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Page 144 of 1591907 · PDF PAGE 97
…ice ! 1 Being the necessary sequel to Rosa Mundi. —A.C II. Some Yankee yelled—I tag it to a rime— ‘You can’t fool all the people all the time.” So he of politics; so I of love. I am a-many folk (let Buddha prove !) And many a month you fooled the lot of us— Your spell is cracked within the ring! Behold How Christ with clay worth more than any gold Cleared the man’s eyes! amorous Is blinded with the horror of the truth He sees this moment. Foolish prostitute ! You slacked your kiss upon the sodden youth In some excess of confidence, decay Of car…
1939 · PDF PAGE 50
only occur in one way instead of in three different ways. We compare two phenomena in time by the idea of sequence. 12. Now it will be perfectly clear to all of you that this is all nonsense. In order to conceive the simplest possible object, we have to keep on inventing ideas, which even in the proud moment of invention are seen to be unreal. How are we to get away from the world of phantasmagoria to the common universe of sense? We shall require quite a lot more acts of imagination. We have got to endow our mathematical conceptions with three…
1907 · PDF PAGE 165
… the sun’s ray to my smitten soul! How shoald I sing who cannot even see? Grope through a mist of changeless misery. An age-long pain—no time in wretched. ness !— As of an hammer annihilating me
1944 · PDF PAGE 117
…hild Horus, the Lord of the Aeon. This is the Path of the Pure Fool. DE ORACULO SUMMO And who is this Pure Fool? Lo, in the Sagas of Old Time, Legend of Scald, of Bard, of Druid, cometh he not in Green like Spring? O thou Great Fool, thou Water that art Air, in whom all complex is resolved! Yea, thou in ragged Raiment, with the Staff of Priapus and the Wine‐ skin! Thou standest upon the Crocodile, like Hoor‐pa‐Kraat; and the Great Cat leapeth upon Thee! Yea, and more also, I have known Thee who Thou art, Bacchus Diphues, none and two, in thy na…
1905 · PDF PAGE 19
… and venomous breath Of foul black worms; and on the earth to dwell For a long space, and there (most terrible !) To change her shape at times, and on her take The fierce presentment of a loathly snake To wander curst and lonely through the dire black brake. And this thing is my mother, whose foul tomb Is a black serpent, spotted with the gloom Of venomous red flecks, and poisonous sweat, While on her flat lewd head the mark is set Of utter loathsomeness ; and I, her child Born of incestuous lust, and sore defiled With evil parentage, am now (M…
1907 · PDF PAGE 241
… green paper wrapper repeating title-page with design of shamrock in centre, Price 1s, od. [TANNHAUSER: 1902] Tannhduser | A story of alltime | by | Aleister Crowley | London | Kegan Paul,Trench, Trib- er & Co. Ltd. | Paternoster House, Charing Cross Road | 1go2. Collation: —Demy 4to, 142 pp., consisting, of Half-title, quotation on reverse from Browning's Master Hughes of Saxe-Gotha ; Title-page as above, on reverse ‘‘all rights reserved’; Dedication in verse, pp. 5-7; Prose preface, pp. 9-16, dated ‘* Kandy, Ceylon, Sept. rgo1."" Second Half-…
1906 · PDF PAGE 48
…owy night That lay upon the river. So the king Heard a strange chant—the woods began to sing ; The river took the tune; the willows kept Time; and the black skies wept Those tears, those blossoms, those pear] drops of milk That the moon shed: and looking up he saw As if the willows were but robes of silk, The moon’s face stoop and draw Close to his forehead: at the tears she shed He knew that he was dead ! Thus he feared not, nor wondered, as the stream Grew darker, as a dream Fades to the utter deep Of dreamless sleep. The stream grew darker, …
1919 · PDF PAGE 299
…ation from a bill of costs sent in to his nephew by the family solicitor. It should be understood that the nephew in question was at the time of the transaction entitled to a considerable sum of money which was in the hands of this solicitor, and that Mr. Bishop was aware of this: “Attending Mrs. Bishop when she informed us that Mr. Bishop had received a letter from you that you were ill and needed money and she asked whether Mr. Bishop would be safe in sending you out any and generally answering your in- quiries. “Attending Mr. T. B. Bishop on…
1905 · PDF PAGE 25
…desire showed In brief sharp words, and the lewd god gave ear (For he shook terribly with bastard fear Of being cast beneath the hoof of Time) And answered her: ‘‘O mightiest, O sublime White deity of heaven, a swamp is known To me, so vile, so more than venomous crown With filthy weeds; yea, all lewd creatures swarm Its airless desolation through ; and warm Sick vapours of disease do putrefy Its feverish exhalations ; yet do I With some fond band of loyal worshippers Often draw thither; and black ministers Of mine therein do office; I have see…
1905 · PDF PAGE 152
…gotten hate And changeless circles of desire, Formless creations uncreate, Swift fountains of ungathered fire, The misty counterpoise of time, Dim winds of ocean and sublime Pyramids of forgotten foam Whirling, vague cones of shapeless sleep And infinite dreams, and stars that roam, And comets moving through the deep Unfathomable skies, Darker for moonlight, and the glow-worm eyes Of dusky women that were stars, And paler curves of the immutable bars That line the universe with light, Great eagle-flights of mystic moons That dip, while the dull…
1939 · PDF PAGE 24
…all thought has been resolved into the beauty and harmony of ordered motion. 12. The next of the planets is Venus. In her, for the first time, we come into contact with a part of our nature which is none the less quintessential because it has hitherto been masked by our preoccupation with more active qualities. Venus resembles Jupiter, but on a lower scale, standing to him very much as Mars does to Saturn. She is close akin in nature to the Sun, and she may be considered an externalisation of his influence towards beauty and harmony. Venus is I…
1905 · PDF PAGE 126
…dares to gaze Shall see and die !)—the changeless empyréan Eternity, the concentrated void Of space, for being the centre of all things, Time is to us the Now, and Space the Here ; From us all Matter radiates, is a part Of our own thoughts and souls ; because we love. Thou shudderest, clinging to me; though the night Jewels her empire with the frosty crown Of thousand-twinkling stars, whose hoary crests Burn where light touches them, with diamond points Of infinite far fire, save where the sea Is ebony with sleep, and though the wind Pierces th…
1939 · PDF PAGE 60
… single moment of his Vision all his arguments were shattered at a single stroke! 10. We are not told that St. Paul said anything at the time, but went quietly on his journey. That is the great lesson: not to discuss the results. Those of you who possess a copy of The Equinox of the Gods may have been very much surprised at the extraordinary injunction in the Comment: the prohibition of all discussion of the Book. I myself did not fully understand that injunction; I do so now.
1944 · PDF PAGE 42
… the owner played about too much, instead of killing people as is proper. THE TAROT AND ANIMISM It is only natural, therefore, that at a time when pictorial or written representations of ideas were beyond the comprehension of any but a very few people, when Writing itself was
1905 · PDF PAGE 184
…n Bough,” for proot of the universality of the ritual described. The parajlelism is accidental, Crowley having read no sociology at this time. VOL, I. They led her with songs by the stream ; They brought her with tears to the river ; They danced as the maze of a dream ; They kissed her to roses and cream, And they cried, ‘‘ Let the queen live for ever !” They took her, with all of the flowers They had girded her with for God’s daughter ; They cast her from amorous bowers To the river, the horrible powers Of the Beast that lurks down by the Wate…
1929 · PDF PAGE 315
…rom its proper orbit by, had been held back by, the attraction of other heavenly bodies. Their influence had been removed. For the first time in my life I was really free. I had no personality left. To take a concrete case: I found myself in the middle of China with a wife and child. I was no longer influenced by love for them, no longer interested in protecting them as I had been; but there was a man, Aleister Crowley, husband and father, of a certain caste, of certain experience, of travel in remote parts of the world; and it was his business…
1939 · PDF PAGE 66
…e conferred by the Angel of each Aethyr in its turn. There was this further identification with Yoga practices recorded in this book. At times the concentration necessary to dwell in the Aethyr became so intense that definitely Samadhic results were obtained. We see then that the exaltation of the mind by means of magical practices leads (as one may say, in spite of itself) to the same results as occur in straightforward Yoga. I think I ought to tell you a little more about these visions. The method of obtaining them was to take a large topaz b…
1906 · PDF PAGE 33
… escape ! Oh, doom of God! Oh, brand how worse than Cain’s ! Divided being, undivided pains ! What is this life 2 No inch throughout all time.) ness Too weak and hateful to be called distress? Slow memory working backward only knows There was some horror grown to it for kin; Some final leprous growth that took my brain, Weaving a labyrinth of dullest pain From the sweet scarlet thread I thought was sin. I cannot sin! Alas, one sin were sweet ! But sin is living—and we cannot meet ! (To call it life that grows This bitter- So long ago, so misera…
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
…onouncement be rounded off with these four lines as a message to all mankind: So shalt thou conquer Space, and lastly climb The walls of Time; And, by the golden path the great have trod Reach up to God. 9
1906 · PDF PAGE 191
…lled Rousseau! Beware of a priori / Let us find our facts, guided in the search. by a priori methods, no doubt; but the result will this time justify us. Where would a man naturally hide his greatest treasure? In his most perfect treasure-house. Where shall we look for the truest thought of a great poet? In his greatest poem. What is Shakespeare's greatest play? King Lear. In King Lear, then, we may expect the final statement of the poet's mind. The passage that first put me on the track of the amazing discovery for which the world has to thank…