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Page 97 of 1051944 · PDF PAGE 24
ity of iron is a watery quality.1 The word “element” does not mean a chemical element; it means a set of ideas; it summarises certain qualities or properties. It seems hardly possible to define these terms in such a way as to make their meaning clear to the student. He must discover for himself by constant practice what they mean to him. It does not even follow that he will arrive at the same ideas. This will not mean that one mind is right and the other wrong, because each one of us has his own universe all to himself, and it is not the same a…
1944 · PDF PAGE 180
…d tenuous sense; this suggests such forms thereof as the electric current; one might almost say pure light in the material sense of that word. The Eight of Cups is called Indolence. This card is the very apex of unpleasantness. It is ruled by the planet Saturn; time, sorrow, have descended upon pleasure, and there is no strength in the element of water which can react against it. This card is not exactly “the morn‐ ing after the night before”; but it is very nearly that. The difference is that the “night before” has not happened! This card repr…
1904 · PDF PAGE 82
…the voice of Ages unheard of save in the concentrated unity of the thought-formulated Abstract; and eternally that voice form u- lates a word which is gly phed in the vast ocean of lim itless life.2 Do I make myself clear ?’ ‘Perfectly . Who would have thought it was all so simple ? ’ The God cleared his throat, and rather diffidently, even shamefacedly, went on : “ ‘But what I really wished to know was about my incarnation. How is it I have so suddenly risen from change and death to the unchangeable ?’ “ ‘Child !’ answered Gautama, ‘your facts…
1929 · PDF PAGE 233
…t the number; I accepted it for purely moral reasons and on purely rationalistic grounds. I wanted to be a man in the sense in which the word is used by Swinburne in his Hymn of Man. Having to choose a Persian name, I made it Chioa Khan (pronounced Hiwa Khan) being the Hebrew for The Beast. (Khan is one of the numerous honorifics common in Asia.) I had no conscious magical intention in doing so. (Let me here mention that I usually called my wife Ouarda, one of the many Arabic words from Rose.) As to my study of Islam, I got a sheikh to teach me…
1906 · PDF PAGE 248
… entirely directed to attain this end, and forms a magnificent gymnasium for those who are not already finished mental athletes. By act, word, and thought, both in quantity and quality, the one object of the ceremony is being constantly indicated. Every fumiga- tion, purification, banishing, invocation, evocation, is chiefly a reminder of the single purpose, until the supreme moment arrives, and every fibre of the body, every force- channel of the mind, is strained out in one overwhelming rush of the Will in the direc- tion desired. Such is the…
1906 · PDF PAGE 235
… which was rather clever for a formless abstraction, and began. There was a grave difficulty in his mind—an obstacle right away from the word ‘Jump!’ Of course there was really a yood deal: he didn’t know where the four clements ceased, for example :* but his own identity was the real worry. The other questions he could have stilled; but this was too near his pet Chakra.4 ‘Here I am,’ he meditated, ‘above all change; and yet an hour ago I was Indra; and before that his flute-girl; and then a Nat; and then a parrot; and then a Hathi—‘‘ Oh, the H…
1929 · PDF PAGE 585
…ultiplicity of urgent work. I need the co-operation of a whole cohort of specialists and my helplessness lies heavy on my heart, yet the word which I uttered at my first initiation, "Perdurabo", still echoes in eternity. What may befall I know not, and I have almost ceased to care. It is enough that I should press towards the mark of my high calling, secure in the magical virtue of my oath, "I shall endure unto the End." -oOo- WEH note: Crowley's writing ends here, but the following later writing by Jane Wolfe is of interest in that it relates …
1906 · PDF PAGE 279
… we? jst. Were, that we may determine this most vital point ; how so to act that we may obtain the most from life; or, if existence, the word of which intuitions are the letters, be, as the Buddhists pretend, misery, how to obtain the least from it. Svept. Let us not speak ill of a noble S
1907 · PDF PAGE 226
…ent with giving Christian apologists the lie direct, but proceed to convict them of the very materialism against which they froth. In a_ word, 1 ‘ Gather ye roses!’ is the masterpiece of a Christian clergyman.—.4. ©. 2 A peculiarly gross «ase of psychonathic crime which occurred in 1906. to-day Christianity is the irreligion of the materialist, or if you like, the sensualist; while in Paganism, we may find the expression of that ever-haunting love— nay, necessity !—of the Beyond which tor- tures and beautifies those of us who are poets. wavTa K…
1906 · PDF PAGE 256
…ply. Ilowever this may be, the simple fact of the superior apparent reality—a conviction unshakable, zs‘pzzsable (for the English has no word), is a sufficient test. And if we condescend to argue, it is for pleasure, and aside from the vital fact; a skirmish, and not a pitched battle. The ‘‘dream ” I have thus described is the state called Dhyana by the Hindus and Buddhists. The method of attaining it is sane, healthy, and scientific. I would not take the pains to describe that method, had not illiterate, and too often mystical advo- cates of t…
1944 · PDF PAGE 49
…tity that it is actually embedded in the lan‐ guage. “Silly” means empty‐the Vacuum of Air‐Zero‐”the silly buckets on the deck”. And the word is from the German selig, holy, blessed. It is the innocence of the Fool which most strongly characterizes him. It will be seen later how important is this feature of the story. To ensure the succession, it was therefore devised: firstly, that the blood royal should really be the royal blood, and secondly, that this strain should be fortified by the introduction of the conquering stranger, instead of bein…
1929 · PDF PAGE 542
…. It was always a mere means of bringing The Book of the Law to mankind. No man yet lived whose personal adventures were worth wasting a word on. I feel a sort of shame at intruding myself in this way on the public. And yet this book will not be altogether an impudent inanity if it shows how every adventure may serve to bring about some achievement of eternal importance. {855} 88 The last lap! I sweep into the straight. The last jump has been cleared. Nothing now between me and the winning post. I made a rapid summary of my situation. The bronc…
1929 · PDF PAGE 329
329 During these two years my domestic tragedy was becoming constantly more acute. Rose told me that she was keeping her word, but it had become impossible to do any work where she was. She was in a state of continual irritation. I was obliged to take rooms in Jermyn Street in order to have a moment to myself. In the autumn of 1907 on returning from Tangiers, I {534} found that she had obtained one hundred and fifty bottles of whisky from one grocer alone in five months. Confronted with the fact, she broke down and agreed to take a cure for two…
1929 · PDF PAGE 141
…e's idea of a horse, for example, should be composed of a set of ideas, none of which have any apparent relation with it, exactly as the word horse itself is composed of the letters h-o-r-s-e, none of which, by itself, suggests a horse, or part of one, in any way? Similarly, a lump of sugar is not merely a mass of homogeneous crystals, but each crystal is composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, elements which in themselves possess none of the characteristic qualities of sugar. One perceives that mental and physical phenomena share this irratio…
1944 · PDF PAGE 181
…efence, to be effective, must be mobile. The Nine of Cups is called Happiness. This is a peculiarly good card, because happiness, as the word implies, is so much a matter of luck: the card is ruled by Jupiter, and Jupiter is For‐ tune. In all these watery cards, there is a certain element of illusion; they begin by Love, and love is the greatest and most deadly of the illusions. The sign of Pisces is the refinement, the fading away of this instinct, which, begun with dreadful hunger and carried on with passion, has now become “a dream within a …
1944 · PDF PAGE 38
… they have also attributions to certain of the Paths. Some etymologists of a singularly idle disposition have tried to derive the French word “atout” from the ATU meaning House. It may seem simpler to suggest that “atout” is short for “bon atout”, meaning “good for anything”, because a Trump will take any card of any suit. The Atu of Tahuti, who is the Lord of Wisdom, are also called Keys. They are guides to conduct. They give you the map of the Kingdom of Heaven, and also the best way to take it by force. A complete understanding of any magica…
1944 · PDF PAGE 267
…represented as the doctrine of original sin, of the Fall, of the Atonement; part of this doctrine is given in the legends about the Lost Word, the Widow and the Widow’s son, the fallen, lonely, and lamenting daughter‐and so on. These doctrines were all based upon the ignorance of the age, which supposed that the sun was de‐ stroyed every evening, and had to be raised again every morning by priestly machinations. The “formula of the dying god”, as this is usually called, does actually exist, but it repre‐ sents a stage in human development which…
1911 · PDF PAGE 307
…y Guide” “He is a lofty idealist. He sings like a lark at the gates of heaven. ‘Konx Om Pax’ is the apotheosis of extravagance, the last word in eccentricity. A prettily-told fairy-story ‘for babes and sucklings’ has ‘explanatory notes in Hebrew and Latin for the wise and prudent ’—which notes, as far as we can see, explain nothing—together with a weird preface in scraps of twelve or fifteen languages. The best poetry in the book is contained in the last section—‘The Stone of the Philosophers,’ Here is some fine work,” k
1911 · PDF PAGE 307
…y Guide” “He is a lofty idealist. He sings like a lark at the gates of heaven. ‘Konx Om Pax’ is the apotheosis of extravagance, the last word in eccentricity. A prettily-told fairy-story ‘for babes and sucklings’ has ‘explanatory notes in Hebrew and Latin for the wise and prudent ’—which notes, as far as we can see, explain nothing—together with a weird preface in scraps of twelve or fifteen languages. The best poetry in the book is contained in the last section—‘The Stone of the Philosophers,’ Here is some fine work,” k
1912 · PDF PAGE 430
…rary Guide “He is a lofty idealist. He sings like a lark at the gates of heaven. Konx Om Pax is the apotheosis of extravagance, the last word in eccentricity. A prettily-told fairy-story ‘for babes and sucklings’ has ‘explanatory notes in Hebrew and Latin for the wise and prudent’—which notes, as far as we can see, explain nothing—together with a weird preface in scraps of twelve or fifteen languages. The best poetry in the book is contained in the last section—‘ The Stone of the Philosophers,’ Here is some fine work.” —.|