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Page 175 of 2031929 · PDF PAGE 33
…without a pur- pose? Or am I a soul in a body? Or am I, one and indi- visible in some incredible sense, a spark of the infinite light of God? I am going to think inwards: I shall possi- bly go into some form of trance, unintelligible to myself. You may be able to interpret it. The experiment had lasted about half an hour when he sat up gasping with effort. I have seen nothing, heard nothing, I said. Not one thought has passed from you to me. But at that very moment what had been in his mind flashed into mine. It is a blind abyss, I told …
1954 · PDF PAGE 186
THE ACT OF TRUTH 153 yourself: I am here to do this Work in accordance with my true Will. The Gods have got to see to it that I'm not baulked by any blinking messenger. (But take care They don't overhear you ; They might mistake it for Hybris, or presumption . Do it all in the Sign of Silence, under the aegis of Harpocrates, the "Lord of Defence and Protection"; be careful to assume his God-form, as standing on two crocodiles.) Then you increase your consumption, and at the same time put in a whole lot of extra Work. If you perform this "Act of…
1930 · PDF PAGE 60
… every magician. Corn and wine are équivalent to flesh and blood; but it is casier to couvert live substances into the body and blood of God, than to perform this miracle upon dead matter. The Eucharist of three éléments has for basis the symbols of the three Gunas. For Tamas (darkness) take opium or nightshade or some sleepy medicine ; for Rajas (activity) take strychnine or ocher excitant; for Sattvas (calm) the cakes of Light may again be suitable. 1 The Eucharist of jour éléments consists of fire, air, water, and earth. These are represente…
1930 · PDF PAGE 133
…e sacred unto me; where one man gathereth himself together in my name, there will I leap forth in the midst of him. 23. I am the hideous god, and who mastereth me is uglier than I. 24- Yet I give more than Bacchus and Apolio; my gifts exceed the olive and the horse. 25. Who worshippeth me must worship me with many rites. 26. I am concealed with ail concealments3 when the Most Holy Ancient One is stripped and driven through the market place, I am still secret and apart. 27. Whom I love I chastise with many rods. 28. Ail things are sacred to me; …
1954 · PDF PAGE 356
…t powerful personality and a terrific magnetism which instantly attracted my own. I forgot everything. I sat on the floor like a Chinese God, exchanging electricity with her. After some weeks' preliminary skirmishing, we joined 3. From The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (New York: Hill and Wang, 1970) p. 676 et seq.
1899 · PDF PAGE 253
…he white maidens of England. The poetic merit is unequal, and the lyrics have something lacking. Zeus, too, is too great and important a god to have ‘slept daintily,’ and why was Robert Browning’s evil example followed in writing Phoibos for Phoebus, and Bacchos for Bacchus? especially as Cytherea, Cypris, and Charicles are allowed to remain in more familiar guise."—TZhe Bristol Times. ‘‘¢A Gentleman of Cambridge’ has written, in ‘ The Tale of Archais,’ a volume which will make pleasant reading for ‘ The White Maidens of England,’ to whom it is…
1904 · PDF PAGE 52
…es : I have buggered eight pythons at one moment : I have But why boast, she piously interrupted herself, since it is but the grace of God ? Yet, for His Glory, I proceed. I have used it to climb the most inaccessible rocks : the Mittleggi Grat of the Eiger, the N. face of the Matterhorn, the E. face of the Zinal-Rothhorn, whose last 50 feet baffled the unequalled Bletzerstoch ; all, all have fallen before the dauntless dexterity by which I have thrown up its sensitive end, and hauled myself up laboriously after it. I have used it to save the…
1904 · PDF PAGE 32
…y. 115 120 125 130 135 140 145 Live out thy life ! Charac- ter of Balti. His religious sincerity. Re- lations of poet and the Egyp- tian God of Wisdom. Crowley dis- missed with a jest.
1905 · PDF PAGE 68
…longer the desire for vengeance. So far have I risen, but not far enough to forget that you are the most abominable villain that plagues God’s beautiful world with his infesting life. BRANDON [ze2¢h setdden calnness|. This to his father! say, you wretch? PERCY [to VAUGHAN]. I will go, my true new father. Kiss Esmé for me a hundred times ! BRANDON [breaking from the Footmen]. Damn you; that’s your game, is it? No, you go with me, Sir Poet. [Rushing at his son, strikes. PERCY, warding off the unexpected blow, staggers. BRANDON, maddened by the id…
1907 · PDF PAGE 139
LIBER PRIMUS VEL CARMINUM 133 Ruthless, fearless, Their forces that wander Imperial, peerless, No God-voice know they ! Creep I or climb. Their bridals they squander ! Nought withstands me, Unknown is their way ! Bursts me or brands me ; The sky’s heart? beyond her Nor Ileaven commands me, Sweet bosom they stray. Nor Space, nor Time. Shall these then obey me and hear? Shall Above, the supernal ! Below, the infernal ! Of all am I master. On Earth, the diurnal ! In all things eternal ! Life, love, or disaster ! Abiding unshaken, I sleep and I wak…
1954 · PDF PAGE 350
A.C. AND THE MASTERS 317 As for me, I had a traitor in the heart of the citadel; my Karma for God knows how many Incarnations. (The acquisition of the Magical Memory, fragmentary as that is, has thrown a great deal of light on that matter. Your letter does in fact surmise that this is so.) You must understand that the arrival of a New Aeon knocks all the Rules sideways. I imagine that even the very strict Magical Code of Ethics looks like a cocked hat before They have done with it! My theory is that They chose me for (a) my literary skill, know…
1904 · PDF PAGE 70
…vere shocks. To see one’s “Obligation” printed in the Daily Mail ! ! ! Luckily, I have no nerves. 49. ram , ram . etc.9—“Thou, as I, art God (for this is the esoteric meaning of the common Hindu saluation). A long road and a heavy price ! To know is always a difficult work . . . Hullo ! Bravo ! Thy name (I have seen) is written in the stars. Come with me, pupil ! I will give thee medicine for the mind.” * The Phallus of Shiva th e Destro yer. It is really identical with the Qabalistic “Middle Pillar” of the “Tree of Life.” † An imaginary lady t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 127
…e severing lightnings of the mind Avail where soul and spirit slip, And the Eye is blind. Paris, December 9, 1902. RONDEL. By palm and pagoda enchaunted o’er- shadowed, [I lie in the light Of stars that are bright beyond suns that all poets have vaunted In the deep-breathing amorous bosom of forests of amazon might By palm and pagoda enchaunted. By spells that are murmured and rays of my soul strongly flung, never daunted ; By gesture of tracery traced with a wand dappled white ; I summon the spirits of earth from the gloom they for ages have h…
1907 · PDF PAGE 16
…te the validity of his most deepest axioms, impugn his sanity, doubt his existence! On thine own formula he is but a demon dog-faced, or God. Destroy him, or be he: that is enough; there is no more to say. Dear children of earth, long have you wandered in darkness; quit the night, and seek the day! Seek not to imitate the language of the wise ,- ’tis easy. There is no royal road to illumination; that which I say in Light is truth to the children of the Light; to them of darkness is a confusion and a snare. Knew ye what agony the nimble acutenes…
1930 · PDF PAGE 57
to 93. 1 Now 93 is thrice 31 ; 31 is LA, “Not” and AL, “The” or “God”; these words run throughout the Book, giving a double meaning to many passages. A third 31 is the compound letter ShT, the two hieroglyphs of Sh and T (many centuries old) being pictures of the “Dramatis Personæ” of the Book; and ShT being a haphazard line scrawled on the MS. touch letters which added to 418, valuing “this circle squared in its failure” as tc correct to six places of décimais, etc. Again: “thou shalt know not”, meaning “thou shalt know LA”; and “he shall disc…
1907 · PDF PAGE 55
… at least a pleasant con trast to Gladstone and Kensit. If my truth is not the truth of the Divorce Court, it is because my world (thank God i) is not the Divorce Court. I prefer Christ to Sir Gorell Barnes as an authority on the Seventh Commandment; and the Spiritual Interpretation of facts is the formula “ Solve ” of the Theurgic Alchemist. What is a poet? What are his powers? He can watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy-bloom ; Nor heed, nor see, what things they be . . . Let Mr. Straightforward and…
1909 · PDF PAGE 82
…is shocking sonnet awakes pity and disgust in equal proportions. If even then they had only turned to the “ Great Physician! ” But no! ‘ God hardened Pharach’s heart ”. Alas! no doubt that the reference is to our blessed Lordand Master, The barren fig-tree has been no doubt a stumbling-block to many weak souls. But the fig tree has here a Vin VI. VIL 33. IX. 9. 10, AIL. 1, AIT, deeper signification in its reference to certain loathsome forms of disease, and it is a symbol of lust, See Rosenbaum’s “ Plague of Lust ” Swollen neck. — A superstitio…
1910 · PDF PAGE 128
…drew up for himself the fol- lowing daily Task: (1) To work through the first five of the seven mental operations. (2) The assumption of God forms.t (3) To meditate on simple symbols with the idea of discovering their meaning. (4) Rising on planes. (5) Astral Visions.§ (6) Adonai ha Aretz,|] * This description of Hong-Kong is as correct as can be expected from so short a visit. The conversation was subsequently verified by letter, and also again when they met several years later. + He resolved the w of w Operation into seven parts. t The w of w…
1910 · PDF PAGE 128
…drew up for himself the fol- lowing daily Task: (1) To work through the first five of the seven mental operations. (2) The assumption of God forms.t (3) To meditate on simple symbols with the idea of discovering their meaning. (4) Rising on planes. (5) Astral Visions.§ (6) Adonai ha Aretz,|] * This description of Hong-Kong is as correct as can be expected from so short a visit. The conversation was subsequently verified by letter, and also again when they met several years later. + He resolved the w of w Operation into seven parts. t The w of w…
1996 · PDF PAGE 117
…t. Let her rip! Every time the conscious acts, it interferes with the Subconscious, which is Hadit. It is the voice of man, and not of a God. Any man who “listens to reason” ceases to be revolutionary. The newspapers are Past Masters in the Lodge of Sophistry Number 333. They can always prove to you that it is necessary, and patriotic, and all the rest of it, that you should suffer intolerable wrongs.