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Page 84 of 1121907 · PDF PAGE 293
…hme , who was only a shoemaker , ranks with them . ? “ It is no doubt more difficult ," writes Crowley , “ to learn ‘ Paradise Lost ' by heart than “ We are seven , ' but when you have done it , you are no better at figure skating .' So a Boehme may rank with an Augustine , whilst an Evans may not . Inspiration does not enter into the understanding , it illuminates a deeper part of the Ego , and under its influence the imagination is diverted from the specu lative understanding to more active powers which > 3 1 Eleusis , vol . iii, p . 220 . 2 …
1929 · PDF PAGE 345
…it by the Buddha --- and even by the Church. It justifies my own attitude that love must be resolutely torn from the throne in the human heart which it has usurped. One must not set one's affections on things below; one must find an answer to old age and death. "Only those are happy who have desired the unattainable." Love being the sublimation of the human ego, it follows that the ego itself must be surrendered. The limitations of life on earth are intolerable. The consciousness is unendurable for all those who have begun to understand the uni…
1911 · PDF PAGE 69
…e been gazing upon this table, an Adept has come forth, one from each tier, except the inmost Tier. And the first drove a dagger into my heart, and tasted the blood, and said: xabuges, nabapss, uabapic, nabapds, nabapss, xeebcrpes. And the second Adept has been testing the muscles of my right arm and shoulder, and he says: fortis, fortis, fortis, fortis, fortis. 67
1929 · PDF PAGE 492
…new that the only hope of making her love me was to kill the vanity which prevented her from being true to herself, and giving her whole heart. Before I left for New Hampshire, we had a farewell meeting. She was now too far advanced in gestation to appear in public, so her husband had persuaded her to go to England for the confinement, and also to make various necessary arrangements with regard to the future. He had now cunningly pretended to give way about the divorce, admitting my right to my child and its mother. His real motive was very dif…
1909 · PDF PAGE 127
…pletely hid her. Only two little hands looked out, clasped, pleading for mercy, and a fairy child-face, looking up—in vain—to that black heart of hatred. Even as I gazed the woman hissed out so frightful a menace that my blood ran chill. The child shrank back into herself. The other raised her whip. I leapt into the room. The old hag spat one infamous word at me, turned on me with the whip. 117
1909 · PDF PAGE 127
…pletely hid her. Only two little hands looked out, clasped, pleading for mercy, and a fairy child-face, looking up—in vain—to that black heart of hatred. Even as I gazed the woman hissed out so frightful a menace that my blood ran chill. The child shrank back into herself. The other raised her whip. I leapt into the room. The old hag spat one infamous word at me, turned on me with the whip. 117
1910 · PDF PAGE 191
…n; that is to say a conversation which outwardly had but the appearance of the politest small talk but which inwardly lacerated her evil heart, and burnt into her black bowels as if each word had been a drop of some corrosive acid. She writhed back from him; and then again approached him even more beautiful than she had been before. She was battling for her life now, and no longer for the blood of another victim. If she lost, hell yawned before her, the hell that every once beautiful woman who is approaching middle age, sees before her the hell…
1910 · PDF PAGE 191
…n; that is to say a conversation which outwardly had but the appearance of the politest small talk but which inwardly lacerated her evil heart, and burnt into her black bowels as if each word had been a drop of some corrosive acid. She writhed back from him; and then again approached him even more beautiful than she had been before. She was battling for her life now, and no longer for the blood of another victim. If she lost, hell yawned before her, the hell that every once beautiful woman who is approaching middle age, sees before her the hell…
1910 · PDF PAGE 35
… talk with thee, whose quickened hearing has not known him creep ever closer, yet afraid to touch thee, has not heard the rushing of his heart, the shortening of his breath ? How talk, if thou have not felt one trem- bling foot seed thine, one hand steal near thee and yet nearer ? Till thou feel the tremor of his body ; till his hot breath stir thine hair ! Why, neither thou nor I can tell of that swift attack (is it a minute or an hour ?) when without word spoken the bonds of convention snap — hast thou seen a village, with its smug Swiss thie…
1930 · PDF PAGE 69
… I am He, whose mouth ever flameth! 7. I am He, the Begetter and Manifester unto the Light! 8. I am He, The Grâce of the Worlds! 9. “The Heart Girt with a Serpent” is my name! Section H The 64Charge to the Spirit”. Corne thou forth, and follow me: and make ail Spirits subject unto Me so that every Spirit of the Firmament, and of the Ether, upon the Earth und under the Earth: on dry Land, or in the Water: of Whirling Air or of rushing Fire, and every Spell and Scourge of God, may be obedient unto me! Section J. The Proclamation of the Beast 666.…
1913 · PDF PAGE 57
…is better than all things: if under the night-stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all; but whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose 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 charg…
1913 · PDF PAGE 57
…is better than all things: if under the night-stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all; but whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose 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 charg…
1907 · PDF PAGE 195
…hire , and beryl, and amethyst ; for it is the cup of Adepts , and of Heroes , and of Gods . Then all the absinthial bitterness of thine heart shall vanish midst the chaunting of souls lost in the ocean of understanding for ever and everlasting . From the filthy distillations of thy life , and the golden traffic of its quintessential lusts ; from the fantastic dews of thy death , and all the gibbous glitter of its mirific mirror , shalt thou be purified : and thy cup shall be as the cusps of the hornéd moon , and thy wine as the blood of the sp…
1913 · PDF PAGE 344
…r known and mightier soon to be, Shall judge the quick and dead for all eternity. I do believe in God’s most Holy Spirit, whose fire The heart and mind of saints and prophets did inspire. He is a Breath of life and of fecundity, Proceeding both from God and from humanity. I do believe in one most holy brotherhood Ofjust men that revere heaven’s ordinance of good. I do believe one place, one pontiff, and one right, One symbol of one God, in one intent unite. I do believe that death by changing us renews, And that in man as God life sheds immorta…
1913 · PDF PAGE 344
…r known and mightier soon to be, Shall judge the quick and dead for all eternity. I do believe in God’s most Holy Spirit, whose fire The heart and mind of saints and prophets did inspire. He is a Breath of life and of fecundity, Proceeding both from God and from humanity. I do believe in one most holy brotherhood Ofjust men that revere heaven’s ordinance of good. I do believe one place, one pontiff, and one right, One symbol of one God, in one intent unite. I do believe that death by changing us renews, And that in man as God life sheds immorta…
1922 · PDF PAGE 144
…ug Fiend was weak and weary, with a sub-current of irritation and distress. I hardly recognised the rich, full tones that had flooded my heart wher she chanted that superb litany in the “‘ Smoking Dog.” “We spent a couple of days here,’’ she said, at the Museo-Palace Hotel. Since then, we’ve been staying at the Caligula at Capri; and our clothes, our pass- ports, our money, and everything are there.” I couldn’t help being pleased by the way in which she rose to the crisis; her practical good sense, her memory of those details that are so import…
1922 · PDF PAGE 304
…—”’ I took it out and treated myself to a long, languishing kiss—yes, kiss, there is no other word for it! My long-lost love, home to my heart once more | Platt in his turn assumed an air of Stygian melancholy. “My dear Sir Peter,” he pursued, with a heavy sigh, “you can easily understand that, huge as my fortune, thanks to the inscrutable ways of Destiny, now is, time is necessary to realise it fully—and, by a singular and most unfortunate conjunction of circumstances, not only time is required, but—Capital.” “Unfortunate conjuncture of circum…
1954 · PDF PAGE 111
…ents of the White School are found in the Sacred Books of Thelema. The doctrine is given in excellent perfection both in The Book of the Heart Girt with a Serpent and in the book of Lapis Lazuli. A single passage is adequate to explain the formula. 7. Moreover I beheld a vision of a river. There was a little boat thereon; and in it under purple sails was a golden woman, an image of Asi wrought in finest gold. Also the river was of blood, and the boat of shining steel. Then I loved her; and loosing my girdle, cast myself into the stream. 8. I ga…
1929 · PDF PAGE 40
40 {85} Lady, hope on! All England takes thy part But a few bigots. Lady, then, take heart. My sympathy with Mrs. Maybrick nowise argues my belief in her innocence. She was admittedly an adulteress. I asked no further questions. The mere fact thrilled me to the marrow. Adultery being the summit of wickedness, its commission excused everything. I made no intimate friendships. I did my work sufficiently well to avoid serious punishment, but without ambition. I took no interest in the Shakespeare prize, for which everybody had to enter, and had no…
1904 · PDF PAGE 7
…ity The topics I dwell on were unlawful— Or worse, that I trench with undue levity On the bounds of the holy and the awful— I praise the heart and pity the head of him, And refer myself to Thee, instead of him, Who head and heart alike discernest, Looking below light speech we utter Where frothy spume and frequent splutter Prove that the soul’s depths boil in earnest !” But I have after all little fear that I am seriously wrong. That I show to m y critics the open door to the above city of refuge my be taken as merely another gesture of contemp…