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Page 133 of 1591930 · PDF PAGE 92
…laws of thought. 1 Thus he may find that his Angel consider his “business” or his “love” to be absurd trifles; also that human ideas of “time” are invalid, and human “laws” of logic applicable only to the relations bctween illusions. Now the Angel will make contact with the Adept at any point that is sensitive to His influence. Such a point will naturally be one that is salient in the Adept’s character, and also one that is, in the proper sense of the Word, pure 2. Thus an artist, attuned to appreciate plastic beauty is likely to 1. Of course, …
1919 · PDF PAGE 162
…ation took place, for he writes: Oct. 11, 12.30. So did the day start and I knelt at the altar from 12 Midnight until 12.28. During this time did my Lord Adonai begin to manifest within me, so that my being was wrapped away in bliss ineffable. And my body was filled with rapture of His coming until the cry burst from my lips “My Lord and my God.” There are no words to describe Thee, my Beloved, though I yet tremble with the joy of Thy presence, yet do I feel that this is but the beginning of the reflection of Thee. O God, wrap me utterly away, …
1996 · PDF PAGE 125
…Cosmic Sacrament, it seeketh a new Vehicle in the Appointed Way, and indwelleth the Foetus of a Child, and quickeneth it. And if at this Time the Mind of its Former Tabernacle yet cling to it, then is there Continuity of Character, and it may be Mem ory, between the two Vehicles. This, briefly and without Elab oration, is the Way of Asar in Amennti, according to mine Opinion, of which I say not: This is the Truth. Zk—DE NUPTIIS SUMMIS [194—On the Supreme Marriage] Now then to this Doctrine, o my Son, add thou that which thou hast learned in T…
1929 · PDF PAGE 74
…different embryos. I hope you notice how this theory removes the objection to reincarnation, that one's mind does not remember 'the last time.' Why should our cone make connexion between its different curves? Each is so unimportant to it that it would hardly think of doing so. Yet there might be some similarity between successive curves (in our case, lives) that might make an historian suspect that they were connected; just as a poet's style would be constant in some respects, whether he wrote a war-story or a love- lyric. "You see, of course, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
…bomb-throwing Anarchist would succeed in destroying society if he amounted to, say, a third of the population. Now Simple Simon, at this time, did not know Douglas for the enemy General; but he was in the closest possible magical touch with him. For he had absorbed the Thing in the garden into himself and that Thing had been a part of Douglas. So he set himself to the complete assimilation of that Thing; he made certain that it should be part of himself for ever. His method of doing this was as simple as usual. He went over the Universe in his …
1905 · PDF PAGE 233
…tain the Solitary Sphere, Achieve the Path ; or, haply, if I fail, Gain the Elixir, or behold the Grail.} I seek the mystery of Life and Time, The Key of all that is not and that is, And that which — climb, imagination ! climb !— Transcends them both—the mystical abyss Where Mind and Being marry, and are Bliss.” So have I journeyed—likea fool ! Ah, well! Let pass self-scorn, as love of self is past ! But—am I further forward? Who can tell? God is the Complex as the Protoplast : He is the First (not ‘‘ was”), and is the Last (Not ‘‘will be’’), w…
1906 · PDF PAGE 73
…void of my love’s dear light, And stole accurséd to the endless night, Forgotten (as I trust) by God: no beam Of memory lighting it down Time’s dark stream. I dreamt: my shrine was broken and my might Defiled, and all my Gods abased, in sight Of all blind Heaven exenterate! and extreme.” The foulest traitor of all womankind I ever knew, became my friend :? un- clean Sexual abominations floated through, More foul because a golden cord did wind Unspotted through that revel epicene, The pure faith of one woman that was true. 1 Disembowelled. 2 Use…
1910 · PDF PAGE 10
… blue tint we mentally associate with Hecate. The lady, for it was a lady, was enthroned on a seat high above Crowley him- self. By this time the ceremony had grown weird and impressive, and its influence was increased when the poet recited in solemn and reverent voice Swinburne’s glorious first chorus from “ Atalanta,” that begins, “ When the hounds of spring.” Again a Libation, again an invocation to Artemis. After further ceremonies, Frater Omnia Vincam was commanded to dance “ the dance of Syrinx and Pan in honour of our lady Artemis.” A yo…
1906 · PDF PAGE 193
…t. Glou- cester gives vent to his astrological futilities, and falls to anxiomania in its crudest form,— ‘‘'We have seen the best of our time: machi- nations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves’ (Sc. ii. Il. 125-127). Edmund, once rid of him, gives us the * He leaves her in charge of Marshal Le Fer, whom alone he could trust to be impervious to her wiles, he being devoted to another; for, as an in- valuable contemporary MS. has it, ‘‘ Seccotine colle méme Le Fer,” + This may be, but I think shou…
1904 · PDF PAGE 41
…o.—The Fifty-seventh Spirit is Oso, Osé, or Voso. He is a Great President, and appeareth like a Leopard at the first, but after a little time he putteth on the Shape of a Man. His Office is to make one cunning in the Liberal Sciences, and to give True Answers of Divine and Secret Things; also to change a Man into any Shape that the Exorcist pleaseth, so that he that is so changed will not think any other thing than that he is in verity that Creature or Thing he is changed into. He governeth 3’ Legions of Spirits, and this is his Seal, etc. (58.…
1905 · PDF PAGE 190
…183 STYX. (TO M. M. M.) ‘The number nine is sacred, as the Oracles inform us, and attaineth the summits of philosophy.”—ZoROASTER,. NINE times I kissed my lover in her sleep : The first time, to make sure that she was there ; The second, as a sleepy sort of prayer 3 The third, because I wished that she should weep 5 The fourth, to draw her kisses and to keep; The fifth, for love; the sixth, in sweet despair ; The seventh, to destroy us unaware 3 The eighth, to dive within the infernal deep. The last, to kill her-—-and myself as well! Ah! joy of…
1910 · PDF PAGE 362
…n has the best of it yet. It is a very foolish girl who cannot hold her own for ten years. But you who have been writing hardly half the time are only fit for the Literary Lock Hospital. JoNnATHAN HuTCHINSON, Natu Minimus. AMBERGRIS. A Selection of Poems by ALEISTER CROWLEY. Elkin Mathews. 3s. 6d. Printed by Strangeways and Sons, Great Tower Street, Cam- bridge Circus, W.C. We don’t like books of selections, and you can’t make a nightingale out of a crow by picking out the least jarring notes. The book is nicely bound and printed—as if that wer…
1910 · PDF PAGE 362
…n has the best of it yet. It is a very foolish girl who cannot hold her own for ten years. But you who have been writing hardly half the time are only fit for the Literary Lock Hospital. JoNnATHAN HuTCHINSON, Natu Minimus. AMBERGRIS. A Selection of Poems by ALEISTER CROWLEY. Elkin Mathews. 3s. 6d. Printed by Strangeways and Sons, Great Tower Street, Cam- bridge Circus, W.C. We don’t like books of selections, and you can’t make a nightingale out of a crow by picking out the least jarring notes. The book is nicely bound and printed—as if that wer…
1929 · PDF PAGE 61
…ve been concealed on [87] the lamp-shade; he would have noticed it, he thought, while laying the table. "The experiments continued. Some time later Brother Poltergeist permitted himself some allusions to fish — in the best possible taste — and I took my precautions accordingly. Before dinner I slipped downstairs and made a thorough search of the dining room. Alas! to what treacheries are the most virtuous of us liable to be subjected? That medium's saucy Sister Second Personality had again betrayed her to a most unjustifiable suspicion! For one…
1909 · PDF PAGE 274
… the Temple closed. By the end of January 1899, P. was sufficiently advanced to be admitted to the grade of Theoricus. It was about this time also that he met Mr. D., a certain brother of the G.*.D.-*. known as Fra. I. A. This meeting, as we Shall eventually see, ranks only second in importance to his meeting with Fra. V. N. RITUAL OF THE 2° = 9° GRADE OF THEORICUS This grade is particularly attributed to the element of Air; it refers to the Moon, and is attached to the Thirty-second Path of Tau, which alludes to the Universe as composed of the…
1909 · PDF PAGE 274
… the Temple closed. By the end of January 1899, P. was sufficiently advanced to be admitted to the grade of Theoricus. It was about this time also that he met Mr. D., a certain brother of the G.*.D.-*. known as Fra. I. A. This meeting, as we Shall eventually see, ranks only second in importance to his meeting with Fra. V. N. RITUAL OF THE 2° = 9° GRADE OF THEORICUS This grade is particularly attributed to the element of Air; it refers to the Moon, and is attached to the Thirty-second Path of Tau, which alludes to the Universe as composed of the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 207
…ends his whole life seeking them, Let us now substitute the symbol of the Augo- eides or Atman for that of food and drink, let him every time he thinks of food and drink push the thought aside and in its place contemplate his Higher Self, and the result is a natural invocation of the Atman, Augoeides, or Higher Self. If the aspirant be an artist let him do the same with his art; ifa musician, with his music; if a poet, with his verses and rhymes. For the best foundation to build upon is always to be found upon that which a man doves dest. It is…
1910 · PDF PAGE 207
…ends his whole life seeking them, Let us now substitute the symbol of the Augo- eides or Atman for that of food and drink, let him every time he thinks of food and drink push the thought aside and in its place contemplate his Higher Self, and the result is a natural invocation of the Atman, Augoeides, or Higher Self. If the aspirant be an artist let him do the same with his art; ifa musician, with his music; if a poet, with his verses and rhymes. For the best foundation to build upon is always to be found upon that which a man doves dest. It is…
1944 · PDF PAGE 109
…der to appreciate the spiritual, moral, and material events which have marked the catastrophic tran‐ sition from the Aeon of Osiris. The time for the birth of an Aeon seems to be indicated by great concentration of political power with the accompanying improvements in the means of travel and communication, with a general advance in philosophy and science, with a general need of consolidation in religious thought. It is very instructive to compare the events of the five hun‐ dred years preceding and following the crisis of approximately 2,000 ye…
1906 · PDF PAGE 81
…l. THE TWENTY-SIXTH DAY. ‘*T think the devil will not have me damned . . he would never else cross me thus.” Merry Wives of Windsor. Tus time she set her will against mywill ; Swore that she would not come: in my despair I half believed her an enchantress fair Cruel as hell and dowered with subtle skill To strain my life out with her love, and kill My soul with misery : suddenly a rare Swift smile set shimmering all the am- bient air, And then I knew she was my true love still. She would not come? Why, were Hell’s portals fast Shut, as to Orphe…