1954 · PDF PAGE 169
Magick Without Tears
…entific or pseudo-scientific treatises (usually upon the deformities of nature, or the abuses of ignorance) by 2. See Chapter 12 of this book.
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Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden
…e for her. As I have observed, the Nameless Novel was written during his wifes convalescence. The verses which composed the Bromo Book are due to many occasions. Some are mere exercises in me- tre. If he heard a new form of rhyme, as in the Sailor ashore, he would compose in it, and, lest [12]
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1929 · PDF PAGE 12
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
…this early impression determined his course in later life when he came to take up Magick; for the one document which gripped him was The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage, in which the essential work is "To obtain the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel". It is very important to mention that the mind of the child was almost abnormally normal. He showed no tendency to see visions, as even commonplace children often do. The Bible was his only book at this period; but neither the narrative nor the poetry made any de…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 533
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
…s forced and feeble. I know now that the writing of this Comment must be a definite miracle, parallel with that of the production of the Book itself. I stumbled on through the Desert somehow. Even today I hardly understand the object of the ordeals of this journey. At the beginning of the next Chokmah day I found myself on the edge of the oasis which I was to make my home. I had identified myself with the god of my Grade of Magus, Tahuti, the Lord of the Word, and I was invested accordingly with the attributes proper to him. The last of the off…
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1904 · PDF PAGE 2
Mr. Crowley and The Creeds
MR. CROWLEY AND THE CREEDS (BY G. K. CHESTERTON) Mr. Aleister Crowley publishes a work, “ The Sword of Song : Called by Christians ‘ The Book of the Beast,’ ” and called, I am ashamed to say, “ Ye Sword of Song ” on the cover, by some singularly uneducated man. Mr. Aleister Crowley has always been, in my opinion, a good poet ; his “ Soul of Osiris,” written during an Egyptian mood, was better poetry than this Browningesque rhapsody in a Buddhist mood ; but this also, though very affected, is very interesting. But the main fact about it is that …
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1954 · PDF PAGE 477
Magick Without Tears
…had come to lynch him, he can get away with it. "An Enemy of the People" wrote Ibsen, "Ye are against the people, 0 my chosen!" says The Book of the Law. (AL, II: 25) Not only does it seem to me the only conceivable way of reconciling this and similar passages with "every man and every woman is a star" to assert the sovereignty of the individual, and to deny the right-to-exist to "class-consciousness," "crowd-psychology," and so to mob-rule and Lynch-Law, but also the only practicable plan whereby we may each one of us settle down peaceably to …
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1996 · PDF PAGE 216
The Law is for All
…light to slay. Suc cess is your proof; courage is your armour; go on, go on, in my strength; & ye shall turn not back for any! 47. This book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the original in the writing of the Beast; for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another: in these are mysteries that no Beast shall divine. Let him not seek to try: but one cometh after him, whence I say not, who shall discover the Key of it all. Then this line drawn is a key: then this circle squared in its failure is a key …
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1929 · PDF PAGE 518
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
…e chapters of my first serious attempt at a long novel, The Net. I also began from the very depths of my spiritual misery a very strange book of an entirely new kind; so much so that I describe it as "A Novelissim".1 Its title is Not the Life and Adventure of Sir Roger Bloxam. It remains unfinished to this day; in fact it is hardly theoretically possible to finish it, strictly speaking. I have indeed serious qualms as to whether I have not overstepped the limits of truth in saying that I began it. To be safe, I should be content to say I wrote …
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1910 · PDF PAGE 99
The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)
…all the Nadis, and has three and a half coils. She catches her tail in her own mouth, and rests in the en- trance of the Sushumna.t “The Book of Concealed Mystery.” Note too the lotus-leaf that backs the throne of a God is also the hood of the Cobra. So too the Egyptian gods have the serpent upon the brow. * Provided the other exits are duly stopped by Practice. The danger of Yoga is this, that one may awaken the Magic Power before all is balanced. A discharge takes place in some wrong direction and obsession results. + The forcing of the Kunda…
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1910 · PDF PAGE 209
The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)
…. soon discovered that by stripping his body of all these tawdry trappings, this feminine under-wear, and by utterly discarding the copy-book precepts of Baptistical Buddhists, the Four Noble Truths were none other than the complete Yoga, and that in The Three Characteristics + the summit of philosophy (The Ruach) had been reached. The terrific strain of Asana and Pranayama, the two chief exercises of Hathavidya, P., by months of trial proved to be * Buddhism as a schism from the Brahminical religion may in many respects be compared with Luther…
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1910 · PDF PAGE 99
The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)
…all the Nadis, and has three and a half coils. She catches her tail in her own mouth, and rests in the en- trance of the Sushumna.t “The Book of Concealed Mystery.” Note too the lotus-leaf that backs the throne of a God is also the hood of the Cobra. So too the Egyptian gods have the serpent upon the brow. * Provided the other exits are duly stopped by Practice. The danger of Yoga is this, that one may awaken the Magic Power before all is balanced. A discharge takes place in some wrong direction and obsession results. + The forcing of the Kunda…
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1910 · PDF PAGE 209
The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)
…. soon discovered that by stripping his body of all these tawdry trappings, this feminine under-wear, and by utterly discarding the copy-book precepts of Baptistical Buddhists, the Four Noble Truths were none other than the complete Yoga, and that in The Three Characteristics + the summit of philosophy (The Ruach) had been reached. The terrific strain of Asana and Pranayama, the two chief exercises of Hathavidya, P., by months of trial proved to be * Buddhism as a schism from the Brahminical religion may in many respects be compared with Luther…
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1922 · PDF PAGE 25
Diary of a Drug Fiend
…d thousand other young men of my age. I also make the remark, because the essential bearing of it is practically the whole story of this book. And the remark is this, after that great flourish of trumpets : although I was personally entirely uninterested in what I had witnessed, the depression had vanished from my mind. As the French say, “Un clou chasse l'autre.”
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1954 · PDF PAGE 132
Magick Without Tears
…speculations. The serious student minds his own business, which is the business in hand. The President of a Corporation does not pay his book-keeper to make a statement of the countless billions of profit to be made in some future year. It requires no great ability to string a row of zeros after the significant figure until the ink runs out. What is wanted is the actual balance of the week.
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1996 · PDF PAGE 23
The Law is for All
…ll partial only, different facets of the Diamond Truth. We may neglect all these questions, and remain in the simplicity of this Her own Book. 2. The unveiling of the company of heaven. Commentary: This explains the general theme of this revela tion: gives the Dramatis Personae, so to speak. It is, cosmographically, the conception of the two Ultimate Ideas: Space, and That which occupies Space. It will however appear later that these two ideas may be resolved into one, that of Matter; with Space, its “Condition” or “form,” included therein. Th…
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1929 · PDF PAGE 14
Confessions of Aleister Crowley
…antagonized him. He remembers one Sunday when she found him reading Martin Rattler and scolded him. Edward Crowley took his part. If the book was good enough to read on any day, why not on Sunday? To Edward Crowley, every day was the Lord's Day; sabbatarianism was Judiasm. When Alick was eight or thereabouts he was taken by his father to his first school. This was a private school at St. Leonards, kept by an old man named Habershon and his two sons, very strict Evangelicals. Edward Crowley wanted to warn his son against the commonest incident o…
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1922 · PDF PAGE 368
Diary of a Drug Fiend
… “Do that and no other shall say nay.” “Oh, yes,’”’ I retorted, with a trace of annoyance. I had still a feeling of reaction against the Book of the Law. I hated to submit to a formula, however much
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1954 · PDF PAGE 285
Magick Without Tears
…ver seeking to penetrate the unknown. Nuit is not too dissimilar from the Teh described in Lao-tze. Nor would it be proper to ignore The Book of Lies, p. 12: Peaches Soft and hollow, how thou dost overcome the hard and full! It dies, it gives itself; to Thee is the fruit! Be thou the Bride; thou shalt be the Mother hereafter. To all impressions thus. Let them not overcome thee; yet let them breed within thee. The least of the impressions, come to its perfection , is Pan. Receive a thousand lovers; thou shalt bear but One Child. This child shall…
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1954 · PDF PAGE 461
Magick Without Tears
…eys; but far deeper is the root-fear-fear of being alone, of being oneself, of life itself. With this there goes the sense of guilt. The Book of the Law cuts directly at the root of all this calamitous, this infamous tissue of falsehood. What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realization of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty , Purity, Perfection! What is the artistic sense in you? What but the One Channel always open to you through which this Light flows freely to enkindle you (and the world …
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1905 · PDF PAGE 189
Oracles
…ughed out of court, from Mohammedanism to Christian Science, and the great Agnostic conclusion stated and proved. The second part of the book, written in prose, deals with possible means of research, so that we may progress from the unsatisfactory state of a sceptic to a real knowledge, founded on scientific method and basis, of the spiritual facts of the Universe. For its humour and poetry this unique volume appeals to all classes of the community. It is enriched with notes on all subjects, of interest extreme, and the printing is in red and b…
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