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Page 70 of 911930 · PDF PAGE 50
…w human love if he would attain to the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel; and suppose that his will, and that AngePs nature, were such that the Crux of their Formula was Lyrical Exaltation! Apart from the regular tests —- made at the time — of the integrity of any spirit, the Magician must make a careful record of every vision, omitting no detail ; he must then make sure that it tallies in every point with the correspondences in Book 777 and in Liber D. Should he find (for instance) that, having invoked Mercury, his vision c…
1930 · PDF PAGE 118
it is merely normal. It is difficult to describe the nature of the trick, but it will be quite obvious to anyone who has done practices (a) and (b) for a day or two. They become quite easy, and he will think that he is making progress, an illusion which close analysis will dispel. 13. Having begun to train his brain in this manner and obtained some little success, let the Exempt Adept, seated in his Asana, think first of his présent attitude, next of the act of being seated, next of his entering the room, next of his robing, etc. exactly as it …
1996 · PDF PAGE 136
…he con trary, all human progress has depended on such indulgence. Every art and science is intended to gratify some fundamental need of nature. What is the ultimate use of the telephone and all the other inventions on which we pride ourselves? Only to sustain life, or to protect or reproduce it; or to subserve Knowledge and other forms of Pleasure. On the other hand, the passions must be understood properly as what they are, nothing in themselves, but the diverse forms of expression employed by the Will. One must preserve discipline. A passion…
1904 · PDF PAGE 58
…s minute, incalculably trifling, is no answer to the moralist, to w hom degree is not known; nor to the scientist, who sees the chain of nature miss no link. If, on the other hand, the store of energy in the universe be indeed constant (whether infinite or no), if personality be indeed delusion, then theft becomes impossible, and to forbid it is absurd. We may argue that even so temporary theft may exist; and that this is so is to my mind no doubt the case. All theft is temporary, since even a millionaire must die; also it is universal, since e…
1907 · PDF PAGE 67
…have two advantages. One is the common or Garden Magic; you acquire the habit of telling truth in the low 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 fo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 57
… alfords proof as absolute as any proof can be in this world of Illusion that the correspondences in Liber 777 really represent facts in Nature. It suggests itself that this “straightforward” System of magick was perhaps never really employed at ail. One might maintain that the invocations which hâve corne down to us are but the ruins of the Temple of Magick. The exorcisms might hâve been committed to writing for the purpose of memorising them, while it was forbidden to make any record of the really important parts of the ceremony. Such details…
1930 · PDF PAGE 74
…e of Righteousness and Truth” is your duty to your Holy Guar¬ dian Angel, and the duty of the démon world to you. These powers of “evil” nature are wild beasts; they must be tamed, trained to the saddle and the bridle; they will bear you well. There is nothing useless in the Universe: do not wrap up your Talent in a napkin, because it is only “dirty money”! With regard to Pacts, they are rarely lawful. There should be no bargain struck. Magick is not a trade, and no hucksters need apply. Master everything, but give generouslv to your servants, …
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
…he impact of an external force. Newton’s First Law makes this a matter of définition. “What is truth ? ”, beyond this, inquires into the nature of this power. It is inhérent in ail things, since ail possible propositions, or their contra- dictories, can be affirmed as true. Its condition is identity of form (or Structure) of the Monads involved. It requires a quality of mind beyond the <£normal” to appreciate 0°=X, etc., directly, just as H. H. Joachim’s reasoning demands a point-of-view beyond that of the Bushman. 1 See the story, infra, about…
1996 · PDF PAGE 69
…culptor will devote himself to study and training, will sur round himself with beautiful forms, and, if possible, live in a place where nature herself testifies to the touch of the thumb of the Great Architect. He will choose the object of his passion at the nod of his Silent Self. He will not allow the prejudice, either of sense, emotion, or rational judgment, to obscure the Sun of his Soul. In the first place, mutual magnetism, despite the masks of mind, should be unmistakable. Unless it exists, a puissant purity of passion, there is no Magi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 199
…the weight Of the earth and the moon Shudder, as if fate Were involved in the tune? The portals of hate Shake at the rune Of the magical nature-cry, the song from the mountains hewn ! To the horrible hollow In Tartarus steep, O song of me, follow ! I flee to the deep. That word of Apollo Shall shudder and leap ; That word in the uttermost night shall awake them who know not of sleep. Ilear, O ye Three, In the innermost pit Dwellers that be! Tartarus, split ! Arise unto me For I call ye with wit Of the words that constrain and compel, of the sum…
1929 · PDF PAGE 144
…its restricted sense, the sense in which it was always understood until the Master Therion extended it to cover the entire operations of Nature. What is the theory implied in such rituals as those of the Goetia? What does the Magician do? He applies himself to invoke a God, and this God compels the appearance of a spirit whose function is to perform the Will of the Magician at the moment. There is no trace of what may be called machinery in the method. The exorcist hardly takes the pains of preparing a material basis for the spirit to incarnate…
1996 · PDF PAGE 105
…he other which happens to be proper to some people. Even in the first Way, it is of all things necessary to begin by exploring one’s own Nature, so as to discover what its pecul iarities are; this is accomplished partly by introspection, but prin cipally by Right Recollection1 2 of the whole phantasmagoria presented to it by experience; for since every event of life is a sym bol of part of the structure of the Soul, the totality of experience must be the “Name” of the whole of that part of the Soul which
1919 · PDF PAGE 144
…s before. The little ripple flowed on to let the whole world know, then, having delivered its message, all was still. Amen. Whatever the nature of this Illumination, probably a state of Dhyana, it left a very marked result on the consciousness of Frater V.1.O., and gave him the necessary energy to con- tinue his Work through many a dark and dismal period. He himself could not gauge its value at all at the time. He was alone in Vancouver and out of touch with the Order, having received no further word from his Neophyte since he left England. In …
1929 · PDF PAGE 70
…This lie is the essence of the Great Sorcery. Osirian religion is a Freudian phantasy fashioned of man’s dread of death and ignorance of nature. The partheno- 1. Her sole speech in the last Act is “Dienen: Dienen ”. 2. Note that alî these three remain for a time as neuters among women, prevenled from living the male life.
1996 · PDF PAGE 67
…, or financial reasons. Desdemona must not be barred from Othello for reasons of race or religion. The homosexual must not blaspheme his nature and commit spir itual suicide by suppressing love or attempting to pervert it, as ignorance and fear, shame and weakness, so often induce him to do. Whatever the act which expresses the soul, that act and no other is right. But, on the other hand, whatever the act may be it is always a sacrament; and, however profaned, it is always efficient. To pro fane it is only to turn food into poison. The act mu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 4
…but our memories indicate with uncanny accuracy what is our true will. And, as above made manifest, it is this true will which shows the nature of our proper motion. In writing the life of the average man, there is this fundamental difficulty, that the performance is futile and meaningless, even from the standpoint of the matter-of-fact philosopher; there is, that is to say, no artistic unity. In the case of Aleister Crowley no such Boyg appeared on the hillside; for he himself regards his career as a definitely dramatic composition. It comes t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 186
…t I, shall I halt At the thrice-barred portal In the lampless vault, I, half an immortal ? By love of my mother, By might of my lyre, By Nature’s assistance, I, I, not another Demand my desire, Rebuke your resistance, By mighty Apollo Whose power yet abides, Though his light may not follow Through Stygian tides ! By my power over things Both living and dead, By my influence splendid In heavenly court, The song of me springs. My favour is dread. Be your portals rended! Your bolts be as nought ! The ethereal kings Encompass my head. My soul hath …
1910 · PDF PAGE 150
…once again exert its sway over him, “and he would die as an Ardpabrahmaloka- Deva, his Sankharas giving rise to a being according to the nature of his unex- hausted Karma.” In “Buddhism,” vol. i, No. 2, p. 323, we read: “To put it another way; you say that the Universe came from Brahman, and that at one 134
1910 · PDF PAGE 171
…na, like a deer, is attracted by the sound of bells, etc., and remains immovable, a skilful archer can kill it. Whatever is heard of the nature of sound is only Shakti.* The conception of Akasat (the generator of sound) exists, as long as the sound is heard. The Soundless is called Parabramha or Paramatma.} August 14th. Bought a meditation-mat and also a bronze Buddha, Nadi-Yama§ 10 minutes in the Saivite posture, in which my body-seat fits exactly into a square of about 18 inches forming the letter Aleph. Mantra (N.S.N.A.). At the 28th minute …
1910 · PDF PAGE 150
…once again exert its sway over him, “and he would die as an Ardpabrahmaloka- Deva, his Sankharas giving rise to a being according to the nature of his unex- hausted Karma.” In “Buddhism,” vol. i, No. 2, p. 323, we read: “To put it another way; you say that the Universe came from Brahman, and that at one 134