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Page 68 of 951954 · PDF PAGE 43
10 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Letter D June 8, 1943 Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Thanks for your letter. I couldn't find the O.T.O. typescript-and then it struck me that it would be useful to await your reactions. If I were expecting some presumably important papers by post , I should get anxious after 24 hours delay (at most) and start enquiries. Anyhow, I can't find them for the moment; but Mr. Bryant said he would lend you his Blue Equinox; pages 195-270 give what you require. But the real point of your affiliating …
1954 · PDF PAGE 257
…thou wast the knower, and me." (AL, II: 12, 13) The unexpected use or disuse of capitals, the queer syntax, the unintelligibility of the whole passage: these certainly indicate some profound Qabalistic import in these texts. So we had better mark that Strictly Private, and forget it. One point, however, we have forgotten; although my Libra inclinations do bias me personally , they also make me fair-minded, "a judge, and a good judge too" in the memorable phrase of the late William Schwenk Gilbert. So I will sum up what is to be said for and aga…
1954 · PDF PAGE 333
…nearer to his home. Then why is his home near Spain? Because his parents were Germans. And why did they go to Germany? And so during the whole meditation. On another day let him begin with a question of another kind and every day devise new questions, not concerning his present situation, but also abstract questions. Thus let him connect the prevalence of water upon the surface of the globe with its necessity to such life as we know with the specific gravity and other physical properties of water, and let him perceive ultimately through all thi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 357
324 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS battle along the whole front; that is to say, I crossed to Paris, where she had a flat, and carried her off to Switzerland to spend the winter skating. Arrived at Interlaken, we found that Murren was not open, so we went on to St. Moritz, breaking the journey at Zurich. This town is so hideous and depressing that we felt that our only chance of living through the night was to get superbly drunk, which we did. (Let me emphasize that this wild adventure had not the remotest connection with Magick. Virakam was utterly igno…
1954 · PDF PAGE 393
…in regular "astral visions." Sometimes I was quite blind, as compared with Frater V.N.; for when the circle was broken one night-see the whole story in my Autohagiography-he saw and identified dozens and scores of Abramelin demons as they marched widdershins around my library, while all I saw of them was a procession of "half-formed faces" moving shadowy through the dimly-lit room. When it was a matter of the sense of touch, it was far otherwise; I got it good and hearty-but that is not the su bject of this letter. I find all this excessively t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 183
…ccomplished he arrived at Madura, and from there he journeyed to Calcutta. At this city he remained for about a month, during almost the whole of which time he suffered from sickness and fever. He however records one interesting incident, which took place during an early morning walk whilst he was in deep meditation: “Whilst in this meditation, a kind of inverted Manichaeism seemed to develop and take possession of it, Nature appearing as a great evil and fatal force, unwittingly developing within * This is a mere thought-form induced by misund…
1910 · PDF PAGE 183
…ccomplished he arrived at Madura, and from there he journeyed to Calcutta. At this city he remained for about a month, during almost the whole of which time he suffered from sickness and fever. He however records one interesting incident, which took place during an early morning walk whilst he was in deep meditation: “Whilst in this meditation, a kind of inverted Manichaeism seemed to develop and take possession of it, Nature appearing as a great evil and fatal force, unwittingly developing within * This is a mere thought-form induced by misund…
1922 · PDF PAGE 212
…t he could; but under the new law, he couldn’t do more than prescribe ten doses of an eighth of a grain apiece. Four or five sniffs, the whole thing! And he wouldn't dare to repeat it in less than a week. However, it was better than nothing. He told me where to get it made up. I found a cloak-room where I could put the packets into one, and started. The relief was immense. I went on, dose after dose. Cockie could get his own. I should tell him I had drawn blanks. I felt I could eat again, and had some light food and a couple of whiskies and sod…
1954 · PDF PAGE 323
…t what he wanted from the Sacrifice-when at long last the Camel appears on the premises-than he who, having ample means to carry out the whole Operation without risk of failure, goes through the ceremony without ever having experienced a moment's anxiety about his ability to bring it to a successful conclusion. I think personally that the error lies in calculating. The injunction is "to buy the egg of a perfectly black hen without
1996 · PDF PAGE 49
…l enthusiasm to inspire us morally and spiritually. Experi ence teaches that passions thus employed do serve to refine and to exalt the whole being of man or woman. Nuit indicates the sole condition: “But always unto me.” The epicure is not a monster of gluttony, nor the amateur of Beethoven a “degenerate” from the “normal” man whose only music is the tom-tom. So also the poisons which shock the bourgeois are not indulgences, but purifications; the brute whose furtive lust demands that he be drunk and in darkness that he may surrender to his s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 266
… hearing, contrary to my instructions. I needed them to help the three coolies with loads over the had part. They preferred to leave the whole responsibility to me, but I could not bring three heavily loaded men up such slopes without assistance, and there was nothing to do but await their return. In the meantime, I saw to my surprise that a large party had arrived at Camp 5. When I dot down I found that Tartarin's hysteria and Pighi's malignant stupidity had created yet another muddle. They had arrived at the camp, bringing with them some seve…
1904 · PDF PAGE 61
….....ds debauched ruler. As the work of putrefaction proceeded and the stench was awful, for S...ys little leaven had per- vaded his whole lump I rammed my arse-wedge frantically into his holes as they formed, as if in the insane hope of damming the damage of damned deaths fell flood. Indeed for a week or so I did more than this. The patient actually gained weight. But time tells on the strongest. In the second week I kept barely level : in the third he steadily lost ground : in the fourth he fell to pieces under me : in the fifth I sedu…
1910 · PDF PAGE 148
…body?” ‘Does a Tathagata exist after death?” ‘Does he not exist after death?” “Does * In spite of the fact that Buddhism urges that “the whole world is under the Law of Causation,” it commands its followers to lead pure and noble lives, in place of dishonourable ones, in spite of their having no freedom of choice between good and evil. “Let us not lose ourselves in vain speculations of profit- less subtleties,” says the Dhammapada, “let us surrender self and all selfish- ness, and as all things are fixed by causation, let us practise good so th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 148
…body?” ‘Does a Tathagata exist after death?” ‘Does he not exist after death?” “Does * In spite of the fact that Buddhism urges that “the whole world is under the Law of Causation,” it commands its followers to lead pure and noble lives, in place of dishonourable ones, in spite of their having no freedom of choice between good and evil. “Let us not lose ourselves in vain speculations of profit- less subtleties,” says the Dhammapada, “let us surrender self and all selfish- ness, and as all things are fixed by causation, let us practise good so th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 327
…el that he will be the happiest. When you can do this sort of thing as it should be done, without embarrassment , false shame, with your whole heart in your words-do it simply, to sum up-you will find yourself way up on the road to that royal republic which is the ideal of human society . Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666 P.S. Let me insist that "pity" is nearly always an impostor. It is the psychic consolation for fear, the "pitiful man" really is a pitiful man! He has transferred his own fear of what may happen to himse…
1996 · PDF PAGE 36
…is peculiarly insane on these points; her people are desperately anxious to make the Sinhalese wear furs, and the Tibetans vote, and the whole world chew gum, utterly dense to the fact that most other nations, especially the French and British, regard “American institutions” as the lowest savagery, and forgetful or ignorant of the circumstances that the original brand of American freedom—which really was Freedom—contained the precept to leave other people severely alone, and thus assured the possibility of expansion on his own lines to every ma…
1996 · PDF PAGE 150
… counts, become gradually larger and more vivid, and one’s death-periods, though very short, perhaps, may be unfath- omably intense. The whole question of Time has been thoroughly investigated already.1 2 The present remarks refer only to the conditions of “normal” consciousness, into which we throw ourselves at recur ring intervals. The doctrine here stated should be studied in the light of previous remarks; verses 61 to 74 inclusive form a coher ent passage: notice the words “death” in verses 63 and 66 and “die” in verse 68. There is eviden…
1929 · PDF PAGE 192
… the day. The weather on the Baltoro glacier may therefore be judged as quite exceptionally abominable. I have had very bad luck (on the whole) with my weather on mountains. Even in Mexico, we had a fortnight of cold and wet which had no parallel in the memory of man, and caused the stoves in the city to be sold out in the first forty-eight hours. Then I was once at Wastdale Head for forty-three days when it rained quite continuously except on one morning and one afternoon. On the other hand, during the nine days I was at Akyab it once stopped …
1904 · PDF PAGE 58
… all the world in six days, and what is con- tained therein, Ezz, Saray£, and by the power of this name PRIMEUMATON which commandeth the whole host of Heaven, curse thee, and deprive thee of thine office, joy, and place, and bind thee in the depths of the Bottomless Pit or Abyss, there to remain unto the Day of the Last Judg- ment. And I will bind thee in the Eternal Fire, and into the Lake of Flame and of Brimstone, unless thou comest quickly and appearest here before this Circle to do my will. Therefore, come thou! in and by the holy names Ap…
1922 · PDF PAGE 221
…n- gale. ‘Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird,’ he chuckled, ‘but neither wast thou born to take a course of Neo-Platonism.’ His whole point is that one mustn’t leave the rails. If I had convinced myself