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Page 18 of 1141919 · PDF PAGE 118
THE EQUINOX For know, that all things are masks or symbols of the One Truth, and nature serveth alway to point out the higher per- fection under the veil of the lower perfection. So then all the Art and Craft of human love shall serve you as an hiero- glyphic: for it is written that That which is above is like that which is below: and That which is below is like that which is above. Therefore also doth it behove you to take well heed lest in any manner you fail in this business of purity. For though each act is to be complete on its own plane, …
1902 · PDF PAGE 56
…er. Venus. So Persephone must hold Thy life divided in Her dark domain. Tannhauser. Already I have tasted once of this In its own lesser way. Ten years ago I loved a maiden called Elizabeth. A child she was, so delicate and frail, Far, white, and lonely as the coldest star Set beyond gaze of any eye but God's ; And, to forget her, found due somnolence In such a warm brown bosom as thine own 54
1904 · PDF PAGE 56
…ORUS. Surely thy tender years and gentle looks Belie such hatred to our king! I scorn To triumph on an enemy once fallen. MEDEA. Fools always! I am tenderer than my years, And gentler than my glances. CHORUS. Sayst thou—what? MEDEA, Ye know me a most powerful sorceress. CHORUS. So I have heard, O lotus-footed one! Nathless I see not any miracle. MEDEA, Last night the heavy-hearted audience Broke up, and Jason wended wearily His way, oppressed by direful bodements of The fate of this forenoon. I saw him go Sad, and remembered how sublime he stoo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 5
least in those of her works that I have hitherto had the glorious privilege of perusing. It is, by the way, my favourite pastime when I have, as we say in Fleet Street, the blunt to go down to Marlow or Maidenhead in a punt, and there lie in some shady favourite backwater with my favourite girl friend in front. What a thing friendship is, world without end ! and my favourite old black briar between my lips, and her sweet face fixed on my old favour- ite thumb-worn copy of Sappho, and pore over the deevie pages, hour after hour, bound by…
1910 · PDF PAGE 384
… upspring the sisters seven ; While answering flames illume the deep, The blue pavilions blaze to heaven. Silent and stern the northward way They ride; alone before his men Staggers through black to rose and grey Sir Palamede the Saracen.
1910 · PDF PAGE 384
… upspring the sisters seven ; While answering flames illume the deep, The blue pavilions blaze to heaven. Silent and stern the northward way They ride; alone before his men Staggers through black to rose and grey Sir Palamede the Saracen.
1954 · PDF PAGE 252
… so-and-so, aloof from arbitrary interference. Joshua, it is alleged, made the sun stand still by supplication, and Hezekiah in the same way caused it to "go back upon the dial of Ahaz"; Willett did it by putting the clock back, and getting an Act of Parliament to confirm his lunacy . Petruchio , too "It shall be what o'clock I say it is!" The two last came close to 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 th…
1908 · PDF PAGE 1
…AND CLIMBS AROUND AROLLA AIGUILLES ROUGES (Pages 49-50) S. Peak. “Climbed all the gendarmes, traversing high up, instead of by the usual way. This lends considerable difficulty to the climb. We took 5 hours, going slowly but without halts. Mr. Slings- by’s “the last” was in our case about the 5th of some dozen and a half or more. We descended it by undercut rocks N.E. face instead of his 18 ft. crack. The greatest difficulties as below this, so that the first party must have kept low down to reach the S. col “soon after.” Times: (snow bad); N. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 183
…in. The obvious exception to the otherwise invariable rule of practical inaccessibility was the Golden Throne, a minor point of which Conway claims to have climbed. I was very disgusted at the bad taste of some of the coolies who had been with him in saying that he had never been on the mountain at all, but turned back at the foot of the ice fall. How could such common creatures presume to decide a delicate scientific question of this sort? My camp at Doksam was pitched on the borders of a good-sized lake {311} between the mountains and the gla…
1922 · PDF PAGE 272
…ts your doing your will. I remember once when I was making experiments with it myself, how I would go out with the intention of keeping away from the stuff all day, and how, without my knowing it, I took advantage of ali sorts of little incidents that cropped up to get back to the studio some hours before I had intended. I found myself out at once, of course, having learnt some of the tricks of the mind. And I sat and watched myself finding excuses for starting in. One gets into an absolutely morbid state, in which everything that happens has s…
1899 · PDF PAGE 30
8 JEPHTHAH. CHORUS. And who shall bridle him, or turn his way? For Fate alone of gods, inflexible, And careless of men’s deeds, is firm in heaven. PROPHET. I see a sword whose hilt is to thy hand. CHORUS. But which of us shall wield the shining blade? PROPHET. I see a dove departing to the hills. CHORUS. I pray it bring an olive-branch to us. PROPHET. The god has overcome me, I am silent. CHORUS. He lies as one lies dead; none wakens him. Nor life nor death must touch him now: beware! ELEAZAR. Beware now, all ye old wise men, of this. For high …
1902 · PDF PAGE 130
I hate myself because I love you still In that strange intermediate consciousness, The reason and the mind ! This middle way Ancients called safe —that damns it instantly ! Without some danger nothing great is done ! Let me be God ! Or, failing of that task. Were it but by an unit, let me fall ! And, falling, be it from so great a height That I may reach some uttermost Abyss, Inhabit it and reign, most evil one Of all the Horrors there — and in that path Seem, even deluded, to approach once more Infinity. For all the limitless Hath no distincti…
1904 · PDF PAGE 110
ONE WAY OF LOVE I All June I rubbed my prick with grease. Now, hair by hair, I comb its fleece, And shew it where Pauline may pass. She will not suck me off. Alas ! What, no luck ? Lord love a duck ! The chance was she might need a fuck ! II How many months I strove to wipe My brown and corrugated pipe ! To-day I fart for all I know. She will not hear my music. So ? It is split ? Devil a bit ! Suppose Pauline had bade me shit ! III My whole life long I learned to frig. This hour I play the supreme pig And suck her pussy. Pox or clap ? She will …
1922 · PDF PAGE 63
…t, on the slightest &kcuse. One’s sense of proportion is gone; and despite all the millions of miles that one cheerily goes out of one’s way, one never loses sight of one’s goal. While I have been writing all this, I have never lost sight for a moment of the fact that I am telling you about the box and the letter from Gretel. We met a girl in Paris, half a Red Indian, a lovely baby with the fascination of a fiend and a fund of the foulest stories that ever were told. She lived on cocaine. She was a more or less uneducated girl; and the way she …
1922 · PDF PAGE 62
…nce more the absence of any reaction. There is where the infernal subtlety of the drug comes in. If one goes on the bust in the ordinary way on alcohol, one gets what the Americans call “the morning after the night before.” Nature warns us that we have been breaking the rules; and Nature has given us common sense enough to know that although we can borrow a bit, we have to pay back. We have drunk alcohol since the beginning of time; and it is in our racial consciousness that although ‘“‘a hair of the dog” will put one right after a spree, it wo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 330
…main in their original ambit. As I pointed out long ago, the Law of Karma is the Law of Inertia. Nor is it necessary to assert that it always works out in this way; "sometimes" is quite good enough. Besides, to say "sometimes" explains (or rather, avoids) most of the evident objections to the theory . I grant you cheerfully that Reincarnation is a comparatively rare occurrence; and it throws upon the objector the onus of proving an A or an E proposition. What is it that reincarnates? We have had this before , in another connection; it is the Su…
1954 · PDF PAGE 393
…en our legs. (And yet, from a saner point of view, the Operation had been a shining success. "Miraculous" things began to happen; in one way and another the gates opened for Allan to migrate to less asthmatic climes; and the object of our work was amply attained.) I give prominence to this phenomenon because what we saw, little and unsatisfactory as it was, appeared to our normal physical sight. I learned later that there is a kind of sight half-way between that and the astral. In a "regular" astral vision one sees better when the eyes are shut…
1996 · PDF PAGE 166
…ning in thy heart shall make swift and secure thy pen. 41. Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-house: all must be done well and with business way. 42. The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. Refuse none, but thou shalt know & destroy the traitors. I am Ra-Hoor-Khuit; and I am powerful to protect my servant. Success is thy proof: argue not; convert not; talk not overmuch! Them that seek to entrap thee, to overthrow thee, them attack without pity or quarter; & destroy them utterly. Swift as a trodden serpent turn and strike! …
1922 · PDF PAGE 11
…brink. This story is also true not only of one kind of human weakness, but (by analogy) of all kinds; and for all alike there is but one way of salvation. As Glanvil says: Man is not subjected to the angels, nor even unto death utterly, save through the weak- ness of his own feeble will. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. ALEISTER CROWLEY.
1954 · PDF PAGE 107
… these savages, we reach a second stage. Bold spirits muster courage to assert that the evil which is so obvious, is, in some mysterious way, an illusion. They thus throw back the whole complexity of sorrow to a single cause; that is, the arising of the illusion aforesaid. The problem then assumes a final fonn: How is that illusion to be destroyed. A fairly pure example of the first stage of this type of thought is to be found in the Vedas; of the second stage, in the Upanishads. But the answer to the question, "How is the illusion of evil to b…