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Page 30 of 831903 · PDF PAGE 18
… in his mood Of the unmasking mythopoeia. Now Profounder science, Spencer’s amplitude, Allen’s too shallow erudition, Frazer’s Research, find men have made—since men made aught— Their Gods, and slain, and eaten. Surface ! I, Criosda of the Mist, see truth in all Rather than truth in none. Below the rite The sight ! Beyond the priest, the power! Above The sense, the soul ! So men who made their gods Did make in very deed : so I will make In uttermost truth a new god, since the old Are dead, or drunk with wine, and soma-juice And hemp and opium !…
1905 · PDF PAGE 3
…akkarah. THESE are the very oracles of Cumæ.1 They are called so because of the quotation from Vergil which I dis- remember, but hope to find when I can borrow an Æneid.2 The sense is of old leaves swept into the dusty corners of the mind, no part of the main current of my thought ; yet curious, not altogether bad, in a sense worth saving. Maybe I had done better to entitle the book “ Resurrec- tion Pie ” ; but all’s one.3 They are not completed, and never will be, till they fall under the eyes of the literary heir of the Chicago Professor who …
1910 · PDF PAGE 201
…as gone out with your mother. Hell come by-and-by, no doubt. Run and fetch Nurse, Charley ! [CHARLEY runs off. Oh dear ! I wish I could find a good doctor. Nobody seems to do me any good. Its pain, pain all the time. Nurse ! cant you tell me of a good doctor ? For oh ! for oh ! [He looks about him fearfully ; his voice sinks to a thrilled whisper] I am so afraidafraid to die ! Is there nobody [Enter TODD, and stands by his chair, laying his hand on the old mans shoulder. He looks up. I wish you were a doctor, Mr. Todd. You have such a so…
1929 · PDF PAGE 104
…ain types. The “preliminary invocation” in the “Goetia” consists principally of corruptions of Greek and Egyptian names. For example, we find “Osorronnophris” for “Asor Un-Nefer”.1 The conjurations given by Dr. Dee (vide Equinox I, VIII) are an a language called Angelic, or Enochian. Its source has hnherto baffled research, but it is a language and not a jargon, for it possesses a structure of its own, and there are traces or grammar and syntax. However this may be, it works. Even the beginner finds that “things happen” when he uses it: and thi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 71
…that darkened, I sat and listened, if Gods voice should break And pierce the hollow of my ear that hearkened, Lest God should speak and find me not awake For his own sake. No voice, no song might pierce or penetrate That enviable universal state. The sun and moon beheld, stood still. Only the spirits axis, will, Considered its own soul and sought a deadlier deep, And in its monotone mood Of supreme solitude Was neither glad nor sad because it did not sleep ; But with calm eyes abode Patient, its leisure the galactic load, Abode alone, nor ev…
1910 · PDF PAGE 189
… mon vieux chameau ? Quoi ? DELHOMME. [very disgusted at OSSORYS vulgarity, which mistakes argot for chic]. Well, sir, as soon as I can find a favourable opportunity OSSORY. Grief is a good mood to catch them in, my boy. I know ! I know ! Ive been a bit of a dog in my time. [Shakes hands as they go out. DELHOMME. [returning]. One word in your ear, sir, if I may. Its purely instinctivebutbutwell, sir, I mis- trust that man Todd ! OSSORY. Thanks : I believe you may be right. DELHOMME. Good-bye, sir ! OSSORY. Good-bye. MRS. OSSORY [rising]…
1912 · PDF PAGE 250
THE EQUINOX 2. Cut each pack again to the left. 3. These four stacks represent I H V H, from right to left, 4. Find the Significator. If it be in the ‘ pack, the question refers to work, business, etc; if in the?הpack, to love, marriage, or pleasure; if in the?וpack, to trouble, loss, scandal, quarrelling, etc.; if in the 1.?.־pack, to money, goods, and such purely material matters. 5. Tell the 911616111 what he has come for: if wrong, abandon the divination 6. If right, spread out the pack containing the Significator, face upwards. Count the car…
1912 · PDF PAGE 250
THE EQUINOX 2. Cut each pack again to the left. 3. These four stacks represent I H V H, from right to left, 4. Find the Significator. If it be in the ‘ pack, the question refers to work, business, etc; if in the?הpack, to love, marriage, or pleasure; if in the?וpack, to trouble, loss, scandal, quarrelling, etc.; if in the 1.?.־pack, to money, goods, and such purely material matters. 5. Tell the 911616111 what he has come for: if wrong, abandon the divination 6. If right, spread out the pack containing the Significator, face upwards. Count the car…
1913 · PDF PAGE 210
…ars Until the sea should silence all at last . Overhead my children slept . And I thought “ What when they wake , and , calling for me , Find that there is no longer Mother there ? " Then gathered I my strength and fashioned it To prayer , and took my love and made it wings Wherewith to fly to God 's far - distant throne . I felt that with the gift of that one prayer I surely gave my children all I had . While lower , swifter sped the drowsy stream While yet the angel stood all hooded , by my bed . And here , there , with anxious decided steps …
1928 · PDF PAGE 120
…a sulphurous aureole of passion. It was easy to guess that he would not waste his life looking for Divinity in clouds, and that he would find it often enough elsewhere. Finally the fourth said, You know that I hardly ever play in the house, they never take me to the theatre; my governor is too stingy. God takes no trouble over me and my weari- ness, and I have not a pretty nurse to cuddle me. It has often seemed to me that my pleas- ure would be in going always straight in front of me without knowing where, without any person troubling themsel…
1961 · PDF PAGE 206
… Consonance as of Bass with Treble for here is the Impulse that setteth us to Magick, the Pain of the Conscious Mind. Having then Wit to find the Cause of this Pain in the Sense of Separation, and its Cessation by the Union of Love, it is the Summit of our Holy Art to present the whole Being of our Star to Our Lady in the Nuptial of our Bodily Death. We are then o make our whole Engine the true and real Appurtenance of our Force, without Leak, or Friction, or any other Waste or Hindrance to its Action. Thou knowest well how an Horse, or even a …
1906 · PDF PAGE 198
…poken of by the prophet Milton ! * This is the horn of the prophet Zeruiah, and with this am I, though no Syrian, utterly pushed, till I find myself back against the dead wall of Dogma. Only now realising how dead a wall that is, do I turn and try the effect of a hair of the dog that bit me, till the orthodox ‘‘literary+ school of Buddhists, as grown at Rangoon, exclaim with Lear: ‘‘ How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is To have an in- tellect!’’ How is this? Listen, and hear! I find myself confronted with the crux: that, a Buddhist, convinc…
1904 · PDF PAGE 76
…se. Similarly, a single word may be a mnemonic key to an entire line of philosophical argument. If the reader chooses, in short, he will find the entire mass of Initiated Wisdom betw een the covers of this unpretending volume.
1909 · PDF PAGE 303
…h P. had been placed during the last seven months should have long since blossomed into flowers of weird and wonderful beauty. And so we find, as far back as the beginning of November 1899, the commencement ofa series of extraordinary visions as wild and involved as many of those of Blake or St. Francis. But before entering upon these visions, it will be necessary to explain that by a vision we mean as definite a psychological state and as certain and actual a fact to the mental eye, as the view of a landscape is considered to be to the physica…
1909 · PDF PAGE 303
…h P. had been placed during the last seven months should have long since blossomed into flowers of weird and wonderful beauty. And so we find, as far back as the beginning of November 1899, the commencement ofa series of extraordinary visions as wild and involved as many of those of Blake or St. Francis. But before entering upon these visions, it will be necessary to explain that by a vision we mean as definite a psychological state and as certain and actual a fact to the mental eye, as the view of a landscape is considered to be to the physica…
1954 · PDF PAGE 188
…hat's the same as Telesmata, isn't it?) [Yes, 666] and the Pantacle. The official instructions are quite clear, of course; but somehow I find them just a little frightening." Well, I think I know pretty well what you mean; so I will try to imitate the style of Aunt Tabitha in "The Flapper's Fireside. " For one thing, you forgot to mention the Lamen. Now what are these things when they are at home? That's easy enough. The Lamen is a sort of Coat of Arms. It expresses the character and powers of the wearer. A talisman is a storehouse of some part…
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
…n hold us enthralled with the extra ordinary power they contain , expressed in a single word . Thus in the poem " The Lesbian Hell ,” we find ourselves in the unutterable void of Orcus , where kisses are flung in vain , and where around us pale women fleet : Whose empty fruitlessness assails the night With hollow repercussion , like dim tombs Wherein some vampire glooms .3 This last line is one of the most expressive ever written by Crowley , and in the last word " glooms " is concentrated more than terror or fear , a brooding unnameable horror…
1910 · PDF PAGE 233
…ca, mon vieux chameau? Quoi? DELHOMME [very disgusted at ossory’s vulgarity, which mistakes argot for chic]. Well, sir, as soon as I can find a favourable opportunity: ossory. Grief is a good mood to catch them in, my boy. Iknow! I know! I've been a bit of a dog in my time. [Shakes hands as they go out. DELHOMME [vefurning]. One word in your ear, sir, if I may. It’s purely instinctive—but—but—well, sir, I mistrust that man Todd! ossory. Thanks: I believe you may be right. DELHOMME. Good-bye, sir! ossory. Good-bye. mrs. ossory [rising]. Alfred, …
1910 · PDF PAGE 233
…ca, mon vieux chameau? Quoi? DELHOMME [very disgusted at ossory’s vulgarity, which mistakes argot for chic]. Well, sir, as soon as I can find a favourable opportunity: ossory. Grief is a good mood to catch them in, my boy. Iknow! I know! I've been a bit of a dog in my time. [Shakes hands as they go out. DELHOMME [vefurning]. One word in your ear, sir, if I may. It’s purely instinctive—but—but—well, sir, I mistrust that man Todd! ossory. Thanks: I believe you may be right. DELHOMME. Good-bye, sir! ossory. Good-bye. mrs. ossory [rising]. Alfred, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 79
…t him add the Moon, keeping well in mind the relative sizes of, and the distance between, the planet and its satellite. He will probably find the final trick of mind to be a constant disappearance of the image, and the appearance of the same upon a smaller scale. This trick he must outwit by constancy of endeavour. He will then add in turn Venus, Mars, Mercury and the Sun. It is permissible at this stage to change the point of view to the centre of the Sun, and to do so may add stability to the conception. The Practicus may then add the Asteroi…