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Page 52 of 2251907 · PDF PAGE 103
…find represented this striving after a more spiritual and platonic ideal of love . In the former , questing for the ideal of his hopes , man falls tangled into the arms of the real ; in the latter , entangled , he strives to tear away the meshes of his passion , and at length suc ceeds in releasing himself from the magic threads . In “ The Nameless Quest ,” Gereth is in love with the Queen , and the King calls on a knight to go on the Nameless Quest to a certain pillar which lies at the end of the road which leads from Human desire to Divine co…
1919 · PDF PAGE 403
…might better say, men- tal, that of Paramita, moral: But it may well be asked whether these Paths are mutually exclusive, whether a good man is always an idiot and a clever man always a brute, to put the antithesis on a somewhat lower plane. Does anyone really think that one can reach supreme mental control while there are ‘seven cruel, crafty powers, passions incarnate,’ worrying you? The fact is that this dichotomy of the Path is rather dramatic than based on experience. 6. Be of good cheer, Disciple; bear in mind the golden rule. Once thou h…
1910 · PDF PAGE 97
44 THE WORLD’S TRAGEDY. THE CHILD Oh mamma ! mamma ! 2ND SATYR Ha ! what a man ! With a sweep he has severed the lamb-soft throat, And the crimson blood in his cheeks afloat Flames, an irradiate blaze to environ Etna with mountains of molten iron. ALEXANDER Pan ! o Pan ! dissolve in bliss ! Take these severed lips to kiss ! Thou and I are partners of This, the sacrament of love. By the violate babe’s blue eyes, By his sucked-out arteries, By the blood-bedabbled gold, By the body void and cold, Make me partner of thy power Over this obscurest ho…
1910 · PDF PAGE 359
…HE BIG STICK as his own, and so appropriate to himself the pain of the whole world” (p, 184). Here the “true-self” is the Higher Self, Atman or Augoeides, unity with which is what we have called the Great Work of the A... A... When a soldier turns philosopher we always expect good work, and Major Kelly has not failed us; and to all such as would understand Kant as well as Schopenhauer’s great work, “The World as Will and Idea”—of which an excellent English translation is published by Messrs. Paul, Trench, Triibner, we heartily recommend this ma…
1910 · PDF PAGE 359
…HE BIG STICK as his own, and so appropriate to himself the pain of the whole world” (p, 184). Here the “true-self” is the Higher Self, Atman or Augoeides, unity with which is what we have called the Great Work of the A... A... When a soldier turns philosopher we always expect good work, and Major Kelly has not failed us; and to all such as would understand Kant as well as Schopenhauer’s great work, “The World as Will and Idea”—of which an excellent English translation is published by Messrs. Paul, Trench, Triibner, we heartily recommend this ma…
1906 · PDF PAGE 167
…ther, God, or the doctor, or my mother. But dare you quote my fevered word For better than my health averred ? The brainish fancies of a man Hovering on delirium’s brink : Shall these be classed his utmost span ? All that he can or ought to think? No! the strong man‘and self-reliant Is the true spiritual giant. I blame no weaklings, but decline To take their maunderings for mine. You see I do not base my thesis On your Book’s being torn in pieces By knowledge ; nor invoke the shade Of my own boyhood’s agony. Soul, shudder not! Advance the blade…
1907 · PDF PAGE 95
…ipping where her false lewd body dwelt , Was dark and hateful ; and a sleepy flood Trickled therefrom as magic gums that melt . ' I am a man , nor fear to drain the bowl.2 Now some old devil, dead no doubt and damned , But living in her life , had wisely crammed Her fierce bronze throat with such a foul device As made her belly yearn for sacrifice . She leered like love on me , and smiled , and shammed , And did not pity for all her breast of spice.3 Man though he was , he is thrust into her Moloch arms . When lo ! a miracle ! he is plucked by …
1909 · PDF PAGE 382
…dy of the oyster-shells in order to perceive the invisible, to refine your senses and escape the delusions caused by them.” “The duty of man is not to believe other men. They speak either truth or untruth; but if they speak truth, even then is it a falsehood.” “ All men are not necessarily obliged to kill their opponents or those who doubt them, or who are not of any use to them ; but some men are—all Men-Covers are.” I was interrupted in the profound meditation that followed this discovery by the approach of a strong party of natives. My heir-…
1909 · PDF PAGE 382
…dy of the oyster-shells in order to perceive the invisible, to refine your senses and escape the delusions caused by them.” “The duty of man is not to believe other men. They speak either truth or untruth; but if they speak truth, even then is it a falsehood.” “ All men are not necessarily obliged to kill their opponents or those who doubt them, or who are not of any use to them ; but some men are—all Men-Covers are.” I was interrupted in the profound meditation that followed this discovery by the approach of a strong party of natives. My heir-…
1909 · PDF PAGE 14
…t how does this tower of Samadhi stand the assault of Question-time? Is not the idea of Samadhi just as dependent on all the other ideas—man, time, being, thought, logic? If I seek to explain Samadhi by analogy, am I not often found talking as if we knew all about Evolution, and Mathematics, and His- tory? Complex and unscientific studies, mere straws before the blast of our hunchback friend! Well, one of the buttresses is just the small matter of common sense. The other day I was with Dorothy, and, as I foolishly imagined, very cosy: for her s…
1911 · PDF PAGE 49
… confuse the higher with the lower, the substance with the shadow. Every Aethyr is truth, though it be but a shadow, for the shadow of a man is not the shadow of an ape. (Note.—All this has come to me without voice, without vision, without thought.) (The shew-stone is pressed upon my forehead and causes intense pain; as I go on from Aethyr to Aethyr, it seems more difficult to open the Aethyr.) The golden cross has become a little narrow door, and an old man like the Hermit of the Taro has opened it and come out. I ask him for admission; and he…
1913 · PDF PAGE 253
…s true) to the pseudo-Rosicrucian order of Mathers, but on that order passing, as it did for a week or so, into the control of an honest man, that honest man’s first act was to expel the aforesaid Waite with ignominy. Thus excluded, the future saint1 could find no better device than to proclaim himself its head. With- 1 As will presently appear, he became such. (Gloria Crowleiae! 215
1913 · PDF PAGE 566
…tion. In one sense it is perfectly reasonable, and the science of the adepts promises to realize it, and to accomplish it in perfection. Man, in effect, creates for himself a God corresponding to his own intelligence and his own goodness; he cannot raise his ideal higher than his moral development permits him to do. The God whom he adores is always an enlargement of his own reflection. To conceive the absolute of goodness and justice is to be one’s self exceeding just and good. The moral qualities of the spirit are riches, and the greatest of a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 253
…s true) to the pseudo-Rosicrucian order of Mathers, but on that order passing, as it did for a week or so, into the control of an honest man, that honest man’s first act was to expel the aforesaid Waite with ignominy. Thus excluded, the future saint1 could find no better device than to proclaim himself its head. With- 1 As will presently appear, he became such. (Gloria Crowleiae! 215
1913 · PDF PAGE 566
…tion. In one sense it is perfectly reasonable, and the science of the adepts promises to realize it, and to accomplish it in perfection. Man, in effect, creates for himself a God corresponding to his own intelligence and his own goodness; he cannot raise his ideal higher than his moral development permits him to do. The God whom he adores is always an enlargement of his own reflection. To conceive the absolute of goodness and justice is to be one’s self exceeding just and good. The moral qualities of the spirit are riches, and the greatest of a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 26
…ther, God, or the doctor, or my mother. But dare you quote my fevered word For better than my health averred ? The brainish fancies of a man Hovering on delerium’s brink : Shall these be classed his utmost span ? All that he can or ought to think ? No ! the strong man and self-reliant Is the true spiritual giant. I blame no weaklings, but decline To take their maunderings for mine. You see I do not base my thesis On your Book’s being torn to pieces By knowledge : nor invoke the shade Of my own boyhood’s agony. Soul, shudder not ! Advance the bl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 211
…for it was never synthetical , or concrete , being a con glomerated mass of ecstatic ideals and exalted desires , evolved in the mind of man as an attempt to grasp all possible quantities emanating from the Ain Soph , which in itself remained Zero . Turning now for a short time from the Mystic to the Idealistic philosophy , we find that though both are closely united , the former founds its system on man's wondering ignorance in trying to link subject and object esoterically , whilst the latter builds up reality in mind perceptions , treating n…
1913 · PDF PAGE 54
…l not in one letter change this book; but lest there be folly, he shall comment thereupon by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor- Khu-it. 37. Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these he shall learn and teach. 38. He must teach ; but he may make severe the ordeals. 39. The word of the Law is $eAypo, 40. Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 54
…l not in one letter change this book; but lest there be folly, he shall comment thereupon by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor- Khu-it. 37. Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these he shall learn and teach. 38. He must teach ; but he may make severe the ordeals. 39. The word of the Law is $eAypo, 40. Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the…
1904 · PDF PAGE 131
SONG Buggered by a black man, Buggered by a Jew, Buggered by a gentleman In navy blue. The first costs a dollar, The second costs a quid, The third costs you nothing, But you have to keep the kid. One kids all right. Twins is a fraud, Triplets split yer arse, Yer bet yer bloody Gawd ! One Gawds Deism ; Twos Manichee ; Were bloody Prodestunts, We run three. Somes appy Cawthlics : Cuckolds an ores They like : in consikence Five they adores. All little buggers Whats gawt any sense Itches on a dildo, And damns the expense. [133]