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Page 28 of 911961 · PDF PAGE 21
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 9 q Quo Modo Natura sua est Legenda (How ones Nature is to be Read) HEREFORE deem not that thy lightest Fancy is insignificant. Thy most unconscious Acts are Keys to the Treasure-Chamber of thine own Palace, which is the House of the Holy Ghost. Consider well thy conscious Thoughts and Acts, for they are under the Dominion of thy Will, and moved in Accord with the Operation of thy Reason; this indeed is a necessary work, enabling to comprehend in what manner thou mayst adjust thyself to thine Environment. Yet is thi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 55
…lectrical phenomenon. One can only find satisfaction in intimate union with one's opposite. This fact explains very largely the peculiar nature of the love affair of great men. They cannot tolerate their like. Their superiority is recognized as the cause of their pain, and they assuage their pain by cultivating people to whom that superiority means nothing. They deliberately seek the most degraded and disgusting specimens of women that exist. Otherwise, they brutalize themselves by addiction to drink and drugs. The motive is always the same; to…
1910 · PDF PAGE 63
…me, In one dark miracle of flame Unluminous and void : the silent claim Of that which was, to be : the cry to climb, The bitter birth of Nature : uttermost Night Dwelt, inaccessible to sound and sight ; Shielded from Voice, impervious to Light. Lo ! on the barren bosom, on the brine, The spirit of the Mighty One arose, A flickering light, a formless triple flame,
1961 · PDF PAGE 71
… Vision thou sayst not thus, my Son! Learn then of me the Secret Mystery of Illusion, and how it Worketh, and other Holy Law that is its Nature, and of thine Action therein; for this is an Arcanum of the Wisdom of the Magi, and proper unto thee that dwellest in the Land of Understanding. l
1961 · PDF PAGE 68
LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 56 Bd De Menstruo Artis (Of the Medium of the Art) UT concerning the Medium by whose sensitive Nature our Magick Force is transmitted to the Object of our Working, doubt not. For already in other Galaxies of Physics have we been compelled to postulate an Æthyr wholly hypothetical in order to explain the Phenomena of Light, Electricity, and the like; nor doth any Man demand Demonstration of the Existence of that Æthyr other than its Conformity with general Law. Thou therefore, Creator and Transmitter of thine own Energy, need…
1944 · PDF PAGE 68
…tance. His shield represents the two‐headed eagle crowned with a crimson disk. This represents the red tincture of the alchemist, of the nature of gold, as the white eagle shown in Atu III pertains to his consort, the Empress, and is lunar, of silver. It is finally to be observed that the white light which descends upon him indicates the position of this card in the Tree of Life. His authority is derived from Chokmah, the creative Wisdom, the Word, and is exerted upon Tiphareth, the organized man.
1935 · PDF PAGE 13
…ulsion, with no possibility of reinstatement on any terms soever. But all members must of necessity work in accordance with the facts of Nature, just as an architect must allow of the Law of Gravitation, or a sailor reckon with currents. So must all Members of the A. A-. work by the Magical Formula of the Aeon. They must accept the Book of the Law as the Word and the Letter of Truth, and the sole Rule of Life." They must acknow- ledge the Authority of the Beast 666 and of the Scarlet Woman as in the book it is defined, and accept Their Will* as…
1913 · PDF PAGE 118
…ms. A sixfold chime of bells. He invokes the God in the shrine. THE YOUNG JOHN. Thou, who art I, beyond all I am, Chorus. 78 Who hast no nature and no name, Who art, when all but Thou are gone, Thou, centre and secret of the Sun, Thou, hidden spring of all things known And unknown, Thou aloof, alone, Thou, the true fire within the reed Brooding and breeding, source and seed Of life, love, liberty, and light, Thou beyond speech and beyond sight, Thee I invoke, my faint fresh fire Kindling as my intents aspire. Thee I invoke, abiding one, Thee, c…
1913 · PDF PAGE 118
…ms. A sixfold chime of bells. He invokes the God in the shrine. THE YOUNG JOHN. Thou, who art I, beyond all I am, Chorus. 78 Who hast no nature and no name, Who art, when all but Thou are gone, Thou, centre and secret of the Sun, Thou, hidden spring of all things known And unknown, Thou aloof, alone, Thou, the true fire within the reed Brooding and breeding, source and seed Of life, love, liberty, and light, Thou beyond speech and beyond sight, Thee I invoke, my faint fresh fire Kindling as my intents aspire. Thee I invoke, abiding one, Thee, c…
1905 · PDF PAGE 121
…loom is faded on the snow ! . There is no laugh of all those laughs of hers, Those tender thrills of laughter I used to know. Nor in all nature weep the careless eyes, Nor any soul of life may sympathise, All I once was in this is torn and rended— Scorned and forsaken the lone lyre lies. Hath that not yet some sympathy with me? That lyre that was myself, my heart’s decree And ruler, subtle at the dawn, and splendid Noonwards, and soft at day’s declivity! I flung it in my anguish to the ground. I raise it, and its music hath not found One string…
1929 · PDF PAGE 366
…estation at a decorous distance. There is, of course, extreme danger in coming into contact with a demon of a malignant or unintelligent nature. It should, however, be said that such demons only exist for imperfectly initiated Magicians. The adept ought to be able to identify himself absolutely with all beings alike. Invocations should always insist on identification. If this be dully done no harm can ensue, just as lightning cannot hurt lightning. I must confess to pride and pleasure in these performances. I had practically abandoned the attem…
1907 · PDF PAGE 108
…, Dick! A sniveller makes me fairly sick. —Well, here’s the Devil in Eden still; No good we do but turns to ill: Art '5 but a crust o’er Nature’s chasms. Death caught her with his comic spasms. They turned her fairly inside out, Jerking her legs and arms about Like a damned dancing marionette. I could not light my cigarette: I started laughing. Laugh? I laughed— ] rocked my body fore and aft-— I fairly yelledl To crown the event Her wonder at my merriment: That beat the band. I really wonder However I came to, by thunder !— Ha! Ha! You hear—it …
1909 · PDF PAGE 208
…ent contradict every vision and refuse to enjoy it; first, because there is certainly another vision possible of precisely contradictory nature ; secondly, because though he is God, he is also a man upon an insignificant planet. Being thus equilibrated laterally and vertically, it may be that, either by affirmation or denial of all these things together, he may attain the supreme trance. IV. THE RESULT . Trance is defined as the ek-stasis of one particular tract of the brain, caused by meditating on the idea corresponding to it. Let the student…
1909 · PDF PAGE 208
…ent contradict every vision and refuse to enjoy it; first, because there is certainly another vision possible of precisely contradictory nature ; secondly, because though he is God, he is also a man upon an insignificant planet. Being thus equilibrated laterally and vertically, it may be that, either by affirmation or denial of all these things together, he may attain the supreme trance. IV. THE RESULT . Trance is defined as the ek-stasis of one particular tract of the brain, caused by meditating on the idea corresponding to it. Let the student…
1912 · PDF PAGE 206
…erpent issues from the cup, and has its head tending down to the waters 01 the lake. He is subtle, violent, crafty and artistic; a fierce nature with calm exterior. Powerful for good or evil, but more attracted by the evil if allied with apparent Power or Wisdom. If ill dignified, he is intensely evil and merciless. He rules from zo" & to 20° "]. A of v Prince and Emperor of Nymphs or Undines. 164
1912 · PDF PAGE 206
…erpent issues from the cup, and has its head tending down to the waters 01 the lake. He is subtle, violent, crafty and artistic; a fierce nature with calm exterior. Powerful for good or evil, but more attracted by the evil if allied with apparent Power or Wisdom. If ill dignified, he is intensely evil and merciless. He rules from zo" & to 20° "]. A of v Prince and Emperor of Nymphs or Undines. 164
1914 · PDF PAGE 13
…t man turns to monstrosity and crime. But you have need of none of this at all. ‘You like “what's natural.” Right: for you, in sum, Like Nature's self, abhor a vacuum! Oh, but there's mind! ‘There's folk that have a brain, ‘That need the food of spirit and of heart. There's folk that need love, pity, peace; disdain All that lacks beauty, passion, wit, and art. Yours is a mind that does not hesitate To find a word for such—" degenerate.” Xm It poisons me to think such thoughts: they mar ‘The crystal of my orgasm of hate. How can I fling from fac…
1961 · PDF PAGE 130
LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 118 Dn De Necessitate Verbi Clamandi (Of the Need of Shouting the Word) E that striveth against his own Nature is a Fool, and wotteth not his Will, darkening Counsel in himself, and denying his own God, and giving Place to Choronzon. So then his Work becometh Hotchpot, and he is shattered and dispersed in the Abyss. Nor is it better for him if he do this for the supposed Good of another, and for that other is it Evil also in the End of the Matter. For to manifest thine own Division to another, and to deceive him, is but to c…
1905 · PDF PAGE 135
… wide ? What thoughts inspire me idling now, lone on the lonely tide ? Here in the beauty of the place, hope laughs and says me nay ; In nature’s bosom, in God’s face, I read Decay, Decay. Here in the splendour of the Law that built the eternal sphere, Beauty and majesty and awe, I fail of any cheer. Here, in caprice, in will divine, I see no perfect peace ; Here, in the Law’s impassive shrine, no hope is of release. All things escape me, all repine, all alter, ruin, cease. II But thou, O Lord, O Apollo, Must thou utterly change and pass ? Thy …
1912 · PDF PAGE 232
…against the person; failure, defeat, anxiety, trouble, poverty, avarice, grieving after gain, laborious, unresting; loss and vileness of nature; malicious, slanderous, lying, spiteful and tale-bearing. A busybody and separator of friends, hating to see peace and love between others. Cruel, yet cowardly, thankless and unreliable. Clever and quick in thought and speech. Feelings of pity easily roused, but unenduring. Geburah of( ?וDefeat, loss, malice, spite, slander, evil- speaking). Herein the Angels?לאיבאand?תימעהbear rule. 190