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Page 78 of 1071929 · PDF PAGE 61
…r idea of England than Charles Reade or Sir Walter Besant. Dumas pčre tells us more about France than Zola. A great deal of the interior workings of a national mind ought to be taken for granted. One can distinguish profitably between two pretty girls at the end of an opera glass. It is absolutely misleading to disembowel them, and the average so- called psychological writer tries to do. There are all sorts of obscure processes always at work in nature and they are more or less the same for all of us. To insist upon them is one of the worst kin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 362
362 resuming my creative work in a way that I had never yet done. Till now I had written what was given me by the Holy Ghost. Everything I did was sui generis and had no conscious connection with any other outburst of my genius; but I understood that from this time on I should find myself writing with a sense of responsibility, that my work would be coherent, each item (however complete in itself) an essential part of a pyramid, a monument whose orientation and proportions should proclaim my purpose. I should do nothing in future that was not a…
1912 · PDF PAGE 360
…6, X17 DH B. R \aZ and FMN [406 = yn], where AThH = Microprosopus, and HVA = Macro- prosopus. The Arcanum is therefore that of the Great Work. 2° method. A B AA RwH HereBHR=207 KO p&p =N AID PS, etc. and DBR=Voice (“The Vision and the Voice”); thus showing, by Yetziratic attribution, the Three Wands—Caduceus : Phoenix: Lotus. Note always 4N are the three Supernals. 3% method. A AxA RB both mean “ Mighty,” whence Abra- hadabra is “The Word of Double A ne pee 205 +213; 44 Power.” AAB show AB: AIMA: BN, viz, Amoun : Thoth : Mout. By Yetziratic Met…
1912 · PDF PAGE 360
…6, X17 DH B. R \aZ and FMN [406 = yn], where AThH = Microprosopus, and HVA = Macro- prosopus. The Arcanum is therefore that of the Great Work. 2° method. A B AA RwH HereBHR=207 KO p&p =N AID PS, etc. and DBR=Voice (“The Vision and the Voice”); thus showing, by Yetziratic attribution, the Three Wands—Caduceus : Phoenix: Lotus. Note always 4N are the three Supernals. 3% method. A AxA RB both mean “ Mighty,” whence Abra- hadabra is “The Word of Double A ne pee 205 +213; 44 Power.” AAB show AB: AIMA: BN, viz, Amoun : Thoth : Mout. By Yetziratic Met…
1922 · PDF PAGE 321
…driving them out, and the other returns his salute. A man in that country could earn double wages if he could do without sleep, for they work much the same by night as they do by day.’ ‘That was written three thousand years ago, and even the name of the woman who wrote that poem, albeit it is one of the most famous poems in the world, is lost. But there are the shepherds saluting each other to-day as they did then. MANTA PEI said Heracleitus, ‘all things flow.’ And everything that tries to escape that law, that relies on its strength, that beco…
1954 · PDF PAGE 54
… success: self-confidence. If we analyze this, we find that it means that one is aware that all one's men tal and physical faculties are working harmoniously. The deadliest and subtlest enemy of that feeling is anxiety about the result; the finest gauze of doubt is enough to dim one's vision, to throw the entire field out of focus. Hence, even to be aware that there is a result in prospect must militate against that serenity of spirit which is the essence of self-confidence. As you well know, all our automatic physiological functions are derang…
1929 · PDF PAGE 250
… take a morbid pleasure in conspiring against a husband, especially if he be a father. They take advantage of his preoccupation with his work in the world to conceive and execute every kind of criminally cunning abomination. The belief in witchcraft was not all superstition; its psychological roots were sound. Women who are thwarted in their natural instincts turn inevitably to all kinds of malignant mischief, from slander to domestic destruction. I am afraid that my adventures have lost me the citizenship of the world. Alastor is my name, the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 495
…single sentence. How can it do any harm?" Keasbey's social opinions had cost him his chair at Austin. He had read and admired some of my work, and sought me out in my cottage by Lake Pasquaney. We spent three delightful days without even stopping talking, bar odd snatches of sleep. In conversation, he was delightful, breezy and instructive. Our acquaintance had ripened into something like friendship. He behaved very strangely in this matter of The International. He professed the warmest friendship for me, spent sometime almost every day in my o…
1930 · PDF PAGE 10
…Magick merely with the idea of acquiring knowledge, love, or wealth, finds himself irrevocably committed to the performance of The Great Work. I. This forgetfulness must be complété; it is fatal to try to Tet oneself go’ consciously. — 130 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 15
…hrice. But if this be satisfactorily accomplished, and the spirit be y et disobedient, the implication is thaï sonie hostile force is at work îo hinder the operation. It will then become advisable to discover the nature of that force, and to attack and desîroy it. This makes the ceremony more useful than ever to the Magician, who may thereby be led to irnveil a black magical gang whose existence he had not hitherto snspected. His need to check the vampiring of a lady in Paris by a sorceress once led Frater Perdurabo to the discovery of a very p…
1954 · PDF PAGE 110
… precipice with the dross of Matter; for there is a place for thine Image in a realm ever splendid. If thou extend the Fiery Mind to the work of piety, thou wilt preserve the fluxible body ."3 It appears that the Levant, from Byzantium and Athens to Damascus, Jerusalem, Alexandria. and Cairo, was preoccupied with the formulation of this School in a popular religion, beginning in the days of Augustus Caesar. For there are elements of this central idea in the works of the Gnostics, in certain rituals of what Frazer conveniently calls the Asiatic …
1954 · PDF PAGE 119
…ut her embassy; but at least we see today that Physical Science is at last penetrating to the spiritual basis of material phenomena. The work of Henry Poincare, Einstein, Whitehead, and Bertrand Russell is sufficient evidence of this fact. Christianity, too, has fallen into a lower degree of contempt than ever. Realising that it was moribund, it made a supreme and suicidal effort, and plunged into the death-spasm of the First World War. It was too far corrupt to react to the injections of the White formula which might have saved it. We see toda…
1954 · PDF PAGE 441
… Secretary. I wanted to go right back, before letters were put together to make words at all. This is, I believe, almost wholly original work, though I'm not sure that Fabre d'Olivet didn't skate round the edges. I put to myself this question: when I pronounce the letter so-and-so, what thought or class of thought tends to arise in my mind? (If you practise this in public, people may wonder!) With the vowels, one does seem to find a natural correspondence. (I wrote a ballet , The Blind Prophet, on these lines, long before it struck me to invest…
1929 · PDF PAGE 388
… mankind in its evolution. In my case I was to be cast out into the Sphere of Jupiter. My mortal part was to help humanity by Jupiterian work, such a governing, teaching, creating, exhorting men to aspire to become nobler, holier, worthier, kinglier, kindlier and more generous. Finally, "Fifty are the gates of understanding and one hundred and six are the seasons thereof, and the name of every one of them is Death." I took this to mean that Aleister Crowley would die at the end of this time. The event has shown that it referred to my attainment…
1899 · PDF PAGE 252
…ne looks in vain for even a fitful glow of the poetry which makes it possible—once in a lifetime—to read to the end of Keats’s ’prentice work. The story also seems to have been suggested by another of the poet’s poéms. It is a version of the Lamia legend, with, however, new modifications. A fair youth, Charicles, loves a maiden of evil birth. Her doom it is that when she yields to love she will change into a snake. She yields to Charicles, and her meta- morphosis is as well described as anything in the poem: ‘And lo! there came to pass the drea…
1922 · PDF PAGE 299
… in general. Thatis the only sense in which it is true that genius is connected with insanity. The conviction of Michael Angelo that his work was the most important thing in the Renaissance was not quite sane, even although in a way time has justified his belief. That is what is wrong with the majority of vaccina- tionists and anti-vaccinationists and vegetarians and anarchists and the “ irascible race of seers ’’ in general, that they over-play their hands. However right they are in their belief, and in thinking that belief important, they are…
1954 · PDF PAGE 149
…rs, but only by the stars. And he says to me, quite disconnectedly: The man of earth is the adherent. The lover giveth his life unto the work among men. The hermit goeth solitary, and giveth only of his light unto men. And I ask him: Why does he tell me that? And he says: I tell thee not. Thou tellest thyself, for thou hast pondered thereupon for many days, and hast not found light. And now that thou art called NEMO, the answer to every riddle that thou hast not found shall spring up in thy mind, unsought. Who can tell upon what day a flower sh…
1954 · PDF PAGE 464
…lados" printed on that piece of card in the window. They would want to learn to read at once. We would discourage them, saying what hard work it was, and how much crying it cost, at the same time giving another demonstration of the advantages. They would insist, and we should yield-to active, eager children, not to dullards that hated the idea of "lessons." So with pretty well everything; we first excited the child's will in the desired direction. But (you ask) are there any special branches of learning which you regard as essential for all?
1929 · PDF PAGE 552
…voured New York with a flying visit, dropped in on me, and --- please could I find him a job? I did what I could, but before I found him work, he had got the Lafayette to {871} 1. WEH note: This is C. F. Russel try him as a waiter. I thought he might be of use to my "son" in Detroit and wrote asking him to find an opening. He did so and Godwin went off. In all he said and did, one peculiarity obtruded itself --- this violent reaction against any act of authority as such, however reasonable, however much to his own advantage. When he noticed the…
1905 · PDF PAGE 1
…Thoroughness of treatment, (@) Breadth of treatment (© Execlenc of prove styl (6 Originality. (@ Scholarship. 4: As some of Mr Crowley's works are rare or altogether out of prin, it will not be necessary to deat with all of them, thovgh to do so would naturally offer a beter chance for the prize. The Works are being reprinted in a cheap form, and supplied to competitors at ‘ost price, See the annexed form, which may be ied wp if desired. 4 The rights of the prize eaay are vested in the Society, whieh undertakes to publi ‘the winning essay at it…