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Page 54 of 731954 · PDF PAGE 290
…its name , and it shall be to you as 718." (AL, III: 19) (The Stele is that whose discovery culminated in the writing of The Book of the Law.) Here the first part is still quite unintelligible to me; 1 have tried analysis of the original phrase in "Scripture," and nearly everything else: entirely in vain. One can see dimly how people, recognizing that Stele as the Talisman responsible for reducing half the cities of Europe to rubble, might very well make reference to those original prophecies. But , at the best, that's nothing to cable to Otahe…
1996 · PDF PAGE 75
76 The Law is for All The second paragraph is perhaps in answer to some unspoken thought of my own that my work was accomplished. No: though I be “of the princes” with the right to enter into my reward, it is my destiny to continue my Work.1 1 “assuage thee”: satisfy thine aspiration to attainment, “absolve thee”: relieve thee from further duty. 54. Change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold! thou, o prophet, shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden therein. Commentary: The subject changes most abruptly, perhaps answering some u…
1907 · PDF PAGE 98
… earth , “ mere shells , husks of the golden wheat that might grow even here ,”' if it were not for our prudery , our religion , and our laws . Percy -- the Percy of “ The Poem ,” and not of “ Why Jesus Wept ,” is optimistic enough concerning that vast army of unsexed women who are degraded by want of food and surfeit of marriage ; for it is to these two that their existence as such is chiefly due . If wives were a success , man would not want to go neighing after other women ; if food were not so ex pensive , women would not sell their bodies …
1911 · PDF PAGE 60
… this is the fire of which it is written: “ Hear thou the voice of fire!” And the voice of fire is the second chapter of the Book of the Law, that is revealed unto him that is a score and half a score and three that are scores, and six, by Aiwass, that is his guardian, the mighty Angel that extendeth from the first unto the last, and maketh known the mysteries that are beyond. And the method and the form of invocation whereby aman shall attain to the knowledge and conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel shall be given unto thee in the proper pl…
1919 · PDF PAGE 121
…cycle of Neptune in the Zodiac is no essential of your Self, that the Life of which you are become partaker, while itself subject to the Law of action and reaction, ebb and flow, systole and diastole, is yet insensible to the afflictions of that life which you formerly held to be your sole bond with Existence. And here must you resolve your Self to make the mighti- 115
1922 · PDF PAGE 31
… low, clear voice, very clear and vibrant, as though tense with some inscrutable passion :— “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” There was an uneasy movement in the group. In particular, the German woman seemed distressed by the man’s mere presence. I looked up. Yes, I could understand well enough the change in the weather. Owen was saying— “That’s all right, that’s all right, that’s exactly what I do. You come and see my new group. I'll do another sketch of you—-same day, same time. That’s all right.” Somebody introduced the new-…
1954 · PDF PAGE 70
…partial and eternal as gravitation, as patient and irresistible as the tides. His system will not be subject to panic, any more than th" law of Inverse Squares is disturbed by Elections. He will not be anxious about his affairs because they will not be his; and for that reason he will be able to direct them with the calm, clear-headed confidence of an onlooker, with intelligence unclouded by self-interest and power unimpaired by passion.) 28. Every man has a right to fulfill his own will without being afraid that it may interfere with that of o…
1954 · PDF PAGE 82
…istic system. And then-what a weapon you will have forged! What power to analyze, to order, to manipulate your thinking! The Book of the Law itself insists upon the fact that it contains a Qabalah which was beyond me at the time of its dictation , is beyond me now, and always will be beyond me in this incarnation . Let me direct your spiritual attention at AL, I: 54; I: 56; II: 54-55; II: 76; III: 47. Now there was enough comprehensible at the time to assure me that the Author of the Book knew at least as much Qabalah as I did. I discovered sub…
1996 · PDF PAGE 99
100 The Law is for All the fulfilment of the Magical Formula of Hadit and Nuit. And to know Nuit is the very definition of “joy.” The next verse confirms this: “thou” (the Beast) “wast the knower” (Hadit) “and” (united with) “me” (Nuit, as in Cap. I, verse 51 and others). Finally, Nuit is indicated by two different symbols, “not” (Grk. OY) and “me” (Grk. MH). Now OY MH was my Motto in the Grade of Adeptus Exemptus; Aiwaz thus subtly reminds me that I was pledged to deny the assertions of my intellectual and moral consciousness. He combines in t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 151
152 The Law is for All self-restoring Serpent, and the self-immolating Scorpion. In alchemy it is the principle of Putrefaction, the “Black Dragon,” whose state of apparent corruption is but a prelude to the Rainbow-coloured Spring-tide of the Man in Motley. The nymph of Spring, Syrinx, the trembling hollow reed which needs but Breath to fill the world with Music, attracts Pan, the Goat-God of Ecstatic Lust, by whose Work the glory of Summer is established anew. It is obvious that “The length of thy longing” varies with the number of potentiali…
1996 · PDF PAGE 171
172 The Law is for All again, having flowered, and still bearing in him that Seed of Going. (The birth of a girl is a misfortune everywhere, because the true Going-Principle is the Lion-Serpent, or Dragon; the Egg is only the Cavern where he takes refuge on occasion.) Liber 418 explains this succinctly; 3rd /Ethyr: Moreover, there is Mary, a blasphemy against babalon, for she hath shut herself up; and therefore is she the Queen of all those wicked devils that walk upon the earth, those that thou sawest even as little black specks that stained t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 226
…est of all sceptics - David Hume . " 3 1 Berkeley , throughout “ The Principles ," as well as the “ Dialogues ;” overlooks the Newtonian law of gravity alto gether , though he supposes that he himself is not the only thinking entity in the world , his arguments lead one to infer that he is. As an Idealist he proves that nothing can exist except in mind ; then finding he has overlooked the question of God , as an Animist adds : that all things , he himself included , cannot exist except in the mind of some Divine Being , failing ( perhaps purpos…
1929 · PDF PAGE 374
…able is furnished with a mechanical device by which the croupier could control the fall of the ball. {601} From this time I accepted the Law in its entirety; that is, I admitted its absolute authority. I was not, however, at the end of my difficulties. Much of the book was unintelligible, and many passages, especially in Chapter III, entirely repugnant. I was content to leave these points to be cleared up by the gods themselves in their own good time. They had proved that I could trust them to manage what was after all their own affair and not …
1929 · PDF PAGE 196
…l-modulated voice, the exorcism that magical guardians have sung for so many ages, with its refrain: "On them will I impose my will, the Law of Light." Iliel gave her little cough, and found herself immediately upon the path she knew so well. It only took her a few minutes to reach the rock, and there was
1954 · PDF PAGE 344
…at to vanity, or some instinct equally false, and to be weeded out.) Suppose that by what is hardly fraud, but "undue influence" (as the lawyers say) I could persuade a dying person to leave me a couple of hundred thousand in his will. I shall use every penny of it for the Great Work; it sounds easy! "Of course! Damn your integrity! Damn you! The Work is all that matters." All the same, I say NO. I should never be the same man again. I should have lost that confidence in myself which is the spine of my work. No need that the fraud should be dis…
1954 · PDF PAGE 489
…s (some absurd, like "social position") tend to create fresh unnecessary necessities . Ad infinitum, like the fleas in the epigram! When laws are reasonable in the eyes of the average man, he respects them, keeps them, does his best to maintain them ; therefore a minute Police Force , with powers strictly limited, is adequate to deal with the almost negligibly small criminal class. A convention is laudable when it is convenient. When laws are unjust, monstrous, ridiculous, that same average man, will he-nill he, becomes a criminal; and the law …
1954 · PDF PAGE 546
INDEX -of the Law, 2, 15, 49, 89, 93, 133, 142, 144, 173, 175, 219, 223, 226, 253, 257, 260, 271, 278, 292, 293, 315, 341, 345, 353, 406, 438, difficulties of, 302, 304, 305 -of Lies, 20, 142, 167,209, 252,384,388,405,406,416 -of Heart Girt with Serpent, (LXV), 459, with quotations Boulak Museum, 258 Brahma, 275 Brahmacharya, 335 Brahman, 55, 57, 275 Brahmin (caste), 335, 336, 420 Bralduh, 172 Brocken, 405 Browning, Robert, 77,156,181, 215,285,351,415 Brunton, 102 Buchari-siddhi, 187 Buchenwald,458 Buckmaster, Professor, 470,485 Buddha, 73,73,7…
1996 · PDF PAGE 23
24 The Law is for All with Anu and Adad the supreme Mother and Father deities of the Sumerians. Taken in connection with the Aiwaz identifica tion, this is very striking indeed. It is also to be considered that Nu is connected with North, while Had is Sad, Set, Satan, sat (equals “Being” in Sanskrit), South. He is then the Sun, one point concentring Space, as also is any other star. The word Abrahadabra is from Abrasax, Father Sun, which adds to 365. For the North-South antithesis see Fabre-d’Olivet’s Hermeneutic Interpretation of the Origin o…
1922 · PDF PAGE 57
… see anything, stop it; everything that is, is wrong; the world is a very wicked place. He was very enthusiastic about putting through a law for suppressing the evil of drugs. We smiled our sympathefic assent, with sly glances at our hostess. If the old fool had only known that we were full of cocaine, as we sat and applauded his pompous platitudes ! We laughed our hearts out over the silly incident as we sat in the train. It doesn’t appear particularly comic in perspective; but it’s very hard to tell, at any time, what is going to tickle one’s…
1954 · PDF PAGE 461
… deeper is the root-fear-fear of being alone, of being oneself, of life itself. With this there goes the sense of guilt. The Book of the Law cuts directly at the root of all this calamitous, this infamous tissue of falsehood. What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realization of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty , Purity, Perfection! What is the artistic sense in you? What but the One Channel always open to you through which this Light flows freely to enkindle you (and the world through you)…