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Page 68 of 921930 · PDF PAGE 31
which he lives by the installation of new officers to présidé over its initiation. This can take place only at an “Equinox of the Gods” at the end of an “Aeon”; that is, when the secret formula which expresses the Law of its action becomes outworn and useless to its further development. (Thus “Suckling” is the formula of an infant : when teeth appear it marks a new “Aeon”, whose “Word” is “Eating”). A Magus can therefore only appear as such to the world at inter- vais of some centuries ; accounts of historical Magi, and their Words, are given i…
1996 · PDF PAGE 205
…Snake. 22. I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To wor ship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, 8c be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this. 23. Iam alone: there is no God where I am.
1909 · PDF PAGE 287
… Monokeros de Astris, the Path now open to you is the Twenty-eighth, leading from the 2° = 9° of Theoricus tothe 4° = 7° of Philosophus. Take in your right hand the Solid pyramid of the Elements and follow your guide through the Path.” D vy Then, as before, the Hierophant raises his red lamp, and cries : mae] “The Priestess with the Mask of Isis Frorsu] Lemp cheeee frtsivat| spake and said: ‘Iam the rain of Heaven Proven CH bution descending upon the Earth, bearing with it the fructifying and germinating power. fas I am the plenteous yielder of…
1909 · PDF PAGE 287
… Monokeros de Astris, the Path now open to you is the Twenty-eighth, leading from the 2° = 9° of Theoricus tothe 4° = 7° of Philosophus. Take in your right hand the Solid pyramid of the Elements and follow your guide through the Path.” D vy Then, as before, the Hierophant raises his red lamp, and cries : mae] “The Priestess with the Mask of Isis Frorsu] Lemp cheeee frtsivat| spake and said: ‘Iam the rain of Heaven Proven CH bution descending upon the Earth, bearing with it the fructifying and germinating power. fas I am the plenteous yielder of…
1922 · PDF PAGE 256
…e got out of the mess more by good luck than by good judgment. But if it weren't for that, I’m not sure that we shouldn’t be inclined to take another chance. Of course, as things are, it’s quite out of the question. It may be not the least of our luck that the lesson was so severe as it was. October 30 The fact is, we’re too young. We don’t think of the obvious thing. Of course, we’re bored stiff down here with the leaves all fallen, and the mist steaming up from the lake and swamping the house like a gas attack. We ought to be in London, and d…
1930 · PDF PAGE 121
…his question, and the method of solution, let him study the reasoning of the anatomist who reconstructs an animal from a single bone. To take a simple example. — 34. Suppose, having lived ail my life among savages, a ship is 421
1954 · PDF PAGE 225
…certain book, since published .) "Must, my foot!" He persisted: "You have published the secret of the nth degree of O.T.O., and you must take the corresponding oaths." "I have done nothing of the sort. I don't know the secret. I don't want to know it. I don't . . . " He interrupted me; he strode across the room; he plucked a book from the shelves; he opened it; he thrust it under my nose; he pointed out a passage with a minatory index. I began to stammer. "Yes, I wrote that. I don't know what it means; I don't like it; I only put it in because …
1929 · PDF PAGE 519
…tablished beliefs and customs. This criticism is invalid. I do, as a matter of fact, object to missionary enterprise as such, whether it take the {819} form of imposing the cult of Osiris on the worshippers of Adonis, of persuading the Chinese to eat with knives and forks, or of making Eastern women obscenely ridiculous by changing their superb and suitable robes for frocks which pretend to have been made in Paris. But my message differs fundamentally from all previously promulgated precisely at this point. My predecessors have invariably said,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 151
…" "Right again. And therefore she is the only serious island in this ocean of laughter. While we hunt and fish, and fight, and otherwise take our pleasure, she is toiling in the fields and cooking, and bearing children. So, all the serious words are jests, [213] and all the jokes are earnest. This, oh my brother, is the key to my light and sparkling conversation." "But — " "I know what you are going to say. You can reverse it again. That is precisely the idea. You keep on reversing it; and it gets funnier and more serious every time, and it spi…
1961 · PDF PAGE 219
…This is the last Word of the Song that thine Uncle Richard Wagner made for Worship of this Mystery. Understand thou this, o my son, as I take leave of thee in this Epistle, that the Summit of Wisdom is the opening of the Way that leadeth unto theCrown and Essence of all, to the Soul of the Child Horus, the Lord of the Æon. This Way is the Path of the Pure Fool. Amoun. o
1996 · PDF PAGE 63
…nd make it what it rightly is—the holiest part of the religious life (I say “holiest” because it redeems even physical grossness to par take with spiritual saintship)—the intention of The Book of the Law is perfectly simple. Whatever your sexual predilections may be, you are free, by the Law of Thelema, to be the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing. It is not indicated here in this text, though it is elsewhere implied, that only one symptom warns that you have mistaken your true Will, and that is, if you should imag ine that in pursuin…
1906 · PDF PAGE 201
… a task so formidable accomplished by any threepenny-bit- in-the-plate-on-Sunday morality, the '‘ deceive others and self-deception will take care of itself ” uprightness, but by the severe roads of austere self-mastery, of arduous scientific research, which constitute the Noble Eightfold Path. tor-105. There’s one. . . Six Six Six,3— This opinion has been recently (and most oppor- tunely) confirmed by the Rev. Father Simons, Roman Catholic Missionary (and head of the Corner in Kashmir Stamps), Baramulla, Kash- mir. 106. Gallup.%*— For informat…
1905 · PDF PAGE 67
…a gentleman has called; he says he must see you at once. VAUGHAN. Have you told him we are at dinner? BUTLER. Yes, sir; but he would not take that; begging your pardon, sir, he said it was only an excuse, and he wouldn’t stand any non- sense. VAUGHAN. An excuse! Who is the fellow? BUTLER. I think he is a friend of Mr. Percy's, sir. PERCY [alarmed]. It might be my father. [Asade.] And I could have finished to-night—the very last word. Something has been singing in me all day. VAUGHAN. I will come and speak to him. [Aatt. The votces are heard out…
1906 · PDF PAGE 151
…even pence of it?!” Try something easier,!8 where the bard seems to me Seeking that light, which I find come in dreams to me. Even as he takes two feasts to enlarge upon, So will I do too to Jaunch my old barge upon. Analyse, get hints from Newton ! or Faraday,” Use every weapon—love, scorn, reason, parody ! Just where he worships? Ah me! shall his soul, Far in some glory, take hurt from a mole Grubbing i’ th’ ground? Shall his spirit not see, Lightning to lightning, the spirit in me? Parody? Shall not his spirit forgive Me, who shall love him …
1996 · PDF PAGE 42
…ecile it is to hamstring herself in order to please her parents, or to legitimatize her children, or to silence her neighbours. She will take the men she wants as simply as she buys a newspaper; and if she doesn’t like the Editorials, or the Comic Supplement, it’s only two cents gone, and she can get another.
1904 · PDF PAGE 3
…ue pity for a gallant opponent — who would be wiser to surrender—that I find myself compelled to despatch half a squadron (no more !) to take him in flank. Our Author’s main argument for the Christian religion is that it is hated. To bring me as a witness to this colossal enthymeme, he has the sublime cou- rage to state that my “ Sword of Song ” begins with an effort to expound Buddhism, but that my hatred of Christianity overcame me as I went on, and
1919 · PDF PAGE 259
…urer General is appointed by the Supreme and Most Holy King; he may be a member of any grade whatever; but he must, on accepting office, take the vow of poverty. His authority is absolute in all financial matters; but he is responsible to, and may be removed at will by, the Supreme and Most Holy King. He will appoint a committee to assist him and advise him in his work; and he will usually select one person from each of the governing bodies of the Order. “Such is a brief outline of the government of the O.T.O. It combines mon- archy with democr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…ight obtain from the blood this subtle but physical substance which was the quintessence of its life in such a manner as to enable it to take on a visible and tangible shape.* 1 Those magiciens wiio object to the use of blood bave endeavored to replace it with incense. For such a purpose the incense of Abramelin may be burnt in large quantities. Dittany of Crete is also a valuable medium. Both these incenses are very catholic in their nature, and suitable for almost any materialization. But the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more e…
1929 · PDF PAGE 154
…el may resuit, and the woman’s bewildered and hungry Body of Light may turn in its distress to that of the Magician who has mastered it. Take a third case of this class 2. I wish to recover my watch, snatched from me in a crowd. Here I hâve no direct means of control over the muscles that could bring back my watch, nor over the mind that moves these muscles. I am not even able to inform that mind of my Will, for I do not know where it is. But I know it to be a mind fund- amentally like my own, and I try to make a Magical Link with it by adverti…
1907 · PDF PAGE 67
…w material ob jective sense, and nature is bound (as Levi says) “to accommodate herself to the statement of the magician.” Thus, one may take hold of a hot iron, or coal, saying “ It does not hurt ” and it doesn’t. 80101:]. I have tried that. But I thought it a question of courage and will. The Hindus have a game they call the Act of Truth. I remember one time King Brahmadatta or some ass wanted to cross the Ganges with his army and like a fool hadn’t brought pontoons; so he damned around for a hell of a time like a cat when you pepper her nose…