Thelema ScholarTHE ALEISTER CROWLEY COLLECTION
FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION

Search the corpus.

Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.

4,043 matching pages

Page 25 of 203
1910 · PDF PAGE 369

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…s summit is no Overman, but a gibbering ape! Not filth, not sorrow, not laughter of the mocker is this universe; but laughter of a young god, a holy and beautiful god, a god of love and light. And thou, since thou hast the ear of the British ass at thy lips, sing to it those starry songs. It can but bray... . But why, as hitherto, shouldst thou bray also? Or if bray thou must, let us have the virile and portentous bray of the Ass of Apuleius, not (as hitherto) the plaintive bray of the proverbial ass who hesitated so long between the two thistl…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1910 · PDF PAGE 369

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…s summit is no Overman, but a gibbering ape! Not filth, not sorrow, not laughter of the mocker is this universe; but laughter of a young god, a holy and beautiful god, a god of love and light. And thou, since thou hast the ear of the British ass at thy lips, sing to it those starry songs. It can but bray... . But why, as hitherto, shouldst thou bray also? Or if bray thou must, let us have the virile and portentous bray of the Ass of Apuleius, not (as hitherto) the plaintive bray of the proverbial ass who hesitated so long between the two thistl…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1910 · PDF PAGE 179

The Winged Beetle

…ste, so sombre glows The purpose of her cypress glance ! A sphinx set up amid the snows, An Attis frozen in his dance, Is this unnatural god that knows No man’s inheritance. So with a strange Circean smile She bends herself and moves With a vile, a calculated wile In the unfamiliar grooves, Whose horror hath so great a guile That her hates pass for loves. Within the gold bars of her rings She grips the god as in a vice.

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1913 · PDF PAGE 132

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

H . O. Meredith . I took the dead god by the hand , I filled his nostrils with my breath , I watched the sunken face expand , I watched the life creep back from death , I made him lord of earth and men And ruler over sea and air , Within my heart I loosed again The faint and frozen springs of prayer . II . Now as God waxed so I did wane , For through the dim millennial years Back to the utter source of pain He bore me surfeited with tears . Swift from the present , back through time , Swifter than spears the keen sun throws , He bore and set me…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1898 · PDF PAGE 38

Songs of the Spirit

To reach toward God, and, from His shrine returning, To sing in magic melodies the vast Desires of God towards man—O dreams ! O years Drowned in these bitter tears ! I felt the springs of youth within me leaping, Let loose my pleasure, never guessed that pain Was worth the holding—now, my life is weeping Itself away, those agonies to gain Which are my one last hope, that by some cross Eld may avenge youth’s loss ! Yet still youth burns ! The hours its pleasure wasted Compel their bitter memories to grow sweet ; Like some warm-perfumed poison if…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1907 · PDF PAGE 262

The Star in the West

… sun -bright sword !' Yet Crowley puts into the mouth of Tannhäuser the following as answer to the simple Elizabeth's asser tion , “ but God is absolute Good ” ! God slips you , He is Undefinable ! Not good ! Not wise ! Not anything at all That heart can grasp , or reason frame , or soul Shadow the sense of !2 Such a definition whether applied to God or the Ain Soph is one and the same . In the Qabalistic Dogmas of Pistorius we read even as regards Kether , the Crown , “ There is no name among Qabalists by which the supreme King is designated ;…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1898 · PDF PAGE 19

Jephthah

…is sure. But they come hither. Shall we rather flee ? ELEAZAR. I stand here manly, and will die a man. CHORUS. For cowardice not pleases God, nor fear. Shall we not take up weapons? Or shall He Rather defend us with His Holy Arm, We not presuming in our arrogance To come with cunning, and defend ourselves ? ELEAZAR. Nay, but God smites with sharpness of our swords, CHORUS. The sword is made sharp in our hands, but the point He shall guide; We grasp the tough ash of the spear, but His hand is beside ; We drive in a cloud at the foe, but His char…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1901 · PDF PAGE 46

The Mother’s Tragedy

…command you, speak! AMENHATEP. The burden of the madness of the Queen Lies on the land: the Syrian is near ; And she, believing that her godhead guards Her people, sleeps. The altars are thrown down ; The people murmur. She hath done thee wrong, But be thou mighty to avenge! PACHAD. To-day I, Horus, am to grow Osiris. Yea, Strange secret dreams of some mysterious fate Godlike have come upon me, and the throne Totters for your disloyalty. AMENHATEP. Beware ! How died thy father ? PACHAD. That amazing god Incarnate in him chose a nobler form, And…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1904 · PDF PAGE 12

The Goetia

…pon the Earth anv under the Earth: on dry Land and in the CGater: of TGbirling Dir, and of rushing frire: and everp Spell and Scourge of God map be obedient unto ae, wy % invoke Chee, the Cerrible and Jnvisible God: Tibho dwellest in the Goid JOlace of the Spirit :-— Arogogorobrad: Sothou; apodorid: JObalarthad: Moo: Apé, Che BWorniess One: ear MWe: etc, a Dear me :— Roubriad: MBariddam: Balbnabaoth: Assalonai: Aphniad: J: Choteth: Abrasar: Acodu: Fschure, wWighty and Bornless One! Dear me: etc, n ‘4 invoke Chee :-— mwa: Barraid: Joel: Kotha: A…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1910 · PDF PAGE 123

The Winged Beetle

THE SILENCE OF COLUMBINE 113 Of your long hairs that hiss Drew me so subtly to it ? We stole one lightning kiss With only God to view it. IV Hush ! Across the stair. How its creak is thunder ! Now care ! now dare ! be ware ! Or—saved ! at last I’m there, Drowned in your torrent hair, A flame, a waif, a wonder. A lioness in her lair Your body leaps from under. V Take the prize on trust ! Dare the course and run it !— Sweet knight, you win the just,— Your thrust ! a gust of lust !— Ah, God, then, if you must— Wordless still, we’ve won it ! Tall T…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1905 · PDF PAGE 154

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ruit Of what strange poisons? But in mine own self I am the king and chief of all the priests ; And thou, in thine own eyes, art a young god, Strong, beautiful, and lithe, a leaping fawn Upon the mountains. We are priests SAFI. Yea, I am a god. I am fire against the fountain of my birth, The storm upon the earth that nurtured me !} Leave me: we twain have no more words to speak. THE LEEPER. Neither in heaven nor in hell. I go, The dead king, worshipping the living man. [Aves. S’AFI. I have been a god so long, my thoughts run halt From many cont…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1911 · PDF PAGE 232

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

… sever, Aim in chaos? None. The soul rolls senseless as the sun, [All are driven back μῤto altar. BRO. CAPRICORNUS [emis]. “ There is no God.” MARS [leaps?ושand goes ta altar with uplifted sword]. I. Silence ! [a flame]. There is no God—«but God! [ARIES and PROBATIONERS dance a war dance. [CAPRICORNUSslink:from temple. [MARS recites. This is the day which down the void abysm At the Earth~born’s spell yawns for Heaven’s despotism, And Conquest is dragged captive through the deep ; Love, from its awful throne of patient power In the wise heart, fr…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1911 · PDF PAGE 232

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

… sever, Aim in chaos? None. The soul rolls senseless as the sun, [All are driven back μῤto altar. BRO. CAPRICORNUS [emis]. “ There is no God.” MARS [leaps?ושand goes ta altar with uplifted sword]. I. Silence ! [a flame]. There is no God—«but God! [ARIES and PROBATIONERS dance a war dance. [CAPRICORNUSslink:from temple. [MARS recites. This is the day which down the void abysm At the Earth~born’s spell yawns for Heaven’s despotism, And Conquest is dragged captive through the deep ; Love, from its awful throne of patient power In the wise heart, fr…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1909 · PDF PAGE 214

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

THE EQUINOX I did it. How? So great and grim The Gods are, I may never guess. Suffice it, on his mouth I swim A drowning dastard. The caress Wakes the lost life. I see him dress The godhead. Up he bounds and brays :— The wild ass of the wilderness, The soul that sees, the soul that slays ! Inhabit the untrodden ways ; Set! Thou my god and I thy priest, Thy temple hidden in the haze Of deserts death to god or beast! Thou who art both shalt foin and feast With me who am both, thy hate’s co-heir, Lord of the West and of the East— The scorpion’s ho…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1909 · PDF PAGE 214

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

THE EQUINOX I did it. How? So great and grim The Gods are, I may never guess. Suffice it, on his mouth I swim A drowning dastard. The caress Wakes the lost life. I see him dress The godhead. Up he bounds and brays :— The wild ass of the wilderness, The soul that sees, the soul that slays ! Inhabit the untrodden ways ; Set! Thou my god and I thy priest, Thy temple hidden in the haze Of deserts death to god or beast! Thou who art both shalt foin and feast With me who am both, thy hate’s co-heir, Lord of the West and of the East— The scorpion’s ho…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1912 · PDF PAGE 27

Household Gods

… ‘Their frenzy of glee, I am also the passionless soul of the sea! Mine eyes glint fire, And my cruel lips curl; ‘Mine the desire Of the god and the girl; But fierier and fteeter, And subtler and sweeter Than the race of the rhythm, the march of the metre, Is the shrilling, sbrilling Of the knife in the killing That ends, when it must, (O the throb and the thrust!) In death, in the dust, The silence, the stillness, of satiate lust, The solemn pause ‘When the veil withdraws And man looks on his god, on the Causeless Cause. Still, stilt, Under th…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1912 · PDF PAGE 382

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

SEPHER SEPHIROTH 943 944 945 The small point: atltleהרקב ?תרשפ of GOD most High :(x—43) 946 ”' 947 wumrv: 948 949 9 0 Angel of !” Dec. ₪ [Vide no. 1204]?תכפהתמה !95 The Book ofthe Lawרפס ?הרות 952 953 ” תורומש/'א 954 955 956 957 Vigiliae Unguentum Magnify centiae nm?אהשם 958 959 960 תורצוצח ירסב 961!שי 962 τυ... argenteae 963 Achad; unity. [Spelt fully]?:רבהפא Garland, Crown; a littleתרטע ?הרטע wreath, [Vide KD, ?עבטΡ. m] 66 964 Menloriale iubilationis.ןורכז ?העורת [Note Root ,?רכץ227 q.v. showing phallic nature of this ‘memorial '] 965 966 "96…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1912 · PDF PAGE 382

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

SEPHER SEPHIROTH 943 944 945 The small point: atltleהרקב ?תרשפ of GOD most High :(x—43) 946 ”' 947 wumrv: 948 949 9 0 Angel of !” Dec. ₪ [Vide no. 1204]?תכפהתמה !95 The Book ofthe Lawרפס ?הרות 952 953 ” תורומש/'א 954 955 956 957 Vigiliae Unguentum Magnify centiae nm?אהשם 958 959 960 תורצוצח ירסב 961!שי 962 τυ... argenteae 963 Achad; unity. [Spelt fully]?:רבהפא Garland, Crown; a littleתרטע ?הרטע wreath, [Vide KD, ?עבטΡ. m] 66 964 Menloriale iubilationis.ןורכז ?העורת [Note Root ,?רכץ227 q.v. showing phallic nature of this ‘memorial '] 965 966 "96…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1899 · PDF PAGE 232

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

210 MYSTERIES: I wonder whither, and I wonder why. No ray of light this sea of blood illumes. I wonder whether God will let me die.

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1907 · PDF PAGE 142

The Star in the West

…maternity You share with swine and cattle !... I love you still With carnal love and spiritual love ! And I will have you, by the living God , To be my mistress . If I fail in this , Or falter in this counsel of despair , May God's own curses dog me into hell , And mine own life perpetuate itself Through all the ages of eternity . Amen ! Amen ! Come , Cora , to my heart !? Madeline , whom Cora had hoped to have made Ulric's bride , appears , and for a moment his mad fury slackens only to burst out again , as he drags Cora from the room . When s…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →