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Page 63 of 941913 · PDF PAGE 11
…faned. For the Spirit had departed from them. For this reason the external organization of which we speak has resolved not to reveal its name or place to the vulgar. Furthermore, for the same reason, the names of the teachers and members of this 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 …
1911 · PDF PAGE 27
…s; In the crackling of the lightning, in the rolling of the thunder, in the clashing of the swords and the hurling of the arrows: be thy name exalted! Streams of fire come out of the heavens, a pale brilliant blue, like plumes. And they gather themselves and settle upon his lips. His lips are redder than roses, and the blue plumes gather themselves into a blue rose, and from beneath the petals of the rose come brightly coloured humming-birds, and dew falls from the rose—honey-coloured dew. I stand in the shower of it. And a voice proceeds from …
1911 · PDF PAGE 85
…rtue radiateth through the cup, and I reel under the intoxication of it. And every thought is destroyed by it. It abideth alone, and its name is Compassion. I understand by ‘Compassion,’ the sacrament of suffering, partaken of by the true worshippers of the High- est. And it is an ecstasy in which there is no trace of pain. Its passivity (= passion) is like the giving-up of the self to the beloved). The voice continues: This is the Mystery of Babylon, the Mother of abominations, and this is the mystery of her adulteries, for she hath yielded up…
1913 · PDF PAGE 509
…te and ambitious. The thumb, pollex, the finger of force and power, corre- sponds in the qabalistic symbolism to the first letter of the name of Jehovah. This finger is then a synthesis of the hand: if it is strong, the man is morally strong; if it is weak, the man is weak. It has three phalanges, of which the first is hidden in the palm of the hand, as the imaginary axis of the world traverses the thickness of the earth. This first phalanx corresponds to the physical life, the second to the intelligence, the third to the will. Greasy and thick…
1913 · PDF PAGE 509
…te and ambitious. The thumb, pollex, the finger of force and power, corre- sponds in the qabalistic symbolism to the first letter of the name of Jehovah. This finger is then a synthesis of the hand: if it is strong, the man is morally strong; if it is weak, the man is weak. It has three phalanges, of which the first is hidden in the palm of the hand, as the imaginary axis of the world traverses the thickness of the earth. This first phalanx corresponds to the physical life, the second to the intelligence, the third to the will. Greasy and thick…
1904 · PDF PAGE 18
… endless reign ! Leaving the world to centuries torn By every agony and scorn, And every wickedness and shame Taking their refuge in his Name. No Yogi shot his Chandra56 so. Will Christ return ? What ho ? What ho ! What ? What ? “He meditates above Still with his Sire for mercy, love,—” And other trifles ! Far enough That Father’s purpose from such stuff ! You see, when I was young, they said : “Whate’er you ponder in your head, Or make the rest of Scripture mean, You can’t evade John iii. 16.” * “For God so loved the world, that he gave his on…
1907 · PDF PAGE 120
… grey scabs, And venomous ulcers gnaw the baby breasts ! ? Most charitable ! But such is the Kingdom of Society . “ Angela ” is a lovely name (so thinks inexperienced Percy ) , and correspondingly the owner must have a lovely nature ; and when he has discovered what an abyss yawns between “ girl ” and “ village girl ” he throws himself into the arms of the lovely Angela and listens to her murmuring sighs as she stumbles : Ay , love, it is to feel your strength support me ! ( Aside . Will the doctors never catch up with the coiffeurs ? 2 1 3 Ibi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 159
… endless reign ! Leaving the world to centuries torn By every agony and scorn, And every wickedness and shame Taking their refuge in his Name. No Yogt shot his Chandra® so, Will Christ return? What ho? What ho! What? What? ‘“ He mediates above Still with His Sire for mercy, love,—” And other trifles! Far enough That Father’s purpose from such stuff! You see, when I was young, they said: ‘“Whate’er you ponder in your head, Or make the rest of Scripture mean, You can’t evade John ill. 16.” Former com- pared to Keru- bim ; as it is written, Run- n…
1907 · PDF PAGE 138
…l at our feet ; far into its depths we sink , and there at the altar of Phallommeda sits a foul vulture gloating over a corpse ; and its name is Necrophilia . Into the realms of sexual - neurasthenia Aleister Crowley takes us , and it is necessary that he should . His religion , his philosophy , and his psychology , all point to an ultimate blending of our extreme per fections and imperfections — vice and virtue — in one great monistic unity . He that would be wise must know all things , all things that his transient life can enable him to gras…
1907 · PDF PAGE 201
…est of Apollo , hovering ’ twixt the misty blue of the heavens , and the more certain purple of the vast waters of the deep . Before the name of That which is beyond life and death , beyond matter and energy , beyond the human and the mortal ; he stands , holding before us as a stan dard , the homologue of the Labarum of old , “ In
1909 · PDF PAGE 98
…han the stars, and set mankind on the royal road to the solution of the One great problem. Scientific Illuminism would have deserved its name, or mysticism would have received a blow which would save another young fool like myself from wasting his whole life on so senseless a study and enable him to engage in the nobler career of cheating and duping his fellows in the accredited spheres of commerce and politics, to say nothing of the grosser knaveries of the liberal professions. But I have no doubts. Let the investigator study his own brain on …
1909 · PDF PAGE 256
…le of bright flame-red ; the Crown-headed sceptre; the Banner of the East ; the Great Lamen. « Expounder of the Sacred Mysteries” is the name of the Hierophant: and he is Aeshuri-st, “The Osiris in the Nether World.” * The Banner of the East should contain a white Tau in its centre. 248
1909 · PDF PAGE 98
…han the stars, and set mankind on the royal road to the solution of the One great problem. Scientific Illuminism would have deserved its name, or mysticism would have received a blow which would save another young fool like myself from wasting his whole life on so senseless a study and enable him to engage in the nobler career of cheating and duping his fellows in the accredited spheres of commerce and politics, to say nothing of the grosser knaveries of the liberal professions. But I have no doubts. Let the investigator study his own brain on …
1909 · PDF PAGE 256
…le of bright flame-red ; the Crown-headed sceptre; the Banner of the East ; the Great Lamen. « Expounder of the Sacred Mysteries” is the name of the Hierophant: and he is Aeshuri-st, “The Osiris in the Nether World.” * The Banner of the East should contain a white Tau in its centre. 248
1910 · PDF PAGE 224
…t of the Elephant and of the Lion and of the Tortoise and of the Bull fabled in Indian legend as the supports of the four letters of the Name; the glory of him, that was even as that of the Sun which is before all and beyond all Suns, of which the stars are little sparks struck off as he battled in the Infinite against the Infinite—all these points the Great White Spirit noted and appreciated. This is certainly the person, thought He, to do my business for me. But alas! for five, and for twenty-five, and for sixty-five, 206
1910 · PDF PAGE 224
…t of the Elephant and of the Lion and of the Tortoise and of the Bull fabled in Indian legend as the supports of the four letters of the Name; the glory of him, that was even as that of the Sun which is before all and beyond all Suns, of which the stars are little sparks struck off as he battled in the Infinite against the Infinite—all these points the Great White Spirit noted and appreciated. This is certainly the person, thought He, to do my business for me. But alas! for five, and for twenty-five, and for sixty-five, 206
1911 · PDF PAGE 83
… vision and the voice therein is led away by dog-faced demons that show no sign of truth, seducing from the Sacred Mysteries, unless his name be NEMO. And hadst thou not been fitted, thou too hadst been led away, for before the gate of the 15th Aethyr, is this written: He shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe alie. And again it is written: The Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart. And again it is written that God tempteth man. But thou hadst the word and the sign, and thou hadst authority from thy superior, and licence. And thou ha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 76
…orror ? Even so , once a smiling girl , sweet as a rose , pure as a lily ; now the bedraggled gin -sodden har ridan . O ! marriage , thy name is Failure : 0 ! priest , what hast thou done ? Cramped the human mind , be trayed thy trust , sacrificed love on the altar of Mam mon , leaving the heart as a blighted flower , the soul as a hollow shell , void , execrable . Even love is sold , the solace of all woe Is turned to deadliest agony , old age Shivers in selfish beauty's loathing arms And youth's corrupted impulses prepare A life of horror fro…
1907 · PDF PAGE 161
… shoulders strain , the chariot seems A poised fiend flogging you to hell ." Criosda , the self - intoxicated God - Eater , drunk on the name of blood , slays his sister , and feasts in true re ligious frenzy off her corpse - a veritable black mass : Criosda . With red lips reeking from the sweet foul feast , I sang in tuneless agony the spell ; Rolled athwart space the black words : then some force Tore me : I heard the tears drop in my heart . I heard the laughter of some utmost god Hid in the middle of matter . That was I, The hideous laught…
1909 · PDF PAGE 286
THE EQUINOX and Earth.” ‘The four Yodhs refer to the four letters of the Holy Name. The dogs are the jackals of Anubis guarding the gates of the East and the West symbolised by the two Towers. The cray-fish is the sign Cancer, the Scarabzeus or God Kephera. “The emblem of the Sun below the horizon, as he ever is when the Moon is increasing above.’ The Hierophant then leads the Practicus to the Serpent of Brass, m2) and says: “This is the Serpent Nehushtan, which Moses made. ‘And he set it upon a Pole’ —that is, he twined it about the middle pil…