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Page 10 of 671961 · PDF PAGE 59
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 47 At De Arte Mentis Colendi (1) Mathematica. (Of the Art of Cultivating the Mind. 1: Mathematics) OW concerning the first Foundation of thy Mind I will say somewhat. Thou shalt study with Diligence in the Mathematics, because thereby shall be revealed unto thee the Laws of thine own Reason and the Limitations thereof. This Science manifesteth unto thee thy true Nature in respect of the Machinery whereby it worketh; and showeth in pure Nakedness, without Clothing of Personality or Desire, the Anatomy of thy conscious…
1961 · PDF PAGE 220
…Lo, in the Sagas of Old Time, Legend of Scald, of Bard, of Druid, cometh He not in Green Like Spring? O thou Great Fool, thou Water that art Air, in whom all Complex is resolved! Yes, thou in ragged Raiment, with the Staff of Priapus and the Wineskin! thou standest up on the Crocodile, like Hoor- pa-Kraat; and the Great Cat leapeth upon thee! Yea, and more also I have known Thee who Thou art, Bacchus Diphues, none and two, in thy Name IAO! Now at the End of all do I come to the Being of Thee, beyond By-coming, and I cry aloud my Word, as it was…
1916 · PDF PAGE 4
1 dt che pay ee i understand the Menage ofthe Master i Pe ape a fing oe } (© peace 4, Theo and then only, art thou In harmony with the” | Movement of Things, ehy will pare of, and therefore one with, and therefore sscntal to, and therefore equal to, the Will of God. And since the wills but the dynamic axpect ‘of the self and since two different solves could. not poses identical will; then if thy will be God's wil, Dhow art hat, ‘There is but one other word to explain. “Elewhere itis writensrey for our great comfort— Love js the Law, Love under:…
1911 · PDF PAGE 43
… PNEVMATICI SVB FIGVRA CCCLXX o. Gnarled Oak of God! In thy branches is the lightning nested! Above thee hangs the Eyeless Hawk. 1. Thou art blasted and black! Supremely solitary in that heath of scrub. 2. Up! The ruddy clouds hang over thee! It is the storm. 3. There is a flaming gash in the sky. 4. Up. 5. Thou art tossed about in the grip of the storm for an æon and an aeon and an æon. But thou givest not thy sap; thou fallest not. 6. Only in the end shalt thou give up thy sap when the great God F. I. A. T. is enthroned on the day of Be—with-U…
1911 · PDF PAGE 43
… PNEVMATICI SVB FIGVRA CCCLXX o. Gnarled Oak of God! In thy branches is the lightning nested! Above thee hangs the Eyeless Hawk. 1. Thou art blasted and black! Supremely solitary in that heath of scrub. 2. Up! The ruddy clouds hang over thee! It is the storm. 3. There is a flaming gash in the sky. 4. Up. 5. Thou art tossed about in the grip of the storm for an æon and an aeon and an æon. But thou givest not thy sap; thou fallest not. 6. Only in the end shalt thou give up thy sap when the great God F. I. A. T. is enthroned on the day of Be—with-U…
1907 · PDF PAGE 189
…e we wake to the work. RHADAMANTHUS, Black snakes many-crested, Arise ! lest the calm of the murk From our places be wrested. MINOS. Who art thou ? AL ACUS, “Vhat ails thee to irk From earth tender-breasted To the milkless dugs of the grave And the iron breasts of the pit? RHADAMANTHUS, Can a bodily presence save Against a shadowy wilt? MINOs. Thy hope doth dwell, O slave, Where thy mother fashioned it, Oh heart of a fool, in thy breast. EACUS. Away, away to the skies! RHADAMANTHUS. That our dead may take their rest. MINOS. Arise to the air, ar…
1913 · PDF PAGE 118
THE EQUINOX [He consecrates, and partakes of, the sacrament. The two warders, kneeling, clasp his knees, and the two women support his arms. A sixfold chime of bells. He invokes the God in the shrine. THE YOUNG JOHN. Thou, who art I, beyond all I am, Chorus. 78 Who hast no nature and no name, Who art, when all but Thou are gone, Thou, centre and secret of the Sun, Thou, hidden spring of all things known And unknown, Thou aloof, alone, Thou, the true fire within the reed Brooding and breeding, source and seed Of life, love, liberty, and light, T…
1913 · PDF PAGE 118
THE EQUINOX [He consecrates, and partakes of, the sacrament. The two warders, kneeling, clasp his knees, and the two women support his arms. A sixfold chime of bells. He invokes the God in the shrine. THE YOUNG JOHN. Thou, who art I, beyond all I am, Chorus. 78 Who hast no nature and no name, Who art, when all but Thou are gone, Thou, centre and secret of the Sun, Thou, hidden spring of all things known And unknown, Thou aloof, alone, Thou, the true fire within the reed Brooding and breeding, source and seed Of life, love, liberty, and light, T…
1919 · PDF PAGE 57
…Equinox of the Gods. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! Aye! Feast! Rejoice! There is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu.” It all depends on your own acceptance of this new law, and you are not asked to believe anything, to accept a string of fool- ish fables beneath the intellectual level of a Bushman and the moral l…
1907 · PDF PAGE 108
… 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 caught her with his comic spasms. They turned her fairly inside out, Jerking her legs and arms about Like a damned dancing marionette. I could not light my cigarette: I started laughing. Laugh? I laughed— ] rocked my body fore and aft-— I fairly yelledl To crown the event Her wonder at my merriment: That beat the band. I really wonder However I came to, by thunder…
1954 · PDF PAGE 166
SEX MORALITY 133 Strive ever to more! and if thou art truly mine-and doubt it not, an if thou art ever joyous-death is the crown of all. Here is confinnation in detail of AL, I: 41. This act is a definite electrical or magnetic phenomenon. No other considerations apply. (It will therefore occasionally seem, to the outsider, unreasonable.) The only exception-it is only apparently so-is when satisfaction of the impulse would manifestly thwart the True Will more than it would help to fulfil it; any such case must be judged on its merits. "But alwa…
1919 · PDF PAGE 71
LIBER CORDIS CINCTI SERPENTE I 1. Iam the Heart; and the Snake is entwined About the invisible core of the mind. Rise, O my snake! It is now is the hour Of the hooded and holy ineffable flower. Rise, O my snake, into brilliance of bloom On the corpse of Osiris afloat in the tomb! O heart of my mother, my sister, mine own, Thou art given to Nile, to the terror Typhon! Ah me! but the glory of ravening storm Enswathes thee and wraps thee in frenzy of form. Be still, O my soul! that the spell may dissolve As the wands are upraised, and the zeons re…
1898 · PDF PAGE 58
…szde]. She is most gracious : I must speak and save. [Aloud.] Friends! [Aszde.] Stay—Is this a tempter voice that soothes My conscience? Art thou that Leviathan, Thou lipless monster, gnashing at my soul Abominable teeth? Art thou the fiend WhomI have seen in sleep, and waking served? O horrible distortion of all truth That I must serve thee still. Thy word’s a lie, That if I keep my silence, I do good To her, the milk-white virgin sacrifice, And only smite the bloody father down! A lie, Isay! A lie! Yet—dare I speak, Those eyes upon me, tortur…
1911 · PDF PAGE 250
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS ARIES. [To BESZ.] But who art thou, brother? [BEsz begins to stammer. LEO. Who art thou? [They threaten him with their spears. BESZ crunches in terror and lunb: toward West,] SATAN-TVPHON. I would have speech with my brother the Sun. ARIES. It is well. LEO. It is not well. There is danger herein to my Lord. [He hers the way. ARIES. Speech cannot harm our Lord. LEO. Brother, if thou be indeed our brother, what wilt thou say? SATAN-TYPHON. Ο Sun, my brother, is it thy will that 1 have speech with thee? For I lay with thee nin…
1911 · PDF PAGE 250
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS ARIES. [To BESZ.] But who art thou, brother? [BEsz begins to stammer. LEO. Who art thou? [They threaten him with their spears. BESZ crunches in terror and lunb: toward West,] SATAN-TVPHON. I would have speech with my brother the Sun. ARIES. It is well. LEO. It is not well. There is danger herein to my Lord. [He hers the way. ARIES. Speech cannot harm our Lord. LEO. Brother, if thou be indeed our brother, what wilt thou say? SATAN-TYPHON. Ο Sun, my brother, is it thy will that 1 have speech with thee? For I lay with thee nin…
1906 · PDF PAGE 36
ORACLES 30 Thou art not cold, but bitter is thy burning cry to me. My tiny heart were fitter for a mortal than for thee. But I cast away the mortal, and I choose the tortured way, And I stand before thy portal, and my face is cold and grey. Thou lovest me with a love more terrible than death; But thou art in the above, and my wings feel no wind’s breath. ) Thou art all too fierce and calm, too bitter and sweet, alas ! Thou weavest a cruel charm on my soul that is as glass. I know thee not, who art naked; I le be- neath thy feet Who hast called …
1996 · PDF PAGE 208
Liber AL vel Legis subfigura CCXX — Chapter II 207 will hide thee in a mask of sorrow: they that see thee shall fear thou art fallen: but I lift thee up. 54. Nor shall they who cry aloud their folly that thou meanest nought avail; thou shall reveal it: thou availest: they are the slaves of because: They are not of me. The stops as thou wilt; the letters? change them not in style or value! 55. Thou shalt obtain the order & value of the English Alphabet; thou shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto. 56. Begone! ye mockers; even though ye la…
1961 · PDF PAGE 66
LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 54 Bb De Arte Alchemica (Of the Art of Alchymy) ERE then I must write concerning Talismans for thine Instruction. Know first that there are certain Vehicles proper for the Incarnation of the Will. I instance Paper, whereon by thine Art thou writest a symbolic Representation of thy Will, so that when thou next seest it, thou are reminded of that Will, or it may be that another, seeing it, will obey that Will. Here then is a case of Incarnation and Assumption, which, before it was under- stood, was rightly considered Gramarye …
1899 · PDF PAGE 76
…szde]. She is most gracious : I must speak and save. [Aloud.] Friends! [Aszde.] Stay—Is this a tempter voice that soothes My conscience? Art thou that Leviathan, Thou lipless monster, gnashing at my soul Abominable teeth? Art thou the fiend WhomI have seen in sleep, and waking served? O horrible distortion of all truth That I must serve thee still. Thy word’s a lie, That if I keep my silence, I do good To her, the milk-white virgin sacrifice, And only smite the bloody father down! A lie, Isay! A lie! Yet—dare I speak, Those eyes upon me, tortur…
1906 · PDF PAGE 35
…r? I have gone whither thou goest, bitterly followed afar, Have I 1 A secret Order, probably established by Crowley himself, Buried my heart in thy sorrow, cast down my soul at thy knees. Thou, thou hast left me no morrow. Days and desires, what are these? Nay, I have torn from my breast passion and love and despair : Sought in thy palaces rest, sleep that awaited me there ; Sleep that awaits me in vain: I have done with the hope of things ; Passion and pleasure and pain have stung me, and lost their stings. Only abides there a hollow, void as …