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Page 153 of 2251909 · PDF PAGE 6
THE EQUINOX The Universe of Magic is in the mind of a man: the setting is but Illusion even to the thinker. Humanity is progressing; formerly men dwelt habitually in the exterior world; nothing less than giants and Paynim and men—at—arms and distressed ladies, vampires and succubi, could amuse them. Their magicians brought demons from the smoke of blood, and made gold from baser metals. In this they succeeded; the intelligent perceived that the gold and the lead were but shadows of thought. It became probable that the elements were but isomers …
1913 · PDF PAGE 432
THE EQUINOX vigour the mysterious hands. ‘‘ They are,” says he, “ perfect shapes of human hands, warm and living, only one feels no bones.” Pressed by an unavoidable constraint, those hands did not struggle to escape, but grew smaller, and in some way melted, so that the Count ended by no longer holding anything. Other persons who have seen them, and touched them, say that the fingers are puffed out and stiff, and compare them to gloves of india-rubber, swollen with a warm and phosphorescent air. Sometimes, instead of hands, it is feet which pr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 544
… weariness of admiration gives; it is the law of equilibrium; but sometimes even sublime natures are surprised in caprices of vulgarity. Man, said the Abbé Gerbet, is the shadow of 246
1913 · PDF PAGE 432
THE EQUINOX vigour the mysterious hands. ‘‘ They are,” says he, “ perfect shapes of human hands, warm and living, only one feels no bones.” Pressed by an unavoidable constraint, those hands did not struggle to escape, but grew smaller, and in some way melted, so that the Count ended by no longer holding anything. Other persons who have seen them, and touched them, say that the fingers are puffed out and stiff, and compare them to gloves of india-rubber, swollen with a warm and phosphorescent air. Sometimes, instead of hands, it is feet which pr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 544
… weariness of admiration gives; it is the law of equilibrium; but sometimes even sublime natures are surprised in caprices of vulgarity. Man, said the Abbé Gerbet, is the shadow of 246
1919 · PDF PAGE 343
…ed as blinds. “Light” such as is described has a tech- nical meaning. It would be too petty to regard Mara as a Christian would regard a man who offered him a cigarette. The supreme and blinding light of this jewel is the great vision of Light. It is the light which streams from the threshold of Nirvana, and Mara is the’ ‘dweller on the threshold.’ It is absurd to call this light ‘evil’ in any com- monplace sense. It is the two-edged sword, flaming every way, that keeps the gate of the Tree of Life. And there is a further Arcanum connected with…
1919 · PDF PAGE 379
… no self to be blissful. It is much simpler to consider it on the lines given in my commentary to the last verse. 41. To live to benefit mankind is the first step. To prac- tise the six glorious virtues is the second. 42. To don Nirmanakéya’s humble robe is to forego eter- nal bliss for Self, to help on man’s salvation. To reach Nir- vana’s bliss but to renounce it, is the supreme, the final step —the highest on Renunciation’s Path. All this about Gautama Buddha having renounced Nir- vana is apparently all a pure invention of Mme. Blavatsky, an…
1961 · PDF PAGE 182
LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 170 #n Verba Magistri sui de Femina (His Masters Words concerning Woman) F a Thousand Years it is nigh unto the Fiftieth Part, o my Son, since I obtained Favour in the Light of a great Master of the Truth, whom Men call Allan Bennett, so that he received me for his Disciple in Magick. And he was instant with me in his Matter, and vehement, adjuring his Gods that this (which I have myself here above declared unto thee) was the Truth concerning the Nature of Woman. But I being but a Youth, and Headstrong, and being enraptured…
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
…be discovereJ It has taken 100,000,000 years to produce Aleister Crowley. The world has indeed laboured, and has at last brought forth a man. . . . He stands on the virgin rock of Pyrrhonic Zoroastrianism, which, unlike the Hindu world-conce tion, stands on neither Ele hnnt nor Tortoise, but on the Absolute Zero of the metaphysical abaltsts. . . . And he shall called “lmmanuel"—that is, “ Gog; with us, or, being interpreted, Aleister Crowley, the spiritual son of Immanuel whose surname was nt. The author must have felt a good deal better after …
1929 · PDF PAGE 275
…tself is a complete treatise on mysticism, expressed in the symbolism prescribed by Persian piety. It describes the relations of God and man, explains how the latter falls from his essential innocence by allowing himself to be deceived by the illusion of matter. His religion cease to be real and become formal; he falls into sin and suffers the penalty thereof. God prepares the pathway of regeneration and brings him through shame and sorrow to repentance, thus preparing the mystical union which restores man to his original privileges, free will,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 158
…ating fumes cloudy realms of perpetual libation , of hope , and of glorious expectations . Heaven and then Hell . The former first , for man is essentially selfish ; having found a fat billet for himself , it was not long before he found a lean one for his neighbour : To divide my devotees From those who scorned me to the close : A worm , a fire, a thirst for these ; A harp - resounding heaven for those !? The primary object of existence is to keep alive , and all heavens , hells , paradises , gehennas , valhallas , nirvanas , and other abodes …
1909 · PDF PAGE 77
…s the End, not the Beginning "? It is as silly as rising at midnight, and saying, "I will go out and sleep in the sun." But I am an Irishman, and if you offer me a donkey— ride at a shilling the first hour and Sixpence the second, you must not be surprised at the shrewd silliness of my replying that I will take the second hour first. But that is always the way; the love 01 besting our dearest friends in a bargain is native to us : and so, even in religion, when we are dealing with our own souls, we try to cheat. I go out to cut an almond rod at m…
1910 · PDF PAGE 65
…nces such as ours.* Here is the whole of the World’s philosophy in a hundred words; the undying question which has perplexed the mind of man from the dim twilight of the Vedas to the sweltering noon-tide of present-day Scepticism, what is the “ Ding an sich”; what is the aro xa6’ avré; what is the Atman? That the thing which we perceive and experience is not * Deussen, “The Philosophy of the Upanishads,” p. 40. See also Berkeley's “Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous.” 53
1910 · PDF PAGE 156
…h one for himself. Salvation rests on Work and not on Faith, not in reforming the so-called fallen, but in conquering one- self. “If one man conquer in battle a thousand times a thousand men: and another conquer but himself;—he is the greatest of conquerors.”* This is the whole of Buddhism, as it is of any and all systems of self-control. * Dhammapada, v, 103. 140
1910 · PDF PAGE 65
…nces such as ours.* Here is the whole of the World’s philosophy in a hundred words; the undying question which has perplexed the mind of man from the dim twilight of the Vedas to the sweltering noon-tide of present-day Scepticism, what is the “ Ding an sich”; what is the aro xa6’ avré; what is the Atman? That the thing which we perceive and experience is not * Deussen, “The Philosophy of the Upanishads,” p. 40. See also Berkeley's “Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous.” 53
1910 · PDF PAGE 156
…h one for himself. Salvation rests on Work and not on Faith, not in reforming the so-called fallen, but in conquering one- self. “If one man conquer in battle a thousand times a thousand men: and another conquer but himself;—he is the greatest of conquerors.”* This is the whole of Buddhism, as it is of any and all systems of self-control. * Dhammapada, v, 103. 140
1911 · PDF PAGE 254
…at flames from central Me, Seeks out all life, and takes again, to mingle Its passion with my might and majesty, Till thevast floods ofthe man’s being tingle And glow, self-lostwithin my soul and sea Of love, the sun 01 utter light, and single Keen many-veine'd heart: our lips and kisses Marry and muse on our immortal blisses, I am: the greatest and the least: the sole And separate life 01 things. The mighty stresses Of worlds are my nerves twitching. Branch and bole Of forests waving in deep wildernesses Are hairs upon my body. Rivers roll Το ma…
1911 · PDF PAGE 254
…at flames from central Me, Seeks out all life, and takes again, to mingle Its passion with my might and majesty, Till thevast floods ofthe man’s being tingle And glow, self-lostwithin my soul and sea Of love, the sun 01 utter light, and single Keen many-veine'd heart: our lips and kisses Marry and muse on our immortal blisses, I am: the greatest and the least: the sole And separate life 01 things. The mighty stresses Of worlds are my nerves twitching. Branch and bole Of forests waving in deep wildernesses Are hairs upon my body. Rivers roll Το ma…
1911 · PDF PAGE 31
…Bent are the backs of my brethren, yet shall they gore the lion with their horns. Have I not the wings of the eagle, and the face of the man? And now he is turned into one of those winged Assyrian bull-men. And he sayeth: The spade of the husbandman is the sceptre of the king. All the heavens beneath me, they serve me. They are my fields and my gardens and my orchards and my pastures. 29
1913 · PDF PAGE 460
…t, in fact, tothe house of Mme. A——, and found that the ecclesiastic had been waiting for them for some moments. He was a young and slim man; he had an arched and pointed nose, with dull blue eyes. His bony and projecting forehead was rather broad than high, his head was dolicho- cephalic, his hair flat and short, parted on one side, of a greyish blond with just a tinge of chestnut of a rather curious and disagreeable shade. His mouth was sensual and quarrel- some; his manners were affable, his voice soft, and his speech sometimes a little emba…