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THE EQUINOX From him,* who alone shines, all else borrows its brightness, The whole world bursts into splendour at his shining. And again in Maitrayana, 6. 24. When the darkness is pierced through, then is reached that which is not affected by darkness; and he who has thus pierced through that which is so affected, he has beheld like a glittering circle of sparks Brahman bright as the sun, endowed with all might, beyond the reach of darkness, that shines in yonder sun as in the moon, the fire and the lightning. Thus the Atman little by little c…
1910 · PDF PAGE 74
THE EQUINOX From him,* who alone shines, all else borrows its brightness, The whole world bursts into splendour at his shining. And again in Maitrayana, 6. 24. When the darkness is pierced through, then is reached that which is not affected by darkness; and he who has thus pierced through that which is so affected, he has beheld like a glittering circle of sparks Brahman bright as the sun, endowed with all might, beyond the reach of darkness, that shines in yonder sun as in the moon, the fire and the lightning. Thus the Atman little by little c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
… straight and broad, full of energy; and the mouth passionate and firm. The lips were somewhat thick, but they were mobile; [76] and the whole expression of the face redeemed any defect of any feature. For while its general physical aspect was severe, even savage — she might have been a Tartar beauty, the bride of a Gengis Khan, or a South Sea Island Queen, tossing her lovers into the crater of Mauna Loa after killing them in the excess and fantasy of her passion — yet the soul within shone out and turned the swords to plowshares. There was pri…
1996 · PDF PAGE 123
…o take the proper view of death. The fear of death is one of the great weapons of tyrants, as well as their scourge; and it distorts our whole outlook upon the Universe. 42. A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! Commentary: To him who realizes Hadit this text needs little comment. It is wondrous, this joy of awakening every morning to the truth of one’s immortal energy and rapture. 43. A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! Commentary: To sleep is to return, in a sense, to the Bosom of Nuit. But…
1910 · PDF PAGE 124
…there was a tendency to slow up with the right ear, which however was easy to test by approaching a watch against the ear.”§ During this whole period of rough travel, work is fatiguing, difficult and uncertain. Regularity is impossible, as regards hours and even days, and the * The Akasic egg of spirit set between the Pillars of Mercy and Severity with a ray of light descending upon it from Kether. + The Golden Dawn Symbol here meditated upon consisted of a white triangle surmounted by a red cross. See Diagram 4. } This meditation took place wh…
1910 · PDF PAGE 124
…there was a tendency to slow up with the right ear, which however was easy to test by approaching a watch against the ear.”§ During this whole period of rough travel, work is fatiguing, difficult and uncertain. Regularity is impossible, as regards hours and even days, and the * The Akasic egg of spirit set between the Pillars of Mercy and Severity with a ray of light descending upon it from Kether. + The Golden Dawn Symbol here meditated upon consisted of a white triangle surmounted by a red cross. See Diagram 4. } This meditation took place wh…
1922 · PDF PAGE 313
…cigar into the fireplace. ‘What do you mean by that ?”’ I said passionately. I had something else in mind to say, but all of a sudden my whole being seemed to falter. I sat down weakly in the chair, gasping for breath. Through my half-shut eyes I could see Lou take an impulsive step towards me; and then, controlling herself, she recoiled as a man might who had approached what he thought was a beautifully marked piece of fallen timber and recog- nised it for a rattlesnake.
1922 · PDF PAGE 352
…t I needed © more active exercise, though already I had begun to take some interest in the sports of the place. I had even got through a whole game of Thelema without having to sit down and gasp. But there was still an obscure hankering after the drug life. It had been burnt into me that normal interests were not worth while. King Lamus had taken me out climbing several times ; but while I experienced profound physical satisfaction, I could not overcome the moral attitude which is
1922 · PDF PAGE 356
… forces in regular motion. The monotony devoured consciousness so that my waking sleep merged into true sleep. The strangest part of the whole experience was that I woke up an entirely new man. I found myself en- grossed in abstruse calculations, loosely knit together, it is true, but very intense, with regard to an idea which - had not entered my mind for months. I was working out in my mind a plan for constructing a helicopter, the invention of which had occupied me deeply when I was out of a job. It had been driven completely out of my mind …
1929 · PDF PAGE 14
…oon Cease work had sounded. Instantly, without a moments hesitation, Dodu strode across to me and said, at the risk of the lash: The whole plan which I have explained to you in cipher these last four months is a blind. That spy knew all. His lips are sealed in death. I have another plan, the real plan, simpler and surer. I will tell it to you to- morrow. The whistle of an approaching engine interrupted this tragic episode of the adventures of Duguesclin.
1954 · PDF PAGE 67
…imited by his mental power and capacity, and by the circumstances of his human environment. (Illustration: When a man falls in love, the whole world becomes, to him, nothing but love boundless and immanent; but his mystical state is not contagious; his fellow-men are either amused or annoyed. He can only extend to others the effect which his love has had upon himself by means of his mental and physical qualities. Thus, Catullus, Dante and Swinburne made their love a mighty mover of mankind by virtue of their power to put their thoughts on the s…
1954 · PDF PAGE 74
…you play about with it,· since there is no limit to the combinations that you can form from it, save only in your imagination (where the whole thing belongs!) and that grows mightily with Experience. It is accordingly well worth while to fulfill oneself in every conceivable manner. It is then (you will say) impossible to "do wrong," since all phenomena are equally "Illusion" and the answer is always "Nothing." In theory one can hardly deny this proposition ; but in practice-how shall I put it? "The state of Illusion which for convenience I call…
1996 · PDF PAGE 27
…ling is the Proclamation of the Truth previously explained, that the Body of Nuit occupies Infinite Space, so that every Star thereof is Whole in itself, an independent and absolute Unit. They differ as Carbon and Calcium differ, but each is a sim ple “immortal” Substance, or at least a Form of some simpler Substance. Each soul is thus absolute, and “good” or “evil” are merely terms descriptive of relations between destructible combi nations. Thus Quinine is “good” for a malarial patient, but “evil” for the germ of the disease. Heat is “bad” …
1996 · PDF PAGE 169
… the Jewish Law, rather than to the Faith (al-din)1 of Islam. Assuming this, the six1 2 religions whose flesh must be torn out cover the whole globe outside Islam and Christianity. 1 [Din means religion in Arabic, in the sense of the obligation “reason ing” creatures have to God, with a sense of a debt to be discharged.] 2 [Four, not six, in the context of Crowley’s present discussion.] 3 [Crowley’s usual authority for etymology was Walter Skeat, who gives *mer (not *mr) as the “Indogermanic” (Indoeuropean) root underly ing death-words, givin…
1954 · PDF PAGE 302
…devils in the belfry of St. Nicholas Rocambole-de-Ronchonot!" "But-but" (you stammer when spirits of hartshorn have revived you) "in the whole history of the tables a colour has never turned up more than 24 times running!" My poor friend, what has that got to do with it? True, from the start it is countless millions to I that there will not be a run of 24 on the red or the black; but the probability on any single spin (ignoring zero) is always one to one. The black compartments do not contract because the ball has fallen into anyone of them. An…
1917 · PDF PAGE 1
… OF LIBERTY A TRACT OF THERION THAT IS A MAGUS 9°=29, A..A.*. Issvep sy THE O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis) Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law I AM often asked why I begin my letters in this way. I No matter whether I am writing to my lady or to my butcher, always I begin with these eleven words. Why, how else should I begin? What other greeting could be so glad? Look, brother, we are free! Rejoice with me, sister, there is no Law beyond Do What Thou Wilt! I write this for those who have not read our Sacred Book, Il the Book of the L…
1954 · PDF PAGE 244
…S CERTAINTY? 211 must make corrections for this and for that; and he must have attached an (arbitrary) interpretation to the system; the whole question of Relativity pops up. And, even so, he will enter a caveat about every single ganglion in the gossamer of his calculations. Well then, all this intricate differentiation and integration and verification and Lord knows what leads at last to a statement which may be called "Certain without Error." But Hermes Trismegistus is not content with any such fugues as the Astronomer, however cunning and c…
1954 · PDF PAGE 380
… all! Pesos were passing without question. Well, well! So I got into conversation with a knowledgeable-looking bloke, and he told me the whole story. It seemed that the Director of Customs had a brother in Mexico D.F. who manufactured brass bedsteads. The uprights of these were packed with forged pesos of Fernando VII and one other king-I forget his name-made of the same standard silver alloy as the genuine coins, and so well executed that the only way to tell the false was that they looked newer than they should have been, in view of the date!…
1929 · PDF PAGE 528
…ntained my sceptical method and proceeded to apply test after test. The Wizard never made the slightest mistake. Taking his answers as a whole, he made it mathematically probably to a degree approximating certainty as closely as the most exact physical equations that he spoke with conscious knowledge. We began a series of interviews with him. There was what I may call a permanent background to the vision. He lived in a place as definite as an address in New York, and in this place were a number of symbolic images representing myself and several…
1922 · PDF PAGE 82
…word. It took me back to King Lamus. I hated that fellow more than ever. He had begun to obsess me. Confound him |! Lou had confided the whole story to our host, who admitted that he was familiar with these matters. “You see, my dear Sir Peter,” he said, “‘ you can’t take H. like you can C., and when you mix your drinks there’s the devil to pay. It’s like everything else in life; you’ve got to find out your limit. It’s very dangerous to move about when you're working H. or M., and it’s almost certain disaster to eat.” I must admit I felt an awf…