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Page 57 of 801929 · PDF PAGE 105
… one example, the charm of the witches in Macbeth ; although this was perhaps not meant seriously, its effect is indubitable. * 1 He has found iambic tetrameters enriched with many rimec both internai and external very useful. “The Wizard Way” (Equinox 1,1) gives a good idea of the sort of thing. So does the Evocation of Bartzabel in Equinox I, IX. There are many extant invocations throughout his works, in many kinds of métré, of many kinds of being, and for many kinds of purposes. (See Appendix). Other methods of incantation are on record as e…
1929 · PDF PAGE 71
… Mummery had been blackballed because he was the most famous climber in England; and, though occasionally climbing with guides before he found Collie and Hastings, had been in fact the leader of the party. The club was, of course, afraid to give its real reasons for objecting to him. It circulated the lie that he was a bootmaker! Later on, it became a public scandal that he was not a member of the club and he was weak enough to allow himself to be elected. In my case, Collie and Conway warned me that my election would be opposed and I withdrew …
1930 · PDF PAGE 76
…ies hâve employed books. In private matters these Works are very easy, if they be neces- sary. An adept known to The Master Therion once found it necessary to slay a Circe who was bewitching brethren. He merely walked to the door of her room, and drew an Astral T (“tradi- tore”, and the symbol of Saturn) with an astral dagger. Within 48 h ours she shot herself. 1 7. Works of création and dissolution, and the higher invoca¬ tions. There are also hundreds of other operations 3 2 to bring wanted objects — gold, books, women and the like; to open l…
1930 · PDF PAGE 41
…in one’s self whether one is right or not. The diviner must develop this sense. It resembles the exquisite sensibility of touch which is found in the great billiard player whose fingers can estimate infinitésimal degrees of force, 1. This does not mean that they are malignant. They hâve a proper pride in their office as Oracles of Truth; and they refuse to be profaned by the contamination of inferior and impure intelligences. A Magician whose research is fuily adapted to his Neschamah will hnd them lucid and reliable. 2. Malicious or pranksome …
1954 · PDF PAGE 348
…accord began: "Oh, but you haven't said anything about-"-all the subjects in the World. So I started to fill in the gaps. As I did so, I found any amount more to do on my own. It went on like that for 14 years! Since it came out the voices of detraction have been dumb. I really do believe that I've covered the ground at last. Of course, time shewed that Part I, although it did really give the essentials of Yoga in the simplest possible language, was hardly more than an outline. More, it did not correlate Yoga with general philosophy. Eight Lect…
1907 · PDF PAGE 110
… her smile, seeing her close white teeth. Bones ! he exclaimed, and meditating that, From a mere Bhikkhu grew an Arahat. IV. Her husband found her gone, in fury followed Lashing the pale path with his purple feet, Heedless of stones and serpents. Hail! he holloaed To the new Rahan! whom he bowed to greet Kissing the earth: O holy master, say If a fair female hath passed by this way ! Vv. The Bhikkhu blessed the irritated man. Then the slow sloka? serpentine began: ‘‘ Friend ! neither man nor woman owns This being’s high perception, owed Only to…
1922 · PDF PAGE 182
…ly nice -woman. like Gretel—or Mabel Black. I’m really suspicious of myself. I think that’s it. | I must go home. I hope to God Cockie’s found some somewhere! ... I met Mabel Black coming out of the Burlington Arcade. She looked fine, all over smiles, a very short, white skirt and a new pair of patent leather boots almost up to her knees. She must find them frightfully -hot. She rushed me into a tea place, awfully smart with rose-shaded lights reflected up to a blue ceiling; the combination made a most marvellous purple. We got an alcove shut o…
1906 · PDF PAGE 201
…a- rian table water. 161. Nadi,3°—For this difficult subject refer to the late Swami Vivekananda’s ‘‘ Raja Yoga.” 167. Tom Bond Bishop.*—Founder of the ‘*Children’sScripture Union” (an Association for the Dissemination of Lies among Young People) and otherwise knownasa philanthropist. His re- lationship to the author (that of uncle) has pro- cured him this rather disagreeable immortality. He was, let us hope, no relation to George Archibald Bishop, the remarkable preface to whose dreadfully conventionally psychopathic works is this. of the PREF…
1910 · PDF PAGE 134
…e result was good. 20th. 1. Tejas-Apas Meditation. 2. Meditation on living object with the usual two figure result. 3. Astral Vision.{ I found myself in a boiling sea with geysers spouting around me. Suddenly monsters shaped like lions and bulls and dragons rose from the deep, and about them sped many fiery angels, and Titanic god-forms plunged and wheeled and rose amongst the waters. Above all was built a white temple of marble through which a rose-flame flickered. There stood Aphrodite with a torch in one hand and a cup in the other,§ and abo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 134
…e result was good. 20th. 1. Tejas-Apas Meditation. 2. Meditation on living object with the usual two figure result. 3. Astral Vision.{ I found myself in a boiling sea with geysers spouting around me. Suddenly monsters shaped like lions and bulls and dragons rose from the deep, and about them sped many fiery angels, and Titanic god-forms plunged and wheeled and rose amongst the waters. Above all was built a white temple of marble through which a rose-flame flickered. There stood Aphrodite with a torch in one hand and a cup in the other,§ and abo…
1922 · PDF PAGE 296
…ick it out and trust a night’s rest to tone up my nerves. Lamus had advised us to take Turkish baths if we felt unduly depressed. We had found them very useful. We had got down to three goes a day two days running, chiefly by following his advice to take one of the white tablets instead of the heroin whenever the craving became irresistible. He made rather a point of that, by the way. . It was a bad thing, he said, to yield to stress. It wasn’t nearly so harmful to take the heroin when one didn’t feel so badly in need of it. Even after all this…
1943 · PDF PAGE 4
…c, inhuman, angelic, demonic, divine, Each wagon a dragon, each beer mug a flagon that brims with ambrosial wine. I went to the city and found it a pity the devil was playing at hell, And ten million mortals had entered hell's portals and thought they were all doing well. I said: "See, dear people, on every church steeple an imp of the devil at play, See ghouls cut their capers in daily newspapers and fiends in police courts hold sway; The mountains are palaces, women are chalices meant to be supped and not sold, The desert a banquet hall set f…
1930 · PDF PAGE 40
… exalted palaces of initiation is equally effective when employed to advise one in the ordinary business of life. The Master Therion has found the Yi King entirely satisfactory in every respect. The intelligences which direct it show no inclination to évadé the question or to mislead the querent. A further advantage is that the actual apparatus is simple. Also the System is easy to manipulate, and five minutes is sufficient to obtain a fairly detailed answer to any but the most obscure questions. With regard to the intelligences whose business …
1930 · PDF PAGE 118
…“ihgfedcba”: not “horse a is this” but aesroh a si siht”. To obtain this thoroughly well, practice (c) is very useful. The brain will be found to struggle constantly to right itself, soon accustoming itself to accept “esroh” as merely another glyph for “horse”. This tendency must be constantly combated. 14. In the early stages of this practice, the endeavour should be to meticulous minuteness of detail in remembering actions 3 for the brain’s habit of thinking forward will at first be insuperable. Thinking of large and complex actions, then, wi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 354
…ssed any commercial value. I shrugged my shoulders accordingly, and gave up the search. The skis that I had promised Ward were not to be found any more than the Watch Towers. After putting Neuburg through his initiation,2 we prepared to go to London. I had let the house, and my 1. The following is from The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (New York: Hill and Wang, 1970) pp. 595 et seq. 2. The preparation for this was in some ways trying to the candidate . For instance, he had to sleep naked for seven nights on a litter of gorse.
1929 · PDF PAGE 52
…point of mendicancy. The effect was, of course, disastrous. When I got to Cambridge I still had everything paid for me and in addition I found myself with unlimited credit which I could keep secret. When I came into my fortune a year later, I was utterly unprepared to use it with the most ordinary prudence, and all the inherent vices of my training had a perfectly free field for their development. Before, if I wanted to give a dinner party every day of the week, I could do it, but if I wanted a little cash my only alternative to the card table …
1929 · PDF PAGE 68
…y own resources after that. On several occasions I was obliged to make some very risky jumps, so that I might have been cut off if I had found a passage beyond my powers. I must admit feeling considerable disgust at seeing Ellis making his way over the glacier as if nothing had happened. He had fallen some eight hundred feet, the last three hundred sheer drop. I was utterly exhausted and {130} badly in need of food. It was all I could do to catch up to him. The only damage he had suffered was a trifling cut on one leg! Nightfall was at hand; an…
1907 · PDF PAGE 56
…therein. But the silly season is long past.” And he cursed it for a barren ocean. Luckily he was not Christ, or Mr. Swinburne would have found it difficult to find similes for everything he writes about; from Blake and Byron to Dekker, Dickens, Dionysius, Dio Chrysostom, and Diogenes. Then said the Man: “It is not blue but gray; it is far-resounding and makes an anarithmical gelasm; it is salt; it is wet; it is a generator of ozone, or my olfactory organs are deceived—and oh! but my bowels are stirred within me like the young lady in the Song of …
1954 · PDF PAGE 405
372 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS then redoubled my practice of it. What he said came out right; one day I found that I had acquired the knack of it. Now with these semi-pupils of yours the same thing probably applies. The point you raise in particular as baffling them is the getting on to the astral plane. It is not much good explaining why the failure occurs, or at what point it occurs; the only thing that is any use is for the pupil to go on and on and on eternally. He must find out for himself where the snag is, and he must continue his experiment u…
1996 · PDF PAGE 139
…e.1 1 “Liber LXV,” 11:7-15. 2 [Hippomanes in classical Greece (Grk., imTop.ai>eg) had two forms, both reputed aphrodisiacs: a black caul found on the forehead of new born foals and (as Liddell and Scott’s Greek Lexicon puts it) “a mucous humor that runs from mares a-horsing.” Hippomenes is Atal- anta’s pursuing lover in Michael Maier’s Atalanta Fugiens (1617).] 3 [An extinct volcano near Mexico City that Crowley climbed in 1901.] We therefore train our adepts to make the Gold Philosophical from the dung of witches, and the Elixir of Life from …