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ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

o explain in detail, but mem, the hanged man, has a close affinity for gimel, as will be seen by a study of liber 418. unt is not only the hindustani for camel, but the usual termination of the third person plural of the present tense of latin words of the third and fourth conjugations. the reason for thus addresing the reader is that he has now transcended the first and second persons. cf. liber lxv, chapter iii, vv. 21-24, and fitzgerald's omar khayyam "some talk there was of thee and me there seemed; and then no more of thee and me) the third person plural must be used, because he has now perceived himself to be a bundle of impressions. for this is the point on the path of gimel when book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 154 he is actually crossing the abyss; the student

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, and perfect happiness. so mote it be! v the tree of life col. xii. this arrangement is the basis of the whole system of this book. besides the 10 numbers and the 22 letters, it is divisible into 3 columns, 4 planes, 7 planes, 7 palaces, etc. etc.8 table of correspondences table i 2 i. key scale. ii* hebrew names of numbers and letters. iii. the four worlds. lxiv. secret names of the four words. lxv. secret numbers corresponding. lxvi. spelling of tetragrammaton in the four worlds. 11 hryxy yetrizah, formative world hm mah 45 ah waw ah dwy 23 hayrb briah, creative world gs seg 63 ah waw ah dwy 31 twlyxa atziluth, archetypal world bu aub 72 yh wyw yh dwy 32 bis hycu assiah, material world b ben 52 hh ww hh dwy 31 bis. lxvii. the parts of the soul. lxviii. the demon kings. lxix* the alchemi

e letters are shown in their isolated forms; since arabic is written cursively, letter forms vary slightly depending on whether the letter appears on its own, or in the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a word. the repetition of one letter in lines 9 and 10 appears to be deliberate. table ii (the elements) col. lxvi. the numerical value of each of these spellings gives the number in col. lxv, which, rendered in hebrew letters, gives the secret name in col. lxiv. line 31. originally given hyh wyw hyh dwy, which adds to 82 rather than 72. the reading here is from mathers introduction to kaballah unveiled. table iii (the planets) col. lxxviii. line 13. various spellings of this horrendous name have appeared in the literature, and as mentioned in crowley s notes on this column, the sp

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

aviour<matter of the individual self, the indivisible point determined by reference to the four quarters. this is the formula which enables it to express its secret self; its dew falling upon the rose is developed into an eidolon of itself, in due season> and the phallic symbol of resurrection. will itself must be ready to culminate in the surrender of that will<lxv and liber vii> the aspiration's arrow that is shot against the holy dove must transmute itself into the wondering virgin that receives in her womb the quickening of that same spirit of god. any idea that is thus in itself positive and negative, active and passive, male and female, is fit to exist above the abyss; any idea not so equilibrated is below the abyss, contains in itself an unmitigate

e will, because you and he are one. that one will is therefore divided against itself, so long as your will fails to aspire steadfastly. also, his will cannot constrain yours. he is so much one with you that even your will to separate is his will. he is so certain of you that he delights in your perturbation and coquetry no less than in your surrender. these relations are fully explained in liber lxv. see also liber aleph cxi> to become one with the aspirant, and the moment the conditions of the latter make it possible, that bridal is consummated. iii the obstinacy of a spirit (or the inertial of a talisman) usually implies a defect in invocation. the spirit cannot resist even for a moment the constraint of his intelligence, when that intelligence is working in accordance with the will of

osiris by horus in the present aeon. equinox vii, p. 293 "liber lxi. liber causae" explains the actual history and origin of the present movement. its statements are accurate in the ordinary sense of the word. the object of the book is to discount mythopeia. equinox xi, p. 55 "liber lxiv. liber israfel" formerly called "anubis" an instruction in a suitable method of preaching. unpublished "liber lxv. liber cordis cincti serpente" an account of the relations of the aspirant with his holy guardian angel. equinox xi (vol. iii, part 1, p. 65. 219 "liber lxvi. liber stellae rubeae" a secret ritual, the heart of iao-oai, delivered unto v.v.v.v.v. for his use in a certain matter of "liber legis" see liber cccxxxiii (the book of lies, pp. 34-5. also appendix vi in his book "liber lxvii. the sword

iaf: sabaf< such are the words! 273 point ii ars congressus cum daemone. section a let the adeptus minor be standing in this circle on the square of tiphereth, armed with his wand and cup; but let him perform the ritual throughout in his body of light. he may burn the cakes of light, or the incense of abramelin; he may be prepared by liber clxxv, the reading of liber lxv, and by the practices of yoga. he may invoke hadit by. wine and strange drugs" if he so will<adept has full knowledge based on experience of the management of such matters> he prepares the circle by the usual formulae of banishing and consecration, etc. he recites section a as a rehearsal before his holy guardian angel of the attributes of that an

nd body whose office is to receive and transmit the word of his angel. he hails his angel not only as "un-nefer" the perfection of "asar" himself as a man, but as ptah-apophrasz-ra, the identity (hadit) wrapped in the dragon (nuit) and thereby manifested as a sun (ra-hoor-khuit. the "egg (or heart "girt with a serpent" is a cognate symbol; the idea is thus expressed later in the ritual (see liber lxv. which expands this to the uttermost) section b the adept passes from contemplation to action in the sections now following b to gg. he is to travel astrally around the circle, making the appropriate pentagrams, sigils, and signs. his direction 277 is widdershins. he thus makes three curves, each covering three-fourths of the circle. he should give the sign of the enterer on passing the kiblah

hem aware of their inmate, and thus to partake of its own consciousness of the light "line 8 "grace" has here its proper sense of "pleasantness. 288 the existence of the angel is the justification of the device of creation<existence in the book of the law and its comment- part iv of book 4 "line 9" this line must be studied in the light of liber lxv (equinox xi. p. 65. section h. this recapitulation demands the going forth together of the adept and his angel "to do their pleasure on the earth among the living" section j. the beast 666 having devised the present method of using this ritual, having proved it by his own practice to be of infallible puissance when properly performed, and now having written it down for the world, it shall be a

at this day and night without cessation mechanically in his brain, which is thus made ready for the advent of that lord, and armed against all other. 25 "concerning the active and the passive- let the philosophus change from the active love of his particular deity to a state of passive waiting, even almost a repulsion, the repulsion not of distaste, but of sublime modesty. as it is written, liber lxv. ii. 59 "i have called unto thee, and i have journeyed with thee<equinox has..journeyed unto thee, and it availed me not" 60 "i waited patiently, and thou wast with me from the beginning" then let him change back to the active, until a veritable rhythm is established between the states, as it were the swinging of a pendulum. but let him reflect that a vast intelligence is required f

d in this practice the worst danger is this, that the love which is its weapon should fail in one of two ways. first, if the love lack any quality of love, so long is it not ideal love. for it is written of the perfected one "there is no member of my body which is not the member of some god" therefore 399 let not the philosophus despise any form of love, but harmonise all. as it is written: liber lxv, 32 "so therefore perfection abideth not in the pinnacles or in the foundation, but in the harmony of one with all" second, if any part of this love exceed, there is disease therein. as, in the love of othello for desdemona, love's jealousy overcame love's tenderness, so may it be in this love of a particular deity. and this is more likely, since in this divine love no element may be omitted

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

er will (between them) satisfy your doubts. the a'.a. is totally different. one star in sight tells you everything that you need to know (perhaps some of these regulations are hard to grasp: personally, i can never understand all this by-law stuff. so you must ask me what, and why, and so on) there is really only one point for your judgment "by their fruits ye shall know them" you have read liber lxv and liber vii; that shows you 11 what states you can attain by this cirriculum. now read "a master of the magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 17 temple (blue equinox, pp. 127-170) for an account of the early stages of training, and their results (of course, your path might not coincide with, or even resemble, his path) but do get it into you head that "if the blind lead

ke the heat of the midmost sun. 14. then rose she up from abyss of ages of sleep, and her body embraced me. altogether i melted in her beauty and was glad. 15. the river also became the river of amrit, and the little boat was the chariot of the flesh, and the sails thereof the blood of the heart that beareth me, that beareth me. magic without tears get any book for free on: www.abika.com 96 liber lxv, cap. ii. we find even in profane literature this doctrine of the white school of magick- o buddha! couldst thou nowhere rest a pivot for the universe? must all things be alike confessed mere changes rung upon a curse? i swear by all the bliss of blue my phryne with her powder on is just as false- and just as true- as your disgusting skeleton. each to his taste: if you prefer this loathly broo

ALEISTER CROWLEY MEDITATION

. these books should be well studied in any case in conjunction with the second part- magick- of this book iv. 45 study of these books will give a thorough grounding in the intellectual side of their system. after three months the student is examined in these books, and if his knowledge of them is found satisfactory, he may become a probationer, receiving liber lxi and the secret holy book, liber lxv. the principal point of this grade is that the probationer has a master appointed, whose experience can guide him in his work. he may select any practices that he prefers, but in any case must keep an exact record, so that he may discover the relation of cause and effect in his working, and so that the a'.a. may judge of his progress, and direct his further studies. after a year of probation h

from it- any will but that to give up the self to the beloved is black magick- yet this surrender is so simple an act that to our complex minds it is the most difficult of all acts; and hence training is necessary. further, the self surrendered must not be less than the all-self; one must not come before the altar of the most high with an impure or an imperfect offering. as it is written in liber lxv "to await thee is the end, not the beginning" this training may lead through all sorts of complications, varying according to the nature of the student, and hence it may be necessary for him at any moment to will all sorts of things which to others might seem unconnected with the goal. thus it is not "a priori" obvious why a billiard player should need a file. since, then, we may want "anythin

vitrol. vitrol is a notariqon of "visita interiora terrae rectificando invenies occultum lapidem" that is to say: by investigating everything and bringing it into harmony and proportion you will find the hidden stone, the same stone of the philosophers of which mention has already been made, which turns all into gold. this oil which can eat into the steel, is further that which is written, liber lxv, i, 16 "as an acid eats into steel. so am i unto the spirit of man" note how closely woven into itself is all this symbolism! the centre of ruach being the heart, it is seen that this sword of the ruach must be thrust by the magician into his own heart. but there is a subsequent task, of which it is spoken- liber vii, v, 47 "he shall await the sword of the beloved and bare his throat for the s

ed and bare his throat for the stroke" in the throat is daath- the throne of ruach. daath is knowledge. this final destruction of knowledge opens the gate of the city of the pyramids. it is also written, liber ccxx, iii, 11 "let the woman be girt with a sword before me" but this refers to the arming of vedana with sanna, the overcoming of emotion by clarity of perception. it is also spoken, liber lxv, v, 14, of the sword of adonai "that hath four blades, the blade of the thunderbolt, the blade of the pylon, the blade of the serpent, the blade of the phallus" but this sword is not for the ordinary magician. for this is the sword flaming every way that keeps eden, and in this sword the wand and the cup are concealed- so that although the being of the magician 92 is blasted by the thunderbolt

e hindu system the great work is represented by saying that this serpent, which is normally coiled at the base of the spine, rises with her hood over the head of the yogi, there to unite with the lord of all. the serpent is also he who poisons. it is that force which destroys the manifested universe. this is also the emerald snake which encircles the universe. this matter must be studied in liber lxv, where this is discussed incomparably. in the hood of this serpent are the six jewels, three on each side, ruby, emerald, and sapphire, the three holy elements made perfect, on both sides in equilibrium. 109) chapter xii the robe the robe of the magician may be varied according to his grade and the nature of his working. there are two principal robes, the white and the black; of these the blac

ALEISTER CROWLEY TAO TEH KING

se they are not as prudent at the end as in the beginning. 4. the wise man willeth what others do not will((he does his own will, instead of aiming at a standardized goal) and valueth not things rare((and so sought after by others) he learneth what others learn not, and gathered up what they despise. thus he is in accord with the natural course of events, and is not overbold in action. 70 chapter lxv the purity of the teh. 1. they of old time that were skilled in the tao sought not to enlighten the people, but to keep them simple. 2. the difficulty of government is the vain knowledge of the people. to use cleverness in government is to scourge the kingdom; to use simplicity is to anoint it. 3. know these things, and make them thy law and thine example. to possess this law is the secret per

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

this characterization was true simply, it should be noted that this comment is not class a. the idea of center outwards and circumference inwards may actually have described the impression received by a male of the victorian age in regard to men and women. certainly every male mystic has the state here described as "circumference inward..no soul" and "female" at the time of reception- vide liber lxv. equally, every woman who acts positively from awareness of her identity would qualify for "center outwards "soul" and "male" in this sense. what crowley identified as sex-linked may better be considered as modality linked, with the sexual linkage as much an accident of culture as anything else. al i,4 "every number is infinite; there is no difference" the new comment this is a great and holy

attach itself to some base material idea. it is a bond and the aim is freedom. i recommend serious study of the word unassuaged which appears not very intelligible. the new comment this verse is best interpreted by defining 'pure will' as the true expression of the nature, the proper or inherent motion of the matter, concerned. it is unnatural to aim at any goal. the student is referred to "liber lxv, cap. ii, v. 24, and to the "tao teh king. this becomes particularly important in high grades. one is not to do yoga, etc, in order to get samadhi, like a schoolboy or a shopkeeper; but for its own sake, like an artist "unassuaged" means "its edge taken off by" or "dulled by. the pure student does not think of the result of the examination. al i,45 "the perfect and the perfect are one perfect

adit may abandon the aspirant to the ambitions of every frenzied faction of his character, the masterless dogs of the augean kennel of his mind. al ii,28 "now a curse upon because and his kin" the old comment 28. the great curse pronounced by the supernals against the inferiors who arise against them. our reasoning faculties are the toils of the labyrinth within which we are all caught. cf. liber lxv, v.59. the new comment this is against these intellectuals aforesaid. there are no "standards of right" ethics is balderdash. each star must go on its orbit. to hell with 'moral principle' there is no such thing; that is a herd-delusion, and makes men cattle. do not listen to the rational explanation of how right it all is, in the newspapers. we may moreover consider "because" as involving the

, my lord, and such are the waters of thine intolerable essence. so am i, o adonai, my beloved, and thou hast burst me utterly in sunder. i am shed out like spilt blood upon the mountains; the ravens of dispersion have borne me utterly away. therefore is the seal unloosed, that guarded the eighth abyss; therefore is the vast sea as a veil; therefore is there a rending asunder of all things (liber lxv,iii, vv. 38-48 "intoxicate the inmost, o my lover, not the outermost (liber lxv, i, v.64. al ii,68 "harder! hold up thyself! lift thine head! breathe not so deep-die" the new comment 68 (harden, not harder, as the ms. indicates. the memory of dclxvi says, though with diffidence, that the former is correct) the new comment it is remarkable that this extraordinary experience has practically no e

, but one should achieve it at least once- that it may bear witness to oneself that the skill is there. one might even find it advisable to practice it occasionally, to retain one's confidence that one's "right hand hath not lost its cunning. on this point hear further more our holy books "go thou unto the outermost places and subdue all things. subdue thy fear and thy disgust. then- yield (liber lxv, i. 45.46 "morover i beheld a vision of a river. there was a little boat thereon; and in it under purple sails was a golden woman, an image of asi wrought in finest gold. also the river was of blood, and the boat of shining steel. then i loved her; and, loosing my girdle, cast myself into the stream. i gathered myself into the little boat, and for many days and nights did i love her, burning b

's joy is that one possesses the courage, knowledge, agility, endurance, and self-mastery necessary to have done it. the goal is ineffably worth all our pains, as we say to ourselves at first; but in a little while are aware that even that goal is less intoxicating then 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, ii, 17-25, one of several similar passages in our holy books "also the holy one came upon me, and i beheld a white swan floating in the blue. between its wings i sate, and the aeons fled away. then the swan flew and dived and soared, yet no whither we went. a little crazy boy that rode with me spake unto the swan, and said: who art thou that dost float and fly and dive and soar in the inane?

both types of force. i am inclined to opine that there is a simpler and deeper sense in the text than i have so far disclosed "at your arms" is a curious turn of phrase. there may be some cryptographic implication, or there may not; at least, there is this, that the use of such un-english expressions makes a clear-cut distinction between aiwaz and the scribe. in the inspired books, such as liber lxv, vii, dccxiii and others, written by the beast 666 directly, not from dictation, no such awkward expressions are to be found. the style shows a well-marked difference. al iii,47 "this book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the original in the writing of the beast; for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another: in these are mysteries that no beast

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

e ideas of the units which they multiply. thus 50 is death, the force of change in its final and most earthy aspect. samekh is temperance in the tarot: the 6 has little evil possible to it; the worst name one can call 60 is restriction. 61. ya, the negative. yna, the ego. a number rather like 31, q.v. 64. yd and ynd, intelligences (the twins) of mercury. see also 32. 65. ynda. in roman characters lxv= lvx, the redeeming light. see the 5 =6 ritual and konx om pax. note 65= 13 5, the most spiritual form of force, just as 10 5 was its most material form. note sh, keep silence! and lkyh, the palace; as if it were said silence is the house of adonai. 67. hnyb the great mother. note 6+ 7= 13, uniting the ideas of binah and kether. a number of the aspiration.41 70. the sanhedrim and the precepts

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ideas of the units which they multiply. thus 50 is death, the force of change in its final and most earthy aspect. samekh is "temperance" in the tarot: the 6 has little evil possible to it; the worst name one can call 60 is "restriction" 61. ain, the negative. ani, ego. a number rather like 31, q.v. 64. din and dni, intelligences (the twins) of mercury. see also 32. 65. adni. in roman characters lxv= lvx, the redeeming light. see the 5= 6 ritual and "konx om pax" note 65= 13 x 5, the most spiritual form of force, just as 10 x 5 was its most material form. note hs "keep silence" and hikl, the palace; as if it were said "silence is the house of adonai" 67. binh the great mother. note 6+ 7= 13, uniting the ideas of binah and kether. a number of the aspiration. 70. the sanhedrin and the prece

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of the twenty-eighth path "the third part" at the beginning of the third part the "hierophant" says "frater monokeros 280 de astris, the path now open to you is the twenty-seventh, which leads from the 3= 8 degree of practicus to the 4= 7 degree of philosophus. take in your right hand the calvary cross of ten squares and follow your guide through the path of mars" 21 "see 777" cols. lxiii, lxiv, lxv, lxvi, pp. 16 and 17. 22 "see 777" col. xlix. and note, also "handbook of geomancy" illustration on page 281 approximated below. hb:mem/ hb:ayin/ sulphur air salt/ sulphur air salt/ lamp (o) pantacle_ banner of hiereus hieroph- hegemon banner of the west ant the east_ 16th key. spirit) of tarot) dee hb:peh. earth_ fire/ black_ qlip. hoth. yetz. hb:resh. palac_ white salt_ spirit\ triangles dan

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ned and heard. and he laid aside his ibis ways, and became as a serpent saying peradventure in an hundred millions of millions of generations of my children, they shall attain to a drop of the poison of the fang of the exalted one. 56. and behold! ere the moon waxed thrice he became an uraeus serpent, and the poison of the fang was established in him and his seed even for ever and for ever. liber lxv. cap. v 4 illustration facing page 4 partially described: this is an ornamented diagram of the tree of life, from tipheret downward. at the bottom of the figure is a solid line, below it the words "probationer liber lxi and lxv [in certain cases ritual lxxviii" above this line, to the left "porta, and to the right "portae. a triple ringed circle rests on this base line, for malkut. arched betw

tear-drop extending into each. the bulbs of the flame-drops define an arch. the bottom of the arch is defined by an arc concentric with the tipheret circle, and the edges curve up to meet the edges of the half- glory. the following words are inside this arch "the knowledge& conversation of the holy guardian angel. liber xiii vel graduum montis abiegni a syllabus of the steps upon the path""quote lxv. cap. v. vv. 52-56"1 1 "the probationer" his duties are laid down in paper a, class d. being "without" they are vague and general. he receives liber lxi. and lxv [certain probationers are admitted after six months or more to ritual xxviii] at the end of the probation he passes ritual dclxxi, which constitutes him a neophyte. 2 "the neophyte" his duties are laid down in paper b, class d. he rec

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of our whole work, and the commentary thereon by the master through whom it was given to the world. liber lxi. a manuscript giving an account of the history of the a.a. in recent times. this history contains no mythology: it is a statement of facts susceptible of rational proof. liber cl. de lege libellum. a short explanation of the law, extolling its sublime virtue. by the master therion. liber lxv. the book of the heart girt with a serpent. this magical treatise describes particularly the pr monstrance of a.a. 13 relation of the aspirant with his higher self. it is, alike in conception and execution, a masterpiece of exaltation of thought, carved in pure beauty. liber vii. the book of lapis lazuli. gives in magical language an account of the initiation of a master of the temple. this is

magical treatise describes particularly the pr monstrance of a.a. 13 relation of the aspirant with his higher self. it is, alike in conception and execution, a masterpiece of exaltation of thought, carved in pure beauty. liber vii. the book of lapis lazuli. gives in magical language an account of the initiation of a master of the temple. this is the only parallel, for beauty of ecstasy, to liber lxv. liber xxvii. vel trigrammaton. it describes the course of creation under the figure of the interplay of three principles. this book corresponds to the stanzas of dzyan. liber dcccxiii. vel ararita. this book describes in magical language a very secret process of initiation. liber ii. the message of the master therion. it explains the essence of the new law in a very simple manner. liber dcccx

the doctrine of the function of the great white brotherhood understood as the foundation of the aspiration of the adept. the account of the master of the templi should in particular be taken as authentic. the instruction in the 8th thyr pertains to class d, i.e. it is an official ritual, and the same remarks apply to the account of the proper method of invoking thyrs given in the 18th thyr. liber lxv. liber cordis cincti serpente. an account of the relations of the aspirant with his holy guardian angel. this book is given to probationers, as the attainment of the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel is the crown of the outer college. similarly liber vii is given to neophytes, as the grade of master of the temple is the next resting-place, and liber ccxx to the zelator, sin

ath brought me to fulfilment. give praise unto the lord, all ye that love the lord; rejoice in him, ye sons and daughters of enlightenment. behold, the lord is exalted in righteousness; his uprightness filleth the earth with praise. for the lord filleth my mouth with silence; and the blessing of the lord is my satisfaction. with secret song do i magnify the lord; and his utterance is light. liber lxv liber cordis cincti serpente sub figur ynda v a.a. publication in class a 93 10 =18 666 9 =28 pro coll. summ. 777 8 =38 d. d. s. 7 =48 o. m. 7 =48 o. s. v. 6 =58 parzival 5 =68 pro coll. int. v. n. pr monstrator p. imperator pro coll. ext. achad cancellarius 65 liber lxv liber cordis cincti serpente sub figur ynda i 1. i am the heart; and the snake is entwined about the invisible core of the m

as light. 13. wolf.s bane is not so sharp as steel; yet it pierceth the body more subtly. 14. even as evil kisses corrupt the blood, so do my words devour the spirit of man. 15. i breathe, and there is infinite dis-ease in the spirit. 16. as an acid eats into steel, as a cancer that utterly corrupts the body; so am i unto the spirit of man. 17. i shall not rest until i have devoured it all. liber lxv 67 18. so also the light that is absorbed. one absorbs little, and is called white and glistening; one absorbs all and is called black. 19. therefore, o my darling, art thou black. 20. o my beautiful, i have likened thee to a jet nubian slave, a boy of melancholy eyes. 21. o the filthy one! the dog! they cry against thee. because thou art my beloved. 22. happy are they that praise thee; for th

rder that i might search this river of amrit, and sail thereon as one of ye. this i demand for my fee, that i partake of the echo of your kisses) 42 (and immediately it was granted unto him) 43 (nay; but not therewith was he content. by an infinite abasement unto shame did he strive. then a voice) 44. thou strivest ever; even in thy yielding thou strivest to yield.and lo! thou yieldest not. liber lxv 69 45. go thou unto the outermost places and subdue all things. 46. subdue thy fear and thy disgust. then.yield! 47. there was a maiden that strayed among the corn, and sighed; then grew a new birth, a narcissus, and therein she forgot her sighing and her loneliness. 48. even instantly rode hades heavily upon her, and ravished her away. 49 (then the scribe knew the narcissus in his heart; but

en. 62. o lord god! let the haven be cast down by the fury of the storm! let the foam of the grape tincture my soul with thy light! 63. bacchus grew old, and was silenus; pan was ever pan for ever and ever more throughout the ons. 64. intoxicate the inmost, o my lover, not the outermost! 65. so it was.ever the same! i have aimed at the peeled wand of my god, and i have hit; yea, i have hit. liber lxv 71 ii 1. i passed into the mountain of lapis lazuli, even as a green hawk between the pillars of turquoise that is seated upon the throne of the east. 2. so came i to duant, the starry abode, and i heard voices crying aloud. 3. o thou that sittest upon the earth (so spake a certain veiled one to me) thou art not greater than thy mother! thou speck of dust infinitesimal! thou art the lord of gl

its wings i sate, and the ons fled away. 19. then the swan flew and dived and soared, yet no whither we went. 20. a little crazy boy that rode with me spake unto the swan, and said: 21. who art thou that dost float and fly and dive and soar in the inane? behold, these many ons have passed; whence camest thou? whither wilt thou go? 22. and laughing i chid him, saying: no whence! no whither! liber lxv 73 23. the swan being silent, he answered: then, if with no goal, why this eternal journey? 24. and i laid my head against the head of the swan, and laughed, saying: is there not joy ineffable in this aimless winging? is there not weariness and impatience for who would attain to some goal? 25. and the swan was ever silent. ah! but we floated in the infinite abyss. joy! joy! white swan, bear th

llowed far; at last the harper was silent, and the faun became pan in the midst of the primal forest of eternity. 44. thou canst not charm the dolphin with silence, o my prophet! 45. then the adept was rapt away in bliss, and the beyond of bliss, and exceeded the excess of excess. 46. also his body shook and staggered with the burden of that bliss and that excess and that ultimate nameless. liber lxv 75 47. they cried he is drunk or he is mad or he is in pain or he is about to die; and he heard them not. 48. o my lord, my beloved! how shall i indite songs, when even the memory of the shadow of thy glory is a thing beyond all music of speech or of silence. 49. behold! i am a man. even a little child miught not endure thee. and lo! 50. i was alone in a great park, and by a certain hillock wa

ceans; to await thee is the end, not the beginning. 63. let darkness cover up the writing! let the scribe depart among his ways. 64. but thou and i are stretched at our ease among the vines; what is he? 65. o thou beloved one! is there not an end? nay, but there is an end. awake! arise! gird up thy limbs, o thou runner; bear thou the word unto the mighty cities, yea, unto the mighty cities. liber lxv 77 iii 1. verily and amen! i passed through the deep sea, and by the rivers of running water that abound therein, and i came unto the land of no desire. 2. wherein was a white unicorn with a silver collar, whereon was graven the aphorism linea viridis gyrat universa. 3. then the word of adonai came unto me by the mouth of the magister mine, saying: o heart that art girt about with the coils of

ace of the great city, the city of the violets and the roses. 22. the night fell, and the music of the lutes was stilled. 23. the tempest arose, and the music of the lutes was stilled. 24. the hour passed, and the music of the lutes was stilled. 25. but thou art eternity and space; thou art matter and motion; and thou art the negation of all these things. 26. for there is no symbol of thee. liber lxv 79 27. if i say, come up upon the mountains! the celestial waters flow at my word.but thou art the water beyond the waters. 28. the red three-angled heart hath been set up in thy shrine; for the priests despised equally the shrine and the god. 29. yet all the whie thou wast hidden therein, as the lord of silence is hidden in the buds of the lotus. 30. thou art sebek the crocodile against asar;

vast sea as a veil; therefore is there a rending asunder of all things. 49. yea, also verily thou art the cool still water of the wizard fount. i have bathed in thee, and lost me in thy stillness. 50. that which went in as a brave boy of beautiful limbs cometh forth as a maiden, as a little child for perfection. 51. o thou light and delight, ravish me away into the milky ocean of the stars! liber lxv 81 52. o thou son of a light-transcending mother, blessed be thy name, and the name of thy name, throughout the ages! 53. behold! i am a butterfly at the source of creation; let me die before the hour, falling dead into thine infinite stream! 54. also the stream of the stars floweth ever majestical unto the abode; bear me away upon the bosom of nuit! 55. this is the world of the waters of maim

i reveal thee to the multitude. the equinox 82 63. they that ever desired thee shall obtain thee, even at the end of their desire. 64. glorious, glorious, glorious art thou, o my lover supernal, o self of myself. 65. for i have found thee alike in the me and the thee; there is no difference, o my beautiful, my desirable one! in the one and the many have i found thee; yea, i have found thee. liber lxv 83 iv 1. o crystal heart! i the serpent clasp thee; i drive home mine head into the central core of thee, o god my beloved. 2. even as on the resounding wind-swept heights of mitylene some god-like woman casts aside the lyre, and with her locks aflame as an aureole, plunges into the wet heart of the creation, so i, o lord my god! 3. there is a beauty unspeakable in the heart of corruption, whe

he magician. when the magician laughed he laughed; all as a man should do. 19. and adonai said: thou art enmeshed in the web of the magician. this he said subtly, to try him. 20. but the magister gave the sign of the magistry, and laughed back on him: o lord, o beloved, did these fingers relax on thy curls, or these eyes turn away from thine eye? 21. and adonai delighted in him exceedingly. liber lxv 85 22. yea, o my master, thou art the beloved of the beloved one; the bennu bird is set up in phil not in vain. 23. i who was the priestess of ahathoor rejoice in your love. arise, o nile-god, and devour the holy place of the cow of heaven! let the milk of the stars be drunk up by sebek the dweller of nile! 24. arise, o serpent apep, thou art adonai the beloved one! thou art my darling and my

from the sling of a boy of the woodlands. 37. i was smooth and hard as ivory; the horror gat no hold. then at the noise of the wind of thy coming he was dissolved away, and the abyss of the great void was unfolded before me. 38. across the waveless sea of eternity thou didst ride with thy captains and thy hosts; with thy chariots and horsemen and spearmen didst thou travel through the blue. liber lxv 87 39. before i saw thee thou wast already with me; i was smitten through by thy marvellous spear. 40. i was stricken as a bird by the bolt of the thunderer; i was pierced as the thief by the lord of the garden. 41. o my lord, let us sail upon the sea of blood! 42. there is a deep taint beneath the ineffable bliss; it is the taint of generation. 43. yea, though the flower wave bright in the su

ider through the city. 61. i too am the soul of the desert; thou shalt seek me yet again in the wilderness of sand. 62. at thy right hand a great lord and a comely; at thy left hand a woman clad in gossamer and gold and having the stars in her hair. ye shall journey far into a land of pestilence and evil; ye shall encamp in the river of a foolish city forgotten; there shall ye meet with me. liber lxv 89 63. there will i make mine habitation; as for bridal will i come bedecked and anointed; there shall the consummation be accomplished. 64. o my darling, i also wait for the brilliance of the hour ineffable, when the universe shall be like a girdle for the midst of the ray of our love, extending beyond the permitted end of the endless one. 65. then, o thou heart, will i the serpent eat thee w

7. my prophet shall prophesy concerning thee; around thee the maidens shall dance, and bright babes be born unto them. thou shalt inspire the proud ones with infinite pride, and the humble ones with an ecstasy of abasement; all this shall transcend the known and the unknown with somewhat that hath no name. for it is as the abyss of the arcanum that is opened in the secret place of silence. liber lxv 91 8. thou hast come hither, o my prophet, through grave paths. thou hast eaten of the dung of the abominable ones; thou hast prostrated thyself before the goat and the crocodile; the evil men have made thee a plaything; thou hast wandered as a painted harlot, ravishing with sweet scent and chinese colouring, in the streets; thou hast darkened thine eyepits with kohl; thou hast tinted thy lips

21. but thou shalt heed none of this. thou shalt be ever the heart, and i the serpent will coil close about thee. my coils shall never relax throughout the ons. neither change nor sorrow nor unsubstantiality shall have thee; for thou art passed beyond all these. 22. even as the diamond shall glow red for the rose, and green for the rose-leaf; so shalt thou abide apart form the impressions. liber lxv 93 23. i am thou, and the pillar is .stablished in the void. 24. also thou art beyond the stabilities of being and of consciousness and of bliss; for i am thou, and the pillar is .stablished in the void. 25. also thou shalt discourse of these things unto the man that writeth them, and he shall partake of then as a sacrament; for i who am thou am he, and the pillar is .stablished in the void. 2

. 42. o holy exalted one, o self beyond self, o self- luminous image of the unimaginable naught, o my darling, my beautiful, come thou forth and follow me. 43. adonai, divine adonai, let adonai initiate refulgent dalliance! thus i concealed the name of her name that inspireth my rapture, the scent of whose body bewildereth the soul, the light of whose soul abaseth this body unto the beasts. liber lxv 95 44. i have sucked out the blood with my lips; i have drained her beauty of its sustenance; i have abased her before me, i have mastered her, i have possessed her, and her life is within me. in her blood i inscribe the secret riddles of the sphinx of the gods, that none shall understand,.save only the pure and voluptuous, the chaste and obscene, the androgyne and gynander that have passed be

pent struck him that he died. 55. but an ibis that meditated upon the bank of nile the beautiful god listened and heard. and he laid aside his ibis ways, and became as a serpent, saying peradventure in an hundred millions of millions of generations of my children, they shall attain to a drop of the poison of the fang of the exalted one. 56. and behold! ere the moon waxed thrice he became an liber lxv 97 ur us serpent, and the poison of the fang was established in him and his seed even for ever and for ever. 57. o thou serpent apep, my lord adonai, it is a speck of minutest time, this travelling through eternity, and in thy sight the landmarks are of fair white marble untouched by the tool of the graver. therefore thou art mine, even now and for ever and for everlasting. amen. 58. moreover

classify the results lately obtained (since l.v.x. entry) i may mention that during the interval i have carefully read and studied crowley.s tannh user, the sword of song, excluded middle, time, berashith, science and buddhism, three characteristics, etc. in the light of understanding, all these works have taken on a very different aspect to when i read them previously. also the purpose of liber lxv is clear. the result of all this gives me a feeling that i have arrived at the end and also at the beginning at the same time. this (by the way) seems the usual experience of the beginner; no sooner does he get a result, any result, than he immediately thinks he is at the end. but v.i.o. is evidently not to be deceived in that way, for he goes on: now, had i really arrived at the end, it seems

DION FORTUNE PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE

in modern times, but in eastern europe and in primitive countries it appears to be by no means uncommon, and innumerable well-authenticated cases occur in books of travel. commander gould, in his exceedingly interesting book, oddities, gives an account of vampirism among the berberlangs of the philippine islands. his account is based on a paper printed in the journal of the asiatic society, vol. lxv, 1896. these unpleasant people, according to mr. skertchley, the author of the article which commander gould quotes "are ghouls, and must eat human flesh occasionally or they would die. when they feel a craving for a meal of human flesh they go away into the grass, and having carefully hidden their bodies, hold their breaths and fall into a trance. their astral bodies are then liberated. they

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD PAPYRUS OF ANI MALESTROM

chapter of drinking water, and of not being burnt with fire. vignette: the deceased drinking water from a stream. chapter lxiiib. the chapter of not being boiled (or scalded) in the water. vignette: the deceased standing by the side of two flames. chapter lxiv. the chapter of coming forth by day in the underworld. vignette: the deceased adoring the disk, which stands on the top of a tree. chapter lxv [the chapter of] coming forth by day, and of gaining the mastery over foes. vignette: the deceased adoring ra. the versions of the book of the dead. http//www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/ebod03.htm (24 of 36 [8/10/2001 11:22:56 am] chapter lxvi [the chapter of] coming forth by day. this chapter has no vignette. chapter lxvii. the chapter of opening the doors of the tuat and of coming forth by da

liable to decay if not properly and sufficiently nourished. in the pyramid texts the permanent dwelling place of the ba or soul is heaven with the gods, whose life it shares 1. sek unas per em hru pen em aru maa en behold unas cometh forth on day this in the form exact of ba anx a soul living.[2 [1. see trans. soc. bib. arch, vol. vi, pp. 307, 308. 2. recueil de travaux, t. iv, p. 52 (l. 455] p. lxv 2. ba-sen met unas their soul[1] is in unas.[2] 3. aha ba-k emma neteru standeth thy soul among the gods.[3] 4. ha pepi pu i-nek maat heru metu-s thu hail, pepi this! cometh to thee the eye of horus, it speaketh with thee. i-nek ba-k am neteru cometh to thee thy soul which is among the gods.[4] 5. uab ba-k am neteru pure is thy soul among the gods.[5] 6. anx ausar anx ba din netat anx pepi pen

GILBERT THE MAGICAL MASON

"theoriginal hebrew word in the three verses mentioned is::kimah,and the general meaning of that word was that of aheapj1or acluster,\quite as noticable as the pleiades is the v -shaped group of; stars called hyades, also called seven in number.theword] occurs in the vulgate, jobix,9,kimah,butis not used inoursenglish bibles; it has become replaced by pleiades 'inthe authorised version in isaiah lxv,11,we read,'ye:are theythatforsake the lord, that forget my holy mountain] that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnishthedrink" offering unto thatnumber.'in the revised version the wordstroopandnumberbecomefortuneanddestiny.thehebrew words are godgd,and menimni;these are believed to be names for stars or planets considered as gods; some consider them to mean jupiter and venus. isaiah

GRAHAM HANCOCK FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

prophecies, also coincides with the last time (or highest point) in the great upwards cycle of the belt stars of the orion constellation, just as the epoch of the eleventh millennium bc coincided with the first time (or lowest point) of that cycle. and curiously, also, as we saw in chapter twenty-eight: a conjunction of five planets that can be expected to have profound gravitational 25 1 enoch, lxv, in the apockryphal old testament (ed. h.f.d. sparks, clarendon press, oxford, 1989, p. 247. 26 pre-hispanic gods of mexico, p. 24. 27 breaking the maya code, p. 275. 28 will the world survive? watch tower bible and tract society, 1992. 29 circulating file, earth changes, extracts from the edgar cayce readings, edgar cayce foundation, virginia beach, 1994, p. 36. graham hancock fingerprints of

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

h the wheel was seen in such minute detail, the overall impression was of a single, simple object. crowley saw the jovial god, jupiter, spinning the wheel as though it were a toy. another way of viewing this wheel is as if the rim were a huge emerald snake and in the center, a scarlet heart. this symbolism is the "heart girt with a serpent" found in many occult teachings including crowley's liber lxv. it is a form of the snake encircling the world with its tail locked in its mouth. yet another possible way of seeing this wheel is in the form of the wheel of fortune of atu x of the tarot. this path leads down from chesed through the veil of the temple unti l i t connects with netzach. the wheel of fortune is the western equivalent of the hindu wheel of samsara whose spokes are the three gun

LIBER 777

g. lix. archangels of the quarters. lx. the rulers of the elements lxi. angels of the elements. lxii. kings of the elemental spirits. 11 lapr raphael layra ariel sj chassan paralda 23 layrbg gabriel sycrt tharsis dhylt taliahad niksa 31 lakym michael [rc seraph lara aral djin 32 bis layrwa auriel bwrk kerub ]alrwp phorlakh ghob 31 bis. lxiii. the four worlds. lxiv. secret names of the four words. lxv. secret numbers corresponding. lxvi. spelling of tetragrammaton in the four worlds. 11 hryxy yetrizah, formative world hm mah 45 ah waw ah dwy 23 hayrb briah, creative world gs seg 63 ah waw ah dwy 31 twlyxa atziluth, archetypal world bu aub 72 yh wyw yh dwy 32 bis hycu assiah, material world b ben 52 hh ww hh dwy 31 bis. lxvii. the parts of the soul. lxviii. the demon kings. lxix* the alchemi

e letters are shown in their isolated forms; since arabic is written cursively, letter forms vary slightly depending on whether the letter appears on its own, or in the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a word. the repetition of one letter in lines 9 and 10 appears to be deliberate. table ii (the elements) col. lxvi. the numerical value of each of these spellings gives the number in col. lxv, which, rendered in hebrew letters, gives the secret name in col. lxiv. line 31. originally given hyh wyw hyh dwy, which adds to 82 rather than 72. the reading here is from mathers introduction to kaballah unveiled. table iii (the planets) col. lxxviii. line 13. various spellings of this horrendous name have appeared in the literature, and as mentioned in crowley s notes, this spelling can onl

LIBER ARCANORUM

iary, december 1907: tuesday 3] about now wrote arcana in atus of tahuti, sigils of genii, etc] saturday 14. liber trigrammaton, and copied sigilla 22] monday] curious vague depression most of day. i think the sigilla 22 have a very unpleasant influence. much of the corpus of .class a. texts was written around this time: liber vii? or dcccxiii: the diary entry has .the 7 fold word) 29-30.10 liber lxv 30.10. 3.11 liber lxvi 25.11 liber x 11-12.12 liber cd 13.12 liber xxvii 14.12 in .john st. john (1908) ac wrote that ararita was .delivered unto me in the winter of last year. b vel magi, tzaddi, cheth and a fash appear to have been later (source: ac diary 1907iiliber astarte vel berylli svb figvra clxxv v a a publication in class d 1 0. this is the book of uniting himself to a particular dei

LIBER ASTARTE

this day and night without cessation mechanically in his brain, which is thus made ready for the advent of that lord, and armed against all other. 25. concerning the active and the passive. let the philosophus change from the active love of his particular deity to a state of passive awaiting, even almost a repulsion, the repulsion not of distaste, but of a sublime modesty. as it is written .liber lxv. ii. 59. i have called unto thee, and i have journeyed unto thee, and it availed me not. 60. i waited patiently, and thou wast with me from the beginning. then let him change back to the active, until a veritable rhythm is established between the states, as it were the swinging of a pendulum. but let him reflect that a vast intelligence is required for this; for he must stand as it were almost

LIBER CLXV A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE

classify the results lately obtained (since l.v.x. entry) i may mention that during the interval i have carefully read and studied crowley s tannh user, the sword of song, excluded middle, time, berashith, science and buddhism, three characteristics, etc. in the light of understanding, all these works have taken on a very different aspect to when i read them previously. also the purpose of liber lxv is clear. the result of all this gives me a feeling that i have arrived at the end and also at the beginning at the same time. this (by the way) seems the usual experience of the beginner; no sooner does he get a result, any result, than he immediately thinks he is at the end. but v.i.o. is evidently not to be deceived in that way, for he goes on: now, had i really arrived at the end, it seems

s by the living fire? this life of service must be lived till i am selfless in all that i knew as myself; but all the time will not my child be growing within me, composed of finer materials? and by complete union therwith. i cannot formulate any more now. this entry indicates a recognition of the formulation of the negative in the ego which shall eventually destroy it. is it not written in liber lxv as an acid eats into steel, and as a cancer utterly corrupts the body, so am i unto the spirit of man. i shall not rest until i have destroyed it utterly? sunday, april 2nd (fra v.i.o. s 25th birthday) during practice i had a distinct consciousness of the centre of consciousness being not within as usual, but above head. april 3rd. i alternate between a state of enjoying any task or position b

and leads to the left-hand path. you say: i object to my wife being run over by a motor-car, and think you are stating an eternal truth. now no elephant in siam cares whether she is run over or not. say then: it is (relatively to v.i.o) right that he should object, etc, etc. use this analysis with all emotions. don t allow yourself to think that your own point of view is the only one. read liber lxv, cap. i: 32 40 and 57 61. this is extremely important: for one thing, if you fail to understand, you will go mad when you come to a certain gate (2) you are inclined to vagueness. this is evidently partly caused by the fog of emotion. before you can pass to zelator, you must know and rule the astral plane throughout. astral journeys, however interesting and even splendid and illuminating, don

le thoughts of an idle fellow. it s a soul-destroying, mind-fuddling practice. if indulged in, it will absolutely ruin all power of concentration. now here is your examination for the grade of zelator.9 (a) go through a door on which is engraved this figure and explain the figure in detail by means of your visions (b) invoke mercury and hod, and travel till you meet the unicorn mentioned in liber lxv, cap. iii, verse 2. report its conversation fully. 8 [this sort of thing is all wrong. it isn t really meditation at all. you let your mind rove about, instead of pinning it down to a single, simple object. samadhi never occurs in such conditions. o.m] 9 [this examination is a subtle compliment, amounting almost to flattery. it is a much harder paper than would be set in most cases. o.m] the e

LIBER COLLEGII SANCTI

ear. 2. the aspirant to the a a shall hear the lection (liber lxi) and this note of his office; if he will, shall then procure the robe of a probationer; shall choose with deep forethought and intense solemnity a motto. 3. on reception he shall receive the robe, sign the form provided and repeat the oath as appointed, and receive the first volume of the book. 4. he shall commit a chapter of liber lxv to memory; and furthermore, he shall study the publications of the a a in class b, and apply himself to such practices of scientific illuminism as seemeth him good. 5. beside all this, he shall perform any tasks that the a a may see fit to lay upon him. let him be mindful that the word probationer is no idle term, but that the brothers will in many a subtle way prove him, when he knoweth it no

with the a a simply notifying the neophyte who introduced him. 8. he shall everywhere proclaim openly his connection with the a a and speak of it and its principles (even so little as he understandeth) for that mystery is the enemy of truth. one month before the completion of his year, he shall deliver a copy of the record to the neophyte introducing, and repeat to him his chosen chapter of liber lxv. 9. he shall hold himself chaste, and reverent toward his body, for that the ordeal of initiation is no light one. this is of peculiar importance in the last two months of his probation. 10. thus and not otherwise may he attain the great reward, yea, may he attain the great reward! a a the oath of a probationer i, being of sound mind and body, on this_ day of [an! in_ of] do hereby resolve: in

d simply be to write to northram (who are still trading, as a supplier of formal academic costume) and ask if the relevant records are still extant. the book. the first edition of qelhma (sometimes, following yorke, cited as gthe holy books h, privately published ca. 1909, was bound in three volumes; the first contained liber lxi, gthe preliminary lection including the history lection h and liber lxv; the second consisted of liber vii, and the third contained libri ccxx, xxvii and dcccxiii. initially crowley appears to have applied a measure of secrecy to some of these texts; for example in parts i and ii of book 4 (1912/1913, liber lxv is referred to as a gsecret holy book h as is liber vii; in equinox i (1, crowley as geditor h vetoed his own stated intention in gjohn st. john h to pubis

ly book h as is liber vii; in equinox i (1, crowley as geditor h vetoed his own stated intention in gjohn st. john h to pubish gthe book ararita h (liber dcccxiii) as an appendix to the record, saying gthis has not been permitted. the book ararita will be issued by the a a in due course. h it was originally intended to issue the texts from qelhma over the course of equinox vol. iii. libri lxi and lxv appeared in equinox iii (1; liber vii was intended for inclusion in the abortive equinox iii (2. liber ccxx (the book of the law, previously printed in equinox i (10 (and as a near-unreadable scaled-down copy of the ms. in no. 7) was reprinted in equinox iii (3, the equinox of the gods. eventually all six texts were reprinted, accompanied by seven other gclass a h works which had appeared in e

LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE

rial survives in one of crowley fs manuscript notebooks; in any case the context in which it is cited suggests it deals with the theory and practice of running a magical order; it may also include, overlap with, or be identical with one or more of the rituals alpha, beta and gamma mentioned in gliber dclxxi vel aort h (a version of the neophyte initiation ritual which survives in typescrip gliber lxv l i b e r c o r d i s c i n c t i serpente svb figvra ynda v a a publication in class a 1 i 1. i am the heart; and the snake is entwined about the invisible core of the mind. rise, o my snake! it is now is the hour of the hooded and holy ineffable flower. rise, o my snake, into brilliance of bloom on the corpse of osiris afloat in the tomb! o heart of my mother, my sister, mine own, thou art g

adonai! 2. adonai spake unto v.v.v.v.v, saying: there must ever be division in the word. 3. for the colours are many, but the light is one. 4. therefore thou writest that which is of mother of emerald, and of lapis-lazuli, and of turquoise, and of alexandrite. 5. another writeth the words of topaz, and of deep amethyst, and of gray sapphire, and of deep sapphire with a tinge as of blood. 2 liber lxv 6. therefore do ye fret yourselves because of this. 7. be not contented with the image. 8. i who am the image of an image say this. 9. debate not of the image, saying beyond! beyond! one mounteth unto the crown by the moon and by the sun, and by the arrow, and by the foundation, and by the dark home of the stars from the black earth. 10. not otherwise may ye reach unto the smooth point. 11. no

ide upon the river of amrit! 34. thou seest yon petal of amaranth, blown by the wind from the low sweet brows of hathor? 35 (the magister saw it and rejoiced in the beauty of it) listen! 36 (from a certain world came an infinite wail) that falling petal seemed to the little ones a wave to engulph their continent. 37. so they will reproach thy servant, saying: who hath set thee to save us? 4 liber lxv 38. he will be sore distressed. 39. all they understand not that thou and i are fashioning a boat of mother-of-pearl. we will sail down the river of amrit even to the yew-groves of yama, where we may rejoice exceedingly. 40. the joy of men shall be our silver gleam, their woe our blue gleam.all in the mother-of-pearl. 41 (the scribe was wroth therat. he spake: o adonai and my master, i have bo

; whence camest thou? whither wilt thou go? 22. and laughing i chid him, saying: no whence! no whither! 23. the swan being silent, he answered: then, if with no goal, why this eternal journey? 24. and i laid my head against the head of the swan, and laughed, saying: is there not joy ineffable in this aimless winging? is there not weariness and impatience for who would attain to some goal? 8 liber lxv 25. and the swan was ever silent. ah! but we floated in the infinite abyss. joy! joy! white swan, bear thou ever me up betwen thy wings! 26. o silence! o rapture! o end of things visible and invisible! this is all mine, who am not. 27. radiant god! let me fashion an image of gems and gold for thee! that the people may cast it down and trample it to dust! that thy glory may be seen of them. 28

ndite songs, when even the memory of the shadow of thy glory is a thing beyond all music of speech or of silence. 49. behold! i am a man. even a little child might not endure thee. and lo! 50. i was alone in a great park, and by a certain hillock was a ring of deep anamelled grass wherein greed-clad ones, most beautiful, played. 51. in their play i came even unto the land of fairy sleep. 10 liber lxv 52. all night they danced and sang; but thou art the morning, o my darling, my serpent that twinest thee about this heart. 53. i am the heart, and thou the serpent. wind thy coils closer about me, so that no light nor bliss may penetrate. 54. crush out the blood of me, as a grape upon the tongue of a white doric girl that languishes with her lover the moonlight. 55. then let the end awake. lon

eheld in thee a certain taint, even in that wherein i delighted. 9. i beheld in thee the taint of thy father the ape, of thy grandsire the blind worm of slime. 10. i gazed upon the crystal of the future, and i saw the horror of the end of thee. 11. further, i destroyed the time past, and the time to come.had i not the power of the sand-glass? 12. but in the very hour i beheld corruption. 12 liber lxv 13. then i said: o my beloved, o lord adonai, i pray thee to loosen the coils of the serpent! 14. but she was closed fast upon me, so that my force was stayed in its inception. 15. also i prayed unto the elephant god, the lord of beginnings, who breaketh down obstructions. 16. these gods came right quickly to mine aid. i beheld them; i joined myself unto them; i was lost in their vastness. 17

ome like a luscious devil of italy; a fair strong woman with worn cheeks, eaten out with hunger for kisses. she hath played the harlot in divers places; she hath given her body to the beasts. 41. she hath slain her kinsfolk with strong venom of toads; she hath been scourged with many rods. 42. she hath been broken in pieces upon the wheel; the hands of the hangman have bound her unto it. 14 liber lxv 43. the fountains of water have been loosed upon her; she hath struggled with exceeding torment. 44. she hath burst in sunder with the weight of the waters; she hath sunk into the awful sea. 45. so am i, o adonai, my lord, and such are the waters of thine intolerable essence. 46. so am i, o adonai, my beloeved, and thou hast burst me utterly in sunder. 47. i am shed out like spilt blood upon t

r these eyes turn away from thine eye? 21. and adonai delighted in him exceedingly. 22. yea, o my master, thou art the beloved of the beloved one; the bennu bird is set up in phila not in vain. 23. i who was the priestess of ahathoor rejoice in your love. arise, o nile-god, and devour the holy place of the cow of heaven! let the milk of the stars be drunk up by sebek the dweller of nile! 18 liber lxv 24. arise, o serpent apep, thou art adonai the beloved one! thou art my darling and my lord, and thy poison is sweeter than the kisses of isis the mother of the gods! 25. for thou art he! yea, thou shall swallow up asi and asar, and the children of ptah. thou shalt pour forth a flood of poison to destroy the works of the magician. only the destroyer shall devour thee; thou shalt blacken his th

iads of myriads of flowers. 45. also i beheld my god, and the countenance of him was a thousandfold brighter than the lightning. yet in his heart i beheld the slow and dark one, the ancient one, the devourer of his children. 46. in the height and the abyss, o my beautiful, there is no thing, verily, there is no thing at all, that is not altogether and perfectly fashioned for thy delight. 20 liber lxv 47. light cleaveth unto light, and filth to filth; with pride one contemneth another. but not thou, who art all, and beyond it; who art absolved from the division of the shadows. 48. o day of eternity, let thy wave break in foamless glory of sapphire upon the laborious coral of our making! 49. we have made us a ring of glistening white sand, strewn wisely in the midst of the delightful ocean

16. for the magistry of this opus is a secret magistry and the sign of the master thereof is a certain ring of lapis-lazuli with the name of my master, who am i, and the eye in the midst thereof. 17. also he spake and said: this is a secret sign, and thou shalt not disclose it unto the profane, nor unto the neophyte, nor unto the zelator, nor unto the practicus, nor unto the philosophus, 24 liber lxv nor unto the lesser adept, nor unto the greater adept. 18. but unto the exempt adept thou shalt disclose thyself if thou have need of him for the lesser operations of thine art. 19. accept the worship of the foolish people, whom thou hatest. the fire is not defiled by the altars of the ghebers, nor is the moon contaminated by the incense of them that adore the queen of night. 20. thou shalt dw

sickle, and reaped the flowers of faith for their garlands. 39. they shaped ecstasy as a spear, and pierced the ancient dragon that sat upon the stagnant water. 40. then the fresh springs were unloosed, that the folk athirst might be at ease. 41. and again i was caught up into the presence of my lord adonai, and the knowledge and conversation of the holy one, the angel that guardeth me. 26 liber lxv 42. o holy exalted one, o self beyond self, o self-luminous image of the unimaginable naught, o my darling, my beautiful, come thou forth and follow me. 43. adonai, divine adonai, let adonai initiate refulgent dalliance! thus i concealed the name of her name that inspireth my rapture, the scent of whose body bewildereth the soul, the light of whose soul abaseth this body unto the beasts. 44. i

became an uraus serpent, and the poison of the fang was established in him and his seed even for ever and for ever. 57. o thou serpent apep, my lord adonai, it is a speck of minutest time, this travelling through eternity, and in thy sight the landmarks are of fair white marble untouched by the tool of the graver. therefore thou art mine, even now and for ever and for everlasting. amen. 28 liber lxv 58. moreover, i heard the voice of adonai: seal up the book of the heart and the serpent; in the number five and sixty seal thou the holy book. as fine gold that is beaten into a diadem for the fair queen of pharaoh, as great stones that are cemented together into the pyramid of the ceremony of the death of asar, so do thou bind together the words and the deeds, so that in all is one thought o

LIBER CXLVIII SOLDIER AND THE HUNCHBACK

apprehension of some vital catastrophe may have been the exciting cause of my conscious devotion to the attainment of adeptship.but surely the capacity was there, inborn. mere despair and desire can do little; anyway, the first impulse of fear was the passing spasm of an hour; the magnetism of the path itself was the true lure. it is as foolish to ask me gwhy do you adep? h as to ask god 1 [liber lxv, iv. 12] the soldier and the hunchback 17 gwhy do you pardon? h c fest son metier.1 i am not so foolish as to think that my doctrine can ever gain the ear of the world. i expect than ten centuries hence the gnominal crowleians h will be as pestilent and numerous a body as the gnominal christians h are to-day; for (at present) i have been able to devise no mechanism for excluding them. rather

LIBER DCCCLX JOHN ST

r (1901; first landed in egypt in october (1902; landed again in egypt in october (1903; first parted from rose in october (1904; wrote the b.-i-m.1 in october (1905, and obtained 1 [i.e. the bagh-i-muattar, also known as the scented garden of abdullah the satirist of shiraz. t.s] john st. john 7 the grade of 7= 4; received the great initiation in october 1906; and, continuing, received the books lxv and vii, etc. in october 1907. so then in the last days of september 1908 do i begin to collect and direct my thoughts; gently, subtly, persistently turning them one and all to the question of retreat and communion with that which i have agreed to call the holy guardian angel, whose knowledge and conversation i have willed, and in greater or less measure enjoyed, since ten years. terrible have

ised at the shrewd silliness of my replying that i will take the second hour first. 1 [see the fama fraternatis, the first rosicrucian manifesto. the inscription on the door of the vault of christian rosenkreutz was there said to be .post cxx annos patebo (after 120 years i shall manifest. 120 is equated with .lux crucis (the light of the cross) by various methods of qabalistic analogic] 2 [liber lxv, ii. 62] john st. john 63 but that is always the way; the love of besting our dearest friends in a bargain is native to us: and so, even in religion, when we are dealing with our own souls, we try to cheat. i go out to cut an almond rod at midnight, and, finding it inconvenient, i .magically affirm. that ash is almond and that seven o.clock is twelve. it seems a pity to have become a magician

arkling wight john st. john, that being who, separate from thee, is separate from all light, life, love. adonai! adonai! let it be written of o. m. that .the lord adonai is about him like a thunderbolt and like a pylon and like a serpent and like a phallus.and in the midst thereof like the woman that jetteth the milk of the stars from her paps; yea, the milk of the stars from her paps..1 1 [liber lxv, v. 65, slightly paraphrased] john st. john 93 the tenth day 12.17. now that the perfume of the incense is clearly away, one may most potently perceive the invoked perfume of the ceremony itself. and this mystical perfume of adonai is like pure musk, but infinitely subtilised.far stronger, and at the same time far more delicate (p.s..doubt has arisen about this perfume, as to whether there was

se i will add this book ararita at the end of the manuscript [this has not been permitted. the book 1[.liber dcccxiii vel ararita sub figura dlxx. it had been privately printed in the 1909 first edition of and was planned for general publication in vol. iii of the equinox; it was first generally published in a volume called the holy books (dallas: sangreal, 1969, bound up with liber vii and liber lxv, and again in equinox iii (9] liber dccclx 112 ararita will be issued by the a a in due course..ed] i also demanded of mine angel the writing upon the lamen of silver; a writing of the veritable elixir and supernal dew. and it was granted unto me. then subtly, easily, simply, imperceptibly gliding, i passed away into nothing. and i was wrapped in the black brilliance of my lord, that interpene

LIBER GRADUUM MONTIS ABIEGNI

istened and heard. and he laid aside his ibis ways, and became as a serpent, saying peradventure in an hundred millions of millions of generations of my children, they shall attain to a drop of the poison of the fang of the exalted one. and behold! ere the moon waxed thrice he became an uraus serpent, and the poison of the fang was established in him and his seed even for ever and for ever .liber lxv, ch. v. vv. 51-56. ritual& meditation practice to destroy thoughts talismans, evocations mahasatipathana etc. methods of divination meditation practices equivalent to ritual cxx control of astral plane rising on the planes meditation practice on expansion of consciousness meditation practices equi- valent to ritual dclxxi leads to the grade of adeptus major leads to the grade of adeptus exempt

wers of the sphinx liber vii the building of the magic pentacle ritual dclxxi posture hatha yoga control of breathing liber ccxx the forging of the magic sword ritual cxx the qabalah liber dcclxxvii gnana yoga control of speech devotion to the order bhakti yoga control of action liber xxvii the casting of the magic cup liber dcccxiii the cutting of the magic wand no ritual no ritual liber lxi and lxv [in certain cases ritual xxviii] porta porta porta col -legii ad s.s. the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel control of thought. raja yoga. harmonizing of the knowledge& powers already acquired. liber mysteriorum the lamp dominus liminis lighting o f the magic 3 1. the probationer. his duties are laid down in paper a, class d.1 being without, they are vague and general. he r

ritual xxviii] porta porta porta col -legii ad s.s. the knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel control of thought. raja yoga. harmonizing of the knowledge& powers already acquired. liber mysteriorum the lamp dominus liminis lighting o f the magic 3 1. the probationer. his duties are laid down in paper a, class d.1 being without, they are vague and general. he receives liber lxi and lxv [certain probationers are admitted after six months or more to ritual xxviii.2] at the end of the probation he passes ritual dclxxi3 which constitutes him a neophyte. 2. the neophyte. his duties are laid down in paper b, class d. he receives liber vii. examination in liber o, caps i..iv, theoretical and practical. examination in the four powers of the sphinx. practical. four tests are set.4 fu

LIBER HHH

king group. 1 this is not quite a literal translation of the latin but gives the gist of it well enough. in contrast to the .waters of contemplation. the .flames of enthusiasm. were supposedly treated of in .liber iao (17) which is unpub-lished and believed lost (i have been informed that a work claiming to be liber iao survives in a private collection, with a latin prologue and quotes from liber lxv and vii paralleling those here, but have been unable to authenticate it or even study a copy. 2 grk .corpse. the reference is to cap. ii, aaa, which parallels .liber cadavaris (120. compare also the meditations on various kinds of corpses described in the m.hasatipatth.na sutta. 3 grk .pyramid. the reference is to cap. i, mmm, which parallels .liber pyramidos (671. 4 grk .phallus. the referenc

LIBER LVII

deas of the units which they multiply. thus 50 is death, the force of change in its final and most earthy aspect. samekh is .temperance. in the tarot: the 6 has little evil possible to it; the worst name one can call 60 is .restriction. 61. ya, the negative. yna, the ego. a number rather like 31, q.v. 64. yd and ynd, intelligences (the twins) of mercury. see also 32. 65. ynda. in roman characters lxv= lvx, the redeeming light. see the 5 =6 ritual and .konx om pax. note 65= 13 5, the most spiritual form of force, just as 10 5 was its most material form. note sh .keep silence. and lkyh, the palace; as if it were said .silence is the house of adonai. 34 liber lviii 67. hnyb the great mother. note 6+ 7= 13, uniting the ideas of binah and kether. a number of the aspiration.42 70. the sanhedrim

LIBER SAMEKH

are the use of the same word in section c. see explanation in point ii. 11 point ii ars congressus cum damone section a let the adept be standing in his circle on the square of tiphareth,12 armed with his wand and cup; but let him perform the ritual throughout in his body of light. he may burn the cakes of light, or the incense of abramelin; he may be prepared by liber clxxv, the reading of liber lxv, and by the practices of yoga. he may invoke hadit by gwine and strange drugs h* if he so will. he prepares the circle by the usual formula of banishing and consecration, etc. he recites section a as a rehearsal before his holy guardian angel of the attributes of that angel. each phrase must be realized with full concentration of force, so as to make samadhi as perfectly as possible on the tru

whose office is to receive and transmit the word of his angel. he hails his angel not only as gun-nefer, h the perfection of gasar h himself as a man, but as ptah-apophrasz-ra, the identity (hadit) wrapped in the dragon (nuit) and thereby manifested as a sun (ra-hoor-khuit. the gegg h (or heart) ggirt with a serpent h is a cognate symbol; the idea is thus expressed later in the ritual (see liber lxv, which expands this to the utmost) section b the adept passes from contemplation to action in the sections now following, b to gg. he is to travel astrally around the circle, making the appropriate pentagrams, sigils and signs. his direction is widdershins.17 he thus makes three curves, each covering three-fourths of the circle.18 he should give the sign of the enterer on passing the kiblah, o

tself through the formula of generation* a soul implants itself in sensehoodwinked body and reason-fettered mind, makes them aware of their inmate, and thus to partake of its own consciousness of the light. line 8 ggrace h has here its proper sense of gpleasantness. h the existence of the angel is the justification of the device of creation. line 9. this line must be studied in the light of liber lxv (equinox iii (1, p. 65* this is, yod he, realizing themselves will and understanding in the twins vau he, mind and body [greek carij] but see also the general solution of the riddle of existence in the book of the law and its comment.part iv of book 4 [see works cited] point ii 25 section h this recapitulation demands the going forth together of the adept and his angel gto do their pleasure on

iv (1) as gthe ritual proper to the invocation of augoeides. h 13. gliber graduum montis abiegni sub figura xiii, a syllabus of steps on the path. h in equinox i (3, iv (1) and gems from the equinox. 58. an article on the qabalah which formed part v of gthe temple of solomon the king. h in equinox i (5; reprinted in the qabalah of aleister crowley under the spurious title ggematria. h 65. gliber lxv: liber cordis cincti serpente sub figura ynda. h in vol. i. of qelhma; reprinted in equinox iii (1) and iii (9; with a lengthy commentary in iv (1. 73. gliber lxxiii: the urn. h in equinox iv (3. 84. gliber chanokh: a brief abstact of the symbolic representation of the universe as derived by dr. john dee from the skrying of sir edward kelly. h in equinox i (7-8. a continuation was planned but

LIBER XCV THE WAKE WORLD

.s no proper passage. but it.s frightfully exciting, and you must wait till next time before i tell you how i started on that horrible journey and if i ever got there or not. explicit capitulum tertium vel de collegio interno gladium, quod omnibus viis custodet portas otz chiim nomen aort nomen adni tld [la dwy. wn carta tarot v. agyptiorum i.n.r.i= y.n.r.y= f. h= i.a.o= l.v.x. y n d a= 65 l.v.x= lxv the wake world 17 part iv. now i shall tell you about the chariot race in the first passage. the chariot is all carved out of pure, clear amber, so that electric sparks fly about as the furs rub it. the whole cushions and rugs are all beautiful soft ermine fur. there is a canopy of bright blue with stars (like the sky in the dream world, and the chariot is drawn by two sphinxes, one black and

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

ey do not see me. they are as upon the earth; i am heaven, and there is no other god than me, and my lord hadit. samadhi with any god is not the ultimate trance. the ultimate trance is the union of nuit and hadit. that is why over the head of ra-hoor-khuit in the stele, kundalini has reached the sahashara, and is radiating into emptiness. see liber vii, i, 36-40, liber hhh, section sss, and liber lxv, iii, 3 1-36. 22. now, therefore, i am known to ye by my name nuit, and to him by a secret name which i will give him when at last he knoweth me. since i am infinite space, and the infinite stars thereof, do ye also thus. bind nothing! let there be no difference made among you between any one thing& any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. in a. c 's case, this secret name of nuit was b

ill, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. the best commentary to this verse is to be found in liber ii, the message of the master therion. this verse is best interpreted by defining 'pure will' as the true expression of the nature, the proper or inherent motion of the matter, concerned. it is unnatural to aim at any goal. the student is referred to liber lxv, ii, 24, and to the tao teh king. this becomes particularly important in high grades. one is not to do yoga, etc, in order to get samadhi, like a school-boy or a shopkeeper; but for its own sake, like an artist "unassuaged" means "its edge taken off by" or "dulled by. the pure student does not think of the result of the examination. 45. the perfect and the perfect are one perfect and not two;

initiates never interfere with another human's will. however, they are in communion with all human wills in a manner incomprehensible by, and inexplicable to, the profane. even the highest types of samadhi give only a pale idea of this communion. it is the true and genuine communion of the saints, and the grail, the cup in the hand of our lady babalon, is its symbol. readers are referred to liber lxv, chapter i, vv. 3, 18, 63; chapter ii, vv. 4-6, 26, 28-29, 43; chapter iii, vv. 17-20, 4 7-48, 61, 65; chapter iv, vv. 47,51, 60; chapter v, vv. 1, 15-18, 22-24, 59-64. see also liber vii, chapter vii, vv. 41-52; liber i, and liber 156. 46. nothing is a secret key of this law. sixty-one the jews call it; i call it eight, eighty, four hundred& eighteen. the jews call it ain, 61, not. they are a

the magical and mystical powers of which the paraphernalia are merely the symbols. for ra-hoor-khuit demands that you bind the words and the deeds "isa the sufferer. this expression needs no explanation if you have any acquaintance with the sado-masochistic nature of christian mysticism, specially where roman catholicism predominates. some people are happy only when they suffer. let them be. see lxv, v, verses 7-10, 19-22, 47-51. who are you to chart another star's course "but they are not of me" in one sense, this means that those who identify themselves with either asar or isa can become "stars of her body" only by death be this death initiatic or physical. in another sense, it means that they are of her all the time, since in truth they are not. but as long as your sahashara is not act

red with a rich headdress. i love you! i yearn to you! pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, i who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me! see liber nv for t he general preparation for this rite of worship "pure heart--see liber aleph, chapter 65; the preliminary invocation of liber lxv; the obverse of the stele 666. also, the book of the dead (which was never "for the dead. it was the standard manual of astral travel, which people were supposed to practice assiduously while they lived. the mummification had as its purpose to delay the dissolution of the astral body of the deceased so that as much of it as possible went with him or her in the next incarnation, thus providing

ous of, and doing their. true wills, and that such people are included in the category of 'shadows' the sensation of "that was a narrow escape" that initiates have at the moment of death comes from the ruach's intuitive perception that "this time" it almost, just not quite, severed its connection with the higher triad. the danger of any incarnation is this. and perhaps one of its attractions. see lxv, ii, vv. 3-6; iii, vv. 30-33; iv, vv. 18-2 1, 42- 47; v, vv. 8-10. 10. 0 prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing. as related in book four, part iv, and equinox i, vii, i was at the time of this revelation a rationalistic buddhist, very convinced of the first noble truth "everything is sorrow" i supposed this point of view to be an absolute and final truth as if apemantus were the onl

s is human it is we who aren't) 14. now let there be a veiling of this shrine: now let the light devour men and eat them up with blindness! the subject changes. hadit will give an exordium upon himself in the next two verses. then he will propound an ethical doctrine so terrible and strange that men will be "devoured and eaten up with blindness" because of it. serious readers should consult libri lxv and vii on this light that "devours men and eats them up with blindness" particularly lxv, 4 12-19, 24; ii, 30-32; iv, 54-55, 65; and vii, iv, 8-15, 25,48-49; vi, 20-25, 47; vii, 28-33, 3 6-44. 15. for i am perfect, being not; and my number is nine by the fools; but with the just i am eight, and one in eight: which is vital, for i am none indeed. the empress and the king are not of me; for the

25, 47; vii, 28-33, 3 6-44. 15. for i am perfect, being not; and my number is nine by the fools; but with the just i am eight, and one in eight: which is vital, for i am none indeed. the empress and the king are not of me; for there is a further secret. readers should consult al i, 45-48 and the commentaries thereof for "perfect, being not; also, the analysis of the word lashtal in liber v; also, lxv, ii, 26. for "nine by the fools" they should consult atu ix and atu xi (atu xi because teth has the value 9 in the qabalah "by the fools" has, of course, a double meaning. jesod is the ninth sephirah, and its symbolism and the ordeals of the zelator should be considered. for "eight and one in eight with the just" they should study the meaning of atu vii, because cheth is 8 by the qabalah; of a

weighed as much as a wounded g.i, but a g.i. remained behind so the gentleman's dog could return to the bosom of the gentleman's family. the gentleman had already been elected to public office, and was elected again. it can never be too often repeated that any people always have the government they deserve. in connection with this and other verses of this chapter. serious students should consult lxv, i, 21; ii, 3; iii, 3 7-39; iv, 60; v, 5; and vii, iv, 8; vi, 5-6. 20. beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. as soon as one realizes one's self as hadit, one obtains all his qualities. it is all a question of doing one's will. a flaming harlot, with red cap and sparkling eyes, her foot on the neck of a dead king, is just as much a star as her p

is to the physics of einstein. this is very important because of the natural inertia of the mind. until thelemic momentum be firmly established in the life of an aspirant, his mind will continuously tend to fall back into "the pit called because" he must live as if "might be" were "is; and persist in this apparently absurd course of conduct until the external world adapts itself to his will. see lxv, chapter five, verses 52-56. the adaptation of the external world to the will is inevitable if the will be the true will, because you are a star in the body of nuit. infinite space is a function of you. you are hadit, and nuit is your complement. see al ii, verse 1. this is why "success is thy proof (of course, the reverse idea is also true you are a function of infinite space see al i, verse

ntioned "hadit never knew them" hadit was never manifested in their ruach to them he exists only as "not" the consciousness of hadit is only possible to those whose ajna has become active, even if for just one moment "hadit consoles not" hadit, of course, is the a biding flame of life that makes manifestation, even of the "fallen; possible. though they are not conscious of him, he is in them. see lxv, iii, 36. but for the same reason, he "hates" those who console and those who let themselves be consoled. to fear death is to blaspheme against life, and your own spiritual intuition gimel in the qabalah turns against you in scorn. it is for this reason that beggars hate the alms giver, and the alms giver, deep in his heart, despises the beggar. this is a psychological fact, no matter how much

g the stagnant pools resulting from the obstruction. this kind of psychic blindness is characteristic of the mental state of the "black brothers" it is a wicked and senseless folly to believe that god can be found only out of, and beyond, our neighbor's flesh. it is fatally false to form an astral image of our guardian angel, instead of to perceive that he is equally manifested in all things. see lxv, iii, 25-39. aspirants should keep in mind that the concept of "mary inviolate" is a telepathic projection of the inner state of the "black brothers. thelemites must fight to the utmost atavic tendencies in themselves to consider a "chaste" woman a virtuous woman. a virtuous woman is she who has the courage to meet life on all planes, who has the courage to be mistress and mother. a woman who

yes! i was frightened when the god of things as they ought to be told me that they were to be. i was born under a german queen, and i did not believe in the revolution that i willed. and lo! it is upon us, ere the fifteenth year of the new aeon has dawned (this was thus written in 1918 e.v) yes! i am lifted up, the sun being in scorpio in this fourteenth year of the aeon. students are referred to lxv, 4 12-24 and the commentaries thereon. also to liber vii, i, 14, 22-28, 52-55; ii, 11-12, 17-22; iii, 16, 21,40-44,56-60; iv, 22-25,48; v, 7,34-48; vi, 22-25,47-50; vii, 4-6, 18- 20, 28-33, 36-39, 43-44. 54. nor shall they who cry aloud their folly that thou meanest nought avail; thou shall reveal it: thou availest: they are the slaves of because: they are not of me. the stops as thou wilt; th

ictions of the future of a thelemic society. this is further argument against interference with another's will. your neighbor is a vile, wicked man? leave him to his way as long as he does not interfere with yours. a thousand years hence, his disreputable qualities, that you so disapprove now, may be vital for racial survival, while people with your qualities may be going the way of lemmings. see lxv, iv, 47. 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 is a king. a king may choose his garment as he will: there is no certain test: but a beggar cannot

ne eyes, o prophet, a light undesired, most desirable. this chapter now enters upon an entirely new phase. the revelation or 'hiding' of hadit had by now sunk into the soul of the beast, so that he realized himself. see liber had. 62. i am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body "uplifted in thine heart: compare the book of the heart girt with a serpent (liber lxv cordis cincti serpente) 63. thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness of the inspiration; the expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughterful than a caress of hell's own worm. this verse conceals a certain magical formula of the loftiest initiation. it refers to a method of using the breath, in connexion with the appropriate series of ideas, which is perhaps not to be taught dir

to the task of putting forth the law "thou art overcome: the conscious resisted desperately, and died in the last ditch. 65. i am the master: thou art the holy chosen one. it is curious that this verse should be numbered 65, suggesting l.v.x.(lux) and adonai, the holy guardian angel. it seems then that he is hadit (the angel is nuit, hadit, and ra-hoor-khuit. also everything else nuit, again. see lxv, iii, 31-33. here it is aiwass speaking) i have never liked the term 'higher self; true self is more the idea. for each star is the husk of hadit, unique and conqueror, sublime in his own virtue, independent of hierarchy. there is an external hierarchy, of course, but that is only a matter of convenience. 66. write& find ecstasy in writing! work& be our bed in working! thrill with the joy of l

to sexual intercourse) it is of the utmost importance to resist the temptation to let oneself be carried away into trance (or orgasm. one should summon one's reserve forces to react against the tendency to lose normal consciousness. more and more of one's being is gradually drawn into the struggle, and one only yields at the last moment. it needs practice and courage to get the best results. see lxv, i, 64 and iii, 38-48; liber vii, i, 33. 68. harder! hold up thyself! lift thine head! breathe not so deep die! it is remarkable that this extraordinary experience had practically no effect upon the normal consciousness of the beast "intoxicate the inmost, 0 my lover, not the outermost" and it was his magical self, 666, that was by this ecstasy initiated. it needed years for this light to diss

table a pair of old kid gloves, and pleased the princely palate, he certainly proved himself a master-cook. the feat is not one to be repeated constantly, but one should achieve it at least once that it may bear witness to oneself that the skill is there. one might even find it advisable to practice it occasionally, to retain one's confidence that one's 'right hand hath not lost its cunning. see lxv, i, 45-46; ii, 7- 15. we therefore train our adepts to make the gold philosophical from the dung of witches, and the elixir of life from hippomanes; but we do not advocate ostentatious addiction to these operations. it is good to know that one is man enough to spend a month or so at a height of twenty thousand feet or more above the sea-level; but it would be unpardonably foolish to live there

s joy is that one possesses the courage, knowledge, agility, endurance, and self- mastery necessary to have done it. the goal is ineffably worth all our pains, as we say to ourselves 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, ii, 17-25, one of several similar passages in our holy books "be strong" we need healthy robust bodies as the mechanical instruments of our souls. could paganini have expressed himself on the 'fiddle for eighteen pence' that some one once bought when he was 'young and had no sense? each of us is hadit, the core of our khabs, our star, one of the company of heaven; but this khabs needs a khu o

d weakness as 'virtues' are natural to slaves, cowards, and defectives (not necessarily; it depends on how they are interpreted. if slaves, cowards, and defectives knew exactly what is meant by christian virtues, few people would claim to be christians, and there probably would not even exist a church of rome there would not be fools in sufficient number to finance it. see the tao teh king; also, lxv, v, 7; vii, iii, 53-60; v, 43- 48; vi, 33-35; vii, 1-6, 11-16, 50-52) the type of tailless simian who finds himself a mere forked radish in a universe of giants clamouring for hors d'oeuvres must take refuge from reality in freudian phantasies of 'god. he winces at the touch of truth; and shivers at his nakedness in nature. he therefore invents a cult of fear and shame, and makes it presumptio

is the main element in an ordeal. aspirants will be put into situations of peril, will suffer threats from gods (note "gods" in miniscules; true gods never threaten you, or even speak to you, as a rule, from rich people, from the mob, from angels, animals, or demons. the fates themselves will seem to turn against them. aspirants must not heed any of this. see vii, iv, 48; liber tzaddi, vv. 15-17; lxv, iii, 29-33; iv, 33-41 "your arms" your magickal weapons, the wand, the cup, the sword and the disk. the god is then, of course, a form of adonai: see lxv, v, 14-16, 65. he is this as ra-hoor-khu. the mass of the phoenix liber 44 is t he fullest possible expression of how the lord of the aeon is the "strength, force, vigour of your arms" in the classification of the elements of the hindus, her

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and operations. thus we have defined, for our purposes, those terms, and having thus defined those terms, we can begin to simplify our language and speak of the "black lodge" and of the "demons" more simplistically. to begin with, we must insist once more that any initiate must never forget that the planes should not be mixtured; but that there exists a harmonic relationship which is expressed in lxv v 23-29. by equilibrating all pairs of opposites, this harmony may be reached. the process is one of continuous growth. this, on its turn, is expressed in lxv iii 1-20. the four elements fire, water, air and earth (or tejas, apas, vayu and prithvi) correspond magically to the four cherubic signs of the zodiac, leo, scorpio, aquarius, and taurus; to the four powers of the sphinx, to dare, to wi

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p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 8 ghosts and phantoms it is theorized that at the moment of death the soul is freed from the body and is able to soar free of time and space. parker had died at 4:00 a.m. eastern time half an hour before gladys watson saw him. watson wrote an account of her experience for the journal of the american society for psychical research (vol. lxv, no. 3) in which she mentioned that both she and her husband were children of methodist ministers schooled against superstition from the time of their birth. when watson was asked by an investigator for the aspr whether the experience of hearing her grandfather speak could be compared to hearing someone in the flesh or to hearing with one s inner ear, she answered that it had been as if granda

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