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Page 151 of 2251910 · PDF PAGE 76
…ks, etc.) and of “ Jnana Kanda” (science and knowledge). “Karma Kanda” is twofold—good and evil, and according to how we live “there are many enjoyments in heaven,” and “in hell there are many sufferings.” Having once realized the truth of “Karma Kanda” the Yogi renounces the works of virtue and vice, and engages in ‘“‘ Jnana Kanda ”—knowledge. In the Shiva Sanhita we read: * In the proper season, various creatures are born to enjoy the consequences of their karma.f As through mistake mother-of-pearl is taken for silver, so through the error of…
1910 · PDF PAGE 76
…ks, etc.) and of “ Jnana Kanda” (science and knowledge). “Karma Kanda” is twofold—good and evil, and according to how we live “there are many enjoyments in heaven,” and “in hell there are many sufferings.” Having once realized the truth of “Karma Kanda” the Yogi renounces the works of virtue and vice, and engages in ‘“‘ Jnana Kanda ”—knowledge. In the Shiva Sanhita we read: * In the proper season, various creatures are born to enjoy the consequences of their karma.f As through mistake mother-of-pearl is taken for silver, so through the error of…
1910 · PDF PAGE 40
… suggest themselves in this connection. The satyr and nymph crowd are mostly painted from imagination, for on my honour I hardly know so many decent people ; I painted Jesus first as a joke — the brass bottle of our braying clergy ; I developed him as a low class Jew [not knowing any South African millionnaires I took him straight out of the Gospel] and lastly I miracu- lously turned him into a real man, chiefly out of compli- ment to the distinguished fictionist Ernest Renan. In other words, I have kept as close to my documents as any one has …
1913 · PDF PAGE 126
…Jephthah, etc. 75. 6d. ‘“‘Mr. Crowley has paced the literary stage before, not without success. . .. He was hailed asa promis: ing young man, anda follower of Swinburne.... It should be said that the‘ Dedication’ is a poem ex- pressive of admiration of Swinburne, and the title- workis only one of many that the book contains. ‘ Jephthah ’ is, of course, a tragedy; ‘The Five Kisses’ comprises a series of lyrics of impassioned character, skilful technique, and real poetic frenzy. . From the power and earnestness of the book before us, we are incli…
1913 · PDF PAGE 429
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES science. One seeks the lovely bride, the white Meroe, and one sees no more than an old woman, the sorceress Canidia, the devourer of little children. Clinias is disabused; he thanks his master, he is saved. The vulgar are always deceived about magic, and confuse adepts with enchanters. True magic, that is to say, the traditional science of the magi, is the mortal enemy of enchantment; it prevents, or makes to cease, sham miracles, hostile to the light, that fascinate a small number of pre- judiced or credulous witnesses…
1913 · PDF PAGE 481
…no more than a transparent veil thrown upon the universal and natural mysteries of oriental initiation. A distinguished but little known man of learning, Mr. P. Lacour, in his book on the Elohim or Mosaic God, has thrown a great light on that question, and has rediscovered in the symbols of Egypt all the allegorical figures of Genesis. More recently, another courageous student of vast erudition, Mr. Vincent (de I’Yonne), has published a treatise upon idolatry among both the ancients and the moderns, in which he raises the veil of universal myth…
1913 · PDF PAGE 429
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES science. One seeks the lovely bride, the white Meroe, and one sees no more than an old woman, the sorceress Canidia, the devourer of little children. Clinias is disabused; he thanks his master, he is saved. The vulgar are always deceived about magic, and confuse adepts with enchanters. True magic, that is to say, the traditional science of the magi, is the mortal enemy of enchantment; it prevents, or makes to cease, sham miracles, hostile to the light, that fascinate a small number of pre- judiced or credulous witnesses…
1913 · PDF PAGE 481
…no more than a transparent veil thrown upon the universal and natural mysteries of oriental initiation. A distinguished but little known man of learning, Mr. P. Lacour, in his book on the Elohim or Mosaic God, has thrown a great light on that question, and has rediscovered in the symbols of Egypt all the allegorical figures of Genesis. More recently, another courageous student of vast erudition, Mr. Vincent (de I’Yonne), has published a treatise upon idolatry among both the ancients and the moderns, in which he raises the veil of universal myth…
1906 · PDF PAGE 124
…admit to these Fools—charge the child with lack of fortune ! MEDEA. Yea! I bade her take a waxen shape, carved well To look like the old man ALCESTIS. Nay! nay! the Sire Himself we stole on sleeping —— CHORUS. Hewn apart ! Ai Ai! MEDEA. I said not thus ! ALCESTIS. I am so wild, Bewildered with these tears. ACASTUS. Enough of this ! It is the malice of that sorceress Disguised —she well knows how. CHORUS. Thus, thus it is! We know the witch’s cunning. JASON. Dogs and fools! For this ye die. MADNESS. Nobility and love . Urge my own sanction to su…
1907 · PDF PAGE 247
… and an Indian mystic . In it, by a rather dif ferent route , he comes to a somewhat similar con clusion to that taught by Eckhart in Germany at the beginning of the fourteenth century . " That the creature apart from the Absolute , that is, God , was nothing , that “ Time , Space , and the plurality which depends on them ,' are also nothing in them selves , and that the duty of man as a moral being is to rise beyond this nothingness of the creature , and by direct intuition to place himself in immediate union 1 Absolute Relativism , p . 14 . 2…
1913 · PDF PAGE 493
…chess-players sought upon their chess-board the solution of philosophical and religious problems, and argued silently with each other in manceuvring the hieroglyphic characters across the numbers. Our vulgar game of goose, revived from the old Grecian game, and also attributed to Palamedes, is nothing but a chess-board with motionless figures and numbers movable by means of dice. It is a Tarot disposed in the form of a wheel, for the use of aspirants to initiation. Now, the word Tarot, in which one finds “rota” and ‘‘tora,” itself expresses, as…
1913 · PDF PAGE 493
…chess-players sought upon their chess-board the solution of philosophical and religious problems, and argued silently with each other in manceuvring the hieroglyphic characters across the numbers. Our vulgar game of goose, revived from the old Grecian game, and also attributed to Palamedes, is nothing but a chess-board with motionless figures and numbers movable by means of dice. It is a Tarot disposed in the form of a wheel, for the use of aspirants to initiation. Now, the word Tarot, in which one finds “rota” and ‘‘tora,” itself expresses, as…
1922 · PDF PAGE 51
…t had been, in a way, the solution of an equation of which the terms were: firstly, a sort of mad identification of Lou with all one’s romantic ideas of moonlight ; then my physical habit as a flying man ; and thirdly, the traditional connection of Paris with extravagant gaiety and luxuriant love. I was quite aware at the time that my moral sense and my mental sense had been thrown overboard for the moment; but my attitude was simply: “ Good- bye, Jonah!” For the first time in my life I was being absolutely myself, freed from all the inhibition…
1906 · PDF PAGE 153
… 115 120 125 135 140 Ho! Iadopt the number. Look At the quaint wrapper of this book ! * I will deserve it ifI can: It is the number of a Man. So since in England Christ still stands With iron nails in bloody hands -Not pierced, but grasping ! to hoist high Children on cross of agony, I find him real for English lives. Up with my pretty pair of fives ! # I fight no ghosts. “But why revile ” (You urge me) ‘“‘in that vicious style The very faith whose truths you seem (Elsewhere) * to hold, to hymn supreme In your own soul?” Perhaps you know How my…
1907 · PDF PAGE 12
…se : " Come and See . ” “ Behold the Lion ... hath prevailed to open the Book and to loose the seven seals thereof. " For until now “ No man in heaven , nor in earth , neither under the earth , was able to open the Book , neither to look thereon .” Yet through the astrolabe of his mind and in the alembic of his heart Aleister Crowley has opened the book , breaking not only the first six seals , but the seventh also . For those who read and understand , the heavens shall depart as a scroll , and the stars shall fall, and the mountains be moved o…
1907 · PDF PAGE 31
…s ; Ah ! in the very triumph - hour of Hell Satan himself remembers whence he fell ! ? Again , such lines as these from the “ Triumph of Man " : And all the earth is blasted ; the green sward Burns where it touches , and the barren sod 1 The Tale of Archais , vol . I, p . 11 . ? The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 181 .
1907 · PDF PAGE 101
…d the brood Misshapen , misbegotten out of spite ; Lust after death ; love in decrepitude . Thus , till the monster - birth of serpent - man Linked in corruption with the serpent - woman , Slavering in lust and pain - creation's ban . The horrible beginning of the human .” In Tannhäuser , which is an intensely psychologic drama , we find the Knight speaking thus to Venus : 1 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 178 . 2 Ibid . vol . i, p . 198. ( Also Tale of Archais .)
1907 · PDF PAGE 208
…nt patience pursue what I will now call Crowleyanity ' to its ultimate end , will find that William Shakespeare of Avon was not the only man in this fair world who doubted not that by any other name a rose would smell as sweet . Let us now take an infinite series A , B, A , B, A , B . The question asked is : which is first , A or B ? And the answer depends entirely upon the direction of | Not only the lever of Archimedes , but also the fulcrum he could not discover .
1913 · PDF PAGE 314
…entific, half hypothetical; half reason, and half poetry. This dogma has been, and will always be, the father of all others. What is the Man-God? He who realizes, in the most human life, the most divine ideal. Faith is a divination of intelligence and of love, when these are directed by the pointings of nature and of reason. It is then of the essence of the things of faith to be inac- cessible to science, doubtful for philosophy, and undefined for certainty. Faith is an hypothetical realization and a conventional determination of the last aims …
1913 · PDF PAGE 314
…entific, half hypothetical; half reason, and half poetry. This dogma has been, and will always be, the father of all others. What is the Man-God? He who realizes, in the most human life, the most divine ideal. Faith is a divination of intelligence and of love, when these are directed by the pointings of nature and of reason. It is then of the essence of the things of faith to be inac- cessible to science, doubtful for philosophy, and undefined for certainty. Faith is an hypothetical realization and a conventional determination of the last aims …