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Page 24 of 801913 · PDF PAGE 204
166 THE EQUINOX XIII DEATH THE ways are fixed unto the last abode Of death ; there is no sign-post on that road ; No man hath found it, and no man shall find The secret way under the heavens : blind Is knowledge, for within man’s mortal brain There is an end to thought, an end to pain; And there is death, a cool, gray, silent place, Calm in the afterglow of life; one grace Kept pure and holy, and one sacred thing In the deep centre of the mystic ring Of life, whence all roads lead, a winding path Through plains of dumb despair and sunless wrath…
1922 · PDF PAGE 1
THE ALTAR OF ARTEMIS (By Aleister Crowley. From The Soul of Osiris. 1901) WHERE, in the coppice, oak and pine And mystic yew and elm are found, Sweeping the skies, that grow divine With the dark wind’s despairing sound, The wind that roars from the profound, And smites the mountain-tops, and calls Mute spirits to black festivals, And feasts in valleys iron-bound, Desolate crags, and barren ground;— There in the strong storm-shaken grove Swings the pale censer-fire for love. The foursquare altar, rightly hewn, And overlaid with beaten gold, Stan…
1901 · PDF PAGE 100
… for she wrung Love’s secret, understanding, heart and tongue, Its strange desire; sage heads the linnets nod, Chirping: ‘‘So Lilian has found her God!” No! For she might not in her joy discern The real fountain of delight. She took The carrion crow to be the golden erne, Saw dainty covers, and misread the book. The world was open to her now—she went From passion unto passion, sacrament To profanation: and the village knew She asked for lovers, and cared little who.
1910 · PDF PAGE 148
…nd our dreams are as done. Reality closes Our life into roses ; We are infinite space : we are one. There is one that hath sought me and found me In the heart of the sand and the snow : He hath caught me, and held me, and bound me, In the lands where no flower may grow His voice is a spell, Hath enchanted me well ! I am his, and I will it or no. But I will it, I will it, I will it ! His speck of a soul in its cars Shall lift up immensity ! fill it With light of his lyrical bars. His soul shall concentre All space ; he shall enter The beautiful …
1928 · PDF PAGE 75
…with all the misfortunes represented on your skin. As to the great She-Devil, I should lie if I did not admit that at the first sight I found a bizarre charm in her. To define this charm, I know nothing better to compare it to than to that of very beautiful women who, though in their decadence, no longer grow older, and
1909 · PDF PAGE 43
Xx Keep on thanksgiving! We are tenfold blest Beyond others, simply having found each other. Were we to part for ever, breast from breast, Now, even now, there would not be another In all the earth that should not envy aright With plenty cause our short-lived happiness. No life can hold one half-an-hour’s delight Such as we had — this morning! Why then, bless, Biess all that lives and moves and hath its being ! Bless all the Gods, without omitting one! Bless all the company of heaven, agreeing To veil their fires to our stupendous sun! Bless al…
1913 · PDF PAGE 230
…fore the bowl is shattered, and is riven The chord that binds the spirit to the flesh: I sing because the notes have sought so long, And found at last one soul serene and fresh To bear the burden of eternal song. So for this hour of song I have tuned my lyre Unto the Rose of the Immortal Fire. (x) When I am faded into nothingness, And thou of whomI sing art earth and dust; And when the soul I bear for my distress Is faded in the sun; when love and lust Are nothing to us, dear—my songs shall tell Of all thou wast to those who knew not thee: In t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 230
…fore the bowl is shattered, and is riven The chord that binds the spirit to the flesh: I sing because the notes have sought so long, And found at last one soul serene and fresh To bear the burden of eternal song. So for this hour of song I have tuned my lyre Unto the Rose of the Immortal Fire. (x) When I am faded into nothingness, And thou of whomI sing art earth and dust; And when the soul I bear for my distress Is faded in the sun; when love and lust Are nothing to us, dear—my songs shall tell Of all thou wast to those who knew not thee: In t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 81
… Now you must learn Qabalah. Learn this Alphabet of Magick. You must take it on trust, as a child does his own alphabet. No one has ever found out why the order of the letters is what it is. Probably there isn't any answer. But our Magical Alphabet is primarily not letters, but figures, not sounds but mathematical ideas. Sir Humphrey Davy, coming out of his famous illumination (with some help from Nitrous Oxide he got in) exclaimed : The Universe is composed solely of ideas. We, analyzing this a little, say: The Universe is a mathematical expre…
1930 · PDF PAGE 64
…n! Thou Woman of Whore- ABAFT. dom!” i. See, for the formula of IAF, or rather FIAOF, Book 4 Part III, Chapter V. The form FIAOF will be found préférable in practice. — 268 —
1905 · PDF PAGE 13
6 ACELDAMA XXX1L. Master !! I think that I have found thee now : | Deceive me not, I trust thee, [am sure Thy love will stand while ocean winds endure. Our quest shall be our quest till cither brow Radiate light, till death himself allure Our love to him When life’s desires are filled beyond the silver brim. . XXXII. Ifere I abandon all myself to thee, Slip into thy caresses as of right, Live in thy kisses as in living light, Clothed in thy love, enthronéd lazily In thine embrace, as naked as the night, As love and lover More pure, more keen, m…
1907 · PDF PAGE 39
32 THE STAR IN THE WEST A curious Swinburnian strain of passion is found wedged in the satiric lines of “ Why Jesus Wept .” Percy , the youth flatulent with love , chants to his Angela - society --thus : To me she is The rosy incarnation of a kiss , The royal rapture of a young delight , The mazy music of virginity, Sun of the day , moon of the night , All , all to me ! 1 And again : Love , love , these raptures are like springtide rain Nestling among green leaves .2 One more example of the diversity of Crowley's pen , before we deal with his p…
1913 · PDF PAGE 153
…m among men , and in the mart ; I have sought Him in the sweet and open field ; I have sought Him in the stillness of my heart But never found Him anywhere revealed . I sailed upon the strong and fragrant sea ; I fought His ancient worship to defend ; I lived five years an eremite - but He Was only more mysterious at the end . Often when I would linger all the night To meditate the universal doom , Suddenly , in a fever of delight , I would seem to feel His presence in the gloom . But it was fancy : for when daylight broke , And rapturously I c…
1919 · PDF PAGE 300
…is stenographer aforesaid, he decided that it would be cheaper to get married. So he went to Llandudno; and, rather like Abraham when he found the ram caught in the thicket by its horns, he found a cow caught in the Children’s Special Service Mission by her feet, which were exceptionally large, and took her as wife in name, and secretary and general ser- vant in function. This female, however, developed an unsuspected quality. She made him shave, and Mr. Bishop, who had been going about London for forty years looking like a most venerable old g…
1912 · PDF PAGE 14
…e One Great Mystery. They represent but different degrees 01 initiation. By the Right Use of the “ Key” alone the " Master Word ᾿᾽can be found. In order to afford genuine seekers after Hermetic Truth some information on the aims of the Ancient Order of Oriental Templars, we now print the preliminary instruction issued by the Fratres of this Order. FIRST INSTRUCTION T0 al! whom it may comem— Let it be known that there exists, unknown to the great crowd, a very ancient order of sages, whose object is the amelioration and Spiritual elevation 01 ma…
1912 · PDF PAGE 14
…e One Great Mystery. They represent but different degrees 01 initiation. By the Right Use of the “ Key” alone the " Master Word ᾿᾽can be found. In order to afford genuine seekers after Hermetic Truth some information on the aims of the Ancient Order of Oriental Templars, we now print the preliminary instruction issued by the Fratres of this Order. FIRST INSTRUCTION T0 al! whom it may comem— Let it be known that there exists, unknown to the great crowd, a very ancient order of sages, whose object is the amelioration and Spiritual elevation 01 ma…
1913 · PDF PAGE 8
…e One Great Mystery. They represent but different degrees of initiation. By the Right Use of the “Key” alone the ‘“ Master Word ” can be found. In order to afford genuine seekers after Hermetic Truth some information on the aims of the Ancient Order of Oriental Templars, we now print the preliminary instruction issued by the Fratres of this Order. FIRST INSTRUCTION To all whom it may concern— Let it be known that there exists, unknown to the great crowd, a very ancient order of sages, whose object is the amelioration and spiritual elevation of …
1913 · PDF PAGE 8
…e One Great Mystery. They represent but different degrees of initiation. By the Right Use of the “Key” alone the ‘“ Master Word ” can be found. In order to afford genuine seekers after Hermetic Truth some information on the aims of the Ancient Order of Oriental Templars, we now print the preliminary instruction issued by the Fratres of this Order. FIRST INSTRUCTION To all whom it may concern— Let it be known that there exists, unknown to the great crowd, a very ancient order of sages, whose object is the amelioration and spiritual elevation of …
1929 · PDF PAGE 545
…d when he had made up his mind he would execute his plan in every detail as he worked it out. When he had made a mistake of judgment and found himself obliged to improvise, he was bewildered and frightened. At first he used to begin to cry and look round piteously for his mother. The unexpected difficulty threw him right out of his sense of reality. He lost his head and the old instinct of infancy reappeared. He never showed excitement or eagerness to {860} climb, and after the victory never exulted in the normal fashion of children, but he was…
1909 · PDF PAGE 128
…n to images. What fools these mortals be! The Greeks, too, after exhausting all their sublimest thoughts of Zeus and Hades and Poseidon, found that they could not find a fitting image of the All, the supreme —so they just carved a goat-man, saying: Let this represent Pan] Also in the holiest place of the most secret temple there is an empty shrine. But whoso goes there in the first instance thinks ; There is no God. He who goes there at the End, when he has adored all the other deities, knoweth that No God.