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Page 60 of 1141929 · PDF PAGE 453
…ight effort, I decided to trot off and see "The Fun of the Fair", by which title I called the poem in which I describe my excursion. The way in which I wrote it is, I imagine, unique in literature. I wrote down in heroic couplets every incident of the adventure exactly as it occurred and when it occurred. The only variation is that occasionally I permit myself to exaggerate the facts (as in enumerating the races of men whom I met) when the spirit of humour takes charge. This poem should have appeared in the English Review in the autumn of 1914.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 157
…such a hierarchy of tyrants as that of his gods . The man who formerly cut himself with flints before a lump of stone or clay , is in no way more foolish than he who prays to an omnipotent con ception ; the former was jealous and exacting , and so is the latter , the former a thing , the latter an idea , and both an ideal . This evolution is very vividly de scribed in the poem entitled “ The Growth of God ”: Fear grows , and torment ; and distracted pain Must from sheer agony some respite find ; When some half - maddened miserable brain Project…
1910 · PDF PAGE 285
…ight of gazing on it, it had transferred itself mysteriously to my own heart, and there became a circle of fire, which gradually ate its way until the whole writhing organ was in a torturous blaze. That spot, seen again in an after-vision, through the memory of its former pain instantly wrought out for me the same accursed result. The number of such re- membered faggots of fuel for direful suggestion of course increased proportionally to the prolonging of the hasheesh life, until at length there was hardly a visible or tangible object, hardly a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 285
…ight of gazing on it, it had transferred itself mysteriously to my own heart, and there became a circle of fire, which gradually ate its way until the whole writhing organ was in a torturous blaze. That spot, seen again in an after-vision, through the memory of its former pain instantly wrought out for me the same accursed result. The number of such re- membered faggots of fuel for direful suggestion of course increased proportionally to the prolonging of the hasheesh life, until at length there was hardly a visible or tangible object, hardly a…
1919 · PDF PAGE 403
…uphill. Thrice great is he who climbs the lofty top. 5. The Péramita heights are crossed by a still steeper path. Thou hast to fight thy way through portals seven, seven strongholds held by cruel, crafty Powers—passions incarnate. The distinction between the two Paths is now evident; that of Dhyana is intellectual, or one might better say, men- tal, that of Paramita, moral: But it may well be asked whether these Paths are mutually exclusive, whether a good man is always an idiot and a clever man always a brute, to put the antithesis on a somewh…
1919 · PDF PAGE 404
… Moksha is defined by the Hindus as unity with Parabrahman; and Parabrahman is without quantity or quality, not subject to change in any way, altogether beyond Manvantara and Pralaya; and soon. In one sense he is pure Atman. Now the Buddhist rejects Atman, saying there is no such thing. Therefore—to him—there is no Parabrahman. There is really Maha Brahma, who is (ultimately) subject to change, and, when the Karma which has made him Maha Brahma is exhausted, may be reincarnated as a pig or a Pisacha. Consequently Moksha is not liberation at all…
1907 · PDF PAGE 94
…m bleeds gener ous indignation against the marriage bond . We read : It was no wonder when the second day Showed me a city on the desert way , Whose brazen gates were open , where within I saw a statue for a sign of sin , And saw the people come to it and pray , Before its mouth set open for a gin.3 Before this statue he is brought ; her bronze and chilly loins are girded with the sacred gold of lust , her lips are lecherous and large , inviting to kiss : But somehow blood was black upon them ; blood In stains and clots and splashes ; and the m…
1909 · PDF PAGE 57
…l angular or focussing movements of the eye or by our general experience. So that if I cross a room, and think a million thoughts on the way, the room seems immense. It is by the tedium of the journey, not by any hallucination of the physical eye, that this illusion is produced. In writing my notes on one occasion I found that my right arm (which of course is not in the line of vision at all, normally) was many thousands of miles in extent. It was strange and difficult to control such colossal sweeps through space to the fine work of the pen. Y…
1909 · PDF PAGE 57
…l angular or focussing movements of the eye or by our general experience. So that if I cross a room, and think a million thoughts on the way, the room seems immense. It is by the tedium of the journey, not by any hallucination of the physical eye, that this illusion is produced. In writing my notes on one occasion I found that my right arm (which of course is not in the line of vision at all, normally) was many thousands of miles in extent. It was strange and difficult to control such colossal sweeps through space to the fine work of the pen. Y…
1909 · PDF PAGE 14
… and in the end I forgot about them. Thinking it over soberly, I see now that very likely they were quite right: I can’t prove it either way. Butas a mere practical man, I intend taking the steamer—for my sins I am 122
1913 · PDF PAGE 136
THE EQUINOX This was the way in which he would divine the forth- coming year. He did various things of a quite ordinary nature with an intense magical intention. He had asked a disciple to write him a message to be opened at midnight. The disciple, being a fool, wrote a foolish message, but none the less inspired. The diary continues thus— “Sought accidental symbols while looking for a black woman to represent Binah” (to which he was aspiring). “Entered by chance, firstly, Queen’s Hotel [can this refer to Binah?] and Leicester.” (Leicester was …
1913 · PDF PAGE 251
…splay a lack of any sense of proportion or humour which was deplorable, and, by his best friends, deplored. It was also unfortunate in a way that a book purporting to deal exhaustively with the inmost cabinet secrets of high- grade Freemasonry should be written by one who was not even a craft Mason. The ?result was that Dr. Wynn Westcott having been made to swear by all his gods that he was zof Consulting Chemist to the British Government Underground Secret Poison Factory at Gibraltar, and that he had never received at his house a lady whom eve…
1913 · PDF PAGE 136
THE EQUINOX This was the way in which he would divine the forth- coming year. He did various things of a quite ordinary nature with an intense magical intention. He had asked a disciple to write him a message to be opened at midnight. The disciple, being a fool, wrote a foolish message, but none the less inspired. The diary continues thus— “Sought accidental symbols while looking for a black woman to represent Binah” (to which he was aspiring). “Entered by chance, firstly, Queen’s Hotel [can this refer to Binah?] and Leicester.” (Leicester was …
1913 · PDF PAGE 251
…splay a lack of any sense of proportion or humour which was deplorable, and, by his best friends, deplored. It was also unfortunate in a way that a book purporting to deal exhaustively with the inmost cabinet secrets of high- grade Freemasonry should be written by one who was not even a craft Mason. The ?result was that Dr. Wynn Westcott having been made to swear by all his gods that he was zof Consulting Chemist to the British Government Underground Secret Poison Factory at Gibraltar, and that he had never received at his house a lady whom eve…
1919 · PDF PAGE 97
…st tinted thy lips with vermilion; thou hast plastered thy cheeks with ivory enam- els. Thou hast played the wanton in every gate and by-way of the great city. The men of the city have lusted after thee to abuse thee and to beat thee. They have mouthed the golden spangles of fine dust wherewith thou didst bedeck thine hair; they have scourged the painted flesh of thee with their whips; thou hast suffered unspeakable things. 9. But I have burnt within thee as a pure flame without oil. In the midnight I was brighter than the moon; in the daytime …
1922 · PDF PAGE 196
… breath into my lungs. I wanted to choke him; but there was time enough for that. 1 would torture him a few years longer first. I leapt away from him. He panted heavily. When he got his breath back, he glared at me horribly with the pin-point pupils of his sightless eyes. He began with romantic sadness, changing to demoniac glee. | “She was incarnate love In the hours when I first awoke her. Little by little I found The truth of her, stripped of clothing, Bitter beyond all bound, Leprous beyond all loathing.” We shouted with delight, and fell i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 13
…ot allow himself to be addressed as "Esquire" or even "Mr." It seems a piece of atavism, for a Crowley had petitioned Charles I to take away the family coat of arms; his successor, however, had asked Charles II to restore them, which was done. This is evidence of the satanic pride of the race. Edward Crowley despised worldly dignities because he was a citizen of heaven. He would not accept favour or honour from any one less than Jesus Christ. Alick remembers a lady calling at the house for a subscription in aid of Our Soldiers in Egypt. Edward …
1929 · PDF PAGE 138
…sly; they rhythm inhibits the intellectual process. The result is an ecstatic vision of Mary. The Hindu repeats Aum Hari Aum in the same way and gets a vision of Vishnu. But I noticed that the characteristics of both visions were identical save for the sectarian terminology in which the memory recorded them. I argued that process and result were identical. It was a physiological phenomenon and the apparent divergence was due to the inability of the mind to express the event except by using the language of worship which was familiar. Extended st…
1904 · PDF PAGE 12
…! Well ! I guess Brer Buddha’s right ! I am no brutal Cain37 to smash an Abel: I hear that blasphemy’s unfashionable: So in the quietest way we’ll chat about it; No need to show teeth, claws of cat about it! With gentle words—fiat exordium; Exeat dolor, intret gaudium ! 1 It had a design of 666 and Crowley’s name in Hebrew (which, like most names, adds up to that figure) on the reverse. 110 115 120 125 130 135 140 Necessity of poem. Mysticism v. literal interpre tation. Former excused. Buddha re- bukes poet. Detailed scheme of modified poem.
1913 · PDF PAGE 54
…thy will. 43. Do that, and no other shall say nay. 44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. 45. The Perfect and the Perfect are one Perfect and not two; nay, are none! 46. Nothing is a secret key of this law. Sixty-one the Jews call it; I call it eight, eighty, four hundred & eighteen. 14