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Page 191 of 2251899 · PDF PAGE 251
… black intolerable might.’ * —TZhe Cantab. “We imagine Mr. Aleister Crowley, author of ‘Songs of the Spirit’ (Kegan Paul), to be a young man ; evidently he is just passing through the Swinburnian epoch. His verse is full of the influence of ‘Poems and Ballads’; it contains a riot of words without much thought at the back of them. We seem, for example, to have heard this sort of thing a good many times before : ‘The garland I made in my sorrow Was woven of infinite peace; The joy that was white on the morrow Made music of viols at ease. The thou…
1929 · PDF PAGE 417
…on of Osiris to replace that of Isis. The story must not be taken as true in the ordinary sense of the word, but as allegorical. I wrote many lyrics, but especially "The Sevenfold Sacrament". This poem subsequently appeared in the English Review and has often been reprinted. It {665} is, one might say, a pendant to Aha! It is one of my finest achievements from a technical point of view and describes the actual experience of a night which I spent at Montigny. I was staying at an inn called the Vanne Rouge, on the bank of the Loing overlooking a …
1929 · PDF PAGE 29
…mbat successfully the external conditions which threaten to oppose its purpose. We hâve had a recent example in the case of the young German Empire, which, knowing itself and its will, disciplined and trained itself so that it conquered the neighbours which had oppressed it for so many centuries. But after 1866 and 1870, 1914! It mistook itself for superhuman, it willed a thing impossible, it failed to eliminate its own internai jealousies, it failed to understand the conditions of victory, it did not train itself to hold the sea, and thus, hav…
1929 · PDF PAGE 156
…probably leave thunderstorms to stew in their own juice; but, should he décidé (after ail) to enliven the afternoon, he will work in the manner following. First, what are the éléments necessary for his storms ? He .must hâve certain stores of electrical force, and the right kind of clouds to contain it. He must see that the force does not leak away to earth quietly and slyly. He must arrange a stress so severe as to become at last so intolér¬ able that it will disrupt explosively. Now he, as a man, cannot pray to God to cause them, for the Gods…
1930 · PDF PAGE 20
…l whieh lias once definitely entered your environment with your own consent is extremely danger ous; unless under absolut e c ont roi, A man’s friends are more capable of working him harm than are strangers; and his greatest danger lies in his own habits. Of course it is the very condition of progress to build up ideas into the subconscious. The necessity of sélection should therefore be obvious. True, there cornes a time when ail éléments soever must be thus assimilated. Samadhi is, by définition, that very process. But, from the point of view…
1996 · PDF PAGE 18
…irst importance; for a destructive and distorted view, a Christian view, generates an evil pus which overflows upon the whole field of human thought and human activity, infecting with one malady after another. Sex repression, sex-frustration, as Freud has truly told us, breed war makers and war. They and their cousins german, malevolent inter ference with individual freedom of thought and man’s natural right to all the pleasures of life, breed also social discontents and social ills. In the strictest sense, such persecuting manias are anti …
1929 · PDF PAGE 262
…hirdly, if I had done it, all the more reason for coming to my assistance. I began to think there was something seriously wrong with the man. On the top of this, there was bad news from the rearguard. Righi sent up bitterly quarrelsome messages. His antics had made all sots of trouble with the coolies, who were at one time in open revolt. Pache managed to get them into good humour again. He was a gentleman; he understood the oriental mind instinctively. He was, in fact, making extremely good. As soon as he saw that Righi was half insane with th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 40
…d outfight them. Anatomists and physiologists, grappling in the dark with death, hâve won hygiene, surgery, prophylaxis and the rest for mankind. Anthropologists, archaeologists, physicists and other men of science, risking thumbscrew, stake, infamy and ostracism, hâve torn the spider-snare of superstition to shreds and broken in pièces the monstrous idol of Morality, the murderous Moloch which has made mankind its méat throughout history. Each fragment of that coprolite is manifest as an image of some brute lust, some torpid dullness, some ign…
1929 · PDF PAGE 71
… bitterly opposed to mountaineering --- its members were incompetent, insanely jealous of their vested interests and unthinkably unsportsmanlike. Professor Norman Collie had proposed me for the club and Sir Martin Conway had been kind enough to second me; but the record of climbs which I put in to qualify for admission was much too good. It was subversive of all authority. The average Alpine clubman qualifies by paying guides to haul him up a few hackneyed peaks. He is not expected to do any new climbs whatever; and it is an outrage to the spir…
1905 · PDF PAGE 88
…u, O wisest of our race, Ahinoam, the aged priest of God, Who weighest out the stars with balances, And knowest best of men the heart of man? ANWINOAM. Ye are as children, and nowise your tongues Speak sense. I never hear your voice but know Some geese are gabbling. perchance ! The voice of old men is a pleasant thing. Sing to him CHoRrus, What say ye, brethren? him Some sweet low ditty, or the louder pean? Shall we sing to AHINOAM. They verily think I speak, not mocking them. CHORUS, Who shall uncover such a tongue for wiles, And pluck his mea…
1996 · PDF PAGE 205
… be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this. 23. Iam alone: there is no God where I am.
1922 · PDF PAGE 202
…rks. To him they were simply one of my symptoms. I realised with frightful certitude that my plans were impossible. I couldn’t fool this man, I couldn’t play on his passions, I couldn’t stealin his presence. Despite myself, my lie had become the truth. I could only do what I said I was coming to do; to ask him to help me out. No, not even that. I had not got rid of Peter after all. . With King Lamus, I found I couldn’t think of myself. I had to think of Peter. I was absolutely sincere when I said with a break in my voice, ‘‘ Cockie’s in an awfu…
1930 · PDF PAGE 121
…han warm India? To the last question: Because Spain is nearer to his home. Then why is his home near Spain ? Because his parents were Germans. And why did they go to Germany ? And so during the whole méditation. 31. On another day, let him begin with a question of another kind, and every day devise new questions, not concerning his présent situation, but also abstract questions. Thus let him connect the prevalence of water upon the surface of the globe with its necessity to such life as we know, with the spécifie gravity and other physical prop…
1996 · PDF PAGE 100
…. The highest are those who have mastered and transcended accidental environ ment. They rejoice, because they do their Will; and if any man sorrow, it is clear evidence of something wrong with him. When machinery creaks and growls, the engineer knows that it is not fulfilling its function, doing its Will, with ease and joy. 20. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us. Commentary: As soon as one realizes one’s self as Hadit, one obtains all His qualities. It is all a question of doing one’s Will. A…
1907 · PDF PAGE 142
…heard and untold. We are kisses of light and of tears, love’s triumph on fear. We obey: I am here! ORPHEUS. Dim lights shed around me In many a form Like lovers surround me :— O tender and warm ! They hunt me, they hound me; They struggle and swarm— Come forth! I invoke ye united, the mani- fold shape of the storm ! THE TEMPEST. Wide-winged, many-throated, Colossal, sublime, I come and am coated With feathers of Time. I hear the deep note, head My pinions to climb, The roar of devoted Large limbs of the mime That mocks the loud lords of Olympus…
1912 · PDF PAGE 296
…more hope of his attention that his novel breaks off at the really interesting part. What did Suzette say? Did the family tyranny make a man of Henri? Were they married,and, if so, what came of it ? I wait patiently on Mr. George; may he incline unto me and hear my cry! A, C. ONE OF Us. By GILBERT FRANKAU. 35.64) ADMIRABLE, this Odyssey of emasculationi The verse is at all times facile and clever beyond all praise, though there are three or {our faulty rhymes, and i cannot pass (twice) “ pleeceman ” and “ pleece," unless they are so spelt. The …
1912 · PDF PAGE 296
…more hope of his attention that his novel breaks off at the really interesting part. What did Suzette say? Did the family tyranny make a man of Henri? Were they married,and, if so, what came of it ? I wait patiently on Mr. George; may he incline unto me and hear my cry! A, C. ONE OF Us. By GILBERT FRANKAU. 35.64) ADMIRABLE, this Odyssey of emasculationi The verse is at all times facile and clever beyond all praise, though there are three or {our faulty rhymes, and i cannot pass (twice) “ pleeceman ” and “ pleece," unless they are so spelt. The …
1929 · PDF PAGE 157
…must aevoke the spirits of the storm” by identifying himself with the ideasof which atmospheric phenom- ena are the expressions as his humanity is of him; this achieved, he must impose his Will upon them by virtue of the superiority of his intelligence and the intégration of his purpose to their undirected impulses and uncomprehending interplay. Ail such. Magick demands the utmost précision in practice. It is true that the best rituals give us instructions in selecting our vehicles of Force. In 777 we find “correspondences” of many classes of b…
1954 · PDF PAGE 146
…ht light beside it. His voice comes in a whisper: 0 thou that art master of the fifty gates of Understanding, is not my mother a black woman? 0 thou that art master of the Pentagram, is not the egg of spirit a black egg? Here abideth terror, and the blind ache of the Soul, and lo! even I, who am the sole light, a spark shut up, stand in the sign of Apophis and Typhon . I am the snake that devoureth the spirit of man with the lust of light. i am the sightless storm in the night that wrappeth the world about with desolation. Chaos is my name, and…
1996 · PDF PAGE 28
…, the Holy Guardian Angel. The con nection is with the symbolism of the Dwarf in Mythology. He contains everything in Himself, but is unmanifested. See ILS.1 1 [See page 95.) 2 [Richard Wagner, Parsifal (1882). Wagner used the spelling Parsifal (rather than Percivale or Parzival) to emphasize a supposed Arabic ety mology of parsi “pure one” and fal “foolish.”] He is the First Letter of the Alphabet, aleph, whose number is One, and his card in the Tarot is “The Fool,” numbered Zero. Aleph is attributed to the “Element” (in the old classificati…