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Page 52 of 711996 · PDF PAGE 131
…its to individual Freedom. For each Man in this State which I pur pose is fulfilling his own True Will by his eager Acquiescence in the Order necessary to the Welfare of all, and therefore of himself also. But see thou well to it that thou set high the Standard of Satisfaction, and that to every one be a Surplus of Leisure and of Energy, so that, his Will of Self-preservation being fulfilled by the Performance of his Function in the State, he may devote the Remainder of his Powers to the Satisfaction of the other Parts of his Will. And because…
1907 · PDF PAGE 26
…urs, and calling himself John, reports you to have wept. Hts testimony is now considered by the best authorities to be of avery doubtful order. But if you did weep, this (vide infra) is why. Or if not, surely tt would have made you weep, had it met your eye. Excuse the rhyme! ~ You ask me (on ait) to believe you. I shall be willing to do so—merely as a gentleman— till you betray the trust ; but at present nobody worthy of sertous consideration can give me any clear notion of what you actually assert. I labour under no such disadvantages. So hav…
1996 · PDF PAGE 59
…ated. Lot in his drunkenness served the turn of his two daughters, no less than Jupiter, who prolonged the night to forty-eight hours in order to give himself time to beget Hercules. Man is in actual possession of this supreme talisman. It is his “pearl of great price,”1 in comparison with which all other jewels are but gew-gaws. It is his prime duty to preserve the integrity of this substance. He must not allow its quality to be impaired either by malnutrition or by disease. He must not destroy it like Origen and Klingsor. He must not waste it…
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
interprétation very difficult. Moreover, it seemed to Him that the geomantic intelligences themselves were of a low order, the scope of which was confined to a small section of the things which interested Him* also, they possessed a point of view of their own which was far from sympathetic with His, so that misunder- standing constantly interfered with the Work. The Tarot and The Holy Qabalah may be discussed to- gether. The theoretical basis of both is identical: The Tree of Life.1 The 78 symbols of the Tarot are admirably balanced and combine…
1996 · PDF PAGE 112
…each is determined diversely by its relations with various positive complementary electrons. The verse is introduced at this juncture in order to throw light on the passage which follows. It is important to understand Hadit as the “core of every star” when we come to consider the charac ter of those stars, his “friends” or sympathetic ideas grouped about him, who are “hermits”, individualities eternally isolated in reality though they may appear to be lost in their relations with external things. 24. Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there…
1929 · PDF PAGE 83
…ion that conscious individuality constitutes existence led it to consider its own apparently catastrophic character as pertaining to the order of nature. 1. Thelemites agréé that manifested existence implies Imperfection. But they understand why Perfection devises this disguise. The Theory is developed fully in Liber Aleph, and in Part IV of this Book 4. See also Cap V Paragraph on F final of Fiaof. 2. The Vaishnava theory, superficially opposed to this, turns out on analysis to be practically identical. 47
1954 · PDF PAGE 246
…inds, there would be, firstly, some sort of compensation elsewhere than in the musical section; and secondly, some Truth of a yet higher order which is common to both. Not una ware am I that these conceptions are at first exceedingly difficult to formulate clearly. I wouldn't go so far as to say that one would have to be a Master of the Temple to understand them; but it is really very necessary to have grasped firmly the doctrine that "a thing is only true insofar as it contains its contradiction in itself." (A good way to realize this is by ke…
1996 · PDF PAGE 76
…hilosophical concerning Fate and Freewill, that it is thine own Self, omni scient and omnipotent, sublime in Eternity, that first didst order the Course of thine own Orbit, so that that which befalleth thee by Fate is indeed the necessary Effect of thine own Will. These two, then, that like Gladiators have made War in Philosophy through these many Centuries, art made One by the Love under Will which is the Law of Thelema. O my Son, there is no Doubt that resolveth not in Certainty and Rapture at the Touch of the Wand of our Law, an thou apply …
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…y and paralyses muscle. This is an essential difficulty of the magical process, and can only be overcome by practice and expérience.2 In order to aid concentration, and to increase the supply of Energy, it has been customary for the Magician to employ assist¬ ants or colleagues. It is doubtful whether the obvious advantages of this plan compensate the difficulty of procuring suitable persons 3, and the chance of a conflict of will or a misunderstanding in the circle itself. On one occasion Frater Perdurabo was disobeyed by an assistant ; and ha…
1919 · PDF PAGE 152
…earned that many changes had transpired since he left England, and among them that Frater P.A. had severed his connection with the Outer Order, but was willing to continue in charge of him. Febry. 5th. He wondered if Frater P.A. had only told him this as a test. It must be remembered that all this while he had worked on alone, and had had no news to speak of, and this he attributed to his own failure to carry out his task in detail. In this he was no doubt right to a great extent, for unless any Pro- bationer does what he is instructed, he can …
1930 · PDF PAGE 14
…ts in the Sahara, or salamanders in the English Lake District. Hismael will not readily appear when Jupiter is below the horizon. 1 2 In order to counteract a natural deficiency of this sort, one would hâve to supply a sufficient quantity of the proper kind of material. One cannot make bricks without straw. With regard to invocations of the Gods, such considérations do not apply. The Gods are beyond most material conditions. It is necessarv to hll the heart and mïnd with the proper basis for manuestauon. The higher the nature of the God, the mo…
1930 · PDF PAGE 30
…ral manifestation as a man, and to keep silence during his human life as to the fact of his attainment, even to the other members of the Order. The Ipsissimus is pre-eminently the Master of ail modes of existence ; that is, his being is entirely free from internai or external necessity. His work is to destroy ail tendencies to construct or to cancel such necessities. He is the Master of the Law of Unsubstan- tiality (Anatta). The Ipsissimus has no relation as such with any Being : He has no will in any direction, and no Consciousness of any kin…
1996 · PDF PAGE 157
…all of Because”. 1 [Modern chronology dates the Stèle to the 25th Dynasty.] Now (An. xvn, © in I, C in ®) I was going through the Law in order to repair any details of omission in the rituals ordained, and found these verses introduced among the instructions. They fascinated me; when I had finished the work in hand, I returned to them and worked for some hours with a Lexicon, starting from the word APXH, “cause,” 709, to find some phrase equal to 718 which would deny Cause. I found AZA, 9, a word meaning “dryness,” but most espe cially the dir…
1922 · PDF PAGE 336
…in in the world to tide us over a single day in such a ghastly place, so we quit.” Here was another of Basil’s paradoxes in full working order. But they came quite differently from the lips of a steady-going serious-minded person of this kind. The personality of the Big Lion is his greatest asset in one way, but in another it handicaps him frightfully. His cynical manner, his habitual irony, the sensation he produces that he is making fun of one; all these make one inclined to dismiss everything that he says as ‘‘mere paradox” without investiga…
1996 · PDF PAGE 10
…nnotations to the text for the more obscure references, indicating crossreferences, and adding a list of works cited and two indexes. In order to sidestep interpretive issues, in the text of The Book of the Law itself only proper names have been indexed. Stray cross- references to material omitted by Wilkinson have been removed; a few parenthetical references to published works were dropped to footnotes; a few numbered sections were reformatted; and pas sages introducing quotations from Liber Aleph required editing. A complete edition of all o…
1910 · PDF PAGE 353
…ation of various contra- dictory feelings which seem to fight one another for the conquest of his spirit. The scientific training of our order will give him that Mastery over self which alone can bring forth the full blossom of his rich imagination. There is every reason for us to expect much of Mr. Raffalovich. Is he not a Gemini man, with Jupiter and Saturn culminating? Somewhat Neronian, probably, as will be seen in his work. We recommend especially the reading of the two sketches entitled “ Demeter ” and “A Spring Meeting,” and we look forw…
1910 · PDF PAGE 353
…ation of various contra- dictory feelings which seem to fight one another for the conquest of his spirit. The scientific training of our order will give him that Mastery over self which alone can bring forth the full blossom of his rich imagination. There is every reason for us to expect much of Mr. Raffalovich. Is he not a Gemini man, with Jupiter and Saturn culminating? Somewhat Neronian, probably, as will be seen in his work. We recommend especially the reading of the two sketches entitled “ Demeter ” and “A Spring Meeting,” and we look forw…
1905 · PDF PAGE 88
…s; stragglers few Call to the rocks and woods, whose dens refuse Shelter and refuge to the fugitives, But, in revolt against the natural order, Gape like the ravening jaws of any beast To let the furious invaders down Into the bowels of the earth, and close Upon those grisly men of war, whose life Groans from the prison that shall crush it out. CHORUS. Be thou most blessed of the Lord for ever ! First ELDER. But what shall he that hath delivered us Have for his guerdon when he comes in triumph ? SECOND ED.DER. A milk-white ass shall bear him th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 35
practice to exhaustion, as described in the instructions, but this is the proper thing to do whenever definitely practising, in order to acquire the power of Rising. But, having obtained this power, it is, of course, legitimate to rise to any particular plane that may be necessary for the purpose of exploration, as in the case of the visions recorded in Liber 418, where the method may be described as mixed. In such a case, it is not enough to invoke the place you wish to visit, because you may not be able to endure its pressure, or to breathe i…
1930 · PDF PAGE 34
…very different to those obtained from a Saturnian starting point. The student should undertake a regular) sériés of such experiments, in order to familiarise himself not only with the nature of the different spheres, but with the inner meaning of each. Of course, it is not necessary in every case to push the 154