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Page 42 of 831919 · PDF PAGE 390
THE EQUINOX ness, out of the pure dew and on the frozen bed of snow- capped heights, heights that are trodden by no sinful foot. We find the talented Author again in difficulties, this time with Botany. By the “boundless Vision” is not meant the stupid Siddhi, but one of the forms of Samadhi, perhaps that upon the snake Ananta, the great green snake that bounds the Universe. 70. No Arhan, O Lanoo, becomes one in that birth when for the first time the Soul begins to long for final liberation. Vet, O thou anxious one, no warrior volunteering figh…
1930 · PDF PAGE 74
…ations with him. 4* The pupil should endeavour te discover the fundamental harmony of these very varied Works ; for this purpose he will find it best to study the most extreme divergencies side by side. 5. He may at any time that he wishes apply for examination in this course of reading. 6. During the whole of this elementary study and practice he will do wisely to seek out and attach himself to, a master, one competent to correct him and advise him. Nor should he be discouraged by the difficulty of finding such a person. 7. Let him further rem…
1906 · PDF PAGE 157
…o.” 290 I think we may concede to Crowley an Impartial attitude. to=~!bot) And so I scorn the thousand subtle points Wherein a man might find a fulcrum 205 (Ex utero Matris ad sepulcrum, * Vide infra, Science and Buddhism, and the writings of Immanuel Kant and his successors. 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 103
…Love's desire ?! but that it must die on the field of its choice is also most certain . In “ The Nameless Quest ” and “ Tannhäuser ," we find represented this striving after a more spiritual and platonic ideal of love . In the former , questing for the ideal of his hopes , man falls tangled into the arms of the real ; in the latter , entangled , he strives to tear away the meshes of his passion , and at length suc ceeds in releasing himself from the magic threads . In “ The Nameless Quest ,” Gereth is in love with the Queen , and the King calls…
1907 · PDF PAGE 157
…de scribed in the poem entitled “ The Growth of God ”: Fear grows , and torment ; and distracted pain Must from sheer agony some respite find ; When some half - maddened miserable brain Projects a god in his detesting mind . A who made him -- to the core all evil , In his own image - and a God of Terror ; A vast foul nightmare , an impending devil ; Compact of darkness , infamy , and error . Some bestial woman , beaten by her mates , In utter fear broke down the bar of reason ; Shrieked , crawled to die ; delirium abates By some good chance her…
1919 · PDF PAGE 112
…have uni- fied your Will. Even thus, were a man sitting in a theatre where the play wearies him, he would welcome every distraction, and find amusement in any accident: but if he were intent upon the play, every such incident would annoy him. His attitude to these is then an indication of his attitude towards the play itself. At first the habit of attention is hard to acquire. Perse- vere, and you will have spasms of revulsion periodically. Reason itself will attack you, saying: how can so strict a bondage be the Path of Freedom? Persevere. You…
1922 · PDF PAGE 119
…s of the mind and the body are simply so many stupid veils upon the face of Isis. What happened to them didn’ t matter. The stunt was to find some trick to make them shut up. I understood the value of words. It depended, not on their rational meaning, but upon their hieratic suggestion. “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-house decree.” The names mean nothing definite, but they determine the atmosphere of the poem. Sublimity depends upon unintelligibility. I understood the rapture of the names in Lord Dunsany’s stories. I understood ho…
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
…satirical serio comedy , mingled with heterodox ribaldry , and a shrewd and sweeping cynicism on the utter rottenness of social life, we find love in youth depicted in the person of Sir Percy Percival , aged sixteen . The first effusion of puberty is described in the following three lines : what shall slake This terrible thirst , This torment accurst ? 3 1 Inscribed on the statue of the Goddess . 2 “ Perverted " I object to here , as it is but a synonym of ' converted ' from a different point of view. 3 Why Jesus Wept , vol . iii, p . 28 .
1907 · PDF PAGE 94
…t by bravery , or craft , or even by cunning , but by the dull and stunning power of a leaden club . In the “ Honourable Adulterers " we find a poem strik ingly reminiscent of “ Alice ," a boundless , and what Ydgrunites would call “ an illicit love ,” but more , a well - aimed shaft against the horrors of the social marriage tie , which is denominated as “ The devilish circle of the fiery ring ,” which , as their love grew , “ Became one moment like a little thing .” If I am right , the heart of this poem bleeds gener ous indignation against t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 136
…Equinox, when the “Word of the Equinox,” which is given out by the Masters to govern the events of the six months, was Perdurabo; and we find, in fact, that during this six months were some of the most important events of our history, those which finished Perdurabo. On June 15, he was at his Sacred House, and there con- ferred the Initiation of Neophyte upon his first probationer. The event of June 28 is so important that a little pre- 96
1913 · PDF PAGE 253
…rol of an honest man, that honest man’s first act was to expel the aforesaid Waite with ignominy. Thus excluded, the future saint1 could find no better device than to proclaim himself its head. With- 1 As will presently appear, he became such. (Gloria Crowleiae! 215
1913 · PDF PAGE 574
…nd hair black, his body agile and vigorous. His enemies pretended that he rouged, and dyed his hair; for scoffers and false savants must find some sort of explanation for the phenomena which they do not understand. The great magical means of preserving the youth of the body is to prevent the soul from growing old by preserving preciously that original freshness of sentiments and thoughts which the corrupt world calls illusions, and which we shall call the primitive mirages of eternal truth. To believe in happiness upon earth, in friendship, in …
1913 · PDF PAGE 136
…Equinox, when the “Word of the Equinox,” which is given out by the Masters to govern the events of the six months, was Perdurabo; and we find, in fact, that during this six months were some of the most important events of our history, those which finished Perdurabo. On June 15, he was at his Sacred House, and there con- ferred the Initiation of Neophyte upon his first probationer. The event of June 28 is so important that a little pre- 96
1913 · PDF PAGE 253
…rol of an honest man, that honest man’s first act was to expel the aforesaid Waite with ignominy. Thus excluded, the future saint1 could find no better device than to proclaim himself its head. With- 1 As will presently appear, he became such. (Gloria Crowleiae! 215
1913 · PDF PAGE 574
…nd hair black, his body agile and vigorous. His enemies pretended that he rouged, and dyed his hair; for scoffers and false savants must find some sort of explanation for the phenomena which they do not understand. The great magical means of preserving the youth of the body is to prevent the soul from growing old by preserving preciously that original freshness of sentiments and thoughts which the corrupt world calls illusions, and which we shall call the primitive mirages of eternal truth. To believe in happiness upon earth, in friendship, in …
1929 · PDF PAGE 60
…. But Yod is not the natural letter of Fire. Its juxta¬ position with Hé sanctifies that fire to the Yod of Tetragrammaton. Similarly we find Lamed for Earth, where we should expect Tau — in order to emphasize the influence of Venus, who rules Libra. ALHIMy therefore, represents rather the formula of Consécra¬ tion than that of a complété ceremony. It is the breath of bénédiction, yet so potent that it can give life to clay and light to darkness. In consecrating a weapon, Aleph is the whirling force of the thunderbolt, the lightning which flame…
1954 · PDF PAGE 176
ASTRAL JOURNEY 143 I haven't got a copy. I must find one, and put them in here. Yes: p. 22.) o thou that settest out upon the Path, false is the Phantom that thou seekest. When thou hast it thou shalt know all bitterness, thy teeth fixed in the Sodom-Apple. Thus hast thou been lured along that Path, whose terror else had driven thee far away. o thou that stridest upon the middle of the Path, no phantoms mock thee. For the stride's sake thou stridest. Thus art thou lured along that Path, whose fascination else had driven thee far away. o thou th…
1904 · PDF PAGE 12
…e in England Christ still stands With iron nails in bloody hands Not pierced, but grasping ! to hoist high Children on cross of agony, I find him real for English lives. Up with my pretty pair of fives !34 I fight no ghosts. “But why revile” (You urge me) “in that vicious style The very faith whose truths you seem (Elsewhere)35 to hold, to hymn supreme In your own soul ?” Perhaps you know How mystic doctrines melt the snow Of any faith: redeem it to A fountain of reviving dew. So I with Christ: but few receive The Qabalistic Balm,36 believe Not…
1904 · PDF PAGE 25
…health—where flies my vivid will? 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, 620 625 630 635 640 645 650 655 Death-bed o f poet. Effec t of body on mind.
1907 · PDF PAGE 178
…is the wisdom of God . The nakedness of woman is the work of God . For everything that lives is Holy . 9 In Samuel Butler's “ Erewhon we find much the same idea in the following couplet . He who sins aught sins more than he ought , But he who sins naught , has much to be taught . Blake further writes in “ The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ” : A man carried a monkey about for a show , and because he was a little wiser than the monkey , grew vain , and conceived himself as much wiser than seven men . It is so with Swedenborg : he shows the folly of…