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Page 36 of 731924 · PDF PAGE 5
…ices and passions of the masses. Unless therefore a man of letters is wealthy enough to call his traducer to instant account in court of law, the absolute falsity of a newspaper calumny will not prevent it from working, right from the start, almost as much mischief as if it were proven truth. It may reduce its victim, at a stroke, from affluence to poverty, or from poverty to absolute destitution. It may destroy his credit, in every kind, for a critical initial period ; and in the time that elapses before he can compel a hearing, the lie may ha…
1954 · PDF PAGE 217
25 Fascinations, Invisibility, Levitation, Transmutations, Kinks in Time Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Dear me! dear me! The world's indeed gone topsy-tUIVY if you have to ask me for the secrets of Fascination! Altogether tohu-bohu and the Temurah Thash raq! So much for a display of Old-World Courtly Manners; actually rubbish, for you might very well be fascinating without knowing how you worked the trick. In fact, I think that is the case ninety-nine times in a hundred. Besides, I read your letter carelessly; I o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 65
…ll give you a war-engine. With it ye shall smite the peoples; and none shall stand before you. g. Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them! this is the Law of the Battle of Conquest: thus shall my worship be about my secret house. WSOMAKL 25
1913 · PDF PAGE 65
…ll give you a war-engine. With it ye shall smite the peoples; and none shall stand before you. g. Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them! this is the Law of the Battle of Conquest: thus shall my worship be about my secret house. WSOMAKL 25
1919 · PDF PAGE 389
THE TWO PATHS entirely beyond the Law of cause and effect. The words “Self Divine” are somewhat misleading in view of the sense in which they have been used previously. 65. Guard thou the Lower lest it soil the Higher. The Student is told to ‘guard’ the lower, that is to say he should protect and strengthen it in every possible way, never allowing it to grow disproportionately or to overstep its boundaries. 66. The way to final freedom is within thy SELF. In this verse we find the “SELF” identified with the Uni- verse. 67. That way begins and e…
1954 · PDF PAGE 235
28 Need to Define "God" and "Self" Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Artless remark! I Oh you! Well, I suppose it's a gift-to stir Hell to its most abysmal horror with one small remark slipped in at the end. Scorpion! "Higher self" - "God within us." Dear Lady, you could never have picked five words from Iroquois, or Banti, or Basuto or the Jargon of Master Francois Villon, or Pictish, which severally and together convey less to my mind. No, no, not Less : I meant More, so much more that it amounts to nothing at all. …
1954 · PDF PAGE 440
68 The God-Letters Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Maybe it was Devanagari that began it! This "sacred" character , used rightly for Sanskrit alone , is supposed (so Allan Bennett told me) to be constructed on-can one call them ideographic?-principles. The upright line is the soft palate ; the horizontal the hard ; and the line between them shows the position of the tongue when one pronounces the letter. He demonstrated this most elegantly for the letter T ( ); but I was never able to follow this up with most of the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 32
…in Mathews), which should be studied carefully before constructing the Altar. For this Altar must embody the Magician's knowledge of the laws of Nature, which are the laws through which he works. He should endeavour to make geometrical constructions to symbolize cosmic measurements. For example, he may take the two diagonals as (say) the diameter of the sun. Then the side of the altar will be found to have a length equal to some other cosmic measure, a vesica drawn on the side some other, a "rood cross" within the vesica yet another. Each Magic…
1954 · PDF PAGE 514
79 Progress Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. You will certainly have to have an india-rubber medal for persistence ; this is the nth time that you have tried to catch me contradicting myself. Well, so I do, and must, every time I make any statement whatever , as has been shown several times in this chatty little interchange of views. But that is not what you mean. You say-permit me to condense your more than somewhat tautological , pleonastic, prolix , diffuse and incoherent elucubrations!-that the whole idea of the …
1961 · PDF PAGE 204
…taketh on the Vesture of his Office, that is, inhabiteth a Tabernacle of Illusion, a Body and Mind. And his Tabernacle is Subject to the Law of Change, for it is complex, and diffuse reacting to every Stimulus or Impression. If then the mind be attached constantly to the Body, Death hath no Power to decompose it wholly, but a decaying Shell of the dead Man, his Mind holding together for a little his Body of Light, haunteth the Earth, seeking a new Tabernacle (in its Error that feareth Change) in some other Body. These Shells are broken away utt…
1909 · PDF PAGE 163
A HANDBOOK OF GEOMANCY Law. e ee Rw. J. (Rw. J. (RW. J. (RW. J. fRwe J. fRaw. J RaW. J. [RAW J Fortuna Minor | * . wy ve Life, &c. 1| Good | Med. | Med. | Good | Evil Med. | Good | Med. Money, &c, 2] Good | Med. | Med. | Good | Evil Evil | Good | Med. Rank, &c, Good | Med. | Med. | Good | Evil Med. | Good | Evil 3 Property 4| Good | Med. | Med. | Good | Evil | Med. | Evil | Med. 5 6 Wife, &c. Good | Med. | Med. | Good | Evil Med. | Evil Med. Sex of Child 5 5 5 Son Dau. | Son Dau. Dau. Sickness 7 | Health} Death | Health| Health| Asc. | Health| …
1909 · PDF PAGE 163
A HANDBOOK OF GEOMANCY Law. e ee Rw. J. (Rw. J. (RW. J. (RW. J. fRwe J. fRaw. J RaW. J. [RAW J Fortuna Minor | * . wy ve Life, &c. 1| Good | Med. | Med. | Good | Evil Med. | Good | Med. Money, &c, 2] Good | Med. | Med. | Good | Evil Evil | Good | Med. Rank, &c, Good | Med. | Med. | Good | Evil Med. | Good | Evil 3 Property 4| Good | Med. | Med. | Good | Evil | Med. | Evil | Med. 5 6 Wife, &c. Good | Med. | Med. | Good | Evil Med. | Evil Med. Sex of Child 5 5 5 Son Dau. | Son Dau. Dau. Sickness 7 | Health} Death | Health| Health| Asc. | Health| …
1954 · PDF PAGE 407
61 Power and Authority Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Thanks very much for your last letter. I expected no less. As soon as anybody gets into a position of authority, even on a very small scale, their troubles begin on a very large one. Imagine, if you can what I have been through in the last quarter of a century or more. My subordinates are always asking me for advancement in the Order ; they think that if they were only members of the 266th degree everything in the garden would be lovely. They think that if they …
1909 · PDF PAGE 11
…things! Yet, as we go, there grows a sense, an instinct, a premonition—what shall I call it ?—that Being is One, and Thought is One, and Law is One—until we ask What is that One? Then again we spin words—words—words. And we have got no single question answered in any ultimate sense. What is the moon made of? Science replies ‘Green Cheese.” For our one moon we have now two ideas: Greenness, and Cheese. Greenness depends on the sunlight, and the eye, and a thousand other things. Cheese depends on bacteria and fermentation and the nature of the co…
1944 · PDF PAGE 89
…ce.” “Every man and every woman is a star.” The whole idea of sacrifice is a misconception of nature, and these texts of the Book of the Law are the answer to it. But water is the element of Illusion; one may regard this symbol n evil legacy from the old Aeon; to use an anatomical analogy, it spiritual vermiform appendix. It was the water, and the Dwellers of the Water that slew Osiris; it is the crocodiles that threaten Hoor‐Pa‐Kraat. This card is beautiful in a strange, immemorial, moribund manner. It is the card of the Dying God; its importa…
1912 · PDF PAGE 20
…urns the whole place upside down. Later on, too, he absents himself on Mount Sinai for a few days, and comes back with the Tables of the Law in his hand. St. Paul (again), after his adventure on the road to Damascus, goes into the desert of Arabia for many years, and on his return overturns the Roman Empire. Even in the legends of savages we find the same thing universal; somebody who is nobody in particular goes away for a longer or shorter period, and comes back as the “ great medicine man”; but nobody ever knows exactly what happened to him. …
1913 · PDF PAGE 533
…h is meant an absolute independence of any master, which excludes all idea of God. The word Gop expresses the supreme personification of law, and by consequence, of duty; and if by the word LiBerTY, you are willing to accept our interpretation, THE RIGHT OF DOING ONE’s Duty, we in our turn will take it for a motto, and we shall repeat, without contradiction and without error: “Gop AND LiBErTy.” As there is no liberty for man but in the order which results from the true and the good, one may say that the conquest of liberty is the great work of …
1913 · PDF PAGE 533
…h is meant an absolute independence of any master, which excludes all idea of God. The word Gop expresses the supreme personification of law, and by consequence, of duty; and if by the word LiBerTY, you are willing to accept our interpretation, THE RIGHT OF DOING ONE’s Duty, we in our turn will take it for a motto, and we shall repeat, without contradiction and without error: “Gop AND LiBErTy.” As there is no liberty for man but in the order which results from the true and the good, one may say that the conquest of liberty is the great work of …
1919 · PDF PAGE 24
CURRICULUM Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. In order to facilitate the study of The Official Instructions and other publications of the A... A.”., the Preemonstrator of the Order now issues a series of courses corresponding to the various grades. The grades themselves represent magical and mystical progress, corresponding to which will be grades of studentship representing intellectual progress, and an examination in each such grade must be passed before the equivalent magical grade is officially conferred. It must be understood…
1954 · PDF PAGE 341
49 Thelemic Morality Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Right glad am I to hear that you have so astutely detected the bulk of my remarks on morals as little better than plain sophistry . "After all," you tell me, "there is for everyone of us an instinct, at least, of what is 'right' and what is wrong." And it is plain enough that you understand the validity of this sense in itself, in its own right, wholly independent of any Codes or systems whatsoever. I seem to have started up this rock chimney with the wrong leg! W…