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…t breathe like maidens-sleeping, for their breast Is silver with the sand that lies below,) Where our storm-strengthened dragon rests at last, 1 Referring to the story of the accidental discovery of the mine of Potosi by a man who, plucking a plant, found its roots shining with silver. 2 "Yhe Spiritual Journey towards the Supreme IWnowledge which is life and bliss. And by whose borders we have made a home, More like a squirrel’s bower than a house. For in this blue Sicilian summertime The trees arch tenderly for lovers’ sleep, And all the inter…
1929 · PDF PAGE 234
…gether with the text of The Book of the Law. Most of the past nine years of my life have been preoccupied, each year more fully than the last, with the problem of proving to humanity in general the propositions involved. To make the elements of my thesis as clear and distinct as possible, I shall endeavour to insulate them in sections. Ouarda and I left Helwan for Cairo. (Date unascertained, probably on March 11th or 13th.) We had taken an apartment (Address unascertained) on Wednesday, March 16th. One day, having nothing special to do, I made …
1906 · PDF PAGE 25
…s toward us like the rays that slake The wave-wrought moon within the trembling lake, Where she would dip her careless beauty down ; The last crowns unto which a gambler’s fingers cling ; A libertine caress from hungry Adeline ; The sound of music, lulling, silver, clean, Like the far cry of human suffering : All these, deep bottle! are of little worth Beside the piercing balm thy fertile girth Holds in the reverent poet’s lifted soul ; To him thou givest youth, and hope, and life, And pride, this treasure of all beggar’s strife That gives us t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 97
…like the breast of some alluring flood Whereon a man might sleep for ever, until Death should surprise him, kiss his weary will Into the last repose, profounder power Than life could compass. Now I tax my skill To find another holier name, some flower Still red, but red with the ecstasy of blood. Dear love, dear wife, dear mother of the child Whose fair faint features are a match for mine, Lurks there no secret where your body smiled, No serpent in the generous draught of wine? Did I guess all, who guessed your life well given Up to my kiss? Ah…
1939 · PDF PAGE 50
…nightmare creation, so that we can compare the different objects of our experience in all sorts of different manners. Incidentally, this last operation of multiplying the objects stands evidently invalid, because (after all) what we began with was absolutely Nothingness. Out of this we have somehow managed to obtain, not merely one, but many; but, for all that, our process has followed the necessary operation of our intellectual machine. Since that machine is the only machine that we possess, our arguments must be valid in some sense or other c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 107
…een used by the ancient Magicians of Persia with this very intention. That was one of the facts which led me to the discovery that in my last incarnation is was Eliphas Lévi. The Mother's Tragedy seems to have been influenced by Ibsen, with a touch of Bulwer Lytton. In The Temple of the Holy Ghost, however, the reader may trace the progress of my soul's development. A few of the poems in this book are comparatively normal. One can see the extent of my debt to various predecessors, especially Baudelaire. But while there is a certain delight in d…
1906 · PDF PAGE 50
…se self we guess not. Thus the wise most mystically interpret Into wisdom the worst folly spoken By the mortal of a god deluded. So, the last wise word rejected, Pentheus Cries, ‘‘ dy’ ws rdxuora, To0 xpbvov dé co. POovar’” —“ Why waste we time in talking ? Let us now away unto the mountains !” So the wise, enlightened by compassion, Seeks that bliss for all the world of sorrow, Swears the bitter oath of Vajrapani: ‘‘ Ere the cycle rush to utter darkness Work I so that every living being Pass beyond this constant chain of causes. If I fail, may…
1929 · PDF PAGE 489
…'s business and nobody else's. It would be a crime, a blunder and stark treason to the constitution for America to take a hand. Since my last visit San Francisco had been rebuilt. The old charm had vanished completely. It had become a regular fellow. The earthquake had swallowed up romance, and the fire burnt up the soul of the city to ashes. The phoenix had perished and from the cinders had arisen a turkey buzzard. I hurried south, stopping off at Santa Cruz, to see the famous big trees. I snatched a meal in the town and walked out in the gloa…
1905 · PDF PAGE 19
…at golden skin of hers, And writhing with pure shame, the long grass whirrs With her sharp flight of fury and despair. Vhen Charicles at last became aware Of the fell death that had him by the throat To mar his music ; like one blind he sinote The quivering air with cries of sorrow ; then, Jisdaining fear and sorrow, cried to men And gods to help him ; then, resolved to dare All wrath and justice, he rose up to swear (Lifting his right hand to the sky, that glowed Deadly vermilion, like the poisonous toad That darts an angry red from out its ey…
1907 · PDF PAGE 241
… pp. 24, consisting of Title-page and wrapper in one as above, on reverse, Number of Copy agd Errata; Text, pp. 1-24; Imprint at foot of last page, ‘‘ Clarke & Bishop, Printers, Etc., 338, Rue St. Honoré, Paris.” No head- lines. Edition: 200 copies on China paper numbered. Issued in wrapper and title in one on machine-made paper 10§ x 8,°s.. Price 5 francs. [SUMMA SPES: undated] Summa | Spes | Aleister | Crowley. Collation :—Single poem on Japanese vellum 9x7}, printed in red with a green orna- mental border. Photograph by Haweis and Coles in f…
1906 · PDF PAGE 225
…n both at once: after two hundred and sixty, the sun drove away the rain, and the Star shone in the day-time, making it night. After the last day came his Mother, his Redeemer, and Himself; and joining together they were even as I am who write unto you. Seventeen they were, the three Fathers: with the three Mothers they were thirty-two, and sixfold therein, being as countenance and countenance. Yet, being seventeen, they were but one, and that one none, as before hath been showed. And this enumera- tion isa great Mysterium of our art. Whence a …
1906 · PDF PAGE 48
… as tender As very silence: so he would not speak, But let his being fade: that all the past Grew shadowy and weak, And lost its life at last, Being mere dream to this that was indeed Life : and some utter need Of this one’s love grew up in him: he knew The spirit of that dew In his own soul; and this indeed was love. The faint girl bent above With fixed eyes close upon him ; oh! her face Burned in the rapturous grace Feeding on his; and subtly, without touch, Grew as a flower that opens at the dawn Their kiss: for touch of lips is death to lov…
1905 · PDF PAGE 25
… maiden ’ware, Although her mortal eyes might see her not ; So she knelt down upon that holy spot And greeted her with tears; for now at last The fountains of her sorrow, vague and vast, Burst from the strong inexorable chain Of too great passion, and a mortal pain Beyond belief, and so in sudden waves Tears welled impatient from their crystal caves. (Men say those barren pinnacles are set Since then with jewels ; the white violet Was born of those pure tears; the snowdrop grew Where wakening hope her agonyshot through, And where the Queen of L…
1939 · PDF PAGE 25
…ruth is falsehood. In one sense Mercury is the great enemy; Mercury is mind, and it is the mind that we have set out to conquer. 14. The last of the seven sacred planets is the Moon. The Moon represents the totality of the female part of us, the passive principle which is yet very different to that of Venus, for the Moon corresponds to the Sun much as Venus does to Mars. She is more purely passive than Venus, and although Venus is so universal the Moon is also universal in another sense. The Moon is the highest and the lowest; the Moon is the a…
1944 · PDF PAGE 226
…Chapter LVIII, where is given not only a remarkable description of the social conditions of the twentieth century e.v., but even, in the last line of the Prophetic Riddle, a clear indication of the Magical Motto of the Adept chosen by the Masters to announce this Formula‐this Word, openly given in the name of the Abbey itself. But, as so often is the case, it was too simple and straightforward to be seen! in the Latin Language between the pronouns “meum” and “tuum”. Saith not the Bard? “Steal not this Book for fear of shame! The Ace of Disks‐th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 94
…n That these my brothers ordered me. I look upon their brows—I see Signs many and deep of torture past 3 A star, yon Star, true peace at last. (There approacheth an aged man, riding upon an ass, with a led ass, and a Nubian servant.) The Adept. In the name of God, the One, the Great, Merciful and compassionate, Acclaim the perfect period Of ordeal past! The Neophjte. There is no God! a. Kise! in the name of obscure Fate, Ruthless and uncompassionate. NV. Of endless life, of toil and woe I am the burned and branded foe. I came this torture to en…
1905 · PDF PAGE 37
… has the day drawn out; a bitter frost Sparkles along the streets; the shipping heaves With the slow murmur of the sea, half lost In the last rustle of forgotten leaves. Over the bridges pass the throngs; the sound, Deep and insistent, penetrates the mist— [I hear it not, I contemplate the wound Stabbed in the flanks of my dear silver Christ. He hangs in anguish there; the crown of thorns Pierces that palest brow; the nails drip blood ; There is the wound; no Mary by Him mourns, There is no John beside the cruel wood ; I am alone to kiss the si…
1905 · PDF PAGE 126
…n; Lakeland fades from the sight. Only the sad slow Cam like a sire with age grown heavy Wearily moves to the sea, to quicken to life at last. And tne vesper Blithelier I depart, to a sea of sunnier kind- Ness $ Hours of waiting are past ; I re-quicken to love. ASTRAY IN HER PATHS.! COPENHAGEN, January, '97. I FEEL thee shudder, clinging to my arm, Before the battlements of the salt sea, Black billows tipped with phosphorescent light, Towering from where we stand to yonder shore That is no earthly shore, but guards the coast Of that which is fr…
1944 · PDF PAGE 42
…ntaining seventy‐two letters. By writing down the first of these, and underneath this the next verse backwards, and under this again the last verse forwards, seventy‐two columns of three letters each are obtained. These are read downwards, and the terminations AL or AH according as they are male or fe‐ male, appended. There is also an attribution of these Intelligences, one to each of the quinar‐ ies or segments of five degrees of the Zodiac; but there are also innumerable other angels, demons, magical images, lords of triplicities, lesser assi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 184
…ght of the passionate dawn That kissed us, and would not awaken, Grew golden and bold on the lawn ; The rays of the sun are withdrawn At last, and the blossoms are shaken. Oh, fragrant the breeze is that stirs The grasses around us that lean ! Oh, sweet is the whisper that purrs From those wonderful lips that are hers, From the passionate lips of a queen. A queen is my lover, I say, With a crown of the lilies of light— For a maiden they crowned her in May, For the Queen of the Daughters of Day That are flowers of the forest of Night. They crown…