by Aleister Crowley
With thanks to Fr. T.S. of Nu Isis
from Hermetic Website
Magic without Tears November 13, 1988 e.v. key entry and first proof by Bill Heidrick T.G. O.T.O. © O.T.O. Additional proofing and supplimental material required to produce complete and unabridged version. Germer omits still a problem. Key entry by Bill Heidrick, (415) 454-5176 P.O. Box 430 Fairfax, CA 949301 A l e i s t e r C r o w e y MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Complete and Unabridged, edited with a Foreword by Karl J. Germer2 © 1954 Karl J. Germer for Ordo Templi Orientis Renewed 1982© BLURB Ordo Templi Orientis JAF Box 7666 New York, NY 10116 USA HTML coding by Frater T.S. for Nu Isis Working Group. Modified by Al Billings. |
Contents
What is Magick? | |
The Necessity of Magick for All | |
Hieroglypics: Life and Language Necessarily Symbolic | |
The Qabalah: The Best Training for Memory | |
The Universe: The 0 = 2 Equation | |
The Three Schools of Magick (1) | |
The Three Schools of Magick (2) | |
The Three Schools of Magick (3) | |
The Secret Chiefs | |
The Scolex School | |
Woolly Pomposities of the Pious "Teacher" | |
The Left-Hand Path—"The Black Brothers" | |
System of the O.T.O. | |
Noise | |
Sex Morality | |
On Concentration | |
Astral Journey: Example, How to do it, How to Verify your Experience | |
The Importance of our Conventional Greetings, etc. | |
The Act of Truth | |
Talismans: The Lamen: The Pantacle | |
My Theory of Astrology | |
How to Learn the Practice of Astrology | |
Improvising a Temple | |
Necromancy and Spiritism | |
Fascinations, Invisibility, Levitation, Transmutations, "Kinks in Time" |
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Mental Processes—Two Only are Possible | |
Structure of Mind Based on that of Body (Haeckel and Bertrand Russell) | |
Need to Define "God", "Self", etc. | |
What is Certainty? | |
Do you Believe in God? | |
Religion–Is Thelema a "New Religion"? | |
How can a Yogi ever be Worried? | |
The Golden Mean | |
The Tao I | |
The Tao II | |
Quo Stet Olympus: Where the Gods, Angels, etc. Live | |
Death—Fear—"Magical Memory" | |
Woman—Her Magical Formula | |
Prophecy | |
Coincidence | |
"Are we Reincarnations of the Ancient Egyptians?" | |
This "Self" Introversion | |
The Holy Guardian Angel is not the "Higher Self" but an Objective Individual | |
"Serious" Style of A.C., or the Apparent Frivolity of Some of my Remarks | |
"Unserious" Conduct of a Pupil | |
Selfishness | |
Reincarnation | |
Morals of AL—Hard to Accept, and Why nevertheless we Must Concur | |
Thelemic Morality | |
A.C. and the "Masters"; Why they Chose him, etc. | |
How to Recognise Masters, Angels, etc., and how they Work | |
Family: Public Enemy No. 1 | |
"Mother-Love" | |
"On Meanness" | |
Money | |
Marriage—Property—War Politics | |
Beings I have Seen with my Physical Eye | |
"Do Angels Ever Cut Themselves Shaving?" | |
Geomancy | |
Knack | |
Power and Authority | |
The Elastic Mind | |
Fear, a Bad Astral Vision | |
Magical Power | |
Man | |
Vampires | |
Faith | |
The God-Letters | |
Original Sin | |
Morality (1) | |
Morality (2) | |
Education | |
"Monsters", Niggers, Jews, etc. | |
Obstacles on the Path | |
The A.'.A.'. and the Planet | |
The Gods: How and Why they Overlap | |
Work Worthwhile: Why? | |
Sore Spots | |
Progress | |
Life a Gamble | |
Method of Training | |
Epistola Penultima: The Two Ways to Reality | |
Epistola Ultima | |
Note
This hypertext edition of Magick Without Tears is based on a plaintext edition entered in 1988 by Bill Heidrick from the 1954 first edition, with a foreword by the original editor Karl J. Germer.
The current (New Falcon) paper edition of this work was substantially abridged by editor F.I. Regardie. Omissions by Germer from the original letters have not been restored. Further proof reading may be needed.
Footnotes indicated by *, †, ‡, etc. by either Crowley or Germer. Notes indicated by numbers are by one of the subsequent editors, transcribers, etc.