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Page 140 of 1591905 · PDF PAGE 201
…‘‘ Christian” parents marred our youth; ‘One thing is certain of our origin. We are born Adam’s bastards into sin, Servants to Death and Time’s devouring tooth. God, damning most, had this one thought of ruth To save some dozens—-Us : and by the skin Of teeth to save us from the devil’s gin— Repentance! Blood! Prayer! Sackcloth! This is truth.” Our parents answer jesting Pilate so.! I am the meanest servant of the Christ : But, were I heathen, cannibal, profane, My cruel spirit had not sacrificed My children to this Moloch. Iam plain? ‘‘Blasphe…
1919 · PDF PAGE 158
…s: M.M.M. 2, ‘mentions the breath playing upon the skin, etc.’ I have experienced this, and asked Fra P.A. for instructions thereon. Sometimes, after hard breath- ing, I have been filled with the sensation. I think I understand the ‘lightning flash,’ but shall experiment. My present knowledge is more as a sheet of summer lightning. The minute point of light has often appeared to me, and I had come to the conclusion that it should be held in the zenith. The radiating cone, I have not experienced. II. A.A.A. The idea of considering one’s own deat…
1929 · PDF PAGE 346
… written, in 1899, while staying with Mathers in Paris, a hymn to Isis to be used in the ceremonies of Isis worship which he was at that time proposing to revive in Paris. I changed the word "Sistron" to "cymbal" and the word "Isis" to "Mary". The hymn required no further alteration. I think that rather significant. Once more, I made a translation of the Fatihah, the most sacred chapter of the Koran, I replaced the name of God by that of Mary, and once again found favour with the Vatican. I quote a few isolated stanzas: The red sun scorches up …
1919 · PDF PAGE 170
…ning at home, for which I am grateful. It seems as if so little is entered in this diary and so much remains unsaid. How one longs some- times to express things and thoughts and generally ends by some commonplace entry. I think to-night I will try a little more than usual. All this time I have been plodding on, having made up my mind to a course of action in accordance with my aspiration. Day after day I have continued until this round of existence has become almost a fixed habit. My times of meditation and practice have dwindled till they are …
1906 · PDF PAGE 38
…eart Beats solemnly the requiem of rest. The sea keeps tune; the silent stars upstart Seeming to sentinel that sombre crest Where of old time burst out the vulture fire Cyclopean, that is dead, now, as a man’s desire. 1 Called by the Spaniards Orizaba. The drowsy cries of night birds, then the song Lovely and lovelorn in the listening vale, So wild and tender, swooping down in long Notes of despair, then lifting the low tale In golden notes to skyward in one throng Of clustered silver, so the nightingale Tunes the wild flute, as dryads he would…
1944 · PDF PAGE 10
…Vici. See Liber 418 pp. 73‐76 et al. That of Magus 9°=2° taking the motto ΤΟ ΜΕΓΑ ΘΗΡΙΟΝ (zvrt) on October 12, 1915 e.v. During all this time the Tarot was his daily companion, guide, and object of research. He succeeded in uniting under the Schema of the Holy Qabalah, of which the Tarot is the greatest single element, all philosophical and magical systems soever, including that of the Chinese. This, and his “Naples Arrangement” are with little doubt his greatest achievements in scholarship. For many years he had deplored the absence of any aut…
1907 · PDF PAGE 68
… the little. The exalted ken Knows the synthetic soul. Eileen! Close in the silence cling the patient eyes Of love: the soul accepts her time of teen, Awaits the answer. Midnight droops and dies, A floral hour; what dawn of love shall rise On a world of sorrow? Teace! Eileen! Mazed in a Titan world of rock and snow? Horséd among the bearded Bedawin ? Drowsed on a tropic river in the glow Of sunset? Whither? Who shall care or know, When one and all are this? [ileen! XIV Tuk night is void of stars: the moon is full, Veiling their radiance with he…
1905 · PDF PAGE 198
…urpose of my youth, The high desire, the secret joy, the sin That coiled its rainbow dragon scales within. Hope’s being, life’s delight, time’s eager tooth ; All, all are gone; the serpent sloughs his skin ! The quest is mine! Here ends mortality In contemplating the eternal Thee. Here, She is willing. Stands the Absolute Reaching its arms toward me. Iam mute, T draw toward. Oh, suddenly I see The treason-pledge, the royal prostitute.
1906 · PDF PAGE 15
…ltry air, Hot with the lust of night and shame, | Brooded on dust, when thy shoulders bare Shone on the sea with a sudden flame Into all Time to abundant fame? Daughter of Lust by the foam of the sea! Mother offlame! Sister of shame ! Tiger that Sin nor her son cannot tame! ~Worshtp to thee! Glory to thee! Venus Callipyge, mother of me. 1 A statue in Naples. Callipyge means ‘* having beautiful buttocks,” - Fruitless foam of a sterile sea, Wanton waves of a vain desire, Maddening billows flecked with fire, Storms that lash on the brine, and flee…
1906 · PDF PAGE 96
… : ‘“QOnce stirred, Iolchus never shall know peace Tillin its temple hangs the Golden Fleece.” Now thou hast so disquieted our days, The time is come: seek thou Aea’s? isle, And hang this trophy on our temple walls ! - JASON. Tell me what iiS - s this fleece. PELIAS. Let women sing. WOMEN. In Ares’ grove, the sworded trees, The world’s heart wondering, © Hangs evermore the Golden Fleece,’ The glory of the spring, The light of far Aea’s coast. Such glamour as befits a ghost. Before that glittering woof the Sun Shrinks back abashed in shame, The …
1907 · PDF PAGE 178
…ures; there is no lover, No loved one ; all the ages cover These things from sight: but this abides Floating above the whelming tides Of time and space: abides for ever Whether the lovers join or sever. There is no change: the love exists Beyond the moment’s suns and mists In me, abiding: and I see No lover in Eurydice, Save that her kiss awoke in me This knowledge, this supreme content, Annihilation of the event, The vast eternal element Of utter being, bliss, and thought, In dissolution direly wrought Of sense, identity’s eclipse, The shadow …
1905 · PDF PAGE 203
…d me, blindly, against your will, So shall the angel faces watch for your own souls still. A little pain and pleasure, a little touch of time, _And you shall blindly reach to the subtle and sublime ; You shall gather up your girdles to make ceady for the way, “And by the Cross of Suffering climb seeing to the Day. _ Then we shall meet again in the Presence of the Throne, Not knowing ; yetin Him! O Thou! know- ing as we are known. Ill. THE HOLY PLACE THE NEOPHYTE.! TO-NIGHT I tread the unsubstantial way Has wrought its splendour through the gate…
1907 · PDF PAGE 161
…ds Where no man understands 1 R, L. Stevenson. More than the mart ; the raucous ironshod Feet, smashing verses ; the hard heavy hands Of time: the hateful laugh where whoredom trod ; The savage snarl of man against his friend :— Howshould he (such an one) perceive the end, Or listen to the voice of Nature, know it for the voice of God ? EPODE. NATURE. Lo ! in the interstellar space of night, Clothed with deep darkness, the majestic spaces Abide the dawn of deity and light, Vibrate before the passionless pale faces Shrined in exceeding glory, er…
1910 · PDF PAGE 361
… darkness does it scrawl a sigil of light. A new God stirs in the Womb of its Mother; we can see his form, dim and red, in the cavern of Time. Dare we pronounce his name? Yea! It is Horus, Horus the Child, reborn Amsu the Good Shepherd, who will lead us out of the sheepish stupidity of to-day. How many understand this mystery? Perhaps none save those who have seen and subscribed to the Law of Thelema, LECF. THE LosT VALLEY. By ALGERNON BLACKWOOD. Nash. 6s. It is the penalty of factitious success that the need of fuel increases like the dose ofa…
1910 · PDF PAGE 361
… darkness does it scrawl a sigil of light. A new God stirs in the Womb of its Mother; we can see his form, dim and red, in the cavern of Time. Dare we pronounce his name? Yea! It is Horus, Horus the Child, reborn Amsu the Good Shepherd, who will lead us out of the sheepish stupidity of to-day. How many understand this mystery? Perhaps none save those who have seen and subscribed to the Law of Thelema, LECF. THE LosT VALLEY. By ALGERNON BLACKWOOD. Nash. 6s. It is the penalty of factitious success that the need of fuel increases like the dose ofa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 7
…nd allow the vilest crimes to be imputed to him? Matuers. Anything to damage Crowley! Scorpio, K.C. Did you quarrel with him ever at the time? MatHERS. Yes. Scorpio, K.C. Let me read you the published account of your quarrel: seen, induced Mathers to put in force the Deadly and Hostile Current of Will, but, as in the case of the Jackdaw of Rheims, nobody seemed a penny the worse. One might have expected that Mathers having failed, Aleister Crowley would have abandoned him. No, for it seemed still possible that Mathers, really in touch with the …
1944 · PDF PAGE 177
… is all one case of the general proposition that the sum of the infinite Energy of the Universe is Zero. The Two of Pentacles was of old time called the Lord of Harmonious Change. Now, more simply, Change; and here the doctrine must be stated a little more clearly. This suit being of Earth, there is a connection with the Princesses, and therefore with the final Hé of Tetra‐ grammaton. Earth is the throne of Spirit; having got to the bottom, one immediately comes out again at the top. Hence, the card manifests the symbolism of the serpent of the…
1905 · PDF PAGE 222
…st out, and life devouring death. Of freedom, though all manhood were one slave ; Of truth, though all the world were har; of love, That time nor hate can raze the witness of.” SWINBURNE, Zs esizas. NINE voices that raise high the eternal hymn! Nine faces that ring round the rainbow sky.! Hear me! The century’s lamp is growing dim ; Saturnian gloom descends and it must die. Fili, fill my spirit to the utter brim With fire and melody ! O nine sweet sisters! I have heard your song In blue soft waters and in stern grey seas; I listen for your voic…
1907 · PDF PAGE 85
…th I have. DENYS. Oh, hang me now, and have done with it ! ALAIN. No haste. An hour of life is always— an hour. And though one half that time is nigh lapsed already, yet—if you will give me your word of honour to do nothing desperate, and to await my return before you fling yourself from the window,—or, as I guess, —on the pikes of my retainers, I will with- draw myself and them that you may talk in greater privacy with the Lady Blanche. I fought at Arcy, and know what wonders may happen in an hour. [DENYS ‘furas bitterly, almost savagely, towa…
1939 · PDF PAGE 42
…ment. This is only for the few. But every student should make a point of saluting the Sun (in the manner recommended in Liber Resh) four times daily, and he shall salute the Moon on her appearance with the Mantra Gayatri. The best way is to say the Mantra instantly one sees the Moon, to note whether the attention wavers, and to repeat the Mantra until it does not waver at all. He should also practise assiduously Liber III. vel Jugorum. The essence of this practice is that you select a familiar thought, word or gesture, one which automatically r…