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… not drag her down ; I will return. VENUS. To lose thee for one hour Is my swift death—so desolate am I! I have not got one lover in the world, Save only Tannhiuser. And he will go.
…e experiences we have gained. But, if this love is turned into a supernatural channel, that is to say, if the joys and pleasures of this world are renounced for some higher ideal still, an ideal super-worldly, then will it become a divine emotion, a love which will awake the human soul and urge it on through all obstructions to its ultimate union with the Supreme Soul. To teach this celestial marriage to the children of earth even the greatest masters must make use of worldly symbols; thus it has come about that corruption has cankered the subl…
…e experiences we have gained. But, if this love is turned into a supernatural channel, that is to say, if the joys and pleasures of this world are renounced for some higher ideal still, an ideal super-worldly, then will it become a divine emotion, a love which will awake the human soul and urge it on through all obstructions to its ultimate union with the Supreme Soul. To teach this celestial marriage to the children of earth even the greatest masters must make use of worldly symbols; thus it has come about that corruption has cankered the subl…
…orresponding éléments in Nature. 17) Every Magician possesses an Astral Universe peculiar to himself, just as no man’s expérience of the world is conterminous with that of another. There will be a general agreement on the main points, of course ; and so the Master Therion is able to describe the principal properties of these “planes”, and their laws, just as he might Write a geography giving an account of the Five Continents, the Océans and Seas, the most notable mountains and rivers; he could not prétend to put forth the whole knowledge that a…
…ndencies; but she already saw the success of her plans within her grasp, and refused to believe that this success itself would alarm the world into combining to destroy him. "But we have the Book," she confidently retorted, failing to see that the other powers in extremity would be compelled to adopt those identical principles. Of course, as you know, it has happened as I foresaw; only a remnant of piety-putrefied Prelates and sloppy sentimentalists still hold out against The Book of the Law, sabotage the victory, and will turn the Peace into a…
…extremely depressed by the obligation under which King Lamus has put me to write this section, with the avowed object of instructing the world in the methods of overcoming the craving for drugs. He admits frankly that he feels it quite useless to do it himself, for the very reason that he is so abnormal a man. He even distrusts me, on the ground that he has had so much influence on my life and thought. “Even a mediocrity like yourself, Sir Peter,” he said to me the other day, “ dull as you are, cannot be trusted in my neighbourhood. Your brain …
…d glorified by the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. So as each Master has his own appointed Work to perform in the world, he is cast down into the Sephira, suitable for that work. If his function is to be that of a warrior, he would find himself in Geburah ; if that of a great poet or composer, in Tiphareth ; and so on. He, the Master, inhabits this dwelling; but , having already got rid of it, he is able to allow it to carry on according to its nature without interference from the false Self (its head in Daath) which hith…
…ht, faint & faery, of the stars, and two. 29. For I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union. 30. This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. 31. For these fools of men and their woes care not thou at all! They feel little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones. 32. Obey my prophet! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge! seek me only! Then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. This is so: I swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacre…
…ad to pay for the prescription. No, Lou, you're a naughty girl. You mustn’t be bitter like that. It’s your fault for getting born into a world where ignorance and folly are in constant competition for the premiership of the minds of the educated classes. The commonest ploughman would have had more horse-sense than that doctor. I gave Peter the tablet with plenty of water when he began to get restless. It soothed him a great deal. I wished I had one for myself. I felt my irritability returning ; but I didn’t break out because it couldn’t be long…
…f a man is sim ple, fearless, eager, he is all right; he will not become a slave. If he is afraid, he is already a slave. Let the whole world take opium, hashish, and the rest; those who are liable to abuse them were better dead. For it is in the power of all so-called intoxicating drugs to reveal a man to himself. If this revelation declare a Star, then it shines brighter ever after. If it declare a Christian—a thing nor man nor beast, but a muddle of mind—he craves the drug, no more for its analytical but for its numbing effect. Lytton has a
…onary tendency. It made him the Ibsen of a school where a parson and a chapel were considered with the rest of the non-Plymouth-Brethren world as so many devils let loose from hell. * This volume consists of unpublished poems dating from 1886-1903. Crowley writes, ‘‘ The sense is of dead leaves drifting in the dusty cave of my mind.” The lupus is over her face and head, Filthy and foul and horrid and dread, And her shrieks they would almost wake the dead ; Rotting away ! In her horrible grave she lay, Rotting away ! Rotting by night, and rottin…
…d ; a placid patriarch with an air of disinterested benevolence and unassuming sanctity. If ever a man was at peace with himself and the world, it was Mr. Jabez Platt on the occasion of our first meeting. But to-day, he was a very different individual indeed. He seemed to have shrunk. His black clothes had fitted him like the skin of a well-conditioned porpoise. Now they hung loosely like a toad’s. He resembled that animal in several other respects. The virtue had somehow gone out of him. There was a hungry, hunted look in his eyes. Of course, …
…actly as in normal aEairs mind and body respond with free unconscious rightness to the Will. 3. The organic development of Magick in the world due to the créative Will of the Master Therion makes it with every year that passes easier to find scientifically trained co-workers. 73
…eferred to as the hawk. We need not, however, consider this question of death. It may often be convenient for the living to go about the world in some such incognito. Now, then, conceive of this magical body as créative force, seeking manifestation; as a God, seeking incarnation. There are two ways by which this aim may be effected. The first method is to build up an appropriate body from its éléments. This is, generally speaking, a very hard thing to do, because the physical constitution of any material being with much power is, or at least sh…
…r duty to devote her life (for the Hermit "gives only of his Light unto men") to his Magical Education. Knowing that the hegemony of the world would fall to the nation that first accepted the Law of Thelema, she made haste to put The Book of the Law in the hands of her "child." Upon him it most undoubtedly made the deepest 1. The 'Master' roughly denotes the able, the adventurous, welcoming responsibility. The 'slave': his motto is "Safety fust," with all that this implies. Race, birth, breeding, etc. are important but not absolutely essential …
…ic Individual. (We do not know about his birth and so on ; but that is because he is, so to speak a private God ; he only appears to the world at all through some reference to him by his client ; for instance , the genius or Augoeides of Socrates.) Let us see how this works in practice. Consider Zeus, Jupiter , Amoun-Ra , Indra , etc. , we can think of them as the same identical people known and described by Greeks , Romans, Egyptians and Hindus ; they differ as Mont Cervin
…by instinct, that Lavinia King chose to arrive at Charing Cross. She was, in her peculiar, esoteric style, the most famous dancer in the world; and she was about to poise upon one exquisite toe in London, execute one blithe pirouette, and leap to Petersburg. No: her reason for alighting at Charing Cross was utterly unconnected with any one of the facts hitherto discussed; had you asked her, she would have replied with her unusual smile, insured for seventy-five thousand dollars, that it was convenient for the Savoy Hotel. So, on that October ni…
…beautiful, The harmony of life is null. CALLIOPE. What unto us remains But in these broken strains To hymn with voices jarred the jarred world’s shriek of woe? O!0! RIVER FELEBRUS. This discord is an agony Shuddering harsh in me; My waters will empoison the fair fresh-water sea ! CALLIOPE. Nay ! all is ended now. Cover the beaten brow ! Carry the brain of music into the wide Aggean ! No priest pronounce thy pzean Ever again, Apollo, Thou false, thou fair, thou hollow ! Die to a groan within a shrine ! Despair thy force divine! Thou didst achiev…
…ay,” it is within thy reach “To-morrow.” Learn that no efforts, not the smallest—whether in right or wrong direction—can vanish from the world of causes. E’en wasted smoke re- mains not traceless. “A harsh word uttered in past lives is not destroyed, but ever comes again.” The pepper plant will not give birth to roses, nor the sweet jessamine’s silver star to thorn or thistle turn. Behold what is written for a Parable in the “Great Law”: Let not the failure and the pain turn aside the worshippers. The foundations of the pyramid were hewn in the…
… the Big Lion insists on our going through the mill. But it takes us a very short time to realise that there is not enough heroin in the world to tide us over a single day in such a ghastly place, so we quit.” Here was another of Basil’s paradoxes in full working order. But they came quite differently from the lips of a steady-going serious-minded person of this kind. The personality of the Big Lion is his greatest asset in one way, but in another it handicaps him frightfully. His cynical manner, his habitual irony, the sensation he produces th…