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Page 135 of 2251913 · PDF PAGE 356
…t die! The proof of it is the enthusiasm of our children, who mean, one day, to be also soldiers of the old guard! Napoleon is no more a man: he is the very genius of France, he is the second saviour of the world, and he also gave for a sign the cross to his apostles. St. Helena and Golgotha are the beacons of the new civilization; they are the two piles of an immense bridge made by the rainbow of the final deluge, and which throws a bridge between the two worlds. And can you believe that a past without aureole and without glory, might capture …
1919 · PDF PAGE 214
…mortality, and of the Universal Medicine. Moreover, it possesses a Secret capable of realizing the world-old dream of the Brotherhood of Man. It also possesses in every important centre of population a hidden Retreat (Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum) where members may conceal themselves in order to pursue the Great Work without hindrance. 200
1909 · PDF PAGE 238
…e darkness saw nothing, therefore they have held their tongues. But there is an old parable which relates how the hound that had tempted man the whole length of his perilous journey, devoured him on the Summit of that Mystic Moun- tain; and how that Ancient DOG was indeed GOD Himself. 230
1909 · PDF PAGE 238
…e darkness saw nothing, therefore they have held their tongues. But there is an old parable which relates how the hound that had tempted man the whole length of his perilous journey, devoured him on the Summit of that Mystic Moun- tain; and how that Ancient DOG was indeed GOD Himself. 230
1912 · PDF PAGE 48
32 The best way to time the breathing, once some little skill has been acquired, with a watch to bear witness, is by the use of a mantra. The mantra acts on the thoughts very much as Pranayama does upon the breath. The thought is bound down to a recurring cycle; any intruding thoughts are thrown off by the mantra, just as pieces of putty would be from a fly-wheel; and the swifter the wheel the more difficult would it be for anything to stick. This is the proper way to practise a mantra. Utter it as loudly and slowly as possible ten times, then no…
1906 · PDF PAGE 236
…back, like a biograph out of order, and there’s no sort of connection between one and the other. Hullo, what’s that? Why, there’s a holy man near that Bo-Tree. He'll tell me what it all means.’ Poor silly old Lord of the Universe! Had he carried his-memory back one more step he’d have known all about Jehjaour and the con- spiracy, and that he was a Srotapatti and had only one more birth; and might well have put in the 311,040,000,000,000 myriads of aeons which would elapse before lunch in rejoicing over his imminent annihilation. ‘““¢Venerable …
1944 · PDF PAGE 15
…s origin, mode, and object. Complete mystery surrounds the question of the origin of this system; any theory which satisfies the facts demands assump‐ tions which are completely absurd. To explain it at all, one has to postulate in the obscure past a fantastic assembly of learned rabbins, who solemnly calculated all sorts of combinations of letters and numbers, and created the Hebrew language on this series of manipulations. This theory is plainly contrary, not only to common sense, but to the facts of history, and to all that we know about the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 262
…ence . ... their logic fails , Their jarring jargon jingles —even such An empty brazen pot-wise men deride The clouds that mimic whales. Man's darkness is a leathern sheath , Myself the sun -bright sword !' Yet Crowley puts into the mouth of Tannhäuser the following as answer to the simple Elizabeth's asser tion , “ but God is absolute Good ” ! God slips you , He is Undefinable ! Not good ! Not wise ! Not anything at all That heart can grasp , or reason frame , or soul Shadow the sense of !2 Such a definition whether applied to God or the Ain S…
1910 · PDF PAGE 38
PREFACE. XXXIII — what a washerwoman lost to mankind ! was the French nation’s epitaph upon her — drove the last nail into the coffin of art in England. Though ’twas needless cruelty : whom have we had of the first rank in England since Eli- zabeth but the Revolutionaries ? Blake, Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Byron, Swinburne, Swift, Butler, Milton, every one exiled, starved, bullied, driven insane ; except Milton, whose supreme hypocrisy saved him, as it damned the nation for ever. Anyhow, bad as it was, Victoria made it worse, and, under a quee…
1911 · PDF PAGE 114
…s moment the windsuddenly rises in afury, and the shy darkens. There is no light hut the/licher !# the straw] [All{firesenz‘ are alarmed; many cry aut. BISHOP, Witchcraft! [He towers on his throne] [Theῤερῤίε move eonfasedly ahant, some frying to eseafe, others to gel 6715106651!/?!לצ K. OF ]. Keep order, guards ! [The gnara’s restore order after a struggle. URCHIN. 0 do lift me up, Uncle Isaac! ISAAC. What do you want to see a witch burnt for, boy? [He takes the 6031 on his shoulder. URCHIN. 0, it’s jolly! ISAAC. Well then, you're a fool for yo…
1911 · PDF PAGE 114
…s moment the windsuddenly rises in afury, and the shy darkens. There is no light hut the/licher !# the straw] [All{firesenz‘ are alarmed; many cry aut. BISHOP, Witchcraft! [He towers on his throne] [Theῤερῤίε move eonfasedly ahant, some frying to eseafe, others to gel 6715106651!/?!לצ K. OF ]. Keep order, guards ! [The gnara’s restore order after a struggle. URCHIN. 0 do lift me up, Uncle Isaac! ISAAC. What do you want to see a witch burnt for, boy? [He takes the 6031 on his shoulder. URCHIN. 0, it’s jolly! ISAAC. Well then, you're a fool for yo…
1911 · PDF PAGE 152
…r any food for the best minds: nothing but miracles, which only deceived the most ignorant, and Theology, which only suited pedants. Soa man got hold of this recension, and turned it Christian, and imitated the style of John. And this explains why the end of the world does not happen every few years, as advertised. There is nothing whatever in the Stone but a White Rose. And a voice comes: there shall be no more red roses, for she hath crushed all the blood of all things into her cup. It seemed at one time as if the rose was in the breast of a …
1913 · PDF PAGE 99
… column and candle. In the first sits a youth in white garments, his head bare; his left hand holds a dagger. In the second sits a grown man in black garments, his head covered with a hood, and in his right hand a coin. Steps covered with seaweed lead up to the stage from the orchestra (or auditorium), and the edge of the stage gives the appearance of a wharf. In the north are trees; in the south a heap of builder's refuse. Within the veil, one on each side the shrine, ave two women, one (Julia) in a low-cut vobe of green, broidered with voses,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 390
…eaven. SCIENCE. What does Reason think of it? REASON. I think, my dear teachers, that you illustrate a touching fable, that of the blind man and the paralytic, Science reproaches Faith with not knowing how to walk upon the earth, and Faith says that Science sees nothing of her aspirations and of eternity in the sky. Instead of quarrelling, Science and Faith ought to unite ; let Science carry Faith, and let Faith console Science by teaching her to hope and to love! SCIENCE. It is a fine ideal, but Utopian. Faith will tell me absurdities. I prefe…
1913 · PDF PAGE 99
… column and candle. In the first sits a youth in white garments, his head bare; his left hand holds a dagger. In the second sits a grown man in black garments, his head covered with a hood, and in his right hand a coin. Steps covered with seaweed lead up to the stage from the orchestra (or auditorium), and the edge of the stage gives the appearance of a wharf. In the north are trees; in the south a heap of builder's refuse. Within the veil, one on each side the shrine, ave two women, one (Julia) in a low-cut vobe of green, broidered with voses,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 390
…eaven. SCIENCE. What does Reason think of it? REASON. I think, my dear teachers, that you illustrate a touching fable, that of the blind man and the paralytic, Science reproaches Faith with not knowing how to walk upon the earth, and Faith says that Science sees nothing of her aspirations and of eternity in the sky. Instead of quarrelling, Science and Faith ought to unite ; let Science carry Faith, and let Faith console Science by teaching her to hope and to love! SCIENCE. It is a fine ideal, but Utopian. Faith will tell me absurdities. I prefe…
1919 · PDF PAGE 182
…o come to the office and talk: you must make her respect your hour of work at home. Here I foresee trouble: with rarest excep- tions a woman objects to a man doing anything of which she is not the centre. His business is only allowable because it provides for her. Herein no compro- mise is possible. You must be master or slave; and the truest kindness is to be master once and for all, whatever the cost. O.M. In this defile we must leave our Pilgrim for the present. He is about to confront the denizens of the Astral World, menacing or seducing i…
1922 · PDF PAGE 170
…Diary of a Drug Fiend And you, you puritan others, Who have missed the morphia craving, Cry scorn if I call you brothers, Curl lip at my maniac raving, Fools, seven times beguiled, You have not known her? Well! There was never a need she smiled To harry you into hell| Morphia is but one Spark of its secular fire. She is the single sun— Type of all desire ! All that you would, you are— And that is the crown of a craving. You are slaves of the wormwood star. Analysed, reason 1s raving. Feeling, examined, is patn. What heaven were to hope for a do…
1996 · PDF PAGE 12
Introduction In this Commentary on the Book of the Law it is told how the Book came to be written; or, rather, communicated to the man who wrote it down. There is a Being called Aiwaz, an intelligence discarnate, who wrote this Book of the Law, using my ears and hand. His mind is certainly superior to my own in knowledge and in power, for He has dominated me and taught me ever since.1 1 [Crowley, Commentary to AL 111:19, p. 161 below.] 2 [Quotations from Liber Legis are cited by chapter and verse in the margins throughout this edition, except w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 112
…he bar, briefed to appear in a police court to squabble over a few pounds' worth of paraphernalia! The money was furnished by Miss. Horniman, daughter of the Mazawattee tea man, and later of Manchester Theatre fame. She had been expelled by Mathers some time previously. I knew enough of campaigning to decline joining battle against such heavy artillery as Mr. Gill. Luckily, the value of the property had been sworn at a sum beyond the limit with which a police magistrate can deal. The summons was therefore withdrawn and Mr. Gill kept his eloquen…