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Page 61 of 841930 · PDF PAGE 32
… so that he may formulate Himself as the Finite; the acquisition of the practical secrets alike of initiating and governing His proposed new Universe and the identification of himself with the impersonal idea of Love. Any néophyte of the Order (or, as some say, an y person soever) possesses the right to claim the Grade of Master of the Temple by taking the Oath of the Grade. It is hardly necessary to observe that to do so is the most sublime and awful responsibility which it is possible to assume, and an unworthy person who does so incurs the m…
1996 · PDF PAGE 173
…ese are no more the mode. In vain will bully and brute and braggart man, priest, lawyer, or social censor knit his brows to devise him a new tamer’s trick;
1929 · PDF PAGE 535
… to face any overwhelming obstacle, the gamblers have won. It is obvious that any man in an outpost besieged by nature (such as is every new settlement outside New England, the Atlantic coast and the old settlements in the south) was really a traitor if he said, however truthfully, anything which might daunt the spirit of his comrades. Those men won out through sheer ignorance of the chances against them, stolid stupidity which blinded them to their desperate plight and bestial insensibility to the actual hardships which they had to endure. It …
1922 · PDF PAGE 80
…ne very well for me ever since. But London isn’t the place for men with real ambition. It doesn’t afford the scope. It’s either Paris or New York for yours sincerely, Elgin Feccles.” I don’t know why I didn’t believe a word of the tale ; but I didn’t. The heroin was working beautifully. I hadn’t the slightest inclination to talk to Haidée. In the same way she took no notice of me. She never uttered a word. Lou was in the same condition. She was apparently listening to what Feccles was saying; but she made no remark, and preserved a total detach…
1954 · PDF PAGE 31
…ntional frames of reference, to have the foggiest idea of what moves or motivates an initiate whose illumination has imposed an entirely new point of view on the world and life in general. The whole of letter 79 on "Progress" should be read in this connection. It is also interesting 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 e…
1929 · PDF PAGE 107
…ed out that no one troubles to contradict your assertion. No superstition is so dangerous and so lively as an exploded superstition. The newspapers of to-day (written and edited almost exclusively by men without a spark of either religion or morality) dare not hint that any one disbelieves in the ostensibly prevailing cuit j they déploré Atheism — ail but universal in practice and implicit in the theory of practically ail intelligent people — as if it were the eccentricity of a few negligible or objectionable persons. This is the ordinary story…
1930 · PDF PAGE 66
…he advanced chemist might admit the possibi- lity of transmuting lead into gold, he could not conceive of that I. See R. K. Duncan, “The New Knowledge”, for a popularisation of recent results. Aleister Crowley held this doctrine in his teens at a period when it was the grossest heresy. 186
1996 · PDF PAGE 43
…en-name of the English novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880).] 6 [For examples see E. A. Petroff, Medieval Women’s Visionary Litera ture (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).] 7 See “Liber CL, De Lege Libellum,” Cap. IV, in Equinox 111(1). [See Works Cited.] It is to be well noted that the Great Women of History have exercised unbounded freedom in Love. Sappho, Semiramis, Mes salina, Cleopatra, Ta Chi,1 2 Pasiphae, Clytaemnaestra, Helen of Troy, and in more recent times Joan of Arc (by Shakespeare’s account), Catherine II of Rus…
1996 · PDF PAGE 124
…adhi. This is of course “eternal ecstasy” in the sense already explained. But in the time-world karma reconcentrates the elements, and a new incarnation occurs. 45. There is death for the dogs. Commentary: The prigs, the prudes, the Christians, die in a real sense of the word; for although even they are “Stars,” there is not enough body to them (as it were) to carry on the individuality. There is no basis for the magical memory if one’s incarnation holds nothing worth remembering. Count your years by your wounds—forsan et haec olim meminisse ju…
1996 · PDF PAGE 144
…ay be a sensi tive who has felt the first tremor of an earthquake. We of Thelema encourage every possible variation; we wel come every new “sport”; its success or failure is our sole test of its value. We let the hen’s queer hatching take to water, and laugh at her alarms; and we protect the “ugly duckling,” knowing that Time will tell us whether it be a cygnet. Herbert Spencer,1 inexorably condemning the Unfit to the gal lows, only echoed the High Priest who protected Paul from the Pharisees. Sound biology and sound theology are for once at…
1905 · PDF PAGE 247
…esh pleasure hourly filled the crystal cup. Shalt thou find wine so comely and so keen, So fresh with life to fill each aching vein With new electric fervour? Will she be My equal? She is mortal and a child. Her arms are frail and white. Her lily cheeks Could never take thy kiss. shock, Repel. I scorn to say her love were less Than mine: I tell thee that she could not love Thee even at all as thou wouldst understand. Thy love would TANNHAUSER. So certain art thou? Let me go to her, Try, and come back ! VENUS. No doubt of that success ! A child …
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
…cture of his System. It requires years of work to erect a worthy building. Such a building is never finished; every day spent on it adds new ornaments. The Qabalah is therefore a living Temple of the Holy Ghost. It is the man himseif and his universe expressed in terms of thought whose 1. Both these subjects may be studied in the Equinox in several articles appearing in several numbers. 2. It is easy to teach the General Princi.ples of exegesis, and the main doctrines. There is a vast body of knowledge common to ail cases; but this is no more t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 48
…s when you make an actual discovery which throws light on some problem which has been troubling you. A quarter of a century ago I was in New Orleans, and very puzzled about my immediate course of action; in fact I may say I was very much distressed. There seemed literally nothing that I could do, so I bethought myself that I had better invoke Mercury. As soon as I got into the appropriate frame of mind, it naturally occurred to me, with a sort of joy, "But I am Mercury." I put it into Latin-Mercurius sum, and suddenly something struck me, a sor…
1930 · PDF PAGE 94
…m.” Or: sleeping. Let him say, “I lie down to sleep, giving thanks for this blessing from my Deity, in order that I may he refreshed for new dévotion to Him.” Or: reading. Let him say: “I read this book that I may study the nature of my Deity, that further knowledge of Him may inspire me with deeper dévotion to Him.” Or: working. Let him say: “I drive my spade into the earth that fresh flowers (fruit, or what not) may spring up to His glory, and that I, purified by toil, may give better dévotion to Him.” Or: whatever it may be that he is doing,…
1996 · PDF PAGE 51
…853-1907) was a popular science writer in Crowley’s day; see Speculations on the Fourth Dimension: Selected Writings, ed. Rudolf Rucker (New York: Dover, 1980).] Why can’t they let one alone? I agree to agree; I only stipulate to be allowed to be inconsistent. I will confess their creed, so long as I may play the part of Peter until the cock crow thrice. They urge more strenuously still the claims of homosexuality to heal the hurts and horrors of humanity, almost the “complete cohort.” On this point I concur that they argue indisputably, with s…
1904 · PDF PAGE 126
…at. Even biologists have erred. But to the true scientist every failure is a stepping- stone to s uccess; every m istake is the key to a new truth. And the history of our Science is the history of all Science. If y ou choose to ape Christendom and put the pioneers of rational investigation into the nature of consciousness on the rack ( i.e. into lunatic asylums) I doubt not we shall find our Bruno. But it will add an additional pang that persecution should come from the house of our friends. Let us , however, turn away from the aspect of critic…
1954 · PDF PAGE 202
…aight as possible, about two feet long. Peel it, rub it constantly with Oil of Abramelin (this, and his incense, from Wallis and Co., 26 New Cavendish Street , W.l.) and keep wrapped in scarlet silk. Constantly, I
1954 · PDF PAGE 336
… Child" express that of Horus. The family, the clan, the state count for nothing; the Individual is the Autarch. 5. The Book announces a new dichotomy in human society; there is the master and there is the slave; the noble and the serf; the "lone wolf' and the herd. 1 (Nietzsche may be regarded as one of our prophets; to a much less extent, de Gobineau.) Hitler's 'Herrenvolk' is a not too dissimilar idea; but there is no volk about it; and if there were, it would certainly not be the routine-loving, uniform-obsessed, law-abiding, refuge-seeking…
1919 · PDF PAGE 160
…t it best to carry out exercise and get over bodily dread of a little pain. I did so and am not sorry.” This letter from Fra P.A. giving new practice, etc., com- bined with some considerable dissatisfaction on Frater V.1.0.’s part, regarding his present state, caused him to un- dertake another regular spell of work for 32 days, after which he seems to have recorded very little until March 25 in the following year, viz., 1912. He then experimented with SSS section of Liber HHH, from Egu1nox V. and obtained automatic rigidity. He writes: “(1) Bra…
1922 · PDF PAGE 208
194 The Diary of a Drug Fiend him to one of those torture-traps, and he’d never get out. I knew what he wanted, of course; a little heroin would bring him round all right. I told him I had some. I had to tell him several times before he understood. When he did, the mere thought helped to restore him ; but there remained an ort of rage, and he told me to give it him, with a greedy snarl. If I had wanted to keep it from him, I shouldn't have let him know I had it. I brought him the stuff, sitting down by his side and lifting his head with one han…