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Page 54 of 711996 · PDF PAGE 105
106 The Law is for All than any other Truth. The Equation Five plus Six is Eleven is of the same order of perfection as Ten Million times Ten times Ten Thousand Million is One Billion.1 In the Universe formulated by the Absolute, every point is equally the Centre; every point is equally the focus of the forces of the whole. (In any system of three points, any two may be considered solely with reference to the third, so that even in a finite universe the sum of the properties of all points is the same, though no two properties may be com mon to…
1919 · PDF PAGE 144
…y a dark and dismal period. He himself could not gauge its value at all at the time. He was alone in Vancouver and out of touch with the Order, having received no further word from his Neophyte since he left England. In fact he heard nothing till January of the fol- lowing year. He however sent a post-card to say that he had obtained some result. About this same time I find an entry called “The Philos- ophy of V.I.0.” which seems of interest on account of some similarities to the Law of Thelema, of which he had heard nothing at that time. It re…
1930 · PDF PAGE 106
… long period, from a second to an hour or more. Let him further investigate any mental results w’hich may occur. 6. Third Practice. — In order both to économisé his time and to develop his powers, let the Zelator practise the deep full breathing which his preliminary exercises will hâve taught him during his walks. Let him repeat a sacred sentence (mantra) or let him count, in such a way that his footfall beats accurately with the rhythm thereof, as is done in dancing. Then let him practise Pranayama, at first without the Kumbhakam, and paying …
1954 · PDF PAGE 245
…al part of this Khu-this 'Magical Identity' of a man. Now how curious it must appear at the first glance to note that the truths of this order should prove to be what we call Axioms-or even Platitudes . "The more certain I am of anything, the more certain it is that I am only asserting a limitation of my own mind." Very good, but what am I to do about it? Some at least of such certainties must surely be "of aU Truth." The test of admission to this class ought to be that, if one were to accept the contradictory of the proposition, the entire str…
1929 · PDF PAGE 27
… beat for fear of disturbing the liver, the liver is starved for blood, and avenges itself on the heart by upsetting digestion, which disorders respiration, on which cardiac welfare dépends.) (27) Every man should make Magick the keynote of liis life. He should learn its laws and live by them. (Illustration: The Banker should discover the real meaning of his existence, the real motive which led him to choose that profes¬ sion. He should understand banking as a necessary factor in the économie existence of mankind, instead of as merelv a busines…
1929 · PDF PAGE 81
…mand, passed a unanimous resolution calling for the immédiate repeal of that iniquitous measure! Every person, whatever his grade in the Order, has also a “natural” grade appropriate to his intrinsic virtue. He may expect to be “cast out” into that grade when he becomes 8° = 30. Thus one man, throughout his career, may be essentially of the type of Netzach; another, of Hod. In the same way Rembrandt and Raphaël retained their respective points of view in ail stages of their art. The practical considération is that some aspirants may find it unu…
1930 · PDF PAGE 52
…rths, monstrosities, and abomons. We none of us dismiss our servant science with a kick and a curse every time the téléphoné gets out of order. The téléphoné people make no claim that it always Works and always Works right.1 Divination, with equal modesty, admits that «it often goes wrong; but it Works well enough, ail thmgs considered. The science is in its infancy. Ail we can do is our best. We no more prétend to infallibility than the mining expert who considers himself in luck if he hits the bulPs eye four times in ten.” The error of ail do…
1906 · PDF PAGE 142
136 THE GOD-EATER Whose sweet reversion hangs above me now : To order luck ! Criospa. Skill orders luck ! MAURYA. ._ The draught ! CRIOsSDA. Elither, O Maurya! MAURYA. IT will come to thee. [Criospa, taking hashish, throws it upon the glowing censer. MAURYA comes down stage and bends over tt, CRIOSDA “ifts tt up and offers it reverently, Maurya. Methinks anticipation o’ the event Shoots in my veins, darting delight. Why, this is strange ! I am losing myself. Criosda ! The walls of the world fall back with a crash. Where isall this? Iam out of m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 120
…sword of Need, upon the lance of Wotan. By the action Wagner, who was instructed how to apply magical formulæ by one of the heads of our Order, intended his hearers to understand that the reign of authority and paternal power had corne to an end 5 that the new master of the world was intellect. The general object of a knock or a knell is to mark a stage in the ceremony. Sasaki Shigetz tells us in his essay on Shinto that the Japanese are accustomed to clap their hands four times “to drive away evil spirits”. He explains that what really happens…
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…ly possessed of the powers thereto appurtenant. This cock, “Peter Paul,” was consequently a baptized Christian for ail magical purposes. Order was then taken to imprison the bird; which done, the Magicians assuming respectively the characters of Herod, Herodias, Salome, and the Execu- •tioner, acted out the scene of the dance and the beheading, on the lines of Oscar Wilde’s drama, “Peter Paul” being cast for the part of John the Baptist. This ceremony was devised and done on the spur of the moment, and its spontaneity and simplicity were presum…
1954 · PDF PAGE 364
HOW TO RECOGNIZE MASTERS 331 matters, and she has never done any work in her life, even of the needlework order. I had seen her once before since my escape from America, and she said she had something to show me, but I took no particular notice, and she did not insist. My object in calling on this second occasion was multiple: I wanted to see the man with whom she is living, who has not yet returned from Russia; I wanted to make love to her; and I wanted to smoke a few pipes of opium with her, she being a devotee of that great and terrible God.…
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
the correct order of events, as they are arranged in Nature ; and in no case is it safe for a man to neglect to master any single detail, however dreary and distasteful it may seem. It often does so, indeedj that only insists on the necessity of dealing with it. The dislike and contempt for it bear witness to a weakness and incom- pleteness in the nature which disowns it ; that particular gap in one’s defences may admit the enemy at the very turning-point of some battle. Worse, one were shamed for ever if one?s inferior should happen to ask for…
1996 · PDF PAGE 15
…ose principles come to be generally adopted, I believe that mankind will issue triumphantly from the evils of its past. A veritable “New Order” will be set up, bringing with it a general realization of what the “Good Life” means, and operating with a veritably “revolutionizing” effect beyond the most sanguine dreams of any one of those very heterogeneous groups of modern revolutionaries and reformers. This may not happen soon; the sceptic will say that, if it ever happens, it will be in the far future. 1 [Wilkinson refers to Liber AL vel Legis …
1929 · PDF PAGE 73
…of itself; and that it cannot be injured by aught that may befall it. In the Aeon of Osiris it was indeed' realised that Man must die in order to live. But now in the Aeon of Horus we know that every event is a death; subject and object slay each other in “love under will”; each such death is itself life, the means by which one réalisés oneself in a sériés of épisodes. The second main point is the completion of the A babe Bacchus by the O Pan (Parzival wins the Lance, etc.). 37
1906 · PDF PAGE 213
…be, are in reality all of the same kind. If we are to have one salient fact, a fact for a real advance, it must be a fact of a different order. Have we such a fact to hand? We have. First, what do we mean by a fact of a differ- ent order? Let me take an example; the most impossible being the best for our purpose. The Spiritualists, let us suppose, go mad and begin to talk sense. (I can only imagine that such would be the result.) All their ‘‘ facts” are proved. We prove a world of spirits, the existence of God, the immortality of the soul, etc.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 55
… a statesman named Richelieu, an individual being living in a definite place. Eté had possibly certain powers of a somewhat metaphysical order—he might be — 19 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 56
…on would not occur to the student of the Qabalah. It is just possible that the magi wrote their conjurations on this crude hypothesis in order to avoid the clouding of the mind by doubt and metaphysical spéculation. He who became the Master Therion was once confronted by this very difficulty. Being determined to instruct mankind, He sought a simple statement of his object. His will was sufficiently informed by common sense to décidé him to teach man T he Nexi Step, the thing which was immediately above him. He might hâve called this “God”, or “…
1954 · PDF PAGE 127
…n such matters at all? Or is He a being whose existence is altogether beyond this plane, only adopting human appearance and faculties in order to make Himself sensible and intelligible to that woman? I have never attempted to pursue any such enquiry. It was not forbidden; and yet I felt that it was! I always insisted, of course, on the strictest proof that He actually possessed the authority claimed by Him! But I felt it improper to assume any other initiative. Just a point of good manners, perhaps? Elsewhere I will explain why they picked out …
1929 · PDF PAGE 155
…inuum, so that his mind and body are consubstantial with the storm, are equally expressions of One Existence, ail alike of the self-same order of artifices whereby the Absolute appréciâtes itslf. He must also hâve assimilated the fact that Quantity is just as much a form as Qualityj that as ail things are modes of One Substance, so their measures are modes of their relation. Not only are gold and lead mere letters, meaningless in themselves yet appointed to spell the One Namej but the différence between the bulk of a mountain and that of a mous…
1930 · PDF PAGE 17
…prevent her. Readers of the Bible will remember that Absalom publicly adopted David’s wives and concubines on the roof of the palace, in order to signify that he had succeeded in breaking his father’s magical power. Now, there are a great many talismans in this world which are being left lying about in a most reprehensibly careless manner. Such are the objects of popular adoration, as ikons and idols. But, it is actually true that a great deal of real magical Force is locked up in such things; consequently, by destroying these sacred symbols, y…