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Page 83 of 1301930 · PDF PAGE 123
…Truth, and send forth Illusion and Falsehood to enslave the soûl. Yet therein is the Mystery of Rédemption. 2. By his Wisdom made He the Worlds: the World that is God is none other than He. 3. How then shall He end His Speech with Silence ? For He is Speech. 4. He is the First and the Last. How shall He cease to number Himself ? 5. By a Magus is this writing made known through the mind of a Magister. The one uttereth clearly, and the other Under- standeth; yet the Word is falsehood, and the LJnderstanding darkness. And this saying is of Ail Tru…
1929 · PDF PAGE 348
…f spiritualism and clairvoyance. The former was his bane. The habit of making himself spiritually passive and inviting the entire spirit world to obsess him proved finally fatal to him. Despite all we could do to protect his aura, we found it impossible to stop the leak altogether, so that at any moment he was liable to become possessed of the devil. He soon learnt how to protect himself as soon as he recognized that he was being attacked; but the spirits became very cunning and were at pains to persuade him not to take the proper measures of p…
1907 · PDF PAGE 126
…he scented air! Strange that breeched and scarlet-coated, brave with wealth of boot and spur, He should hunt the fox Jehovah through the world astride of her. But his whip! the flame that lashes blood from out her flanks afoam, Strips the flesh and leaves the spirit bridle-free to gallop home! But the screams of pain that stab him, drunk with lust of spur and rod, As the rowels and the whalebone send his spirit back to God! So in madness is attainment that inspirits and endures. —Who are you to blame their folly, ask them to assent to yours? Be ye…
1907 · PDF PAGE 186
…ross , and in death alone was he promised the subconscious longing of his life - Paradise . This duality of Virtue and Vice has rent the world , as with a sword , and her garment has been torn asunder . Some say “ this is mine ! ” others " that is mine ! ” and so the quarrel rages . Yet will they not unite ? for the blending of Virtue and Vice means the loss of some supposed comfort , and comfort is the God of man's heart , the Vampire which sucks its life from his shrivelling soul . In laughter alone we shall never solve the riddle of life , o…
1907 · PDF PAGE 310
…which , though irrational to pure reason , has an incalculable value , probably depending on certain higher laws unknown to the rational world . When the soul has reached this point , law , in the rational sense of the term , has ceased to have any existence , and it henceforth enters into direct communion with the Good ; which is its own law . Thus when we have raised our hearts to the nth power , we become as Gods knowing good and evil ; and if this raising of the heart , which Crowley so brilliantly sets forth throughout his works , can in a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 17
…we may know exactly what training is suitable for him. Also, because we are subtle of mind, many are offended. For we wished to test the world by the touchstone of THE Eguinox. Those who perceived the essential gold that lay hidden in that hard rock are now busy delving out the same ; many are thereby become rich. So I who write this for the Brethren, with all humility and 9
1909 · PDF PAGE 46
…s from the said adept, for good or ill, a certain mysterious drug or potion, with the result (at least) of opening the gate of the Other-world. This potion was identified with the Elixir Vite of the physical Alchemists, or one of their “ Tinctures,” most likely the “White Tincture” which transforms the base metal (normal perception of life) to silver (poetic conception), and we sought it by fruitless attempts to poison ourselves with every drug in (and out of) the Pharmacopceia. Like Huckleberry Finn’s prayer, nuffin’ come of it. I must now, li…
1909 · PDF PAGE 17
…we may know exactly what training is suitable for him. Also, because we are subtle of mind, many are offended. For we wished to test the world by the touchstone of THE Eguinox. Those who perceived the essential gold that lay hidden in that hard rock are now busy delving out the same ; many are thereby become rich. So I who write this for the Brethren, with all humility and 9
1909 · PDF PAGE 46
…s from the said adept, for good or ill, a certain mysterious drug or potion, with the result (at least) of opening the gate of the Other-world. This potion was identified with the Elixir Vite of the physical Alchemists, or one of their “ Tinctures,” most likely the “White Tincture” which transforms the base metal (normal perception of life) to silver (poetic conception), and we sought it by fruitless attempts to poison ourselves with every drug in (and out of) the Pharmacopceia. Like Huckleberry Finn’s prayer, nuffin’ come of it. I must now, li…
1910 · PDF PAGE 11
… all I have and all I am. That I do not overvalue ecstasy is shown by this, that I am not one who denies himself the good things of this world. There are too many mystics going about like the fox who lost his brush.
1911 · PDF PAGE 253
…m the fine flower and fragrance of my tresses! Sunset bids darken all my body’s light, Mixing its music with the sad caresses Of the whole world: I wheel in Wingless flight Through lampless space, the starless wildernesses! Beyond the universal bounds that roll, There is the shrine and image of my soul. I am Nature and God : I reign, I am, alone. None odzer may abide apart: they perish, Drawn into me, into my being grown. None other bosom is. to bear, to nourish, To be: the heart of all beneath my zone Of blue and gold is scarlet-bright to cherish…
1911 · PDF PAGE 253
…m the fine flower and fragrance of my tresses! Sunset bids darken all my body’s light, Mixing its music with the sad caresses Of the whole world: I wheel in Wingless flight Through lampless space, the starless wildernesses! Beyond the universal bounds that roll, There is the shrine and image of my soul. I am Nature and God : I reign, I am, alone. None odzer may abide apart: they perish, Drawn into me, into my being grown. None other bosom is. to bear, to nourish, To be: the heart of all beneath my zone Of blue and gold is scarlet-bright to cherish…
1913 · PDF PAGE 421
…d force it to plunge anew into life, except by exciting violently all its affections and all its desires. When Jesus, the Saviour of the world, was upon the earth, the earth was more beautiful and more desirable than Heaven; and yet it was necessary for Jesus to cry aloud and apply a shock in order to awaken Jairus’s daughter. It was by dint of shudderings and tears that he called back his friend Lazarus from the tomb, so difficult is it to interrupt a tired soul who is sleeping his beauty-sleep ! At the same time, the countenance of death has …
1913 · PDF PAGE 576
… do much worse in their place.” Peace! Peace! this is the supreme welfare of the soul, and it is to give us this that Christ came to the world. “Glory to God in the highest, peace upon earth, and good will toward men!” cried the Angels of Heaven at the birth of the Saviour. 278
1913 · PDF PAGE 421
…d force it to plunge anew into life, except by exciting violently all its affections and all its desires. When Jesus, the Saviour of the world, was upon the earth, the earth was more beautiful and more desirable than Heaven; and yet it was necessary for Jesus to cry aloud and apply a shock in order to awaken Jairus’s daughter. It was by dint of shudderings and tears that he called back his friend Lazarus from the tomb, so difficult is it to interrupt a tired soul who is sleeping his beauty-sleep ! At the same time, the countenance of death has …
1913 · PDF PAGE 576
… do much worse in their place.” Peace! Peace! this is the supreme welfare of the soul, and it is to give us this that Christ came to the world. “Glory to God in the highest, peace upon earth, and good will toward men!” cried the Angels of Heaven at the birth of the Saviour. 278
1916 · PDF PAGE 6
…ite, has never travelled beyond the radius of twenty miles from his hamlet, and knows nothing of his countrys affairs, much less of the worlds, could never be so insensible to the facts of human nature as Henry Ford. You could argue with him til all was blue, but you would never even begin to persuade him. He would know it was all nonsense, just in the same way as you cannot fool a dog about a tramp. It is true that this instinct is sometimes wrong after all in certain minor matters, because now and then conditions do change. But in all fun…
1907 · PDF PAGE 170
…f thee ! Our knees Bend not before thee , and our earth -bowed brows Shake off their worship , and reject thy spouse , The harlot of the world ! For , proud and free , We stand beyond thy hatred , even we : We broken in spirit beneath bitter years , Branded with the burnt-offering of tears , Spit out upon the lie , and in thy face Cast back the slimy falsehood ; to your place , Ye Gadarean swine , too foul to fling Into the waters that abound and spring ! Back , to your mother filth ! With hope , and youth , Love , light , and power , and maste…
1909 · PDF PAGE 10
…) have attained that the Ordeals seem but incidents hardly worthy to mention, save in so far as they are the Levers by which I moved the World. Even those dreadful periods of “ dryness " and of despair seem but the necessary lying fallow of the Earth. All those “ false paths ” of Magic and of Medi— tation and of Reason were not false paths, but steps upon the 8
1910 · PDF PAGE 93
…inating work “ Konx om Pax,” in which Mr. Crowley writes: As above so beneath! said Hermes the thrice greatest. The laws of the physical world are precisely paralleled by those of the moral and intellectual sphere. To the prostitute I prescribe a course of training by which she shall * The Bhagavad-Gita, vi, 16, 17. + Or more correctly as the Buddhist puts its—skilfulness and unskil- fulness. Iv F 81