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Page 80 of 1301913 · PDF PAGE 290
…hat human frailty called laziness, he hopes to find a weapon ready made. Thus we find the Christian Magus who imposed his power upon the world taking the existing worships and making a single system combining all their merits. There is no single feature in Christianity which has not been taken bodily from the worship of Isis, or of Mithras, or of Bacchus, or of Adonis, or of Osiris. In modern times again we find Frater Iehi Aour trying to handle Buddhism. Others again have attempted to use Freemasonry. There have been even exceptionally foolish…
1913 · PDF PAGE 511
…d and collaborator studies only as a philosophical curiosity, Paracelsus and his followers practised without being very anxious that the world should understand it; for it was for them one of those traditional secrets with regard to which silence is necessary, and which it is sufficient to indicate to those who know, leaving always a veil upon the truth for the ignorant. Now here is what Paracelsus reserved for initiates alone, 213
1913 · PDF PAGE 290
…hat human frailty called laziness, he hopes to find a weapon ready made. Thus we find the Christian Magus who imposed his power upon the world taking the existing worships and making a single system combining all their merits. There is no single feature in Christianity which has not been taken bodily from the worship of Isis, or of Mithras, or of Bacchus, or of Adonis, or of Osiris. In modern times again we find Frater Iehi Aour trying to handle Buddhism. Others again have attempted to use Freemasonry. There have been even exceptionally foolish…
1913 · PDF PAGE 511
…d and collaborator studies only as a philosophical curiosity, Paracelsus and his followers practised without being very anxious that the world should understand it; for it was for them one of those traditional secrets with regard to which silence is necessary, and which it is sufficient to indicate to those who know, leaving always a veil upon the truth for the ignorant. Now here is what Paracelsus reserved for initiates alone, 213
1954 · PDF PAGE 412
… or the equivalent) when it learns all sides of a question, and is left free to judge for itself and (2) "Wanderjahre," when it sees the world for itself, not by any pre-arranged course (Cooks', Lunns', University Extension, Baedeker) but built up on the results of the Lehrjahre, foot or horseback, and avoid beaten tracks. It is the Rosicrucian injunction to "wear the costume of the country in which you are travelling" ; this is only another way of saying "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." The object of this is not merely to avoid interferenc…
1907 · PDF PAGE 294
…ce '!” 1 Call “ homo sapiens ” him who thinks ; Talkers and doers - missing links !? In his essay “ Eleusis ," Crowley suggests that the world's history may roughly be divided into a con tinuous succession of periods , each embracing three distinct cycles — of Renaissance , Decadence , and Slime . In the first the Adepts rise as artists , philo 1 Eleusis , vol . iii, p . 221 . “ TO KNOW , TO DARE , TO WILL , TO KEEP SILENT , are the four words of the magus , inscribed upon the four symbolic forms of the Sphinx . “ To command the elements , we m…
1909 · PDF PAGE 52
…NOX Vv “For this Paternal Intellect, which comprehendeth the Intelligibles and adorneth things ineffable, hath sowed symbols through the World.” “Comprehending that Intelligible with extended Mind; for the Intelligible is the flower of Mind.” “A similar fire flashingly extending through the rushings of air, or a Fire formless whence cometh the Image of a Voice, or even a flashing Light abounding, revolving, whirling forth, crying aloud. Also there is the vision of the fire-flashing Courser of Light, or also a Child, borne aloft on the shoulders…
1909 · PDF PAGE 52
…NOX Vv “For this Paternal Intellect, which comprehendeth the Intelligibles and adorneth things ineffable, hath sowed symbols through the World.” “Comprehending that Intelligible with extended Mind; for the Intelligible is the flower of Mind.” “A similar fire flashingly extending through the rushings of air, or a Fire formless whence cometh the Image of a Voice, or even a flashing Light abounding, revolving, whirling forth, crying aloud. Also there is the vision of the fire-flashing Courser of Light, or also a Child, borne aloft on the shoulders…
1910 · PDF PAGE 269
…I had beheld wooed me continually like an irre- sistible sorceress. I could not shut my eyes for midday musing without beholding in that world, half dark, half light, beneath the eyelids, a steady procession of delicious images which the severest will could not banish nor dim. Now through an immense and serene sky floated luxurious argosies of clouds continually changing form and tint through an infinite cycle of mutations. Now, suddenly emerging from some deep embowerment of woods, I stood upon the banks of a broad river that curved far off in…
1910 · PDF PAGE 269
…I had beheld wooed me continually like an irre- sistible sorceress. I could not shut my eyes for midday musing without beholding in that world, half dark, half light, beneath the eyelids, a steady procession of delicious images which the severest will could not banish nor dim. Now through an immense and serene sky floated luxurious argosies of clouds continually changing form and tint through an infinite cycle of mutations. Now, suddenly emerging from some deep embowerment of woods, I stood upon the banks of a broad river that curved far off in…
1913 · PDF PAGE 430
…nces which put him, according to his own account, in direct communication with the soul of his mother, and, through her, with the entire world of spirits. He describes, like the sleep-wakers of Cahagnet, persons whom he has never seen, and who are recognized by those who evoke them; he will tell you even their names, and will reply, on their behalf, to questions which can be understood only by the soul evoked and yourselves. When he is ina room, inexplicable noises make themselves heard. Violent blows resound upon the furniture, and in the wall…
1913 · PDF PAGE 452
…visit me abandoned me? Eli, Eli, lama——” “Stop,” said Eliphas, “ do not parody the most formidable words that agony ever uttered in this world! Who are the beings who visited you by virtue of this horrible book? Do 154
1913 · PDF PAGE 558
…come a sacrifice, for then it becomes a power and a virtue. It is the struggle of Eros and Anteros which produces the equilibrium of the world. Everything that over-excites sensibility leads to depravity and crime. Tears call for blood. It is with great emotions as with strong drink; to use them habitually is to abuse them. Now, every abuse of the emotions perverts the moral sense; one seeks them for their own sakes; one sacrifices everything in order to procure them for one’s self. A romantic woman will easily become an Old Bailey heroine. She…
1913 · PDF PAGE 430
…nces which put him, according to his own account, in direct communication with the soul of his mother, and, through her, with the entire world of spirits. He describes, like the sleep-wakers of Cahagnet, persons whom he has never seen, and who are recognized by those who evoke them; he will tell you even their names, and will reply, on their behalf, to questions which can be understood only by the soul evoked and yourselves. When he is ina room, inexplicable noises make themselves heard. Violent blows resound upon the furniture, and in the wall…
1913 · PDF PAGE 452
…visit me abandoned me? Eli, Eli, lama——” “Stop,” said Eliphas, “ do not parody the most formidable words that agony ever uttered in this world! Who are the beings who visited you by virtue of this horrible book? Do 154
1913 · PDF PAGE 558
…come a sacrifice, for then it becomes a power and a virtue. It is the struggle of Eros and Anteros which produces the equilibrium of the world. Everything that over-excites sensibility leads to depravity and crime. Tears call for blood. It is with great emotions as with strong drink; to use them habitually is to abuse them. Now, every abuse of the emotions perverts the moral sense; one seeks them for their own sakes; one sacrifices everything in order to procure them for one’s self. A romantic woman will easily become an Old Bailey heroine. She…
1913 · PDF PAGE 18
…I must ask you to remember that Crowley was brought up among the Plymouth Brethren, and thatat this time he nad no more knowledge of the world than most boys of 16, He swallowed your yarns easily enough, didn't he? Mavuirs. He did Sconrio, KC. Now take the second part. “For the last ieen months or two years there has been nothing that the police could get at me for.” ‘That implies that previous to that date there was something? Marans. Undoubtedly. Sconrio, K.C, Let me read you this passage from Crowley's works Vol. I, p. 115, published in 1903…
1907 · PDF PAGE 204
…ye , or inducing our understanding in despair , to cast itself down from the pinnacle of the temple into that abyss below , which is the world . Then in the end we shall find all these philosophies are but types of the One , that all things are a unity , that no con tradiction can or does exist , and that there is a universal harmony ; then , as that terrific night engulfs all and envelops us , O children of the Day ! Let us rise up with the whole dawn of our understanding , encircle and an nihilate this dismal unity , and conglobe all into a p…
1910 · PDF PAGE 280
… the current of his thoughts into another channel, but he had arrived at that place in his experience where suggestion is powerless. His world of the Real could not be changed by any inflow from ours of the Shadowy. I reached the same place in after days, and it was then as impossible for any human being to alter the condition which enwrapped me as it would have been for a brother on earth to stretch out his hands and rescue a brother writhing in the pangs of immortality. There are men in Oriental countries who make it their business to attend …
1910 · PDF PAGE 322
… before his eyes and he did not fail in his description of her. Well, little Piotr heard it all. As there was but one woman in the whole world whom he loved, the description of another woman did not in the least attract his attention. Only when mention was made of her magnificent jewels did his ears stand up. “What are ear-rings?” he asked of Ljubov, when he felt her tiny hand in his, a little later. “ They are beautiful things, Piotr,” she answered. “ They are beautiful to the eye.” “Hah!” he sighed—for that was the one thing he could not well…