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Page 121 of 1281939 · PDF PAGE 31
… a metaphysical discussion as to what it is that controls, or before we know where we are we shall be moonstruck by hypotheses about the soul. 5. Let us forget all this rubbish, and decide what is to be done. We have seen that to stop existing processes by an act of violence is merely to release the undesirable elements. If we want peace on Dartmoor, we do not open the doors of the prison. What we do is to establish routine. What is routine? Routine is rhythm. If you want to go to sleep, you get rid of irregular, unexpected noises. What is want…
1944 · PDF PAGE 117
…eave of thee in this Epistle, that the Summit of Wisdom is the Opening of the Way that leadeth unto the Crown and Essence of all, to the Soul of the Child Horus, the Lord of the Aeon. This is the Path of the Pure Fool. DE ORACULO SUMMO And who is this Pure Fool? Lo, in the Sagas of Old Time, Legend of Scald, of Bard, of Druid, cometh he not in Green like Spring? O thou Great Fool, thou Water that art Air, in whom all complex is resolved! Yea, thou in ragged Raiment, with the Staff of Priapus and the Wine‐ skin! Thou standest upon the Crocodile,…
1905 · PDF PAGE 19
…darts an angry red from out its eye,) By sword and spear, by maze and mystery, By Zeus’ high house, and by his godhead great, By his own soul, no ardour to abate Until he freed Archais. Like a star Rebellious, thrust beyond the morning’s bar, Erect, sublime, he swore so fierce an oath That the sea flashed with blasphemy, and loath Black thunder broke from out the shudder- ing deep. Ife swore again, and from its century’s sleep Earthquake arose, and rocked and raved and roared. He swore the third time. Lord Curbed their black wrath, Heaven’s vau…
1919 · PDF PAGE 317
…wholesome story!” The poi- son of puritanism has rotted through the whole of human thought. Conventional morality is the syphilis of the soul, and it is for the God Mercury, no one less, to oppose its action. Our trouble is rendered a thousand times more grievous because most of us do not recognize how foul is our disease. The words ‘marriage with a Canadian’ should be expunged from human language. People should be prose- cuted for printing so foul and obscene a phrase. Yet these things happen every day. The sun turns sick in heaven to behold t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 268
…upon the-scarlet rose That flamed upon my bosom, the keen thorns Pierced me and slew! My spirit was with- drawn Into Her godhead, and my soul made One With the Great Sorrow of the Universe, The Love of Isis! Then I fell away Into some old mysterious abyss Rolling between the heights of starry space ; Flaming above, beyond the Tomb of Time, Blending the darkness into the profound Chasms of matter—so I fell away Through many strange eternities of Space, 1 Revelations xii. I, Limitless fields of Time. I knew in me That I must fall into the ground …
1939 · PDF PAGE 69
…us as hardly to need stating. Music has no expressed intellectual content whatever, and the sole test of music is its power to exalt the soul. It is then evident that the composer is himself attempting to express in sensible form some such sublimities as are attained by those who practise Magick and Yoga as they should. 17. The same is true of plastic art, but evidently in much less degree; and all those who really know and love art are well aware that classical painting and sculpture are rarely capable of producing these transcendent orgasms o…
1905 · PDF PAGE 25
…ce her bosom, like dividing swords, With hopes and loves requickened, and her breath Grew calm as worship’s, though as dark as death Her soul had been for weary days no few ; Now, lightened by the spirit thrust anew As into a dead body breath of life, She gave sweet thanks with gentle lips that ope, Like buds of roses on the sunny slope Of lily gardens falling toward a stream That flashes back the intolerable beam Of sunlight with light heart. They fled away At Cypris’ word, beyond the bounds of day Into the awful caverns of the night, Eerie wi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 152
… emanation of the migh’ Of the great Light above all gods, the fire Of our supreme desire. So out of grievous labyrinths of the mind The soul's desire may find Some passionate thread, the clear note ofa bird, To make the dark ways of the gods as light, And bring forth music from slow chants un- heard, And visions from the fathomless night. So is the spirit of the loftier man Made holy and most strong against his fate ; So is the desolate visage of the wan Lord of Amenti? covered, and the gate Of Ra made perfect. So the waters flow Over the eart…
1929 · PDF PAGE 63
… from the past tyranny that I found continual joy in affirming my emancipation. There were thus several divers strands in the loom of my soul which had not yet been woven into a harmonious pattern. I dealt with life empirically, taking things as they came, without basing them on any fundamental principle. Two main events were destined to put me on the road towards myself. The first took place in Stockholm about midnight of December 31st, 1896. I was awakened to the knowledge that I possessed a magical means of becoming conscious of and satisfyi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 207
…he word That hell and chaos and destruction heard And ruined, shrieking! yea, my strong voice rolls, That martyr-cry of many slaughtered souls, Utterly potent both to bless and ban— I, I command thee in the name of Man! He trembled then. And far in thunder rolled Through countless ages, through the infinite gold Beyond existence, grew that master-sound Into the rent and agonized profound, Till even the Highest heard me: and Hesaid, As one who speaks alone among men dead: ‘* Behold, he rules as I the abyss of flame. Forlo! heknoweth, and hath sa…
1905 · PDF PAGE 216
… rule The whole mad universe by will extended!— Who whispers then, ‘‘ O miserable fool ! This night thy might and majesty are ended; Thy soul shall be required of thee”? I heard This voice, and knew it for my proper word ! Yea, mine own voice: the higher spirit speaks, Stemming the hands that guide, the arms that hold, Even the infinite brain: that spirit seeks A loftier dawn of more ephemeral gold— Ephemeral, and eternal: droop thine head, O God ! for thou must suffer this: I said! Droop thy wide pinions, O thou mortal God ! Sink thy vast fore…
1905 · PDF PAGE 184
…here the Winds lie between. So still lingers sun upon sea ; Still twilight draws down to the world ; The light of my spirit is she ; The soul of her love is in me; Lithe kisses with music are curled. Like light on the meadows we dwell ; Like twilight clings heart unto heart ; Like midnight the depth of the spell Our love weaves, and stronger than hell The guards of our palace of art. We are one as the dew that is drawn By the sun from the sea: we are curled In curves of delight and of dawn, On the lone, the immaculate lawn, 3eyond the wild way …
1906 · PDF PAGE 139
…a of the Mist, see truth in all Rather than truth in none. Below the rite, The sight! Beyond the priest, the power! Above The sense, the soul! their gods Sur- So men who made
1905 · PDF PAGE 84
…dation of earth, Its bloom the incarnadine fashion Of blessings that roar into birth ; And the gates+ that roll back on their hinges The soul of the sage may discern, Till the water® with crimson that tinges Beyond them miraculous burn ; And the presence of God to the senses Is the passion of God in the mind, As the string of a harp that intenses The note that its fire may not find, For here in the tumult and Jabour And blindness of cowering man, ' This emphatic use of ‘' to be” as a princi- paul verb is very common with Crowley, who thereby wi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 26
…es’ crest did glimmer red with wrath, And, stealing from the barge, he drew him forth And writhed into the hut, for latterly So dark his soul had grown that never he For shame and sorrow wore the form of man. So to the hut on writhing coils he ran With angry head erect, and passed within Its rotten doorway. Then the thing of Sin That mocked the name of woman fondled him, Stroked his flaf head, his body curved and slim, And from the fire brought milk. He drank it up From the coarse pewter of the borrowed cup And cried: ‘‘Jn eating, swear. JI hav…
1905 · PDF PAGE 114
… ideas are followed. of the To live in life, breathe freedom with cach breath, As God breathed death ; Secure the sacred fastness of the soul, Uniting self to the absolute, the whole, The universal marnage of mankind, Free, perfect, broken from the chains that bind, Force infinite, love pure, desire untold, And mutual raptures of the age of gold, The child of freedom! So the moulder, man, Shakes his grim shoulders, and the shadows wan Fall to forgetfulness ; so life revives And'new sweet loves beget diviner lives, And (Freedom stands, re-risen …
1939 · PDF PAGE 17
…g over the parapet of a bridge over the Jhilam at Srinagar, and inadvertently opened his mouth, so that a mahsir was able to swallow his soul. It would never have done for a Sahiba Mlecha!to catch that mahsir. This story is really typical of 90% of the precepts usually enumerated under the heading Yama. The rest are for the most part based on local and climatic conditions, and they may or may not be applicable to your own case. And, on the other hand, there are all sorts of good rules which have never occurred to a teacher of Yoga; because tho…
1904 · PDF PAGE 114
… words, confident that the established identity can never be shaken. VI. THE TEN FETTERS OR SANYOGANAS. 1. Sakkay a-ditthi. Belief in a “soul.” 2. V ikikikkha. Doubt. 3. Silabbata-parâ- Reliance on the effi- mâsa cacy of rites and and ceremonies. 4. Kama. Bodily Desires. 5. Patigha. H atred. 6. Ruparaga. Desire for bodily im mortality. 7. Aruparaga. Desire for spiritual i mmortality. 8. Mano. Pride. 9. Udha kka. Self-righteousness. 10. Avigga. Ignorance. (1) For this is a petitio principii. (2) This, to a scientist, is apparently anathema. But …
1944 · PDF PAGE 54
equivalent of initiation; as the mystic would say, “My soul is swallowed up in God”. (Compare the symbolism of Noah and the Ark, Jonah1 and the Whale, and others.) One must constantly keep in mind the bivalence of every symbol. Insistance upon ei‐ ther one or other of the contradictory attributions inherent in a symbol is simply a mark of spiritual incapacity; and it is constantly happening, because of prejudice. It is the simplest test of initiation that every symbol is understood instinctively to contain this contradictory mean‐ ing in itself…
1905 · PDF PAGE 27
…adorns Too well a queen whose promises are foam.” And she, indignant, would have hied her “home And left him to despair, but pitying His soul struck through with darts: “A bitter thing” (She cried) “thou sayest, yet perchance my power Is not as great as thine, for while I cower Tnder the lash of Zeus, stand thou upright, And laugh him to his beard for all his spite.” ‘©T even now beneath hisdoom?” ‘‘ Even thou! For learn this law, writ large upon the brow Of white Olympus, writ by him who made Thee, yea and Zeus, of whom is Zeus afraid, Graven …