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Page 155 of 2251910 · PDF PAGE 208
…r to mine. For Iit seems I hardly know what question to ask ! Oh, Charley boy, the future is with you, and with your childrenor, can humanity ever solve the great secret ? Is progress a delusion ? Are men mad ? Is the great secret truly transcendental ? We are like madmen, beating out our poor brains upon the walls of the Universe. Is there no Power that might reveal itself ? [Kneels.] Who art Thou before whom all things are equal, being as dust ? Who givest his fame to the poet, his bankruptcy to the rich man ? Who dost distinguish between t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 290
…d crying “ Death to tyranny and superstition!” in the bosom of a certain secret Areopagus of which he was the most famous member. When a man becomes a magician he looks about him for a magical weapon; and, being probably endowed with that human frailty called laziness, he hopes to find a weapon ready made. Thus we find the Christian Magus who imposed his power upon the world taking the existing worships and making a single system combining all their merits. There is no single feature in Christianity which has not been taken bodily from the wors…
1913 · PDF PAGE 364
THE EQUINOX The Gospel says that at the death of the Saviour the veil of the Temple was rent, because that death manifested the triumph of devotion, the miracle of charity, the power of God in man, divine humanity, and human divinity, the highest and most sublime of Arcana, the last word of all initiations. But the Saviour knew that at first men would not under- stand him, and he said: “You will not be able to bear at present the full light of my doctrine; but, when the Spirit of Truth shall manifest himself, he will teach you all truth, and he…
1913 · PDF PAGE 290
…d crying “ Death to tyranny and superstition!” in the bosom of a certain secret Areopagus of which he was the most famous member. When a man becomes a magician he looks about him for a magical weapon; and, being probably endowed with that human frailty called laziness, he hopes to find a weapon ready made. Thus we find the Christian Magus who imposed his power upon the world taking the existing worships and making a single system combining all their merits. There is no single feature in Christianity which has not been taken bodily from the wors…
1913 · PDF PAGE 364
THE EQUINOX The Gospel says that at the death of the Saviour the veil of the Temple was rent, because that death manifested the triumph of devotion, the miracle of charity, the power of God in man, divine humanity, and human divinity, the highest and most sublime of Arcana, the last word of all initiations. But the Saviour knew that at first men would not under- stand him, and he said: “You will not be able to bear at present the full light of my doctrine; but, when the Spirit of Truth shall manifest himself, he will teach you all truth, and he…
1915 · PDF PAGE 1
…Outs With It Originally published in the 1913 edition of The World on Fire or Englands Own Inferno. In point of fact, gallant little Germany is against a world in arms. Austria has been torn for many years by internal divisions; only a part of her population is of German stock. But against Germany and this one friend are arrayed Russia, France, England, Servia, Montene- gro, and Japan; and every one of these nations is throw- ing its whole diplomatic weight into the task of getting Roumania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Holland, Denmark, and the U…
1919 · PDF PAGE 385
THE TWO PATHS 50. The selfish devotee lives to no purpose. The man who does not go through his appointed work in life—has lived in vain. This verse repeats this lesson yet once more. It is another way of saying: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 51. Follow the wheel of life; follow the wheel of duty to race and kin, to friend and foe, and close thy mind to pleas- ures as to pain. Exhaust the law of Karmic retribution. Gain Siddhis for thy future birth. This again states the same thing, urges the aspirant to live his life fully on…
1929 · PDF PAGE 40
The sick man stirred feebly. A portion of his brain had shaken off the poison for the moment, and was working furiously against time. I am going to die. The consolation of death is Religion. There is no use for Religion in life. How many atheists have I not known sign the arti- cles the sake of fellowships and livings! Religion in life is either an amusement and a soporific or a sham and a swindle. I was brought up a Presbyterian How easily I drifted into the English Church! And now where is God? Where is the Lamb of God? Where is the …
1954 · PDF PAGE 510
… threadbare. But in religion, note the Bottomless Pit and the Eternal Flame; in Buddhism, the eighteen hot and eighteen cold Hells, with many another beneath. Hindu eschatology has countless Hells; even pedestrian, precise Islam, and the calculating Qabalists, each boast of Seven. Again with drugs as with insanity, we are confronted constantly with nameless terrors; the idea of formlessness, of infinity pervades them alike. Consider the man who takes every chance gesture of a stranger in the street as a secret sign passed from one of his persec…
1929 · PDF PAGE 396
… virtue of its own excellence. With these ideas in mind, I constructed seven rituals to the planets. In two of these I was assisted by a man named George Rafflovitch, whose father was a Jewish banker of Odessa, and whose mother a countess descended from one of the ministers of finance under Napoleon. Born in Canes, he had been taken for the army very much against his will. The result was a notorious lawsuit to determine his status. Coming of age, he had squandered his millions. No extravagance was too imbecile. At one time he bought a travellin…
1907 · PDF PAGE 143
…ewd fancies in my ear. Great fish , Monstrous and flat, with vile malignant eyes , And crawling beetles of gigantic strength , Crushed , mangled , moving , are about me . Go ! Go ! do not touch the carcass of myself That is abased , defiled , abominable .' Then Ulric enters , evidently now totally mad ; the fearful power of his Neronic lust has reft asunder the last thread of his sanity ; in his hand he carries a razor , first he slays Madeline , and then , at his mother's bidding , himself : A blood-gr vapour and a scorpion steam To poison the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 294
…e earthy grasp of the understand ing , and the Ego sloughs its outward empirical skin , we then become mystics ; nevertheless , “ If any man say , I love God , and hateth his brother , he is a liar . For he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth , how can he love God whom he seeth not .” So the mystic's work lies here in life , and the greatest and most divine mystics have probably been those whose naïveté of soul was such , that they knew not that they were mystics , and whose illumination has become so brilliant , that they cannot even fin…
1913 · PDF PAGE 13
… several reasons , a mistaken one ; but chiefly for this , that it leaves the poet 's business half done . It is not enough that he is a man more sensitive than his fellows , that he guesses at universal secrets unguessed by them , that his gift pro
1913 · PDF PAGE 294
…een solved by theancients. Before our annals began, their solutions, written in hieroglyphs, had already no longer any meaning for us. A man has rediscovered their key ; he has opened the cemeteries of ancient science, and he gives to his century a whole world of forgotten theorems, of syntheses as simple and sublime as nature, radiating always from unity, and multiplying themselves like numbers with proportions so exact, that the known demonstrates and reveals the unknown. To under- stand this science, is to see God. The author of this book, a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 436
… to be described in detail. There is in Paris a writer named Mr. Madrolle, who is, to say the least of it, a bit eccentric. He is an old man of good family. He wrote at first on behalf of Catholicism in the most exalted way, received most flattering encouragements from ecclesiastical authority, and even letters from the Holy See. Then he saw Vintras; and, led away by the prestige of his miracles, became a determined sectarian, and an irreconcil- able enemy of the hierarchy and of the clergy. At ‘the period when Eliphas Levi was publishing his D…
1913 · PDF PAGE 558
…ons perverts the moral sense; one seeks them for their own sakes; one sacrifices everything in order to procure them for one’s self. A romantic woman will easily become an Old Bailey heroine. She may even arrive at the deplorable and irreparable absurdity of killing herself in order to admire herself, and pity herself, in seeing herself die! Romantic habits lead women to hysteria and men to melancholia. Manfred, René, Lélia are types of perversity only the more profound in that they argue on behalf of their unhealthy pride, and make poems of th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 294
…een solved by theancients. Before our annals began, their solutions, written in hieroglyphs, had already no longer any meaning for us. A man has rediscovered their key ; he has opened the cemeteries of ancient science, and he gives to his century a whole world of forgotten theorems, of syntheses as simple and sublime as nature, radiating always from unity, and multiplying themselves like numbers with proportions so exact, that the known demonstrates and reveals the unknown. To under- stand this science, is to see God. The author of this book, a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 436
… to be described in detail. There is in Paris a writer named Mr. Madrolle, who is, to say the least of it, a bit eccentric. He is an old man of good family. He wrote at first on behalf of Catholicism in the most exalted way, received most flattering encouragements from ecclesiastical authority, and even letters from the Holy See. Then he saw Vintras; and, led away by the prestige of his miracles, became a determined sectarian, and an irreconcil- able enemy of the hierarchy and of the clergy. At ‘the period when Eliphas Levi was publishing his D…
1913 · PDF PAGE 558
…ons perverts the moral sense; one seeks them for their own sakes; one sacrifices everything in order to procure them for one’s self. A romantic woman will easily become an Old Bailey heroine. She may even arrive at the deplorable and irreparable absurdity of killing herself in order to admire herself, and pity herself, in seeing herself die! Romantic habits lead women to hysteria and men to melancholia. Manfred, René, Lélia are types of perversity only the more profound in that they argue on behalf of their unhealthy pride, and make poems of th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 18
… read you this passage from Crowley's works Vol. I, p. 115, published in 1903 Sonnets...... To the author of the phrase “Lam not a gentleman, andI have no friends.” T need not continue. But I will read the footnote of Mr. Ivor Back, FRCS, the Editor : atid tna Ce nn wh Pe at It is clear from this that Crowley bad been associated with a ‘man of bad character ; but thaton discovering him to be so, he instantly disowned his ? Maruers. Yes, Scowri0, KC. Mr. Crowley may have thought that even an mocent association with such a person was criminal? Ma…