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…pator of his actions , changes , growing little by little from a spark into a flaming volcano of scorching pain , which he alone seeks , find ing new pleasures in the pain he himself endures , and fresh pleasures in the pain he himself inflicts . This is Lust . Peopled with all the horrors of inversion , we pass from the simple realms of prostitution , to the dismal Kingdoms of Sodom and Lesbos . Paederasts and Tribades flock round us , yet we break away from them only to enter the foul jaws of the sexual hell of shrieking flagellants , who rus…
1907 · PDF PAGE 209
…owever , are indicating the same chain ; but Crowley, like the philosophers of the Vedanta , strides beyond both intellect and matter to find an “ I ” (purusha) or self, which is beyond all intellect , and of which in tellect is but the borrowed light , as Patanjali says in one of his yoga aphorisms : “ The seer is intelligence only , and though pure , sees through the colouring of the intellect .” In “ Pentecost ," Crowley writes : You know for me the soul is nought Save a new phantom in the thought , That thought itself impermanent , Save as …
1909 · PDF PAGE 366
…es were expecting my surrender. Happily an angel sent by God ordered me to come out every twenty-one days, and promised me that I should find here the cover which I needed. I have it now, and mean to keep it.” “But what are you talking about?” said I. “I am a man; here is my house; and I don’t know anything about your cover. You are mistaking me for some unknown person or object, sir; pray let me go.” “Let you go! Abandon once more the cover which shall keep my thoughts in! You ave mad! Besides, why do you speak? And how is it that you come in …
1909 · PDF PAGE 366
…es were expecting my surrender. Happily an angel sent by God ordered me to come out every twenty-one days, and promised me that I should find here the cover which I needed. I have it now, and mean to keep it.” “But what are you talking about?” said I. “I am a man; here is my house; and I don’t know anything about your cover. You are mistaking me for some unknown person or object, sir; pray let me go.” “Let you go! Abandon once more the cover which shall keep my thoughts in! You ave mad! Besides, why do you speak? And how is it that you come in …
1929 · PDF PAGE 541
…n of servitude". The Book of the Law anticipates this: "... the slaves shall serve. ..." The bulk of humanity, having no true will, will find themselves powerless. It will be for us to rule them wisely. We must secure their happiness and train them for ultimate freedom by setting them tasks for which their nature fits them. In the past, the mob without will or mind have been treated without sense or scruple; a mistake socially, economically and politically, no less than from the humanitarian point of view. We must remember that each man and wom…
1904 · PDF PAGE 46
…hich he denominated “Love.” Indeed I think the man attained By some such means—I have not strained Out mind by chance of sense or sex To find a way less iron-brained Determining direction x;57 I know not if these Hindu methods Be best (’tis no such life and death odds, Since suffering souls to save or damn Never existed). So I fall Confessing : Well, perhance I am Myself a Christian after all ! So far at least. I must concede Christ did attain in every deed ; Yet, being an illiterate man, Not his to balance or to scan, To call God stupid or unj…
1907 · PDF PAGE 193
…! perchance to life. ZEACUS. Go! and the Gods above Guard thee, O soul of love! RHADAMANTHUS, I doubt me much thereof, ORPHEUS, Ah me! I find ye but ill counsellors. For I will conquer. Have I spent these stores Of will and song for nought? Hell’s heart may rend, But mine endureth even to the end. Severe and righteous Lords, O fare ye well! Are not my feet forced forward on a road Leading to innermost abodes of Hell Exalted as above the green abode Of nymphs on broad Olympus, raises high Its head the kingly snow, gigantic load Of sombre whitene…
1907 · PDF PAGE 287
… will be "; every cause has its effect : “ Freewill ” is the postu late of Morality , “ Determination " of Science . Thus in Buddhism we find Anikka , Dukkha , and Anatta , and in Agnosticism Change , Sorrow , and Absence of an Ego ; and in both : That to deny all religions is a sublime act of faith . the so · The Sword of Song , Science and Buddhism , vol . ii, p . 246 .
1913 · PDF PAGE 498
… the exclusive privilege of the first order of initiates; they are often performed by beings with- out education or virtue. Natural laws find an opportunity in an organism whose exceptional qualifications are not clear to us, and they perform their work with their invariable precision and calm. The most refined gourmets appreciate truffles, and employ them for their purposes, but it is hogs that dig them up: it is analogically the same for plenty of things less material and less gastronomical : instincts have groping presentiments, but it is re…
1913 · PDF PAGE 498
… the exclusive privilege of the first order of initiates; they are often performed by beings with- out education or virtue. Natural laws find an opportunity in an organism whose exceptional qualifications are not clear to us, and they perform their work with their invariable precision and calm. The most refined gourmets appreciate truffles, and employ them for their purposes, but it is hogs that dig them up: it is analogically the same for plenty of things less material and less gastronomical : instincts have groping presentiments, but it is re…
1919 · PDF PAGE 451
…eted in this low sense. At the same time, it is difficult to discover a sense high enough to fit the passage. With Tanha it is easier to find a meaning, for Madame seems to identify Tanha with the creative force of which we have spoken. But this is of course in- compatible with the Buddhist teaching on the subject. Tanha is properly defined as the hunger of the individual for continuous personal existence, either in a material or a spir- itual sense. With regard to the rest of the verse, it certainly reads as if yet again Blavatsky had taken th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 97
… , And limbs more amorous assuaged thy sire ; And fuller blood of his is tingling thus Now in thy veins indignant at our sin . ' Thus we find free love is the great , pure , and only true love . Its name has been soiled and fouled by the feculencies of Holywell Street , its celebration mis understood and prostituted by the Church , and its life threatened and blackguardized by the Law . But wherever two hearts beat in unison , there is its abode , North or South , East or West , it knows no locality , no time , no space ; for it is love sublime…
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
…at its forms are monstrous must be apparent to all students of sexual psychology ; as the cold blooded lust of the lecher , who can only find stimula tion for his gross lecheries in the horrors of a de Sade , devouring in security and ease maidens and youths , as the minotaur did of old— “ semibovemque virum , semivirumque bovem .” This is the lust which is the most horrid , and the most damnable ; it takes much to produce a passionate man , but little to engender a lustful one . The present generation possesses a mini mum of passion and a maxi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 267
…e it was morning—actually morning, and not a hasheesh hallucination. The first emotion that I felt upon opening my eyes was happiness to find things again wearing a natural air. Yes; although the last experience of which I had been conscious had seemed to satisfy every human want, physical or spiritual, I smiled on the four plain white walls of my bed-chamber, and hailed their familiar unostentatiousness with a pleasure which had no wish to transfer itself to arabesque or rainbows. It was like re- turning home from an eternity spent in loneline…
1910 · PDF PAGE 267
…e it was morning—actually morning, and not a hasheesh hallucination. The first emotion that I felt upon opening my eyes was happiness to find things again wearing a natural air. Yes; although the last experience of which I had been conscious had seemed to satisfy every human want, physical or spiritual, I smiled on the four plain white walls of my bed-chamber, and hailed their familiar unostentatiousness with a pleasure which had no wish to transfer itself to arabesque or rainbows. It was like re- turning home from an eternity spent in loneline…
1910 · PDF PAGE 87
…icule and slander the Mystic. The epithets seem to uphold such a conclusion. 3. Ill-conditioned — The readings here are very various. We find ill-favoured, ill-mannered, infam- ous, ill-starred, ill-doing and so on. So I chose a word wide enough to include them all. 4. The Q’uran. Many Moslems know it by heart throughout. The interior riming of so many of the chapters makes this task curiously easy, even to a stranger. I found that I could readily master any of the shorter chapters in an hour or so, while the acquirement of a dozen stray words …
1905 · PDF PAGE 253
…re by all the Virgins in the Book She would wed nobody but—Tannhauser. So, like the foolish, doting sire I am, I gave her thirty days to find you. This Must dumb you with astonishment. TANNHAUSER. Well, no! The details, unfamiliar! But the theme Iknew. And therefore leaps my bosom up: I rob your verderer of his nag, and he ! Low the long gallop to Elizabeth ! WOLFRAM. Lucky and brave. How we all envy you:
1909 · PDF PAGE 6
…evil and his angels ” ; for “ he that believeth not is condemned already”, Not even in that modern evasion, the plea of insanity, can we find any hope. Nothing is clea- rer than that these wretched victims of Satan were in full possession of their faculties to the last moment. Surely the maniacal violence of their unhall- owed lust and hate is no ground for pity but for reprobation. When our blessed Lord was on earth He made no excuses for those who were possessed of devils. He took this simply as a fact — and He healed them. It is only the sho…
1919 · PDF PAGE 111
…foolish friend- ships, waste employments or enjoyments, I will not enumer- ate the conspirators against the welfare of your State. Next, find the minimum of daily time which is in good sooth necessary to your natural life. The rest you shall de- vote to the True Means of your Attainment. And even these necessary hours you shall consecrate to the Great Work, saying consciously always while at these Tasks that you perform them only in order to preserve your body and mind in health for the right application to that sublime and single Object. It sh…
1929 · PDF PAGE 28
them to find their own paths and pursue them. Every man that becomes a Magician helps others to do likewise. The more firrnly and surely men move, and the more such action is accepted as the standard of morality, the less will conflict and confusion hamper humanity. ) I hope that the above principles will ciemonstrate to ALL that their welfare, their very existence, is bound up in MAGICK. I trust that they will understand, not only the reasonableness, but the necessity of the fundamental truth which I was the means of giving to mankind: “Do wha…