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Page 37 of 731961 · PDF PAGE 206
…De Nuptiis Summis (Of the Supreme Marriage) OW then to this Doctrine, o my Son, add thou that which thou hast learned in The Book of the Law, that Death is the Dissolution in the Kiss of Our Lady Nuith. This is a true Consonance as of Bass with Treble for here is the Impulse that setteth us to Magick, the Pain of the Conscious Mind. Having then Wit to find the Cause of this Pain in the Sense of Separation, and its Cessation by the Union of Love, it is the Summit of our Holy Art to present the whole Being of our Star to Our Lady in the Nuptial o…
1944 · PDF PAGE 158
…t and experience with that of the West. For the meaning is long continuance: “perseverance in well‐doing, or continuously acting out the law of one’s be‐ ing”, as Legge puts it in his note on the hexagram; and this seems incongruous with the Qa‐
1954 · PDF PAGE 188
20 Talismans: The Lamen: The Pantacle Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Really you comfort me when you turn from those abstruse and exalted themes with which you have belaboured me so often of late to dear cuddlesome little questions like this in our letter received this morning: "Do please, dear Master, give me some hints about how to make Talismans (that's the same as Telesmata, isn't it?) [Yes, 666] and the Pantacle. The official instructions are quite clear, of course; but somehow I find them just a little frighte…
1954 · PDF PAGE 319
45 "Unserious" Conduct of a Pupil Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Here pops up Zola again-this time he says J'Accuse! To-day's Hexagram for me is No. X. Li, the Tiger: and the Duke of Chau comments on the last line as follows: "The sixth line, undivided, tells us to look at the whole course that is trodden, and examine the presage which that gives. If it be complete and without failure, there will be great good fortune." O.K.; Let's! I t is now well over a year since you came to me howling like a damned soul in torm…
1954 · PDF PAGE 395
58 Do Angels Ever Cut Themselves Shaving? Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. A very witty way to put it! "Do angels ever cut themselves shaving?" Rem au tetigisti, again. (English: you big tease?) What sort of existence, what type or degree of reality, do we attribute to them? (By angel, of course, you mean any celestial-or infernal-being such as are listed in the Hierarchy, from Metatron and Ratziel to Lilith and Nahema.) We read of them, for the most part, as if they were persons-although of another order of being; a…
1939 · PDF PAGE 17
…crap all the rules and discover your own. Sir Richard Burton said: 'He noblest lives and noblest dies, who makes and keeps his self-made laws.' 10. This is, of course, what every man of science has to do in every experiment. This is what constitutes an experiment. The other kind of man has only bad habits. When you explore a new country, you don't know what the conditions are going to be; and you have to master those conditions by the method of trial and error. We start to penetrate the stratosphere; and we have to modify our machines in all so…
1913 · PDF PAGE 352
…e in God. The Old Testament, the Qur'an, and the Gospel are three different translations of the same book. As God is one, so also is the law. O ideal woman! O reward of the elect! Art thou more beautiful than Mary? O Mary, daughter of the East! chaste as pure love, great as the desire of motherhood, come and teach the children of Islam the mysteries of Paradise, and the secrets of beauty! Invite them to the festival of the new alliance! There, upon three thrones glittering with precious stones, three prophets will be seated. 54
1913 · PDF PAGE 352
…e in God. The Old Testament, the Qur'an, and the Gospel are three different translations of the same book. As God is one, so also is the law. O ideal woman! O reward of the elect! Art thou more beautiful than Mary? O Mary, daughter of the East! chaste as pure love, great as the desire of motherhood, come and teach the children of Islam the mysteries of Paradise, and the secrets of beauty! Invite them to the festival of the new alliance! There, upon three thrones glittering with precious stones, three prophets will be seated. 54
1954 · PDF PAGE 273
36 Quo Stet Olympus Where the Gods and Angels Live Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. We settled what Gods, angels, demons, elementals were some little while ago; we also wrote of how they live, so now, insatiable Seeker, you ask where. In India the earth was supported by an elephant who stood on a tortoise-who . . . ? No floor above. Nothing but empty space with swarming galaxies; no room for "heaven." Simpler to call Olympus or Meru the home of the Gods-believe it or not! don't ask questions! Yet all the time the dif…
1954 · PDF PAGE 331
… I feel their truth much more strongly than I have ventured to express. How many times have I warned you against 'feelings'? Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 347
Cara Soror, 50 A.C. and the "Masters" Why They Chose Him Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. "Details about Book 4?" This question lacks precision. I must pull a trigger at a venture. The idea of 4 was due to my observation of St. Peter's in Rome; it is built with an eye unwavering from that number, as you will see when next you go there, aware of the fact. Also, 4 means, on the political plane, Temporal Power. (The Qabalistic Architect of St. Peter's knew that, and designed his talisman ad hoc.) This book was then, according to Ab…
1954 · PDF PAGE 352
…r others , the craving to pass their miseries on to more sensible people by persecuting them: these traits are symptomatic . Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 403
… a natural bent towards this particular Art you will be able to develop it on your own lines, guided by your own experience. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1919 · PDF PAGE 454
… Here, however, we get something like real poetry. This, and not the Pi-Jaw, should be taken as the key to this Masterpiece. Love is the law, love under will. 132
1954 · PDF PAGE 97
Cara Soror , 6 The Three Schools of Magick (1) Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Here is the ftrst section of M. Gerard Aumont's promised essay;! it was originally called The Three Schools of Magick. (Don't be cross, please, because it is not in the form of a personal letter!) There is to-day much misunderstanding of the meaning of the term 'Magick'. Many attempts have been made to deftne it, but perhaps the best for our present purpose of historical-ideological exposition will be this-Magick is the Science of the Incommensurable…
1954 · PDF PAGE 116
Cara Soror, 8 The Three Schools of Magick (3) Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. There is in history only one movement whose object has been to organize the isolated adepts of the White School of Magick, and this movement was totally unconnected with religion, except in so far as it lent its influence to the reformers of the Christian church. Its appeal was not at all to the people. It merely offered to open up relations with, and communicate certain practical secrets of wisdom to, isolated men of science throughout Europe. This m…
1954 · PDF PAGE 424
64 Magical Power Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Rightly you remark that most of these letters have dealt with self-development in one form or another; now, what of the causa finalis. the "practical angle" some would call it. What you want now is to learn how to apply the knowledge and power that you have gained to the execution of your True Will, to the accomplishment of the Great Work. Obviously, much must be left to your own common-sense ; the one technical point on which I insist above all others is the Magical …
1954 · PDF PAGE 248
30 Do You Believe in God? Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You are quite right , as usual. True, we have gone over a great deal of the ground in various learned disquisitions on Gods, Angels, Elves, et hoc genus omne. But God with a capital G in the singular is a totally different pair of Bluchers-nicht wahr? Let me go back just for a moment to the meaning of belief. We agreed that the word was senseless except as it implies an opinion , instinct, conviction-what you please!-so fIrmly entrenched in our natures that w…
1954 · PDF PAGE 400
59 Geomancy Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Your last letter has really put me up a gum tree. I do not see how I can write you an account of Geomancy. At first sight it looks as if all I could do was to refer you to the official text book of that sublime and difficult art. You will find it in The Equinox, Vol. I, No.2. The first thing to remember about Geomancy is that although the various intelligences are attributed to the twelve signs of the Zodiac they all appertain to the element of earth. Anyone therefore who …
1961 · PDF PAGE 209
… for the Jewel of thy Will, to enhance the Beauty thereof, and to refine thy Pleasures. This is that which is written in The Book of the Law: . . . Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art: if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety herein! But exceed! exceed! Thus thou mayst even toy with thy tamed Devil of Sin, and use the Pain thereof to sharpen the taste of thy Meat, being Adult, and thy Tong…