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… then at last the Luck of Maurya throws A double-six to lost Criosda. RupuHa. Ho! The Luck of Maurya! The power of the deed. CriIosDA. I find thee, mother, at last. Life’s final flash Gleams through the storm. RUPHA. I am found! Ho! Ho!
… chance to redress his balance, sore shaken by the impact of the Infinité. As he becomes adjusted to intercourse with his Angel, he will find his passionate ecstasy develop a quality of peace and intelligi- bility which adds power, while it informs and fortifies his mental and moral qualifies instead of obscuring and upsetting them. He will by now hâve become able to converse with his Angel, impossible as it once seemedj for he now knows that the storm of Sound which he supposed to be the Voice was only the clamour of his own confusions. The “i…
…ing them nor by taking refuge with external power --- one must perform an arbitrary act of manhood. Nay! I deliberate deep and long, Yet find no answer fit to make To thee. The weak beats down the strong.
…t peculiar feeling which the creator of every work of art feeïs for his masterpieee. Where this is clearly understood, the magician will find no difficulty in observing the proper ritual, not only in the actual cérémonial consécration of each weapon, but in the actuai prépara¬ tion, a process which should adumbrate this ceremony; e.g., the magician will eut the wand from the tree, will strip it of leaves and twigs, will remove the bark. He will trim the ends neatly, and smooth down the knots: —this is the banishing. He will then rub it with the…
…y of the greatness of his theme ... all the attributes of a true poet." "Elaborate and perverse . . . the most irresistible trait he can find in a maiden is that she should bite like a mad dog ... Mr Crowley is a strong and genuine poet."
Oath of love, and therefore would never be able to murder her later, as we find to be the not uncommon case. The explanation is as follows. It is perfectly true that when Bill Sykes desires to possess Nancy, he does in fact evoke a spirit of the nature of Venus, constraining him by his Oath of Love (and by his magical power as a man) to bring him the girl. So also, when he wants to kiJl her, he evokes a Martial or Saturnian spirit, with an Oath of hâte. But these are not pure planetary spints, moving in well- dehned spneres by rigidlv righteous…
…d previously in other connections; here it is only neces sary to emphasize the point. It must be clearly understood that every man must find his own happiness in a purely personal way. Our troubles have been caused by the assumption that everybody wanted the same things, and thereby the supply of those things has become artificially limited; even those benefits of which there is an inexhaustible store have been cornered. For example, fresh air and beautiful scenery. In a world where everyone did his own will none would lack these things. In ou…
…ALAIN szrveys DENYS from head to foot, emitting satisfied chuckles at on his hat with a flourish, DENys. Sir, if you are in your wits, I find you insolent: if not, I will not stand here parleying with a madman. ALAIN. I must apologise, no doubt, but the cir- cumstances are peculiar. Is it your custom to steal into the houses of gentlemen after midnight, and accuse the owners of lunacy? [Chuckles.} Well—let us be polite if we cannot be friendly. DENYS. Then, sir, you will permit me to explain my intrusion. ALAIN. [Laughing.] Ha! Ha! a fine story…
66 The Law is for All like Narcissus, offer oneself loveless to every love like Catherine, or find the body so vain as to enclose one’s lust in the soul and make one lifelong spinthria1 unassuaged in the imagination like Aubrey Beardsley, the means matter no whit. Bach takes one way, Keats one, Goya one. The end is everything: that by the act, what ever it is, one worships, loves, possesses, and becomes Nuit. 1 [“Seeing stars,” or spintherism, from omi^rip, “sparks.”] 2 [Shakespeare, Macbeth i, 7.] The act of love can no more “trammel up the c…
… sworn to attain to the Know¬ ledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel may in his grosser days hâve been expert as a Healer, to find that he is now incapable of any such work. He will probably be puzzled, and wonder whether he has lost ail his power. Y et the cause may be no more than that the Wisdom of his Angel deprecates the interférence of ignorant kindlmess with diseases which may hâve been sent to the sufferer for a purpose profoundly important to his welfare. In the case af The Master Therion, he h ad originally the capacity for…
…e spent so many. The crisis of my life—my brother’s trust, God rest his soul! [evosses himself and mutters silently in prayer|—shall not find Alain de Malétroit unready or disturbed. SCENE CLOSES. SCENE II.! A narrow dirty street in Paris, fifteenth century. Night pitch black. Passers-by with lanterns. First PASSER-BY stumbles into SECOND. SECOND PASSER-BY. Zounds, man! have a care with thy goings. FIRST PASSER-BY. Stand, or I strike. Who but a thief goes lanternless o’ nights? 1 The play may be presented in a single scene, by omitting this Sce…
…sn’t care, he’s mad— by ’r Lady, perhaps I’m mad myself. [ Goes off into silent laughter. checks him sternly, ALAIN ALAIN. Sir, you will find I mean no jest. DENYS. Mademoiselle, I ask you a thousand pardons for this scene—none of my making, but of my strange fortune’s.
…anger say? So many nowadays are forced by sheer starvation into writing books that will sell—and when they have taken the devil’s money, find that it is in no figure that he has their souls in pawn. I am told that it is the ambition of W. S. Maugham to write a great play. A.C. THE EDUCATION OF UNCLE PAUL. By ALGERNON BLACKWOOD. Macmillan and Co. 6s. I read this book on the Express Train from Eastbourne to London (change at Polegate, Lewes, Hayward’s Heath, Three Bridges, Red Hill, and East Croydon—they ought to stop to set down passengers at Ea…
…anger say? So many nowadays are forced by sheer starvation into writing books that will sell—and when they have taken the devil’s money, find that it is in no figure that he has their souls in pawn. I am told that it is the ambition of W. S. Maugham to write a great play. A.C. THE EDUCATION OF UNCLE PAUL. By ALGERNON BLACKWOOD. Macmillan and Co. 6s. I read this book on the Express Train from Eastbourne to London (change at Polegate, Lewes, Hayward’s Heath, Three Bridges, Red Hill, and East Croydon—they ought to stop to set down passengers at Ea…
…tter touches one’s honour—[r7ses and looks sternly at DENYS]. DENYS. Your honour ? [DENYS zs amazed out of all measure. ALAIN. We try to find some means of overcoming such modesty. DENYS. Is this Ovid or Horace? ALAIN, To business, then, if you will affect igno- rance. [Strikes gong; enter PRIEST, who gtves. DENYS a long keen glance and speaks in an undertone to ALAIN.] Is she in a better frame of mind? PRIEST. She is more resigned, my lord. ALAIN. Now a murrain o’ these languishing wenches in their green-sickness! By’r Lady, she is hard to ple…
…ermed the Heavens, the waters which be above the Firmament. It also alludes to the Eternal River of Eden, divided into four heads, which find their correlation in the four triplicities of the Zodiac.” After which he explains to him the Eighteenth Key of the Tarot. It represents the Moon in its increase in the side of Gedulah; it has sixteen principal, and sixteen secondary rays. Four Hebrew Yodhs fall from it. There are also two Watch-towers, two dogs, and a cray-fish, ‘‘ She is the Moon at the feet of the Woman of the Revelations, ruling equal…
…ermed the Heavens, the waters which be above the Firmament. It also alludes to the Eternal River of Eden, divided into four heads, which find their correlation in the four triplicities of the Zodiac.” After which he explains to him the Eighteenth Key of the Tarot. It represents the Moon in its increase in the side of Gedulah; it has sixteen principal, and sixteen secondary rays. Four Hebrew Yodhs fall from it. There are also two Watch-towers, two dogs, and a cray-fish, ‘‘ She is the Moon at the feet of the Woman of the Revelations, ruling equal…
…an who could make rain in Cumberland might fail lament- ably in the Sahara. One might make a talisman to win the love of a shop-girl and find it work, yet be baffled in the case of a countess; or vice versa. One might impose one’s Will on a farm, and be crushed by that of a city; or vice versa. The Master Therion himself, with ail his successes in every kind of Magick, sometimes appears utterly impotent to perform feats which almost any amateur might do, because He has matched his Will against that of the world, having undertaken the Work of a …
…o Magick. If the reader will turn to the account of his astral journeys in the Second Number of the First Volume of the Equinox, he will find that these experiments were quite capricious. Even when, in Mexico, He got the idea of exploring the 30 Aethyrs systemat- ically, He abandoned the vision after only 2 Aethyrs had been investigated. 1. Reconsideration of these remarks, at the request of a loyal colleague, compels Him to admit that this may not be the case. It is true that He has been granted ail Mystical Attainment that is theoretically po…
…growth to slay men unaware, Il. I have discovered God! His ghastly way Of burning ploughshares for my naked feet Lies open to me—shall I find it sweet To give up sunlight for that mystic day That beams its torture, whose red banners beat Their radiant fire Into my shrivelled head, to wither Love’s desire? III. I was a child long years ago, it seems, Or months it may be—I am still a child ! They pictured me the stars as wheeling wild In a huge bow] of water; but my dreams Built it of Titan oak, its sides were piled Of fearful wood Hewn from God’…