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Page 40 of 731913 · PDF PAGE 488
THE EQUINOX already understand the possible abuses and predict the errors to which the Qabalah was obliged to give birth. The law of analogies, in fact, has been for qabalists of a secondary rank the object of a blind and fanatical faith. It is to this belief that one must attribute all the superstitions with which the adepts of occult science have been reproached. This is how they reasoned: The sign expresses the thing. The thing is the virtue of the sign. There is an analogical correspondence between the sign and the thing signified. The more…
1913 · PDF PAGE 488
THE EQUINOX already understand the possible abuses and predict the errors to which the Qabalah was obliged to give birth. The law of analogies, in fact, has been for qabalists of a secondary rank the object of a blind and fanatical faith. It is to this belief that one must attribute all the superstitions with which the adepts of occult science have been reproached. This is how they reasoned: The sign expresses the thing. The thing is the virtue of the sign. There is an analogical correspondence between the sign and the thing signified. The more…
1919 · PDF PAGE 227
…ch every Brother should fulfil, with regard to all children, those born without the Order included. This duty is to instruct them in the Law of Thelema, to teach them independence and freedom of thought and character, and to warn them that servility and cowardice are the most deadly diseases of the human soul. SIXTH HOUSE 16. Personal or domestic attendants should be chosen from among the members of the Order when possible, and 213
1919 · PDF PAGE 350
…e dead it should again rise. By “desire” in all mystic treatises of any merit is meant tendency. Desire is manifested universally in the law of gravitation, in that of chemical attraction, and so on; in fact, everything that is done is caused by the desire to do it, in this technical sense of the word. The ‘midnight blossom’ implies a certain monastic Renunciation of all desire, which reaches to all planes. One must however distinguish between de- sire, which means unnatural attraction to an ideal, and love, which is natural Motion. 55. Kill lo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 72
2 The Necessity of Magick for All Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Right glad am I to hear that you have been so thoroughly satisfied with my explanation of what Magick is, and on what its theories rest. It is good, too, hearing how much you were interested in the glimpse that you have had of some of its work in the world; more, that you grasped the fact that this apparently recondite and irrelevant information has an immediate bearing on your personal life of to-day. Still, I was not surprised that you should add: "…
1929 · PDF PAGE 202
…e, Life coruscating In Light, their mood of magick consummating The miracle of Love, and all the awe Of Need made one with Liberty's one law; A fourfold flower of Godhead, leaf and fruit And seed and blossom of one radiant root, Resolving all the being of its bloom Into the rapture of its own perfume. Star-clustered dew each fibre of that light Wherein all being flashes to its flight! All things that live, a cohort and a choir, Laugh with the leapings of that fervid fire; Motes in that sunlight, they are drunken of The wine of their own energy …
1930 · PDF PAGE 72
… is now His own, being able to apply Himself accurately to His self-appointed environment. He acclaims His Angel as having laid down the Law of Love as the Magical formula of the Universe, that He may résolve the phénoménal again into its noumenal phase by uniting any two opposites in ecstasic passion. He acclaims His Angel as having appointed that this formula of Love should effect not only the dissolution of the separateness of the Lovers into His own impersonal Godhead, but their co-ordina¬ tion in a “Child” quintessentializea from its paren…
1954 · PDF PAGE 497
76 The Gods How and Why They Overlap Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Your last letter. I am glad: it shows you have been putting in some genuine original work. Result! You make a very shrewd observation; you have noticed the curious fashion in which Gods seem to overlap. It is not the same (you point out) with Angels. In no other system do we find a parallel for the Living Creatures. Wheels, Wings, Fiery Serpents, with such quasi-human cohorts as the Beni Elohim who beget children on women , to whom the Qabalah has …
1904 · PDF PAGE 124
…st. I take my refuge in the Buddha. That there was once a man who found the Way is my encouragement. I take my refuge in the Dhamma. The Law underlying phenomena and its unchanging certainty; the Law given by the Buddha to show us the Way, the inevitable tendency to Persistence in Motion or Rest—and Persist- ence, even in M otion, negates change in consciousness—these observed orders of fact are our bases.
1907 · PDF PAGE 269
…e Infinite , and if the illusionary ‘ I ' could only realize Who I'really am , how very happy we should all be !” Here we have the great law of re - birth operating nowhere in nothing . Thus the universe is laid open before us as some huge ledger , upon which each being is working as a clerk ; some are called directors , some accountants , some cashiers , yet great or small , high or low , from the amoeba to man , they are all scribbling , scribble , scribble , and counting , counting , counting , again and again , “ all the choir of heaven and…
1919 · PDF PAGE 416
THE EQUINOX 21. Thou hast to be prepared to anwer Dharma, the stern law, whose voice will ask thee first at thy initial step: 22. “Hast thou complied with all the rules, O thou of lofty hopes? “Hast thou attuned thy heart and mind to the great mind and heart of all mankind? For as the sacred River’s roaring voice whereby all Nature-sounds are echoed back, so must the heart of him “who in the stream would enter,” thrill in response to every sigh and thought of all that lives and breathes.” Here is another absurdity. What is the sense of asking a…
1961 · PDF PAGE 197
… of Pan; but for three Years I was not willing to avail myself thereof. Now mark well this, o my Son, that this Path was peculiar to the law of my Star, and none other should follow me herein, or seek to follow me, for he hath his own proper Orbit. O my Son, err not by Generalisation and Conformity, for this is the very Idleness, and breedeth Ideals and Standards that are Death. t
1910 · PDF PAGE 64
… womb withheld That spiritual fire, and brooded still : Nature and Time, their soleness undispelled, Ever awaiting the eternal Will. And Law was unbegotten : uttermost Night Dwelt, inaccessible to sound and sight Shielded from Voice, impervious to Light. Then grew within the barren womb of this The Breath of the Eternal and the Vast, Softer than dawn, and closer than a kiss And lo ! the chaos and the darkness passed ! At the creative sigh the Light became. Chaos rolled back in the abundant flame. The vast and mystic Soul, The firmament, a livi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 351
…s to separate you from other men; be our brethren, and eat with us the consecrated Bread of peace on altars that blood stains never. The law of Moses is accomplished: read your books and understand that you have been a blind and hard-hearted race, even as all your prophets said to you. You have also been a courageous race, a race that per- severed in strife. Children of Israel, become the children of God: Under- stand and love! God has wiped from your forehead the brand of Cain, and the peoples seeing you pass will no longer say, ‘‘ There go th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 351
…s to separate you from other men; be our brethren, and eat with us the consecrated Bread of peace on altars that blood stains never. The law of Moses is accomplished: read your books and understand that you have been a blind and hard-hearted race, even as all your prophets said to you. You have also been a courageous race, a race that per- severed in strife. Children of Israel, become the children of God: Under- stand and love! God has wiped from your forehead the brand of Cain, and the peoples seeing you pass will no longer say, ‘‘ There go th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 234
…warmest co-operation in their pleasures and amusements from other members of the Order. The perfect freedom and security afforded by the Law allows the characters of all Brethren to expand to the very limits of their nature, and the great joy and gladness with which they are constantly overflowing make them the best of companions. “They shall rejoice, our chosen; who 220
1919 · PDF PAGE 372
…d always be ready to abide by the toss of a coin, and remain absolutely indifferent as to whether it falls head or tail. 24. The Dharma (law) of the “Eye” is the embodiment of the external, and the non-existing. By “non-existing” is meant the lower Asat. The word is used on other occasions to mean an Asat which is higher than, and beyond, Sat. 25. The Dharma of the “Heart” is the embodiment of Bodhi, the Permanent and Everlasting. “Bodhi” implies the root “Light” in its highest sense of L.V.X. But, even in Hindu Theory, ravra feu. 26. The Lamp …
1954 · PDF PAGE 295
…on occurred at 6: 22 sharp, when the Sun entered Capricornus. Crowley made a short speech; as "the Priest of the Princes" proclaimed the Law of Thelema; handed copies of book to white, red, brown, black, yellow representatives. Representative of the "black" race was a dancing-girl. Indian was a non-English speaking Bengali Muslim, who seemed rather puzzled by the whole business. Book contains message dictated to Crowley at Cairo in 1904 "by Aiwass, a Being whose nature he does not fully understand but who described Himself as "The Minister of H…
1954 · PDF PAGE 389
Cara Soror, 57 Beings I Have Seen with My Physical Eye Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Well do you know my lifelong rule never to make any assertion that cannot be verified, or at least supported by corroborative evidence, on any subject pertaining to Magick. When, therefore, you express curiosity as to how much of the normally super-sensible world has been revealed to my senses, and especially that of sight, you must take my answer as "without prejudice," "e. and o.e.," "under the rose," and "in a Pickwickian sense." If you ch…
1954 · PDF PAGE 404
60 Knack Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I am very glad that it has not been necessary in all this long correspondence with you, to discuss the question of Knack. You seem to be specially gifted; you were able to get the results directly from following out the instructions, and I am glad that it is through you, on behalf of other people, to whom you have communicated these instructions, that this letter has become necessary. When Otto Morningstar was trying (with indifferent success) to teach me how to play French B…