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Page 70 of 951922 · PDF PAGE 159
…le to love until I get back. Oh, what’s the good of talking about it! I know I love him, and yet I know I can’t love any one. , I took a whole lot of cocaine. It dulled what I felt. I was able to fancy I loved him. We went to the show. It was awfully stupid. I was thinking all the time how I wanted to love, and how I wanted dope, and how I wanted to stop dope so that. the dope might do me some good. I couldn’t really feel. It was a dull, blind sense of discomfort. I was awfully nervous, too. I felt as if I were somehow caught in a trap; as if I…
1954 · PDF PAGE 38
…l peace, that is living and not stagnant ." All life is conflict. Every breath that you draw represents a victory in the struggle of the whole Universe. You can't have peace without perfect mastery of circumstance; and I take it that this is what you mean by "living, not stagnant." But it is of the first consequence for you to summon up the resolution to stamp on this sea of swirling thoughts by an act of will; you must say: "Peace be still." The moment you have understood these thoughts for what they are, tools of the enemy, invented by him wi…
1922 · PDF PAGE 19
…ell enough all those years; not likely I should bother to put them in the hands of a new man. The thing that really pleased me about the whole business was the clause in the will. That old crab had sat in his club all through the war, snapping at every- body he saw; and yet he had been keeping track of what I was doing. He said in the will that he had made me his heir ‘‘ for the splendid services I had rendered to our beloved country in her hour of need.” That’s the true Celtic psychology. When we've all finished talking, there’s something that…
1922 · PDF PAGE 295
…ontradicting myself. Make the most of it, I don’t care. I’m going to do it again in the following elegant manner. “T want you to get the whole subject of heroin out of your mind; and that is the reason why [ insist so strongly on your keeping a record of every time you take it. It’s a psychological paradox that the best way to forget about a thing is to make a memorandum of it. “Now, good-bye, and come to dinner to-night at the studio. Perhaps you'll feel like dancing.”’ He went off with an airy wave of the hand. When we came back from the danc…
1954 · PDF PAGE 36
…is also desirable before beginning a formal meal to go through the following dialogue: Knock 3-5-3; say, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." The person at the other end of the table replies: "What is thy Will?" You: "It is my Will to eat and drink." He: "To what end?" You: "That my body may be fortified thereby." He: "To what end?" You: "That I may accomplish the Great Work." He: "Love is the law, love under will." You, with a single knock: "Fall to." When alone make a monologue of it: thus, Knock 3-5-3. Do what, etc. It is my Wi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 434
…indeed most plausible is such ratiocination, that by taking into your own body , and so preserving the life of, his heart and liver, the whole of his "vital energies" will desert the sinking ship of the physical tissue, and rush to the lifeboat provided by the vampire. Never forget that you confer an inestimable benefit upon the victim by absorbing his lower form of Energy into your higher. Read your Magick, Chapter XII! You say this strongly , my dear Sister in the Lord; your thesis is impeccably stated , your arguments are cogent, plangent , …
1996 · PDF PAGE 59
60 The Law is for All The doctrine of Thelema resolves the whole question in con formity with the facts observed by science and the proprieties pre scribed by Magick. It must be obvious to the most embryonic tyro in alchemy that if there be any material substance soever endowed with Magical properties, one must class, primus inter pares, that vehicle of essential humanity which is the first matter of that Great Work wherein our race shares the divine prerogative of creating man in its own image, male and female. It is evidently of minor impor…
1910 · PDF PAGE 113
…, the powers of the Ojas rush forth and beget a Universe unimaginable by the normally minded man.+ * “ Bhagavad-Gita,” vi, 34, 35- + The whole of this ancient symbolism is indeed in its very simplicity of great beauty. The highest of physical emotions, namely, love between man and woman, is taken as its foundation. This love, if allowed its natural course, results in the creation of images of ourselves, our children, who are better equipped to fight their way than we on account of the experiences we have gained. But, if this love is turned into…
1910 · PDF PAGE 113
…, the powers of the Ojas rush forth and beget a Universe unimaginable by the normally minded man.+ * “ Bhagavad-Gita,” vi, 34, 35- + The whole of this ancient symbolism is indeed in its very simplicity of great beauty. The highest of physical emotions, namely, love between man and woman, is taken as its foundation. This love, if allowed its natural course, results in the creation of images of ourselves, our children, who are better equipped to fight their way than we on account of the experiences we have gained. But, if this love is turned into…
1930 · PDF PAGE 47
…ing an account of the Five Continents, the Océans and Seas, the most notable mountains and rivers; he could not prétend to put forth the whole knowledge that any one peasant possesses in respect of his district. But, to the peasant, these petty details are precisely the most important items in his daily life. Likewise, the Magician will be grateful to the Master Therion for the Compass that guides him at night, the Map that extends his compréhension of his country, and shows him how best he may travel afield, the advice as to Sandals and Staff …
1922 · PDF PAGE 102
…ils of life to the full. I want to explain this very thoroughly. “ William the Conqueror, 1066, William Rufus, 1087.” One can sum up the whole period of the reign of the Duke of Normandy in a phrase. At the same time, an historian who had made a special study of that part of English History might be able to write ten volumes of details, and he might, in a sense, have both aspects of his knowledge present to his mind at the same moment. _We were in a similar condition. The hours flashed by like so many streaks of lightning, yet each dis- charge …
1922 · PDF PAGE 265
… increase of knowledge has forced the thinker to specialise, with the result that there is nobody capable to deal with civilisation as a whole.
1899 · PDF PAGE 250
I move for ever to my mystic goal, Where I may drain a fountain never dry, And of Life’s guerdon gather in the whole, And on celestial manna satisfy my soul.’ ” — The Literary Gasette. ““¢ Songs of the Spirit,’ by Aleister Crowley, ascend, as the motto on the title-page —‘ Sublimi feriam sidera vertice’—in- dicates, to higher regions, which seem peopled with an unusual number of gory phantoms. They are difficult to read, and where they touch definite things more sensual than sensuous. A poet’s dreams are not often so persistently full of ‘miasm…
1929 · PDF PAGE 59
All-Father. In this complex family relationship1 is sym¬ bolisée! the whole course of the Universe. It will be seen that (after ail) the Climax is at the end. It is the second half of the formula which symbolises the Great Work which we are pledged to accomplish. The first step of this is the attainment of th^ Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, which constitutes the Adept of the Inner Order. The re-entry of these twin spouses into the womb of the mother is that initiation described in Libe»* 418, which gives admission to the…
1930 · PDF PAGE 94
…test part thereof. 19. Concerning the Lections. — Let the Philosophus read solely in his copies of the holy books of Thelema, during the whole period of his dévotion. But if he weary, then let him read books which hâve no part whatever in love, as for récréation. But let him copy out each verse of Thelema which bears upon this matter, and ponder them, and comment thereupon. For therein is a wisdom and a magick too deep to utter in any other wise. 20. Concerning the Méditations. — Herein is the most potent method of attaining unto the End, for h…
1996 · PDF PAGE 109
…poison people who are cancerous with Origi nal Sin. In Latin countries, where Sin is not taken seriously, and sex-expression is simple, wholesome, and free, drunkenness is a rare accident. It is only in Puritan countries, where self-analysis, under the whip of a coarse bully like Billy Sunday,1 2 brings the hearer to “conviction of sin,” that he hits first the “trail” and then the “booze.” Can you imagine an evangelist in Taormina? It is to laugh. This is why missionaries, in all these centuries, have produced no conversions whatever, save amo…
1906 · PDF PAGE 91
… love you till I die.” Whether next year, as fondly we made oath, Shall see us meet at least, whether as wife I shall at last gather the whole vow’s breath— Not heaven nor hell shall break our solemn troth. I love you, and shall love you all my life, I love you, and shall love you after death.
1954 · PDF PAGE 498
… wolf and an owl, although they are grouped under Pisces or Aries respectively. But Adonis, Attis , Osiris, Melcarth, Mithras, Marsyas-a whole string of them comes tripping off the tongue. They all have histories ; their birth , their life, their death , their subsequent career; all goes naturally with them exactly as if they were (say) a set of warriors , painters , anything superbly human. We feel instinctively that we know them, or at least know of them in the same sense that we know of our fellow men and women ; and that in a sense which ne…
1919 · PDF PAGE 152
…appened in this case, as the following shows. March 12th. “During Lecture on ‘Parsifal,’ I felt illumination within which per- meated my whole being, and I became conscious once more of the Truth of my previous Illumination which I had lost, as it were.” This entry is interesting. Illumination comes, and at the time there is no doubt about it. IT IS. Then, perhaps, life goes on much as before, except for the ever present remem- brance of “Something that happened”; and, having nothing with which to compare it, that Something is difficult to de- …
1954 · PDF PAGE 223
… pier-glass flickered, rather like the very earliest films did. Possibly more work, after more skill had come to me, might have done the whole trick. But I did not persist when I found out how to do it by fascination. (Here we are at last!) Roughly, this is how to do it. If one is concentrated to the point when what you are thinking of is the only reality in the Universe, when you lose all awareness of who and where you are and what you are doing, it seems as though that unconsciousness were in some way contagious. The people around you just ca…