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LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 50 Ac De Modo quo operet Lex Magica (Of the way Magical Law works) IVE Ear attentively, o my Son, while I expound unto thee the true Doctrine of Magick. Every Force acteth, in due Proportion, on all Things with which it is connected. Thus a burning Forest causes chemical Change by Combustion, and giveth Heat and Motion to the Air about it by the Operation of physical Laws, and exciteth thought and Emotion in the Man whom it reacheth through his Organs of Perception. Consider (even though it were but Legend) the Fall of the a…
1961 · PDF PAGE 102
…Great Work) HIS Great Work is the Attainment of the Know- ledge and Conversation of thine Holy Guardian Angel. In the Eight Æthyr is the Way thereof revealed. But I say: prepare thyself most heartily and well for that Battle of Love by all means of Magick. Make thyself puissant, wise, radiant in every System, and balance thyself well in thine Universe. Then with a pure Will tempered in the thousand Furnaces of thy Trials, burn up thyself within thy Self. In the Preparation hou shalt have learnt how thou mayst still all Thoughts, and reach Eksta…
1929 · PDF PAGE 307
307 He came athwart my hawser once, refusing to listen to the complaint of Salama about the way he was treated in the fo'c'sle. I told him that I would throw him off his own ship unless he did what I said p. d. q. He cringed and complied. How this ship ever made a voyage is a mystery. The chief engineer, a worn-out melancholy Scot, was as puzzled as I. He said his engines were "as rotten as the captain's guts". They moved like a one-legged man with St. Vitus' Dance and they sounded like tea trays being beaten, chains being rattled and fire iron…
1905 · PDF PAGE 73
…y. Strange wings and sombre, heralding the night, Fleet far across the woods; and gleaming bright The evening star looks from the orient way. Shadow and silence deepen: all the woods Take on a tenderer phrase of musical Breezes: the stream-sought homes and solitudes Murmura little where the maiden moods Are sadder as the evening’s kisses fall. 74
1909 · PDF PAGE 9
…thy will. 43. Do that, and no other shall say nay. 44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. 45. The Perfect and the Perfect are one Perfect and not two; nay, are none! 46. Nothing is a secret key of this law: sixty-one the Jews called it; I call it eight, eighty, four hundred and eighteen. 47. But they have the half: unite by thy art so that all disappear! 48. My prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the OX, and none by the Book? 49. Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals…
1929 · PDF PAGE 232
232 other kinds of specific excitement? Morphine makes men holy and happy in a negative way; why should there not be some drug which will produce the positive equivalent? The mystic gasps with horror, but we really can't worry about him. It is he that is blaspheming nature by postulating discontinuity in her processes. Admit that Samadhi is sui generis and back come the whole discarded humbug of the supernatural. I was back at the old bench exploring the pharmacopoeia for the means of grace, as I had done with Allan long ago; but I had come bac…
1899 · PDF PAGE 15
… cries for light and life and love. But these, begotten of the world above, Withdrew their glory, and the iron world Rolled on its cruel way, and passion furled b
1910 · PDF PAGE 21
12 AMBERGRIS And the sun is sharp to slay ; Where the ivory dome above Glimmers like the dawn of love On the weary way ; Where the ibex chant and call Over tempests funeral ; Where the hornd beast is shrill, And the eagle hath its will, And the shadows fall Sharp and black, till day is passed Over to the ocean vast ; Where the barren rocks resound Only to the rending roar Of the shattering streams that pour Rocks by ice eternal bound, Myriad cascades that crowned Once the far resounding throne Of the mountain spirits strong, All the treachero…
1910 · PDF PAGE 59
… “ Beni Elohim ” going in to the daughters of men. To punish them, Allah hung them by their heels in a well at Babylon, where they wile away the time by giving magical instruction. The mean- ing, therefore, (argal !) of the whole passage is that unredeemed (i.e. uninitiated) man, however ordina- rily devout, is liable to become a sorcerer ! I cannot help thinking that Mahbub must have been hung up by his heels at one time ; nobody could ever think all that out right way up !
1910 · PDF PAGE 17
…k strange dwarfs with crooked spines And elfin eyes, and bleating mouths that worked All manner of grimace and bleak derision Bore them away ; hollow-eyed ghosts that lurked About the sea made thereof masts ; they fitted Tall ships and goodly, furrowing the deep To harvest merchandise ; strong and keen-witted The mariners ; oho ! the breezes leap Like lovers on them ; lo ! they fared forth To South, East, West and North, Iceland, the Indies, Sicily, and Spain. . . . Lo ! men have heard of all these ships not one, not one for ever more again. VI…
1910 · PDF PAGE 40
30 THE WIZARD WAY She hath naked breasts of amber Jetting wine in her bed-chamber Whereof whoso stoops and drinks Rees the riddle of the Sphinx. She hath naked limbs of amber Whereupon her children clamber. She hath five navels rosy-red From the five wounds of God that bled ; Each wound that mothered her still bleeding, And on that blood her babes art feeding. Oh ! like a rose-winged pelican She hath bred blessed babes to Pan ! Oh ! like a lion-hued nightingale She hath torn her breast on thorns to avail The barren rose-tree to renew Her life w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 196
THE EQUINOX So shall the lust of love be sated on thee In spite of thee, who knowest no ecstasy. And I will win a pallid way to the stars In spite of thee! Yea, and because of thee. For the end of every path must be the same, And at the end of thee, immortal one, Is Nothing! Yea, thou shalt know, Rose, even as I, How the last dust of the world is naught but dust, And how thou shalt die, being the Immortal Rose. x LIFE MEN say: “ For love's sake and for beauty’s sake We would make our songs immortal; we would give The passionate cry of summer, t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 196
THE EQUINOX So shall the lust of love be sated on thee In spite of thee, who knowest no ecstasy. And I will win a pallid way to the stars In spite of thee! Yea, and because of thee. For the end of every path must be the same, And at the end of thee, immortal one, Is Nothing! Yea, thou shalt know, Rose, even as I, How the last dust of the world is naught but dust, And how thou shalt die, being the Immortal Rose. x LIFE MEN say: “ For love's sake and for beauty’s sake We would make our songs immortal; we would give The passionate cry of summer, t…
1926 · PDF PAGE 8
…thy will. 43. Do that, and no other shall say nay. 44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. 45. The Perfect and the Perfect are one Perfect and not two; nay, are none! 46. Nothing is a secret key of this law: sixty-one the Jews called it; I call it eight, eighty, four hundred and eighteen. 47. But they have the half: unite by thy art so that all disappear! 48. My prophet is a fool with his one, one, one; are not they the OX, and none by the Book? 49. Abrogate are all rituals, all ordeals…
1929 · PDF PAGE 29
…eated; and he made {69} an application to the courts which resulted in my being called to see Mr. Justice Stirling in chambers. I have always been intensely loyal even to my enemies, and (for all I knew) the judge might send my mother and her brother to prison. So I lied like a little man and pretended that I was perfectly happy at the school. I do not think that he was entirely fooled by my protestations; and although I was not made a ward in Chancery, a promise was exacted that I should go to a public school and university as soon as I had pa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 550
550 Thelema upon her vessel of fulfilment thereof, viz: Love. We must train up our child in the way which it should go, foreseeing every danger and providing a safeguard thereto. By her heroic and inspired interpretation heartened, I set my feet upon my sorrow and used it to make firm my feet. I went on with my work. My energy came back, little by little, and I was able after a time to silence the complain that continually called to my consciousness, but only in the spring did I fight my way to freedom. I had gone to Paris, and went down to Fon…
1905 · PDF PAGE 157
…ng some silent beast, So shuddered he, and spurred his horse, and found A black path towards the water ; he released The bridle ; so the way went steep, ill bound On an accursed task, so dark it loomed Amid its yews and cypresses, each mound About each root, a grave, where Hell entombed A vampire till the night broke sepulchre And all its phantoms desperate and doomed
1913 · PDF PAGE 69
… Supreme and terrible God, Who makest the gods and death To tremble before Thee :— I, I adore thee! Appear on the throne of Ra! Open the ways of the Khu! Lighten the ways of the Ka! The ways of the Khabs run through To stir me or still me! Aum! let it fill me! 38. So that thy light is in me; & its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. There is a secret door that I shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters, (these are the adorations, as thou hast written), as it is said: The light is mine; its rays consume Me: I have ma…
1913 · PDF PAGE 69
… Supreme and terrible God, Who makest the gods and death To tremble before Thee :— I, I adore thee! Appear on the throne of Ra! Open the ways of the Khu! Lighten the ways of the Ka! The ways of the Khabs run through To stir me or still me! Aum! let it fill me! 38. So that thy light is in me; & its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order. There is a secret door that I shall make to establish thy way in all the quarters, (these are the adorations, as thou hast written), as it is said: The light is mine; its rays consume Me: I have ma…
1929 · PDF PAGE 67
…is brother. In this position he was able to support my weight on his uplifted axe-head sufficiently to allow me to use one hand. In this way I cut fresh hand holds in the overhanging wall and ultimately pulled myself over the edge. There was still some step-cutting to be done before I got to a sufficiently good place to pull up the others. I have never seen the performance of Travers equalled on any occasion. Hastings himself could hardly have been more strong, steady and enduring, to say nothing of the qualities required to allow a man to stan…