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Page 17 of 871903 · PDF PAGE 10
“ Four days more,” he answered, thrilling with excitement, “ and all my dreams will come true— until I wake. But you can serve me, if indeed—— Did you hear me spouting poetry ?” I nodded, and lit my pipe. He watched me narrowly while the match illuminated my face. “ What poetry ?” I told him Shelley. “ Do you read Ibsen ?” he queried, keening visibly. After a moment’s pause : “ He is the Sophocles of manners,” I said, rewarded royally for months of weary waiting. My strange com- panion sat up transfigured. “ The Hour,” he murmured, “ and the Ma…
1909 · PDF PAGE 6
… I know nothing about girls) Barely eighteen.2 . . . . . . VII. Thy royal Edwards undivided love Hath been thy lifelong privilege, tis true ! Still, is he not, though us so far above, Our Edward too ? . . . . . . XII. Why did the heathen Hindoos loyal roar Acclaim that dream brighter than bard eer dreamt ?3 He worshipped thee4 . . . XIII. Twas not thy Georges viking frame that set Australia cheering : but their souls surprise The God within his magian deeply-set Mysterious eyes.5
1906 · PDF PAGE 33
…he horrible pain That these my brothers ordered me. I look upon their brows—I see Signs many and deep of torture past; A star, yon star, true peace at last. (There approach an aged man, riding upon an ass, with a led ass, and a Nubian servant.) The Adept. In the name of God, the One, the Great, Merciful and compassionate, Acclaim the perfect period Of ordeal past ! The Neophyte. There is no God! A. Rise! in the name of obscure Fate, Ruthless and uncompassionate. 25
1909 · PDF PAGE 74
…nto that black unutterable Sea most still. XIII “From the Cavities of the Earth leap forth the terrestrial Dog- faced demons, showing no true sign unto mortal man.” “Go not forth when the Lictor passeth by.” “Direct not thy mind to the vast surfaces of the Earth; for the Plant of Truth grows not upon the ground. Nor measure the motions of the Sun, collecting rules, for he is carried by the Eternal Will of the Father, and not for your sake alone. Dismiss (from your mind) the impetuous course of the Moon, for she moveth always by the power of nec…
1909 · PDF PAGE 74
…nto that black unutterable Sea most still. XIII “From the Cavities of the Earth leap forth the terrestrial Dog- faced demons, showing no true sign unto mortal man.” “Go not forth when the Lictor passeth by.” “Direct not thy mind to the vast surfaces of the Earth; for the Plant of Truth grows not upon the ground. Nor measure the motions of the Sun, collecting rules, for he is carried by the Eternal Will of the Father, and not for your sake alone. Dismiss (from your mind) the impetuous course of the Moon, for she moveth always by the power of nec…
1922 · PDF PAGE 299
The Voice of Virtue 285 natural or unnatural. Lamus has since told me that the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention. According to him, we have no right to decide off- hand that it is an unnatural pleasure to eat sawdust. A man might be constituted so that he liked it. And as long as his peculiarity doesn’t damage or interfere with other people, there’s no reason why he shouldn’t be left alone. But if it is the man’s fixed belief that sawdust eating is essential to human happine…
1954 · PDF PAGE 252
… the magical method; at least, to that branch of it which coconsists of "fooling all the people all the time." But such an operation, if true magick were employed, would be beyond the power of any magician of my acquaintance; for it would mess up the solar system completely. (You remember how this happened, and what came of it, in a rather clever short story by H.G. Wells.) For true Magick means "to employ one set of natural forces at a mechanical advantage as against another set" -I quote, as closely as memory serves, Thomas Henry Huxley, when…
1929 · PDF PAGE 186
… of salvation from that iron tyranny; and also a traitor among those who once "left all and followed" the Son of Man. And who shall deny true Godhead to humanity, seeing that no generation of mankind has been without a Saviour, conscious of his necessary doom, and resolute to meet it, his face set as a flint towards Jerusalem? [263]
1919 · PDF PAGE 255
…nd Government of our Holy Order; by the study of its Balance you may yourself come to apprehension of how to rule your own life. For, in True Things, all are but images one of another; man is but a map of the universe, and Society is but the same on a larger scale. “Learn then that our Holy Order has but Three True Grades; as it is written in the Book of the Law: The Hermit, The Lover, and the Man of Earth. “It is but for convenience that these grades have been separated into Three Triads. “The Third Triad consists of the degrees from Minerval …
1902 · PDF PAGE 99
Elizabeth. The proof! The proof ! Dear God, how true it is That such high worthiness sees nothing there In his own heart (save what is very Christ) But wickedness ! TannhAuser {aside). This is my punishment ! This faith, this hope, this love—to me —to me ! Elizabeth. Yet, once my word went forth into the world. Suddenly came the fear that you were still Accessible to men —mig^ht hear, misfht come ! The kind, grave face of you— that light outshone The mystical ideal. Therefore too I minded me of our old baby-love, And —marriages are made in heav…
1902 · PDF PAGE 138
…and his face is that of the Christ crticified. Save us, Saints, save us ! I have looked on God ! Tannhauser. Heinrich! my friend, my old true-hearted friend ! Fear not ! I am not ghost, but living man ! Ah me, ah me, the sorrow of the world ! Heinrich. Thou, Tannhauser ! what miracle is this ? Your body glows —with what unearthly light ? Tannhauser. I did not know. Ah ! sorrow of this earth ! What tears are falling from the Pleiades ! What sobs tear out Orion's jewelled heart ! Ah me ! As these, as these ! Heinrich. Speak, speak to me ! Else, I…
1904 · PDF PAGE 49
…t-necked, As a maiden on water-cress feeding If a simile splendidly decked Appeals to your excellent sect) But humour must pall—it’s too true. I think you ought not to object To a serious ballade or two. All folk at odd times may be needing A voice to advise or protect; The heart of a maid may be bleeding; The sky of your life may be flecked With clouds, and you cannot expect The flowers to grow without dew— Please listen with proper respect To a serious ballade or two! The sprinkling of thought I am seeding May gather, take root, and reject Th…
1899 · PDF PAGE 245
…ing In the bells far-off, in yonder thrushes, In the tawny songster of the forest, In the stream’s song, in the words of passion Ringing true and deep and most enduring, Echoes of the deeper words unspoken In the hearts of two undying lovers. Will they pierce one day to other nations Clear and strong and triumphing? It may be. Then we shall not envy you, my Horace! 223
1907 · PDF PAGE 54
…of Combining Weights, and finds difficulty in accepting it, only to discover that the real difficulty of the chemist is that the law is not true; just as the golfer painfully corrects his pull and his slice, only to learn that the pull and the slice are the master strokes of the game; just as the brilliant and studious person arrives at the summit of his academic career, only to discover (if he have sufficient wit left over from the process) that the qualities required for success in life are a set different from, and even incompatible with, those …
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…f the dagger is again unsuitable for either pur- pose, since the nature of the dagger is to criticise, to destroy, to disperse j and ail true magical ceremonies tend to concentration. The dagger will therefore appear principally in the banishings, preliminary to the ceremony proper. The formula of the pantacle is again of no particular use; for the pantacle is inert. In fine, the formula of the wand is the only one with which we need more particularly concern ourselves.2 Now in order to invoke any being, it is said by Hermes Tris- megistus that…
1904 · PDF PAGE 15
… your head, You might be a man with the Flu! “The Trip! and I wish I were dead!” O blood! Mighty being ve whom Our novelists say what is true! You swear, and you fuss, and you fume, And the saddest of books—if the view That I catch of your dainty canoe Be accurate—heavy as lead, Are piled as you yawn and say “ Phew! The Trip! and I wish I were dead!” O ordin’ry persons! Who ‘lume Your College (you are but a few)— You seem to consider your doom A natural duty to do.
1906 · PDF PAGE 267
…s mess of medieval superstition, | and we may just as well have vital principle, and creative power as not, for Science’ cannot help us. True, if we do not use. all the methods at our disposal! But we. go beyond. We admit that all mental methods known are singularly liable to, illusion and inaccuracy of every sort. So_ were the early determinations of specific: heat. Even biologists have erred. But to: the true scientist every failure is a stepping- : And the history of our Science is the history of all Science. If you choose to ape Christendom…
1930 · PDF PAGE 47
…c individuality on the mind, to put its fingers independently on whatever notes it pleases. In this way one obtains an impression of the true purport of the answerj and one obtains it armed with a sanction superior to any sensible suggestions. It cornes from and to a part of the individual which is independent of the influence of environment ; is adjusted to that environment by true necessity, and not by the artifices of such adaptations as our purblind conception of convenience induces us to fabricate. The student will observe from the above t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 132
…f maintaining the right relation with it, which is, not to allow it to interfere with one’s will to live. (And almost everything that is true of Cholera is true of Christians.)1 1 [See Crowley’s discussion of verses 59-60 in his commentary to ch. II, v. 24, p. 114.] 2 [Possibly the poem “Marriage” by Samuel Butler (the elder, 1613— 1680).] 60. Therefore strike hard & low, and to hell with them, master! Commentary: The Christians to the Lions! An. xvii, 0 in [Sept.-Oct. 1921 e.v.]. I am reminded of Samuel Butler’s observation that the apotheosis…
1930 · PDF PAGE 62
With regard to the préparations for such Sacraments, the Catholic Church has maintained well enough the traditions of the true Gnostic Church in whose keeping the secrets are. 1 Chastity 2 is a condition; fastrng for sonie Iiours previons is a condition; an carnest and continuai aspiration is a con¬ dition, Without these antécédents even the Eucharist of the One and Seven is partiaily — though such is its intrinsic virtue that it can never be wholly — baulked of its effect. A Eucharist of some sort sliould most assuredly be cou* summated daily …