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Page 133 of 1731922 · PDF PAGE 238
… all over. Then I went to sleep again. I was with six angels who carried me through the air to a place which I mustn’t describe. It is a great and wonderful mystery. It is awful and miraculously wonderful to be the woman clothed with the sun. The sublimity of it would have frightened me only a few weeks ago.. I have been gently and wisely prepared for my exalted position. This vision initiated me into the most marvellous secrets. When I woke Keletiel came and told me that the crisis was over. I was shivering with cold, and wefit into the house …
1954 · PDF PAGE 482
…at the facts were so undeniable that the "advertisement for Answer to Prayer" outweighed the "miracle of a Heretic." I knew a poetess of great distinction who used to amuse herself by breaking off a conversation and saying, "Give me a franc" (or a shilling, or any small sum) and then going on with her previous remarks . She told me that of over a hundred people I was the second who had passed the coin to her without remark of any.kind._ This story-do you think?-is neither here nor there . No, my remarks are rarely asyntartete. The Master, at on…
1954 · PDF PAGE 517
…Century. Entrust them with the secrets of discipline, of authority, of power. Hardship and danger in full measure; and responsibility. A great deal of such material will be as disgustingly wasted as it has been in the past; and there will be much abuse of privilege. But this must be allowed and allowed for; no very
1929 · PDF PAGE 388
… For thou must evoke me only in the darkness. Therein will I appear, and reveal unto thee the mystery of UTI. For the Mystery thereof is great and terrible. And it shall not be spoken in sight of the sun. I must explain that we had climbed Da'leh Addin, a mountain in the desert, as enjoined by the Angel during the previous night. I now withdrew from the Aethyr and prepared to return to the city. Suddenly came the command to perform a magical ceremony on the summit. We accordingly took loose rocks and built a great circle, inscribed with the wor…
1904 · PDF PAGE 31
…im ; and this was no part of his plan. Dashing into the arena he frigged himself violently into the air, catching the gobs of sperm with great dexterity and tossing them up like a juggler, while moulding them little by little into a solid mass. He did not stop until (in one hundred and eighty two orgasms) he had col- [29]
1922 · PDF PAGE 78
…all the qualities I most admired—and lacked—in their fullest expansion. I had known him very slightly ; but his disappearance had been a great shock. It had stuck in my mind when many more important things had left no trace. He had hardly changed from when I had last seen him. Of middle height, he had a long and rather narrow face. There was a touch of the ecclesiastic in his expression. His eyes were small and gray; he had a trick of blinking. The nose was long and beaked like Wellington’s; the mouth was thin and tense; the skin was fresh and …
1954 · PDF PAGE 149
…andrake, torn up by the roots. And another he sears with fire, and yet another he anoints with oil. And I said: Heavy is the labour, but great indeed is the reward. And the young man answered me: He shall not see the reward; he tendeth the garden. And I said: What shall come unto him? And he said: This thou canst not know, nor is it revealed by the letters that are the totems of the stars, but only by the stars. And he says to me, quite disconnectedly: The man of earth is the adherent. The lover giveth his life unto the work among men. The herm…
1954 · PDF PAGE 194
MY THEORY OF ASTROLOGY 161 nobody could possibly read them all thoroughly, and he would be a great fool to try. But he may do little harm by going into them far enough to observe that hardly any half-dozen are agreed even on the foundations of their system, hardly any two upon the meaning of any given aspect, dignity, or position; there is not always agreement even upon what questions pertain to which houses. There are a few completely quack systems, such as those which mix up the science with Toshosophical hypotheses; naturally you discard the…
1954 · PDF PAGE 422
…ession-SIT UP! (I'm "sitting up" myself to finish this letter . Here goes for the last lap!) Music. Justifiable? Why not? A help to your great Work, an aspect of your Will, nicht wahr? Go to it! Apollo is the God of Music, pre-eminently; but He is too all-comprehensive, all-pervading, to be much use in a Talisman except as a general background. But there are the Muses: Polymnia (or Polyhymnia) seems the one you want: she inspires the sublime hymn. How to invoke her is a matter
1935 · PDF PAGE 16
…racting individual seekers into the way of Truth, but of affirming the propriety of the methods of the A-. A.. as the basis for the next great step in the advance of human knowledge. Love is the law, love under will. O.M.7° == gO A.A Praemonstrator of the Order of the R... C... Given from the Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum, Cefalu, Sicily, in the Seventeenth Year of the Aeon of Horus, the Sun being in 23° Virgo and the Moon in 14° Pisces.
1954 · PDF PAGE 252
…s Majesty; but I confess that I fail to see what you will have gained by so doing, and I feel bound to add that you might easily cause a great deal of misunderstanding, and work a rather stupid kind of mischief. The word does not occur in The Book of the Law. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1907 · PDF PAGE 48
…t do 1 GLENSTRAR. You see, Molly, I told you true. MOLLY (¢uris to the MARCHIONESS and kneels by her). are a O, my lady Marchioness! You great lady. Spare me this shame, your loid’s . . | shame, your own shame. ... Simmons, ask Miss Tyson to step here' LADY GLENSTRAE. Take her away. Less light ! GLENSTRAE. Ha! Ha! Sir PERCY. I cannot see your humour, Glenstrae— forgive me so far! And to tell the truth of it, I can do nothing and care to do less. Come, Molly! MOLLY. Must I, must I? Oh, sir, have pity ! G1! ENSTRAE. A bargain’s a bargain—bul ther…
1907 · PDF PAGE 53
…iberately left as they were originally written on 18th December. 1906, by Aleister Crowley. The discussion which follows represents with great wential fidelity the actual argument which was held after its perusal on Christmas Day. The stage directions in the essay represent the facts. D
1922 · PDF PAGE 281
… that he occasionally sent people down here for certain parts of his training which could only be carried out in solitude and silence. A great longing came upon me to experience the subtle peace which indwelt this simple habitation. For some reason or other I felt a natural disinclination to take the dose of heroin which was offered to me. It seemed out of keeping with the spirit of the surroundings. I took it and enjoyed it; but the act was mechanical, and the effect in some obscure fashion unsatisfactory. We drove back to town, and had dinner…
1954 · PDF PAGE 120
…s a truly virile reaction against the creeping atrophy which is poisoning them, unless they enlist to the last man under his standard, a great decisive battle will have been lost. This prophet of the White School, chosen by its Masters and his brethren, to save the Theory and Practice, is armed with a sword far mightier than Excalibur. He has been entrusted with a new Magical formula, one which can be accepted by the whole human race. Its adoption will strengthen the Yellow School by giving a more positive value to their Theory; while leaving t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 175
… insists upon the duality which they have set out to abolish! Please observe that the further you get on, the higher your potential, the greater is the tendency to leak, or even to break the containing vessel. I can help you by warning you against setting up obstacles , real or imaginary, in your own path; which is what most people do. It is almost laughable to think that the Great Work consists merely in "letting her rip"; but Karma bumps you from one side of the toboggan slide to the other, until you "come into the straight." (There's a chapt…
1954 · PDF PAGE 483
…right, when it has dawned upon them suddenly that magick is a real thing! It's all beyond me! Cups: we are much more definite again. The great test is so well known, and accounts have already been published, that it can be here plainly stated. Early in his career, the Aspirant is exposed to the seductions of a Vampire, and warned in due form and due season. "Sleep with.A,B,C,D,E, and F, my lad, and our hearty best wishes! But not with G on any account, on peril of your work!" So off he goes to G, without a second's hesitation. This test may be …
1905 · PDF PAGE 232
…annhduser’s songs in Act IV. are partly adapted from the so-called ‘‘Oracles of Zoroaster,” partly from the mysterious utterances of the great angel Avé,’ perhaps equally spurious. Of course Bertram’s song is merely a rather free adaptation of the two principal frag- ments of Sappho, which so many people have failed to translate that one can feel no shame in making yet another attempt. There may be one or two conscious plagiar- isms besides, for which I do not apologise. For any unconscious ones which may have crept in owing to my prolonged abs…
1910 · PDF PAGE 170
…ling of a thunder-cloud. The seventh swallows all the other sounds. They die, and then are heard no more.* The Hatha Yoga Pradipika is a great deal more exact in its description of these sounds than the famous Theosophist; concerning them Swatmaram Swami writes: In the beginning, the sounds resemble those of the ocean, the clouds, the kettledrum, and Zarzara (a sort of drum cymbal); in the middle they resemble those arising from the Mardala, the conch, the bell and the horn. In the end they resemble those of the tinkling bells, the flutes, the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 170
…ling of a thunder-cloud. The seventh swallows all the other sounds. They die, and then are heard no more.* The Hatha Yoga Pradipika is a great deal more exact in its description of these sounds than the famous Theosophist; concerning them Swatmaram Swami writes: In the beginning, the sounds resemble those of the ocean, the clouds, the kettledrum, and Zarzara (a sort of drum cymbal); in the middle they resemble those arising from the Mardala, the conch, the bell and the horn. In the end they resemble those of the tinkling bells, the flutes, the …