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Page 44 of 951907 · PDF PAGE 290
… vol . ii, p . 247 ), and now the Vega of illuminism , the flashing star of Crowleyanity drowns the sun of Agnosticism , and reduces the whole infinite ether to a flaming Crown of glory . This , all yearning hearts must hope , will be the great golden coronation of the centuries hereafter . Surrounded by fools on every side , we are apt as Agnostics to consider ourselves the only torch - bearers of truth ; and through ignorance , joining ourselves to a particular body , hoist on high our spluttering brand 2 | The Sword of Song , p . 207 . 2 Ibi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 18
…are in every case later pa- raphrases from the original drafts, and the prose has been carefully revised at leisure. I wished to put the whole into verse : but the ‘ prodigious difficulties of the monorhyme ’, as Bur- ton only too inadequately says, beat me as often as not. Had I been able to obtain the aid of a profes- sional poet, I might have made a better job of it, for my experience is confined to vers de société ! But I have done my best. THE SUFI DOCTRINES No apology is needed, since the publication of Sir William Jones’s able monograph,…
1912 · PDF PAGE 291
…und, his personal appearance was at the first glance unattractive. But the clothes made by a City tailor lent such general harmony to the whole as to reconcile the observer to the phenomenon observed. Of unrivalled cunning, his address was plausible ; he con- cealed his genius under a mask of matchless mediocrity, and his intellectual force under the cloak of piety. In religion he was an Evangelical, that type of Nonconformist who remains in the Church in the hope of capturing its organization and its revenues. An associate of such creatures of …
1912 · PDF PAGE 291
…und, his personal appearance was at the first glance unattractive. But the clothes made by a City tailor lent such general harmony to the whole as to reconcile the observer to the phenomenon observed. Of unrivalled cunning, his address was plausible ; he con- cealed his genius under a mask of matchless mediocrity, and his intellectual force under the cloak of piety. In religion he was an Evangelical, that type of Nonconformist who remains in the Church in the hope of capturing its organization and its revenues. An associate of such creatures of …
1907 · PDF PAGE 107
…hreads of inherited tendencies . To suspend our soul on one alone leads only to utter destruction ; to climb to heaven we must grasp the whole tangled skein of our experiences and mount from Malkuth to Kether through the gates of Knowledge , Wisdom , and Understanding . That we 1 1 Vide Hosea .
1909 · PDF PAGE 39
… Himself that a Voice issues bidding him stay and be content, let him struggle on, ever on. 6. At last there must come a moment when his whole 29
1909 · PDF PAGE 39
… Himself that a Voice issues bidding him stay and be content, let him struggle on, ever on. 6. At last there must come a moment when his whole 29
1911 · PDF PAGE 164
…d,” as Milton wrote of a less dangerous set of spiritual guides. For their unhappy followers and imitators, no words of pity suffice. The whole universe is for them but “the glass of their fool’s face”; only, unlike Sir Palamedes, they admire it. Moral and spiritual Narcissi, they perish in the waters of illusion A friend of mine, a solicitor in Naples, has told me strange tales 01 Where such self—adoration ends. And the subtlety of the devil is shown particularly in the method by which such neophytes are caught by the Black Brothers. There is a…
1911 · PDF PAGE 164
…d,” as Milton wrote of a less dangerous set of spiritual guides. For their unhappy followers and imitators, no words of pity suffice. The whole universe is for them but “the glass of their fool’s face”; only, unlike Sir Palamedes, they admire it. Moral and spiritual Narcissi, they perish in the waters of illusion A friend of mine, a solicitor in Naples, has told me strange tales 01 Where such self—adoration ends. And the subtlety of the devil is shown particularly in the method by which such neophytes are caught by the Black Brothers. There is a…
1911 · PDF PAGE 89
…wing his head reverently, the light of the Cup goes out entirely. And as the light of the Cup vanishes, it is like a swift sunset in the whole Aire, for it was from the light of that Cup alone that it was lighted. And now the light is all gone out of the stone, and I am very cold. Bou-SAaba. December 4-5, 1909. 11.30 p.m.-1.20 a.m. THE Cry OF THE 11TH AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED IKH There appears in the stone immediately the Kamea of the Moon. And it is rolled up; and behind it there appeareth a great Host of Angels. Their backs are turned towards …
1913 · PDF PAGE 526
…e circulate in veins, then it has been shed, evaporated, dried, the serum has turned into vapour, the globules into impalpable dust, the whole has floated and whirled into the atmosphere, and has then been attracted into the current of a specified electro- magnetism. The serum has again become liquid; it has taken up and imbibed anew the globules which the astral light has coloured, and the blood flows. Photography proves to us sufficiently that images are real modifications of light. Now, there exists an accidental and fortuitous photography w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 526
…e circulate in veins, then it has been shed, evaporated, dried, the serum has turned into vapour, the globules into impalpable dust, the whole has floated and whirled into the atmosphere, and has then been attracted into the current of a specified electro- magnetism. The serum has again become liquid; it has taken up and imbibed anew the globules which the astral light has coloured, and the blood flows. Photography proves to us sufficiently that images are real modifications of light. Now, there exists an accidental and fortuitous photography w…
1919 · PDF PAGE 357
… and destroy them, so that they can never rise again. This involves a very deep psychologi- cal investigation, as a preliminary. But the whole matter is one between the Self and its modifications, not at all between the Instrument and its gates. To kill out the sense of sight is not achieved by removing the eyes. This mistake has done more to obscure the Path than any other, and has been re- sponsible for endless misery. 35
1954 · PDF PAGE 45
12 MAGICK WITHOUT .TEARS Letter E August 18, 1943 Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Much thought has gone into the construction of your Motto. "I will become" can be turned neatly enough as "Let there be" ; by avoiding the First Pronoun one gets the idea of "the absorption of the Self in the Beloved," which is exactly what you want. "The creative Force of the Universe" is quite ready-made. Pyramis,' a pyramid , is that force in its geometrical form ; in its biological form it is Phallus ,' the Yang or Lingam. Both wor…
1961 · PDF PAGE 164
…e Natura S#inu (Of the Nature of the Sphinx) IRSTLY, this Sphinx is a Symbol of the Coition of Our Lady BABALON with me THE BEAST in its Wholeness. For as I am of the Lion and the Dragon, so is She of the Man and the Bull, in our Natures, but the Converse thereof in our Offices, as thou mayst understand by the Study of the Book of the Vision and the Voice. It is thus a Glyph of the Satisfaction and Perfection of the Will and of the Work, the completion of the True Man as the Reconcilor of the Highest with the Lowest, so for our Convenience conv…
1911 · PDF PAGE 67
THE VISION AND THE VOICE with infinite brilliance, so that the whole Aethyr flushes warm, and she says with a subtle sub-meaning, pointing downwards: By this, that. And I took her hand and kissed it, and I say to her: Am I not nearly purged of the iniquity of my forefathers? With that she bends down, and kisses me on the mouth, and says: “Yet a little, and on thy left arm shalt thou carry a man-child, and give him to drink of the milk of thy breasts. But I go dancing.” And I wave my hand, and the Aethyr is empty and dark, and I bow myself befor…
1913 · PDF PAGE 313
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES which balances faith, and it constitutes the whole merit of faith. Nature herself induces us to believe; but the formule of faith are social expressions of the tendencies of faith at a given epoch. It is that which proves the Church to be infallible, evidentially and in fact. God is necessarily the most unknown of all beings because He is only defined by negative experience ; He is all that we are not, He is the infinite opposed to the finite by hypothesis. Faith, and consequently hope and love, are so free that man, fa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 538
…asterpiece of Phidias, would it not be an absolutely beautiful and absolutely good work ?—and would not he deserve the execration of the whole world who would propose to break it because it was the representation of a monster? Scandalous statues are those which are badly sculptured, and the Venus of Milo would be desecrated if one placed her beside some of the Virgins which they dare to exhibit in certain churches. One realizes evil in books of morality ill-written far more than in the poetry of Catullus or the ingenious Allegories of Apuleius.…
1913 · PDF PAGE 313
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES which balances faith, and it constitutes the whole merit of faith. Nature herself induces us to believe; but the formule of faith are social expressions of the tendencies of faith at a given epoch. It is that which proves the Church to be infallible, evidentially and in fact. God is necessarily the most unknown of all beings because He is only defined by negative experience ; He is all that we are not, He is the infinite opposed to the finite by hypothesis. Faith, and consequently hope and love, are so free that man, fa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 538
…asterpiece of Phidias, would it not be an absolutely beautiful and absolutely good work ?—and would not he deserve the execration of the whole world who would propose to break it because it was the representation of a monster? Scandalous statues are those which are badly sculptured, and the Venus of Milo would be desecrated if one placed her beside some of the Virgins which they dare to exhibit in certain churches. One realizes evil in books of morality ill-written far more than in the poetry of Catullus or the ingenious Allegories of Apuleius.…