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…pulous trick against the will of the people. Today, we see the Ku Klux Klan attempting to impose, by secret society methods of anonymous menace backed by boycott, arson and assassination, the ideals of a clique; and nearly {728} as noxious are the arrogant aims and brutal tactics of Catholics and freemasons. In their own way capital and labour are influenced by the same idea, that of imposing a rigid and uniform rule on the entire community regardless of local conditions or any other considerations which might make for diversity. I need hardly …
1909 · PDF PAGE 179
…on: the First Mind. Multiply by It any other Number—for the Multiplica- tion of the Numbers is a Generation, as is the Multiplication of Men and Gods—and behold! the Resultant is a replica of the Number taken. So is One the All-Father, the All- begetter—generating and producing all. The next step is the division into TWO. Thus was manifested the Great Dual Power of Nature. As above, so below. And thus we find that the simple division into two is the method of multiplication of the Amceba, the lowest, simplest, and most absolute form of physical…
1909 · PDF PAGE 179
…on: the First Mind. Multiply by It any other Number—for the Multiplica- tion of the Numbers is a Generation, as is the Multiplication of Men and Gods—and behold! the Resultant is a replica of the Number taken. So is One the All-Father, the All- begetter—generating and producing all. The next step is the division into TWO. Thus was manifested the Great Dual Power of Nature. As above, so below. And thus we find that the simple division into two is the method of multiplication of the Amceba, the lowest, simplest, and most absolute form of physical…
1913 · PDF PAGE 131
…ical or immoral or disastrous—whichis not true... . A casual carpenter wandered about a string of villages; and suddenly a horde of rich men and sceptics and Sadducees and respectable persons rushed at him and nailed him up like vermin; then people saw that he was a god. He had proved that he was not a common man, for he was murdered. And ever since his creed has proved that it is not a commen hypothesis; for it is hated. ‘Next week I hope to make a fuller study of Mr. Crowley’s interpretation of Buddhism... suffice for the moment to say that i…
1913 · PDF PAGE 336
…self-styled religious, of Protestants, as well as the credulous and imperious ignorance of bad Catholics. The Antichrist is what divides men instead of uniting them; it is a spirit of dispute, the obstinacy of theologians and sectarians, the impious desire of appropriating the truth to oneself, and excluding others from it, or of forcing the whole world to submit to the narrow yoke of our judgments. The Antichrist is the priest who curses instead of blessing, who drives away instead of attracting, who scandalizes instead of edifying, who damns …
1913 · PDF PAGE 336
…self-styled religious, of Protestants, as well as the credulous and imperious ignorance of bad Catholics. The Antichrist is what divides men instead of uniting them; it is a spirit of dispute, the obstinacy of theologians and sectarians, the impious desire of appropriating the truth to oneself, and excluding others from it, or of forcing the whole world to submit to the narrow yoke of our judgments. The Antichrist is the priest who curses instead of blessing, who drives away instead of attracting, who scandalizes instead of edifying, who damns …
1929 · PDF PAGE 218
…D ARAGO; AND OF THE LOVES OF LISA LA GIUFFRIA AND ABDUL BEY, HOW THEY PROSPERED. OF THE CONCLUSION OF THE FALSE ALARM OF THE GREAT EXPERIMENT, AND OF A CONFERENCE BETWEEN DOUGLASS AND HIS SUBORDINATES. LORD ANTONY BOWLING was one of three men in the War Office who could speak French perfectly; despite this drawback, he had been selected to confer with the French headquarters in Paris. Here he met Cyril Grey, busy with his tailor. The young magician had once held a captaincy in a Hussar regiment, but a year of India had developed his native love…
1954 · PDF PAGE 283
…nt. Thus eleven, as my bride is eleven. ( 15-16) I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. (22) I am alone: there is no God where I am. (23) I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one. There is great danger in me; for who doth not understand these runes shall make a great miss. He shall fall dow…
1907 · PDF PAGE 151
…ised has at length been revealed ; she who will crush the head of that old serpent , who has so long bruised the heel of the children of men who were born in the knowledge of good and of evil . I Rosa Mundi , vol. iii, pp . 51-55 .
1907 · PDF PAGE 168
… effect are but replicas of each other , and if the cause be ignorance , it is useless to look for the wisdom of Solomon in the effect ; men's gods are but gilded duplications of themselves , and their ideal but the “ resurrection pie ” of past feasting . Man loves the mysterious , and his god is but a poor conjuring trick , as is shown in “ Pentecost ” _ " mysterious way God moves in to fix up his Maskelyne tricks.” 2 Leaving now these satirical poems for other works of Crowley's , we shall find a deep , yet in no way less , intense hatred for…
1910 · PDF PAGE 43
…love and desires; the angels of love and desires therefore digged a deep trap before his feet... Tabard was sitting in the verandah. The men had gone to bed, the women also. He lighted his pipe, the use of which a life in the open air had permitted his lungs to tolerate. He was thinking, pondering, meditating upon the most important matter in life, the personal one. He looked at his hands, white, well shaped, well kept, but the left retaining a stiffer and curved appearance. Lionel felt ashamed of himself. He took his watch in his hand and look…
1910 · PDF PAGE 43
…love and desires; the angels of love and desires therefore digged a deep trap before his feet... Tabard was sitting in the verandah. The men had gone to bed, the women also. He lighted his pipe, the use of which a life in the open air had permitted his lungs to tolerate. He was thinking, pondering, meditating upon the most important matter in life, the personal one. He looked at his hands, white, well shaped, well kept, but the left retaining a stiffer and curved appearance. Lionel felt ashamed of himself. He took his watch in his hand and look…
1910 · PDF PAGE 125
…er ; (This sounds as though Sufi confessors shared the predilections and privileges of Jesuit confessors) the inhalation is the enlightenment of the soul ; the exhalation the holy influence shed by the Sufi upon his fellow man — and so on. Mahbub was perfectly willing to explain every phrase in the book along these lines ; reasonable people will agree that a single sample is enough. But see the note 1 on XXXVIIIth Ghazal. 4. Aristu — Aristotle. Most sensible men will heartily agree with these sentiments. El Qahar is more than mystic and sodomit…
1910 · PDF PAGE 14
PREFACE. IX the air refuse to fly over it ! May it stand as a curse, as a fear, as an hate, among men ! May the wicked dwell the- rein ! May the light of the Sun be withheld therefrom, and the light of the Moon not lighten it ! May it become the home of the shells of the dead, and may the demons of the pit inhabit it ! May it be accursed, accursed, accursed — accursed for ever and ever ! And still, standing as I stand in the prime of early manhood, free from all the fetters of the body and the mind, do I curse the memory thereof unto the ages. …
1911 · PDF PAGE 9
THE VISION AND THE VOICE An immense eagle-angel is before me. His wings seem to hide all the Heaven. He cried aloud saying: The Voice of the Lord upon the Waters: the Terror of God upon Mankind. The voice of the Lord maketh the Skies to tremble: the Stars are troubled: the Aires fall. The First Voice Speaketh and saith: Cursed, cursed be the Earth, for her iniquity is great. Oh Lord! Let Thy Mercy be lost in the great Deep! Open thine eyes of Flame and Light, O God, upon the wicked! Lighten thine Eyes! The Clamour of Thy Voice, let it smite dow…
1913 · PDF PAGE 408
THE EQUINOX always imply a state analogous to somnambulism. But in a contrary sense; somnambulism is slumber borrowing its phenomena from waking; hallucination is waking still partially subjected to the astral intoxication of slumber. Our fluidic bodies attract and repulse each other following laws similar to those of electricity. It is this which produces instinctive sympathies and antipathies. They thus equilibrate each other, and for this reason hallucinations are often con- tagious; abnormal projections change the luminous currents ; the pe…
1913 · PDF PAGE 408
THE EQUINOX always imply a state analogous to somnambulism. But in a contrary sense; somnambulism is slumber borrowing its phenomena from waking; hallucination is waking still partially subjected to the astral intoxication of slumber. Our fluidic bodies attract and repulse each other following laws similar to those of electricity. It is this which produces instinctive sympathies and antipathies. They thus equilibrate each other, and for this reason hallucinations are often con- tagious; abnormal projections change the luminous currents ; the pe…
1919 · PDF PAGE 414
…rough a brick wall before re- gaining his eyesight. 16. Thou shalt not let thy senses make a playground of thy mind. Following on the tremendous task of verse 15 comes the obvious elementary piece of instruction which one gives to a beginner. The best way out of the dilemma is to take verse 15 ina very elementary sense. Let us paraphrase that verse. “Try to get into the habit of thinking of your mind and body as distinct. Attach yourself to matters of eternal impor- tance, and do not be deluded by the idea that the material universe is real. Tr…
1907 · PDF PAGE 221
…ley, by postulating a God , himself showed that reason was wanting ; so the scepticism of Pyrrho was once again applied to the defective mental ma chinery , which burst like a faulty boiler on due pres sure being brought to bear upon it by David Hume . The final judgement of the senses was doubted , but only partially , men sought the link which connected cause and effect --the excluded middle - consciousness , and what may be called super -consciousness ; and to attain this end Crowley has applied the whole of his Pyrrhonic - Iconoclasm to bre…
1907 · PDF PAGE 314
… “ bears out Western speculation , whether we take the shadowy idealism of Berkeley , or the self -refuted Monism of Haeckel . All these men got our results , and interpreted them in the partial light of their varied intellect , their diverse surroundings and education . But the result is the same physiological phenomenon , from Plato and Christ to Spinoza and Çankaracharya , from Augustine and Abelard , Boehme and Weigel in their Christian communities to Trismegistus and Porphyry , Mohammed and Paracelsus in their mystic palaces of Wisdom , th…