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Page 107 of 1301905 · PDF PAGE 143
…ut hands to-day when the white claim wings . 4 Friendship of righteous fame, ol eace are spread heneath you and your And lordship of two worlds that time can oe. never tame. O race of men that slay the slaves of kings! __ | Stoop not and tender not an hour’s regret We, whom the foam-crowned ocean still For those wild words in trivial anger enrings, passed : We, whose strong freedom never brooked Forget your fools, as we their words forget, a blow, _And join our worlds in one amazing net Hail you now victors, hail you of the sword ' Of empire an…
1996 · PDF PAGE 113
…st external joy in any phenomenon is surpassed a millionfold by the internal joy of the realization that self-fulfilment in the sensible world is but a sym- 1:57 bol of the universal sublimity of the formula “love under will.” The last two sentences demand careful attention. There is an apparent contradiction with verses 59 and 60. We must seek reconcilement in this way: Do not imagine that any King can die (v. 21) or be hurt (v. 59); strife between two Kings can therefore be nothing more than a friendly trial of strength. We are all inevi tab…
1906 · PDF PAGE 142
…nks anticipation o’ the event Shoots in my veins, darting delight. Why, this is strange ! I am losing myself. Criosda ! The walls of the world fall back with a crash. Where isall this? Iam out of myself: I expand O Maurya, where art thou, little phantom of myriads of ages ago? What a memory! Ah! Ah! She is falling. [MauRYA staggers. CRIOSDA, who has been watching her narrowly, catches her and lays her tenderly on the altar. Oh, what happiness, what happiness! osda, dear brother, how I love you! I wish to sleep for ever—I wish to die ! [Criospa,…
1996 · PDF PAGE 142
…f referring the matter to the only competent judge, the true Will of the body. I myself used to “go all out” on moun tains; I hold more World’s Records of various kinds than I can reckon—for pace, skill, daring, and endurance. But I never wor ried about whether other people could beat me. For this reason my excesses, instead of causing damage to health and danger to life, turned me from a delicate boy, too frail for football, doomed by my doctors to die in my teens, into a robust ruffian who throve on every kind of hardship and exposure. On t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 120
…rder, intended his hearers to understand that the reign of authority and paternal power had corne to an end 5 that the new master of the world was intellect. The general object of a knock or a knell is to mark a stage in the ceremony. Sasaki Shigetz tells us in his essay on Shinto that the Japanese are accustomed to clap their hands four times “to drive away evil spirits”. He explains that what really happens is that the sudden and sharp impact of the Sound throws the mind into an alert activity which enables it to break loose from the obsessio…
1996 · PDF PAGE 114
…phrase; see also Isaiah 66:24.] 2 Beast-food; even The New York Times of November 13, 1918 E.v. has it. [This issue announced the end of World War I, giving casualty totals. At the back is a six-line item reporting the massacre of Arme nians by the Turks, the first wholesale ethnic genocide of the century.] 25. Ye are against the people, O my chosen! Commentary: By “the people” is meant that canting, whin ing, servile breed of whipped dogs which refuses to admit its deity. The mob is always afraid for its bread and butter—when its tyrants let…
1905 · PDF PAGE 229
…e, to one Star bound in Tleaven! we, to one Star bound in Not to thy presence in the veil and vision Of solemn lies that men miscall the world ; Not to thy mind the lightnings truthward hurled Tturn. IT laugh dead distance to derision !— Spirit to spirit: there our loves are curled, Not to thy presence in the veil and vision! 222
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
… very Tikkunim for referring that Tree to Malkuth, the first and easiest broken of the false fires of Loki that surround the Virgin of the World l—and yet a week or so passed by, and he was found carping at a question of mere verbal accuracy. [BONES, camcz'ence-smillm, protest: fiebly] Truth and falsehood in the British “ I’m a plain man, sir, and I like a plain answer to a plain question " sense are, on the lowest grounds, but details of Morality: Morality is but a branch of that Tree of Knowledge; and yet so far may the Adept fall from his Samad…
1905 · PDF PAGE 33
…before the gates of pearl of Paradise. Happy lovers, dwell together In the isles of golden weather, Free of tyranny and tether, Roam the world, linked hand in hand, Moonlight for your sleep, and breezes Fresh from where the Ocean freezes, And the cold Aurora stands With new lilies in her hands. Ilappy lovers, twilight falls. Let us leave you for awhile, Guarding all the golden walls With the weapon ofa smile. Silver arrows from the maiden With new labours laden Shall be shot at bold intruders who would violate your peace ; Lightning shall keep …
1913 · PDF PAGE 468
…: Ecce Homo! and farther in the background, an apocalyptic painting representing the four plagues ready to let themselves loose upon the world, and the whirlwinds of hell, following the dusty traces of the pale horse of death. Before the Archbishop, a lifted arm, sketched in shadow like an infernal silhouette, held and brandished a knife. Policemen, sword in hand, were running up. And while all this tumult was going on at the bottom of the church, the singing of the litanies continued in the choir, the Ardennes,’ entered into a conspiracy with …
1913 · PDF PAGE 468
…: Ecce Homo! and farther in the background, an apocalyptic painting representing the four plagues ready to let themselves loose upon the world, and the whirlwinds of hell, following the dusty traces of the pale horse of death. Before the Archbishop, a lifted arm, sketched in shadow like an infernal silhouette, held and brandished a knife. Policemen, sword in hand, were running up. And while all this tumult was going on at the bottom of the church, the singing of the litanies continued in the choir, the Ardennes,’ entered into a conspiracy with …
1930 · PDF PAGE 38
…e above ideas apply only to the Absolute. Toothache is still painful, and deceit degrading, to a man, relatively to his situation in the world of illusion ; he does his Will by avoiding them. But the existence of aEvil” is fatal to philosophy so long as it is supposed to be independent of conditions ; and to accustom the mind “to make no différence” between any two ideas as such is to emancipate it from the thralldom of terror. We affirm on our altars our faith in ourselves and our wills, our love of ail aspects of the Absolute Ail. — 338
1954 · PDF PAGE 254
…ased on a particular theory of things in general. Thus, "benevolence and righteousness" are not "virtues"; they are only symptoms of the world-disease, in that they should be needed. The same applies to all conditions, and to all modes of seeking to modify them. There is only one proper reaction to event; that is, to adjust oneself with perfect elasticity to whatever happens. That tiger across the paddy-field looks hungry . There are several ways of dealing with the situation . One can run away, or climb a tree, or shoot him, or (in your case) …
1996 · PDF PAGE 15
…h of Thelema [1942]).] Possibly; but a beginning can, and indeed must, be made now. The more closely we look at the present state of the world, (few of us, today, can help looking at it, however little we may enjoy doing so) the more necessary it will surely appear that a beginning should be made. Consider present discontents, present depriva tions, physical, moral and spiritual; consider present urgent and vital needs. These are too palpable and too widely recognized to need specification. Well, then, is it foolishly sanguine to anticipate th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 73
…e is Man made God, exalted, eager; he has corne consciously to his full stature, and so is ready to set out on his journey to redeem the world. But he may not appear in this true form; the Vision of Pan would drive men mad with fear. He must conceal Himself in his original guise. He therefore becomes apparently the man that he was at the beginning; he lives the life of a man; indeed, he is wholly man. But his initiation has made him master of the Event by giving him the understanding that whatever happens to him is the execution of his true wil…
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…he letter with ail the energy, courage, and ability that he can command. This applies especially to the work of extending the Law in the world, wherein his proof is his own success, the witness of his Life to the Law that hath given him light in his ways, and liberty to pursue them. Thus doing, he payeth his debt to the Law that hath freed him by working its will to free ail men; and he proveth himself a true man in our Order by willing to bring his fellows into freedom. By thus ordering his disposition, he will fit himself in the best possible…
1902 · PDF PAGE 146
… aptness and transfiguring power of the rhythms . . . plastic and intensely dramatic . . . this poet is authentic and will reveal to the world much new beauty. . . ." "A kind of middle-class .Swinburne at second-hand . . . morbid unpleasantness of Mr Crowley's taste." " Much to attract and not a little to repel. A very singular and striking piece of work . . . undoubted power and originality . . . vigorous mastery and daring conception . . . we are compelled to read even where the subject matter fails to attract . . . several glaring crudities …
1907 · PDF PAGE 192
…ANTHUS. Never in the centuries Till godlike Heracles Burst the wild bonds, hath mortal found the fatal knees; Nor hath the bitter cry Of worlds in agony Answered the groans of those who weep, and cannot die. MINOS. Iron of heart and strong, We also suffer wrong. We know these words are just. not. Though thy song Were the sole word of Zeus, Should that avail to loose The bands of Being firm, invulnerable dews Tincturing its bitter brass, Shielding its vital mass From every word that cries, ‘‘ Thus, and thy day shall pass.” We avail ALACUS. Typho…
1930 · PDF PAGE 34
…Adeptus Minor needs little help or guidance even from his superiors in our Order. His work is to manifest the Beauty of the Order to the world, in the way that his superiors enjoin, and his genius dictâtes. To attain the Grade Adeptus Major, he must accomplish two tasks; the équilibration of himself, especiaily as to his passions, so that he has no preference for any one course of conduct over another, and the fulfilment of every action by its complément, so that whatever he does leaves him without temptation to wander from the way of his True …
1996 · PDF PAGE 101
…. Compassion is the vice of kings: stamp down the wretched & the weak: this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. Think not, o king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be understood: If the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the Star & the Snake. Commentary: There is a good deal of the Nietzschean stand point in this verse. It is the evolution…