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…the Hawk-Headed Lord of Silence & of Strength; my nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky. 71. Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand. Commentary: This seemed a clear statement as to the War which was to come, and did come, in 1914 E.v. Later I thought that “the pillars of the world” meant “the Pillars of Hercules”—about the Straits of Gibraltar—and that the really big war would start there. P.s. I now ask if “twin warriors” imply a civil war? The Spanish troubles started in S. Spain and Morocco.1 1 [I.e.…
1996 · PDF PAGE 62
…t she regards them as no less than the combination of the lock of the strong-room of the future. “This” (doctrine) “shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister”. The misunderstanding of sex, the ignorant fear like a fog, the ignorant lust like a miasma, these things have done more to keep back humanity from realization of itself, and from intelligent cooperation with its destiny, than any other dozen things put together. The vileness and falseness of reli gion itself have been the monsters aborted from the dark womb of its infernal …
1996 · PDF PAGE 122
…to Go—to Love—we are to be awake, alert — Joyous and eager Our tresses adorning, O let us beleaguer The City of Morning!1 1 Crowley, The World’s Tragedy (1910), p. 31, paraphrase; the original poem has “O let us away to / The city of morning!”! The Secret of Magick is to “enflame oneself in praying.” This is the ready test of a Star, that it whirls flaming through the sky. You cannot mistake it for an Old Maid objecting to Everything. This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity.…
1996 · PDF PAGE 202
…ing, They are many; if the ritual be not ever unto me: then expect the direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit! 53. This shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart & my tongue, unto whom I send this kiss. Also, o scribe and prophet, though thou be of the princes, it shall not assuage thee nor absolve thee. But ecstasy be thine and joy of earth: ever To me! To me! 54. Change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold! thou, o prophet, shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden therein. 55. The child of thy bowels, he shal…
1996 · PDF PAGE 129
… Ready- Money Mortiboy, Chapter xxiil: The big-bearded man stood towering over the children, with his right arm waving them out into the world—where? No matter where: somewhere away: somewhere into the good places of the world—not a boy’s heart but was stirred within him: and the brave old English blood rose in them as he spoke, in his deep bass tones, of the worth of a single man in those far-off lands;—an oration destined to bear fruit in after-days, when the lads, who talk yet with bated breath of the speech and the speaker, shall grow to ma…
1996 · PDF PAGE 125
…oken away utterly from the Star that did enlighten them, and they are Vampires, obsessing them that adventure themselves into the Astral World without Magical Protection, or invoke them, as do the Spiritists. For by Death is Man released only from the Gross Body, at the first, and is complete otherwise upon the Astral Plane, as he was in his Life. But this Wholeness suffereth Stress, and its Girders are loosened, the weaker first, and after that the stronger. Zk—DE ADEPTIS R.C. ESCHATOLOGIA [193—An Eschatology of the R.C. Adepts] Consider now i…
1996 · PDF PAGE 74
…act soever may be used to attain any end soever by the magician who knows how to make the necessary links. 53. This shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart 8c my tongue, unto whom I send this kiss. Also, o scribe and prophet, though thou be of the princes, it shall not assuage thee nor absolve thee. But ecstasy be thine and joy of earth: ever To me! To me! Commentary: It is clear that this “kiss” (i.e. this Book) will regenerate Earth by establishing the Law of Liberty, “my heart 8c my tongue” seems a mere phrase of end…
1996 · PDF PAGE 302
… of 174-177 oppression of, by men 42,53,172- 178,180-181 political power of 128 souls of 172.180 wonder, vision of 79 work, value of 162 World War I 188 yoga 46,116 yoni 29 Zeus 30 Zeus Arrhenothelus 30 zodiac 93 double loop in the 78
1996 · PDF PAGE 217
…the Hawk-Headed Lord of Silence & of Strength; my nemyss shrouds the night-blue sky. 71. Hail! ye twin warriors about the pillars of the world! for your time is nigh at hand. 72. I am the Lord of the Double Wand of Power; the wand of the Force of Coph Nia—but my left hand is empty, for I have crushed an Universe; & nought remains. 73. Paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom: then behold! 74. There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. 75. The ending of the words is the Word Abr…
1996 · PDF PAGE 211
…blah for ever. It shall not fade, but miraculous colour shall come back to it day after day. Close it in locked glass for a proof to the world. 11. This shall be your only proof. I forbid argument. Conquer! That is enough. I will make easy to you the abstruction from the ill-ordered house in the Victorious City. Thou shalt thy self convey it with worship, o prophet, though thou likest it not. Thou shalt have danger 8c trouble. Ra-Hoor-Khu is with thee. Worship me with fire 8c blood; worship me with swords 8c with spears. Let the woman be girt …
1996 · PDF PAGE 6
…e under the pen-name Louis Marlow, and like Crowley, was a member of the small English expatriate community in New York during the First World War. Wilkinson was an English man of letters in the best sense; he not only wrote, and wrote well, but lived a literary life 7
1996 · PDF PAGE 155
…blah for ever. It shall not fade, but miraculous colour shall come back to it day after day. Close it in locked glass for a proof to the world. 11. This shall be your only proof. I forbid argument. Conquer! That is enough. I will make easy to you the abstraction from the ill-ordered house in the Victorious City. Thou shalt thyself convey it with worship, o prophet, though thou likest it not. Thou shalt have danger Sc trouble. Ra-Hoor-Khu is with thee. Worship me with fire Sc blood; worship me with swords & with spears. Let the woman be girt wit…
1996 · PDF PAGE 291
…: Weiser, and New York: 93 Publishing, 1990. 31 ----------- . The Vision and the Voice. See (9.e), (9.v) and (16). 32 -------- ----. The World’s Tragedy. Paris: privately printed, 1910; 2nd ed. Phoenix: New Falcon, 1992. General 33 Arnold, Matthew. Literature and Dogma: An Essay Towards a Bet ter Apprehension of the Bible. 2nd ed., London: Macmillan, 1873. 34 Besant, Walter, and Rice, James. Ready-Money Mortiboy: A Matter- of-fact Story. London: Tinsley, 1872.
1996 · PDF PAGE 151
…bow-coloured Spring-tide of the Man in Motley. The nymph of Spring, Syrinx, the trembling hollow reed which needs but Breath to fill the world with Music, attracts Pan, the Goat-God of Ecstatic Lust, by whose Work the glory of Summer is established anew. It is obvious that “The length of thy longing” varies with the number of potentialities to be satisfied. In other words, the more complex the Khu of the Star, the greater the man, and the keener his sense of his own imperfections of the scope of his work, and of his need to achieve it. 75. Aye!…
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…
1996 · PDF PAGE 176
…true to Herself, finds that She can no longer be false to any man. She must hold Herself and Her Will in honour; and She must compel the world to accord it. The modern woman is not going to be dupe, slave, and victim any more; the woman who gives herself up freely to her own enjoyment, without asking recompense, will earn the respect of her brothers, and will openly despise her “chaste” or venal sisters, as men now despise “milksops,” “sissies,” and “tango lizards.” Love is to be divorced utterly and irrevocably from social and financial agreem…
1996 · PDF PAGE 54
…ur own times Oscar Wilde, Sir Charles Dilke, Parnell, Canon Aitken and countless others, many of them engaged in first-rate work for the world, all wasted, because the mob must make believe to be “moral.” This phrase abolishes the Eleventh Commandment, Not to be Found Out, by authorizing Incest, Adultery, and Paederasty, which everyone now practices with humiliating precautions, which perpetuate the schoolboy’s enjoyment of an escapade, and make shame, slyness, cowardice and hypocrisy the conditions of success in life. It is also the fact that …
1996 · PDF PAGE 55
…onger hound him to hell. A blighted career or a ruined constitution will no more be the penalty of a moment’s exuberance. Above all, the world will begin to appreciate the true nature of the sexual process, its physical insignificance as one among many parts of the body, its transcendent importance as the vehicle of the True Will and the first of the sheaths of the Self.
1996 · PDF PAGE 35
…ht, faint & faery, of the stars, and two. 29. For I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union. 30. This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. 31. For these fools of men and their woes care not thou at all! They feel little; what is, is balanced by weak joys; but ye are my chosen ones. Commentary: All this talk about “suffering humanity” is principally drivel based on the error of transferring one’s own psychology to one’s neighbour. The Golden Rule is silly. If Lord Alfr…