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Page 29 of 1071944 · PDF PAGE 94
… performed by heating something in a retort over a flame; it had to take place naturally, even if months were required to consummate the Work. (Months, at that period of civilization, were at the disposal of enquiring minds.) A great deal of what people now consider ignorance, being themselves ignorant of what the men of old time thought, comes from this misapprehension. At the bottom of this card, for example, are seen Fire and Water harmoniously mingled. But this is only a crude symbol of the spiritual idea, which is the satisfaction of the d…
1930 · PDF PAGE 84
…r Perdurabo was very unfortunate in not having magical teachers to explain these things to Him. He was rather encouraged in unsystematic working. Very fortunate, on the other hand, was He to hâve found a Guru who instructed Him in the proper principles of the technique of Yoga, and He, having suffirent sense to recognize the universal application of those principles, was able to some extent to repair His original defects. But even to this day, despite the fact this His original inclination is much stronger towards Magick than towards mysticism,…
1996 · PDF PAGE 7
…gree synony mous with sexual magick; honorary or not, it was fully deserved. Wilkinson was a fair and perceptive critic of his friend’s work. The following assessment shows at once why Crowley chose Wilkinson as his editor, and explains the problems encountered in editing the present book: He has no “vulgar sense”; having written for so long out of the ken of the general reader, he has forgotten that the gen eral reader is not a specialist. The result is that, even in his lighter work, there are often certain references and words which the ge…
1903 · PDF PAGE 45
Glittered enamelled sorceries. She was a piece of jewel work Sold by a Christian to a Turk. She had fed on air that day : the flowers About her curled, ambrosial bowers Of some divine perfume : the soul Of ether made her wise ; control Of strong distilled delight. She showered Wit and soft laughter and desire About her breasts in bliss embowered, And subtle and devouring fire Leapt in live sparks about her limbs. Her spirit shields me, and bedims My sight: she needs me: I need her. She is mine: she calls me: sob and stir Strange pulses of old p…
1912 · PDF PAGE 106
…irly struck The barred strength of his morion, And rolled the stranger in the muck. “ Now, by God’s death!” quoth Palamede, His sword at work, “I will not leave So much of thee as God might feed His sparrows with. As I believe The sweet Christ’s mercy shall avail, So will I not have aught for thee ; Since every bone of thee may rail Against me, crying treachery.
1954 · PDF PAGE 47
…bout the Yi King: "If a few more years were added to my life, J would devote a hundred of them to the study of the Yi." If, however, you work at the Qabalah in the same way as I did myself, in season and out of season, you ought to get a very fair grasp of it in six months. I will now tell you what this method is: as I walked about , I made a point of attributing everything I saw to its appropriate idea. I would walk out of the door of my house and reflect that door is Daleth, and house Beth; now the word dob is Hebrew for bear, and has the num…
1901 · PDF PAGE 76
…im mediate between And mitigate your anger, that the name Of Egypt may not perish utterly. Make, make an end! THE LEPER. All things must work themselves To their own end. Created sin grown strong Must claim its guerdon. Ye abase yourselves Well for repentance; but ye shall not ward With tears and prayers the ruin ye have made, Nor banish the enormous deities Of judgment so invoked by any prayers, Or perfumes or libations. What must be Will be. Material succour ye demand In vain. But ye may purify yourselves. AMENHATEP. Knows then thy prophecy o…
1914 · PDF PAGE 20
…r four or five Months, came ; aborted, but alive. ‘The eunuch of a childless Turk ‘Was bribed by the head wife— Oh, substituted wage for work I— To buy a baby life. ‘The best the mean slave could procure ‘Was this—thrown out on some manure. He took it to the harem, told The tale; it wheezed the sot Whose palsied eyes with rapture rolled At hearing he had got In his old age (his youth was wild ) A real live beautiful male child. ‘This blinking bastard lived to be A thief, a renegade, ‘To cheat at cards, to fight and flee A volunteer brigade Of G…
1912 · PDF PAGE 252
…high help may Show the moment of consultation. I may add that in material matters this method is extremely valuable. I have been able to work out the most complex problems in minute detail. Ο. Μ.] 210
1912 · PDF PAGE 252
…high help may Show the moment of consultation. I may add that in material matters this method is extremely valuable. I have been able to work out the most complex problems in minute detail. Ο. Μ.] 210
1996 · PDF PAGE 9
… assume that Crowley reviewed the result, as a copy was found among his papers. Wilkinson made heavy cuts, but his selection brought the work into better balance and focus.1 1 Based on the pagination of the present edition, Chapter I was cut from 114 to 64 pages, Chapter II from 79 to 67 pages, and Chapter III from 49 to 35 pages. 2 It was however uncirculated. See John Cowper Powys, Letters to Louis Wilkinson (London: Village Press, 1974), p. 192n. 3 An exemplary executor, Wilkinson managed the English side of Crow ley’s complex affairs virtu…
1912 · PDF PAGE 110
…book, Liber LXV. The principal point of this grade is that the Probationer has a master appointed, whose experience can guide him in his work. He may select any practices that he prefers, but in any case must keep an exact record, so that he may discover the relation of cause and effect in his working, and so that the As. A.'. may judge of his progress, and direct his further studies. After a year of probation he may be admitted a Neophyte of the A:. A.'., and receive the secret holy book Liber VII. These are the principal instructions for prac…
1930 · PDF PAGE 20
…jna (Pineal 5 çf in Dominion. Gland). 3 Higher Visuddhi y @ in f Established Manas (Larynx). [ï> Daath] Strength. 4 \ . 9 Ç in Perfected Work. ■ J 5 Lower Anahata (Heart). cf ï> in Q, Strife. , Manas 1 6 © ^ in Victory. (f in Q Valour. 7 ( mi ' \ Kama Manipura (Solar Plexus). 8 Prana Svadistthana in »->■ Swiftness. (Navel). 9 ^ Linga 1 Sharira ) Muladhara (Lin- \ 1 y in »-* Great Strength. 10 M/SJ Sthula Sharira j gam and Anus). 1 / ' ï) in »-*• Oppression. \ XCVIII - English of Col. XCVII The Self. . 1 The Intellect. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 The Life …
1961 · PDF PAGE 14
…ow that herein the Rela- tions between Numbers, though they be mighty in Power and prodigal of Knowledge, are but lesser Things. For the Work is to reduce all other conceptions to these of Number, because thus thou wilt lay bare the very Structure of thy Mind, whose rule is Necessity rather than Prejudice. Not until the Universe is thus laid naked before thee canst thou truly anatomize it. The Tendencies of thy Mind lie deeper far than any Thought, for they are the Conditions and the Laws of Thought; and it is these that thou must bring to Noug…
1961 · PDF PAGE 37
… Simplicity of Satisfaction of thy Needs is perfection of thy Path. For to thee, who hast aspired, it is thy Nature to perform the Great Work, and this is the final Dissolution of the Cosmos. For though a Stone seem to lie still on a Mountain Top, and have no care, yet hath it an hidden Nature, a Task Ineffable and Stupendous; namely, to force its Way to he Centre of Gravity of the Universe, and also to burn up its Elements into the final Homogeneity of Matter. Therefore the Way of Quiet is but an Illusion of Ignorance. Whoever thou mayst be no…
1929 · PDF PAGE 122
…er of the letters of the Word ABRAHADABRA, which is the Word of the Aeon. The structure of this Word is such that it expresses the Great Work, in every one of its aspects. Lastly> it is possible thereby to express ail possible spheres of operation, whatever their nature. This is effected by making an équation between the number of the Sephira and the différence between that number and n. For example, 2°=9° is the formula of the grade of initiation corresponding to Yesod. Yesod represents the instability of air, the sterility of the moonj but th…
1904 · PDF PAGE 17
…iddle, or beat a drum :— Not every bowler can break both ways! Men there have been who would daily seek Problems in Algebra—trebly glum, Work at them, groan at them, week by week, Grind like a matchmaker down ir a slum ; Slave all night, though no answer come, Smug all day, though the summer blaze, . All may do that till the brain succumb :— Not every bowler can break both ways! Vain be the struggle of party clique! } The ground is iron, the wicket is crumb, 1 In 1896-99, the author was excluded from the Cambridge Eleven, owing to the machinati…
1912 · PDF PAGE 6
PREFACE HIS comedy is perhaps my first serious attempt at a work of art ; previous lucubrations of mine having been works either of necessity or of piety : that is, or I felt obliged to tell the truth about something, or I was definitely inspired. But the Angel of Venice (I protest) is a very cunning concoction. I had been revolving certain exposition by M. Henri Davray of Verlaines skill in treating the Alexandrine ; and I couldnt let it stay there ! Hence the form. I had also been meditating on Maeter- lincks method of obtaining atmosphere…
1913 · PDF PAGE 3
…the express wish of Mr. Crowley thatI in his own phrase, * played scavenger"; but I rather break my Vow of Holy Obedience than allow his work to be hindered, as 1 cannot but maintain that it has been hindered hitherto, u BO VINCE
1909 · PDF PAGE 399
…ination purposes and “ sixth-form” students in psychology—follows in the main the theories more widely known in this country through the works of Minsterberg, and rejects such of those of Wundt as are based by him upon that a priori auxiliary function, the so-called “apperception.” “From the outstart,” states Professor Ziehen, “the conception ‘ unconscious psychical pro- cesses’ is for us an empty conception”; and so, on the strength of this assertion, he attempts to work out the whole of his argument empirically. This he does rationally enough…