Thelema ScholarTHE ALEISTER CROWLEY COLLECTION
FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION

Search the corpus.

Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.

3 matching pages

Page 1 of 1
1938 · PDF PAGE 13

The Heart of the Master

The Music swiftly sinks to a low brooding rapture, solemn and slow: 3. That which thou createst is thine Understanding of thy Love. Then comes a sudden shaking and confusion, as if the harmony were broken up into innumerable fragments; clashing together, nor is there any speech articulate; until a fearful blast peals forth, a trumpeting of Majesty. But within the blare of the tempest sounds a Voice steady and stern, yet full of peace and kindliness: 4. The Necessity of the Universe is the Measure of thy Righteousness. Now follows martial music,…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1938 · PDF PAGE 12

The Heart of the Master

…far attuned to the Heart of the Master that what was pure Rapture in that sublime moment of union is translated into what seems a solemn music—borne very far through the still air—a Voice declaring the Secret of the Sanctuary to every ear in just such measure as that ear is able to receive it. The Ten Secret Joys of the Master. At first the music is as if muffled, a murmur of the wind behind impenetrable veils. 000. Nothing only exists, and is all things. After a pause of deeply-rooted Silence: 00. There is no limit. Silence again, as if the ve…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1938 · PDF PAGE 19

The Heart of the Master

…. Now comes the sound as of the fall of snow-flakes and rose- petals: it is the twinkling of the feet of a young maiden dancing. And the music is the whisper of the Wind among the pines upon the Hill; and that is the breath of the Pan-pipe in the mouth of the Master. And, all in one, it is the Universe in manifestation. Also: I hear the Seven-fold Song thereof. Carmen. By Wisdom forms He matter and space and time, Experience to sublime. By Virtue spends He His own life through all; Mercy majestical. By Energy revolves He all in stress Of Change…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →