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Page 89 of 1971929 · PDF PAGE 73
… and evil vanish instantly, with Realism and Nominalism, and Free will and [105] Determinism — and all the 'isms' and all the 'ologies'! Life is reduced to mathematical formulae, indeed, as the Victorian scientists rightly wished to do; but at the same time mathematics is restored to her royal pre-eminence as not only the most exact, but the most exalted of the sciences. The intelligible order of things, moreover, becomes natural and inevitable; and such moral problems as the cruelty of organic life return to their real insignificance. The almo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
… two first were joined, and the goat as he died was to repeat the miracle wrought in long ages past upon that other victim, by coming to life again humanized by the contact of the ghost of the sorcerer. It is not permissible to describe this ritual in detail; it is too execrably efficient; but the Turk, brought up in a merciful and cleanly religion, with but few stains of savagery upon it, faltered and nigh fainted; only his desire for Lisa, which had become a soul-tempest, held him to the circle. And indeed the brains of them all were awhirl. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 175
somewhat stupid, too, as his main claim is that the body is only an illusion!" "Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man devotes his material wealth to lofty ends, the advancement of science, or art, or some such true ideal; and that the base man does the opposite by concentrating all his abilities on the amassing of wealth?" "Exactly; that is the real distinction between the artist and the bourgeois, or, if you prefer it, between the gentleman and the cad. Money, and the things money can …
1929 · PDF PAGE 80
… when he passed me in Bond Street, I happened not to see him; he thought I meant to cut him and our destinies drew apart. It has been my lifelong regret, for a nobler and purer comradeship never existed on this earth, and his influence might have done much to temper my subsequent trials. Nevertheless, the fragrance of that friendship still lingers in the sanctuary of my soul. That eucharist of the spirit reminds me constantly that the one ingredient necessary to my aesthetic development was supplied by the gods at the one period in my life when…
1905 · PDF PAGE 210
…tre sits, divided strength, to end thy church and thee !” The third face spake and said: ** Welcome, O Man, to Death! Thy little span of life is sped, Sighed out thy little breath. The worm that never dies is thine; the fire that lingereth !” ‘¢ Three voices has thy frame, Their music is but one. Fool-demon, slave of night and shame, That canst not see the sun ! I am the Lord thy God:? make thou homage and orison !” The wild heads. sank in fear: Then, troubled, to those eyes Remembrance crept of many a year, Barred gates of Paradise. Again the …
1901 · PDF PAGE 37
…ing God, To be my mistress. If I fail in this, Or falter in this counsel of despair, May God’s own curses dog me into hell, And mine own life perpetuate itself Through all the ages of eternity. Amen! Amen! Come, Cora, to my heart! [He stoops to embrace her. Horror and madness catch him, and he runs about the room wildly, crying for CORA, whom he cannot see. MADELINE enters. MADELINE. O Cora! Cora! Ulric! Help! Help! Help! ULRIC regains his self-control. Hush! Allis well! I cannot tell you now. Some news—a letter—it has frightened her. MADELINE.…
1903 · PDF PAGE 32
…t. Glory unto thee, Maurya, secret Lady of the Stars ! CuorisTeRs. Who wast born on earth ! 2nd Priest. Glory unto thee, Maurya, Lady of Life ! CuorisTers. Who didst die for us ! Art. Glory for ever unto Maurya! Tue Worsuippinc Fotx. Maurya, hear us! [ All bend deeper and deeper in adoration. Silence awhile. They rise, and the priests see Rupua and Criospa.] ist Priest. [Whispers.| It is the Mother of our Lady. and Prizst. [Whispers.| Who is with her? 1st Prizst. [Whispers.| The first disciple. 2nd Priest. [Whispers.| Blessed is this day, O bro…
1909 · PDF PAGE 117
… glance, and gave his left hand carelessly, as if he had been gone but yesterday. Time ambles easily for the owner of such an eyrie, his life content with wine and song and simple happiness. 107
1909 · PDF PAGE 117
… glance, and gave his left hand carelessly, as if he had been gone but yesterday. Time ambles easily for the owner of such an eyrie, his life content with wine and song and simple happiness. 107
1910 · PDF PAGE 106
…hs gasped anguish, and split my dream-clouds with thy thunderbolt ! Though thou be God or Satan, do thou master my death- pang with thy life-pang, and possess All that I am with all thou art, my Vampire, my Siren that I thought a nightingale ! Abase me ! Spit on me ! Scourge me ! Murder me ! Take thy wolfs meal of my loveliness ! Give me the reek of thy foul breath, and show me the lepers face behind the shining veil ! Yea ! Though I sink through measureless abysses, I trace the incommensurable curve. Thy foursquare wedge that rages in my ci…
1910 · PDF PAGE 187
…SSORY [returning, throws himself into a chair near the door]. Dear me ! dear me ! Poor, poor Henry ! DELHOMME. In the very flower of his life. ...
1914 · PDF PAGE 5
… you. Love, indeed1 Lie still, lie still, and let my heart run on From hate to—love. I name the one pure word ‘That she blasphemes ; her life's Satyricon Would taint all speech! Yet “love,” obscenely purred From whiskered lips, stillsends my spi To God from all this miry martyrdom. ‘There is a woman, true, fair, wise, and young, Her soul one flame for art and song, her soul Pure as the trilling musick of her tongue, Her heart one flame—for me. The single goal Of this great purgatory of mine is she. God grant her hope to her, and mine to me! fa)…
1905 · PDF PAGE 119
…ng Zeus to swell the power of Pan, The prayer discomfits the demented man! Lust lies as still as love. Therefore in memory only is there life, And in sweet shapes of art: The same thought for the ointment and the knife— Oh lightning! blast the image of my wife _ Out of my mind and heart! How can one hour dissolve a year’s delight ? One arrow striking the full eagle-flight Drop him so swift, giving no time to die, No dusk to herald and delay the night? A serpent stung her sleeping: if the abyss ‘Know any cell more dolorous than this, Were there …
1907 · PDF PAGE 8
…waters slantwise seen. This oval sealed with grave magnificence Stamped you my queen. Thus looked your lips to one Who stood a casual on lifes slippery ledge, A blind bat hanging from the tree of sense 3 O
1907 · PDF PAGE 128
THE HARLOT I 21 struggle for Life ," and “ The struggle for the Ideal," if then the ideal is low , the capital is also wanting , and moral bankruptcy is at hand . It has been said , Donna ociosa non può esser virtuossa . (A woman of leisure cannot be virtuous . ) Which is very true , and neither can a nation . The present ages are peopled with fiends and fools , living outwardly in precadian innocence , but inwardly in all the knowledge of the cities of the plains . The fiend crawls in the slimy dark , and the fool pulls the white sheets of cre…
1954 · PDF PAGE 6
Contents Foreward IX Preface XI Introduction I What Is Magick 27 2 The Necessity of Magick for All 39 3 Hieroglyphics: Life and Language 44 Necessarily Symbolic 4 The Qabalah: The Best Training for Memory 48 5 The Universe: The 0=2 Equation 52 6 The Three Schools of Magick (I) 64 7 The Three Schools of Magick (2) 72 8 The Three Schools of Magick (3) 83 9 The Secret Chiefs 91 10 The Scolex School 97 II Woolly Pomposities of the Pious "Teacher" 101 12 The Left-hand Path-The "Black Brothers" 109 13 The System of the O.T.O. 122 14 Noise 125 IS Sex …
1954 · PDF PAGE 558
…uction, annotated by e language, covering: the Qabalah,hi system of reference; the symbols o the three major schools of mag} approach to life and use of power; tion; the Yi King; The Book of thi tance of talismans, lamens and pent: cointidence; etc., etc. Magick Without Tears is the Coming soon from Falcon Pr: compilation of Crowley's m: volume Equinox; The Law the moss definitive comment ing the creative work of th than a personal encyclopedia of mag-_ rience and explained in unguarded to use it asa tool rather than merely a tymology and its p…
1961 · PDF PAGE 153
… to be free absolutely and eternally, to run and to return upon the Course in the Play of Love, to fulfil Nature constantly in Light and Life? Afloat in the æthyr, o my God, my God! Without Support, without Constraint, wing thine own Way, o Swan, o Bliss of Brightness! o
1909 · PDF PAGE 14
…ems, ancient and modern; and Eclectics, ruthlessly dis- carding the inessential factors in any one system, however perfect. IV 1. Faith, Life, Philosophy have failed. 2. Science is already established. 3. Mysticism, being based on pure experience, is always a vital force; but owing to the lack of trained observation, has always been a massof error. Spiritual Experience, interpreted in the terms of Intellect, is distorted; just as sunrise shows the grass green and the sea blue. Both were invisible until sunrise; yet the diversity of colour is no…
1909 · PDF PAGE 14
…ems, ancient and modern; and Eclectics, ruthlessly dis- carding the inessential factors in any one system, however perfect. IV 1. Faith, Life, Philosophy have failed. 2. Science is already established. 3. Mysticism, being based on pure experience, is always a vital force; but owing to the lack of trained observation, has always been a massof error. Spiritual Experience, interpreted in the terms of Intellect, is distorted; just as sunrise shows the grass green and the sea blue. Both were invisible until sunrise; yet the diversity of colour is no…