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Page 61 of 741996 · PDF PAGE 97
…as paralyzed so long as the pressure lasted. It will be seen later—verses 61 to 69—that my conscious ness was ultimately invaded by the Secret Self, and surrendered unconditionally, so that, it proclaimed, loudly and gladly, from its citadel, the victory of its rightful Lord. The mystery is indeed this, that in so prosperous and joyous a city, there should still be groups of malcontents whose grumblings are occasionally audible.
1910 · PDF PAGE 5
…rs, and drink of that lustral dew : I will return, my brothers, when I have seen God face to face and read within those eternal eyes the secret that shall make you free. Then will I choose you and test you and instruct you in the Mysteries of Eleusis, oh ye brave hearts, and cool eyes, and trembling lips ! I will put a live coal upon your lips, and flowers upon your eyes, and a sword in your hearts, and ye also shall see God face to face. Thus shall we give back its youth to the world, for like tongues of triple flame we shall look upon the Gre…
1954 · PDF PAGE 354
…ive him some. This casual circumstance proved an essential part of the chain by which I was ultimately dragged behind the chariot of the Secret Chiefs. At least I thought it was a chain. I did not realize that steel of such exquisite temper might be beaten into a sword fit for the hand of a free man. To my annoyance , I could not find the Elemental Watch Towers anywhere in the house. I daresay I gave up looking rather easily. I had got into a state of disgusted indifference about such things. Rose might have destroyed them in a drunken fit, jus…
1929 · PDF PAGE 38
…t. 2. Considérations of the Christian Trinity are of a nature suited only to Initiâtes of the IX° of O. T. O., as they enclose the final secret of ail praçtical Magick. 3. Each conception is, however, balanced in itself. Four is also Daleth, the letter of Venus; so that the mother-idea is included. Again, the Sephira of 4 is Chesed, referred to Water. 4 is ruled by Jupiter, Lord of the Lightning (Fire) yet ruler of Air. Each Sephira is complété in its way. 2
1913 · PDF PAGE 279
INDEX Silence, The Electric (Aleister Crowley), V1, 53 Sin, His Secret (Aleister Crowley), VIII, 49 Sleep (Ethel Archer), VI, 112 Smoker, The Opium (Aleister Crowley), I, TOL Snowstorm (Aleister Crowley), VIL, 183 Soldier and the Hunchback, The (Aleister Crowley), I, 113 Solomon. See Temple. Sorites (Aleister Crowley), VILL, 142 Soul Hunter, The (Aleister Crowley), UL 119 Sphinx at Gizeh, The (Lord Dunsany), UL, 205 Stepney (Aleister Crowley), VIII, 129 Stewed Prunes and Prism (A/eister Crowley), Il, 393 Syllabus of the Official Instructions of…
1913 · PDF PAGE 279
INDEX Silence, The Electric (Aleister Crowley), V1, 53 Sin, His Secret (Aleister Crowley), VIII, 49 Sleep (Ethel Archer), VI, 112 Smoker, The Opium (Aleister Crowley), I, TOL Snowstorm (Aleister Crowley), VIL, 183 Soldier and the Hunchback, The (Aleister Crowley), I, 113 Solomon. See Temple. Sorites (Aleister Crowley), VILL, 142 Soul Hunter, The (Aleister Crowley), UL 119 Sphinx at Gizeh, The (Lord Dunsany), UL, 205 Stepney (Aleister Crowley), VIII, 129 Stewed Prunes and Prism (A/eister Crowley), Il, 393 Syllabus of the Official Instructions of…
1907 · PDF PAGE 35
…s are pliant ; Sage, to confusion ! My eyesight swims. Problems to solve? Come tome! Come tome! Here is my life! Thee have I sought ! My secret is told— Thou that wast dumb to me, What is your name, Come—I am nought ! O fairest of women? [Striving ever to follow her, he Bosom of gold! faints and falls, The girl Faultless your fame ! stops. An aeon were shame Your beauty to hymn in! MOLLY. Will you be mine, Dear me! The young gentleman’s ill ae and aed only | . a 3eauty divine, too, Whata nice boy it is! I must go and How I was lonely! help him.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 349
…s an institution at Cambridge called "Ciccu", Cambridge Intercollegiate Christian Union. It is a bestial thing, compact of hypocrisy and secret vice. Now my connection with the Pan Society was of the slightest. I have merely been invited to read parers, I think altogether three times, on mysticism or kindred subjects. Nothing more harmless can be imagined, but the Ciccu went out of its mind. I am compelled to remark at this point that one of the most disgraceful features of controversy in England is that the upholders of religion and morality, …
1905 · PDF PAGE 264
… the lady ; she has swooned. TANNHAUSER. Who are you, sir, stood smiling, nonchalant, At all the turmoil, ridiculing it ? | You knew the secret symbol of my life, You forced me to that miserable song. THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. My name, sir, at your service, is Sefchift. TANNHAUSER. Sent? And the purpose of your coming here? You must. wield power to keep them silent so, When the first word had culminated else In twice the tempest echoed to the last! VOL. I. THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. It was most necessary for yourself To formulate your thought in Fnough—…
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
…ught, and AL the Ail, to complété their Not-Being and Being with its Becoming, to médiate between identical extremes as their mean — the secret that sunders and seals them. It déclarés that ail somethings are equally shadows of Mothing, and justifies Nothing in its futile folly of pretending that something is stable, by making us aware of a method of Magick through the practice of which we may partake in the pleasure of the process. The Magician should devise for himself a definite technique for destroving “evil”. The essence of such a practice…
1996 · PDF PAGE 66
…, the demon Lilith conceived by the spilth of his dreams, so that the hybrid races of satyrs, elves and the like began to populate those secret places of the earth which are not sensible by the organs of the normal man. I take it as certain that every offering of this talisman infallibly begets children on one plane or another of this our cosmos, whose matter is so varied in kind. Such a child must partake of its father’s nature; and its character will be determined, partly by the environment in which it is bred to manifestation, lives, and ult…
1904 · PDF PAGE 52
…ound at Olden- burgh in Germany. It is remarkable as showing the same hieroglyphic human form with the crescent above; the latter in the Secret Seal of Solomon has a flattened top, and is therefore more like a bowl, and is placed across the hieroglyph. Figure 173 is an Egyptian design which would show an analogy be- tween the symbol and the idea of the force of the creation. Figure 174 is a stele from Phoenicia somewhat similar to the others, except that the rudimentary caducei in Figures 166 and 170 are here re- placed by two roughly drawn Ion…
1929 · PDF PAGE 191
…lar. Balloch remained to perform the operation from which the bulk of his income was derived. But there was yet much sorcery of the more secret sort to be accomplished. Douglas who, up to now, had confined himself to intense mental concentration upon the work, forcing himself to believe that the ceremonies
1944 · PDF PAGE 268
…represents by its hieroglyphic form the crux ansata, the Rose and the Cross, which in its turn gives the formula of Love under Will, the secret of at‐ tainment.
1996 · PDF PAGE 215
…or All 39. All this and a book to say how thou didst come hither and a reproduction of this ink and paper for ever—for in it is the word secret & not only in the English—and thy comment upon this the Book of the Law shall be printed beautifully in red ink and black upon beautiful paper made by hand; and to each man and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to abide in this bliss or no; it is no odds. Do this quickly! 40. But the work of the comment? That is easy; and Hadi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 268
…ound perfect before the Gods hath said: These are the elements of my body, perfected through suffering, glorified through trial. For the secret of the Dying Rose is as the repressed sigh of my suffering. And the flame-red fire as the energy of my undaunted will. And the cup of wine is the outpouring of the Blood of my heart sacrificed unto regeneration and the Newer Life. And the Bread and the Salt are as the Foundations of my Body. Which I destroy in order that they may be renewed. For I am Osiris Triumphant, even Osiris Onnophris the Justifie…
1909 · PDF PAGE 268
…ound perfect before the Gods hath said: These are the elements of my body, perfected through suffering, glorified through trial. For the secret of the Dying Rose is as the repressed sigh of my suffering. And the flame-red fire as the energy of my undaunted will. And the cup of wine is the outpouring of the Blood of my heart sacrificed unto regeneration and the Newer Life. And the Bread and the Salt are as the Foundations of my Body. Which I destroy in order that they may be renewed. For I am Osiris Triumphant, even Osiris Onnophris the Justifie…
1929 · PDF PAGE 51
…t of view alike of the sorrowing Isis and of the triumphant Osiris, not forgetting their link in the destroyer Apophis, there remains no secret veiled in Nature. He cries that name of God which throughout History has been echoed by one religion to another, the infinité swelling paean I.A.O. ! 2 1. See “The Book of Lies”, Liber 333, for several sermons to this effect. The whole theory of Death must be sought in Liber CXI Aleph. 2. This name. I. A. O. is qabalistically identical with that of The Beast and with His number 666, so that he who invok…
1929 · PDF PAGE 73
…e breath controlled by the firm circle of the mouth. He is the Open Eye of the exalted Sun, before whom ail shadows flee away: also that Secret Eye which makes an image of its God, the Light, and gives it power to utter oracles, enlightening the mind. Thus, he is Man made God, exalted, eager; he has corne consciously to his full stature, and so is ready to set out on his journey to redeem the world. But he may not appear in this true form; the Vision of Pan would drive men mad with fear. He must conceal Himself in his original guise. He therefo…
1930 · PDF PAGE 5
…l caste that conflicting éléments should not coexist in the same consciousness. The psalm- singing Puritan who persécutes publicans, and secretly soaks himself in hre-water; the bewhiskered philanthropist in broad- cloth who swindles his customers and sweats his employées: these men must not be regarded as single-minded scoundrels, 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 …