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Page 62 of 1141922 · PDF PAGE 109
…ve the right amount of snow in you, you can't feel anything in the ordinary sense of the word. You appreciate it in a sort of impersonal way. There’s a pain, but the pain doesn’t hurt. You enjoy the fact of the pain as you enjoy reading about all sorts of terrible things in history at school. But the trouble about cocaine is this; that it’s almost impossible to take it in moderation as almost any one, except an American, can take whisky. Every dose makes you better and better. It destroys one’s power of calculation. We had already discovered th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 79
…onscious skill for the cleansing and calming of the réceptive and emotional éléments in his character, and for the solution or sweeping away of those tangled weeds of préjudice which hamper him from freedom to act as he will. Similar applica¬ tions of the remaining invocations will occur to the Adept who is ready to use them. The Adept now returns to the Tiphereth square of his Tau, and invokes Spirit, facing toward Boleskine, by the active Pentagrams, the sigil called the Mark of the Beast, and the Signs of L.V.X. (See plate as before). He the…
1954 · PDF PAGE 465
…in and that of all his Fellows; and that is not Liberty whose Exercise bringeth him to Bondage. Thou mayst therefore assume that it is always an essential Part of the Will of any Child to grow to Manhood or to Womanhood in Health, and his Guardians may therefore prevent him from ignorantly acting in Opposition thereunto, Care being always taken to remove the Cause of the Error, namely, Ignorance, as aforesaid. Thou mayst also assume that it is Part of the Child's Will to train every Function of the Mind; and the Guardians may therefore combat t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 256
…of emotion and reality . To the sceptic no change takes place , for his mind is sterile and unable to conceive , but his ignorance in no way proves that the Qabalah is mere Buncombe . Because a weak man cannot lift a certain weight , that is no criterion that a strong man cannot . There is truth in everything , and truth lies beyond mere utility . If we cannot understand , it is sheer falsehood to say Yes or No , the agnostic mode being the only right course open to us ; yet if it were put to us to answer such a question as Is the reverse of th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 234
…ation to take life seriously begins. Books are given us, and the great wide road of wonderment becomes narrowed to a straitened right-of-way down which it is a privilege and honour to pass. If we are wild, it is naughty; if wanton—immoral; in innocence we lisp the ten commandments on our mothers’ knees, only to break them when we really know what they mean. Then comes manhood and its responsibility, marriage with its one pleasure and its forty thousand plagues, as Heine says. Our birth is a matter of law or chance—equivalent symbols for the Unk…
1909 · PDF PAGE 234
…ation to take life seriously begins. Books are given us, and the great wide road of wonderment becomes narrowed to a straitened right-of-way down which it is a privilege and honour to pass. If we are wild, it is naughty; if wanton—immoral; in innocence we lisp the ten commandments on our mothers’ knees, only to break them when we really know what they mean. Then comes manhood and its responsibility, marriage with its one pleasure and its forty thousand plagues, as Heine says. Our birth is a matter of law or chance—equivalent symbols for the Unk…
1910 · PDF PAGE 287
…hat since I now seldom experienced anything approaching hallucination, I might pass through this gradual course without suffering on the way. As lemon-juice had been sometimes an effectual cure for the sufferings of excess, I now discovered thata use of tobacco, to an extent which at other times would be immoderate, was a preventive of the horrors of abandonment. As, some distance back, I have referred to my own experi- ence upon the subject, asserting my ability at times to feel sights, see sounds, &c., I will not attempt to illustrate the pre…
1910 · PDF PAGE 287
…hat since I now seldom experienced anything approaching hallucination, I might pass through this gradual course without suffering on the way. As lemon-juice had been sometimes an effectual cure for the sufferings of excess, I now discovered thata use of tobacco, to an extent which at other times would be immoderate, was a preventive of the horrors of abandonment. As, some distance back, I have referred to my own experi- ence upon the subject, asserting my ability at times to feel sights, see sounds, &c., I will not attempt to illustrate the pre…
1911 · PDF PAGE 145
…ss. And in her is a perfect purity of that which is above; yet she is sent as the Redeemer to them that are below. For there is no other way into the Supernal Mystery but through her, and the Beast on which she rideth; and the Magician is set beyond her to deceive the brothers of blackness, lest they should make unto themselves a crown; for if there were two crowns, then should Ygdrasil, that ancient tree, be cast out into the Abyss, uprooted and cast down into the Outermost Abyss, and the Arcanum which is in the Adytum should be profaned; and …
1911 · PDF PAGE 170
… the child that one attempted to describe in ‘The Garden of Janus.” Every volition is inhibited. I have tried to say a lot, and it has always got lost on the way. Holy art thou, O more beautiful than all the stars of the Night! There has never been such peace, such silence. But these are positive things. Singing praises of things eternal amid the flames of first glory, and every note of every song is a fresh flower in the garland of peace. This child danceth not, but it is because he is the soul of the two dances,—the right hand and the left ha…
1912 · PDF PAGE 17
…his society shall remain unknown, except to such as are intimately associated with them in their common work. If it is said that in this way the society will gain only few members, it may be answered that our society has a spiritual head, and that those who are worthy of being admitted will be guided to it by means of their intuition; while those who have no intuition are not ripe for it and not needed. It is better to have only a comparatively small number of capable members than a great many useless ones. From the above it will be clear that …
1912 · PDF PAGE 17
…his society shall remain unknown, except to such as are intimately associated with them in their common work. If it is said that in this way the society will gain only few members, it may be answered that our society has a spiritual head, and that those who are worthy of being admitted will be guided to it by means of their intuition; while those who have no intuition are not ripe for it and not needed. It is better to have only a comparatively small number of capable members than a great many useless ones. From the above it will be clear that …
1913 · PDF PAGE 11
…his society shall remain unknown, except to such as are intimately associated with them in their common work. If it is said that in this way the society will gain only few members, it may be answered that our society has a spiritual head, and that those who are worthy of being admitted will be guided to it by means of their intuition; while those who have no intuition are not ripe for it and not needed. It is better to have only a comparatively small number of capable members than a great many useless ones. From the above it will be clear that …
1913 · PDF PAGE 11
…his society shall remain unknown, except to such as are intimately associated with them in their common work. If it is said that in this way the society will gain only few members, it may be answered that our society has a spiritual head, and that those who are worthy of being admitted will be guided to it by means of their intuition; while those who have no intuition are not ripe for it and not needed. It is better to have only a comparatively small number of capable members than a great many useless ones. From the above it will be clear that …
1929 · PDF PAGE 299
…f canonical Buddhism and of local beliefs. I tried to point out to him that he could hardly hope to show the natives the errors of their way of thinking, unless he knew hat that was. But he declined to see the point. He was so cocksure that his own sect of Christianity held truth in utter purity and entirety that he could not imagine {488} that the Chinese had any way of thinking at all. He regarded their refusal to follow him as a mixture of sheer dullness and sheer wickedness. I forget the figures with regard to the converts at Talifu. In Yun…
1907 · PDF PAGE 70
… the men's praise is for Archais , and the eyes of the maidens are fixed on Charicles . The tale is nearly ended , the lovers wend their way through the joyous throng midst song and chorus , then from the lips of Archais rises : Light and dark are wed together Into golden weather : Sun and moon have kissed , and built Palaces star -gilt Whence a crystal stream of joy, love's eternal wine , is spilt. ' Such is one of the most pleasing of Aleister Crowley's poems ; touched by the genuine breath of adoration for the beautiful , a jewel set in fier…
1919 · PDF PAGE 425
THE SEVEN PORTALS The way to make thoughts harmless is by the equilibrium of contradictions—this is the meaning of the phrase, “Thou hast to study the voidness of the seeming full, the fulness of the seeming void.” This subject has been dealt with at some length in the “Soldier and the Hunchback” in Egurnox I. 1., and many other references are to be found in the works of Mr. Aleister Crowley. A real identification of the Self with the Not-Self is neces- sary. 40. For, on Path fourth, the lightest breeze of passion or desire will stir the steady…
1954 · PDF PAGE 221
…se unpromising flowers is the mark of an adept who has perfected his Magick Cup. This method of Qabalistic exegesis is 0l!-e of the best ways of exalting the reason to the higher consciousness. Evidently it started Fra. P. so that in a moment he became completely concentrated and entranced. Note that this has nothing at all to do with any Pranayama . It seems a matter of ecstatic concentration, which chose this mode of expression instead of bringing on Samadhi-though that, too, occurred in some of the cases. By the way, here is a fairly full ac…
1929 · PDF PAGE 287
…ple. The one is linked to the other only by the fact that my adventures appear as if they were so many obstacles deliberately put in the way of my performing the Operation of the Sacred Magick of Abra-Melin the Mage. I shall deal first with the life of the senses. {470} 55 It is probably a rare incident for any young man to meet, in the flesh, the ideal of his boyhood's dreams. Such, however was my great good fortune. In the consul at Tengyueh, Mr. Litton, I found all that I had lost when Richard Burton died. He possessed the spirit of adventur…
1907 · PDF PAGE 146
…not a few of those intricate and unknown by-paths which lead to trackless wastes and gloomy abysms . Aleister Crowley has pointed us the way , twined round the Tree of Knowledge he has offered us fruit, and we have eaten of it with face smiling or awry ; we have become as gods knowing good and evil , and having become gods with much striving against adversity, may some day become men ; for -to become a god is but to become as the image created in the brain of man , but to become a man is to become a progenitor of gods ; and then perchance we ma…