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Page 216 of 2251944 · PDF PAGE 116
…most value to attain His innocence in all its fulness. We must understand, first of all, that the root of Moral Responsibility, on which man stupidly prides himself as distinguishing him from the other animals, is Restriction, which is the Word of Sin. Indeed, there is truth in the Hebrew fable, that the knowledge of Good and Evil brings forth Death. To regain Innocence is to regain Eden. We must learn to live without the murderous consciousness that every breath we draw swells the sails which bear our frail vessels to the Port of the Grave. We…
1929 · PDF PAGE 110
…he professed correspondence between him and them, and my tongue having been tied all these years by a Previous Oath of Secrecy to him, demanded by him, from me, before showing me what he had either done or caused to be done or both. You must comprehend from what little I say here the extreme gravity of such a matter, and again I ask you, both for his sake, and that of the Order, not to force me to go further into the subject. This letter struck at the very heart of the moral basis of her conduct. It put her in the position of having initiated p…
1929 · PDF PAGE 253
…ratifs & arrangements nécessaires. On respectera soigneusement les préjugés & les croyances indigčnes & on ne s'immiscera pas dans leurs maničres de vivre. On n'achčtera rien sans l'assentiment dy Dr. J. Jacot G. ou de A. Crowley. On s'engage ŕ n'avoir aucune relation directe ou indirecte avec les femmes, indigčnes ou étrangčres, qu'on peut éviter. Le Dr. J. Jacot G. est seul & supręme juge des questions d'hygične ou de santé de la caravane. Aleister Crowley est seul & supręme juge des questions se rapportant exclusivement ŕ l'alpinisme & aux m…
1904 · PDF PAGE 101
…not truly affirm: “Nothingness is green, or heavy, or sweet.” Let us call tim e, space, being, heaviness, hunger, the categories. 1 If a man be heavy 1 I cannot her e discuss the pr opriety of representing the categories as dim ensions. It will be obvious to any student of the integral calculus, or to any one who appreciates the geometrical significance of the term x4.—A.C.
1929 · PDF PAGE 133
…ly. The riff-raff of rascality endemic in all ports is here exceptionally repulsive. The highwater mark of social tone, moral elevation, manners and refinement is attained by the Japanese ladies of pleasure. In the matter of religion, the Hindus are (as everywhere else) servile, shallow, cowardly and hypocritical; though being mostly Shaivites, adoring frankly the power of Procreation and Destruction, they are less loathsome than Vishnavites, who cringe before a fetish who promises them Preservation and (as Krishna) claims to be the Original of…
1944 · PDF PAGE 118
…al Measure did I gather the Harvest of an Aeon, and in Ten Lives I could not declare it. DE QUIBUSDAM MYSTERIIS, QUAE VIDI Yet even as a Man may set up a Memorial or Symbol to import Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand, so may I strive to inform thine Understanding by Hieroglyph. And here shall thine own experience serve us, because a Token of Remembrance sufficeth him that is familiar with a Matter, which to him that knoweth it not should not be made manifest, no, not in a Year of Instruction. Here first then is one amid the Uncounted Wonders of t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 107
…on desired. Such is the real purport of all the apparently fantastic directions of Solomon, Abramelin, and other sages of repute. When a man has evoked and mastered s uch forces as Taphtartharath, Belial, Amaimon, and the great powers of the elements, then he m ay be safely be per- mitted to begin to try to stop thinking. For, needless to say , the universe, including the thinker, exists only by virtue of the thinker’s thought.1 In y et one other way is magic a capital training ground for the Arahat. True symbols do really awake those macrocosm…
1929 · PDF PAGE 273
…llages inhabited by very primitive folk of a different race to the bulk of the population. I saw a good deal of these people. They go in many cases naked. At the most, they wear a rudimentary loin cloth. They have a language of their own which possesses a few affinities with outer dialects. It possesses less than three hundred words, some two hundred and fifty of which are classed as obscene. The men are armed with bows and arrows, or occasionally spears, some of which show great skill of metallurgy and workmanship as well as a knowledge of cer…
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
…the lines of the hymnal. Only a few lines remain. Terror, and darkness, and horrid despair! Agony painted upon the once fair Brow of the man who refused to give up The love of the wine-filled, the o'erflowing cup. "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging." No wine in death is his torment assuaging. Of this Redhill period there remain also memories of two summers, one in France and Switzerland, the other in the Highlands. The former has left numerous traces, chiefly of a visual character; the Grand Hotel in Paris, Lucerne and the Lion, William …
1929 · PDF PAGE 230
…on makes me suspect that I wanted to make love to her and was annoyed that I was already in love. The gospels do not tell us whether the man who possessed the pearl of great price ever had moments of regret at having given up imitation jewellery. One always subconsciously connects notoriously vile women who flaunt their heartless and sexless seduction with the possibility of some supremely perverse pleasure in nastiness. However, my surface reaction was to shake the dust of Colombo from my feet and to spend my two days in Kandy in writing Why J…
1944 · PDF PAGE 94
…o any but advanced students of alchemy.) The equilibrium and counter‐change are carried out completely in the figure itself; the white woman has now a black bead; the black king, a white one. She wears the golden crown with a silver band, he, the silver crown with a golden fillet; but the white head on the right is extended in action by a white arm on the left which holds the cup of the white gluten, while the black head on the left has the black arm on the right, holding the lance which has become a torch and pours forth its burning blood. The…
1929 · PDF PAGE 412
…ds should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honourable to which a man can be called? The only argument for surrounding publication with any conditions is that the message may be better understood in some circumstances than in others. I can imagine a series of syllogisms on which one might base an apology for many of the actual principles of publishing. The {655} point, however, is that (as I suppose)…
1904 · PDF PAGE 80
…of light would gather round it in the cool of the evening, or in the misty glamour of dawn, and turn f orth in love and pity towards all mankind—nay , to the smallest grain of dust tossed on the utmost storms of the Sahara ! “Blessed and more blessed ! For one day came a holy Bikkhu from the land of the Peacock,2 and would take up his abode in t he hollow of their very tree. And little Perdu’ R Abu us ed to keep the mosquitoes away with the gossamer of his wings, so that the good man might be at peace. “Now the British Governm ent abode in that…
1929 · PDF PAGE 75
…ception of the First Noble Truth, but also for an entirely new current to influence my life. Towards the end of the October term I met a man named Herbert Charles Jerome Pollitt. He was an M.A., ten years older than myself, and had merely come up to Cambridge to dance for the F.D.C. (Footlights Dramatic Club). I saw him only once or twice that term, but corresponded with him from abroad during the Christmas vacation. The result was the establishment of the first intimate friendship of my life. Pollitt was rather plain than otherwise. His face w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 462
… the noblest characters shooting up from the grossest stock. Keats, Burns, Sixtus the Fifth, Lincoln, Boehme, Faraday, Joseph Smith, Whitman, Renan, Arkwright, Watts, Carlyle, Rodin and innumerable other men of the highest genius came of peasant parentage. Few indeed of the first class have been born of intellectually developed families. The conditions of genius are not accurately known. But we may divide the class into two great groups; those in whom the development is a system of degeneration, and those who, though sometimes exhibiting the mo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 308
308 {500} conscientious man, saving a fixed sum out of his salary, devoted to his work, free from vices and in no financial embarrassment. His junior was a careless youth, mixed up with women and known to be gambling heavily on the races. The postmaster confirmed this estimate of their characters. I inquired further and found that the junior clerk was responsible for the disappearance of the packet; which seemed reasonable enough. But then the cards apparently went crazy. They said that this clerk should not suffer for his act. The postmaster a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 161
… to A.C.'s proposal by cable and letter of August 23rd that they should together climb a mountain higher than any previously ascended by man: both agree to use their utmost endeavours in every respect to achieve this result. (On August 23rd A.C. placed five hundred pounds at the disposal of O.E.; on Oct. 10th he added another five hundred pounds in case of emergency, for this purpose. O.E. is empowered to employ part of this latter sum, or all if absolutely necessary, to arrange by insurance for Dr. Karl Blodig to join us. It is, however, under…
1944 · PDF PAGE 123
…ght arm the torch of the flames blazing upwards; in his left, the cup of poison, a cataract into Hell. And upon his head the evil talis‐ man, blasphemy and blasphemy and blasphemy, in the form of a circle. That is the greatest blasphemy of all (i.e., that the circle should be thus profaned. This evil circle is of three con‐ centric rings). On his feet hath he scythes and swords and sickles; daggers; knives; every sharp thing‐a millionfold, and all in one. And before him is the Table that is a Table of wicked‐ ness, the forty‐two‐fold Table. Thi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 247
…e 1 Wala, one whose business is connected with anything. #.g. Jangli-wala, one who lives in, or has business with, a jungle, z.e. a wild man, or a Forest Conservator. 2 The Hindus see this as well as any one, and call Atman Sat-chit-ananda, these being above the pairs of opposites, rather on the Hegelian lines of the reconciliation (rather than the identity) of opposites in a master-idea. We have dismissed infinity as the figment of a morbid mathematic: but in any case the same disproof applies to it as to God.—A. C. 3 Hail unto Thee, the Bless…
1907 · PDF PAGE 135
…jun a, a decadent? The compeller a degenerate? The lover of Alice and Rosa Mun i an anaemic schoolboy? Why, it is enough to make a Scotchman laugh! Not onl is it a violation of the English language, but it belongs to that class of pure literary lism, which Crowley has arisen to overthrow. A second Prometheus, he has snatched the fire from the secret place of God's glory, and bro ht it down in the hollow tube of his ecstasy-waking flute, and in the white chalice o God’s awful Dawn, he now offers them the wine of the Via Lactea caught from the rosy…