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Page 68 of 911907 · PDF PAGE 164
…once, rise once, Eurydice ! DEAD, STUNG BY A SERPENT, : Be good to me! LAMENTS OVER HER. ' Rise once.—O sleep not! Listen ! Is not all | Nature my thrall ? Come back, come back, come back, Eury- |“Once only: be not dead, Eurydice! dice! ! Be good to me! Come back to me! Y love you—be not dead !—rise up and say Lie not so quiet, draw some faint sharp_ ‘“T feigned, I lay breath ! - Thus so you kissed me ”—O Eurydice, It is not death : Be good to me! It cannot, must not be, Eurydice. Come back to me! . There is not one sweet sigh of all the old Le…
1930 · PDF PAGE 36
… two equal weights in opposite scales. The indicator still points to zéro. ShT is equally 31 with LA and AL, but it expresses the secret nature which opérâtes the Magick or the transmutations. ShT is the formula of this particular aeon; another aeon might hâve another way of saying 31. S h is Fire as T is Force; conjoined they express Ra-Hoor-Khuit. “The Angel” represents the Stélé 666, showing the Gods of the Aeon, while “Strength” is a picture of Babalon and The Beast, the earthly emissaries of those Gods. ShT is the dynamic équivalent of LA …
1930 · PDF PAGE 103
…religions, and so the cause of more misery than ail other errors combined. The Philosophus is peculiarly liable to this because from the nature of the Method he cannot remain sceptical; he must for the time believe in his particular Deity. But let him (1) consider that this belief is only a weapon in his hands, and (2) affirm sufficiently that his Deity is but an émanation or reflection or eidolon of a Being beyond him, as was said in Paragraph 2. For if he fail herein, since man cannot remain permanently in Samadhi, the memorised Image in his …
1996 · PDF PAGE 110
… a priori ideals, or regretting their failure to do so. We can therefore “enjoy all things of sense and rapture” according to their true nature. For example, the average man dreads tuberculosis. The “Christian Scientist” flees this fear by pretending that the disease is an illu sion in “mortal mind.” But the Thelemite accepts it for what it is, and finds interest in it for its own sake. For him it is a necessary part of the Universe; he makes “no difference” between it and any other thing. The artist’s position is analogous. Rubens, for instan…
1996 · PDF PAGE 121
…n Konx Om Pax), “The Soldier and the Hunchback,” “Eleusis” and others, I have offered a detailed demonstration of the self-contradictory nature of Reason. The crux of the whole proof may be summa rized by saying that any possible proposition must be equally true with its contradictory, as, if not, the universe would no longer be in equilibrium. It is no objection that to accept this is to destroy conventional Logic, for that is exactly what it is intended to do. I may also mention briefly one line of analysis. 1 [Lat., “all things go forth int…
1930 · PDF PAGE 101
… as the ecstatic union of subject and object in consciousness, with the resuit that a third thing arises which partakes in no way of the nature of the two. It would seem at first sight that it is of no importance whatever to choose an object of méditation. For example, the Samadhi 401 —
1996 · PDF PAGE 31
…the note to verses 2 and 3.3 This Khu is the first veil, far subtler than mind or body, and truer; for its symbolic shape depends on the nature of its Star. Why are we told that the Khabs is in the Khu, not the Khu in the Khabs? Did we then suppose the converse? I think that we are warned against the idea of a pleroma, a flame of which we are Sparks, and to which we return when we “attain.”4 That would indeed be to make the whole curse of separate existence
1996 · PDF PAGE 157
… Law is for All 111:20 The circumstances are so striking that it is well worth the while of the lay reader to become acquainted with the nature of the reasoning which attests the præterhuman character of the Author of this Book. It follows, in the words in which it was originally written, An. xvn, 0 in I, (£ in ®, June 8, 1921 E.v., with no preliminaries, in my Magical Diary, at the Abbey of Thelema in Cephalœdium of Trinacria. These verses are very subtly worded. How should I under stand this allusion to the Stèle; how “count well its name” w…
1907 · PDF PAGE 220
…ea ! CALLIOPE. Bear, bear the laureiled head Of him I loved, him dead, O Hebrus, ever downward on thy bosom iron-red ! RIVER HEBRUS. All Nature’s tunes are dull. The beautiful, The harmony of life is null. CALLIOPE. What unto us remains But in these broken strains To hymn with voices jarred the jarred world’s shriek of woe? O!0! RIVER FELEBRUS. This discord is an agony Shuddering harsh in me; My waters will empoison the fair fresh-water sea ! CALLIOPE. Nay ! all is ended now. Cover the beaten brow ! Carry the brain of music into the wide Aggean…
1929 · PDF PAGE 80
…rocosm, just as a savage might hew out a flint axe from the deposits in a chalk cliff. Similarly, an operation of Jupiter will be of the nature of the équilibration of him with Venus. Its graphie formula will be 7°=4°, and there will be a Word in which the character of this operation is described, just as Abrahadabra describes the Operation of the Great Work. It may be stated without unfairness, as a rough general principie, that the farther from original equality are the two sides of the équation, the more difficult is the operation to perform…
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
…undertook the task of re-habilitating it two générations ago. But even he (profoundly as he studied, and luminously as he expounded, the nature of Magick considered as a universal formula) paid no attention whatever to that question of the Magical Link, though he everywhere implies that it is essential to the Work. He evaded the question by making the petitio principii of assigning to the Astral Light the power of transmitting vibrations of ail kinds. He nowhere enters into detail as to how its effects are produced. He does not inform us as to …
1929 · PDF PAGE 135
…ellas. Iliel had learnt no Latin. But these words were not only Latin, but the Latin of Horace; and they were exactly appropriate to the nature of the Great [192] Experiment, "Luna" she had heard, and "regina"; and she might have guessed "puellas" and even "siderum"; but that is one thing, and an accurate quotation from the Carmen Saeculare is another. Yet they stood in her mind as if she had always known them, perhaps even as if they were innate in her. She repeated aloud: "Siderum regina bicornis audi, Luna, puellas.
1930 · PDF PAGE 20
…ost care. He should then repeat the dismissal; and if this does not suffice, he should then perform the banishing ritual suitable to the nature of the spirit and, if necessary, add conjurations to the same effect. In these circumstances, or if anything else suspicious should occur, he should not be content with the apparent disappearance of the spirit, who might easily make himself invisible and lie in ambush to do the Magician a mischief when he stepped out of the Circle — or even months afterwards. An y symhol whieh lias once definitely enter…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
… energy isolated with each aspect of Her receptivity, delight developing delight continuous from complex to complex. It was the voice of Nature awakening at the dawn of the Aeon, as Aiwaz uttered the Word of the Law of Thelema. 343
1930 · PDF PAGE 124
…thereof may enslave the soûls of men. Let Him then utter that without Fear, that the Law may be fulfilled. And according to His Original Nature will that law be shapen, so that one may déclaré gentleness and quietness, being an Hindu- and another fierceness and servility, being a Jew; and yet another ardour and manüness, bemg an Arab. Y et this matter toucheth the mystery of Incarnation, and is not here to be declared. 15. Now the grade of a Magister teacheth the Mystery of Sorrow, and the grade of a Magus the Mystery of Change, and the grade o…
1939 · PDF PAGE 28
…cannot argue it away. 21. I have treated Yama and Niyama at great length because their importance has been greatly underrated, and their nature completely misunderstood. They are definitely magical practices, with hardly a tinge of mystical flavour. The advantage to us here is that we can very usefully exercise and develop ourselves in this way in this country where the technique of Yoga is for all practical purposes impossible. Incidentally, one's real countrythat is, the conditions in which one happens to be born is the only one in which Yam…
1929 · PDF PAGE 355
…face and live, the emphasis must be on the word "man". It is the privilege of the poet that his life is fed by direct communication with nature, as a child in the womb of its mother. The man who is separate from nature, and is nourished by the gross food of his conscious impressions, produces only second-rate stuff. I feel the necessity of being absolutely shut off from the external universe --- "My life is hid with Christ in God", to borrow the phraseology of the Christian mystic. I received my inspiration directly, without even needing an int…
1905 · PDF PAGE 148
…th the effect of shattering all the solid bases of a young man’s mind. Here we find him strong enough to win through. case with a weaker nature. latter good. HElence also in part the tragedy. none but the strongest may strive. In the ‘‘ Mother's Tragedy” is a similar It is well to note that in the former play the mother is evil; in the Fora good mother is an affliction against which It is fortunately rare. 141
1930 · PDF PAGE 34
…an starting point. The student should undertake a regular) sériés of such experiments, in order to familiarise himself not only with the nature of the different spheres, but with the inner meaning of each. Of course, it is not necessary in every case to push the 154
1930 · PDF PAGE 61
…re is also a simpler method of consécration reserved for initiâtes of high rank, of which it is here unlawful to speak. According to the nature of the Sacrament, so will its results be. In some one may receive a mvstic grâce, culminating in Samadhi ; in others a simpler and more material benefit may be obtained. The highest sacrament, that of One elemenf, is universal in its operation; according to the declared purpose of the work so will the resuit be. It is a universal Key of ail Magick. These secrets are of suprême practical importance, and …