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…i) to fortify the fit; (ii) to eliminate the unfit. The Chancellor of the A.'. A.: views without satisfaction the practice of Probationers working together. A Probationer should work with his Neophyte, or alone. Breach of this rule may prove a bar to advancement.
… carefully studied and practised. It is unfortunately, the most complex of ail of them. But this is the fault of the first matter of the work, which is so muddled that many operations are required to unify it. i. Those sections dealing with divination and alchemy are the most grotesque rubbish in the îatter case, and in the former obscure and unpracticaî. — 40
…l, but quench the pain of these ! This is th’ abyss ! * * * This is th’ abyss. Behold wherein I lurk The lazar-house my mind, wherein do work The horrid charnel-priests, whose loathly song Sickens my soul, and quells the spirit strong. Hell-fire within my heart ! and poisoned blood Through every vein and artery pours a flood
…ys" admits of no exception; "unto Me" may be paraphrased as the "fulfilment of one possibility necessary to the achievement of the Great Work." Every act is a sacrament, but this pre-eminently so. The text continues with a plain threat: "if the ritual be not ever unto Me, then expect the direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit." To profane this sacrament of sacraments is the most fatal of errors and offences; for it is high treason to the Great Work itself. The next verse repeats: "If the ritual be not ever unto me"; and it is emphasized and fortifi…
…sity. 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 letter…
…f Lou as an independent being, and had not realised that she was the necessary com- plement of the human instrument which was doing “my” work. Nor had there been any love before, while love meant nothing but the manifold stupid things that people ordinarily mean by it. Love, as I meant it now, was an affirmation of the inevitable unity between the two impersonal halves of the work. It was the physical embodiment of our spiritual truth. My wife didnot answer. There was no need. Her understanding was perfect. We united with the un- conscious ecst…
… head was mashed into wood pulp, and thereon the Daily Newspaper was printed. Thus wrote I, since my One Love was torn from me. I cannot work: I cannot think: I seek distraction here: I seek distraction there: but this is all my truth, that Z who love have lost; and how may 1 regain? I must have money to get to America. O Mage! Sage! Gauge thy Wage, or in the Page of thine Age is written Rage! O my darling! We should not have spent Ninety Pounds in that Three Weeks in Paris! . 2. ee we ew wwe eee ewe Slash the Breaks on thine arm with a pole- a…
… THE EQUINOX Moreat https://keepsilence.org/the-equinox Special thanks to Tony Iannotti for providing for scans of thefirst edition This work made possible by donations from: Ordo Templi Orientis AMeTh Lodge Mark Dalton Dean Ellis Horizon L.gdee Kjetil Fjell Nicholaus Gentry Lilith Vala Xara Michael Effertz Abigail I. Habdas Stewart Lundy Tony Iannotti VND Jay Lee IAO131 Robin Bohumil Connor Smith Enatheleme & Egeira Scott Kenney Giovanni Iannotti, Ph.D. John MacDonald Collegium ad Lux et Nox Lutz Lemke Arcanum Coronam Fr. I.V.1.V.I. Igor Bagma…
…h no blot Of cloud, but golden lettered on the blue That mothers dew, This message of good hope, good trust, good fate And good estate : Work on, hope ever, let your faith be built Of gold ungilt ; Your love exceed the starry vault for height, The heaven for might ; 100
…me to the rescue. I knew that every event in my life had been arranged by the gods to be of use to me in the accomplishment of the Great Work. I did not need an aeroplane: I had a magical carpet. I could travel in my astral body to my temple and perform the Operation, perhaps even more conveniently than in the flesh. Per contra, I could construct my own temple about me and perform the Operation in my physical body. For various reasons, I preferred the latter method. I was still entirely "off" The Book of the Law. I had with me my unique vellum …
…led it with renewed energy and, for the sake of fresh air and quiet, left the city for La Marsa, where we stayed at Au Souffle du Zephir working day and night, so far as my health permitted, for nearly two months, when O. P. V. joined me, while Alostrael returned to Cefalu for a rest. I had once more worked her beyond her strength. We were joined shortly afterwards by Eddie Saayman, an old pupil of Frater O. P. V.'s in Bloemfontein, and now a mathematical scholar at New College, Oxford, one of the most brilliant students in the university. He b…
…armless passion and her own great worth. She could not be offended : and moreover— When at the nightfall I sought Heaven’s light, All my work grew unspotted, done aright ! The high Gods came above my head to hover, Because I worked with a diviner might, The perfect sage being the perfect lover. 30
…spira- tion to the Higher. They are placed outside the Circle to attract the hostile forces, to give them the first inkling of the Great Work, which they too must some day perform.
…unate otity — hearing, esehatologically — later orient — increasingly, kakoglaphyrotopical — in a bad hole exaudient — favourable, erg — work dole basilical's — a royal gift, moiractic — fatal assumpt — assumption, apert — opened Pregmatics — Facts, parthenorhododactylical — like the ex ventro Genesiaco ad umbilicum rosy fingers of a maid Apocalypticum — from beginning, colophoned — closed to end tbanatoskiankomorphic — in the determinate — mark shape of the valley of
…rpreted. Dear me, no! Final shot: my instinct is all against the "lying in bed." These visions are intensely active: the hardest kind of work. Read Liber CDXVIIl , 2nd Aethyr (and others) to understand the appalling physical strain, when you reach remote , well-guarded, and exalted confines of the Universe. In every sense of the expression-SIT UP! (I'm "sitting up" myself to finish this letter . Here goes for the last lap!) Music. Justifiable? Why not? A help to your great Work, an aspect of your Will, nicht wahr? Go to it! Apollo is the God of…
…n by practically complete knowledge, not only of the elements but of the essence of Magick. I wasted no time. I urged him to join me and work with me until his initiation was complete. My proposal not only fulfilled the holiest hope of his soul, but solved his material problem. In the abbey he would be able to make himself a career as a writer as he could not hope to do in the loathsome surroundings of slum life in London. His health, too, demanded urgently a complete change. He had already been ill at frequent intervals. During October the fou…
…as pledged in honour to look after a certain person; but I was practically penniless. I could not see any possible way of carrying on my work. (It will be related in due course how this condition of things came about and why it was necessary for me to undergo it.) I found myself at Moręt, on the edge of the Forest of Fountainebleau, with nothing to do but wait. I did not throw up the sponge in passionate despair as I had done once before, to my shame --- I had been rapped sufficiently hard on the knuckles to cure me of that --- but I said to th…
…e form and due season. "Sleep with.A,B,C,D,E, and F, my lad, and our hearty best wishes! But not with G on any account, on peril of your work!" So off he goes to G, without a second's hesitation. This test may be prolonged; the deadliness and subtlety of the danger has been recognized, and he may have half a dozen warnings, either direct or springing from his relations with her. And the penalty is not so drastically final; often he gets off with a term of penal servitude. On the other hand, the Aspirant who can spot at the first hint why the Ma…
… thereupon by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor-Khu-it. [See The Comment on page 284.] 37. Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these he shall learn and teach. Commentary: Each star is unique, and each orbit apart; indeed, that is the cornerstone of my teaching, to have no stan dard goals or standard ways, no orthodoxies and no codes. The stars are not herded and penned and shorn and made into mutton like so many voters! I decline to be bellwether, who am born a Lion! I will not be collie, w…
THE ACT OF TRUTH 153 yourself: I am here to do this Work in accordance with my true Will. The Gods have got to see to it that I'm not baulked by any blinking messenger. (But take care They don't overhear you ; They might mistake it for Hybris, or presumption . Do it all in the Sign of Silence, under the aegis of Harpocrates, the "Lord of Defence and Protection"; be careful to assume his God-form, as standing on two crocodiles.) Then you increase your consumption, and at the same time put in a whole lot of extra Work. If you perform this "Act of…