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Page 158 of 1971929 · PDF PAGE 363
…delicate food until they were strong enough to support him through the next ordeal. As for myself, I was as fit as I had ever been in my life, and appreciating the extreme barbarism of the wilderness was the best possible preparation for swinging over to the other extreme and feeding my soul on the refinements of art. As a critic of art I have curious qualifications. My early life left me ignorant of the existence of anything of the sort beyond Landseer's "Dignity and Impudence". I suppose I ought to have deduced the existence of art from this …
1907 · PDF PAGE 68
…true confession of countless crimes without enlightening a soul. You know my shameless maxim, “ Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.” To try your formula I must control not only my words, but my tones, the shape of my mouth, the mirth of my eyes, the ready ambiguity of my shoulders! Bones. A good exercise, Frater. Bowley. Another point. I am, after all, a Poet. That ’5 right about the lake-reflected sun illuminating the blooming bees. I often hold long conversations with people, and discover long a…
1919 · PDF PAGE 57
…, O Prophet! A feast for the Supreme Ritual and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! A feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture! A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of uttermost delight! Aye! Feast! Rejoice! There is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu.” It all depends on your own acceptance of this new law, and you are not asked to believe anything, to accept a string of fool- ish fa…
1954 · PDF PAGE 279
…think I was Eliphaz Levi? No more than that I possess some of his most essential characteristics , and that some of the incidents in his life are remembered by me as my own. There doesn't seem any impossibility about these bundles of Sankhara being shared by two or more persons. We certainly do not know enough of what actually takes place to speak positively on any such point. Don't lose any sleep over it. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1996 · PDF PAGE 183
…n Liber CXI Aleph, and the student should refer thereto. Far better, let him assume this Law to be the Universal Key to every problem of Life, and then apply it to one particular case after another. As he comes by degrees to understand it, he will be astounded at the simplification of the most obscure questions which it furnishes. Thus he will assimilate the Law, and make it the norm of his conscious being; this by itself will suffice to ini tiate him, to dissolve his complexes, to unveil himself to himself; and so shall he attain the Knowledg…
1929 · PDF PAGE 95
…ternal constraint upon me to do one thing rather than another. And yet, of course, my career was absolutely determined. The events of my life up to that point, it they had been intelligently interpreted, would have afforded ample indications of the future. I was white-hot on three points; climbing, poetry and Magick. On my return from Switzerland in 1898, I had nowhere in particular to go. There was no reason why I should settle down in any special place. I simply took a room in the Cecil, at that remote period a first-class hostelry, and busie…
1899 · PDF PAGE 254
…fall, at the dawn Sin and sorrow, interwoven, Like a veil are drawn | Over love and all delight; Grey desires invade the white, Love and life are but a span; Woeis me! and woe is man ! “In conclusion, as far as descriptive power and beauty of thought are concerned, we consider that the author of ‘ The Tale of Archais’ holds the first place among the latter-day poets. But there are passages in the book in our opinion quite unsuit- able for the perusal of the white maidens of England, to whom it is dedicated. We do not know whether the poet is an…
1922 · PDF PAGE 215
…he took out the bottle and played with it aimlessly. In his smooth varnished voice he began to tell me what he called the romance of his life. The first time he saw me he had fallen passionately in love with me ; but he was a married man, and his sense of honour prevented his yielding to his passion. He had, of course, no love for his wife, who didn’t understand him at all. He had married her out of pity; but for all that he was bound by his sense of right feeling, and above all by realising that to give rein to his passion, God-given though it…
1954 · PDF PAGE 375
…tated terms, the first task of manhood - of the "hero"-is to escape from the mother. Now the son, with his male formula , his formula of life, his instinct to push out, to break down all that would restrain him, finds it perfectly natural to "bite the hand that fed him," as the complaint might piteously wail. But the daughter has no club to smash, no sword to cut ; all she can hope to do is to pass the buck . The amoeba, born of fusion , nourished by wrapping its pseudopods around such drifting particles as come within its scope, is but a paras…
1910 · PDF PAGE 74
…ds, the Vedas no longer Vedas. . . . This is his supreme goal. As theory alone cannot for ever satisfy man’s mind in the solution of the life-riddle, so also when once the seeker has become the seer, when once actual living men have attained and become Adepts, their methods of attainment cannot for long remain entirely hidden. And either from their teachings directly, or from those of their disciples, we find in India * The Atman. + As the light of a lamp brought into a dark room is reflected by all surfaces around it, so is the illumination of…
1910 · PDF PAGE 74
…ds, the Vedas no longer Vedas. . . . This is his supreme goal. As theory alone cannot for ever satisfy man’s mind in the solution of the life-riddle, so also when once the seeker has become the seer, when once actual living men have attained and become Adepts, their methods of attainment cannot for long remain entirely hidden. And either from their teachings directly, or from those of their disciples, we find in India * The Atman. + As the light of a lamp brought into a dark room is reflected by all surfaces around it, so is the illumination of…
1910 · PDF PAGE 40
…umps away from a live prick like a grasshopper from a snake.” Anyway, one can wash1 ! The sole effect of the law as it stands is to make life in England insupportable for the wretched Urn- ing, and to expose every man, whether he be a so- domite or not to the attacks of blackmailers of the vilest sort. Suppose I am threatened by these gen- try ; suppose I catch them and prosecute them ; suppose they get the maximum penalty, and I leave the court with applause and the strongly expressed thanks of the judge for the courage and skill with which I …
1922 · PDF PAGE 84
…that those people had got so much sense. I’ve always thought of them as tangled up with religious ideas. I understand now. Yes, it’s the life of holiness, if you have to go to the trouble of putting it in the terms of morality, as I suppose you English people have to. I feel that con- tact of any sort, even with myself, contaminates me. I was the chief of sinners in my time, in the English sense of the word. Now I’ve forgotten what love means, except for a faint sense of nausea when it comes under my notice. I hardly eat at all—it’s only brutes
1922 · PDF PAGE 110
…ble manner. Physiology and economics, and, I should think, even geology, combine to protest. ‘Now we were living an absolutely wholesome life. We took a sniff of cocaine whenever the pace slackened up, and one of heroin when the cocaine showed any signs of taking the bit in its teeth.
1922 · PDF PAGE 239
Cold Turkey 225 of animal life, and when one has got to the stage where one becomes wholly spiritual, the body becomes cold like a corpse.... A dreadful thing has happened. We have used up all the heroin, and there is hardly any cocaine. I remembered what I had sewn away in my white frock, and went to get it. It was on the floor in a corner of the drawing-room. It was all shrunk and rumpled and dirty, and it was still quite wet. I suppose I must have gone a long walk in the rain, though I don’t remember anything about it. All the heroin was was…
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
…hur; it hung over him like a threat, while the intensification of that consciousness, its libera- tion from the sense of time natural to life, caused each act of the demon to appear of vast duration, although the intervals between the howls of the body on the bed were very short. Each pang of torture or suspense was born, rose to its crest, and died to be reborn again through what seemed countless aeons. Still more was this the case in the process of his as- similation by the demon. The coma of the dying man was a phenomenon altogether out of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 84
… biography and made arrangements for its publication. I had always meant to handle the matter myself. But the unhappy termination of his life in phthisis and marriage, when he had hoped to spend its autumn and winter in Kashmir meditating upon the mysteries which appealed to his sublime spirit, made all such plans nugatory. I fell it one of my highest duties to record in these memoirs as much as possible relative to this man, who, with Allan Bennett, stands apart from and above all others with whom I have been really intimate. The greatness of …
1910 · PDF PAGE 258
…nt, the true antiquity of some Masonic system. It is a parallel to Frazer’s tracing of the history of the Slain God. But why is there no life in any of our Slain God rituals? It is for us to restore them by the Word and the Grip. For us, who have the inner knowledge, inherited or won, it remains to restore the true rites of Attis, Adonis, Osiris, of Set, Serapis, Mithras, and Abel. ALEISTER CROWLEY. 240
1910 · PDF PAGE 258
…nt, the true antiquity of some Masonic system. It is a parallel to Frazer’s tracing of the history of the Slain God. But why is there no life in any of our Slain God rituals? It is for us to restore them by the Word and the Grip. For us, who have the inner knowledge, inherited or won, it remains to restore the true rites of Attis, Adonis, Osiris, of Set, Serapis, Mithras, and Abel. ALEISTER CROWLEY. 240
1910 · PDF PAGE 12
7 They cannot enjoy life, and so make believe to have something better. But I dine at the Café Royal, instead of munching nuts and “ sirloin of carrots.” I make expeditions to the great mountains of the Himalayas, and hunt buffalo and tiger in the jungles of the Terai ; I love beauty in painting and sculpture ; I love poetry and music ; and I love flesh and blood. There is nothing that you enjoy that I do not enjoy as much as you do ; and I bear witness that nothing is worthy to be com- pared with ecstasy. What is the path to this immortal land…