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…nd then pull out a cigar that cost half as much again as his dinner. He studied our charts as if they had been maps and he was trying to work out his overland route from Bokhara to Khatmandu |! Ultimately he said, “‘ There seems a very long gap here—fifteen hours—g to 12, that’s right, isn’t it?” He turned to Maisie for confirmation. He was, so he said, quite unable to trust himself to calculate. Maisie entered into the spirit of the absurdity and counted it solemnly out on her fingers. The tone of his voice had been mournful, as if his plans h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 48
…t strongly appeals to him, so that his natural excess in that direction will be still further exaggerated. Let him, before beginning his Work, endeavour to map out his own being, and arrange his invocations in such a way as to redress the balance. 2 This, of course, should hâve been done in a preliminary fashion during the préparation of the weapons and furniture of the Temple. To consider in a more particular mammer this question of the Nature of Ritual, we may suppose that he finds himself lacking in that perception of the value of Life and D…
1930 · PDF PAGE 108
…uarded (See Liber CLXXXV, Task of a Néophyte). A diligent and tractable disciple, or the Practicus of the Zelator, should aid him in his work. Such a disciple should be noiseless, patient, vigilant, prompt, cheerful, of gentle manner and reverent to his master, intelligent to anticipate his wants, cleanly and gracious, not given to speech, devoted and unselfish. With ail this he should be fierce and terrible to strangers and ail hostile influences, determined and vigorous, increasingly vigilant, the guardian of the threshold. It is not désirabl…
1954 · PDF PAGE 323
…, there you said something; the refutation will lead us to open a new chapter. Ought not X to have laid down a comprehensive scheme, and worked out the details, so that he would not break down half-way through for lack of foresight and provision for emergencies? An example. Suppose that the next step in his Work involved the sacrifice of a camel in a house in Tooting Bec, furnished in such fashion as his Grimoire laid down, and that the purchase of the house left him without resources to buy that furniture, to say nothing of the camel. What a f…
1954 · PDF PAGE 379
…or, force and fire, are of us." (A L, II: 20) What's more, meanness does not even pay! I propose to tell you why this is, and how things work out. What is money? A medium of exchange devised to facilitate the transaction of business. Oil in the engine. Very good, then; if instead of letting it flow as freely and smoothly as possible, you baulk its very nature; you prevent it from doing its True Will. So every "restriction" (that word again!) on the exchange of wealth is a direct violation of the Law of Thelema. Parable No. Three, "The Fairy Ban…
1996 · PDF PAGE 174
…g, cart’s tail dragging, whipping, pillory posting, walling-up, divorce court, eunuch, harem, mind-crippling, house-imprisoning, menial-work wearying, creed-stultifying, social-ostracism marooning, Divine wrath-scaring, and even the device of creating and encouraging prostitution to keep one class of women in the abyss under the heel of the police, and the other on its brink, at the mercy of the husband’s boot at the first sign of insubordination or even of failure to please. Man’s torture-chamber had tools inexhaustibly varied; at one end m…
1904 · PDF PAGE 61
… surpassing for I was now come to my strength the childish efforts upon the queenly butter-boat of E.....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…
1910 · PDF PAGE 128
… Mirror of the Universe very clearly in its colours.” Towards the end of April P. drew up for himself the fol- lowing daily Task: (1) To work through the first five of the seven mental operations. (2) The assumption of God forms.t (3) To meditate on simple symbols with the idea of discovering their meaning. (4) Rising on planes. (5) Astral Visions.§ (6) Adonai ha Aretz,|] * This description of Hong-Kong is as correct as can be expected from so short a visit. The conversation was subsequently verified by letter, and also again when they met seve…
1910 · PDF PAGE 128
… Mirror of the Universe very clearly in its colours.” Towards the end of April P. drew up for himself the fol- lowing daily Task: (1) To work through the first five of the seven mental operations. (2) The assumption of God forms.t (3) To meditate on simple symbols with the idea of discovering their meaning. (4) Rising on planes. (5) Astral Visions.§ (6) Adonai ha Aretz,|] * This description of Hong-Kong is as correct as can be expected from so short a visit. The conversation was subsequently verified by letter, and also again when they met seve…
1919 · PDF PAGE 141
… Asana and perform his meditations out in the rain, clad in pyjamas, because his tiny tent in British Columbia was too small to allow of work inside. But we digress. At this point his record breaks off abruptly. He remained in London until May of 1910, when circumstances arose which made it pos- sible for him to visit British Columbia. Armed then with his instruction paper, THe Egurnox,and 133
1904 · PDF PAGE 90
be fit for work tonight. The lioness used to lick it with some effect, I remember. Couldnt ask Eve to do that, though. It would degrade her, Im sure. I must try and raise her to my level rather than Damn that potato patch ! It must be dug over to- morrow, and only the old flint spade still. A man in Lord Gods position House of Lords, stake in the country, and all that ought to provide iron spades this is the only country planet for bil- lions of miles where science hasnt penetrated, so that young prince says dont believe hes a rea…
1996 · PDF PAGE 36
… by Experience, since they would not learn from Germany. Now this age is pre eminently a “time of war,” most of all now, when it is our Work to overthrow the slave-gods. The injunction “seek me only” is emphasized with an oath, and a special promise is made in connection with it. By seeking lesser ideals one makes distinctions, thereby affirming implicitly the very duality from which one is seeking to escape. Note also that “me” may imply the Greek MH, “not.” The word “only” might be taken as with the number of 156, that of the Secret Name Bab…
1996 · PDF PAGE 293
…ons about Mysticism.” Malory, Thomas. Le Morte d’Arthur, ed. Janet Cowen. 2 vol. Lon don and New York: Penguin, 1986). Also in Malory’s Works, ed. Eugène Vinaver (2nd ed., London: Oxford up, 1971). Crowley considered this work “valuable as a storehouse of occidental Magick-lore.” Regardie, Francis Israel. The Golden Dawn. Chicago: Aries, 1937; 4th ed., St. Paul: Llewellyn, 1974; 6th rev. ed. 1989, rpt. 1993. Revised edition, The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic (Phoenix: Falcon, 1984). Russell, Bertrand. Introduction to Mathematical Philos…
1907 · PDF PAGE 70
…Bowley. Ob, brother, this is fulsome. Bones. Ass! . . . He lives (it is true) in Kether; but his mind and body, perfect though they are, work, as it were automatically, in their own plane. At present I am quite unconscious of my heart heating; it is not even an illusion! Yet it maintains its just relation to the other illusory things. So, no doubt, an adept is quite unconscious of the acts and thoughts performed by him, acts and thoughts which seem to imply conscious volition. What about your poetry? Bowley. Certainly, I am never—very seldom—ve…
1922 · PDF PAGE 221
…sign; and as so many of these are beyond the control of any human intelligence, it leads one to suppose that there is some individual at work somewhere beyond our limitations of sense who has made me a singer instead of a milliner.” “Oh, yes, Maisie,” I interrupted, ‘‘ but that’s the old argument that the design of the Universe proves the existence of God; and people have stopped be- lieving in God chiefly because the design was shown to be incompatible with a consistent character.” “Oh, certainly,” she admitted without a qualm. “The evidence g…
1922 · PDF PAGE 222
…o suggest a title for the picture. ‘ Paint me as a dead soul,’ she answered. He caught up the phrase with fiery enthusiasm, and began to work on an enormous screen, a triptych with the strangest beasts and birds and faces, all arranged to lead up to
1954 · PDF PAGE 384
…tual values; they re, in the most literal sense, inestimable. So-don't start to :ount! Most obviously of all, when it comes to the Great Work, noney does not count at all. I do not write of any Magical vork, in the restricted sense of the phrase. Shaw says: 'Admirals always want more battleships" and J.F.C. Fuller: 'if a lawyer, more wretches to hang." It applies to anyone vhose heart is in his job. (Of course, in this case, money is ike all other things of value; nothing counts but the Job.) ['his, too, is sound Magical doctrine.
1906 · PDF PAGE 141
… Mine is the clang Of the olden door. Half the secret I gave: no more! Half the secret Hidden I keep. Hide it deep! That is mine! I will work. He is nought. The runes divine Awry be wrought. Hail to the murk! [A adtstant whine ts heard. Cover me! Lurk, Rupha, lurk ! ’Tis a foe. Ho! Ho! [Clouds have been obscuring the moon ; zt is mow dark. A fox passes over the stage. Crafty ! Crafty ! That is the omen. Fear not the foemen ! [She rzses up. Mine is the spoil Of the grimly toil. Gloomy, gloomy! | Ah! but I laugh. He is but a fool. He has lost ! H…
1930 · PDF PAGE 46
…airyland”, with a Pagan Pantheism as its keynote, sometimes concealed by Christian nomenclature: the “Alchemical” plane, where the Great Work is often presented under the form of symbolically constructed landscapes occupied by quasi-heraldic animais and human types hieroglyphically distinguished, who carry on the mysterious operations of the Hermetic Art. There are also “planes” of Parable, of Fable, and of Folk-lore; in short, every country, creed, and literature has given its character- istic mode of présentation to some “plane” or other. But…
1930 · PDF PAGE 113
…f the Seventh. 7- ATMrN. (We add the following, contributed by a friend at that time without the A.-. A .'. and its dépendent orders. He worked out the method himself, and we think it may prove useful to many. O. M.). i. The beginner must first practise breathing regularly through the nose, at the same time trying hard to believe that the breath goes to the Ajna and not to the lungs. The Pranayama exercises described in the Equinox Vol. i, No. 4, p. ioi must next be practised, always with the idea that Ajna is breathing. Try to réalisé that pow…