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Page 45 of 1071913 · PDF PAGE 479
…. But, in order not to send back our readers from the unknown to the future, we shall detach beforehand two chapters of that unpublished work, one upon the qabalistic Word, the other upon the secrets of the Qabalah, and we shall draw conclusions which will complete in a manner satis- factory to all the explanation which we have promised in the matter of Mr. Home. There exists a power which generates forms; this power is light. 181
1913 · PDF PAGE 479
…. But, in order not to send back our readers from the unknown to the future, we shall detach beforehand two chapters of that unpublished work, one upon the qabalistic Word, the other upon the secrets of the Qabalah, and we shall draw conclusions which will complete in a manner satis- factory to all the explanation which we have promised in the matter of Mr. Home. There exists a power which generates forms; this power is light. 181
1906 · PDF PAGE 195
… the French; never aught but praise of England and love for her: are we to suppose that in his best play he is to stultify all his other work and insult the English for the benefit of the ridiculed and hated Frenchman? Moreover, Cordelia reckons without her host. The British bulldogs make short work of the invaders and rebels, doubtless with the con- nivance of the King of France, who, with great and praiseworthy acuteness, foresees that Cordelia will be hanged, thus liberating him from his ‘‘most filthy bargain”: there is but one alarum, and t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 110
102 Ecstasy stronger than work of man or wrath of God. 3. Surely Oriental exaggeration. A. L. We can- not agree. The member is the Mahalingam, whose dimensions are only to be expressed in astronomi- cal terminology. Ed. 4. Goathair — the “ pashmina ” of Kashmir ; so says Mahbub the Kashmiri ; but I suspect him of patriotism and believe the text to read ‘ pustin ’ [Persian text] a fur peliise spread out as a quilt. (Of course one may cavil at “ quilt ”, which im- plies quilting, not any rug qua rug. But a wounded buffalo is a very mild animal co…
1954 · PDF PAGE 340
…iew; so also does the discovery of the key number 31 by Frater Achad. We must also expect a genius to arise who will accomplish all this work for us. Again we know that much information of the utmost value has been given through the Hebrew, the Greek, and very probably the Arabic Qabalah. There is only one logical conclusion of these premises. We know (a) the Book means more than it appears to mean, (b) this inner meaning may modify, or even reverse, the outer meaning, (c) what we do understand convinces us that the Author of the Book is indeed…
1939 · PDF PAGE 24
…t you are managing your breath so that your cycle, breathing in, holding, and breathing out, lasts exactly a minute. That is pretty good work for most people, but it may be or may not be good enough to get you going. No one can tell you until you have tried long enough (and no one can tell you how long 'long enough' may be) whether that is going to ring the bell. It may be that if you increase your sixty seconds to sixty-four the phenomena would begin immediately. That sounds all right but as you have nearly burst your lungs doing the sixty, yo…
1904 · PDF PAGE 10
… task of editing the MSS. thus placed in my hands has proved practically a sinecure The original translator and editor had completed his work so efficiently that very little was left for me to do beyond undertaking the business transactions connected with it, reading the proofs, and deciphering, with transliteration from the Enochian characters, the “ Angelic” version of Perdurabo, from the priceless MS. entrusted to me.—ED. * He that is appointed to complete in secret that which had been begun openly is R.R., and to be heard of at the care of …
1913 · PDF PAGE 133
…nsciousness is also sometimes represented; and the Tree of Life itself may be figured therein, or the categories. An emblem of the Great Work should be added. But the Pantacle will be im- perfect unless each idea is contrasted in a balanced manner with its opposite, and unless there is a necessary connection between each pair of ideas and every other pair. The Neophyte will perhaps do well to make the first sketches for his Pantacle very large and complex, subsequently simplifying, not so much by exclusion as by combination, just as a Zoologist…
1913 · PDF PAGE 477
…. It remains to us to give an explanation and a demon- stration. That explanation and demonstration, in order to be com- plete, demand a work sufficient to fill a book. That book has been written, and we shall publish it shortly. Here is the title: The Reason of Miracles, or the Devil at the Tribunal of Science. “Why the devil?” Because we have demonstrated by facts what Mr. de Mirville had, before us, incompletely set forth. We say “‘incompletely”; because the devil is, for Mr. de Mirville, a fantastic personage, while for us, it is the misuse…
1913 · PDF PAGE 477
…. It remains to us to give an explanation and a demon- stration. That explanation and demonstration, in order to be com- plete, demand a work sufficient to fill a book. That book has been written, and we shall publish it shortly. Here is the title: The Reason of Miracles, or the Devil at the Tribunal of Science. “Why the devil?” Because we have demonstrated by facts what Mr. de Mirville had, before us, incompletely set forth. We say “‘incompletely”; because the devil is, for Mr. de Mirville, a fantastic personage, while for us, it is the misuse…
1954 · PDF PAGE 185
…aterially. The sensible course of action is to draw in my horns, live on the minimum necessary to life, which involves cutting the day's work down to almost nothing, and hope for the best, expecting the worst. But there is a Magical mode of procedure. You say to 152
1961 · PDF PAGE 55
…se Kin to thee it may not be hurtful to thee if this Balance is not truly adjusted. Thou hast need of the whole Force of the Universe to work with thy Will; but this Force must be disposed about the Shaft of that Will so that there is no Tendency to Hindrance or to Deflection. And in my Love of thee I will adorn this Thesis with Example following. i
1907 · PDF PAGE 48
…898 , 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 remarkable . Let us now pass from what I may call the Poetic Iconomachy to the Poetic Iconolatry of these poems ; 1 Mysteries : L…
1909 · PDF PAGE 140
… never be satisfied Much less, then, satiatedl . Having gone back into the life of the world—yet a world transfiguredI—I did all my little work, my little amusements, all the things that one does, very quietly and beatifically. About 10.30 the rapture began to carry me away; yet I withstood it and went on with my game of Billiards, for politeness’ sake. And even there in the Café du Dome was the glory within me, and I therein; 50 that every time that I failed at a stroke and stood up and drank in that
1939 · PDF PAGE 34
…, and there aren't. Only the human mind is so lazy and worthless that it is a positive instinct to try to find some dodge to escape hard work. These tricks may help or they may hinder; it is up to you to find out which are good and which are bad, the why and the what and all the other questions. It all comes to the same thing in the end. There is only one way to still the body in the long run, and that is to keep it still. It's doggèd as does it. 18. The irritations develop into extreme agony. Any attempt to alleviate this simply destroys the v…
1909 · PDF PAGE 12
…all things and endure all things: VI. that I will continue in the Knowledge and Conversation of My Holy Guardian Angel: VII. that I will work without attachment : IO
1910 · PDF PAGE 25
…osed all the seals. From that supreme effort I am fallen exhausted — until, as it may chance, the Gods renew my vigour. And all my other work I count as nothing ; for I have written this in Pan, and in Pan I am content. To the boys and girls of England I give my book, the charter of their freedom. ALICE WESLEY TORR OR ALEISTER CROWLEY ? With one thing and another to worry me I was a ner- vous wreck all this March and April of 1908. I was was- ting my time in constructing anagrams on my name to publish this book under. Which shows how dependant …
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
…n many lyrics and sonnets Mr. Crowley’s dominant note is the very Imperialism, the Romanism of love; just as throughout the whole of his work there is the ringing note of mastery. But when he has seen the wisdom of not flinging splendid lines away on those subjects which wiser men remember only to themselves, when he has ceased to prefer the lurid and quickly evanescent gems of the rubbish-heap of sensations for the enduring and unsurpassable beauty of the stars, then will he give us more and better even than Hush—the music swells apace, Rolls i…
1912 · PDF PAGE 97
…c powers can get them in dozens of different ways.- Power grows faster than desire. The boy who wants money to buy lead soldiers sets to work to obtain it, and by the time he has got it wants Something else instead—in all probability something just beyond his means. Such is the splendid history of all spiritual advance! One never stops to take the reward. We shall therefore not trouble at all about what any Samadhi may or may not bring as far as its results in our lives are concerned. We began this book, it will be remembered, with consideratio…
1913 · PDF PAGE 32
…k of the Covenant, Noah's Ark, the nave {navis^ a ship) of the Church, and many other symbols of antiquity, whose symboUsm has been well worked out in an anonymous book called "The Canon," (Elkin Mathews), which should be studied carefully before constructing the Altar. For this Altar must embody the Magician's knowledge of the laws of Nature, which are the laws through which he works. He should endeavour to make geometrical constructions to symbolize cosmic measurements. For example, he may take the two diagonals as (say) the diameter of the s…