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… the adder, and the tastelessness of stale and stagnant water, and the black fire of hatred, and the udders of the Cat of slime; not one thing, but many things. Yet, with all that, his torment 95
…e, one black. I cannot force myself to fit an arrow to the bow. And there came a voice: It must needs be. And I said: No man can do this thing. And the voice answered, as it were an echo: emo hoc Sacere potest. 133
…owered their gold upon her. Thus hath she all, and hath no need of thee. And thou canst not woo her with knowledge, for knowledge is the thing that she hath spurned. She hath it all, and hath no need of thee. And thou canst not woo her with wit, for her Lord is Wit. She hath it all, and hath no need of thee. Despair! Despair! Nor canst thou cling to her knees and ask for pity; nor canst thou cling to her heart and ask for love; nor canst thou put thine arms about her neck, and ask for understanding; for thou hast had all these, and they avail t…
…t certain human vehicles may be temporally employed by them for various purposes ; but these speculations tend to be idle. The important thing is to make contact with beings, whatever their nature, who are superior to yourself , not merely in degree but in kind. That is to say, not merely different as a Great Dane differs from a Chihuahua , but as a buffalo differs from either. Of course you are perfectly right about the senses, though I would not agree to confine the meaning to the five which are common to most people. There must , one might s…
…ed back the chair was raised, and he was still the same. I realized I was alone; and thinking he was dead or gone-or some other terrible thing-I lost consciousness. This discourse has been thus left unfinished: but it is only necessary to add that the capacity to extract such spiritual honey from these unpromising flowers is the mark of an adept who has perfected his Magick Cup. This method of Qabalistic exegesis is 0l!-e of the best ways of exalting the reason to the higher consciousness. Evidently it started Fra. P. so that in a moment he bec…
…reknowing how were linked The chains in either’ Destiny. “You pose me the eternal Why?” Not I? Again, “ Who asks doth err.” But this one thing I say. Perchance There lies a purpose in advance 535 540 645 550 656 560 565 _ 575
… the body of the woman; she changed ever as she lay. She outran the gamut of all music and flowers and jewels and soft words; there is nothing beautiful upon the earth that she did not resemble. At the sides of the room stood tall pier-glasses in black frames, cunningly dis- posed so that from the centre one could see endless avenues of her beauty, reaching out into infinity. Even the roof was mirror-clad, so that as she lay upon the furs she might look upward, and see herself hanging like a star from the black vault of night. Beside her in the…
… the body of the woman; she changed ever as she lay. She outran the gamut of all music and flowers and jewels and soft words; there is nothing beautiful upon the earth that she did not resemble. At the sides of the room stood tall pier-glasses in black frames, cunningly dis- posed so that from the centre one could see endless avenues of her beauty, reaching out into infinity. Even the roof was mirror-clad, so that as she lay upon the furs she might look upward, and see herself hanging like a star from the black vault of night. Beside her in the…
…ruin, and madness, and fever, and destruction. And thou, that art an heap of dry dust in the city of the pyramids, must understand these things. And now a thing happens, which is unfortunately sheer nonsense; for the Aethyr that is the foundation of the universe was attacked by the Outermost Abyss, and the only way that I can express it is by saying that the universe was shaken. But the universe was zof shaken. And that is the exact truth; so that the rational mind which is interpreting these spiritual things is offended; but, being trained to …
…ress can well afford to smile, if it’s only the society smile, and step quietly over my remains. But I really have got the spirit of the thing. “ Always go on till you have to stop, Let’s have another sniff, old top!” No, that’s undignified. “Carry on! over the top!” would be better. It’s more dignified and patriotic, and expresses the idea much better. And if you don’t like it, you can inquire elsewhere. , No, I won’t admit that we were reckless. We had substantial resources at our command. There was nothing whatever of the “long firm” about u…
…Fuller that told us so. " "And how do you know that Fuller was right?" "I'm afraid you're a wicked man; good-night. " While this sort of thing is styled success I shall not count failure bitterness. Sometimes, note well! they are even frank about it, and say plainly that there would be no merit in it if there were any reasonable basis for it! This position is at the worst both honest and intelligible; the only trouble is that there is no possible means of deciding which of two conflicting statements to accept. In faith of this kind there are of…
…knowing how were linked The chains in either’s Destiny. “You pose me the eternal Why ?” Not I ? Again, “Who asks doth err.” But this one thing I say. Perhance There lies a purpose in advance. 535 540 545 550 555 560 565 570 575 Will Satan be saved ? Who pardons Judas? God’s fore- knowledge of Satan’s fall and eternal misery makes him re- sponsible for it. If he and Judas are finally re- deemed we might perhaps look over the matter this once. Poet books his seat. Creator in
A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE The result of these practices on Frater V.I.O. was a marked one. For one thing, the cutting of his arm during the first practice in the control of speech-resulted in a sub- conscious wariness, for during the second—the details of which I have not recorded—he noticed that although the object of the practice was the control of the body by not crossing the legs, yet the attempt of the legs to drop into their old habits often had the effect of making him suddenly more careful in his speech, thus showing that there was an unde…
…which the obscurity and terror of the whole gradually overshadowed even the abhorrence due to every part. The madness of the living is a thing so abominable and fearful as to chill every human heart with horror; it is less than nothing in comparison with the madness of the dead! A further complication now arose in the destruction irrevocable and complete of that compensating mecha- nism of the brain, which is the basis of the sense of time. Hideously distorted and deformed as it had been in the derangement of the brain, like a shapeless jelly s…
…ell , void , execrable . Even love is sold , the solace of all woe Is turned to deadliest agony , old age Shivers in selfish beauty's loathing arms And youth's corrupted impulses prepare A life of horror from the blighting bane Of commerce ; whilst the pestilence that springs From unenjoying sensualism, has filled All human life with hydra -headed woes. So sang Shelley . Now let us turn to Aleister Crowley , and we shall find his ideal no less great , noble and true than that of Shelley's , the divinest of the poets and pioneers of Truth , Free…
…hed , and the soul set free . To attain to this freedom is the end of life ; in this respect both yogi and mystic agree , and that every thing which entails the loss of freedom is sin , there fore change is sin and illusion , maya , and our great object is to get beyond this changeable changeability into an unchangeable changelessness . The yogi proposes to himself no less a task than to master the entire universe , and finding that the mind has the reflexive power of looking back into its own depths , does his utmost to develop this power by t…
…l forms proceed. IamI. I have shut myself up from the spendthrifts, my gold is safe in my treasure-chamber, and I have made every living thing my concubine, and none shall touch them, save only I. And yet I am scorched, even while I shiver in the wind. He hateth me and tormenteth me. He would have stolen me from myself, but I shut myself up and mock at him, even while he plagueth me. From me come leprosy and pox and plague and cancer and cholera and the falling sickness. Ah! Iwill reach up to the knees of the Most High, and tear his phallus wit…
…19th. In the 17th he is balanced. In the 16th is the first dim dawn of the Great Ones of Liber Legis as Lords of the Initiation, and something of the nature of the ceremony is foreshadowed. In the 15th the Adept is examined, and permission is given to pass him fully to the grade of Magister Templi, but admission to any further grade refused. It will be noticed, further, that this all takes place in a Temple of the Rosy Cross. In the 14th A:thyr we get the initiation itself. Fra. P. and his Chela, who was acting as his scribe, were upon Da'leh A…
…19th. In the 17th he is balanced. In the 16th is the first dim dawn of the Great Ones of Liber Legis as Lords of the Initiation, and something of the nature of the ceremony is foreshadowed. In the 15th the Adept is examined, and permission is given to pass him fully to the grade of Magister Templi, but admission to any further grade refused. It will be noticed, further, that this all takes place in a Temple of the Rosy Cross. In the 14th A:thyr we get the initiation itself. Fra. P. and his Chela, who was acting as his scribe, were upon Da'leh A…
…pstart like Napoleon, or even an exile, three‐parts learned, one‐part crazy, an attic‐dweller in Soho, like Karl Marx. There is only one thing in common among such persons; they are all mad, that is’ inspired. Nearly all primitive people possess this tradition, at least in a diluted form. They respect the wandering lunatic, for it may be that he is the messenger of the Most High. “This queer stranger? Let us entreat him kindly. It may be that we entertain an angel unawares”. Closely bound up with this idea is the question of paternity. A saviou…