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… enormous secret I have learned : When self-denial's furnace - flame has burned Through love , and all the agonizing bonds That hold the soul within its shell are turned To water weak ; Then may desires obtain the cypress crown they seek . It is only when we lose the cherished present , that it looms up through the mist of time as a glorious past ; and it is only when we have lost the body of corruption , that its soul rises sublime purifying all ; our personality purified by death the great Time Soul lies cradled in our own as the four lips of…
1907 · PDF PAGE 326
…resis , and describes it as " the joy of being uplifted to a super -intellectual love." St. Theresa , that in the ecstatic state : “ the soul no longer knows what it is doing . . . whether it speaks or is silent : it is a blissful extravagance . . I have often been carried away by it . . . there is such per fection of joy that soul and body cannot express it ... if they could the perfect union of all the powers would be at an end ." So Crowley finely describes : . Death from the universal force Means to the forceless universe Birth . I accept t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 112
THE VIRGIN 105 A draught of ichor of the veins of Hell ! Curses leap leprous , epicene , unclean , The soul of the obscene Incarnate in the spirit : and above Hangs Sin , vast vampire , the corrupt , that swings Her unredeeming wings Over the world , and flaps , for lust of Death - and Love ! 1 " Kill me,” cries Tannhäuser . “ In the kiss , ” answers Venus : thus ends Act II . Act III opens a different scene . The outer materi ality of body is all but sated , the starved soul within cries for sustenance ; he murmurs “ Elizabeth ,” and then wake…
1907 · PDF PAGE 183
176 THE STAR IN THE WEST one of his most interesting and attractive , and this is how I interpret it . A soul standing in the lupanar of life , aspiring to grasp the mystic riddle from the chilly lips of the eternal sphinx, salutes us , as we open this frail little volume . Our bodies are not burst asunder as was that of Judas , but our souls are reft and rent , and in the end know not God from Satan , or which of these twain have won . “ All the dream is wrought a spider tapestry ” yet the soul stands on the blood - red field of Aceldama : II.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 312
…sh , the latter of which is most powerful in producing a state of pseudo -Samadhi . To make me as one dead : To loose the girders of the soul , and gain Breathing and life for the Intelligible ; Find death , yet find it living.'1 In the midst of my complicated hallucination , I could perceive I had a dual existence . One portion of me was whirled unresistingly along the track of this tremendous experience , and the other sat looking down from a height upon its double , observing reassuring , and serenely weigh ing all the phenomena .? 3 Probabl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 25
…ays down that the value of a poem lies in the ratio of its elevating excitement , the excitement being the power it has in elevating the soul . And here we think , were Poe still living , he would have found no small part of his ideal realized . By soul we naturally do not mean a haloed fowl strumming dithy rambs on a harp , or the mere döppelganger of the living ; but that inner power of good and evil which lies latent in self , controlled by that intuitive con sciousness within us , and manifested in our appetites and desires ; this intangibl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 321
…ht , an inner voice , a perfume, a savour , an em brace of a kind which does not leave the inmost of myself . There in the depths of the soul glows something which is not in space, there a word is heard which has no syllables : thence there breathes a perfume which no breezes waft away : there food is always savoured and never eaten : there are embraces which never ask to end . . . Some times , O God , you create a state of soul in me so extra ordinary , and you fill me with so intimate a joy , that , if it lasted , all life would be different …
1907 · PDF PAGE 145
…ead stare to the skies . I came to her , she was not cold , But burning with old infamies . On her incestuous mouth I fell , And lost my soul for Jezebel . They cast her forth on Naboth's field Still living , in her harlot's dress ; Her belly stript , her thighs concealed , For shame's sake and for love's no less . Night falls ; the gaping crowds abide No longer by her stiffening side . “ Ah ! prophet , come to mock at me And gloat on mine exceeding pain ?" Nay but to give my soul to thee , And have thee spit at me again !” She smiled - I know …
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THE NEW WINE 269 >> tortures his very soul ; rather would he be reborn in the lowest depths of Orcus and point out to others the path of salvation , than attain to the uttermost bliss , whilst others are being damned . George Eliot , know ingly or unknowingly , set the true lyre of Buddhism reverberating in her grand and noble prayer , “ The Choir Invisible .” May I reach That purest heaven , be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony , Enkindle generous ardour , feed pure love , Beget the smiles that have no cruelty , Be the swe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 43
…ius or Amati Shriek in my stomach ! Sarasate , Such strains ! Such music as once Sadi Made Persia ring with ! I who fish up No such from soul may yet cry : Vade Retro Satanas ! Tom Bond Bishop !2 We have mentioned “ Why Jesus Wept ” as one of the most irregular of Crowley's poems , yet its irregu larities are regularly irregular throughout , bearing a similar relationship to a true poem like “ Rosa Mundi ” | The Sword of Song , vol . ii, p . 145 . * Ibid . vol . ii, p . 148. Browning's cacophony in “ The Flight of the Duchess " is truly extraor…
1907 · PDF PAGE 81
…e root Might blossom outward to the snowy fruit Whose bloom to - night lay sleeping on her breast .' True love , the love of self in the soul of another , the poet paints very beautifully in the following charming lines : Do you recall ? Could I forget ? How once the full moon shone above , Over the houses , and we let Loose rein upon the steeds of love ? How kisses fled to kisses , rain Of fiery dew upon the soul Kindled , till ecstasy was pain ; Desire , delight : and swift control Leapt from the lightning , as the cloud Disparted , rended , …
1907 · PDF PAGE 289
… principles of Crowleyanity may briefly be summed up as follows : Believe nothing until you find it out for yourself. Say not “ I have a soul,” before you feel that you have a soul . Say not “ There is a God," before you experience that there is a God . You can never understand until you have experi enced . You can never experience until you have got beyond reason . Those five paths lead us to one road , the road of “ Knowledge and Doubt " ; beyond which to the inept there is impenetrable night , and to the adept undying brilliancy . “ Know or …
1907 · PDF PAGE 159
…that gloat on monstrous joys.? Feeding perhaps first on man's body , the priest soon found , after investing his victim with an immortal soul , that the soul would form an excellent basis for blackmail , enabling man to buy off the terrors of hell through the medium of the priest who held the keys of heaven : still death reigns , and God and priests are fed , Man's blood for wine , man's flesh for meat and bread .? And these priests are not dead yet . As the human race throve so did their gods , the old savage of man's early thoughts grew , and…
1907 · PDF PAGE 187
…the kiss of life : XXI . Melt on my lips to flame , fling back the gates of Dis ! This is the true conquest of life , the salvation of a soul wandering through the mazy depths of existence . At length filled with the experience of worldly things seeking the Sublime , he finds it. The kingdom of Dis , the terrors of Death are vanquished , “ and , like this in substantial pageant faded , leave not a rack behind .” Yet how difficult is all this without the guidance of a master hand , the hand which supports but does not hold , directing but never …
1907 · PDF PAGE 104
… and never tire ! Thy queen , quick - breathing for your twin desire !" I shudder , for the mystery of bliss ; I go , heart crying and a soul on fire !? . . Still , I stepped onward . Credit me so far ! The harlot had my soul : my will , the star ! Thus I went onward , as a man goes blind , Into a torrent crowd of mine own kind ; Jostlers and hurried folk , and mad they are , A million actions and a single mind .? As he proceeds along his weary path , he feels a strengthening within him of the higher self , struggling against his desire , again…
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… in the shower That dews like death your swooning loveliness . To know you love me ; that your body leaps With the quick passion of your soul ; to know Your fragrant kisses sting my spirit so ; To be one soul where Satan smiles and sleeps ; Ah ! in the very triumph - hour of Hell Satan himself remembers whence he fell ! ? Again , such lines as these from the “ Triumph of Man " : And all the earth is blasted ; the green sward Burns where it touches , and the barren sod 1 The Tale of Archais , vol . I, p . 11 . ? The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vo…
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THE NEW WINE 263 With infinite pains and dire fatigues To build another stupid soul For fools to call another world ? Where then thy fame, O soul sublime ? Where then thy victory over Time ?? Some few work out its gigantic columns of intricate fractional figures , and close for ever the huge volume before them ; yet the multitude works on , and though individually they may falsify and erase , scribble over , or blot out ; yet never at any moment is the inaccu racy of one single mite discounted in the general balance ; so the bitter tears of one…
1907 · PDF PAGE 83
…count years , and yet we stand and gaze With touching hands and lips immutable As mortals stand a moment ; . . The universe is One ; One Soul , One Spirit , One Flame , One infinite God , One infinite Love . ' Truly the poet has here refined the dross and poured out before us the glittering metal. Yet what a differ ence he makes between the two great world forces : the love of man for a good woman , and the love of man for a bad woman ; the first is supreme , yet the other is far from being infernal . Listen : Yes . A good woman's love will for…
1907 · PDF PAGE 230
…efore , know both the cause and effect , and the relation between them . But do we pretend to be acquainted with the nature of the human soul and the nature of an idea , or the aptitude of one to produce the other ? This is a real creation , a pro duction of something out of nothing ... such a power is not felt, nor known , nor even conceivable by the mind We are now fairly on our road to Crowleyanity . Having left Berkeley in the dark , feeling on the dusty shelves of his reason for a flint and steel in the spirituality of God , whereby he may…
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…. St. Augustine symbolizes it under a divine act of copulation .' What is it, then , that I love when I love my God ? What is he whom my soul feels above itself ? I have tried to grasp it in my own intelligence , above all images of things , but at the moment when I reach that seat of being I cannot fix my gaze , and I fall back helpless into the common thoughts . I have carried away nothing from this vision but a memory full of love , and as it were a regretful longing for things whose perfume is felt but which are out of reach . What is it, t…