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THE EQUINOX the others. This is the Planet Mars, to which are allotted the last Decan of ?}, and the first of τ, because the long cold of the winter requires a great energy to overcome it, and initiate spring. And the beginning of the Decanates is from the royal Star of Leo, the great Star Cor Leonis: and therefore is the first Decan that of E in 25. Here follow the general meanings of the small cards of the suits, as classified under the nine Sephiroth below Kether. The Four Twos symbolize the Powers of the King?המבה and Queen just uniting and in…
1912 · PDF PAGE 138
…d everyone else she could think of. “Wrong.” “Wrong.” “Wrong.” "Why,“ she cried, jumping up and facing him, “ it's Professor Zircon! The last person in the world I should have expected to find here ! " She threw her arms round his neck and called him a “ dear silly.” ”Well, what's the news, child ?" " No news. I'm so sorry the chief's dead." “ Doesn’t matter to me. What a pretty flower in your dress! " She had an instinct of sudden and terrible danger; and lied instantly. " I bought it for your buttonhole." And she fastened it there. Professor Zi…
1912 · PDF PAGE 218
THE EQUINOX the others. This is the Planet Mars, to which are allotted the last Decan of ?}, and the first of τ, because the long cold of the winter requires a great energy to overcome it, and initiate spring. And the beginning of the Decanates is from the royal Star of Leo, the great Star Cor Leonis: and therefore is the first Decan that of E in 25. Here follow the general meanings of the small cards of the suits, as classified under the nine Sephiroth below Kether. The Four Twos symbolize the Powers of the King?המבה and Queen just uniting and in…
1954 · PDF PAGE 340
…d what he claims to be; and, therefore, we must accept the Book as the Canon of Truth, seeking patiently for further enlightenment. This last point is of especial virtue: see AL, III : 63-68. The value to you of the Book varies directly with the degree of your own initiation.
1906 · PDF PAGE 49
…h should end. Therefore my shut eyes blend With sleep’s own secret eyes and eyelashes, Long and deep ecstasies, Knowing as now I know—at last—how this Foreshadows my own bliss Of falling into death when life is tired. For of all things desired Not one as death is so desirable, Seeing all sorrows pass, all joys endure, All lessons last. Not heaven and not hell (My spirit is grown sure) Await the lover But death’s veil draws, life’s mother to dis- cover, Nature ; no longer mother, but a bride ! Ay ! there is none beside. O brothers mightier than …
1904 · PDF PAGE 47
BALLADE OF LAWN TENNIS 35 (If I do bore him, I’m not in a disgusting music hall set!) Though he chatter and chortle and chuckle, at last to the point he will get, Which as I have previously observed is to make it perfectly plain to the initiated, whether by force of language or mere loudness of call, That this truth is a type of true triumph beyond the bad odds of a bet, In fact I won’t take your money (the first law of betting is that you mayn’t bet on a certainty) so perfectly convinced by this time are all wise men that the score of life is …
1907 · PDF PAGE 102
…nes And see the rapture of it all! This moral sense is sorry stuff—— You take the peas—give me the pod! Follow your fancy far enough! At last you surely come to God. Who is Mr. Jones? asked Denzil. We have heard of him from our friend here already. Mr. Jones, said the big man, is the Unutterable Tao. Mr. Jones, said the doctor, is (on this illusory plane of Maya) one of the wonders of the world. He is never seen or heard, felt or smelt. Nor hath he been at any time tasted of any. Yet he is everywhere; in all, and causer of all, and apart from a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 41
…of the Secret Ring committed unto me by the Masters; so that all might be absolutely correct. One thing strikes me as worthy of mention. Last night when I went into the restaurant to speak to 39
1909 · PDF PAGE 108
…Out, out, to feed! Trimming his beard in preparation for going out, he reflects that the deplorable tone (as one’s Dean would say) of the last entry is not the cry of the famished beast, but that of the over-driven slave "Adonai, ply Thou thy scourge! Adonai, load Thou the chain l” What the devil is the matter with the time ? The hours flit just like butterflies—the moon, dead full, shines down the Boulevard. My moon—full moon of my desire! (Ha, ha, thou beast! are “ I and Me and Mine" not dead yet?) Yea, Lord Adonail but the full moon means much …
1909 · PDF PAGE 84
…. Yet the unity of its anguish is the proof of its Selfhood, and the earnest of its resurrection from the abyss. Such a mystic state may last through several days, perhaps through weeks. I should not care to assert limitations. The slightest error in the process would almost certainly result in permanent and hopeless melancholia; suicide might be the most fortunate termination. XVI “O how the world hath inflexible intellectual rulers!” ZOROASTER, Sankhava.—The reader will notice—I trust with pained sympathy—the increasing difficulty of expressi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 84
…. Yet the unity of its anguish is the proof of its Selfhood, and the earnest of its resurrection from the abyss. Such a mystic state may last through several days, perhaps through weeks. I should not care to assert limitations. The slightest error in the process would almost certainly result in permanent and hopeless melancholia; suicide might be the most fortunate termination. XVI “O how the world hath inflexible intellectual rulers!” ZOROASTER, Sankhava.—The reader will notice—I trust with pained sympathy—the increasing difficulty of expressi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 225
… at life’s end the thorn can sting? It may be. Yet I only care to know The imagery of the most fairest Rose ; So that I dwell where that last Rose doth blow, I can forget life in the garden-close. Sweet wind of all the wide world’s empery! Slow-purling streams of pure and fresh delight; Within thy breath and voices can I see White flesh, dark eyes, and longing dusky-bright : I care not any more for death, O life, Being slain by love with one thrust of the knife!
1913 · PDF PAGE 225
… at life’s end the thorn can sting? It may be. Yet I only care to know The imagery of the most fairest Rose ; So that I dwell where that last Rose doth blow, I can forget life in the garden-close. Sweet wind of all the wide world’s empery! Slow-purling streams of pure and fresh delight; Within thy breath and voices can I see White flesh, dark eyes, and longing dusky-bright : I care not any more for death, O life, Being slain by love with one thrust of the knife!
1928 · PDF PAGE 164
…u remember the time and the occasion when this unusual passion was born in you? With what difficulty did I make her under- stand me; at last I succeeded; but then she answered me very sadly, and even, if my memory serves me, turned away her eyes; I do not know, I do not remember. What bizarre things does not one find in a great city when one knows how to walk about and how to look! Life swarms with innocent monsters. Oh Lord my God, Thou Creator, Thou Master, Thou who hast made law and lib-
1954 · PDF PAGE 85
… of the Equation, I am thrilled with a keen glow of satisfaction that this sempiternal Riddle of the Sphinx should have been answered at last. So then let me now give myself the delight , and you the comfort , of stating the problem from its beginning , and proving the soundness of the solution-of showing that the contradiction of this Equation is unthinkable . Are you ready? Forward! Paddle! A. We are aware. B. We cannot doubt the existence (whether "real" or "illusory" makes no difference) of something, because doubt itself is a form of aware…
1954 · PDF PAGE 185
19 The Act of Truth Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. It seems that last Wednesday I so far forgot myself as to refer to the "Act of Truth" in conversation, and never mentioned what it is when it's at home, or why anyone should perform it, or what happens when one does perform it! All right, I will remedy that; luckily, it is a very simple matter; very important, perfectly paradoxical, and devastatingly effective. Analysed, it is to make the assumption that something which seems very wrong is actually all right, that …
1907 · PDF PAGE 48
…teries musical , And all stringed instruments , to indite 4 The first two of the above are quoted from poems published in 1898 , and the last from those published a year later . I will not say that they are the only im perfections to be found throughout these works , but I will say that there are very few others . And con sidering that Aleister Crowley has written about one hundred thousand lines in the space of ten years , or half the quantity produced by Robert Browning in fifty - six , the fewness of imperfections in his work is truly remark…
1928 · PDF PAGE 145
…the irritating mediocrity of women. What I love above all in animals is their frank- ness; judge them, what I must have suffered with my last mistress. She was a princes bastard. Beautiful, it goes without saying; without that, why should I have taken her? But she spoilt that great quality by an unbecoming and deformed ambi- tion. She was a woman who always wished to play a mans part:You are not a man; Oh, if only I were a man!of us two it is I who am the man. Such were the insupportable refrains that came ever from that mouth from which…
1910 · PDF PAGE 25
…the shadow of the Lion de Belfort, I became aware of a temptation of the devil. Quite a num- ber of people had been asking me during the last few months to compromise with respectability. And by Jove ! I nearly did ! I was ill — forgive the wavering ! I am
1913 · PDF PAGE 195
ROSA IGNOTA As food for thy body—thy body !—how shall I come to thee Who am at last awakened? Oh, my Rose, My Rose of my lost World, O Rose! Rose! Rose ! Pity me for that now I may not love thee, Pity me for the unquenchable desire, Never to be gratified, I bear toward thee! Pity me for my youth, the scattered dreams That are fallen from the shattered casket of my soul. Yet will I ravish thee even now, my queen ; I will fasten my fangs in thy breast, and drink thy blood, Thy leprous blood, to make me mad with hate, And frenzied with unsatisfied…