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Page 122 of 2251961 · PDF PAGE 160
LIBER ALEPH VEL CXI 148 E% De Stultis Malignis (Of Malignant Fools) Y Son, there are Afflictions many and Woes many, that come of the Errors of men in Respect of the Will; but there is none greater than this, the Interference of the Busy-body. For they make Pretence to know a Mans Thought better than he doth himself, and to direct his Will with more Wisdom than he, and to make Plans for his Happiness. And of all these the worst is he that sacrificeth himself for the Weal of his Fellows. He that is so foolish as not to follow his own Will, how …
1939 · PDF PAGE 12
obtain emancipation, satisfaction, everything we want is to perform this universal and inevitable operation upon the Absolute itself. Some of the more sophisticated members of my audience may possibly be thinking that there is a catch in it somewhere. They are perfectly right. (16) The snag is simply this. Every element of which we are composed is indeed constantly occupied in the satisfaction of its particular needs by its own particular Yoga; but for that very reason it is completely obsessed by its own function, which it must naturally consi…
1901 · PDF PAGE 36
…ilt me up a house Of trust in you as being truth and love, - Who are in truth all lies, all treachery! You made me love you as an honest man ! You watched this passion, this intolerable Desire, this flame of hell; you fed it full, Sunned it and watered—O my brain will snap !— Only to blast it. Take your story back ; Be what you will except that infamous! For as my mother—I should spit on you! [CORA zs at his feet grovelling. She half rises to listen. ' Ignoble is your foul maternity, The cattle-kinship. But the other crime Is viler than the fir…
1909 · PDF PAGE 48
… bleeding bits of flesh Out of my body — kill me if you can! T love you. I will have you fair and fresh, A maenad maiden maddening for a man. Ay ! you shall weary in the erotic craving ! Pil have you panting —aching to the marrow — Exhausted, but a maiden (Lesbia raving : " Catullus brings a song and not a sparrow "’) Famished with love, fed full with love, your soul Still on the threshold of the unenvied goal, - 70 on The goal of love is gotten not of these White-blooded fools that haste and marry and tire. They grasp and break their bubble ec…
1910 · PDF PAGE 107
…ed to the planets, and credited with su- pernatural powers. There is an Arab saying — I think by Averrhoes — “ God is the square root of man ” : and a certain very holy Fakir (only recently dead) determined to discover the nature of God by working out √3. He is said to have engraved over a thousand pounds weight of thin silver plates — supplied by the faithful — with the minute charac- ters of his calculations. At his death these plates were distributed and of course worked innumera- ble miracles. Should such a plate come in the pos-
1911 · PDF PAGE 222
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS I lift the mask of matter; I open the heart of man; For I am of force to shatter The cast that hideth—-Pan! Your loves shall lap up slaughter, And dabbled with roses of blood Each desperate darling daughter Shall swim in the fervid floodl I bring ye laughter and tears, The kisses that foam and bleed, The joys of a million years, The flowers that bear no seed. My life is bitter and sterile, Its flame is a wandering star. Ye shall pass in pleasure and peril Across the mystical bar That is set for wrath and weeping Against the ch…
1911 · PDF PAGE 222
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS I lift the mask of matter; I open the heart of man; For I am of force to shatter The cast that hideth—-Pan! Your loves shall lap up slaughter, And dabbled with roses of blood Each desperate darling daughter Shall swim in the fervid floodl I bring ye laughter and tears, The kisses that foam and bleed, The joys of a million years, The flowers that bear no seed. My life is bitter and sterile, Its flame is a wandering star. Ye shall pass in pleasure and peril Across the mystical bar That is set for wrath and weeping Against the ch…
1912 · PDF PAGE 87
…oked twice~terrible agony.” And then this note. ”Barbarous names. Supreme test (i.e. to use words which he does not under— stand), for a man who is really praying cannot bring himself to say a ridiculous thing to his God, even on the latter's mandate.” (From this it appears as if the Augoeides had told Fra. P. the real meaning of Zoroaster’s injunction: “Change not barbarous names of evocation; for they are names divine, having in the sacred rites a power ineffable.”) ”I shall go," continues Fra. P., “and recite ` From Greenland's Icy Mountains…
1912 · PDF PAGE 87
…oked twice~terrible agony.” And then this note. ”Barbarous names. Supreme test (i.e. to use words which he does not under— stand), for a man who is really praying cannot bring himself to say a ridiculous thing to his God, even on the latter's mandate.” (From this it appears as if the Augoeides had told Fra. P. the real meaning of Zoroaster’s injunction: “Change not barbarous names of evocation; for they are names divine, having in the sacred rites a power ineffable.”) ”I shall go," continues Fra. P., “and recite ` From Greenland's Icy Mountains…
1913 · PDF PAGE 140
… ice itself must melt before the sun. Indeed the Magician may despair when he comes to make the Pantacle! Everyone has the material, one man 's pretty well as good as his brothers; but for that Pantacle to be in any way fashioned to a willed end, or even to an intelligible end, or even to a known end: "Hoc opus, Hie labor est." It is indeed the toil of ascending from Avernus, and escaping to the upper air. In order to do it, it is most necessary to understand our tendencies, and to will the development of one, the destruction of another. And th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 224
THE EQUINOX Because the priest is risen from the sod, Because he bears the mantle of a god. The hour has struck at last ; henceforth the Way Is sundered from the sunlight and the day. No one shall heed my singing; there shall be —How well I know !—no seer that shall see. And none shall know the secret thing I write With speeding pen in the dim candle-light. Because my Rose is mine, no man shall find Wherefore I know, that was erewhile so blind; Nor wherefore, by the light of one dim star, I see thee here, Lady of the Rose, Istar. XXI THE POET S…
1913 · PDF PAGE 224
THE EQUINOX Because the priest is risen from the sod, Because he bears the mantle of a god. The hour has struck at last ; henceforth the Way Is sundered from the sunlight and the day. No one shall heed my singing; there shall be —How well I know !—no seer that shall see. And none shall know the secret thing I write With speeding pen in the dim candle-light. Because my Rose is mine, no man shall find Wherefore I know, that was erewhile so blind; Nor wherefore, by the light of one dim star, I see thee here, Lady of the Rose, Istar. XXI THE POET S…
1926 · PDF PAGE 16
…nd be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this. 23. I am alone: there is no God where I am. 24. Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses …
1928 · PDF PAGE 28
…ll his little will to enter a café or a box-office, where the clerks seemed to him clothed with the majesty of Mi- nos, Aeacus, and Rhadamanthus, will suddenly throw himself on the neck of an old man who happens to be passing and will kiss him enthu- siastically before the astonished crowd. Why? Because . . . because this counte- nance was irresistibly sympathetic to him?
1954 · PDF PAGE 329
…in Reincarnation; and, if so, why; and how do I feel about it. In other letters there is quite a lot of detail about the constitution of Man, and there is my Essay No. I, in Little Essays Toward Truth; you had better get these well fixed in your mind, in case some of what now follows should prove obscure. lean 't be bothered to define all the technical terms all over again. Do I believe in it? Yes. Why? 1. Because I remember a dozen or so of my previous lives on earth . (See Magick, Chapter VI.) 2. Because no other theory satisfies my feeling f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 96
90 GARGOYLES This man with a light axe did lop The little branches at the top. Then said the poet: ‘‘ Thus why tax Your force? This double-handed axe Were better laid to the tree-trunk.” ~ ‘* Friend, are you natural, or drunk?” Replied the woodsman ; ‘‘ leaf and twig Divert the impact of the big Axe ; chop them first, the trunk is fit For a fair aim, a certain hit. How do you work yourself?” He spoke To empty space—the poet woke ; And catching up a carving-knife He slit the weasand of his wife. A NUGGET FROM A MINE. A MINER laboured in a mine. …
1939 · PDF PAGE 32
…. If you retain any posture long enough, you get cramp. I forget the exact statistics, but I gather that the muscular exertion made by a man sleeping peacefully in bed is sufficient to raise fourteen elephants per hour to the stratosphere. Anyway, I remember that it is something rather difficult to believe, if only because I did not believe it myself. 11. Why then should we bother to choose a specially sacred position? Firstly, we want to be steady and easy. We want, in particular, to be able to do Pranayama in that position, if ever we reach t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 59
… GREAT PYRAMID OF GHIZEH 53 TO ‘‘ ELIZABETH.” WITH A COPY OF TANNHAUSER. Written in the Akasa.} THE story ofa fool. From love and death Emancipate, he stands above. The goal Is in the shrines of misty air: there roll The voices and the songs of One who saith : ‘There is no peace for him who lingereth.” Love is a cinder now that was a coal : Either were vain. The great magician’s soul Is far too weak to risk Elizabeth. All this is past and under me. Above, Around, the magian tree of knowledge waves Its rosy flowers and golden fruit. I know Indee…
1907 · PDF PAGE 250
…luteness of the Qabalistic Zero . Worshippers of a personal God are by nature ultra materialistic . Their God is but a friend , a mighty man who will eventually pull them out of the present bog of existence ; being too lazy to do so themselves , they invest him with special powers ; once fashioned , the next step was to endow him with an immortalizing 1 Principles of Human Knowledge , p. 62. 2 The Dialogues , p. 35.
1912 · PDF PAGE 75
…d theres none can grasp ; But he stirs viciously. I find he hopes success If he once clenches knobby fist on you. MONICA. May be ! Ive many a turn and many a twist for such as he. Well, you and I will mock his spite. ORLANDO. A week will send The popular fury to its height. The church will lend Secret support, through blame : she hates the pride Of Mortadello, fans our flame, and swells our tide. Really, their hold upon the State slips every hour. Keep but the hounds at bay MONICA. Wait, waitthe key to power. Are we safe now ? ORLANDO. I h…