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Page 49 of 1141910 · PDF PAGE 240
…; my memory is excellent. EUPHEMIA. Of what you swore? caRR. I swore at the granite for not being moss. EUPHEMIA. You swore to love me always. carr. The champagne at the Mena House is not cham- pagne; it is—the cork of it is labelled “ Good intentions.” EUPHEMIA. Then you didn’t mean it? carR [kissing her]. Am I, or am I not—a plain question as between man and man—loving you now? EUPHEMIA. Oh, I know! But I am so worried that every- thing most sure seems all shaken in the storm of it! I was glad—glad, glad!—when that Mr. Todd came in with his n…
1912 · PDF PAGE 348
… 3"¢ Dec. ¢ > 273 The stone which D337 YOND JIN the builders rejected [Ps. cxviii, 22] The Hidden Light Na WS Four yous Rebuked wi Took away yu Paths oot [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 72] DNS Domicilium pulchrum. NIA [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 395] Fluvius Iudieii. [Vide JN KD. LC. p. 117] Qy. Sruti “scripture” wD 275 32 3% (1-23) 276 Angel L.T.N. of =. PSII [Vide Liber 777, p. 29] A Cithara 5 Night Demon of 15 Dec. bono The Moon xD 277 To sow, propagate ; seed, yr semen [For multiplying] [or pnd written, Vide K.D, L.C.K. pp. 157 and 837] Angel of 3" Dec. boa…
1912 · PDF PAGE 348
… 3"¢ Dec. ¢ > 273 The stone which D337 YOND JIN the builders rejected [Ps. cxviii, 22] The Hidden Light Na WS Four yous Rebuked wi Took away yu Paths oot [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 72] DNS Domicilium pulchrum. NIA [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 395] Fluvius Iudieii. [Vide JN KD. LC. p. 117] Qy. Sruti “scripture” wD 275 32 3% (1-23) 276 Angel L.T.N. of =. PSII [Vide Liber 777, p. 29] A Cithara 5 Night Demon of 15 Dec. bono The Moon xD 277 To sow, propagate ; seed, yr semen [For multiplying] [or pnd written, Vide K.D, L.C.K. pp. 157 and 837] Angel of 3" Dec. boa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 114
…he blade of the Serpent, the blade of the Phallus." But this Sword is not for the ordinary Magician. For this is the Sword flaming every way that keeps Eden, and in this Sword the Wand and the Cup are concealed — so that although the being of the Magi-
1917 · PDF PAGE 3
ALEISTER CROWLEY The Neophyte SIGHT I tread the unsubstantial way ‘That looms before me, as the thundering night Falls on the ocean : I must stop, and pray One little prayer, and then—what bitter fight Flames at the end beyond the darkling goal ? “These are my passions that my feet must tread; ‘This is my sword, the fervour of my soul ; ‘This is my Will, the crown upon my head. For see! the darkness beckons : I have gone, Before this terrible hour, towards the gloom, Braved the wild dragon, called the tiger on With whirling cries of pride, soug…
1917 · PDF PAGE 4
…of this same Path of the wise men : for my soul is blind Yee: and the foemen I have never feared could not see (if such should cross the way), ‘And therefore I am strange: my soul is scared With desolation of the Blinding day Tiare ome oo rom ye that fearful ihe Was not the Sun: my life has been the death, ‘This death may be the life: my spirit sight Knows that at last, at least. My doubtful breath Is breathing in a nobler air; I know, Tinowit in my soul, despite of thi ‘The clinging darkness of the Long Ago, Cruel as death, and closer than a k…
1919 · PDF PAGE 53
…Liber Legis—The Book of the Law.—Ep.] Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I. Iam often asked why I begin my letters in this way. No matter whether I am writing to my lady or to my butcher, always I begin with these eleven words. Why, how else should I begin? What other greeting could be so glad? Look, brother, we are free! Rejoice with me, sister, there is no law beyond Do what thou wilt! II. I write this for those who have not read our Sacred Book, the Book of the Law, or for those who, reading it, have somehow failed to understan…
1919 · PDF PAGE 449
…etter image would have been the Mother, and does the Mother complain or rejoice? Itis also a bad image, this of the snow. Is snow in any way incommoded by the biting frosts, the northern blasts? 86. Self-doomed to live through future Kalpas, un- thanked and unperceived by men; wedged as a stone with countless other stones which form the “Guardian Wall,” such is thy future if the seventh Gate thou passest. Built by the hands of many Masters of Compassion, raised by their tortures, by their blood cemented, it shields mankind, since man is man, pr…
1961 · PDF PAGE 197
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 185 Zg Altera de sua Via (Further concerning his Way) HUS I was brought unto the Knowledge of myself in a certain secret Grace, and as a Poet, by Jerome Politt of Kendal; Oscar Eckenstein of the Mountain discovered Manhood in me, teaching me to endure Hardship, and to dare many Shapes of Death; also he nurtured me in Concentration, the Art of the Mystics, but without Lumber of Theology. Allan Bennett bestowed upon me the right Art of Magic, and Our Holy Qabalah, with a great Treasure of Learning in many Matters, but …
1907 · PDF PAGE 125
…s. Hurrah for Huxley! Down with Jesus! By heaven, your tyranny will soon be as bad as that of Rome or Geneva. Every man must find his own way to freedom. Let me read to you about my mad friends. One of the most inter esting cases of symbolic coitus I know of. The man wasn’t of the hunting class; he was a head waiter, child of some Russian exiles of the so-called student persuasion, and his only notions of fox-hunting were taken from the Christmas numbers of the illustrated papers of his childhood! Strange how things stick! THE SYMBOLISTS TITAN E…
1907 · PDF PAGE 297
290 THE STAR IN THE WEST the plains , like those of Ephesus , traduce in every way those who threaten their occupation . “ There fore , O Ananda , be ye lamps unto yourselves . Be ye a refuge to yourselves . Betake yourselves to no ex ternal refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp . Hold fast as a refuge to the truth . Look not for refuge to any one besides yourselves .” (Mahaparanibbana Sutta , ii , 33. ) ' YOGA » 2 Now comes the supreme question : How is this in ward mystery revealed ? And the answer is : In the East by Yoga , and in the Wes…
1909 · PDF PAGE 102
…ith favour upon him 1 After five minutes rest (to the body, that is), John St. John was too exhausted on resuming his pose, which, by the way, happens to be the Sign of the Grade 7°=4°, to strive consciously. But his nature itself, forced through these days into the one channel of Will towards Adonai, went on struggling on its own account. Later, the conscious man took heart and strove, though not so fiercely as before. He passed through the Lightnings of Ajna, whose two petals now spread out like wings above his head, and the awful Corona of the…
1911 · PDF PAGE 29
LIBER TZADDI 24. My disciples are proud and beautiful ; they are strong and swift; they rule their way like mighty conquerors. 25. The weak, the timid, the imperfect, the cowardly, the poor, the tearful—these are mine enemies, and I am come to destroy them. 26. This also is compassion : an end to the sickness of earth. A rooting-out of the weeds: a watering of the flowers. 27. O my children, ye are more beautiful than the flowers : ye must not fade in your season. 28. I love you ; I would sprinkleyou with the divine dew of immortality. 29. This i…
1911 · PDF PAGE 29
LIBER TZADDI 24. My disciples are proud and beautiful ; they are strong and swift; they rule their way like mighty conquerors. 25. The weak, the timid, the imperfect, the cowardly, the poor, the tearful—these are mine enemies, and I am come to destroy them. 26. This also is compassion : an end to the sickness of earth. A rooting-out of the weeds: a watering of the flowers. 27. O my children, ye are more beautiful than the flowers : ye must not fade in your season. 28. I love you ; I would sprinkleyou with the divine dew of immortality. 29. This i…
1919 · PDF PAGE 372
THE EQUINOX atrophied, they proclaim vaingloriously “I have conquered.” The way to conquer any desire is to understand it, and free- dom consists in the ability to decide whether or no you will perform any given action. The Adept should always be ready to abide by the toss of a coin, and remain absolutely indifferent as to whether it falls head or tail. 24. The Dharma (law) of the “Eye” is the embodiment of the external, and the non-existing. By “non-existing” is meant the lower Asat. The word is used on other occasions to mean an Asat which is…
1930 · PDF PAGE 89
…o do so, and that figures appear, let him at ail costs rise above them. Yea, though his very life tremble on his lips, let him force his way upward and onward! 5. Let him continue in this so long as the breath of life is in him. Whatever threatens, whatever allures, though it were Typhon and ail his hosts loosed from the pit and leagued against him, though it were from the very Throne of God Himself that a voice issues bidding him stay and be content, let him struggle on, ever on. 6. At last there must corne a moment when his whole being is swa…
1961 · PDF PAGE 198
…o our Freedom from Sin, and the Sense and Conviction thereof, he is not ready for the Path of our Magick and Illumination; because every Way soever is a Going, and his Sin is an obstacle and a Fetter and an Hoodwink on every one of them, for it is Restriction, whether he set out by the Meditations of the Dhamma, or by Our Qabalah, or by Vision or Theurgy, or how else soever. n
1906 · PDF PAGE 220
…, and wiping his blade he kissed it and went on, knowing that his luck should now he ill. And ill it was, for a temple was set up in his way, and there he saw the grisly Goat enthroned. But he knew better than to judge a goat from a goats head and hoofs. And he abode in that temple awhile therefore, and worshipped ten weeks. And the first week he sacrificed to that goat! a crown every day. The second a phallus. The third a silver vase of blood. The fourth a royal sceptre. The fifth a sword. The sixth a heart. The seventh a garland of flowers. T…
1909 · PDF PAGE 137
…an, it might be, had not slept, even at her death. She had hidden the house beneath a magicveil? Or had her death itself in some strange way operated to—to what? Even conjecture paled. “ But magic somewhere there must be, and Eliphaz Levi was the most famous adept in Paris at the time. “T told my story, just as I have told it to you, but with strong passion. “«There is an illusion, master!’ I ended. ‘Put forth the Power, and destroy it!’ “*Were I to destroy the illusion, returned the magus, ‘thinkest thou to see a virgin with gold hair? Nay, bu…
1909 · PDF PAGE 137
…an, it might be, had not slept, even at her death. She had hidden the house beneath a magicveil? Or had her death itself in some strange way operated to—to what? Even conjecture paled. “ But magic somewhere there must be, and Eliphaz Levi was the most famous adept in Paris at the time. “T told my story, just as I have told it to you, but with strong passion. “«There is an illusion, master!’ I ended. ‘Put forth the Power, and destroy it!’ “*Were I to destroy the illusion, returned the magus, ‘thinkest thou to see a virgin with gold hair? Nay, bu…