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…ht Blind before Thy radiant face ! Bring us to Thy full delight By the ardour of Thy grace ! Darkling doors and dangerous In the ways of life and death :— Cleanse us ! help us ! succour us By the beatific breath ! M 18
…s hermitage may hold. At last he cometh to a den Perched high upon the savage scaur, Remote from every haunt of men, From every haunt of life afar. There doth he find Sir Palamede Sitting as steadfast as a star. Scarcely he knew the knight indeed, For he was compassed in a beard White as the streams of snow that feed The lake of Gods and men revered That sitteth upon Caucasus. So muttered he a darkling weird,
…afloat Under the proudly phallic throat! Be thou to my pilgrimage Light, and laughter sweet and sage, Till the darkling day expire Of my life in thy caress, Thou my frenzy and my fire, Lamp of living loveliness ! Thou the ruler of the rod That beneath thy clasp extends To the galaxies of God From the gulph where ocean ends, Cave of dragon, ruby rose, Heart of hell, garden-close, 235
…afloat Under the proudly phallic throat! Be thou to my pilgrimage Light, and laughter sweet and sage, Till the darkling day expire Of my life in thy caress, Thou my frenzy and my fire, Lamp of living loveliness ! Thou the ruler of the rod That beneath thy clasp extends To the galaxies of God From the gulph where ocean ends, Cave of dragon, ruby rose, Heart of hell, garden-close, 235
…ace of all woe Is turned to deadliest agony , old age Shivers in selfish beauty's loathing arms And youth's corrupted impulses prepare A life of horror from the blighting bane Of commerce ; whilst the pestilence that springs From unenjoying sensualism, has filled All human life with hydra -headed woes. So sang Shelley . Now let us turn to Aleister Crowley , and we shall find his ideal no less great , noble and true than that of Shelley's , the divinest of the poets and pioneers of Truth , Freedom , and Beauty . Love is the finding in others wha…
… a train ; as I walk I literally leave shreds of myself behind me . I am no longer the “ I ” of five minutes ago , fleeting I pass along life's way . A minute gone by my footstep crushed a daisy , there is woe in the land of flowers ; yet a few seconds past and I slew a fly , there is weeping in the land of insects . I speed to catch the train , I slip , and in a dazzling flash am converted into a glutinous mass of jelly and crushed bones . Crumpled as some much written palimpsest I am thrown to the basket of the dead , a useless manuscript . W…
…e philosophy , the religion of all times , and when manifest in the heart of the adept , the full blaze of a divine glory will descend , life will be van quished , and the soul set free . To attain to this freedom is the end of life ; in this respect both yogi and mystic agree , and that every thing which entails the loss of freedom is sin , there fore change is sin and illusion , maya , and our great object is to get beyond this changeable changeability into an unchangeable changelessness . The yogi proposes to himself no less a task than to m…
…d of Evil, and (Siey eNPIBIORS) Dracram 38. The Calvary Cross of Twelve Squares. i ‘The Serpent of Brass. not the Serpent of the Tree of Life.’” After which the Hiereus shows the Practicus “The Qabalah of the Nine Num- Dracram 40. L) ‘The Qabalah of Nine Diacram 41. bers,” and the tablet of the Chambers, “Forming the Tree of Life ‘The Tablet of the Three Columns, in the Tarot.” And the Hegemon: The tablet repre- senting the Formation of the Hexagram, and known as “ The tablet of the Three Columns”; and also explains to him the mode of using the…
…d of Evil, and (Siey eNPIBIORS) Dracram 38. The Calvary Cross of Twelve Squares. i ‘The Serpent of Brass. not the Serpent of the Tree of Life.’” After which the Hiereus shows the Practicus “The Qabalah of the Nine Num- Dracram 40. L) ‘The Qabalah of Nine Diacram 41. bers,” and the tablet of the Chambers, “Forming the Tree of Life ‘The Tablet of the Three Columns, in the Tarot.” And the Hegemon: The tablet repre- senting the Formation of the Hexagram, and known as “ The tablet of the Three Columns”; and also explains to him the mode of using the…
…urydicen! toto referebant flumine rip. While he sings, that pallid statue of the sculptor death takes on the colour of the first tint of life, its white lips begin to redden like the dawn . . . Orpheus sees her, he trembles, he stammers, the hymn almost dies upon his lips, but she pales anew; then the Grand Hierophant tears from his lyre sublime heartrending songs, he looks no more save upon Heaven, he weeps, he prays, and Eurydice opens her eyes . . . Unhappy one, do not look at her! sing! sing! do not scare away the butterfly of Psyche, which…
…urydicen! toto referebant flumine rip. While he sings, that pallid statue of the sculptor death takes on the colour of the first tint of life, its white lips begin to redden like the dawn . . . Orpheus sees her, he trembles, he stammers, the hymn almost dies upon his lips, but she pales anew; then the Grand Hierophant tears from his lyre sublime heartrending songs, he looks no more save upon Heaven, he weeps, he prays, and Eurydice opens her eyes . . . Unhappy one, do not look at her! sing! sing! do not scare away the butterfly of Psyche, which…
… of war! For love is an equal soul, and shares an equal breath. I am nought—and thou the whole? It were not love, but Death. Give me thy life and strength, let us struggle for mastery, As the long shore’s rugged length that battles with the sea. I am thine, I am thine indeed! My form is vaster grown, And our limbs and lips shall bleed on the starry solar throne. My life is made as thine; my blessing and thy curse Beget, as foam on wine, a different universe. I foam and live and leap: thou laughest, fightest, diest ! In agony swift as sleep thou…
… long hair sobs in closer fold And deeper curves of dawn ; The arms bend closer, and the gold Burns brighter, and the eyes are cold With life at last withdrawn. And all the spirit passing down Involves my heart with gray: So the pale stars of even crown The glow of twilight ; dip and drown The last despairs of day. Oh ! closer yet and closer yet The pearl of faces grows. The hair is woven like a net Of moonlight round me : sweet is set The mouth’s unbudded rose. Oh never! did our lips once meet The dream were done for ever, And death should daw…
…ge one is, the less one wants to interfere with law. There is a special comment upon this point in Liber Aleph. Most of the pleasures in life, and most of the education in life, are given by superable obstacles. Sport, including love, depends on the overcoming of artificial or imaginary resistances. Golf has been defined as trying to knock a little ball into a hole with a set of in- struments very ill-adapted for the purpose. In Chess one is 71
…places it upon the super-altar. He turns West. The DEACON. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I proclaim the Law of Light, Life, Love, and Liberty in the name of IAü. The CONGREGATION. Love is the law, love under will. The DEACON go es to his place between the altar of incense and the font, faces East, and gives the step and sign of a Man and a Br other. Ail imitât e him. The DEACON and ail the PEOPLE. I believe in one secret and ineffable LORD* and in one Star in the company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we …
…nset, murmuring low The tyrant’s curse, the hideous decree. Then she, instructed by the Saviour Snake, Saw once clear Truth and gave her life, and love, And peace, and favour of the fiend above, For Knowledge, Knowledge pure for Knowledge’ sake. The full moon rose. Creation’s voice was dumb For the first woman’s shame, strength, martyrdom. 59
…f countless flashes on the crystal flakes, Forgetting it is only death that makes Its home the centre of that starry girth. Yet, what is life? The manhood in wakes. me The absolute desire hath hold of me. Death were most welcome in that solemn sea } So bitter is my life. But carelessness Of life and death and love is on me—yes! Only the quest ! if any quest there be! What is my purpose? Could the Godhead Puess ? So the long way seemed moving as I went, Flashing beneath me ; and the firmament Moving with quicker robes that swept the alr, Still D…
…he 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 shall not be very long before you come to understand that such a life is the true …
editor has proved himself as great a coward as he is a liar. It is an intolerable outrage on the decency of English public life that this cad, backed by your wealth, should have the licence to publish to the whole world filthy libels against the personal virtue of noble women. A Baron of England, accessory after the fact to so foul and mean a crime ? I have the honour to be, Your Lordships obedient servant, Norman MUDD, M.A., Cambridge : sometime Scholar of Trinity College. Late Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, Grey University College, South A…
…gods,! And soul went down ® in the turbid tide Of the metaphysical lotus-eyed,® And I was-—anyhow, what’s the odds? or What isTruth? The life tolive? The thought to think? Shall I take refuge sald jesting In a tower like once Childe Roland {7 found, blind, deaf, huge, 10 ilate: but . Crowley waits Or in that forest of two hundred thousand for an answer.t Trees,® fit alike to shelter man and mouse, and— Shall I say God? Be patient, your Reverence,? I warrant you'll journey a wiser man ever hence! Let’s tap (like the negro who gets a good juice o…