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Page 89 of 941929 · PDF PAGE 422
…n Greek, such as Thelema, Will, 93 --- Agape, Love, 93. 718 = Stele 666, and so on. He also equates Greek and Hebrew words. Thus his own name spelt in Hebrew has the value 93, but in Greek that of 418, thus bringing into relation the Word of the Law of the Aeon with the Magical Formula of the Great Work. My preliminary studies, however, tended to discourage me, for the fourfold reason above stated; and the proposed dictionary remains uncompleted to this day. During this summer I wrote no less than nineteen books of magical and 1. WEH Note: This…
1907 · PDF PAGE 27
…il and all his angels. While wns and mwrp altke add to 358, tndeed, tt is no odds: did you once see this 1 A metathesis of Crowley’s own name; ‘‘spelt in full,” it adds up to 666; as does Aleister E. Crowley. See the signature to the ‘* Dedicatio Extraordinaria.”’ 2 Nechesh is the word for serpent used in Genesis iii. Messiach is the expected Re- deemer. ‘Their identity is the Vindication of the Serpent and the revelation of Jehovah as the arch-enemy of man. The above doctrine is the most secret of Qabalistic arcana. you were not far of from th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 491
491 ....Soars through the boundless blue to greet Apollo: ....I call my love by name. Remote and hollow The rocks re-echo me: "Hilarion!" How pure and beautiful the body is Lapped in fatigue's caressing ecstasies! ....For then the soul is free to leap above it, To soar, to dive, to seek and find his mate In the dominion of the uncreate, ....And lastly --- to return to it, and love it! This was my last adventure. I returned to New York by short stages and resumed the anchorless tossing. The one new feature was my affair with Stuart X. The next a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 235
…rely spiritual one: that they are mere phases of our thought, as interpreted by our senses: and on the other that apprehension is only a name for a certain group of chemical changes in certain of the contents of our very material skulls: but enough ! the whole controversy is verbal, and no more. Since therefore philosophy and @ fortiori science are bankrupt, and the official receiver is highly unlikely to grant cither a dis- charge; since the only aid we get from the Bishops is a friendly counsel to drink Beer —in place of the spiritual wine of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 230
…utrage. The daughter wore a brooch of what may have been diamonds. It was about five inches across, and the design was a coronet and the name Mabel. I have never seen anything in such abominable taste, and anyhow I wouldn't call a trained flea Mabel, if I respected it. The intensity of my repulsion makes me suspect that I wanted to make love to her and was annoyed that I was already in love. The gospels do not tell us whether the man who possessed the pearl of great price ever had moments of regret at having given up imitation jewellery. One al…
1929 · PDF PAGE 6
… which quotes this as a footnote and have not been able to trace the original volume.) The Crowleys, are, however, of Celtic origin; the name O'Crowley is common in south-west Ireland, and the Breton family of de Quérouaille --- which gave England a Duchess of Portsmouth --- or de Kerval is of the same stock. Legend will have it that the then head of the family came to England with the Earl of Richmond and helped to make him king on Bosworth Field. Edward Crowley was educated as an engineer, but never practised his profession4. He was devoted t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 246
…hown by the very proof which that most distinguished Vedan- tist, the late Swami Vivekananda (no con- nection with the firm of a similar name! across the street), gives of the existence of the infinite. ‘‘Think of a circle!” says he. ‘‘You will in a moment become con- scious of an infinite circle around your original small one.” The fallacy is obvious. The big circle is not infinite at all, but is itself limited by the little one. But to take away the little circle, that is the method of the esoteric Christian or the mystic. But the process is …
1929 · PDF PAGE 75
…-de-guerre --- I can't say that I feel sure that I facilitated the process of becoming famous. I should doubtless have done so, whatever name I had chosen. {141} 17 I began my last year at Cambridge with my moral decks cleared for action. I didn't know where I was going, but I was on the way. I was thus quite ready for the perception of the First Noble Truth, but also for an entirely new current to influence my life. Towards the end of the October term I met a man named Herbert Charles Jerome Pollitt. He was an M.A., ten years older than myself…
1929 · PDF PAGE 396
…tue of its own excellence. With these ideas in mind, I constructed seven rituals to the planets. In two of these I was assisted by a man named George Rafflovitch, whose father was a Jewish banker of Odessa, and whose mother a countess descended from one of the ministers of finance under Napoleon. Born in Canes, he had been taken for the army very much against his will. The result was a notorious lawsuit to determine his status. Coming of age, he had squandered his millions. No extravagance was too imbecile. At one time he bought a travelling ci…
1907 · PDF PAGE 23
…, and girt about with Love ! O Sun at midnight! in thy Bark The cynocephali proclaim Thy effulgent deity, and mark The adorations of thy name In seemly stations one by one, As thou encirclest blinder poles Than Khem or Ammon showed the sun In one-eyed sight of secret goals. So I adore, and sing: for I This magic monocle avow, Distorted from Divinity And wrought in subtler fashion now. An invocation shrined and sealed Be this! The many hear me not, Though I be vocal, thou revealed. I scorn the eye, uphold the—what Gods call the lotus poppy-hued,…
1906 · PDF PAGE 270
… long one, with neither variable- 5S. No, for I say that the line is, like the Equator, imaginary. ness nor shadow of turning. Christian name John.¢ * Not to be confused with John, the beloved disciple, who wrote ‘‘ Caliban 4 on Patmos.” # d A dwarfish imiscreate, celebrated in the works of Browning and Shakespeare (W.).° e Dramatic author, flourished A.D. 1600 circa; wrote The Tempest!, Susannah, or, The Two Gentlemen of Veronica's Garden, The Manxman, and other plays. f A garbled version of this was misbegotten in A.D. 1904 on a J.ondon stage…
1929 · PDF PAGE 308
…space of starless night or a bleak and barren waste of land. The one exception is the Sahara Desert where, for some reason that I cannot name, the suggestion is not in the least of vacancy and barrenness, but rather of some subtle and secret spring of life. {501} Vancouver presents no interest to the casual visitor. It is severely Scotch. Its beauties lie in its surroundings. I was very disappointed with the Rockies, of which I had heard such eloquent encomiums. They are singularly shapeless; and their proportions are unpleasing. There is too m…
1944 · PDF PAGE 123
…is connected with the forty‐two Assessors of the Dead, for they are the Accusers, whom the soul must baffle; and with the forty‐two‐fold name of God, for this is the Mystery of Inquity, that there was ever a beginning at all. And this Magus casteth forth, by the might of his four weapons, veil after veil; a thousand shining colours, rip‐ ping and tearing the Aethyr; so that it is like jagged saws, or like broken teeth in the face of a young girl, or like disruption, or madness. There is a horrible grinding sound, maddening. This is the mill in …
1929 · PDF PAGE 475
…rland. By doing so, I should cut myself off temporarily from all my friends, from all sources of income, I should apparently dishonour a name which I considered it my destiny to make immortal, and I should have to associate on terms of friendship with people whose very physical appearance came near to reproducing in me the possibly beneficial results of crossing the Channel with a choppy sea. But the German propaganda was being done as well as the British propaganda ill. With a little moral ascendancy over Viereck, I could spoil his game comple…
1929 · PDF PAGE 92
…y that no Cambridge man would ever dream {167} of adducing authority in the course of an argument. He might indeed bring forward a great name on his side, but never without being ready to support it with the heavy artillery of patent proof. No fame is fixed with us as it is with them. The spirit of criticism never sleeps. We see accordingly much stricter discipline with them than with us. We tend to trust the good sense and good will of the fluffiest fresher. Our dons never get nervous lest a rag should go too far, and we never betrayed their t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 91
… of six and eightpence if I were caught smoking in it. I had no intention of becoming a parson or a schoolmaster; to write B.A. after my name would have been a decided waste of ink. I felt that my career was already marked out for me. Sir Richard Burton was my hero and Eckenstein his modern representative, as far as my external life was concerned. A vaccalaureate would not assist me noticeably in the Himalayas or the Sahara. As for my literary career, academic distinction would be a positive disgrace. And with regard to my spiritual life, which…
1929 · PDF PAGE 100
… with V. H. Frater Aequo Animo1 in a tiny tenement in Southwark or Lambeth --- I forget which. It was a mean, grim horror. AE. A., whose name was Charles Rosher, was a widely travelled Jack-of-all-trades. He had invented a patent water-closet and been court painter to the Sultan of Morocco. He wrote some of the worst poetry I have ever read. He was a jolly-all-round sportsman with an excellent heart and the cheery courage which comes from knocking about the world, and being knocked about by it. If his talents had been less varied, he might have…
1929 · PDF PAGE 135
…ties of belief. They had had, he said, an argument about the God Shiva, the Destroyer, whom I.A. worshipped because, if one repeated his name often enough, Shiva would one day open his eye and destroy the universe, and whom D.D.C.F. feared and hated because He would one day open His eye and destroy D.D.C.F. I.A. closed the argument by assuming the position Padmasana and repeating the Mantra: "Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva." D.D.C.F., angrier than ever, sought the sideboard, but soon returned, only to find Frater I.A. still muttering:…
1929 · PDF PAGE 96
…ing and howling in the moonlight "on the silvery, silvery, silvery sands"; howling, whistling, bellowing and braying forth the barbarous names of evocation which have in the sacred rites a power ineffable, around a furiously flaming bonfire whose sparks were whirled by the wind all over the beach. The basis of the delusion is that there is a real apodeictic correlation between the various elements of the operation, such as the formal manifestation of the spirit, his name and sigil, the form of the temple, weapons, gestures and incantations. The…
1929 · PDF PAGE 99
… the Operation. I resolved, therefore, to cut myself off absolutely from mine. So, as I had to live in London, I took the flat under the name of Count Vladimir Svareff. As Jones remarked later, a wiser man would have called himself Smith. But I was still obsessed with romanticism, while my summer in St. Petersburg had made me in love with Russia. There was another motive behind this --- a legitimate one. I wanted to increase my knowledge of mankind. I knew how people treated a young man from Cambridge. I had thoroughly appreciated the servility…