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Page 102 of 1211905 · PDF PAGE 233
… and perfect Happiness.” So may all happen! KANDY, CEYLON, Sepé. 1901. PERSONS CONCERNED. THE WORLD OF GODS. IsIs. HATHOOR. THE WORLD OF MEN. TANNHAUSER,. ELIZABETH. AN UNKNOWN MINSTREL. THE LANDGRAVE., WOLFRAM, BERTRAM, HEINRICH, A SHEPHERD Boy. PILGRIMS, FORESTERS, COURTIERS, ETC. \a t the Court of the Landgrave. THE WORLD OF DEMONS. THE EVIL AND AVERSE HATHOOR, CALLED VENUS, TANNHAUSER. ACT I. ‘‘ Therefore we are carefully to proceed in Magic, lest that Syrens and other monsters deceive us, which likewise do desire the society of the human s…
1910 · PDF PAGE 10
5 Various young men, picturesquely clad in robes of white, red, or black, stood at different points around the room. Some held swords. The incense made a haze, through which I saw a small white statue, illumined by a tiny lamp hung high on the cornice. A brother recited “ the banishing ritual of the Pentagram ” impressively and with due earnestness. Another brother was com- manded to “ purify the Temple with water.” This was done. Then we witnessed the “ Consecration of the Temple with Fire ” where- upon Crowley, habited in black, and accompani…
1904 · PDF PAGE 41
…His Office is to tell of all Things Past, Present, and to Come; and of Treasures Hid, and what they lie in; and to procure the Love of Women both Young and Old. He governeth 26 Legions of Spirits, and his Seal is this, etc. (57.) Ost, or Voso.—The Fifty-seventh Spirit is Oso, Osé, or Voso. He is a Great President, and appeareth like a Leopard at the first, but after a little time he putteth on the Shape of a Man. His Office is to make one cunning in the Liberal Sciences, and to give True Answers of Divine and Secret Things; also to change a Man…
1905 · PDF PAGE 58
…xtends his hand, His awful hand to bless, to curse; or moves Toward the dimmest-den In the thick leaves, not known of loves Or nymphs or men ; (Only the sylph’s frail gossamer may wave Their quiet frondage yet, Only her dewy tears may lave The violet ;) The mighty answer of the shaken sky To his supreme behest ; the call Of ibex that behold on high Night’s funeral, And see the pale moon quiver and depart Far beyond space, the sun ascend And draw earth’s globe unto his heart To make an end; The shriek of startled birds; the sobs that tear With s…
1905 · PDF PAGE 161
…ess, 1890.] The chief of its many morals is that sin must reap its harvest in spite of repentance, prayer, and the other dodges by which men seek to elude Fate. 154
1909 · PDF PAGE 50
…er of the Balance The figure of an hanged or crucified man * The Spirit of the Mighty Waters . . . . (23 A skeleton with a scythe mowing men. The scythe | The Child of the Great Transformers. The 24 handleis a Tau Lord of the Gate of Death The Figure of Diana huntress* . . . The Daughter of the Reconcilers, the Bringer- 25 forth of Life | The figure of Pan or Priapus * The Lord of the Gates of Matter. The Child 26 A of the Forces of Time A tower struck by forked lightning* . The Lord of the Hosts of the Mighty 27 The figure of a water-nymph dis…
1913 · PDF PAGE 8
…a holy Yogi in Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo, to hear his account. Allan Bennett's account was les of belief. They had had, he s: id, an argument about the God Shiva, the Destroyer, whom Allan Bennett we use, if one repeated his name often enough, Shiva would one da © and destroy the Universe, and whom Mathers feared and hated because He would one day open His eye and destroy Mathers. Allan Bennett closed the argument by assuming the position Padm: ating the Mantra: “ Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiv: Mathers, angrier than ever, sought the s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 24
…d more than convince her. It reassured her on her whole position. She realized that he loved her, that his manner was merely [37] an ornament, an affectation like his shaved head and his strange dress. And her own love for him, freed from all doubt, rushed out as does the sun from behind the crest of some cold pyramid of rock and ice, in mountain lands. When they returned to the studio, they found that the simple preparations for the seance had been completed. The medium was already seated at the table, with the two men one on either side of he…
1930 · PDF PAGE 33
…n. In man are ail things hidden, Of these the Gods, Nature, Time, ail the powers of the universe are rebellions slaves. It is these that men must fight and conquer in the power and in the name of the Beast that hath availed them, the Titan, the Magus, the Man whose number is six hundred and three score and six. III Ihe practice of Rising on the Planes is of such importance that spécial attention must be paid to it. It is part of the essential tech¬ nique of Magick. Instruction in this practice has been given with such conciseness in Liber O, th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 99
… say “Horus is a foal” or “Horus is purple”. One may say : “Horus resembles a foal in this respect that he is the olfspring of two complementary beings”. 33. Further of this matter.— So also many hâve said truly that since earth is that One, and océan is that One, therefore earth is océan. Unto Him good is illusion, and evil is illusion 5 therefore good is evil. By this fallacy of logic are many men destroyed. Moreover, there are those who take the image for the God; as who should say, my heart is in Tiphereth, an Adeptus is in Tiphereth; I am …
1907 · PDF PAGE 221
LIBER QUARTUS VEL MORTIS 215 CALLIOPE. Ay! Ay! a woman’s silky tone Makes music for eternity her own, Till all men’s victories in song seem a dis- cordant groan. LESBIAN SHORE. _ Upon my cliffs of green, Beneath the azure skies, She stands with looks of fire, Sappho. Her hands between Lies the wild world; she flies From agony to agony of desire, CALLIOPE. Him, Orpheus, him she sings; Loosing the living strings, Till music fledged fares forth sunward on moon-wrought wings. LESBIAN SHORE. Yea, by the solar name, Orpheus her lips acclaim, The cent…
1996 · PDF PAGE 8
Foreword 9 of his, he can actually suggest that commentaries on the text from two different hands should be included.1 Again, the scholar’s point of view. Why not, for example, in a classical book, include commentary by Bentley and by Porson, or by half a dozen others, for that matter? Indeed, the scholar would be delighted; but no-one else would be. Another thing that Crowley has never realised is that readers are not, as a general rule, men and women of leisure and that they want things made reasonably quick and easy for them. He never troubl…
1909 · PDF PAGE 396
…e into opposite forces. The éi8e plays leapfrog with the é, as the & has vaulted over the bar of the woAAa and the wav. So the whole argument breaks up into a formidably ridiculous logomachy, and we are left in doubt as to whether the universe is (after all) bound together by causal or contingent links, or whether in truth we are not gibbering lunatics in an insane chaos of hallucination. And just as we think we are rid of the priggishness of Matthew Arnold and Edwin Arnold and all the pragmatic pedants and Priscilla-scented lavenderians, up ju…
1909 · PDF PAGE 396
…e into opposite forces. The éi8e plays leapfrog with the é, as the & has vaulted over the bar of the woAAa and the wav. So the whole argument breaks up into a formidably ridiculous logomachy, and we are left in doubt as to whether the universe is (after all) bound together by causal or contingent links, or whether in truth we are not gibbering lunatics in an insane chaos of hallucination. And just as we think we are rid of the priggishness of Matthew Arnold and Edwin Arnold and all the pragmatic pedants and Priscilla-scented lavenderians, up ju…
1935 · PDF PAGE 14
…t in his ways, and liberty to pursue them. Thus doing, he payeth his debt to the Law that hath Freed him by working its will to free all men; and he proveth himself a true man in our Order by willing to bring his fellows into freedom. By thus ordering his disposition, he will fit himself in the best possible manner for the task of understanding and mastering the divers technical methods prescribed by the A.. A-. for Mystical and Magical attainment. He will thus prepare himself properly for the crisis of his career in the Order, the attainment o…
1904 · PDF PAGE 33
…it in Order, as Solomon bound them, is named Berith. He is a Mighty, Great, and Terrible Duke. He hath two other Names given unto him by men of later times, viz: BEALE, or Beat, and Borry or Botrry. He appeareth in the Form of a Soldier with Red Clothing, riding upon a Red Horse, and having a Crown of Gold upon his head. He giveth true answers, Past, Present, and to Come.? Thou must make use of a Ring in calling him forth, as is before spoken of re- garding Beleth.* He can turn all metals into Gold. He can give Dignities, and can confirm them u…
1907 · PDF PAGE 156
…turn and look toward the end. Also, the Gods arisen from the living Lights of the sky, half hidden in the night, Vast shapes beholden of men unbelieving, Staggering the sense and reason with the sight, Manifold, mighty, monstrous, no light giving Unto the soul that is not also light ; We rise in ghastly power; we know the token, © The speech of silence and the song unspoken. ORPHEUS., Come forth to the sound, Ye lustres of years That hide in profound Abysses of fears, Hidden and bound ! The voice of tears Implores and impels ye, O lustres, with…
1929 · PDF PAGE 68
… the white robe over her — La Giuffria never thought of the symbolism of the action; she would have rather stood naked before a thousand men than appear in that garment of infamy — The girl pressed one soft kiss upon her forehead: then was gone headlong through the curtains. Lisa heard the clang of the outer door, and a breath of cold air swept round the room. It dizzied her, as if she had been drunk; she remembered no more; probably she slept. At last, she came to consciousness again in a most strange state of being. A peculiar smell was in th…
1905 · PDF PAGE 254
…it! Luck, love, and loyalty—the triple toast ! FORESTERS. Tannhauser ! Luck, and love, and loyalty ! TANNHAUSER. I thank you, loving kinsmen and my friends. But see, I am impatient to be gone! (Zo the verderer.) Your horse-—that favour I shall not forget, Nor linger to repay. Good morrow then! Good sport all day ! LANDGRAVE. God speed thee, Tannhauser ! [#xit TANNHAUSER. Am I still dreaming? It was surely he. But such an one, compact of suffering, Ofjoy, of love, of pity, of despair; Half senseless, half too subtle for my sense. WOLFRAM. He has…
1906 · PDF PAGE 24
…S Ill. Jesus ! recall Gethsemane afresh, Where thy simplicity his pity sought Who in his heaven heard, and mocked for nought, Coarse hangmen pierce with nails thy living flesh. IV. When on thy godhead spat the virulence Of scum of soldiery and kitchen-knaves ; When thou didst’ feel the thorns pierce bloody graves Within thy brain where Manhood burnt in- tense ; Vv. When thy bruised broken body’s horrid weight Racked thy stretched arms, that sweat and blood enow Coursed down the marble paleness of thy brow, Lift up on high, a butt for all men’s …