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Page 60 of 831930 · PDF PAGE 46
… the best plan is to banish that thought, and make sure only of not stopping too soon.1 The lines being traced, the operation is over as far as spiritual qualifies are required, for a time. The process of setting up the figure for judgment is purely mechanical. But, in the judgment, the diviner stands once more in need of his mmost and utmost attainments. He sbould exhaust tlie infcellectual sources of information at Iiis disposai, and form from them his jodgment. But having done this, lie should deîacli Iiis mind from wliat it lias just formul…
1996 · PDF PAGE 14
…Book of the Law was sometimes not easily intelligible to the transmitter that he wrote a Commentary upon it.1 2 He wished to explain, so far as he could, the messages that he had received. After some lapse of time he wrote a second Commentary,3 which superseded the first; so I have not included the first in this volume. And there is a good deal of the second Commentary that I have not included. Sometimes the understanding of the Commentary involves mathematical or philosophical or scientific or magical knowledge such as the gen eral reader can…
1996 · PDF PAGE 148
…r and weakness, my contempt for other people’s opinions, my poetic genius: I indulged all these to the full. None of them carried me too far, ousted the others, or injured my general well-being. On the contrary, each automatically reached its natural limit, and each has been incalcu lably useful to me in doing my Will when I became aware of it, able to organize its armies, and to direct them intelligently against the inertia of ignorance. But I suppressed certain impulses in myself. I abandoned my ambitions to be a diplomatist. I checked my ar…
1905 · PDF PAGE 66
…y heart choked me. oSME. Come out, Percy, the moon is so white, looking out of the black sky. The sky is quite black near the moon; only far down where there are no more bright stars it is a deep, deep blue. It is bluer and deeper than the sea, PERCY. It is like your eyes. [Comes oud into corridor.) Esmé! I have looked into your eyes as your eyes look into ifleaven, and thereI have found my Ileaven. O serene depths! O faultless face of my desire! O white brow too clear! I sin against your holiness by my presence. Only the moon should see you, E…
1906 · PDF PAGE 76
…strous for their sterile storm Maddening with sea-sounds, as of lute or shawm Fluting and clashing in extreme desire ; The silly ‘* Thus far and no farther,” nigher Each hour to break (poor arbitrary form !) As each kiss bade our bodies wed and warm Give love one chance before its wave retire. Not so: this trial was the tiniest Man ever knew, confronted afterward With giant fears and passions ;—long to fight And last to yield a Maenad-swelling breast Unto a furious Dionysian horde Drunk not with wine, but with aveng- ing night. THE SIXTEENTH DA…
1929 · PDF PAGE 27
…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 business whose objects are independent of the g…
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
…ue ultimate ego. The automaton should possess will, energy, intelligence, reason, and resource. This automaton should be the perfect man far more 1. If this were not the case, individuality wouid not be inviolable. No man can communicate even the simplest thought to any other man in any full and accurate sense. For that thought is sown in a different soil, and cannot produce an identical effect. I cannot put a spot of red upon two pictures without altering each in diverse ways. It might hâve little effect on a sunset by Turner, but much on a no…
1899 · PDF PAGE 249
… windmill into iron shade, And stir the chill canal with manifold Lays of clear morning ; never grow afraid When he dips down beyond the far flat land, Know never more the day and night apart, . Know not where frost has laid his iron hand, Save only that it fastens on my heart ; Save only that it grips with icy fire These veins no fire of hell could satiate; Save only that it quenches this desire. Let me pass out beyond the city gate.’ © We should like to give other examples, but we can only name some of those pieces that seem to us the most re…
1904 · PDF PAGE 59
Ir THou hast come thus far, and yet he appeareth not, thou mayest be sure that he is sent unto some other place by his King, and cannot come; and if it be so, invocate the King as here followeth, to send him. But if he do not come still, then thou mayest be sure that he is bound in chains in hell, and that he is not in the custody of his King. If so, and thou still hast a desire to call him even from thence, thou must rehearse the general curse which is called the Spirits’ Chain. Here followeth, therefore, the Invocation of the King :? THE INVO…
1907 · PDF PAGE 86
…the building, saying that he was home sick for the lions and lizards of Wei-Hai-Wei, and that anyway he hadn’t enjoyed a decent swim for far too long. There is unfortunately little room for doubt that the new and
1919 · PDF PAGE 149
…d throughout a song, even if singing with others. Thursday, Jan. 12, 7.35 P.M. Have felt much better to-day and had much more control so far. At 8.58 A.M. I recorded one failure, but this time not spoken audibly; the meaning however was in mind, so I count it. I was repeating the time after being told it by a friend, viz., one and a half minutes to nine. Again at 6.35 P.M. once, but also inaudible. I completed the day successfully with a total of 2 (inaudible). Friday, Jan. 13, 6.20 P.M. . during morning at office. . at 2.35 P.M. all inaudible.…
1930 · PDF PAGE 25
…ence between planes; as in the case of an Anglo-Indian’s liver and his temper. The relation appears “vague and indeterminate” only in so far as one happens to be ignorant of the laws which State the case. The situation is analo- gous to that of the chemist before the discovery of the law of “Combining Weights”, etc. 145
1930 · PDF PAGE 44
…h ourselves and our reactions toward them. One can hardly expect the diviner to make Samadhi with his question — that would be going too far, and destroy the character of the operation by removing the question from the class of concatenated ideas. It would mean interpreting the question in terms of “without limit”, and thus imply an equally formless answer. But he should approximate to this extreme sufficiently to allow ihe question entire freedom to make for itself ils own proper links with the intelligence directing the answer, — 164 —
1996 · PDF PAGE 179
…dies, as it must if either party have more imagination than a lump of putty, the fetters are fixed. He or she must go through the sordid farce of divorce if the chance of free choice is to be recovered; and even at that the fetters always leave an incurable ulcer; it is no good playing the game of respectability after one is divorced. Thus we find that almost the only love-affairs which breed no annoyance, and leave no scar, are those between people who have accepted the Law of Thelema, and broken for good with the tabus of the slave-gods. The …
1911 · PDF PAGE 310
…Essays published in America under the title of ‘‘ Your Forces and How to Use Them.” Price 3s. 6d. net. ‘These four volumes constitute by far the best edition of the Essays of Prentice Mulford published in the English language. Special care has been taken to eliminate the errors and mistakes with which the American edition abounds. THE SCIENCE OF THE LARGER LIFE. A Selection from the Essays of Ursura N. GestEFELD. Price 3s. 6d. net. Corents.—Preface. Part I—How we Master our Fate. The Inventor and the Invention. The Ascension of Ideas. Living by…
1911 · PDF PAGE 310
…Essays published in America under the title of ‘‘ Your Forces and How to Use Them.” Price 3s. 6d. net. ‘These four volumes constitute by far the best edition of the Essays of Prentice Mulford published in the English language. Special care has been taken to eliminate the errors and mistakes with which the American edition abounds. THE SCIENCE OF THE LARGER LIFE. A Selection from the Essays of Ursura N. GestEFELD. Price 3s. 6d. net. Corents.—Preface. Part I—How we Master our Fate. The Inventor and the Invention. The Ascension of Ideas. Living by…
1904 · PDF PAGE 52
… holding a rude caduceus in the right hand, and standing above a dolphin. This latter, as in the case of the horse in 165 and 166, is by far the best delineated. Figure 169, this also being from Constantine, shows the usual human hieroglyph between a caduceus and a crescent. Figure 170 is from the site of ancient Carthage. It is very rough in workmanship, and the designs are mere scratchings on the stone. The ensemble has the effect of an evil Sigil. Figure 171 is also from Carthage and the various symbols appear to have become compressed into …
1954 · PDF PAGE 421
…derives Theos from a verb meaning 'to run' , and is heartily abused by scholars for so doing. But perhaps the dreary old sophist was not far wrong, for once.) What you need to do, then, is to knot all these ideas into a very close pattern; to make of them a consecrated Talisman. Then, when rage takes you, it can be thrown upon the fire to stifle it: to thrust against the Demon, to disintegrate him. The great point is to have this weapon very firmly constructed, very complete . Your rage will pass in one of those two ways, which are one: Rapture…
1996 · PDF PAGE 129
…s. The sense of sin, shame, self distrust, this is what makes folk cling to Christianity-slavery. People believe in a medicine just insofar as it is nasty; the meta physical root of this idea is in sexual degeneracy of the masochis tic type. Now “the Law is for all”; but such defectives will refuse it, and serve us who are free with a fidelity the more dog-like as the simplicity of our freedom denotes their abjection. Even such shallow soapsudmongers as Sir Walter Besant and Mr. James Rice have had an inkling of these ideas. I quote Ready- M…
1996 · PDF PAGE 142
Chapter II A Verses 70- 72 143 Never up, never in!” The application is universal. Far from me be it to deny that excess is too often disastrous. The athlete who dies in his early prime is the skeleton at every Boat Supper. But in such cases the excess is almost always due to the desire to excel other men, instead of referring the matter to the only competent judge, the true Will of the body. I myself used to “go all out” on moun tains; I hold more World’s Records of various kinds than I can reckon—for pace, skill, daring, and endurance. But I …