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Page 26 of 841996 · PDF PAGE 27
…ho flourished in Thebes c. 725 b.c.e.J 2 [This account was republished in as Chapter 6 of “Genesis Libri AL” in The Equinox of the Gods (Book 4, Part /V).] 3 [Ouarda the Seer was Rose Edith Crowley (1874-1932), Crowley’s first wife and the first of a series of Scarlet Women. She assisted with the reception of The Book of the Law.] The unveiling is the Proclamation of the Truth previously explained, that the Body of Nuit occupies Infinite Space, so that every Star thereof is Whole in itself, an independent and absolute Unit. They differ as Carbo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 448
…nnot be used unworthily. It is interesting in this connection to recall how it came into my possession. It had occurred to me to write a book, The Book of Lies, which is also falsely called Breaks, the wanderings or falsifications of the one thought of Frater Perdurabo which thought is itself untrue. Each of its ninety-three chapters was to expound some profound magical dogma in an epigrammatic and sometimes humorous form. The Cabbalistic value of the number of each chapter was to determine its subject. I wrote one or more daily at lunch or din…
1996 · PDF PAGE 11
… performed the data entry. Samuel Weiser, Inc. kindly provided films of the new photography of the Stèle of Revealing and the ms. of The Book of the Law from the Weiser edition of Crowley’s Magick (Book 4, Parts I-IV). Christopher Hyatt and Nicholas Tharcher of New Falcon Publications deserve thanks for honoring Crowley’s wishes by issuing this edition. For his inspiration I would like to thank Frater Altzba, the founder of 93 Publishing, who first published Crowley’s commentaries over twenty years ago. This popular edition was dear to Crowley’…
1954 · PDF PAGE 44
…hna, and others-who supplied the miraculous and ritualistic elements of the fable. Rightly you ask: "What can I contribute?" Answer: One Book. That is the idea of the weekly letter: 52 of yours and 52 of mine, completely edited, would make a most useful volume. This would be your property: so that you get full material value, perhaps much more, for your outlay. I thought of the plan because one such arrangement has recently come to an end, with amazingly happy results: they should lie open to your admiring gaze in a few months from now. Inciden…
1996 · PDF PAGE 55
…tself ceases to play Principal Boy in the Pantomime of Life. Other interests resume their proper proportions. We may now inquire why the Book is at pains to admit as to love “when” and “where” we will. Few people, surely, have been seriously worried by restrictions of time and place. One can only think of lovers who live with fearsome families or in inhospitable lodgings, on a rainy night, buffeted from one police-bullied hotel to another. Perhaps this permission is intended to indicate the propriety of performing the sexual act without shame o…
1910 · PDF PAGE 499
…ely met with. It ended, as the concluding remarks state: “The object for which The Zoist was undertaken is attained.” MASSEY (Gerald). A Book of Beginnings: containing an Attempt to Recover and Reconstitute the Lost Origines of the Myths and Mysteries, Types and Symbols, Religion and Language, with Egypt for the Mouth- piece and Africa as the Birthplace. 2 large vols., imperial 8vo. Cloth, uncut, Publisher's blind stamp on title. 88x. z Vol. I. Egyptian Origines in the British Isles. . . Vol. I. Egyptian Origi the Hebrew, Akkado-Assyrian and Ma…
1910 · PDF PAGE 499
…ely met with. It ended, as the concluding remarks state: “The object for which The Zoist was undertaken is attained.” MASSEY (Gerald). A Book of Beginnings: containing an Attempt to Recover and Reconstitute the Lost Origines of the Myths and Mysteries, Types and Symbols, Religion and Language, with Egypt for the Mouth- piece and Africa as the Birthplace. 2 large vols., imperial 8vo. Cloth, uncut, Publisher's blind stamp on title. 88x. z Vol. I. Egyptian Origines in the British Isles. . . Vol. I. Egyptian Origi the Hebrew, Akkado-Assyrian and Ma…
1954 · PDF PAGE 122
…neself, and making one's peace, so to speak, with all the forces that one finds there. It is forbidden here to discuss the nature of The Book of the Law, the Sacred Scripture of Thelema. Even after forty years of close expert examination, it remains to a great extent mysterious; but the little we know of it is enough to show that it is a sublime synthesis of all Science and all ethics. It is by virtue of this Book that man may attain a degree of freedom hitherto never suspected to be possible, a spiritual development altogether beyond anything …
1996 · PDF PAGE 37
…e of NEMQ and the Latin nemo is suggestive. In Hebrew, “Law” is ThORA and equivalent to words meaning “The Gate of the Kingdom” and “The Book of Wisdom.”1 1 [Heb. X"IX?n. Cf. “Sepher Sephiroth sub figura D,” §671. See Works Cited.] 2 See “The Rites of Eleusis,” “Energized Enthusiasm,” Book 4, Part III, etc. [See Works Cited.] 34. But she said: the ordeals I write not: the rituals shall be half known and half concealed: the Law is for all. Commentary: The Ordeals are at present carried out unknown to the Candidate by the secret Magick Power of T…
1905 · PDF PAGE 7
… Semichorus . vate sae # Eternity Str. y Orpheus Ant. y Death— (Suppressed antistrophe, Death being silent. His reply is really given in Books II., III., IV.) Parabasis: The Poet | Epode: Nature BOOK II. Orpheus laments his wife—‘‘ Come back, come back, come back, Eurydice” . ° . “‘ Fling down the foolish lyre, the witless power” , PAGE 53 53 54 61 71 72-88 73 76 82 85 86 113
1954 · PDF PAGE 29
…aterial. The only thing ever to issue from his pen which he demanded must never be edited was a group of select writings called The Holy Books. and above all, The Book of the Law. "Change not so much as the style of a letter .... " What I have deleted is mostly rambling or repetitious statements, a few quotations from Robert Browning-none of which in any case interfere with the meaning of any particular passage. This is then the cardinal rule that has applied at all times during the surgical intervention to the text of these letters. Nothing ha…
1996 · PDF PAGE 38
Chapter 1 A Verses 33—37 39 35. This that thou writest is the threefold book of Law. 36. My scribe Ankh-af-na-khonsu, the priest of the princes, shall not in one letter change this book; but lest there be folly, he shall comment 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 hav…
1939 · PDF PAGE 53
…n further examination, even this ultimate truth turns out to be meaningless. It is like the well known circular definition of an obscene book, which is: one that arouses certain ideas in the mind of the kind of person in whom such ideas are excited by that kind of book. 23. I notice that my excellent chairman is endeavouring to stifle a yawn and to convert it into a smile, and he will forgive me for saying that I find the effect somewhat sinister. But he has every right to be supercilious about it. These are indeed 'old, fond paradoxes to amuse…
1954 · PDF PAGE 361
… WITHOUT TEARS were Persian Nuts! The stupid coincidence angered me, and yet some irresistible instinct compelled me to take out my note book and pencil and jot down the name written over the gate- Villa Caldarazzo . Idly I added up the letters. Their sum struck me like a bullet in my brain. It was 418, the number of the Magical Formula of the Aeon, a numerica hieroglyph of the Great Work. Ab-ul-Diz had made no mistake. My recognition of the right place was not to depend on a mere matter of trees, which might be found almost anywhere. Recogniti…
1996 · PDF PAGE 46
…represented Osiris.1 1 [See “The Temple of Solomon the King,” The Equinox 1(7) (1912), p. 372; The Equinox of the Gods (1936), p. 88; or Book 4, Parts I-IV, (rev. ed., 1994), Appendix VIII, p. 666. See Works Cited.] 2 [“Noxious” or “poisonous,” referring to the sorceress Canidia; see Horace, Epodes.] 3 [Liber 888. Jesus: The Gospel According to St. Bernard Shaw. See Works Cited.] Isa is the legendary “Jesus,” for which Canidian1 2 3 concoction the prescription is to be found in my book bearing that title, Liber 888} 50. There is a word to say a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 10
…; (IJ). CHAPTER III OF THE FIGURE OF THE TWELVE HOUSES OF HEAVEN THE meaning of the twelve Houses is to be found, primarily, in any text-book of Astrology. Knowledge is to be enlarged and corrected by constant study and practice. Place the figures thus: I 1oth IV 7th VII 5th X 3rd II Asc. V uith VIII 8th XI 6th III 4th VI and IX 12th XII oth EXAMPLE 144
1954 · PDF PAGE 425
…e ; he adopted the Swastika, the Hammer of Thor, the distinctive dress, the slogan, the gestures, the greeting; he even imposed a Sacred Book upon the people. If that book had only been more mystic and incomprehensible , instead of reasonable , diffuse and intolerably dull, he might have done better. As it was, he came within an ace of capturing England, even before he came to power in Germany ; and it was American money that saved the Nazi party at the most critical moment. Cleverest move of all, he gave the world something to hate: the Commun…
1906 · PDF PAGE 227
…rice let us say not: by four is the Son: by five is the Sword: by six is the Holy Oil of the most Excellent Beard, and the leaves of the Book are by six: by seven is that great Amen.” Then our Father saw one hundred and four horses that drove an ivory car over a sea of pearl, and they received him therein and bade him be comforted. With that he awoke and saw that he would have all his desire. In the morning therefore he arose and went his way into the desert. There he clomb an high rock and called forth the eagles, that their shadow floating ov…
1909 · PDF PAGE 114
…t least. A careful study of the characteristics of the signs and planets is, moreover, of the very greatest assistance in the use of the Book 777. Unable as the Editor is to find space within the restricted pages of THE Equinox for astrological matters, we are glad to think that the subject has a specialised organ in competent hands. ETHEL Ramsay. CONTEMPORARY PsycHOLoGy. By GuiDo ViLLA. Translated by HAROLD Manacorba. Swan Sonnenschein, tos. 6d. net. This long and learned work is not exciting: The good translation shames the pedant’s writing. …
1909 · PDF PAGE 114
…t least. A careful study of the characteristics of the signs and planets is, moreover, of the very greatest assistance in the use of the Book 777. Unable as the Editor is to find space within the restricted pages of THE Equinox for astrological matters, we are glad to think that the subject has a specialised organ in competent hands. ETHEL Ramsay. CONTEMPORARY PsycHOLoGy. By GuiDo ViLLA. Translated by HAROLD Manacorba. Swan Sonnenschein, tos. 6d. net. This long and learned work is not exciting: The good translation shames the pedant’s writing. …