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Page 142 of 1731919 · PDF PAGE 149
A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE I consider the above very bad; but the explanation is that this particular hour was a great ‘rush’ as I had to call at my brother’s Office, go home for lunch, do some shopping for lunch, and back again to eat same, also get shaved, in one hour. I evidently got flurried and lost control a bit. (Note the time when talking to my brother is doubtful, but have included it.) I think I should here note that on Saturday evening, Sunday and Monday I was quite aware of my task practi- cally all the time; even when I made mistakes, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 49
…, and of the heavenly protection afforded to the infant. Next should be commemorated the journeying westward upon an ass. Now cornes the great scene of the drama: the gentle, exquisite youth with his foliowing (chiefly composed of women) seems to threaten the established order of things, and that Established Order takes steps to put an end to the upstart. We find Dionysus confronting the angry King, not with défiance, but with meekness; yet with a subtle confidence, an underlying laughter. His forehead is wreathed with vine tendrils. He is an e…
1929 · PDF PAGE 69
…ng: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." Lisa thought that breakfast the most delicious she had ever tasted in her life. A great reaction from the strain of the previous twenty-four hours was
1907 · PDF PAGE 109
…ddy and fair of face ; He held his tongue a space. The sixth was many-coloured, but He kept his lips well shut. The last was like a full great moon ; He knew, but uttered not, his rune. II, Now when the time was fully come The dying man was dumb, But with his failing hand did make A sign: my heart doth ache. At that the kingly man, the fourth, Rose up and spat against the North. Then made the dying man a sign: My head is running like strong wine. The agéd man lifted his mouth And spat against the South. He clutched his throat in pang of death, …
1954 · PDF PAGE 421
… Talisman. Then, when rage takes you, it can be thrown upon the fire to stifle it: to thrust against the Demon, to disintegrate him. The great point is to have this weapon very firmly constructed, very complete . Your rage will pass in one of those two ways, which are one: Rapture and Laughter. Astral Fligh t ! ! ! Excuse me if I mention it, but-no doubt the fault is mine-you seem to have failed to note any single one of all my prayerful injunctions , either in the letter or on your visit. Perhaps you thought that I should take circles and pent…
1910 · PDF PAGE 153
…n he dies. ... We may then consider the moment of John Smith’s death... . During his life he has not alone been setting in vibration the great ocean of the ther, he has been affecting the structure of his own brain. So that at the moment of his death all his own life, and all his past lives are existing pictured in a definite and characteristic molecular structure, a tremendous complicated representation of all that we have meant by the term John Smith—the record of the thoughts and doings of unnumbered lives. Each cell of the millions of his b…
1910 · PDF PAGE 153
…n he dies. ... We may then consider the moment of John Smith’s death... . During his life he has not alone been setting in vibration the great ocean of the ther, he has been affecting the structure of his own brain. So that at the moment of his death all his own life, and all his past lives are existing pictured in a definite and characteristic molecular structure, a tremendous complicated representation of all that we have meant by the term John Smith—the record of the thoughts and doings of unnumbered lives. Each cell of the millions of his b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 41
…t once how parallel is our situation to that of the surface of the water? "The first impression of the savage about the universe is of a great mysterious jumble of things which come upon him without rime or reason, usually to smite him down. "Long later, man developed the idea of connecting phenomena, at least a few at a time. "Centuries elapse; he begins to perceive law, at first operating only in a very few matters. [61]
1913 · PDF PAGE 468
…before De la Marck, who first cut him over the face, then murdered him with his own hand, and caused his body to be exposed naked in the great square of Litge before St. Lambert’s Cathedral.” Three years after the Bishop's death, Maximilian, Emperor of Austria, caused De la Marck to be arrested at Utrecht, where he was beheaded in 1485. 170
1913 · PDF PAGE 468
…before De la Marck, who first cut him over the face, then murdered him with his own hand, and caused his body to be exposed naked in the great square of Litge before St. Lambert’s Cathedral.” Three years after the Bishop's death, Maximilian, Emperor of Austria, caused De la Marck to be arrested at Utrecht, where he was beheaded in 1485. 170
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
… last element; making the Word of either five or six letters, according as we regard ShT as one letter or two. Thus the Word affirms the Great Work accomplished : 5° = 6D- ShT is moreover a necessary resolution of the apparent opposi¬ tion of LA and AL, for one could hardly pass to the other without the catalytic action of a third identical expression whose function should be to transmute them. Such a term must be in itself a mode of Naught, and its nature cannot encroach on the perfections of Not-Being, LA, or of Being, AL. It must be purely N…
1905 · PDF PAGE 256
TANNHAUSER 249 Great lord, true knight, and honest gentle- man, So long who journeyed on the holy quest Forgotten of these younger days, and now Come back among us to receive reward For those long sufferings ; in days of peace, In fruitful love, and marriage happiness. So, to the poet’s tourney. HERALD. Sire, Lord Heinrich Craves your high pardon. LANDGRAVE. Ha! He is not here! WOLFRAM. Our sturdy lover will not be consoled For losing, as he phrases it, his friend. LANDGRAVE. Well, we forgive him the more readily Because of the occasion. One al…
1996 · PDF PAGE 15
…. The values of the Book, its application to our lives, to the questions of our time, must be explained. I believe that those values are great; and that the more widely the principles of The Book of the Law are adopted, the better chance there will be for our escape from a renewal, on a more disastrous scale, of the calamities of the past quarter of a century. If those principles come to be generally adopted, I believe that mankind will issue triumphantly from the evils of its past. A veritable “New Order” will be set up, bringing with it a gen…
1929 · PDF PAGE 51
…ing the practical diffi- culties of this method of Invocation. It will doubtless hâve been noted by the acumen of the reader that in the great essentials these three methods are one. In each case the magician identifies himself with the Deity invoked. To invoke is to call in, just as to evoke ïs to call forth. This is the essential différence between the two branches of Magick. In invocation, the macrocosm floods the consciousness. In évocation, the magician, having become the macrocosm, créâtes a microcosm. You i/zvoke a God into the Circle. Y…
1902 · PDF PAGE 146
…n and expression." "Mr Crowley out-Swinburne's Mr Swinburne. . . . Shows no mean technical accom- plishment." "The pupil is in some ways greater than the master (Mr Swinburne)." " Most exalted moods of mysticism . . . richness and visionary splendour of the imagery and the aptness and transfiguring power of the rhythms . . . plastic and intensely dramatic . . . this poet is authentic and will reveal to the world much new beauty. . . ." "A kind of middle-class .Swinburne at second-hand . . . morbid unpleasantness of Mr Crowley's taste." " Much t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 56
… building a philosophical system upon it. With this understanding, we may rehabilitate the Hebrew System of invocations. The mind is the great enemy; so, by invoking enthusiastically a person whom we know not to exist, we are rebuking that mind. Yet we should not refrain altogether from philosophising in the light of the Holy Qabalah. We should accept the Magical Hierarchy as a more or less con- venient classification of the facts of the Universe as they are i. He could do this provided that he can travel with à speed exceeding that of Light, a…
1930 · PDF PAGE 21
…d, as if it were anything else. To do Magick without keeping a record is like tiying to run a business without book-keeping. There are a great manv people who quite misunderstand the nature of Magick. They hâve an idea that it is something vague and unreal, instead ot being, as it is, a direct means of coming into contact with reauty. It is these people who pay themselves with phrases, who are always using long words with no definite connotation, who p aster themselves with pompous titles and décorations which mean nothing whatever. With such p…
1930 · PDF PAGE 134
…37. But the progress is progress, and progress is rapture, constant, dazzling, showers of light, waves of dew, fiâmes of the haïr of the Great Goddess, flowers of the roses that are about her neck, Amen ! 38. Therefore lift up thyself as I am lifted up. Hold thyself in as I am master to accomplish. At the end, be the end far distant as the stars that lie in the navel of Nuit, do thou slay thyself as I at the end am slain, in the death that is life, in the peace that is mother of war, in the darkness that holds light in his hand, as an harlot th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 13
…ith 93, the esoteric key of the whole Book.2 The squaring of the circle is an age-long tradi tional symbol of the accomplishment of the Great Work. It may be added that from this starting-point many other Qabalistic mysteries are to be found—so numerous and so significant that no human mind such as we know could pos sibly have woven the whole series into this Book, which was dictated and scribbled at lightning speed.
1910 · PDF PAGE 194
…thana,; and found it easy to get into the way of it as a mantra which does not interfere much with sense- * Till 1906. The theory of the Great White Brotherhood, as set forth in the story called “The Blossom and the Fruit,” by Miss Mabel Collins. + The practice of Mahasipatthana is explained by Mr. A. Crowley in his “Science and Buddhism” very fully. Briefly: In this meditation the mind is not restrained to the contemplation of a single object, and there is no interference with the natural functions of the body. It is essentially an observation…