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…beyond any possibility of being traced. The loss is trifling; they can buy the stuff at a few shillings an ounce and sell it for I don’t know how many times its weight in gold. We shall have a great night to-night ! August 22 A hellish night ! Cockie kept his date with the pedlar, got ten pounds’ worth of H. and fifteen of C., and the H. was nothing at all and the C., so adulterated that we took the whole lot and it was hardly worth talking about. , What filthy mean beasts people are! ... How can men take advantage of the bitter needs of others…
1922 · PDF PAGE 323
…unning down behind him, came an even smaller boy. “‘ Love law, love will,” he said. It was obviously a point of politeness. “ They don’t know what to say,”’ explained the elder boy in a lenient tone. ‘‘ My name is Hermes,” he said to Lou, “and this is my friend Dionysus.” We broke into a fit of uncontrollable laughter which Hermes evidently thought highly improper. But Dionysus said to Lou, “I'll dive you a bid tiss.” She caught up the astonishing brat, and returned his salute with interest. When she put him down, he gave each of us one of his …
1922 · PDF PAGE 345
…of the boy; so that if he made a mistake and fell, he could immediately be caught without hurting himself. But the child himself did not know how carefully he was being watched and guarded. Basil treated him In every way as a responsible leader. Their progress was necessarily slow; but so was ours. Both Lou and I found it impossible to go more than twenty paces or so without a rest. We had plenty of time to watch them, and it was amazing to see the working of the mind of Hermes as problem after problem presented itself to him. There were many o…
1954 · PDF PAGE 54
…re that there is a result in prospect must militate against that serenity of spirit which is the essence of self-confidence. As you well know, all our automatic physiological functions are deranged if one is aware of them. This then, is the difficulty, to enjoy consciously while not disturbing the process involved. The obvious physical case is the sexual act: perhaps its chief importance is just that it is a type of this exceptional spiritual-mental condition. I hope, however, that you will remember what I have said on the subject in paragraphs…
1954 · PDF PAGE 122
…red Scripture of Thelema. Even after forty years of close expert examination, it remains to a great extent mysterious; but the little we know of it is enough to show that it is a sublime synthesis of all Science and all ethics. It is by virtue of this Book that man may attain a degree of freedom hitherto never suspected to be possible, a spiritual development altogether beyond anything hitherto known; and, what is really more to the point, a control of external nature which will make the boasted achievements of the last century appear no more t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 35
…netrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth, & her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers: Thou knowest! And the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body. 27. Then the priest answered & said unto the Queen of Space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat: O Nuit, continuous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of Thee as One but as None; and let them spe…
1996 · PDF PAGE 199
198 The Law is for All 15. Now ye shall know that the chosen priest & apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the Beast; and in his woman called the Scarlet Woman is all power given. They shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. 16. For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight. 17. But ye are not so chosen. 18. Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! 19. O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! 20. The key …
1919 · PDF PAGE 118
THE EQUINOX For know, that all things are masks or symbols of the One Truth, and nature serveth alway to point out the higher per- fection under the veil of the lower perfection. So then all the Art and Craft of human love shall serve you as an hiero- glyphic: for it is written that That which is above is like that which is below: and That which is below is like that which is above. Therefore also doth it behove you to take well heed lest in any manner you fail in this business of purity. For though each act is to be complete on its own plane, …
1922 · PDF PAGE 163
… do was to go round to King Lamus. He would give us all we needed at the proper price. Funny, too, it was Cockie that thought of that. I know he: hates the man, though he never said so except in an outburst which I knew didn’t mean anything.. We went to the studio in a taxi, Curse the luck, he was out! There was a girl there, a tall, thin woman with a white face like a wedge. We gave several hints ; but she didn’t rise, and wretched as we were, we didn’t want to spoil the market by telling her outright. Lamus would be there in the morning, she …
1922 · PDF PAGE 257
… to the chauffeur was McCall’s. He looked shocked when I was announced. “‘My dear Lady Pendragon,” he almost shouted at me very fast. “I know you'll forgive me. I’m fright- fully busy this afternoon.” (There wasn't a soul in his waiting-room.) “ Tf you'll allow me, I think thisis what you want, and I hope you will come and see me again soon. Always at your service, dear Lady Pendragon.” While he was talking he half emptied a ten-gramme bottle into a piece of paper, twisted it up like a grocer, thrust it almost rudely into my hand, and bowed me …
1922 · PDF PAGE 271
…and to-morrow morning we must see about getting you some decent rooms.” I remembered that our supply of heroin was in Greek Street. “You know, Lamus,’”’ I stammered, ‘‘ I’m ashamed to admit it, but we really can’t get on without H. We ‘tried—in fact, once we got clean away—but we couldn’t - possibly go through that again.” _-“ Nothing to be ashamed of, my dear man,” returned our physician. ‘“‘ You can’t get on without eating. That’s no reason for stopping. All I ask you to do is to do it sensibly.” “Then you won’t cut us off?” put in Lou. “ Cer…
1929 · PDF PAGE 232
… report to him at once." "May I give you some information direct?" asked Cyril. "The matter hardly brooks delay, as I see it: you should know it at once, and — to be frank — I think this my best chance of your ever hearing it." "A damned funny beginning," growled the general. "Well, get on!" The permission was not very gracious; but an irregularity is a serious thing in the British Army. General Cripps made bad worse. "Unofficially, mind, absolutely unofficially," he added, before Cyril could begin. This is the English expedient for listening t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 80
…written. * 1 Wisely they hâve been kept in the forefront of true magical instruction. Even the tyro can always rattle off that he has to know, to dare to will and to keep silence. It is difficult to Write on this subject, for these powers are indeed comprehensive, and the interplay of one with the other becomes increasingly évident as one goes more deeply into the subject. But there is one general principle which seems worthy of spécial emphasis in this place. These four powers are thus complex because they are the powers of the Sphinx, that is…
1930 · PDF PAGE 93
…luminations experienced by simple-minded men, such as a workman who “saw God” and likened Him to “a quantity of little pears”. Again, we know that ecstasy, impinging upon unbalanced minds, inflames the idolised idea, and produces fanatical faith fierce even to frenzy, with intolérance and insanely disordered energy which is yet so powerful as to effect the destinies of empires. But the phenomena of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel are a side issue ; the essence of the Union is the intimacy. Their intimacy (or rather ide…
1954 · PDF PAGE 401
…results to take place as a result of Magical experiments, this man was as strongly attracted to Geomancy as I was repelled, and I do not know that it would be fair for me to claim that I had been of any special use to him, though he was always kind enough to say so. When I pointed out that the answers to Geomantic questions were so vague and indeterminate he had already devised a method whereby this difficulty (which he admitted as existing) could be overcome. It is of course of the very first importance in Geomancy to frame your questions accu…
1954 · PDF PAGE 482
…ndidate, and he is given so many minutes to say Yes or No. He gets no second chance. But I must warn you of one particular disgrace. You know that people of low mentality haunt fortune-tellers of equal calibre, but with more low cunning. They do not really want
1996 · PDF PAGE 78
… which has been of cardinal importance in my interior life, and to which con stant reference is made in my magical diaries. So far as I know, there is no extant description of this vision anywhere, and I was surprised on looking through my records to find that I had given no clear account of it myself. The reason apparently is that it is so necessary a part of myself that I unconsciously assume it to be a matter of common knowl edge, just as one assumes that everybody knows that one pos sesses a pair of lungs, and therefore abstains from men…
1996 · PDF PAGE 208
… symbols to attribute them unto. 56. Begone! ye mockers; even though ye laugh in my honour ye shall laugh not long: then when ye are sad know that I have forsaken you. 57. He that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is filthy shall be filthy still. 58. Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other. Therefore the kings of the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves shall serve. There is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as it was. Yet there are masked ones my servants: it may be that yonder beggar …
1905 · PDF PAGE 136
…ess clouds o’er them; they shall find No rest, no hope, no tear, no funeral. Into the night, despairing, bleeding, blind, They pass, nor know their former place at all, Lost to my soul, to God, to all mankind, Like leaves that fall. 1 Gerald Kelly, the eminent painter. JEZEBEL. ParRT I. A LION’S mane, a leopard’s skin Across my dusty shoulders thrown; A swart fierce face, with eyes where sin- Lurks like a serpent by a stone. A man driven forth by lust to seek Rest from himself on Carmel’s peak. A prophet! with wild hair behind, Streaming in fie…
1922 · PDF PAGE 87
… my right side, or else, strangely enough, in a sitting position. And the thoughts began to make themselves more conscious as [ lay. You know how thoughts fade out imperceptibly as one goes to sleep. Well, here they were, fading in. I found myself practically deprived of volition on the physical plane. It was as if it had become im- possible for me to wish to move or to speak. I was