Thelema ScholarTHE ALEISTER CROWLEY COLLECTION
FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION

Search the corpus.

Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.

1,643 matching pages

Page 18 of 83
1912 · PDF PAGE 74

Mortadello

…ee the guard is strong. [Exit LUCREZIA. ORLANDO. The bloodhounds press Hard on my heels. MONICA. Are we safe here ? ORLANDO. They cannot find The secret passage ; have no fear. MONICA. Oh, love is blind. Did you do wisely ? ORLANDO. Stratagem secure. MONICA. Then how Goes the great chance ? ORLANDO. Too well for them, dear love, just now ! They have seized a few imprudent friends, they watch the rest. Our hope is, the good Abbess sends a courier pressed To Rome ; the Archbishop doubts his eyes and ears that saw And heard such sacrilege. He lies…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1913 · PDF PAGE 187

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

ROSA IGNOTA Shall grow: he shall know no more The wonder of spring: He shall sing— But a shadow shall lie before. He shall find no thing Whereby he may linger, and say, Behold! I have found the day. His day is over: utterly he shall die, My Rose, under the sky. He shall lie with the worm, And so no more with thee ; There shall be set this term To his mortality. Yet shall he worship thee With his tears For a few short years. And then he shall be Nothing at all to thee, Who sang thee when no other man would sing thee, Who brought unto thee all th…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1913 · PDF PAGE 187

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

ROSA IGNOTA Shall grow: he shall know no more The wonder of spring: He shall sing— But a shadow shall lie before. He shall find no thing Whereby he may linger, and say, Behold! I have found the day. His day is over: utterly he shall die, My Rose, under the sky. He shall lie with the worm, And so no more with thee ; There shall be set this term To his mortality. Yet shall he worship thee With his tears For a few short years. And then he shall be Nothing at all to thee, Who sang thee when no other man would sing thee, Who brought unto thee all th…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1909 · PDF PAGE 110

The Equinox (Volume I, Number I)

100 THE EQUINOX As who should sweat his soul out through the skin And find (sad fool !) he had begot All that without him that he had left in, And in himself All he had taken out thereof, a mocking elf ! XXII But now that all was gone, great Pan appeared. Him then I strove to woo, to win, Kissing his curled lips, playing with his beard, Setting his brain a-shake, a-spin, By that strong wand, and muttering of the weird That only I Knew of all souls alive or dead beneath the sky. XXIII So still I conquered, and the vision passed. Yet still was be…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1909 · PDF PAGE 110

The Equinox (Volume I, Number II)

100 THE EQUINOX As who should sweat his soul out through the skin And find (sad fool !) he had begot All that without him that he had left in, And in himself All he had taken out thereof, a mocking elf ! XXII But now that all was gone, great Pan appeared. Him then I strove to woo, to win, Kissing his curled lips, playing with his beard, Setting his brain a-shake, a-spin, By that strong wand, and muttering of the weird That only I Knew of all souls alive or dead beneath the sky. XXIII So still I conquered, and the vision passed. Yet still was be…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1912 · PDF PAGE 251

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

…diac 3. Divine the proper stack and proceed as before Fourth Operation Penultimate Aspects of the Question I. Shuffle, etc, as before. 2. Find the Significator: set him upon the table; let the thirty—six cards following form a ring round him. VIII ο 209

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1912 · PDF PAGE 251

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

…diac 3. Divine the proper stack and proceed as before Fourth Operation Penultimate Aspects of the Question I. Shuffle, etc, as before. 2. Find the Significator: set him upon the table; let the thirty—six cards following form a ring round him. VIII ο 209

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1928 · PDF PAGE 42

Little Poems in Prose

…g-places of life’s cripples. It is above all to these places that the poet and the philosopher love to direct their eager guesses, which find there an assured pasture. For is there is a place which they disdain to visit, as I insinuated in the last story, it is above all the gaiety of the rich. That turbu- lence of emptiness has nothing to attract them. On the contrary, they feel themselves irresistibly drawn towards all that is weak, ru- ined, saddened, orphaned. An experienced eye never deceives itself. In those set or languid features; in th…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1905 · PDF PAGE 271

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…ollo half the day is shrouded, As Artemis twice seven nights is dark ; Surely he shines in other lands unclouded, Surely her shaft shall find another mark. So dawns the day on Acheron ghost-crowded, And on my bark. I know not how yon world may prove, nor whither Hermes conduct me to what farther end. Yet if these bays abide, this heart not wither, 7 It cannot be I shall not find a friend. Some pale immortal lover draw me thither ! To kiss me bend ! Moreover, as Apollo re-arisen Flames, with a roaring of the morning sea, Up from the stricken gra…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1898 · PDF PAGE 66

White Stains

… clotted in gouts of black. All on their sides are the wounds of lust, Down, from the home of their auburn hair Down to the feet that we find so fair ; Where the red sword has a secret thrust Pain, and delight, and desire they share. Verily, pain ! and thy daughters trust Thou canst bid roses spring out of dust. Mingle, ye children of such a queen, Mingle, and meet, and sow never a seed ! Mingle, and tingle, and kiss, and bleed With the blood of the life of the Lampsacene, With the teeth that know never a pitiful deed But fret and foam over wit…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1899 · PDF PAGE 235

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…very far; Soul unto soul may be calling When a swift meteor star Through the quick vista is falling. Loose but your soul—shall its wings find the white way so appalling ? Heaven, as I understand, Nearer than some folk would make it ; God—should you stretch out a hand, Who can be quicker to take it? Then you have pacted an oath—judge you if He will forsake it.

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1910 · PDF PAGE 470

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

… thou, then, That it is ever or hath been, Sir Palamede the Saracen?” Sir Palamede was well awake. “Nay! I deliberate deep and long, Yet find no answer fit to make To thee. The weak beats down the strong; The fool’s cap shames the helm. But thou! I know thee for the shade that haunts My way, sets shame upon my brow, My purpose dims, my courage daunts. Then, since the thinker must be dumb, At least the knight may knightly act: The wisest monk in Christendom May have his skull broke by a fact.” With that, as a snake strikes, his sword Leapt burni…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1910 · PDF PAGE 470

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

… thou, then, That it is ever or hath been, Sir Palamede the Saracen?” Sir Palamede was well awake. “Nay! I deliberate deep and long, Yet find no answer fit to make To thee. The weak beats down the strong; The fool’s cap shames the helm. But thou! I know thee for the shade that haunts My way, sets shame upon my brow, My purpose dims, my courage daunts. Then, since the thinker must be dumb, At least the knight may knightly act: The wisest monk in Christendom May have his skull broke by a fact.” With that, as a snake strikes, his sword Leapt burni…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1913 · PDF PAGE 117

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

…uch a son beget, Suffer too the triple treason, Setting as my father set. These my witnesses and women— These shall dare the dark again, Find the sacred ark to swim in The remorseless realm of rain. Flowers and fruits I bring to bless you, Cakes of corn, and wealth of wine ; With my crown will I caress you, With my music make you mine. Though I perish, I preserve you; Through my fall, ye rise above : Ruling you, your priest, I serve you, Being life, and being love. JOANNA. Here is corn! JULIA. Here is wine! THE YOUNG JOHN. Life reborn, The Deed…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1913 · PDF PAGE 117

The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

…uch a son beget, Suffer too the triple treason, Setting as my father set. These my witnesses and women— These shall dare the dark again, Find the sacred ark to swim in The remorseless realm of rain. Flowers and fruits I bring to bless you, Cakes of corn, and wealth of wine ; With my crown will I caress you, With my music make you mine. Though I perish, I preserve you; Through my fall, ye rise above : Ruling you, your priest, I serve you, Being life, and being love. JOANNA. Here is corn! JULIA. Here is wine! THE YOUNG JOHN. Life reborn, The Deed…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1898 · PDF PAGE 28

White Stains

…ysterious stream, that here a man May wet his ankle, and again immerse Unto his knees, and yet again assay To cross its silver depth and find himself Swimming in crystal coldness on a sea Broad as God’s mercy and as deep as Love.

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1961 · PDF PAGE 17

Liber Aleph

…King, bent them to overturn the whole World that they might have satisfaction of their Loves. And who shall follow them? For even now we find great Churchmen, Statesmen, Princes, Dramamakers, and many lesser Men, overwhelmed utterly and ruined by the conflict between their Passions and the Society about them. Wherein which Party errs is no matter of Moment for our Thought; but the Existence of the War is Evidence of Wrong done to Nature. n

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1898 · PDF PAGE 59

Songs of the Spirit

… is Me ! My feet, in spite of me, in circles bend ; I meet my own tracks often, all in vain I seek some tower or cliff to make an end, I find no object on the distant plain ; Misty distortions crowd upon my brain, And spectre fountains gurgle on the ground ; I drop to drink, and hear the horrid strain Of chuckling devils, that grimace around, And think I catch the note of Hell’s three-headed Hound. 49

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1901 · PDF PAGE 25

The Soul of Osiris

…lind Passions that sear us and destroy, Rebuilding for the deathless mind A deathless body, whose alloy Is gold and fire, whose passions find The tears of their caress a dew, Fiery, to make creation new. This agony and bloody sweat, This scarring torture of desire, Refine us, madden us, and set The feast of unbegotten fire Before our mouths, that mingle yet In this ; the mighty-moulded lyre Of many stars still strikes above Chords of the mastery of love. This subtle fire, this secret flame, Flashes between us as she goes Beyond the night, beyon…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1928 · PDF PAGE 160

Little Poems in Prose

…; so I let myself be carried off by this companion, or rather by this unhoped-for problem. I omit the description of her garret. You may find it in plenty of classical French poets;

original embedded textRead original & transcription →