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Page 59 of 791906 · PDF PAGE 74
… sort of confidence, Called me the fool I was, knowing my skill Proven of old, all women’s native will To do all things soever that lack sense, Especially if evil : thoughts immense Like this I thought: plumes of my amorous quill I tickled her withal: then grave and still Waited secure: the silence grew intense. She read—and saw me but a beardless boy, Too young to fear, too gentle not to pity, Not overbold ; quite powerless to destroy Her life’s long peace, the ten-year-walléd city. Why be too cruel, check such baby joy? She said “I think the …
1907 · PDF PAGE 174
…of love, And all the swallow’s swifter vehemence, And, subtler than the Sphinx, The ineffable iynx 1 Heralds thy splendour swooning into sense, When from the bluest bowers And greenest-hearted hours Of Heaven thou smilest toward earth, a miracle of flowers ! Down to the loveless sea Where lay Persephone Violate, where the shade of earth is black, Crystalline out of space Flames the immortal face! The glory of the comet-tailéd track Blinds all black earth with tears. Silence awakes and hears The music of thy moving come over the. starry spheres.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 86
…ncohérent formulas? (Contrast the infantile emotionalism and credulity of the average “well-educated” Anglo-Saxon with the shrewd common sense of the normal illiterate peasant.) A large proportion of mankind to-day is composed of “soûls’ who are living the human life for the fîrst time. Note especially the incredible spread of congénital homosexuality and other sexual deficiencies in many forms. These are the people who hâve not understood, accepted, and used even the Formula of Osiris. Kin to them are the ‘once-born’ of William James, who are …
1996 · PDF PAGE 7
… at once why Crowley chose Wilkinson as his editor, and explains the problems encountered in editing the present book: He has no “vulgar sense”; having written for so long out of the ken of the general reader, he has forgotten that the gen eral reader is not a specialist. The result is that, even in his lighter work, there are often certain references and words which the general reader would find unintelligible and there fore disconcerting; references and words that might irritate him and “put his back up” because they would make him feel ign…
1996 · PDF PAGE 41
…s have begun with rape. Rome was actually founded thereon. Similarly, murder of a faithless partner is ethically excusable, in a certain sense; for there may be some stars whose Nature is extreme violence. The colli sion of galaxies is a magnificent spectacle, after all. But there is nothing inspiring in a visit to one’s lawyer. Of course this is merely my personal view; a star who happened to be a lawyer might see things otherwise! Yet Nature’s unspeakable variety, though it admits cruelty and selfishness, offers us no example of the puritan …
1906 · PDF PAGE 192
…zers; if not, he was a credulous fool; not the one man of his time, not a ‘‘debauched genius” (for Sir R. Burton in this phrase has in a sense antici- pated my discovery) but a mere Elizabethan. This the greatest poet of all time? Then we must believe that Gloucester was right, and that eclipses caused the fall of Lear ! Observe that before this Shakespeare has had a sly dig or two at magic. In King John, " My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night” _-but there is no eyewitness. So in Macbeth. In a host of spiritual suggestion there is al…
1929 · PDF PAGE 147
… we do is to discover ourselves by means of a sequence of hieroglyphics, and the changes which we apparently operate are in an objective sense illusions. But the Light serves us in this way. It enables us to see ourselves, and therefore to aid us to initiate ourselves by showing us what we are doing. In the same way a watchmaker uses a lens, though it exaggerates and thus falsifies the image of the System of wheels which he is trying to adjust. In the same way, a writer emplovs arbitrary characters according to a meaningless convention in order…
1996 · PDF PAGE 30
…thyr.] Aiwass is then, as this verse 7 states, the “minister” of this Hoor-paar-kraat, that is of the Saviour of the World in the larger sense, and of mine own “Silent Self” in the lesser. A “minister” is one who performs a service, in this case evidently that of reveal ing; He was the intelligible medium between the Babe God—the New £on about to be born—and myself. This Book of the Law is the Voice of his Mother, His Father, and Himself. But on His appearing, He assumes the active form twin to Harpocrates, that of Ra-Hoor-Khuit. The Concealed…
1905 · PDF PAGE 242
…h! Dost thou live, Tannhauser? Sayest thou still: ‘* None but the dead can know the worth of love !”? TANNHAUSER, Still,- Iam not in any sense estranged. I yearn for thee in the first hour of spring, As in the dying days of autumn. I Would clasp thee, as a child its mother’s throat, Drinking celestial wine from that dear mouth, Or with goodwill see poison in thy smile, And die, still kissing thee, and kissed again ! This, though I saw thee crawl upon the earth, fowl at Her presence Whom thou wouldest ape, Thy tale reversed. I read that thunder …
1906 · PDF PAGE 52
…onr’s sect ; But the wise man doth earnestness, a precious talisman, protect. Follow not vanity, nor seek the transient pleasures of the sense : The earnest one who meditates derives the highest rapture thence. When the wise man by Earnestness hath Vanity to chaos hurled '{e mounts to wisdom’s palace, looks serene upon the sorrowing world. 1 Sanskrit, Amrita, the ‘' Elixir of Life” and food of the gods. 2 Sanskrit, Nirvana. See Childers’ Dictionary for etymological discussion, Pah The signification is too difficult a question to settle | ofthan…
1929 · PDF PAGE 150
…ressing them in some such form as the game of chess. One cannot use chessmen against another man unless he agréé to use them in the same sense as you do. The board and men form the Magical Link by which you can prove your power to constrain him to yield. The game is a device by which you force him to turn down his king in surrender, a muscular act made in obedience to your will, though he may be twice your weight and strength. These general principles should enable the student to understand the nature of the work of making the Magical Link. It …
1935 · PDF PAGE 9
…he most terrific penalties by his presumption. 7. The Order of the R. C. The Grade of the Babe of the Abyss is not a Grade in the proper sense, being rather a passage between the two Orders. Its characteristics are wholly negative, as it is attained by the resolve of the Adeptus Exemptus to surren- der all that he has and is for ever. It is an annihilation of all the bonds that compose the self or constitute the Cosmos, a resolution of all complexities into their elements, and these thereby cease to manifest, since things are only knowable in r…
1939 · PDF PAGE 10
… His measureless cold, Without being or form or abode, without motion or matter, the fold Where the shepherded Universe sleeps, with nor sense nor delusion nor dream, No spirit that wantons or weeps, no thought in its silence supreme. I sit, and am utterly still; in mine eyes is my fathomless lust Ablaze to annihilate Will, to crumble my being to dust, To calcine the dust to an ash, to burn up the ash to an air, To abolish the air with the flash of the final, the fulminant flare. All this I have done, and dissolved the primordial germ of my tho…
1996 · PDF PAGE 147
…er is the sole satis faction. It is the yearning itself that is Beatitude. It may seem that in this verse the word “Death” is used in a sense somewhat other than that explained in the previous note. It is forbidden, observe, to “man.” That is, then, the formula must not be used by one who is still an imperfect being. Our definition is surely confirmed by this phrase rather than denied, or even modified. To long for death is to aspire to the complete fulfilment of all one’s potentialities. And it would evidently be an error to insist upon passi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 133
… is the suprême mystery of practical Magick. Its name is the Formula of the Rosy Cross. In this case the victim is always — in a certain sense — the Magician himself, and the sacrifice must coïncide with the utterance of the most sublime and secret name of the God whom he wishes to invoke. Properly performed, it never fails of its effect. But it is difficult for the beginner to do it satisfactorily, because it is a great effort for the mind to remain concentrated upon the purpose of the ceremony. The overcoming of this difficulty lends most pow…
1930 · PDF PAGE 26
…he time to test that is later on. As soon as you feel more or less at home in the fine body, let it rise in the air. Keep on feeling the sense of rising; keep on looking about you as you rise until you see landscapes or beings of the astral plane. Such hâve a quality ail their own. They are not like material things — they are not like mental pictures — they seem to lie between the two. After some practice has made you adept, so that in the course 146
1907 · PDF PAGE 128
122 RODIN IN RIME NABUCHADNOSOR. SENSELESS the eyes: the brow bereft of sense. Hunger is on the throne of pride; and naught Fills the gray battlefield of ancient thought, The market places of intelligence, Save need and greed ; whose royal words incense The jealous God of Israel is distraught. No jewels in the casket nobly wrought. The shrine is grand; the god is ravished thence. On clawing hands and hardened knees the King Exists, no more; is it a little thing? King Demos, hear my parable! We pass, We poets, see you grovel at our feet, Despise…
1910 · PDF PAGE 36
THE EQUINOX How To Keep Fir. By C. T. SCHOFIELD, M.D. W. Rider and Sons. ts. net. There is a deal of sound sense in this little manual. The author castigates faddists, though to my mind not severely enough. However, I suppose that in this mealy-mouthed age the truth is not printable. It is a little amusing, though, to see how he tries to make his commonsense fit into his Christianity. It is the Puritan theory that theological sin, which means everything you like, is bad for you, that is responsible, according to statistics, for 79°403% of all t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 36
THE EQUINOX How To Keep Fir. By C. T. SCHOFIELD, M.D. W. Rider and Sons. ts. net. There is a deal of sound sense in this little manual. The author castigates faddists, though to my mind not severely enough. However, I suppose that in this mealy-mouthed age the truth is not printable. It is a little amusing, though, to see how he tries to make his commonsense fit into his Christianity. It is the Puritan theory that theological sin, which means everything you like, is bad for you, that is responsible, according to statistics, for 79°403% of all t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 46
…ed out of prudence. Simon Iff had not noticed the outburst. He quoted "The Book of the Law," "Be strong!" he cried. "Enjoy all things of sense and rapture! There is no god that shall deny thee for this!" The Thing became coherent. It contracted slightly. Lisa could now see that it was an animal of the wolf type, couchant. The body was as big as that of a small elephant. It became quite clearly visible. It was a dull fiery red. The head was turned toward her, and she was suddenly shocked to see that it had no eyes. The old man advanced towards i…