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Page 24 of 921930 · PDF PAGE 54
…ebrew, with the idea of gettins; further information as to the mystic meaning of the Word. The answer was “Yes”. He then asked: “Am I to take the Word OHPION alone, or the three words TO META OHPÏON ? ” The answer was to take the word OHPION alone. The Master Therion then asked what Hebrew letters should be used to transliterate the Greek. The answer was: “Tau, Yod, Resh, Yod, Ayin, Nun”, which adds to 740 or 1390, according as Nun is given its ordinary value of 50, or its value as the final letter of a Word, 700. Neither of these numbers posse…
1944 · PDF PAGE 246
…. The practical every‐day commonplace way is divination. The traditional technical method of divination by the Tarot here follows: It is taken from The Equinox, Vol I, No.8, and its publication is authorized by Frater O. M. Adeptus Exemp‐ tus. 1. THE SIGNIFICATOR. Choose a card to represent the Querent, using your knowledge or judgment of his character rather than dwelling on his physical characteristics. 2. Take the cards in your left hand. In the right hand hold the wand over them, and say: I invoke thee, I A O, that thou wilt send H R U, the…
1905 · PDF PAGE 269
… nan : Grant that his coming may be very soon See, the sobs shake me like a little child. 9? e The moon is crescent, waxing in the West. Take the last kiss, dear. What is the strange song? [Zhe great Goddess ariseth, weeping Jor the slain Osiris TANNHAUSER, the perfected through suffering. IsIs. Isis am I, and from my life are fed All stars and suns, all moons that wax and wane, Create and uncreate, living and dead, The Mystery of Pain. Iam the Mother, I the silent Sea, The Earth, its travail, its fertility. Life, death, love, hatred, light, da…
1909 · PDF PAGE 18
…our lust Armed in the panoply of brazen youth And strength, since, if we are Hell’s, Hell’s wormis Truth. IX Weare still young enough to take delight In wickedness for wickedness’ sole sake. Eve did not fall because she knew aright The fruit an apple, but the snake a snake. Nor shall we sink among the foolish throng That seek an end, but rise among the few Who do the strong thing because they are strong And care not why they do, so that they do. Therefore we wear our dread iniquity Even as an aureole, therefore we attain Measureless heights of …
1913 · PDF PAGE 107
…virgin timbers hold Mine awful ark of gold? zuLu. Do I hear one speak of ships? CHINESE. Listen, my lord, to these, no lying lips. ARAB. Take us aboard; we sail where hunger grips No more three poor blind beggar men. nu [Aside]. May be These are the assassin three! [Aloud] Have ye the tokens of the true degree? [They cower. cHINESE. Ah, then, hope fails for ever ! ARAB. Let us hide Beyond the borders of this treacherous tide; Or it may steal upon us as we sleep. zuLu. Would we were dead! Yet life is worth a leap. CHINESE. O God, eternally to gr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 107
…virgin timbers hold Mine awful ark of gold? zuLu. Do I hear one speak of ships? CHINESE. Listen, my lord, to these, no lying lips. ARAB. Take us aboard; we sail where hunger grips No more three poor blind beggar men. nu [Aside]. May be These are the assassin three! [Aloud] Have ye the tokens of the true degree? [They cower. cHINESE. Ah, then, hope fails for ever ! ARAB. Let us hide Beyond the borders of this treacherous tide; Or it may steal upon us as we sleep. zuLu. Would we were dead! Yet life is worth a leap. CHINESE. O God, eternally to gr…
1961 · PDF PAGE 114
…led of Men Eliphaz Levi Zahed, that the Error of dipus was that he should have amed the Sphinx, and ridden her into Thebes? Shall I not take this Vampire, if she be such, and master her and turn her o the Great End? Am I such a Man as should flee? Is not all Fear the Word of Failure? Shall I distrust my Destiny? Am I that am the Word of the Æon of so little avail that even the whole Powers of Choronzon can disperse me? Nay, o my Son, here is Courage of Ignorance and Discretion of Knowledge, and by no less Virtue will I win through unto mine …
1912 · PDF PAGE 48
…he keys of power are in your hand this hour. The garden is yours ; the shower is Gods ; may He grant the flower ! MORTADELLO. Father, I take my leave ; to-morrows busi- ness presses. Venice shall wake to joy-bells. THE DOGE. Make the wildernesses To blossom like the rose, my God, in whom I trust. MORTADELLO. Trust me to strike, my father. THE DOGE. Son, we are but dust [They greet solemnly, and MORTADELLO departs by the secret entry. Is it vainglory, or the confidence of youth ? I would give half my realm for certainty of truth. But oh ! my h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 362
…pose. I should do nothing in future that was not as definitely directed to the execution of my true will as every step through Spain was taken with the object of reaching Madrid; and I reflected that many such steps must seem wasted, many leading away from the beeline, that I did not know the road and had no idea what Madrid would be like when I reached it. All I could do was to take each step steadily, fearlessly, firmly and determinedly, trusting to the scanty information to be gathered from signposts and strangers, to keep more or less on th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 56
IV Should I take pleasure in the fond perfume That curls about my altars? in the throats That chant my glory in the decent gloom Of lofty minsters? Shall the blood of goats And bulls and men send up a fragrant steam To me, who am ? Shall shriek of pythoness Or wail of augur move this dreadful dream To some less melancholy consciousness ? I have created men, who made them gods Of their own excrements, and worshipped them. I cannot match these calculating clods Vho twist themselves a faecal diadem From all the thorny thoughts that plague them mas…
1905 · PDF PAGE 71
… : Now, by that Light, come forth, I say, to me, My Lady of the Starlight and the Moon ! Come and be absolute within my mind, That I may take no dim remembrance back To drown this glory with earth’s quivering gloom. But, O abide within Me ! Every hour I need the lofty and the limpid stream Of that White Brilliance : Leave me not alone, O Holy Spirit ! Come to comfort me, To draw me, and to make me manifest, Osiris to the weeping world ; that I Be lifted up upon the Cross of Pain And Sacrifice, to draw all human kind And every germ of matter tha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 95
…he driving dunes. “ If all ’s illusion, gentle youth, All is the enemy of Truth. Where are you now?” “ My worthy friend !” (I answered) “take it to the end. I do not think you prove it quite That truth and lies are opposite. But upon This we can agree: There is none other God than He.”
1907 · PDF PAGE 12
…ght : unseen I stand And look to seaward still : We would not look upon the land Again, had I my will. The ship is trim: to sea! to sea! Take life in either hand, Crush out its wine for you and me, And drink, and understand ! XI. I AM a pretty advocate ! My speech has served me ill. Perchance Silence had served : you now look straight On that clear evidence of France, The embroidered garter yonder, Wait! I had some confidence in fate Ere I spoke thus. For while I spoke The old smile, surely helpless, broke On your tired lips: the old light woke…
1910 · PDF PAGE 28
…e not a Crowleian till you can say fervently “ Yes, thank God, I am an atheist.” For the ’ transvaluation of all values ’ must yet again take place, when those are all dead and damned who have forced us into the painful position we now occupy. The “ man-eating beasts because of whom we dare not love thee ”, once gone, we can revive the true cultus of the Logos ; the chastitymongering masturbators once swept away, we can without reproach follow our natural inclina- tion to purity : the lawyers and millionnaires and dema- gogues once squelched, w…
1912 · PDF PAGE 52
… our Lady ! 8TH VOICE. There ! There ! 9TH VOICE. Good wine needs no bush. 10TH VOICE. The boaster ! 7TH VOICE. Have a care ! 6TH VOICE. Take that ! MONICA enters, attended by two nuns. MONICA. Good gentlemen ! what means this stir and strife ?
1904 · PDF PAGE 30
…ll : These shall despoil her ; these shall ruin him. Yes, I shall clutch him to these sagging breasts Stained, bruised, — enough ! — and take his life in mine — Ugh ! pleasure of Hell ! Sir Percy Percivale, Here is a strumpet. Ha ! have you a sword ? Enough. I am dressed. I am lovely, have communed With my dark heart : I see my way to it : — Oh joy ! joy ! joy ! — Hortense, these candles out ! The maid blows out the mirror candles. I will go down. Prepare my scented paper, My rosy wax against my coming here — When, girl ? I’ th’ morn, i’ th’ mo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 520
…must have "regular work," and a "steady income ," and all that sort of thing. My innocent child, that species of Magick is quite simple. Take the horns of a hare ... That's enough for the present: I'll tell you what to do with them when you've got them. In Macbeth we read- ... Security Is mortals' chiefest enemy. but this is another kind of security ; it is the Hybris which "tempts Providence," the insolence of thinking that nothing can go wrong. Anyhow, there's no such thing as safety . Life is a gamble. From the moment of incarnation a millio…
1907 · PDF PAGE 96
… business is to rack the bones Of saints like you and Mr. Jones! I’m paid to accuse the brethren, sir!" “ I do not blame you, Lucifer. I take my pleasure in your frown Because you ‘represent the Crown.’ And all your prattle means to me: There is none other God than He.” The Devil seemed to see the point. Pleased that I did not say “Aroint l ” Pleased that in Asmodee I sight Brave Lucifer, the Lord of Light, Pleased with my Qabalistic pun (Really a very clever one 1), Accepted all and none; became A perfect vessel of the Flame. He flapped his cro…
1910 · PDF PAGE 15
… path is lit Just for a little by the sun, and I Watch his red face pass over, fade away To other streets, and other passengers, See him take pleasure where the heathen pray, See him relieve the hunter of his furs, All the wide world awaiting him, all folk Glad at his coming, only I must weep : Rise he or sink, my weary eyes invoke Only the respite of a little sleep ; Sleep, just a little space of sleep, to rest The fevered head and cool the aching eyes ; Sleep for a space, to fall upon the breast Of the dear God, that He may sympathise. Long h…
1913 · PDF PAGE 564
… remain beautiful. Beauty is the loan which Nature makes to virtue. If virtue is not ready when it falls due, the lender will pitilessly take back Her capital. Perversity, by modifying the organism whose equilibrium it destroys, creates at the same time a fatality of needs which urges it to its own destruction, to its death. The less the perverse man enjoys, the more thirsty of enjoyment he is. Wine is like water for the drunkard, gold melts in the hands of the gambler; Messalina tires herself out without being satiated. The pleasure which esca…