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Page 136 of 1731909 · PDF PAGE 395
…ists have created man in their own image, as dull simpletons. They assume that the marvellous powers of applied mathematics shown in the Great Pyramid had no worthier aim than the perpetuation of a superstitious imbecility. Here is Leggy James translating the Chinese classics, Passage I. is of ‘so supreme an excellence that it compels even his respect. What does he do ? He flies in the face of the text and the tradition, asserting that “ heaven” means a personal God. This shows that “God has never left himself without a witness ”—even in China.…
1909 · PDF PAGE 282
…ing into Tiphereth. And the Fourth . . . is Phrath, Euphrates, which floweth down upon Malkuth.” These four rivers form the Cross of the Great Adam. In Malkuth is Eve, the completion of All, the Mother of All. The Hierophant then gives the Theo- ricus the sign of this grade, and explains the Altar symbol: “The Cross above the triangle After ‘The Altar Symbol in the 3° = 8 Ritual. and the tablet showing the meaning of the Alchemical Mercury on the Tree of Life ; also the symbols of all the planets resumed in a Mercurial Figure. The Hierophant th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 395
…ists have created man in their own image, as dull simpletons. They assume that the marvellous powers of applied mathematics shown in the Great Pyramid had no worthier aim than the perpetuation of a superstitious imbecility. Here is Leggy James translating the Chinese classics, Passage I. is of ‘so supreme an excellence that it compels even his respect. What does he do ? He flies in the face of the text and the tradition, asserting that “ heaven” means a personal God. This shows that “God has never left himself without a witness ”—even in China.…
1922 · PDF PAGE 216
… of her heart. It does no good to talk of these things,’’ I went on. “I ought really not to have come. But how could I guess that you, a great doctor like you, had taken any notice of a silly kid like me? ” He jumped to his feet excitedly. “No, no,” I said sadly, with a gesture which made him sit down again, very uneasily. ‘‘I should never have come. It was absolutely weakness on my part. The heroin was only my excuse. Oh, don’t make me feel so ashamed. But I simply must tell you the truth. The real motive was that—I wanted to see you. Now, let…
1922 · PDF PAGE 237
… tell him this was all nonsense. I told him that I was not in any plot against him. It didn’t set his mind at ease. I had to tell him my great secret that I am the woman clothed with the sun in the Book of Revelations, and that he must protect me. I proved to him that this was the only explanation. The reason why he couldn’t live with me as my husband was that my angel had told me that I was going to bring the Messiah into the world. We went into a heated argument. I don’t remember what happened; but as usual, it turned into a quarrel. One must…
1922 · PDF PAGE 376
… Diary of a Drug Fiend The service ended with an anthem which rolled like thunder among the hills and was re-echoed from the wall of the great rock of Telepylus. It was a very curious detail of life at the Abbey, that one act merged into the next insensibly. There were no abrupt changes. Life had been assimilated to the principle of the turbine, as opposed to the reverberatory engine. Every act was equally a sacrament. The discontinuity and abruptness of ordinary life had been eliminated. A just proportion was consequently kept between the vari…
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
… the formula of Osiris, what the turbine is to the reciprocating engine. III There are many other sacred words which enshrine formulæ of great efficacity in particular operations. For example, V.I.T.R.I.O.L gives a certain Regimen of the Planets useful in Alchemical work. Ararita is a formula of the macrocosm potent in certain very lofty Operations of the Magick of the Inmost Light. (See Liber 813.) The formula of Thelema may be summarized thus: Q “Babalon and The Beast conjoined” — £ unto Nuith (CCXX, 1, 51) — A The Work accomplished in Justic…
1930 · PDF PAGE 72
…ds, strewn in the Abyss, are lost. Not so the Masters of the Temple, that sit as piles of dust in the City of the Pyramids, awaiting the Great Flame that shall consume that dust to ashes. For the blood that they hâve surren- dered is treasured in the Cup of our Lady Babalon, a mighty I. See Liber 418, and study it well, in this matter. Equinox I, V. Sup¬ plément. — 192
1944 · PDF PAGE 163
… manifestation itself has enormous po‐ tency: it is as if an imbecile offered one the dialogues of Plato. They may in this way acquire a great reputation both for depth and breadth of mind.
1954 · PDF PAGE 258
…pretences is to set up internal strain and conflict; there is nothing objective in it. Instead of adding to our experience, which is the Great Work, we shut ourselves up in this citadel of civil turmoil; it is the Formula of the Black Brothers. The Golden Mean is more valuable as the extremes which it summarizes are distant from each other; that is the plain mechanics of the lever. So don't pay too much attention to these remarks; they are no more than the quiet fireside reflections of a man who has spent all his life breaking records. The Gold…
1954 · PDF PAGE 14
…a certain topic, study it, and meditate on whatever sections of that letter seem to warrant it. In this way, I believe, he will obtain a great deal more from this very profound book than if he tried to read it straight through as though it were a novel, or an otherwise conventional textbook. Letters (divided here into chapters) 6, 7 and 8 are entitled "The Three Schools of Magick." They were written to expatiate upon a short quotation from Liber 418: The Vision and the Voice, a series of transcendental experiences based upon the Enochian system…
1954 · PDF PAGE 460
… a training of the Masonic type; there is no "astral" work in it at all, nor any Yoga. There is a certain amount of Qabalah, and that of great doctrinal value. But the really vital matter is the gradual progress towards disclosure of the Secret of the Ninth Degree. To use that secret to advantage involves mastery both of Yoga and of Magick; but neither is taught in the Order. Now it comes to be mentioned, this is really very strange. However, I didn't invent the system; I must suppose that those who did knew what they were about. To me it is (a…
1996 · PDF PAGE 102
…d “Death” is meaningless apart from the presentation of the Universe as conditioned by “Time.” But what is the meaning of Time? There is great confusion of thought in the use of the word “eternal,” and the phrase “for ever.” People who want “eternal happiness” mean by that a cycle of varying events all effective in stimulating pleasant sensations; i.e., they want time to continue exactly as it does with themselves released from the contingencies of accidents such as poverty, sickness and death. An eternal state is however a possible experience,…
1922 · PDF PAGE 81
A Heroin Heroine 67 whatever to me. I felt a sudden urgent desire to drink a great deal of water. I-couldn’t trouble to pour myself out a glass. I couldn’t trouble to call the waiter, but I think I must have said the word “ water,”’ for Haidée filled my goblet. A smile wriggled across her face. It was the first sign of life she had given. Even the shaking hands had been in the nature of a mechanical reflex rather than of a voluntary action. There was something sinister and disquieting in her gesture. It was as if she had the after-taste in her …
1922 · PDF PAGE 217
… point of view. It prevented me wasting my time in trying to cheat him. He went on with his gambit. He explained that my marriage made a great difference. With reasonable caution, for which we had every facility, there was not the slightest risk of scandal. Only one thing stuck in my conscience, and fought the corrosive attack of the heroin-hunger. After King Lamus had gone this morning, Peter and I had quar- relled bitterly. I had given up Basil, I had given up all idea of living a decent life, I had embraced the monster in whose arms I was st…
1954 · PDF PAGE 121
…ery problem, internal and external, that exists. This key, applied with skill, will open every lock. From the deepest point of view, the greatest value of this formula is that it affords, for the first time in history, a basis of reconciliation between the three great Schools of Magick. It will tend to appease the eternal conflict by understanding that each type of thought shall go on its own way, develop its own proper qualities without seeking to interfere with other formulae, however (superficially) opposed to its own. What is true for every…
1996 · PDF PAGE 116
Chapter II A Verses 25—28 117 Experience is the great Teacher; and each one of us possesses millions of years of experience, the very quintessence of it, stored automatically in our subconscious minds. The Intellectuals are worse than the bourgeoisie themselves; a la lanterned Give us Men! We are so caked with dirt that the germs of disease cannot reach us. If we decide to wash, we must do it well; or we may have awakened some sleeping dogs, and set them on defenseless areas. Initiation stirs up the mud. It creates unstable equilibrium. It expo…
1922 · PDF PAGE 98
… sense. And I’ve got a sort of flair for these things, I believe.’ “Why, it’s very curious you should say that,” returned Feccles, as in great surprise. ‘ I was thinking the same thing myself. We know you've got pluck, and that’s the first essential in any game. And making money is the greatest game there is. But beside that, I’ve got a hunch that you've got the right kind of brain for this business. You're as shrewd as they make ‘em, and you’ve got a good imagination. I don’t
1922 · PDF PAGE 370
…en when we were poisoned and insane.” She spoke in low, calm tones, but she was trembling like a leaf. I didn’t know what to answer. The great- ness of her attitude abashed me. I felt with utmost bitterness the shame of having wronged so sublime a love, of having brought her into such infamy. “My God!” I said at last. ‘‘ What we owe to Big Lion |” She shook her head. ‘“‘'No,” she said, with a strange smile, ‘‘ we’ve helped him as much as he’s helped us—helped him to do his will. The secret of his power is that he doesn’t exist for himself. His …
1954 · PDF PAGE 31
xxx PREFACE of Thoth which describes in great detail the several interpretations of the Tarot card "The Fool." It may facilitate also some understanding of how he finally came to conceive of himself. On several occasions he has essayed this task, not only in this fascinating book of letters, and in the book about the Tarot, but in his earlier book Magick in Theory and Practice. It is far from easy for the ordinary individual, bound by the ordinary codes of social behavior and the conventional frames of reference, to have the foggiest idea of wh…