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Page 66 of 1301912 · PDF PAGE 115
…all, that start or stir. Loves holocaust is to exhaust who loveth her, Exhaust of light, exhaust of might, exhaust of love, Until their world of woe uncurled reach out above To where the great black snake of Fate is coiled about The very spine of God, a vine divine, devout. Oh for the blind kiss of the wind, the desert air Thrilling the blue and shrilling through my souls despair ! Oh for the sharp edge of the escarpments of the dunes ! Diffract through haze the rigid rays of the dead moons ! Saturn of lead, and Mars all red, and Venus blue, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 97
…hich he sticks into the pie of the new dispensa- tion. He plucks forth one who is ripe, no doubt to send him forth as a teacher into the world, and rejoices that he is so well carrying out the will of the Father. Let us pass from this most blessed subject to yet another. Tom, Tom, the piper's son, Stole a pig and away he run. The pig was eat, And Tom was beat. And Tom went roaring down the street.
1913 · PDF PAGE 496
…lectro-magnetic chains whose tension is caused by sympathies and affinities, are able to communicate with each other from one end of the world to the other, to caress or strike, wound or heal, in a manner doubtless natural, but invisible, and of the nature of prodigy. There is the secret of magic. Magic, that science which comes to us from the magi! Magic, the first of sciences! Magic, the holiest science, because it establishes in the sublimest manner the great religious truths! Magic, the most calumniated of all, because the vulgar obstinatel…
1913 · PDF PAGE 496
…lectro-magnetic chains whose tension is caused by sympathies and affinities, are able to communicate with each other from one end of the world to the other, to caress or strike, wound or heal, in a manner doubtless natural, but invisible, and of the nature of prodigy. There is the secret of magic. Magic, that science which comes to us from the magi! Magic, the first of sciences! Magic, the holiest science, because it establishes in the sublimest manner the great religious truths! Magic, the most calumniated of all, because the vulgar obstinatel…
1954 · PDF PAGE 207
…was a hard-shell Buddhist, sent out a New Year's Card "wishing you a speedy termination of existence!" And this as a young man, with the world at my feet. It only goes to show ... ) Vv. 19,20: Is a God to live in a dog? No; but the highest are of us. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. This chapter returns over and over again to this theme in one form or another. 1. "Peace": the glow of satisfaction at achievement. It is not "eternal," rather, it whets the appetite for another adventure. (Peac…
1961 · PDF PAGE 205
… easily not only from the Gross Body, but the fine. It is this Fine Body which bindeth it to the Astral, as did the Gross to he Material World so then it accomplisheth willingly the Sacrament of a second Death and leaveth the Body of Light. But the Mind, cleaveth closely, by Right of its Harmony, and Might of its Love, to its Star, resisteth the Ministers of Disruption, for a Season, according to its Strength. Now, if his Star be of those that are bound by the Great Oath, incarnating without Remission because of Delight in the Cosmic Sacrament,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 311
304 THE STAR IN THE WEST self -hypnosis, then indeed self -hypnosis is the key which in this world will unlock the fast closed corridor of its mysteries . Crowley strongly attacks this kitchen - knavery : You weary me with proof enough That all this meditation stuff Is self - hypnosis . Be it so ! Do you suppose I did not know ? Still , to be accurate ,I fear The symptoms are entirely strange . If I were hard , I'd make it clear That criticism must arrange An explanation different For this particular event . Surely , your best work always finds…
1910 · PDF PAGE 245
…cold! I mind me, more than sixty years ago now—oh dear! oh dear! run and tell Nurse I want my liniment! Oh dear! oh dear! what awretched world. Sciatics—like rats gnawing, gnawing at you, Charley. CHARLEY. You frighten me, grampa! Why doesn’t Mr. Carr come and play with me? GRANDFATHER. He has gone out with your mother. He'll come by-and-by, no doubt. Run and fetch Nurse, Charley ! [CHARLEY runs off. Oh dear! I wish I could find a good doctor. Nobody seems to do me any good. It’s pain, pain all the time. Nurse! can’t you tell me of a good docto…
1910 · PDF PAGE 245
…cold! I mind me, more than sixty years ago now—oh dear! oh dear! run and tell Nurse I want my liniment! Oh dear! oh dear! what awretched world. Sciatics—like rats gnawing, gnawing at you, Charley. CHARLEY. You frighten me, grampa! Why doesn’t Mr. Carr come and play with me? GRANDFATHER. He has gone out with your mother. He'll come by-and-by, no doubt. Run and fetch Nurse, Charley ! [CHARLEY runs off. Oh dear! I wish I could find a good doctor. Nobody seems to do me any good. It’s pain, pain all the time. Nurse! can’t you tell me of a good docto…
1913 · PDF PAGE 320
THE EQUINOX Nevertheless, the father of men, being on occasion drunken like Noah, let the world perceive the mysteries of life. Psyche, made divine by her torments, became the bride of Eros; Adonis, raised from death, found again his Venus in Olympus; Job, victorious over evil, recovered more than he had lost. The law is a test of courage. To love life more than one fears the menaces of death is to merit life. The elect are those who dare; woe to the timid! Thus the slaves of law, who make themselves the tyrants of conscience and the servants o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 320
THE EQUINOX Nevertheless, the father of men, being on occasion drunken like Noah, let the world perceive the mysteries of life. Psyche, made divine by her torments, became the bride of Eros; Adonis, raised from death, found again his Venus in Olympus; Job, victorious over evil, recovered more than he had lost. The law is a test of courage. To love life more than one fears the menaces of death is to merit life. The elect are those who dare; woe to the timid! Thus the slaves of law, who make themselves the tyrants of conscience and the servants o…
1919 · PDF PAGE 185
…he bulls, sacred to Osiris, and symbolical of his Zon and of the Magical Formula of Self-Sacrifice. With these he plows the field of the world, and sows therein “the dreadful teeth of woe, Cadmean Stock of Thebes’ old misery,” which refers to a certain magical formula announced by The Beast that is familiar unto thee, but unsuited to the profane, and therefore 173
1907 · PDF PAGE 176
… silence hushed the universe 3 O how And then in clear calm tones he spoke: ‘Fools! who have meddled, and awoke The inmost forces of the world ! One lightning from my hand had hurled Both to annihilation’s brink. What foolish goddess bade ye think Ye thus could play with thunder, roll Your wheels upon the world, control The stately being of a soul? Just am IT ever! Therefore know The unrevengeful law of woe That ye invoke. Thou seekest life, Child of my water! Thou a wife, Child of my sun! Draw living breath, Maiden, and gain the guerdon—death …
1909 · PDF PAGE 107
…ully wishes to point out that " The most mystic of discourses informs us—His wholeness is in the Supra—Mundane Order ; for there a Solar World and Boundless Light subsist, as the Oracles of the Chaldeans affirm.” Not very helpful, is it? As if divination could ever help on such exalted planes ! As if the trumpery elementals that operate these things possessed the Secrets of the Destiny of an Adept, or could help him in his agony! For this reason, divination should be discarded from the start : it is only a “ mere toy, the basis of mercenary frau…
1910 · PDF PAGE 106
AMBERGRIS 97 Some rosebud in the garden of spices blows, Some offshoot from the Rose Of the World, the Rose of all Delight, The Rose of Dew, the Rose of Love and Night. The Rose of Silence, covering as with a vesture The solemn unity of things Beheld in the mirror of truth, The Rose indifferent to Gods gesture, The Rose on moonlight wings That flies to the House of Fire, The Rose of Honey in Youth ! Ah ! No dim mystery of desire Fathoms this gulf ! No light invades The mystical musical shades Of a faith in the future, a dream of the day When a…
1912 · PDF PAGE 336
…[Ex. xvii. 9] Inscrutable nbyp Angel of 6 P. MDD) A feast myo The First Gate. [Vide Nop sa K.D. L.C.K. p. 184] Limit, end; boundless The world ; an adult AD phy The Four Names in the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram; NOI ASIN viz.: Aname of Dyds mn TY YAN GOD Angels of Hod in Assiah pdx 133 and Briah Glutton and drunkard. 3D) bor [Deut. xxi. 20] To withdraw, retire pan Ne 143 144 145 146 147 148
1912 · PDF PAGE 336
…[Ex. xvii. 9] Inscrutable nbyp Angel of 6 P. MDD) A feast myo The First Gate. [Vide Nop sa K.D. L.C.K. p. 184] Limit, end; boundless The world ; an adult AD phy The Four Names in the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram; NOI ASIN viz.: Aname of Dyds mn TY YAN GOD Angels of Hod in Assiah pdx 133 and Briah Glutton and drunkard. 3D) bor [Deut. xxi. 20] To withdraw, retire pan Ne 143 144 145 146 147 148
1944 · PDF PAGE 121
…iris; also, perhaps, of Adonis and Attis on the one hand, and those of Hermes on the other, at that period when initi‐ ates all over the world found it necessary, owing to the growth of the Roman Empire and the opening up of means of communication, to replace conflicting Polytheisms by a synthetic Faith.” “To continue the identification, compare Christ’s descent into hell with the function of Hermes as guide of the dead. Also Hermes leading up Eurydice, and Christ raising up Jairus’ daughter. Christ is said to have risen on the third day, becau…
1961 · PDF PAGE 86
…the Arabs, Mohammed) EHOLD! In these Chapters have I, thy Father, restricted myself, not speaking of any immediate Echo of a Word in the World, because, there Men being long since withdrawn into their Silence, it is their One Word, and that Alone, that resoundeth undiminished through Time. How Mohammed, who followeth, is darkened and confused by His Nearness to our own Time, so that I say not save with Diffidence that His Word ALLH may mean this or that. But I am bold concerning His Doctrine of the Unity of God, for God is Man, and he said ther…
1903 · PDF PAGE 25
…stence be grasped and annihilated, so Gite the Arahat is sure of being abolished in the utter extinction. of Nirvana, while even in this world of pain, where he must remain until the ancient causes, those which have already germinated, are utterly worked out (for even the Buddha himself could not swing back the Wheel of the