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Page 10 of 2251899 · PDF PAGE 178
…ath— Vet their worst shades are tinged with dawning beams! I have dreamed life a circle or a line, Called God, and Fate, and Chance, and Man, divine. I know not all I say, but through it all Mark the dim hint of ultimate sunshine ! Remember me for this! And when I go To sleep the last sleep in the slumberous snow, Let child and man and woman yet recall One little moment that I loved you so! Let some high pinnacle my tombstone be, My epitaph the murmur of the sea, The clouds of heaven be fleeces for my pall, My grave one thought within the heart…
1954 · PDF PAGE 438
…AITH 405 Price's young lady of Brocken fame, who was so timorously careful of her virginity that she never felt it safe unless she had a man in bed with her. What is the other kind of faith? Like its hostile twin, it must have no truck with reason, at least no conscious truck, or it ceases to possess a moral meaning. It is that confidence l in oneself which assures one that the long shot at the tiger will fly true to the mark, that the tricky putt will go down, that the man one never beat before will go down this time; also its horrid contrary,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 169
…IN THE WEST 1 as in the latter . In fact, all were as the ground from which they had sprung and on which they grew . In “ The Triumph of Man , ” a magnificent poem in heroic verse , Crowley unfurls the oriflamme of Reason against the bunting of God , leading us on from the realms of gloating anthropophagi to the " magical brotherhood of kings ." The absolute crown and king dom of desire , the one God sealed in the seas and be tokened in the winds . “ The Spirit of Mankind !” Before the darkness , earlier than being , When yet thought was not , …
1906 · PDF PAGE 94
…nk We once believed him reverend and refined, Saw majesty in all that tottering gait, And honour in the goat-like beard of him ! FIRST WOMAN. A week ago your blue eyes were in tears, Sidelong regarding the old mountebank. SECOND WOMAN. To-day I would not be his concubine For all Iolchus—for all Thessaly ! THIRD WOMAN. I see the same glance seek out Jason now. SECOND WOMAN. Ay, there's a man! What muscles! What fine fire In the quick eye! What vigour and warm strength ! FIRST WOMAN. Yes, in your wishes. But indeed he is A proper man. Away, you a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 25
FRONTISPIECE RODIN ERE is a man! For all the world to see His work stands, shaming Nature. Clutched, combined In the sole still centre of a master-mind, The Egyptian force, the Greek simplicity, The Celtic subtlety. Through suffering free, The calm great courage of new art, refined In nervous majesty, indwells behind The beauty of each radiant harmony. Titan! the little centuries drop back, Back from the contemplation. Stand and span With one great grip his cup, the Zodiac! Distil from all time’s art his wine, the truth! Drink, drink the mighty…
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
… conjurations to employ more than one language. In ail probability the reason of this is that any change spurs the flagging attention. A man engaged in intense mental labour will frequently stop and walk up and down the room — one may suppose for this cause — but it is a sign of weakness that this should be necessary. For the; beginner in Magick, however, it is permissible 2 to employ any device to secure the resuit. Conjurations should be recited, not readj 3 4 and the entire ceremony should be so perfectly performed that one is hardly conscio…
1913 · PDF PAGE 189
177 Ltrtj^dfn. The Vx\\\.y or Male Principle. IJut these have many symbols, e.g., sometimes Yoni is o or 3 and Lingam 2. Lingani- Voni. A form of the Rosy Cross. Macrocosm. The great Universe, of which man is an exact image. Magus. A magician. Technically, also, a Master of grade 9" — 2'\ See Equinox VII, " Liber I," and elsewhere. Mahalingajii. See Lingam. Maha means great. Maha SattipattJiana. A mode of meditation. See "Science and Buddhism,' Crowley, Coll. Works, Vol. II, for a full account. Malka/i. A young girl. The "bride." The unredeemed…
1913 · PDF PAGE 509
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES on the subject while waiting for the work of our friend Desbarrolles. The hand is the instrument of action in man: it is, like the face, a sort of synthesis of the nervous system, and should also have features and physiognomy. The character of the individual is traced there by undeniable signs. Thus, among hands, some are laborious, some are idle, some square and heavy, others insinuating and light. Hard and dry hands are made for strife and toil, soft and damp hands ask only for pleasure. Pointed fingers are inquisitiv…
1913 · PDF PAGE 509
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES on the subject while waiting for the work of our friend Desbarrolles. The hand is the instrument of action in man: it is, like the face, a sort of synthesis of the nervous system, and should also have features and physiognomy. The character of the individual is traced there by undeniable signs. Thus, among hands, some are laborious, some are idle, some square and heavy, others insinuating and light. Hard and dry hands are made for strife and toil, soft and damp hands ask only for pleasure. Pointed fingers are inquisitiv…
1898 · PDF PAGE 6
SCENE I. Shaftesbury Avenue, 8.30 p.m. A gentleman walking witha friend, both in evening dress. A little ragged girl, A youngman. The gentleman stops and gives the lstile girl a halfpenny. The young man smiles. The gentleman notices the smile, and sees how great a sadness underlies it. VAUGHAN. [Durning to the young man.] ND you—what are you doing here? Excuse my rudeness—you seem so sad. PERCY. I am sad to-night. I am very lonely in this place. VAUGHAN. There are plenty of people about. PERCY. People—mere shells, husks of the golden wheat that…
1944 · PDF PAGE 46
PART TWO THE ATU (KEYS or TRUMPS) 0. The Fool. The Formula of Tetragrammaton; The Green Man of the Spring Festival. April Fool; The Holy Ghost; The Great Fool of the Celts (Dalua); The Rich Fisherman; Percivale; The Croco dile (Mako, Son of Set, or Sebek); HoorPaKraat; Zeus Arrheno theleus; Dionysus Zagreus; Bacchus Diphues; Baphomet; Sum mary. I. to XXI. The Juggler; The High Priestess; The Empress; The Em peror; The Hierophant; The Lovers (or, The Brothers); The Char iot; Adjustment; The Hermit; Fortune; Lust; The Hanged Man; D…
1910 · PDF PAGE 43
…ibadism is rather artificial, and hardly to be distinguished from ordinary masturba- tion : so that the balance is strongly in favour of man. This explains why very few women are ex- clusively Sapphists, but many bimetallists ; and enables one to comprehend the hatred of woman for sodomy, and the toleration with which men re- gard Sapphism. 8. I cannot too strongly urge my readers to se- lect their lovers from their equals in rank and for- tune. It is the only safeguard against betrayal ; further, it fulfills the Greek ideal, and silences the v…
1899 · PDF PAGE 186
…ared the stallion wind? Whose foaling flings The billows starward? Whose the steeds fire-shod That sweep throughout the world? What spearman sings The fearful chant of war That fires, and spurs, and maddens all the kings That rule o’er earth, and air, and ocean? Whose hand excites the star | To shatter into fiery flakes? No man,. No petty god, but One who governs all, Slips the sun’s leash, perceives the sparrow’s fall, Too high for man to fear, too near for man to call. O virgin Poesy, the link is thine To bring us near ; the suffering of thy …
1910 · PDF PAGE 5
v DEDICATION Out of the East, out of the East Didst thou flame forth, O Son of Man, The chainless champion of the Beast ! A warrior comet, thy plumes fan The shuddering airs black wildernesses To fiends insatiate caresses. Thou camest crowned and helmed and armed, Sworded, a mighty man of war : Swayed all the stars, aghast, alarmed As at the Thunderbolt of Thor ! The very aethyr rocked and shook At thine indomitable look ! [Here must we utterly restrict Our theological remarks. One whom not Heaven could contradict Says : Now, Sir, if you plea…
1929 · PDF PAGE 73
to command, being a forcible breath controlled by the firm circle of the mouth. He is the Open Eye of the exalted Sun, before whom ail shadows flee away: also that Secret Eye which makes an image of its God, the Light, and gives it power to utter oracles, enlightening the mind. Thus, he is Man made God, exalted, eager; he has corne consciously to his full stature, and so is ready to set out on his journey to redeem the world. But he may not appear in this true form; the Vision of Pan would drive men mad with fear. He must conceal Himself in his…
1930 · PDF PAGE 48
career on earth is his kingdom, that even the Master Therion is no more than a fellow man in another valley, and that he must explore and exploit his own inheritance with his own eyes and hands. The Magician must not accept the Master Therion’s account of the Astral Plane, His Qabalistic discoveries, His instructions in Magick. They may be correct in the main for most men; yet they cannot be wholly true for any save Him, even as no two artists can make identical pictures of the same subject. More, even in fundamentals, though these things be Tr…
1907 · PDF PAGE 161
…g But here where the wise pen And silver cadences outrunning song, And clear sweet clean-chiselled English, sharp and strong, Of the one man! among the latter men Who lived with Nature, saw her face to face, And died not : here in this consummate place, Immortal now, though the Antarctic sent Its mightiest coldest wave and rose and rent The coral and annihilated land, Or though the swarthy hand Or foot misshapen of the Hephaestian, (Hating the air-breathing man, In such sweet love as dwells, above all other places Ilere, in our hearts and faces…
1909 · PDF PAGE 20
…t the soldiers them- selves be infinite in number? However that may be, here is the point; it takes a moment for a hunchback to kill his man, and the farther we get from our base the longer it takes. You may crumble to ashes the dream-world of a boy, as it were, between your fingers; but before you can bring the physical universe tumbling about a man’s ears he requires to drill his hunchbacks so devilish well that they are terribly like soldiers themselves. Anda question capable of shaking the consciousness of Samadhi could, I imagine, give lon…
1899 · PDF PAGE 125
SCENE I. Shaftesbury Avenue, 8.30 p.m. A gentleman walking witha friend, both in evening dress. A little ragged girl, A youngman. The gentleman stops and gives the lstile girl a halfpenny. The young man smiles. The gentleman notices the smile, and sees how great a sadness underlies it. VAUGHAN. [Durning to the young man.] ND you—what are you doing here? Excuse my rudeness—you seem so sad. PERCY. I am sad to-night. I am very lonely in this place. VAUGHAN. There are plenty of people about. PERCY. People—mere shells, husks of the golden wheat that…
1905 · PDF PAGE 86
… in fire’s sepulchral womb. Fivefold: the child, the frail, the delicate: Then the strong laughing mischief: then the proud Fight toward manhood and the sense elate, Creative power and passion : then the loud Assertion of young will, the quickening rate And strength in blood, in youth with life endowed, And firmness fastening; the last lustre’s span Consolidates and shows the perfect man. Fivefold : the humour changes as his child Calls him first “father” ; sense of strength divine Fills him; then man’s work in the world, and wild Efforts to fa…