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Page 87 of 1141910 · PDF PAGE 134
…awn of creation. Gusts of liquid fire flamed and whirled through the darkness. Then nothing but the brilliance of fire and water. I was away fifteen minutes. 4. Seven minutes breathing exercise fifteen seconds each way. (Breathing in, withholding, and breathing out.) 5. White Lion on Gray, 5m. Result bad, 2ist. Position 1. 45m. Fair. Worked out a “double” formula for Physical Astral Projection. First project with Enterer sign; Simulacrum answers with Harpo- crates sign.|| Then as soon as Enterer sign weakens change conscious- ness as for Astral…
1910 · PDF PAGE 134
…awn of creation. Gusts of liquid fire flamed and whirled through the darkness. Then nothing but the brilliance of fire and water. I was away fifteen minutes. 4. Seven minutes breathing exercise fifteen seconds each way. (Breathing in, withholding, and breathing out.) 5. White Lion on Gray, 5m. Result bad, 2ist. Position 1. 45m. Fair. Worked out a “double” formula for Physical Astral Projection. First project with Enterer sign; Simulacrum answers with Harpo- crates sign.|| Then as soon as Enterer sign weakens change conscious- ness as for Astral…
1954 · PDF PAGE 138
…! Keep your blouse on! I didn't go for to do it. You're quite right: the Tree of Life is like that, in appearance. But that is the wrong way to look at it. We get our number two, for example, as "that which is common to a bird's legs, a man's ears, twins, the cube root of eight, the greater luminaries, the spikes of a pitchfork," etc., but having got it, we must not go on to argue that the number two being possessed of this and that property, therefore there must be two of something or other which for one reason or another we cannot count on ou…
1996 · PDF PAGE 97
…follow the instructions communicated to Him only in order to show that “nothing would happen if you broke all the rules.” Poor fool! The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them. Aiwaz here explains that his power over me depended upon II: 12 the fact that Hadit is verily “the core of every star.” As is well known, there is a limit to the power of the hypnotist; he cannot overcome the resistance of the Unconscious of his patient. My…
1929 · PDF PAGE 375
375 Sir Palamedes was the most ambitious attempt to describe the Path of the Wise as I knew it. It is in its way almost complete, but there is no attempt to show the necessary sequence of the ordeals described in each section. The last section, in which Sir Palamedes, after achieving every possible task and finding that all his attainments did not bring him to the end of his Quest, abandons the following of the Questing Beast; he returns, discomfited, to the Round Table, only to find that, having surrendered, the Questing Beast comes to him of …
1929 · PDF PAGE 38
…of 4 is Chesed, referred to Water. 4 is ruled by Jupiter, Lord of the Lightning (Fire) yet ruler of Air. Each Sephira is complété in its way. 2
1929 · PDF PAGE 84
…owing manner. The moon is in itself a dark orb; but an appearance of light is communicatec! to it by the surij and it is exactly in this way that successive incarnations create the appearance, just as the individual star, which every man is, remains itself, irrespective of whether earth perceives it or not. Now it so happens that the root GN signifies both knowledge and génération combined in a single idea, in an absolute form independent of personality. The G is a silent letter, as in oür word Gnosisj and the sound GN is nasal, suggesting ther…
1929 · PDF PAGE 154
…nother man, even a stranger, by sheer concentration of will, ceremonially or otherwise wrought up to the requisite potential. But in one way or another that will must be i. The cérémonial method would be to transfer to the watch — linked naturally to me by possession and use — a thought calculated to terrify the thief, and induce him to get rid of it at once. Observing clairsentiently this effect, suggest relief and reward as the resuit of restoring it.
1904 · PDF PAGE 58
… act commits it; but I feel that this is no place for metaphysical hair- splitting; let us prove w hat w e have to prove in the plainest way. I would premise in the first place that to commit adultery in the D ivorce C ourt sense is not here in question. It assumes too much proprietary right of a man over a woman, that root of all abomina- tion !—the whole machinery of inheritance, property, and all the labyrinth of law. We may more readily assume that the Buddha was (apparently at least) condemning incontinence. We know that Buddha had abandon…
1929 · PDF PAGE 545
…y life as a child should. I gave him and Dionysus their first lessons in rock climbing. In two or three days they began to find the best way to tackle a crag and to use their muscles to the best advantage. The central principle of my teaching is to compel the pupil to rely on his own resources, and having thus acquired good judgment and confidence, to develop intelligent initiative. One must show them how to choose the best hand holds and foot holds, but not let them acquire the habit of looking for the teacher to tell them what to do. They mus…
1913 · PDF PAGE 279
…s, The (Aveister Crowley), II, 201 Winds, The Four (Aleister Crowley), VII, 179 Wisdom While You Waite (Avcister Crowley), V, 133 Wizard Way, The (Aleister Crowley), 1, 37 Woodcutter, The (Aleister Crowley), VIII 79 Worms, The Three (Edward Storer), IV, 317 X-rays on Ex-Probationers (Aleister Crowley), V, 142 Yarker, John, In Memoriam (Grand Secretary M 3M 3M .),X, xix Young Lay Violinist, Lines to a (Aleister Crowley), 1X, 13 Zircon, Professor (Aleister Crowley), VIII, 9% 241
1913 · PDF PAGE 279
…s, The (Aveister Crowley), II, 201 Winds, The Four (Aleister Crowley), VII, 179 Wisdom While You Waite (Avcister Crowley), V, 133 Wizard Way, The (Aleister Crowley), 1, 37 Woodcutter, The (Aleister Crowley), VIII 79 Worms, The Three (Edward Storer), IV, 317 X-rays on Ex-Probationers (Aleister Crowley), V, 142 Yarker, John, In Memoriam (Grand Secretary M 3M 3M .),X, xix Young Lay Violinist, Lines to a (Aleister Crowley), 1X, 13 Zircon, Professor (Aleister Crowley), VIII, 9% 241
1929 · PDF PAGE 57
…tails of Ritual as we possess are meagre and unconvincing, and though much success h as been attained in the quite conventional exoteric way both by Frater Perdu- rabo and by many of his colleagues, yet ceremonies of this character hâve always remained tedious and difficult. It lias seemed as if the success were obtained almost in spite of the ceremony. In any case, they are the more mysterious parts of the Ritual which hâve evoked the divine force. Such conjurations as those of the “Goetia” leave one cold, although, notably in the second conju…
1929 · PDF PAGE 78
… Solomon the King”. It represents the Great Work complété, and it is therefore an archétype of ail lesser magical operations. It is in a way too perfect to be applied in 1. Chaos is a general name for the totality of the Units of Existence; it is thus a name féminine in form. Each unit of Chaos is itself All- Father. 42
1929 · PDF PAGE 123
…h the purpose of the work constantly in mind. Even when all this is done, the Grimoire is hardly begun; for it must be copied out in the way above indicated; and it should be illuminated with every kind of appropriate design. This was an ideal task for Arthwait; he was able to wallow in dog-latin and corrupt Greek-Coptic; he made sentences so complicated that the complete works of George Meredith, Thomas Carlyle, and Henry James, tangled together, would have seemed in comparison like a word of three letters. [176] His Grimoire was in reality ex…
1904 · PDF PAGE 10
… Nothing can part them for ever. And so, Muse, hover o’er me ! Apollo, above her ! I, of the Moderns, have let alone Greek.21 Out of the way Intuition shall shove her. Spirit and Truth in my darkness I seek. Little by little they bubble and leak; Such as I have to the world I discover. Words—are they weak ones at best ? They shall speak ! 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 Apology of poet. Skeleton of poem. Valuable fact for use of lovers. Invocation. Imperfect scholastic at- tainements of author reme- died by his great spiritual insight. His intention.
1930 · PDF PAGE 119
…y by the added memories which arise. 19. It is useful to reflect during this practice, which in time becomes almost mechanical, upon the way in which effects spring from causes. This aids the mind to link its memories, and préparés the adept for the preliminary practice of the second method. 20. Having allowed the mind to return for some hundred times to the hour of birth, it should be encouraged to endeavour to penetrate beyond that period. 1 If it be properly trained to run backwards, there will be little difficulty in doing this, although it…
1954 · PDF PAGE 405
… however is there any sort of reason at all for discouragement; and as I said above the cure in all cases is apparently the same. In one way or another the veil is rent, the pupil becomes
1996 · PDF PAGE 139
…orth all our pains, as we say to our selves at first; but in a little while are aware that even that Goal is less intoxicating than the Way itself. We find that it matters little whither we go; the Going itself is our gladness. I quote in this connection “Liber LXV,” 11:17-25, one of several similar passages in Our Holy Books. 17. Also the Holy One came upon me, and I beheld a white swan floating in the blue.
1929 · PDF PAGE 522
…hristianity and commerce. I saw my cousin Lawrence, as decent a lad as one could wish to see, spiritually stunted and corrupted in every way by savage superstition; his wife, hardly turned thirty, a wrinkled hag of sixty, with no idea of life beyond the gnawing fear for the hereafter and the horrible pleasures of venting her spite on her neighbours and thwarting and persecuting her children; his son, deprived of every boyish amusement, driven to secret indulgence in the most wretched vices, and his sisters (one of them with a voice which would …