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Page 98 of 1301954 · PDF PAGE 98
…r, every historian has been talking about some more or less conventional idea of Magick, not of the thing itself. But Magick has led the world from before the beginning of history, if only for the reason that Magick has always been the mother of Science. It is, therefore, of extreme importance that some effort should be made to understand something of the subject; and there is, therefore, no apology necessary for essaying this brief outline of its historical aspects. There have always been, at least in nucleus, three main Schools of Philosophic…
1954 · PDF PAGE 206
…v. 26: . .. my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body. V.30: This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. (There is a Qabalistic inner meaning in this text; "the
1929 · PDF PAGE 125
…roposition. We rode merrily up to the sulphur ranch, where intending climbers stay the night. The next morning the fun began. One of the world's records which we had left in tatters was that for pace uphill at great heights. Long before we got to the lowest point of the rim of the crater our sceptical friend found that he couldn't go another yard --- he had to turn back. We assured him that the case was common, but could easily be met by use of the rope. So we tied him securely to the middle; Eckenstein set a fierce pace up hill, while I assist…
1907 · PDF PAGE 180
…ay with him; but on this condition, that she should follow him, and he not to look back upon her, till he came to the light of the upper World; which he (impatient of, out of love and care, and thinking that he was in a manner past all danger) nevertheless violated, insomuch that the Covenant is broken, and she forthwith tumbles back again headlong into Hell."—Zhe Wisdom of the Ancients. ‘* Moody Pluto winks while Orpheus plays." —Rafge of Lucrece. . i ot Vivid and hoary, Take fire, understand The ways of the dark, As an angel did guide me, As …
1913 · PDF PAGE 17
…nt followed, in the course of which the Judge remarked : * This tial is ike the {tialin Alice in Wonderkind, 1 wouldn't spoil it for the world and Iam going to admit anything !") Sconpio, K.C, What did Mr. Crowley'sjournalistic friend say? Marin, “Let the fellow alone! He's been warned oif the turf. and his City Editor'sa jal-bird, and he isn't worth a bob, and if you touch pitch you'll be detiled.” Sconrio, K.C, Was Mr. Fenton in fact warned off the Tart? Maries. Yes. Sconrt0, K.C. You blame Crowley for not taking action ¢ Maruuns. Its very an…
1930 · PDF PAGE 88
…nd the moon is gone, Ail Time crushed back into Eternity, The Universe by earthquake overtaken; Light is not, and the thunders roll, The World is done: When in the darkness Chaos rolls again In the excited brain: Then, O then call not to thy view that visible Image of Nature; fatal is her name! It fitteth not thy Body to behold That living light of Hell, The unluminous, dead flame, Until that body from the crucible Hath passed, pure gold! For, from the confines of material space, The twilight-moving place, The gates of matter, and the dark thre…
1954 · PDF PAGE 3
…ithout Tears o The Law is For All o Roll Away the Stone o Regardie Narrating Crowley (Cassette Tape) o AHA o Gems From The Equinox o The World's Tragedy o The Vision and The Voice o The Best of Crowley o Yoga OTHER BOOKS FROM FALCON PRESS o Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson o The New Inquisition - Robert Anton Wilson o The Modern Jew in Search For His Soul- J. Marvin Spiegelman, et al o Buddhism and Jungian Psychology - J. Marvin Spiegelman & Mokusen Miyuki o Hinduism and Jungian Psychology - J. Marvin Spiegelman & Arwind U. Vasavada o Th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 68
…n very simple cases—likewise succumbs to the blows which are already attacking it, the conclusion must be arrived at that nothing in the world is eternal.” (“The Evolution of Matter,” p. 18.) In other words, all is full of birth, growth, and decay, that is Maya. Form to the Materialist, Name to the Idealist, and Nothing to him who has risen above both. 56
1910 · PDF PAGE 68
…n very simple cases—likewise succumbs to the blows which are already attacking it, the conclusion must be arrived at that nothing in the world is eternal.” (“The Evolution of Matter,” p. 18.) In other words, all is full of birth, growth, and decay, that is Maya. Form to the Materialist, Name to the Idealist, and Nothing to him who has risen above both. 56
1929 · PDF PAGE 363
…orary literature lest it should influence my thought or style. But I saw no harm in making friends with painters and learning to see the world through their eyes. Having already seen it through my own in the course of my wanderings, I was the better able to observe clearly and judge impartially. Perhaps this circumstance itself had biased me. It is at least the case that I have no use for artists who have lost touch with tradition and see nature secondhand. I think I have kept my head pretty square on my shoulders in the turmoil of the recent r…
1904 · PDF PAGE 62
…n unto the day of doom, and never more to be remembered before the face of Gop, who shall come to judge the quick, and the dead, and the world, by fire. TueEn the exorcist must put the box into the fire, and by-and-by the Spirit will come, but as soon as he is come, quench the fire that the box is in, and make a sweet perfume, and give him welcome and a kind entertain- ment, showing unto him the Pentacle that is at the bottom of your vesture covered with a linen cloth, saying: THE ADDRESS UNTO THE SPIRIT UPON HIS COMING. BEHOLD thy confusion if…
1929 · PDF PAGE 143
…owing or banking from our définition. 1. The Hebrew legends furnish us with the reason for the respective virtues of water and lire. The world was purified by water at the Deluge, and will be consecrated by lire at the last Judgment. Not until that is fmished can the real ceremony begin. 2. These may now advantageously be replaced by (a) “pure will unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of resuit, is every way perfect” (CCXX, I, 44) to banish; and (b) “I am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body.” (…
1996 · PDF PAGE 95
96 The Law is for All Were the world understood Ye would know it was good, A dance to a lyrical measure!1 1 [Crowley, paraphrase of his Orpheus, A Lyrical Legend (1905), bk. 4; see Collected Works, vol. Ill, p. 217.] 2 [“The Temple of Solomon the King,” The Equinox 1(7) (1912); this account was republished as Chapter 6 of “Genesis Libri AL” in The Equinox of the Gods (Book 4, Part ZV).] 3 [Apemantus is the gloomy prophet in Timon of Athens.] The nature of events must be “pure joy”; for, obviously, whatever occurs is the fulfilment of the will o…
1996 · PDF PAGE 183
…ny baseness. 59. As brothers fight ye! Commentary: Fight! Fight like gentlemen, without malice, because fighting is the best game in the world, and love the second best! Don’t slander your enemy, as the newspapers would have you do; just kill him, and then bury him with honour. Don’t keep crying “Foul” like a fifth-rate pugilist. Don’t boast! Don’t squeal! If you’re down, get up and hit him again! Fights of that sort make fast friends. There is perhaps a magical second-meaning in this verse, a ref erence to the Ritual of which we find hints in…
1929 · PDF PAGE 95
…n of the Holy Guardian Angel. Once He has appeared, it is then necessary, first, to call forth the Four Great Princes of the Evil of the World; next, their eight sub-princes; and, lastly, the three hundred and sixteen servitors of these. A number of talismans, previously prepared, are thus charged with the power of these spirits. By applying the proper talismans, you can get practically anything you want. It cannot be denied that the majesty and philosophical irreproachability of the book are sensibly diminished by the addition of these things …
1907 · PDF PAGE 99
… age and beauty belong to me , or else these sentiments of mine to you ? ” So long as we mentally castrate ourselves , so long will this world remain a stew-pot of vice ; for it is only when we have realized the ideal of Free Love , and have taken the matrix of prostitution and cut from it the gem which underlies all its gross vulgarity and sensuality , that we shall become initiates in the code of the Essential and ameliorate our lot . To this poem indeed we trust , that God will write a fitting end . If at one end of a sequence we find abuse …
1910 · PDF PAGE 110
…. . . . Verily, verily, men are born and die through Vindu. . . . The Vindu causes the pleasure and pain of all creatures living in this world, who are infatuated and subject to death and decay.} There are two modifications of the Vajroli Mudra; namely, Amarani and Sahajoni. The first teaches how, if at the time of union there takes place a union of the sun and moon, the lunar flux can be re-absorbed by the lingam. And the second how this union may be frustrated by the practice of Yoni Mudra. These practices of Hatha Yoga if zealously maintaine…
1910 · PDF PAGE 110
…. . . . Verily, verily, men are born and die through Vindu. . . . The Vindu causes the pleasure and pain of all creatures living in this world, who are infatuated and subject to death and decay.} There are two modifications of the Vajroli Mudra; namely, Amarani and Sahajoni. The first teaches how, if at the time of union there takes place a union of the sun and moon, the lunar flux can be re-absorbed by the lingam. And the second how this union may be frustrated by the practice of Yoni Mudra. These practices of Hatha Yoga if zealously maintaine…
1922 · PDF PAGE 126
…fresh, murmuring through half-closed lips the magic sentence :— “ Dolce far niente.” The majority of people seem to stumble through this world without any conception of the possibilities of enjoyment. It is, of course, a matter of temperament. But even the few who can appreciate the language of Shelley, Keats and Swinburne, look on those con- ceptions as Utopian. Most people acquiesce in the idea that the giddy exaltation of Prometheus Unbound, for example, is an imaginary feeling. I suppose, in fact, that one wouldn’t get much result by giving…
1954 · PDF PAGE 178
…s your eyes become accustomed to the gloom, to take in your surroundings. It is a bleak and barren landscape. Terrific mountains rim the world . In the midst looms a cluster of blue-black crags. Now there appears from their recesses a gigantic being. His strength, especially in his hands and in his loins, is terrifying. He suggests a combination of lion, mountain goat and serpent; and you instantly jump to the idea that this is one of the rare beings which the Greeks called Chimaera. So formidable is his appearance that you consider it prudent …