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Page 184 of 1971939 · PDF PAGE 61
… a very beautiful bay of sand, whence jutted fantastically-shaped islets of rock; it is rimmed by cliffs encrusted with jewels of marine life. The way was over a bare hillside; except for a few hundred yards of vineyard there was no covernay, not for a rabbit. But it often happened that one of the party would turn to speak to me, and fail to see me. I have often known this to happen when I was dictating; my chair was apparently empty. Incidentally, this faculty, which I think is exercised, as a rule, unconsciously, may become an actual magical…
1905 · PDF PAGE 103
…si by a man who, plucking a plant, found its roots shining with silver. 2 "Yhe Spiritual Journey towards the Supreme IWnowledge which is life and bliss. And by whose borders we have made a home, More like a squirrel’s bower than a house. For in this blue Sicilian summertime The trees arch tenderly for lovers’ sleep, And all the interwoven leaves are fine To freshen us with dewdrops at the dawn, Or let the summer shower sing through to us, And welcome kisses of the silver rain That raps and rustles in the solitude. But in the night there came to…
1907 · PDF PAGE 244
…in large white letters, ‘‘ The Collected Works of Aleister Crowley.” [GARGOYLES: 1906] Gargoyles | being | Strangely Wrought Images | of Life and Death | by | Aleister Crowley | Foyers | Society for the Propagation of Re- ligious Truth | 1906, Collation :—Pott 8vo, pp. vit+t113. Half- title [reverse *.° Fifty copies only, &c., on the hand-made copies]; Title as above in red and black; Contents, pp. v, vi. Prose Dedication (‘‘To Lola Bentrovata”) in red and black, pp. 1, 2, and Text, pp. 3-112; (presumably) Dedicatory Epilogue, p. 113, printed i…
1905 · PDF PAGE 259
… the depth: the Voice begotten said : ‘* Divided be thy ways and limited !” Answered the reflux and the indrawn breath : ‘¢ Let there be Life, and Death !” ‘*The Earth, she shall be governed by her parts :? Division be upon her! Let her glory From crown to valley, source and spring to mouth, North unto South, Smooth gulf and sea to rugged promontory, Always be vexed and drunken, that the hearts Ruling her course round alway in the sky ; And as an handmaid let her serve and die! One season, let it still confound another ; No man behold his broth…
1905 · PDF PAGE 24
…nd some servants of thy barren and vain Though queenliest shrine. I am of those Who hear their brazen clanging as they close Fastward on life. I wane to-night, wearied with endless strife, A lover alway, never yet a wife, Lost in love’s woes. Not unperceived of Cypris did her song Die fitfully upon her tremulous tongue, Nor fell the melody on cruel ears: The bright-throat goddess sped through many spheres Of sight, beyond the world, and flamed across All space, on wings that not the albatross Might match for splendour, stretch, or airy speed, T…
1907 · PDF PAGE 28
…to shame The cunning missionary game ; And, by bad critics topped and sliced, Put the ky-bosh on ? Jesus Christ. I sing a tale of modern life (Suited for reading to my wife) Of how Sir Percy Percivale Grew from a boy into a man ; Well ware of every metric plan A bard may dream, a rhymester scrawl, Avoiding with deliberate ‘‘ Damn!” (Ut supra) In Memoriam ;8 For such suggestion would suffice To turn your blood to smoke or ice, Dismissing with a hearty curse Eunuch psychology, pimp verse. Moreover, lest my metre move From year to year in one dull…
1939 · PDF PAGE 65
…s and purples are the colours which stand out as Light against an obsolescent and indeterminate background. And thus I carry on my daily life, using every moment of time in constant self-admonition to attend to Jupiter. The mind quickly responds to this training; it very soon automatically rejects as unreal anything which is not Jupiter. Everything else escapes notice. And when the time comes for the ceremony of invocation which I have been consistently preparing with all devotion and assiduity, I am quickly inflamed. I am attuned to Jupiter, I…
1944 · PDF PAGE 57
…inbow‐ hued spirals. The Form of the Universe. This suggests the Threefold 1Kether: see the position of the Path of Aleph on the Tree of Life.
1929 · PDF PAGE 489
…an, this sonnet shaped itself in my spirit? I ran upon the ridges of the hill ....That from the North-guard watch Los Angeles. ....Now I life up my priestly hands to bless The Sun, from whose emblazoned cup God spills
1944 · PDF PAGE 117
…d her Lord, Hadith, for the Miracle of the Anatomy of the Child Ra‐Hoor‐Khuit, as it is shewed in the design Minutum Mundum, the Tree of Life. For though Wisdom be the Second Emanation of His Essence, there is a path to separate and to join them, the Reference thereof being Aleph, that is One indeed, but also an Hundred and Eleven in his full Orthography; to signify the Most Holy Trinity. And by metathesis it is Thick Darkness, and Sudden Death. This is also the Number of AUM, which is AMOUN, and the Root‐Sound of OMNE or, in Greek, PAN; and it…
1906 · PDF PAGE 225
…RUM 219 and fifty and eight years,! set forth upon a journey into the Mystic Moun- tain of the Caves. He took with him his Son,* a Lamb, Life, and Strength, for these four were the Keys of that Mountain. So by ten days and fifty days and two hundred days and yet ten days he went forth. After ten days fell a thunderbolt, whirling through black clouds of rain: after sixty the road split in two, but he travelled on both at once: after two hundred and sixty, the sun drove away the rain, and the Star shone in the day-time, making it night. After the…
1909 · PDF PAGE 411
…nd a precision of thought which give real value to his work.” Daily Telegraph : "A good book. . . . This story reads like a page of real life written down by a man who actually did take part in the scenes described so vividly. . . . We follow their fortunes breath- lessly. . . . Descriptions as vivid as any Mr. Upton Sinclair ever painted, and they are never tedious nor overdone. .. . We must not leave the tale without mentioning the wonderful love- story of Rudolph and Eisie,a fine piece of psychology, as true as it is moving, and of a quality…
1909 · PDF PAGE 411
…nd a precision of thought which give real value to his work.” Daily Telegraph : "A good book. . . . This story reads like a page of real life written down by a man who actually did take part in the scenes described so vividly. . . . We follow their fortunes breath- lessly. . . . Descriptions as vivid as any Mr. Upton Sinclair ever painted, and they are never tedious nor overdone. .. . We must not leave the tale without mentioning the wonderful love- story of Rudolph and Eisie,a fine piece of psychology, as true as it is moving, and of a quality…
1905 · PDF PAGE 152
… his head That rules his fate and compasses his end, And seeks the holy mountain of the dead To draw dead fire, and breathe, and give it life ! But thou, be strong for strife, And, as a god, cry out, and let there be The mark of many footsteps on the sea 1 See Vergil, Aen. vi. Il. 14-109. 2 The West: the Egyptian Land of the rK
1939 · PDF PAGE 25
…cury is the Word, the Logos in the highest; he is the direct medium of connection between opposites; he is electricity, the very link of life, the Yogic process itself, its means, its end. Yet he is in himself indifferent to all things, as the electric current is indifferent to the meaning of the messages which may be transmitted by its means. The Niyama corresponding to Mercury in its highest forms may readily be divined from what I have already said, but in the technique of Yoga he represents the fineness of the method which is infinitely ada…
1907 · PDF PAGE 94
…period Of ordeal past! The Neophjte. There is no God! a. Kise! in the name of obscure Fate, Ruthless and uncompassionate. NV. Of endless life, of toil and woe I am the burned and branded foe. I came this torture to endure That I might make my freedom sure. ij «df. No soul is free.
1939 · PDF PAGE 70
…nce, with regard to the power of vision on the astral plane, I have been privileged to train many hundreds of people in the course of my life, and only about a dozen of them were incapable of success. In one case this was because the man had already got beyond all such preliminary exercise; his mind immediately took on the formless condition which transcends all images, all thought. Other failures were stupid people who were incapable of making an experiment of any sort. They were a mass of intellectual pride and prejudice, and I sent them away…
1905 · PDF PAGE 126
… children; Lakeland fades from the sight. Only the sad slow Cam like a sire with age grown heavy Wearily moves to the sea, to quicken to life at last. And tne vesper Blithelier I depart, to a sea of sunnier kind- Ness $ Hours of waiting are past ; I re-quicken to love. ASTRAY IN HER PATHS.! COPENHAGEN, January, '97. I FEEL thee shudder, clinging to my arm, Before the battlements of the salt sea, Black billows tipped with phosphorescent light, Towering from where we stand to yonder shore That is no earthly shore, but guards the coast Of that whi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 315
…per orbit by, had been held back by, the attraction of other heavenly bodies. Their influence had been removed. For the first time in my life I was really free. I had no personality left. To take a concrete case: I found myself in the middle of China with a wife and child. I was no longer influenced by love for them, no longer interested in protecting them as I had been; but there was a man, Aleister Crowley, husband and father, of a certain caste, of certain experience, of travel in remote parts of the world; and it was his business to give th…
1905 · PDF PAGE 17
…ewfall, at the dawn Sin and sorrow, interwoven, Like a veil are drawn Over love and all delight; Grey desires invade the white. Love and life are but a span ; Woe is me! and woe is man! The sound stood trembling in the forest dim Lingering a little, yet there taketh him A strong man’s one short moment of despair. He fell, the last of Titans, his loose hair Tangled in roses ; while his heart and mind Broken and yet imperishable, blind, Hateful, desire they know not what, and turn Lastly to pray for death ; his wild eyes burn, And bitter tears di…