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Page 42 of 2571902 · PDF PAGE 63
…ve Back from the purple where her bosom heaved, Back from the chosen body that I love ? Whose lips cling faster still In desperate sweet will? Whose body melts as fire caught in wine Into the clasping soul ? Whose breathing breasts control Her heart's quick pulsing, and the sob of mine? O Venus, lady Venus, thou it is Whose fierce immortal kiss Abides upon me, about me, and within ! Thou, lady of the secret of the Sea, Made one for love with me, Love and desire and dream, a sense of mortal sin ! Who Cometh as a visionary shape Within my soul an…
1911 · PDF PAGE 264
…URUS. As our Lady hath appointed. LIBRA. AS you like it. PISCES. Wherein shall we rejoice? TAURUS. In our Lady Venus. LIBRA. In what you will. TAURUS. Thy will, our Lady, and not ours be done! PISCES. Mistress, let the adorations be performed! VENUS. Children, array yourselves before me, and rejoice in the adorations of my beauty. [They form, ea:/z with his farther. Libra disaþþears behind veil. TAURUS recites invamz‘ianl] TAURUS. Salutation to Hathor, holy cow in the pastures of Evening. Salutation to Hathor, in the Mountain of the West ; in t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 264
…URUS. As our Lady hath appointed. LIBRA. AS you like it. PISCES. Wherein shall we rejoice? TAURUS. In our Lady Venus. LIBRA. In what you will. TAURUS. Thy will, our Lady, and not ours be done! PISCES. Mistress, let the adorations be performed! VENUS. Children, array yourselves before me, and rejoice in the adorations of my beauty. [They form, ea:/z with his farther. Libra disaþþears behind veil. TAURUS recites invamz‘ianl] TAURUS. Salutation to Hathor, holy cow in the pastures of Evening. Salutation to Hathor, in the Mountain of the West ; in t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 31
…problems of antiquity. The surface of this Altar is composed of ten squares. The top is Kether, and the ' It represents the extension of Will. Will is the Dyad (see section on the Wand) ; 2x2 = 4. So the altar is foursquare, and also its ten squares show 4. 10 = i + 2 + 3 + 4- 21
1930 · PDF PAGE 17
… growing in proportion to one’s success with it, and that success again made more certain and complété by the effect of this “love under will”, which one bestows upon it by using it. It is, of course, very important to keep such an object away from the contact of the profane. It is instinctive not to let another person use one’s fishing rod or one’s gun. It is not that they could do any harm in a material sense. It is the feeling that one’s use of these things has consecrated them to one’s self. Of course, the outstanding example of ail such ta…
1930 · PDF PAGE 45
…sary counterpoise to its own déviation from the norm of nothingness. \\ e may recapitulate the above reflections in a practical form. We will suppose that one wishes to divine by geomancy whether or no one should marry, it being assumed that one’s emotional impulses suggest so rash a course. The man takes his wand and his sand; he traces the question, makes the appropriate pentagram, and the sigil of the spirit. Before tracing the dashes which are to détermine the four “Mothers”, he must strictly examine himself. He must banish from his mind ev…
1906 · PDF PAGE 124
…ut I Advance against thee an impervious blade, And give thee in thy throat and teeth the lie ! | JASON. Boy’s bluster ! MADNESS. Justice will be satisfied. It will be best to flee! JASON, But what is this? A sword? I scorn a sword. I scorn a boy. Let none suppose me fearful ! MEDEA, Give not back ! MADNESS. It will be finer far to go away As those disdaining aught but their own love. MEDEA. Ay ! let us leave these folk’s ingratitude, My husband ! in thy love alone I rest. This splendour and this toil alike resume Our life from the long honeymoo…
1996 · PDF PAGE 47
…ts; jasmine & rose, and the emblems of death. Let him enter in turn or at once the four gates; let him stand on the floor of the palace. Will he not sink? Amn. Ho! warrior, if thy servant sink? But there are means and means. Be goodly therefore: dress ye all in fine apparel; eat rich foods and drink sweet wines and wines that foam! Also, take your fill and will of love as ye will, when, where and with whom ye will! But always unto me. Commentary: The first section of this verse is connected with the second only by the word “therefore.” It appea…
1996 · PDF PAGE 145
146 The Law is for All 1:59 Consider also him that willeth to excel in Speed or in Battle, how he denieth himself the Food he craveth, and all Pleasures natural to him, putting himself under the harsh Order of a Trainer. So by this Bondage he hath, at the last, his Will. Now then the one by natural, and the other by voluntary, Restriction have come each to a greater Liberty. This is also a general Law of Biology, for all Development is Structuraliza- tion; that is, a Limitation and Specialization of an originally indeterminate Protoplasm, which…
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
…rstanding of the inward and occult virtue of things; so that true Agents being applied to proper Patients, strange and admirable effects will thereby be produced. Whence magicians are profound and diligent searchers into Nature j they, because of their skill, know how to anticipate an effect, the which to the vulgar shall seem to be a miracle.” The Goetia of the Lemegeton of King Solomon. “Wherever sympathetic magic occurs in its pure unadulterated form, it is assumed that in nature one event follows another necessarily and invariably without t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 121
…rawing his heart proffers her his purse : Buy yourself a pretty hat ! Forget my pretty speeches !' The above needs no comment . Most men will under stand it well enough ; for there are a hundred thousand women in London who need no editor's appendix or translator's footnote . Enter GLENSTRAE . (To conceive him asketh not Imagination's waistcoat buttons undone ! Any old gentleman in any club in London . ) ? Meeting Molly he asks her for a glass of milk , and comforts her on hearing that she intends going into service , saying : “ And so you shal…
1907 · PDF PAGE 75
A DRAMATIC VERSION OF THI SIRE DE MALETROIT’S DOOR 69 ALAIN, Let her be resigned to the will of Heaven. [Zhe PRiEST smeles subtly, ALAIN perceives wt.) And my will. [Strites vong twice.] You may retire, father. [PRIEST dows and retires. Enter CAPTAIN and stands at salute.| Ah, Captain, you have your fifty men in readiness? CAPTAIN. Yes, my lord. [Sa/ztes.] ALAIN. Let them be drawn up behind yon door. When I clap my hands you will raise the arras, but let no man move. And let ’em be silent—the man I hear Thang. [CAPTAIN salutes.} You may go. [CA…
1903 · PDF PAGE 34
…more Vacant your speech and sophic skill (My feminine and fair Escobar!) To prove mere circumstance is no bar Against the freedom of the will. However this may be, we are Here and not otherwhere, star to star ! Hence then act thou! Restrain the ‘‘ Damn!” Evoked by “I am that I am.” Perpend! (Hark back to Hamlet!) If You stand thus poised upon the cliff Freewill—I await that will; (One) laughter; (Two) the old kiss ; (Three) silence after. No? Then vacate the laboratory! Psychology must crown the event, And sociology content, Ethics suffice, the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 499
…onish the crowd and even bewilder the educated: 1°—By divining hidden things; 2°—by predicting many things to come; 3°—by dominating the will of others so as to prevent them doing what they will, and forcing them to do what they do not will; 4°—by exciting apparitions and dreams; 5°—by curing a large number of illnesses; 6°—by restoring life to subjects who display all the symptoms of death ; 7°—lastly, by demonstrating (if need be, by examples) the reality of the philosophical stone, and the transmutation of metals, according to the secrets of…
1913 · PDF PAGE 499
…onish the crowd and even bewilder the educated: 1°—By divining hidden things; 2°—by predicting many things to come; 3°—by dominating the will of others so as to prevent them doing what they will, and forcing them to do what they do not will; 4°—by exciting apparitions and dreams; 5°—by curing a large number of illnesses; 6°—by restoring life to subjects who display all the symptoms of death ; 7°—lastly, by demonstrating (if need be, by examples) the reality of the philosophical stone, and the transmutation of metals, according to the secrets of…
1954 · PDF PAGE 423
…ion when you go on the Astral Plane; there find a suitable guide to the proper authority-and so on! And that , dear Sister, for to-night will be exactly and precisely that! Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally , 666
1903 · PDF PAGE 71
Wreathed in the mesh of woe and ill? Ah! Zeus! we will not: be the law Of uttermost compassion ours! Our snows it shall not come to thaw, Nor burn the roses from our bowers.
1954 · PDF PAGE 505
…ioms, the Postulates, the Theorems ; finally, the Experiments. And that is what all these letters are about. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1905 · PDF PAGE 192
…e following con- ditions :— I. The essay may be either hostile or appreciative. 2. In awarding the prize, the following essential points will be taken into consideration :— (a) Thoroughness of treatment. (b) Breadth of treatment. (c) Excellence of prose style. (d) Originality. (e) Scholarship. 3. As some of Mr Crowley’s works are rare or alto- gether out of print, it will not be necessary to deal with all of them, though to do so would naturally offer a better chance for the prize. The Works are being reprinted in a cheap form, and supplied to …
1912 · PDF PAGE 106
…ck The barred strength of his morion, And rolled the stranger in the muck. “ Now, by God’s death!” quoth Palamede, His sword at work, “I will not leave So much of thee as God might feed His sparrows with. As I believe The sweet Christ’s mercy shall avail, So will I not have aught for thee ; Since every bone of thee may rail Against me, crying treachery.