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Page 58 of 1591911 · PDF PAGE 277
…þlays una;/dingk? [A Mea/[fame. MERCURY. At the Ending of the Light, At the Limits of the Night, Stood Mercury before the Unborn ones of Time. Then was formulated the Universe; Then came forth the Gods thereof, The aeons of the Bornless Beyond. Then was the Voice vibrated ; Then was the Name declared. At the Threshold of Entrance, Between the Universe and the Infinite, In the Sign of the Enterer Stood Mercury, as before him The æons were proclaimed In Symbols did he record them ; In Breath did he vibrate them ; For between the Light and the Dark…
1911 · PDF PAGE 277
…þlays una;/dingk? [A Mea/[fame. MERCURY. At the Ending of the Light, At the Limits of the Night, Stood Mercury before the Unborn ones of Time. Then was formulated the Universe; Then came forth the Gods thereof, The aeons of the Bornless Beyond. Then was the Voice vibrated ; Then was the Name declared. At the Threshold of Entrance, Between the Universe and the Infinite, In the Sign of the Enterer Stood Mercury, as before him The æons were proclaimed In Symbols did he record them ; In Breath did he vibrate them ; For between the Light and the Dark…
1913 · PDF PAGE 123
… etc., are now done by 1.,2 who returns, and they again greet, but as inttiates.] o. and 1. [face to face}. 0. What is the hour? 1. When time hath no power. o. What is the place? 1. At the limits of space. 0. What God do we wake? 1 This is the nearest idea I can give of the text, which is in hieroglyph impossible to reproduce. 2 It is clear that this ritual is full of intentional blinds. G2 83
1913 · PDF PAGE 123
… etc., are now done by 1.,2 who returns, and they again greet, but as inttiates.] o. and 1. [face to face}. 0. What is the hour? 1. When time hath no power. o. What is the place? 1. At the limits of space. 0. What God do we wake? 1 This is the nearest idea I can give of the text, which is in hieroglyph impossible to reproduce. 2 It is clear that this ritual is full of intentional blinds. G2 83
1911 · PDF PAGE 171
… as he chose. I gave up all hopebut in bringing ofi'the 9to ! chance 01 my medium’s being right, The sceptic kept both eyes on me all the time ; iii stirred a finger, he was up in arms, I did keep my back to the mantelpiece, but there was no way of writing down the number. But it was just at that point that my sceptic’s magnificent brain broke down. He had correctly argued everything so far; but then his brain said, “ It is im- portant that Crowley shall not know where I hide the paper with the number on it : I must hide it somewhere where he cann…
1911 · PDF PAGE 171
… as he chose. I gave up all hopebut in bringing ofi'the 9to ! chance 01 my medium’s being right, The sceptic kept both eyes on me all the time ; iii stirred a finger, he was up in arms, I did keep my back to the mantelpiece, but there was no way of writing down the number. But it was just at that point that my sceptic’s magnificent brain broke down. He had correctly argued everything so far; but then his brain said, “ It is im- portant that Crowley shall not know where I hide the paper with the number on it : I must hide it somewhere where he cann…
1910 · PDF PAGE 16
…A giant god, and strangle him anon With starry serpents like Laocoon, A stoic god that might enamour And draw him with its tendrils into time. VI My mouth was wet with the delicious crime Of kissing you, one night, when in a vision
1912 · PDF PAGE 48
… do pay to your Eminence. [To the ninth.] Sir, I am glad to meet you. May our friendship lime All joys it had imagines. Farewell for the time. [To THE DOGE.] My lord, you whelm the spirit. If such mystery In my realm of the Ten, what shall I deem of the Three ? THE DOGE. My son, the keys of power are in your hand this hour. The garden is yours ; the shower is Gods ; may He grant the flower ! MORTADELLO. Father, I take my leave ; to-morrows busi- ness presses. Venice shall wake to joy-bells. THE DOGE. Make the wildernesses To blossom like the …
1961 · PDF PAGE 98
…e. Now then do this continuously, for by Repetition cometh forth both Strength and Skill, and the Effect is cumulative, if thou allow no Time to dissipate itself. h
1929 · PDF PAGE 170
…ther and {290} giving a hand to a third. I had no reason to suppose that the reconnaissance of the Austrians was radically wrong. By the time the last man had come safely through the critical section, I was already tired; and when I started to follow, I found to my dismay that the Matayun side of the pass, instead of being steep, was at a very low gradient indeed; and, so far from being free from snow, was covered deeply. The day being well advanced, the going was softer and more slushy all the time. Even the tracks made by the coolies had not …
1929 · PDF PAGE 317
… to speak to me is a cause of distraction. In practice I train such people carefully not to address me when I am working --- aye! at any time --- without special justification. I made a further experiment in October 1908 (see "John St. John") of carrying out a complete Magical Operation of the most important kind while leading the life of the normal man-about-town in the Montparnasse quarter. I did this to demonstrate to the people who complained that they had not the time or convenience for Magick, that they could do it without giving up their…
1901 · PDF PAGE 84
…urpose of my youth, The high desire, the secret joy, the sin That coiled its rainbow dragon scales within. Hope’s being, life’s delight, time’s eager tooth ; All, all are gone ; the serpent sloughs his skin ! The quest is mine ! Here ends mortality In contemplating the eternal Thee. Here, She is willing. Stands the Absolute Reaching its arms toward me. I am mute,
1910 · PDF PAGE 133
…e Carrefour de L’Odeon, a Paris). Swallow the scrotum whole and rub the penis backwards and forwards across the nose. Excite at the same time the testes with the tongue, and the fundament with the finger.
1913 · PDF PAGE 386
…erney a statue executed by the hangman. There is depth in this thought. Voltaire, in effect, also was, in the world, a being at the same time providential and fatal, endowed with insensibility for the accomplishment of his terrible functions. He was, in the domain of intelligence, a hangman, an extirminator armed by the justice of God Himself. God sent Voltaire between the century of Bossuet and that of Napoleon in order to destroy everything that separates those two geniuses and to unite them in one alone. He was the Samson of the spirit, alwa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 386
…erney a statue executed by the hangman. There is depth in this thought. Voltaire, in effect, also was, in the world, a being at the same time providential and fatal, endowed with insensibility for the accomplishment of his terrible functions. He was, in the domain of intelligence, a hangman, an extirminator armed by the justice of God Himself. God sent Voltaire between the century of Bossuet and that of Napoleon in order to destroy everything that separates those two geniuses and to unite them in one alone. He was the Samson of the spirit, alwa…
1914 · PDF PAGE 12
…g at the door: She listens. “What's he doing?” One confesses That one must leave you to a pair of guesses. r, she will send me out, some time she feels She is safe, and when my back is turned, she runs Through all my pockets eagerly, and steals Each scrap of writing. She was human once : Her thirty years of whoring have snowed under All traces of it; and, by God, no wonder| She even stole my own vile wage; she stole ‘What she had given me herself: she took The body, wants the mind, would take the soul If she knew any longer where to look. No, m…
1928 · PDF PAGE 148
… repeated these words day and night, showing the prettiest teeth in the world, which would have softened and enli- vened you at the same time. I might have made my fortune by showing her at fairs as the Polyphagous Wonder. I fed her well, and yet she left me. For a provision merchant, no doubt? Something of the sortan officer of commissariat, who, by some wizardry, was probably able to supply the poor child with the rations of several soldiers,or so at least I suppose. I, said the fourth, have endured atrocious suffering from the co…
1961 · PDF PAGE 63
…l Relation with it; or the Wall at my Side, by Cause that I am not strong enough to overcome its Inertia. To win that Battle I must call Time and Pick-axe to mine aid. But how could I retard the Motion of the Earth in Space? I am myself Party of its Momentum. Yet every Stroke of my Pen affecteth that Motion by changing the Equilibrium thereof. The Problem of every Act of Magick is then this: to exert a Will sufficiently powerful to cause the required Effect, through a Menstruum or Medium of Communication. By the common Understanding of the Word…
1939 · PDF PAGE 19
…ts religion and ethics ready-made. However ridiculous or shameful a theory or practice is, they would rather comply than examine it. Sometimes it is hook-swinging or Sati; sometimes consubstantiation or supra-lapsarianism; they do not mind what they are brought up in, as long as they are well brought up. They do not want to be bothered about it. The Old School Tie wins through. They never suspect the meaning of the pattern on the tie: the Broad Arrow. You remember Dr. Alexandre Manette in A Tale of Two Cities. He had been imprisoned for many ye…
1929 · PDF PAGE 304
304 the Yangtze; for one thing, the delays at Bhamo and Tengyueh had robbed me of time. I was anxious to get to Europe in good time to prepare a new expedition to Kangchenjunga for 1907. I had the mountain, so to speak, in my pocket. A part of average strength could make as certain of strolling to the top as if it were the Strand. I decided, therefore, to turn south and make for Tonkin. On March 2nd, after breakfast and tiffin with the consul general, who was unfortunately short of stores and could only spare us a couple of tins of butter, we s…