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Page 23 of 1281912 · PDF PAGE 23
…ate. ALESSANDRO. She is the one-two-three when Hebrews Cal- culate. LORENZO. She is the serene saint whose prayers are pure perfume. The soul without attaint, the bud, the beeless bloom ! LUCREZIA. Indeed, you are too sharp, dear Sandro ! ZELINA. Wicked man ! ALESSANDRO. She earns the crown and harp ! ZELINA. I am a courtesan ; And this I tell you sir, that every fool of love In Venice looks to her as to Our Lady above. Would she were not thus vowed ; as Mortadellos bride She would bring poor and proud to fight on Freedoms side. ALESSANDRO. L…
1913 · PDF PAGE 86
…hat of the Master of the Temple. What can possibly be more selfish than this interpretation of everything as the dealing of God with the soul? But it is God who is all and not any part; and every "deaHng" must thus be an expansion of the soul, a destruction of its separateness. Every ray of the sun expands the flower. The surface of the water in the Magick Cup is infinite; there is no point different from any other point. ^ Thus, ultimately, as the wand is a binding and a limitation, so is the Cup an expansion —into the Infinite. And this is th…
1898 · PDF PAGE 4
…st, no hope, no tear, no funeral. Into the night, despairing, bleeding, blind, They pass, nor know their former place at all, Lost to my soul, to God, to all mankind, Like leaves that fall.
1907 · PDF PAGE 176
…change? what loveliness ! Comes this to all? I heard my sisters crying No tale like this—O ! were I only lying Asleep amid the ferns, my soul would weep Over and over in its endless sleep ; ** Ves, love!” and ‘‘ yes!” and ‘‘ yes!” So by some spell divinely drawn She came to me across the dawn, With open arms to me ; and sobbed ‘Ves, love!’ and ‘‘ Yes, love!” throbbed The giant glory at my heart! And I? I drew away, apart, Lest by mere chance to me she came. But curling as a wind-blown flame She turned, she found me. As the dew Melts in the lake…
1905 · PDF PAGE 123
…her hells, thou damned of God here- after, "Mid men’s contempt and hate and pitiless laughter. IT. Lust, impotence, and knowledge of thy soul, And that foreknowledge, fill the fiery lake Of lava where thy lazar corpse shall break The burning surface to seek out a goal More horrible, unspeakable. ‘The scroll Opens, and ‘‘ coward, liar, monster ” shake Those other names of ‘‘goat and ‘‘swine”’ and ‘‘snake”’ Wherewith Hell’s worms caress thee and control. Nay, but alone, intolerably alone, Alone, as here, thy carrion soul shall swelter, Yearning i…
1898 · PDF PAGE 16
…sion for your blood ! Behold ! How utterly I yield, how gladly dower Our sin with my own spirits quenched gold, Clothe Love with my own souls immortal power, Give thee my body as a fire to hold O love, no words, no songsyour breast my bower !
1943 · PDF PAGE 1
…pre-war quality Aleister Crowley is the only Englishman who has known, understood, assimilated, and expressed the lyrical element of the soul of Muscovy—Ivan Naropxy To AueisreR CROWLEY, 93 Jermyn Street, S.W.1 I wish to subscribe foroninen£0Pounens0f THE CITY OF GOD which will be published at 55. and enclose | my cheque for Please send the cop.....when ready to: Name s AAI E88 onc
1919 · PDF PAGE 364
…ning than isapparent. The key should again be sought in Alchemy. 5. Alas, alas, that all men should possess Alaya, be one with the Great Soul, and that, possessing it, Alaya should so little avail them! 6. Behold how like the moon, reflected in the tranquil waves, Alaya is reflected by the small and by the great, is mirrored in the tiniest atoms, yet fails to reach the heart of all. Alas, that so few men should profit by the gift, the price- less boon of learning truth, the right perception of existing things, the knowledge of the non-existent!…
1906 · PDF PAGE 122
116 THE ARGONAUTS The sense is riven, and the soul Goes glimmering to the abode, Where aeons in one moment roll, And one thought shapes to its control Body’s forgotten load. Our lady sleeps! Our lady smiles In far Elysian isles ! FIRST WOMAN. Thrice have I crept towards the bed, and thrice An unseen hand has caught the uplifted knife, A grinning face lurked out from the blank air Between me and that filthy sorceress. SECOND WOMAN. Daily I poison the she-devil’s drink, And nothing harms her ! THIRD WOMAN. I have a toad whose breath Destroys all …
1901 · PDF PAGE 11
…sion all that deadly day— Thou wast a lion as an angel then ! Great angel of the brazen brows, great lover, Great hater of my body as my soul, To whom I gave my life and love thrice over, Fill me one last caress—the poison-bowl ! Great angel of the brazen brows, great lover !
1903 · PDF PAGE 28
… red sun, A sight to slay or stun ; Sepulchral dews Fall from the rayless globe, Whose sightless fingers probe My golden-folded robe, My soul’s misuse. 6
1913 · PDF PAGE 554
…ver he may do, is more than a brute, and he cannot abandon himself like a brute to fatality. He must choose. He must love. The desperate soul that thinks itself in love with death is still more alive than a soul without love. Activity for evil can and should lead back a man to good, by counter- stroke and by reaction. The true evil, that for which there is no remedy, is inertia. The abysses of grace correspond to the abysses of per- versity. God has often made saints of scoundrels; but He has never done anything with the half-hearted and the co…
1913 · PDF PAGE 554
…ver he may do, is more than a brute, and he cannot abandon himself like a brute to fatality. He must choose. He must love. The desperate soul that thinks itself in love with death is still more alive than a soul without love. Activity for evil can and should lead back a man to good, by counter- stroke and by reaction. The true evil, that for which there is no remedy, is inertia. The abysses of grace correspond to the abysses of per- versity. God has often made saints of scoundrels; but He has never done anything with the half-hearted and the co…
1907 · PDF PAGE 81
…e root Might blossom outward to the snowy fruit Whose bloom to - night lay sleeping on her breast .' True love , the love of self in the soul of another , the poet paints very beautifully in the following charming lines : Do you recall ? Could I forget ? How once the full moon shone above , Over the houses , and we let Loose rein upon the steeds of love ? How kisses fled to kisses , rain Of fiery dew upon the soul Kindled , till ecstasy was pain ; Desire , delight : and swift control Leapt from the lightning , as the cloud Disparted , rended , …
1909 · PDF PAGE 43
…storm upon the sky. And the Black Brothers raised their heads; yea, they unveiled themselves without shame or fear. Also there rose up a soul of filth and of weak- ness, and it corrupted all the rule of the Tao. 44
1910 · PDF PAGE 86
AMBERGRIS 77 Light ! ever light ! I swim far out and follow The footsteps of the wind, and light invades My desolate soul, and all the cypress shades Glow with transparent lustre, and the hollow I thought I had hidden in my heart must swallow The bitter draught of Truth ; no Nereid maids Even in my sea are mine : the whole seas glades And hills and springs are void of my Apollo The Sea herself my tune and my desire ! The Sun himself my lover and my lyre !
1907 · PDF PAGE 289
… principles of Crowleyanity may briefly be summed up as follows : Believe nothing until you find it out for yourself. Say not “ I have a soul,” before you feel that you have a soul . Say not “ There is a God," before you experience that there is a God . You can never understand until you have experi enced . You can never experience until you have got beyond reason . Those five paths lead us to one road , the road of “ Knowledge and Doubt " ; beyond which to the inept there is impenetrable night , and to the adept undying brilliancy . “ Know or …
1919 · PDF PAGE 340
…espond to the Gunas: Ignorance, Tamas; Learning, Rajas; Wisdom, Sattvas. Again, Ignorance corresponds to Malkuth and Nephesh (the animal soul), Learning to Tiphareth and Ruach (the mind), and Wisdom to Binah and Neshamah (the aspira- tion or Divine Mind). 24. The name of Hall the second is the Hall of LEARN- ING. Init thy Soul will find the blossoms of life, but under every flower a serpent coiled. This Hall is a very much larger region than that usually understood by the Astral World. It would certainly include all states up to Dhyana. The Stu…
1919 · PDF PAGE 440
…e concentra- tion is lost, and a mood of irritability rises, work is given up, and the student becomes angry with his Teacher. His Mind- Soul becomes as a mad elephant that rages in the jungle. He may even obtain the Vision of the Demon Crowley. But by persistence in the appointed Path, by avoiding dis- appointment through not permitting the fiend Hope to set its suckers on your Soul, by quietly continuing the appointed discourse in spite of Mara and his hosts, the wheel comes full circle, the hour strikes, the talipot palm blossoms, and all is…
1913 · PDF PAGE 54
…rom the Kingdom to the Crown. ^ In one, the best, system of Magick, the Absolute is called the Crown, God is called the Father, the Pure Soul is called the Mother, the Holy Guardian Angel is called the Son, and the Natural Soul is called the Daughter. The Son purifies the Daughter by wedding her; she thus becomes the Mother, the uniting of whom with the Father absorbs all into the Crown. See Liber CDXVIII.