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Page 59 of 781996 · PDF PAGE 111
…Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself. This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it would be to blaspheme the whole. The Thelemite is able to revel in any experience soever; in each he recognizes the tokens of ultimate Truth. It is surely obvious, even intellectually, that all phenomena are interdependent, and therefore involve each other…
1907 · PDF PAGE 39
…ink deeply in yourself, if you love this girl ! I am older than you, to be sure; but not so much. May be you would find my love a better thing than you think ! Cc
1910 · PDF PAGE 175
…anda’s.* Dharana on tip of nose. I obtained a clear understanding of the unreality of that nose. This persists. An hour later whilst breathing on my arm as I was asleep, I said to myself: “What is this hot breath from?” I was forced to ¢hink before I could answer “my nose.” Then I pinched myself and remembered at once; but again breathing the same thing happened again. Therefore the “Dharanation” of my nose dividualizes Me and My Nose, affects my nose, disproves my nose, abolishes, annihilates and expunges my nose. Dharana on end of Verendum.t …
1910 · PDF PAGE 175
…anda’s.* Dharana on tip of nose. I obtained a clear understanding of the unreality of that nose. This persists. An hour later whilst breathing on my arm as I was asleep, I said to myself: “What is this hot breath from?” I was forced to ¢hink before I could answer “my nose.” Then I pinched myself and remembered at once; but again breathing the same thing happened again. Therefore the “Dharanation” of my nose dividualizes Me and My Nose, affects my nose, disproves my nose, abolishes, annihilates and expunges my nose. Dharana on end of Verendum.t …
1954 · PDF PAGE 138
…ing got it, we must not go on to argue that the number two being possessed of this and that property, therefore there must be two of something or other which for one reason or another we cannot count on our fingers. The trouble is that sometimes we can do so; we are very often obliged to do so, and it comes out correct. But we must not trust any such theorem; it is little more than a hint to help us in our guesses. Example: an angel appears and tells us that his name is MALIEL (MLlAL) which adds to Ill, the third of the numbers of the Sun. Do w…
1907 · PDF PAGE 65
…t of the sun! Awake! Let the wave of emotions conflict- ing retire, Let fear and despair be engulfed in delight and desire. There is one thing of all that remains: that the sword may not bite: It is love that is true as itself; and their scion, delight. Jiue flower of the flame of love: true bloom of the ray of the sword ! ‘he lady is lost if she wit not the name of her lord. Awaken and hither, O warrior maiden! Above The Man is awaiting. Be done with the lies ! It is love. VI. DORA. DoRA steals across the floor Tiptoe ; Opens then her rosy doo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 82
…n wisdom. As the burning fire reduces fuel to ashes, O Arjuna, so doth the fire of wisdom reduce all actions to ashes. Verily there is nothing so pure in this world as wisdom; he that is perfected in Yoga finds it in the Atman in due season.* KARMA YOGA. Union through Work. Very closely allied to Gnana Yoga is Karma Yoga, Yoga through work, which may seem only a means towards the former. But this is not so, for not only must the aspirant commune with the Atman through the knowledge or wisdom he attains, but also through the work which aids him …
1910 · PDF PAGE 82
…n wisdom. As the burning fire reduces fuel to ashes, O Arjuna, so doth the fire of wisdom reduce all actions to ashes. Verily there is nothing so pure in this world as wisdom; he that is perfected in Yoga finds it in the Atman in due season.* KARMA YOGA. Union through Work. Very closely allied to Gnana Yoga is Karma Yoga, Yoga through work, which may seem only a means towards the former. But this is not so, for not only must the aspirant commune with the Atman through the knowledge or wisdom he attains, but also through the work which aids him …
1922 · PDF PAGE 297
…ange my ideas as completely as possible. The Hot Room is an excellent place for the purpose. While I’m there, I find I can’t think of anything at all but the immediate effects of the temperature. I was annoyed, too, to find Lou comparatively cheerful. I decided I would go out after all and have lunch in the Cooling Room, when the porter called up to ask if we could see a lady and gentleman. These people had begun to obsess me. I demanded their names. There was a pause as if a discussion were taking place at the other end of the wire; and then h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 138
…n trimming the hair and nails, they ceremonially destroyed* 1 the severed portion. They fasted, so that the body itself might destroy anvthing extraneous to the bare necessity of its existence. They purified the mind by spécial prayers and conservations. They avoided the contamination of social intercourse, especially the conjugal kind; and their servi tors were disciples specially chosen and consecrated for the work. In modem times our superior understanding of the essentials of this process enables us to dispense to some extent with its exter…
1930 · PDF PAGE 93
… We bear witness that this which followeth is the Crux and Quintessence of the whole Method. First, if he hâve no Image, let him take anything soever, and consecrate it as an Image of his God. Likewise with his robes and instruments, his suffumigations and libations ; for his Robe hath he not a nightdress; for his instrument a walking stick ; for his suf- fumigation a burning match ; for his libation a glass of water ? But let him consecrate each thing that he useth to the service of that particular Deity, and not profane the same to any other …
1954 · PDF PAGE 362
HOW TO RECOGNIZE MASTERS 329 Cairo was the real thing. I have proved with infinite pains that this was the case; yet the proof has not strengthened my faith, and disproof would do nothing to shake it. I knew in myself that the Secret Chiefs had arranged that the manuscript of The Book of the Law should have been hidden under the Watch Towers and the Watch Towers under the ski; that they had driven me to make the key to my position the absence of the manuscript; that they had directed Kenneth Ward's actions for years that he might be the means o…
1906 · PDF PAGE 97
…hine eyes kindled at thought ? the golden JASON. Mine eyes see farther than the Fleece of Gold. PELIAS. What heroes can attain so fair a thing? JASON. I have some friends who would esteem this quest Lightly—a maiden’s pleasure-wandering Through lilied fields a summer’s afternoon. PELIAS. The Gods give strength! I pray them send thee back Safe to this throne. JASON. I will not see thy face Ever again until the quest be won. Rule thou with justice in my sacred seat Until I come again. PELIAS. The Gods thy speed. MEN. The hardy hero goes to find T…
1906 · PDF PAGE 76
… burn forth, a double fiery sting -Exalting us in joy foreseen to swell A mighty exultation ; it befell, However, that I saw the shadowy thing Lurk behind love, and flap a scornful wing, Seeing our honour stood a citadel. I saw the foolishness of love that saith: ‘“*T am exalted over shame and death, But will not take my fill of death and shame.”’ For each kiss leaps, a more insistent breath, And adds fresh fuel to the amorous flame, Not quells it—Is not honour but a name? THE FIFTEENTH DAY. ‘* Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 90
…blances are usually misleading. One of the great tests of the genuineness of any recollection is that one remembers the really important things in one’s life, not those which mankind commonly classes as such. For instance, iUeister Crowley does not remember any of the décisive events in the life of Eliphas Levi. He recalls intimate trivialities of childhood. He has a vivid recollection of certain spiritual crises; in particular, one which was fought out as he paced up and down a lonely stretch of road in a fiat and desolate district. He remembe…
1996 · PDF PAGE 61
…-comprehension of the nature of the truth, which has driven him to fence the act about with tabus. But a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. His fear has created phantoms, and his malobservation suggested precautions scarce worthy to be called empirical. We see him combat analogous difficulties in a precisely similar manner. History shows us the physician defending mankind against plague with exorcisms on the one hand and useless herbs on the other. A charred stake is driven through the heart of a vampire, and his victim is protected with ga…
1996 · PDF PAGE 66
Chapter I A Verse 52 67 creation from nothing of something and the destruction of some thing to nothing, exploded with the theory of Phlogiston.1 1 [The “food of fire,” a substance postulated in the 18th century, before the discovery of oxygen, to account for combustion.] It stands plain, even to sceptical reason—indeed, most of all to the sceptic—that our talisman, one microscopic serpent of which can build for itself such a house as to rule men’s bodies for a generation like Alexander, or their minds for an epoch like Plato, cannot be destro…
1904 · PDF PAGE 59
…en with all other infernal spirits; and by all the most powerful and great names of Gop who created Heaven, and Earth, and Hell, and all things in them contained; and by their power and virtue; and by the name PRimMEuMATON who commandeth the whole host of Heaven; that thou mayest cause, enforce, and compel the Spirit N. to come unto me here before this Circle in a fair and comely shape, without harm unto me or unto any other creature, to answer truly and faithfully unto all my requests ; so that I may accomplish my will and desire in knowing or…
1929 · PDF PAGE 121
… is that a single knock has no spécial significance as such, because unity is omniform. It represents Kether, which is the source of ail things equally without partaking of any quality by which we discriminate one thing from another. Continuing on these lines, the number of knocks will refer to the Sephira or other idea Qabalistically cognate with that number. Thus, 7 knocks will intimate Venus, 11 the Great Work, 17 the Trinity of Fathers, and 19 the Féminine Principle in its most general sense. Analyzing the matter a little further, we remark…
1929 · PDF PAGE 5
…ron-clad in corsets that any reliable authority on high explosives might have been tempted to hurl her into Temple Gardens, lest a worse thing come unto him, and so intoxicated that she was certainly worth her weight in grape-juice to any Temperance lecturer. [11] The name of this lady was Amy Brough, and she told the cards with resistless reiteration. "You'll certainly have thirteen birthday presents," she said, for the hundred and thirteenth time, "and that means a death in the family. Then there's a letter about a journey; and there's someth…