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Page 59 of 1081929 · PDF PAGE 108
…on the tablet, with names, etc., and the 6th Key. I then (as Harpocrates) entered my crystal. An angel, meeting me, told me, among other things, that they (of the tablets) were at war with the angels of the 30 Aethyrs, to prevent the squaring of the circle. I went with him unto the abodes of fire, but must have fallen asleep, or nearly so. Anyhow, I regained consciousness in a very singular state, half consciousness being there, and half here. I recovered and banished the Spirits, but was burning all over, and tossed restlessly about --- very s…
1906 · PDF PAGE 256
… externality, or no ;! whether or no we fly to the extreme idealistic position ; there is no question that, to our normal consciousness, things as they present themselves — apart from obvious illusion, if even we dare to except this—-are undisprovable to the immediate apprehen- sion. Whatever our reason may tell us, we act precisely as though Berkeley had never lived, and the herculean Kant had been strangled while yet in his cradle by the twin serpents of his own perversity and termi- nology. What criterion shall we apply to the relative reali…
1906 · PDF PAGE 177
…you now if you list From Tennyson. It isn’t much; (Skip this and ’twill be even less) He says: “I am not what I see,§ And other than the things I touch.”* How lucid is our Alfred T. ! The Hindu, an Advaitist, Crosses off Maya from the list ; Believes in one—exactly so, Dhyana-consciousness, you know ! May it not be that one step further *?Tis lotused Buddha roaring murther !” ?” Nibbana is the state above you Christians and them Hindus—Lord love you !—- Where Nothing is perceived as such. This clever thought doth please me much. But if das Esse…
1907 · PDF PAGE 283
… without a leg ” -Unknowability . In “ Eleusis ” Crowley illustrates this , and says : “ Evolution is no better than creation to explain things , as Spencer showed .” 2 Huxley the sublime philosopher , the true agnostic , the periphery of whose knowledge extended far into those mirrored realms wherein Spencer only saw his own distorted countenance , seeing well that Hylo Idealistic - Solipsism led the whole sentient creation from sub - rational matter to rational man , was suffi ciently a true agnostic not to deny the possibility of a divine So…
1913 · PDF PAGE 489
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES A useless word is a crime against the spirit of intelli- gence; it is an intellectual infanticide. Things are for every one what he makes of them by naming them. The word of every one is an impression or an habitual prayer. To speak well is to live well. A fine style is an aureole of holiness. From these principles, some true, others hypothetical, and from the more or less exaggerated consequences that they draw from them, there resulted for superstitious qabalists an absolute confidence in enchantments, evocations, con…
1913 · PDF PAGE 489
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES A useless word is a crime against the spirit of intelli- gence; it is an intellectual infanticide. Things are for every one what he makes of them by naming them. The word of every one is an impression or an habitual prayer. To speak well is to live well. A fine style is an aureole of holiness. From these principles, some true, others hypothetical, and from the more or less exaggerated consequences that they draw from them, there resulted for superstitious qabalists an absolute confidence in enchantments, evocations, con…
1919 · PDF PAGE 86
…re is the seal unloosed, that guarded the Eighth abyss; therefore is the vast sea as a veil; therefore is there a rending asunder of all things. 49. Yea, also verily Thou art the cool still water of the wizard fount. I have bathed in Thee, and lost me in Thy stillness. 50. That which went in as a brave boy of beautiful limbs cometh forth as a maiden, as a little child for perfection. 51. O Thou light and delight, ravish me away into the milky ocean of the stars! 80
1922 · PDF PAGE 234
…LD TURKEY | September 23 I pon’tT remember what happened. -I know why. Basil told me long ago. that the mind only kept count of material things. So these spiritual events are recorded in a higher kind of mind of which we are not conscious until we get accustomed to spiritual life. So all I can put down is that we Ahad a complete success. The Devil, of course, needs a human interpreter if he is to communicate with this world, and so he took possession of Peter. He has been preparing Peter to represent him. He will make Peter pope, and I am to be…
1930 · PDF PAGE 80
…His Angel has made “Voice”, the magical weapon which produces “Words”, and these words hâve been the wisdom by which He hath created ail things. The “Voice” is necessary as the link between the Adept and his Angel. The Angel is “King”, the One who “can”, the “source of author- ity and the fount of honour”; also the King (or King’s Son) who delivers the Enchanted Princess, and makes her his Queen. He is “Ruler”, the “unconscious Will”; to be thwarted no more by the ignorant and capricious false will of the cons¬ cious man. And He is “Helper”, th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 113
80 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Because you know the things unclean That go to make a mortal maid. I, if her rotten corpse were mine, Would take it as my natural food , Denying all but the Divine Alike in evil and in good. Aspasia may skin me close, And Lais load me with disease. Poor pleasures, bitter bargains, these? I shall despise Diogenes. Follow your fancy far enough! At last you surely come to God. There is thus in this School no attempt to deny that Nature is, as Zoroaster said, "a fatal and evil force"; but Nature i:::, so to speak, "the First…
1906 · PDF PAGE 160
… antithesis implied, The irony, the curse-fruition, The calm assumption of Hell’s fevers As fit, as just, for unbelievers— These are the things that stick beside And hamper my quite serious wish To harbour kind thoughts of the “ Fish.” °8 Here goes my arrow to the gold! I’ll make no magpies! Though I hold Your Christianity a lie, Abortion and iniquity, The most immoral and absurd — —(A priest’s invention, in a word)— Of all religions, I have hope In the good Dhamma’s ® wider scope, Nay, certainty ! that all_at last, However came they. in the pa…
1906 · PDF PAGE 188
…his may be fancy or a fact ; At least it squares with super-sense Or “spiritual experience.” You do not well to swell the list Of horrid things to me imputed By calling me “materialist.” At least this thought is better suited To Western minds than is embalmed Among the doctrines of Mohammed, The dogma parthenogenetic * As told me by a fat ascetic. He said : “ Your worthy friends may lack you late, But learn how Mary was immaculate !” I sat in vague expectant bliss. | The story as it runs is this: (I quote my Eastern friend © verbatim !) The Vir…
1919 · PDF PAGE 376
THE EQUINOX “Now is the Pillar established in the Void; now is Asi ful- filled of Asar; now is Hoor-let down into the Animal Soul of Things like a fiery star that falleth upon the darkness of the earth. “Through the midnight thou art dropt, O my child, my conqueror, my sword-girt captain, O Hoor! and they shall find thee as a black gnarl’d glittering stone, and they shall worship thee.” 37. Step out from sunlight into shade, to make more room for others. The tears that water the parched soil of pain and sorrow bring forth the blossoms and the f…
1919 · PDF PAGE 429
THE SEVEN PORTALS be subject to these illusions. And although it may be con- ceded that these things, although illusions, do correspond with a certain reality, anything objective should have been dismissed at an earlier stage. In the mental struggles there should be no place for demons. Unless my memory deceives me, that was just the one trouble that I did not have. The reason may possibly have been that I had mastered all external demons before I took up meditation. 47. Hold firm! Thou nearest now the middle Portal, the gate of Woe, with its t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 41
… you scripture anyhow) What did the Sage mean when he wrote (I am the Devil when I quote) “The mere terrestrial-minded man Knows not the Things of God, nor can Their subtle meaning understand ?” A sage, I say, although he mentions Perhaps the best of his inventions, God. For at first this practice tends To holy thoughts (the holy deeds Precede success) and reverent gaze Upon the Ancient One of Days, Beyond which fancy lies the Truth. To find which I have left my youth, All I held dear, and sit alone Still meditating, on my throne Of Kusha-grass…
1907 · PDF PAGE 172
…e nameless blasphemy , the slimèd East Sin incarnated with a leprous lover !3 Whilst these are seeking the “ Monstrous desires of secret things ,”4 others are ranting about atheist death bed scenes . For these Crowley also has a word : “ Oh , very well !” I think you say , “ Wait only till your dying day ! See whether then you kiss the rod , And bow that proud soul down to God ! ” I perfectly admit the fact ; Quite likely that I so shall act ! 1 The Fatal Force , vol .i, p . 143 . 2 The Mother's Tragedy , vol . i, p . 163 . 3 The Temple of the …
1909 · PDF PAGE 244
…d shakes his fires in the burden’d air, Hungry clouds swag on the deep.” Insatiable, he still pressed on, hungering for the knowledge of things outside; and in his struggle for the million he misses the unit, and heaps up chaos in the outer darkness of Illusion. From the cloudless skies of Mysticism he rushes down into the infernal darkness on winged thoughts: “ The fiery limbs, the flaming hair, shot like the sinking sun into the western sea,” and we find him now in the Goetic king- doms of sorcery, witchcraft, and infernal necromancy. The bat…
1909 · PDF PAGE 244
…d shakes his fires in the burden’d air, Hungry clouds swag on the deep.” Insatiable, he still pressed on, hungering for the knowledge of things outside; and in his struggle for the million he misses the unit, and heaps up chaos in the outer darkness of Illusion. From the cloudless skies of Mysticism he rushes down into the infernal darkness on winged thoughts: “ The fiery limbs, the flaming hair, shot like the sinking sun into the western sea,” and we find him now in the Goetic king- doms of sorcery, witchcraft, and infernal necromancy. The bat…
1910 · PDF PAGE 161
…l never desert him until he become one with him. Il. Right Resolutions or Right Aspirations. Having perceived the changing nature of all things, even of men’s minds, and having acquired that glorified vision by which he can distinguish between the permanent and the impermanent, he aspires to the attainment of a perfect knowledge of that which is beyond change and sorrow, and resolves that he will, by strenuous effort,t reach to the peace beyond; to where his heart may find rest, his mind become steadfast, untroubled, and serene.t At this stage …
1910 · PDF PAGE 367
… my bench. See! If thou be indeed Achilles, why should we be in doubt? The gilded arms of Pandarus—the speech of Ther- sites. Sir, these things trouble us! Thou seest it! If thou art journalist, the very journalists may rise from their slime, bubbling with foul breath, and suck thee down to their mother ooze unspeakable; but if not, then I too (no journalist, God knows!) must praise thee. Thee—not thy work. For the manner thereof is wholly abominable. What have all we done, that for Pegasus we have this spavined and hamstrung Rosinante, for Buc…