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… Heaven! The night falls asunder; The darkness is riven ! Light, O eternal! Life, O diurnal ! Love, O withdrawn! Heart of my May, spring Far to Thy dawn ! God of the dayspring ! Sun on the lawn!
…fate: despair and “The Sun, surmounted by a red rose, shining ; die: on a mossy bank."! I hear the sea roll strong and pure that bore me far OVER the western water lies a solar fire, ; ‘From Méalfourvinie’s! scalp, gray moor and Kapt lives and drunken ecstasies of sad lonely scaur ; desire ) I hear the waves together mutter in counsel Poppies and lonely flag-flowers haunt the deep : desolate I hear the thunder the winds utter in broken Marsh-strand: the herons gaunt still con- sleep ; ‘ ’ template oo I hear the voices of four rivers crying What…
…to bring libel actions. But he would not give in. He studied Vesquit's transcripts attentively, and with indecision. He did not know how far to trust the oracle, and he did not understand how Vesquit had come to die, since on that point even Arthwait had been silent. The demons whom he consulted were emphatic in favour of the document, but failed to explain how the fortress was to be reduced from the inside. He was clear in his mind as to the nature of Grey's operation; he saw perfectly that Lisa herself was the weak point in it; but he did not…
…oups of modern revolutionaries and reformers. This may not happen soon; the sceptic will say that, if it ever happens, it will be in the far future. 1 [Wilkinson refers to Liber AL vel Legis sub figura CCXX (London: O.T.O., 1938; 2nd rev. ed. Pasadena: Church of Thelema [1942]).] Possibly; but a beginning can, and indeed must, be made now. The more closely we look at the present state of the world, (few of us, today, can help looking at it, however little we may enjoy doing so) the more necessary it will surely appear that a beginning should be…
Chapter I a Verse 51 57 Hitherto our sexual tabus have kept far ahead of Gilbert and Sullivan. We have made love the lackey to property, as who should pay his rent by sneezing. We have swaddled it in polite ness, as who should warn God off the grass. We have muddled it up with morality, as who should frown at the Himalayas on the one hand, and, on the other, regulate his behaviour by that of an ant-heap. The Law of Thelema is here! (It appears pertinent to add that the above ethical theories have stood the test of practice. Experiment shows th…
…n your feet, Were it not better with a bosom warm And accents sweet ) To help to raise (and no man will upbraid you) Your sisters fallen far? ’Tis vain! God’s worst omission—Heart— has made you The thing you are ! THE LITTLE HALF-SOVEREIGN.! RED is the angry sunset, Murk is the even grey, Ileavy the clouds that hover Over our Hell to-day. “¢* Say, in our dark Gomorrah, Lord, can an angel find Fifty, but fifty, righteous— Body—I say not Mind.” Sadly the angel turneth— ‘* Stay, ere thou fleest, stay ; Canst thou not find me twenty?” ‘‘ Nay” is th…
…ch begins: “Therefore do thou corne forth unto me”, it is not really the magician who is addressing the God; it is the God who hears the far-off utterance of the magician. If this invocation has been correctly performed, the words of the fourth part will Sound distant and strange. It is surprising that a dummy (so the magus now appears to Himself) should be able to speak! The Egyptian Gods are so complété in their nature, so perfectly spiritual and yet so perfectly material, that this one invocation is sufficient. The God bethinks him that the …
… denied a place upon the Tree of Life; it pertains to the Abyss. Besides the above considerations, it may be observed that Knowledge, so far as it exists at all, even as a statement of rela tion, is no more than a momentary phenomenon of conscious ness. It is annihilated in the instant of its creation. For no sooner do we assent to arb than arb is absorbed in our conception of A. After the nine days’ wonder of “The Earth revolves round the Sun,” we modify our former idea of Earth. “Earth” is intuitively classed with other solar satellites. Th…
…m Where she abode (her home was cool and dark That no small glow-worm with his tender spark Might lighten till the moon was down, a nook Far from the cuol enticements of the brook, And hidden in the boskage close and green.) So dreamed she, smiling like a faéry queen ; So the bright feet and forehead of the breeze Lured her to sleep, and shook the morning trees Clear of the dewfall, and disturbed the grass, So that no rustle, should a serpent pass, i Might rouse her reverie. So then, behold, Chance leant from Heaven with feet and face of gold, …
…undrels, whose use of religion and respectability to cioke their villainies is a deliberate disguise dictated by their criminal cunning. Far from it, they are only too sincere in their “virtues”; their terror of death and of supernatural vengeance is genuine; it proceeds from a section of themselves which is in irreconcilable conflict with their rascality. Neither si de can conciliate, suppress, or ignore the other; yet each is so craven as to endure its enemy’s presence. Such men are therefore without pure principles; they excuse themselves fo…
…t her neck, Amen ! 38. Therefore lift up thyself as I am lifted up. Hold thyself in as I am master to accomplish. At the end, be the end far distant as the stars that lie in the navel of Nuit, do thou slay thyself as I at the end am slain, in the death that is life, in the peace that is mother of war, in the darkness that holds light in his hand, as an harlot that plucks a jewel from her nostrils. 39. So therefore the beginning is delight, and the end is delight, and delight is in the midst, even as the Indus is water in the cavern of the glaci…
…em. You have already in these pages and elsewhere in my writings examples numerous and varied of the way in which They work. The list is far from complete. The matters of Ab-ul-Diz and of Amalantrah show one method of communication; then there is the way of direct "inspiration," as in the case of "Hermes Eimi" in New Orleans.! Again, They may send an ordinary living man, whether one of Themselves or no I cannot feel sure, to instruct me in some task, or to set me right when I have erred. Then there have been messages conveyed by natural objects…
…rests upon a mathematical basis. It makes no partial appeal; it does not depend upon religious theory or racial tradition. One who knows far more than I do both of mathematics and of mysticism has thrown a clearer light than I could upon the evidence of the preternatural character of this Book. He writes: The Qabalists conceal the value of it in the name of alhim, which is God considered as the cooperative forces of Nature, and by taking the significant figure in the conventional value of these letters you obtain the number 3.1415. But this is …
…SON. Nay, but my knowledge is of mind alone. I cannot so apply it as to build An Argo. ARGUS. Yet I verily believe Such mind must pierce far deeper than these names, Seeking the very nature of the things Thou namest thus so pat. Perchance to thee These logs, nails, bolts, tools, have some life of sense, Some subtle language. say !1 Tell us what they THESEUS. Tis but a giber—leave the churl alone. JASON. Indeed I spake of things I knew not of. ARGUS. You speak more wisely when you float away Into pure dream, and talk of mystic things That no man…
… at last like the clamour of swords That clash in the wrath of the warring of lords. Listen, oh, listen! the nightingale near us swoonsa farewell tothe blossoming brake; Listen, the thrush in the meadow is singing notes that move sinuous, lithe as a snake ; The cushats are cooing, the world is awake. 1 Crowley's biographer will note the astonish- ing coincidences of scene and incident between this poem and the events of 1903-4. go Only one hour since you whispered the story out of your heart to my tremulous ear ; _Only one hour since the light …
…st banish ail thoughts which concern himself, those of appré¬ hension no less than those of ardour. He must carry his introspec¬ tion as far as possible. He must observe with ail the subtletv at his command whether it pains him to abandon any of these thoughts. So long as his mind is stirred, however slightly, by one single aspect of the subject, he is not fit to begin to form the figure. He must sink his persouality in that of the intel¬ ligence hearing the question propounded by a sîrarager to whom he is indifferent, but whom it is his busine…
…e was no doubt about the heroism, and no uncertainty about what would happen to it if the Germans possessed a leader with initiative. So far the hostile legions had moved according to the rules, with all due scientific precaution. A leader of temperament and intuition might have rushed that tenuous line. Still, science was as sure as it was as slow — and the whole army knew it. They prepared to die as expensively as possible, with simplicity of manhood. They had not yet heard that Press and Pulpit had made them the laughing-stock of the world b…
…pride. We hâve understood the saying: “To the pure ail things are pure”, and we hâve learnt how to act up to it. We can analyse the mind far more acutely than could the ancients, and we can therefore distinguish the real and right feeling from its imitations. A man may eat méat from self-indulgence, or in order to avoid the dangers of asceticism. We must constantly examine our- selves, and assure ourselves that every action is really subservient to the One Purpose. It is ceremonially désirable to seal and affirm this mental purity by Ritual, an…
…alloch and he now set to work steadily to drain the two bottles — a stiff nip every minute — but the stuff had no effect on them. It was far otherwise with the man on the engine. Almost before he had well left Paris behind him, he began to fret about the furnace, and told his fireman to keep up the fullest head of steam. At Melun the train should have slackened speed; instead, it increased it. The signalman at Fontainebleau was amazed to see the rapide rush through the station, eight minutes ahead of time, against the signals. He saw the driver…
… not in accordance with their wills. What must be done is to drill the Aspirant in the hard routine of the éléments of the Royal Art. So far as mysticism is concerned, the technique is extremely simple, and has been very simply described in Part I of this Book 4. It cannot be said too strongly that any amouni of mystical success whatever is 110 compensation for slackness with regard to the technique. There may corne a time when Samadhi itself is no part of the business of the mystic. But the character developed by the original training re¬ main…