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Page 172 of 1961954 · PDF PAGE 294
…e event will establish the kingdom of the Crowned and Conquering Child over the whole earth, and all men shall bow to the Law, which is "love under will. " This should be plain enough, and satisfactory. However, I thought it was time to draw public attention to these matters more emphatically. In fulfilment of my pledge given above, and of the instructions originally given to me by the Masters, I got out The Equinox of the Gods at 6:22 a.m., December 22,1937, e.v.; and·, to fulfil my condition No.1 (above) of a Prophecy,
1905 · PDF PAGE 270
…n he would save, As Itylus,? light woven, tuned! Oh swallow, Bewail their grave! The gracious breast of Artemis may light me_ To men—yet loved I ever Artemis? Surely the vine-song and the dance delight me, The sea-blue bowers where Aphrodite is, Terrible gods and destinies excite me, The strange sad kiss. Thus may no moon tell Earth my story after, No virgin sing my fame as virginal. 1 The northern portion of Greece. It was renowned for wizard rites. 2 See Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, 1st Series. Yet some night-leaves the southern stream | may…
1929 · PDF PAGE 72
… with a spurt, and find yourself without petrol in the middle of the big rise. "I want you to take up this research because of your real love of knowledge, not because of your passion for Brother Cyril. And I tell you honestly that I am mortally afraid for you, because you live in extremes. It is good for a swift push to have that sudden energy of yours; but no research in science is to be taken by storm. You need infinite patience, nay, even infinite indifference to the very thing on which your heart is set: "Well, I have prated. The old man m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 543
543 {856} "Don't hate the Germans," I urged. "Love them. Keep cool in order to help them in the only way possible; by smashing them up to teach them how to behave." He only grew worse. I warned him at last that such virulent hatred would end in this going mad. And my words came true. His character changed completely; he began to intrigue against me secretly and even to rob me, or rather the Order, outright. I cannot say how far he was abetted by the solicitors of the Order but they, no less than he, evaded rendering any account of the property …
1954 · PDF PAGE 238
…the word wouldn't stand even the most superficial analysis. You meant "Something which seems to me the most perfect symbol of all that I love, worship, admire" -all that class of verb. 2. Crippen was a famous English poisoner who was caught and hung .
1911 · PDF PAGE 19
…nd the understanding. Iam alone. I am lost, because I am all and in all; and my veil is woven of the green earth and the web of stars. I love; and I am denied, forI have denied myself. Give me those hands, put them against my heart. Is it not cold? Sink, sink, the abyss of time remains. It is not possible that one should come to ZAA. Give me thy face. Let me kiss it with my cold kisses. Ah! Ah! Ah! Fall back from me. The word, the word of the aeon is MAKHASHANAH. And these words shalt thou say back- IV c 17
1922 · PDF PAGE 31
…I should have drunk a lot more than I did. And I didn’t eat much either. Of course, I know now what it was—that much-derided phenomenon, love at first sight. Suddenly we were interrupted. A tall man was shaking hands across the table with Owen. Instead of using any of the ordinary greetings, he said in a very low, clear voice, very clear and vibrant, as though tense with some inscrutable passion :— “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” There was an uneasy movement in the group. In particular, the German woman seemed distressed by t…
1944 · PDF PAGE 247
…om right to left. 4. Find the Significator. If it be in the Yod pack, the question refers to work, business, etc.; if in the Hé pack, to love, marriage, or pleasure;, if in the Vau pack, to trouble, loss, scan‐ dal, quarrelling, etc.; if in the Hé final pack, to money, goods, and such purely material matters. 5. Tell the Querent what he has come for: if wrong, abandon the divinati6n. 6. If right, spread out the pack containing the Significator, face upwards. Count the cards from him, in the direction in which he faces. The counting should inclu…
1996 · PDF PAGE 206
…s, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times greater than this. Beware lest any force another, King against King! Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath. 25. Ye are against the people, O my chosen! 26. I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one. 27. There is g…
1996 · PDF PAGE 151
…not; nor shalt thou know ever. There cometh one to follow thee: he shall expound it. But remember, o chosen one, to be me; to follow the love of Nu in the star-lit heaven; to look forth upon men, to tell them this glad word. 77. O be thou proud and mighty among men! Commentary: Pride is the quality of Sol, Tiphareth; Might of Mars, Geburah. Now Leo — my rising sign—combines these ideas, as does Ra-Hoor-Khuit. The Christian ideas of humility and weakness as “virtues” are natural to slaves, cowards, and defectives. The type of tailless simian who…
1929 · PDF PAGE 22
…objects to move without apparent physical contact. Her first experiments had been with a purblind old person named Oudouwitz, who was in love with her in his senile way. Few people swallowed the published results of his experiiments with her. If convinced they would have been very much startled. For she was supposed to be able to stop clocks at will, to open and close doors without approaching them — and other feats of the same general type. But she had sobered down since leaving the Professor — which she had done, just as soon as she had acqui…
1996 · PDF PAGE 50
…the parallel pleasures of the English Aristocracy and Clergy whose aesthetics find women disgusting, and whose self-respect demands that love should transcend animal impulse, excite intel lectual intimacy, and inspire spirituality by directing it towards an object whose attainment cannot inflict the degradation of domes ticity, and the bestiality of gestation.
1996 · PDF PAGE 184
… Man has the right to carve as he will. Man has the right to work as he will. Man has the right to rest as he will. Man has the right to love as he will, when, where and whom he will. Man has the right to die when and how he will. Man has the right to kill those who would thwart these rights.1 1 [This is the essential text of Liber Oz sub figura 77.] 2 [See page 132.] This statement must not be regarded as individualism run wild. Its harmony with statecraft is demonstrated in the Chapters of Liber Aleph already quoted—see comment on Chapter II,…
1996 · PDF PAGE 216
… Let Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: for her sake let all chaste women be utterly despised among you! 56. Also for beauty’s sake and love’s! 57. Despise also all cowards; professional soldiers who dare not fight, but play; all fools despise! 58. But the keen and the proud, the royal and the lofty; ye are brothers! 59. As brothers fight ye!
1904 · PDF PAGE 83
…, of the dirtiest sailors and stokers on the ship. He was only glad from the so- cial status it gave him when Andrew made over- tures of love. Monty would have himself preferred this choice, arguing that Andrew would have him- self preferred this choice, arguing that Andrew could never be really enamoured of so vicious a boy, but what he saw three weeks after undeceived him. On this wise. One night the Captain, being restless, sug- gested a tour of inspection, and the two lovers stole quietly out of their cabin. They came after a time to where …
1907 · PDF PAGE 140
…ld appeal Cries to the master; he remains And thinks not. Bright Sun of Knowledge, in me rise, Lead me to those exalted skin go live and love and understandh! ayin no rice, acce tin nou t— The ngver xind the G§t arse one8 With the Receiver. Such are some of the sensations described by Aleister Crowley in his quest for the discovery of his Relation with the Absolute. His power of expression is extraordinary; his kite flies, but he never fails to jerk it back to earth with some touch of ridicule Ol‘ bathos which makes it still an open question whe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 17
…d new , Alinging shrill notes of satire to this tumultuous world , as some stormy petrel shrilly crying to the storm ; or sweet notes of love , soft as the whispering wings of a butterfly . Here are the jewels of Heaven , of Havilah , and of Eden , with not a little of the fire of Hell , the flames of Gehenna , and the darkness of Dûat . If we look for pyramids and colossi disappointment will be our lot ; we cannot hold , as Hanuman of Ind , a mountain in one hand and a forest in the other , neither can we gaze on a celestial Meru or Olympus ; …
1922 · PDF PAGE 44
…ome from an enormous distance, a deep, low, sombre chant :— “© Thou low moan of fainting maids, that art caught up in the strong sobs of Love! I adore Thee, Evoe! I adore Thee, I A O!” | That was it—her engine and my engine for the first time working together! All the accidents had disappeared. There was nothing but the unison of two rich racing rhythms. You know how it is when you are flying—vyou see a speck in the air. You can’t tell by your eyes if it is your Brother Boche coming to pot you, or one of our own or one of the allied ‘planes. Bu…
1954 · PDF PAGE 518
…, and Industrialism, the mother and nurse of Socialism, was destroying the soul of the people. In my not very maternal remarks on Mother-love, was included the substance of the one wise saying of my pet American lunatic, "You can't get past their biology." This is so true, and so disheartening, that it arouses me to combat. Must we for ever be bound to the inconvenient habit of cows and cabbages? I pick up the glove. Isn't it Aldous Huxley who says somewhere that some species or other can never develop higher powers because its brain is shut in…
1929 · PDF PAGE 116
…o disturb and annoy. It is full of men and women; all seem young and all are charming, spontaneous and ready to make any desired kind of love. In fact, they are making it continually in their hearts and only wait opportunity to suit the word and action to the thought. Nor does opportunity lag. There are no practical difficulties. Indoors and out nature and art combine to invite Cupid to pay every kind of visit, passionate, permanent, transitory, trivial. The caprice of the moment is the sole arbiter of the event. The idea of worry is unknown. "…