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Page 17 of 2251913 · PDF PAGE 316
…to the kingdom of heaven. For the kingdom of heaven belongs to intelligence and love, both children of liberty. God has shown liberty to man in the image of a lovely woman, and in order to test his courage, He made the phantom of death pass between her and him. Man loved, and felt himself to be God; he gave for her what God had just bestowed upon him—eternal hope. He leapt towards his bride across the shadow of death. Man possessed liberty; he had embraced life. Expiate now thy glory, O Prometheus ! Thy heart, ceaselessly devoured, cannot die; …
1913 · PDF PAGE 316
…to the kingdom of heaven. For the kingdom of heaven belongs to intelligence and love, both children of liberty. God has shown liberty to man in the image of a lovely woman, and in order to test his courage, He made the phantom of death pass between her and him. Man loved, and felt himself to be God; he gave for her what God had just bestowed upon him—eternal hope. He leapt towards his bride across the shadow of death. Man possessed liberty; he had embraced life. Expiate now thy glory, O Prometheus ! Thy heart, ceaselessly devoured, cannot die; …
1907 · PDF PAGE 110
…re is no more to hear. They perish not ; they do not thrive. They are at rest, alive, The Seven Wise Men of Martaban; And, moribund, the man. THE BEAUTY AND THE BHIKKHU: A TALE OF THE TENTH IMPURITY. (From the Pait.) I LISTEN! The venerable monk pursued His path with downcast eyes ; his thought revolved Ever in closer coils serenely screwed About the Tenth Impurity. Dissolved All vision of his being but of one Thing only, his sun-whitened skeleton. II, A dainty lady sick of simple life, Chained to the cold couch of some vapid man, Put on her je…
1907 · PDF PAGE 91
…thenceforward for ever must believe in the predestination of the damned. Are we so far progressed as to interpret the saying “The Englishman’s house is his castle " in the light of the fact that once a man lay dead in his room for seven weeks, all undisturbed? Thus far the Socialist. To him enter a Man. Sayeth, the fate of men is naught; we measure mountain ranges by their peaks, not by their plains. And forthwith the Man must seek in Holbein House for some crown of the age, some Venus floating new-born in that Dead Sea, some God new-lit upon th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 123
…gaping and toothed gin , as he well shows in “ The Honourable Adulterers ” where women , the frailer sex , are the unfortunate victims . Man made God , and God made woman out of one of man's wretched little ribs . Regardless of manners , man sucks the wretched little bone as he would the leg of a chicken , tears off the flesh and casts it into the bin . The masses are but sheep , following the bell - wether convention ; deprive them of their initial , and they become neither lambs nor tigers but merely asses . Ahinoam in “ Jephthah " well descr…
1907 · PDF PAGE 107
… and linked :— Aha! one names the awful Name— The twin red planets are extinct. BANZAL ! THERE leapt upon a breach and laughed A royally maniac man. A bitter craft Is mine, he saith, O soldiers of Japan ! I am the brothel-knave of death, The grimly courtesan. Now who will up and kiss her lips, Or grip her breast and bone? The subtle life she shears and snips Is harder gained than gone ; The lover’s laughter whom she clips Is but a dying groan. She lieth not on a gilded bed In the city without the city.! One kiss is hers full rank and red— Do yo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 10
…round my ribs until You crush me in the ecstasies that kill. Being away and breathing icy air I am half lover, caring not to care ; Half-man againa mere terrestrial ball Thus breaking up a spiritual thrall Eh, my philosophers ?half-man may yet determine To get back manhood, shake the tree from bats : To change the trope a shadeget rid of vermin By using William Shakespeares Rough on Rats. VI H, love, dear love, sole queen of my affection, Guess you not yet what wheel of thought is spun ? How out of dawns tumultuous dejection And not fr…
1909 · PDF PAGE 205
…at is left—but to weep? Maybe the stridency purpled of Pan Leads at the last to the light of His plan. Maybe his work is the wealth of a man! VII Bring me the tablets, the stylus of jade. Lend me thy light, O compassionate maid ! Soul of the master, O come to mine aid! Make me the man of the marvellous mission! Sharpen the sword of veridical vision | Cut me the knot of the mighty magician! Here I devote me (record me the vow) Unto the terrible task of the Tao. Soul of the master, the writer be thou | Bring me the tablets and stylus! Have done! …
1909 · PDF PAGE 205
…at is left—but to weep? Maybe the stridency purpled of Pan Leads at the last to the light of His plan. Maybe his work is the wealth of a man! VII Bring me the tablets, the stylus of jade. Lend me thy light, O compassionate maid ! Soul of the master, O come to mine aid! Make me the man of the marvellous mission! Sharpen the sword of veridical vision | Cut me the knot of the mighty magician! Here I devote me (record me the vow) Unto the terrible task of the Tao. Soul of the master, the writer be thou | Bring me the tablets and stylus! Have done! …
1929 · PDF PAGE 51
…llie and Hastings from England, with Eckenstein and one or two minor lights on the one hand, and Purtscheller, Blodig and others from Germany on the other, were setting up an entirely new standard of Alpine climbing. They were men of education and intelligence; they had studied the physical theory of mountain conditions; they had practised the various types of technique required to meet these conditions in detail. They were doing climbs which had never been dreamt of by any Alpine guide. The first-rate amateur was to the professional as a rifle…
1913 · PDF PAGE 471
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES would not have suffered so abominable a remark, and the man would have been immediately arrested.” 4 “Would to God that all the world thought as you do!” said the lady. Then she added: “I recommend myself to your prayers, for I see clearly that you are a man of God.” “Perhaps every one does not think so,” replied Eliphas. “And what does the world matter to us?” replied the lady with vivacity; “the world lies and calumniates, and is impious! It speaks evil of you, perhaps. I am not surprised at it, and if you knew what i…
1913 · PDF PAGE 471
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES would not have suffered so abominable a remark, and the man would have been immediately arrested.” 4 “Would to God that all the world thought as you do!” said the lady. Then she added: “I recommend myself to your prayers, for I see clearly that you are a man of God.” “Perhaps every one does not think so,” replied Eliphas. “And what does the world matter to us?” replied the lady with vivacity; “the world lies and calumniates, and is impious! It speaks evil of you, perhaps. I am not surprised at it, and if you knew what i…
1910 · PDF PAGE 162
…g become obedient to his Holy Guardian Angel (the aspirant’s Spiritual Guru) or to the Universal Law as the Buddhist prefers to call it, man naturally enters the stage of Right Conduct, which brings with it supernormal or magical powers. Self is now put aside from action as well as from speech, and the striver only progresses by a stupendous courage and endurance. The canonical Buddhists however strenuously deny the value of these magical powers, Iddhis or Siddhis, and attribute the purification of the striver, the attainment of the state of “s…
1910 · PDF PAGE 162
…g become obedient to his Holy Guardian Angel (the aspirant’s Spiritual Guru) or to the Universal Law as the Buddhist prefers to call it, man naturally enters the stage of Right Conduct, which brings with it supernormal or magical powers. Self is now put aside from action as well as from speech, and the striver only progresses by a stupendous courage and endurance. The canonical Buddhists however strenuously deny the value of these magical powers, Iddhis or Siddhis, and attribute the purification of the striver, the attainment of the state of “s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 154
…ly so that her aura becomes uneasy, respond- ing no longer to her lover. Unless they diagnose the cause, a quarrel may resuit, and the woman’s bewildered and hungry Body of Light may turn in its distress to that of the Magician who has mastered it. Take a third case of this class 2. I wish to recover my watch, snatched from me in a crowd. Here I hâve no direct means of control over the muscles that could bring back my watch, nor over the mind that moves these muscles. I am not even able to inform that mind of my Will, for I do not know where it…
1907 · PDF PAGE 90
…s full of fear ; they question their love , and Love conquers . The still horror creeps silently on , enveloping them in the shroud that man has woven as the garment of love : Since our pure shame unworthily destroys The love of all she had , her girls and boys , Her home , their lives : and yet my whisper stirs Into live flame her passion , and deters Her fear from spurning all the day's due joys ." The pudibonderie of the English would call this lust . Indeed , drunken on their own crapulous imagination , choked by their venomous vomit , they…
1907 · PDF PAGE 160
THE OLD BOTTLE 153 soon eclipsed man's reason , monopolizing worship and exacting prayer : What folly can compare With such stupidity as prayer ? 1 Crowley very truly remarks in that battering-ram of religious destruction , “ Pentecost ”-a witty note is appended , quoted from the “ Sydney Bulletin , ” which suggested , that instead of perpetually worrying the Almighty for rain , the people should pray once and for all for a big range of mountains in Central Australia , which would of course supply rain auto matically --that man cannot elude fat…
1913 · PDF PAGE 348
…sive side of law applies. Such beings may have a litter, but they never have a family: marriage and family are the rights of the perfect man, the emancipated man, the man who is intelligent and free. Ask also the annals of the Courts, and read the history of parricides. Raise the black veil from off all those chopped heads, and ask them what they thought of marriage and of the family, what milk they sucked, what caresses ennobled them... . Then shudder, all you who do not give to your children the bread of intelligence and of love, all you who …
1913 · PDF PAGE 348
…sive side of law applies. Such beings may have a litter, but they never have a family: marriage and family are the rights of the perfect man, the emancipated man, the man who is intelligent and free. Ask also the annals of the Courts, and read the history of parricides. Raise the black veil from off all those chopped heads, and ask them what they thought of marriage and of the family, what milk they sucked, what caresses ennobled them... . Then shudder, all you who do not give to your children the bread of intelligence and of love, all you who …
1954 · PDF PAGE 428
65 Man Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. In previous letters I hope I have been able to give you some idea of the initiated conception of the Macrocosm, and also to have made it clear to you why we must all use a symbolic language, and the necessity of constructing a special alphabet as the basis of our conversations about Magick. I have also furnished you with charts of this alphabet. It would of course have been too clumsy and cumbersome to put all the different systems of symbol on to the Tree of Life. That Tree is…