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Page 90 of 1211919 · PDF PAGE 245
…THE LAW OF THELEMA (I say) feel themselves immediately to be kings and queens. “Every man and every woman is a star” is the first state- ment in the Book of the Law. In the pamphlet, “The Law of Liberty,” this theme is embroidered with considerable care, and I will not trouble you with further quotation. You will say swiftly that the heavenly state of mind thus induced will be hard put to it to endure hunger and cold. The thought occurred also to our founder, and I will endeavour to put before you the skeleton of his plan to avert such mis- for…
1922 · PDF PAGE 191
…Of course, I don’ t doubt that you immediately killed any such ‘pernicious suggestion’ by a counter-suggestion based on my positive statement, from experience, that people of strong character and high intelligence like yourself and Sir Peter—to whom please give my most cordial greetings |—were perfectly well able to use these things in moderation as one does soap. “ But, apart from this, do you find that the life of a ‘Heroine’ makes you abnormally ‘suggestible ?’ “ As you know, I object to the methods of Coué and Baudouin. They ask us delibera…
1929 · PDF PAGE 195
…supreme name of Love, in love; and the spell dissolved more swiftly than a dream. There was no Hecate, no sorcerer even, for [275] the moment; nothing but two murderers, and the corpse of a martyr between them. Douglas did not waste a single word of abuse on Balloch. "This is for you to clear up," he said, with a simplicity that cut deeper than sneer or snarl, and walked out of the cellar. Balloch, left to himself, became hysterical. In his act he recognized the first-fruits of the divine possession; his offering to the goddess had been stupend…
1954 · PDF PAGE 343
…d." Apart from this, we nearly all of us attend to matters like our waistline, our hours of sleep, our digestion, or our muscular development. Some men have even taught themselves to reduce the pulse-beat both in rate and in volume; so much so that they have sometimes been credited with the power to stop the heart altogether at will. Neschamah is an entirely different proposition. One of Tiphareth's prime assets is the influence, through the path of "The Lovers'," from Binah. The son's milk from the Great Mother. (From his Father , Chiah, Chokm…
1904 · PDF PAGE 40
…lled to look facts in the face, and admit that a very few hours now would see me sink a corpse at the very breach in which so many brave men had fallen fighting. For I was determined not to withdraw, even if the lady herself had been willing to let me off. This she was not. Her greasy and rotund arms held me to her bulging belly, the bloated and ill-smelling butter- bags flopping down with fat, their black nipples inflamed with lust and alcohol. Her bristly scut scraped my boyish abdomen ; her spunk-besmeared grummet stuck ever closer to my eve…
1910 · PDF PAGE 126
…orward with his arms around his knees and his hands clasped. Around the figure was an aura of heaving surfaces, and then a focussing movement which brought the surfaces very close together. “ The figure then started growing rapidly in all dimensions till it reached a vast form, and as it grew it left behind it tiny emaciated withered old men sitting in similar positions, but with changed features, so much so that I should think it were due to other reasons besides emacia- tion.” D. A. considered this medita- D1acram 85. tion very satisfactory, …
1910 · PDF PAGE 126
…orward with his arms around his knees and his hands clasped. Around the figure was an aura of heaving surfaces, and then a focussing movement which brought the surfaces very close together. “ The figure then started growing rapidly in all dimensions till it reached a vast form, and as it grew it left behind it tiny emaciated withered old men sitting in similar positions, but with changed features, so much so that I should think it were due to other reasons besides emacia- tion.” D. A. considered this medita- D1acram 85. tion very satisfactory, …
1911 · PDF PAGE 68
…voice, quickening as she goes: Lo! I gather up every spirit that is pure, and weave him into my vesture of flame. I lick up the lives of men, and their souls sparkle from mine eyes. I am the mighty sorceress, the lust of the spirit. And by my dancing I gather for my mother Nuit the heads of all them that are baptised in the waters of life. I am the lust of the spirit that eateth up the soul of man. I have prepared a feast for the adepts, and they that partake thereof shall see God. Now it is clear what she has woven in her dance; it is the Crim…
1922 · PDF PAGE 122
108 The Diary of a Drug Fiend inclemency. A small black moustache and imperial completed the disguise. But in addition, his manner of. dressing was a camouflage in itself. In Paris he had been dressed very correctly. He might have been a man about town of very good family. But now he was dressed like a courier, or possibly igh-class commercial traveller. His smartness had an element of commonness very well marked. I instinctively knew that he would prefer me not to mention his name. At this moment the train began to move, and we had to hop on. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
…red his code (which had been of a different order) and replied with a Morse B on my own system. I answered C; he returned D. From that moment we could talk fluently and freely as if we were on the terrace of the Cafe de la Paix in our beloved Paris. However, conversation in such circum- stances is a lengthy affair. During the whole march to our work he only managed to say, Escape soonplease God. Before his crime he had been an atheist. I was indeed glad to find that punishment had brought repen- tance. Bevan himself was relieved. He had car…
1929 · PDF PAGE 181
…king one's way is very arduous; and there is a good deal of luck about it, for there is no means of telling whether one may not at any moment be cut off by an obstacle. For example --- the rivulets which flow openly through small channels on Swiss glaciers may here be torrents rushing through cuttings in the ice anything up to a hundred feet broad and deep. In the Alps, I remember few such places where I could not step across easily, and those few were always within a bit of a jump. One's eyesight does not help one much to find the way. The vie…
1922 · PDF PAGE 20
… in his way, just as the desperate god battling in the air, playing pitch and toss with life and death, had been happy. Neither of those men could be depressed by mis- fortune; but the prosperous young man about town was a much inferior creature. Everything more or less bored him, and he was quite definitely irritated by an overdone cutlet. The night I met Lou, I turned into the Café Wisteria in a sort of dull, angry stupor. Yet the only irritating incident of the day had been a letter from the lawyers which I had found at my club after flying …
1954 · PDF PAGE 369
…gends. But such devices leave us without Accepted Authority, and without that nobody is going to gamble away his life. Thus the Path for men of spiritual integrity begins with absolute scepticism. Our methods must be exclusively inductive. "Gamble away his life," did I say? Indeed I did. If there is any truth at all in anything, or even any meaning in life, in Nature herself; then there is one thing, one thing only paramount; to find out who one is, what is one's necessary Way. The alternative to the Great Work is the hotchpot of dispersion, of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 210
… I may have been asleep the second time as well as the first! And of course there is no answer to that any more than there is to the argument that we are all part of the Red King's Dram, as Lewis Carroll puts the fable of Kwang-Tze. (Kwang-Tze once said to his disciples on awakening: "Just now I was dreaming that I was a butterfly: but is it so, or am I a butterfly dreaming that it is Kwang-Tze?") To return to the wicked city of Paris. J.W.Morrice, as a painter, does not possess the sternly intense passion of O'Conor. His vision lacks the blazi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 38
… following morning a cheer announced the arrival of the Sc.ts G..rds, and they unstrapped me for a meal and a drink while the doomed regiment filled the breach. But the respite was of short du- ration. Thrice in the afternoon did cavalry regi- ments thunder in : thrice the corpses of them all, men and horses, were rolled down the marble [36]
1904 · PDF PAGE 45
…him with her whole force ; he reeled, fell, and expired. Zuleika was avenged. But for all her gallantry the Amir was adamant. Your engagement was to aver- age over fifty cocks an hour (he said) and you have failed ; the penalty is known to you. The unhappy woman groaned and acquiesced. The eunuchs stuffed a vast quantity of rice into her front and back paddy-fields, and with delicate enemata of boiling water caused it to swell. They stood away at the critical moment and with yell like ten thou- sand devils in torment the bowels of the wretched …
1916 · PDF PAGE 2
… “Let Him beware ‘of abstinence from action. For the curse of His grade that He must Speak Truth, that the Falsehood thereof may censave men.” ‘The Key is this word ORAHMA—Will, Negati, first obvious meaning of this Law is confirmed by 3 ‘The word of Sin is Restriction. Again : “Thou hast noright bur to do thy will, Do that and no other shall say nay. For pore will, unaaaged ofpape, delivered from the Ina of reati ‘every way Take thi ere it seems to imply a theory that if ‘very man and every woman did his and her will—the true I—there would be …
1929 · PDF PAGE 203
…er the unutterable Name That calls all souls, the greatest and the least, To the unimaginable marriage-feast; And, in the self-same sacrament, is stirred To recreate their essence with a Word; This All, this Sire and Lord of All, abides Behind the unbounded torrent of Its tides, [285] In silence of all deed, or word, or thought, So that we name It not, or name It Naught. This is the Truth behind the lie called God; This blots the heavens, and indwells the clod. This is the centre of all spheres, the flame In men and stars, the Soul behind the n…
1929 · PDF PAGE 446
…matter, to harmonize and sanctify the blind forces of the universe? Thus: I know that HB:Heh HB:Vau HB:Heh HB:Yod represents the four elements; that 4 is a number symbolizing limitation. It is the square of 2, the only number which cannot be formed harmoniously into a "Magic Square". (Two represents the Dyad, the original Error.) I know also that the letter Shin represents a triune essence, the fire of the Spirit, and in particular Ruach Elohim, the Spirit of the Gods, because these two words have the numerical value of 300, which is also that …
1961 · PDF PAGE 163
…the New Æon revealeth this Sphinx as the true Symbol of this our Holy Art of Magick under the Law of Thelema. In Her is the equal Development and Disposition of the Forces of Nature, each in its Balanced Strength; also Her True Name has the Digamma for Phi, and endeth in Upsilon, not in Xi, so that Her Orthography is S#inu whose Numer-ation is Six Hundred and Three Score and Six. For the Root thereof is S#, which signifieth the Incarnation of the Spirit; and of Kin are not only the Sun, Our Father, but Sumer, where Man knew himself Man, and Som…