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…he one sure blossom uncloses: When thou art lying still and dead, it blooms in the heart of the night. Shattered the golden sword in the great bronze hands of the old Hermaphrodite of the ages | O youth, so sad and wise, Shattered the strong hilt lies; The great bronze god for wages Has a hilt of gold, and eyes of gold, Beneath the sunless skies. Yet it were well to have been Idle and young and tender, Ignorantly and idly wise, disdainful in the dawn, Sweetest of all the green And gold that the gods surrender Of the sweet dead times that have s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 286
THE NEW WINE 279 How different is this agnosticism from the agnos ticism of Spencer ; which postulates as its first great principle , the unknowability of the Absolute , of whom we can conceive no proportion whatsoever , but whose relationship to us becomes closer and closer as we proceed along the way of the knowable — and perhaps actually becomes known when we ourselves become unknowable , i.e. , pure adepts . The second great principle is the Conservation of Matter and Energy , or in other words the law of Cause and Effect . A law we have go…
1910 · PDF PAGE 32
…ry vice. (Not that women themselves are unclean ; it is the worship of them as ideals that rots the soul). Again we may say that all the great men of antiquity were sodomites : Socrates, Caesar, Alexander, Martial, Catullus, Virgil, Achilles ; Napoleon, Frederick the Great, Goethe, Shakespeare, Bacon, an unbroken line of English monarchs ; Mohammed, Benvenuto Cellini, Wilde, Symonds, Emerson, Pater, Fitz-Gerald, Leighton, Whitman, Michael Angelo, Leonardo, and a host of others — even unto this hour. But of this hour I will not speak. I am now c…
1910 · PDF PAGE 19
… Anchored in some most certain anchorage From oceans rage ; Your patience stand when mountains shake and quail Before the gale Of Gods great tribulation. Make thee sure Thou canst endure ! And work, work ever, sleep not, gird thy head With garlands red Of blood from swollen veins forced in bitter toil To win some spoil Of knowledge from the caverns of the deep ! So shall the steep Pathways of heaven gleam with loftier fires Than earths desires. So shall thou conquer Space, and lastly climb The walls of Time, And by the golden path the great …
1911 · PDF PAGE 55
THREE POEMS FOR JANE CHERON Doth not the World's great Alchemist Rule earth's alembic with the sun ? Is not the mind a foolish mist, And is not water one? The slim white body that you gave, Wild Jaja’, with exotic nautches Wanton and wonderful, a wave Of debonair debauches, Is worth the virgin limbs and lips Of her the virtuous, the viceless, With life who never came to grips, Who gave me nothing priceless. Give me the purity distilled From dervish sweat and satyr bruises. The Holy Graal with wine is filled From no unbroken cruses. Doth not the …
1911 · PDF PAGE 55
THREE POEMS FOR JANE CHERON Doth not the World's great Alchemist Rule earth's alembic with the sun ? Is not the mind a foolish mist, And is not water one? The slim white body that you gave, Wild Jaja’, with exotic nautches Wanton and wonderful, a wave Of debonair debauches, Is worth the virgin limbs and lips Of her the virtuous, the viceless, With life who never came to grips, Who gave me nothing priceless. Give me the purity distilled From dervish sweat and satyr bruises. The Holy Graal with wine is filled From no unbroken cruses. Doth not the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 339
…er the sword of right and the sceptre of duty; and upon this column of gold and steel he placed the creative sign of love. One day, in a great popular assembly, he went down into the road with a piece of bread in his hand which he broke and distributed, saying: ‘‘ Bread of God, do thou make bread for all!” I know another of them who cried: “I will no longer adore the god of the devil! I will not have a hangman for my God!” And they thought that he blasphemed. No; but the energy of his faith overflowed in inexact and imprudent words. He said aga…
1913 · PDF PAGE 339
…er the sword of right and the sceptre of duty; and upon this column of gold and steel he placed the creative sign of love. One day, in a great popular assembly, he went down into the road with a piece of bread in his hand which he broke and distributed, saying: ‘‘ Bread of God, do thou make bread for all!” I know another of them who cried: “I will no longer adore the god of the devil! I will not have a hangman for my God!” And they thought that he blasphemed. No; but the energy of his faith overflowed in inexact and imprudent words. He said aga…
1903 · PDF PAGE 5
…ble effect on it. As Whewell says, in the strange accident by which he anticipates the metre of In Memoriam: “No force on earth, however great, can pull a chord, however fine, into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.” The definition of God as infinite therefore denies man implicitly; while if he be finite, there is an end of the usual Christian reasons for worship, though I dare- say I could myself discover some reasonably good ones. I hardly expect to be asked, somehow. The resulting equilibrium of God and man, des- tructive o…
1919 · PDF PAGE 194
THE EQUINOX middle size, and when that blazeth brightly, at the last the great logs, though they be utterly green, are nevertheless enkindled. Now, son, hearken unto this Our reproof, and lend the ear of thine understanding unto the parable of this Magick. We have for the whole Beginning of Our Work, praise be eternally unto His Holy Name, the Fire of our Father the Sun. The inspiration is ours, and ours is the Law of The- lema that shall set the world ablaze. And We have many small dry sticks, that kindle quickly and burn through quickly, leav…
1904 · PDF PAGE 23
…nger of God, which were declared to him by the said Angel with Claps of Thunder; without which Notes King Solomon had never obtained his great knowledge, for by them in a short time he knew all Arts and Sciences both Good and Bad: from these Notes it is called the NoTARY ART, etc. ART ALMADEL, do relate unto Good Spi- rits alone, whose knowledge is to be obtained through seeking unto the Di- vine. These two Books be also classed together under the Name of the First and Second Parts of the Book THEURGIA OF SOLOMON. (5) Tue Firru Book of the Leme…
1902 · PDF PAGE 131
…! Not good ! Not wise! Not anything at all That heart can grasp, or reason frame, or soul Shadow the sense of ! Elizabeth. He is far too great ! I see ! Tannhauser. Not great ! The consciousness of man Their many generations moulded so To fix in definite ideas, and clothe Their Maker in the rags. If skies are vast, So gems are tiny : who shall choose between ? Who reads the riddle of the Universe ? All words ! Thus, from his rock-wrought peeking-poiiit Out speers the hermit. " See, the sun is dead ! " It shines elsewhere. You from your tiny per…
1907 · PDF PAGE 290
…d comets speed by , and suns embrace suns , and the moons melt shrieking through the firmament . Then all powers will dissolve , and the great golden dawn effulgent will flash through the portals of night , standing before us bride of our desire , robed in a million suns , the stars flaming in her hair , incarnate symbol of perpetual youth . So we feel with Crowley that : Time and again , in the History of Science , a period has arrived when , gorged with facts , she has sunk into a lethargy of reflection accompanied by appalling nightmares in …
1944 · PDF PAGE 185
Hindustan; V’s, a cathedral, XVI’s, a standing army; and so on. The great point is that all the Elemental Forces, however sublime, powerful, or intelligent, are Blind Forces and no more.
1907 · PDF PAGE 268
THE NEW WINE 261 » 1 the one great law of Inertia ; so that the entire Uni verse lies before us , as Luther said of God , “ A blank sheet on which nothing is found , but what we our selves have written . ” Or again , in the words of the divine Spinoza : “final or first causes are only fig ments of the human mind , ” bubbles which must burst before the finite can once again dissolve into the in finite atmosphere of eternity. This seeming duality is that which Crowley infers when he states : “ In any category , infinity excludes finity , unless t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 48
28 KONX OM PAX THE MYSTERIOUS MATHERS in his great sketch, “THE FAMILY VAULT." (Mr. Mather: will borrow any required properties from the audience.) “I reside on Abiegnus, and my name is ‘ Flodden ' Iames. I am not up to small deceits or any sinful games: And I’ll tell in simple language what I know about the bounder That broke up our Society—and also broke the founder l ” The Clippers . . . . Eccentrics. Happy Hal Barthe with Tim Urah and Ike Baker . . Quick Change Artists. Le Marbre . . . . Lightning Calculator. Mac and Mic . . . . Face Artist…
1904 · PDF PAGE 64
…ATION OF CERTAIN NAMES USED IN THIS BOOK LEMEGETON.' Eheie. Kether. Almighty God, whose dwelling is in the highest Heavens : Haioth. The great King of Heaven, and of all the powers therein : Methratton. And of all the holy hosts of Angels and Archangels: Reschith. Hear the prayers of Thy servant who putteth his trust in Thee : Hagalgalim. Let thy Holy Angels be commanded to assist me at this time and at all times. Iehovah. God Almighty, God Omnipotent, hear my prayer: Hadonat. Command Thy Holy Angels above the fixed stars : Ophanim. To be assis…
1907 · PDF PAGE 181
174 THE STAR IN THE WEST darkness into light . “ The stone becomes a plant, the plant an animal , the animal a man , and man greatens into Deity ." I Nothing is absolutely evil , nothing is accursed for ever , not even the archangel of evil , for a time will come when his name and angelic nature will be restored to him .2 Thus we rise through the microprosopus of good and evil , to the great ethical macroprosopus which is equilibrated . Many are the tracks and by -paths of life which lead over the mountains , the swamps , the forests of existen…
1913 · PDF PAGE 31
…s would make it of Acacia, for Acacia is the symbol of resurrection. The Altar is a double cube, which is a rough way of symbolizing the Great Work; for the doubling of the cube, Hke the squaring of the circle, was one of the great problems of antiquity. The surface of this Altar is composed of ten squares. The top is Kether, and the ' It represents the extension of Will. Will is the Dyad (see section on the Wand) ; 2x2 = 4. So the altar is foursquare, and also its ten squares show 4. 10 = i + 2 + 3 + 4- 21
1913 · PDF PAGE 555
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES her forces towards death. She drags those who will not walk. A man whom one may call the great prophet of drunkards, Edgar Poe, that sublime madman, that genius of lucid extravagance, has depicted with terrifying reality the night- mares of perversity. ... “T killed the old man because he squinted.” “I did that because I ought not to have done it.” There is the terrible antistrophe of Tertullian’s Credo guia absurdun.. To brave God and to insult Him, is a final act of faith. “The dead praise thee not, O Lord,” said the …