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Page 64 of 1031922 · PDF PAGE 129
…with cocaine I hardly knew what he was saying. It was the easiest way out to nod assent and watch the clouds fighting each other to get hold of the sun. I was betting on that big white elephant on the horizon. There were two black cobras and a purple hippopotamus against him; but I couldn’t help that. With those magnificent tusks he ought to be able to settle their business, and only to look at his legs you could see the old sun hadn’t got a dog’s chance. I can’t see why people haven’t the sense to keep still when a fight of this kind is in pro…
1954 · PDF PAGE 449
…t the very qualities which serve to protect must inevitably destroy the very conditions which they aim to preserve. Hey! Hasn't the dear old Book of Lies got its word on the subject? Never known to fail! The Wound of Amfortas The Self-Mastery of Percivale became the Self-masturbatery of the Bourgeois. Vir-tus has become "virtue. " The qualities which have made a man, a race. a city. a caste, must be thrown off; death is the penalty oj failure. As it is written: In the hour of success sacrifice that which is dearest to thee unto the Infernal God…
1907 · PDF PAGE 76
…ed 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 from the blighting bane Of commerce ; whilst the pestilence that springs From unenjoying sensualism, has filled All human life with hydra -headed woes. So sang Shelley . Now let us turn to Aleister Crowley , and we shall find his ideal no less grea…
1907 · PDF PAGE 147
…l be seized and hurled from the rock of Tarpeia , and smothered with the goatish kisses of her lechery midst the charnel glitter of her gold . And the Vestal courtezan will rise before us , purple and white , clothed in the sun , and set between the moon and the twelve stars of heaven . So another league will be accom plished toward that city which is God . We have already seen in “ The Mother's Tragedy " and “ The Fatal Force ,” that the love of the mother , though it could not cause the shadow to travel back wards one degree on the face of th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 161
… all religions in that gruesome and weird drama , “ The God - Eater ." Maurya the sister of Criosda says : Criosda , ever the same ! The old world runs On wheels of laughter for us little ones ; To you , whose 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 s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 70
…t upon them! 43. Let the Scarlet Woman beware! If pity and com- passion and tenderness visit her heart; if she leave my work to toy with old sweetnesses; then shall my vengeance be known. I will slay me her child: I will alienate her heart: I will cast her out from men: as a shrinking and despised harlot shall she crawl though dusk wet streets, and die cold and an-hungered. 30
1913 · PDF PAGE 394
…orrows? Those souls devoted to labour and to prayer, who have strewn their pathways with good deeds? Who founded asylums for orphans and old men, hospitals for the sick, retreats for the repentant? These institutions, as glorious as they are modest, are the real works with which the annals of the Church are filled ; religious wars and the persecution of heretics belong to the politics of savage centuries. The heretics, moreover, were themselves murderers. Have you forgotten the burning of Michael Servetus and the massacre of our priests, renewe…
1913 · PDF PAGE 70
…t upon them! 43. Let the Scarlet Woman beware! If pity and com- passion and tenderness visit her heart; if she leave my work to toy with old sweetnesses; then shall my vengeance be known. I will slay me her child: I will alienate her heart: I will cast her out from men: as a shrinking and despised harlot shall she crawl though dusk wet streets, and die cold and an-hungered. 30
1913 · PDF PAGE 394
…orrows? Those souls devoted to labour and to prayer, who have strewn their pathways with good deeds? Who founded asylums for orphans and old men, hospitals for the sick, retreats for the repentant? These institutions, as glorious as they are modest, are the real works with which the annals of the Church are filled ; religious wars and the persecution of heretics belong to the politics of savage centuries. The heretics, moreover, were themselves murderers. Have you forgotten the burning of Michael Servetus and the massacre of our priests, renewe…
1930 · PDF PAGE 83
… to West African war-drums. Section Gg. The adept should hâve realised that his Act of Union with the angel implies (i) the death of his old mind save in so far as his unconscious éléments preserve its memory when they absorb it, and (2) the death of his unconscious elementa themselves. But their death is rather a going forth to renew their life through love. He then, by conscious compréhension of them separatefy and together, becomes the “Angel” of his Angel, as Hermes is the Word of Zeus, whose own voice is Thunder. Thus in this section the a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
… inhabit the same mind is true enough , and that its forms are monstrous must be apparent to all students of sexual psychology ; as the cold blooded lust of the lecher , who can only find stimula tion for his gross lecheries in the horrors of a de Sade , devouring in security and ease maidens and youths , as the minotaur did of old— “ semibovemque virum , semivirumque bovem .” This is the lust which is the most horrid , and the most damnable ; it takes much to produce a passionate man , but little to engender a lustful one . The present generat…
1909 · PDF PAGE 118
…t the wall, and took stock of things. How well he remembered the immense Christ at the end of the room, a figure conceived by a giant of old time, one might have thought, and now covered with a dry, green lichenous rot, so that the limbs were swollen and distorted. It gave an incredibly strong impression of loathsome disease, entirely overpowering the intention of picturing inflicted pain. Roderic, who, far from being a good man, was actually a Freethinker, thought it a grimly apt symbol of the religion of our day. On His right stood a plaster …
1909 · PDF PAGE 118
…t the wall, and took stock of things. How well he remembered the immense Christ at the end of the room, a figure conceived by a giant of old time, one might have thought, and now covered with a dry, green lichenous rot, so that the limbs were swollen and distorted. It gave an incredibly strong impression of loathsome disease, entirely overpowering the intention of picturing inflicted pain. Roderic, who, far from being a good man, was actually a Freethinker, thought it a grimly apt symbol of the religion of our day. On His right stood a plaster …
1910 · PDF PAGE 262
…ses of reasoning, but by journeying through those self-same fields of weird expe- rience which are dinted by the sandals of the glorious old dreamers of the East. Standing on the same mounts of vision where they stood, listening to the same gurgling melody that broke from their enchanted fountains, yes, plunging into their rayless caverns of sorcery, and imprisoned with their genie in the unutterable silence of the fathomless sea, have I dearly bought the right to come to men with the chart of my wanderings in my hands, and unfold to them the f…
1910 · PDF PAGE 262
…ses of reasoning, but by journeying through those self-same fields of weird expe- rience which are dinted by the sandals of the glorious old dreamers of the East. Standing on the same mounts of vision where they stood, listening to the same gurgling melody that broke from their enchanted fountains, yes, plunging into their rayless caverns of sorcery, and imprisoned with their genie in the unutterable silence of the fathomless sea, have I dearly bought the right to come to men with the chart of my wanderings in my hands, and unfold to them the f…
1913 · PDF PAGE 87
…e water in this Cup (the latter is also a heart, as shown by the transition from the ancient to the modern Tarot ; the suit " Hearts" in old packs of cards, and even in modern Spanish and Italian cards, is called " Cups ") is the letter Mem (the Hebrew word for water), which has for its Tarot trump the Hanged Man. This Hanged Man represents the Adept hanging by one heel from a gallows, which is in the shape of the letter Daleth — the letter of the Empress, the heavenly Venus in the Tarot. His legs form a cross, his arms a triangle, as if by his…
1913 · PDF PAGE 10
…this ; a very brave man indeed to maintain it when every neighbour he meets will accuse him for a fool and worse . Dryden chooses to be bolder yet , and pays our admission to his high discourse with a foolish light coin that passes current wherever men and women have nothing more serious on hand than to dine and chat and make themselves agreeable . For Howard 's pleasantry ( as old as Juvenal , and older ) has in truth very little sense to commend it. I am writing this by a window which stands open above a two - mile beach , along which the tid…
1905 · PDF PAGE 253
…USER. I know not; possibly Kept as an hostage. I was prisoner once. WOLFRAM. Prisoner? By here? TANNHAUSER. A-many castles, sir, Held by old ogres—and not all of them Stand in the mid-day, front the sober sun, Answer the slug-horn.! LANDGRAVE, You are pleased to riddle. Ever the poet ! TANNHAUSER (aside). Let me try the truth For certitude of incredulity ! (Aloud, laughing) I was in Venusberg ! ALL (except HEINRICH, who laughs). Save us, Maria! [They look about them fearfully and cross theniselves. 1 I prefer to follow Browning in his '* absurd…
1910 · PDF PAGE 190
THE EQUINOX (1903). In the month of January he met his old College friend H. L. From the very first moment of this meeting H. L. showed considerable perturbation of mind, and on being asked by Frater P. what was exercising him, H. L. replied “Come and free Miss Q. from the wiles of Mrs. M. Being asked who Mrs. M. was, H. L. answered that she was a vampire and a sorceress who was modelling a sphinx with the intention of one day endowing it with life so that it might carry out her evil wishes; and that her victim was Miss Q. P. wishing to ease hi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 197
…308s. 20 breaks. [With Mantra. Throbbing at once. “Invaders” nearly all irrational. Strong sub-current of swift thought noted. Quite the old times! Excel- lent: I require less food and less literary work. I wonder if it would be worth while to try irritation of skin over Ajna with tincture of Iodine.] In30am. 1155am. Ajna 25m. 20 breaks. 9.36 p.m. 9.514pm. Ajna 15m. 30s. 20 breaks, Ill.* 10.57a.m. 11.4 a.m. Pranayama 7m. Nose not clear, i16am, i1n18am. Ajna 2m, 6 breaks. [Hyperaesthesia of sense. Various sounds disturbed me much.] Again ill, 3.…