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Page 111 of 1541911 · PDF PAGE 49
… VISION AND THE VOICE THE CRY OF THE I9TH AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED POP At first there is a black web over the face of the stone. A ray of light pierces it from behind and above. Then cometh a black cross, reaching across the whole stone; then a golden cross, not so large. And there is a writing in an arch that spans the cross, in an alphabet in which the letters are all formed of little daggers, cross-hilted, differently arranged. And the writing is: Worship in the body the things of the body; worship in the mind the things of the mind; worship …
1929 · PDF PAGE 60
…ula of Consécra¬ tion than that of a complété ceremony. It is the breath of bénédiction, yet so potent that it can give life to clay and light to darkness. In consecrating a weapon, Aleph is the whirling force of the thunderbolt, the lightning which flameth out of the East even 1. “Gods” are the Forces of Nature; their “Names” are the Laws of Nature. Thus They are eternal, omnipotent, omniprésent and so on; and thus their “Wills” are immutable and absolute. • 2. It represents Sakti, or Teh; femininity always means form, mani¬ festation. The mas…
1904 · PDF PAGE 12
… “I’m surprised at you ! How could a Person accept my law and still Use hatred, the sole means of ill, In Truth’s defence ? In praise of light ?” Well ! Well ! I guess Brer Buddha’s right ! I am no brutal Cain37 to smash an Abel: I hear that blasphemy’s unfashionable: So in the quietest way we’ll chat about it; No need to show teeth, claws of cat about it! With gentle words—fiat exordium; Exeat dolor, intret gaudium ! 1 It had a design of 666 and Crowley’s name in Hebrew (which, like most names, adds up to that figure) on the reverse. 110 115 1…
1904 · PDF PAGE 26
…e night, above Stands up for hope, or joy, or love. Nay, not one ignis fatuus glides Sole in that marsh, one agony To make the rest look light. Abides The thick sepulchral changeless shape Shapeless, continuous misery Whereof no smoke-wreaths might escape To show me whither lay the end, Whence the beginning. All is black, Void of all cause, all aim ; unkenned, As if I had been dead indeed— All in Christ’s name ! And I look back, And then and long time after lack Courage or strength to hurl the creed Down to the heaven it sprang from ! No ! Not …
1904 · PDF PAGE 39
THE SWORD OF SONG 32 As by a lightning flash, solve doubt And turn all Nature inside out : And, if such potency of might Hath Truth, once state the truth aright, Whence came the use for all these pages Millions together—mighty sages Whom the least obstacle enrages ? Condemn the mystic if he prove Thinking less valuable than love ? Well, let them try their various plans ! Do they resolve that doubt of man’s ? How many are Hegelians ? This, though I hold him mostly true. But, to teach others that same view ? Surely long years develop reason.45 Af…
1919 · PDF PAGE 55
…turn you aside, even as a star sweeps upon its incalculable and infinite course of glory, and all is Love. The Law of your being becomes Light, Life, Love and Liberty. All is peace, all is harmony and beauty, allis joy. For hear, how gracious is the Goddess: “I give unimagi- nable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice.” Is not this better than the death-in-life of the slaves of the Slave-Gods, as they go oppressed by consciousness of “sin,” wearily se…
1909 · PDF PAGE 310
…e answer came: ‘ There is haste!’ Then a great gloom closed mine eyes, and a horror of defile- ment encompassed me, and all melted in twilight and became cloaked in the uttermost darkness. And out of the darkness there came a man clothed in blue, whose skin was of the colour of sapphire, and around him glowed a phosphor light, and in his hand he held a sword. “And on seeing him approach I fell down and besought him to guide me, which without further word he did. * Many of these visions were carried out with Frater C. S. t+ A circle was first dr…
1909 · PDF PAGE 310
…e answer came: ‘ There is haste!’ Then a great gloom closed mine eyes, and a horror of defile- ment encompassed me, and all melted in twilight and became cloaked in the uttermost darkness. And out of the darkness there came a man clothed in blue, whose skin was of the colour of sapphire, and around him glowed a phosphor light, and in his hand he held a sword. “And on seeing him approach I fell down and besought him to guide me, which without further word he did. * Many of these visions were carried out with Frater C. S. t+ A circle was first dr…
1910 · PDF PAGE 39
…that we rarely notice you ; when we do, it is to say : God have mercy upon these blind and miserable slaves, and bring them out into His light and joy and liberty ! Wherefore I pray Him (Oh thou all-loving, all transcending God !) that should this essay fall (as seed by the wayside) into the hands of the young that they may dwell with us in the Heaven which is Here and Now, and (after) in the Palace which of His lovingkindness He hath prepared for us in that Garden of Gardens which is approached only through the narrow postern gate of Death. 1.…
1913 · PDF PAGE 465
…on for the virgin who saved Paris from famine and invasion. At the bottom of the church, the tomb of St. Geneviéve shone gloriously with light. They were chanting the litanies, and the procession was coming out of the choir. After the cross, accompanied by its acolytes, and followed by the choirboys, came the banner of St. Genevieve; then, walk- ing in double file, came the lady devotees of St. Genevieve, clothed in black, with a white veil on the head, a blue ribbon around the neck, with the medal of the legend, a taper in the hand, surmounted…
1913 · PDF PAGE 465
…on for the virgin who saved Paris from famine and invasion. At the bottom of the church, the tomb of St. Geneviéve shone gloriously with light. They were chanting the litanies, and the procession was coming out of the choir. After the cross, accompanied by its acolytes, and followed by the choirboys, came the banner of St. Genevieve; then, walk- ing in double file, came the lady devotees of St. Genevieve, clothed in black, with a white veil on the head, a blue ribbon around the neck, with the medal of the legend, a taper in the hand, surmounted…
1919 · PDF PAGE 447
…me like the fix’d star in highest heaven, that bright celestial orb must shine from out the spatial depths for all—save for itself; give light to all, but take from none. It is incomparably annoying to see this word “Alas!” at the head of this verse as a pure oxymoron with the rest of the text. Is stupid, unseeing selfishness so firmly fixed in the nature of man that even at this height he still laments? Do not believe it. It is interesting here to note the view taken by Him who has actually attained the Grade of Magus. He says: “Do what thou w…
1930 · PDF PAGE 87
… Holy Guardian Angel : thus sayeth the Beast, and prayeth His own Angel that this book be as a burning Lamp, and as a living Spring, for Light and Life to them that read therein. 666 !• The consonants of LOGOS, “Word”, add (Hebrew values,) to 93. And EIIH, “Words”, (whence “Epie”) has also that value: EIAE TA EUH might be the phrase here intended: its number is 418. This would then assert the accomplishment of the Great Work; this is the natural conclusion of the Ritual. Cf. CCXX.III. 75. 2. These needs are modified during the process of Initia…
1906 · PDF PAGE 247
…ll himself assure you. True, Hegel says: ‘‘ Pure being is pure nothing!” and it is true that the infinite heat and cold, joy and sorrow, light and darkness, and all the other pairs of opposites,” cancel one another out: yet I feel rather afraid of this Absolute! Maybe its joy and sorrow are represented in phases, just as 0° and finity are phases of an iden- tical expression, and I have an even chance only of being on the right side of the fence! The Buddhist leaves no chances of this kind; in all his categories he is infinitely un- extended; th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 169
… corpse obscene , the Christian God . So to the agony dirges of despair Man cleft the womb , and shook the icy air With bitter cries for light and life and love . But these , begotten of the world above , Withdrew their glory , and the iron world Rolled on its cruel way , and passion furled Its pure wings , and abased itself , and bore Fetters impure , and stopped , and was no more . But resurrection's ghastly power grew strong , And Lust was born , adulterous with Wrong , The Child of Lies ; so man was blinded still , Garnered the harvest of a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 317
…ggled forth a multitude of rats and other vermin. “ After this, he led me upstairs to another floor, and into a ae room which in the dim light appeared to be in an attic. x 7 “ At the west end of this room, lying upon Door oak, : “4 x | ow her back, I saw a naked woman. Turning, I et WS eC challenged the Adept, who at once gave me cue ate the o°=o° and 1°=10° signs; but he would w not give me 2°=9".* Diacram 56. 8 9 Plan of the Adept’s _ Lhe Adept then turned from me and said: room and the attic ‘She is in a trance; she is dead; she has above. …
1909 · PDF PAGE 317
…ggled forth a multitude of rats and other vermin. “ After this, he led me upstairs to another floor, and into a ae room which in the dim light appeared to be in an attic. x 7 “ At the west end of this room, lying upon Door oak, : “4 x | ow her back, I saw a naked woman. Turning, I et WS eC challenged the Adept, who at once gave me cue ate the o°=o° and 1°=10° signs; but he would w not give me 2°=9".* Diacram 56. 8 9 Plan of the Adept’s _ Lhe Adept then turned from me and said: room and the attic ‘She is in a trance; she is dead; she has above. …
1909 · PDF PAGE 21
…ation to the vastness of the series? Is it not a series of geometrical progression, with a factor positive and incalculably vast? In the light of the whole process, then, we perceive that there is no absolute value in the swing of the pendulum, though its shaft lengthen, its rate grow slower, and its sweep wider at every swing. What should interest us is the consideration of the Point from which it hangs, motionless at the height of things! We I 129
1930 · PDF PAGE 90
…ill-Symbol, or Soul-symbol, or even to forget its duty to the body and the sensible surroundings. Nor should he omit to keep his Body of Light in close touch with the phenonema of its own plane, so that its privy consciousness may fulfil its proper functions of protecting his scattered ideas from obsession. But he should hâve acquired, by previous practice, the faculty of. detaching these éléments of his consciousness from their articulate centre, so that they become (temporarily) independent responsible units, capable of receiving communicatio…
1929 · PDF PAGE 278
278 I had fired without aim, in pitch blackness; I could not even see the white robes of the men who held me. In the lightning moment of the flash I saw only that whitnesses were falling backwards away from me, as if I had upset a screen by accident. The blackness which followed the flash was Cimmerian. My eyes are naturally very slow to accommodate themselves to change of illumination --- I have never met any man equally helpless in case of sudden diminution of light. I had no thought soever as to whether my shot might have hit anybody. There …