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Page 165 of 1971909 · PDF PAGE 331
… that the Consciousness in this Projection is not quite so strong as the consciousness when concentrated in the natural body in ordinary life. ‘The return taketh place by a reversal of this process; and, save to persons whose Nephesch and physical body are exceptionally strong and healthy, the whole operation of “ skrying” and travelling in the Spirit Vision is, of course, fatiguing. Also there is another mode of Astral Projection, which can be used by the more practised and advanced Adept. This consisteth in forming first a Sphere from his own…
1910 · PDF PAGE 198
…t Sat Aum. t 30.15.60. § This meeting with H. L., though of no importance in itself, led to one of the most important happenings in P.’s life; for it was through him that he again met Ouarda the seer, as we shall see at a later date. 182
1910 · PDF PAGE 198
…t Sat Aum. t 30.15.60. § This meeting with H. L., though of no importance in itself, led to one of the most important happenings in P.’s life; for it was through him that he again met Ouarda the seer, as we shall see at a later date. 182
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
…fered with the Work. The Tarot and The Holy Qabalah may be discussed to- gether. The theoretical basis of both is identical: The Tree of Life.1 The 78 symbols of the Tarot are admirably balanced and combined. lhey are adéquate to ail demands made upon them; each Symbol is not only mathematically précisé, but possesses an artistic significance which helps the diviner to understand them by stimulating his aesthetic perceptions. The Master Therion finds that the Tarot is infallible in material questions. The successive operations describe the cour…
1930 · PDF PAGE 47
…asant possesses in respect of his district. But, to the peasant, these petty details are precisely the most important items in his daily life. Likewise, the Magician will be grateful to the Master Therion for the Compass that guides him at night, the Map that extends his compréhension of his country, and shows him how best he may travel afield, the advice as to Sandals and Staff that make surer his feet, and the Book that tells him how, splitting open his rocks with an Hammer, he may be master of their Virgin Gold. But he will understand that h…
1930 · PDF PAGE 102
…ethod is harder and higher than that of Liber E. For a simple object as there suggested is of the same nature as the commonest things of life, while even the meanest Deity is beyond uninitiated human understanding. On the same plane, too, Venus is nearer to man than Aphrodite, Aphrodite than Isis, Isis than Babalon, Babalon than Nuit. Let him décidé therefore according to his discrétion on the one hand and his aspiration on the other ; and let not one overrun his fellow. 42. Further concerning the value of this Method. — Certain objections aris…
1954 · PDF PAGE 337
…ns from The Book of the Law. But the public man's private conversation can be repeated on the platform only at the risk of his political life; and he served up to the people only such concoctions as would tickle their gross palates. Worse still, he was the slave of his prophetic frenzy; he had not undertaken the balancing regimen of the Curriculum of A:. A:. ; and, worst of all, he was very far indeed from being a full initiate, even in the loosest sense of the term. His Weltanschauung was accordingly a mass of personal and political prejudice;…
1922 · PDF PAGE 265
…t himself, for the very reason that he is so abnormal a man. He even distrusts me, on the ground that he has had so much influence on my life and thought. “Even a mediocrity like yourself, Sir Peter,” he said to me the other day, “ dull as you are, cannot be trusted in my neighbourhood. Your brain unconsciously soaks up the highly charged particles of my atmosphere. And before you know where you are, instead of expres- sing yourself—what little self you have to express—you will be repeating, in a debased currency, the words of wisdom that from …
1929 · PDF PAGE 88
…ter that Levi had lived in the neighbourhood for many years. 5. There are many curious similarities between the events of Eliphas Levi’s life and that of Aleister Crowley. The intention 6f the parents that their son should hâve a religious career; the inability to make use of very remarkable talents in any regular wây; the inexplicable ostracism which afflicted him, and whose authors seemed somehow to be ashamed of themselves; the events relative to marriage1: ail these offer surprisingly close parallels. 6. The characters of the two men présen…
1899 · PDF PAGE 250
I move for ever to my mystic goal, Where I may drain a fountain never dry, And of Life’s guerdon gather in the whole, And on celestial manna satisfy my soul.’ ” — The Literary Gasette. ““¢ Songs of the Spirit,’ by Aleister Crowley, ascend, as the motto on the title-page —‘ Sublimi feriam sidera vertice’—in- dicates, to higher regions, which seem peopled with an unusual number of gory phantoms. They are difficult to read, and where they touch definite things more sensual than sensuous. A poet’s dreams are not often so persistently full of ‘miasm…
1922 · PDF PAGE 24
…whether you know what I mean. I can’t help it, but I can’t put it any different. ' It’s like this: nothing had ever happened to me in my life before. You know how it is when you come out of ether or nitrous-oxide at the dentist’s—you come back to somewhere, a familiar somewhere; but the place from which you have come is nowhere, and yet you have been there. That is what happened to me. I woke up from eternity, from infinity, from a state of mind enormously more vital and conscious than anything we know of otherwise, although one can’t give it a…
1996 · PDF PAGE 109
110 The Law is for All speed.”1 Any one who is doing his true Will is drunk with the delight of Life. 1 [A paraphrase of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound ii, 4.] 2 [William Ashley (Billy) Sunday (1862-1935), baseball player turned Revivalist preacher, noted for his flamboyant style and crusading zeal.] Wine and strange drugs do not harm people who are doing their will; they only poison people who are cancerous with Origi nal Sin. In Latin countries, where Sin is not taken seriously, and sex-expression is simple, wholesome, and free, d…
1929 · PDF PAGE 3
…d make history; but it is to be observed that Nelson, on his monument, is careful to turn his gaze upon the Thames. For here is the true life of the city, the aorta of that great heart of which London and Westminster are the ventricles. Charing Cross Station, moreover, is the only true Metropolitan terminus. Euston, St. Pancras, and King's Cross merely convey one to the provinces, even, perhaps, to savage Scotland, as nude and barren to-day as in the time of Dr. Johnson; Victoria and Paddington seem to serve the vices of Brighton and Bournemout…
1954 · PDF PAGE 336
…urope, she became constantly more convinced that Adolf Hitler was her "Magical Child"; and she conceived it to be her duty to devote her life (for the Hermit "gives only of his Light unto men") to his Magical Education. Knowing that the hegemony of the world would fall to the nation that first accepted the Law of Thelema, she made haste to put The Book of the Law in the hands of her "child." Upon him it most undoubtedly made the deepest 1. The 'Master' roughly denotes the able, the adventurous, welcoming responsibility. The 'slave': his motto i…
1954 · PDF PAGE 498
…, Osiris, Melcarth, Mithras, Marsyas-a whole string of them comes tripping off the tongue. They all have histories ; their birth , their life, their death , their subsequent career; all goes naturally with them exactly as if they were (say) a set of warriors , painters , anything superbly human. We feel instinctively that we know them, or at least know of them in the same sense that we know of our fellow men and women ; and that in a sense which never so much as occurs to us when we discuss Archangels. The great exception is the Holy Guardian A…
1919 · PDF PAGE 152
… had lost, as it were.” This entry is interesting. Illumination comes, and at the time there is no doubt about it. IT IS. Then, perhaps, life goes on much as before, except for the ever present remem- brance of “Something that happened”; and, having nothing with which to compare it, that Something is difficult to de- scribe or even to formulate. However, immediately one approaches another period one can recognise the symptoms, 144
1922 · PDF PAGE 254
…ibly weak and ill, and it had scared him. He was like an ordinary convalescent, I suppose—signs of returning interests in the affairs of life. I had ceased to be asymbol. I was just his nurse. Part of the time he had forgotten who I was. He was back in the base hospital; the time they winged him. Our honeymoon and its sequel is mostly blotted out. I can’t say how much he knows. He says things some- times which make me think it’s quite a lot. And then again, other things which make me think he doesn’t even. remember that I am his wife. This morn…
1929 · PDF PAGE 525
…n in my political articles I make the Law of Thelema the sole basis of {828} my articles. I apply it, in short, to every circumstance of life, securing in this way a completely coherent point of view. Most men and practically all Anglo-Saxons have an elaborate system of mental watertight compartments. One of the most important elements of the panic fear of truth in every form, the distrust of any man who seems likely to investigate things seriously, is due to the consciousness that even a superficial analysis will reveal a state of spiritual ci…
1929 · PDF PAGE 93
…he past. As an example, we may cite certain memories of the Master Therion. He followed a train of thought which led him to remember his life as a Roman named Marius de Aquila. It would be straining probability to présumé a connection between (a) this hieroglyphically recorded mode of self-analysis and (J3) ordinary introspection conducted on principles intelligible to himself. He remembers directly various people and various events connected with this incarnation ; and they are in themselves to ail appearance actual. There is no particular rea…
1930 · PDF PAGE 30
…d and deed, but to withdraw Himself at once within the veils of his natural manifestation as a man, and to keep silence during his human life as to the fact of his attainment, even to the other members of the Order. The Ipsissimus is pre-eminently the Master of ail modes of existence ; that is, his being is entirely free from internai or external necessity. His work is to destroy ail tendencies to construct or to cancel such necessities. He is the Master of the Law of Unsubstan- tiality (Anatta). The Ipsissimus has no relation as such with any …