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Page 83 of 1071954 · PDF PAGE 18
…rform certain exercises and prayers at set times during the day, primarily that the whole pattern of life be thus dedicated to the Great Work. He coined a phrase "background-concentration" for this procedure . It implied that by so doing, a tendency would be initiated toward concentration which would stand the student in good stead when, or as, he approached the problem of teaching the mind to center itself. Letter A gives much of this approach, but the concept is scattered throughout the book. His signature appended to all the letters is alway…
1954 · PDF PAGE 246
…n of intellect is differentiation; it deals with marks, with limits, with the relations of what is not identical ; in Neschamah all this work has been carried out so perfectly that the "rough working" has passed clean out of mind; just so, you say "I" as if it were an indivisible Unity,
1929 · PDF PAGE 59
…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 Inmost Order of the A.*. A.*. Of the last step we cannot speak. It will now be recogn…
1929 · PDF PAGE 125
…our purpose. You drive out the magical being are many cases on record of Children having been born as the resuit of such unions. See the work of De Sinistrari on Incubi and Succubi for a discussion of analogous phenomena. I. See “The Book of Lies” cap. 44, and The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley, Vol. III, pp. 209-210, where occur paraphrased transla¬ tions of certain classical Egyptian rituals. - 89
1929 · PDF PAGE 152
…ck. Almost any duffer can “pull hinself together”, devote himself to study, break off a bad habit, or conquer a cowardice. This class of work, although the easiest, is yet the most important ; for it includes initiation itself in its highest sense. It extends to the Absolute in every dimension; it involves the most intimate analysis, and the most comprehensive synthesis. In a sense, it is the sole type of Magick either necessary or proper to the Adept; for it includes both the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian An…
1919 · PDF PAGE 152
THE EQUINOX plishment of such work, particularly if uninteresting and tedious in itself, goes far towards that end. Jany. 3oth., 1911. Letter from Frater P.A. his Neophyte. From this letter he learned that many changes had transpired since he left England, and among them that Frater P.A. had severed his connection with the Outer Order, but was willing to continue in charge of him. Febry. 5th. He wondered if Frater P.A. had only told him this as a test. It must be remembered that all this while he had worked on alone, and had had no news to spea…
1919 · PDF PAGE 160
…me considerable dissatisfaction on Frater V.1.0.’s part, regarding his present state, caused him to un- dertake another regular spell of work for 32 days, after which he seems to have recorded very little until March 25 in the following year, viz., 1912. He then experimented with SSS section of Liber HHH, from Egu1nox V. and obtained automatic rigidity. He writes: “(1) Brain became charged with electric fluid or Prana, in fact whole face and hands became as if connected with an electric battery, also brain seemed luminous but void. (2) Could no…
1930 · PDF PAGE 103
…ng Démon, to his utter ruin. Therefore, after Success, let him not delight overmuch in his Deity, but rather busy himself with his other work, not permitting that which is but a step to become a goal. As it is written, Liber CLXXXV: “remembering that Philosophy is the Equilibrium of him that is in the House of Love.” 44. Concerning secrecy and the rites of Blood. —During this practice it is most wise that the Philosophus utter no Word con¬ cerning his working, as if it were a Forbidden Love that consumeth him. But let him answer fools according…
1954 · PDF PAGE 223
…ility, now? Of this I have so much experience that the merest outline could take us far beyond the limits of a letter. In Mexico D.F., I worked at acquiring the power by means of ritual. I worked desperately hard. I got to the point where my image in a 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 …
1929 · PDF PAGE 565
…the English Review. Austin Harrison welcomed me as warmly as ever, and asked me to write the centenary article on Shelley and some minor work. I signed the Shelley essay "Prometheus". I created a furore in literary London. They were stupefied. Who the devil could have written it? There were not three men in England anywhere near that class. It was the best boost the English Review had had since Frank Harris and I had left England. Mond had withdrawn his support, turning over the Review, lock, stock and barrel, gratis, on his attention being cal…
1909 · PDF PAGE 304
… ; but no one trained in the methods of science would imagine that any law of nature was really violated thereby. He would simply set to work to investigate the conditions under which so highly unexpected an occurrence took place ; and thereby enlarge his experience and modify his hitherto unduly narrow conception of the laws of nature.”—Huxley, “ Essay on Hume,” p. 155. “A philosopher has declared that he would discredit universal testimony 296
1909 · PDF PAGE 304
… ; but no one trained in the methods of science would imagine that any law of nature was really violated thereby. He would simply set to work to investigate the conditions under which so highly unexpected an occurrence took place ; and thereby enlarge his experience and modify his hitherto unduly narrow conception of the laws of nature.”—Huxley, “ Essay on Hume,” p. 155. “A philosopher has declared that he would discredit universal testimony 296
1929 · PDF PAGE 93
…son for correlating them with anything in the présent. But a subséquent examina¬ tion of the record shows that the logical resuit of the Work of Marius de Aquila did not occur to that romantic reprobate; in point of fact, he died before anything could happen. Can we suppose that any cause can be baulked of effect? The Universe is unanimous in rebuttal. If then the exact effects which might be expected to resuit from these causes are manifested in the career i. The exception is when some whimsical circumstance ties a knot in the corner of one’s …
1930 · PDF PAGE 30
…mus is pre-eminently the Master of ail modes of existence ; that is, his being is entirely free from internai or external necessity. His work is to destroy ail tendencies to construct or to cancel such necessities. He is the Master of the Law of Unsubstan- tiality (Anatta). The Ipsissimus has no relation as such with any Being : He has no will in any direction, and no Consciousness of any kind involving duality, for in Him ail is accomplished; as it is written “beyond the Word and the Fool, yea, beyond the Word and the Fool”. 5. The Grade of Ma…
1954 · PDF PAGE 136
…f Logarithms. The one aim of Mathematics, in fact-Whitehead points this out in his little Shilling Arithmetic-is to make one fact do the work of thousands. What we are looking for is a working Hierarchy of Facts. That takes us back at once to our original "addition and subtraction " remark in my letter on Mind. Classification, the first step, proceeds by putting similar things together, and dissimilar things apart. One asset in the Audit of a fact is the amount of knowledge which it covers. (2 + 5)2 = 49; (3 + 4)2 = 49; (6 + 2)2 = 64; (7 + 1)2 …
1954 · PDF PAGE 358
…RECOGNIZE MASTERS 325 My first surprise was to find that I had brought with me exactly those Magical Weapons which were suitable for the work proposed , and no others. But a yet more startling circumstance was to come. For the purpose of the Cairo Working, Ouarda and I had bought two abbai; one, scarlet , for me; one, blue, for her. I had brought mine to St. Moritz ; the other was of course in the possession of Ouarda. Imagine my amazement when Virakam produced from her trunk a blue abbai so like Ouarda's that the only difference were minute de…
1996 · PDF PAGE 39
… of “love under will” is lawful as such; but that when any act is not directed unto Nuit, who is here the inevitable result of the whole Work, that act is waste, and breeds conflict within you, so that “the kingdom of God which is within you”1 2 is torn by civil war. To the beginner I would offer this programme: 1. Furnish your mind as completely as possible with the knowledge of how to inspect and to control it. 2. Train your body to obey your mind, and not to distract its attention. 3. Control your mind to devote itself wholly to discover you…
1996 · PDF PAGE 157
… omission in the rituals ordained, and found these verses introduced among the instructions. They fascinated me; when I had finished the work in hand, I returned to them and worked for some hours with a Lexicon, starting from the word APXH, “cause,” 709, to find some phrase equal to 718 which would deny Cause. I found AZA, 9, a word meaning “dryness,” but most espe cially the dirt or mould upon a disused object. APXH AZA is, therefore, a precise expression of the doctrine expounded in our Law about “Because”. So far, so good; but this is in no…
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
of himself with his sigil. It is apparently assumed that the spirit already possesses the means of working on matter. The conception seems to be that of a schoolboy who asks his father to tell the butler to do something for him. In other words, the theory is grossly animistic. The savage tribes described by Frazer had a far more scientific theory. The same may be said of witches, who appear to hâve been wiser than the thaumaturgists who despised them. - They at least made waxen images — iden- tified by baptism — of the people they wished to con…
1929 · PDF PAGE 156
…, will most probably leave thunderstorms to stew in their own juice; but, should he décidé (after ail) to enliven the afternoon, he will work in the manner following. First, what are the éléments necessary for his storms ? He .must hâve certain stores of electrical force, and the right kind of clouds to contain it. He must see that the force does not leak away to earth quietly and slyly. He must arrange a stress so severe as to become at last so intolér¬ able that it will disrupt explosively. Now he, as a man, cannot pray to God to cause them, …