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Page 81 of 1211996 · PDF PAGE 133
… o prophet, a light undesired, most desirable. 62. I am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body. Commentary: “uplifted in thine heart”:—compare “The Book of the Heart Girt with a Serpent.”1 1 [“Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente sub figura LXV.”] See Equinox III(l) [(1919), and The Holy Books ofThelema (Equinox 111(9)) (1983).] 63. Thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fullness of the inspiration; the expiration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughterful than a caress of Hell’s own worm. Commentary: This verse…
1911 · PDF PAGE 59
THE VISION AND THE VOICE judgment into justice. BAL is the sword, and TAN the balances. A pair of balances appears in the stone, and on the bar of the balance is written: Motion about a point is iniquity. And behind the balances is a plume, luminous, azure. And somehow connected with the plume, but I cannot divine how, are these words: Breath is iniquity. (That is, any wind must stir the feather of truth.) And behind the plume is a shining filament of quartz, suspended vertically from the abyss to the abyss. And in the midst is a winged disk of…
1911 · PDF PAGE 87
… wine of delusion, mingled with the poison of their selfishness. Thus they make war upon the Holy One, sending forth their delusion upon men, and upon everything that liveth. So that their false compassion is called compassion, and their 85
1929 · PDF PAGE 28
them to find their own paths and pursue them. Every man that becomes a Magician helps others to do likewise. The more firrnly and surely men move, and the more such action is accepted as the standard of morality, the less will conflict and confusion hamper humanity. ) I hope that the above principles will ciemonstrate to ALL that their welfare, their very existence, is bound up in MAGICK. I trust that they will understand, not only the reasonableness, but the necessity of the fundamental truth which I was the means of giving to mankind: “Do wha…
1954 · PDF PAGE 167
…d delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and brigh t glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, 0 man! lust, enjoy al/ things of sense and rapture! fear not that any God shall deny thee for this. Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who be hermits.…
1954 · PDF PAGE 450
ORIGINAL SIN 417 The dead dog floats with the stream; in puritan France the best women are harlots; in vicious England the best women are virgins. If only the Archbishop of Canterbury were to go naked in the streets and beg his bread! The new Christ, like the old, is the friend of publicans and sinners; because his nature is ascetic. o if every-man did No Matter What, provided that it is the one thing that he will not and cannot do. That settles it. We do progress; but how? Not by the tinkering of the meliorist; not by the crushing of initiativ…
1929 · PDF PAGE 72
…, at the gravest risk of slipping on the one hand and being smashed on the the other. It is a remarkable fact that only very exceptional men retain their normal reasoning powers in presence of mountains. Both Eckenstein and I have had constant evidence of this. It is not merely the panic of the peasant, who loses his head and calls on the saints whenever he finds himself a few yards off the beaten track or is overtaken by bad weather. Scientifically trained minds frequently lose all sense of judgment and logic. There is an account, hardly a cen…
1929 · PDF PAGE 177
…re that the human spirit might attach to the body after death in just such a manner as the vital principle in food. This led him to recommend cremation as a remedy for prolonged post- mortum agony. 37 From the hot spring one goes gently along the valley to Askole. The whole march is short, easy and delightful. It only occupied five hours, of which at least three were spent at the rope bridge and in the pool. The entire journey had been extraordinarily favourable. We had had very little bad weather, the coolies had behaved admirably, there had b…
1906 · PDF PAGE 63
…ce abideth ; Her strength is the strength of rest ; Not on thunders or clouds She rideth But draweth me down to Her breast : No maker of men, but dissolving Their life from its burden of ills, Ever resolving the circle revolving To peace of the hills. And dark is Her breast and unlighted ; But a warm sweet scent is expressed, And a rose as of sunset excited In the strength of Her sunless breast. Her love is like pain, but enchanted : Her kiss is an opiate breath Amorously panted : Her fervours last granted Are sorrow, and death. Nor death as ye…
1907 · PDF PAGE 261
…hich moves in Space ? The great Tao is the parent of Space , and Space is the parent of Heaven and Earth , and Heaven and Earth produced men and things ...” A similar conception of the Wisdom is held in the Chaldaic , Memrah ; in the Vach , or word , of the Rig Veda ; in the Honover or word , of the Zend Avesta ; in the Avalôkitêsvara , or Kwan - Yin , the Sakti of Amitâbha , the boundless light of the later Mahayana Buddhists . Again we find it in the conception of Prana or life spirit of ancient India ; the Atharva -veda says : “ Rever ence t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 22
…he thunder- bolt of the abyss. Is not the sky clear behind the sun? These clouds that burn thee up, these rays that scorch the brains of men with blindness; these are heralds before my face of the dissolution and the night. Ye are all blinded by my glory; and though ye treasure in your heart the sacred word that is the last lever of the key to the little door beyond the abyss, yet ye gloss and comment thereupon; for the light itself is but illusion. Truth itself is but illusion. Yea, these be the great illusions beyond life and space and time. …
1913 · PDF PAGE 560
… soul; hallucination, on the contrary, tires it and worries it. The satisfactions of madness are like those gastronomic dreams of hungry men which sharpen their hunger without ever satisfying it. Thence are born irritations and troubles, discouragements and despairs.—Life is always a lie to us, say the disciples of 262
1913 · PDF PAGE 560
… soul; hallucination, on the contrary, tires it and worries it. The satisfactions of madness are like those gastronomic dreams of hungry men which sharpen their hunger without ever satisfying it. Thence are born irritations and troubles, discouragements and despairs.—Life is always a lie to us, say the disciples of 262
1904 · PDF PAGE 14
… of wrath—Ascension-tide ! Oh ! ’tis a worthy day to wrest Hate’s diadem from Jesus’ Crest ! Ascends he ? ’Tis the very test By which we men may fairly judge, From the rough roads we mortals trudge Or God’s paths paved with heliotrope, The morals of the crucified. (Both standpoints joined in one, I hope, In metaphysic’s stereoscope !) But for the moment be denied A metaphysical inspection— Bring out the antiseptic soap !— We’ll judge the Christ by simple section, And strictly on the moral side. But first ; I must insist on taking The ordinary s…
1906 · PDF PAGE 155
…t of wrath—Ascension-tide ! Oh ! ’tis a worthy day to wrest Hate’s diadem from Jesus’ Crest ! Ascends he? ’Tis the very test By which we men may fairly judge, From the rough roads we mortals trudge Or God’s paths paved with heliotrope, The morals of the crucified. (Both standpoints join in one, | hope, In metaphysic’s stereoscope !) But for the moment be denied © A metaphysical inspection— Bring out the antiseptic soap !-—-. We'll judge the Christ by simple section, And strictly on the moral side. But first ; I must insist on taking The ordinar…
1907 · PDF PAGE 83
…R IN THE WEST No thunderous note (so common in the poems of Crowley ) lies in the above three lines , to roll on into the stillness of Immensity ; it is but the song of the nightingale by the rill of life. Here as a vision we see a fair form embroidering the web of existence with the flowers that grow on the banks of life's flowing stream , collecting as she works the stray threads of philosophy , of science, of industry , of war , and of peace ; the sweat , the laughter , the tears of existence , to weave them into the great garment of Love . …
1907 · PDF PAGE 249
…blush to reply that Halley's Comet , being the sole measure of time in use on his farm was 133 ° S. , entering Capricorn , at the very moment of the blow being struck ." Scepticus goes on to state that H. G. Wells has put his finger on the very spot whence all research must begin : and that is , “ the illusionary nature of the time - idea ." 2 “ You would say that of two men born on a day , dying on a day , one may be young , the other old . . . he lives the longest who remembers most ." Mysticus considers the de finition insufficient unless th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 38
…irect a miracle of God as a sodomite. No ! I must not proselytise ! there are enough of us in the world ; a select body of idealists, of men cleansed from the gross passions, of poets and mystics linked in a perfect freemasonry of style and man- ner, of ships (as it were) who have dropped anchor in a safe harbour, or conquerors at ease in the towns they have captured, whose inhabitants are too crass and stupid even to know themselves slaves.
1954 · PDF PAGE 61
…edge and power some changes are not possible in practice ; we cannot cause eclipses, for instance, or transform lead into tin, or create men from mushrooms. But it is theoretically possible to cause in any object any change of which that object is capable by nature; and the conditions are covered by the above postulate.) III. THEOREMS. 1. Every intentional act is a Magical Act.2 (Illustration: See "Definition" above.) 2. Every successful act has conformed to the postulate . 3. Every failure proves that one or more requirements of the postulate …
1996 · PDF PAGE 34
…rlet Woman is all power given. They shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. 16. For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight. 17. But ye are not so chosen. 18. Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! 19. O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! 20. The key of the rituals is in the secret word which I have given unto him. 21. With the God & the Adorer I am nothing: they do not see me. They are as upon the earth; I…