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Page 61 of 921910 · PDF PAGE 62
…ow they were made, or who made them; but here they are; let us build a house and live in it.” Now this indeed is a very sensible view to take, and the result is we have some very fine houses built by these excellent bricklayers; but strange to say, this is the fatalist’s point of view, and a fatalistic science is indeed a cruel kind of oxymoron. As a matter of fact he is nothing of the kind; for, when he has exhausted his supply of bricks, he starts to look about for others, and when others cannot be found, he takes one of the old ones and pick…
1922 · PDF PAGE 110
… a long while, but apparently it’s rather awkward orchestrating them. Quain says that people accustomed to opium and its derivatives can take an enormous amount of cocaine without any bother. In the ordinary way, half a grain of cocaine can cause death, but we were taking the stuff with absolute carelessness. One doesn’t think of measuring it as one would if one took it by hypodermic. One just takes a dose when one feels one needs it. After all, that’s the rule of nature. Eat when you're hungry. Nothing is worse for the health than settling dow…
1922 · PDF PAGE 355
The True Will 341 Almost immediately, the usual struggle began, as to whether I should or should not take a dose of heroin. On this occasion, the controversy was short. I was so annoyed with myself that I took a specially large sniff, apparently less to soothe myself than to annoy somebody else indirectly. It was the first I had had for a week. I had been supplying its place with codeine. Partly from this and partly from the psychological crisis, its effects were such as I had never before ex- perienced. I remained all night in a state between …
1910 · PDF PAGE 257
…s clothing? For the Heretics are too clearly Sheep—probably descended from Mary’s little lamb. If the Dean were to frown, they would all take to their heels, and break the record for attending chapel. In fact, this is what happened, when he did frown! Just like the Rationalists themselves when they disowned and deserted Harry Boulter. I am coming round to the belief that the best test of a religion is the manhood of its adherents rather than its truth, Better believe a lie than act like a coward! And of all the pusillanimous puppies I have ever…
1910 · PDF PAGE 257
…s clothing? For the Heretics are too clearly Sheep—probably descended from Mary’s little lamb. If the Dean were to frown, they would all take to their heels, and break the record for attending chapel. In fact, this is what happened, when he did frown! Just like the Rationalists themselves when they disowned and deserted Harry Boulter. I am coming round to the belief that the best test of a religion is the manhood of its adherents rather than its truth, Better believe a lie than act like a coward! And of all the pusillanimous puppies I have ever…
1922 · PDF PAGE 253
…o get out of the burning theatre for one’s own sake, the panic makes concerted action impossible. ‘‘ Every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost ”’ is not the kind of order that is likely to secure victory. It does not even ensure the safety of any one man. How quickly I had recovered my own well-being when I was forced to forget about it ! Peter is still desperately striving to save himself. “ He that loveth his life shall lose it.” I must dedicate my miraculously restored faculties to his salvation. Only I don’t see how to set to wo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 237
…e, to be outside means danger from cold, hunger and thirst, raiding parties, highway robbers, bears, wolves and tigers. To go out was to take a risk; and, your labour and courage being assets to your kinsmen, you were also a bad man; in fact, a "bounder" or "outsider ." Debauch is simply 'to go out of doors'! St. John says: "Without are dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and adulterers and idolaters and ... " -so on. We of Thelema challenge all this briskly. "The word of Sin is Restriction" (AL, I: 41). Our Formula, roughly speaking, is to go …
1929 · PDF PAGE 157
157 That evening I was again down with fever and found myself unable to take any food whatever. I called in the local medico, who fed me on iced champagne, and the next day I was pretty well again. Thornton in the meanwhile had gone off to Mandalay. I was very sorry not to be able to go on there with him, but my time was too short: I did not know when I might be summoned to join Eckenstein to go off to Kashmir. On the twelfth of February I went on board the Komilla for Akyab, where Allan was now living. In the course of the day the sea air comp…
1929 · PDF PAGE 384
…idn't mind the bullets rebounding and breaking my windows. I spared my windows; besides, I hate to clean my revolver. He then offered to take me downstairs and watch him shoulder a motor car and run down the road with it. I told him that I knew he could do it and wouldn't insult him by asking for proof. He went away, prancing and purring. Next day I had a postcard from him and guessed from his shaky upstrokes what was the matter. It chimed in with his talk. A month passed, then I heard that he had been diagnosed as suffering from general paraly…
1910 · PDF PAGE 95
…hem similarly on the thighs; fix the sight on the tip of the nose.” The Ugrésana. “Stretch out both the legs and keep them apart; firmly take hold of the head by the hands, and place it on the knees.” The Svastikésana. “Place the soles of the feet completely under the thighs, keep the body straight and at ease.” For the beginner that posture which continues for the into the nostrils and pulling it out through the mouth, Trataka in steadying the eyes, Nauli in moving the intestines, and Kapalabhati, which is of three kinds, Vyat-krama, Vama-kram…
1910 · PDF PAGE 95
…hem similarly on the thighs; fix the sight on the tip of the nose.” The Ugrésana. “Stretch out both the legs and keep them apart; firmly take hold of the head by the hands, and place it on the knees.” The Svastikésana. “Place the soles of the feet completely under the thighs, keep the body straight and at ease.” For the beginner that posture which continues for the into the nostrils and pulling it out through the mouth, Trataka in steadying the eyes, Nauli in moving the intestines, and Kapalabhati, which is of three kinds, Vyat-krama, Vama-kram…
1922 · PDF PAGE 313
… a sudden my whole being seemed to falter. I sat down weakly in the chair, gasping for breath. Through my half-shut eyes I could see Lou take an impulsive step towards me; and then, controlling herself, she recoiled as a man might who had approached what he thought was a beautifully marked piece of fallen timber and recog- nised it for a rattlesnake.
1930 · PDF PAGE 115
…ease and even the safety of his passage dépend on the strength and direction of the latter. 3 3. Should one rashly dare the passage, and take the irrevocable Oath of the Abyss, he might be lost therein through Aeons of incalculable agony; he might even be thrown back upon Chesed, with the terrible Karma of failure added to his original imperfec¬ tion. 4. It is even said that in certain circumstances it is possible to 1. This book tells how to enquire “Who am I? ” “What is my relation with nature ? ” 2. One must destroy one’s false notions about…
1954 · PDF PAGE 166
…f Chapter 111.1 " ... Be goodly therefore; dress ye all in fine apparel; eat rich foods and drink sweet wines and wines that foam! Also, take your fill and will of love as ye will ... " This refers to the technique of the art; it will be explained later in this essay. "With whom ye will." This repeats what has been said already above in the notes to AL, I: 41. Verse 53 asserts the importance of this dogma. Neglect of these prescriptions has been responsible for the endless and intolerable agonies, the hideous and unmitigable disasters of the pa…
1954 · PDF PAGE 409
…trouble or another. It may in fact be regarded as a defect of concentration if communication between any two members of the Order should take place, except in cases of necessity. I know that it must seem hard to the weaker brethren of the Order that we should make so little appearance of success in the Great Work to which we are all pledged. It is so universal a convention that success should be measured by members. People like to feel that they have hundreds of Lodges from whom they can obtain assistance in moments of discouragement. But a far…
1954 · PDF PAGE 521
488 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS hun dred percent red-blooded , clean-living, heir of the Eternities , takes his young fiancee and female counterpart to the "Old Absinthe House" in New Orleans to show her the terrible results of Wrong-Doing. They are going to avoid all that ; their child is going to be the Quintessence of Americanism. They marry and take a cottage by Lake Pasquaney . Presently , he being (so she said) away on a business trip, the tradesmen complained that she seemed to need very little pabulum. Somehow, people got suspicious , and sure…
1996 · PDF PAGE 169
…vives.] Why assault their flesh rather than their eyes, as in the other cases? Because the metaphysics, or point of view, is correct — I take Judaism as Qabalistic — but the practice imperfect. 54. Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your crapulous creeds. Commentary: By sound Bahlasti suggests “hurling” or “blasting”; Ompehda is not too fantastically onomatopoetic for “an explosion.” 55. Let Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women be utterly despised among you! Commentary: The name Mary is connected with Mara, mors, etc.…
1904 · PDF PAGE 49
…d with a cloth of fine linen white and pure, the which is to be shown unto the Spirits when they do appear, so that they be compelled to take human shape upon them and be obedient. (Colours.—Circle, Hexagram, and T cross in centre outlined in black, Maltese crosses black; the five exterior triangles of the Hexagram where Te, tra, gram, ma, ton, is written, are filled in with bright yellow; the T cross in centre is red, with the three little squares therein in black. The lower exterior triangle, where the Sigil is drawn in black, is left white. …
1917 · PDF PAGE 2
… lived, as masters always live; but let it not be self-indulgence; make your self-indulgence your religion. When you drink and dance and take delight, you are not being “immoral,” you are not “risking your immortal soul”; you are fulfilling the precepts of our holy religion—provided only that you remember to regard your actions in this light. Do not lower yourself and destroy and cheapen your pleasure by leaving out the supreme joy, the consciousness of “The Peace that passeth under- standing.” Do not embrace mere Marian or Melusine; she is Nui…
1929 · PDF PAGE 118
To take a simple example, suppose that, in an Evocation of Bartzabel, the planet Mars, whose sphere is Geburah (Severity) were situated (actually, in the heavens) opposite to the Square of Chesed (Mercy) of the Tau in the Circle, and the triangle placed accordingly. It would be improper for the Magus to stand on that Square unless using this formula, “I, frora Chesed, rule Geburah through the Path of the Lion”; while — taking an extreme case -— to stand on the square of Hod (which is naturally dominated by Geburah) would be a madness which only…