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Page 5 of 1051919 · PDF PAGE 148
…s during singing practice occurred while trying over new music with the choir of which I am a member, and it is very hard to leave out a word when singing. I find this practice makes one speak much less. The word chosen being a conjunction often results in the second part of a sentence remaining unspoken. I never before noticed how unneces- sary some of our speech is; in fact I have now no doubt that a great many things are better left unsaid. Monday, Jan. oth. Bedtime. Said word to-day for the first time at Lunch. I. at 1.20 P.M. Lunch. 1. at …
1954 · PDF PAGE 440
…ertainly one of the most delicate , subtle , and difficult experiments that I have ever undertaken .) Bound to flop, obviously, from the word "gun," if only because the same-sounding word in different languages-sometimes even in the same!-has often not merely diverse, but diametrically opposed, meanings. Think of Bog, or Bug, the Russian word for God (I do think 407
1938 · PDF PAGE 23
…kind may take the Next Step from the Magical Formula of Osiris to that of Horus. And mine Hour being now upon me, I proclaim my Law. The Word of the Law is ¸ µ»· ¼±. Given in the midst of the Mediterranean Sea An XX Sol in 3° Libra die Jovis by me ¤ ¡ £ © £ µ»· ¼± Having read these words with deep attention eleven times, I besought mine Instructor (for the Maiden had returned to her Master) that he would clear those things which were dark to my weak understanding. In the Light of the Chart of the Work of the Brotherh…
1913 · PDF PAGE 533
…clared that every hypothesis of faith was absurd, and admitted for the rule of reason only the witness of the senses. Moreover, the last word of Voltaire was this contradic- tory formula: “Gop AnD Liperty.” God! that is to say, a Supreme Master, excludes every idea of liberty, as the school of Voltaire understood it. And Liberty, by which is meant an absolute independence of any master, which excludes all idea of God. The word Gop expresses the supreme personification of law, and by consequence, of duty; and if by the word LiBerTY, you are will…
1913 · PDF PAGE 533
…clared that every hypothesis of faith was absurd, and admitted for the rule of reason only the witness of the senses. Moreover, the last word of Voltaire was this contradic- tory formula: “Gop AnD Liperty.” God! that is to say, a Supreme Master, excludes every idea of liberty, as the school of Voltaire understood it. And Liberty, by which is meant an absolute independence of any master, which excludes all idea of God. The word Gop expresses the supreme personification of law, and by consequence, of duty; and if by the word LiBerTY, you are will…
1902 · PDF PAGE 99
…st) But wickedness ! TannhAuser {aside). This is my punishment ! This faith, this hope, this love—to me —to me ! Elizabeth. Yet, once my word went forth into the world. Suddenly came the fear that you were still Accessible to men —mig^ht hear, misfht come ! The kind, grave face of you— that light outshone The mystical ideal. Therefore too I minded me of our old baby-love, And —marriages are made in heaven, you know ! Besides—Our Lady shewed me in a dream How you would come. TannhAuser. And now .-' So sure are you The loving word you spoke an ho…
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
…hall sigh This is immortality !? Other lines again hold us enthralled with the extra ordinary power they contain , expressed in a single word . Thus in the poem " The Lesbian Hell ,” we find ourselves in the unutterable void of Orcus , where kisses are flung in vain , and where around us pale women fleet : Whose empty fruitlessness assails the night With hollow repercussion , like dim tombs Wherein some vampire glooms .3 This last line is one of the most expressive ever written by Crowley , and in the last word " glooms " is concentrated more t…
1912 · PDF PAGE 144
…f the Veil.? The Sign of the Closing of the Veil.? [Give these]? Make the Invoking Pentagrams 01 Spirit.? In the number 21, in the grand word ;`י1?ה`ה In the Name ,?הושהי111 the Pass Word I.N,R.I., O Spirits 011116 Tablet 01 Spirit, Ye, ye, I invoke! The sign 01 Osiris slain! The sign 01 the mourning 0115151 The sign of Apophis and Typhon I The sign 01 Osiris Risen! L. V. ΧἼLux. The Light 01 the Cross. [Give these] In the name 01 I HVH ALVH VDOTh, I declare that the Spirits 01 Spirit have been duly invoked. The Knock 1—44.44. 102
1912 · PDF PAGE 144
…f the Veil.? The Sign of the Closing of the Veil.? [Give these]? Make the Invoking Pentagrams 01 Spirit.? In the number 21, in the grand word ;`י1?ה`ה In the Name ,?הושהי111 the Pass Word I.N,R.I., O Spirits 011116 Tablet 01 Spirit, Ye, ye, I invoke! The sign 01 Osiris slain! The sign 01 the mourning 0115151 The sign of Apophis and Typhon I The sign 01 Osiris Risen! L. V. ΧἼLux. The Light 01 the Cross. [Give these] In the name 01 I HVH ALVH VDOTh, I declare that the Spirits 01 Spirit have been duly invoked. The Knock 1—44.44. 102
1929 · PDF PAGE 62
…t of ALHIM, which is the masculine plural of the féminine noun ALH. A moments investigation is sufficient to dissipate the illusion. The Word masculine has no meaning except in relation to some féminine corrélative. The word ALIM may in fact be considered as neuter. By a rather absurd convention, neuter objects are treated as féminine on account of their superficial resemblance in passivity and inertness with the unfertilized female. But the female produces life by the intervention of the male, while the neuter does so only when impregnated by …
1903 · PDF PAGE 86
…in fervid praise :-— If so—O4, Lilith! runs the phrase, Now, is no barb upon the dart? Now, little lady, What ofart? v ‘Moreover (just a word) this chance T fling you over space—for luck! ‘This Scotland yet may catch your France, ‘My crow grow germane to your cluck. See art: see truth as I who see, (Am wellnigh fallen in the fight!) ‘Then the last lie, duality, ‘May break before the victor sight. ‘Then, and then only, That, Sweet hours Of trivial passion deep as death, ‘Ye are past: I face the solemn powers Of sex and soul, of brain and breath.…
1961 · PDF PAGE 217
…tion of mine own Star in a Mirror, to wit, mine Idea in hy Regard; and it shall be unto thee as a clear Vision of thy Father, and of the Word of the Æon that he hath uttered unto Man. But also, because this Word is the Formula of the Æon, that is the Law of its Changes or Phenomena, the Equation that expresseth its Energy and its Motion, it shall serve every Man in his Measure as a Text-Book or Comment upon the Theorick and Praxis of Magick. By it may he discover his true Nature, and its Will, and apply his Force and his Intelligence to the rig…
1954 · PDF PAGE 251
… is-is-is-well, is what we must try to make clear. True, it's a slogan of A:. A:.: "The method of science-the aim of religion." Here the word 'aim' and the context help the definition; it must mean the attainment of Knowledge and Power in spiritual matters-or words to that effect: as soon as one selects a phrase, one starts to kick holes in it! Yet we both know perfectly well all the time what we do mean. But this is certainly not the sense of the word in your question. It may clear our minds, as has so often happened, if we examine it through …
1906 · PDF PAGE 179
… 370 375 385 Of thought! How ends the brave B.D., Sammarising Ontology? “‘ This talk of ‘Real’ is a wraith. Our minds are lost in war of word ; The whole affair is quite absurd— Behold ! the righteous claims of Faith !” (He does not rhyme you quite so neatly ; But that’s the sense of it, completely.) I-do not feel myself inclined, The Advaitist In spite of my irreverent mind, position. So lightly to pass by the schemes Of Fichte, Schelling, Hegel (one, Small though the apparent unison), As if they were mere drunken dreams; For the first word in…
1961 · PDF PAGE 84
LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 72 Bs De Tahuti (Of Tahuti) AHUTI, or Thoth, confirmed the Word of Diony- sus by continuing it; for he showed how by the Mind it was possible to direct the Operations of the Will. By Criticism and by recorded Memory Man avoideth Error. But the true Word of Tahuti was AMOUN, whereby He made Men to understand their secret Nature, that is, their Unity with their true Selves, or, as they then phrased it, with God. And He discovered unto them the Way of this Attainment, and its Relation with the Formula of INRI. Also by His Myste…
1913 · PDF PAGE 54
…rincipal weapon of the Magus; and the name of that wand is the Magical Oath. The will being twofold is in Chokmah, who is the Logos, the word; hence some have said that the word is the will. Thoth the Lord of Magic is also the Lord of Speech; Hermes the messenger bears the Caduceus. Word should express will: hence the Mystic Name of the Pro- bationer is the expression of his highest Will. There are, of course, few Probationers who understand themselves sufficiently to be able to formulate this will to themselves, and therefore at the end of the…
1930 · PDF PAGE 30
…to whether it is with or without conditions. He is sworn to accept this Grade in the presence of a witness, and to express its nature in word and deed, but to withdraw Himself at once within the veils of his natural manifestation as a man, and to keep silence during his human life as to the fact of his attainment, even to the other members of the Order. The Ipsissimus is pre-eminently the Master of ail modes of existence ; that is, his being is entirely free from internai or external necessity. His work is to destroy ail tendencies to construct…
1904 · PDF PAGE 38
PENTECOST 31 Of thought ! How ends the brave B.D., Summarising Ontology ? “This talk of ‘Real’ is a wraith. Our minds are lost in war of word ; The whole affair is quite absurd— Behold ! the righteous claims of Faith !” (He does not rhyme you quite so neatly ; But that’s the sense of it, completely.) I do not feel myself inclined In spit of my irrevent mind, So lightly to pass by the schemes Of Fichte, Schelling, Hegel (one, Small though the apparent unison), As if they were mere drunken dreams ; For the first word in India here From Koromandl …
1907 · PDF PAGE 76
… ( Szzes) The soldier’s life is short and merry, His mistress’ lips are ripe as a cherry, Then drink, drink ! The guns roar out and the swords flash clean, And the soldier sleepeth under the green, Oh, the soldier’s life for me ! But a scurvy night it is, comrades, when the streets are slippery, and the wine cold in a man’s belly, and never a little white rabbit of a woman scuttling along in the dark. THIRD WATCHMAN. What ho! my lads! MHere’s a scurvy Frenchman skulking along. What, will you make your lass attend you, master? FLORIMOND. Loose m…
1961 · PDF PAGE 122
…go, I thy Father was in the City called New-Orleans, and being in Travail of Spirit I did invoke the God that giveth Wisdom, bearing the Word of the All-Father by his Caduceus. Then, suddenly, as I began (as it were a Gust of Fire whirled forth against that Idea) cam the Wit of mine utter Identity, so that I ceased, crying Mercurius Sum. Also instantly I knew in myself that here was a Mystery hidden, and translating into the Greek Tongue, exclaimed `ERMES 'EIMI, whose Numeration did I make in my Mind forthwith, and it is Four Hundred and Eighte…