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THE EQUINOX expressed by the Ten Voices or Emanations of God the Vast One—Blessed be He !—even the Holy Sephiroth. And the Method whereby I shall work shall be the One Absolute and inerratic Science: the Science of Number: which is that single Mystery of the Intellect of Man whereby he becometh exalted unto the Throne of Inflexible and Unerring Godhead. As it is written, “Oh, how the World hath Inflexible Intellectual Rulers” (Zoroaster). But before I may proceed unto the Qabalistical * enumera- tion and analysis of the Text, a certain preamble…
1910 · PDF PAGE 137
…etaphysical theories of thought which pass current in the West. Yet they hold that all depend, ring within ring, upon the central point, God. If the Eastern is an idealist, it is the idealism of Malebranche or Berkeley ; if a sceptic, it is the scepticism of Huxley or Hume ; if a materialist, it is the materialism of Leibnitz or the earlier Kant. 3. Charles’ wain — the Great Bear, the Car of David, and many other names, all equally absurd.
1911 · PDF PAGE 131
….” " Oh how true, how right you are! How noble] " She hid her face in her hands and began to cry to herself. “ I see] I see! That is how God must see the Universe, or He could never tolerate such cruelty, such idiotcy, ineptitude.” “ Exactly. Suppose now that the world is only symbol—— I had rather say sacrament—suppose for example that all these stars swimming in boundless æther are but corpuscles in the blood of some toy terrier of the Creator.” " You frighten me. I don’t want to suppose.” ”Think of the eternal battles of haemoglobin, oxyhaem…
1911 · PDF PAGE 131
….” " Oh how true, how right you are! How noble] " She hid her face in her hands and began to cry to herself. “ I see] I see! That is how God must see the Universe, or He could never tolerate such cruelty, such idiotcy, ineptitude.” “ Exactly. Suppose now that the world is only symbol—— I had rather say sacrament—suppose for example that all these stars swimming in boundless æther are but corpuscles in the blood of some toy terrier of the Creator.” " You frighten me. I don’t want to suppose.” ”Think of the eternal battles of haemoglobin, oxyhaem…
1916 · PDF PAGE 9
… of form. The states of mind are identical.) A true prophet lives only by virtue of his inner vision. He is responsible to what he calls God, and to nothing and nobody else. Such men are rare, as are all other types of genius. And it is the innate perception of this fact that causes the people to look for prophets always, but most especially in times of crisis. For this reason also false prophets abound. It is only natural that the valuable should be counterfeited. But the test of the true prophet is a very simple one. It is the independence of…
1906 · PDF PAGE 243
… Pleroma, Parabrahma, or the Allah of the Unity - adoring followers”of Mohammed. (To the Musulman fakir, Allah is by no means a personal God.) Unity is thus unaffected, whether or no it be extended in any of the categories. But we have already agreed to look to 0 for the Uncaused. Now if there was in truth 0 ‘‘ before the beginning of years,” THAT 0 WAS Ex- TENDED IN NONE OF THE CATE- GORIES, FOR THERE COULD HAVE BEEN NO CATEGORIES IN WHICH IT COULD EXTEND! If our 0 was the ordinary 0 of mathematics, there was not truly absolute 0, for 0 is, as…
1910 · PDF PAGE 157
…n text] is further the equation of [Persian text] 5 the Pen- tagram and [Persian text] 6 the Hexagram, Micro and Macro-prosopus, Man and God. 17. This is the extreme sceptico-mystical posi- tion : to admit that phenomena are perfectly mys- terious, while asserting a direct consciousness of the Absolute.
1910 · PDF PAGE 40
… adeptship as to credit the evidence of my senses). I have consequently done all I can to shock and hurt the enemy. I have painted their God as the obscene thing he is from my knowledge of my Uncle Tom ; I have made his Trinity ridiculous and his scheme disgusting ; I have painted Magdalen as the Syrian strumpet she was from the best models among English society whores (thank you, Ada ; thank you, Kathleen !) ; I have painted Mary as a lascivious flapper from my knowledge of English virgins — thank you, Vera ! thank you, Lydia ! thank you, Mill…
1911 · PDF PAGE 62
…ken, nay, not by the malice of the Four Great Princes of the evil of the world, nor by Choronzon, that mighty Devil, nor by the wrath of God, nor by the affliction and feebleness of the soul. Yet with this assurance be not thou content; for though thou hast the wings of the Eagle, they are vain, except they be joined to the shoulders of the Bull. Now, therefore, I send forth a shaft of my light, even as a ladder let down from the heaven upon the earth, and by this black cross of Themis that I hold before thine eyes, do I swear unto thee that th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 481
…l mysteries of oriental initiation. A distinguished but little known man of learning, Mr. P. Lacour, in his book on the Elohim or Mosaic God, has thrown a great light on that question, and has rediscovered in the symbols of Egypt all the allegorical figures of Genesis. More recently, another courageous student of vast erudition, Mr. Vincent (de I’Yonne), has published a treatise upon idolatry among both the ancients and the moderns, in which he raises the veil of universal mythology. We invite conscientious students to read these various 183
1913 · PDF PAGE 481
…l mysteries of oriental initiation. A distinguished but little known man of learning, Mr. P. Lacour, in his book on the Elohim or Mosaic God, has thrown a great light on that question, and has rediscovered in the symbols of Egypt all the allegorical figures of Genesis. More recently, another courageous student of vast erudition, Mr. Vincent (de I’Yonne), has published a treatise upon idolatry among both the ancients and the moderns, in which he raises the veil of universal mythology. We invite conscientious students to read these various 183
1906 · PDF PAGE 283
…s to the engineer. Strain and fatigue are ob- served by the latter, but not associated by him with the idea of pain: much more so, then, God, Myst, You are bold enough now! Our philosophers think it not fitting that man should discuss the ways of the inscrutable, the eternal God. Scept. I have you tripping fairly at last! What do you mean by “ eternal”? You who have uprooted my ideas of time, answer me that? Myst. A woodcock to mine own springe, indeed. I am justly caught with mine own metaphysic. 1 The science of the Purpose of Things. Certain…
1907 · PDF PAGE 247
…to that taught by Eckhart in Germany at the beginning of the fourteenth century . " That the creature apart from the Absolute , that is, God , was nothing , that “ Time , Space , and the plurality which depends on them ,' are also nothing in them selves , and that the duty of man as a moral being is to rise beyond this nothingness of the creature , and by direct intuition to place himself in immediate union 1 Absolute Relativism , p . 14 . 2 lbid . p . 15 .
1909 · PDF PAGE 126
…d support it, unblasted, was matter for astonishment. “Now the older voice broke into filthy insult, a very frenzy of malice. “T heard—O God !—the swish of a whip, and the sound of it falling upon flesh. “ There was silence awhile, save for the hideous laughter of the invisible horror inside. “ At last a piteous little moan. “My blood sangshrill within me. Out of myself, I sprang at the railings, and was over them in a second. Rapidly, and quite unobserved (for the scene was strenuous within), I climbed up the grating of the lower windows, and,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 126
…d support it, unblasted, was matter for astonishment. “Now the older voice broke into filthy insult, a very frenzy of malice. “T heard—O God !—the swish of a whip, and the sound of it falling upon flesh. “ There was silence awhile, save for the hideous laughter of the invisible horror inside. “ At last a piteous little moan. “My blood sangshrill within me. Out of myself, I sprang at the railings, and was over them in a second. Rapidly, and quite unobserved (for the scene was strenuous within), I climbed up the grating of the lower windows, and,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 555
…ted.” “I did that because I ought not to have done it.” There is the terrible antistrophe of Tertullian’s Credo guia absurdun.. To brave God and to insult Him, is a final act of faith. “The dead praise thee not, O Lord,” said the Psalmist; and we might add if we dared: ‘‘ The dead do not blaspheme thee.” “O my son!” said a father as he leaned over the bed of his child who had fallen into lethargy after a violent access of delirium: “insult me again, beat me, bite me, I shall feel that you are still alive, but do not rest for ever in the frightf…
1913 · PDF PAGE 555
…ted.” “I did that because I ought not to have done it.” There is the terrible antistrophe of Tertullian’s Credo guia absurdun.. To brave God and to insult Him, is a final act of faith. “The dead praise thee not, O Lord,” said the Psalmist; and we might add if we dared: ‘‘ The dead do not blaspheme thee.” “O my son!” said a father as he leaned over the bed of his child who had fallen into lethargy after a violent access of delirium: “insult me again, beat me, bite me, I shall feel that you are still alive, but do not rest for ever in the frightf…
1907 · PDF PAGE 233
…mity, and his twin, Mr. Nonconformity, agree to pretend that initiates are always either dupes or impostors; they deny that| man can see God and live. Look! There goes John Compromise to church, speculat- ing, like Lot’s wife, on the probable slump in sulphur and the gloomy outlook for the Insurance Companies. It will never do for his Christ to be a man of like passions with himself, else people might expect him to aim at a life like Christ's. He wants to wallow and swill, and hope for an impos sible heaven. So that it will be imprudent of you …
1907 · PDF PAGE 12
PREFACE 55 in one harmonious light ; thence shall we travel to the holy and humble house of the heart , wherein our God is born , whose name is ineffable, a Crown of Glory , exalted forever above the Balance of Righteousness and Truth . T.A.R.O. As author of the following essay to you my readers , I can but say with the four beasts of the Apocalypse : " Come and See . ” “ Behold the Lion ... hath prevailed to open the Book and to loose the seven seals thereof. " For until now “ No man in heaven , nor in earth , neither under the earth , was abl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 101
…lie latent in matter , as opposed to the bliss of spirit , Crowley sets forth very forcibly in several of his poems . In “ The Growth of God ” we have most of the argument in the following lines : The Shapeless , racked with agony , that grew Into these phantom forms that change and shatter ; The falling of the first toad - spotted dew ; The first lewd heaving ecstasy of matter .” 1 The idea grows still more powerfully in the next verse : I see all Nature claw and tear and bite , All hateful love and hideous : and the brood Misshapen , misbegot…