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Page 58 of 731929 · PDF PAGE 559
… for us, though even after racking her brains for slanders she could only think of one thing which might bring us into conflict with the law. It was an act of unspeakable vileness. Success could only mean that her sister would be utterly ruined, torn from her home and her children, and either put in prison or thrown upon the world penniless in a foreign country without resources of any kind. Having shot the poisoned arrow, she pursued the Parthian policy of putting as many thousand miles as possible between herself and her victims. Before we fo…
1922 · PDF PAGE 223
…art. | “Why; her True. Will, of course!’’ came back the flaming answer. ‘‘ She knows that she came to this planet to bear witness to the Law of Thelema in her own person, and to help her Titan in his task!” Maisie was really stupefying. Every one knows that she was in love with Basil from the first, and is, and
1922 · PDF PAGE 338
… press the proper button, and if it goes it’s an automobile, and you’ve made no mistake. Didn’t you read what it says in the Book of the Law: “Success is your proof?’’ And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won’t find you have any time to get bored.’ ” She threw away her cigarette after lighting another from the butt. She seemed to be brooding, as if much deeper thoughts were passing through her mind than even those to which she was giving such airy expres- sion. : We watched her intently…
1954 · PDF PAGE 333
…d as the schoolmen of old believed, making all things for man's benefit or convenience, but the essential mechanical concord whose final law is inertia. And in these meditations let him avoid as if it were the plague any speculations sentimental or fantastic . Second Method-The Practice Proper. Having then perfected in his mind these conceptions, let him apply them to his own career, forging the links of memory into the chain of necessity. And let this be his final question: To what purpose am I fitted? Of what service can my being prove to the…
1996 · PDF PAGE 166
Chapter III A Verses 37—45 167 dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to abide in this bliss or no; it is no odds. Do this quickly! Commentary: “at them” may mean “at their house,” that is, one must “give” when one recognizes anyone as a potential king by accepting his hospitality. An alternative meaning is “in their honour.” 40. But the work of the comment? That is easy; and Hadit burning in thy heart shall make swift and secure thy pen. 41. Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-house: all must be done well and with b…
1922 · PDF PAGE 212
…ouble. On the other hand, he was frightened of me because of what I knew about Billy. He promised to do what he could; but under the new law, he couldn’t do more than prescribe ten doses of an eighth of a grain apiece. Four or five sniffs, the whole thing! And he wouldn't dare to repeat it in less than a week. However, it was better than nothing. He told me where to get it made up. I found a cloak-room where I could put the packets into one, and started. The relief was immense. I went on, dose after dose. Cockie could get his own. I should tell…
1954 · PDF PAGE 379
…ou prevent it from doing its True Will. So every "restriction" (that word again!) on the exchange of wealth is a direct violation of the Law of Thelema. Parable No. Three, "The Fairy Bank Note." One evening a man walked into an inn and asked for hospitality. In the morning, when his bill came, he found he had nothing but a £ I 00 note. "I'm afraid I've no change till the Banks open." "Oh, stick to it-I'll be back next week-I've enough petrol to take me home." "Handy," thought Boniface, "that will just square my brewer." That reminded the brewer…
1996 · PDF PAGE 49
50 The Law is for All also Love is a sacrament of transubstantiation whereby we initiate our own souls; it is the Wine of Intoxication as well as the Bread of Nourishment. “Nor is he for priest designed Who partakes only in one kind.”1 1 [Crowley, “The Sevenfold Sacrament,” The Equinox III(l) (1919), p. 193.] 2 [Phyrne was a 4th century b.c.e. Greek courtesan who was the model for several famous images of Aphrodite.] We therefore heartily cherish those forms of Love in which no question of generation arises; we use the stimulating effects of ph…
1944 · PDF PAGE 212
… Atu; also 22=2x11, the Magical manifestation of Chokmah, Wisdom, the Logos. Upon the blade, accordingly, is in‐ scribed the Word of the Law, Θελημα. This Word sends forth a blaze of Light, dispersing the dark clouds of the Mind.
1954 · PDF PAGE 327
… it simply, to sum up-you will find yourself way up on the road to that royal republic which is the ideal of human society . Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666 P.S. Let me insist that "pity" is nearly always an impostor. It is the psychic consolation for fear, the "pitiful man" really is a pitiful man! He has transferred his own fear of what may happen to himself to another; for he is such a coward that he dare not face his fear, even in imagination! P.P.S. The day after I had written the above postscript I came upon a cop…
1996 · PDF PAGE 36
…dy; by my sacred heart and tongue; by all I can give, by all I desire of ye all. Commentary: It is proper to obey The Beast, because His Law is pure Freedom, and He will give no command which is other than a Right Interpretation of this Freedom. But it is neces sary for the development of Freedom itself to have an organiza tion; and every organization must have a highly-centralized control. This is especially necessary in time of war, as even the so- called “democratic” nations have been taught by Experience, since they would not learn from G…
1996 · PDF PAGE 167
168 The Law is for All 46. I am the warrior Lord of the Forties: the Eighties cower before me, & are abased. I will bring you to victory & joy: I will be at your arms in battle & ye shall delight to slay. Success is your proof; courage is your armour; go on, go on, in my strength; & ye shall turn not back for any! 47. This book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the original in the writing of the Beast; for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another: in these are mysteries that no Beast shall divine.…
1996 · PDF PAGE 293
292 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 The Law is for All James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience. London, 1902; rpt. Cambridge, ma: Harvard up, 1985; rev. ed. New York: Random House, 1993. Considered by Crowley to be “valuable as showing the uniformity of mystical attainment.” Jung, Carl Gustav. Psychology of the Unconscious, tr. Beatrice M. Hinkle New York: Moffat, Yard, and London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1916. Revised and reissued as Symbols of Transformation (2nd ed. Princeton, nj: Princeton up, 1970). Lao-tzu. [T<zo Te…
1906 · PDF PAGE 267
… The rest lies with Research. Aum ! I take my refuge holy in the Light and Peace of Buddh. Aum! I take my refuge, slowly working out His Law of Good. Aum ! I take my refuge Jowly in His Pitying Brotherhood.
1922 · PDF PAGE 354
…ought to be perfectly obvious. I’m afraid you haven’t grasped the meaning of “ Do what thou wilt.” Do you see how the application of the Law has helped you so far?” ‘Well, of course,” I said, “it’s pretty clear I didn’t come to this planet to drug myself into my grave before my powers have had a chance to ripen. I’ve thought it necessary to keep off heroin in order to give myself a show. But I’m left flat. Life becomes more tedious every day, and the one way of escape is barred by flaming swords.” “ Bxactly,” he replied. ‘“ You’ve only discover…
1922 · PDF PAGE 190
…s now printed from the carbon copy in the files of Mr. King Lamus. Ed.) “DEAR UNLIMITED Lov,—Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You will, I am sure, forgive me for boring you with a letter; but you know what a crank I am, and it is my mania just now to collect infor- mation about the psychology of people who are trying to advance spiritually in the way we spoke about when you so charmingly dawned on my studio the other morning. “ Do you find, in particular, that there is any difficulty in calling a halt ? If so, is it not perhaps …
1922 · PDF PAGE 224
…hould we clash? Why should there be any ill-feeling? She’s helping me by helping him to help me; and I’m helping her by showing that his Law has helped me, and can help others. We're the best friendsin the world, I and Lala; how could any- thing else be possible ? ”’ Well, of course, she was herself doing a notoriously impossible feat. The point of view of Basil and his crowd is simply upside down to all ordinary people. At the same time, one can’t deny that the result is amazingly invigorating to contemplate. I could quite understand his idea …
1929 · PDF PAGE 187
… go beyond this; for if he could bring Cyril's magick to naught, that exorcist would be destroyed by the recoil of his own exorcism. The laws of force take no account of human prejudices about "good" or "evil"; if one is run over by a railway engine, it matters nothing, physically, whether one is trying to commit suicide or to save a child. The difference in the result lies wholly on a superior plane. It is one mark of the short-sightedness of the sorcerer that he is content with his own sorceries; and if he should think that he can escape the …
1930 · PDF PAGE 76
…ounds inflicted by this Dagger. It reminds us constantly of the danger of relying upon the intellectual faculties. A judge must know the law in every point, and be detached from personal préjudices, and incorruptible, or iniquity will triumph. Dogma, with persécution, delusion, paralysis of progress, and many another evil, as its satraps, has always estabîished a tyranny when Genius has proclaimed it. Islam making a bonfire of written Wisdom, and Haerkel forging biological evidence; physicists ignorant of radioactivity disputing the conclusions…
1954 · PDF PAGE 490
…e begun the disintegration of the world have followed, each at an interval of nine months, the operative publications of The Book of the Law. This again seems to make it almost certain that "They" not only know the future, at least in broad outline, but are at pains to arrange it. I have no doubt that the advance of Natural Science is in the charge of a certain group of "Masters." Even the spiritually