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… thirty diamonds of the purest water, It is a daughter ! ALEXANDER I take it — and yours too, my lord. Maybe You both are wrong. GOVINDA True, this much mystery Veils the whole matter — it were hard to say. CHAU Shang Ti ! how fierce a bray The amorous ass gives. MIRIAM Heave, o heave, my sides ! Stretch ! Split ! This pang decides
… Unconscious, when you work the best, I carry on one step firm-pressed Further than you the path, and you For all my trouble, comment : “True ! “Auto-hypnosis. Very quaint !”53 No one supposes me a Saint—54 Some Saints to wrath would be inclined With such a provocation pecked ! But I remember and reflect That anger makes a person blind, And my own “Chittam” I’d neglect. Besides, it’s you, and you, I find, Are but a mode of my own mind. But then you argue, and with sense; “I have this worthy evidence That things are real, since I cease The paint…
…: and its essence is that existence is one . But to my experience it is certain that in Dhyana the Ego is rejected .” This is absolutely true of Berkeley when in the Dia logues he writes : To know every thing knowable is certainly a perfection ; but to endure , or suffer , or feel anything by sense , is an imperfection . The former , I say , agrees to God , but not the latter . God knows or hath ideas ; but the ideas are not conveyed to Him by sense as ours are . . 2 God to him is a mahayogi . It is absolutely true of Hume , but Hume , studious…
…kery in a wink. I can dismiss with sneers as cheap As yours this fabric of my own, One banner of my mind o’erthrown Just at my will. How true and deep Is Carroll *’ when his Alice cries : “It’s nothing but a pack of cards !” There’s the true refuge of the wise; To overthrow the temple guards, Deny reality. And now (111 quote you Scripture anyhow) What did the Sage mean when he wrote (I am the Devil when I quote) “The mere terrestrial-minded man Knows not the Things of God, nor can Their subtle meaning understand ?” A sage, I say, although he me…
…h breast. Worn out perhaps, but not weary, and al- ways heroic, she makes one think of those splendid thoroughbreds which the eye of the true lover of horses can recognize even in the shafts of a cab or a dray. And then she is so sweet and fervent; she loves as one loves in autumn; one would say that the approach of winter kindles a new fire in her heart, and the servility of her tenderness has no element that might weary one therein.
…aat; or again, one seeketh Instruction in Obeah, and his Fellow in Wanga; and of all these not one in Ten Thousand shall be aware of his true Way. For albeit our last step is one for all, yet his next stem is particular to each. Therefore is the Preparation of a Student that seeketh Our Holy Order of A∴A∴most general, informing his Mind of all known Methods, so that his Will may select among these by Instinct: then after, as a Probationer, he practiseth those which he hath preferred, and by the Examination of his Record after the Period appoint…
…this , and says : “ Evolution is no better than creation to explain things , as Spencer showed .” 2 Huxley the sublime philosopher , the true agnostic , the periphery of whose knowledge extended far into those mirrored realms wherein Spencer only saw his own distorted countenance , seeing well that Hylo Idealistic - Solipsism led the whole sentient creation from sub - rational matter to rational man , was suffi ciently a true agnostic not to deny the possibility of a divine Solipsism , leading rational man to a super rational God , but yet not …
…tween the kitchen stove and the Heraclitean furnace ; and between the water in his hip-bath and “the water which wetteth not the hands.” True, much “twaddle” was written concerning balsams, and elixirs, and bloods, which, however, to the merest tyro in alchemy can be sorted from the earnest works as easily as a “ Bart’s” student can sort hair-restoring pamphlets and blackhead eradicators from lectures and essays by Lister and Miller. Thus frenziedly, at the age of twenty-two, P. set out on the Quest of the Philosopher's Stone. Visita Interiora …
…tween the kitchen stove and the Heraclitean furnace ; and between the water in his hip-bath and “the water which wetteth not the hands.” True, much “twaddle” was written concerning balsams, and elixirs, and bloods, which, however, to the merest tyro in alchemy can be sorted from the earnest works as easily as a “ Bart’s” student can sort hair-restoring pamphlets and blackhead eradicators from lectures and essays by Lister and Miller. Thus frenziedly, at the age of twenty-two, P. set out on the Quest of the Philosopher's Stone. Visita Interiora …
… an impression or an habitual prayer. To speak well is to live well. A fine style is an aureole of holiness. From these principles, some true, others hypothetical, and from the more or less exaggerated consequences that they draw from them, there resulted for superstitious qabalists an absolute confidence in enchantments, evocations, conjurations and mysterious prayers. Now, as faith has always accom- plished miracles, apparitions, oracles, mysterious cures, sudden and strange maladies, have never been lacking to it. It is thus that a simple an…
… an impression or an habitual prayer. To speak well is to live well. A fine style is an aureole of holiness. From these principles, some true, others hypothetical, and from the more or less exaggerated consequences that they draw from them, there resulted for superstitious qabalists an absolute confidence in enchantments, evocations, conjurations and mysterious prayers. Now, as faith has always accom- plished miracles, apparitions, oracles, mysterious cures, sudden and strange maladies, have never been lacking to it. It is thus that a simple an…
…shams somehow seem to be more false than others. The whole Universe is an illusion, but it is an illusion difficult to get rid of. It is true compared with most things. But ninety-nine out of every hundred impressions are false even in relation to the things on their own plane. Such distinctions must be graven deeply upon the surface of the Pantacle by the Holy Dagger. There is only one other of the elemental Instruments to be considered, namely the Lamp.
…the holy Hexagram, the symbol of the uniting of the Macrocosm and the Microcosm, the accomplishment of the Great Work, the Summum Bonum, True Wisdom and Perfect Happiness. Sic sit vobis!
pilgrim, or Egyptian sage, represents Tannhauser in his true Self, —the "Only Being in an Abyss of Light!" The Tannhauser who talks is the " Only Being in an Abyss of Darkness," the natural man ignorant of his identity with the Supreme Being. The various other characters are all little parts of Tannhauser's own consciousness and not real persons at all : whether good or bad, all alike hinder and help (and there is not one whose function is not thus double) the realisa- tion of his true unity with all life. This circumstance serves to explain, t…
12 by chance, chance in the truest sense of the term, we are found with gods, men, stars, planets, devils, colours, forces, and all the materials of the Cosmos.: and with time, space and causality, the conditions limiting and inyolving them all. Remember that it is not true to say that our 0° existed, nor that it did not exist. The idea of existence ‘was just as much unformulated as that of toasted cheese. But0? is a finite expression, or has a finite phase, and our universe is a finite universe ; its categories are themselves finite, and the e…
…ery in a wink. I can dismiss with sneers as cheap As your this fabric of mine own, One banner of my mind o’erthrown Just at my will. How true and deep Is Carroll47 when his Alice cries : “It’s nothing but a pack of cards !” There’s the true refuge of the wise ; To overthrow the temple guards, Deny reality. And now (I’ll quote you scripture anyhow) What did the Sage mean when he wrote (I am the Devil when I quote) “The mere terrestrial-minded man Knows not the Things of God, nor can Their subtle meaning understand ?” A sage, I say, although he m…
THE MOTHER 141 Force , ” we find that of Motherhood . The true wife must sacrifice her children before the shrine of her lover , and the true mother must sacrifice her lover on the altar of her children . This is no paradox , no riddle , no twisting of words ; for Crowley offers us in the glittering chalice of Eternity the sacred blood of the Bull , the Second Christ ; and as the first, the Lamb of God, sprang from the immaculate womb of the Virgin -Mother , so shall this second incarnation spring blood -red from the snowy lips of the great Sup…
…well at Mecca. Its waters are excessively foul, and even the most devout make a wry face when drinking them. 2. Jasmine podex — surely a true perversion of sense ! Yet the adjective is as invariable as pius for Aeneas and fidus for Achates. 3. Fatihah, the first chapter of the Q’uran. To recite it 1,000 times nightly causes one to become a great Sheikh. 4. Surely Oriental exaggeration. A. L. (Not at all. I do not think that El Haji necessarily means separate and distinct emissions ; he may mean thrusts. Now even the uneducated Briton, with a li…
D E D IC AT IO M INO R My dear Lady S…, I quite agree with your expressed opinion that no true gentleman would (with or without reason) compare any portion of your ladyship’s anatomy to a piece of wet chamois- leather ; the best I can do to repair his rudeness is to acknow- ledge the notable part your ladyship played in the conception of this masterpiece by the insertion of as much of your name as my lawyers will permit me. I am your ladyship’s most humble and obedient servant, ALEISTER CROWLEY.
… Modesty. ANTINOUS ’Twas mine intention, But those loose lips wine-corrupt Always itch to interrupt ! SILENUS Nay, boy, all the song was true. Come and frisk it once together ! Ah, the goodly Grecian Weather ! Ah, the heavenly haze of blue, That must set an azure frame Round the flaxen locks aflame ! CHRYSIS Come, Evadne, let us fling Flowers upon them gambolling !