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Magick Without Tears by Aleister Crowley
Text from ?Magick Without Tears," a book of collected letters by Aleister Crowley
Edited by Israel Regardie
Copyright 1983
Falcon Press
Page 302:
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
No man alive can appreciate better than myself the difficulties connected with ?The Book of the L You ask me, if I have rightly analysed your somewhat complicated series of questions, to advise yoyour attitude towards that Book.
To begin: the Author is quite certainly both more than human, and other than human.
His main aim seems to me to announce the Magical Formula of the Aeon of Horus, and to lay down thental principles of conduct that are consistent with it.
I put this first, because your troubles belong to this part of the Book.
But let me sort out the principal parts of it.
1. There is a system of the most sublime philosophy which stands altogether apart from any Aeon, any other limited condition.
2. There is a considerable proportion of the contents which appears to refer to ?The Beast? and rlet Woman? personally; but these titles may be assumed to refer to any one who happens to hodete ftose offices during the whole period of the Aeon -- approximately 2000 years.
3. The sex morality of the Book is not very different from that maintained secretly by aristocre the world began. It is the system natural to any one who has psycho-analysed away all his opee,rpessions, fixations, and phobias.
4. As matriarchy reflected the Formula of the Aeon of Isis, and patriarchy that of Osiris, so drule of the ?Crowned and Conquering Child? express that of Horus. The family, the clan, the tt on o nothing: the Individual is the Autarch.
5. The Book announces a new dichotomy in human society: there is the master and there is the slanoble and the serf; the ?lone wolf? and the herd.
(Nietzsche may be regarded as one of our prophets; to a much less extent, de Gobineau.) Hitler?svolk? is a not too dissimilar idea; but there is no volk about it; and if there were, it woul cranynt be the routine-loving, uniform obsessed, law-abiding, refuge-seeking German; the Brion epeialyth Clt, a natural anarchist, is much nearer the mark. Britons will never get togeter bou anthig ules an until each one of them feels himself directly threatened.
Now here I must tell you a story which may throw a good deal of light on much that is obscure in tical situation of ?25 to date. The venerable lady (S.H. Soror I.W.E. 8 = 3) who, on the det fSH rter 8=3, Otto Gebhardi, succeeded him as my representative in Germany (note that all tispetanstoth AA.; the O.T.O. is not directly concerned) attained the grade of Hermit (AL, I:4). Wathin th siuaton n Europe, she became constantly more convinced that Adolf Hitler was her?Magcal hild; an sheconcivedit to be her duty to devote her life (for the Hermit ?gives only f hisLightunto en?) o hisMagicl Eduation. Knowing that the hegemony of the world would fall o the ation hat fist accpted te Law f Thelma, she made haste to put ?The Book of the Law? in he hand of her?child. Upon im it mst undobtable ade the deepest impression, especially as sh swore hm most slemnly t secrecyas to th source f his poer. (Obviously, he would not wish toshare it ith other.) From ime to tie, when crcumstancs suggestd it, she wrote to him, enclosng pertinet sectionsof my commntary, of hich I hadgiven her copy at te time of the ?Zeugnis. [?Zeugnisder Suchendn?: a declaation she hd signed in1925.]
Had HItler been a less abnormal character, no great ?mischief,? or at least a very different kindchief,? might have come of it. I think you have read ?Hitler Speaks?--if not, do so--his priaecneston abounds in what sound almost like actual quotations from ?The Book of the Law.? Bu te ubicma?sprvate conversation can be repeated on the platform only at the risk of his politcallif; ad h sevedup o the people only such concoctions as would tickle their gross palates. Wors stil, h wasthe laveof hs prophetic frenzy; he had not undertaken the balancing regimen o the urriclum o A.A. and,worstof al, he was very far indeed from being a full initiate, even n the oosestsense f the erm. is Welanshaung was accordingly a mass of personal and politicalprejudie; he hd no tre cosmi compreension,no trueappreciation of First Principles; and he wastossed aout in eery diretion by he varie conflicing forcs that naturally concentrated their eergies evr more stenuously pon him a his persnal positon becamemore and more the dominating fctor, firs in domestc and thenin Europea politics. I warnedour S. H. oror repeatedly that sh ought to crrect thesetendencies;but she alrady saw thesuccess of er plans wihin her grasp, ad refused tobelieve thatthis successitself wouldalarm the wold into combning to destoy him. But we have te Book,? she onfidently reorted, failin to see that he other powes in extremit wuld be compelld to adopt thoe identical prnciples. Of curse, as you kow, it has hapened as I oresw, only a emnant of pietyputrefied Prelaes and sloppy sntimentalists sill hold out aginst?The Book o theLaw,? sabotage te victory, and wll turn the Peac into a shamblesof surrender ifw are fools enouhto give ear to heir caterwauling-as in the story f the highly-estemed Tomcat when a last one f his fns obtaine an interview; ?al he could do was t talk about his opratio.?
??The Book of the Law? takes us back to primitive savagery,? you say. Well, where are we?
We?re at Guernica, Lidice, Oradour-sur-Glane, Rotterdam and hundreds of other crimes, to say nothoncentration-camp, Stalag, and a million lesser horrors, inconceivable by the most diseased adifae aistic imagination forty years ago.
You disagree with Aiwass--so do all of us. The trouble is that He can say: ?But I?m not arguing;ling you.?
Page 392:
. . . It is nearly always a mistake to try to do things entirely off one?s own bat. It is much simpook for an existing force, in good working order, that is doing the sort of stuff that you ned n aefom it, or control in it, just that bit of it that you happen to require.
You can, theoretically, walk from Cadiz to Vladivostock; but unless there be some special reason, save time and waste of energy to make use of a fraction of the machine-power that happens tob oigi hat direction.
This is particularly true of moral and political reform. Hitler would have got exactly nowhere i been content to announce his evangel; he became master of Germany, and, for a time, of nearl l uoe y playing upon existing instruments of human passion; the revenge-lust of Central Euroe,th pni o te limps and Junkers, the discontent of the property-lacking classes, the pride an amitin o th Prsssan ilitary clique, and so on. When he had used them to the full, he callouly fung hem o th woles. But ake no mistake! The Magical Power behind all his actions lay in imsel. Hehad scceedd in akinghimsef a prophet, like Mohammed; even a symbol, like the Cross f the rusade. Hismagica technque wa indesribably admirable; he adopted the Swastika, the Hamer of Tor, thedistincive dres, the logan, he gestres, the greeting; he even imposed a Sacred ook uponthe peope. If tat book ad only een moremystic ad incomprehensible, instead of reasonble, diffse and inolerably ull, he mght have one bette. As it as, he came within an ace of cpturing Enland, evenbefore he ame to powr in Germay; and it as America money that saved the Nzi party atthe most crtical momen. Cleveres move of al, he gave te world somthing to hate: te Communist nd the Jew.
His only trouble was that he couldn?t count on his fingers!
Page 438:
Short of the ideals above outlined, you may as well have a ?pis aller?--words of astonishing insiwisdom, not alien to the Law Thelema, and written by one who was trained on ?The Book of the a?
?Self-confidence must be cultivated in the younger members of the nation from childhood onwards. hole education and training must be directed towards giving them a conviction that they are spro oohrs.
?In the case of female education, the main stress should be laid on bodily training, after that oter, and last of all, on the intellect; but the one absolute aim of female education must be ihave othe future mother.?
They are quoted as an extreme example of all that is horrible and evil by Mr. George E. Chust of y Telegraph--from ?Mein Kampf?!
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