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Page 91 of 1081929 · PDF PAGE 46
…een startled out of prudence. Simon Iff had not noticed the outburst. He quoted "The Book of the Law," "Be strong!" he cried. "Enjoy all things of sense and rapture! There is no god that shall deny thee for this!" The Thing became coherent. It contracted slightly. Lisa could now see that it was an animal of the wolf type, couchant. The body was as big as that of a small elephant. It became quite clearly visible. It was a dull fiery red. The head was turned toward her, and she was suddenly shocked to see that it had no eyes. The old man advanced…
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
…lf, reduces himself to a negative, and allows his genius to play through him as It will. We all know how stupid we are when we try to do things. Seek to make any other muscle work as consistently as your heart does without your silly interference — you cannot keep it up for forty-eight hours. (I forget what the record is, but it's not much over twenty-four.) All this, which is truth ascertained and certain, lies at the base of the Taoistic doctrine of non-action; the plan of a doing everything by seeming to do nothing. Yield yourself utterly to…
1929 · PDF PAGE 31
…a Buddhist Missionary, on the ground that one of the chief doctrines of Buddhism is that change is a principle inherent in all component things! And unless you knew beforehand what Cyril was thinking, his words gave you no clue. You could never tell whether he were serious or joking. He had [47] fashioned his irony on the model of that hard, cold, cruel, smooth glittering black ice that one finds only in deep gullies of the loftiest mountains; it was said in the clubs that he had found seventy-seven distinct ways of calling a man, to his face, …
1930 · PDF PAGE 83
en peop.e begin to argue about things instead of doing them they become absolutely impossible. Their minds begin to work about it and about, and they corne out by the same door as in they went. ey remain brutish, voluble, and uncomprehending. . lheLtechmque of Magick is just as important as that of mysti- asm, but here we hâve a very much more difficult problem, because the original unit of Magick, the Body of Light, is alreadv something unfamiliar to the ordinary person. Nevertheless, this body must be developed and trained with exactly the sa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 128
…soul of one's enemy, may be caught similarly, though of course the net must be adapted to the special game that one is after. With these things Arthwait was familiar, and it occurred to him that it should be easy to identify string, or, preferably, cat-gut, with the viscera of his victims. There could then be no difficulty in knotting up the cords in such a pattern, for example, as the Many Stars, or the Owl, or the Zigzag Lightning; and assuredly the magicians thus assailed would find similar re- arrangements of the contents of their peritonea…
1929 · PDF PAGE 100
…personality might possibly drive away the very "butterfly" which they wished to collect. In fact, his human individuality was one of the things that had to be banished from her neighbourhood. She must know nothing of him but the purely magical side, when, clothed in robes suitable to the invocations of Luna and with word and gesture concentrated wholly upon the work, he sank Cyril Grey utterly in the Priest of Artemis — "thy shrine, thine oracle, thine heat of pale-mouthed prophet dreaming." [144]
1904 · PDF PAGE 37
… steal Treasures out King’s Houses, and to carry it whither he is commanded, and to destroy Cities and Dignities of Men, and to tell all things, Past, and what Is, and what Will Be; and to cause Love between Friends and Foes. He was of the Order of Thrones. He governeth 30 Legions of Spirits; and his Seal is this, which wear thou as aforesaid. (41.) Focator.—The Forty-first Spirit is Focalor, or Forcalor, or Fur- calor. He isa Mighty Duke and Strong. He appeareth in the Form of a Man with Gryphon’s Wings. His office is to slay Men, and to drown…
1930 · PDF PAGE 55
… téléphoné. No man knows what electricity is, or the nature of the forces which détermine its action. We know only that by doing certain things we get certain results, and that the least error I. The main différence between a Science and an Art is that the former admits mensuration. Its processes must be susceptible of the applica¬ tion of quantitative standards. Its laws reject impondérable variables. Science despises Art for its refusai to conform with calculable conditions. But even to-day, in the boasted Age of Science, man is still dépende…
1935 · PDF PAGE 7
… propriety permits. Here it is only said this : The Ipsissimus is wholly free from all limitations soever, existing in the nature of all things without discriminations of quantity or quality between them. He has identified Being and not-Being and Becoming, action and non-action and tendency to action, with all other such triplicities, not distinguishing between them in respect of any conditions, or between any one thing and any other thing as to whether it is with or without conditions. He is sworn to accept this Grade in the presence of a witn…
1996 · PDF PAGE 74
…t chills. But the language of the body is never exhausted; one may talk for an hour by means of an eyelash. There are intimate, delicate things, shadows of the leaves of the Tree of the Soul that dance in the breeze of Love, so subtle that neither Keats nor Heine in words, neither Brahms nor Debussy in music, could give them body. It is the agony of every artist, the greater he the more fierce his despair, that he cannot compass expression. And what they cannot do, not once in a life of ardour, is done in all fulness by the body of any that, lo…
1905 · PDF PAGE 59
…re the blood has dried, The blood whose purple tide doth flow From out the smitten side. The fragrance of his skin begets Desire of holy things ; Through the dim air a spirit frets His closcly woven wings; Like love, upon my brow he sets The crowns of many kings. (The trembling demons of the sea Before the poet bend ; Ife greets the angels quietly as one who greets a friend ; Ile waiteth, passionless, to be A witness of the end.) I chant in low sweet verses still A mystic song of dread, As one imposing all his will Upon the expectant dead ; And…
1996 · PDF PAGE 8
…e. Another thing that Crowley has never realised is that readers are not, as a general rule, men and women of leisure and that they want things made reasonably quick and easy for them. He never troubles to condense for their benefit, he never does anything to save them time. In fact, he has never troubled to cultivate a single one of the practical, cunning tricks of the literary trade, and he never had any flair whatever for “what puts a reader off.” His innocence in this respect is one of the most singular of his many singularities.1 2 1 Wilki…
1904 · PDF PAGE 32
… Earl, anda Mighty Prince, and appeareth in the form of an Angel with a Lion’s Head, and a Goose's Foot, and Hare’s Tail. He knoweth all things Past, Present, and to Come. He maketh men witty and bold. He governeth 36 Legions of Spirits. His Seal is this, which thou shalt wear, etc. (23.) Aimw—The Twenty-third Spirit is Aim. He is a Great Strong Duke. He appeareth in the form of a very handsome Man in body, but with three Heads; the first, like a Serpent, the second like a Man having two Stars on his Forehead, the third like a Calf. He rideth o…
1904 · PDF PAGE 33
things Past, and to Come. If desired he causeth the love both of Friends and of Foes. Hecan makea Man to go Invisible. And he hath under his command 36 Legions of Spirits. His Seal is this, to be, etc. (26.) Bune, or Brut.—The Twenty-sixth Spirit is Buné (or Bim), He is a Strong, Great and Mighty Duke. He appeareth in the form of a Dragon with three heads, one like a Dog, one like a Gryphon, and one like a Man. He speaketh with a high and comely Voice. Hechangeth the Place of the Dead, and causeth the Spirits which be under him to gather togeth…
1905 · PDF PAGE 11
…the wings My soul must shake, ere her pure fabric springs Clothed in the secret dream-delights of Art Transcendant into air, the tomb of Things ; Let every kiss Melt on my lips to flame, fling back the gates of Dis 13 XXII, Give me a master! not some learned priest Who by long toil and anguish has devised A train of mysteries, but some despised Young king of men, whose spirit is released From all the weariness, whose lips are prized By men not much— Ah! let them only once grow warm, my lips to touch. XXIII. Ah! under his protection, in his love…
1912 · PDF PAGE 6
…y issueth the questing. xxxiv. Being retired into an hermitage in Fenland, he traverseth space upon the back of an eagle. He knoweth all things—save only It. And incontinent beseecheth the eagle to set him down again. xxxv. He lectureth upon metaphysics—for he is now totally insane—to many learned monks of Cantabrig. They applaud him and detain him, though he hath heard the questing and would away. But so feeble is he that he fleeth by night. xxxvi, It hath often happened to Sir Palamede that he is haunted by a shadow, the which he may not reco…
1939 · PDF PAGE 39
… in the letter.) This is also a reference to the elements, fire, water, air, earth. I may go further, and say that all possible existing things are to be classed as related to one or more of these elements for convenience in certain operations. But these four letters, though in one sense they represent the eternal framework, are not, so to speak, original. For instance, when we place Tetragrammaton on the Tree of Life, the Ten Sephiroth or numbers, we do not include the first Sephira. Yod is referred to the second, He to the third, Vau to the g…
1905 · PDF PAGE 51
…and waves his old majestic locks About his head. There fell upon my ear : unless it be the breeze that ‘*Q soul contemplative of distant things, Who hast a poet’s heart, even if thy pen Be dry and barren, who dost hold Love dear, Speed forth this message on the fiery wings Of stinging song to all the race of men: That they have hope ; for we are happy here.” 1 The ‘‘ Voice” is that of Lord Tennyson, whose rooms were in this court.
1907 · PDF PAGE 37
…ght they had to build it by, and the cloak was the abyss of darkness that covers it all up. That is why dream-people never see beautiful things like I’m tell ing you about. All their houses are built of common red bricks, and C l
1907 · PDF PAGE 38
…rel. When any one gets a million counters, he is so glad you can’t think, and goes away and tries to change some of the counters for the things he really wants, and he can’t, so you nearly die of laughing, though of course it would be dreadfully sad if it were wake-life. But I was telling you about the ways to the Fourth House, and the third way is all full of lions, and a person might be afraid; only whenever one comes to bite at you, there is a lovely lady who puts her hands in its mouth and shuts it. So we went through quite safely, and I th…