minutes, ILI5 pm. Dharana on nose. 12th. 7.35-7.55 Pranayama. Six minutes 10. 20, 30. am, a.m. Dharana. Six minutes. (P. was called away for a few days on business (or in disgust ?) to Colombo.) On the 20th of September P. returned from Colombo and then he made the following entry in his diary: “…
1910 · PDF PAGE 177
…No perspira- am.am. tion. 10.30-10.45 Pranayama. Twelve minutes: 10. 20, 30. am. am. Pranayama. Eight minutes: 10, 20. 30. 6.0-6.30 With great effort. p.m. p.m. Cannot do Pranayama 30. 60. 15. more than once through, I tried twice, Dhéarana on nose ten minutes, ILI5 pm. Dharana on nose. 12th. 7.35-7.55 Pranayama. Six minutes 10. 20, 30. am, a.m. Dharana. Six minutes. (P. was called away for a few days on business (or in disgust ?) to Colombo.) On the 20th of September P. returned from Colombo and then he made the following entry in his diary: “…
1919 · PDF PAGE 249
CONCERNING THE LAW OF THELEMA as any member of the Order wills is handed over to the Great Officers either as a gift, or in trust. In the latter case it is administered in the interest of the donor. Property being thus pooled, immense economies are effected. One lawyer does the work of fifty; house agents let houses instead of merely writing misleading entries in books; the O.T.O. con- trols the company instead of half-a-dozen isolated and impo- tent stockholders. Whatever the O.T.O. findeth to do, it does with all its might; none dare oppose t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 331
…fact that the only excuse for eating was that it was necessary to keep one’s body in con- dition to assist one in the performance of the Great Work, whatever that might be in any particular case. When any one had finished he or she got up and went away without ceremony, the interruption being over. Lamus now came out of the house in a flannel shirt and buckskin riding breeches. He sat down and began to drink his coffee and Benedictine. He was smoking a thin, black cigar, so strong that its very appearance was alarming. “IT hope you'll excuse me…
1922 · PDF PAGE 348
…es with their fairy-like remoteness, the level plain of the sea, the receding coast line; all these things were so many witnesses of one great truth— that only by climbing painfully to a spot beyond human intervention, could one obtain a stable point of view from which to regard the Universe in due pro- portion. At once we drew the moral analogy to our physical situation, and applied it to our immediate problem. Yet, in spite of what Lamus had said, we were both obsessed by the idea that we must stop taking heroin. The next few days passed in s…