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Page 87 of 941905 · PDF PAGE 17
…ss with the rosy shoon Stoop’d o’er the silver surface of the moon To touch his brow with slumber, like a kiss Whose dreams perfused the name of Archais, Till the sweet odour dulled his brain, and sleep Loosened his limbs, most dreamless and most deep. The mosses serve .him for a bed ; the trees Wave in the moonlight, daughters of the breeze ; Hardly the pleasant waters seem to shake, And only nightingales, for slumber’s sake, Lull the soft stars and seas, and matchless music make. And now the sun is risen above the deep ; The mists pass slowly…
1905 · PDF PAGE 26
…o to the hut on writhing coils he ran With angry head erect, and passed within Its rotten doorway. Then the thing of Sin That mocked the name of woman fondled him, Stroked his flaf head, his body curved and slim, And from the fire brought milk. He drank it up From the coarse pewter of the borrowed cup And cried: ‘‘Jn eating, swear. JI have vowed to make The gods infernal on their couches quake With fear before I die; I have vowed to live With one aim only; never to forgive The wrong the gods do me, and in my form Love his high self, by whom the…
1905 · PDF PAGE 114
THE TRIUMPH OF MAN 107 Wave in the sunbright air, whose lips of flame Chant the almighty music of One Name Whose perfume fills the silent atmosphere, Whose passionate melodies caress the ear ; An angel, strong and eloquent, aloud Cries lo the earth to lift the final shroud, And, having burst Faith’s coffin, to lay by The winding-sheet of Infidelity, And rise up naked, as a god, to hear This message from the reawakened sphere ; Words with love clothed, with life immortal shod :— ‘* Mankind is made a little part of God.” ! Till the response, full…
1906 · PDF PAGE 46
… And thence there came Soft laughter that may hardly stir The flowers that shake not in the City of Loves. (For so men called the city’s name Because the people were more mild than doves, More beautiful than Gods of wood or river ; . And so the city should endure for ever.) But the king’s mood was otherwise this day. Along time’s river, fifty years away, There was a young man once Ruddier than autumn suns With gold hair curling like the spring sun’s gold, And blue eyes where stars lurked for happi- ness, And lithe with all a young fawn's loveli…
1944 · PDF PAGE 54
…ransmuted to reappear as the original Yod, and repeat the whole process from the beginning. 1Note the N of Jonah, and the meaning of the name: a dove. The innocence‐virility formula is again suggested by the introduction of the crocodile, for that was one of the biological superstitions on which they founded their theogony—that the crocodile, like the vulture, had some mysterious method of reproduction. Zeus Arrhenothelus. In dealing with Zeus, one is immediately confronted with this deliberate confusion of the masculine and the feminine. In th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 233
…mist transcend it.’ No sooner said than done: 1 **O the Jewel in the Lotus! Aum!” most famous of the Buddhist formularies. 2 The Burmese name for an elemental spirit. The
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
54 Thyself thyself surpassing; all were dull, And thou, O rose, sole, sacred, wonderful, Single in love and aim, Double in form and name, Triple in energy of radiant flame, Informing all, in all most beautiful, Circle and sphcre, perfect in every part, High above hope of Art: Though, be it said ! thou art nowhere now, Save in the secret chamber of my heart, Behind the brass of my anonymous brow. ! 12. Ay! let the coward and slave who writes write on ! He is no more harm to Love than the grey snake Who lurks in the dusk brake lor the bare-legged…
1907 · PDF PAGE 131
…THE NORTHERN WHIG says: “The Star in the West,” by Captain Fuller, is a critiml essay on the poetical works of Aleister Crowley, and the name will sound familiar in the ears of any who pride themselves on having more than a bowing acquaintance with modern letters. Mr. Crowley has over thirty volumes to his credit, and the sheer art of his verse should rank him high amongst modern singers. He has, however, deliberately preferred to write for the few, and the course he has mapped out for himself includes the consideration of questions which the m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 220
… it was part of the arrangement or not that we should take tickets to the end of the line, some place on the west coast of Scotland, the name of which I have entirely forgotten. But we did. We sat opposite to each other in an empty first-class carriage. I only remember on scrap of conversation, and I do not remember what it was except that it was a sort of little joke. We were enjoying a species of triumph at having "got away with it", but we were in exquisite embarrassment as to what to do --- at least, I was. I have reasoned to suspect that R…
1904 · PDF PAGE 79
… transcend it.’ No sooner said than done : 1 “O the Jewel in the Lotus! Aum!” The most famous of the Buddhist formularies. 2 The Burmese name for an elemental spirit.
1944 · PDF PAGE 18
…ted by the words in Chapter I, verse 57: “the law of the Fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God” (“The House of God” is one name of the Tarot Trump numbered XVI) to this effect: “Have I got these attribu‐ tions right?” For there came an interpolated answer, “All these old letters of my book are aright; but x is not the Star. This also is secret; my prophet shall reveal it to the wise”. This was exceedingly annoying. If Tzaddi was not “the Star”, what was? And what was Tzaddi? He tried for years to counter‐change this card, “The Sta…
1929 · PDF PAGE 572
…king den in Soho, called the Harlequin, which was frequented by self-styled artists and their female parasites. One of these went by the name of Betty May. Born in a slum in the East End, she had become an artist's model of the most vicious kind. She had been married and divorced, remarried and widowed by the war. In her childhood an accident had damaged her brain permanently so that its functions were discontinuous, and she had not mended matters by taking to cocaine at the age of about twenty. After some years of addiction, she found herself …
1906 · PDF PAGE 220
…ed, sun-belted, with torch and vase of fire and water. And he trailed comet-clouds of glory upward. Thus came our Father (Blessed be his name!) to Death, who stood, scythe in hand, opposed. And ever and anon he swept round, and men fell before him. ‘‘ Look,” said Death, ‘‘my sickle hath a cross-handle. See how they grow like flowers!” ‘‘Give me salt!” quoth our Father, And with sulphur (that the Goat had given him) and with salt did he bestrew the ground. ‘I see we shall have ado together,” says Death, ‘Aye!’ and with that he lops off Death’s c…
1944 · PDF PAGE 31
… that the Sun took 360 days to go round the Zodiac. This was a closely guarded secret of the learned; so they concealed it in the divine name Mithras, which adds up, according to the Greek Convention (M 40—I 10—Th. 9—R 100—A 1—S 200) to 360. Better observation showed 365 days to be more accurate; so they decided to call it “Abraxas” (A 1—B 2—R 100—A 1—X 6o—A 1—S 200). When the others found this out they put themselves right by altering the spelling of Mithras to Meithras, which adds (like Abraxas) to 365. In this there is still an error of not …
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
…hat England was specially favoured by God on account of the breach with Rome. The child, who, at this period, was called by the dreadful name Alick, supposed it to be a law of nature that Queen Victoria would never die and that consols would never go below par. Crowley remembers, as if he had seen it yesterday, the dining-room and the ceremony of family prayers after breakfast. He remembers the order in which the family and the servants sat. A chapter of the Bible was read, each person present taking a verse in turn. At four years old he could
1907 · PDF PAGE 243
… centre ‘'666” thrice repeated on a golden square (vide pp. 4-5 of book), on reverse pub- lishers’ advertisement; back of cover author's name in Hebrew characters adding up to '' 666,” in gold; inside of back page of cover list of author’s works in gold; back of cover ‘‘ The | Sword | of| Song.’’ Price ros. od. [GOETIA: 1904] The Book of the | Goetia | of | Solomon the King | translated into the English Tongue bya | Dead Hand | and | adorned with divers other matters germane | delightful to the wise | the whole | edited, verified, introduced an…
1944 · PDF PAGE 55
…presents a more superficial form of worship; the ecstasy characteristic of the god is more magical than mystical. The latter demands the name Iacchus, whereas Bacchus had Semele for a mother, who was visited by Zeus in the form of a flash of lightning which de‐ stroyed her. But she was already pregnant by him, and Zeus saved the child. Until puberty, he
1929 · PDF PAGE 439
…ning the merest formalities. (g) The complete lack of understanding which is now practically universal has made men inquire why in God's name they should cherish such pretentious pedantries? A few anecdotes will illustrate the situation for the average non- mason. 1. A certain rite in England derives its authority from a document which is as notoriously a forgery as Pigott ever penned. The heads of this gang wished to break, in the most shameless and rascally manner, an agreement made some years previously with John Yarker. Yarker pointed out t…
1944 · PDF PAGE 179
…. Moreover, being a Six, the solar Energy has fertilized her, creating a bal‐ anced system for the time being. The card is worthy of the name Success. Remember only that all success is temporary; how brief a halt upon the Path of Labour. THE FOUR SEVENS These cards are attributed to Netzach. The position is doubly unbalanced; off the mid‐ dle pillar, and very low down on the Tree. It is taking a very great risk to descend so far into illusion, and, above all, to do it by frantic struggle. Netzach pertains to Venus; Netzach pertains to Earth; an…
1906 · PDF PAGE 221
… Order, O my Brethren, wherein sat that Hierophant who had initiated him of old. Now read he well the riddle of the Goat (Blessed be his name among us for ever! Nay, not for ever!), and therewith the Teacher made him a Master of the Sixfold Chamber, and an ardent Sufferer toward the Blazing Star. For the Sword, said the Teacher, is but the Star unfurled.2 And our Father being cunning to place Aleph over Tau read this reverse, and so beheld Eden, even now and in the flesh. Whence he sojourned far, and came to a great Emperor, by whom he was well…