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…ians live and look the lie Their faith has taught them : none of these Inspire my life, disturb my peace. I go beneath the outward faith Find it a devil or a wraith, Just as my mood or temper tends ! And thus to-day that “Christ ascends,” I take the symbol, leave the fact Decline to make the smallest pact With your creative Deity, And say : The Christhood-soul in me, Risen of late, is now quite clear Even of the smallest taint of Earth. Supplanting God, the Man has birth (“New Birth” you’ll call the same, I fear,) Transcends the ordinary sphere…
1910 · PDF PAGE 106
…tted even though he is embraced by a young and passionate woman.” Now this gives us the Key to the whole of this lunar symbolism, and we find that the Soma-juice of the Moon, dew, nectar, semen and vital force are but various names for one and the same substance, and that if the vindu can be retained in the body it may by certain practices, which we will now discuss, be utilized in not only strengthening but in pro- longing this life to an indefinite period.j These practices are called the Mudras, they are to be found fully described in the Tan…
1910 · PDF PAGE 106
…tted even though he is embraced by a young and passionate woman.” Now this gives us the Key to the whole of this lunar symbolism, and we find that the Soma-juice of the Moon, dew, nectar, semen and vital force are but various names for one and the same substance, and that if the vindu can be retained in the body it may by certain practices, which we will now discuss, be utilized in not only strengthening but in pro- longing this life to an indefinite period.j These practices are called the Mudras, they are to be found fully described in the Tan…
1910 · PDF PAGE 208
… Thy name ! Who art Thou ? Who art Thou ? THOMAS [opening the door]. Mr. Todd. [Enter TODD. CARR. [rising]. How are you ? Im afraid you find me distracted ! Listen : all my life I have soughtnor counted the costfor the secret of things. Science is baffled, for Knowledge hath no wings ! Religion is baffled, for Faith hath no feet ! Life itselfof what value is all this coil and tumult ? Who shall give me the secret ? What is the secret ? [TODD whispers in his ear. Why, thanks, thanks ! What a fool I have been ! I have always known who you wer…
1913 · PDF PAGE 5
…s of flat- tery in saying that Lord Alfred Douglas is just such a person, and this is the more striking pheno- menon as it is so rare to find true moral greatness associated with poetical genius. We write thus in order to direct his attention to a little book published some years ago in Paris, but reprinted in an expur- gated form in England; a book of so abominable a character that I am sure it is only necessary to direct his lordship’s attention to it to raise a very considerable turmoil. We quote one or two passages > “ Their (men’s) eyes fo…
1906 · PDF PAGE 120
…ay renew his youth. ALCESTIS. Our father! MEDEA. You have guessed aright, my child. Your father must abandon his old age And—by my magic—find sweet youth again ! DANAIDES. But this is very difficult to do. MEDEA. For me such miracles are merely play, Serving to while away the idle hours While Jason hunts—— ALCESTIS. Hlow grand it were to see Our aged father rival the strong youths In feats of great agility ! MEDEA. Agreed ! But surely you should work the charm your- selves. For children magic is a blithesome game! DANAIDES. Dear lady ! teach us…
1906 · PDF PAGE 163
…, and cult, Habit and climate, health and mind, And twenty thousand other things! So many a metaphysic sings. (I wish they did indeed: I find Their prose the hardest of hard reading ! ) “ But if,” you cry, “the world’s designed If there is free As a mere mirage in the mind, will how can Un j fr Al. But all P leadiny there be pain p Jumps fee will. ut all 1m pleading or damnation? Is against pain and hell. Freewill not-Self being Then can damn man? No fearful mill an illusion. eae . nn : , Self or not-Self Grinding catastrophe, is speeding real?…
1906 · PDF PAGE 166
…th—where flies my vivid will? 655 My carcase with quinine is crammed ; I wish South India were damned; I wish I had my mother’s nursing, Find precious little use in cursing,
1907 · PDF PAGE 143
…eal once at least partially pure , broke , as the truth burst on his ear , into a wild and fearful nightmare ; and in his brutal fury we find that perhaps the Sadism of to-day is but an Avatar of those past days , when our progenitors , like some still ex isting savages , carried on their courtship with club and spear, and solemnized their marriage with rape and ravishment . Still one more phase of perverse love remains for us to study ; the curious lust of man for woman as depicted in “ Jezebel,” a curious manifestation of what is known as Mas…
1907 · PDF PAGE 193
…ecstatic breath , Telling all worlds how sweet is love , How beautiful is Death.2 Thus in this cup which Aleister Crowley offers us , we find that to sip the honey of Virtue is to quaff the wormwood of Vice ; they are one , and there must be no comparison . Outside our minds exists neither one nor the other , alone there is Power , Eastwards it verges towards Virtue , Westwards towards Vice-Heaven and Hell - yet in neither is there vitality , for absolutes are without change . Our lives are vital because of the mingling of many dregs ; and as i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 294
…té of soul was such , that they knew not that they were mystics , and whose illumination has become so brilliant , that they cannot even find expression in the most divine of symbols . Such adepts who arrive at so exalted a plane , keep silence , as Crowley says : “ the first and last ordeals and rewards of the Adept are comprised in the maxim ' Keep Silence '!” 1 Call “ homo sapiens ” him who thinks ; Talkers and doers - missing links !? In his essay “ Eleusis ," Crowley suggests that the world's history may roughly be divided into a con tinuo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 11
…f you will, in Paris on the last day of September. How surprised was I—though, had I thought, I should have remembered that it was so—to find all my necessary magical apparatus to my hand! Months before, for quite other reasons, I had moved most of my portable property to Paris; now I go to Paris, not thinking of a Retirement, for I now know enough to trust my destiny to bring all things to pass without anxious forethought on my part—and suddenly, therefore, here do I find myself—and nothing is lacking. I determined therefore to begin steadily a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 452
…us receipts . . . it was the manual of the bad priests who practised Black Magic during the darkest periods of the middle ages. You will find there bloody rites, mingled with profanations of the Mass and of the consecrated elements, formulz of bewitchment and male- volent spells, and practices which stupidity alone could credit or knavery counsel. In fact, it is a book complete of its kind; it is consequently become very rare, and the bibliophile pushes it to very high prices in the public sales. “My dear sir,” said the workman, sighing, ‘“‘ si…
1913 · PDF PAGE 452
…us receipts . . . it was the manual of the bad priests who practised Black Magic during the darkest periods of the middle ages. You will find there bloody rites, mingled with profanations of the Mass and of the consecrated elements, formulz of bewitchment and male- volent spells, and practices which stupidity alone could credit or knavery counsel. In fact, it is a book complete of its kind; it is consequently become very rare, and the bibliophile pushes it to very high prices in the public sales. “My dear sir,” said the workman, sighing, ‘“‘ si…
1929 · PDF PAGE 49
…rence for the Alpine guide, and hastened to engage Joseph Pingerra, who was supposed to be the best in the valley. I was very shocked to find that is was customary in the Tyrol to go two on a rope instead of three, though in point of fact this was the only thing they knew about climbing. But I was amazed beyond measure to find that I was a much better rock climber than my guide. He did not know what rock climbing was, judged by Cumberland standards! I had no experience of snow and ice; so here, of course, I was the reverent disciple. Imagine my…
1929 · PDF PAGE 126
… proper place. {221} 26 I broke the journey at El Paso. Coming straight from the quiet civilization of Mexico it was a terrible shock to find myself in touch with the coarse and brutal barbarism of Texas. There are many unpleasant sides of life which cannot be avoided without shirking reality altogether; but in the United States they were naked and horrible. The lust of money raged stark without the softening influences of courtesy. Drunkenness was stripped of good fellowship; the sisterhood of sin presented no deceptive attractions. The most i…
1904 · PDF PAGE 16
… 1900 years ago.” I think we may concede to Crowley an Impartial attitude. And so I scorn the thousand subtle points Wherein a man might find a fulcrum (Ex utero Matris ad sepulcrum, * Vide infra “Science and Buddhism”, and the writings of Immanuel Kant and his successors. 260 265 270 275 280 285 290 295 Basis of poem to be that of the Compro- mise of 1870. Non-medical nature of poem. Crowley J. No mention will be made of the Figs and the Pigs
1907 · PDF PAGE 204
…g in despair , to cast itself down from the pinnacle of the temple into that abyss below , which is the world . Then in the end we shall find all these philosophies are but types of the One , that all things are a unity , that no con tradiction can or does exist , and that there is a universal harmony ; then , as that terrific night engulfs all and envelops us , O children of the Day ! Let us rise up with the whole dawn of our understanding , encircle and an nihilate this dismal unity , and conglobe all into a per fect nothingness , an ineffabl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 253
…ve seen is no Christian , neither is he a gullible spiritualist , nor a gross material ist . Seeking an answer to the mystery , he first finds it in the ontology of the Qabalah , and then finally through Mysticism and Agnosticism , to their recon ciliation in a neo - Hermeticism , a neo - Rosicrucianism -which we have already called Crowleyanity .' Yet though he does not end at that barrier beyond which the Rationalist cannot proceed , he by no means rejects common sense and understanding as his Epode on Nature clearly shows . Nature my name is…
1907 · PDF PAGE 298
THE NEW WINE 291 scenes . trampled by Bacchic feet , so to-day we find once again the farces of Aristophanes redacted on the grand stage of the world on which the great actors have played their part , and have retired behind the So once more , much to the joy of little children , the little Rationalias , the little Secularias , the harlequinade has again begun . Sinbad has sailed away with all his treasure ; Aladdin has departed , and has not forgotten to take with him his wonderful lamp . No more Jinn are to be unbottled from their sleep of a …