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Page 84 of 1591919 · PDF PAGE 419
…ics. This is fully narrated in Book 4, Part IV. It is also evident that aspiration implies dissatisfaction of some sort. But at the same time I do not think that in all cases it is necessary that this dissatisfaction should be so conscious and so universal as appears to be implied in the text. : 26. Armed with the key of Charity, of love and tender mercy, thou art secure before the gate of Dana, the gate that standeth at the entrance of the Path. 27. Behold, O happy Pilgrim! The Portal that faceth thee is high and wide, seems easy of access. Th…
1922 · PDF PAGE 34
CHAPTER II OVER THE TOP! It was only about a quarter of an hour before we reached “The Dog’’; but the time passed heavily. I had been annexed by the white maggot. Her presence made me feel as if I were already a corpse. It was the limit. But I think the ordeal served to bring up in my mind some inkling of the true nature of my feeling for Lou. The Smoking Dog, now ingloriously extinct, was a night club decorated by a horrible little cad who spent his life pushing himself into art and literature. The dancing room was a ridiculous, meaningless, g…
1907 · PDF PAGE 290
… desire , robed in a million suns , the stars flaming in her hair , incarnate symbol of perpetual youth . So we feel with Crowley that : Time and again , in the History of Science , a period has arrived when , gorged with facts , she has sunk into a lethargy of reflection accompanied by appalling nightmares in the shape of impossible theories .' And that : History affirms that such a deadlock is invariably the prelude to a new enlightenment ; by such steps we have advanced , by such we shall advance . The “ horror of great darkness which is sce…
1909 · PDF PAGE 115
…est. He must add to the entry 1.13 that the ”telephone- cross " voices came as he composed himself to sleep, in the Will to Adonai. This time he detached a body of cavalry to chase them to oblivion. Perhaps an unwise division of his forces; yet he was so justly indignant at the eternal illusions that he may be excused. Excused! To whom? Thou must succeed or fail! Ο Batsman, with thy frail fortress of Three—in—One, the Umpirecries “ Out ”; and thou explainest to thy friends 2 A I I3
1909 · PDF PAGE 123
…st his soul !), had left me yet taintless as a flower. I had that chivalrous devotion to woman which perhaps never really existed at any time save for rare individuals. I H 113
1909 · PDF PAGE 123
…st his soul !), had left me yet taintless as a flower. I had that chivalrous devotion to woman which perhaps never really existed at any time save for rare individuals. I H 113
1910 · PDF PAGE 235
MR. TODD your sentiments. I have heard very ill things said of him, I can tell you. mrs. ossory. Who is he? Does any one know? A man of family, I hope. How dreadful for poor Henry if he had been run over by a plebeian ! ossory. Well, we hardly know—I wonder if his credit is good. [Mis voice sinks to a whisper as the awful suspicion that he may be financially unsound strikes him.] carr [sharply, as if pained]. Oh, oh! Don’t suggest such a thing without the very best reason. It would be too terrible! [This time EUPHEMIA laughs. ossory. My dear bo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 235
MR. TODD your sentiments. I have heard very ill things said of him, I can tell you. mrs. ossory. Who is he? Does any one know? A man of family, I hope. How dreadful for poor Henry if he had been run over by a plebeian ! ossory. Well, we hardly know—I wonder if his credit is good. [Mis voice sinks to a whisper as the awful suspicion that he may be financially unsound strikes him.] carr [sharply, as if pained]. Oh, oh! Don’t suggest such a thing without the very best reason. It would be too terrible! [This time EUPHEMIA laughs. ossory. My dear bo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 102
…hing like a quarter that of the moon, and its brightness sufficient to wake me, who am the soundest of sleepers. Thus seen for the first time it is a stu- pendous and astounding phenomenon. 3. i.e. with a circular motion. The art of working the hips in coition, called by the Romans Ars Cris- sandi (Ars Cevendi in the case of a boy. Ed.) is in the East as complex and profound as that of mu- sic. It requires as much study as theology, and much practice as billiards. 4. An hardly obvious analogy. Boccoccio’s use of it is a curious coincidence. 5. …
1911 · PDF PAGE 265
…fair; thou art goodly, Ο Love; Thy wings make light in the air as the wings ofa dove, etc. . . . Famine, and blighting of corn, When thy time was come to be born. [LIBRA appears and confront: her. All these we know of; but thee Who shall discern or declare? etc. . . . Wilt thou utterly bring to an end? Have mercy, mother! VENUS. Nay, brother, thou art the chiefest of my chosen. LIBRA. Alas. VENUS. Yea, brother: in the end all turn to me, and all return to me. Isis am I, and from my life are fed All showers and suns, all moons that wax and wane;…
1911 · PDF PAGE 265
…fair; thou art goodly, Ο Love; Thy wings make light in the air as the wings ofa dove, etc. . . . Famine, and blighting of corn, When thy time was come to be born. [LIBRA appears and confront: her. All these we know of; but thee Who shall discern or declare? etc. . . . Wilt thou utterly bring to an end? Have mercy, mother! VENUS. Nay, brother, thou art the chiefest of my chosen. LIBRA. Alas. VENUS. Yea, brother: in the end all turn to me, and all return to me. Isis am I, and from my life are fed All showers and suns, all moons that wax and wane;…
1912 · PDF PAGE 137
…ght and very anxious. The incident of the afternoon— should she tell the Professor? Concealment was foreign to her nature ; for the first time in her life she hesitated, How would it affect their relations ? It would be better to think it over, to sleep on it. It never occurred to her for a moment that the Professor might already know. In the end she decided to say nothing; but so absorbed had been her tiny brain in its little problem that 95
1912 · PDF PAGE 137
…ght and very anxious. The incident of the afternoon— should she tell the Professor? Concealment was foreign to her nature ; for the first time in her life she hesitated, How would it affect their relations ? It would be better to think it over, to sleep on it. It never occurred to her for a moment that the Professor might already know. In the end she decided to say nothing; but so absorbed had been her tiny brain in its little problem that 95
1913 · PDF PAGE 461
…ministry in Paris?” “No, not now; I was for some little while employed in the parish of St. Germain-Auxerrois.” “ And you now spend your time, I understand, in curious researches in occult science.” “Not precisely, but I am seeking the realization of a thought. . . . I have something to do.” “J do not suppose that this something can be an opera- tion of Black Magic. You know as well as I do, reverend sir, that the Church has always condemned, and still con- demns, severely, everything which relates to these forbidden practices.” A pale smile, i…
1913 · PDF PAGE 461
…ministry in Paris?” “No, not now; I was for some little while employed in the parish of St. Germain-Auxerrois.” “ And you now spend your time, I understand, in curious researches in occult science.” “Not precisely, but I am seeking the realization of a thought. . . . I have something to do.” “J do not suppose that this something can be an opera- tion of Black Magic. You know as well as I do, reverend sir, that the Church has always condemned, and still con- demns, severely, everything which relates to these forbidden practices.” A pale smile, i…
1930 · PDF PAGE 68
…r, their performance. 1. It is highly important to note the physical and mental condi¬ tion of the expérimenter or experimenters. 3. The time and place of ail experiments must be noted; also the State of the weather, and generally ail conditions which might conceivably hâve any resuit upon the experiment either as adju¬ vants to or causes of the resuit, or as inhibiting it, or as sources of error. 4. The A.-. A.*, will not take official notice of any experi¬ ments which are not thus properly recorded. 5. It is not necessary at this stage for us…
1930 · PDF PAGE 10
…cline has been rapid. True, one hundred years later it was still possible for Queens to be bulldozed by Presbyterian pulpiteers, but the time was already predictable when their best was for undergraduates to be bluffed by homosexual ecclesiastics. I suppose it is all in the family. While these profound thoughts were producing a hypochondriac obnubilation of my mental faculties, it suddenly occurred to me that after all, I had heard this story before. And I saw the connection. In the pitch-dark ages, when Christianity held unchallenged sway over…
1907 · PDF PAGE 131
CONTENTS 125 Str. 6 Orpheus in alternate invocation, Ant. 6 Time— Semichorus «° The Hours. B® The Seasons— Semichorus «6 Spring. - B® Summer. ” y® Autumn, » 66 Winter. Semichorus y® The Years. » 6° The Lustres. Spint In harmony Water | developing Earth the five- Fire fold idea. Semichorus «© The Centuries. a’ Centuries 87 Mahakalpas y’ Manwantaras 5? Eternity Semichorus | Str, y Orpheus Ant. y Death— (Suppressed antistrophe, Death being silent. His reply is really given in Books II., III., IV.) Parabasis : The Poet. Epode : Nature. BOOK II. Orp…
1907 · PDF PAGE 107
… to the dingy fornices of the lupanar . Once sink , and instead of extending a helping hand , your head is thrust for a second and third time beneath the waters of affliction by the hands of lechers and louts . The drama entitled “ Tannhäuser " is (as the author states in his preface ) almost identical with “ The Pilgrim's Progress .” It is an intricate mass of psycho logy and philosophy closely interwoven with a moral —which we shall see more fully developed when touching upon the philosophy of Aleister Crowley and it is this : that Happiness …
1910 · PDF PAGE 26
PREFACE. XXI wise in time, luckily, and my “ Retro Satanas ” takes this form. Let me define my position. It is quite true that my attitude to real life, the life of Nature, is perfectly “ sane ” and “ wholesome ”. In a perfect society I should regard even my “ Alice ” as perverted art : for in a sane world one is insane to proclaim sanity. But art (which is the Word of the Masters to the World) must move with that world and follow it into its corruption, redeeming the same. The simple humanity, the great guffawing indecency, of Shakespeare is w…