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Page 101 of 1541907 · PDF PAGE 165
…eliminary Invocation " in “ Jephthah ,” addressed to A. C. S. , breaking the shackles of the “ improving idea " of Christ : Let there be light !-the desecrated tomb Gaped as thy fury smote the Galilean .4 Almost a Shelleyan slur lies in the last of the above words . He is no more the mystic Christ , or the gentle Jesus , but merely a Galilean , of a tribe crude and de spised . Very different do we find Crowley's opinions , in his later works , regarding this unfortunate fakir . The glamour of enthusiastic and unsuspecting youth soon disappears …
1904 · PDF PAGE 58
…Cunts ! I protect you ! Nugs ! avaunt ! Come not near the pure girls and women for whom I write this book, the decent sayings of a godly light of the Church. So let us gloss over the temporary lapse from politeness of the saintly old man let us excuse one whose only fault was that he was born at a date when folk were less fastidious ! and let him return to the quiet and uneventful autobiography with which he has so far pleasantly and inoffensively regaled us. Ah ! You would, would you, you penny-a-peep flapper ? Well, little girls will be l…
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 33
… which , though differing in rime , in cadence and spirit , is reminiscent of Rossetti's “ Blessed Damozel " : Still in those avenues of light, No maid , with golden zone , And lily garment that from sight Half hides the ivory throne , Lay in my arms the livelong night To call my soul her own . ? Whilst parts of the poem “ Messaline " with which “ Alice ” opens remind us of poor " Jenny." Tennyson , if we are to judge from the introduction to “ Alice , " does not seem to hold a very high posi tion in the opinion of Aleister Crowley . “ He is a …
1909 · PDF PAGE 393
…esspool of these mental necrophiles ? And think of having a name like Hudson Tuttle ! LitTLE Book OF SELECTIONS FROM THE CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT. By RuFus M. Jones, M.A., Litt-D. Headley Bros., 1s. 6d. net. I dislike Brochette de Paragraphes, and I dislike second-raters. “Let the dead bury their dead!” But Dr. Jones apologises prettily enough. May I point out to him that his clients (even) demand the focussing of the attention on something or other, and that this ‘Tit-Bits’ method is the contradictory course ? THE MysTeRY OF EXISTENCE. By CHARLES…
1909 · PDF PAGE 393
…esspool of these mental necrophiles ? And think of having a name like Hudson Tuttle ! LitTLE Book OF SELECTIONS FROM THE CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT. By RuFus M. Jones, M.A., Litt-D. Headley Bros., 1s. 6d. net. I dislike Brochette de Paragraphes, and I dislike second-raters. “Let the dead bury their dead!” But Dr. Jones apologises prettily enough. May I point out to him that his clients (even) demand the focussing of the attention on something or other, and that this ‘Tit-Bits’ method is the contradictory course ? THE MysTeRY OF EXISTENCE. By CHARLES…
1913 · PDF PAGE 393
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES Science ; and Science, as the manifestation of the light of God within the human intelligence, pertains to the realm of Faith. Science and Faith must then admit each other, respect each other mutually, support each other, and bear each other aid in case of need, but without ever encroaching the one upon the other. The means of uniting them is—never to confound them. Never can there be contradiction between them, for although they use the same words, they do not speak the same language. FAITH. Oh, well, Sister Science; w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 393
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES Science ; and Science, as the manifestation of the light of God within the human intelligence, pertains to the realm of Faith. Science and Faith must then admit each other, respect each other mutually, support each other, and bear each other aid in case of need, but without ever encroaching the one upon the other. The means of uniting them is—never to confound them. Never can there be contradiction between them, for although they use the same words, they do not speak the same language. FAITH. Oh, well, Sister Science; w…
1919 · PDF PAGE 358
THE EQUINOX 76. Withhold thy mind from all external objects, all ex- ternal sights. Withhold internal images, lest on thy Soul- light a dark shadow they should cast. This is the usual instruction once more, but, going further, it intimates that the internal image or reality of the object must be destroyed as well as the outer image and the ideal image. 77. Thou art now in DHARANA, the sixth stage. DHARANA has been explained thoroughly in Book 4, q.v- 78. When thou hast passed into the seventh, O happy one, thou shalt perceive no more the sacred…
1905 · PDF PAGE 101
94 MYSTERIES: LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC Music of sombre motion, swaying slow. The sky above is one dark indigo Voiceless and deep, no light is hard within To shame love’s lips and rouse the silky skin From its dull olive to a perfect white. For scarce an hour the golden rim of light Tinges the southward bergs; for scarce an hour The sun puts forth his seasonable flower, And only for a little while the wind Wakes at his coming, and beats cold and blind On the wild sea that struggles to release The hard grip from its throat, and lie at ease Lapped in …
1904 · PDF PAGE 42
…ds of thought ; But—who can tell me whether Nought Untried, will or will not avail ? Aum ! Let us meditate aright50 On that adorable One Light, Divine Savitri ! So may She Illume our minds ! So mote it be ! I find some folks think me (for one) So great a fool that I disclaim Indeed Jehovah’s hate for shame That man to-day should not be weaned Of worshipping so foul a fiend In presence of the living Sun, And yet replace him oiled and cleaned By the Egyptian Pantheon, The same thing by another name. Thus when of late Egyptian Gods Evoked ecstatic…
1906 · PDF PAGE 183
…eds of thought ; But—who can tell me whether Nought Untried, will or will not avail? Aum! Let us meditate aright °° On that adorable One Light, Divine Savitri! So may She Tliume our minds! So mote it be! I find some folks think me (for one) So great a fool that I disclaim Indeed Jehovah’s hate for shame That man to-day should not be weaned Of worshipping so foul a fiend In presence of the living Sun, And yet replace him oiled and cleaned By the Egyptian Pantheon, The same thing by another name. Thus when oflate Egyptian Gods Evoked ecstatic per…
1907 · PDF PAGE 215
…e of us , as Orpheus did when he sang : 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 . This is but the chant of the Brahmin and the Buddhist as it has risen and fallen over the East for hundreds and thousands of years . There no sun shines , no moon , nor glimmering star , Nor yonder lightning , the fire of earth is quenched , From him , who alone shines , all else borrows its brightness , The wh…
1954 · PDF PAGE 195
…not a messy mass of Old Wives' Tales, you will obviously demand instruction as to how to learn it, that you may verify my opinion in the light of your own experiments. This will look much better if I put it in a separate letter. 'Till then- Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1909 · PDF PAGE 39
…reof Whose name is Ecstasy. This also is sealed by that secret Word ; for that Word containeth All. Into this prepared Pyramid of divine Light there cometh a certain darkling wight, who knoweth not either his own nature, or his origin or destiny, or even the name of that which he desireth. Before he can enter the Pyramid, therefore, four ordeals are required 01 him. So, bound and blinded, he stumbles forward, and passes through the wrath of the Four Great Princes of the Evil of the World, whose Terror is about him on every side, Yet since he ha…
1909 · PDF PAGE 109
…o eat bread, radish, beef and potato at a mouthful. Worse, the beast is pleased and excited at the novelty of the sensation, and takes delight in recording it. Beast! Beast! !! 1! After myriads of aeons. He has drunk only about one third of his half-bottle of light white wine ; yet he’s like a hashish-drunkard, only more so. The loss of the time-sense which occurs with hashish he got during his experiments with that drug in I906, but in an unimportant way. (Damn him! he is so glad. He calls this a Result. A result! Damn him!) O.M. who writes th…
1911 · PDF PAGE 174
…the Utter- most Abyss unto My Throne. This is the formula of the Aeon, and with that the voice of LIL, that is the Lamp of the Invisible Light, is ended. Amen. BISKRA, ALGERIA. December 19, 1909. 1.30-3.30 p.m. 172
1913 · PDF PAGE 486
…is but the reflection and the material shadow of that sun of truth which illumines the world of intelligence, and which is itself only a light borrowed from the Absolute. It is a remarkable thing that Julian has ideas of the Supreme God, that the Christians thought they alone adored, much greater and more correct than those of some of the fathers of the Church, who were his contemporaries, and his adversaries. This is how he expresses himself in his defence of Hellenism : “It is not sufficient to write in a book that God spake, and things were …
1913 · PDF PAGE 486
…is but the reflection and the material shadow of that sun of truth which illumines the world of intelligence, and which is itself only a light borrowed from the Absolute. It is a remarkable thing that Julian has ideas of the Supreme God, that the Christians thought they alone adored, much greater and more correct than those of some of the fathers of the Church, who were his contemporaries, and his adversaries. This is how he expresses himself in his defence of Hellenism : “It is not sufficient to write in a book that God spake, and things were …
1943 · PDF PAGE 2
…children of earth; But ye in singing and sleeping Shall pass in measure and mirth! I lift my wand and wave you Through hill to hill of delight: My rosy rivers lave you In innermost lustral light. I lead you, lord of the maze, In the darkness free of the sun; In spite of the spite that is day's We are wed, we are wild, we are one! —Aleister Crowley