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Page 52 of 731909 · PDF PAGE 326
…reets and roads, by gas and water pipes, and by drains; each a micro- cosm in itself, regulated, ruled and ordered by codes, customs and laws, an organised unit only wanting the breath of life for it to rise up complete, and like some colossal giant stride away from before our terror-stricken eyes. Similarly, the adept will see in these visions a great ordered kingdom, and behind all their apparent chaos rule and law; for he will understand that the sudden changing, the leaping from blue seas to silver temples, and the rushing past fiery pillar…
1929 · PDF PAGE 3
…he trail ALLAN BENNETT who did what he could P A R T O N E TOWARDS THE GOLDEN DAWN. PRELUDE "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." Not only to this autohagiography --- as he amusedly insists on calling it --- of Aleister Crowley, but to every form of biography, biology, even chemistry, these words are key. "Every man and every woman is a star." What can we know about a star? By the telescope, a faint phantasm of its optical value. By the spectroscope, a hint of its composition. By the telescope, and our mathematics, its course. In t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 339
…ing upon us a modicum of Wisdom adequate to get us out of the quagmire into which the crisis has temporarily plunged us all! Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally yours, 666 P.S. It has seemed better to make a postscript of the most
1996 · PDF PAGE 187
188 The Law is for All 68. Yet to all it shall seem beautiful. Its enemies who say not so, are mere Bars. 69. There is success. Commentary: My memory tells me that the word “there” was not emphasized. Read, then, “there is” as the French il y a-, it is a simple and apparently detached statement. It was spoken casually, carelessly, as if a quite unimportant point had been forgotten, and now mentioned as a concession to my weakness. 70. I am the Hawk-Headed Lord of Silence & of Strength; my nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky. 71. Hail! ye twin war…
1906 · PDF PAGE 230
…chdevil, the chin. So also with the lesser relics; of which are notable only : to the Order, the heart of our Father: to the Book of the Law, his venerable lung- space to serve as a shrine thereunto: to the devil Aot, the liver, to be divided: to the angel Exarp and his followers, the great intestine: to Bitom the devil and his crew, the little intestine: to Aub, Aud, and Aur, the venerable Phallus of our Father: to Ash the little bone of the same: to our children K., C., B., C., G., T., N., H., I., and M., his illustrious finger-nails, and the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 71
…orld of pure reality. Spelling the Name in full, FF -f- IFD -f- ALP -f- OIN -f- FI -j~ 309 = Sh T = XX -f- XI = 31 the secret Key of the Law. F is the manifested Star. I is the secret Life. Serpent — Light . Lamp — Love . Wand — Liberty . Wings — Silence . Cloak These symbols are ail shewn in the Atu “The Hermit”. They are the powers of the Yod, whose extension is the Vau. Yod is the Hand wherewith man does his Will. It is also the Virgin ; his essence is inviolate. A is the Babe “who has formulated his Father, and made fertile his Mother” — Ha…
1961 · PDF PAGE 12
LIBER ALEPH CXI. THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY. An extended and elaborate commentary on the Book of the Law, in the form of a letter from the Master Therion to his magical son. This Book contains some of the deepest secrets of initiation, with a clear solution of many cosmic and ethical problems. Præmonstrance of A∴A∴, Equinox III (1) Liber Aleph, The Book of Wisdom or Folly was intended to express the heart of my doctrine in the most deep and delicate dimensions [it] is the most tense and intense book that I have ever composed. The thought is …
1996 · PDF PAGE 291
290 The Law is for All 20 ------------ . The Magical Record of the Beast 666, ed. John Symonds and Kenneth Grant. London: Duckworth, and Mon tréal: Next Step/93 Publishing, 1972. 21 ------------ . Magick in Theory and Practice (being Part III of Book 4). The Master Therion [pseud.] 4 vol. Paris: private printed, 1929-30. 1 vol. subscriber’s ed. issued as Magick in Theory and Practice (London, 1930). 22 ------------ . Orpheus. A Lyrical Legend, 2 vols. Foyers, uk: sprt, 1905. In (7). 23 ------------ . Liber LXXVII. [Liber] Oz. 1st ed., London a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 97
…chdevil, the chin. So also with the lesser relics; of which are notable only : to the Order, the heart of our Father: to the Book of the Law, his venerable lung- space to s erve as a s hrine thereunto: to the devil Aot, the liver, to be divided: to the angel Exarpt and his followers, the great intestine: to Bitom the devil and his crew, the little intestine: to Aub, Aud, and Aur, the venerable Phallus of our Father: to Ash the little bone of the same: to our children K ., C., B., C., G ., T., N ., H ., I., and M ., his illustrious finger-nails,…
1919 · PDF PAGE 48
… be God’s will, Thou art That. There is but one other word to explain. Elsewhere it is written—surely for our great comfort—‘Love is the law, love under will.” 42
1919 · PDF PAGE 247
CONCERNING THE LAW OF THELEMA its doctrine of the self-sufficiency of Art (“A fine style is an aureole of holiness” is one phrase of his), prophesies of the Messiah in a remarkable passage. It will be seen that our founder, born as he was to the purple, has fulfilled it. Ihave not the volume at my side, living as I am this her- mit life in New Hampshire, but its gist is that Kings and Popes have not power to redeem the world because they sur- round themselves with splendour and dignity. They possess all that other men desire, and therefore thei…
1919 · PDF PAGE 339
…he fetters, is more- over one which includes all the others. With regard to this Swan ‘Aum’ compare the following verses from the “Great Law,” Liber LXV. II. 17-25. Also the Holy One came upon me, and I beheld a white swan floating in the blue. Between its wings I sate, and the zons fled away. Then the swan flew and dived and soared, yet no whither we went. A little crazy boy that rode with me spake unto the swan, and said: Who art thou that dost float and fly and dive and soar in the inane? Behold, these many zons have passed; whence camest th…
1911 · PDF PAGE 113
…n at the Equinox, or at the Solstice, or on the day of Corpus Christi, or on one of the feast-days that are appointed in the Book of the Law. And he shall engrave with his own hand upon a plate of gold the Holy Sevenfold Table, or the Holy Twelvefold Table, or some particular device. And it shall be foursquare within a circle, and the circle shall be winged, and he shall attach it about his forehead by a ribbon of blue silk. Moreover, he shall wear a fillet of laurel or rose or ivy or rue, and every day, after the prayer of sunrise, he shall bu…
1954 · PDF PAGE 429
…not forget the old and well-worn saw: "Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring!-A little learning is a dangerous thing." Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 484
…s Neck of my friend, James Branch Cabell. So now, fair damozel , bestride thy palfrey , and away to the Mountains of Magick! Love is the law. love under will. Fraternally , 666 P. S. One danger I had purposely passed over, as it is not likely to come your way. But, since others may read these letters- Some, and these the men of highest promise, often of great achievement , are tempted by Treason. They acquire a "Judas-complex," think how splendid it would be if they were to destroy the Order-or, at the very least, unhorse the Master. This is, o…
1954 · PDF PAGE 376
…o these few but well-chosen words that I propose to look to enhance my popularity in the Women's Clubs of the United States. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally , 666 P.S. "Mother-Love" is, of course, a branch of family affection about which I have already written to you in no uncertain terms. Of all its sub-sections this is the worst because it is the strongest, the most natural, that is to say, the most brutish. You have complained pathetically on more than one occasion that I do not seem to know my own mind about Nature; that…
1909 · PDF PAGE 297
…es, many of whom thrust themselves boister- ously upon him without rhyme or reason. Ushered as it were into a Judgment Hall in which the law expounded to him is not only entirely unknown but is written in a language which he cannot even read, he is cross-questioned in a foreign tongue and judged in words which at present convey not a symptom of sense tohim. As the Rituals pro- ceed it might be expected that these difficulties would gradually lessen, but this is far from being the case; for, as we have seen, the complexities already involved by …
1909 · PDF PAGE 297
…es, many of whom thrust themselves boister- ously upon him without rhyme or reason. Ushered as it were into a Judgment Hall in which the law expounded to him is not only entirely unknown but is written in a language which he cannot even read, he is cross-questioned in a foreign tongue and judged in words which at present convey not a symptom of sense tohim. As the Rituals pro- ceed it might be expected that these difficulties would gradually lessen, but this is far from being the case; for, as we have seen, the complexities already involved by …
1913 · PDF PAGE 137
…to take up the work, his will refused assent, and that with finality. ‘ For,” said he, “ it is impossible. In my copy of the Book of the Law I find it written ‘This book shall be trans- lated into all tongues, but always with the original in the writing of the Beast, for in the chance shape of the letters and their positions to one another, in these are mysteries that no Beast shall divine, and this original has been lost. I have not seen it for five years.” With this he dismissed the matter from his mind. He would continue with scientific illu…
1913 · PDF PAGE 137
…to take up the work, his will refused assent, and that with finality. ‘ For,” said he, “ it is impossible. In my copy of the Book of the Law I find it written ‘This book shall be trans- lated into all tongues, but always with the original in the writing of the Beast, for in the chance shape of the letters and their positions to one another, in these are mysteries that no Beast shall divine, and this original has been lost. I have not seen it for five years.” With this he dismissed the matter from his mind. He would continue with scientific illu…