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Page 71 of 1591910 · PDF PAGE 48
…e other takes away. (I, the mere rimer, she, the queen of rime, As sweeps her sickle in the falling wheat, Her bodys sleek intoxicating time, The music of the motion of her feet !) I swoon in that imperial embrace Lay we asleep till evening, or dead ? I knew not, but the wonder of her face Grew as the dawn and never satiated. She knew not in her strong imperial soul How hopeless was the slavery of life, How by the part man learns to love the whole, How each mans mistress calls herself a wife. I tired not of the tigress limbs and lips Only, …
1910 · PDF PAGE 221
…Him. “This,” He said, “is clearly the job for Bartzabel.” And he despatched a “ speed” message for that worthy spirit. Bartzabel lost no time in answering the summons. Of flaming, radiant, far-darting gold was his crown; flashing hither and thither more swiftly than the lightning were its rays. His head was like the Sun in its strength, even at 203
1910 · PDF PAGE 221
…Him. “This,” He said, “is clearly the job for Bartzabel.” And he despatched a “ speed” message for that worthy spirit. Bartzabel lost no time in answering the summons. Of flaming, radiant, far-darting gold was his crown; flashing hither and thither more swiftly than the lightning were its rays. His head was like the Sun in its strength, even at 203
1912 · PDF PAGE 90
…nto “normal” life. It is probably rare for a single experience to upset thus radically the whole conception of the Universe, just as sometimes, in the first moments of waking, there remains a half-doubt as to whether dream or waking is real. But as one gains further experience, when Dhyana is no longer a shock, when the student has had plenty of time to make himself at home in the new world, this conviction will become absolute.1 ᾽It should be remembered that at present there are no data for determining the
1929 · PDF PAGE 18
…my own career; and to compel mankind to respect, love, and trust that which they scorned, hated and feared. I hâve kept my Word. But the time is now corne for me to carry my banner into the thick of the press of human life. I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and justify my position by formulating a définition of MAGICK and setting forth its main principles in such a way that ALL may understand instantly that their soûls, their lives, in every relation with every …
1905 · PDF PAGE 3
…y cumber the case of stout leather and royal vellum wherein they have long6 reposed, if writings can repose which evoke but disgust each time the master’s eye7 falls saturnine upon them. The devil take them !8 so, lest I should be thought to swear—never9 a habit of mine !—to the “ devil ” they shall go.10 ALEISTER CROWLEY. 1 Admitted on all hands to be worthless. 2 I can’t bother. 3 Cf. Spinoza, Haeckel, and others. 4 Sakkya-ditthi, Anatta. 5 First Precept. 6 More classically, good-bye. 7 My eye—all mine. 8 Excusez, madame ! 9 Well, hardly ever…
1909 · PDF PAGE 60
… I’m too tired to as much as start Prana Yama. Iwill go to the Dome and see what a citron pressé and a sandwich does for me, at the same time taking over the MS. of Liber DCCCCLXHL which has been given me to correct, and doing it. Please the pigs, the Visconti will cheer me up in the evening; and I shall get a good day in to—morrow. Still at Liber DCCCCLXIII. [Το be published shortly by “ The Equinox."——ED.] I should like to write mantrams for each chapter. Still at Liber DCCCCLXIII. I need hardly say that I am perfectly aware that in one sense…
1909 · PDF PAGE 125
…wake for the End of the day. God! what a day! . . . I dare not trust my will to keep me awake; so I rise, wash, and will walk about till time to get into my Asana. Thirst! Oh how I thirst! I had not thought that there could be such suffering. The Eleventh Day It seems a poor thing to be proud of, merely to be awake. Yet I was flushed with triumph as a boy that wins his first race. The powers of Asana and Pranayama return. I did 21 Breath-cycles without fatigue. Energy returns, and Keenness to pursue the Path—all fruits of that one little victory …
1910 · PDF PAGE 201
…Nurse, Charley ! [CHARLEY runs off. Oh dear ! I wish I could find a good doctor. Nobody seems to do me any good. Its pain, pain all the time. Nurse ! cant you tell me of a good doctor ? For oh ! for oh ! [He looks about him fearfully ; his voice sinks to a thrilled whisper] I am so afraidafraid to die ! Is there nobody [Enter TODD, and stands by his chair, laying his hand on the old mans shoulder. He looks up. I wish you were a doctor, Mr. Todd. You have such a soothing touch. Perhaps you are a doctor ? I can get nobody to do me any good.…
1913 · PDF PAGE 52
…ed a file. Since, then, we may want anything^ let us see to it that our will is strong enough to obtain anything we want without loss of time. It is therefore necessary to develop the will to its high- est point, even though the last task but one is the total sur- render of this will. Partial surrender of an imperfect will is of no account in Magick. The will being a lever, a fulcrum is necessary; this fulcrum is the main aspiration of the student to attain. All wills which are not de- pendent upon this principal will are so many leakages ; the…
1928 · PDF PAGE 171
…must confess that I had previously thrown a rapid glance around and made sure that in this deserted suburb I was for a sufficiently long time out of the range of any policemen. Having finally, by a kick in the back hard enough to break his shoulders, knocked down this feeble sexagenarian, I took a big tree branch which was lying on the ground and beat him with all the persistent energy shown by cooks who are trying to make a steak tender. SuddenlyOh miracle!Oh joy of the phi- losopher who verifies the excellence of his the- ory!I saw this an…
1939 · PDF PAGE 22
…t a fist in your face. 5. To some extent, no doubt, this fact will be familiar to all of you. Probably most of you have been out at some time or other in what is grotesquely known as the silence of the night, and you will have become aware of infinitesimal movements of light in the darkness, of elusive sounds in the quiet. They will have soothed you and pleased you; it will never have occurred to you that these changes could each one be felt as a pang. But, even in the earliest months of Yoga, this is exactly what happens, and therefore it is b…
1909 · PDF PAGE 50
…-of-thumb! The old Chancery Lane rule: begin with half the minimum dose of the Pharmacopeeia, and if nothing happens within the expected time, double the dose. If you go on long enough, something is nearly sure to happen! IV “The Mind of the Father said Into Three! and immediately all things were so divided.”—ZOROASTER. Let my readers be good enough to remember, then, that what follows concerns myself only. This must excuse the use of the first person, highly improper in a scientific essay, were it not that the personality of the experimenter i…
1909 · PDF PAGE 50
…-of-thumb! The old Chancery Lane rule: begin with half the minimum dose of the Pharmacopeeia, and if nothing happens within the expected time, double the dose. If you go on long enough, something is nearly sure to happen! IV “The Mind of the Father said Into Three! and immediately all things were so divided.”—ZOROASTER. Let my readers be good enough to remember, then, that what follows concerns myself only. This must excuse the use of the first person, highly improper in a scientific essay, were it not that the personality of the experimenter i…
1910 · PDF PAGE 93
…dead, And that the Far is buried in the Near. Thus like a cherry-blossom is our life Floating unwetted on the moon-white mere.5 It is no time to sing ; for from the house Comes forth the bride Habib, sans prince or peer ; Unique Habib, who walketh like a cat, Sitteth, a swan, and runneth like a deer. His face is like the moon that shines upon The labouring Hajj,6 its camel-throned Emir.7 For like a column of innumerous men Doth serpentine his body ; he is here With hugs to break this breath, and with his mouth To stop the mouth of El Qahar the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 189
…nd over his shoulder to her.] Theres our scientific friend, eh ? DELHOMME. Oh, Im not afraid of him. A farceur, no more, though sometimes a pleasant one. OSSORY. Tu ten f, ça, mon vieux chameau ? Quoi ? DELHOMME. [very disgusted at OSSORYS vulgarity, which mistakes argot for chic]. Well, sir, as soon as I can find a favourable opportunity OSSORY. Grief is a good mood to catch them in, my boy. I know ! I know ! Ive been a bit of a dog in my time. [Shakes hands as they go out. DELHOMME. [returning]. One word in your ear, sir, if I may…
1911 · PDF PAGE 108
…tone called Succoth, bind yourself in a diabolical pact with Satan, whereby he granted the power to change your sex at will, since which time you have become the father of an innumer- able brood of devils, and in particular have travelled by night in the form ofan owl to assault the virtue of many holy servants of the True Faith, notably at the Convent of St Anne in this city, whereby the bodies and souls of the nuns were possessed and destroyed. PROSECUTOR. We say this is plain witchcraft. [LAYLAH lakes no notice. BISHOP. Silence under such a …
1911 · PDF PAGE 108
…tone called Succoth, bind yourself in a diabolical pact with Satan, whereby he granted the power to change your sex at will, since which time you have become the father of an innumer- able brood of devils, and in particular have travelled by night in the form ofan owl to assault the virtue of many holy servants of the True Faith, notably at the Convent of St Anne in this city, whereby the bodies and souls of the nuns were possessed and destroyed. PROSECUTOR. We say this is plain witchcraft. [LAYLAH lakes no notice. BISHOP. Silence under such a …
1913 · PDF PAGE 118
… that Catholics are better eating than Presbyterians. Yet these points and their kind are the only ones which have any importance at the time when the events occur. Nero did not consider what unborn posterity might think of him; it is difficult to credit cannibals with the calculation that the recital of their exploits will induce pious old ladies to replenish their larder. Very few people have ever se€?i a bull-fight. One set of people goes for excitement, another set for the perverse excitement which real or simulated horror affords. Very few…
1913 · PDF PAGE 533
…he great work of the human soul. Man, by freeing himself from his evil passions and their slavery, creates himself, as it were, a second time. Nature made him living and suffering; he makes himself happy and immortal; he thus becomes the representative of divinity upon earth, and (relatively) exercises its almighty power. Axiom I Nothing resists the will of man, when he knows the truth, and wills the good. 235