Magick Without Tears

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

Foreword.

 

Introduction.

 

CHAPTER I

What is Magick?

CHAPTER II

The Necessity of Magick for All

CHAPTER III

Hieroglypics: Life and Language Necessarily Symbolic

CHAPTER IV

The Qabalah: The Best Training for Memory

CHAPTER V

The Universe: The 0 = 2 Equation

CHAPTER VI

The Three Schools of Magick (1)

CHAPTER VII

The Three Schools of Magick (2)

CHAPTER VIII

The Three Schools of Magick (3)

CHAPTER IX

The Secret Chiefs

CHAPTER X

The Scolex School

CHAPTER XI

Woolly Pomposities of the Pious "Teacher"

CHAPTER XII

The Left-Hand Path—"The Black Brothers"

CHAPTER XIII

System of the O.T.O.

CHAPTER XIV

Noise

CHAPTER XV

Sex Morality

CHAPTER XVI

On Concentration

CHAPTER XVII

Astral Journey: Example, How to do it, How to Verify your Experience

CHAPTER XVIII

The Importance of our Conventional Greetings, etc.

CHAPTER XIX

The Act of Truth

CHAPTER XX

Talismans: The Lamen: The Pantacle

CHAPTER XXI

My Theory of Astrology

CHAPTER XXII

How to Learn the Practice of Astrology

CHAPTER XXIII

Improvising a Temple

CHAPTER XXIV

Necromancy and Spiritism

CHAPTER XXV

Fascinations, Invisibility, Levitation, Transmutations, "Kinks in Time"

CHAPTER XXVI

Mental Processes—Two Only are Possible

CHAPTER XXVII

Structure of Mind Based on that of Body (Haeckel and Bertrand Russell)

CHAPTER XXVIII

Need to Define "God", "Self", etc.

CHAPTER XXIX

What is Certainty?

CHAPTER XXX

Do you Believe in God?

CHAPTER XXXI

Religion–Is Thelema a "New Religion"?

CHAPTER XXXII

How can a Yogi ever be Worried?

CHAPTER XXXIII

The Golden Mean

CHAPTER XXXIV

The Tao I

CHAPTER XXXV

The Tao II

CHAPTER XXXVI

Quo Stet Olympus: Where the Gods, Angels, etc. Live

CHAPTER XXXVII

Death—Fear—"Magical Memory"

CHAPTER XXXVIII

Woman—Her Magical Formula

CHAPTER XXXIX

Prophecy

CHAPTER XL

Coincidence

CHAPTER XLI

"Are we Reincarnations of the Ancient Egyptians?"

CHAPTER XLII

This "Self" Introversion

CHAPTER XLIII

The Holy Guardian Angel is not the "Higher Self" but an Objective Individual

CHAPTER XLIV

"Serious" Style of A.C., or the Apparent Frivolity of Some of my Remarks

CHAPTER XLV

"Unserious" Conduct of a Pupil

CHAPTER XLVI

Selfishness

CHAPTER XLVII

Reincarnation

CHAPTER XLVIII

Morals of AL—Hard to Accept, and Why nevertheless we Must Concur

CHAPTER XLIX

Thelemic Morality

CHAPTER L

A.C. and the "Masters"; Why they Chose him, etc.

CHAPTER LI

How to Recognise Masters, Angels, etc., and how they Work

CHAPTER LII

Family: Public Enemy No. 1

CHAPTER LIII

"Mother-Love"

CHAPTER LIV

"On Meanness"

CHAPTER LV

Money

CHAPTER LVI

Marriage—Property—War Politics

CHAPTER LVII

Beings I have Seen with my Physical Eye

CHAPTER LVIII

"Do Angels Ever Cut Themselves Shaving?"

CHAPTER LIX

Geomancy

CHAPTER LX

Knack

CHAPTER LXI

Power and Authority

CHAPTER LXII

The Elastic Mind

CHAPTER LXIII

Fear, a Bad Astral Vision

CHAPTER LXIV

Magical Power

CHAPTER LXV

Man

CHAPTER LXVI

Vampires

CHAPTER LXVII

Faith

CHAPTER LXVIII

The God-Letters

CHAPTER LXIX

Original Sin

CHAPTER LXX

Morality (1)

CHAPTER LXXI

Morality (2)

CHAPTER LXXII

Education

CHAPTER LXXIII

"Monsters", Niggers, Jews, etc.

CHAPTER LXXIV

Obstacles on the Path

CHAPTER LXXV

The A.'.A.'. and the Planet

CHAPTER LXXVI

The Gods: How and Why they Overlap

CHAPTER LXXVII

Work Worthwhile: Why?

CHAPTER LXXVIII

Sore Spots

CHAPTER LXXIX

Progress

CHAPTER LXXX

Life a Gamble

CHAPTER LXXXI

Method of Training

CHAPTER LXXXII

Epistola Penultima: The Two Ways to Reality

CHAPTER LXXXIII

Epistola Ultima

Thelemic Books Referred to in this Volume.

Index.

 

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.

 

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