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Page 60 of 1001909 · PDF PAGE 81
…rd, — Impossible to comment on this shocking ‘sin against the Holy Ghost’ To compare the very Spirit or Breath of God to — Oh, Lord, how long? Basilisk. — a fabulous creature that slew all that it looked upon. Lingam. — The Hindu God(') — the male organ of generation. Yoni — Its feminine equivalent. That the poor Hindus should worship these shameful things! And we? Qh how poor and inade- quate is all our missionary effort! Let us send out more, and yet more, to our perishing brothers! Pheedra was repulsed by her son Hippolytus; Semiramis receve…
1912 · PDF PAGE 288
…f time; procrastination is the soul of business,” and would justify his paradox by pointing out that if you only left letters unanswered long enough, the need to answer them disappeared. His system, in fact, became extremely popular; even Charles Dickens playfully animadverts upon it in one of his novels. A secretary being necessary to him, he pressed his sister A—— into the service, thereby saving her from such terrible temptations as love, marriage, or even occasional relaxation, which is known to be the devil's subtlest engine, and saving hi…
1912 · PDF PAGE 288
…f time; procrastination is the soul of business,” and would justify his paradox by pointing out that if you only left letters unanswered long enough, the need to answer them disappeared. His system, in fact, became extremely popular; even Charles Dickens playfully animadverts upon it in one of his novels. A secretary being necessary to him, he pressed his sister A—— into the service, thereby saving her from such terrible temptations as love, marriage, or even occasional relaxation, which is known to be the devil's subtlest engine, and saving hi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 418
…death; and they feel themselves dragged away into the whirl of vertigo. You speak to them, they no more hear you; you warn them, they no longer understand you, but your voice annoys them; they are asleep with the sleep of death. Death is a current which carries you away, a whirlpool which draws you down, but from the bottom of which the least movement may make you climb again. The force of repulsion being equal to that of attraction, at the very moment of expiring, one often attaches oneself again violently to life. Often also, by the same law …
1913 · PDF PAGE 418
…death; and they feel themselves dragged away into the whirl of vertigo. You speak to them, they no more hear you; you warn them, they no longer understand you, but your voice annoys them; they are asleep with the sleep of death. Death is a current which carries you away, a whirlpool which draws you down, but from the bottom of which the least movement may make you climb again. The force of repulsion being equal to that of attraction, at the very moment of expiring, one often attaches oneself again violently to life. Often also, by the same law …
1919 · PDF PAGE 423
… this treatise, in poetic and romantic imagery, and in Miltonic inversion. (I do not here refer to Lycidas.) Consequently we get quite a long passage on a somewhat obvious point, and the Evil Persona or Dweller of the Threshold is introduced. However, it is a correct enough place. That Dweller is Fear—his form is Dispersion. It is in this sense that Satan, or rather Samael, a totally dif- ferent person, the accuser of the Brethren, is the Devil. 36. Beware, Disciple, of that lethal shade. No light that shines from Spirit can dispel the darkness…
1919 · PDF PAGE 430
THE EQUINOX If it means Nephesh, of course this ought to have been mastered long ago. It probably means Neshamah. If we take this to be so, the whole passage will become intelligible. In the beginning of progress we have the automatic Ego, the animal creator or generator of Nephesh in Yesod, the lowest point of the Ruach, and the marriage between these is the first regeneration. Nephesh is Syrinx, and Yesod is Pan. Nephesh is the elemental Soul which seeks redemption and immortality. In order to obtain it, it must acquire a Soul such as is poss…
1954 · PDF PAGE 250
…exactly how, or to what end, she did not make clear. An exclamation: "Then there is the Devil!" She went on without a word from me for a long while, tying herself up into fresh knots with every phase . She became irreverent, then downright blasphemous; stopped short and began to laugh at herself. And so forth-but, what struck me as curious and significant, in the main her argument followed quite closely the lines which came naturally to me, at the beginning of this letter! In the end, "curiouser and curiouser," she arrived at a practically iden…
1907 · PDF PAGE 18
…s “ Hypolympia , " in answer to the query of Æsculapius , “ What is pleasure ? ” We see the mortal form of the immortal healer climbing along the jutting cornice of some cliff , in search for the simples of life ; and as the zephyrs waft his long ashen locks around his furrowed brow , his trembling hand clutches some rugged crag , more perhaps from joy than fear . And so , as we now open the works of Aleister Crowley , we are filled with an exhilarating chain of pangs ; mortal - like we are never sated , and as our lips taste the nectar of true…
1911 · PDF PAGE 41
…not hear a word; something about the Book of the Law. The answer is written in the Book of the Law, or something of that sort. This is a long speech; all that I can hear is: From me pour down the fires of life and increase continually upon the earth. From me flow down the rivers of water and oil and wine. From me cometh forth the wind that beareth the seed of trees and flowers and fruits and all herbs upon its bosom. From me cometh forth the earth in her unspeakable variety. Yea! all cometh from me, naught cometh to me. Therefore am I lonely an…
1912 · PDF PAGE 177
…ill. But it shall not look at me, glazing over till it almost dies-— I hate you, hate you, hate you! [HE walks about] Seven nights—seven long nights! have I waited for my chance to 'stinguish its glare—in his blood—in his blood—in his blood! [Stumbhhg 01/07 a shuttzr, HE recovers normal manner] Ah Ι the robbers, we must keep out the robbers. [HE bars and shutters the windows, gutte normally] Dear old Daddy, to rob him they’d have to walk across me. [Fee/5 0750176610- business] And now I’ll get to bed. [Exits R. [Re-enler MARTIN, L., who lat/es …
1912 · PDF PAGE 177
…ill. But it shall not look at me, glazing over till it almost dies-— I hate you, hate you, hate you! [HE walks about] Seven nights—seven long nights! have I waited for my chance to 'stinguish its glare—in his blood—in his blood—in his blood! [Stumbhhg 01/07 a shuttzr, HE recovers normal manner] Ah Ι the robbers, we must keep out the robbers. [HE bars and shutters the windows, gutte normally] Dear old Daddy, to rob him they’d have to walk across me. [Fee/5 0750176610- business] And now I’ll get to bed. [Exits R. [Re-enler MARTIN, L., who lat/es …
1913 · PDF PAGE 427
…, was once more about to quit Paris, that Paris where even the angels and the demons, if they appeared in any shape, would not pass very long for mar- vellous beings, and would find nothing better to do than to return at top-speed to heaven or to hell, to escape the forget- fulness and the neglect of human kind. Mr. Home, his air sad and disillusioned, was then bid- ding farewell to a noble lady whose kindly welcome had been one of the first happinesses which he had tasted in France. Mme. de B. . . treated him very kindly that day, as always, a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 427
…, was once more about to quit Paris, that Paris where even the angels and the demons, if they appeared in any shape, would not pass very long for mar- vellous beings, and would find nothing better to do than to return at top-speed to heaven or to hell, to escape the forget- fulness and the neglect of human kind. Mr. Home, his air sad and disillusioned, was then bid- ding farewell to a noble lady whose kindly welcome had been one of the first happinesses which he had tasted in France. Mme. de B. . . treated him very kindly that day, as always, a…
1905 · PDF PAGE 230
…ells me Love’s fragrance stolen above thee Thy soul to mine at last is turning Now I have told thee that I love thee! PREFACE. As, after long observation and careful study, the biologist sees that what at first seemed isolated and arbitrary acts are really part of a series of regular changes, and presently has the life-history of the being that he is examining clear from Alpha to Omega in his mind; as, during a battle, the relative importance of its various incidents is lost, the more so owing to the excitement and activity of the combatant, an…
1911 · PDF PAGE 36
…ts, my breath stops. There is no link between me and P.... I withdraw myself. I see the table again. (He was behind the table for a very long time. O.V.) And all the table burns with intolerable light; there has been no such light in any of the Aethyrs until now. And now the table draws me back into itself; I am no more. My arms were out in the form of a cross, and that Cross was extended, blazing with light into infinity. I myself am the minutest point in it. This is the birth of form. I am encircled by an immense sphere of many-coloured bands…
1929 · PDF PAGE 34
…everity. In all this, however, he was still himself; the horror that was and yet was not himself did not peer from be- hind the veil So long as I am consciously myself, he said in one of his rare fits of brightness, I can communicate to you what I am consciously thinking; as soon as this con- scious ego is absorbed, you get the subconscious thought which I fearoh how I fear!is the greater and truer part of me. You have brought unguessed explana- tions from the world of sleep; you are the one woman in the worldperhaps there may never be an…
1954 · PDF PAGE 58
…it would be kind of you to go through a page or so with me, and tell me where the shoe pinches. Of course I have realized the difficulty long ago; but I don't know the solution-or if there is a solution. I did think of calling Magick "Magick without Tears"; and I did try having my work cross-examined as I went on by minds of very inferior education or capacity. In fact, Parts I and II of Book 4 were thus tested. Love is the law. love under will. Fraternally, 666
1910 · PDF PAGE 36
…vals to my wife. Nothing can intervene between my boy and me but the slow foot of change, for sodomites are mortal ; but that im- mortal longing in them which is À±¹´µÁÇÃĵ¯Ç—That twins them with the Lord of Resurrection ; and even as I plunge my member in the sarcophagus, the flesh-eater, the podex of my lover, and with- draw it, its strength renewed as the eagle’s, so do I know that when the Eater of all flesh devours me altogether, I shall arise in my strength, through the blessed resurrection of our Lord Jesus, the lover of John the beautif…
1954 · PDF PAGE 469
…aters that has foisted upon us the grotesque and poisonous superstition that wisdom abides only in dogs-eared, worm-eaten, mule-inspired long-forgotten as misbegotten folios. I like the story-it is a true tale-of the old Jew millionaire who bought up the annual waste of the Pennsylvania Railroad-a matter of Three Million Dollars. He called with