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…r of all Love. For that silver wedge is like a lotus flower, and the Eye within the Ateph Crown crieth: I watch. And the Shaft crieth: I work. And the Barb crieth: I wait. And the Voice of the Aethyr echoeth: It beams. It burns. It blooms. And now there cometh a strange thought; this Arrow is 134
358 The Diary of a Drug Fiend bridegroom was the Work which could never be satiated so long as we lived, and so could never lead to weariness and boredom. This honeymoon would blossom and bear fruit perennially, season by season, like the earth our mother and the sun our father themselves, an inexhaustible, frictionless enthusiasm. We were par- takers of the eternal sacrament; whatever happened was equally essential to the ritual. Death itself made no difference to anything; our calm continuous candescence burst through the chains of circumstan…
…nse in scuffling or slinking or skulking: so one decide! to take no notice so far as practical action is concerned. So, the noise making work rather difficult, one lies down in Shavasana (the "Corpse-Position"-flat on the back, arm! by sides, everything relaxed) or the Templar (Sleep oj Siloam) position, which is that of the Hanged Man in Tarot. One then imagines a bomb dropping first in one place. then in another; one imagines the damage, and what one then has to do to counteract the new dangers-perhaps a wall oj your house has gone, and you m…
…ess of military science is imposed upon stupidly by the facts; and it affords us, therefore, the best possible illustration of the blind workings of evolution. That is why industry, whose chiefs are just one degree less brainless than the Kitcheners and Frenches, is actually behind war in its biological adaptation to environment. Industrial crises are not so immediately fatal as those of tactics. Necessity has not so free a hand with the birch rod; and so, conditions alter more slowly, and their significance is less easy to interpret. {821} 84 …
…esty and elo- quence. He obtained a valuable private chaplaincy in Paris, a most suitable post, allowing him plenty of leisure for other work. During this period a deli- cious volume of hymns came from his pen, and his self-sacrificing ministrations to the poor were the wonder of the French capital. His evenings were spent in that witty and high- thinking informal club which met nightly at the restaurant Au Chien Rouge, whose members are so honoured in the world of Art. There he met C . . . the brilliant but debauched sculptor, caustic of wit, …
…stantly feel compassion for the “ Others "—who, being merely unpurified parts of their consciousness, simply need annihilating—and set to work (if you please!) to redeem these “ Others,” to initiate these “ fellow-men,” to emancipate these “separate beings.” [The bitterly sarcastie tone of this passage ohills the bloodqf MRS. BONES, and she hastily prepares more amfi'e. Therefore they determine to announce Truth to men, that Truth may make them free—it is but a step to jonah’s Whale. Now the process of waking from these dreams of evil, of arising…
…+6+7}¢= 28=24+8=10 Assiah The Number 28, the total numeration, therefore represents Malkuth, the Tenth Sephira: Assiah made manifest—the Work of Creation accomplished: wherefore God rested on the Seventh Day. And 28 is 7 x 4, the seven stars shining throughout the four Worlds. One thing is significant, indeed. Let us take the Primal Three and convert those Numbers into Colours. So we get x, the Father, the Yellow Ray of the Dawning Sun of Creation ; », the Mother, the Blue Ray of the Great Primzval Waters ; w, the Son, the Red Ray: the Ruach El…
…+6+7}¢= 28=24+8=10 Assiah The Number 28, the total numeration, therefore represents Malkuth, the Tenth Sephira: Assiah made manifest—the Work of Creation accomplished: wherefore God rested on the Seventh Day. And 28 is 7 x 4, the seven stars shining throughout the four Worlds. One thing is significant, indeed. Let us take the Primal Three and convert those Numbers into Colours. So we get x, the Father, the Yellow Ray of the Dawning Sun of Creation ; », the Mother, the Blue Ray of the Great Primzval Waters ; w, the Son, the Red Ray: the Ruach El…
… SOLOMON THE KING (8) Completion of Watch-towers and instruments.* (9) The making of simple talismans. During each day this programme of work was to be divided as follows: (1) In the Morning the w ofw Operation, and Assumption of a God-form. (2) Before Tiffin. An Astral projection practice. (3) After Tiffin. Rising on a plane, or Vision, or Adonai ha Aretz. (4) In the Evening. A magical ceremony of same sort, or any of above except astral projection.t On March the 3rd we find P. wandering among the fast- nesses of the Nevado de Colima. Here he …
… SOLOMON THE KING (8) Completion of Watch-towers and instruments.* (9) The making of simple talismans. During each day this programme of work was to be divided as follows: (1) In the Morning the w ofw Operation, and Assumption of a God-form. (2) Before Tiffin. An Astral projection practice. (3) After Tiffin. Rising on a plane, or Vision, or Adonai ha Aretz. (4) In the Evening. A magical ceremony of same sort, or any of above except astral projection.t On March the 3rd we find P. wandering among the fast- nesses of the Nevado de Colima. Here he …
…right to buy our pigs in the cheapest market, and the Bagh-i-muattar will cer- tainly give us more reward for our trouble than any other work, the only possible competitors being the Bhagavad-gita, Bhagavad Purana,3 and the Chi- nese Aphorisms of Kwaw. El Haji then earns our gratitude in that he has adopted the principle ‘ One mystic grace one symbol ’ ; and if he have but the wit to interpret this simple cipher, the whole secret of the East is open to our eyes. In the notes (which I have by no means stinted) I have indicated clearly to what ea…
…EN PORTALS student. If he went on long enough he was bound to suc- ceed, and he might reasonably infer a causal connection be- tween his work and its result. The Bhikkhu was not un- willing to admit that this might be so in such elementary stages as Jhana, but with regard to the attaining of Arhat- ship he argued that it depended rather on universal Karma than on that created by the aspirant. Avoiding metaphysi- cal quibbles as to whether these two kinds of Karma are not identical, he figured the situation in this manner. There are two wheels, …
… rough side to every canvas, and Theodore Bugg had forgotten all about England, and what she is, and how he had made her. Or if the good work was going on, it was subcon- scious. He was standing by the gilded statue of Jeanne d'Arc, his mouth wide open, his Baedeker limp in his perspiring hand. She's riding astride! The molten mad- ness throbbed in his brain. She's got man's clothes on! The shocking truth must out: Theodore Bugg had come to Paris for Pleasure! He had only been able to spare two days, the Sun- day and Monday of Whitsuntide. …
…ely to be fully appreciated. It is far more deadly and vitriolic than anything Freud ever wrote, and much more to the point than Wylie's work. No doubt it is predicated on the bad relationship he had with his own mother, of whom he has written at length in The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (New York: Hill and Wang, 1970). I have elaborated upon this in a rather different direction and with other details in The Eye in the Triangle (St. Paul: Llewellyn Publications, 1970). Magick without Tears is chock-full of descriptions of unusual things, st…
…ry Crown 8v0. Crimson cloth extra, gilt tops, 3s. 6d. net per volume. The NEw THOUGHT Library has been designed to include only the best works in this class of literature. No volume will find a place in this series unless it has already an established position in the popular favour. The first eight volumes are now ready. HAVE YOU A STRONG WILL? How to Develop and Strengthen Will Power, Memory, or any other Faculty, or Attribute of the Mind by the Easy Process of Self-Hypnotism. By Cuartes Goprrey Lexanp. Third and enlarged edition, containing t…
…ry Crown 8v0. Crimson cloth extra, gilt tops, 3s. 6d. net per volume. The NEw THOUGHT Library has been designed to include only the best works in this class of literature. No volume will find a place in this series unless it has already an established position in the popular favour. The first eight volumes are now ready. HAVE YOU A STRONG WILL? How to Develop and Strengthen Will Power, Memory, or any other Faculty, or Attribute of the Mind by the Easy Process of Self-Hypnotism. By Cuartes Goprrey Lexanp. Third and enlarged edition, containing t…
WORK 469 address a group of just such people-and they gave me three-quarters of an hour's notice . It was really more like ten minutes, as the rest of the time was bespoke by letter-writing and posting which could in no wise be postponed . So I had to devise an adequate gambit, one which ruthlessly excluded any touch of subtlety, or any assumption of previous knowledge of the subject on the part of the audience. It came off. For the first time in history, the laymen elicited intelligent and relevant questions. There were only three half-wits in…
…ogether apart from any critical observation, is guaranteed by the fact that anyone with the smallest capacity for Magick finds that they work. Prove "The Cenci" to have been forged by Hogg and conclude that Hogg was therefore a knave, well; but do not try to argue that, Hogg not being a poet, The Cenci must be drivel. I had used these Keys a great deal and always with excellent effect. In Mexico I thought I would discover for myself what the Aethyrs really were, by invoking them in turn by means of the nineteenth Key and, skrying in the spirit …
…ur sense of humour. Your contribution, indeed! I can do in two days what takes you six months, and my real reason for ever printing your work at all is my friendship for you. I wanted to give you a leg up the literary ladder. I have taken endless pain to teach you the first principles of writing. When I met you, you were not so much as a fifth-rate journalist, and now you can write quite good prose with no more than my blue pencil through two out of every three adjectives, and five out of every six commas. Another three years with me and I will…
…recent issue, and the larger number of copies issued (150). Its intrinsic interest is however profound. “ Mr Aleister Crowley’s previous work has been eccentric, and at the best he has done more to provoke curiosity than to give confidence. Now he chooses to handicap himself by printing his poems in a type that must inevitably impose restrictions upon many readers, and we think that the diction, usually admirably simple, of the principal piece in ‘ Ahab and Other Poems ’ (Chiswick Press, pp. 34, 5s. net) suffers from an interruption of the flue…