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Page 55 of 671954 · PDF PAGE 73
40 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Bu t this is only part of the story. As things are, we have all adventured into an Universe of immeasurable, of incalculable, possibilities, of situations never contemplated by the trend of Evolution. Man is a marine monster; when he decided that it would be better for him somehow to live on land, he had to grow lungs instead of gills. When we want to travel over soft snow, we have to invent the ski; when we wish to exchange thoughts, we must arrange a conventional code of sounds, of knots in string, of carved or written…
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
him. To neglect these rules, to break these laws in the smallest particular is to incur failure, and may even expose the unskilfu! practitioner himself to the utmost péril. If he daims a sovereignty over nature, it is a constitutional sovereignty rigorously limited in its scope and exercised in exact conformity with ancient usage. Thus the analogy between the magical and the scientific conceptions of the worid is close. In both of them the succession of events is perfectly regular and certain, being determined by immutable laws, the operation o…
1930 · PDF PAGE 50
…ous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus, that men speak not of Thee as One but as None; and let them speak not of thee at ail, since thou art continuous. Euring this speech the PRIESTESS must hâve divesied her self completely of her robey See CCXX.1.61. The PRIESTESS. But to love me is better than ail things: if under the night-stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt corne a little to lie in my bosom. For one
1906 · PDF PAGE 98
…re thou with tenfold stroke— HERACLES. I have split the wood ! THESEUS. Vexation sits tremendous on his brow. Beware a hero’s fury! Thou art mad, Argus, to play so dangerous a trick. ARGUS. True, Theseus—if he had but hit his thumb ! CASTOR. Cease this fool’s talk. The moon waits not the work. POLLUX. The sun will sink no later for your pleasure. On to thy work, man. THESEUS, He that traps a lion And baits him for an hour, and‘lets him go, Does well to think before he tempt again The forest paths. HERACLES. The wise man wisely thinks That nothi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 64
…e increased human knowledge by a fundamentally important idea. The literature of Alchemy is immense. Practicaliy ail of it is wholly or partially unintelligible. Its treatises, from the aAsch Metzareph” of the Hebrews to the “Chariot of Antimony” are deliberately couched in hieratic riddles. Ecclesiastical persécution, and the profanation of the secrets of power, were equally dreaded. Worse still, from our point of view, this motive induced writers to insert intentionally misleading statements, the more deeply to bedevil unworthy pretenders to …
1996 · PDF PAGE 131
…reat length, but I prefer to leave it to be worked out by each reader in the light of his own intelligence. But I wish to call the very particular atten tion of capitalists and labour leaders to the principles here set forth. I conclude by quoting a chapter from Liber Aleph which bears on the subject. Ag—DE FUNDAMENTIS CIVITATIS [39—On the Foundations of the State] Say not, o my Son, that in this Argument I have set Limits to individual Freedom. For each Man in this State which I pur pose is fulfilling his own True Will by his eager Acquiesce…
1922 · PDF PAGE 106
…I saw all those pearls on her neck. And that cabochon emerald! By George, it did go with her hair! These shop men in Paris are certainly artists. The man saw in a moment what was wrong. There was nothing to match the blue of her dress, so he showed us a sapphire and diamond bracelet and a big marquise ring that went with it in a platinum setting. That cer- tainly made all the difference! And yet he seemed to be very uneasy. He was puzzled; that’s what it was. _ Then his face lightened up. He had got the idea all right. You can always trust thes…
1907 · PDF PAGE 158
…fate. ‘Kons they swallow, And swamp in the gloom, Where Eternities follow Their biers to their tomb. ORPHEUS. O Mother, O hollow Sweet heart of the moon ! O matchless Apollo That granted the tune ! Time’s children follow The strings that commune With Nature well cloven that comes to the lyre’s lilt silver-hewn. O bays of the wind, And shoreland of Thrace! O beaten and blind In the light of my face ! Heaven thunders behind, Hell shakes for a space, As I fling the loud sound to the sky, and the vaults of the Earth give place. O mystical tune Of a…
1996 · PDF PAGE 43
…ese we can put only Emily Bronte, whose sex-suppression was due to her environ ment, and so burst out in the incredible violence of her art, and the regular religious mystics, Saint Catherine, Saint Teresa, and so on, the facts of whose sex-life have been carefully camouflaged in the interests of the slave-gods. But, even on that showing, the sex life was intense, for the writings of such women are overloaded with sexual expression passionate and perverted, even to morbid ity and to actual hallucination.6 Sex is the main expression of the Na…
1938 · PDF PAGE 7
…amid is crowned by a stern silent figure, cut in sharp silhouette against the Orb of the Sun. I cried aloud: Hail unto Thee, O Star that art the Sun, Star that mountest the Height of the Heavens! But my heart answered me, mysteriously, yet so that it availed me to understand it; He riseth not nor sets! He goeth shining on His
1996 · PDF PAGE 200
…ous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of Thee as One but as None; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous! 28. None, breathed the light, faint & faery, of the stars, and two. 29. For I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union. 30. This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. 31. For these fools of men and their woes care not thou at all! They feel little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones. 32. Obey m…
1996 · PDF PAGE 76
… 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 it with Wit. Do thou grow constantly in the Assimilation of the Law, and thou shalt be made perfect. Behold, there is a
1996 · PDF PAGE 201
200 The Law is for All 41. The word of Sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell. 42. Let it be that state of manyhood bound and loathing. So with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will. 43. Do that, and no other shall say nay. 44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. 45. The Perfect and the Perfect are one Perfec…
1906 · PDF PAGE 7
ORACLES THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ART* 1GO5 THE DEATH OF THE DRUNKARD.} I. TERROR, and darkness, and hor:id despair ! Agony painted upon the once fair Brow of the man who refused to give up The love of the wine-filled, the o’erflowing cup. ‘Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.” No wine in death is his torment assuaging. Il. Just what the parson had told me when young: Just what the people in chapel have sung: ‘Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging.” Desunt cetera. A PEEP BEHIND THE SCENES. In the hospital bed she lay, Rotting away ! Cursi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 152
…h and to issue its commands; they are instantly obeyed, unless — as in the case of organic disease — the apparatus is damaged beyond the art of Nature to repair. It may be necessary in such a case to assist the internai “spirits” by the “purification” of medicines, the “banishing” of diet, or some other extraneous means. But at least there is no need of any spécial device ad hoc to effect contact between the Circle and the Triangle. Operations of this class are therefore often successful, even when the Magician has little or no technical knowle…
1954 · PDF PAGE 516
…Last Sunday I looked through an interview with the least brain-bound of these ruminators-poor old, dear old G for gaga Bernard Shaw. The artist, said he, was a special case. He should have a nice easy job, three or four hours a day, and be free for the rest of it to devote himself to his Art. I wonder how much of his own work would have seen daylight if he had been tied to some silly robot soul-killing, nerve-crushing, mind-infuriating routine job for even one half-hour a day! When I am on a piece of work, I grudge the time for eating; and when…
1996 · PDF PAGE 39
40 The Law is for All 1:57 Magick ceremonies proper are merely organized and con centrated attempts to impose our Will on certain parts of the Cosmos. They are only particular cases of the general law. But all we say and do, however casually, adds up to more, far more, than our most strenuous Operations. “Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.” Your daily drippings fill a bigger bucket than your geysers of magical effort. The “ninety and nine that safely lay in the shelter of the fold”1 have no organized will at a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 220
…urelled one! Own offspring of the Sun, The ancient harmony was hardly yet | begun. By thee and bythy life Aroze the Lesbian maiden. Thou art perished as thy wife ; My shores with magic loves and songs of life are laden. CALLIOPE. Weep, weep no more! O loyal Lesbian shore, I hear a murmur sound more sweet than murmur ever bore. Not ocean’s siren spell Soft-sounded in a spiral shell Were quite so exquisite, were all so admir- able ! LESBIAN SHORE. Nay! but the agony of the time Rings in the royal rime! She hath touched the intimate, and chanced o…
1930 · PDF PAGE 51
…y which define the physical and political geography of divination. The student must guard himself constantly against supposing that this art affords any absolute means of discovering “truth”, or indeed, of using that Word as if it meant more than the i. As the poet puts it; “Psyché, beware how thou disclose Thy tricks of toilet to Eros, Or let him learn that those love-breathing Lyrical lins that whisper, wreathing His brows with sense-bewitching gold, Are equally expert to scold; 1 hat those caressing hands will maybe Yet box his ears and slap…
1929 · PDF PAGE 105
…both internai and external very useful. “The Wizard Way” (Equinox 1,1) gives a good idea of the sort of thing. So does the Evocation of Bartzabel in Equinox I, IX. There are many extant invocations throughout his works, in many kinds of métré, of many kinds of being, and for many kinds of purposes. (See Appendix). Other methods of incantation are on record as efficacious. For instance Frater I. A., when a child, was told that he could invoke the devil by repeating the “Lord’s Prayer” backwards. He went into the garden and did so. The Devil appe…