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Page 64 of 841922 · PDF PAGE 124
…id Feccles, ‘I don’t see why it should put you out very much. You needn't even see me. But if I could pose as your courier, go ahead and book your rooms and look after your luggage and engage boats and that sort of thing for you, I shouldn’t need to be explained. As things are, it might even save you trouble. They’re the most frightful brigands round here ; and anything that looks like a tourist, especially of the honeymoon species, is liable to all sorts of bother and robbery.” Well, the thing did seem almost providential ; asa matter of fact,…
1922 · PDF PAGE 380
…ropriety of resorting to any drug, that in your second year you must be a great fool if you make even half a dozen mistakes. But, as the Book of the Law says, “Success is your proof.’ When you resort to such potent and dangerous expedients for increasing your natural powers, you must make sure that the end justifies the means. You're a scientific man; stick to the methods of science. Wisdom is justified of her children; and I shall be surprised if you do not discover within the next twelve months that your Great Experiment, despite the unnecess…
1913 · PDF PAGE 137
…same way. Yet Mr. Crowleyis one of our few real poets. He has written thingsin ‘Ambergris’ which will never die. Some years ago a little book of verse appeared, called ‘Amphora,’ which being anony- 129 i
1922 · PDF PAGE 326
…h extraordinary language ? ”’ cried Lou at last, the tears running down her cheeks. Hermes became more serious than ever. “It’s from the Book of the Law. Change not so much as the style of a letter,” he said. We began quite seriously to wonder whether we had not got into one of those fantastic waking dreams with which heroin had made us familiar. But this was a dream of a totally different quality. It had a strain of wholesomeness and actuality running through its incredible tissue of marvels. At last we sat up and drew a long breath. Hermes ha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 20
…trude's incipient tendency to in- dependence of thought and action. There had been a very unpleasant scene when he threw into the fire a book from Mudies (I thought one could have trusted Mudies!) called The Stolen Bacillus, which he under- stood to be of a grossly immoral tendency. (Nasty filth about free love or something, isn't it?) Theodore Bugg was not a sensitive man; excess of intuitive sympathy had not made his life a hell; but he felt that his domestic relations were strained. Especially since that Mrs. Grahame had evinced a liki…
1954 · PDF PAGE 415
…rformance of Liber Resh. Meditate on the sun in each station: his continuous and even way: the endless circle. That formula in the Tarot book is most valuable. One excellent practice, the general idea of which can easily be adapted to a host of particular cases is the use of the imagination.
1996 · PDF PAGE 88
…mogony; but others are based on Truth. We mend these, and end those. This “Knowledge” is the initiated Wisdom of this /Eon of Horus. See Book 4, Part III, for an account of the new principles of Magick. Note that Knowledge is Daath, Child of Chokmah by Binah, and crown of Microprosopus; yet he is not one of the Sephiroth, and his place is in the Abyss. By this symbolism we draw atten tion to the fact that Knowledge is by nature impossible; for it implies Duality, and is therefore relative. Any proposition of Knowledge may be written “arb”: “a …
1922 · PDF PAGE 236
…seems afraid of being spied on or overheard. I went up to the magic room to-night, Peter was sitting in the old man’s chair writing in a book. I couldn’t understand it at first. I had come straight up, and he was fast asleep downstairs! Then, of course, the whole mystery became clear. While he’s asleep, his astral double comes up and does magic. I knew it was very dangerous to disturb any one’s astral double, so I tiptoed out of the room ; but the double followed me noiselessly. Every time I looked over my shoulder he was there, though he was v…
1954 · PDF PAGE 206
…And there is no genuine explanation of the origin of the Will to be. How different, how simple, how self-evident, is the doctrine of The Book of the Law! There are any number of passages dealing with this matter in my writings: let's forget them, and keep to the Text! Cap. I, v. 26: . .. my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body. V.30: This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. (There is a Qabalistic inner meaning in this text; "the
1996 · PDF PAGE 207
206 The Law is for All 38. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. 39. A feast for Tahuti and the child of the Prophet—secret, O Prophet! 40. A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. 41. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! 42. A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! 43. A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! 44. Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, an…
1929 · PDF PAGE 65
…l about this operation in a vague way; but what I wanted was a manual of technical instruction. I devoted myself to black magic; and the bookseller --- Deighton Bell, God bless 'em! --- immediately obliged with The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts, which, judging by the title, was exactly what I needed. It was with intense disappointment and distrust that I read this compilation. The author was a pompous, ignorant and affected dipsomaniac from America, and he treated his subject with the vulgarity of Jerome K. Jerome, and the beery, leering fri…
1929 · PDF PAGE 203
…ow-shape of Its eternity. Lift up thyself! be strong to burst thy bars! For lo! thy stature shall surpass the stars." Cyril put away his book. "Language," said he, "has been developed from its most primitive sources by persons so passionately concentrated upon the Ideal of selling cheese without verbal infelicity that some other points have necessarily been neglected. One cannot put mystic experience into words. One can at best describe phenomena with a sort of cold and wooden accuracy, or suggest ecstasy by very vagueness. You know that line '…
1954 · PDF PAGE 53
…rst it appears a paradox. You must have an aim, and one aim only: yet on no account must you want to achieve it!!! Those chapters of The Book of Lies quoted in my last letter 4 do throw some light onto this Abyss of self-contradiction; and there is meaning much deeper than the contrast between the Will with a capital W, and desire, want, 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 mer…
1954 · PDF PAGE 368
…o attend his father's funeral! Is the magical tradition less rigid? Not on your life! The one serious grimoire of the Middle Ages is The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage. He makes no bones about it. He even condescends to point out the family as the most serious of all the obstacles to the performance of the Operation, and he gives the correct psychological reasons why this should be so. You said it yourself! "Family pressure" was your pungent and pertinent expression. Just so. I think that "family" should include any body of pers…
1996 · PDF PAGE 62
…resent, and, in the third, their possibilities with regard to the modification of the future. In these supremely important verses of The Book of the Law, it becomes clear that Nuit is aware of all these facts, and that she regards them as no less than the combination of the lock of the strong-room of the future. “This” (doctrine) “shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister”. The misunderstanding of sex, the ignorant fear like a fog, the ignorant lust like a miasma, these things have done more to keep back humanity from realization o…
1904 · PDF PAGE 89
…s 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]
1929 · PDF PAGE 172
… it up!" said Mr. Butcher. "I would buy an Illustrated Edition of O. Henry in nineteen parts." Douglas did not know that Americans dread book agents more than rattlesnakes; but he gathered [242] that his guest would acquiesce in any reasonable suggestion. "I am informed that you are — or were — a Priest of the Roman Church. "Peter is my middle name," admitted the 'Rosicrucian,' "and that's no jolly." "But — apart from questions of nomenclature for the moment, if you will pardon me — you are a priest of the Roman Church?" "Yep: I took a chance o…
1930 · PDF PAGE 63
ecstasy or silence. Samadhi and Nibbana are 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 essent…
1954 · PDF PAGE 17
… Of the latter, the father said: "the boy was not able to write a decent English letter" and so, of course, was incapable of writing the book At the Feet of the Master which was said to have been his creation . The father believed, as so many people have since, that it was authored by Leadbeater. The fact remains that when Krishnamurti came to maturity, he repudiated both Besant and Leadbeater, as well as the various organizations that had been formed to worship him as well as to further his cause as World Teacher. For this alone he commands va…
1961 · PDF PAGE 163
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 151 Et De Sphinge Ægyptiorum (Of the Sphinx of the Egyptians) T is now expedient that I instruct thee concerning the Four Powers of the Sphinx, and firstly, that this most arcane of the Mysteries of Antiquity was never at any Period the Tool of the Slave-Gods, but a Witness of Horus through the dark Æon of Osiris to His Light and Truth, His Force and Fire. Thou canst by no means interpret the Sphinx in Terms of the Formula of the Slain God. This did I comprehend even when as Eliphas Levi Zahed I walked up and down th…