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Page 85 of 1211911 · PDF PAGE 69
…night shall be gathered together thirteen rivers of blessing; and of the oil and the water I will prepare a wine to intoxicate the young men and the maidens. And now the Table is become the universe; every star is a letter of the Book of Enoch. And the Book of Enoch is drawn therefrom by an inscrutable Mystery, that is known only to the Angels and the Holy Sevenfold Table. While I have 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 bloo…
1911 · PDF PAGE 171
…ing of the light, and I am the loom wherein night weaveth her impenetrable veil. I am the captain of the hosts of eternity; of the swordsmen and the spearmen and the bowmen and the charioteers. I have led the armies of the east against the armies of the west, and the armies of the west against the armies of the east. For I am Peace. My groves of olive were planted by an harlot, and my horses were bred by a thief. I have trained my vines upon the spears of the Most High, and with my laughter have I slain a thousand men. With the wine in my cup h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 73
73 The expression "absolutely perpendicular" ultimately became a byword. It was used so frequently by ostensibly reliable men to describe quite gentle slopes. We used to ask engineers and other people accustomed to practical trigonometry to estimate the angle of the Matterhorn from Zermatt and from the Schwartzsee. They would give us anything from thirty degrees to fifty degrees in the first case and from forty-five degrees to eighty degrees in the second. The actually figures are ten degrees and fifteen degrees. In 1902 Pfannl proposed to rush…
1911 · PDF PAGE 32
…lackness, and a worm of poison. But thou hast formulated thy father, and made fertile thy mother. Thou art the basilisk whose gaze turns men to stone, and the cockatrice at the breast of an harlot that giveth death for milk. Thou art the asp that has stolen into the cradle of the babe. Glory unto thee, who art twined about the world as the vine that clingeth to the bare body of a bacchanal. Also, though I be planted so firmly upon the earth, yet is my blood wine and my breath fire of madness. With these wings, though they be but little, I lift …
1913 · PDF PAGE 504
…hi- lation of being, which is impossible. Then the man-devils, at the end of their resources, fall once more under the empire of the god-men, and are saved by those whom one at first thought their victims ; but the man who strives to live a life of evil deeds, does homage to good by all the intelligence and energy that he develops in himself. For this reason the great initiator said in his figurative language: “I would that thou wert cold or hot; but because thou art lukewarm, I will spew thee out of my mouth.” The Great Master, in one of his p…
1913 · PDF PAGE 504
…hi- lation of being, which is impossible. Then the man-devils, at the end of their resources, fall once more under the empire of the god-men, and are saved by those whom one at first thought their victims ; but the man who strives to live a life of evil deeds, does homage to good by all the intelligence and energy that he develops in himself. For this reason the great initiator said in his figurative language: “I would that thou wert cold or hot; but because thou art lukewarm, I will spew thee out of my mouth.” The Great Master, in one of his p…
1930 · PDF PAGE 69
die to himself in the orgasm of his operation. x) AEPE “Thou Exalted One! It (i.e. the spiri¬ tual “semen?, the Adept’s secret ideas, drawn irresistibly from their “Heli” 2 by the love of his Angel) leaps up; it leaps forth!3 DIATHARNA “Lo! the out-splashing of the seeds of THORON. Immortaiity! ” Section Gg. The Attainment. 1. I am He! the Bornless Spirit! having sight in the feet: Strong, and the Immortal Fire! 2. I am He! the Truth! 3. I am He! Who hâte that evil should be wrought in the World! 4. I am He, that lighteneth and thundereth! 5. I…
1954 · PDF PAGE 300
… or two oddities. Recently, needing to relax, I borrowed three "thrillers" from different sources. In every case, the plot turned on two men being so alike that no one could tell them apart. (Rupert of Hentzau , John Chilcote, M.P.,Melander's Millions.) I travelled from Louisville to Detroit by a railroad whose nickname was the "Big Four," my object being some business connected with my Book 4. The name of my express was the "Big Four"-it left from No. 4 platform at 4 p.m. My sleeping berth was No. 4 in Car No.4 ; and my ticket was no. 44,444. …
1919 · PDF PAGE 244
…ons, makes the soldier more than a match morally for a man not so clothed in proper reverence for himself and his profession. University men who have passed through some crisis of hardship or temptation have often told me that the backbone of their endurance was the “old shop.” Much of this is evi- dently felt by those who talk of re-establishing the old trade guilds. But I fear that I digress. I have, however, now placed before you the main points of my thesis. We need to extend to the whole of society the peculiar feeling which obtains in our…
1930 · PDF PAGE 47
… Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of ail that breathes. And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us ail, and in one Womb wherein ail men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name BABALON. And I believe in the Serpent and the Lion, Mystery of Mystery, in his name BAPHOMET. And I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is 0EAHMA. And I believe in the communion of Saints. And, forasmuch as méat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, I …
1954 · PDF PAGE 126
THE SECRET CHIEFS 93 political movement to culminate in a world-war; all in pursuit of some plan wholly beyond the purview or the comprehension of the deepest and subtlest thinkers. (It should go without saying that the adroit use of these vibrations enables one to perform all the classical 'miracles'.) These powers are stupendous. These powers move in dimensions of time and space quite other than those with which we are familiar. Their values are incomprehensible to us. To a Secret Chief, wielding this weapon, "The nice conduct of a clouded ca…
1929 · PDF PAGE 222
222 conditions, and teaching the boys from the start that they were brought into the world in order to rule it, produced a class of men who were like Old Testament heroes. (Under George III we had a rehearsal. Can it be that long prosperous {370} reigns favour the production of such men? We had another crop under Elizabeth, when the restoration of the abbeys to the people of England gave a chance to the development of a daring and dominant breed.) But the influences which are commonly called civilized attenuate the aristocratic spirit. The exis…
1911 · PDF PAGE 156
…to Aleph, so that it is in the letter Aleph, which is zero, thus symbolizing the circles of the Aethyrs, that he calleth them forth. But men thought that Aleph was the initial of ARR, cursing, when it was really the initial of AChD, unity, and AHBH, love. So that it was the most horrible and wicked blasphemy of the blackest of all the black brothers to begin Berashith with a beth, with the letter of the Magician. Yet, by this simple device, hath he created the whole illusion of sorrow.) Open the mysteries of your creation, and make us partakers…
1929 · PDF PAGE 402
…y scorn of discretion as merely a euphemism for deceit, and my confidence in the power of truth and in the integrity and intelligence of men in general, would lead me to make some damaging admission. He was ill advised. The intensity of my enthusiasm, my candour and my {641} sheer personality would have dominated the court. They would have been bound to understand that even my follies and faults testified to my good faith, high-mindedness and honour. No man with a personal axe to grind would have done such frank, fearless, imprudent things. I h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 202
…as really any particular good, so I might as well do what was expected of me. I wrote even of Buddhism with a certain detached disenchantment, as may be seen by reference to my Summa Spes, which I published separately (twelve copies contain the portrait of me by Haweis and Coles, subsequently reproduced in volume II of the vellum edition of my Collected Works) and sent to some of my friends in Paris on my departure for England. After Rodin, the most important of these friends was Marcel Schwob. Eugčne Carričre I met only once. He had just recov…
1913 · PDF PAGE 540
…thout progress; it is sulphur in stagnation: stagnum ignis et sulphuris. The sleeping life is like the idle word, and it is of that that men will have to give an account in the Day of Judgment. Intelligence speaks, and matter stirs. It will not rest until it has taken the form given to it by the word. Behold the Christian word, how for these nineteen centuries it has put 242
1913 · PDF PAGE 540
…thout progress; it is sulphur in stagnation: stagnum ignis et sulphuris. The sleeping life is like the idle word, and it is of that that men will have to give an account in the Day of Judgment. Intelligence speaks, and matter stirs. It will not rest until it has taken the form given to it by the word. Behold the Christian word, how for these nineteen centuries it has put 242
1929 · PDF PAGE 285
… they will, I fear, suffer a good deal of discomfort and inconvenience on the road from the inquisitiveness and impertinence of the Chinamen: which will try your temper. I would also recommend you to dress in Chinese style, and if Mrs. Crowley would not object to a Chinese lady's upper garment or jacket, she would attract much less attention and be less subject to annoyance." I did not in the least understand that the average Englishman actually resents being asked to sleep in a bedroom which has not been furnished in the Tottenham Court Road, …
1904 · PDF PAGE 13
…e out ; it revealed him even to himself as a leper and an out- cast ; and he could not stand it. In such a circle humbug could not live. Men of high intellectual distinction, passing through Paris, were constant visitors at the Chien Rouge. As guests they were treated with high honour ; but woe to the best of them if some chance word let fall led D . . . or L . . . to suspect that he had a weak spot somewhere ! When this happened, nothing could save him : he was rent and cast to the car- rion beasts for a prey. How often have I seen some litera…
1907 · PDF PAGE 35
…ch other now. There was the way out of the little room with millions of changing colours, ever so beautiful, and it was lined with armed men, waving their swords for joy like flashes of lightning; and all about us glitter ing serpents danced and sang for joy. There was a winged horse ready for us when we came out on the slopes of the mountain. You see the Sixth House is really in a mountain called Mount Abiegnus, only one doesn’t see it because one goes through indoors all the way. There’s one House you have to go outdoors to get to, because no …