PREFACE
7
Why Jesus Wept .
Oracles .
Orpheus .
Rosa Mundi .
Gargoyles .
Collected Works , vols . i , ii , and
iii
.
By which
,
if
they have
eyes
to
perceive
,
they
will
become
sacramental
and
holy
,
through
the
fire
-
bap
tism
of
a
new
birth
,
and
will
hold
the
key
of
all
mysteries
locked
in
the esoteric
sign
of
the Sabbatic
Goat
,
the Baphomet
of
Mendes
,
the signatures
of
Solve
and Coagula
,
-“
The Everlasting
Yea and Nay
."
A.M.E.N.
My faults
are more
numerous than
I
care
to
think
of
;
yet
it
is
without fear
or
trepidation that
I
offer this
essay
to
the public
.
It
has
been
a
difficult task
.
In
simple words and complex symbols Crowley has written
with
St.
Leo
:—
“
Know
,
O
man
,
thy dignity
;
”
and
this
I
have
in
this essay
attempted
to
explain
,
though
many
I
am afraid will
misunderstand me
,
and
more
still misinterpret my modest
efforts
.
For these latter
ones
I
can but exclaim
:
“
Caeterum scis quid ego cogitem
,
scortum scorteum
;
Di
tibi dent
,
nudosque
lares
inopemque
senectam
et
longas hyemes
perpetuamque
sitim
."
And for those
former
,
bid them
contemplate
well
the words
of
St. Augustine
:
“
Such
as
the love
of
man
is,
such
is
he himself
.
Dost
thou love the earth
?
Thou art earth
.
Dost thou love
God
?
What shall
I
say
?
Thou art God
.”
J.
F.
C.
F.