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… of what is happening. In a deeper sense, the word “Death” is meaningless apart from the presentation of the Universe as conditioned by “Time.” But what is the meaning of Time? There is great confusion of thought in the use of the word “eternal,” and the phrase “for ever.” People who want “eternal happiness” mean by that a cycle of varying events all effective in stimulating pleasant sensations; i.e., they want time to continue exactly as it does with themselves released from the contingencies of accidents such as poverty, sickness and death. A…
1996 · PDF PAGE 301
…,141,178, 186.187 immortal 103 lack of, in “professional soldiers” 182 of woman 172.180 space 24,27.28.33.47.80.93.94.103, 178.187 space-time 24,113 Spain 188 Spanish Civil War 188 Spencer, Herbert 145 sperm 67,69,103 as semen 171-172 Sphinx, powers of the 127,174 spiritualism 126 Star (Atu XVII) 78 “Star-Sponge” Vision 27,79-83,88,89 Stèle of Revealing 28,156,157-161 paraphrased 35,165,192-193 Stevenson, Robert Louis 45 Straits of Gibraltar 188 subconscious 54,66,97,117,118,161 sulphur 69 Sunday, Billy 110 Symonds, John Addington 52 Syrinx 152…
1996 · PDF PAGE 150
…), Mormon prophet who produced The Book of Mormon (1830); Crowley admired his accomplishments.] 2 In previous notes. See also the essay “Time”: Crowley, Collected Works, Vol. II, pp. 267-82. 74. The length of thy longing shall be the strength of its glory. He that lives long & desires death much is ever the King among the Kings. Commentary: One'does not need to be constantly popping in and out of Trance. One ought to do both actions with ever- increasing length and strength of swing. Hence one’s life-periods, where time counts, become gradually…
1996 · PDF PAGE 65
…he act of love can no more “trammel up the consequence”1 2 than any other act. As long as you possess the talisman, it must be used from time to time, whether you will or no. If you injure the quality, or diminish the quantity, of that quintessence, you blas pheme yourself, and betray the trust reposed in you when you accepted the obligation of that austerely chivalrous Order called Manhood. The powers of the talisman are irresistible like every other natural force. Every time they are used, a child must be begotten. This child must be in your…
1996 · PDF PAGE 75
…ave wanted to edit the Book ruthlessly. I find in it what I consider faults of style, and even of grammar; much of the matter was at the time of writing most antipathetic. But the Book proved itself greater than the scribe; again and again have the “mistakes” proved themselves to be devices for transmitting a Wisdom beyond the scope of ordinary language. 55. The child of thy bowels, he shall behold them. 56. Expect him not from the East, nor from the West; for from no expected house cometh that child. Aum! All words are sacred and all prophets …
1996 · PDF PAGE 88
…s not knowable, for He is merely that part of Her which She formulates in order that She may be known. 5. Behold! the rituals of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be cast away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! Then shall this Knowledge go aright. Commentary: The “old time” is the /Eon of the Dying God. Some of his rituals are founded on an utterly false metaphysic and cosmogony; but others are based on Truth. We mend these, and end those. This “Knowledge” is the initiated Wisdom of this /Eon of Horus. See Book 4, Part III, fo…
1996 · PDF PAGE 84
… substitutes. Thus the Hindus remain contentedly sober, and care nothing for the series of Invaders who have occupied their country from time to time and governed them. But where the only means of obtaining this ecstasy, or a simulacrum of it, known to the people, is alcohol, they must have alcohol. Deprive them of wine, or beer, or whatever their natural drink may be, and they replace it by morphia, cocaine, or something easier to conceal, and to take without detection.
1996 · PDF PAGE 168
…s a man-made idea, built of ignorance, fear, and meanness, for the most part, which we call “Jesus,” and which has been tricked out from time to time with various gauds from Paganism, and Judaism. The subject of “Jesus” is, most unfortunately, too extensive for a note; it is treated fully in my book 888.1 1 [See Jesus: The Gospel According to St. Bernard Shaw in Works Cited.] 52. I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed & blind him. Commentary: Mohammed’s point of view is wrong too; but he needs no such sharp correction as “Jesus.” It is his fac…
1996 · PDF PAGE 36
…Freedom itself to have an organiza tion; and every organization must have a highly-centralized control. This is especially necessary in time of war, as even the so- called “democratic” nations have been taught by Experience, since they would not learn from Germany. Now this age is pre eminently a “time of war,” most of all now, when it is our Work to overthrow the slave-gods. The injunction “seek me only” is emphasized with an oath, and a special promise is made in connection with it. By seeking lesser ideals one makes distinctions, thereby a…
1996 · PDF PAGE 293
… ein Buhnenweihfestspiel, trans. Marga ret H. Glyn and Alfred Ernst. Mainz: Schott, c. 1926; rpt. New York: Dover 1986. Wells, H.G. The Time Machine, an Invention. London: Heinemann, 1895. Also in The Definitive Time Machine: A Critical Edition, ed. Harry M. Geduld (Bloomington, in: Indiana University Press, 1987).
1996 · PDF PAGE 124
…fraid of “going the pace.” It is better to wear out than to rust out. You are unconquerable, and of indefatigable energy. Great men find time for everything, shirk nothing, make reputations in half a dozen different lines, have twenty simultaneous love affairs, and live to a green old age. The milksops and valetudinarians never get anywhere; usually they die early; and even if they lived forever, what’s the use? The body is itself a restriction as well as an instrument. When death is as complete as it should be, the individual expands and fulfi…
1996 · PDF PAGE 159
… is threadbare, gropes, heavily leaning on the staff of Love, blinking and droning along—and suddenly sees Him! I did the sum over, this time with my pen like a panther. Too good to be true! I added my figures; yes, 718 past denial. I checked my value of Stèle; 52, and no error. Then only I let myself yield to the storm of delight and wonder that rushed up from the Hand of Him that is throned in the Abyss of my Being; and I wrote in my Magical Record the Triumph for which I have warred for over seventeen years 718 XTHAH 666 NO FITTER NAME COULD…
1996 · PDF PAGE 93
… contact with the circle, their right ascension, and their relation with the other points of the cube. 1 [Sir Arthur] Eddington, [Space, Time and Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory. See Works Cited.] 2 Eddington, op. cit., p. 158. 3 [Grk., lit. “comb,” meaning “vulva.”] Why is Nuit restricted to two dimensions? We usually think of 1=28 space as a sphere. “None” — “and two”: extension and potenti ality are Her only projections of Naught. It is strange, by the way, to find that modern mathematics says “Spherical space is no…
1996 · PDF PAGE 25
…with one or two elucidatory insertions) the note originally made by Me on this subject. May 14, 1919, 6:30 p.m. All elements must at one time have been separate—that would be the case with great heat. Now when the atoms get to the Sun, when we get to the Sun, we get that immense, extreme heat, and all the elements are themselves again. Imagine that each atom of each element possesses the mem ory of all his adventures in combination. By the way, that atom, fortified with that memory, would not be the same atom; yet it is, because it has gained …
1996 · PDF PAGE 16
…ily grasped as that. It is impossible to write rewardingly on such matters as religion, death, sex, the conduct of life, and at the same time to make no more than slight and sim ple demands on the reader’s brain. Unless he makes the effort not only to attend but to cooperate, no one can gain anything of importance from any book. The gain that the reader will get from this book will be prima rily religious. For the “Law” is in its essence a religious Law; its sanctions, its injunctions, and its prohibitions are religious. At the same time it i…
1996 · PDF PAGE 217
…Lord of Silence & of Strength; my nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky. 71. Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand. 72. I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power; the wand of the Force of Coph Nia—but my left hand is empty, for I have crushed an Universe; & nought remains. 73. Paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom: then behold! 74. There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. 75. The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra. The Bo…
1996 · PDF PAGE 12
…n occurring in that section of the Commentary where the verse quoted is the subject.] But the writer from this dictation was not, at the time, in sympathy with this “intelligence.” Aiwaz, in fact, was dictating to a hostile scribe; to one who was forced to write against his will. “I see thee hate the hand & the pen; but I am stronger.”1 2 To the scribe this experience is the surest and the most significant reality in his life. I am myself persuaded that there are intelligences and powers not normally accessible to any of the senses, and that in…
1996 · PDF PAGE 204
…ywhere the centre, as she, the circum ference, is nowhere found. 4. Yet she shall be known & I never. 5. Behold! the rituals of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be cast away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! Then shall this Knowledge go aright. 6. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet there fore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. 7. I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unt…
1996 · PDF PAGE 187
…Lord of Silence & of Strength; my nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky. 71. Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand. Commentary: This seemed a clear statement as to the War which was to come, and did come, in 1914 E.v. Later I thought that “the pillars of the world” meant “the Pillars of Hercules”—about the Straits of Gibraltar—and that the really big war would start there. P.s. I now ask if “twin warriors” imply a civil war? The Spanish troubles started in S. Spain and Morocco.1 1 [I.e., the Spanish Ci…
1996 · PDF PAGE 90
…ach new thing that we know about ourselves helps us to realize what we mean by our “Star.” 1 [Grk., “sea.”] Now, “the rituals of the old time” are no longer valid vehicles; Knowledge cannot “go aright” until they are adapted to the Formula of the New /Eon. Their defects are due principally to two radical errors. 1. The Universe was conceived as possessing a fixed centre, or summit; an absolute standard to which all things might be referred; an Unity, or God. (Mystics were angry and bewildered, often enough, when attaining to “union with God” th…