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Page 130 of 2251911 · PDF PAGE 138
… a fly, too. . . . And now the desert is full of flies.” Rolles bit his lip; his face was drawn with pain. At that moment he looked an old man. “Black flies," she went on. " Horrible white maggots. And now there are corpses. The maggots play about their mouths and eyes. There are three corpses that were God when they were alive. I killed Him. That was 130
1912 · PDF PAGE 148
THE EQUINOX [With air-dagger (or other suitable weapon) make the sign o( Aquarius] In the name of RPAL and in the Sign of the Man, Spirits of Air, adore your Creator! [Make the Cross] In the Names and Letters of the Great Eastern Quadrangle, Spirits of Air, adore your Creator! [Hold dagger aloft] In the Three great Secret Names of God, ORO IBAH AOZPI that are borne upon the Banners of the East, Spirits of Air, adore your Creatorl [Again elevate dagger] In the Name of ΒΑΤΑΙνΑΗ, great King of the East, Spirits of Air, adore your Creator] In the N…
1912 · PDF PAGE 282
…EQUINOX Looking-Glass; but he was in any case not there, being busy in working out by applied mathematics the problem as to which public man was worthiest of a biography in his columns next week. The words " blasphemous orgie ” altogether fail to give any idea of what occurred. “Twenty-eight naked demi-mondaines now brimmed the buckets with satyrion," hardly describes it. “These loathsome and abominable creatures next aban— doned themselves to frenzied scenes unparalleled in Degenerate Rome,” conveys an altogether false impression. Only my own …
1912 · PDF PAGE 148
THE EQUINOX [With air-dagger (or other suitable weapon) make the sign o( Aquarius] In the name of RPAL and in the Sign of the Man, Spirits of Air, adore your Creator! [Make the Cross] In the Names and Letters of the Great Eastern Quadrangle, Spirits of Air, adore your Creator! [Hold dagger aloft] In the Three great Secret Names of God, ORO IBAH AOZPI that are borne upon the Banners of the East, Spirits of Air, adore your Creatorl [Again elevate dagger] In the Name of ΒΑΤΑΙνΑΗ, great King of the East, Spirits of Air, adore your Creator] In the N…
1912 · PDF PAGE 282
…EQUINOX Looking-Glass; but he was in any case not there, being busy in working out by applied mathematics the problem as to which public man was worthiest of a biography in his columns next week. The words " blasphemous orgie ” altogether fail to give any idea of what occurred. “Twenty-eight naked demi-mondaines now brimmed the buckets with satyrion," hardly describes it. “These loathsome and abominable creatures next aban— doned themselves to frenzied scenes unparalleled in Degenerate Rome,” conveys an altogether false impression. Only my own …
1954 · PDF PAGE 156
…ity is displayed in dramatic form. What is the Path? l. The Ego is attracted to the Solar System. 2. The Child experiences Birth. 3. The Man experiences Life. 4. He experiences Death . 5. He experiences the World beyond Death. 6. This entire cycle of Point-Events is withdrawn into Annihilation . In the O.T.O. these successive stages are represented as follows : l. 0° 2. 1° 3. W 4. IW 5. IV 6. P.1. (Minerval) (Initiation) (Consecration) (Devotion) (Perfection, or Exaltation) (Perfect Initiate) Of these Events or Stations upon the Path all but th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 302
…cious 41,67 doing one’s 101,102,119.124,131, 149 errors in determining the 148 expressed Qabalistically 119 free 51,185 and fate 77 of woman 173,176,177,181 hindrances to, as sin 41,92 in psychology 163 lack of, in the average man 183 magical 70 non-identity of any two wills 70 of the father, effect on child 67 of the soul 74 program for realization of 40 -41 pure 46 subconscious 66,119 to change 74 to create 60,68,179 to die 147 to “go” 155 to live 132,133,137,147 to love 70,75 transcendent of mind 118 true 31.40,41,54,56.64.67.68,71, 95.96.10…
1909 · PDF PAGE 62
12.5. 12.15. 12.35. 12.45. 60 THE EQUINOX Holy Illuminated Man of God our Greatly Honoured Prater, O.M., Adeptus Exemptus 7°=4° Brother-Elect of the Most Secret and Sublime Order A A He does with great difficulty (and no interior perform— ance) just four breath-cycles. Somebody once remarked that it had taken a hundred million years to produce me ; I may add that I hope it will be another hundred million before God makes such another cur. Have performed the Equilibrating Ritual of the Scourge, the Dagger, and the Chain; with the Holy Anointing O…
1909 · PDF PAGE 27
…at no simple and certain test of success in this practice exists. 3. The Vibration of God-names. As a further means of identifying the human consciousness with that pure portion of it which man calls by the name of some God, let him act thus: 4. (a) Stand with arms outstretched. (See Illustration.) (6) Breathe in deeply through the nostrils, imagining the name of the God desired entering with the breath. (c) Let that name descend slowly from the lungs to the heart, the solar plexus, the navel, the generative organs, and so to the feet. WI B 17
1909 · PDF PAGE 27
…at no simple and certain test of success in this practice exists. 3. The Vibration of God-names. As a further means of identifying the human consciousness with that pure portion of it which man calls by the name of some God, let him act thus: 4. (a) Stand with arms outstretched. (See Illustration.) (6) Breathe in deeply through the nostrils, imagining the name of the God desired entering with the breath. (c) Let that name descend slowly from the lungs to the heart, the solar plexus, the navel, the generative organs, and so to the feet. WI B 17
1910 · PDF PAGE 85
…his lone and languid head of mine ; Light, that fulfils creation as with wine, Flows in the channels of the deep : light, rending The adamantine columns of the night, Is laden with the love-song of the light. Light, pearly-glimmering through dim gulf and hollow, Below the foam-kissed lips of all the sea ; Light shines from all the sky and up to me From the amber floors of sand : Light calls Apollo ! The shafts of fire fledged of the eagle follow The crested surf, and strike the shore, and flee Far from green cover, nymph-enchanted lea, Fountain…
1911 · PDF PAGE 166
THE EQUINOX Omir téssili marax, téssala dodi phornépax. amri radara poliax armana pilit. amri radara pilit son’; mari narya barbiton madara anaphax sarpéd6n andala hriliu. Translation. I am the harlot that shaketh Death, This shaking giveth the Peace of Satiate Lust. Immortality jetteth from my skull, And music from my vulva. Immortality jetteth from my vulva also, For my Whoredom is a sweet scent like a seven-stringed instrument, Played unto God the Invisible, the all-ruler, That goeth along giving the shrill scream of orgasm. Every man that h…
1912 · PDF PAGE 86
…balanced mind, versed in the study of nature, is that we have experienced a mental cata- strophe. Just as a blow on the head will make a man “see stars,” so one might suppose that the terrific mental strain of Dharana has some— how over-excited the brain, and caused a spasm, or possibly even the breaking of a small vessel. There seems no reason to reject this ex- planation altogether, though it would be quite absurd to suppose that to accept it would be to condemn the practice. Spasm is a normal func- tion of at least one of the organs of the bo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 206
…me, Shaming desire, and burning up the fear Of the world! O thou! I call thee by thy name Most secret! Yea! I smite the age-long year Of man’s deliverance! And thy steeds I tame With the word of the sun-god! And the molten bar * Merci, nor.
1913 · PDF PAGE 352
…us Christ is His prophet!” Mohammed is the shadow of Moses. Moses is the fore- runner of Jesus. What is a prophet? A representative of humanity seek- ing God. God is God, and man is the prophet of God, when he causes us to believe in God. The Old Testament, the Qur'an, and the Gospel are three different translations of the same book. As God is one, so also is the law. O ideal woman! O reward of the elect! Art thou more beautiful than Mary? O Mary, daughter of the East! chaste as pure love, great as the desire of motherhood, come and teach the c…
1913 · PDF PAGE 206
…me, Shaming desire, and burning up the fear Of the world! O thou! I call thee by thy name Most secret! Yea! I smite the age-long year Of man’s deliverance! And thy steeds I tame With the word of the sun-god! And the molten bar * Merci, nor.
1913 · PDF PAGE 352
…us Christ is His prophet!” Mohammed is the shadow of Moses. Moses is the fore- runner of Jesus. What is a prophet? A representative of humanity seek- ing God. God is God, and man is the prophet of God, when he causes us to believe in God. The Old Testament, the Qur'an, and the Gospel are three different translations of the same book. As God is one, so also is the law. O ideal woman! O reward of the elect! Art thou more beautiful than Mary? O Mary, daughter of the East! chaste as pure love, great as the desire of motherhood, come and teach the c…
1961 · PDF PAGE 203
…Phenomenon a Shew of Godliness, proceeding continually in a Pageant that return- eth unto itself, identical in the Phase of Naught as of Many, but whirling in the Orgia of Ineffable Holiness as it were a Dance that weaveth Figures of Beauty in Variety inexhaust- ible. Shall the Initiate bestir him, to better so prime a Perfection? Nay, this Will that was his is accomplished; he hath attained the Summit; so without Hope or Fear he abideth, and leaveth his Vehicle of Illusion and Magical Engine, that is, as Man say, his Body and Mind, to work out…
1907 · PDF PAGE 139
…the instrument, and the limitation of scepticism by direct consciousness o the Absolute.” He defines God later on as the Relation between man and the Absolute, and he says “it is the search after this relationship—God— that Crowley so frequently and ardently depicts. " He cries in one place: By the sun's heat, that brooks not his eclipse And dissipates the welcome clouds of rain. God I have Thou pity soon on this amazing pain. And in another describes the mystic goal: So shalt thou conquer Space, and lastly climb The \gyalliof 'Iiidme; m m h 0d …
1902 · PDF PAGE 14
… that Truth (which, unveiled, would but blind men with its glory) in a mass of symbology often perverted or grotesque, yet to the proper man transparent ; a " bait of falsehood to catch the carp of truth." Now, regarded in this light, all religions, qud religions, are equally contemptible. The Hindu Gnanis say "That which can be thought is not true." As machineries for the exercise of spiritual and intellectual powers innate or developed, certain sets of symbols may be more or less convenient to a special trend 12