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Page 36 of 1071909 · PDF PAGE 19
…0. 12.28. 12.33. JOHN ST. JOHN The Second Day The Stroke of Twelve found me duly in my Asana, practising Pranayama. Let me continue this work ; for it is written that unto the persevering mortal the Blessed Immortals are swift . . . What then should happen to a persevering Immortal like myself? Trying meditation and mantra. I find thoughts impossible to concentrate; and my Asana, despite various cowardly attempts to "fudge” it, is {rightfully painful. In Hanged Man posture, meditating and willing the Presence of Adonai by the Ritual “Thee I invo…
1961 · PDF PAGE 126
…ke, who wrote for our Understanding these Eleven Sacred Words: If the Sun and Moon should doubt Theyd immediately go out. O my Son, our Work is to shine by Fore and Virtue of our own Natures without Consciousness or consideration. Now, notwithstanding that our Radiance is constant and undimmed, it may be that Clouds gathering about us conceal our Glory from he Vision of other Stars. These Clouds are our Thoughts; not hose true Thoughts which are but conscious Expressions of our Will, such as manifest in our Poesy, or our Music, or other Flower…
1919 · PDF PAGE 169
… all. Most often the mind slips into that state without reason or argument. (Yes: it does appear that more time ought to be given to the Work. But the Progress is not bad for all that. However, I don’t quite like the complacent feeling. Nothing replaces hard work. Somebody I know (or don’t know) does more actual grind than he ever did. 24 full dress Magick ceremonies in the first 5 weeks of 1914, and about 2 hours every morning writing up the records. And in this please include 2 bad goes of influenza and bronchitis! O.M.) July 9, 7.20-7.24 A.M…
1913 · PDF PAGE 149
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING OLYMPAS. MARSYAS. OLYMPAS. MARSYAS. OLYMPAS. To use the sacred oil of work ? Not from the valley shalt thou test The eggs that line the eagle’s nest! Climb, with thy life at stake, the ice, The sheer wall of the precipice! Master the cornice, gain the breach, And learn what next the ridge can teach! Yet—not the ridge itself may speak The secret of the final peak. All ridges join at least. Admitted, O thou astute and subtle-witted | Yet one—loose, jagged, clad in mist! Another—firm, smooth, loved and kissed By the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 149
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING OLYMPAS. MARSYAS. OLYMPAS. MARSYAS. OLYMPAS. To use the sacred oil of work ? Not from the valley shalt thou test The eggs that line the eagle’s nest! Climb, with thy life at stake, the ice, The sheer wall of the precipice! Master the cornice, gain the breach, And learn what next the ridge can teach! Yet—not the ridge itself may speak The secret of the final peak. All ridges join at least. Admitted, O thou astute and subtle-witted | Yet one—loose, jagged, clad in mist! Another—firm, smooth, loved and kissed By the …
1961 · PDF PAGE 68
…Artis (Of the Medium of the Art) UT concerning the Medium by whose sensitive Nature our Magick Force is transmitted to the Object of our Working, doubt not. For already in other Galaxies of Physics have we been compelled to postulate an Æthyr wholly hypothetical in order to explain the Phenomena of Light, Electricity, and the like; nor doth any Man demand Demonstration of the Existence of that Æthyr other than its Conformity with general Law. Thou therefore, Creator and Transmitter of thine own Energy, needest not to ask whether by this or by s…
1909 · PDF PAGE 15
…ped not from fatigue but from lunch. [Odd memoranda during lunch. Insist on pupils writing down their whole day; the play as well as the work. “By this means they will become ashamed, and prate no longer of ‘beasts.’ "] Ι am now well away on the ascetic current, devising all sorts of privations and thoroughly enjoying the idea. Having finished a most enjoyable lunch, will drink coffee and smoke, and try and get a little sleep. Thus to break up sleep into two shifts. A nice sleep. Woke refreshed. Am arrived home, having performed a little busines…
1944 · PDF PAGE 75
…one of the most important of the key numbers of Liber AL. It is the number of the word of the Aeon, ABRAHADABRA, the cypher of the Great Work. (See The Equinox of The Gods, p. 138. Also The Temple of Solomon the King.) On this word alone a complete volume could, and should, be written. Cancer is the cardinal sign of the element of Water,2 and represents the first keen on‐ rush of that element. Cancer also represents the path which leads from the great Mother Bi‐ nah to Geburah, and is thus the influence of the Supernals descending through the V…
1914 · PDF PAGE 17
… you think and speak pure thoughts—but deed Is smothered in your goatishness and greed! I dragged you to the country, made you walk ‘And work and wash; but you were too far gone, Cheese can't be made, I find, by churning chalk, Eunuchs may safely swill satyrion, Plaster your cancers while you can the knife Comes all too late to give a chance of life. m1 Oh, but the soul is there| as pure and sweet As if you never had defiled it, pure Without attaint, impeccable, complete, Perfect, through all the ages to endure— Ahi! then T love you after all—t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 17
…Tempest; but Coleridge had some incapacity to catch and express the thoughts of his genius — was ever such wooden stuff as his conscious work? — while Shakespeare had the knack of acquiring the knowledge necessary to the expression of every conceivable harmony, and his technique was sufficiently fluent [26] to transcribe with ease. Thus we have two equal angels, one with a good secretary, the other with a bad one. I think this is the only explanation of genius — in the extreme case of Lavinia King it stands out as the one thing thinkable." Lisa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 248
…I was utterly at sea. To apply these ideas to the issue which we are discussing. I knew that a poet is incapable of recognizing his best work, but I knew also that though good technique does not mean good work bad technique does mean bad work. So I used to experiment with new forms by choosing a ridiculous or obscene subject, lest I should be tempted to publish a poem whose technique showed inexperience. Ivor and I, with some assistance from Gerald, collected such of these manuscripts as had not been destroyed, and with "the Nameless Novel", we…
1912 · PDF PAGE 81
… over him.] Thing misshapen, blasted and inhuman, Bow down to the cross ! His love purge thee ! His Passion Save thee ! Christ crown the work ! Here is the blessing that he gave thee ! [She touches him with the cross. He staggers and reels. GABRIELE. I am slain. O torture her ; she hath poisoned me [He falls, and writhes in agony. MONICA. Too true ! Gods pain is deadly poison for a fiend like you Sent from the pit to plague mankind. O soldiers, turn Your hearts, that it may save you, all Gods mercy burn Sin from you. Follow me ! SOLDIERS. Our…
1913 · PDF PAGE 80
68 It is by the Understanding of the Magus that his work is purified. Binah, moreover, is the Moon, and the bowl of this cup is shaped Hke the moon. This moon is the path of Gimel through which the influence from the Crown descends upon the Sun of Tiphereth. And this is based upon the pyramid of fire which symboHzes the aspiration of the student. In Hindu symbohsm the Amrita or " dew of immortahty " ^ drips constantly upon a man, but is burnt up by the gross fire of his appetites. Yogis attempt to catch and so preserve this dew by turning back …
1961 · PDF PAGE 130
…e is a Fool, and wotteth not his Will, darkening Counsel in himself, and denying his own God, and giving Place to Choronzon. So then his Work becometh Hotchpot, and he is shattered and dispersed in the Abyss. Nor is it better for him if he do this for the supposed Good of another, and for that other is it Evil also in the End of the Matter. For to manifest thine own Division to another, and to deceive him, is but to confirm him in blindness, or Illusion, and to hinder or to deflect him in his Way. Now to do thine own Will is to leave him free t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 78
…eration which took place in every man. Each was himself the Son of God who had assumed a body of flesh and blood in order to perform the work of redemption. The in-dwelling of the Holy Ghost was a sanctification resulting from the completion of the great work when the self had been crucified to itself and raised again in incorruptible immortality. I did not yet see that this conception reposed on metaphysical bases as untenable as those of orthodoxy. There was no attempt to explain the origin of evil and similar difficulties. But these things w…
1899 · PDF PAGE 229
… his morning beams that play With our sails’ rent and rifted white, and run Like summer lightning all about the deck, And laugh upon the work my sword had done 207
1910 · PDF PAGE 95
… form and name ! Shatter, lake-reflected spectre ; lake, rise up in mist to sun ; Sun, dissolve in showers of nectar, and the Mas- ters work is done. Nectar perfume gently stealing, masterful and sweet and strong, Cleanse the world with light of healing in the an- cient House of Wrong ! Free a million million mortals on the wheel of being tossed ! Open wide the mystic portals, and be altogether lost !
1919 · PDF PAGE 170
… its shackles. All seems so good to-night; this simple life, the tent by the sea, the night air, the happy tired feeling after the day’s work, the presence of my two dear ones, and all the dear ones of which I am a part, the presence of Adonai within and without. It is good to have lived for this. (This is dreadful! You must not mistake ‘feeling good’ for a mystic state. O.M.) Aug. 9, 9.59 to 10.26 P.M. During this meditation a certain magical under- standing arose whereby it was easy to interpret any common object into a symbol of the Work. (A…
1919 · PDF PAGE 294
…nto: a, humorous b. indigenous ¢. historical—pastoral—comical etc. Each story is to be judged by itself. This is of course true of every work of art, and that is why critics are such a hang-dog race of marmots. But speaking as a marmot, which is, after all, the right of marmots, Article 1 in the Magna Charta of marmots, I may say that Chekhov was yery much better when he was not think- ing of Kopecks. He has turned out a dreadful lot of bad work under the lash of the publisher. But at his best, in stories like The Witch, he is unsurpassed. One …
1929 · PDF PAGE 528
…ss in New York, and in this place were a number of symbolic images representing myself and several other adepts associated with me in my work. The character of the vision served as a guide to my relations with these {833} 1. WEH note: Crowley obtains these totals by a complex mixture of Greek and Hebrew substitutions, including use of cognate letters. In simple Greek gematria, the total is very different. people. More especially there were three women, symbolized as three scorpions of the symbolic desert which I was crossing in my mystic journe…