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Page 61 of 841909 · PDF PAGE 387
…not the feeling ofa plain piece of brown wood. I went almost mad over the discovery. What was the meaning of all this? I then opened the book again, but scarcely had I time to glance at the white page before a large band of negroes came again to me; and this time I could not keep them at a dis- tance. Theychained me and drove me away. I fell unconscious. At my awakeningI found that I was alone by the shore with the old sailor, my willing successor. When he saw that I opened my eyes he spoke gently to me: “ Are you better now?” “What has happene…
1947 · PDF PAGE 7
FROM THE BOOK OF THE LAW Every man and woman is a star. Every number is infinite : there is no difference. This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. Obey my prophet ! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge ! seek me only ! Then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. This is so : I swear by the vault of my body : by my sacred tongue and heart ; by all I can give, by all I desire of ye all. The word of the Law is Thelema. Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he l…
1904 · PDF PAGE 63
…ay best seem to you to suit the case. Your humble, obedient servant, ALEISTER CROWLEY. cutta. While holding the see of Ceylon he wrote a book in which “Buddhism” is de- scribed as consisting of “devil-dances.” Now, when a man, in a postion to know the facts, writes a book of the subscription-cadging type, whose value for the purpose depends on the suppression of these facts, I think I am to be commended for my moderation in using the term “liar.” 212. Ibsen.42—Norwegian dramatist. This and the next sentence have nineteen distinct meanings. As, …
1911 · PDF PAGE 29
…unders of the dissolution of the worlds. But my silence is mightier than they. Close up the worlds like unto a weary house; close up the book of the recorder, and let the veil swallow up the shrine, for I am arisen, O my fair one, and there is no more need of all these things. If once I put thee apart from me, it was the joy of play. Is not the ebb and flowing of the tide a music of the sea? Come, let us mount unto Nuit our mother and be lost! Let being be emptied in the infinite abyss! For by me only shalt thou mount; thou hast none other wing…
1996 · PDF PAGE 291
…nt. London: Duckworth, and Mon tréal: Next Step/93 Publishing, 1972. 21 ------------ . Magick in Theory and Practice (being Part III of Book 4). The Master Therion [pseud.] 4 vol. Paris: private printed, 1929-30. 1 vol. subscriber’s ed. issued as Magick in Theory and Practice (London, 1930). 22 ------------ . Orpheus. A Lyrical Legend, 2 vols. Foyers, uk: sprt, 1905. In (7). 23 ------------ . Liber LXXVII. [Liber] Oz. 1st ed., London and Los Angeles, O.T.O., 1941; numerous reprints. 24 ------------ . 777 vel Prolegomena Symbolica ad Systemam S…
1904 · PDF PAGE 9
PREFATORY NOTE. A.G.R.C. A.R.C.G. Tus translation of the First Book of the “ Lemegeton ” (now for the first time made accessible to English adepts and students of the Mysteries) was done, after careful collation and edition, from numer- ous MSS. in Hebrew, Latin, French and English, by G. H. Fra. D.D.C.F., by the order of the Secret Chief of the Rosicrucian Order... The G. H. Fra., having succumbed unhappily to the assaults of the Four Great Princes (acting notably under Martial influences), it seemed expedient that the work should be brought t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 97
…lach, the archdevil, the chin. So also with the lesser relics; of which are notable only : to the Order, the heart of our Father: to the Book of the Law, his venerable lung- space to s erve as a s hrine thereunto: to the devil Aot, the liver, to be divided: to the angel Exarpt and his followers, the great intestine: to Bitom the devil and his crew, the little intestine: to Aub, Aud, and Aur, the venerable Phallus of our Father: to Ash the little bone of the same: to our children K ., C., B., C., G ., T., N ., H ., I., and M ., his illustrious f…
1910 · PDF PAGE 203
…him who is worthy to understand them. Now, though Frater P. had not as yet proved this, had not as yet accomplished the cleansing of the book of his mind, he had, however, built up on his own empirical observation so invulnerable a theory, that it now only remained for him to obtain that fine proportion, that perfect adjustment, that balancing of the Forces of the Will, which now lay before him like the chemicals in the crucible ofaChemist, before applying that certain heat which would dissolve all into one. He did not wish to rule by the scept…
1910 · PDF PAGE 203
…him who is worthy to understand them. Now, though Frater P. had not as yet proved this, had not as yet accomplished the cleansing of the book of his mind, he had, however, built up on his own empirical observation so invulnerable a theory, that it now only remained for him to obtain that fine proportion, that perfect adjustment, that balancing of the Forces of the Will, which now lay before him like the chemicals in the crucible ofaChemist, before applying that certain heat which would dissolve all into one. He did not wish to rule by the scept…
1954 · PDF PAGE 162
…precisely because there is no moral guide, it is indescribably dangerous. I have given a great many hints, especially in Magick. and The Book of Thoth-some of the cards are almost blatantly revealing; so I have been rapped rather severely over the knuckles for giving children matches for playthings. My excuse has been that they have already got the matches, that my explanations have been directed to add conscious precautions to the existing automatic safeguards. The above remarks refer mainly to the technique of the business; and it is going a …
1929 · PDF PAGE 247
… story of her adultery was condemned as "immoral", as tending to incite illicit passions. Its critics had been simply unable to read the book. Flaubert was in reality grinding his heel into the woman's foolish face; he was showing that her conduct was not romantic and voluptuous, but sordid, stupid, bestial and anaphrodisiac. What could be more puritanical than Ghosts? It is the most frightful indictment of immorality that has ever been penned. Yet to the Anglo-Saxon it is "immoral". They don't understand a word, but it makes them think of thei…
1911 · PDF PAGE 113
…hands at dawn at the Equinox, or at the Solstice, or on the day of Corpus Christi, or on one of the feast-days that are appointed in the Book of the Law. And he shall engrave with his own hand upon a plate of gold the Holy Sevenfold Table, or the Holy Twelvefold Table, or some particular device. And it shall be foursquare within a circle, and the circle shall be winged, and he shall attach it about his forehead by a ribbon of blue silk. Moreover, he shall wear a fillet of laurel or rose or ivy or rue, and every day, after the prayer of sunrise,…
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
… the person whom it is wished to deceive. There are, however, “real” transformations of the adept himself which are very useful. See the Book of the Dead for methods. The assumption of God-Forms can be carried to the point of actual transformation. 5. Works of Love and Hâte, which are also performed (as test of the acceptance of the Law of Thelema. Whoso déniés “Do what thou wilt shall be the Whole of the Law” confesses that he still clings to the conflict in his own nature; he is not, and does not want to be, true to himself. A fortiori, he wi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 318
…nce, it is that God has given you your ears; if you didn’t enjoy the sounds it would mean that the devil has given you your ears, as the Book says, which God wrote in Russian for our people: “ They have ears and they hear not.” However, you hear well, and smell well, and your two other senses are all right. What you miss, it’s the colour of things. I cannot explain it to you, and it would do you no good if I did. Your compensation is that you do not see that which is ugly, ugly like old Ivan Semenovich, and also that you hear and’ feel and smel…
1910 · PDF PAGE 318
…nce, it is that God has given you your ears; if you didn’t enjoy the sounds it would mean that the devil has given you your ears, as the Book says, which God wrote in Russian for our people: “ They have ears and they hear not.” However, you hear well, and smell well, and your two other senses are all right. What you miss, it’s the colour of things. I cannot explain it to you, and it would do you no good if I did. Your compensation is that you do not see that which is ugly, ugly like old Ivan Semenovich, and also that you hear and’ feel and smel…
1912 · PDF PAGE 51
…nd on the 19th: ”The misery of this is simply sickening—I can write no more." There is, however, an entry of this date in his little MS. book 01 vellum: “I realize in myself the perfect impossibility of reason; suffering great misery. 1 am as one who should have plumed himself for years upon the speed and strength of a favourite horse, only to find not only that its speed and strength were illusory, but that it was not a real horse at all, but a clothes-horse. There being no way—no conceivable way—out of this awful trouble gives that hideous des…
1912 · PDF PAGE 51
…nd on the 19th: ”The misery of this is simply sickening—I can write no more." There is, however, an entry of this date in his little MS. book 01 vellum: “I realize in myself the perfect impossibility of reason; suffering great misery. 1 am as one who should have plumed himself for years upon the speed and strength of a favourite horse, only to find not only that its speed and strength were illusory, but that it was not a real horse at all, but a clothes-horse. There being no way—no conceivable way—out of this awful trouble gives that hideous des…
1904 · PDF PAGE 48
The jargonelle of this wonderful man merits a careful description, but I am so tired of dictating this rotten book, so anxious to devote myself as closely to this sweet beast as he is devoted to me, that you will get but a perfunctory one. It had all the qualities of the pseudopodia of the Amoeba. Get out your Marshall and Hurst, and read up Amoeba, and you will know as much as I do. Little by little he advanced this engine into the palpitating cavity of the bona roba both by front and rear. Her uterus soon filled up, but for one and a half hou…
1929 · PDF PAGE 212
…n with it." [297] "Oh no!" Cyril's eyes were half closed. "What do you mean — Oh, no!" cried the other sharply. He knew his Cyril like a book. "I never even began," murmured the boy, dreamily. "You will be polite to explain yourself." Simon's lips took a certain grimness of grip upon themselves. "This telegram has consoled me in my grief," said Cyril, taking with languid grace a slip of paper from his pocket. "It came last week." Simon Iff turned it towards the light. "Horatii," he read. "A code word, I suppose. But this is dated from Iona, fro…
1907 · PDF PAGE 296
…gion consists in a spontaneous out burst of passionless illuminism , and not in the regular ranting of the boundless buncombe of a bawdy book . Better be a Shaker , or a camp -meeting homunculus , or a Chatauqua gurl, or a Keswick week lunatic , or an Evan Roberts revivalist , or even a common maniac , than a smug Evangelical banker's clerk , with a greasy wife , and three gifted children to be bank clerks after him ! That is , if religion is your aim : if you are spiritually minded . ? . Go out one night to a distant and lonely heath , if no m…