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Page 60 of 1731911 · PDF PAGE 195
…ἱ Increased Knowledge! CAPRICORNUS. Hail, thou that sittest in the City of the Pyramids! AQUARIUS. Hail, thou that art encamped upon the Great Sea! MAGISTER TEMPLI. Hail, brethren! CAPRICORNUS. Master, what is Increased Knowledge? MAGISTER TEMPLI. Death. AQUARIUS. Master, what is the Ark thereof? MAGISTER TEMPLL The grave. AQUARIUS and CAPRICORNUS. Master, how shall we enter it? MAGISTER TEMPLI. Arise and follow me! [He rises and eircninamhn/ates the 6/?!שושwiddershins. CAPRICORNUS flutes forth every third flerson and makes themfol/ow hiinY conti…
1914 · PDF PAGE 5
…soul one flame for art and song, her soul Pure as the trilling musick of her tongue, Her heart one flame—for me. The single goal Of this great purgatory of mine is she. God grant her hope to her, and mine to me! fa) ‘Thou all-beholding sun, whose beams Comfort the just and the unjust, Wake me from all these evil dreams Of this grey globe of greed and lust! Ah ! that is less than naught to Thee Which is the all, and more, to me! This is my grief; nor God, nor man Cares what thing earthly may befall. True self conceives a subtler plan, Nor heeds …
1906 · PDF PAGE 273
…hours we snatch awhile from death? Myst. Willingly. But lately you were the ‘‘sahib”’ asking questions concerning Indian Philosophy as a great prince who should con- descend to study the habits of horses or dogs —yesterday we changed all that. Patanjali. Aphorisms. Bhikkhu Ananda Metteya. Essays (prin- cipally in the quarterly ‘‘ Buddhism ”’). The Tao Teh King and the Writings of Kwang Tze. The Sufis, to whom chiefly Crowley is indebted for the foundations of his system of sceptical mysticism.] Scept. I have but one apology to offer— that of Dr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 29
…t violent love to him, with wanton kisses and caresses. "That's the best trick of the lot," explained Cyril; "It goes wonderfully with a great many men. It gets their powers of observation rattled; she can pull off the most obvious 'miracles,' and get them to swear that the control was perfect. That's how she fooled Oudouwitz; he was a very old man, and she proved to him that he was not as old as he thought he was. Great Harry
1916 · PDF PAGE 1
…, the Scarlet Woman, Hilarion, and having been led by her through the appointed Pylons, become OHPION ‘a Magus 9” = 2° of the A:.A:, the Great White Brotherhood of Light. ace [Now therefore must he of necessity take up the Curse of his Grade, and preach his Law to men. Here then is ‘Law as it is written in the Book of the Law. Do what thou wile shall be ehe whole of the Law. ‘There is no Law beyond Do what thou wilt. ‘The word of the Law is OZATIMA. [Now itis said of the Magus that in the beginning doth
1919 · PDF PAGE 204
…X Of ever deeper silences, Eons and zons and zeons Of lampless empyréans Darker and deeper and holier, caves Of night unstirred by wind, great graves Of all that is or could ever be In Time or Eternity. Drawn, drawn, inevitably spanned, Tirelessly drawn by some strange hand, Drawn inward in some sense unkenned Beyond all to an appointed end, No end foreseen or hoped, drawn still Beyond word or will Into Itself, drawn subtly, deep Through the dreamless deaths whose shadow is sleep, Drawn, as dawn shows, to the inmost divine, To the temple, the n…
1944 · PDF PAGE 135
… permitted to be‐ hold, even for a moment, this Arrow, the austere, the august. But the vision is accomplished, and we have sent forth a great wind against thee. For thou canst not penetrate by force, who hast refused it; nor by authority, for thou hast trampled it under foot. Thou art bereft of all but understanding, O thou that art no more than a little pile of dust! And the images rise up against me and constrain me, so that the Aethyr is shut against me. Only the things of the mind and of the body are open unto me. The shew‐stone is dull, f…
1944 · PDF PAGE 213
…act confirms the counterchange of IV and XVII, above fully expounded: as a link between Chokmah and Tiphareth, the Emperor would have no great significance, and this exquisite doctrine of the Three Mothers would be lost. and disordered. It is subject to change as is no other suit. It represents a general shak‐ ing‐up, resulting from the conflict of Fire and Water in their marriage; and proceeds, when Earth appears, to crystallization. But the purity and exaltation of Chokmah are such that this card manifests the very best idea possible to the s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 71
…the stars the die was cast to win. The moonrays stained with pale embroidered bars The iridescent shimmer of your skin, Under the stars. Great angels drove their pearl-inwoven cars Through the night’s racecourse : silence stood within The folded cups of passion’s nenuphars. You were my own; sorrowless, without sin, That night—this night. Sinks the red eye? of Mars; The hand of Hermes! guides us as we spin Under the stars. 1 Tibetan astrologers give these symbols to the planets Mars and Mercury. VOL, IIT. XXIT, Droor the great eyelids purple-vei…
1903 · PDF PAGE 15
…Rah is He God of gods! ‘Mor % SH fet praitiar (tow ee OBp teichs tWinztorn & His tip (hw Whey, With Wekzfimulacd lore OF harning, Qaal's great Sicrarchs go nw He gold god's graBey [Fol And ioay He ambiguous oracte. 4
1929 · PDF PAGE 485
…ahatma able to juggle with the stars in their courses if the wind took me. Only a small percentage showed intelligent interest. I made a great impression on Frank Crowninshield, editor of Vanity Fair. I was in form that night and told everyone exactly right. He realized it could not be guessing. The chances against me ran into billions. I hung about New York all winter trying to get a foothold. My effort to countermine German intrigue was my worst handicap, in the case of the best people. But as to my literary career, I was no snowflake in hell…
1901 · PDF PAGE 41
…Seven Stars! CORA. Can you not see? I am cut off from God! Loathsome bull-men in their corruption linked Whisper lewd fancies in my ear. Great fish, Monstrous and flat, with vile malignant eyes, And crawling beetles of gigantic strength, Crushed, mangled, moving, are about me. Go! Go! do not touch the carcase of myself That is abased, defiled, abominable.
1902 · PDF PAGE 139
…snows Barefoot, and through the lovely watered land Rich in the sunshine—even unto Rome. There knelt I with the other sinful folk At the great chair of Peter. Sobbed they out From full repentant hearts their menial sins, And got them peace. But 1 told brutally (Cynical phrase, contempt of self and him) My sojourn in the Venusberg ; then he Rose in his wrath, and shook the barren staff Over my head, and cried— I heard his voice Most like the dweller of the hurricane Calm, small, and still, directing desolation ; Death to the world athwart its pa…
1912 · PDF PAGE 244
…aw— backs to pleasure implied. Chesed of( ?הReceiving pleasure or kindness from others, but some discomfort therewith). Therein rule the great Angels?לאי`הand?היזכרמ 202
1912 · PDF PAGE 244
…aw— backs to pleasure implied. Chesed of( ?הReceiving pleasure or kindness from others, but some discomfort therewith). Therein rule the great Angels?לאי`הand?היזכרמ 202
1944 · PDF PAGE 228
…ls are most inharmo‐ nious, so that in practical matters the good fortune of Jupiter is very limited. Their influence on the card is not great. Yet, Jupiter being himself the Wheel (Atu X), he emphasizes that idea. The card represents two Pantacles, one above the other; they are the Chinese symbols of the Yang and Yin duplicated as in the Hsiang. One wheel is dextro‐ and the other laevo‐ rotatory. They thus represent the harmonious interplay of the Four Elements in constant movement. One may in fact consider the card as the picture of the compl…
1961 · PDF PAGE 59
…atures being no longer coloured and confused, they may be regulated and formulated in Simplicity by the Operation of Pure Reason, to thy great Comfort in the Work of our Transcendental Art, whereby the Many become One. n
1899 · PDF PAGE 14
…ck no sundering surge may climb, When their strong hands gripped hard across the sea, Flushed with fresh victory, Lands royal, leal, and great, vast beautiful, and free. Our children’s children shall unsheathe the sword Against the envy of some tyrant power, The leader of your people and our lord Shall join to wrest from slavery abhorred Some other race, a fair storm-ruined flower ! O fair republic, lover and sweet friend, Your loyal hand extend, Let freedom, peace and faith grow stronger to the end. O child of freedom, thou art very fair ! Tho…
1905 · PDF PAGE 175
…gs of the weather, Marked bright with the silvery ghylls For flickering feather, brings all things together To nest in the hills. Like a great bird poised in the æther, The mountain keeps watch over earth, On the child that lies sleeping beneath her Wild-eyed from a terrible birth. But by noise of the world unshaken, By dance of the world not bedinned, The hill bides forsaken, yet only to waken Her lover, the wind.
1905 · PDF PAGE 176
…hat distils A potion of madness from berries of sadness Grown wild in the hills. Though the earth be disparted and rended, Thus only the great peaks change That their image is moulded and bended Into all that a fancy may range ; And the silence my song could refigure To the note of a bird did I will, Of glory or rigour, of passion or vigour— The change were to ill ! For silence is better than singing Though a Shelley wove songs in the sky, And hovering is sweeter than winging ; To live is less good than to die. The secret of secrets is hidden N…