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Page 62 of 911929 · PDF PAGE 26
…n) invited me to spend the Long Vacation in Cornwall. During these months the Professor and I assiduously worked to discover exactly the nature and limit of my powers. The result, in a sense, was nil. For one thing, these powers kept on breaking out in a new place. I seemed to do all I did by perception of minute differences; but then it seemed as if I had all sorts of different apparatus. One down, tother come on, said Professor Blair. Those who have never made scientific experiments cannot conceive how numerous and subtle are the sources…
1930 · PDF PAGE 88
… The World is done: When in the darkness Chaos rolls again In the excited brain: Then, O then call not to thy view that visible Image of Nature; fatal is her name! It fitteth not thy Body to behold That living light of Hell, The unluminous, dead flame, Until that body from the crucible Hath passed, pure gold! For, from the confines of material space, The twilight-moving place, The gates of matter, and the dark threshold, Before the faces of the Things that dwell In the Abodes of Night, Spring into sight Démons, dog-faced, that show no mortal si…
1930 · PDF PAGE 87
…tudent should use a general invocation, such as the “Preliminary Invocation” in the “Goetia” as well as a spécial invocation to suit the nature of his working. 5. Success in these verbal invocations is so subtle a matter, and its grades so delicately shaded, that it must be left to the good sense of the student to décidé whether or not he should be satisfied with his resuit. V. 1. Let the student be at rest in one of his prescribed positions, having bathed and robed with the proper décorum. Let the place of working be free from ail disturbance,…
1954 · PDF PAGE 53
… or velleity. The main point seems to be that in aspiring to Power one is limited by the True Will. If you use force, violating your own nature either from lack of understanding or from petulant whim, one is merely wasting energy; things go back to normal as soon as the stress is removed. This is one small case of the big Equation "Free Will=Necessity" (Fate, Destiny, or Karma: it's all much the same idea). One is most rigidly bound by the causal chain that has dragged one to where one is; but it is one's own self that has forged the links. Ple…
1954 · PDF PAGE 529
…uardian, inconceivably learned from your point of view. Suppose therefore that you are puzzled by some problem suitable to your childish nature , your obvious and most simple way is to approach your guardian and ask him to enlighten you . It is clearly part of his function as guardian to do his best to help you. Very good, that is the first method, and a close parallel with what we understand by the word Magick. We are bothered by some difficulty about one of the elements-say Fire-it is therefore natural to evoke a Salamander to instruct you on…
1929 · PDF PAGE 446
…Shin (505=Sarah), Princess. There are several other similar stories in the Bible. A change of name is considered to indicate a change of nature. Further, each name is not arbitrary; it is a definite description of the nature of the object to which it is attached. By a similar process, I am certain of my results in the matter of the Lost Word, for the Found Word {706} fulfils the conditions of the situation; and furthermore, throws light on the obscure symbolism of the entire ritual. I am thus in a position to do for the contending sects of free…
1904 · PDF PAGE 89
…rmed. Some burnt clippings of mastodon-hoof were effectual in restoring her, but Eves furs had fallen off again, and Adam di- vined the nature of his good ladys excitement. To think now, He observed, with pardonable pride, that the mere sight of me or would it be the smell ? Ill write a book about it and try to make up my mind that way. Poor girl ! I know it wont [89]
1922 · PDF PAGE 83
…et she was absolutely devoid of what we call magnetism. It isn’t a scientific word—so much the worse for science. It describes a fact in nature, and one of the most important facts in practical affairs. Everything of human interest, from music-hall turns to empires, is run on magnetism and very little else. And science ignores it because it can’t be measured by mechanical instruments| The whole of the woman’s vitality was directed to some secret interior shrine of her own soul. Now she began to speak for the first time. The only subject that in…
1930 · PDF PAGE 63
…but its shadows cast upon the universe. II If the Master Therion effects by tliis book noihing else but to demonstrate the continuily of nature and the uniformity of Law5 He will feel that Mis work bas not been wasted. In his original design of Part III he did not contemplate any allusion to alchemy. It has somehow been taken for granted that this subject is entirely foreign to regular Magick, both in scope and method. It will be the main object of the following descrip¬ tion to establish it as essentially a branch of the subject, and to show t…
1961 · PDF PAGE 163
…he true Symbol of this our Holy Art of Magick under the Law of Thelema. In Her is the equal Development and Disposition of the Forces of Nature, each in its Balanced Strength; also Her True Name has the Digamma for Phi, and endeth in Upsilon, not in Xi, so that Her Orthography is S#inu whose Numer-ation is Six Hundred and Three Score and Six. For the Root thereof is S#, which signifieth the Incarnation of the Spirit; and of Kin are not only the Sun, Our Father, but Sumer, where Man knew himself Man, and Soma, the Divine Potion that giveth Men E…
1954 · PDF PAGE 114
…t this again led to the mere denial of the reality of evil. Thus drawing away, little by little, from clear appreciation of the facts of Nature, their doctrine became purely theoretical, and faded away, while the thundercloud of sin settled down more heavily than ever. The most important of all the efforts of the White School, from an exoteric point of view, is Islam. In its doctrine there is some slight taint, but much less than in Christianity. It is a virile religion. It looks facts in the face, and admits their horror; but it proposes to ov…
1954 · PDF PAGE 150
THE LEFT-HAND PATH 117 of the stars that roof in the garden. And he must understand the separate nature and property of every flower, or how shall he tend his garden? (Ibid., 13th Aethyr) Thus for the Masters of the Temple; for the Black Brothers, how? For Choronzon is as it were the shell or excrement of these three paths, and therefore is his head raised unto Daath, and therefore have the Black Brotherhood declared him to be the child of Wisdom and Understanding, who is but the bastard of the Svastika. And this is that which is written in the…
1996 · PDF PAGE 183
184 The Law is for All “the royal”: these are the men whose nature is kingly, the men who “can.” They know themselves born rulers, whether their halidom1 be Art, or Science, or aught else soever. 1 [A holy place or sanctuary.] “the lofty”: these are the men who, being themselves high hearted, endure not any baseness. 59. As brothers fight ye! Commentary: Fight! Fight like gentlemen, without malice, because fighting is the best game in the world, and love the second best! Don’t slander your enemy, as the newspapers would have you do; just kill …
1929 · PDF PAGE 95
…le or actually puerile nonsense1. Those which are straightforward and workable {172} 1. Some are doubtless survivals of various forms of nature religion;but the majority are adaptations of Catholic or Jewish traditions to the ambitions, cupidities, envies, jealousies and animal instincts of the most ignorant and primitive type of peasant. are, as a rule, better adapted to the ambitions of love-sick agricultural labourers than those of educated people with a serious purpose. But there is one startling exception to this rule. It is The Book of th…
1922 · PDF PAGE 121
…n’t think I mentioned he had fair hair with a bald patch, and was clean shaven. But now his hair was dark; and a toupée silently rebuked Nature’s
1954 · PDF PAGE 137
…rchetypes. They maintained that there was an original (divine) idea such as "greenness" or a "pig," and that a green pig, as observed in nature, was just one example of these two ideal essences. They were opposed by the "nominalists," who said, to the contrary, that "greenness" or "a pig" were nothing in themselves; they were mere names (nominalism from Lat. nomen, a name) invented for convenience of grouping. This doctrine is plain commonsense, and I shall waste no time in demolishing the realists. All a priori thinking, the worst kind of thin…
1922 · PDF PAGE 110
…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 down to a fixed ration of sO many meals a day. The grand old British principle of three meat meals has caused the supply of uric acid to exceed the demand in a most reprehensible manner. Physiology and economics, and, I should think, even geology, combine to protest. ‘Now we were living an absolutely wholesome life. We took a sniff o…
1922 · PDF PAGE 355
…felt the necessity of getting Lou to assist me. But I could not discover her anywhere in the system. And yet, there was something in the nature of the curves themselves which I identified with her. It was as if their ultimate form in some way depended upon her. She was concealed, so to speak, in the expression of the ideas. She was implicit in their structure ; and as the worst of the excitement and the anxiety subsided, I found a curious consolation in the fact that she was
1954 · PDF PAGE 232
…s a case where "clean thinking" is most absolutely helpful. The truth is of exquisite texture; it blazons the escutcheon of the Unity of Nature in such delicate yet forceful colours that the Postulant may well come thereby to the Opening of the Trance of Wonder; yet religious theories and personal pernicketiness have erected against its impact the very stoutest of their hedgehogs of prejudice. Who shall help us here? Not the sonorous Vedas, not the Upanishads, not Apollonius, Plotinus, Ruysbroeck , Molinos; not any gleaner in the field of a pri…
1996 · PDF PAGE 185
…ose our infinitesimal mote of a planet the sole habitat of Mind, especially as our minds are, at best, totally incompetent to comprehend Nature. It is also unlikely that our Earth’s physical conditions of temperature, atmosphere, density and so on, which some still regard as essential to Life, are found frequently; we are only one of nine planets ourselves, and it is absurd to deny that life exists on the others, or in the Sun himself, just because the conditions of our own life are absent elsewhere.