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Page 40 of 2571913 · PDF PAGE 28
…fore what our senses Tells us are inanities. The sun's out: damn their teaching The sun 's out : damn all preaching We are wise , but we will prove We are not too wise to love. Teachers , when you've often said it, You believe much foolishness : Preachers, do you really credit All you tell of happiness ? Poor old men , whose brains ' abortions Seems such lovely children : fools ! Twisters of the world 's proportions , Bad old pedants of the schools . The sun 's out : skies are clearest The year 's young : kiss me , dearest We are fools , but we…
1907 · PDF PAGE 221
…narchism of the Scientific cults . Philosophy and Science have up to the present apprehended things per nos , from this day forward they will , under the atheistic theurgy of Crowleyanity , know things per se . The Ultima Thule of our rigorous journey will at last be discernible on the horizon of our minds , and the mixed drinks of the stumbling Scoto -German Bacchantes will give way to the pure amrita of Iacchus . The above may be symbolized as follows : | The Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii , p. 176 .
1996 · PDF PAGE 67
… mischief can never be mended. A man can destroy in a minute his kingdom, inherited from unnumbered dynasties of biological prudence. It will also be admitted, without reference to Magick, that the abuse of the talisman leads to moral, mental and spiritual misfor tune. Crime and insanity, as well as disease and debility, are con stantly seen as the direct result of mismanaging the sexual life, either tactically, strategically, or both. The Book of the Law emphasizes the importance of these con siderations. The act of love must be spontaneous…
1909 · PDF PAGE 83
…JOHN ST. JOHN Vi Veri Vniversvm Vivvs Vici ] Back home to illuminate my beautiful Ritual. Two pages done and set aside to dry. I think I will go for a little walk and enjoy the beautiful sun. Also to the chemist’s to have my finger attended to. The chemist refused to do anything; and so I did it myself. It is the romantic malady of ingrowing nail; a little abscess had formed. Devilish painful after the clean-up. Will go the walk aforesaid I ought to note how on this day there is a complete absence of all one‘s magical apparatus. The mantra has s…
1919 · PDF PAGE 235
… and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us.” 54. Children of all Brethren are entitled to the care of the Order, and arrangements will be made to educate them in certain of the Profess-Houses of the Order. 55. Children of Brethren who are left orphans will be officially adopted by the Master of his Lodge, or if the latter decline, by the Supreme Holy King himself, and treated in all ways as if they were his own. 56. Brethren who have a right to some especial interest in any child whose mother is not a member of the Order may recommend it…
1904 · PDF PAGE 18
To ARGONAUTAE Bend thou a suppliant at my awful knee, And thus—perhaps—at least get grace of life. PELIAS. And if I say I will not yield the throne? JASON. I am of force to take it. PELIAS. Are my friends Not faithful? Who draws sword for Pelias? MEN. Shall we not slay thee this presumptuous fool? JASON. I am of force, I say. I wrestled once From sunrise to sunset with Heracles, Great Heracles! Not till the full moon rose Availed his might to lay me prone. Beware! Ye weakling knaves! I am of force, I say. PELIAS. Rebellious youth, the justice o…
1905 · PDF PAGE 149
…wisdom’s shaft assail ! Watch him when conquered. Never cease thou from the fight. Alas ! ere long a useless log, this body on the earth will lie. Condemned of all, and void of sense and understanding’s unity. What foe may wreak on foe, or hate work on the hated from the hater, Surely an ill directed mind on us will do a mischief greater. Father and mother, kith and kin, of these can none do service kind So great to us, as to ourselves the good direction of the mind.
1910 · PDF PAGE 153
…o die ! Praise, O Martyrs ! Not one bead Of your strong blood but shall thrill In our hearts, and burn and breed Myriad children to your will. We will damn the cowards creed, And the eunuchs squeaking still, Till the world is yours indeed ! Yea ! at last the spell shall break Wherewith Christ and Cromwell bound us
1954 · PDF PAGE 531
…T TEARS way of Magick, and the internal way of Yoga: there you have your alternatives, and there they cease. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1907 · PDF PAGE 14
…Iam broken: nought remains. The brain’s electric waves are still ; No blood beats eager in the veins ; The mind sinks deathward, and the will. It is no figure of boy’s speech, Lover’s enthusiasm, rhyme Magniloquent of bard, to reach Truth through the husk of space and time: No truth is more devout than this: ‘€In you I live: I live in you.” Had Latmos not known Artemis, Where were the faint lights of that dew Of Keats? O maiden moon of mine, Imperial crescent, rise and shine ! XVI. I was a fool to hide it. Here Phantoms arise and disappear, Obe…
1922 · PDF PAGE 347
CHAPTER VI THE TRUE WILL Lov and I were both utterly exhausted by the climb; and King Lamus reminded us that this was the formula of the Abbey of Thelema at Telepylus, that every one had to reach the top, step by step, through his own exertions. There was no question of soaring into the air by alien aid; and in all probability coming to earth with a bump. We had found ourselves repeatedly out of breath during the ascent, though it had only occupied three- quarters of an hour, and we should certainly never have reached the top without recourse t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 263
…mately that it becomes automatic and spontaneous for you to run round the circle in perfectly frictionless ease; for otherwise your mind will be forever pestering you all your life, and even your conscience reproaching you; they will say, "But you have never got a definite answer to any single one of your original questions." We are all-most of us, anyhow-born with this hankering after the definite; it is our weakness that yearns for repose. We do not see that this is death; if any of these answers could be cut off short and neatly trimmed with…
1929 · PDF PAGE 100
…ht!” If you are going to take up Magick, rnake no compromise. You cannot make révolutions with rose-water, or wrestle in a silk hat. You will find very soon that you must either iose the hat or stop wrestling. Most people do both. They take up the magical path with ou t sufficient reflection, without that détermination of adamant which made the author of this book exclaim, as he took the first oath, “PERDURABO” — “I will endure unto the end!” 3 They start on it at a great pace, and then find that their boots are covered with mud. Instead of per…
1919 · PDF PAGE 334
…he course of practice one concentrates upon a given thing, re- jecting this outer appearance and arriving at that ideal, which of course will not in any way resemble any of the objects which are its incarnations. It is with this in view that the verse tells us that the Soul must be united to the Silent Speaker. The words “Silent Speaker” may be con- sidered as a hieroglyph of the same character as LOGOS, 378, or the Ineffable Name. 12. For then the Soul will hear and will remember. The word “hear” alludes to the tradition that hearing is the or…
1919 · PDF PAGE 450
…arjol no manhood at all? 90. Calm and unmoved the Pilgrim glideth up the stream that to Nirvana leads. He knoweth that the more his feet will bleed, the whiter will himself be washed. He knoweth well that after seven short and fleeting births Nirvana will be his. Here is again a totally un-Buddhistic description. It appears to me rather a paraphrase of the well-known “Sweeping through the gates of the New Jerusalem, Washed in the Blood of the Lamb.” gt. Such is the Dhyana Path, the haven of the Yogi, the blessed goal that Srotépattis crave. Aga…
1996 · PDF PAGE 66
…ne or another of this our cosmos, whose matter is so varied in kind. Such a child must partake of its father’s nature; and its character will be determined, partly by the environment in which it is bred to manifestation, lives, and ulti mately changes in what we call death, and partly by the inmost will of the father, perhaps modified to some extent by his con scious will at the time of his slipping the leash. This being so, it becomes tremendously important to a man that he should become conscious of his true inmost Will, of his essential na…
1905 · PDF PAGE 173
I68 IN THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GHIZEH deed of mere brute muscle and nerve ! Thence, by great Will new-freed, the ardent life leaps, sixth, to Effort’s tower, invoking the occult, the secret power, found in the void when all but Will is lost ; so, seventh, he bends it from its bodily station into the great abyss of Meditation, whence the firm level is at last his own and Rapture’s royal throne is more than throne, sarcophagus ! an end ! an end ! Resounds the echo in the stone, in- calculable myriads of tons poised in gigantic balance overhead, abou…
1909 · PDF PAGE 23
…, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philo- sophic validity to any of them. 3. The advantages to be gained from them are chiefly these: (a) A widening of the horizon of the mind. (8) An improvement of the control of the mind. 4. The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things (ideas or 13
1909 · PDF PAGE 23
…, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philo- sophic validity to any of them. 3. The advantages to be gained from them are chiefly these: (a) A widening of the horizon of the mind. (8) An improvement of the control of the mind. 4. The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things (ideas or 13
1910 · PDF PAGE 272
…sheesh delirum, another dose, however small—yes, though it be no larger than half a pea—be employed to prolong the condition, such agony will inevitably ensue as will make the soul shudder at its own possibility of endurance without annihilation. By repeated experiments, which now occupy the most horrible place upon my catalogue of horrible remem- brances, have I proved that, among all the variable phenomena of hasheesh, this alone stands unvarying. The use of it directly after any other stimulus will produce consequences as appalling. I exting…