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Page 195 of 2031906 · PDF PAGE 46
…invades those rocks of night, Nor moon’s benignant might. And looking downward he beheld his folk Bound in no tyrant’s yoke ; Knowing no God, nor fearing any man ; Life’s enviable span Free from disease and vice, sorrow and age. Only death’s joys assuage A gathering gladness at the thought of sleep. Never in all the archives, scroll on scroll, Reaching from aeons wrote they ‘‘ Women weep, Men hate, the children suffer.” In the place Where men most walked a tablet of fine brass Was set on marble, with an iron style That all might carve within th…
1905 · PDF PAGE 115
…p the empty air: Thy lips seek home, and in despair Lament aloud over the frosted moor. Sad am I, sad, albeit sure There is no change of God above And no abatement of our love. For still, though thou be gone, I see In the glad mirror secretly That I am beautiful in thee. Thy love irradiates my eyes, Tints my skin gold ; its melodies Of inusic run over my face 3 Smiles envy kisses in the race To bathe beneath my eyelids. Light Clothes me and circles with the might Of warmer rosier suns. Thy kiss Dwells on my bosom, and it is A glittering mount o…
1907 · PDF PAGE 25
…t’s core, my child ! For though I strip you bare, and run My red-hot iron through your flesh, There is a citadel that none May touch—not God! The rotten rest Evacuate ; be seated there. Let there be music, and Rome burn! Then you may climb to be aware How well you serve my idle turn, There too Lies a last doubtful chance for you. Behold who dare! (Ay, you are fain !) Purblind with prejudice? No vision, Palsied with passion? Sight in vain. Stupid with sense of self? Division. Picture, not model? Then you win. I painted soul, who saw your skin :—…
1929 · PDF PAGE 158
…of Orpheus, which occupied this period, is, perhaps, the invocation to Hecate, which I recited at Akyab with full magical intention. The goddess appeared in the form of Bhavani. The fact made more concrete my perception of the essential identity of all religions. Sinai and Olympus, Mount Kailasha and Mount Meru differed from each other as do the Dent Blanche, Mote Silvio and the Steinbockhorn. It is the same mountain seen from different sides and named by different people. It encouraged me to continue my studies in the Cabbala, which claims to …
1906 · PDF PAGE 27
… And under Earth, and of the stable land, Of water, of the whirling of the air, Of the all-rushing fire ; and every Spell And scourge of God the Vast One may be made Obedient unto me, to the All-Good And ultimate Redemption : Hear me, thou ! Eca, zodacare, Iad, goho, Torzodu odo kikale qaa ! Zodacare od zodameranu ! Zodorje, lape zodiredo Ol Noco Mada, das Iadapiel ! Ilas ! hoatahe Iaida ! 1 O crowned with. starlight! emerald Winged with 1 This conjuration is in the ‘‘ angelic” lan- guage of Dr. Dee. See the edition of Goetia published by the S…
1906 · PDF PAGE 206
…he sophis- tries of our official prosodists. 548. The heathen.8—‘' The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” 580. Salan and Judas.°°—At the moment of passing the final proofs I am informed that the character of Judas has been rehabilitated by Mr. Stead (and rightly: is Mr. Abington* paid with a rope?) and the defence of Satan undertaken by a young society lady authoress ~——-a Miss Corelli—who represents him as an Angel of Light, z.e., one who has been intro- duced to the Prince of Wales. But surely there is som…
1944 · PDF PAGE 53
… Horus. Yet at the same time he is a very fully‐fledged symbol of this idea, which is wind, which is air, the impregnation of the Mother Goddess. He is immune from all attack because of his innocence; for in this innocence is perfect silence, which is the essence of virility. The egg is not only Akasha,1 but the original egg in the biological sense. This egg issues from the lotus, which is the symbol of the Yoni. There is an Asiatic symbol cognate with Harpocrates, and though it does not come di‐ rectly into this card it must be considered in c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 480
…the most arduous task known to mankind: that which Bergson --- so far as his ignorance allows --- {758} described as "creating oneself a God". But he had weakened in late years. He had married. Life to his optimistic eyes looked like a green field with a watering trough. Death in his mind became inseparably connected with the idea of mutton chops.
1906 · PDF PAGE 236
…is glyphed in the vast ocean of limitless life.2 Do I make myself clear?’ ‘Perfectly. “Who would have thought it was all so simple?’ The God cleared his throat, and rather diffidently, even shamefacedly, went on: ‘¢* But what I really wished to know was about my incarnation. How is it I have so suddenly risen from change and death to the unchangeable ?’” . ‘“‘ ‘Child !’ answered Gautama, ‘ your facts are wrong—you can hardly expect to make 1 Feet. 2 This astonishing piece of bombastic drivel is verbatim from. a note by S. L. Mathers to the ‘‘ K…
1929 · PDF PAGE 23
…thought to him that he might be caught by the Second Advent at a moment when he was not actively and intensely engaged on the work which God had sent him into the world to do. This sense of the importance of the lightest act, of the value of every moment, has been a tragically intense factor in my life. I have always grudged the time necessary for eating, sleeping and dressing. I have invented costumes with the sole object of minimizing the waste of time3 and the distraction of attention involved. I never wear underclothing. The "Magnetism" of …
1929 · PDF PAGE 220
…or it but to behave like a gentleman. So we drank a lot of champagne for dinner. We had been married on August {368} 12th and could give God glory for his good gift of grouse, and then --- What's champagne for, anyhow? Rose retired immediately after dinner; I sat in the smoking-room and pole-axed a stranger by making mysterious remarks until he thought I was mad, and fled. I had some more champagne and remembered that I was a poet. I got some paper and wrote the following rondel. Damn it, I had to play up to my partner! Rose on the breast of th…
1904 · PDF PAGE 65
…the sophis- tries of our official prosodists. 548. The heathen.68—“The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” 580. Satan and Judas.69—At the moment of passing the final proofs I am informed that the character of Judas has been rehabilitated by Mr. Stead (and rightly: is Mr. Abington* paid with a rope ? ) and the defence of Satan undertaken by a young society lady authoress —a Miss C orelli—who represents him as an Angel of Light, i.e. one who has been intro- duced to the Prince of Wales. But surely there is some…
1911 · PDF PAGE 304
…-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the reeds by the River?” Well, Mr Victor Neuburg has discovered the answer, for he was obviously wandering near the river if he was not hidden in the reeds. . . .”—Rowert Ross in The Bystander. “There is no question about the poetic quality of much of Mr Neuburg’s verse... . We are given visions of love which open new amorous possibilities.” —Darly Chronicle.
1911 · PDF PAGE 304
…-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the reeds by the River?” Well, Mr Victor Neuburg has discovered the answer, for he was obviously wandering near the river if he was not hidden in the reeds. . . .”—Rowert Ross in The Bystander. “There is no question about the poetic quality of much of Mr Neuburg’s verse... . We are given visions of love which open new amorous possibilities.” —Darly Chronicle.
1929 · PDF PAGE 455
…o turn quicksilver into gold on the physical plane, and this will soon be done. New life will flow through the world in consequence. The god now lays his caduceus upon my lips for silence; bidding me only remember that on the following night he is to come in another form. The temple was then closed. Our occasional failures produced results as striking and instructive as our successes. For instance, having made an error in invoking Mercury, and thus having created a current of force contrary to his nature, we observed that events of a Mercurial …
1906 · PDF PAGE 220
… a sickle. And the tenth week did he daily offer up his own body. Said the goat: ‘‘Though I be not an ox, yet am la sword.” ‘‘ Masked, O God!” cried the Adept. ‘‘ Verily, an thou hadst not sacrificed—’”’ There was silence. And under the Goat's throne was a rainbow? of seven colours: our Father fitted himself as an arrow to the string (and the string was waxed well, dipped in a leaden pot wherein boiled amber and wine) and shot through stormy heavens. And they that saw him saw a woman wondrous fair? robed in flames of hair, moon-sandalled, sun-b…
1944 · PDF PAGE 130
…on thou didst under stand. Therefore art thou called Understanding, O Babylon, Lady of the Night! “This is that which is written: ‘O my God, in one last rapture let me attain to the union with the many!’ For she is Love, and her love is one; and she hath divided the one love into in‐ finite loves, and each love is one, and equal with The One, and therefore is she passed ‘from the assembly and the law and the enlightenment unto the anarchy of solitude and darkness. For ever thus must she veil the brilliance of Her self.’ “O Babylon, Babylon, th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 513
…s treatise, I discovered myself to be inspired to write a number of short stories based on The Golden Bough. They are "The Hearth", "The God of Ibreez", "The Burning of Melcarth", "The Old Man of the Peepul Tree", "The Mass of St Secaire", "The King of the Wood", "The Oracle of Cocytus" and "The Stone of Cybele". Now with regard to my magical work strictly speaking, its character was presumably determined by my Grade. The Magus corresponds to the Sephira Chokmah, whose manifestation in the universe is Masloth, the {809} Sphere of the Fixed Star…
1907 · PDF PAGE 243
… Japanese vellum turned-in wrapper, same lettering. [WHY JESUS WEPT: 1904] Why | Jesus Wept | a Study of Society | and of | The Grace of God | by | Aleister Crowley | Privately Printed | 1904. Collation :—Post 4to, pp. 16+ 80. Half-title; ad- vertisement (of the 21s. edition); Title as above ; letter from author’s mother, 2 pp. ; Persons studied; Quotation from Z7zmes newspaper and John xi, 35. Dedications 6 pp. to various persons (all these pages unnumbered) ; Text, pp. 1-80; inset, a slip ‘« Note to pp. 75-76"; also, loose inset, a pamphlet ‘…
1929 · PDF PAGE 439
…o learning the merest formalities. (g) The complete lack of understanding which is now practically universal has made men inquire why in God's name they should cherish such pretentious pedantries? A few anecdotes will illustrate the situation for the average non- mason. 1. A certain rite in England derives its authority from a document which is as notoriously a forgery as Pigott ever penned. The heads of this gang wished to break, in the most shameless and rascally manner, an agreement made some years previously with John Yarker. Yarker pointed…