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Page 63 of 1041910 · PDF PAGE 42
PREFACE. XXXVII Crowley — the Saviour of the Earth. So that the reader need only turn back to the title-page to see that the Light hath indeed arisen in the darkness. THE ENGLISH SPIRIT It was in my mind to discourse freely upon this enga- ging topic ; but to say truth I am somewhat weary, having now written for some six hours, and being well assured that if I once laid down the pen nothing would persuade me to resume the distasteful task. For there is no ecstasy in argument and exposition as there is in Poetry. That is why journalists are such…
1954 · PDF PAGE 273
…s, demons, elementals were some little while ago; we also wrote of how they live, so now, insatiable Seeker, you ask where. In India the earth was supported by an elephant who stood on a tortoise-who . . . ? No floor above. Nothing but empty space with swarming galaxies; no room for "heaven." Simpler to call Olympus or Meru the home of the Gods-believe it or not! don't ask questions! Yet all the time the difficulty is of our own silly making. The most elementary consideration of the nature of Gods, angels, demons and the rest, as shown by their…
1902 · PDF PAGE 14
…ife, travel, and study have taught me, to wit : the Origin of Religions. I take it that there have always, or nearly always, been on the earth those whom Councillor von Eckartshausen, the Svdmi Vivekdnanda and their like, call " great spiritual giants" (can there be any etymological link between "yogi" and " ogre " ?) and that such persons, themselves per- ceiving Truth, have tried to " diminish the message to the dog " for the benefit of less exalted minds, and hidden that Truth (which, unveiled, would but blind men with its glory) in a mass o…
1907 · PDF PAGE 93
…e them to converse, said the Man (who was the Devil), as it were to take you upon an high mountain and show you all the king doms of the earth. I have seen them, said the Socialist. But, said the Man, things look very different from that height. Poverty and vice are the same from any point of view, began the Socialist. Listen 1 said the other. Arthur Gray stretched his legs as well as the room would allow. Master, your pipe is out. Read us that yarn of your turn-to with Asmodee in Scotland. If ever a place seemed to defy God, “it is this, it is…
1909 · PDF PAGE 21
…dha every inch of me! [A Pratyeka-Buddha attains the Supreme Reward for himself alone; a Dhamma—Buddha renounces it and returns to hell (earth) to teach others the Way—Eu] I now take a few minutes “off" to make ”considera- tions." I firmly believe that the minutest dose of the Elixir would operate as a “ detonator.” I seem to be perfectly ready for illumination, if only because I am so perfectly dark. Yet my power to create magical images is still with me. ' I 1.40— Hanged Man posture. Will invoke Adonai once more 12.0. by pure thought Got into …
1912 · PDF PAGE 344
… Remember; male (sacred?רכז Phallus—Vide S.D. ii p. 467) Damna, [Vide K.D. L.C4K.?ץקמ p- 569] 228 First-born?ךובנ Blessed!?ךורב Ruler of Earth?בורב The Tree of Lifeץע ?םייח 229וז 230 Astonishment?הרכה [Vide K.D. L.C.K, p, 153]?ףיקמ Fasciata?םירוקע Angel of 2"d Dec. mg?ה\ךואך Hod, 42-fold Name in?קןפלגו Yetzirah. [Vide Liber 777, Col. xc, p. 18] Σ (ι-π). Right-handed Svastika, 231 drawn on Sq. of a Prolonged?,יgrew long?ךירא Male?ארוכר Sum of the Four Ways of spelling 232 TETRAGRAMMATON in the Four Worlds Geomantic Intelligence?לא”ציבמא of )( Ru…
1912 · PDF PAGE 344
… Remember; male (sacred?רכז Phallus—Vide S.D. ii p. 467) Damna, [Vide K.D. L.C4K.?ץקמ p- 569] 228 First-born?ךובנ Blessed!?ךורב Ruler of Earth?בורב The Tree of Lifeץע ?םייח 229וז 230 Astonishment?הרכה [Vide K.D. L.C.K, p, 153]?ףיקמ Fasciata?םירוקע Angel of 2"d Dec. mg?ה\ךואך Hod, 42-fold Name in?קןפלגו Yetzirah. [Vide Liber 777, Col. xc, p. 18] Σ (ι-π). Right-handed Svastika, 231 drawn on Sq. of a Prolonged?,יgrew long?ךירא Male?ארוכר Sum of the Four Ways of spelling 232 TETRAGRAMMATON in the Four Worlds Geomantic Intelligence?לא”ציבמא of )( Ru…
1944 · PDF PAGE 168
QUEEN OF DISKS The Queen of Disks represents the watery part of Earth, the function of that element as Mother. She rules from the 21st degree of Sagittarius to the 20th degree of Capricornus. She represents passivity, usually in its highest aspect. The Queen of Disks is throned upon the life of vegetation. She contemplates the back‐ ground, where a calm river winds through a sandy desert to bring to it fertility. Oases are be‐ ginning to shew themselves amid the wastes. Before her stands a goat upon a sphere. There is here a reference to the do…
1954 · PDF PAGE 207
…en the joys of my love (Le., the fulfilment of all possible experiences) will redeem ye from all pain. V.58: I give unimaginable joys on earth; certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace) unutterable, rest ecstasy. Cap. II, v. 9: Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains. (The continuation is amusing! Vv. 10 and 11 read:) o prophet! thou hast ill will to learn this writing. I see thee hate the hand and the pen; but I am stronger. At that…
1909 · PDF PAGE 181
A NOTE ON GENESIS we cast the triple fire of the Holy letter y = 300, we get the name of the Godhead Incarnate upon Earth, mwm. But I +2+43 = 6, which is the number of }, the third letter of the Venerable Name: Microprosopus and the Son of God. We are now, therefore, arrived at the Great Mystery of the Tetractys, and to go further we must resort to the Twin Sister of the Science of Number—which, indeed, is but Number made Flesh: Geometry, or Absolute Symbolism. Even as it was spoken by the holy Pythagoras: ‘‘ God geometrises.” Let us behold the…
1909 · PDF PAGE 181
A NOTE ON GENESIS we cast the triple fire of the Holy letter y = 300, we get the name of the Godhead Incarnate upon Earth, mwm. But I +2+43 = 6, which is the number of }, the third letter of the Venerable Name: Microprosopus and the Son of God. We are now, therefore, arrived at the Great Mystery of the Tetractys, and to go further we must resort to the Twin Sister of the Science of Number—which, indeed, is but Number made Flesh: Geometry, or Absolute Symbolism. Even as it was spoken by the holy Pythagoras: ‘‘ God geometrises.” Let us behold the…
1919 · PDF PAGE 278
…dores, rises, turns, shows Host to the PEOPLE, turns, replaces Host, and adores. Music. He takes the Cup. Vehicle of the joy of Man upon earth, solace of labour, inspiration of endeavour, thus be thou ecstasy of the Spirit! He touches the Cup with the Lance. By the virtue of the Rod Be this wine the Blood of God! He takes the Cup. TOUTO ECTI TO IIOTHPION TOU HAIMATOC MOU. He kneels, adores, rises, turns, shows the Cup to the PEOPLE, turns, replaces the Cup, and adores. Music. For this is the Covenant of Resurrection. He makes the five crosses o…
1961 · PDF PAGE 185
…orroded in the Waters of the Cup, and must be renewed by Virtue of thy Nature in its Course. For Fire is extinguished by Water; but upon Earth it burneth freely, and is inflamed by the Wind. Understand also that which is written concerning the Vesica, that it is the Mother, giving Ease, Sleep, and Death, which Consolations are eschewed by the True Man or Hero. i
1909 · PDF PAGE 106
…azzled as he is by the blinding brilliance of this morning’s Spiritual Sun, which yet he beheld but darkly, to him now even the light of earth seems dark. Reason the rudder was long since unshipped; the power 01 his personality has broken down, yet under the tiny storm-sail 01 his Will to Adonai, the crazy bark holds way, steered by the car of Discipline— Yea, he holds his course. Adonail Adonai! is not the harbour yet in sight? He has returned home and burnt (as every night since its arrival) the holy incense of Abramelin the Mage. The atmosph…
1909 · PDF PAGE 37
…ally be the great difficulty of the operation. 4. Let him then cause that imagined figure to rise in the air to a great height above the earth. 5. Let him then stop and look about him. (It is some- times difficult to open the eyes.) 6. Probably he will see figures approaching him, or become conscious of a landscape. Let him speak to such figures, and insist upon being answered, using the proper pentagrams and signs, as pre- viously taught. 7. Let him travel about at will, either with or without guidance from such figure or figures. 27
1909 · PDF PAGE 37
…ally be the great difficulty of the operation. 4. Let him then cause that imagined figure to rise in the air to a great height above the earth. 5. Let him then stop and look about him. (It is some- times difficult to open the eyes.) 6. Probably he will see figures approaching him, or become conscious of a landscape. Let him speak to such figures, and insist upon being answered, using the proper pentagrams and signs, as pre- viously taught. 7. Let him travel about at will, either with or without guidance from such figure or figures. 27
1910 · PDF PAGE 67
58 AMBERGRIS Oh, mother, Oh, Demeter, in my burthen Let me assume my sorrow singular ; A branching temple and an altar earthen, A fire of herbs, a clayen water-jar ; An olive grove to bind the sacred girth in Lone woods afar. Let life burn gently thence, as when the ember In one faint incense-puff to shrineward dies. No care, no pain, no craving to remember, One leap toward the knees and destinies, Where shine Her lips like flames, Her breasts like amber, Like moons Her eyes. For my heart turnsah still !in Sorrows traces, Where sad chill foo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 249
…t feeling that we record the passing over of our less disciple than colleague, less colleague than bosom friend, the aged saint known on earth as Arthur Edward Waite. ‘The disciple whom Crowley loved,” they called him, and Crowley himself never gave the lie to the tender nickname by forgetting the text, “Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.” However, all that is over now. The beloved disciple, full of age and saintliness, is gone to his reward. The story of his life has already been told, though, alas! inadequately, in the Eguinox and in Who's W…
1913 · PDF PAGE 249
…t feeling that we record the passing over of our less disciple than colleague, less colleague than bosom friend, the aged saint known on earth as Arthur Edward Waite. ‘The disciple whom Crowley loved,” they called him, and Crowley himself never gave the lie to the tender nickname by forgetting the text, “Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.” However, all that is over now. The beloved disciple, full of age and saintliness, is gone to his reward. The story of his life has already been told, though, alas! inadequately, in the Eguinox and in Who's W…
1910 · PDF PAGE 34
…tten to madness. “ Now do I come before Thee in Thy temple, With offerings from the oak-woods and the breath of the water That girds the earth with a girdle of green starlight; And all the austerity of the brooding summer, And all the wonder of the starlit spaces That stare down awesomely upon the lonely marshes, And the bogs with sucking lips, and the pools that charm the wanderer Till he forgets the world, and rushes to sleep upon them.” 22