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Page 58 of 941944 · PDF PAGE 16
…e papers, besides the attribution of the Tarot, were certain skeleton rituals, which purported to contain the secrets of initiation; the name (with an address in Germany) of a Fraülein Sprengel was mentioned as the issuing authority. Dr. Westcott wrote to her; and, with her permission, the Order of the Golden Dawn was founded in 1886. (The G D is merely a name for the Outer or Preliminary Order of the R.R. et A.C., which is in its turn an external manifestation of the A A which is the true Order of Mas‐ ters1—See Magick, pp. 229‐244.) The g…
1904 · PDF PAGE 55
…my- self in Paris, and rooms in a dirty little basement in the Montparnasse Quarter. My next-door neighbours were photographers, one, by name L..s, calling himself an artist, and his partner H...s, pluming himself upon his business capacity. L..s was the son of a charlatan parson once well known in Eng- land as a mountebank, while his mother, disgusted that he was a boy, brought him up as a girl, as far as she possibly could. He even slept with her till he was eighteen : and we may guess the result. H...s was a snivelling shit. L..s wore long h…
1904 · PDF PAGE 37
…see the Cyclopædia-article On “Metaphysics”; miss no particle 310 315 320 325 330 335 340 345 Visible Image of the Soul of Nature, whose Name is Fat- ality. Futility of all investigations of the Mind into the First Cause. Faith our only alternative to Despair ? So says Mansel.
1907 · PDF PAGE 35
… of the pillar ! None Can hear thee , of the souls beneath the sun. Speak ! or the very Godhead in thee dies . For we are many , and thy name is One .? Before we leave the glowing east , one more curious similarity still strikes us , it is that though in so many ways the ideas of Aleister Crowley are akin to those of Omar Khayyam , yet his fertile imagination also engenders flights as spiritual as those contained in the melodious ghazals of Jeláladdin . In more than one place we come across lines similar to these in Tannhäuser : I say , then , …
1907 · PDF PAGE 106
THE VIRGIN 99 : tress he had denied himself in vain , stung with insult and vile word , he slays him : Stark dead . The queen-I hate the name of her ! So grew the mustard -seed , one moment's lust . Wounded himself, he is nursed back to life by the wife of his adversary . Ah God ! she won that most reluctant breath Out of corruption : love ! ah ! love is strong ! What waters quench it ? King Shalomeh saith .? Thus failed the Quest , as all quest against love must inevitably fail . A man who truly loves a woman loves her so intensely that all el…
1907 · PDF PAGE 251
…nd Christ , the Saviour and Redeemer , the stick with which the wretched old jennet is beaten along . Christianity is no longer what its name implies , the system of doctrines as taught by Christ , but diametrically the reverse , the system of desires as wrought by Man . It is no longer “ Sell all ,” but “ Seize all ”; or “ Give all ,” but “ Get all .” Mammon is the God of to - day , and modern Christianity is ab solute and unadulterated materialism . As such it is not necessary to look far for its antithesis . Religions decay through materiali…
1911 · PDF PAGE 125
…he cried. " Aux grands hommes la patrie reconnaissante 1 ” “Probably,” said he. “Already I run to a full page in the American papers, my name intimately coupled with that of a duke’s daughter whom I have never seen." “ Good, good l " she agreed—" so much for fame. But are you really great? Your laughter was better than Zarathoustra Ξ What is your real secret? Why did you love your neigh— bour? Why did you speak the truth? How did you come to know anything at all well enough to be able to laugh as 117
1911 · PDF PAGE 125
…he cried. " Aux grands hommes la patrie reconnaissante 1 ” “Probably,” said he. “Already I run to a full page in the American papers, my name intimately coupled with that of a duke’s daughter whom I have never seen." “ Good, good l " she agreed—" so much for fame. But are you really great? Your laughter was better than Zarathoustra Ξ What is your real secret? Why did you love your neigh— bour? Why did you speak the truth? How did you come to know anything at all well enough to be able to laugh as 117
1912 · PDF PAGE 101
…gave him away, for the street-boys have taken to calling him “old Venus." But he is wrong; the boys have their aesthetic reasons for the name. Gertrude in any case is much too busy to bother her head about him; for, after a year in the Latin Quarter, if she has failed to surpass Degas and Manet and O‘Conor, she has at least conquered the great pianist VVlodywewsky, and it 59
1912 · PDF PAGE 101
…gave him away, for the street-boys have taken to calling him “old Venus." But he is wrong; the boys have their aesthetic reasons for the name. Gertrude in any case is much too busy to bother her head about him; for, after a year in the Latin Quarter, if she has failed to surpass Degas and Manet and O‘Conor, she has at least conquered the great pianist VVlodywewsky, and it 59
1929 · PDF PAGE 7
…pon her divorcing him --- a formality as meaningless as their marriage --- and she became insane shortly afterward, an eminent masochist named Colonel Gormley, R.A.M.C. (dead previously, then and since) lay in wait for her at the asylum gates to marry her. The trouble was that he included among his intellectual lacunae a devotion to the Romish superstition. He feared damnation {36} 1. WEH Note: A lustre is a period of five years. 2. There is also a notable tuft of hair upon the forehead, similar to the mound of flesh there situated in the Buddh…
1944 · PDF PAGE 118
…even Years’ space, eating Grass as doth an Ox. Now this Ox is the letter Aleph, and is that Atu of Thoth whose number is Zero, and whose Name is Maat, Truth; or Maut, the Vulture, the All‐Mother, being an Image of Our Lady Nuith, but also it is called the Fool, which is Parsifal, “der reine Thor”, and so referreth to him that walketh in the Way of the Tao. Also he is Harpo‐ crates, the Child Horus walking (as saith Daood, the Badawi that became King, in his Psalm‐ ody) upon the Lion and the Dragon; that is, he is in Unity with his own Secret Na…
1898 · PDF PAGE 74
… in our Bible “ Jehovah” or “the Lord,” the last nine Sephiroth are summed up. The first also contains the idea of existence, the Divine Name connected with this Sephira being j}°;T&, Eheieh, Existence. Below this world of Atziluth or of God is that of Briah or Thrones ; to this world belong the Archangels; still lower that of Yetzirah or Formation; to this world ten orders of angels are attributed; . and lastly, the world of Assiah, or of action (the material world). The further development of these facts, their connection with the numerical s…
1909 · PDF PAGE 33
…vl. | LVIL LVI. LV. LIV. Archangels pepreme The Four The Four The Elements The Letters Quarters. Kings. Quarters. Rivers. and Senses. <i Name. rig bans | Tahceloi . . .). (E)NND Soa | A Air, Smell 4B]. 2957!) 1 Sxva3 | Thahebyobeaatan | .(W) J5YD yg | V water, Taste |... | 23 Sxesip | Ohooohatan . . |. (S) DYN wp | A Fire, Sight 7). 9/7] 81 Sy | Thahaaotahe ©. . (N) MBY nu | W Earth, Tough |... 1." | 82 bis @® spirit, Hearing) . .w. . | 31 bis LXVIII. LXVII LXVI. LXV. The Demon The Parts of Spelling of Tetragrammaton Secret Num- Kings. the in t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 254
…the inspiration in any particular passage, especially as the sentences are themselves couched in the sham medizval jargon with which his name has always been associated. His gradual gravitation towards Catholicism has been attributed to the receipt of a subsidy from the Society of Jesus; but this is a calumny upon the shrewdness of the fathers who, glad enough to employ a clever scoundrel like Booth—or somebody else beginning with a B—would hesitate to waste an obolus on such a literary sausage-seller.* The love of obscurantism and mummery is s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 254
…the inspiration in any particular passage, especially as the sentences are themselves couched in the sham medizval jargon with which his name has always been associated. His gradual gravitation towards Catholicism has been attributed to the receipt of a subsidy from the Society of Jesus; but this is a calumny upon the shrewdness of the fathers who, glad enough to employ a clever scoundrel like Booth—or somebody else beginning with a B—would hesitate to waste an obolus on such a literary sausage-seller.* The love of obscurantism and mummery is s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 10
…arts” for the purpose ofc Scorrio, KC. Was this charge denied? Maries, No, o, KC. What did you do? 1. Texpelled his accuser Scorrio, KC. Name the accuser Marien’, Miss Hornims SconPio, KC. The daughter of the great tea mer Maries. The same, Sconbio, KC. And who is Dr. Berridge? Matuzns, He is the famous Dr. Berridge. Scorrio, K.C. For what ishe famous? Maries, For his Magie Chip. Scorrio, KC, What is that? Marius. Mrs, Cunningham, « memberof my Orde £1,000 from him as the price of Magic Clasp said to given by Cagliosteo to Matie Antoinette. She…
1907 · PDF PAGE 324
…mory of long lives interlaced Fades in my tading . I disintegrate Fall into black oblivion of Fate . My being divides . I have forgot my name . I am blown out as a thin subtle flame, I am no more . And Nor shall the mind revoke at ease These myriad cressets from the sun ; Constrained in sober destinies Thought's river shall its ripples run Into the one , the one , the one , the one .? 2 2 Orpheus , vol . iii, p . 213 . Gargoyles , vol . iii, p . 97. I may here point out that not only in their Sapphic brilliance , but also in their mirrored myst…
1910 · PDF PAGE 252
…o art Thou? How can I bargain with Thee? What shall I give that I may possess Thy secret? O question unavailing ! For I know not yet Thy name! Who art Thou? Who art Thou? THOMAS [opening the door). Mr. Todd. [Enter tovp. caRR [rising]. How are you? I’m afraid you find me distracted! Listen: all my life I have sought—nor counted the cost—for the secret of things. Science is baffled, for Knowledge hath no wings! Religion is baffled, for Faith hath no feet! Life itself—of what value is all this coil and tumult? Who shall give me the secret? What i…
1910 · PDF PAGE 252
…o art Thou? How can I bargain with Thee? What shall I give that I may possess Thy secret? O question unavailing ! For I know not yet Thy name! Who art Thou? Who art Thou? THOMAS [opening the door). Mr. Todd. [Enter tovp. caRR [rising]. How are you? I’m afraid you find me distracted! Listen: all my life I have sought—nor counted the cost—for the secret of things. Science is baffled, for Knowledge hath no wings! Religion is baffled, for Faith hath no feet! Life itself—of what value is all this coil and tumult? Who shall give me the secret? What i…