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… on the worid. This is no small service rendered to humanity. And when we remember further that in another direction magic has paved the way for science, we are forced to admit that if the black art has done much evil, it has also been the source of much goodj that if it is the child of error, it has yet been the mother of freedom and truth.” Ibid. XIV
… are again two formulæ exactly opposite in nature. A word may become potent and terrible by virtue of constant répétition. It is in this way that most religions gain strength. At first the statement “So and so is God” excites no interest. Continue, and you meet scora and scepticism: possibly persécution. Continue, and the controversy has so far died out that no one troubles to contradict your assertion. No superstition is so dangerous and so lively as an exploded superstition. The newspapers of to-day (written and edited almost exclusively by m…
…and most effective dances is the ordinary waltz-step combined with the three signs of L.V.X. It is much easier to attain ecstasy in this way than is generally supposed. The essence of the process consists in the struggle of the Will against giddiness; but this struggle must be prolonged and severe, and upon the degree of this the quality and intensity of ecstasy atained may dépend. With practice, giddiness is altogether conquered; exhaustion then takes its place as the enemy of Will. It is through the mutual destruction of these antagonisms in …
…, and reaped a harvest of fraudulent gain. They took advantage of the general ignorance, and the convention of mystery, in just the same way as their modem successors do in the matter of ail Occult sciences. But despite all.this, one thing is abundantly clear; ail serious writers, though they seem to speak of an infinity of different subjects, so much so that it has proved impossible for modem analytic research to ascertain the true nature of any single process, were agreed on the fundamental theory on which they based their practices. It appea…
… new worlds are from the start recognised as already existing within the human cosmos, but nobody is asked to extend these worlds in any way; on the contrary the object is to analyse ever more minutely, and the control to which one approaches is not external but internal. At all times one is concentrated on the idea of simplication. The recognition of any new idea or form of ideas, is invariably the signal for its rejection: "not that, not that." One might simplify this explanation by constructing some sort of apophthegm; Magic is the journey f…
…Will 363 the hospitality of the Abbey. Song and dance were in full swing. Basil and I fell into a quiet chat. ‘“* How long is it, by the way,” he said, “ since you last took a dose of anything ? ”’ ‘I’m not quite sure,’”’ I answered, dreamily watching Lou and Lala, who had arrived a week since with the apparatus I required for my experiments, as_ they waltzed together on the court. They were both radiant. It seemed as if the moon had endowed them with her pure subtlety and splendour. “IT asked you,” continued Big Lion, pulling at a big meerscha…
… my tribute —a jolly good strong ’un—— 160 To the eunuch, the faddist, the fool, and the wrong ’un ! It’s fun when you say “A mysterious way * God moves in to fix up his Maskelyne tricks. He trots on the tides, on the tempest he rides (Like Cosmo); and as for-his pace, we bethought us 165 Achilles could never catch up with that tortoise !” No flyer, but very “ Who’s Griffiths?” * No jackpot ! I straddle the blind, age! At hymns I’m a moral ; In Sankey, your kettle may call me a black pot. Here’s diamond for coke, and pink pearl for pale coral. …
…of Fear In the Fear-God’s Power, And their names disappear As the fall of a flower! The universe-day (Whereof I am a second) Shall fall away And be no more reckoned; Shall fall into ruin. (Sad garden it grew in !) Unguessed at, unknown, Beyond them alone, Is a space that is grey As it caught them, and beckoned, And lost them—their way Is nor counted nor reckoned ! Inconceivable hollow, Eternity’s womb! Cataclysmal they follow, Tomb hidden in tomb. Keeled off and unspun, Time’s fashion is done In the ultimate Abysses of fate. ‘Kons they swallow,…
… letter from the lawyers. That was another new experience. I had no idea before of the depths to which servility could descend. “ By the way, Sir Peter,’’ said Mr. Wolfe, ‘it will, of course, take a little while to settle up these matters. It’s a very large estate, very large. But I thought that with times as they are, you wouldn’t be offended, Sir Peter, if we handed you an open cheque for a thousand pounds just to go on with.” It wasn’t till I had got outside his door that I realised how badly he wanted my business. He need not have worried. …
…at 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 dance the porter told us that a lady and gentleman had called to see us. They hadn’t left their names. They would call again in the morning. It struck me as curious ; but I gave the matter …
…ush of general beauty ; they emerge one by one as the shock subsides, and passionate rapture yields to intelligent interest. In the same way the Adept almost always begins by torrential lyrics panting out mystical extravagances about “ineffable love”, “unimaginable bliss”, “inexpressible infinities of illimitabie utter- ness”. 1 He usually loses his sense of proportion, of humour, of reality, and of Sound judgment. His ego is often inflated to bursting point, till he would be abjectly ridiculous if he were not so pitifully dangerous to himself …
… spurious!" But then I'm not a R.G.T. of that kind. For a start, of course, you should put down the words that are bound to come in your way in any case: numbers like II, 13, 31, 37 and their multiples; the names of God and the principal angels; the planetary and geomantic names; and your own private and particular name with its branches. After that, let your work on the Astral Plane guide you.
…tier still-it is a blessed, blessed comfort that they happen, that chance, coincidence, and all the rest will simply not explain it all away, that your new vision of life is not a dream, but part and parcel of Experience for evermore, as real as any other manifestation of Reality through sense such as is common to all men. And this brings us-it has been a long way round-from the suggestion of your visit to the question (hitherto unanswered) in your letter. You raise so vast and razor-edged a question when you write of the supposed antinomy of "…
… summers. She came of a noble Polish family; she was short, sturdy , rather plump but singularly agile; good-looking in a brutal sort of way. But-her eyes! For fifty years she had lived nearly all the year round in her chateau in Touraine. She had plenty of money, and had always surrounded herself with a dozen or more boys and young men. (By young I mean up to forty .) She not only looked twenty-five but she lived twenty-five. It was a genuine , natural , spontaneous twenty-five, not a gallant effort. She would dance the night through and go a …
…ove, 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 a supernatural channel, that is to say, if the joys and pleasures of this world are renounced for some higher ideal still, an ideal super-worldly, then will it become a divine emotion, a love which will awake the human soul and urge it on through all obstructions to its ultimate union with the Supreme Soul. To teach this…
…ove, 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 a supernatural channel, that is to say, if the joys and pleasures of this world are renounced for some higher ideal still, an ideal super-worldly, then will it become a divine emotion, a love which will awake the human soul and urge it on through all obstructions to its ultimate union with the Supreme Soul. To teach this…
one’s way about it, to penetrate such sanctuaries as are guarded from the profane, to make such relations with its inhabitants as may avail to acquire knowledge and power, or to command service 5 ail this is a question of the general Magical attainment of the student. He must be absolutely at ease in his Body of Light, and hâve made it invulnérable. He must be adept in assuming ali God- forms, in using ail weapons, sigils, gestures, words, and signs. He must be familiar with the names and numbers pertinent to the work in hand. He must be alert,…
…. Letter A gives much of this approach, but the concept is scattered throughout the book. His signature appended to all the letters is always "666." This may require a few words of explanation for the reader who has not read other Crowley books and become familiar with the symbol. Crowley was brought up in a household dominated by the religion of the Plymouth Brethren in England. This is a fundamentalist Christian sect which, among many other things, regarded the Bible literally as the inspired word of God. Thus it could not be changed in any w…
… more likely, since in this divine love no élément may be omitted. It is by virtue of this completeness that no human love may in a 113/ way attain to more than to foreshadow a little part thereof. 34. Concerning Mortifications. — These are not necessary to this method. On the contrary, they may destroy the concentration, as counter-irritants to, and so alleviations of, the suprême mortifi¬ cation which is the Absence of the Deity invoked. Yet as in mortal love arises a distaste for food, or a pleasure in things naturally painful, this perversi…
… very much the idea of Karma. You cannot have both. The question about money does not arise. This old and very good rule (which I have always kept) was really pertinent to the time when there were actual secrets. But I have published openly all the secrets. All I can do is to train you in a perfectly exoteric way. My suggestion about the weekly letter was intended to exclude this question, as you would be getting full commercial value for anything paid. Your questions about the Spirit of the Sun, and so on, are to be answered by experience. Int…