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Page 59 of 731929 · PDF PAGE 41
…rse. This theory may indeed be studied iii the article already referred to in No. V of the Equinox, and, môre deeply, in the Book of the Law and the Commentaries thereon: but the true understanding dépends entirely upon the work of the Magician himself. Without magical expérience it will be meaningless. In this there is nothing peculiar. It is so with ail scientific knowledge. A blind man might cram up astronomy for the purpose of passing examinations, but his knowledge would be I. By “God” I here mean the Idéal Identity of a man’s inmost natur…
1939 · PDF PAGE 29
YOGA FOR YAHOOS FOURTH LECTURE. ASANA AND PRANAYAMA. The Technical Practices of Yoga. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 1. Last week we were able to go away feeling that the back of the job had been broken. We had got rid of bad ways, bad wives, and bad weather. We are comfortably installed in the sunshine, with no one to bother us. We have nothing to do but our work. Such being our fortunate state, we may usefully put in an hour considering our next step. Let us recall, in the first place, what we decided to be the quintessence …
1954 · PDF PAGE 338
…teemed Tomcat , when at last one of his fans obtained an interview; "all he could do was to talk about his operation ." "The Book of the Law takes us back to primitive savagery," you say. Well, where are we? We're at Guernica, Lidice, Oradour-sur-Glane, Rotterdam and hundreds of other crimes, to say nothing of Concentration-camp, Stalag, and a million lesser horrors, inconceivable by the most diseased and inflamed Sadistic imagination forty years ago. You disagree with Aiwass-so do all of us. The trouble is that He can say: "But I'm not arguing…
1996 · PDF PAGE 116
… of understanding and expressing ourselves in finite terms. Shallow indeed is the obvious objection to this passage that The Book of the Law itself is full of phrases which imply causal ity. Nobody denies that causality is a category of the mind, a form or condition of thought which, if not quite a theoretical necessity, is yet inevitable in practice. The very idea of any relation between any two things appears as causal. Even should we declare it to be 1 [Fr., “to the lamppost (with them),” i.e. hang them.]
1996 · PDF PAGE 177
178 The Law is for All “Mary inviolate” is to be “torn upon wheels” because tearing is the only treatment for her; and rv, “a wheel,” is the name of the feminine principle.1 It is her own sisters who are to punish her for the crime of denying Her nature, not men who are to redeem her, since, as above remarked, it is man’s own false sense of guilt, his selfishness, and his cowardice, which originally forced her to blaspheme against herself, and so degraded her in her own eyes, and in his. Let him attend to his own particular business, to redeem …
1922 · PDF PAGE 369
… and the solution of my crisis, all pointed to the same thing.” “You said it,”’ she answered softly, and fired another quotation. ‘‘ The Law is for all.” “Tell me about it,” I said. My stupefaction and my annoyance were melting away. I began to perceive dimly that the Big Lion had worked out the whole situation in a masterly fashion. - He had done with his material—us, what I was doing with my material, the laws of mechanics. “‘ I discovered my will four days ago,” she said very seriously. ‘‘ It was the night that you and Big Lion climbed Deep …
1938 · PDF PAGE 18
…ncied imperfection. His boundless adoration kindles space itself, leaving no void that is not compassed by his passion. By virtue of his LAW he floods each thought with love, and marries it in turn to every other thought; and of each bridal night the fruits are twin, the Rapture of Silence, and some new World unguessed of Phantasy; of these behold one grim and one grotesque, this lyric and that lordly, the grievous and the gracious equal in His sight, for they know neither limit nor let in the infinite variety of their Beauty, making new Harmon…
1954 · PDF PAGE 31
…g to compare some of the weird historical facts quoted in letter 48 and others regarding Adolf Hitler, Soror I.W.E., and The Book of the Law, with some of the fairy stories and fantasies spun in a relatively recent book entitled The Dawn of Magic (some editions have entitled it The Morning of the Magicians) by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier. I have to admit that some of the material in that book about Hitler's goals and behavior is interesting even if almost incredible. But some of the material relative to the history of the Golden Dawn is s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 150
…ve delights us well, And joy of sense full rolls ; But leads us, and controls Life’s céntral citadel. Whence we were drawn who knows? Of law or Gods or chance? But, as life’s river flows, What Sea shall clasp and close Beyond }lind circumstance? Such little power we own Of vague experience, And instinct to enthrone The life’s mere needs alone, Nor answer © why” and ‘‘ whence.” Nor wandering in the night Our minds may apprehend Reflecting in pure light Of soul, what sound or sight May lead us to some end. We hear the dim sound roll From distant …
1929 · PDF PAGE 101
… in similar terms. The details of the préparation of each weapon should be thought out carefully by the magician. 1. See The Book of the Law and the Commentaries thereon for the true définition of this virtue. 2. This refers to the “formula of the Néophyte”. There are alter¬ natives. 65
1954 · PDF PAGE 537
…utation of it, but equally the contraries as well as contradictory of that idea are false, and the result of this is to knock the second law of formal logic to pieces. One puts up a sort of sorites-a is b, therefore a is not b; therefore not a is not b; and all these contrary statements are equally false, but in order to realise this fact they must themselves be announced by the mind as ecstatic discoveries of truth. The result of all this naturally is that the mind very rapidly
1996 · PDF PAGE 131
132 The Law is for All It would be easy to elaborate this theme at great 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 whic…
1922 · PDF PAGE 377
…pure gold. But it won’t do for you to forget the privileges you have won by your ordeal. Do you remember what it says in the Book of the Law ? | ‘“*T am the Snake that giveth Knowledge and Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunken- ness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, and be drunk thereof | They shall not harm ye at all.’” ‘“ Yes,” I said slowly, ‘“ and I thought it a bit daring ; might tempt people to be foolhardy, don’t you think ? ” ‘Of course,”’ agreed Basil, ‘‘ if you read …
1996 · PDF PAGE 43
44 The Law is for All Blind asses! who pretend that women are naturally chaste! The Easterns know better; all the restrictions of the harem, of public opinion, and so on, are based upon the recognition of the fact that woman is only chaste when there is nobody around. She will snatch the babe from its cradle, or drag the dog from its kennel, to prove the old saying: “Natura abhorret a vacuo.”1 For she is the Image of the Soul of Nature, the Great Mother, the Great Whore. 1 [Lat., “nature abhors a vacuum.”] 2 [Ta Chi was the concubine of Chou Hs…
1996 · PDF PAGE 59
60 The Law is for All The doctrine of Thelema resolves the whole question in con formity with the facts observed by science and the proprieties pre scribed by Magick. It must be obvious to the most embryonic tyro in alchemy that if there be any material substance soever endowed with Magical properties, one must class, primus inter pares, that vehicle of essential humanity which is the first matter of that Great Work wherein our race shares the divine prerogative of creating man in its own image, male and female. It is evidently of minor impor…
1996 · PDF PAGE 124
…eth on the Vesture of his Office, that is, inhab- iteth a Tabernacle of Illusion, a Body and Mind. And this Tabernacle is subject to the Law of Change, for it is complex, and diffuse, reacting to every Stimulus or Impression. If then 1 [Lat., from Virgil, /Eneid i, 203; in Corington’s translation, “This suf fering will yield us yet / A pleasant tale to tell.”]
1996 · PDF PAGE 144
… being wholly itself, lives again by attracting its equal and opposite Counterpart, with whom “love under will” is the fulfilment of the Law, in a sublimer sphere. But there are no rules until one finds them: a man leaving Ire land for the Sahara does well to discard such “indispensable” and “proper” things as a waterproof and a blackthorn for a turban and a dagger. The “moral” man is living by the no-reason of Laws, and that is stupid and inadequate even when the Laws still hold good; for he is a mere mechanism, resourceless should any danger…
1954 · PDF PAGE 286
…AN 253 no means of becoming aware, as we are in fact aware, of that distinction. Somewhat of this is perhaps intended in The Book of the Law: "Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between anyone thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. But whoso availeth in this, let him be the chief of all!" (AL,I: 22-23) Whoso availeth (i.e., can put to practical service) is of "presidential timber," so to speak, because he is able to understand the Being behind the Function, and is accordingly not liable to be deceived by th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 70
…the other. Social position and physical appearance and habits are of far less importance, especially in a society which has accepted the Law of Thelema. Tolerance itself produces suavity, and suavity soon relieves the strain on tolerance. In any case, most people, especially women, adapt themselves adroitly enough to their envi ronment. I say “Especially women,” for women are nearly always conscious of an important part of their true Will; the bearing of children. To them nothing else is serious in comparison, and they dismiss questions which …
1996 · PDF PAGE 91
92 The Law is for All 1:3 1:41 who “bowed humbly to the Authority of” the Pope, or the Bible, or the Sanhedrin, or the Oracle of Apollo, or the tribal Medicine-Man, nonetheless expressed truly his own Wish to abdicate responsibility. In the light of this Book, we now know that the centre is everywhere, the circumference nowhere; that “Every man and every woman is a star”, a “Khabs,” the name of the house of Hadit; that “The word of Sin is Restriction.” To us, then, “evil” is a relative term; it is “that which hinders one from fulfilling his tru…