Thelema ScholarTHE ALEISTER CROWLEY COLLECTION
FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION

Search the corpus.

Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.

1,721 matching pages

Page 12 of 87
1911 · PDF PAGE 65

Hail Mary

AMPHORA XII WAKE the earthly choir To match the host of heaven, Where the seven lamps of mystic fire Shine, and the spirits seven ! In this religious gloom Invoke the light divine As, Mary, in Thy blessed womb GOD made the Daystar shine. This common fruit of earth Be made the Body of grace Even as the flesh by Jesu’s birth Was holy for a space. All things by heavenly power To that redemption come Equal before Thee in the hour Of joy or martyrdom. Amen. A 58

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1941 · PDF PAGE 12

Thumbs Up! A Pentagram – A Pantacle to Win the War

…ht’s spider snares; Dead are the craven creeds; Truth demands noble deeds, All free man dares. Men, be your own recourse! Waste not your fire and force In fatuous prayers! Better, come cannily Down on the enemy, Set them to theirs Free from the bogle faith, False fear and wastrel wraith, From shame and guilt, Rise, in thine own self-awe, Live to the living law: Do what thou wilt!

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1909 · PDF PAGE 166

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

…all but love B83 the matter gs 5 Good in most Zw 5 Very evil BE 6 Good Ba 6 Rather good 7 7 In war good, else medium o2 7 Evil, war, and fire 8° 8 Evil a. 8 No good, exc. for magic a) Look for letters gs 9 | Good for science only; bad for|| 9, & 10 Good og journeys ; robbery gg Good in all 8% 10 Evil, save in works of fire EB 12 Very evil BS xr Evil, save for favours oO Bu Rather good g gs a 156

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1909 · PDF PAGE 166

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

…all but love B83 the matter gs 5 Good in most Zw 5 Very evil BE 6 Good Ba 6 Rather good 7 7 In war good, else medium o2 7 Evil, war, and fire 8° 8 Evil a. 8 No good, exc. for magic a) Look for letters gs 9 | Good for science only; bad for|| 9, & 10 Good og journeys ; robbery gg Good in all 8% 10 Evil, save in works of fire EB 12 Very evil BS xr Evil, save for favours oO Bu Rather good g gs a 156

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1944 · PDF PAGE 55

The Book of Thoth

…, thence to a whole sequence of disasters. 2The earliest accounts relate the distribution of the three active elements as Dis (Pluto) to Fire, Zeus (Jupiter) to Air, and Poseidon (Neptune) to Water, the doctrine that the origin of everything was Air. Yet if this were so, it would upset the whole Tarot as we know it, since the order of origin makes Fire the first father. It is Air as Zero that reconciles the antinomy. Dianus and Diana, it is true, were symbols of the air, and the Sanskrit Vedas say that the storm gods were the original gods. Yet…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1903 · PDF PAGE 31

Alice: An Adultery

…imbs of Messaline. The deep arched eyes, the floating mane,— One pierces, one wraps-in my brain. A crown of thorn, a spear of clean Cold fire of dying Messaline. Swart tangles of devouring hair, The scorpion labyrinth and snare, Leprous entanglements of sense, The Imminence of the Immense. And in the deep hard breath I draw Kissed from her strangling mouth and maw, I feel the floating deaths that dwell 9

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1910 · PDF PAGE 219

The Winged Beetle

…im to terms— So, to a corpse, a choir of coffin-worms ! Ah beast ! I love thee, cruel and uncontrolled, Even to that ice that burns when fire is cold.

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1941 · PDF PAGE 8

Thumbs Up! Five Poems by the Author of The V Sign

…ht’s spider snares; Dead are the craven creeds; Truth demands noble deeds, All free man dares. Men, be your own recourse! Waste not your fire and force In fatuous prayers! Better, come cannily Down on the enemy, Set them to theirs Free from the bogle faith, False fear and wastrel wraith, From shame and guilt, Rise, in thine own self-awe, Live to the living law: Do what thou wilt!

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1912 · PDF PAGE 145

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…God of Justice, in power exalted above the Firmament of Wrath, in whose hands the Sun is 25 2 sword, and the Moon 25 2 through thrusting Fire: who measureth your Garments in the midst of my Vestures, and trussed you together 25 the palms of my hands. Whose seats I garnished with the Fire of Gathering, and beautified your garments with admiration Το whom I made a law to govern the Holy Ones, and delivered ye 2 Rod, with the Ark of Knowledge. Moreover you lifted up your voices and sware obedience and faith to Him that 111/6111 2110 triumpheth: ᾽Co…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1912 · PDF PAGE 145

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…God of Justice, in power exalted above the Firmament of Wrath, in whose hands the Sun is 25 2 sword, and the Moon 25 2 through thrusting Fire: who measureth your Garments in the midst of my Vestures, and trussed you together 25 the palms of my hands. Whose seats I garnished with the Fire of Gathering, and beautified your garments with admiration Το whom I made a law to govern the Holy Ones, and delivered ye 2 Rod, with the Ark of Knowledge. Moreover you lifted up your voices and sware obedience and faith to Him that 111/6111 2110 triumpheth: ᾽Co…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1929 · PDF PAGE 173

Moonchild

…re two ways of dealing with an opponent; one by beating him on his own ground, the other by withdrawing to a higher plane. You can fight fire with fire, or you can fight fire with water. "It is, roughly speaking, legitimate magick to resolve a difficult situation in either of these two ways. Alter it, or withdraw to higher ground. The black magician, or as I prefer to call him, sorcerer, for the word magick should not be profaned, invariably withdraws to lower planes. Let us seek an analogy in the perfectly concrete case of the bank cashier. "T…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1899 · PDF PAGE 2

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…r what vast Regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook ; _ And of those Dzemons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true content With Planet, or with Element. Some time let Gorgeous Tragedy In Sceptr'd Pall come sweeping by.” Il Penseroso.

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1909 · PDF PAGE 46

777

…. ? . - 7) 19 with sharp weapons (x) Thrush. (2) Man with sharp sword seemeth to answer in|. . @ . . prea | 20 burning ashes or coals of fire . . Beautiful woman, with duchess crown tied to her waist, riding . 2 . ~ NDS | 22 great camel oo Lion on horse, with serpent’s tail, carries in right hand two yy. . yr 94 hissing serpents Child with angel’s wings rides a two-headed dragon . . f°) . oe bay 25 Noisy peacock . vy. . ON TTIN 26 Two beautiful angels sitting in chariot of fire . ©) . . bbs 28 Man with many countenances, all men’s and women’s, …

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1899 · PDF PAGE 241

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…f might . To care for time or space, but glorious wend A royal path of flowers to the end. I pray thee, God, to weapon me With this keen fire, That I may set this people free As my desire ; That the white lilies of our liberty Grow on Life’s crags still higher, Till on the loftiest peaks their blossom flower, The rampart of a people and their power.

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1905 · PDF PAGE 155

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…h Goeth forth, he perisheth By the secret sibilant word that is spoken unto death. Even as the profane hand Reacheth to the sacred sand, Fire consumes him that his name be forgotten in the land. Even as the wicked eye Seeks the mysteries to spy, So the blindness of the gods takes his spirit : he shall die. Even as the evil priest, Poisoned by the sacred feast, Changes by its seven powers to the misbe- gotten beast : Even as the powers of ill, Broken by the wanded will, Shriek about the holy place, vain and vague and terrible : Even as the lords…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1944 · PDF PAGE 166

The Book of Thoth

…atters which concern them most closely. Their success in these is due to instinct, to imitation of Na‐ ture. They lack initiative; their fire is the smouldering fire of the process of growth. If ill‐dignified, these people are hopelessly stupid, slavish, quite incapable of foresight even in their own affairs, or of taking an intelligent interest in anything outside them. They are churlish, surly, and jealous (in a dull sort of way) of what they instinctively realize is the

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1903 · PDF PAGE 37

Alice: An Adultery

…er laugh most musical ? A sigh serenely deep ? She laughs in wordless swift desire A soft Thalassian tune ; Her eyelids glimmer with the fire That animates the moon ; Her chaste lips flame, as flames aspire Of poppies in mid-June. 15

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1910 · PDF PAGE 137

The World’s Tragedy

84 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. GOVINDA I have a gipsy girl Skilled in the mystic art. She knows the trick to curl Dried leaves in fire, and augur thence. I bought her in the mart From an old Greek — a vile old man ! He told me she was a Bohemian ; And by a fabulous conjuring with cards Indeed she can divine. CHAU So can our bards. These girls are shifty. GOVINDA Maybe so ; but list ! (I pray you) She can take an amethyst And see a thousand visions. CHAU So can I

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1905 · PDF PAGE 134

Collected Works (Vol. I)

ELEGY 127 Then on these heights of Caucasus A fire shall dwell, Pure as the dawn, and odorous Of bud and bell ; A flower of fire, a flame from Heaven to us All triumph to foretell, A glory of unspeakable delight, A flower like lightning, adamant and white. There needs no more or sun or sea Or any light ; On golden wheels Eternity Revolves in Night. The island peoples are too proud and free And full of might To care for time or space, but glorious wend A royal path of flowers to the end. I pray thee, God, to weapon me With this keen fire, That I…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1928 · PDF PAGE 141

Little Poems in Prose

… a dray. And then she is so sweet and fervent; she loves as one loves in autumn; one would say that the approach of winter kindles a new fire in her heart, and the servility of her tenderness has no element that might weary one therein.

original embedded textRead original & transcription →