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Page 120 of 1301944 · PDF PAGE 85
…ve, impregnating the Vir‐ gin Mary. There is here a reference to the dove of Noah’s Ark, bringing glad tidings of the sal‐ vation of the world from the waters. (The dwellers in the Ark are the foetus, the waters the amniotic fluid.) Similar fables are to be found in every religion of the Aeon of Osiris: it is the typical formula of the Dying God. In this card, therefore, appears the legend of the woman and the lion, or rather lion‐ serpent. (This card is attributed to the letter Teth, which means a serpent.)
1906 · PDF PAGE 272
…to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. S. (fn the trance called Nerodha-Sama- patti). As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. M. (Ditto, after an exhilarating switch- back ride through the Eight High Trances). AMEN. Into Three, Mysti- 1 Both colloid, caudate, and epicycloid, of course.
1944 · PDF PAGE 23
…l and equal though diverse, each one supreme and utterly indestructible. This is also the only explanation of how a Being could create a world in which War, Evil, etc., exist. Evil is only an appearance, because (like “Good”) it cannot affect the substance itself, but only multiply its combinations. This is something the same as Mystic Monotheism; but the objection to that theory is that God has to create things which are all parts of himself, so that their interplay is false. If we presuppose many elements, their interplay is natural.” These i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 111
…g by God's Grace formulated even in this a new link with the Higher and gained a new weapon against the Great Princes of the Evil of the World. Amen. I went to Paris, discussed the situation with Mathers and formulated the following proposal for dealing with the refractory "temple". I. The Second Order to be summoned at various times during two or three days. They to find, on being admitted one by one, a masked man in authority and a scribe. These questions, etc. pass, after pledge of secrecy concerning interview. A. Are you convinced of the tr…
1944 · PDF PAGE 180
…when good‐nature is disastrous. Gemini is an airy sign, an intellectual sign; Jupiter is geniality and optimism. This will not do in the world of Swords; if one must hit at all, a knock‐out blow is best. But there is another element in this card; that of unexpected (the Eights, being at heart Mercurial, are always that) interfer‐ ence, sheer unforeseen bad luck. Trivial incidents have often altered the destiny of empires, brought to naught “the best‐laid plans of mice and men”.
1906 · PDF PAGE 221
…the Serpent, and thou shalt conquer it and it shall serve thee: and they, they also for a guide!” She ceased; and he, having come to the world’s end, pre- pared his chariot. Foursquare he builded it, and that double: he har- nessed the two sphinxes that he had made from ont, and sailed, crab- fashion, backwards, through the amber skies of even. Wherefore he attained to see his children. Lovers they were and lovely, those twins of rape. One was above them, joining their hands. ‘‘ That is well,” said our Father, and for seven nights he slept in s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 269
…lted from the mutinous violation of my orders; but, just as the doctor and Righi had escaped with their worthless lives, to go about the world with the manslaughter of their comrades on their consciences, so also it happened in 1922. But the London press refused to publish my article. One editor told me that it was a shame to "crab" the expediton, and that my warnings would give pain to the relations of the party! No, better wait until the accident had happened, and then it would be interesting to point out why it had happened. Of course that i…
1906 · PDF PAGE 235
…ool!’ roared the God. ‘I have got Perdu’ R Abu elected Maha Brahma.’ ‘Oh Lord, have you really?’ said the wizard, looking a little 1 The world of black magic. 2 Heaven. . 3 The highest heaven of the Hindu. ‘‘ Form- less place of Brahma”’ is its name. have to. less glum. ‘Ay!’ cried Ganesha impres- sively, ‘let Aeon follow Aeon down the vaulted and echoing corridors of Eternity: pile Mahakalpa upon Mahakalpa until an Asankhya! of Crores? have passed away: and Maha Brahma will still sit Jone and meditate upon his Jotus throne.’ ‘Good, good !’ sai…
1907 · PDF PAGE 116
…ne dog; one can sympathise with sincere and honourable labour, though it be in vain ; RODIN FRONTISPIECE RODIN. Here isaman! 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. one ignores laughingly the attack of tiny and infuriated puppies; but there are insects so loathsome, s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…by the Well with the Woman of Samaria. Now the five husbands were five great religions which had defiled the purity of the Virgin of the World: and "he whom thou now hast" was materialism (or modern thought). Other scenes also I saw in His Life: and behold I also was crucified! Now did I go backwards ion time even unto Berashith, the Beginning, and was permitted to see marvellous things. First the Abyss of the Water: on which I, even I, brooded amid other {192} 1. This incident was once quoted by one of my critics as illustrative of the absurdi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 509
…agus I had incurred certain responsibilities. Previously, I had taken the attitude that, while The Book of the Law had been given to the world through me, and though I was ineluctably bound thereby, I could stand aloof to some extent. I could consider myself as a Magician pledged to the Law, accepting it and working by its formula: but not identified with its promulgation to the exclusion of all other aims. My formal attainment of the Grade involved my identifying myself with the word Thelema. My personality must be completely merged in it. On …
1906 · PDF PAGE 234
…ree years old. VIIL. ‘It really seemed as if fate was against him. Poor Jehjaour! In despair he cried to his partner, ‘O Ganesha, in the world of Gods only shall we be safe. Let him be born as a flute-girl before Indra’s throne!’ ‘Difficult is the task,’ replied the alarmed deity, ‘but I will use all my influence. I 1 The Government, in the interests of Bud- dhists themselves, reserves all ground within 50 feet of a dagoba. The incident described in this section actually occurred in 1901. 2 Siam. | example—— know a thing or two about Indra, for…
1929 · PDF PAGE 143
…ear of cloud, it began to revolve, to coruscate, to throw off streamers of jetted fire! (This from a hill-top I held, dark as of a dying world. Covered with black decayed wet peaty wood, a few pines stood stricken, {248} unutterably alone.) (Note. This is a mere thought form induced by misunderstanding the instruction of Mâitrânanda Swami as to observing the phenomenon.) But behind the glory of its coruscations seemed to shape an idea, less solid than a shadow! an Idea of some Human seeming Form! Now grew doubt and thought in P's miserable mind…
1919 · PDF PAGE 457
… Miss Archer's mechanical abnormalities are ridiculous; she has mistaken Jingle for music and ineomprehensibility for passion. . . . The world will not willingly let it die.” ‘anity Fair. “On the cover a naked woman is riding a bat over a whirlpool; craggy white mountains are behind her and a red sky behind all. Thereis a fine fierceness of movement in the design; it is certainly good. Mr. Aleister Crowley introduces Miss Archer briefly but splendidly, with phrases of this sort: ‘We find such rime-webs as abaaab-babbba . . ., more exquisite tha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 324
…me, into the fringe of reeds across the lake. And that was all I saw. I remained unable to reply. At this time I was the last man in the world to take anything of the sort seriously; more I was resolved not to do so even {527} at the cost of restraining the theory of sensory hallucination. What struck me dumb was hearing an old shikari tell the story of Excalibur in language so near to that of Malory as to make no odds. Could one of his sahibs have told him the tale long ago, so that it popped up in this strange fashion with me as the hearer? I…
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
… Melpomene shone in the pyre Ofterrors that burned in her lyre; But all of their passion divine I lost in the life and the stress of the world ere ever the soul of me wist. But, Orpheus, thy splendider light Was the veil of thyself the moresplendid. Thou leapedst as a fountain in flight, As a bird in the rainbow descended ! From the sweet single womb risen higher Did Calliope string thee her lyre, Thy mother: and veiled her in night :— For thyself to Herself art a veil till the veils of the Heaven be rended and ended. Now, single myself as thy …
1929 · PDF PAGE 542
…society, and I await the moment when those who have chosen me to carry out their colossal conception summon me to stand forth before the world and execute their purpose. At this point, then, I leave my memoirs. My individual life is ended forever. It was always a mere means of bringing The Book of the Law to mankind. No man yet lived whose personal adventures were worth wasting a word on. I feel a sort of shame at intruding myself in this way on the public. And yet this book will not be altogether an impudent inanity if it shows how every adven…
1944 · PDF PAGE 181
… the elemental force, but in its most ma‐ terial sense; that is, of the idea of the force, for Yesod is still in Yetzirah, the formative world. Zoroaster says: “The number Nine is sacred, and attains the summit of perfection.” Egypt and Rome, also, had Nine Major Deities. The Nine of Wands is called Strength. It is ruled by the Moon and Yesod. In “The Vision and the Voice”, the eleventh Aethyr gives a classical account of the resolution of this antinomy of Change and Stability. The student should also consult the works of any of the better math…
1907 · PDF PAGE 231
ELEUSIS 225 the only instance in the world’s history of more than two people in one place being of one accord, it is naturally also the only instance of a miracle which happened in church. The Quakers, arguing soundly enough that women were such a cause of contention chiefly on account of their tongues, and getting a glimpse of these truths which I have so laboriously been endeavouring to expound, hoped for inspiration from the effects of silence alone, and strove (even by a symbolic silence in costume) to repeat the experiment of Pentecost. Bu…
1911 · PDF PAGE 307
…ce’ to those who, abandoning nothing, will sail in the company of the Brethren of the Rosy Cross towards the Limbus, that outer, unknown world encircling so many @ universe.” “John Bull,” in the course of a long review by Mr HERBERT VIVIAN “The author is evidently that rare combination of genius, a humorist and a philosopher. For pages he will bewilder the mind with abstruse esoteric pronouncements, and then, all of a sudden, he will reduce his readers to hysterics with some surprisingly quaint conceit. I was unlucky to begin reading him at bre…