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Page 37 of 831939 · PDF PAGE 25
…rcury, and yet that if you trust him you are certain to be deceived. I can only explain this, if at all, by pointing out that, since all truth is relative, all truth is falsehood. In one sense Mercury is the great enemy; Mercury is mind, and it is the mind that we have set out to conquer. 14. The last of the seven sacred planets is the Moon. The Moon represents the totality of the female part of us, the passive principle which is yet very different to that of Venus, for the Moon corresponds to the Sun much as Venus does to Mars. She is more pur…
1905 · PDF PAGE 2
…nds, according to the mest ofthe MSS, may te avaried 16, All communications shouldbe addressed— SOCIETY FoR THE PROPAGATION OF RELIGIOUS TRUTH ‘who wil be glad to answer any questions, or to supply Books to competitors forthe necesary study in case they do not aleady possess them. A List of the Works of Mrr Aleister Crowley. ACELDAMA. 215 TANNHAUSER. 706 7 ezenet. ae THE GOD-EATER 246 AN AVPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, | ALICE. 21. fs TTHE SWORD OF SONG. 10% JEEHTHAR, 7.6 | Te STAR AND THE GARTER. 1 THE MOTHERS TRAGEDY. 5x ‘THE ARGONAUTS. ‘THE S…
1906 · PDF PAGE 170
…ile, fertile as the teeming spawn Of pickled lax or stickleback, Came ancient rituals,“ whack! whack ! Of Rosy Cross and Golden Dawn.$ * Truth-lover. 164 10 15 20 30
1909 · PDF PAGE 32
…s quick as thought, and stood For by that sigh I knew the adorable PP asa oN : . And caught and kissed — what could the storm have dot.c Truth, that you wept in secret over me. ; . Worse than this sickening fog of solitude? Your silence was the dumb despair of hell; gees os Who can do worse than take away the sun? Who read it right read love. Strange cruelty, 4 ; They better had take care, I think. One da That who would die for you, sweet murderess, y * . ; . We shall go mad, and take ourseives away. Should find his comfort in your bitterness! …
1909 · PDF PAGE 384
…on fled. Moreover, I noticed that I had forgotten one of the most important things. The very colour of the coffin ought to have told the truth to me long ago. Of course I was now of a dark brown complexion, almost black, and this was the reason of their surprise. A movement which I detected among them made me turn quickly towards my box. Too late, alas! The scoundrels had taken advantage of my few steps towards them, and were pillaging the coffin, keeper of lofty thoughts. The piercing cry I uttered perplexed them. One had already the skull in …
1909 · PDF PAGE 384
…on fled. Moreover, I noticed that I had forgotten one of the most important things. The very colour of the coffin ought to have told the truth to me long ago. Of course I was now of a dark brown complexion, almost black, and this was the reason of their surprise. A movement which I detected among them made me turn quickly towards my box. Too late, alas! The scoundrels had taken advantage of my few steps towards them, and were pillaging the coffin, keeper of lofty thoughts. The piercing cry I uttered perplexed them. One had already the skull in …
1912 · PDF PAGE 37
…LE. We launch an Argo of goodwill ; So heres the olive-branch ; I bear it in my bill. MONICA. Sir, I accept. This hand in innocence and truth Takes yours. Superbly planned your subtlety, in sooth. GABRIELE. You say so. You must flatter. But thus my wisdom clinches The bargaina small matter. MONICA. Ah ! heres where the shoe pinches ! GABRIELE. Subtlest of spirits ! Yet your foots so soft and small That I am free to bet it will not pinch at all. It is but this : next week sees Mortadello wed. You will be kind to speakfew words, but friendly…
1954 · PDF PAGE 340
…erstand convinces us that the Author of the Book is indeed what he claims to be; and, therefore, we must accept the Book as the Canon of Truth, seeking patiently for further enlightenment. This last point is of especial virtue: see AL, III : 63-68. The value to you of the Book varies directly with the degree of your own initiation.
1905 · PDF PAGE 72
…nourable grave Of fallen tyranny, may seek her sire In the pure soul. of Man, her lips may lave In the pure waters of her soul’s desire, Truth: and deep eyes behold thine eyes as deep, Fresh lips kiss thine that kissed her soul from sleep. See Italy, the eagle of all time, Triumphant, from her coffin’s leaden prison, Soar into freedom, seek the heights sublime Of self-reliance, from those depths new- risen, Stirred by the passion of thy mighty rhyme: Eagle, and pheenix: shrill, sharp flames bedizen The burning citadel, where crested Man Leaps s…
1906 · PDF PAGE 49
…d death, the tragedy deep-lurking llidden in the laughter of the people, So that laughter’s self grows gross and hateful. Then the Noble Truth of Sorrow quickens Every heart, and, seeking out its causes, Still the one task of the wise, their wisdom Finds desire, and, seeking out its medicine, Finds cessation of desire, and, seeking How so fierce a feat may be accomplished, Finds at first in Truth a right foundation, Builds the walls of Rightful Life upon it, Four-square, Word and Act and Aspiration Folded mystically across each other, Crowns th…
1903 · PDF PAGE 13
…d, whether or no it be extended in any of the categories. But we have already agreed to look to 0 for a First Cause. Now if there was in truth 0 “before the beginning of years", THAT 0 WAS EXTENDED IN NONE OF THE CATEGORIES, FOR THERE COULD HAVE BEEN NO CATEGORIES IN WHICH IT COULD EXTEND| [f our 0 was the ordinary 0 of mathematics, there was not truly absolute 0, for 0 is, as I have shown, dependent on the idea of categories. If these existed, then the whole question is merely thrown back; we must reach a state in which the 0 is absolute. Not …
1904 · PDF PAGE 47
…ave previously observed is to make it perfectly plain to the initiated, whether by force of language or mere loudness of call, That this truth is a type of true triumph beyond the bad odds of a bet, In fact I won’t take your money (the first law of betting is that you mayn’t bet on a certainty) so perfectly convinced by this time are all wise men that the score of life is at Love-all. So we twain will sing together ;— Spring regilds her coronet; Summer comes and don’t go neither, [This line is neither grammar nor rhyme, I'm afraid ; it’s my mis…
1910 · PDF PAGE 47
…ndant ease, That bound the stately head. What joy of youth Lifted her nostril to respire the wind ? What pride of being ? What triumphal truth Acclaimed her queen to her imperial mind ? I watched, a leopard, stealthy in the corn, As if a tigress held herself above ; My body quivered, eager to be torn, Stung by the snake of some convulsive love ! The leopard changed his spots ; for in me leapt The mate, the tiger. Murderous I sprang Across the mellow earth : my senses swept, One torrent flame, one soul-dissolving pang. How queenly bent her body …
1961 · PDF PAGE 171
…ts own Nature, and in the Law of its own Law, or it is but Artifice, and endureth not. So therefore is it Folly, and a Rape wrought upon Truth to aim at aught but the Fulfilment of thine own True Nature. Order then thy Workings in Accord with thy Knowledge of that Norm as best thou mayst, not heeding the Importunity of them that prate of he Ideal. For this Rule, this Uniformity, is proper only to a Prison, and a Man Liveth by Elasticity, nor endureth Rigor save in Death. But whoso groweth bodily by a Law foreign to his own Nature, he hath a Can…
1906 · PDF PAGE 139
…udition, Frazer’s Research, find men have made—since men made aught— Their Gods, and slain, and eaten. face! 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! their gods Sur- So men who made
1906 · PDF PAGE 181
…Of wave-swept sea confront me. Nay! Looms yet the glory through the grey, And in the darkest hours of youth I yet perceive the essential truth,
1912 · PDF PAGE 74
…ction of vaccination resulted in an apparent increase in the number of cases of smallpox, the reason being that people began to tell the truth about the disease instead of faking. Soon, however, the control will improve faster than the observation. When this occurs the improvementwill become apparent in the record. Any variation will probably be due to accidental circumstances; for example, one night you may be very tired when you start; another night you may have headache or indigestion. You will do well to avoid practising at such times. We w…
1919 · PDF PAGE 368
THE EQUINOX tionally dangerous, but this is a mystical truth concerning the inner life. The Adept is anything but a “creeping Jesus.” 15. Self-gratulation, O Disciple, is like unto a lofty tower, up which a haughty fool has climbed. Thereon he sits in prideful solitude and unperceived by any but himself. Develops this: but, this treatise being for beginners as well as for the more advariced, a sensible commonplace rea- son is given for avoiding pride, in that it defeats its own object. 16. False learning is rejected by the Wise, and scattered t…
1944 · PDF PAGE 152
…rom the 21st degree of Gemini to the 20th degree of Cancer Her image is of extreme purity and beauty, with infinite subtlety; to see the Truth of her is hardly possible, for she reflects the nature of the observer in great perfection. She is represented as enthroned upon still water. In her hand she bears a shell‐like cup, from which issues a crayfish, and she bears also the Lotus of Isis, of the Great Mother. She is robed in, and veiled by, endless curves of light, and the sea upon which she is enthroned con‐ veys the almost unbroken images of…
1913 · PDF PAGE 73
…ht go on ; naught else remained to do. And this is universally true. The statement that the Probationer can resign when he chooses is in truth only for those who have taken the oath but superficially. A real Magical Oath cannot be broken: you think it can, but it can't. This is the advantage of a real Magical Oath. However far you go around, you arrive at the end just the same, and all you have done by attempting to break your oath is to involve your- self in the most frightful trouble. It cannot be too clearly understood that such is the natur…