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Page 45 of 781905 · PDF PAGE 171
…ptiness, grey curls of misty and impalpable stuff, torn, crooked, all ways and none at once, but ever pressed in idiot circles ; and one thing he lacked, now I looked from afar again, was rest. Thence I with- drew my sight, the eyeballs cracked with stain of my endeavour, and my will struck up with subtler skill than any man’s that in fair Crete tracked through the laby- rinth of Minos, and awoke the cry to call his master ; grew a monster whirlwind of revolving smoke and then,
1907 · PDF PAGE 225
… existence of bodies without the mind , from what we perceive ." 1 This point Crowley fully em phasizes in “ Time ” when he writes : “ a thing is only real to us so far as it is known by us ; even its Un knowability is a species of knowledge of it : and , by Savitri ! when I say real to us , I say real absolutely , since all things lie to me in the radius of my , sensorium . * To others ' is a vain phrase .". And as it has already been shown in the chain A, B, A, B, A, B, it matters not if the Materialist chooses to place his finger on A , or t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 84
… beareth for his crest a crab. His hands are clasped upon a cup, from which radiates a ruddy glow, constantly increasing, so that every- thing is blotted out by its glory, and the whole Aire is filled with it. And there is a marvellous perfume in the Aire, like unto the perfume of Ra Hoor Khuit, but sublimated, as if the quintessence of that perfume alone were burnt. For it hath the richness and voluptuousness and humanity of blood, and the strength and freshness of meal, and the sweetness of honey, and the purity of olive-oil, and the holiness…
1911 · PDF PAGE 139
…golden, that throng it, and they cry: Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, that art not shaken in the earthquakes, and in the thunders! The end of things is come upon us; the day of be- with-us is at hand! For he hath created the universe, and overthrown it, that he might take his pleasure thereupon. And now, in the midst of the Aethyr, I beheld that god. He hath a thousand arms, and in each hand is a weapon of terrible strength. His face is more terrible than the storm, and from his eyes flash lightnings of intolerable brilliance. From his mouth run sea…
1954 · PDF PAGE 450
…d, is the friend of publicans and sinners; because his nature is ascetic. o if every-man did No Matter What, provided that it is the one thing that he will not and cannot do. That settles it. We do progress; but how? Not by the tinkering of the meliorist; not by the crushing of initiative ; not by laws and regulations which hamstring the racehorse, and handcuff the boxer; but by the innovations of the eccentric, by the phantasies of the hashish-dreamer of philosophy, by the aspirations of the idealist to the impossible, by the imagination of th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 497
…ays, at will, and at a stated time and place? To do miracles, and to persuade the multitude that one does them, are very nearly the same thing, above all in a century as frivolous and scoffing as ours. Now, the world is full of wonder-makers, and science is often reduced to denying their works or refusing to see them, in order not to be reduced to examining them, or assigning a cause to them. 199
1913 · PDF PAGE 560
…h which intelligence triumphs over darkness. This word is sublime in effect because it expresses simply the greatest and most marvellous thing in the world: the creation of intelligence by itself, when, calling its powers together, balancing its faculties, it says: I wish to immor- talize myself with the sight of the eternal truth. Let there be light! and there is light. Light, eternal as God, begins every day for all eyes that are open to see it. Truth will be eternally the invention and the creation of genius; it cries: Let there be light! an…
1913 · PDF PAGE 497
…ays, at will, and at a stated time and place? To do miracles, and to persuade the multitude that one does them, are very nearly the same thing, above all in a century as frivolous and scoffing as ours. Now, the world is full of wonder-makers, and science is often reduced to denying their works or refusing to see them, in order not to be reduced to examining them, or assigning a cause to them. 199
1913 · PDF PAGE 560
…h which intelligence triumphs over darkness. This word is sublime in effect because it expresses simply the greatest and most marvellous thing in the world: the creation of intelligence by itself, when, calling its powers together, balancing its faculties, it says: I wish to immor- talize myself with the sight of the eternal truth. Let there be light! and there is light. Light, eternal as God, begins every day for all eyes that are open to see it. Truth will be eternally the invention and the creation of genius; it cries: Let there be light! an…
1930 · PDF PAGE 64
II A A A “These loosen the swathings of the corpse; these unbind the feet of Osiris, so that the flaming God ma y rage through the firma¬ ment with his fantastic spearA Liber Lapidis Lazuli. vu. m. o. Be seated in thine Asana, or recumbent in Shavasana, or in the position of the dying Buddha. 1. Think of thy deathj imagine the various diseases that may attack thee, or accidents overtake thee. Picture the process of death, applying always to thyself. (A useful preliminary practice is to read textbooks of Pathology, and to visit muséums and disse…
1929 · PDF PAGE 367
…le to hold more or less clearly in my ordinary consciousness? The Buddhists describe the closest approximation to true observation of anything by saying that it is seen in the four-fold formless state, which they define in the following terms: Any proposition about an object is simultaneously perceived as being both true and false, but also neither true nor false. To perceive an object in this manner implies that the observer has attained the last possible degree of spiritual development which permits any positive point of view soever. Such a m…
1909 · PDF PAGE 22
…e swing. True, it may be that at the end the swing is always 360° so that the !-point and the ?-point coincide; but that is not the same thing as having no swing at all, unless we make kinematics identical with statics. What is to be done? How shall such mysteries be uttered? Is this how it is that the true Path of the Wise is said to lie in a totally different plane from all his advance in the path of Knowledge, and of Trance? We have already been obliged to take the Fourth Dimension to illustrate (if not explain) the nature of Samadhi. Ah, sa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 14
…n with them; but that the latter should impose his boy-mistress, imbecile from abuse, upon us for the Incarnation of the Logos—that is a thing for which I find no name. V.I.P.P.s, I have unveiled Medusa, and she has no glance to make me quail. Let us but set our heels once firmly upon the worm, let us rid ourselves once and for ever of the pestilence l ` All those who will not do so stand self-confessed advocates and partisans of this blasphemous elaboration of sodomy. I4
1922 · PDF PAGE 231
…Ai Pan Pan! - Io Pan Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan Pan Pan! Aegipan, Aegipan, Aegipan, Aegipan, Aegipan, Aegipan, Io Pan Pan!” You go on till something comes. We used two black robes that we found hanging up there. — They were lovely silk robes with hoods. You take candlesin both hands and dance while you make the incantations. We got frightfully excited. It was as if a strange force had got hold of us. It seemed to lead us all round the house and then into the grounds. We were shouting at the top of our voices. Once or twice we saw a servant putting ou…
1922 · PDF PAGE 258
… came to the rescue. “We'll go out to dinner and make a night of it.” November 6 ' We've arranged for a regular supply ; but the hellish thing is that the stuff doesn’t work any more. We get the insomnia and those things all mght, but we can’t get any fun out of it. We've tried all sorts of dodges. It’s no good. Being with it simply dulls the pain of being without. That’s the best I can say. What are we to do? (There are three more entries in this diary; but they are illegible, quite beyond conjecture. The only words decipherable are “‘sleep’’ …
1929 · PDF PAGE 58
CHAPTER III The Formula of Tetragrammaton. 1 This formula is of most universal aspect, as ail things are necessarily comprehended in it$ but its use in a magical ceremony is little understood. The climax of the formula is in one sense before even the formulation of the Yod. For the Yod is the most divine aspect of the Force —the remaining letters are but a solidification of the same thing. It must be understood that we are here speaking of the whole ceremony considered as a unity, not merely of that formula in which Yod is the God invoked, Hé t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 140
…ance I mean a state of consciousness definitely distinct from the normal. Its characteristic is that whereas in normal consciousness two things are always present --- the percipient and the perceived --- in Dhyana these two have become one. At first this union usually takes place with explosive violence. There are many other characteristics; in particular, time and space are abolished. This, however, occurs with almost equal completeness in certain states of normal abstract thought. {242} The attainment of this trance is likely to upset the who…
1922 · PDF PAGE 244
…before. He sees me as the principal instrument of the torture, and loves me with perverse diabolical lust for that reason, yet the whole thing is a delusion on his part, or else it is a necessary consequence of his changing into the Dragon. It is only natural that there should be strange incidents in a case of that sort, especially as it never happened before. It is wonderful and terrible to be
1929 · PDF PAGE 155
… of minutes he rejoined me. I was rather surprised to see that his kukri was covered with blood. I said, "I knew you would fall over something one day. Where have you cut yourself?" He explained that he had not cut himself, but that an animal had tried to dispute the path with him and that he had hit it on the head, whereon the animal had rolled down the steep slopes towards the river. I could not make out from his description what kind of an animal it could possibly be, but on examining the tracks I saw them to be those of a nearly full-grown …
1907 · PDF PAGE 28
…ut of place, and so is this pathic literature , relegated to the realms of sexual psychology in the works of an Ellis or an Ebing is one thing , yet the government of this nation cannot stomach them thus , and seizes , expels , and burns ; but if these horrid sores of the human soul are cut out and plastered on the pages of the fickle fiction of the day , then are they passed in seductive covers as proper nourishment for the nation , and devoured with relish and avidity . One minute , impatient reader , for I hear you mutter : “ Are not these v…