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Page 124 of 2031939 · PDF PAGE 41
In the Oath of a Master of the Temple occurs the clause: 'I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul.' It is not for us to criticise the Great Order for expressing its idea in terms readily understandable by the ordinary intelligent person. We are to wave aside the metaphysical implications of the phrase, and grasp its obvious meaning. So every act should be an act of Yoga. And this leads us directly to the question which we have postponed until now Concentration. 6. Concentration! The sexual analogy still se…
1899 · PDF PAGE 16
…eble as malign, Intolerable, inhuman, undivine, With spite close girded and with hatred shod, A snarling cur, the Christian’s Christless God. Out! misbegotten monster! with thy brood, The obscene offspring of thy pigritude, Incestuous wedlock with the Pharisees That hail the Christ a son of thee! Our knees Bend not before thee, and our earth-bowed brows Shake off their worship, and reject thy spouse, The harlot of the world! For, proud and free, We stand beyond thy hatred, even we: We broken in spirit beneath bitter years, Branded with the burn…
1905 · PDF PAGE 41
… Filled with thy lust and abundant might, Filled with the phantom desire to free Body and soul from the sound and sight Of a world and a God that doth not right. O thy dark daughters ! their breasts are slack, Their lips so large and as poppies red ; They lie in a furious barren bed ; They lie on their faces ; their eyelids lack Tears, and their cheeks are as roses dead ; White are their throats, but upon the back Red blood is clotted in gouts of black.
1909 · PDF PAGE 49
…it to the clamant flesh: The book of common love should be unsealed, And we be caught within the common mesh That catches common folk. O God ! bite hard! Smite down rebellious flesh with hideous pain ! Bite hard ! Smite hard! By bruises scarred and marred Love this exultant face! Again! Again! O Lola ! Lola! Lola! Kiss me, Kiss! Nay — nay ! Kiss not! I cannot bear the bliss.
1909 · PDF PAGE 51
… deathless worm. Whose fume arises from the accursed sod Are we not glad thereof? Kiss, Lola, kiss, Where we lie burning an] blaspheming God. Comrade of mine in the uttermost abyss! —- 76 —-
1910 · PDF PAGE 112
…my big arms ; and uttermost content I have of you, my tiny fairy, eh ? Do you live in a flower, I wonder, and sleep and pray To the good God to send you dew at dawn And rain in rains soft season, and sun betimes, And all the gladness of the afterglow When you come shyly out of the folded bud, Unsheath your dainty soul, bathe it in blood Of my heart ? Do you love me ? Do you know How I love you ? Do you love these twittering rimes I string you ? Is your tiny life withdrawn Into its cup for modesty when I sing So softly to you and hold you in my…
1928 · PDF PAGE 38
Such are the domestic matters of these de- scendants of Adam and Eve; these works of Thine hands, O my God! This woman is incon- testably unhappy, although after all perhaps the titillating pleasures of glory are not un- known to her. There are more irremediable misfortunes; there are misfortunes that have no compensation. But in the world into which she has been thrown she had never been able to believe that women could ever deserve an- other fate. Now, between ourselves, my affected dar- ling; to see the hells with which the world is crowde…
1905 · PDF PAGE 99
Q2 MYSTERIES: LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC As free as summer-time, to sound or cease: God’s utmost peace Lies like a cloud upon the quiet land. O httle hand ! White hand with rose leaves shed about the Lips, As if my lips Had left their bloom upon it when they kissed, As if'a mist Of God’s delicious dawn had overspread Their face, and fled ! O wonderful fresh blossom of the wood ! O purpling blood ! O azure veins as clear as all the skies! QO longing eyes That look upon me fondly to beget Two faces, set ‘ither like flowers upon their laughing blue, Whe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 95
…ts Comprised in thought. A. (astde) The elixir acts. Then backward work ; the name becomes With pomp of metaphysic drums A causa causans—God, soul, truth. So raves the riot, age and youth, The cart before the horse. Revered And reverend master, is your beard Darwin’s survival of some tail? Who rants of soul were best to saddle His face, his arms the ass to straddle, Since for his voice the part thus bare Would serve as well to scent the air. A. Where reverence ceases, ribald jest Breaks forth, the wise allow the rest. The perfect master stands …
1898 · PDF PAGE 21
…woe, Because my thews grown strong were impotent To reign or be a captain any more, Though I might serve the children who had grown Less godlike from his loins who made me god. So when the day was ripe, my brethren turned And gnashed upon me, mocking, with their teeth: Thou art the son of a strange woman, thou! Begone from honest folk !—and I in wrath Smote once or twice with naked hand, and slew Two gibing cowards, and went forth an outcast, Cc
1909 · PDF PAGE 57
…hen the living eyes of man behold The embalmed seductions of a queen of Khem Wrapped with much spice and linen and red gold And guardian gods on every side of them ; Yet inasmuch as life is life, they shrink, Shrivel and waste to ashes as men gaze : So doth the world grow giddy at the brink Of these unfathomable eyes, that blaze Swifter and deadlier than storms or snakes. Then — o what wonder, as I strain afar The basilisk flame ! — what breathless wonder wakes That I behold unsinged a silver star ! O joy! O terror! O! — O can it be There is a …
1911 · PDF PAGE 12
THE EQUINOX And be the glory for ever and ever unto the Most High God, Amen! Then I returned within my body, giving glory unto the Lord of Light and of the Darkness. In Saecula Saeculorum. Amen! (On composing myself to sleep, I was shewn an extremely brilliant “ in the Character of the Passing of the River, in an egg of white light. And I take this as the best of Omens. The letter was extremely vivid and indeed apparently physical. Almost a Dhyana.) November 17, 1900, Die A Note Concerning the thirty Aethyrs: The Visions of the 29th and 30th Ae…
1912 · PDF PAGE 339
…y 170 ‘The Wand; (David’s) Staff bps Cloud py 3% (1—18) 171 Principium emittens bys Emanating from bys Angel L.T.N. of pros “The Face of God”; name x95 of an angel 172 Cut, divided ypa He affected. [Not written] yy’ Clusters ; grapes pay ‘The heel, the end. [Mic.vii.20] Spy Jacob wi73 Lighten mine eyes xy bi Day Demon of 3" Dec. AYA 174 Torches pene Splendor ei per cir- 9¥9D 1 AND cultum: B{r-(7x +7 & 175 Suction mpy Duplicity nbpap A slipping, falling mb) 23 bepap 176 yy dhyd bpp 177 DIN PAS Spirit of ¢ An advisor, counselling To eternity Ille…
1912 · PDF PAGE 339
…y 170 ‘The Wand; (David’s) Staff bps Cloud py 3% (1—18) 171 Principium emittens bys Emanating from bys Angel L.T.N. of pros “The Face of God”; name x95 of an angel 172 Cut, divided ypa He affected. [Not written] yy’ Clusters ; grapes pay ‘The heel, the end. [Mic.vii.20] Spy Jacob wi73 Lighten mine eyes xy bi Day Demon of 3" Dec. AYA 174 Torches pene Splendor ei per cir- 9¥9D 1 AND cultum: B{r-(7x +7 & 175 Suction mpy Duplicity nbpap A slipping, falling mb) 23 bepap 176 yy dhyd bpp 177 DIN PAS Spirit of ¢ An advisor, counselling To eternity Ille…
1913 · PDF PAGE 84
…e second. The Master of the Temple, whose grade corresponds to Binah, is sworn to "interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with his soul." ^ See the " Interlude " follo\A'ing. ^ See Equinox V, "The Training of the Mind"'; Equinox II, "The Psychology of Hashish"; Equinox VII, "Liber DCCCCXIII."'
1907 · PDF PAGE 30
…holly to thy most pardonable failing, Sentiment; one will rot, the other rust us. Let us just listen to the spirit ailing :— ’Tis like a God in bliss, or like a damned soul wailing ! 2 1 This monastery is chosen because of its unpleasant proximity to Crowley's home. 2 (A word to bid you notice with what mastery Of technique that last stanza there was written, I risk a pcet's license on one cast, Ery! (Pet name for thee, Eros!) The lines are smitten Into due harmony double-rhymed, well- knitten, SCENE II.! SIR PERCY PERCIVALE (02 a@ mountain sum…
1910 · PDF PAGE 8
…was an aristocratic and intellectual movement. John Nelson Darby, a learned man of good family, reasoned thus : The Bible is the Word of God. If its literal interpretation is once abandoned, the whole structure crashes to earth. This it will be seen is identically the Catholic position, save that for “ literal ” Rome reads “ Ecclesiastical.” Darby, too, found himself forced into the practical admis- sion that “ literal ” meant Darbeian ; for some of the more obvious contradictions and absurdities in the Bible are too necessary to the practical …
1930 · PDF PAGE 59
…of consumption; but it has a more restricted application, as follows. Take a substance 1 symbolic of the whole course of nature, make it God, and consume it, There are many ways of doing this; but they may easily be clas- sifîed according to the number of the éléments of which the sacra- ment is composed. The highest form of the Eucharist is ihat in which the Elément consecrated is One» It is one substance and not two, not living and not dead, neither liquid nor solid, neither bot nor cold, neither male nor female. This sacrament is secret in e…
1930 · PDF PAGE 11
…he Law. Not yet completed. Liber VI. Liber O Vel Manus et Sagittæ. Instructions given for elementary study of the Qabalah, Assumption of God forms, Vibration of Divine Names, the Rituals of Pentagram and Hexagram, and their uses in protection and invocation, a method of attaining astral visions so-called, and an instruction in the practice called Rising on the Planes. Equinox II, p. 11 and appendix VI in this book. Liber VIL Liber Liberi vel Lafis Lazuliy Adumbratio Kabbalæ A egy'ptiorum-. sub Figura VII. Being the Voluntary Emancipation of a c…
1905 · PDF PAGE 258
…ombre finger, Other than mine, impulses on the string. This tune I knew not! See, the strings are moved Subtly as if by witchcraft—or by God ! [ Sings. In the Beginning God began, And saw the Night of Time begin ; Chaos, a speck ; and space, a span ; Ruinous cycles fallen in, And Darkness on the Deep of Time. Murmurous voices call and climb; Faces, half-formed, arise ; and He Looked from the shadow of His throne, The curtain of Eternity; He looked—and saw Himself alone, And on the sombre sea, the primal one, Faint faces, that might not abide ; …