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Page 171 of 1961944 · PDF PAGE 11
…‐ voked, often painting the same card as many as eight times until it measured up to his Vana‐ dium Steel yardstick! May the passionate “love under will” which she has stored in this Treasury of Truth and Beauty flow forth from the Splendour and Strength of her work to enlighten the world; may this Tarot serve as a chart for the bold seamen of the New Aeon, to guide them across the Great Sea of Understanding to the City of the Pyramids! The accompanying booklet was dashed off by Aleister Crowley, without help from par‐ ents. Its perusal may be …
1929 · PDF PAGE 196
… moreover, to flow back into its accustomed channels. For one thing, I came to the conclusion that "the most permanent poetry is perhaps love songs for real country folk --- about trout and love." And I began to write a set of lyrics to be called "The Lover's Alphabet". This was to consist of twenty-six poems, associating a girl's name with a flower with the same initial from A to Z. One of my regular pedantic absurdities! Needless to say, it broke down. The debris is printed in my Collected Works, Vol. III, pp. 58 seq. I was also vaguely revis…
1904 · PDF PAGE 122
…ul cause of woe. The will, we all know, is ever readier than the mind, and so, though w e aspire to renounce the pleasures of s ense, to love and pity all that lives, yet perhaps we often fail in the accom plishment of our aspiration. But if the desire to becom e pitiful and pure be but honest and earnest, we have gained the Second Step upon the Path—Sammasankappo, Right Aspiration. “He whose motives are pure has no need to conceal the Truth—he who truly loves and who has a m alice towards none, will ever speak only fair and s oft words. By a m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 208
…ncies were already bearing fruit long before I was thirty. The Montparnesse quarter was of course full of people who took their trumpery love affairs very seriously. But the English colony was riddled with English hypocrisy. I remember giving the manuscript of Alice to Kelly and a girl named Sybil Muggins1 to read, and they agreed that no really nice woman would have kissed a man so early as the thirteenth day of his wooing. I must confess to having been taken a little aback, especially as Sybil Muggins was Haweis's mistress. A few days back, m…
1905 · PDF PAGE 187
…il ! France ! Because thy Freedon hath rebelled.’ “ After the general cataclysm that is to come, the poet foresees the dawn of an era of love, justice, and peace, when the Celtic race shall be restored to their own :— ‘ The reign of Darkness hath an end. Behold ! Eight stars are gathered in one fiery sign. This is the birth-hour of the Age of Gold ; The false gold pales before the Gold divine. The Christ is calling to the starry fold ; Of souls—Arise and Shine ! ’ “ It is doubtful how much of this histrionic hate is genuinely sincere, but one i…
1906 · PDF PAGE 5
…ay THE TWELFTH Day Rep Porry a Trt THIRTEENTH Day THE FOURTEENTH Day THe FIFTEENTH DAY THE SIXTEENTH DAY ALICE . . . THE SEVENTEENTH DAY LOVE AND FEAR THE EIGHTEENTH Day THE NINETEENTH Day THE TWENTIETH Day ° THE TWENTY-FIRST DAY. THE TWENTY-SECOND DAy THt TWENTY-THIRD Day THt TWENTY-FOURTH DAY THe TWeENtTY-FIFTH Day. THE TWENTyY-SIXTH Day UNDER THE PALMS Tur TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY THE TWENTY-EIGHTH Day THe TWENTY-NINTI DAY THE THIRTIETH Day THE Day wirHoutT A NUMBER THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY THE THIRTY-SECOND DAY THe THIRTY-THIRD DAY. 63 ” re] 64 .64 6…
1907 · PDF PAGE 74
…LD KELLY) SCENE I. The SIRE DE MALETROIT sitting before the fire. A chime of bells—eleven. ALAIN, ’Leven o° th’ clock! Plague take these lovers! What? do they make a Malétroit wait? [Picks up letter from table—reads] ‘‘ Mademoiselle ”— um, um — ‘‘ my words might show that love which I cannot declare in writing ”’—very likely—‘‘nor raise a blush on that alabaster brow”—um! um! ah !— ‘‘embrace of the eyes”—is the fellow an octopus ?—‘* Tho’ you do not respond to my letters ’’—ah !—‘‘yet I would not have you leave me” —I daresay not—‘‘ Pity me, mo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 325
…sitions, and complained that they were wrong; for I would have been divided, so that Sappho in departing took of my left side. I left my love with her, but my strength belonged to God. “This I explained to Acheirah, but he told me my idea was wrong, and that we were so divided that I might receive the influx of strength, and she that of mercy. “So we returned into the temple, conversing, I saying to her: ‘ Enter with me the temple of the living God!’ “This she did, following me, and then knelt down at the altar, and waving a censer adored the L…
1909 · PDF PAGE 325
…sitions, and complained that they were wrong; for I would have been divided, so that Sappho in departing took of my left side. I left my love with her, but my strength belonged to God. “This I explained to Acheirah, but he told me my idea was wrong, and that we were so divided that I might receive the influx of strength, and she that of mercy. “So we returned into the temple, conversing, I saying to her: ‘ Enter with me the temple of the living God!’ “This she did, following me, and then knelt down at the altar, and waving a censer adored the L…
1911 · PDF PAGE 136
…e Arrow is the Father of all Light, and the shaft of the Arrow is the Father of all Life, and the barb of the Arrow is the Father of all Love. For that silver wedge is like a lotus flower, and the Eye within the Ateph Crown crieth: I watch. And the Shaft crieth: I work. And the Barb crieth: I wait. And the Voice of the Aethyr echoeth: It beams. It burns. It blooms. And now there cometh a strange thought; this Arrow is 134
1922 · PDF PAGE 152
… the disillusion too disgusting. Above all, there was the complete absence of what had, after all, been the mainspring of our lives; our love for each other. That was gone, as if it had been packed in our luggage. The only approach to sympathetic communion between us was when Lou, practical to the last, brought out our pitifully small supply of heroin and cocaine. “That’s all we've got,” she whispered in anguish of soul, ‘ till God knows when.” We were frightfully afraid, into the bargain, of its being taken from us. We were gnawed by fierce an…
1922 · PDF PAGE 374
… can only remember one or two clauses of the Credo : they ran thus :— “ And I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA. “‘ And I believe in the communion of Saints. ** And, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, I believe in the Miracle of the Mass. “And I confess one Baptism of Wisdom, whereby we accomplish the Miracle of Incarnation. “‘ And I confess my life one, individual, and eternal, that was, and is, and is to come.” I have alwa…
1954 · PDF PAGE 63
30 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS by thinking that she prefers love to social consideration, or vice versa. One woman may stay with an unsympathetic husband when she would really be happy in an attic with a lover, while another may fool herself into a romantic elopement when her only true pleasures are those of presiding at fashionable functions. Again, a boy's instinct may tell him to go to sea, while his parents insist on his becoming a doctor. In such a case, he will be both unsuccessful and unhappy in medicine.) 8. A man whose conscious will is at od…
1929 · PDF PAGE 130
130 The departure of Alice inspired me to write the story of our love in a sonnet sequence. Each day was to immortalize its events in poetry. This again was one of my characteristically crude ideas, yet the result was surprisingly good --- much better, perhaps, than I ever thought, or think now. No less a critic than Marcel Schwob called it "a little masterpiece". And many other people of taste and judgment have professed themselves in love with it. Possibly the simplicity of its realism, its sincere and shame-free expression of every facet of …
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
…ies the ghastly and horrible phantasm of “ mankind”). Now in their better selves is a certain force whose troubled reflec tion is called “Love.” This tinctures the dream, and they instantly feel compassion for the “ Others "—who, being merely unpurified parts of their consciousness, simply need annihilating—and set to work (if you please!) to redeem these “ Others,” to initiate these “ fellow-men,” to emancipate these “separate beings.” [The bitterly sarcastie tone of this passage ohills the bloodqf MRS. BONES, and she hastily prepares more amfi'e…
1922 · PDF PAGE 367
Love under Will 353 There was a twinkle in his eye which warned me that he had another surprise in store for me; I had b to realise that he took a school-boyish delight in pulling people’s legs. He seemed to enjoy leading one on, putting one in a false position, and making a mystery out of the most commonplace circumstances. It was extremely idiotic and extremely annoying; but at the same time one had to admit that the result of his method was to add a sort of spice to life. I remembered a remark of Maisie Jacobs: ‘‘ Never dull where Lamus is.”…
1954 · PDF PAGE 21
…ip Wylie extended it with great power in order to reach the general public. But the most bitter and violent of all the attacks on mother love that I am familiar with has emanated from Crowley. His letter 53 has to be read slowly and closely to be fully appreciated. It is far more deadly and vitriolic than anything Freud ever wrote, and much more to the point than Wylie's work. No doubt it is predicated on the bad relationship he had with his own mother, of whom he has written at length in The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (New York: Hill and …
1910 · PDF PAGE 107
…OF SOLOMON THE KING then engage in contracting the yoni (the space between the lingam and anus). After which contemplate that the God of love resides in the Brahma-Yoni, and imagine that an union takes place between Shiva and Shakti. A full account of how to practise this Mudra is given in the “Shiva Sanhita”;* but it is both complicated and diffi- cult to carry out, and if attempted should most certainly be performed under the instruction of a Guru. 2. Maha Mudra. Pressing the anus with the left heel and stretching out the right leg, take hold…
1910 · PDF PAGE 107
…OF SOLOMON THE KING then engage in contracting the yoni (the space between the lingam and anus). After which contemplate that the God of love resides in the Brahma-Yoni, and imagine that an union takes place between Shiva and Shakti. A full account of how to practise this Mudra is given in the “Shiva Sanhita”;* but it is both complicated and diffi- cult to carry out, and if attempted should most certainly be performed under the instruction of a Guru. 2. Maha Mudra. Pressing the anus with the left heel and stretching out the right leg, take hold…
1954 · PDF PAGE 147
…others. And the Angel sayeth: Behold where thine Angel hath led thee! Thou didst ask for 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 Universe. Veiled are their faces, that have beheld the glory Ineffable.…