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…g, toothless, hairless Coote, debauch-emas- culated Buddha, come ye to me? I havea trick to make you silent, O ye foamers-at- the mouth! Nature zs wasteful; but how well She can afford it! Nature zs false; but I’m a bit of a liar myself. Nature zs useless; but then how beautiful she is! Nature zs cruel; but I too am a Sadist. The game goes on; it may have been too rough for Buddha, but it’s (if anything) too dull for me. Viens, beau négre! Donne-moi tes levres encore} 96
1919 · PDF PAGE 427
…difficult to make out what the Authoress really wants you to do. 44. Thou hast to saturate thyself with pure Alaya, be- come as one with Nature’s Soul-Thought. At one with it thou art invincible; in separation, thou becomest the play- ground of Samvritti, origin of all the world’s delusions. This means, acquire sympathy with the universal Soul of Nature. This Soul of Nature here spoken of is of course imagined as something entirely contrary to anything we really know of Nature. In fact, it would be difficult to dis- tinguish it from a pious fic…
1919 · PDF PAGE 15
…hole of the Law. THE world needs religion. Religion must represent Truth, and celebrate it. This truth is of two orders: one, concerning Nature ex- ternal to Man; two, concerning Nature internal to Man. Existing religions, especially Christianity, are based on primitive ignorance of the facts, particularly of external Nature. Celebrations must conform to the custom and nature of the people. Christianity has destroyed the joyful celebrations, char- acterized by music, dancing, feasting, and making love; and has kept only the melancholy. The Law …
1954 · PDF PAGE 376
…hat is to say, the most brutish. You have complained pathetically on more than one occasion that I do not seem to know my own mind about Nature; that I am always contradicting myself. Sometimes I tell you that everything is in Nature ; that everything moves by Nature; that to oppose Nature is to provoke endothermic reaction, and then I leap headlong through the hoop of my own construction and want you to defy nature, to attack her, to overcome her. Really, dear Master, it is too bad of you! I know it sounds bad but there is not really the oppos…
1944 · PDF PAGE 191
tees who wished to identify her with Nature. The idea of sexual cruelty is often inherent in the highest divine nature; compare Bhavani and Kali in the Hindu system, and observe the Shiva‐ Sakti coition portrayed on many Tibetan banners. See also Liber 418, 4th, 3rd, and 2nd Aethyrs; and the description supra of Atu XI.
1929 · PDF PAGE 48
magick so often involves argues a poverty o£ nature, a narrowness, a lack of generosity. Nature is infinitely prodigal — not one in a million seeds ever cornes to fruition. Whoso fails to recognise this, let him invoke Jupiter.1 2 The danger o£ cérémonial magick — the subtlest and deepest danger —is this: that the magician will naturally tend to invoke that partial being which most strongly appeals to him, so that his natural excess in that direction will be still further exaggerated. Let him, before beginning his Work, endeavour to map out his…
1961 · PDF PAGE 57
… BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 45 Ar De Gradibus Æquis Scientiæ (Of Equal Steps to Knowledge) SAY in sooth, my son, that this Extension of thy Nature is not in Violation thereof; for it is the Nature of thy Nature to grow continually. Now there is no Part of Knowledge which is foreign to thee; yet Knowledge itself is of no avail unless it be assimilated and co- ordinated into Understanding. Grow therefore, easily and spontaneously, developing all Parts equally, lest thou become a Monster. And if one Thing tempt thee overmuch, correct it by Devotion t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 72
… fittest is not moral , it is essential ; but , manifested through reason it becomes ethical . As regards the aspirations of the sexes , nature cares little whether John loves Ann or Mary . Man , however , cares much . John is not married , Ann is ; Nature implants a similar affinity in both , and they verge towards their own mag netic centre . Nature says " unite ! ” Man , however, thinks otherwise and so builds up a stout abatis out of the dead bones of unreasoning ages , fencing Ann in ; and even if John does surmount this formidable obstacl…
1961 · PDF PAGE 69
…eveth all Things by doing nothing? But this have I already declared to thee in Part, showing that thou canst do no Magick save it be thy Nature to do Magick and so the true Nothing for thee. For to do nothing signifieth to interfere with nothing so that for a Magician to do no Magick is to commit Violence on himself. Yet learn also that all Action is in some sense Magick, being an essential Part of that Great Magical Work which we call Nature. Then thou hast no free Will? Verily, thou hast said. Yet nevertheless it is thy necessary Destiny to a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 43
…h, slaves at heart as they are, do well to observe his law. Ed. 9. Besides all this, there is the question of “ na- ture ” and “ against nature.” “ Praise Lacedaemon, and despise Corinth ! God gave me Daphne ; I won Hyacinth.” All our modern devices, though applications of na- ture, are against and above nature ; therefore of God. Nature’s man is the cave-man. We take no paternal pride in the pariah dog, the product of Nature ; in the highly bred setter, the product of man’s genius applied to nature’s very raw material, through centuries and ch…
1913 · PDF PAGE 520
…by excesses of celibacy, or those of exactly the opposite kind. One knows how closely connected with the brain are the organs charged by Nature with the accomplishment of her noblest work: those whose object is the reproduction of being. One does not violate with impunity the sanctuary of Nature. Without risking his own life, no one lifts the veil of the great Isis. Nature is chaste, and it is to chastity that she gives the key of life. To give oneself up to impure loves is to plight one’s troth to death. Liberty, which is the life of the soul,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 520
…by excesses of celibacy, or those of exactly the opposite kind. One knows how closely connected with the brain are the organs charged by Nature with the accomplishment of her noblest work: those whose object is the reproduction of being. One does not violate with impunity the sanctuary of Nature. Without risking his own life, no one lifts the veil of the great Isis. Nature is chaste, and it is to chastity that she gives the key of life. To give oneself up to impure loves is to plight one’s troth to death. Liberty, which is the life of the soul,…
1961 · PDF PAGE 178
…ureth not Exception. So then these Brethern are not apart, as they vainly think being wrought by Error; but are peculiar Combinations of Nature in Her Variety. Rejoice then even in he Contemplation of these, for they are proper to Perfection, and Adornments of Beauty, like a Mole upon the Cheek of a Woman. Shall I then say that were it of thine own Nature, even thine, to compose so sinister a Complex, thou shouldst not strive therewith, destroying it by Love, but continue in that Way? I deny not this hastily, nor affirm; nay, shall I even utter…
1961 · PDF PAGE 83
…ead into many Lands, and we know it to-day as INRI with the secret IAO concealed therein. And the Meaning of this Word is the Working of Nature in Her Changes; that is, it is the Formula of Magick whereby all Things reproduce and recreate themselves. Yet this Extension and Specialisation was rather the Word of Dionysus; for the true Word of Krishna was AUM, importing rather a Statement of the Truth of Nature than a practical Instruction in detailed Operations of Magick. But Dionysus, by the Word INRI, laid the Foundation of all Science, as We s…
1961 · PDF PAGE 37
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 25 f De Voluntate Ultima (Of the Final Will) AY not then that this Way is contrary to Nature, and that in Simplicity of Satisfaction of thy Needs is perfection of thy Path. For to thee, who hast aspired, it is thy Nature to perform the Great Work, and this is the final Dissolution of the Cosmos. For though a Stone seem to lie still on a Mountain Top, and have no care, yet hath it an hidden Nature, a Task Ineffable and Stupendous; namely, to force its Way to he Centre of Gravity of the Universe, and also to burn up it…
1961 · PDF PAGE 76
…ect of these Things which thou hast set them to govern. Nay, o my son, I like not this Word, govern, for a Law is but a Statement of the nature of the Thing to which it applieth. Nor nothing is compelled save only by Nature of its own true Will. So therefore human Law is a Statement of the Will and of the Nature of Man, or else it is a Falsity contrary thereunto, and becometh null and of no Effect. s
1961 · PDF PAGE 215
… Limit, and there is no void that She filleth not with the Variety and Beauty of Her Stars in Her Space. Nor is there any one Law of her Nature, but in Her are all Laws, so that each Thing or each Truth that thou perceiveth is as it were one Gesture of Her Dance. Shut up the Book of thy Questions, o my Son, concerning nature, Her Way, Her Origin, or Her Purpose, except in those Matters which concern thee and thine own Orbit, o thou Star, begotten of my Loins in my Lust of Hilarion, the Golden Rose, mystic and Joyous, the Lily of a Thousand Peta…
1961 · PDF PAGE 88
…Trowel; say I) in this Work. For this is the first and last of all, that thou bid every Man do What he will, in accord with his own true Nature. Therefore also blast thou that Lie that Man is of a fallen and evil Nature. For the Word of Sin is Restriction, the Doubt of his own Godhead, the Suppression of, which is the Blasphemy against, his own Holy Spirit. Saith not The Book of the Law that . . . It is a lie, this folly against self. . . .? Therefore to every Man, in every Circumstance, say thou: Do what thou wilt; and teach him, if he yet w…
1961 · PDF PAGE 73
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 61 Bq De Veritate Falsi (Of the Truth of Falsehood) OREOVER this Matter touches the Nature of Truth. For although to thee in thy True Self, absolute and without Conditions, all this Universe, which is relative and conditioned is an Illusion; yet to that Part of Thee by which thou perceivest it, the Law of its Being (or By-coming) is a Law of Truth. Learn then that all Relations are true upon their own Plane, and that it would be a Violation of Nature to adjust them skewwise. Thus, albeit thou hast found thy Self, and…
1929 · PDF PAGE 83
…the curse of the Manvantara. The cardinal révélation of the Great Aeon of Horus is that this formula AUM does not represent the facts of nature. 1 he point of view is based upon misapprehension of the character of existence. It soon became obvious to The Master Fherion that AUM was an inadéquate and misleading hieroglyph. It stated only part of the truth, and it implied a fundamental falsehood. He consequently determined to modify the Word in such a manner as to fit it to represent the Arcana unveiled by the Aeon of which He had attained to be …