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Page 50 of 1141961 · PDF PAGE 207
…are Variations from Equilibrium; There is a certain Objection, o my Son, to our Thesis concerning Will that it should flow freely in its Way: namely hat for such as I am it is well, because I am endowed by Nature with a Lust insatiable in any Kind, so that the Universe itself seemeth incapable to appease it. For I have poured myself out unceasingly, in Bodily Passion, and in Battles with Men, and with Wild Beasts, and with Mountains and Deserts, and in Poetry and other Writings of the Musick of mine Imagination, and in Books of our own Mysterie…
1907 · PDF PAGE 115
…member that He is God alone, and that there is none other God than He! Right as usual, said the scholar. It’s a true story, though, in a way. I’ve seen the mask myself, and I believe it. THE GILT MASK IN Florence in the days of old there dwelt a craftsman pale and grim. The Devil entered into him, and fanned his soul with plumes of gold. He offered all he chose to ask. “ O snatch this itching soul away, So that thou animate my clay and finish me this magic mask l ” The Devil brought him graving tools; the first a ravening disease, The cold corrup…
1907 · PDF PAGE 165
…the horizon for me, And He requickens the forgotten skies ; His golden locks are burning on my eyes , And he with rosy finger points the way , The blood -wrought mystic path of Paradise , That leads at last through yonder icy spray Of Death to the blue vault of the undying day . In the last verse of “ A Spring Snow Storm in Wastdale ," there grows a wavering doubt , which leaps out furiously in the “Preliminary Invocation " in “ Jephthah ,” addressed to A. C. S. , breaking the shackles of the “ improving idea " of Christ : Let there be light !-…
1907 · PDF PAGE 286
…lute , of whom we can conceive no proportion whatsoever , but whose relationship to us becomes closer and closer as we proceed along the way of the knowable — and perhaps actually becomes known when we ourselves become unknowable , i.e. , pure adepts . The second great principle is the Conservation of Matter and Energy , or in other words the law of Cause and Effect . A law we have gone to some length in demonstrating to be apodictically untenable , though highly probably à posteriori . Crowley , like Hume and Huxley , solely identifies it as a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 203
…And juries are worse. Ah, Phemie, so little a sacrifice for the father who has given all for youand she refuses ! Cruel ! Cruel ! Which way can I turn ? Is there nobody whose credit Lets think. Jenkins ? No good. Maur ?
1961 · PDF PAGE 183
…liness. Her Ordeal therefore is principally to resist Moods, which make Disorder, that is of Choronzon. Also, let her be content in this Way, for verily she hath a noble and an excellent Portion in Our Holy Banquet, and escapeth many a Peril that is proper to us others. Only, be she in Awe and Wariness, for in her is no Principle of Resistance to Choronzon, so that if she become disordered in her Moods, as by Lust, or by Drunkenness, or by Idleness, she hath no Standard whereunto she may rally her Forces. In this see thou her Need of a well-gua…
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
… Gaunt's dying speech and Henry V appeals directly to my poetic sense. I am quite prepared to die for England in that brutal, unthinking way. "Rule, Britannia" gets me going as if I were the most ordinary music-hall audience. This sentiment is not interfered with by my detestation of the moral and religious humbug which one is expected to produce at moments of national crisis. My patriotism is of the blatant, unintelligent variety, popularized by Kipling. I like the old rime: Two skinny Frenchmen, one Portugee, One jolly Englishmen lick 'em all…
1907 · PDF PAGE 112
…ht before the gaze of the world . He has eaten of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and of Evil , and has become as a god . He wends his way to the Court of the Landgrave and there meets Elizabeth , “ His far - off baby - love ,” as Venus called her , and whispers to himself , “ Cannot purity be brought to know aught but itself ? ” Herein lies the note of his misfortunes . Purity was but ignorance , and Tannhäuser was now a god , knowing both good and evil : 1 Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 239 .
1912 · PDF PAGE 28
…onstantly having presenti- ments that something is about to happen. You may also be terrified with the idea that your brain may be giving way ; but you will have learnt the real symptoms of mental fatigue, and you will be careful to avoid them. They must be very carefully distinguished from idleness! At certain times you will feel as if there were a contest between the will and the mind; at other times you may feel as if they were in har- mony; but there is a third state, to be distinguished from the latter feeling. It is the certain sign of nea…
1913 · PDF PAGE 172
… prefigured. In the system of Abramelin the Lamen is a plate of silver upon which the Holy Guardian Angel writes in dew. This is another way of expressing the same thing, for it is He who confers the secrets of that power which should be herein expressed. St. Paul expresses the same thing when he says that the breastplate is faith, and can withstand the fiery darts of the wicked. This " faith " is not blind self-confidence ^ Some writers have actually confused the Lamen with the Pantacle, usually through a misunderstanding of the nature of the …
1916 · PDF PAGE 8
…t her; but she has never been conquered and never can be conquered, because the Anglo-Saxon can never get her point of view. In the same way India has overcome every one of her invaders in turn, though she has never been able to resist even the least of them successfully by arms. The English in India have become, within two generations, more Indian than the Indians themselves, in many important respects, particularly in that of caste. In the case of South Africa it is once again evident how far more vital than material considerations are the sp…
1919 · PDF PAGE 23
…permit, there will be added a series of stories and poems of the highest mystical and magical value. It will be remembered that it has always been the policy of the A... A.. to make no financial profit whatever either from publications, or in any other way, and THe Equinox has been always issued at a price which barely covered the actual cost of printing, if it even did that. It is proposed to continue the same policy with regard to the new volume. Owing to the war, the cost of printing both for the paper re- quired and the labour involved has …
1930 · PDF PAGE 55
… wealth and strength and divine pleasure according to the Law of Liberty; let each pursue his Will as a strong man that rejoiceth in his way, as the course of a Star that blazeth for ever among the joyous company of Heaven. The PEOPLE. So mote it be. (BIRTH) The DEACON. Be the hour auspicious, and the gâte of life open in peace and in well being, so that she that beareth children may rejoice, and the babe catch life with both hands. The PEOPLE. So mote it be. (MARRIAGE) The DEACON. Upon ail that this day unité with love under will let fall succ…
1961 · PDF PAGE 215
…h Truth that thou perceiveth is as it were one Gesture of Her Dance. Shut up the Book of thy Questions, o my Son, concerning nature, Her Way, Her Origin, or Her Purpose, except in those Matters which concern thee and thine own Orbit, o thou Star, begotten of my Loins in my Lust of Hilarion, the Golden Rose, mystic and Joyous, the Lily of a Thousand Petals and One Petal, subtle and perverse, that thou mightest fulfil his Work of a Magus which I cam to accomplish, robing myself in Flesh of man, as was my Nature and the Will of my Nature, the Name…
1944 · PDF PAGE 23
…which means “Numbers”. As will be seen later, each number has a significance of its own; each corresponds with all phe‐ nomena in such a way that their arrangement in the Tree of Life, as shown in the diagrams (pp. 266, 268, 270), is a map of the Universe. These ten numbers are represented in the Tarot by the forty small cards. THE TAROT AND THE FORMULA OF TETRAGRAMMATON What, then, are the Court Cards? This question involves another aspect of the system of development. What was the first mental process? Obliged to describe Nothing, the only wa…
1910 · PDF PAGE 248
…. mrs. ossory. I know she saw me. My only Duchess! carr. There’s better duchesses in Burke than ever came out of it, Mrs. Ossory. By the way, unless rumour lies, the jade! you can fly much higher than a paltry Duchess ! MRS. OssoRY. Why, why, what do you mean? Oh, dear Professor, how sweet of you! Or are you joking? Somehow 230
1910 · PDF PAGE 248
…. mrs. ossory. I know she saw me. My only Duchess! carr. There’s better duchesses in Burke than ever came out of it, Mrs. Ossory. By the way, unless rumour lies, the jade! you can fly much higher than a paltry Duchess ! MRS. OssoRY. Why, why, what do you mean? Oh, dear Professor, how sweet of you! Or are you joking? Somehow 230
1919 · PDF PAGE 85
…r Death and their Dis- ruption. Thou art Python, the terrible serpent about the end of all things! 31. I turned me about thrice in every way; and always I came at the last unto Thee. 32. Many things I beheld mediate and immediate; but, beholding them no more, I beheld Thee. 33. Come thou, O beloved One, O Lord God of the Uni- verse, O Vast One, O Minute One! I am Thy beloved. 34. All day I sing of Thy delight; all night I delight in Thy song. 35. There is no other day or night than this. 36. Thou art beyond the day and the night; I am Thyself, …
1954 · PDF PAGE 192
…arked "Rubbish!" I looked at you again very carefully ; and, after many grunts , observed, "More likely half-past ten-within an hour one way or the other. You insisted; I insisted. Unwilling to make a Fracas in the Inn, we decided to put you to the trouble of writing to your mother to settle the dispute. Back came the answer: "within a few minutes of eleven. I remember because your father had hung on as long as he could-he had to take the morning service." This occurrence is very common in my experience ; I have contradicted what sounded like a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 125
…ines the nucleus of all true patriotism , greater than power , wealth , or dominion , and that is motherhood : Fiercer desires may cast away All things most good ; A people may forget to - day Their motherhood . 1 This is the condition of the England of to - day : “ O England ! England , mighty England falls !” because she no longer knows how to bear Englishmen . Wealth cries for luxury , and luxury sniffs at the hem of lust , and lust rises o’er us a vampire kite to drink dry the blood of our veins . The two great ideals of our country , as Ge…