1898 · PDF PAGE 38
White Stains
…heaven pales— “ I am the Lord ” ; His voice rings clear : “ What dost thou here ? “ Thou hast despised my laws, and stilled The voice of Nature and my voice,
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Page 14 of 911935 · PDF PAGE 15
One Star in Sight
the correct order of events, as they are arranged in Nature; and in no case is it safe for a man to neglect to master any single detail, however dreary and distasteful it may seem. It often does so, indeed; that only insists on the necessity of dealing with it. The dislike and contempt for it bear witness to a weakness and incom- pleteness in the nature which disowns it; that particular gap in one’s defences may admit the enemy at the very turning-point of some battle. Worse, one were shamed for ever if one’s inferior should happen to ask for a…
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1996 · PDF PAGE 32
The Law is for All
…tion to this Inmost Light; then comes the answering Light of Infinite Space. Note that the Light of Space is what men call Darkness; its nature is utterly incomprehensible to our uninitiated minds. It is the “veils” men tioned previously in this comment that obstruct the relation between Nuit and Hadit. We are not to worship the Khu, to fall in love with our Magi cal Image. To do this—we have all done it—is to forget our Truth. If we adore Form, it becomes opaque to Being, and may soon prove false to itself. The Khu in each of us includes the…
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1930 · PDF PAGE 14
The Banned Lecture
splendidly described as horse sensewhich comes from intimate wordless unintellectual communing with Nature (please do not take that word com- muning in any bad sense ; if it were not for Baldwin, I would be a Conservative myself)the instinct of some people, who at the bottom of their hearts, did not so much believe in these phantasms. It was not so easy to get them to go out and murder a lot of inoffensive people at the word jump. They had to be supplied with something a little more tangible. You will notice how all this sort of argument …
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1906 · PDF PAGE 245
Collected Works (Vol. II)
… 239 sufficient to oppose a most serious stumbling- block to so gigantic a process. : The.task before us is consequently of a ter- rible nature. It is easyto let thingsslide,to grin and bear it in fact, until everything is merged in the ultimate unity, which may. or. may not be decently tolerable. But while we wait? There now arises the question of freewill. Causality is probably not fully extended in its own category,! a circumstance which gives room for a fractional amount of freewill. If this be not so, it matters little; for if I find mysel…
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1907 · PDF PAGE 169
Collected Works (Vol. III)
… would foil Time’s periods — For one small woman on this-one mear earth, Would spoil the plan of the inane Abodes, Throw out of gear all Nature’s enginery For such a grain of tinsel dust as I, Reluctant to be mangled in the wheel-— Looks other meanness so contemptibly? Yet I persist. Zeus, When Hera to thine Io did refuse Peace, and the gadfly bit like barbéd steel Those limbs with dews of love once lying loose, Thou knowest, O most High When thy vast body boarded her, wrapped round Her senses with a mist of being profound, A flame-like penetra…
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1909 · PDF PAGE 68
777
52 TABLE OF CORRESPONDENCES Figure. Nature. Name. Divination and Spiritual Meaning. —— Ee es 41 — — VW ot V | San Diminution. a a) a) a ag | me | A ot AY i. Addition, increase. a ee) ee Ss a 43 7mV of t+ | Kwai. Displacing, strength, complacency, tact. es ee) Pe) a 4) eee + of A| Kau . Unexpected event, a bold woman. ae se — es 45 | ome | V of O | Tahui. Collected, docility. a a — a a Se — 46 | ae © ot A | Shing. Advance and ascent. ee a se —- a as e 47 | ee ae | V of w | Khwin Straightened, distressed, $° Carcer, growth re- a strained. ° ae Ge…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 152
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
…I may quote certain entries in my diary thus: Jan. 13. Early morning walk --- deep meditation. Developed a sort of inverted Manichaeism. Nature as evil and fatal force developing within itself (unwittingly) a suicidal will called Buddha or Christ. Jan. 15. It is a fallacy that the absolute must be the all-good, etc. There is not an intelligence directing law --- line of least resistance. Its own selfishness has not even the wit to prevent Buddha arising. We cannot call nature evil. "Fatal" is the exact word. Necessity implies stupidity --- this…
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1906 · PDF PAGE 28
Collected Works (Vol. II)
… the Swift Serpent! I, Osirified, Stand in this Hall of Twofold Truth and say : Holy art Thou, Lord of the Universe! Holy art Thou, whom Nature hathnot formed! Holy art Thou, O Vast and Mighty One! O Lord of Darkness and O Lord of Light! Holy art Thou, O Light above all Gods! O Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy King Ineffable, O Consciousness Divine In whose white Presence, even I, a god, A god of gods, prostrate myself and say : I am the spark of Thine abundant flame. I am the flower, and Thou the splendid Sun Wherefrom my Life is drawn! Thee, For Holy, …
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1919 · PDF PAGE 448
The Equinox (Volume III, Number I)
… It seems so perfectly natural that everything should be just as it is, and so right, that one is quite startled if one contemplates the nature of one’s Star, which led one into these “grave paths.” The only “wrong” is the thinking about anything at all; this is of course the old “Thought is evil” on a higher plane. One gets to un- derstand the Upanishad which tells us how The Original It made the error of contemplating itself, of becoming self- conscious; and one also perceives the stupendous transcen- dentalism concealed in the phrase of the …
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1922 · PDF PAGE 263
Diary of a Drug Fiend
… suffocating us. We had as much as our bodies could tolerate. We didn’t want any more actively. It would do us no good to take more, but nature had already begun her process of eliminating the poison. In the body, morphine and heroin become oxydised, and it is the resulting poisons, not the drugs themselves, i“ that are responsible for the appalling effects. Thus the body begins to give off these products through the secretions; therefore the nose begins to run; there are prolonged foul sweats; there is a smell and a taste which cannot be calle…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 501
The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)
…er form, of the active over the passive, of cause over effect. By reversing that order one obtains the contrary. Jehovah is he who tames Nature as it were a superb horse and makes it go where he will ; Chavajoh (the demon) is the horse without a bridle who, like those of the Egyptians of the song of Moses, falls upon its rider, and hurls him beneath it, into the abyss. The devil, then, exists really enough for the qabalists; but it is neither a person nor a distinguished power of even the forces of Nature. The devil is dispersion, or the slumbe…
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1913 · PDF PAGE 501
The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)
…er form, of the active over the passive, of cause over effect. By reversing that order one obtains the contrary. Jehovah is he who tames Nature as it were a superb horse and makes it go where he will ; Chavajoh (the demon) is the horse without a bridle who, like those of the Egyptians of the song of Moses, falls upon its rider, and hurls him beneath it, into the abyss. The devil, then, exists really enough for the qabalists; but it is neither a person nor a distinguished power of even the forces of Nature. The devil is dispersion, or the slumbe…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 71
Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)
…alled Satan or Shaitan, and regarded with horror by people who are ignorant of his formula, and, imagining themselves to be evil, accuse Nature herself of their own phantasmal crime. Satan is Saturn, Set, Abrasax, Adad, Adonis, Attis, Adam, Adonai, etc. The most serious charge against him is only that he is the Sun in the South. The Ancient Initiâtes, 1. Ail these ideas may be explained by reference to anthropology. But this is not their condemnation, but their justification; for the customs and legends of mankind reflect the true nature of the…
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1902 · PDF PAGE 23
Tannhäuser
…grown A magic palace to enchanted eyes ; A wizard guerdon for a minstrel wise. Perhaps I am a fool to think that here, Merely by rending Nature's hollow veil, I may attain the Solitary Sphere, Achieve the Path ; or, haply, if I fail. Gain the Elixir, or behold the Grail. 21
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1903 · PDF PAGE 113
Alice: An Adultery
…d go back to bitter toil, Prune the mind’s vine, and gather in the spoil Rough-conquered from books, men, fields, without ruth Pillaging Nature, pawning strength and youth For some strange guerdon (or its counterfoil) Gainless or not-to-be-gained, priestly or royal, Profane, canaille—I know not, in good sooth ! I might do this : or else I might repose Wrapped in the urned leaves of my love’s blown rose, Seek her in spirit, and commune, and wait Her freedom and the rapture to enclose In my own house her beauty intimate. I am a fool, tossing a co…
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1954 · PDF PAGE 117
Magick Without Tears
84 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS There is no good purpose, even were there license, to discuss the nature of the basis of scientific attainment which is the core of the doctrines of the Society. It is only necessary to point out that its correspondence with alchemy is the one genuine fact of the subject which has been allowed to transpire; for the Rosicrucian, as indicated by his central symbol, the barren cross on which he has made the rose to flower, occupies himself primarily with spiritual and physiological alchemy . Taking for "The First Matter of …
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1912 · PDF PAGE 52
Sir Palamedes
… to human smell, Invariable, implacable, Invincible, insciable, Irrationapsychicable, Inequilegijurable, Immamemimomummable. Such is its nature: without parts, Places, or persons, plumes, or pell, Having nor lungs nor lights nor hearts, But two in one and one in two. Be he accurséd that disparts Them now, or seemeth so to do! Him will I pile the curses on ; Him will I hang, or saw him through, Or burn with fire, who doubts upon This doctrine, hotototon spells The holy word otototon.” The poor Sir Palamedes quells His rising spleen ; he doubts h…
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1910 · PDF PAGE 112
The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)
…t is that we find the Yogi saying that he who can control the Prana can control the Universe. To the perfect man there can be nothing in nature that is not under his control. If he orders the gods to come, they will come at his bidding. . . . All the forces of nature will obey him as his slaves, and when the ignorant see these powers of the Yogi, they call them miracles.* PRANAYAMA The two nerve currents Pingala and Ida correspond to the sensory and motor nerves, one is afferent and the other efferent. The one carries the sensations to the brai…
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1910 · PDF PAGE 112
The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)
…t is that we find the Yogi saying that he who can control the Prana can control the Universe. To the perfect man there can be nothing in nature that is not under his control. If he orders the gods to come, they will come at his bidding. . . . All the forces of nature will obey him as his slaves, and when the ignorant see these powers of the Yogi, they call them miracles.* PRANAYAMA The two nerve currents Pingala and Ida correspond to the sensory and motor nerves, one is afferent and the other efferent. The one carries the sensations to the brai…
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