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Page 59 of 801929 · PDF PAGE 82
…r period of manifested existence, which alternâtes with a Pralaya, during which création is latent. Analysed Qabalistically, the Word is found to possess similar properties. A is the négative, and also the unity which concentrâtes it into a positive form. A is the Holy Spirit who begets God in flesh upon the Virgin, according to the formula familial* to students of “The Golden Bough”. A is also the “babe in the Egg” thus produced. The quality of A is thus bisexual. It is the original being — Zeus Arrhenothelus, Bacchus Diphues, or Baphomet. U o…
1904 · PDF PAGE 52
…compressed into and synthesised in the form of a peculiarly evil-looking caduceus. Figure 172 is from the decoration of a sepulchral urn found at Olden- burgh in Germany. It is remarkable as showing the same hieroglyphic human form with the crescent above; the latter in the Secret Seal of Solomon has a flattened top, and is therefore more like a bowl, and is placed across the hieroglyph. Figure 173 is an Egyptian design which would show an analogy be- tween the symbol and the idea of the force of the creation. Figure 174 is a stele from Phoenic…
1906 · PDF PAGE 142
… Luck of Maurya! The power of the deed. CriIosDA. I find thee, mother, at last. Life’s final flash Gleams through the storm. RUPHA. I am found! Ho! Ho!
1907 · PDF PAGE 109
…he Amrita, whereby Life learneth not to die. The seventh in silence tended it Against the horror of the pit. Ill. 103 1 A meaning may be found for this poem by any really profound student of the Qabalah, 2 Gulf of Martaban, South of Burma. Thus in a cage of wisdom lay The dead man, live as they.
1906 · PDF PAGE 277
…ese events. The two thieves were ‘‘nailed up like vermin”’ on either side of Christ by precisely the same people; are they also gods? To found a religion on the fact of death, murder though it were, is hardly more than African fetichism. Does death prove more than life? Will Mr. Ches- terton never be happy until he is hanged? These then are the rear-guard actions of his retiring and beaten army. A word is * In the American Civil War, 1861-64. were not men, only Americans. t Thisis mere rhetoric. Crowley was perfectly familiar with the condition…
1954 · PDF PAGE 364
…get cured of the opium habit. In such cases insomnia is frequent. One night, however, he had gone to sleep, and on waking in the morning found that she, wakeful, had drawn a copy of the Stele on a great sheet of paper . It is very remarkable that so large a sheet of paper should have been at hand; also that they should have taken that special book on such a journey; but still more that she should have chosen that picture, nay that she, who had never done anything of the sort before, should have done it at all. More yet, that she should have spe…
1905 · PDF PAGE 221
…| poet's home. crest. 2 England. * Crowley, an Irishman, was passionately attached to the Celtic movement, and only abandoned it when he found that it was a mere mask for the hideous fe:itures of Roman Catholicism. 214
1909 · PDF PAGE 268
…stic repast composed of the * The “ Formula of Osiris” is given in Z. 1, and is as follows : “For Osiris Onnophris hath said : He who is found perfect before the Gods hath said: These are the elements of my body, perfected through suffering, glorified through trial. For the secret of the Dying Rose is as the repressed sigh of my suffering. And the flame-red fire as the energy of my undaunted will. And the cup of wine is the outpouring of the Blood of my heart sacrificed unto regeneration and the Newer Life. And the Bread and the Salt are as the…
1909 · PDF PAGE 268
…stic repast composed of the * The “ Formula of Osiris” is given in Z. 1, and is as follows : “For Osiris Onnophris hath said : He who is found perfect before the Gods hath said: These are the elements of my body, perfected through suffering, glorified through trial. For the secret of the Dying Rose is as the repressed sigh of my suffering. And the flame-red fire as the energy of my undaunted will. And the cup of wine is the outpouring of the Blood of my heart sacrificed unto regeneration and the Newer Life. And the Bread and the Salt are as the…
1922 · PDF PAGE 314
… pitiless passion, and swept me away with the tempestuous rush of her contempt. “‘T made an excuse, and came to see what was going on. I found you had utterly forgotten the facts. You were sniffing cocaine, not as an experiment, not because of any physical need, but as a vice pure and simple. You were already insane with it. I might have stood that, for I loved you. But that you should plan to become the partner of that murderous villain with his hypocritical piety, that was another matter. That was a matter of honour. I don’t know how long I s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 54
…ed perfectly to memory. The invoca¬ tion will then begin with a prayer to the god, commemorating his physical attributes, always with profound understanding of their real meaning. In the second fart of the invocation, the voice of the god is heard, and His characteristic utterance is recited. In the thirâ fortion of the invocation the magician asserts the identity of himself with the god. In the fourth fortion the god is again invoked, but as if by Himself, as if it were the utterance of the will of the god that He should manifest in the magici…
1906 · PDF PAGE 213
… only in the inability to reconcile the ultimate antinomies of a cosmogony only grosser for its pinchbeck spirituality; have, I take it, found their modern parallel in the ghastly laughter of Herbert Spencer, as fleshed upon the corpses of Berkeley and the Idealists from Fichte and Hartmann to Lotze and Tren- delenburg he drives the reeking fangs of his im- agination into the palpitating vitais of his own grim masterpiece of reconcilement, self-deluded and yet self-conscious of its own delusion. _ History affirms that such a deadlock is in- var…
1907 · PDF PAGE 192
…aused strange joy among the woes Tartarean. RHADAMANTHUS. Never in the centuries Till godlike Heracles Burst the wild bonds, hath mortal found the fatal knees; Nor hath the bitter cry Of worlds in agony Answered the groans of those who weep, and cannot die. MINOS. Iron of heart and strong, We also suffer wrong. We know these words are just. not. Though thy song Were the sole word of Zeus, Should that avail to loose The bands of Being firm, invulnerable dews Tincturing its bitter brass, Shielding its vital mass From every word that cries, ‘‘ Thu…
1909 · PDF PAGE 11
…e Order Rosae Rubeae et Aureae Crucis and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Unluckily, the leading spirit in these latter societies found that his prayer, “Give us this day our daily whisky, and just a wee drappie mair for luck !” was sternly answered, ‘‘ When you have given us this day our daily Knowledge-lecture.” Under these circumstances Daath got mixed with Dewar, and Beelzebub with Buchanan. But even the best of these systems is excessively bulky ; modern methods have enabled us to concentrate the substance of twenty thousand pages i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 20
…m the divan. She could see that some intricacy was on foot, but could form no notion of its nature. When the newcomers were seated, Lisa found that she was expected to regale them with the news of Paris. It was rather a relief to her to get away
1929 · PDF PAGE 164
…owers which she wielded in pre-eminence from her inheritance in the white sphere of Levanah! When Sister Clara came to summon Iliel, she found her still in swoon. They carried her to her room. At noon she recovered consciousness. Cyril Grey was seated by her bed. To her surprise, he was dressed in mundane attire, an elegant lounge suit of lavender. "Have you seen the papers?" he cried gaily. "Neapolitan Entomologists capture rare butterfly, genus Schedbarshamoth Scharthathan, species Malkah be-Tharshishim ve-Ruachoth ha-Sche-halim!" [232] "Don'…
1910 · PDF PAGE 194
…ung to the spot ever since the operations of February 1900. On the night of the 16th of June he began to practise Mahasatipatthana,; and found it easy to get into the way of it as a mantra which does not interfere much with sense- * Till 1906. The theory of the Great White Brotherhood, as set forth in the story called “The Blossom and the Fruit,” by Miss Mabel Collins. + The practice of Mahasipatthana is explained by Mr. A. Crowley in his “Science and Buddhism” very fully. Briefly: In this meditation the mind is not restrained to the contemplat…
1910 · PDF PAGE 194
…ung to the spot ever since the operations of February 1900. On the night of the 16th of June he began to practise Mahasatipatthana,; and found it easy to get into the way of it as a mantra which does not interfere much with sense- * Till 1906. The theory of the Great White Brotherhood, as set forth in the story called “The Blossom and the Fruit,” by Miss Mabel Collins. + The practice of Mahasipatthana is explained by Mr. A. Crowley in his “Science and Buddhism” very fully. Briefly: In this meditation the mind is not restrained to the contemplat…
1929 · PDF PAGE 155
…technique of Magick combined with tremendous vigour and skill, but a degree of IVIystical attainment which is exceedingly rare, and when found is usually marked by an absolute apathy on the subject of any attempt to achieve any Magick at ail. Suppose that I wish to produce a thunderstorm. This event is beyond my control or that of any other manj it is as useless to work on their minds as my own. Nature is independent of, and indifferent to, man’s affairs. A storm is caused by atmospheric conditions on a scale so enormous that the United efforts…
1904 · PDF PAGE 72
…only in the inability to reconcile the ultimate antimonies of a cosmogony only grosser for its pinchbeck spirituality ; have, I take it, found their modern parallel in the ghastly laughter of Herbert Spencer, as fleshed upon the corpses of Berkeley and the Idealists from Fichte and H artman to Lotze and Tren- delenburg he drives the reeking fangs of his im- agination into the palpitating vitals of his own grim masterpiece of reconcilement, self-deluded and yet self-conscious of its own delusion. History affirms that such a deadlock is invariabl…