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Page 71 of 911910 · 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 …
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
…Chemistry, which enables Science to prophesy, and so in the end to discover, the existence of certain previously unsuspected éléments in nature. Ail discussions upon philosophy are necessarily stérile, since truth is beyond language. Tliey are, liowever, useful if carried far enough — if carried to the point when it becomes apparent that ail arguments are arguments in a circle. * But discussions of the details of purely imaginary : qualifies are frivolous and may be deadly. For the great danger of this magical theory is that the student may mis…
1929 · PDF PAGE 110
…e the foulest and most degraded rituals of black magic, the laws of Magick are not thereby suspended. The iaws of Magick are the iaws of Nature. A singular and world-famous exampie of this is of sufficiently recent date to be fresh in the memory of many people now living. At a nigger camp meeting in the “United” States of America, devotees were worked up to such a pitch of excitement that the whole assembly deveioped a furious form of hysteria. The comparatively intelligible Cries of “Glory” and “Hallelujah” no longer expressed the situation. S…
1929 · PDF PAGE 231
…eral Cripps; but he would have staked his life on the accuracy of a Tarot divination so obscure that he was not allowed even to hear its nature, and which in fact had not been performed. Indeed, it did not even exist, having been invented on the spur of the moment by the unscrupulous magician. "I shall tell him that the military situation is inextricably bound up with political and dynastic considerations; I shall drop a word about Anschauung and Welt-politik; you know!" Lord Juventius giggled adorably. "By the way," continued Cyril "have you a…
1930 · PDF PAGE 42
…ausses. Une géométrie ne peut pas être plus vraie qu’une autre; elle peut seulement être plus commode. . Pn veut dire (lue Par sélection naturelle notre esprit s’est adapté aux con¬ ditions^ du monde extérieur, qu’il a adopté la géométrie la plus avantageuse à l’espèce; ou en d’autres termes la plus commode. Cela est conforme tout a fait à nos conclusions; la géométrie n’est pas vraie: elle est avantageuse.” Poincaré, IL,a Science et P Hypothèse. Nous choisirons donc ces règles non parce qu’elles sont vraies, mais parce qu’elles sont les plus c…
1996 · PDF PAGE 14
…15 There is doubtless a further key to be found which will in the end elucidate the whole Book and make manifest the extremely elaborate nature of its pattern.1 1 [The source and authorship of this quotation is unknown.] 2 [Later termed the “Old Commentary”; published in The Equinox 1(7) (1912), pp. 387^00a.] 3 [Described by Crowley as the “New Commentary.”] The Book of the Law, however, is not only for mathematicians and mystics. In some one phrase or other of the Book there is a direct message for every human being. The best way for the layma…
1996 · PDF PAGE 148
Chapter II * Verse 73 149 element of one’s nature, and develop it as its own laws demand, with absolute impartiality. One need not fear; there is a natural limit to the growth of any species; it either finds food fail, or is choked by its neighbours, or overgrows itself, and is transformed. Nor need one fret about the harmony and proportion of one’s various faculties; the fit will survive, and the perfection of the whole will be understood as soon as the parts have found them selves, and settled down after fighting the matter out in the bal a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 60
…ce is sorrow, sorrow by the inherent necessity of the way it is made; sorrow not by volition, not by malice, not by carelessness, but by nature, by ineradicable tendency, by the incurable disease of Desire, its Creator, is it so, and the way to destroy it is by the uprooting of Desire ; nor is a task so formidable accomplished b y a ny t hreepenny- 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, whi…
1996 · PDF PAGE 68
… itself upon the substance of the talisman. It must be, in alchemical language, the Sulphur which fixes the Mercury which determines the nature of the Salt. The whole man, from his inmost Godhead to the tip of his tiniest eyelash, must be one engine, cumbered with nothing useless, nothing inharmonious; a thunderbolt from the hand of Jove. It must give itself utterly in the one act of love. It must cease to know itself as anything but the Will. It must not have the will; it must transform itself completely to be the Will. Last of all, the act mu…
1909 · PDF PAGE 72
…Review has been founded : (2) As the Official Organ of the A.°. A.°. (6) For publication— (1) of researches on scientific lines into the nature and powers of the human mind; (2) of stories, poems, drawings, whereby, through the medium of art, those truths which are as yet too subtle for scientific analysis may be made known; (3) of the knowledge of methods of research, higher and lower ; (4) of any other literature or art which may be considered suitable. The A.*. A.*. consists of a number of persons who have Themselves attained that condition …
1930 · PDF PAGE 52
relation of two ideas each of winch is itself as subject to change without notice” as a musical programme. Divination, in the nature of things, can do no more than put the mind of the querent into conscious connection with another mind whose knowledge of the subject at issue is to bis own as that of an expert to a layman. The expert is not infallible. 1 he client may put his question in a misleading manner, or even base it on a completely erroneous conception of the facts. He may misunder- stand the expert’s answer, and he may misinterpret its …
1938 · PDF PAGE 22
… how in the first period of recorded history men thought that life came from Woman alone, and worked by the Formula of Isis, worshipping Nature chaste and kindly, not understanding Death, or the Arcanum of Love. So, when the time was ripe, appeared the Brethren of the Formula of Osiris, whose word is I A O; so that men worshipped Man, thinking him subject to Death, and his victory dependent upon Resurrection. Even so conceived they of the Sun as slain and reborn with every day, and every year. Now, this great Formula being fulfilled, and turned…
1996 · PDF PAGE 61
…sublime a sacrament suffer profanation. It is this that has caused him, in half-instinctive, half-intellectual half-comprehension of the nature of the truth, which has driven him to fence the act about with tabus. But a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. His fear has created phantoms, and his malobservation suggested precautions scarce worthy to be called empirical. We see him combat analogous difficulties in a precisely similar manner. History shows us the physician defending mankind against plague with exorcisms on the one hand and useles…
1929 · PDF PAGE 49
…f this Art. In the case of Bacchus, however, we may roughly outline the procedure. We find that the symbolism of Tiphareth expresses the nature of Bacchus. It is then necessary to construct a Ritual of Tiphareth. Let us open the Book 777 ; we shall find in line 6 of each column the various parts of our required apparatus. Having ordered everything duly, we shall exalt the mind by repeated prayers or conjurations to the highest conception of the God, until, in one sense or another of the Word, He appears to us and floods our consciousness with t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 44
… regular practice of concentration leads to this resuit; in fact, it destroys the thing itself as we hâve hitherto conceived it; for the nature of things is always veiled from us by our habit of regarding them as in essential relation with ourselves and our reactions toward them. One can hardly expect the diviner to make Samadhi with his question — that would be going too far, and destroy the character of the operation by removing the question from the class of concatenated ideas. It would mean interpreting the question in terms of “without lim…
1996 · PDF PAGE 113
… put forth is that the initiate cannot be polluted by any particular environment. He accepts and enjoys everything that is proper to his nature. Thus, a man’s sexual character is one form of his self-expression; he unites Hadit with Nuit sacramen tally when he satisfies his instinct of physical love. Of course, this is only one partial projection; to govern, to fight, and so on, must fulfil other needs. We must not imagine that any form of activity is ipso facto incapable of supplying the elements of an Eucharist; suum cuique) Observe, however…
1904 · PDF PAGE 52
…e Sacrée.” In Figure 175 is given the Seal of the Spirit Hataner. This Spirit is said to be under the rule of BagL, and to be of a mixed nature, partly good and partly evil, like the spirits of Theurgia-Goetia which follow in the second book of the Lemegeton. NotEe.—I am not responsible for the accuracy of the above note.—EDb. 38
1996 · PDF PAGE 119
… to reason itself, what is more certain than that its laws are only the conscious expression of the limits imposed upon us by our animal nature, and that to attribute universal validity, or even significance, to them is a logical folly, the raving of our megalomania? Experiment proves nothing; it is surely obvious that we are obliged to correlate all observations with the physical and mental structure whose truth we are trying to test. Indeed, we can assume an “unreasonable” axiom, and translate the whole of our knowledge into its terms, withou…
1996 · PDF PAGE 129
130 The Law is for All 1:34 veils itself from its nature. Thus the vast bulk of humanity is obsessed by an abject fear of freedom; the principal objections hitherto urged against my Law have been those of people who cannot bear to imagine the horrors which would result if they were free to do their own wills. The sense of sin, shame, self distrust, this is what makes folk cling to Christianity-slavery. People believe in a medicine just insofar as it is nasty; the meta physical root of this idea is in sexual degeneracy of the masochis tic typ…
1996 · PDF PAGE 142
…norm of its type. At first this effort is made at the expense of other efforts, and it seems as if, the general balance being upset, the Nature were in danger. (It must obviously appear so to the casual observer—who probably reproaches and persecutes the experimenter.) But when this variation is intended to meet some new, or even foreseen, change in environment, and is paid for by some surplus part, or some part now superfluous, although once useful to meet a qual ity of the environment which no longer menaces the individual, the adaptation is…