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Page 147 of 1971907 · PDF PAGE 114
… that gush within the goal Are songs that shudder in the soul, and springs that gladden at the sun. They flood me with irradiate tunes of life and ecstasy and light As though some misty maid of night were girded with a million moons. They make my pulsing blood to pour in rhythmic throbs of music rare; My songs shall course the choral air from Mazaghan to Mogador. And leaping all the lesser bars I shall become the One and All, And cry the cross-dissolving call, and lose myself among the stars. This is indeed paradox, cried the scholar. You embold…
1909 · PDF PAGE 245
…C , P. had for the time being laid aside von Rosenroth, and was now deep in “‘ The Book of the * At this time P. was leading an hermit’s life on a Swiss glacier with one whom, though he knew it not at the time, was destined ever and anon to bring him wisdom from the Great White Brotherhood, This one we shall meet again under the initials D. A. + Afterwards known as Frater C. S. 237
1909 · PDF PAGE 245
…C , P. had for the time being laid aside von Rosenroth, and was now deep in “‘ The Book of the * At this time P. was leading an hermit’s life on a Swiss glacier with one whom, though he knew it not at the time, was destined ever and anon to bring him wisdom from the Great White Brotherhood, This one we shall meet again under the initials D. A. + Afterwards known as Frater C. S. 237
1910 · PDF PAGE 153
…gi reaches the state of success, and his body be- comes brilliant and divine. 60. Ejaculation of semen is death, preserving it within is life ; therefore, let the Yogi preserve his semen with great care. 61. Verily, verily, men are born and die through semen ; knowing this, let the Yogi always practise to preserve his semen. 62. When through great efforts success in the preservation of the semen is obtained, what then cannot be achieved in this world ? Through the
1913 · PDF PAGE 157
…el hath led thee! Thou didst ask fame, power and pleasure, health and wealth and love, and strength, and length of days. Thou didst hold life with eight tentacles, like an octopus. Thou didst seek the four powers and the seven delights and the twelve emancipations and the two and twenty privileges and the nine and forty Manifestations, and lo! thou art become as one of These. Bowed are their backs, whereon resteth the 117
1913 · PDF PAGE 514
…ssible to stop in its early stages by exercising a powerful action of will on the astral body as it breaks loose, and by recalling it to life through some powerful interest or some dominating affection. Jesus expressed the same thought when he said to the daughter of Jairus: “ The maiden is not dead, but sleepeth”; and of Lazarus: “ Our friend is fallen asleep, and I go to wake him.” To express this resurrection- ist system in such a manner as not to offend common sense, by which we mean generally-held opinions, let us say that death, when ther…
1913 · PDF PAGE 567
…t is by the conquest. of an intelligence eternally clear and of a will eternally just, that he constitutes himself as living for eternal life, since nothing survives injustice and error but the penalty of their disorder. To understand good is to will it, and on the plane of justice to will is to do. For this reason the Gospel tells us that men will be judged according to their works. Our works make us so much what we are, that our body itself, as we have said, receives the modification, and sometimes the complete change, of its form from our ha…
1913 · PDF PAGE 157
…el hath led thee! Thou didst ask fame, power and pleasure, health and wealth and love, and strength, and length of days. Thou didst hold life with eight tentacles, like an octopus. Thou didst seek the four powers and the seven delights and the twelve emancipations and the two and twenty privileges and the nine and forty Manifestations, and lo! thou art become as one of These. Bowed are their backs, whereon resteth the 117
1913 · PDF PAGE 514
…ssible to stop in its early stages by exercising a powerful action of will on the astral body as it breaks loose, and by recalling it to life through some powerful interest or some dominating affection. Jesus expressed the same thought when he said to the daughter of Jairus: “ The maiden is not dead, but sleepeth”; and of Lazarus: “ Our friend is fallen asleep, and I go to wake him.” To express this resurrection- ist system in such a manner as not to offend common sense, by which we mean generally-held opinions, let us say that death, when ther…
1913 · PDF PAGE 567
…t is by the conquest. of an intelligence eternally clear and of a will eternally just, that he constitutes himself as living for eternal life, since nothing survives injustice and error but the penalty of their disorder. To understand good is to will it, and on the plane of justice to will is to do. For this reason the Gospel tells us that men will be judged according to their works. Our works make us so much what we are, that our body itself, as we have said, receives the modification, and sometimes the complete change, of its form from our ha…
1913 · PDF PAGE 13
Maries. “II mean he—escaped to the C became an Adept and found the Elixir of Life, so hhe—should live on indefinitely ‘Sconeio, K.C. When do we hear of him again? Mariters. “As the Comte de St. Germain.” Sconeio, K.C. And axain? Maries, "I refuse to answer the K.C. Have you read Mr, Crowley's poem + * The Rosicrucian,” dedicated “a sa Majesté Jacques IV d’Ecosse” 7 Marius, Yes. Mr, Crowley was a very young and tool boy. ‘Sconrio, K.C. He believed you to be James IV? ‘Marituxs. Very likely Sconri0, KC, Did he or did he not? Mariins, "It was not …
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
…ing, thereby to serve as a Talisman charged with the Spiritual Energy of Existence, an Elixir or Stone composed of the physical basis of Life. This Commémoration is placed between the two Per¬ sonal appeals to the Angel, as if to claim privilège to partake of this Eucharist which createth, sus- taineth and redeemeth ail things. He now asserts that he is himself the “Angel” or messenger of his Angel 5 that is, that he is a mind and body whose office is to receive and transmit the Word of his Angel. He hails his Angel not only as “un-nefer” the P…
1911 · PDF PAGE 74
…nk of the waters of death. The answer: Not otherwise could he water the Rose. And the first voice: He hath burnt himself at the Fires of life. And the answer: Not otherwise could he sun the Rose. And the first voice is so faint that I cannot hear it. But the answer is: Not other- wise could he pluck the Rose. And still I go on, struggling with the blackness. Now there is an earthquake. The veil is torn into thousands of pieces that go flying away in a whirling wind. And there is an all-glorious Angel before me, standing in the sign of Apophis a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 138
…a just appreciation or poetic values. Mr. Crowley has not shirked the ugliness of his theme. He had no temptation to do so. For he holds life cheap as against ideals, even the basest of whichis sacredin his eyes. Let Monica be a raving wanton, so she love Venice and subserve her wantonness to that first object. The use of the Alexandrineis a pleasant innovation, and one fully justified by re- sults.” —Literary World. ***Mortadello’ is a much more ambitious experi- ment. Dubbed a comedy, it certainly contains dramatic stuff underlying the not ve…
1913 · PDF PAGE 139
…previous, and there found the disciple K. M. W., whose request for the ski had brought him to the loft. Here, too, was the reason of his life-tragedy, for without that he would not have gone to Cumberland at that time or gone to his house in Scotland that summer. There was no further escape. He must take up the terrible Karma, which he had evaded, in spite of the tremendous pressure brought to bear upon him by the Masters, for five years. It is Their silent dealings with him which fill Volume O of the Zgiinox. Broken at last, he went to the top…
1913 · PDF PAGE 139
…previous, and there found the disciple K. M. W., whose request for the ski had brought him to the loft. Here, too, was the reason of his life-tragedy, for without that he would not have gone to Cumberland at that time or gone to his house in Scotland that summer. There was no further escape. He must take up the terrible Karma, which he had evaded, in spite of the tremendous pressure brought to bear upon him by the Masters, for five years. It is Their silent dealings with him which fill Volume O of the Zgiinox. Broken at last, he went to the top…
1919 · PDF PAGE 115
…raving. And this state is called mystically “Dry- ness.” For this there is, as I believe, no cure but patient per- sistence in a Rule of Life. 109
1922 · PDF PAGE 185
…s at the root of my brain. He is Jupiter and I have sprung from his thought ; Minerva, Goddess of Wisdom ! The most tremendous events of life are unworthy trifles. The sublimity of my conceptions sweeps onward from nowhere to nowhere. Behind my articulate anthem is a stainless silence. I am not writing for any reason, not even for myself to read; the action is automatic. I am the first-born child of King Lamus without a mother. I am the emanation of his essence. I lay all night without moving a muscle. The near- ness of my husband completed the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 64
…s in “ Alice,” “ The dove gave place a moment to the swine ; ”—and yet hardly so ! the pure desire of man and woman in whatever state of life , the weaving of the golden web of twain into one entity, is not lust , never was lust , never will be lust . According to the conventional meaning of that word , lust expresses something unhealthy , unclean ; and the love Charicles bore Archais was certainly not that . This love , to use a good old English word , was a “ lusty ” love , that is a healthy love , and not a lustful or perverted desire . The …
1909 · PDF PAGE 233
…t must be trampled under foot as if they were the very cockroaches of hell, before Freedom of even a protoplasmic kind can be brought to life. Better be a savage, a one-legged hottentot, better be anything than a civilised eunuch, a crape-capped “ widder ” in Upper Tooting lamenting her “demised husband” whilst she counts the halfpence he has left behind him in his trouser pockets. If there is going to be a flood, let it be grand, typhoonic, tor- rential; do not let others pass by us and say: “ Really, my dear, what an insalubrious odour!” The …