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Page 33 of 841919 · PDF PAGE 291
THE TANK “TREAT 'EM ROUGH” Suetiey’s Eropement. By ALexanper Harvey. Alfred A. Knopf. Tuts book is one of the most glorious blasphemies ever printed. I have long recognized in Alexander Harvey one of those extremely rare types of genius, of which, curiously enough, America seems to have a monopoly. The United States have not produced any all-round men of the first class, but they have produced quite a number of what I may call, without any intent of disparagement, monsters. Morphy’s games of chess are entirely sui generis. He was different not …
1961 · PDF PAGE 49
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 37 Ak De Vi per Disciplinam Colenda (Of Cultivating Power through Discipline) ONSIDER the Bond of a cold Climate, how it maketh Man a Slave; he must have Shelter and Food with fierce Toil. Yet thereby he becometh strong against the Elements, and his moral Force waxeth, so that he is Master of such Men as live in Lands of Sun where bodily Needs are satisfied without Struggle. Consider also him that willeth to exceed in Speed or in Battle, how he denieth himself the Food he craveth, and all Pleasures natural to him, pu…
1943 · PDF PAGE 6
… time to the enormous amount of work before Him. Of outstanding importance in His schedule is the publication of the Tarot, that ancient Book of Thoth, which now requires an interpretation to fit the Aeon of Horus. This is a most meticulous and arduous work, entailing the designing and engraving of an entirely new set of Cards, as well as an accom- panying Book of Tarot which gives their history, their mystic and symbolic significance. It is essential, therefore, that we wholeheartedly contribute toward this Work to make possible its achievemen…
1929 · PDF PAGE 5
…y kind was, or could be, alleged against me. That meant that I was torn away from even the most elementary conveniences for writing this book. I carried on. At the moment of writing this paragraph everything in connection with the book is entirely in the air. I am carrying on. But apart from any of this, I have felt throughout an essential difficulty with regard to the form of the book. The subject is too big to be susceptible of organic structure unless I make a deliberate effort of will and a strict arbitrary selection. It would, as a matter …
1910 · PDF PAGE 49
…, Gods universe : Crushed its black juice out, while His anger shook His dumbness pregnant with a curse. I made me ink, and in a little book I wrote one word That God himself, the adder of Thought, had never heard. XV It detonated. Nature, God, mankind Like sulphur, nitre, charcoal, once Blended, in one annihilation blind Were rent into a myriad of suns. Yea ! all the mighty fabric of a Mind Stood in the abyss, Belching a Law for That more awful than for This. XVI Vain was the toil. So then I left the wood And came unto the still black sea, Th…
1961 · PDF PAGE 45
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 33 Az De Necessitate Communi (Of the General Need) NDERSTAND first that the Disturbers of the Peace of Mankind do so by Reason of their Ignorance of their own true Wills. Therefore as this Wisdom of mine increaseth among Mankind, the false Will to Crime must become constantly more rare. Also, the Exercise of our Freedom will cause Men to be born with less and ever less Affliction from that Dis-Ease of Spirit, which breedeth these false Wills. But, in the while of waiting for this Perfection, thou must by Law assure t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 532
… every Master of the Temple into the Abyss, and to fling every adept of the Rose Cross down to the Qliphoth. No wonder One said that the Book T was in ashes in the Urn of a Magus! I can't see at all how it will affect me at present. Even the Way of the Tao looks idiotic --- but then of course that's what it is! So I suppose that's it, all right. And its freedom, in an utterly fascinating and appalling sense, is beyond my fiercest conception. An experience of this intensity demands a period of repose, no less than a boat race or any other form o…
1961 · PDF PAGE 85
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 73 Bt De quodam Mago Ægyptiorum, quem appelunt Iudaei Mosheh. (Of a certain Magus of the Egyptians, whom the Jews call Moses) HE Follower of Tahuti was an Egyptian whose Name is lost; but the Jews called Him Mosheh, or Moses, and their Fabulists made Him the Leader of their Legendary Exodus. Yet they preserved His Word, and it is IHVH, which thou must understand also as that Secret Word which thou hast seen and heard in Thunders and Lightnings in thine Initiation to the Degree thou wottest of. But this Word is itself…
1910 · PDF PAGE 69
…he sea. 6. All this is so much the more insulting as the woman and the pig are such unclean beasts. See Frazer “ Adonis, Attis, Osiris ” Book 1. Cap. IV. p. 36 in reference to a shrine of Hercules at Hades (Cadiz) an early Tyrian colony “ Neither women nor pigs might pollute the holy place by their pres- ence.” So that we need not attribute the Mohom- medan view to the Inspiration of Allah ; others had noticed it before.
1954 · PDF PAGE 259
226 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS best, can only keep you from extravagant blunders; it will never get you anywhere. The Book of the Law constantly implies a very different policy: listen to its climax-exhortation: "But exceed! exceed!" (AL, II: 71) Remember that which is written: "Moderate strength rings the bell: great strength returns the penny." It is always the little bit extra that brings home the bacon. It is the last attack that breaks through the enemy position. Water will never boil, however long you keep it at 99 0 C. You may find that a Pran…
1961 · PDF PAGE 35
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 23 f De Nuptiis Mysticis (Of the Mystic Marriage) MY Son, how wonderful is the Wisdom of this Law of Love! How vast are the Oceans of uncharted Joy that lie before the Keel of thy Ship! Yet know this, that every Opposition is in its Nature named Sorrow, and the Joy lieth in the Destruction of the Dyad. Therefore, must thou seek ever those Things which are to thee poisonous, and that in the highest Degree, and make them thine by Love. That which repels, that which disgusts, must thou assimilate in this Way of Wholenes…
1961 · PDF PAGE 41
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 29 Ag De Via Inertiæ (Of the Way of Inertia) F the Way of the Tao I have already written to thee, o my Son, but I further instruct thee in this Doc- trine of doing everything by doing nothing. I will first have thee to understand that the Universe being as above said an Expression of Zero under the Figure of the Dyad, its Tendency is continually to release itself from that strain by the Marriage of Opposites whenever they are brought into Contact. Thus thy true Nature is a Will to Zero, or an Inertia, or Doing Nothin…
1913 · PDF PAGE 412
FIRST BOOK MAGNETIC MYSTERIES CHAPTER I THE KEY OF MESMERISM MeEsme_Er rediscovered the secret science of Nature; he did not invent it. The first unique and elementary substance whose existence he proclaims in his aphorisms, was known by Hermes and Pythagoras. Synesius, who sings it in his hymns, had found it revealed in the Platonistic records of the School of Alexandria: Mia raya, pia ila Tpupdns Braye poppe Tepi ‘ep ondpewa Tro Xbovds e&dwoe poipas Tlorvdarddrowt pdpars “A single source, a single root of light, jets out and spreads itself in…
1913 · PDF PAGE 412
FIRST BOOK MAGNETIC MYSTERIES CHAPTER I THE KEY OF MESMERISM MeEsme_Er rediscovered the secret science of Nature; he did not invent it. The first unique and elementary substance whose existence he proclaims in his aphorisms, was known by Hermes and Pythagoras. Synesius, who sings it in his hymns, had found it revealed in the Platonistic records of the School of Alexandria: Mia raya, pia ila Tpupdns Braye poppe Tepi ‘ep ondpewa Tro Xbovds e&dwoe poipas Tlorvdarddrowt pdpars “A single source, a single root of light, jets out and spreads itself in…
1961 · PDF PAGE 88
…Sin is Restriction, the Doubt of his own Godhead, the Suppression of, which is the Blasphemy against, his own Holy Spirit. Saith not The Book of the Law that . . . It is a lie, this folly against self. . . .? Therefore to every Man, in every Circumstance, say thou: Do what thou wilt; and teach him, if he yet waver, how to discover his true Nature, earnestly and with Ardour, even as I have striven to each thee yea, and more also! h
1910 · PDF PAGE 6
…rnest that he has already a large following amongst those who, whilst essentially religious, have no creed. Captain Fuller has written a book upon Crowley and his aims. In this book he not only calls attention to the poems of the writer, but he devotes some hundred odd pages to the new philosophy which is to lead man- kind to happiness and a nobler life. What is this philosophy ? It is devoted to a search after Ecstasy, and is called Scientific Illumin- ism. “ Religion and Science for many years seemingly ran antagon- istic to each other ; but …
1912 · PDF PAGE 195
DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT The Descriptions of the Seventy-eight Symbols of this Book ; together with their meanings OF THE ACES FIRST in order and importance are the Four Aces, repre- senting the Force of the Spirit, acting in, and binding together, the Four Scales of each Element: and answering to the Dominion of the Letters of the Name in the Kether of each. They represent the Radical Forces. The Four Aces are said to be placed on the North Pole of the Universe wherein they revolve, governing its revolution; and ruling as the conn…
1912 · PDF PAGE 195
DESCRIPTION OF THE CARDS OF THE TAROT The Descriptions of the Seventy-eight Symbols of this Book ; together with their meanings OF THE ACES FIRST in order and importance are the Four Aces, repre- senting the Force of the Spirit, acting in, and binding together, the Four Scales of each Element: and answering to the Dominion of the Letters of the Name in the Kether of each. They represent the Radical Forces. The Four Aces are said to be placed on the North Pole of the Universe wherein they revolve, governing its revolution; and ruling as the conn…
1929 · PDF PAGE 376
…etty, futile, baroque and contemptible its career may {603} be, it must close in the sublime sacrament of death. As it is written in The Book of the Law, "-death is the crown of all." The supplement to the first number of The Equinox is a plain reprint of my Magical Record in Paris, mentioned above. I have omitted no detail of my doings. My dinners, my dalliance and my other diversions are described as minutely as my Magick, my mantras and my meditations. Nothing of the sort had ever been published before. It is a complete demonstration of the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 200
…y in being. How right such vision can be, and yet how wrong! Watch my hand!" He suddenly raised his right hand. With the other he held a book between it and her eyes. "I can't see it!" she cried petulantly. "Look at its shadow on the wall!" "It's the head of the devil!" "Yet I am only making the gesture of benediction." He lowered the book. She recognized at once the correctness of his statement. [283]