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Page 34 of 801929 · PDF PAGE 484
…lt and an old man. Some signs are almost unmistakable from the first. But others are so weak in character that their influence is rarely found unmodified by planetary considerations. One must further remark that each sign governs two main {763} types --- the active and the passive. Thus Aries: the high brows, long face, aquiline nose, tall thin muscular figure, shows the fiery and martial qualities of the sign. But there is an evil and averse counterpart corresponding to the ovine nature. We have the gross, hooked, pendulous proboscis; the thic…
1907 · PDF PAGE 50
…he Manager should comeforward and say: “ Ladies and Gentlemen, owing to the severe indzspositzon of the Author, no obscene jests will be found to occur in the dialogue of this play. The actors have, however, been instructed to pause and wink atfrequent intervals, when you are at liberty to imagine an unusually profound and peculiarly foul double entendre. We have also gone to the expense of hiring people to sit in the stalls and start the laughs, so that there is no excuse whatever for any ofyou to complain of having passed an unprurient evenin…
1913 · PDF PAGE 445
…tell you,” added the Abbé Charvoz, “ of those miracles of blood which astonish us every day? Thousands of wounded and bleeding hosts are found upon our altars. The sacred stigmata appear to all who wish to see them. The hosts, at first white, slowly become marked with characters and hearts in blood. ... Must one believe that God abandons the holiest objects to the false miracles of the devil? Should not one rather adore, and believe that the hour of the supreme and final revelation has arrived?” Abbé Charvoz, as he thus spoke, had in his voice …
1913 · PDF PAGE 445
…tell you,” added the Abbé Charvoz, “ of those miracles of blood which astonish us every day? Thousands of wounded and bleeding hosts are found upon our altars. The sacred stigmata appear to all who wish to see them. The hosts, at first white, slowly become marked with characters and hearts in blood. ... Must one believe that God abandons the holiest objects to the false miracles of the devil? Should not one rather adore, and believe that the hour of the supreme and final revelation has arrived?” Abbé Charvoz, as he thus spoke, had in his voice …
1930 · PDF PAGE 68
… should be noted, as being some of the conditions. Let then the record be written with sincerity and carej thus with practice it will be found more and more to approximate to thé idéal. - 368 -
1904 · PDF PAGE 64
…pping jiggling- bone from a six months kid spoilt by a sound, and inserting it in the still warm bowels of a still-born baby, was to be found in her fondness for the rapid and accurate repetition of the act of love. This I could supply, as you may imagine from my previ- ous story ; so we lived together in perfect harmony. Every month when her courses came on I revelled with peculiar lust in the miry bloodiness of her dearest bodily part. I would lie all day with her dumb-glutton perched on my aristocratic nose and chew the stringy mucus that i…
1910 · PDF PAGE 121
…nor asks Some mighty Jaker for the Jade.4 The garden-podex wants, methinks, No worship, but a member-spade.5 1. The Sodom-fable is to be found in the XVth chaper of the Q’uran. Moslems accept the Bible, so far as it goes. Only they regard the Christian as the Christian regards the Jew : as one not up-to- date. Big fleas have small fleas, etc. quoth the bard ; and the modern follower of El Baab and the Baha-i-Ullah says the same to the orthodoxMus- lim. 2. An allusion to a well-known tale, perhaps to be identified in Alf Laylah wa Laylah. A chie…
1919 · PDF PAGE 87
…have plucked Thee forth as a black pearl of infinite preciousness. 61. I have gone down, O my God, into the abyss of the all, and I have found Thee in the midst under the guise of No Thing. 62. But as Thou art the Last, Thou art also the Next, and as the Next do I reveal Thee to the multitude. 81
1919 · PDF PAGE 357
… missing, or rather omitted, as may be understood by the row of dots; this presumably refers to the third stage. This third stage may be found by the discern- ing in Liber 831. 74. When the Disciple sees and hears, and when he smells and tastes, eyes closed, ears shut, with mouth and nostrils stopped; when the four senses blend and ready are to pass into the fifth, that of the inner touch—then into stage the fourth he hath passed on. The practice indicated in verse 74 is described in most books upon the Tatwas. The orifices of the face being co…
1919 · PDF PAGE 363
… existence. Existence is one. He knows these things as facts, just as he knows that two and two make four. Consequently, although he has found the way of escape for that fraction of consciousness which he once called “I,” and although he knows that not only that consciousness, but all other consciousnesses, are but part of an illusion, yet he feels that his own task is not accomplished while there remains any fragment of con- sciousness thus unemancipated from illusion. Here we get into very deep metaphysical difficulties, but that cannot be he…
1907 · PDF PAGE 268
…the one great law of Inertia ; so that the entire Uni verse lies before us , as Luther said of God , “ A blank sheet on which nothing is found , but what we our selves have written . ” Or again , in the words of the divine Spinoza : “final or first causes are only fig ments of the human mind , ” bubbles which must burst before the finite can once again dissolve into the in finite atmosphere of eternity. This seeming duality is that which Crowley infers when he states : “ In any category , infinity excludes finity , unless that finity be an iden…
1930 · PDF PAGE 60
…r than these are of value only as extending and equi- Jibrating Knowledge, or possibly as supplying Energy to such Magicians as may hâve found their way to the Sources of Strength. In ail cases, naught is worth an obol save as it serve to help the One Great Work. He who would reach Intelligences of the type under discussion may expect extreme difficulty. The paths are guarded; there is a lion in the way. Technical expertness will not serve here; it is necessary to satisfy the Warders of one’s right to enter the presence of the Master. Particula…
1930 · PDF PAGE 13
…ignorance was fostered with infinite devotion, it was even easier to create a scare about bogies than our propaganda in the recent scrap found it. I was in Venice just before the war, when Halleys comet was around, and although the Pope himself sprinkled holy water over the comet, and sent it his special benediction and told the people it would do no harm, in his most ex cathedra manner, the Venetians gathered themselves in panic-stricken crowds in the Square of St. Mark and waited, howling, for the end of the world. It was accordingly easy en…
1929 · PDF PAGE 379
…ws. "Phthisis" = a wasting disease. "Gnaggs" of course is a pun for "nags". Two minutes later I heard her scream for help. I ran out and found that he had got her by the throat. On seeing me he let her go; she ran screaming into the house. He followed, swearing to kill her. I made a beeline for the drawing-room poker, but the room was so full of trumpery ornaments that there was no room to swing it. So we clinched. We fought our way to the hall. I finally got him down on the staircase. He kicked the balustrade to splinters; but I held on. Lucki…
1909 · PDF PAGE 29
… I desire the Dew Supernal. Nor is He in the still depths of the water; their lips do not meet His. Nor—O my soul l—is He anywhere to be found in thy secret caverns, unluminous, formless, and void, where I wander seeking Him—or seeking rest from that Searchl Ο my soul l—lift thyself up; play the man, be strong; harden thyself against thy bitter Fate; for at the End thou shalt find Him; and ye shall enter in together into the Secret Palace of the King; even unto the Garden of Lilies; and ye shall be One for evcrmore. So mote it bel 27
1909 · PDF PAGE 35
…I will go on even unto madness and death if it be Thy will—but I will know Thee as Thou art. It is strange how my cries died down; how I found myself quite involuntarily swinging back to the old mantra that I worked all yesterday. However, I shall try a little longer in the Position of the Hanged Man, although sleep is again attacking me. I am weary, yet content, as if some great thing had indeed happened. But if I lost consciousness— a thing no man can be positive about from the nature of things—it must have happened so quietly that I never kn…
1909 · PDF PAGE 86
… waking in time for midnight and the quiet hours. I have endured the supreme temptation and assault of the Enemy. In this wise. First, I found that I did not want sleep—I couldn’t stop “Waiting." Next, I said ”Since last night that Black Ritual (see entry 10.55) did at least serve to turn all my thoughts to the One Thought, I will try it again . . .“ Then I said: “No; to do so is not pure ‘waiting.’ ” And then—as by a flash of lightning—the Abyss of the Pit opened, and my whole position was turned. I saw my life from the dawn of consciousness ti…
1913 · PDF PAGE 258
…bruising both great toes severely. So critical did the condition of the aged saint become that Sir Coote O. Key Coote was called in, and found himself obliged to resort to amputation, for unluckily a friend of the aged saint had been offered a copy of Paracelsus for 3s. 8d., and mortification had set in. The operation was fortunately a complete success, and the physicians announced that their distinguished patient might very well live for another four-and-twenty hours. The aged saint’s one desire was of course to see Crowley, to offer the last …
1913 · PDF PAGE 258
…bruising both great toes severely. So critical did the condition of the aged saint become that Sir Coote O. Key Coote was called in, and found himself obliged to resort to amputation, for unluckily a friend of the aged saint had been offered a copy of Paracelsus for 3s. 8d., and mortification had set in. The operation was fortunately a complete success, and the physicians announced that their distinguished patient might very well live for another four-and-twenty hours. The aged saint’s one desire was of course to see Crowley, to offer the last …
1907 · PDF PAGE 184
THE CUP 177 His , dispersed me , gave me death ." This is pure Buddhism . In death is found release , freedom from desire , which fools alone reject . In the spiritual contemplation of life the slags of existence fall to the bottom of the burning furnace of the human soul ; the power of em pire and glory is shattered , “ The golden image with the feet of clay ,” and the marred vessels of the ( All) mighty potter are cast outside , from the wheel of Fate —why contemplate what is so unprofitable and use less ? Yet in this mysticism which is more …