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THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES the world to work! What battles of giants! How many errors set forth and rebutted! How much deceived and irritated Christianity lies at the bottom of Protestantism, from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth! Human egotism, in despair at its defeats, has whipped up all its stupidities in turn. They have re-clothed the Saviour of the world with every rag and with every mocking purple. After Jesus the Inquisitor they have invented the sans-culotte Jesus ! Measure if you can all the tears and all the blood that have flow…
1913 · PDF PAGE 541
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES the world to work! What battles of giants! How many errors set forth and rebutted! How much deceived and irritated Christianity lies at the bottom of Protestantism, from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth! Human egotism, in despair at its defeats, has whipped up all its stupidities in turn. They have re-clothed the Saviour of the world with every rag and with every mocking purple. After Jesus the Inquisitor they have invented the sans-culotte Jesus ! Measure if you can all the tears and all the blood that have flow…
1905 · PDF PAGE 157
…r loves a little while, Then break, like songsters, into sighing, Because the lazy days are dying; And swift and tawny strcams must rise World’s world to fertilise. The lotus is afire for love, | Its yearnings are immortal still ; But in its bosom, fed thereof, Lust, like a child, will.have his will. Immortal fervour, strangely blent With mystic sensual sacrament, Fills up its cups its petals tremble With faint desires that dissemble The fierce intention to be wed One with the spring sun’s head. The fountains of the river yearn Toward the sacre…
1909 · PDF PAGE 54
…at abyss, with icy gaze Fronting the calm immensities of time And making space to shudder; so I praise With infinite contempt the joyous world That I have figured in this brain of mine. The sails of this life’s argosy are furled; The anchor drops in those abodes divine. Master of self and God, freewill and Fate. [ am alone — at last — to meditate,
1919 · PDF PAGE 13
…od. With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks Through solstice stubborn to equinox. And I rave; andI rape and I rip andI rend Everlasting, world without end, Mannikin, maiden, mzenad, man, In the might of Pan. Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Io Pan!
1910 · PDF PAGE 250
…I don’t want her. I’m toohappy. How I love him! How proud I an— when another girl would be so shamed! I love him! I love him! Oh, what a world of ecstasy is this! To be his, and he mine! Tobe—oh! oh! I cannot bear the joy of it. I want to sit down and havea good cry. [S¢ts, crying and laughing with the joy of tt.) Oh, loving Father of all, what a world Thou hast made! What a gift is life! How much it holds of love and laughter! Is there anything more, anything better? I cannot believe it. Is there anything, anybody that could make me happier? t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 250
…I don’t want her. I’m toohappy. How I love him! How proud I an— when another girl would be so shamed! I love him! I love him! Oh, what a world of ecstasy is this! To be his, and he mine! Tobe—oh! oh! I cannot bear the joy of it. I want to sit down and havea good cry. [S¢ts, crying and laughing with the joy of tt.) Oh, loving Father of all, what a world Thou hast made! What a gift is life! How much it holds of love and laughter! Is there anything more, anything better? I cannot believe it. Is there anything, anybody that could make me happier? t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 219
… must be united in one person . And this illu mination must be as definite a phenomenon as orgasm , following which we find the material world , and its foundation the world of thought , as honestly set down to hallucination as a ghost would be . Construct the Temple in the place of the Manger , on the site of the ruins of religion and philosophy , but with the stones of the unfinished and abandoned Hall of Science . And in it let Semiramis , heavy with child by the Holy Ghost , possess the couch of labour , once crushed by the agon ized form o…
1905 · PDF PAGE 32
…e bore Her spirit might scan ; But I, being born beyond Nature, have known her and yet am a man. Ye fieriest flowers, Life-stream of the world, In passionate bowers Of mystery curled, ct 33
1915 · PDF PAGE 1
Another Englisher, Aleister Crowley, the Poet, Outs With It Originally published in the 1913 edition of The World on Fire or Englands Own Inferno. In point of fact, gallant little Germany is against a world in arms. Austria has been torn for many years by internal divisions; only a part of her population is of German stock. But against Germany and this one friend are arrayed Russia, France, England, Servia, Montene- gro, and Japan; and every one of these nations is throw- ing its whole diplomatic weight into the task of getting Roumania, Bulga…
1906 · PDF PAGE 163
…things! So many a metaphysic sings. (I wish they did indeed: I find Their prose the hardest of hard reading ! ) “ But if,” you cry, “the world’s designed If there is free As a mere mirage in the mind, will how can Un j fr Al. But all P leadiny there be pain p Jumps fee will. ut all 1m pleading or damnation? Is against pain and hell. Freewill not-Self being Then can damn man? No fearful mill an illusion. eae . nn : , Self or not-Self Grinding catastrophe, is speeding real? Chute Outside—some whence, some whither? And % d’Icare. I think we easier…
1910 · PDF PAGE 35
…gious expression of the slave- spirit in man. I do not wish to argue that the doctrines of Jesus, they and they alone, have degraded the world to its present con- dition. I take it that Christianity is not only the cause but the symptom of slavery. There were slaves in Rome, of course, even under the republic. But it was only through Paul that the slime found tongue, and uttered its agony and blasphemy. Now, through the steady growth of alt- ruism pari-passu with the Gospel that advocates it, the world is come to such a pass that the canaille i…
1913 · PDF PAGE 294
…n order to know anything, one must learn eternally! They say that in order to learn anything well, one must forget it several times. The world has followed this method. Everything which is to-day debateable had been solved by theancients. Before our annals began, their solutions, written in hieroglyphs, had already no longer any meaning for us. A man has rediscovered their key ; he has opened the cemeteries of ancient science, and he gives to his century a whole world of forgotten theorems, of syntheses as simple and sublime as nature, radiatin…
1913 · PDF PAGE 315
…make their gods become like unto them,” says the psalmist, ‘‘and all they that put their trust in them.” The divine ideal of the ancient world made the civilization which came to an end, and one must not despair of seeing the god of our barbarous fathers become the devil of our more enlightened children. One makes devils with cast-off gods,' and Satan is only so incoherent and so formless because he is made up of all the rags of ancient theogonies. He is the sphinx without a secret, the riddle without an answer, the mystery without truth, the a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 294
…n order to know anything, one must learn eternally! They say that in order to learn anything well, one must forget it several times. The world has followed this method. Everything which is to-day debateable had been solved by theancients. Before our annals began, their solutions, written in hieroglyphs, had already no longer any meaning for us. A man has rediscovered their key ; he has opened the cemeteries of ancient science, and he gives to his century a whole world of forgotten theorems, of syntheses as simple and sublime as nature, radiatin…
1913 · PDF PAGE 315
…make their gods become like unto them,” says the psalmist, ‘‘and all they that put their trust in them.” The divine ideal of the ancient world made the civilization which came to an end, and one must not despair of seeing the god of our barbarous fathers become the devil of our more enlightened children. One makes devils with cast-off gods,' and Satan is only so incoherent and so formless because he is made up of all the rags of ancient theogonies. He is the sphinx without a secret, the riddle without an answer, the mystery without truth, the a…
1908 · PDF PAGE 83
AMPHORA X QUEEN of Wisdom, Queen of Thought, Bring us to Thine holy court ! Us, who wander in the maze Of the world’s deceitful ways, Bring to Thine assured assent By Thy mystic sacrament. Queen of Mercy, Queen of Might, Bring us to Thine ardent light ! We are weak and violent : By Thy mystic sacrament Bring us to Thy power and peace, To the passionless release ! Queen of Splendour, Queen of Love, Bring us to Thine House above, Where in love and splendour dwell All the saints that praise Thee well. Bring us to their great content By Thy mystic …
1910 · PDF PAGE 105
52 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. In our innermost ravines Inaccessible to man, That our perfect peace in Pan Hide from us the knowledge of This eclipse of joy and love ! ALEXANDER Is there nothing but distress In the mystic vision lurking ? IST NYMPH Ah ! but were thy loveliness With the God supremely working ! ALEXANDER Nymph, thy face is like a flower Fairer than the driven foam ! Shining like an honeycomb Is thy body — and thy soul Shoots me to the gilded goal. I shall master yet the hour. SATYRS King of Kings, we bow before Thee ; As our Master we a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 298
… WINE 291 scenes . trampled by Bacchic feet , so to-day we find once again the farces of Aristophanes redacted on the grand stage of the world on which the great actors have played their part , and have retired behind the So once more , much to the joy of little children , the little Rationalias , the little Secularias , the harlequinade has again begun . Sinbad has sailed away with all his treasure ; Aladdin has departed , and has not forgotten to take with him his wonderful lamp . No more Jinn are to be unbottled from their sleep of a thousan…
1913 · PDF PAGE 56
THE EQUINOX 53. This shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart & my tongue, unto whom I send this kiss. Also, o scribe and prophet, though thou be of the princes, it shall not assuage thee nor absolve thee. But ecstasy be thine and joy of earth: ever To me! To me! 54. Change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold! thou, o prophet, shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden therein. 55. The child of thy bowels, Ze shall behold them. 56. Expect him not from the East, nor from the West; for from no expected house …