The Wickedest Man in the World

aleistercrowley @ 2004-10-19T05:26:00

2004-10-19T09:37:22Z

aleistercrowley @ 2003-01-10T15:44:00

2003-01-10T20:53:55Z

"I had reached a spiritual stage in which Sanna -- pure perception -- had ousted Vedana -- sensation -- I had learnt to look on the world without being affected by events. I was able to observe what went on as few people can, for the average man's senses are deceived by his emotions. He gets things out of proportion and he exaggerates them even when he is able to appreciate them at all. I made up my mind that it should be an essential part of my system of initiation to force my pupils to be familiar with just those things which excite or upset them, until they have acquired the power of perceiving them accurately without interference from the emotions. It is all a branch of the art of concentration, no doubt; but it is one which has been very much neglected, and it is of supreme importance when the aspirant arrives at the higher levels, where it is a question of 'making no difference between any one thing and any other thing', and uniting oneself with each and every possible idea. For as long as anything soever escapes assimilation there remains separateness and duality, or the potentiality of such. Evil can only be destroyed by 'love under will', and so long as it is feared and hated, so long as we insist on attributing a real and irreconcilable existence to it, so long will it remain evil for us. The same of course applies to what we call 'good'. Good is itself evil in so far as it is separate from other ideas."

aleistercrowley @ 2003-01-10T15:38:00

2003-01-10T20:49:21Z

By choosing an astrologically appropriate moment to make a talisman or other magical object we greatly increase its magical effect. But timing is not the only important factor;
"Yet they bestow more powerful virtues on the images, if they be framed not of any, but of certain matter, namely whose natural and also special virtue is agreeable with the work, and the figure of the image is like to the celestial for such an image...is best prepared to receive the operations and powers of the celestial bodies and figures...Hence saith Ptolemy in Centiloquio, that inferior things do obey the celestial, and not only them, but also their images; even as earthly scorpions obey not only the celestial Scorpion, but also his image, if if shall be opportunely figured under his ascent and dominion."

aleistercrowley @ 2003-01-10T15:04:00

2003-01-10T20:13:49Z

"The word of the Law is Thelema."
"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."
"Love is the law, love under will."
"The law is for all."