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Page 163 of 1971922 · PDF PAGE 266
…f the greatest minds in the world. a [~~ We had decided to take the prussic acid in our coffee. I do not think we were afraid of death ; life had become such an infinitely boring alternation between a period of stimulation which failed to stimulate and of depression which hardly even depressed. There was no object in going on. It was simply not worth while. On the other hand, there was a certain hesitation about stopping because of the effort required. We felt that even to die required energy. We tried to supply this with Dutch courage, and we …
1929 · PDF PAGE 62
…as féminine on account of their superficial resemblance in passivity and inertness with the unfertilized female. But the female produces life by the intervention of the male, while the neuter does so only when impregnated by Spirit. Thus we find the féminine AM A becoming AIMA 1 through the operation of the phallic Yod, while ALIM, the congress of dead éléments, only fructifies by the brooding of Spirit. This being so, how can we describe ALIM as containing a Magical formula ? Inquiry discloses the fact that this formula is of a very spécial ki…
1930 · PDF PAGE 46
…was healed; nor understands that Satan, the Old Serpent, in the Abyss, the Lake of Fire and Sulphur, is the Sun-Father, the vibration of Life, Lord of Infinité Space that fiâmes with His Consuming Energy, and is also that throned Light whose Spirit is suffused throughout the City of Jewels. Each “plane” is a veil of the one above it; the original individual Ideas become diversified as they express their éléments. Two men with almost identical ideas on a subject would Write two totally different treatises upon it. 15) The general control of the …
1996 · PDF PAGE 40
…m of Two; on the contrary. But Sin is to resist the operation of the reversion to Naught. “The wages of Sin is Death” [Romans 6:23]; for Life is a continual harmonious and natural Change. See Liber 418 and Liber Aleph. Sin (see Skeat’s Etymological Dictionary) is connected with the root vYs, “to be.” This throws a new light on the passage. Sin is restriction, that is, it is “being” as opposed to “becoming.” The fundamental idea of wrong is the static as opposed to the dynamic conception of the Universe. This explanation is not only in harmony w…
1922 · PDF PAGE 101
…vincing; but the effect was simply to dazzle us. We had never dreamed of wealth on this scale. I got the vision for the first time in my life of the power that wealth confers, and I realised equally for the first time how vast were my real ambitions. The man was right, too, clearly enough, about my being lucky. My luck in the war had been prodigious. Then there was this inheritance, and Lou on the top of that; and here I’d met old Feccles by a piece of absolute chance, and there was this brilliant investment. That was the word—he was careful to…
1922 · PDF PAGE 237
…nto a heated argument. I don’t remember what happened; but as usual, it turned into a quarrel. One must be concentrated on the spiritual life, so the slightest interruption from the senses, if it’s only the wind in the trees, is a terribly irritating thing. “* Satan is the prince of the power of the air,” it says in the Bible, so he sends these noises in the air to disturb my mind. How can I give birth to the Messiah if I am not caught up’ into the Seventh Heaven, and unconscious of material things? The world, the flesh, and the Devil. One in t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 62
…ome sort sliould most assuredly be cou* summated daily by every magician, and be sboitld regard if as the main sustenance of bis magica! life, It is of more importance than any other magical ceremony, because it is a complété circle. The whole of the force expended is completely re-absorbed 3 yet the virtue is that vast gain represented by the abyss between Man and God. The magician becomes füled with God, fed upon God, intoxicaîed with God. Lit lie by little Ms hody will bec orne pnrified by fbe internai lustration of God; day by day bis mort …
1930 · PDF PAGE 76
…t is called “whirling” because of the instability of thought, and the fatuity of reason, on which we are yet dépendent for what we call “life”, “Rush- ing Fire” is the world in which wandering thought burns up to swift-darting Will. These four stages explain how the non-Ego is transmuted intc the instrument of knowledge, independent of the personality of its possessor. One must treat it exactly as one treats one’s electroscope or one’s eyes; one influence of one’s wishes. A physician calls in a colleague to attend to his own family, knowing tha…
1954 · PDF PAGE 258
…r. 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 Golden Mean, at its
1929 · PDF PAGE 540
…ain, were solved by the Law. Whatever funds we had --- and we experienced all conditions from absolute want of the barest necessities of life to overflowing abundance --- were regarded as means to enable each of us equally to do his or her will. Whatever anyone needed in his work was provided without a moment's grudging. None of us hankered after anything unnecessary to our work. We had found out and fixed in our minds that all such possessions, however delightful as new toys, were in the long run a nuisance. Whatever is not ultimately useful i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 123
…kes the beast from slumber into druid mirth. She is amazed, she eager, she, exotic orchid of the glade ! waits the ripe, exultant blade, life tempered by eternity. She And I who witness am possessed by awe grown crimson with desire, Its iron image wrapped in fire and branded idly on my breast. Her face is bronze, her skin is grecn, as woods and suns would have it so. Her secret wonders grow and glow, limned in the luminous vatine. Worship, the sculptor’s, clean forgot in worship of her body lithe, And time forgotten with his scythe, and thought…
1922 · PDF PAGE 23
…y does so. But this matter threatened to prove more serious. The old man had really lost his temper. It was odds that he would choke the life out of the cur under his knee. I had just enough presence of mind to make way for the head waiter, a jolly, burly Frenchman, who came pushing into the circle. I even lent him a hand to pull Fordham off the prostrate form of his antagonist. A touch was enough. The old man recovered his temper in a second, and calmly went back to his table with no more sign of excitement than shouting “ sixty to forty, sixt…
1922 · PDF PAGE 5
…with sly, skulking brow, You must leave Sodom for your spouse’s sake. Coward and coward and coward; who would take The best flower of my life and leave me so, Still loving you—Ah! weak—and turn to go For fear of such a God! O blind! O fool! To heed these strangers and to be the tool Of their smooth lies and monstrous miracles. O break this bondage and cast off their spells! Five righteous! Thou a righteous man! A jest! A righteous man—you always loved me best, And even when lured by lips of wanton girls Would turn away and sigh and touch my cur…
1922 · PDF PAGE 81
…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 mouth of some abominable bitterness. I looked across at Lou. I saw she had changed colour. She looked dreadfully ill. It mattered nothing to me. I had a little amusing cycle of thought…
1922 · PDF PAGE 217
…ing 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 struggling, gone with my eyes wide open into his dungeon, devoted myself to drugs, and why? I was Sir Peter’s wife. The loss of my virtue, independence, self-respect, were demanded by my loyalty to him. And already that loyalty demanded disloyalty of another kind. It was a filthy paradox. Peter had sent me to McCall with perfect foresight. I knew well enough…
1922 · PDF PAGE 335
…tion of these people. I can’t fool myself that I am a Wunderkind. You probably know without my telling you that I’ve done nothing all my life but potter. And if I’ve nothing to potter about, I go off into the blackest boredom.”’ Sister Athena acquiesced. ‘Yes, this place is kill or cure,” she admitted, with a laugh. “ But I’m glad to say that it’s cure for most people. The two I was telling you about only failed because their vanity and selfishness was so extreme. They interpreted everything wrong, and expected the world to fall down and worshi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 121
…her formulae, however (superficially) opposed to its own. What is true for every School is equally true for every individual. Success in life, on the basis of the Law of Thelema, implies severe self-discipline. Each being must progress, as biology teaches, by strict adaptation to the conditions of the organism. If, as the Black School continually asserts, the cause of sorrow is desire, we can still escape the conclusion by the Law of Thelema. What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly
1996 · PDF PAGE 177
…one star of Her stars. 1 See “Liber D” [§206]. I see thee, Woman, thou standest alone, High Priestess art thou unto Love at the Altar of Life. And Man is the Victim therein. Beneath thee, rejoicing, he lies; he exults as he dies, burning up in the breath of thy kiss. Yea, star rushes flaming to star; the blaze bursts, splashes the skies. There is a Cry in an unknown tongue, it resounds through the Temple of the Universe; in its one Word is Death and Ecstasy, and thy title of honour, o thou, to Thyself High Priestess, Proph etess, Empress, to t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 71
… coco, ‘grateful and com- forting’ as it is. So the dear old thing sent us some heroin. And there are still some people who tell us that life is not worth living!” “Ever try it?’’ 1 asked, and delayed the answer with a kiss. | When the worst was over, she told me that she had only taken it once, and then, in a very minute dose, which had had no effect on her as far as she knew. “That’s all right,” I said, from the height of my superior knowledge. “It’s all a question of estimating the physiological dose. It’s very fine indeed. The stimulation i…
1922 · PDF PAGE 80
…bright intelligence, the rest of us with utter listless- ness. I looked at Lou across the table. I had never seen the woman before in my life. She meant nothing