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Page 79 of 1731909 · PDF PAGE 103
…tters and doing one or two necessary things. He orders Epinards, Tarte aux Praises, Glace au Café, and % Evian. The distaste for food is great; and for meat amounts to loathing. The weather is exceedingly hot; it may be arranged thus by Adonai to enable John St. John to meditate in comfort. For he is vowed solemnly “to interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with his soul.” During lunch he will go on correcting his proofs. Lunch over, and the proofs read through. He will make a few decorations further in his Ritual, and perhap…
1913 · PDF PAGE 55
…ke any oath permanently; because with increase of understanding may come a perception of the incompatibility of the lesser oath with the greater. This is indeed almost certain to occur, and it must be remembered that as the whole essence of the will is its one-pointedness,^ a dilemma of this sort is the worst in which the Magus can find himself. Another great point in this consideration of Magick Vows is to keep them in their proper place. They must be taken for a clearly defined purpose, a clearly understood purpose, and they must never be all…
1913 · PDF PAGE 129
Alice. An Adultery. China Paper, 21s. Handmade Paper, 5s. Mr. Marcel Schwob, the great French scholar, critic and poet, writes: ‘‘ A little masterpiece.” The God Eater. 2:5. 6d. A satirical drama, teaching that whatever may be the foundation of a religion, we must judge it by its present state. “ The play awakens a curious sense of sympathy. ... —Glasgow Herald. The Star and the Garter. 1s. A popular edition of the greatest love-poem of modern times. The private edition of this wonder- ful poem sold out before publication, and thereis not a sin…
1919 · PDF PAGE 368
…ard.” Continues the subject, but adds a further Word to dis- criminate from Daath (knowledge) in favour of Binah (un- derstanding). 17. “Great Sifter’ is the name of the “Heart Doctrine,” O Disciple. This explains the “Heart Doctrine” as a process of con- tinual elimination which refers both to the aspirants and to the thoughts. 18. The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of Karma guides the wheel; the revolutions mark th…
1904 · PDF PAGE 54
…ed compassion), hanging to him in the hope that he would no reverse his banishment and make her (after a bloody victory) sole heiress of great England. And were any doubt left in our minds as to who really was the hero of the play, the partizan- ship of France should settle it. Shakespeare has never any word but ridicule for the French; never aught but praise of England and love for her : are we to suppose that in his best play he is to stultify all his other w ork and insult the English for the benefit of the ridiculed and hated Frenchmen ? Mo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
… divine. I know not all I sat , but through it all Mark the dim hint oly ultimate sunshine. Naturz’r CalI.—And how many others have said great things, yet knew not all they said! Was there ever a poetical would-be unraveller of that skein of mystery, wherein life and death and nature work together, who could explain half of what he said? No; because it was not he who said those things, but nature speaking through him. Yet, if Mr. Crowley does not understand all he says, he sees something that is of far greater importance to him, as shown here: …
1913 · PDF PAGE 32
…if he have the skill, the Microcosm of Vitruvius, of which we give illustrations. On the sides of the Altar are also sometimes drawn the great tablets
1913 · PDF PAGE 68
…s: though with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall arise and the double-wanded one assume my throne and place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awake the lust & worship of the Snake; another soul of God and beast shall mingle in the globéd priest; another sacrifice shall stain The tomb; another king shall reign; and blessing no longer be poured To the Hawk-headed mystical…
1913 · PDF PAGE 382
… bastards of Israel, or rather, they are his disinherited brothers, like Esau. Their belief is illogical, for they admit that Jesus is a great prophet, and they treat Christians as infidels. They recognize the Divine inspiration of Moses, yet they do not look upon the Jews as their brothers. They believe blindly in their blind prophet, the fatalist Mohammed, the enemy of progress and of liberty. Nevertheless, do not let us take away from Mohammed the 84
1913 · PDF PAGE 68
…s: though with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall arise and the double-wanded one assume my throne and place. Another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awake the lust & worship of the Snake; another soul of God and beast shall mingle in the globéd priest; another sacrifice shall stain The tomb; another king shall reign; and blessing no longer be poured To the Hawk-headed mystical…
1913 · PDF PAGE 382
… bastards of Israel, or rather, they are his disinherited brothers, like Esau. Their belief is illogical, for they admit that Jesus is a great prophet, and they treat Christians as infidels. They recognize the Divine inspiration of Moses, yet they do not look upon the Jews as their brothers. They believe blindly in their blind prophet, the fatalist Mohammed, the enemy of progress and of liberty. Nevertheless, do not let us take away from Mohammed the 84
1929 · PDF PAGE 33
…her surprise she saw that Simon Iff had sunk on the divan, and that he was wiping the sweat from his brows. Behind her, her lover took a great breath, as one who comes out of deep water. And then she realized that she had been present not at a seance, but at a battle. She became conscious of the strain upon herself. and she broke into a flood of tears. Cyril Grey, with a pale smile, was bending upon her face, kissing away the drops even as they issued; and, beneath her, his strong arm bore her whole weight without a tremor. [50]
1930 · PDF PAGE 9
…Rosicrucians, by A. E. Waite. A good vulgar piece of journalism on the subject. The Works of Arthur Machen. Most of these stories are of great magical interest. The Writings of William O’Neill (Blake). Invaluable to ail students. The Shaviug of Shagpat, by George Meredith. An excellent allegory. Lilith, by George MacDonald. A good introduction to the Astral. Là-Bas, By J. K. Huysmans. An account of the extravagances caused by the Sin-complex. The Lore of Proserpine, by Maurice Hewlett. A suggestive enquiry into the Hermetic Arcanum. En Route, b…
1954 · PDF PAGE 514
…to condense your more than somewhat tautological , pleonastic, prolix , diffuse and incoherent elucubrations!-that the whole idea of the Great Order is based on faith in Progress. The doctrine of successive aeons is nothing else. The system of training is nothing else. Nothing , in fact , is anything else. Maugre this and in despite thereof , I am everlastingly throwing down the whole jerry-built castle by my cynical reflections. Maybe, some of the time. But the explanation is very simple, and you ought to have been able to think it out for you…
1906 · PDF PAGE 231
…shines and dies ere sun be risen and set again.’ , ‘* And he humiliated his heart and sang the following verse : Brahma, and Vishnu, and great Shiva! Truly I see the Trinity in all things dwell, Some rightly tinged of Heaven, others duly Pitched down the steep and precipice of Hell. Nay, not your glory ye from fable borrow ! These three I see in spirit and in sense, These three, O miserable seer! Sorrow, Absence of ego, and impermanence ! And at the rhythm he swooned, for his old mantra surged up in the long-sealed vessels of sub-conscious memo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 53
…s merely denial of those things which hamper the self? It is not suicide to kill the germs of malaria in one's blood. Now there are very great difficulties to be overcome in the training of the mind. Perhaps the greatest is forgetfulness, which is probably the worst form of what theliuddhists call ignorance. Special practices fortraining the memory may be of some use as a preliminary for persons whose memory is naturally poor. In any case the Magical Record prescribed for Probationers by the A. -.A.-, is useful and necessary. Above all the prac…
1929 · PDF PAGE 18
what that implied; it was a passionately ecstatic sense of identity. In my third year at Cambridge, I devoted myself consciously to the Great Work, understanding thereby the Work of becoming a Spiritual Being, free from the constraints, accidents, and déceptions of material existence. I found myself at a loss for a name to designate my work, just as H. P. Blavatsky some years earlier. “Theosophy”, “Spiritua- lism”, “Occultism”, “Mysticism”, ail involved undesirable con¬ notations. I chose therefore the name. “MAGICK” as essentially the most sub…
1938 · PDF PAGE 10
…aster: all stars are at Feast on that Pasture, abiding in Light. The Voice of the Dove. H R I L I U : there is nothing too small, or too great, or too low, or too high; but all things are joined into Joy by the Love of the Master. The Voice of the Ibis. A B R A H A D A B R A : all ways are alike, being endless, eternally coiling in curves of ineffable wonder; each Star has its course, by the manifold musings that move in the Mind of the Master. The Voice of the Vulture. M U : unmated, immaculate, consecrate, virgin, all things are begotten of t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 114
…lts, he hath re- nounced them and esteemeth them as dross. . . . This is right, John St. Johnl yet how is it that there is place for the great hunchbacked devil to whisper in thine ear the doubt: Is there in truth any mystic path at all? Is it all disappointmentand illusion ? And the “Poor Thing " John St. John moves off
1909 · PDF PAGE 11
…God”? What, in the devil’s name, is God? If (with Moses) we picture Him as an old man showing us His back parts, who shall blame us? The great Question 11g