Preface
When I first read Magick without Tears some ten years ago, I confess it left very little impression on me. It seemed long and tedious to say the least. I suppose I was more accustomed to the dazzling pyrotechnics and virtuosity of the earlier Crowley, to The Equinox, and other books of sixty years ago. But my reaction was a serious mistake, as I discovered several years later when the opportunity to read it again presented itself. For despite its wit and humor, Magick without Tears is a...
Do Angels Ever Cut Themselves Shaving
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. A very witty way to put it Do angels ever cut themselves shaving Rem au tetigisti, again. English you big tease What sort of existence, what type or degree of reality, do we attribute to them By angel, of course, you mean any celestial or infernal being such as are listed in the Hierarchy, from Metatron and Ratziel to Lilith and Nahema. We read of them, for the most part, as if they were persons although of another order of being as individual,...
Cara Soror 1
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. It is the introduction of the word 'self' that has raised such prickly questions. It really is a little bewildering the signpost Right-hand Path, Left-hand Path, seems rather indecipherable and then, for such a long way, they look exactly alike. At what point do they diverge Actually, the answers are fairly simple. As far as the achievement or attainment is concerned, the two Paths are in fact identical. In fact, one almost feels obliged to...
I Definition
Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will. Illustration It is my Will to inform the World of certain facts within my knowledge. I therefore take magical weapons, pen, ink, and paper I write incantations these sentences in the magical language i.e., that which is understood by people I wish to instruct. I call forth spirits such as printers, publishers, booksellers, and so forth, and constrain them to convey my message to those people. The composition and...
The Universe The 02 Equation
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Yes, I admit everything It is all my fault. Looking over my past writings, I do see that my only one-pointed attempt to set forth a sound ontoiogy was my early fumbling little brochure Bemshith.1 Since then, I seem to have kept assuming that everybody knew all about it referring to it, quoting it, but never sitting down seriously to demonstrate the thesis, or even to state it in set terms. Chapter 0 of Magick in Theory and Practice skates gently...
System of the OTO
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You inform me that the Earnest Inquirer of your ambit has been asking you to explain the difference between the A Aand the O.T.O. and that although your own mind is perfectly clear about it, you find it impossible to induce a similar lucidity in his. You add that he is not as one might at first suppose a moron. And will I please do what I can about it Well, here's the essential difference ab ovo usque ad mala the AA.'. concerns the individual,...
The Qabalah The Best Training for Memory
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Now you must learn Qabalah. Learn this Alphabet of Magick. You must take it on trust, as a child does his own alphabet. No one has ever found out why the order of the letters is what it is. Probably there isn't any answer. But our Magical Alphabet is primarily not letters, but figures, not sounds but mathematical ideas. Sir Humphrey Davy, coming out of his famous illumination with some help from Nitrous Oxide he got in exclaimed The Universe is...