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… Aleister Crowley in two volumes of which | this is volume { two each one crown | Left. Society | for the | Propagation of | Religious | Truth | Righz. Boleskine | Foyers | Inverness | 1905. Printed in Red and Black. Collation:—Demy 8vo, pp. 156, consisting of Half-title; Title as above; Contents, pp. 7-9; Warning, pp. 11-14; Exordium, pp. 15-19; Half-title, Liber Primus vel Carminum, p. 21; Dedication ‘‘ To Oscar Echenstein,’ &c., p. 23; Quotations, p. 24; Text, pp. 25-106; Half-title, Liber Se- cundus vel Amoris, p. 107; Dedication ‘To Mary B…
1996 · PDF PAGE 88
…ing as throwing light on the thesis: “Every man and every woman is a star.” There is no place soever that is not a Centre of Light. This Truth is to be realized by direct perception, not merely by intellection. It is axiomatic; it cannot be demonstrated. It is to be assimilated by experience of the Vision of the “Star-Sponge.” 4. Yet she shall be known & I never. Commentary: See later, verse 13, “thou” (i.e. the Beast, who is here the Mask, or “persona,” of Hadit) “wast the knower”. Hadit possesses the power to know, Nuit that of being known. N…
1903 · PDF PAGE 58
…in prosaic Paris, stand About the room, its chorus swell From the irritating to the grand. Shall we, who love the naked form, The inmost truth, to ourselves fail, Take shelter from love's lightning-storm Behind some humbug’s hoary veil ? Ah! were it so, love, could the flame Of fast electric fervour flash, Smite us through husk of form and name, Leave of the dross a little ash, One button of pure fuséd gold Identical—O floral hour! That were the bliss no eyes behold, But Christ’s delighted bridal dower 56
1910 · PDF PAGE 163
153 PROLOGUE TO RODIN IN RIME Nor I can give, nor you can take ; endures The simple truth of me that this is yours Is not the music mingled with the form When all the heavens break in blind black storm ? Are we not veiled as Gods, and cruel as they, Smiting our brilliance on the shuddering clay ? Silence and darkness cover us, confirm Our splendour to its unappointed term : For all the mean homunculi that dance Around us shudder at our brilliance. These puppets perish in the good grand glare, Our sworded sunlight in the boundless air ! These ba…
1907 · PDF PAGE 47
As he loved her do I love you”? So much they shall know, surely; never The truth, how lofty and fresh as dew Our love began, abode for ever: They cannot know us through and through. We have exceeded all the past. The future shall not build another. This is the climax, first and last. We stand upon the summit. Mother Of ages, daughter of ages, cast The fatal die, and turn to death! Let evolution turn, involving As when the gray sun sickeneth— Ghostly September! so dissolving Into the pale eternal breath. When all is done, shall this be said. Whe…
1916 · PDF PAGE 2
he speik ‘truth, and send forth Mlusion and Falschood to ‘enslave the soul. If so, let it not be his faule let him make ‘lear the meaning of his Law. Te is said “Let Him beware ‘of abstinence from action. For the curse of His grade that He must Speak Truth, that the Falsehood thereof may censave men.” ‘The Key is this word ORAHMA—Will, Negati, first obvious meaning of this Law is confirmed by 3 ‘The word of Sin is Restriction. Again : “Thou hast noright bur to do thy will, Do that and no other shall say nay. For pore will, unaaaged ofpape, deli…
1899 · PDF PAGE 12
… Surge, a sea of fiery waves, Through the continent of graves, Bringing all the dead to birth ; Rage, a warrior-band, to bring Right and truth to everything, Burning sorrow into mirth, Cradling, like a child, delight Born from the Cimmerian darkness of the hollow womb of Night, By the father of the gods, And the seasons periods To Eternity, the ocean flooded with the river, Light Ouranos ! Wave wide thy pinions Azure in the azure air, Over the serene dominions That our love has made so fair : Hark, O Heaven ! Hail thy sister, Earth, ex- pandin…
1903 · PDF PAGE 4
…ars after reading that incredible tale, I myself, at Yokohama, come across a series of circum- stances wonderfully analogous. But I will truth- fully set down this history just as it all happened. I went one memorable Wednesday night to No. 29.* For my advent in this most reputable * Disinclination to marry is congenital in the elect : the Pauline alternative is discountenanced by my doctor. i
1904 · PDF PAGE 69
… vestures of the Holy Ones, I gird up my power in ataraabe piamo-el od Uaoanu, Do-elonusa Jaida: Ancor: the girdles of righteousness and truth, in the power of the Most High: Ancor: Amacor: Amides: Cheodonias: Anitor: Christeos micaeizodo na-e- Amacor: Amides : Theodonias : Anitor : let be mighty my power: el: christeos apila: do-elonusa Adonai, kasareme e-karinu od let it endure for ever: in the power of Adonai, to whom the praise and busada tarianu lu ipamisa. AM EI. the glory shall be; whose end cannot be. 53
1906 · PDF PAGE 17
…f these take hold, Their heart of wonder throb to thine! All things are matter and force and sense, No two alone. All’s one: the gold Of truth is no reward divine Of faith, but wage of evidence. The clod, the God, the spar, the star Mete in thy measure, as they are xi. So lifts the agony of the world From this mine head, that bowed awhile Before the terror suddenly shown. 9
1996 · PDF PAGE 95
…ntary: As related in Equinox 1(7),1 2 I was, at the time of this revelation, a rationalistic Buddhist, very convinced of the First Noble Truth: “Everything is Sorrow.” I supposed this point of view to be an absolute and final truth—as if Apemantus were the only character in Shakespeare!3
1954 · PDF PAGE 137
… your heart!) you are nothing at all but a bundle of memories. When you say "this is happening now," you are a falsifier of God's sacred truth! When I say "I see a horse," the truth is that "I record in those terms my private hieroglyphic interpretation of the unknown and unknowable phenomenon (or 'point-event') which has more or less recently taken place at the other end of my system of receiving impressions." Well, then! You realize, of course, how many millions or billions of memories there must be to compose any average well-trained mind. T…
1954 · PDF PAGE 375
… to close upon from without. This is commonly seen as the possessive instinct ; it may often be masked as "protective" but its essential truth is the impulse to devour. Hence the death-like idea of "home ," where she can digest her victims in security and at leisure. Hence, as even Jung saw in his very first book , and wrote in stated terms, the first task of manhood - of the "hero"-is to escape from the mother. Now the son, with his male formula , his formula of life, his instinct to push out, to break down all that would restrain him, finds i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 14
OR I can give, nor you can take; endures The simple truth of me that this is yours. Is not the music mingled with the form When all the heavens break in blind black storm? Are we not veiled as Gods, and cruel as they, Smiting our brilliance on the shuddering clay? Silence and darkness cover us, confirm Our splendour to its unappointed term: ' For all the mean homunculi that dance Around us wither at our brilliance. These puppets perish in the good grand glare, Our sworded sunlight in the boundless air! These bats need cloisters; these tame bird…
1910 · PDF PAGE 257
…philosophy, and art... .” These desperate conspirators! What is the Parry-lytic Liar about to allow such things in Trinity ? “In seeking truth of all sorts many virtues are needed.” This daring thinker ! “Happiness and misery have much to do with welfare.” These burning words may rekindle the fires of Smithfield. “Here we find the need of courage. For, if we are to think on these matters at all, we must accept the belief for which we have evidence, and we must reject the belief for which we have no evidence. . . , And, sometimes, this is not ea…
1910 · PDF PAGE 257
…philosophy, and art... .” These desperate conspirators! What is the Parry-lytic Liar about to allow such things in Trinity ? “In seeking truth of all sorts many virtues are needed.” This daring thinker ! “Happiness and misery have much to do with welfare.” These burning words may rekindle the fires of Smithfield. “Here we find the need of courage. For, if we are to think on these matters at all, we must accept the belief for which we have evidence, and we must reject the belief for which we have no evidence. . . , And, sometimes, this is not ea…
1909 · PDF PAGE 57
…d him not. 2. Nor was he ashamed, hearing the laughter of the little dogs of hell. 3. For he abode in his place, and his false- hood was truth in his place. 4. The little dogs cannot correct him, for they can do naught but bark. 5. The masters cannot correct him, for they say: Come and see. 59
1912 · PDF PAGE 193
…ice of Power, the Prophet of the Eternal 10. The Wheel The Lord of the of Fate . Forces of Life 8. Justice. . The Daughterofthe Lords of Truth: the Ruler of the Balance 12. The Hanged The Spirit of Man . the Mighty Waters . 13. Death. . The Child of the Great Trans— formers:theLord of the Gates of Death 14. Temperance The Daughter of the Reconcilers : the Bringer- Forth of life 15. The Devil . The Lord of the Gates of Matter: the Child of the Forces of Time . LETTER ATTRI- BUTION ` "h ιι?כ .₪,`כ V?מ 11כ B Φ V.??ע 151
1912 · PDF PAGE 193
…ice of Power, the Prophet of the Eternal 10. The Wheel The Lord of the of Fate . Forces of Life 8. Justice. . The Daughterofthe Lords of Truth: the Ruler of the Balance 12. The Hanged The Spirit of Man . the Mighty Waters . 13. Death. . The Child of the Great Trans— formers:theLord of the Gates of Death 14. Temperance The Daughter of the Reconcilers : the Bringer- Forth of life 15. The Devil . The Lord of the Gates of Matter: the Child of the Forces of Time . LETTER ATTRI- BUTION ` "h ιι?כ .₪,`כ V?מ 11כ B Φ V.??ע 151
1930 · PDF PAGE 115
…ho am I? ” “What is my relation with nature ? ” 2. One must destroy one’s false notions about who and what one is before one can hnd the truth of the matter. One must therefore under- stand those false notions before giving them up. Unless this be done perfectly, one will get the True mixed up with the remains of the False. 3. One’s life has hitherto been guided by those false notions. There¬ fore on giving them up, one has no standard of control of thought or action; and, until the truth is born, one can move only by virtue of one’s momentum. …