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Page 61 of 731996 · PDF PAGE 111
112 The Law is for All truthfully from lack of imagination and analysis. Idealist painters like Bouguereau, awake to the divergence between Nature and their academic standards of Beauty, falsify the facts in order to delude themselves. The greatest, like 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 w…
1919 · PDF PAGE 145
A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE By finding the Point from which these three become equal, and there remaining, by this means only, can the Law be Known. If ye know this, ye know All. If ye know not this, ye know less than All. Seek ever for the Absolute, and be content with Nothing less. By the end of September the immediate results of this first Illumination seem to have worn off, and we find Frater V.1.O. striving desperately to estimate the value of what had happened to him. He was certainly in a mental muddle, as the following entry shows, yet at th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 163
…It wants no more than an instrument which will destroy it. What then is the magical remedy? Obvious enough to the Qabalist. "Love is the law, love under will." It must be fitted at its earliest manifestations with its proper Binah, so as to flow freely along the Path of Daleth, and restore the lost Balance. Attempts to suppress it are fatal, to sublime it are false and futile. But, guided wisely from the start , by the time it becomes strong it has learnt how to use its virtues to the best advantage. And what of the parallel instinct in a woman…
1996 · PDF PAGE 82
…at Our Lady, in her Personality, contemplates some more or less open form of worship suited for the laity. With the establishment of the Law something of this sort may become possible. It is only necessary to kill out the sense of “sin,” with its false shame and its fear of nature.
1996 · PDF PAGE 97
98 The Law is for All obey me. Reflect that I was being compelled to make an abject recantation of practically every article of my creed, and I had not even Cranmer’s excuse.11 was proud of my personal prowess as a poet, hunter, and mountaineer of admittedly dauntless virility; yet I was being treated like a hypnotized imbecile, only worse, for I was perfectly aware of what I was doing. 1 [When being burnt for heresy and treason, the Reformation theologian and Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) put his writing hand (with which …
1996 · PDF PAGE 141
142 The Law is for All One most important point, in conclusion. We must doubtless admit that each one of us is lacking in one capacity or another. There must always be some among the infinite possibilities of Nuit which possess no correlative points of contact in any given Khu. For example, the Khu of a male body cannot fulfil itself in the quality of motherhood. Any such lacuna must be accepted as a necessary limit, without regret or vain yearnings for the impos sible. But we should beware lest prejudice or other personal passion exclude any …
1929 · PDF PAGE 84
…he idea of incorporating the new knowledge of the Aeon, had the value of 93 (M = 40, G = 3, N = 50). 93 is the number of the word of the Law — T helema — Will, and of Agapé -— Love, which indicates the nature of Will. It is further¬ more the number of the Word which overcomes death, as members of the degree of M.M. of the O.T.O. are well awarej and it is also that of the complété formula of existence as expressed in the 48
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…on of a New Aeon. When it becomes necessary to utter a Word, the whole Planet must be bathed in blood. Before man is ready to accept the Law of Thelema, the Great War must be fought. This Bloody Sacrifice is the critical point of the Worïd- he sacrifices is not the material blood, but his Creative power. ” This initiated interprétation of the texts was sent spontaneously by Soror I. W E., for the sake of the younger Brethren. 1. See Equinox (I, V. Supplément: Tenth Aethyr) for an Account of an Operation where this was done. Magical phenomena of…
1996 · PDF PAGE 136
…s the success of the campaign. It is nonsense to bring a verdict of “Guilty” or “Not Guilty” against a prisoner without reference to the Law under which he is living. The end justifies the means; if the Jesuits do not assert this, 1 do. There is obviously a limit, where “the means” in any case are such that their use blasphemes “the end”: e.g., to murder one’s rich aunt affirms the right of one’s poor nephew to repeat the trick, and so to go against one’s own Will-to-live, which lies deeper in one’s being than the mere Will-to-inherit. The judg…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
…sible impressions of worlds other than the “physical” universe (as generally understood by profane science). These worlds hâve their own laws; their inhabitants are often of quasi-human intelligence ; there is a definite set of relations between certain “ideas” of ours, and their expressions, and certain types of phenomena. (Thus, symbols, the Qabalah, etc. enable us to communicate with whom we choose.) 7) “Astral” Beings possess knowledge and power of a different kind from our own; their “universe” is presumably of a different kind from ours, …
1996 · PDF PAGE 69
70 The Law is for All private instruction and developed by personal practice. The crude description is a bare framework, and (even so) more often misleads than not. But the general rule is to arrange all the conditions beforehand with intent to facilitate the manifestation of the thing willed, and to prevent the dangers of abortion by eliminating discordant elements. For instance: a man seeking to regain health should assist his Magical Will by taking all possible hygienic and medical measures proper to amend his malady. A man wishing to develo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 144
…sistance; but unless the link is made by the use of his nerves and muscles in accordance with psychological, physiological, and physical law, the nose will remain unblown through ail eternity. Writers on Magick hâve been unsparing in their efforts to instruct us in the préparation of the Will, but they seem to hâve imagined that no further précaution was necessary. There is a striking case of an épidémie of this error whose history is familiar to everybody. I refer to Christian Science, and the cognate doctrines of “mental healing” and the like…
1996 · PDF PAGE 115
116 The Law is for All consequently be “against the people” if he is to pursue any consis tent policy. The massed maggots of “love” devoured Mark Ant ony as they did Abelard. For this reason the first task of the Aspirant is to disarm all his thoughts, to make himself impregna- bly above the influence of any one of them; this he may accom plish by the methods given in Liber Aleph, “Liber Jugorum,” “Thien Tao,” and elsewhere.1 Secondly, he must impose absolute silence upon them, as may be done by the “Yoga” practices taught in Book 4 (Part I)…
1996 · PDF PAGE 139
140 The Law is for All red and warm as the sunset, and her life of a white heat like the heat of the midmost sun. 14. Then rose she up from the abyss of Ages of Sleep, and her body embraced me. Altogether I melted into her beauty and was glad. 15. The river also became the river of Amrit, and the little boat was the chariot of the flesh, and the sails thereof the blood of the heart that beareth me, that beareth me.1 1 “Liber LXV,” 11:7-15. 2 [Hippomanes in classical Greece (Grk., imTop.ai>eg) had two forms, both reputed aphrodisiacs: a black ca…
1996 · PDF PAGE 178
… limits which concern not love in the least. The chance of spontaneity is therefore a small one; and, should it occur and be seized, the law yers hasten to hide under the bridal bed, while the Families, gluing eye to chink and keyhole, intrude their discordant yowls on the Duet.
1929 · PDF PAGE 110
…he arrival of his colleagues for consultation would apparently startle him from a profound speculation upon the weightier matters of the law. It would be only by an effort that he spoke in English; the least distraction would send him back into Latin, Greek, or Hebrew, none of which languages he understood. He was a peddler of words; his mind was a rag-and-bone shop of worthless and disjointed mediaevalism. After a severe struggle, he would "proceed to an allocution." He never "spoke"; he "monologized." The first formal conference took place wh…
1930 · PDF PAGE 51
…sts of the times. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride! A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. A feast for Tahuti and the children of the Prophet — secret, O Prophet! A feast for the Suprême Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! — 35i — 4
1954 · PDF PAGE 362
…, 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 of the discovery, and arranged every detail of the incident in such a way that I should understand it as I did. Yes; this involves a theory of the powers of …
1996 · PDF PAGE 105
106 The Law is for All than any other Truth. The Equation Five plus Six is Eleven is of the same order of perfection as Ten Million times Ten times Ten Thousand Million is One Billion.1 In the Universe formulated by the Absolute, every point is equally the Centre; every point is equally the focus of the forces of the whole. (In any system of three points, any two may be considered solely with reference to the third, so that even in a finite universe the sum of the properties of all points is the same, though no two properties may be com mon to…
1929 · PDF PAGE 498
… shores of the island are wide {784} steep cliffs of smooth rock, obviously provided by Providence for my convenience in proclaiming the Law. I devoted a couple of days to painting "Do that thou wilt" on both banks for the benefit of passing steamers. The little paint left over was dedicated to Madeleine. I barked a tree in front of my tent for the name of the beloved, and again on a convenient rock hard by. No sooner was this done than a man came off from the mainland in a boat with a telegram from Madeleine to meet her at Hyde Park Station, a…