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…, and pressed themselves to death upon the thorns; and one’s whole body became a single eye, 50 that one saw as if the unborn thought of light Qflvngé. brooded over an eternal sea. Then was light as the lightning flaming Zlilrb‘llrsi-bus spe- out of the east, even unto the west, and it was fashioned as the swift ness of a sword. By and by one rose up, then one seemed to be quite, quite dead, and buried in the centre of a pyramid of the most brilliant light it is possible to think of. And it was wake-light too; and everybody knows that even wake-…
1907 · PDF PAGE 14
…d be advanced? In no wise. For the brilliance wherein we walk will be but thick dark ness to all those who have not become so blind that light and darkness are akin. The light wherein I write is not the light of reason; it is not the darkness of unreason ; it is the L. V. X. of that which, first master ing and then transcending the reason, illumines all the darkness caused by the interference of the opposite waves of thought; not by destroy ing their balance, and thereby showing a false and partial light, but by overleaping their limitations. Le…
1907 · PDF PAGE 9
KONX OM PAX ESSAYS IN LIGHT BY ALEISTER CROWLEY LONDON AND FELLING-ON-TYNE Y WALTER SCOTT PUBLISHING CO. NEW YORK: 3, EAST 14TH STREET SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGA _ r TION OF RELIGIOUS TRUTH O BOLESKINE, FOYERS, INVERNESS I907
1907 · PDF PAGE 33
…s a dreadful red dragon on the floor, and all the sides were painted every colour you can think of, with curious figures and pictures. The light was not like dream light at all; it was wake light, and it came through a beautiful rose in the ceiling. In the middle was a table all covered with beautiful pictures and texts, and there were ever such strange things on it. There was a little crucifix in the middle, all of diamonds Sepulchrum and emeralds and rubies, and other precious stones, and there was a ' dagger with a golden handle, and a cup full…
1907 · PDF PAGE 111
…ht beyond belief. I, a worn Suburrian Venus reeking with a fouler foam, Sucked within me in the darkness the virility of Rome. Now’s the light, the light accurséd: I must get me to the feast, Stupefy this Panic spirit, throw a posset to the beast. ——Hail, ye Gods! ye Gods infemall here salutes ye Hercules! I am come to bring my spirit free of ye and forth of these. I am Orpheus! I will charm ye, bring Eurydice to light— Ah, my lords! Alas the omen! who shall turn me all to right? Who of all our proud Olympus shall avail me or befriend? Ah, my l…
1907 · PDF PAGE 108
…sweet to think or tell. “ Kiss me again before I die l ” And, as I kissed her, tenderly Shone like pale flames the sudden spheres Of dewy light, of eager tears. She touched my soul’s divinest chord: “I am so happy, dear my Lord.” And, breaking to the spirit bliss, “I go, dear. 0 so keen to kiss Our baby when I get to God ! ” Charrningl Why, damn it now! that’s odd. I’m surely in my dotage, Dick! A sniveller makes me fairly sick. —Well, here’s the Devil in Eden still; No good we do but turns to ill: Art '5 but a crust o’er Nature’s chasms. Death …
1907 · PDF PAGE 16
…and seek the day! Seek not to imitate the language of the wise ,- ’tis easy. There is no royal road to illumination; that which I say in Light is truth to the children of the Light; to them of darkness is a confusion and a snare. Knew ye what agony the nimble acuteness of mine own dialectic was to me, ye would not envy me, O dullardsl For I fear ever, lest I be replacing truth of thought by mere expertness of mechanic skill. Then, seeing the thought as fear, I quench it masterly. Whence rise other evil things; the thought “ Is this too mere tri…
1907 · PDF PAGE 13
…e material world; and he beholdeth therein the luminous image of the Creator. Not as yet canst thou bear the dazzling brilliance of that Light. Retuml for thou canst not pass by I” These commonplaces of the bastard mystic ism of mountebanks, crude and imbecile as they seem to one who has “passed by,” are curiously apt to mine intention of the moment. Essays in Light! I hear somebody exclaim. This man was obscure enough before, but now . . . ll! Very like. ’Tis the first time I have written careless of lucidity. By the usual paradox, I may expect…
1907 · PDF PAGE 17
DEDICATION AND COUNTER-DEDICATION xi To you, Konx Om Fax—Light in Extension—is your natural home. You have written these essays by my pen; not on you need I bestow them; but— To all and every person in the whole world who is without the Pale of the Order; and even to Initiates who are not in possession of the Password for the time being; and to all those who have resigned demitted, or been expelled I dedicate this Revelation of the Arcana which are in the Adytum of God-nourished Silence.
1907 · PDF PAGE 114
…e sand; he lies as one who nestles in Some arbour delicate of sin built by the Everlasting Hand. His lover is the Open Eye, that kindles Light within the Abyss, And wakes with His immortal kiss enthusiastic energy. Weep Thou again, 0 weeping One! Thy tears that gush within the goal Are songs that shudder in the soul, and springs that gladden at the sun. They flood me with irradiate tunes of life and ecstasy and light As though some misty maid of night were girded with a million moons. They make my pulsing blood to pour in rhythmic throbs of musi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 100
…obes the body gains a fact, Yet leaves an equal fact behind; So gathering for the cataract Roll up the rapid waves of mind. Swift as the light at last they leap Into the chasm of despair; Of all their freshet force they keep But froth and smoke and empty air. 0 fool! to deem dissection truth And paint and patches but a blind! The enthusiasm of a youth Is worth the sage and cynic mind. 0 Buddha! couldst thou nowhere rest A pivot for the universe? Must all things be alike confessed Mere changes rung upon a curse? I swear by all the bliss of blue …
1907 · PDF PAGE 106
…letto! supple joy— As if some soft Italian boy With all his slender strength alive Laughed in a deep Narcissus dive. I used to poise its light aloft Above Carlotta sleepy-soft. The dusky gold enamoured eyes And bloom of down would harmonize. She used to scold it in pretence Of envy of its excellence. We laughed—but not at the same joke. All girls are blind with their own smoke. A man may come, his lazy day, Cuddle and coo an hour away, Yet in his heart is bound to feel: “ N o woman '5 worth an inch of steel.” Woman has always played the sphinx.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 96
…e.” The Devil seemed to see the point. Pleased that I did not say “Aroint l ” Pleased that in Asmodee I sight Brave Lucifer, the Lord of Light, Pleased with my Qabalistic pun (Really a very clever one 1), Accepted all and none; became A perfect vessel of the Flame. He flapped his crooked and gloomy wing And swore by God the Holy King
1907 · PDF PAGE 125
THE STONE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS 105 I swear by their impending gleam, The Sierra’s snowy swords of light! By all the cruel and cold despair That Christ hath brought upon the land: By Mary and the false blind beastly Lies of the prudish and the priestly: By God and death and hate I swear That man shall rise, shall understand. I swear by this my lucid Eye, By all the freedom I have won, That men shall learn to love and doubt, Put faith and slavery to the rout, And eagle-pinioned even as I Soar to the splendour of the sun! All right! all right! said…
1907 · PDF PAGE 91
… in the predestination of the damned. Are we so far progressed as to interpret the saying “The Englishman’s house is his castle " in the light of the fact that once a man lay dead in his room for seven weeks, all undisturbed? Thus far the Socialist. To him enter a Man. Sayeth, the fate of men is naught; we measure mountain ranges by their peaks, not by their plains. And forthwith the Man must seek in Holbein House for some crown of the age, some Venus floating new-born in that Dead Sea, some God new-lit upon that Limbo. As also it is written. We…
1907 · PDF PAGE 30
lo KONX OM PAX It did seem a shame to go on; there was such a flashing green star to light it, and all the air was filled with amber-coloured flames like kisses. And we could see through the floor, and there were terrible lions, like furnaces for fury, and they all roared out: “ Holy! Holy! Holy!” and leaped and danced for joy. And when I saw myself in the mirrors, the dome was one mass of beautiful green mirrors, I saw how serious I looked, and that I had to go on. I hoped the Fairy Prince would look serious too, because it is a most dreadful busi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
…ls that men call Time. [BONES boils ot/er. MRS. BONES strokes his marble brow. Now it hath occurred that some of the younger Adepts, the light hearted and foolish of the Great White Brotherhood, those who slip back oftenest to normal consciousness of the Universe, so that even their pure wings are soiled in the mire of sense, perception, reason, and their foul kind, some of those boys, I say, forget the Writing on the outer Veil of the Indicible Arcanum, that rune which is written, “No separate existence!” in golden letters on the silver of the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 39
… T.A.R.O. Then you remember I.N.R.l. was on the ring too. I.N.R.I. is short for L.V.X., which means the brilliance of the wide wide-wake Light, and that too is the name of my Fairy Prince only spelt short. The Romans said it had sixty-five parts, which is five times thirteen, Gladium, quad omnibus viis custodet portas Otz Chiim Nomen 817111 N omen ADNl
1907 · PDF PAGE 54
…peaks the truth in the sense that the witness in a divorce case is expected to, by indicating to them the true nature of those sparks of light shaken ofl" from the invisible Crown of Glory, sparks which they have mistaken for corpse-lights or marsh-vapours, surrounding—they think it an inexplicable paradox l—one who, in all other respects, is so high and pure a being. The first point is, it takes two to make a lie. A. says to B.: “I have emptied all the water from the bottle,” and tells the truth. Student C. says the same words to Professor D., a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 41
…u have always thought were your very own self, and you leap out into the cold abyss, and you can’t thi how lonely it is. There isn’t any light, or any path, or anything Nomen Nifl‘222 aath: 418: Abrahadabra Via l v. Gladium Via quae non C5! Vagina: Quinque Animae