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227 The blind bulk of the immeasurable beast ... bristling with intolerable hair lying in front of one, and feel that one has done a good turn to Venus. One of my boars, by the way, gave me a lesson in literature. I came across his body two days after the battle and it hit me in the eye --- to say nothing of the nose --- with Baudelaire's "Charogne". Beside the path, an infamous foul carrion, ....Stones for its couch a fitting sheet. Its legs stretched in the air, like wanton whores ....Burning with lust, and reeking venom sweated, Laid open, c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 438
…and similar movements almost everywhere, were bringing masonry into contempt by their sheer silliness. They were so obviously exactly as good as real freemasons.
1929 · PDF PAGE 421
…f a man as a king or god, and inducing him to preside at a hunting of which he is in reality to be the quarry. I have shown in my essay "Good
1944 · PDF PAGE 39
… should run from 0 to XXI. They seem to have thought that it would be proper to as‐ sume that 0 was the Fool, because he was a cipher, a good‐for‐nothing. They made this as‐ sumption simply because they did not 1Some paragraphs of this section repeat, in slightly different phrases, statements already made in earlier pages. This is intended. know the secret doctrine of the Qabalistic Zero. They did not know elementary Mathematics. They did not know that mathematicians begin the decimal scale with Zero. To make it quite clear to initiates that th…
1939 · PDF PAGE 59
…, it is true, a tinge of magical technique, and they have been devised to serve a dogmatic end. That was, however, necessary, and it was good magic too, at that, because the original will of the Founder was to produce a war engine as a counterblast to the Reformation. He was very wise to devise a plan, irrespective of its abstract merits as philosophy, which would most efficiently serve that single purpose. The only trouble has been that this purpose was not sufficiently cosmic in scope to resist internal forces. Having attained the higher plan…
1909 · PDF PAGE 411
…ten expresses himself with a distinction of phrasing and a precision of thought which give real value to his work.” Daily Telegraph : "A good book. . . . This story reads like a page of real life written down by a man who actually did take part in the scenes described so vividly. . . . We follow their fortunes breath- lessly. . . . Descriptions as vivid as any Mr. Upton Sinclair ever painted, and they are never tedious nor overdone. .. . We must not leave the tale without mentioning the wonderful love- story of Rudolph and Eisie,a fine piece of…
1909 · PDF PAGE 411
…ten expresses himself with a distinction of phrasing and a precision of thought which give real value to his work.” Daily Telegraph : "A good book. . . . This story reads like a page of real life written down by a man who actually did take part in the scenes described so vividly. . . . We follow their fortunes breath- lessly. . . . Descriptions as vivid as any Mr. Upton Sinclair ever painted, and they are never tedious nor overdone. .. . We must not leave the tale without mentioning the wonderful love- story of Rudolph and Eisie,a fine piece of…
1939 · PDF PAGE 62
…mancipation from the thrall of the bodily desires, of the sensations self-destructive, of the thirst for pleasure. 18. I think this is a good opportunity to make a little digression in favour of Mahasatipatthana. This practice was recommended by the Buddha in very special terms, and it is the only one of which he speaks so highly. He told his disciples that if they only stuck to it, sooner or later they would reach full attainment. The practice consists of an analysis of the universe in terms of consciousness. You begin by taking some very simp…
1944 · PDF PAGE 226
…Samuel’s book. The Ace of Cups‐drink thou no less Than Brinvilliers the Marchioness! The Ace of Wands‐thy death be reckoned Like that of good King Edward Second! The central symbol of the Ace of Disks is consequently the personal Hieroglyph of “the chosen priest and apostle of infinite space”, “the prince‐priest the Beast”. (Liber AL. 1.15.) This is to be compared with the Sigillum Sanctum of the Order of A A. In the centre of all is yet another form of Tetragrammaton, the Phallus, showing Sol and Luna, with the number 666 duly inscribed, as …
1939 · PDF PAGE 70
…e Abbey, he burst out upon me a flame of excitement. 'Do you know what this is?' he cried. I answered casually that it was a lot of very good visions. 'Bother your visions,' he exclaimed, 'didn't you notice the style? It's pure John Bunyan!' It was. 21. But all this is neither here nor there. There is only one thing for anybody to do on a path, and that is to make sure of the next step. And the fact which we all have to comfort us is this: that all human beings have capacities for attainment, each according to his or her present position. For i…
1939 · PDF PAGE 34
… instinct to try to find some dodge to escape hard work. These tricks may help or they may hinder; it is up to you to find out which are good and which are bad, the why and the what and all the other questions. It all comes to the same thing in the end. There is only one way to still the body in the long run, and that is to keep it still. It's doggèd as does it. 18. The irritations develop into extreme agony. Any attempt to alleviate this simply destroys the value of the practice. I must particularly warn the aspirant against rationalising (I h…
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
…needs no adjectives as drums to sound their praises. The palate that cannot appreciate such a vintage to the full knows not the taste of good wine. T11: Imperialism of Lam—In many lyrics and sonnets Mr. Crowley’s dominant note is the very Imperialism, the Romanism of love; just as throughout the whole of his work there is the ringing note of mastery. But when he has seen the wisdom of not flinging splendid lines away on those subjects which wiser men remember only to themselves, when he has ceased to prefer the lurid and quickly evanescent gems …
1919 · PDF PAGE 307
…w lover may not fall in so simply with the scheme. He manifests reluctance to pay the expenses of the divorce, arguing with some show of good sense that he does not see why he should pay for relieving another man of his rubbish. The situation is complicated by the fact that Alice has again become pregnant. The ‘worm’ resolves upon a remarkably ingenious solution of his troubles. Past experience has shown him that his wife, when in a ‘delicate condition of health,’ cannot stand a sea voyage. Previous to the birth of the second child, she had nea…
1944 · PDF PAGE 89
…ant is to bring them to the knowledge of their starry heritage. To do this, it is necessary to behave as must be done in order to get on good terms with animals and children: to treat them with absolute respect; even; in a certain sense, with worship. * * * Note on the Precession of the Aeons. “The Hanged Man” is an invention of the Adepts of the I.N.R.I.—J.A.O. formula; in the Aeon previous to the Osirian, that of Isis (Water), he is “The Drowned Man”. The two uprights of the gallows shewn in the Mediaeval packs were, in the parthenogenetic sy…
1939 · PDF PAGE 17
…on local and climatic conditions, and they may or may not be applicable to your own case. And, on the other hand, there are all sorts of good rules which have never occurred to a teacher of Yoga; because those teachers never conceived the condition in which many people live today. It never occurred to the Buddha or Patanjali or Mansur el-Hallaj to advise his pupils not to practise in a flat with a wireless set next door. The result of all this is that all of you who are worth your salt will be absolutely delighted when I tell you to scrap all t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 111
…ontinental.} A saucy little elemental Flitted across ; I heard it sneer ; ‘‘ You won’t get water, though, I fear.” That’s hell all over. Good-bye, greens, Water, cold mutton, bread, and beans! They feed us well, like gentlemen, On chilis, seasoned with cayenne. Worse, one must finish every course. ’S truth, I had rather eat boiled horse ! IV. My first friend was an agéd monk. He fed on rice and water. Sunk His cheeks and cold his blood. You see The fool was a damned soul like me; 1 Smart restaurant in London.
1907 · PDF PAGE 139
…ave seen the star,” Mr. Crowley says. Hence we look from the garter to the more starry part of Mr. Crow ley’s work, for he has learned a good deal about Eastern philoso hy at first hand, which is well worth consideration. Captain Fuller describes “ rowleyanity” as being “ the conscious communion with God on the part of an Atheist, a transcending of reason by sce ticism of the instrument, and the limitation of scepticism by direct consciousness o the Absolute.” He defines God later on as the Relation between man and the Absolute, and he says “it i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
…fair lady and find her a queen ! O a Queen, for certain! It is I that ride, Ride in my youth and pride 1 The Indian generic term for any good spirit. 2 Rabbi Schimeon, who first wrote down the Zohar, the most sacred book of the Qabalah. With a long sword girt to my waist, And a strawberry mare sweet-paced, And a long night with no moon, no star! I will plunder the traveller from afar ;— Aye ! and find him an ancient sage, . Learn all his wisdom, marry his daughter, Become a king and a mage, Lord of Fire, Earth, Air, and Water ! Ho! my horse, la…
1944 · PDF PAGE 28
…oduction of any given authorised pack. It is therefore proper for those guardians to modify the aspect of the pack when it seems to them good to do so. The traditional pack has itself been subjected to numerous modifications, adopted for convenience. For instance: the Emperor and the Empress, in the medieval packs, were referred quite definitely to the Holy Roman Emperor and his Consort. The card origi‐ nally called “The Hierophant”, representing Osiris (as is shown by the shape of the tiara) be‐ came, in the Renaissance period, the Pope. The H…
1906 · PDF PAGE 265
SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM 259 The mind is a machine that reasons: here are its results. Very good; can it do any- thing else? This is the question not only of the Buddhist; but of the Hindu, of the Mohammedan, of the Mystic. All try their various methods ; all attain results of sorts ; none have had the genuine training which would have enabled them to record those results in an intelligible, orderly form. Others deliberately set their face against such an attempt. I am not of them; humanity has grown up; if the knowledge be dangerous in unsuspected…