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Page 80 of 1041911 · PDF PAGE 75
…orm in the night that wrappeth the world about with desolation. Chaos is my name, and thick darkness. Know thou that the darkness of the earth is ruddy, and the darkness of the air is grey, but the darkness of the soul is utter blackness. The egg of the spirit is a basilisk egg, and the gates of the understanding are fifty, that is the sign of the Scorpion. The pillars about the neophyte are crowned with flame, and the vault of the Adepts is lighted by the Rose. And in the abyss is the eye of the hawk. But upon the great sea shall the Master of…
1911 · PDF PAGE 117
…ce, that when thou seest it and hearest it in truth, for many hours shalt thou be bereft of sense. And thou shalt lie between heaven and earth in a void place, entranced, and the end thereof shall be silence, even as it was, not once nor twice, when I have met with thee, as it were, upon the road to Damascus. And thou shalt not seek to better this my instruction; but thou shalt interpret it, and make it easy, for them that seek 115
1911 · PDF PAGE 120
…the Great Book should never be unsealed. But this is she that poureth the Water of Life upon her head, whence it floweth to fructify the earth. But now the whole Aethyr is the most brilliant peacock blue. It zs the Universal Peacock that I behold. 118
1919 · PDF PAGE 444
…he Abyss that it may ‘appear in the Heaven of Jupiter as a morning star or as an evening star, to give light to them that dwell upon the earth.’ This Magus is a much stronger person than the Master of the Temple. He is the creative force, while the Master is merely the receptive. But in these verses 78, 79, 80, it might be very easily supposed that it was merely a recapitulation of the former remarks, and I am in- clined to think that there is a certain amount of confusion in the mind of the Author between these two grades. She attained only th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 300
…ad simply been blown into the air by one of the sudden gusts of incredibly fierce winds which are common at those heights, and dashed to earth perhaps a mile away. After reading this, I went to a friend's room to borrow a book, picked up her Shakespeare's Histories, and, opening it at random , came upon : They that stand high have many blasts to shake them, And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. (Richard III , Act I, Sc. 3) Now here's a story that's too good to lose; not the mistiest phantasm of an ideogram how to class it; for one t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 57
…ose all in that hour. Ye shall gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall exceed the nations of the earth in splendour & pride; but always in the love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy. I charge you earnestly to come before me in a single robe, and covered with a rich head- dress. I love you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, I who am all pleasure and purple, and drunken- ness of the innermost sense, desire you. Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto m…
1913 · PDF PAGE 57
…ose all in that hour. Ye shall gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall exceed the nations of the earth in splendour & pride; but always in the love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy. I charge you earnestly to come before me in a single robe, and covered with a rich head- dress. I love you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, I who am all pleasure and purple, and drunken- ness of the innermost sense, desire you. Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto m…
1919 · PDF PAGE 448
… bosom— *tis now that snow which must receive the biting frost, the northern blasts, thus shielding from their sharp and cruel tooth the earth that holds the promised harvest, the harvest that will feed the hungry. 126
1913 · PDF PAGE 344
…ion of the Light, Desired in every place and every period, But not a God that one may separate from God. Descended among men to free the earth from fate, He in His mother did the woman consecrate. He was the man whom heaven’s sweet wisdom did adorn ; To suffer and to die as men do He was born. Proscribed by ignorance, accused by envy and strife, He died upon the cross that He might give us life. All who accept His aid to guide and to sustain By His example may to God like Him attain. He rose from death to reign throughout the ages’ dance ; He i…
1913 · PDF PAGE 344
…ion of the Light, Desired in every place and every period, But not a God that one may separate from God. Descended among men to free the earth from fate, He in His mother did the woman consecrate. He was the man whom heaven’s sweet wisdom did adorn ; To suffer and to die as men do He was born. Proscribed by ignorance, accused by envy and strife, He died upon the cross that He might give us life. All who accept His aid to guide and to sustain By His example may to God like Him attain. He rose from death to reign throughout the ages’ dance ; He i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 331
…eed , his world of Wisdom has been creatively built together , and now rests there , as on its dark foundations does a habitable flowery Earth rind .” - Sartor Resartus .
1929 · PDF PAGE 285
…ree rivers during their dramatic parallelism must evidently be mountains of the most interesting type. I wanted to visit a corner of the earth which appealed thus vividly to my imagination. Incidentally, there were practical difficulties. I had at this time no notion that everybody was a perfect idiot. I could not understand the parochial psychology of the average Englishman. Even Litton, the British counsul at Tengyueh, wrote, "I will say frankly that I had no idea that Mrs. Crowley or a child would be with you, and that while there is really …
1930 · PDF PAGE 74
… Ghost which is sacred to BAPHOMET, by its virtue that con- cealeth the Lion and the Serpent that His Image may appear adorably upon the Earth for ever. Let then the Adept extend his Will beyond the Circle in this imagined Shape and let it radiate with the Light proper to the Elément invoked, and let each Word issue along the Shaft with passionate impulse, as if its voice gave command thereto that it should thrust itself leapingly fcrward. Let also each Word accumulate authority, so that the Head of the Shaft may plunge twice as far for the Sec…
1954 · PDF PAGE 117
… Taking for "The First Matter of the Work" a neutral or substance (it is constantly described as the commonest and least valued thing on earth, and may actually connote any substance whatever) he deliberately poisons it, so to speak, bringing it to a stage of transmutation generally called the Black Dragon, and he proceeds to work upon this virulent poison until he obtains the perfection theoretically possible. Incidentally, we have an almost precise parallel with this operation in modem bacteriology . The apparently harmless bacilli of a disea…
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
…has always proved a serious mistake. The whole idea of exchange is foreign to magick. The dignity of the magician forbids compacts. “The Earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof”. III The operations of Magick art are difficult to classify, as they merge into each other, owing to the essential unity of their method and resuit. We may mention : 1. Operations such as évocation, in which a live spirit is brought from dead matter. 2. Consécrations of talismans in which a live spirit is bound înto “dead” matter and vivifies the same. 3. Works of d…
1909 · PDF PAGE 180
…r his number 3, is typified in all the sacred scripts by that number. Thus it is written of the manifestation of the Son of God upon the Earth, “Shiloh shall come” (the initial of which Mystery-Name is w = 300). And in the Grecian tongue it is written: “In the beginning was the Word,” &c., which is Aoyos (A = 30). But the best of all the Examples is found in the Holy Tetragram mm. For we may regard this venerable name as typical of the Father and the Mother, and so divided into m and m.{ Now if into the midst of this divided Name * 3, the Magus…
1909 · PDF PAGE 180
…r his number 3, is typified in all the sacred scripts by that number. Thus it is written of the manifestation of the Son of God upon the Earth, “Shiloh shall come” (the initial of which Mystery-Name is w = 300). And in the Grecian tongue it is written: “In the beginning was the Word,” &c., which is Aoyos (A = 30). But the best of all the Examples is found in the Holy Tetragram mm. For we may regard this venerable name as typical of the Father and the Mother, and so divided into m and m.{ Now if into the midst of this divided Name * 3, the Magus…
1922 · PDF PAGE 74
… seen us. We laughed and sang and interchanged gay nothings while we dressed. When we went downstairs, we felt like gods descending upon earth, immeasurably beyond mortality. With the cocaine, we had noticed that people smiled rather strangely. Our enthusiasm was observed. We even felt a Jittle touch of annoyance at everybody not going at the same pace ; but this was perfectly different. The sense of our superiority to mankind was constantly present. We were dignified beyond all words to express. Our own voices sounded far, far off. We were per…
1922 · PDF PAGE 375
…otestant instincts on the other. I could not help being struck by the first of the collects. ‘“‘ Lord visible and sensible, of whom this earth is but a frozen spark turning about thee with annual and diurnal motion, source of light, source of life, source of liberty, let thy perpetual radiance hearten us to con- tinual labour and enjoyment ; so that as we are constant partakers of thy bounty we may in our particular orbit give out light and life, sustenance and joy to them that revolve about us without diminution of substance or effulgence for …
1910 · PDF PAGE 37
…ses, and I went to seek it in the cloister.11 I loved you al- ways ; it was but a boy’s folly ; forgive me ! I may never cling to you on earth again : pray God that Heaven may be one long, long life of such bliss as we had of one another long ago by yon slow stream on whose banks I have wandered (many a time since) crying like a lost soul concerning you in the words of Milton lamenting his beauteous- buttocked Lycidas “ Oh ! who hath reft my dearest pledge ? ” Alas ! neither Fate nor God could I ac- cuse : the dread hollow voice of my own stric…