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1954 · PDF PAGE 356

Magick Without Tears

… the same time every other inhibition was automatically removed. For the first time since the spring of 1904 I felt myself free to do my Will. That, of course, was because I had at last understood what my Will was. My aspiration to be the means of emancipating humanity was perfectly fulfilled. I had merely to establish in the world the Law which had been given me to proclaim: "Thou hast no right but to do thy will." Had I bent my energies from the first to proclaiming the Law of Thelema I should doubtless have found no obstacle in my path. Thos…

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1905 · PDF PAGE 261

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…in a circle. LANDGRAVE. This is noble talk ! THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. Leave the wide circle—word and argument ! Move to the line—the steady will of man, That shall attract the Two, the Breath of Life, The Holy Spirit: land you in the Three, Where form is perfect—in the triangle. TANNHAUSER, My friend, the Three is infinitely small, Mere surface. And I seek the Depth divine! THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. The solid! But the triangle aspires To that same unity that you despise, And lo! the Pyramid! The Sages say : Unite that to the-Sphinx, and all is done, C…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 20

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…E EQUINOX If not, he should seek the position of the point where thoughts are judged. 2. Second Point. He must also develop in himself a Will of Destruction, even a Will of Annihilation. It may be that this shall be discovered at an immeasurable dis- tance from his physical body. Nevertheless, this must he reach, with this must he identify himself even to the loss of himself. 3. Third Point. Let this Will then watch vigilantly the point where thoughts arise, or the point where they are judged, and let every thought be annihilated as it is perce…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 20

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…E EQUINOX If not, he should seek the position of the point where thoughts are judged. 2. Second Point. He must also develop in himself a Will of Destruction, even a Will of Annihilation. It may be that this shall be discovered at an immeasurable dis- tance from his physical body. Nevertheless, this must he reach, with this must he identify himself even to the loss of himself. 3. Third Point. Let this Will then watch vigilantly the point where thoughts arise, or the point where they are judged, and let every thought be annihilated as it is perce…

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1961 · PDF PAGE 158

Liber Aleph

…han the noble Hand or the Proud eye, for thou canst lose these and live, but not that. Esteem therefore a Thing in relation to thine own Will, preferring the Ear if thou love Musick, and the palate if thou love Wine, but the essential Organs of life above these. Have respect also to the will of thy Fellow, not hindering him in his Way save as he may overly jostle thee in thine. For by the Practice of this Tolerance thou shalt come sooner to the Understanding of this Equality of all things in our Lady Nuith, and so the high Attainment of univers…

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1911 · PDF PAGE 4

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

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1911 · PDF PAGE 4

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

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1944 · PDF PAGE 199

The Book of Thoth

Of necessity, the realization of the idea in the Four (as the suit develops) will gradually diminish the purity of its perfection.

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1919 · PDF PAGE 58

The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)

… beneath your feet all fears, all qualms, all hesitancies! Lift yourselves up! Come forth, free and joyous, by night and day, to do your will; for “There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.” Lift yourselves up! Walk forth with us in Light and Life and Love and Liberty, taking our pleasure as Kings and Queens in Heaven and on Earth. The sun is arisen; the spectre of the ages has been put to flight. “The word of Sin is Restriction,” or as it has been otherwise said on this text: That is Sin, to hold thine holy spirit in! Go on, go on in thy might…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 37

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…f his consciousness to that imagined figure; so that it may seem to him that he is seeing with its eyes, and hearing with its ears. This will usually be the great difficulty of the operation. 4. Let him then cause that imagined figure to rise in the air to a great height above the earth. 5. Let him then stop and look about him. (It is some- times difficult to open the eyes.) 6. Probably he will see figures approaching him, or become conscious of a landscape. Let him speak to such figures, and insist upon being answered, using the proper pentagr…

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1909 · PDF PAGE 37

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…f his consciousness to that imagined figure; so that it may seem to him that he is seeing with its eyes, and hearing with its ears. This will usually be the great difficulty of the operation. 4. Let him then cause that imagined figure to rise in the air to a great height above the earth. 5. Let him then stop and look about him. (It is some- times difficult to open the eyes.) 6. Probably he will see figures approaching him, or become conscious of a landscape. Let him speak to such figures, and insist upon being answered, using the proper pentagr…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 130

The Book of Lies

…ell equipped for producing a work of permanent value. . . . Good work may be found in ‘ The Sword of Song,’ but there is even more which will arouse in the average reader (to whom, however, Mr. Crowley obviously does not appeal) no other feeling than one of sheer bewilder- ment. Sometimes an oasis of beauty will reveal the author’s power to charm, the good-humoured egotism will tickle the fancy, the quaint allusive- ness of his notes will raise the eyelid of wonder.... With regard to the prose portions of the volume, the essay on ‘Science and B…

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1954 · PDF PAGE 327

Magick Without Tears

…ropping up. Not only do you insult your brother King by your "noble self-sacrifice," but you are almost bound to interfere with his True Will. "Charity" always means that the lofty soul who bestows it is really, deep down, trying to enslave the recipient of his beastly bounty! In practice, I begin afresh, it is almost entirely a matter of the point of view. "That poor chap looks as if a square meal wouldn't hurt him"; and you chuck him a half-crown. You offend his pride, you pauperize him, you make a perfect cad of yourself, and you go off with…

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1907 · PDF PAGE 230

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…eat and mysterious result. I pledge myself, if you have a spark of religion in you, that is, if you are properly a human being, that you will (at the very least) experience a deeper sense of spiritual communion than youghave ever obtained by any course of church-going. After which you will, if you are worth your salt, devote your life to the development of this communion, and to the search for an instructed master who can tell you more than I can. Now the earlier paganism is simply over- flowing with this spirit of communion. The boy goes down …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 267

Collected Works (Vol. II)

SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM 261 and it will go hard with us if we do not!) regard all progress in any direction as morbid. So (as with Lombroso) ‘disease ”’ will become a mere word, like its prede- cessor ‘‘ infidelity,” and cease to convey any obloquy. If Science is never to go beyond its present limits; if the barriers which meta- physical speculation shows to exist are never to be transcended, then indeed we are thrown back on faith, and all the rest of the nauseous mess of medieval superstition, | and we may just as well have vital principle, and …

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1906 · PDF PAGE 120

Gargoyles

…g-Ghost boasts eternal usurpature ; For in this pool of tears his fingers fret, I had imagined, by enduring nature, Thetwin gods ‘‘ Thus-will-I” and ‘‘ May-be-yet.” God, keep us most from ill, , What time the King-Ghost grips the will! Silver and rose and gold what flame resurges? What living light pours forth in emerald waves? What inmost Music drowns the clamorous dirges? —Shrieking they fly, the King-Ghost and his slaves. Lord, let Thy Ghost indwell, And keep us from the power of Hell! | AMEN. 112

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1898 · PDF PAGE 7

White Stains

The Editor hopes that Mental Pathologists, for whose eyes alone this treatise is destined, will spare no precaution to prevent it falling into other hands

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1913 · PDF PAGE 569

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

… to take: to metamorphose yourself into a cat. But how? By observation, imitation and imagination. We think that our figurative language will be understood for once, and we recommend this revelation to all who wish to magnetize : it is the deepest of all the secrets of their art. Here is the formula in technical terms: “To polarize one’s own animal light, in equilibrated antagonism with the contrary pole.” Or: To concentrate in one’s self the special qualities of absorp- tion in order to direct their rays towards an absorbing focus, and vice ve…

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1913 · PDF PAGE 569

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

… to take: to metamorphose yourself into a cat. But how? By observation, imitation and imagination. We think that our figurative language will be understood for once, and we recommend this revelation to all who wish to magnetize : it is the deepest of all the secrets of their art. Here is the formula in technical terms: “To polarize one’s own animal light, in equilibrated antagonism with the contrary pole.” Or: To concentrate in one’s self the special qualities of absorp- tion in order to direct their rays towards an absorbing focus, and vice ve…

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1930 · PDF PAGE 62

Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 2)

…ted by the abyss between Man and God. The magician becomes füled with God, fed upon God, intoxicaîed with God. Lit lie by little Ms hody will bec orne pnrified by fbe internai lustration of God; day by day bis mort ai frame, shedding its earihly éléments, will become in very truth the Temple of tbe Holy Gliost. Day by day matter is repîaeed by Spirit, tbe bmnau by the divine ; ulîimately the change will be complété; God manifest in flesh will be bis naine, This is the most important of ail magical secrets that ever were or are or can be. To a M…

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