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Page 70 of 841899 · PDF PAGE 251
… alike in admission and in prophesy, as this a *I will not turn to Sodom any more.’” —The J. C. R. “We have received for review a little book of poems entitled * Songs of the Spirit,’ by Aleister Crowley, whose initials ‘A. C.’ are not unknown to readers of ‘The Cantab’ and ‘ The Granta.’ Though we cannot identify ourselves with the sentiments ex- pressed in its pages, we must acknowledge that the poems show very considerable literary merit. Here is a description of the Cam: ‘The corpse-lit river, whose dank vapours teem Heavy and horrible, a d…
1929 · PDF PAGE 29
…h made so bold a bid for the mastery of the race of man. The sincere student will discover, behind the symbolic techni- calities of this book, a practical method of making himself a 1. At least, it allowed England to discover its intentions, and so to combine the world against it. XXVII
1954 · PDF PAGE 419
… and then the enemy behind that again; maybe one gets into one of those "ladder-meditations" (as described in Liber Aleph, quoted in The Book of Thoth, when discussing "the Fool" and Hashish, only the wrong way up!) which end by the conception of the Universe itself as the very climax, asymptote, quintessence of frustration-the perfect symbol of all uselessness. This is, or course, the absolute contradictory of Thelema; but it is the sorites on which both Hindu and Buddhist conclusions are based. This kind of rage is, accordingly, most noxious;…
1996 · PDF PAGE 18
… the creative fulfilment of individual life. Until the old twilight tabus have been killed, there is no certain hope for the future. The Book of the Law deals them and their issue a mortal blow. It sets in their place a gospel which, it is true, makes high demands, but which is valid for the achievement of the heart’s desire; for the satisfaction of our dolorous and aching needs; for the building of a true and enduring City of God. Louis Umfraville Wilkinson London, 1946 E.v.
1996 · PDF PAGE 175
… save your pirate ship from sinking? It has always been so easy up to now! What is the blasting Magick in that Word, first thesis of The Book of the Law, that “every woman is a star.” Alas! it is I the Beast that roared that Word so loud, and wakened Beauty. Your tricks, your drowsy drugs, your lies, your hypnotic passes—they will not serve you. Make up your minds to be free men, fearless as I, fit mates for women no less free and fearless! For I, The Beast, am come; an end to the evils of eld, to the duping and clubbing of abject and ailing an…
1930 · PDF PAGE 4
…he Oath is the foundation of ail Work in Magick, as it is an affirmation of the Will. An Oath binds the Magician for ever. In Part II of Book 4 something has already been said on this subject; but its importance deserves some further élaboration. Thus, should one, loving a woman, make a spell to compel her embraces, and tiring of her a little later, evoke Zazel to kill her; he will find that the implications of his former Oath conflict with those proper to invoke the Unity of the Godhead of Saturn. Zazel will refuse to obey him in the case of t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 50
…udy should always be capable of precise definition. I am not sure whether you have my Little Essays Toward Truth. The first essay in the book entitled "Man" gives a full account of the five principles which go to make up Man according to the Qabalistic system. I have tried to define these terms as accurately as possible, and I think you will find them, in any case, clearer than those to which you have become accustomed with the Eastern systems. In India, by the way, no attempt is ever made to use these vague terms. They always have a very clear…
1996 · PDF PAGE 181
…Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) founded Christian Science and was the author of Science and Health with a Key to the Scriptures (1895).] The Book of the Law flings forth no theological fulminations; but we have quarrels enough on our hands. We have to fight for Freedom against oppressors, religious, social, or industrial; and we are utterly opposed to compromise. Every fight is to be a fight to the finish; each one of us for himself, to do his own will; and all of us for all, to establish the Law of Liberty. We do not want “professional soldiers”, …
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…ndent of body, conscious and individual, with a mind mightier than man’s, and a power beyond man’s set in motion by will. In a word, the Book of the Law proves the prime postulate of Religion. The Magician may therefore be confident that Spiritual Beings exist, and seek the Knowledge and Conversation of His own Holy Guardian Angel with the same ardour as that of Frater Perdurabo when Fie abandoned. ail r love, wealth, rank, famé, to seek Him. Nay, this he must do or condemn himself to be — 262 —
1954 · PDF PAGE 359
…gave us his final instructions. We were to go to Rome, though he refused to name the exact spot. We were to take a villa and there write Book 4. I asked him how we might recognize the right Villa. I forget what answer he gave through her, but for the first time he flashed a message directly into my own consciousness. "You will recognize it beyond the possibility of doubt or error ," he told me. With this a picture came into my mind of a hillside on which were a house and garden marked by two tall Persian Nuts. The next day we went on to Rome. O…
1929 · PDF PAGE 134
…which he has been able to overcome on the intellectual plane, but not hitherto upon higher planes. Before the conclusion of writing this book he will hâve done so. * 1 2 3 The practical details of the Bloody Sacrifice may be studied in various ethnological manuals, but the general conclusions are summed up in Frazer’s “Golden Bough”, which is strongly recommended to the reader. Actual cérémonial details likewise may be left to experiment. The method of killing is practically uniform. The animal should be stabbed to the heart, or its throat seve…
1930 · PDF PAGE 41
lhe Tarot, on the other hand, being a book, is under Mercury, and the intelligence of each card is fundamentally Mercurial. Such symbols are therefore peculiarly proper to communicate thought. Ihey are not gross, like the geomantic daemons; but, as against this, they are unscrupulous in deceiving the diviner.1 The Y i King is served by beings free from these defects. The intense purity of the symbols prevent them from being usurped by intelligences with an axe of their own to grind.2 It is always essential lor the diviner to obtain absolute mag…
1930 · PDF PAGE 38
…ls great diffidence in basing His conduct on the resuit so obtained. Geomancy has the advantage of being rigorously mathematical. A hand-book of the science is to be found in Equinox I, II. The objection to its use lies in the limited number of the symbols. To represent the Universe by no more than 16 combinations throws too much work upon them. There is also a great restriction arising from the fact that although 15 symbols appear in the final figure, there are, in reality, but 4, the remaining 11 being drawn by an inéluctable process from the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 215
…ters Of peace within the House of Wrath, 1 Much of the following invocation is a free rendering of several fine passages in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. O
1929 · PDF PAGE 98
…it is realized that ail Truth is in one sense falsehood. For ail Truth is relative ; and if it be supposed absolute, will mislead.4 “The Book of Lies falsely so called” (Liber 333) is worthy of close and careful study in this respect. The reader should also consult Konx Om Pax, “Introduction”, and “Thien Tao” in the same volume. Ail this is to be expressed in the words of the ritual itself, and symbolised in every act performed. II It is said in the ancient books of Magick that everything used by the Magician must be “virgin”. That is: it must …
1996 · PDF PAGE 63
…e religious life (I say “holiest” because it redeems even physical grossness to par take with spiritual saintship)—the intention of The Book of the Law is perfectly simple. Whatever your sexual predilections may be, you are free, by the Law of Thelema, to be the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing. It is not indicated here in this text, though it is elsewhere implied, that only one symptom warns that you have mistaken your true Will, and that is, if you should imag ine that in pursuing your way you interfere with that of another star. …
1996 · PDF PAGE 111
… Arnold, Literature and Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible (1896), p. 348; emphasis Crowley’s. See also Crowley, Book 4, Part III, rev. ed., p. 141.]
1919 · PDF PAGE 459
…t."—John Bull. . “The Triumph of Pan’ contains poems alive with music and rich in thought. “Mr. Neuburg writes with distinetion, and the book, from first to last, is one which lovers of poetry will appreciate.”—standard. “, + full of the throbbing fever of life which one cannot confine into measure on all_ occasions, «‘civie Triumph of Pan’ is full of sonorous lines, with wonderful word pictures and poetic imagery which has seldom been excelled. « . "American Register, _‘.. Many beautiful passages in the volume... strange allusions to unpleasan…
1906 · PDF PAGE 276
…further than its pages for examples of how a change of abstract belief might break a civilisation to pieces. Under the influence of this book earnest modern philosophers may, I think, begin to perceive the outlines of two vast and mystical philosophies, which if they were subtly and slowly worked out in two continents through many centuries, might possibly, under special circumstances, make the East and West almost as different as they really are. THE CREED OF MR. CHESTERTON By ALEISTER CROWLEY When a battle is all but lost and won, the victor …
1930 · PDF PAGE 50
…a careful record of every vision, omitting no detail ; he must then make sure that it tallies in every point with the correspondences in Book 777 and in Liber D. Should he find (for instance) that, having invoked Mercury, his vision contains names whose numbers are Martial, or éléments proper to Pisces, let him set himself most earnestly to discover the source of error, to correct it, and to prevent its récurrence. But these tests, as implied above, will not serve to detect personation by self-suggested phantasms. Unless one’s aura be a welter …