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Page 75 of 841909 · PDF PAGE 58
…l, Angel of Death (3). Israfel, of Last Trump (¥).° Cot. C.—Our order of Angelic Choirs is from R. Mosheh ben Maimon. R. Ishmael and the book Pliah prefer :— . Cherubim. Chaioth. Aralim . Seraphim. . Tarshishim. . Auphanim. . Auphanim. to. Taphsarim. And there are many other schemes. aati©GNAVAWN Cor, CII.—Add Daath, *15N. Cor. CIII.—Add Daath, Cerebrum medium, cujus locus est in parte capitis postica. But these have many other attributions, and each is itself divisible : thus, Chesed and Geburah of Tiphareth are the breasts; Tiphareth the hear…
1910 · PDF PAGE 357
… An Exposition of the Pagan Mysteries perpetuated in the Cabala as the rule of all the arts. Elkin Mathews. This is a very extraordinary book, and it should be a fair “eye-opener ” to such as consider the Qabalah a fanciful concatenation of numbers, words, and names. Also it may come as rather a rude shock to some of our “ fancied” knowalls, our “cocksureites,” who are under the delusion that knowledge was born with their grandmothers, and has now reached perfection in themselves, for it proves conclusively enough by actual measurements of exis…
1910 · PDF PAGE 357
… An Exposition of the Pagan Mysteries perpetuated in the Cabala as the rule of all the arts. Elkin Mathews. This is a very extraordinary book, and it should be a fair “eye-opener ” to such as consider the Qabalah a fanciful concatenation of numbers, words, and names. Also it may come as rather a rude shock to some of our “ fancied” knowalls, our “cocksureites,” who are under the delusion that knowledge was born with their grandmothers, and has now reached perfection in themselves, for it proves conclusively enough by actual measurements of exis…
1919 · PDF PAGE 310
…o? ALEISTER CROWLEY. Tue Mapman, His Parasites AND Poems. By Kauuit Gisran. Alfred A. Knopf. I vo not much care for the drawings in this book. They are messy, and rather conventional. But I like some of the parables very much indeed. It is not very sensible to compare Mr. Gibran with Blake, because Blake was a genius whose every act was wrought from the white heat of passion. This is a smaller fish swimming in shallower and calmer waters. The spirit is more French than Irish. However, he is short enough to speak for himself. Here is one of his …
1907 · PDF PAGE 160
…hat is beaten and bound As a fierce wolf-hound, The song that lures me, and lifts me, and mingles my soul into sound! 1 The bulk of this Book I. was written at Waikiki, which is described in this Parabasis. O Nature, my mother, Heart melted on heart At last! Not another, Not any shall part Thy soul from my art. How should it be otherwise, Sister divine, Lover, my mother wise, Wiser than wine? Seeing I linger Here on the beach— Let God’s own finger Here to me reach, Making me singer Each unto each— Nature and Man made one In the light and fire o…
1935 · PDF PAGE 12
…ppropriate, and that the ample accomplishment of each and every one of these is insisted upon with the most rigorous rigidity. * 1. This book is published in the Equinox Vol. III No. 2, 2. Liber 185 need not be quoted at length. It is needful only to say that the Aspirant is trained systematically and comprehensively in the various technical practices which form the basis of Our Work. One may become expert in any or all of these without necessarily making any real progress, just as a man might be first-rate at grammar, syntax, and prosody witho…
1910 · PDF PAGE 358
…1,480 (Christos) and 671 (Thora the Bride). A vesica 358 broad is 620 long, and 620 is the value of Kether, etc, etc. (see p. 124). This book is a veritable model of industry and research, but in spite of an excellent index, an index in the ordinary sense is almost out of place in a work of so complicated a character as this; what is really needed is a table of the numerical correspondences, similar in type to those we have already published in our 777. Then at a glance the student can see the various numerical values and what they refer to. J.…
1910 · PDF PAGE 358
…1,480 (Christos) and 671 (Thora the Bride). A vesica 358 broad is 620 long, and 620 is the value of Kether, etc, etc. (see p. 124). This book is a veritable model of industry and research, but in spite of an excellent index, an index in the ordinary sense is almost out of place in a work of so complicated a character as this; what is really needed is a table of the numerical correspondences, similar in type to those we have already published in our 777. Then at a glance the student can see the various numerical values and what they refer to. J.…
1944 · PDF PAGE 120
…Heaven, by the Expansion of thine Idea, and its Ex‐ altation, or by Concentration as thou understandest, by Virtue of thy Studies in the Book of the Law, the Word thereof concerning Our Lady Nuith, and Hadith that is the Core of every Star. And this last Going upon thy Ladder is easy, if thou be truly Initiate, for the Momentum of thy Force in Transcendental Antithesis serveth to propel thee, and the Emancipation from the Fet‐ ters of Thought that thou hast won in that Praxis of Art maketh the Whirlpool and Gravitation of Truth of Competence to…
1929 · PDF PAGE 113
…ry, in the words of the Grimoire, "to buy an egg without haggling," which (by the way) indicates the class of person for and by whom the book was written. This egg is to be buried in a cemetery at midnight, and every morning at sunrise it must be watered with brandy. On the ninth day a spirit appears, and demands your purpose. You reply "I am watering my plant." This occurs on three successive days; at the midnight following the egg is dug up, and found to contain a serpent, with a cock's head. This amiable animal answers to the name of Ambrosi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 44
… granate . A man, dark, yet delicious of countenance . . | A dark man, in his right hand a spear and laurel | 22 branch andin his left a book A man riding a camel, with a scorpion in his | A man with a lancein his right hand, in his left | 24 hand a human head A man leading cows, and before him an ape and | A man with 3 bodies—r black, r red, 1 white .| 25 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…
1910 · PDF PAGE 356
…xpired, she should pension them off, and award them a long service and good-conduct medal should they deserve it. This is a clean-minded book so far as it goes. We have no humbugging Horton, D.D., swooning at the thought of lace, frills, and a pretty ankle. But the remedies suggested are worse than the disease. Exalt the courtesan to her proper place, bracket her name with sweetheart, wife and mother, names which are rightly dear to us, and you will find a tender heart beneath the scarlet dress, and a charming lovable woman in spite of public o…
1910 · PDF PAGE 356
…xpired, she should pension them off, and award them a long service and good-conduct medal should they deserve it. This is a clean-minded book so far as it goes. We have no humbugging Horton, D.D., swooning at the thought of lace, frills, and a pretty ankle. But the remedies suggested are worse than the disease. Exalt the courtesan to her proper place, bracket her name with sweetheart, wife and mother, names which are rightly dear to us, and you will find a tender heart beneath the scarlet dress, and a charming lovable woman in spite of public o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 380
…cant that I proceed from this point instantly to declare the Law of Thelema, and give a dithyrambic epitome of the three chapters of the Book. I say distinctly that this message to mankind is to be identified with the Word of my Holy Guardian Angel. It is only as I write this that I realize that the poet in me perceived that Aiwaz and mine Angel were one. Till this moment I believed that I had reached this conclusion after many months of meditation in the last three years and accepted it provisionally with the greatest hesitation.
1909 · PDF PAGE 394
…ritical and idealistic pantheism of Schopenhauer. Interesting as this is, it would have indeed added further to the value of this little book had Major Kelly added a chapter dealing with the philosophy of Kant from to-day’s critical standpoint, instead of halting with Schopenhauer’s extension of the same, Had he done so he would scarcely have asserted, as he does (or is it Kant or Schopenhauer ?), that from the law of Causality results the important a priori corollary “ that Matter can neither be created nor destroyed” (p. 35). If, however, it …
1909 · PDF PAGE 394
…ritical and idealistic pantheism of Schopenhauer. Interesting as this is, it would have indeed added further to the value of this little book had Major Kelly added a chapter dealing with the philosophy of Kant from to-day’s critical standpoint, instead of halting with Schopenhauer’s extension of the same, Had he done so he would scarcely have asserted, as he does (or is it Kant or Schopenhauer ?), that from the law of Causality results the important a priori corollary “ that Matter can neither be created nor destroyed” (p. 35). If, however, it …
1906 · PDF PAGE 250
…tian It is sufficient if I reiterate the unanimous opinion of competent scholars, that there is no fragment of evidence in any canonical book sufficient to establish such interpretations in the teeth of Buddhist tradition and practice ; and that any person who persists in tuning Buddhism to his own Jew’s harp in this way is risking his reputation, either for scholar- ship or good faith. Scientific men are common enough in the West, if Buddhists are not; and I may safely leave in their hands the task of castigating the sneak-thieves of the Physi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 6
… — dust on the horizon which may mark its position. “ Does Mr. Crowley suppose that the Buddhists do not feel the poetical nature of the books of religion ? ” I take this to mean : “ You have no business to take the Bible literally ! ” I have dealt with this contention at some length in the “ Sword of Song ” itself (Ascension Day, lines 216 to 247) : but here I will simply observe that a poem which authorises the Archbishop of Canterbury to convey Dr. Clifford’s pet trowels, and makes possible the Gilbertian (in the old sense of pertaining to W…
1906 · PDF PAGE 44
…fear Whence I fled once from my great enemy— This is the house! O speechless misery ! Here the great silver candlesticks illume The agéd book, the blackness blazoned o’er With golden characters and scarlet bloom Twined in the blue-tinged sigils wrought for doom, And dreadful names of necromancer’s lore Written therein : so stood my room before When the hissed whisper came, ‘‘ Beware! Beware ! They’re coming !” and “‘ They’re coming !”” when the wind Bore the blank echoes of their stealthy care To creep up silently and find me there, Hid in the …
1905 · PDF PAGE 132
…he green moss is my seat, Beech is a canopy o’er me, Calm and:‘content the retreat ; Man, my worst foe, cannot bore me: Life is a closed book behind—Shelley an open before me. Shelley’s own birds are above Close to me (why should they fear me ?) May I believe it—that love Brings his bright spirit so near me That, should I whisper one word—Shelley’s swift spirit would hear me. Heaven is not very far ; Soul unto soul may be calling When a swift meteor star Through the quick vista is falling. Loose but your soul—shall its wings find the white way …