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… ; it was also the same idea as held by Charles Darwin -- the theory of Evolution . The growth of the protoplast into man , of evil into good . Khephra , god of the morning emerging from the black thunders of night . Above us flames the Zodiac , the sign of the Balance lies between Virgo and Scorpio , the eagle is the emblem of good , the scorpion of evil , the eagle winged serpent of Good and Evil ; and it is with this doctrine of Good and Evil that we shall now deal . As there was darkness before dobe formed the light , and as knowledge is th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 140
THE MOTHER 133 kiss , then is it also good to know where kisses may lead to . We have already seen them rising upward from youth through the passion of maturity , concrete and abstract , earthly and spiritual ; now let us turn about and descend the slippery road of lust , so essential to the basic knowledge of the good . Among the extraordinary antipathies and sym pathies of the human mind , few are so startling as the frequent attraction of contraries . Good attracts bad , and bad good , in the love - history of life over and over again shall …
1907 · PDF PAGE 180
…and penetrate all things solid . It is thus that the world was created .1 Tannhäuser also separated the higher from the lower self , the good from the evil . Christ also at tempted the same course , not living alone for either good or bad , but for the whole , as Jeláládeen sang , “ I am the song and singer ,” etc. , the surest centre of immortality lying in the whole , and not in the part . The Qabalist compared the wicked with the excrement of the great human body , a necessary vivific secretion , and not a poison to the living organism . Wai…
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… problems of psychology , of sex , of the carnal , of the pathic , and of evil , all inter webbed and woven with the eternal filament of good . And so if we read this strange poet aright , we shall see as we progress onwards , that he has struck a sonorous note from the rim of Time , fulfilled of the knowledge of good and evil , sweet to the ears of those who are born children by the daughters of men to the sons of God , sweet as that mystic fruit was to the lips of Eve , daughter of God , child of the mystic Man . But we must speed on , taking…
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
…st ! 1 This was the love , or rather lust , of “ that filthy sorceress . We are now rapidly approaching the realms of the abnormal ; for good and evil are the toys of love as well as those of fate . The nymph and the satyr , the fair and the faulty alike are the guests of these amorous shades.2 The virility of lust is vividly illustrated in “ The Blood -Lotus " : Foam whips their reeking lips , and still the flower -witch nestles to my lips , Twines her swart lissome legs and hips , half serpent and half devil , till My whole self seems to lie …
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“ If you hold by anything in the world more than by reason , truth , and justice ; if your will be un certain and vacillating, either in good or evil ; if logic alarm you , or the naked truth make you blush ; if you are hurt when accepted errors are assailed ; condemn this work straight away ; do not read it ; let it cease to exist for you ; but at the same time do not cry it down as dangerous ." ELIPHAS LÉVI .
1907 · PDF PAGE 262
…rd !' Yet Crowley puts into the mouth of Tannhäuser the following as answer to the simple Elizabeth's asser tion , “ but God is absolute Good ” ! God slips you , He is Undefinable ! Not good ! Not wise ! Not anything at all That heart can grasp , or reason frame , or soul Shadow the sense of !2 Such a definition whether applied to God or the Ain Soph is one and the same . In the Qabalistic Dogmas of Pistorius we read even as regards Kether , the Crown , “ There is no name among Qabalists by which the supreme King is designated ; they speak of t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 112
…, and kneeling by a Calvary . Act IV again brings our knight before the gaze of the world . He has eaten of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and of Evil , and has become as a god . He wends his way to the Court of the Landgrave and there meets Elizabeth , “ His far - off baby - love ,” as Venus called her , and whispers to himself , “ Cannot purity be brought to know aught but itself ? ” Herein lies the note of his misfortunes . Purity was but ignorance , and Tannhäuser was now a god , knowing both good and evil : 1 Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 2…
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…t , law , in the rational sense of the term , has ceased to have any existence , and it henceforth enters into direct communion with the Good ; which is its own law . Thus when we have raised our hearts to the nth power , we become as Gods knowing good and evil ; and if this raising of the heart , which Crowley so brilliantly sets forth throughout his works , can in any way lead a man into a nobler and higher insight of himself , no one can ever doubt then that it is right for him to so raise it . We have already seen from Dr. Maudsley what dan…
1907 · PDF PAGE 78
…or else stagnation and retrogression will set in ; and in these competitive times the latter two spell social and moral death . What was good yesterday may be bad to - day , and what is good to - day may be evil to - morrow . What the ultimate end will be , none can tell , for it lies “ behind the veil ”; but what we must do is very certain , very definite , very sure . We must ameliorate our lot , not by the ephemeral
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…nd poured out before us the glittering metal. Yet what a differ ence he makes between the two great world forces : the love of man for a good woman , and the love of man for a bad woman ; the first is supreme , yet the other is far from being infernal . Listen : Yes . A good woman's love will forge a chain To break the spirit of the bravest Greek ; While with an harlot one may leap again Free as the waters of the western main , And turn with no heart -pang the vessel's beak Out to the oceans that all seamen seek. Another , this time a weird , c…
1907 · PDF PAGE 139
…ably was strictly anti - vicious , but in its second merely a screen to hide vice from the public gaze . This , in its turn , led to the good feeling a disgust for the bad , which in our age has developed into an in born shame which condemns open vice , but tolerates , even endows it, when hidden . Open vice , unscreened and esotericised by religion , would have in the sequence of events led to an open feeling of disgust , for Nature never permits man to borrow without paying back , the general settlement day will always sooner or later arrive …
1907 · PDF PAGE 128
… forced open her jaws , and administered a sharp emetic , a mental purgative , a rouser ! Let us hope it will clean her out , and do her good .
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…r Crowley . On our book -shelves his works stand literary pickled birches , to administer to our mental ultimatums a corrective dose . A good purgative is an excellent thing taken now and again , it keeps both the bowels free and the mind clear , and Mrs. Grundy is nothing if she be not constipated . “ Thou poisonous bitch , ” says Crowley , when he addresses a Spenserian verse to Mrs. Sally G--d , 1 Tannhäuser , vol i, p. 249. 2 lbid .
1907 · PDF PAGE 176
…gement . Hegel held : “ that a thing can only arise through its opposite ," and this idea was also held by the Qabalists . Deity created good and evil ; and both are absolutely necessary to the ex istence of each other . Further , the Qabalist does not even recognize their independence as two opposing powers , but as one under the one Supreme Deity ; the external visible matter world of evil and darkness , and the internal spiritual higher world of Goodness
1907 · PDF PAGE 276
…gth in some great agony , Enkindle generous ardour , feed pure love , Beget the smiles that have no cruelty , Be the sweet presence of a good diffus'd And in diffusion ever more intense ! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world . In the song of Orpheus we listen to the glittering and mystic consummation of bliss : This world is shadow - shapen of The bitterness of pain . Vain are the little lamps of love ! The light of life is vain ! Life , death , joy , sorrow , age and youth Are phantoms of a further truth…
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…The following are a few : " Fleas kill us " with “ Aeschylus ” " Trough hock lees " " Sophocles " “ Globule us Aristobulus And here is a good example : Let me help Babu Chander Grish up ! As by a posset of Hunyadi Clear mind ! Was Soudan of the Mahdi Not cleared by Kitchener ? Ah , Tchhup ! Such nonsense for sound truth you dish up , Were I magician , no mere cadi , Not Samuel's ghost you'd make me wish up , Nor Saul's ( the mighty son of Kish ) up , But Ingersoll's or Bradlaugh's , pardie ! By spells and cauldron stews that squish up , Or puri…
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…x as the Protoplast : He is the First ( not “ was "), and is the Last . ( Not “ will be ") ... 6 God slips you , He is Undefinable . Not good ! Not wise ! Not anything at all .6 Isis am I, and from my life are fed All stars and suns , all moons that wax and wane , Create and uncreate , living and dead , The mystery of Pain . I am the Mother ,I the silent Sea , The Earth , its travail , its fertility . Life , death , love , hatred , light , darkness , return to me To Me !? 2 1 The Fatal Force , vol . i, p . 143 . Jephthah , vol . i, p . 78 . 3 T…
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…all true patriotism , greater than power , wealth , or dominion , and that is motherhood : Fiercer desires may cast away All things most good ; A people may forget to - day Their motherhood . 1 This is the condition of the England of to - day : “ O England ! England , mighty England falls !” because she no longer knows how to bear Englishmen . Wealth cries for luxury , and luxury sniffs at the hem of lust , and lust rises o’er us a vampire kite to drink dry the blood of our veins . The two great ideals of our country , as Geoffrey Mortimer righ…
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…ibly remarked , when he rushed with the news of the enemy's approach into the as sembly of Israel : My lords , take heed now , prayer is good to save While yet the foemen are far off ; but now They howl and clamour at our very gates . Which in other words simply means , as long as man does not see or understand he will pray ; when he does , he won't . Another juggle to elude fate is sacrifice . Sacrifice and prayer have ever run in harness together under the whistling of the priestly lash . “ I will brain you if you refuse to render tribute to …