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…s. Before I take again to the main road of my history, which I shall neither leave again or follow further than necessary, I must give a word of praise to my wives. Of course the poor creatures think I am a mere man, but apart from this 382
…on. This is where these Greetings, and Will-sayings, and Adorations come in. It is not a concentration-practice proper; I haven't a good word for it. "Background-concentration" or "long-distance-concentration" are clumsy , and not too accurate. It is really rather like a public school education. One is not constantly "doing a better thing than one has ever done" ; one is not dropping one's eye-glass every two minutes, or being a little gentleman in the act of brushing one's hair. The point is that one trains oneself to react properly at any mom…
…ry new point of view, is welcome. I want to be taught. I want to enlarge my mind. Nihil humani a me alienum puto. Even so, humani is one word too many. As I wrote in The Book of Lies. The Chinese cannot help thinking that the octave has five notes. The more necessary anything appears to my mind the more certain it is that I only assert a limitation. It is natural that my attitude should be utterly abhorrent to my fellow countrymen. But they are quite wrong to think that my ideas are anti-Anglo-Saxon. They are anti-anything which imagines itself…
… obtains is a theatrical impression of “ make-up” and “ make-believe,” and a general detachment from the realities of Consciousness. The words obsess him; he cannot see that Typhon is as necessary in the Egyptian Scheme as Osiris ; in the Christian, that Satan is but the twin of Christ. They fetter the freedom which they are supposed to unbind, producing not only a duality but a multiplicity of illusions; so that, in the end, the chances are, instead of conversing face to face with Adonai, he becomes a prig addressing a mass meeting in the Albe…
… obtains is a theatrical impression of “ make-up” and “ make-believe,” and a general detachment from the realities of Consciousness. The words obsess him; he cannot see that Typhon is as necessary in the Egyptian Scheme as Osiris ; in the Christian, that Satan is but the twin of Christ. They fetter the freedom which they are supposed to unbind, producing not only a duality but a multiplicity of illusions; so that, in the end, the chances are, instead of conversing face to face with Adonai, he becomes a prig addressing a mass meeting in the Albe…
… love restored. Thou shalt never leave the side of El Qahar, and Laila shall be sold to Haroun the goatfaced Jew.7 1. [Persian text] the word used here “ has the value of 180, which is 4 times 45, so it means that his guardian angel is on all sides of him.” So Mah- bub ! 2. All this implies that the adept has by now ac- quired the complete control of his mind and his senses. If a camel is shewn to the ordinary man, he is compelled to see a camel, and cannot per- suade himself that it is a house or an ox. If a drum is beaten near him, he is obli…
…r off, but thou shalt not partake of them save in the man- ner prescribed. For if thou change so much as the style of a letter, the holy word is blasphemed.” And this is the manner prescribed: Let there be a room furnished as for the ritual of passing through the Tuat. And let the aspirant be clad in the robes of, and let him bear the insignia of, his grade. And at the least he shall be a neophyte. Three days and three nights shall he have been in the tomb, vigilant and fasting, for he shall sleep no longer than three hours at any one time, and…
…first step being Will, Evil appears as by this defini- tion, “all that hinders the execution of the Will.” Therefore is it written: “The word of Sin is Restriction.” It should also be noted that in the Book of the Thirty 7Athyrs Evil appears as Choronzon whose number is 333, which in Greek importeth Impotence and Idleness: and the nature of Cho- ronzon is Dispersion and Incoherence. Then in the Way of Love Evil appears as “all that which tends to prevent the Union of any two things.” Thus the Book of the Law sayeth, under the figure of the Voic…
…oses is an in- discretion.”’ There is no doubt that the man had a tendency to what in a woman is called snagging. He constantly used the word “ indiscretion ”’ as if it were a weapon. We both winced. “You accept me,” he went on, “ as responsible for getting you out of this mess ? ”’ There was nothing else to do. It went against the grain. However, I blurted out something about being grateful. “You needn’t talk that nonsense,” he retorted severely. ‘‘ It’s my business to help people to do their wills. The gratitude is on my side. I want you to u…
…my strength." I went off. In a few days she joined me. The peace and beauty and solitude renewed the rapture of our love. I had given my word to do nothing to hold her and after a few days she decided to go to England; her children needed her. It was her peculiar perversity to be at one time the artist absolute; at another the mother and no more, and the trouble was that whenever common sense wanted her to be the one, she invariably assumed the personality of the other. So now, just because I represented art, music and love, her troll tugged at…
… my blood ran chill. The child shrank back into herself. The other raised her whip. I leapt into the room. The old hag spat one infamous word at me, turned on me with the whip. 117
… my blood ran chill. The child shrank back into herself. The other raised her whip. I leapt into the room. The old hag spat one infamous word at me, turned on me with the whip. 117
27 words in pretence of conversation ; thine eyes hard shut lest thou shouldst see thy lover move and perhaps (oh, worst of woes !), frighten him from thee ; fearful, oh ! infinitely fearful lest he should not love thee after all, soft words (oh, the burning cheeks, the bitten lips !) whose hidden fire shall kindle the great blaze ? How talk with thee, whose quickened hearing has not known him creep ever closer, yet afraid to touch thee, has not heard the rushing of his heart, the shortening of his breath ? How talk, if thou have not felt one t…
… Master of the Temple find neither star nor moon. And I was about to answer him: “ The light is within me.” But before I could frame the words, he answered me with the great word that is the Key of the Abyss. And he said: Thou hast entered the night; dost thou yet lust for day? Sorrow is my name, and affliction. I am girt about with tribulation. Here still hangs the Crucified One, and here the Mother weeps over the children that she hath not borne. Sterility is 73
… Hell. But thou, that art new-born to understanding, this mystery is too great for thee; and of the further mystery I will not speak one word. Yet for this cause am I come unto thee as the Angel of the Aethyr, striking with my hammer upon thy bell, so that thou mightest understand the mysteries of the Aethyr, and of the vision and the voice thereof. For behold! he that understandeth seeth not and heareth not in truth, because of his understanding that letteth him. But this shall be unto thee for a sign, that I will surely come upon thee unaware…
… adore Thee, Evoe! I adore Thee, I AO!” The first part of the adoration was in a sort of Gregorian chant varying with the cadence of the words. But the chorus always came back to the same thing. TN FN er ‘ ae a ae = bal aa = I a-dore Thee, Evoe ! IadoreThee,I A O! EE-AH-OH gives the enunciation of the last word. Every vowel is drawn out as long as possible. It ‘seemed as if she were trying to get the last cubic milli- metre of air out of her lungs every time she sang it. if me &
…t 1 am advocating an aristocratic revolution. And so 1 am! P.P.P.S. Short of the ideals above outlined, you may as well have a pis aller-words of astonishing insight and wisdom, not alien to the Law Thelema, and written by one who was trained on The Book of the Law. Selfconfi,dence must be cultivated in the younger members of the nation from childhood onwards. Their whole education and training must be directed towards giving them a conviction that they are superior to others [wrote HitlerJ. In the case of female education, the main stress shou…
…y makes this clear. Yesterday's vision a real illumination, since it showed me an obvious mistake which I had utterly failed to see. The word in my Kamma work (in Burma) was Augoeides, (a subsequent entry implies that the word was "given" me directly from the unseen world) and the method Invoking Often. Therefore a self-glittering One, whether my conscience approves on not, whether my desires fit or not, is to be my guide. I am to invoke often, not to criticize. Am I to lose my grade of Babe of the Abyss? I cannot go wrong, for I am the chosen …
…the manager said, had left that morning suddenly. Yes, he had left his heavy baggage. He might be back at any moment. No, he had left no word as to where he was going. Well, of course, he would be back on Saturday morning to get the five thousand. It was obvious what I was to do. I would leave the money for him, and take the manager’s receipt, and tell him to send the papers on to the Caligula at Capri. I started to count out the cash. We were sitting in the lounge. A sense of absolute bewilderment and helplessness came over me. “TI say, Lou,’ …
…weats; there is a smell and a taste which cannot be called unpleasant even, it can only be called abominable in the proper sense of that word: that which is repugnant to man. It is so detestable as to be unendurable. One might get relief by cleaning one’s teeth or by having a Turkish bath, but the energy to do such things is lacking. But if you take a fresh dose of the drug, it puts a War temporary stop to the efforts of nature to eliminate it. That is why it is such a vicious circle; and these | premonitory symptoms of abstinence are merely th…