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Page 64 of 841996 · PDF PAGE 14
…n is unknown.] 2 [Later termed the “Old Commentary”; published in The Equinox 1(7) (1912), pp. 387^00a.] 3 [Described by Crowley as the “New Commentary.”] The Book of the Law, however, is not only for mathematicians and mystics. In some one phrase or other of the Book there is a direct message for every human being. The best way for the layman to approach this Book is to regard it as a letter written directly to himself. Even though he may not be able to understand some parts of the letter, he is sure to find other parts that are unmistakably a…
1996 · PDF PAGE 148
…e bred error, and error injury. My Will was, I now know, to be The Beast, 666, a Magus, the Word of the .¿Eon, Thelema; to proclaim this new Law to mankind. My passion for personal freedom, my superiority to sexual impulses, my resolve to master physical fear and weakness, my contempt for other people’s opinions, my poetic genius: I indulged all these to the full. None of them carried me too far, ousted the others, or injured my general well-being. On the contrary, each automatically reached its natural limit, and each has been incalcu lably u…
1996 · PDF PAGE 104
…ng that attainment thereof would be the signal for the manifestation of that part of its nature which necessarily formulates itself in a new universe of images. Realizing that these two courses (the materialist’s and the mys tic’s) are equally fatuous, we may engage in either or both of two other plans of action, based on assent to actuality. We may (1) ascertain our own particular properties as partial projections of the Absolute; we may allow every image presented to us to be of equally intrinsic and essential entity with ourselves, and its …
1930 · PDF PAGE 52
… the bulPs eye four times in ten.” The error of ail dogmatists (from the oldest prophet with his “literally-inspired word of God” to the newest German professor with his single-track explanation of the Universe) lies in trying to prove too much, in defending themselves against critics by stretch- ing a propably excellent theorv to mclude ail the facts and th^ fables, until it bursts like the overblown bladder it is. Divination is no more than a rough and ready practical method which we understand hardly at ail, and operate only as empincs. Succ…
1905 · PDF PAGE 143
…on hands and = swords of hearts at home. war,! Now must for aye, a constellation, stand— , The fire of love no waters shall devour; Thou new strong nation! as the eagle} The faith of friendship stands the shocks aspires of time 5 To match the sun’s own fires, Seal with your voice the triumph of this hour, Children of our Jand, hear the children of | Your glory to our glory and our power, your sires. Alliance of one tongue, one faith, one clime ! Seal and clasp hands; and let the sea pro- We stretch out hands to-day when the white claim wings . …
1907 · PDF PAGE 86
… of Wei-Hai-Wei, and that anyway he hadn’t enjoyed a decent swim for far too long. There is unfortunately little room for doubt that the new and
1904 · PDF PAGE 23
…id Angel with Claps of Thunder; without which Notes King Solomon had never obtained his great knowledge, for by them in a short time he knew all Arts and Sciences both Good and Bad: from these Notes it is called the NoTARY ART, etc. ART ALMADEL, do relate unto Good Spi- rits alone, whose knowledge is to be obtained through seeking unto the Di- vine. These two Books be also classed together under the Name of the First and Second Parts of the Book THEURGIA OF SOLOMON. (5) Tue Firru Book of the Lemege- ton is one of Prayers and Orations. The which…
1929 · PDF PAGE 191
… Much of the pleasure taken by Douglas in this miserable and criminal farce was due to his enjoyment of the sufferings of his wife. Each new spurt of filth wrung her heart afresh; and withal she was aware that all these things were but the prelude to an act of fiendish violence more horrible than them all. Mr. Butcher, Cremers, and Abdul Bey, their functions ended, were led out of the cellar. Balloch remained to perform the operation from which the bulk of his income was derived. But there was yet much sorcery of the more secret sort to be acco…
1930 · PDF PAGE 52
…of pain in a true Astral Vision ; it hurts the Self to hâve to admit the existence of a not- Self ; and it taxes the brain to register a new thought. This is true at the first touch, even when exaltation and stimulation resuit from the joy of making an agreeable contact. There is a deeper eiïect of right reaction to a strange Self: the impact invariably tends to break up some complex in the Seer. The class of ideas concerned has always been tied up, labelled, and put away. It is now necessary to unpack it, and rearrange its contents. At least, …
1944 · PDF PAGE 268
…odiacal, and elemental symbols are themselves all contained in the rays of the Lamp. Note that this and the following diagrams represent new discoveries by the Master Therion: com‐ pletion of the Tradition. DIAGRAM 8. THE SPHINX This diagram represents the four Kerubs who are about the throne of the Almighty; they show the central zodiacal signs of the four Elements, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius, and Taurus. The Kerubic sign in any Element exhibits the most powerful and balanced form of that Ele‐ ment. Attached to these are the names of the four Virt…
1996 · PDF PAGE 142
…ear so to the casual observer—who probably reproaches and persecutes the experimenter.) But when this variation is intended to meet some new, or even foreseen, change in environment, and is paid for by some surplus part, or some part now superfluous, although once useful to meet a qual ity of the environment which no longer menaces the individual, the adaptation is biologically profitable.
1899 · PDF PAGE 248
…quently, the poet’s touch.”— The St. James's Gazette. ‘We shall be sorry if anyone who cares much for verse in itself, who is curious of new tendencies in contemporary poetry, and values the articulate expression of an individuality, should miss a little book of unusual quality, called ‘ Songs’of the Spirit,’ by Aleister Crowley (Kegan Paul and Co., 8vo., pp. 109, 3s. 6d.). We have read it with admiration for its intense spirituality, as well as for its technical superiorities, and with sympathy for its spontaneous reflection of certain moods—b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 120
…the heads of our Order, intended his hearers to understand that the reign of authority and paternal power had corne to an end 5 that the new master of the world was intellect. The general object of a knock or a knell is to mark a stage in the ceremony. Sasaki Shigetz tells us in his essay on Shinto that the Japanese are accustomed to clap their hands four times “to drive away evil spirits”. He explains that what really happens is that the sudden and sharp impact of the Sound throws the mind into an alert activity which enables it to break loose…
1996 · PDF PAGE 114
…s oppressor, and to fear Truth as once Jehovah did the Serpent. 1 [Mark 9:44, paraphrase; see also Isaiah 66:24.] 2 Beast-food; even The New York Times of November 13, 1918 E.v. has it. [This issue announced the end of World War I, giving casualty totals. At the back is a six-line item reporting the massacre of Arme nians by the Turks, the first wholesale ethnic genocide of the century.] 25. Ye are against the people, O my chosen! Commentary: By “the people” is meant that canting, whin ing, servile breed of whipped dogs which refuses to admit…
1905 · PDF PAGE 249
…mes thy beauties and thy manifold Mind with Its tiny triple flame. I go! VENUS, Try not the impossible. Thou knowest my power. I shall renew the charm. TANNHAUSER. I see a Power Above thy mockery of witchcraft. Work Thy devilish lusts on me unfortunate ! There is no gateway to this fortalice? Thy fiends surround me? Hein! their pangs begin ! I have one word, one cry, one exorcism : Avé Maria ! VENUS. Mercy! Mercy, God! [ Zhunder rolls in the lightning-riven sky. All the illusion vanishes, and TANNHAUSER finds himself in a cross-way of the fores…
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
… other ideas. The extent of our knowledge of any one thing varies therefore with the number of ideas with which we can compare it. Every new fact not only adds itself to our universe, but increases the value of what we already possess. In AL this “The” or “God” arranges for “Countenance to behold countenance”, by establishing itself as an equilibrium, A the One- Naught conceived as L the Two-Naught. This L is the Son- Daughter Horus-Harpocrates just as the other L was the Father- Mother Set-Isis. Here then is Tetragrammaton once more, but expre…
1954 · PDF PAGE 254
…he point of view of the Master of the Temple, as it is so similar. You should remember from your reading what happens in this Grade. The new Master is "cast out" into the sphere appropriate to the nature of his own particular Great Work. And it is proper for him to act in true accordance with the nature of the man as he was when he passed through that Sphere (or Grade) on his upward journey. Thus, if he be cast out into 3° = 8°, it is no part of his work to aim at the virtues of a 4° = 7°; all that has been done long before. It is no business o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 51
succession of new lives. 1 Without this union, and without this death of the individual, the cycle would be broken. A chapter will be consecrated to removing the practical diffi- culties of this method of Invocation. It will doubtless hâve been noted by the acumen of the reader that in the great essentials these three methods are one. In each case the magician identifies himself with the Deity invoked. To invoke is to call in, just as to evoke ïs to call forth. This is the essential différence between the two branches of Magick. In invocation, …
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…y, to Will that catastrophe, 1. “Their Will” — not, of course, their wishes as individual human beings, but their will as ofhcers of the New Aeon. 2. It is not considered “essential to right conduct” to be an active propagandist of the Law, and so on; it may, or may not, be the True Will of any particular person to do so. But since the fundamental purpose of the Order is to further the Attainment of humanity, membership implies, by définition, the Will to help mankind by the means best adapted thereto. — 241
1906 · PDF PAGE 213
…us to unveil the awful and impenetrable adytum of consciousness, or that of matter, must one day be suddenly widened by the forging of a new weapon. Huxley and Tyndall have prophesied this before 1 was born; sometimes in vague lan- guage, once or twice clearly enough; to me it is a source of the utmost concern that their successors should not always see eye to eye with them in this respect. Professor Ray Lankester, in crushing the unhappy theists of the recent Zzmes contro- versy, does not hesitate to say that Science caz never throw any light …