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Page 72 of 781906 · PDF PAGE 273
…gs, than, in unfertile compliment, waste the few hours we snatch awhile from death? Myst. Willingly. But lately you were the ‘‘sahib”’ asking questions concerning Indian Philosophy as a great prince who should con- descend to study the habits of horses or dogs —yesterday we changed all that. Patanjali. Aphorisms. Bhikkhu Ananda Metteya. Essays (prin- cipally in the quarterly ‘‘ Buddhism ”’). The Tao Teh King and the Writings of Kwang Tze. The Sufis, to whom chiefly Crowley is indebted for the foundations of his system of sceptical mysticism.] S…
1907 · PDF PAGE 77
…r church, inn, nor river can I find this devil ofa night. [Catches FLORIMOND and shakes him by the shoulder. FLORIMOND. Know you are speaking to a captain in the army of Duke Charles! Moderate thy drunkenness, man, or I will call the watch. DENYs., Know me for a captain in the army of His Majesty King Charles of France, whom God preserve ! FLORIMOND. What, traitor ? DENYS. Traitor in thy teeth! I have a safe-con- duct from your pinchbeck duke. Oh, the devil! ‘twill serve me but ill these Paris nights—a fool am I! Well, sir, I ask your pardon, a…
1905 · PDF PAGE 76
… pleasances, to rule Where the far blue Syrian sky Stretches, where the clouds as wool Mark the white Arabian border, To become a tyrant king Where his sword came conquering. Out of chaos rises order On her wide unwearying wing, But the desolate marauder Never over us shall swing Such a sceptre as should bring Sorrow to one home of ours. Better bear the heavy hours Under God’s avenging breath, Better brave the horrid powers, Better taste the foreign death, Humbling all our pride before God’s most holy throne, abasing Every man’s strong soul, an…
1909 · PDF PAGE 44
… ar A man with an ape running before him A man hotding io is in his right hand a javelin and | 26 in his left a lap A man arrayed like a king, looking with pride | A man with bowed he head and a bagin hishand.| 28 and conceit on all around him A grave man pointing to thesky . . . . .|Aman with two bodies, but joining their hands | 29 CLVI. CLV. CLIV. : Goetia Demons of Decans Perfumes Magical Images of Col. CLV. (Ascendant). (Cadent). Cat, toad, man, or all at once . . ©) . : ONS Black Pepper . 15 Little horse orass . . . a 2 9°D3 | Cassia. 16 …
1919 · PDF PAGE 462
…wants,” I have special facilities for acquiring rare and uncommon Books. New Publications supplied to order. Carriage paid within United Kingdom. THE HISTORY OF MAGIC. | Including a clear and precise Exposition ofits Processes, Rites and Mysteries. By Evtruas Leyt. Translated, Annotated and Introduced, by Arthur, Edward Waite, With Twenty lates, Large Demy Syo, 9 in.X6 ina s7z pp. | Handgomely bound, Cloth Gilt extra, Gilt Tope. 155 net. EDITION DE LUXE. Printed’on fine quality Rag Paper. Bound in White Vellum, Gilt Tops. 21s._net. An English t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 209
…nescent air— New buds, young birds, so‘happy in the rare Fresh life of earth: myself am bound to sing, Feeling the resurrection crown me king. I am so happy as men never were. Of sorrow much, of suffering a share, Leave me unmoved, or leave me conquering. 1 The symbol of the ‘‘ Rose and Cross” now replaces that of the ‘‘Golden Dawn.” We may suppose from this that Crowley was about this time received into the former fraternity. O miserable ! that it should be so! Lord Jesus, Sufferer for the sins of man, Thou didst invite me to Thy shame and los…
1907 · PDF PAGE 55
…t pieces. Sir HERPEs Z. But how does this bear on the case ? SIR GRABSON J. Dying without issue, he has left all to Sir Percy here ; the King (cheers from large but unseen body of retainers, who have been eavesdropping), moreover, unwilling that the Marquisate should die out, will bestow it on the same lucky young fellow. SiR HERPES Z, This is marvellous news ! S1R GRABSON J. Again, Lady Baird has just perished in awful agony. Having suffered for twenty years from a hideous and incurable disease, she brought matters to a climax last night by fa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 278
…t” (Ars. Bey), VIII, 211 Opium Smoker, The (Aleister Crowley), 11, 191 Ordeal of Ida Pendragon, The (Aleister Crowley), V1, 113 Organ in King’s Chapel, The (G. &. S. Pinsent), 11, 162 Origin, An (Victor B. Neuburg), IMI, 115 240 Painter, A Quack (Aleister Crowley), 1X, 67 Palamedes, The High History of Sir (Aleister Crowley), 1V, Supplement Pan to Artemis (Aleister Crowley), IV, 197 Perardua, The Chymical Jousting of Brother (Aleister Crowley), 1, 89 Persis, To (D. Hamish Jenkins), VIII, 231 Pharmaceutical Study of Cannabis Sativa, A (E. Whiner…
1913 · PDF PAGE 278
…t” (Ars. Bey), VIII, 211 Opium Smoker, The (Aleister Crowley), 11, 191 Ordeal of Ida Pendragon, The (Aleister Crowley), V1, 113 Organ in King’s Chapel, The (G. &. S. Pinsent), 11, 162 Origin, An (Victor B. Neuburg), IMI, 115 240 Painter, A Quack (Aleister Crowley), 1X, 67 Palamedes, The High History of Sir (Aleister Crowley), 1V, Supplement Pan to Artemis (Aleister Crowley), IV, 197 Perardua, The Chymical Jousting of Brother (Aleister Crowley), 1, 89 Persis, To (D. Hamish Jenkins), VIII, 231 Pharmaceutical Study of Cannabis Sativa, A (E. Whiner…
1929 · PDF PAGE 209
…a get them where they live. You been hitting at their strong point. Now I tell you something. That girl she live five years with Lavinia King, durn her! I see that bright daughter of Terpsichore on'y five minutes, but she didn't leave one moral hangin' on me, no, sir. Now see here, big chief, you been beatin' the water for them fish, an', natural, off they goes. For the land's sake! Look `e here, I gotta look after this business. An' all I need is just one hook an' line, an' a pailful o' bait, an' ef I don' land her, never trus' me no more. Ain…
1944 · PDF PAGE 27
…gin to suspect that the Tarot is not a mere straightforward representation of the Universe in the impersonal way of the system of the Yî King. The Tarot is beginning to look like Propaganda. It is as if the Secret Chiefs of the Great Order, which is the guardian of the destinies of the human race, had wished to put forward certain particular aspects of the Universe; to establish certain especial doctrines; to declare certain modes of working, proper to the existing political situations. They differ; somewhat as a literary composition differs fr…
1905 · PDF PAGE 212
… Where lurks some serpent-eyed Fear, passion, or man’s deadly wife Desire, the suicide ! Before me dwells the Holy One Anointed Beauty’s King ;° Behind me, mightier than the Sun, To whom the cherubs sing, A strong archangel,® known of none, Comes crowned and conquering. An angel stands on my right hand With strength of ocean’s wrath ;* Upon my left the fiery brand, Charioted fire smites forth :8 Four great archangels to withstand The furies of the path.’ 1 Binah, the revealer of the Triad of Light. 2 Ruach Elohim (see Genesis i.) adds up to 300…
1906 · PDF PAGE 44
…n the door ! Open the door !” ANIMA LUNAE. Written partly under the great rock Sigiri, in Ceylon, partly in Arabia, near Aden, ZOHRA the king by feathered fans Slept lightly through the mid-day heat. Swart giants with drawn yataghans Guard, standing at his head and feet, Zohra, the mightiest of the khans! Each slave Circassian like a moon Sits smiling, burning with young bloom Of dawn, and weaves an airy tune Like a white bird’s song bright and bold That dips a fiery plume. So the song lulled, lazily rolled In tubes of silver, lutes of gold ;
1905 · PDF PAGE 31
24 THE TALE OF ARCHAIS TIYMN. O Lord our God ! O woodland king! O thou most dreadful God! Who chasest thieves and smitest with thy rod, That fearful rod, too sharp, too strong For thy weak worshippers to bear! Hear thou their murmured song Who cry for pardon ; pity, and prepare For pain’s delight thy votaries who kiss thy rod, O high Lord God! O Lord our God ! God of green gardens! O imperious god ! Who as a father smitest with thy rod Thine erring children who aspire In vain to the high mysteries Of thy most secret fire. Beat us and burn with …
1906 · PDF PAGE 22
16 ORACLES Who knowest all, of under earth the king, Familiar healer of man’s suffering ! O Satan, have pity of my long misery! Who to the leper, even the cursed pariah, Hast taught by love the taste of heavenly fire! O Satan, have pity of my long misery ! Thou who on Death, thine old and strong leman, Begottest Hlape—a charming madwoman ! O Satan, have pity of my long misery ! Who knowest in which caves of envious lands God has hid precious stones with jealous hands! O Satan, have pity of my long misery ! Thou whose clear eye discerns the arse…
1929 · PDF PAGE 17
…ls, one with a good secretary, the other with a bad one. I think this is the only explanation of genius — in the extreme case of Lavinia King it stands out as the one thing thinkable." Lisa la Giuffria listened with constantly growing surprise and enthusiasm. "I don't say," went on the mystic, "that the genius and his artist are not inseparably connected. It may be a little more closely than the horse and his rider. But there is at least a distinction to be drawn. And here is a point for you to consider: the genius appears to have all knowledge…
1909 · PDF PAGE 259
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING in order to warn the evil and uninitiated to retire so that the Triangle may be formulated upon the Altar. The Hierophant then calls upon all present to assist him in opening the Hall of the Neophytes, and bids the Kerux see that the Hall is properly guarded. The Fratres and Sorores of the Order then give the sign of the Neophyte, after which the Hiereus explains that the names of the three chief officers commence with “the letter of breath” H. But that in the name Osiris, the H is silent, and concealed, as it wer…
1909 · PDF PAGE 259
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING in order to warn the evil and uninitiated to retire so that the Triangle may be formulated upon the Altar. The Hierophant then calls upon all present to assist him in opening the Hall of the Neophytes, and bids the Kerux see that the Hall is properly guarded. The Fratres and Sorores of the Order then give the sign of the Neophyte, after which the Hiereus explains that the names of the three chief officers commence with “the letter of breath” H. But that in the name Osiris, the H is silent, and concealed, as it wer…
1919 · PDF PAGE 256
…rade, that which lies between the Fifth and Sixth Degrees, is called the Senate. This is the first of the governing bodies, properly speaking, and here we begin to insist upon Renunciation. For within this body is the Electoral College of the O.T.O. “The principle of popular election is a fatal folly; its results are visible in every so-called democracy. The elected man is always the mediocrity; he is the safe man, the sound man, the man who displeases the majority less than any other; and therefore never the genius, the man of progress and ill…
1907 · PDF PAGE 54
48 WHY JESUS WEPT SIR GRABSON J, He is away to Windsor—the King (they beat their foreheads eighty-seven times upon the ground) knights him to-day. Sir HERPEs Z. I knew he had the O.M. and the F.Z.S.; but this knighthood? StR GRABSON J. He has taken up political economy. He will marry a duchess, Greumoch, too, is doing well. After the—ah—event we all deplored so, he entered the Benedictines at Fort Augustus; and to-morrow they instal him as Lord Abbot. Sir HERPES Z, What? And he a Highlander? S1R GRABSON J. It seems that was a mere disguise; his…