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Page 25 of 871961 · PDF PAGE 175
…he Lion, that feareth not the Crocodiles, nor hideth himself, but leapeth eagerly forward. The Path of the Mystic hath this Pitfall; for though he unite himself with his God, his Mode is to withdraw from that which him seemeth is not God. Whereby he affirmeth and confirmeth the Demon, that is Duality. Be thou instant therefore, o my Son, to turn from every Act of Love at he Moment of full satisfaction, flinging the invoked Might hereof against a new Opposite; for the Formula of every Dragon is Perpetual Motion or Change, and therefore to dwell …
1913 · PDF PAGE 81
… The savage has none but the most simple associations of ideas. Even the ordinary civilized man goes very little further. All advance in thought is made by collecting the greatest possible number of facts, classifying them, and grouping them. The philologist, though perhaps he only speaks one language, has a much higher type of mind than the linguist who speaks twenty. This Tree of Thought is exactly paralleled by the tree of nervous structure. Very many people go about nowadays who are exceedingly " well- informed," but who have not the slight…
1928 · PDF PAGE 29
…f mys- tification which, with some people, is not the result of a preconceived plan but of a chance inspiration, participates very much, though it were but through the intensity of its desire, in this humour which doctors call hysteric, and which those who have a little more sense than doctors call Satanic, which compels us unre- sisting towards a crowd of dangerous or incon- venient actions.) The first person that I saw in the street was a glazier whose piercing and discordant cry came up to me through the heavy and con- taminated atmosphere o…
1907 · PDF PAGE 104
…nd I in hell shall bowl and groan. Ahl God is an unskilful surgeon; We both shall weep to be alone! For we are one and may not part; And though we hurt, we love, believe mel Nor would I in my inmost heart 0f one of all your stabs bereave me. No man can hurt the indifferent stranger, No woman wound the casual friend. There is a glory born of danger; What anger gat, desire may end. Give me the phrenzy of your lip! My heart accepts your usurpature. Your body leaps beneath the whip; Our pain is in love’s very nature. It is enough. The woe is over, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 327
…e than that attained by the East . We will now show the chief means which were em ployed by the adepts of the West in gaining this end . Though , as it would be only natural to expect , the Christian Church strongly repudiated the idea of con nection between her Ceremonial practices and those And float up to the nothing , which is all things The ground of being , where self - forgetful silence , To emptiness , -emptiness fulness , -fulness God , Till we touch Him , and , like a snow - flake , melt Upon his light - sphere's keen circumference ! …
1954 · PDF PAGE 406
… my analysis so far as that has gone at present. I do not know whether it is some kind of awakening of some faculty of the magical self, though that seems to me the simplest and most probable explanation; but in any case there is no doubt about the nature of the experience, and there can be no difficulty about the recognition of it when it occurs. It reminds me of the story of the Psychologist who wanted to judge the difference in temperament between an Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman, in judging the amount of Whisky in a bottle in the n…
1910 · PDF PAGE 33
…hall of the silence. There in the silence there was a green goddess, Folden her wings, and her hands dumbly folden, Lying in her lap, as though asleep in the darkness. Then did I hail her: ‘‘O mother, my mother, Syren of the silence, dumb voice of the darkness, 21
1910 · PDF PAGE 33
…hall of the silence. There in the silence there was a green goddess, Folden her wings, and her hands dumbly folden, Lying in her lap, as though asleep in the darkness. Then did I hail her: ‘‘O mother, my mother, Syren of the silence, dumb voice of the darkness, 21
1913 · PDF PAGE 144
…e hosts of leaves Marshalled to hail him in bright green and gold , Paling before him in the light of noon , Rich - clad in evening , as though each still leaf Spoke strange dreams to the sky and setting sun In speech to men and beasts inscrutable . Then night , hushing the day , brought them to sleep , And , haunted , woke the phantoms of still shapes Tossing their muted shadows ' gainst the sky In wild - haired phantasy of plaint unseen . Mighty and stern the earthborn trunks beneath Bore up the mystic splendour of the leaves . Those trunks s…
1944 · PDF PAGE 126
…The Vision and the Voice (4th Aethyr.) the rays from any two wheels meet, there is a blinding flash of glory. It must be understood that though so much detail is visible in the wheel, yet at the same time the impression is of a single, simple object.
1898 · PDF PAGE 21
…e did not smile, Nor did my kisses soothe a mother’s woe, Because my thews grown strong were impotent To reign or be a captain any more, Though I might serve the children who had grown Less godlike from his loins who made me god. So when the day was ripe, my brethren turned And gnashed upon me, mocking, with their teeth: Thou art the son of a strange woman, thou! Begone from honest folk !—and I in wrath Smote once or twice with naked hand, and slew Two gibing cowards, and went forth an outcast, Cc
1909 · PDF PAGE 69
…erceive their sorrow was my fun, Their Hecuba my mocking Brinvilliers? * I neither know nor care. What we have done We have done. Admit, though, you are rare and rich! This palely-wandering knight has found a flame Both merciless and beautiful, you witch! ' You play the game, and frankly, as a game! This is the hour of prattle — tell me true! I have never met another such. Have you? —113— .
1909 · PDF PAGE 71
…N digestion), drink, other physical impulses, weather, and so on, and comparing them with the curve of mystic enthusiasm and attainment. Though it is perhaps true that perfect health and (Bien- étre are the bases of any true trance or rapture, it seems unlikely that mere exuberance of the former can excite the latter. In other words there is probably some first matter of the work which is not anything we know of as bodily. On my return to London, I must certainly put the matter before more experienced mathematicians, and if possible, get a graph…
1910 · PDF PAGE 118
…thee that delight thou hast in me. Thou wast indeed unconscious of thy beating, crying only : “ Press harder and deeper, O mas- ter ! ”, though my member was entirely remote from thy podex, being engulphed in the ambitious and muscular twat of a certain concubine with splendid breasts like erect members1 so firm were they. Such mirage, if it be mirage, is truer than truth, if it be truth. Nothing can shake thee in love, any more than any affliction touches the Sufi. It is therefore of no service that I restore to thy sweet podex its accus- tome…
1912 · PDF PAGE 9
…quot, or my own fault. This went on very well for a while, and then fresh trouble arose. The Giaconda was stolen from the Louvre, and my thoughts were turned for the fraction of an aeon to Lionardo when the Devil sent a young lady (from the solitudes of Mount Ushba or there- abouts) whose face and figure were identical with those of his Bacchus. My fifth Act was completely spoiled. She replaced my portfolio at the table where I sit under the blazoned sign of Leo in the most secret corner of the café ; and though I refrained (throughout) from…
1928 · PDF PAGE 74
…nswered him, Thank you for noth- ing. What should I do with this parcel of be- ings, who doubtless are worth no more than my poor self? Though I have sometimes shame in remembering, I wish to forget nothing. And even if I did not know you, old monster, your mysterious cutlery, you ambiguous phials, the chains with which your feet are cumbered are symbols which explain clearly enough the in- conveniences of your friendship. Keep your presents to yourself! The second Satan had not that air at the same time tragic and smiling, nor those in- sinu…
1905 · PDF PAGE 276
…ed, irrefragable. For by the Universe I mean the Sensible ; any other is Not to be Known ; and the Sensible is dependent upon Mind. Nay, though the Sensible is said to be an Argument of an Universe Insensible, the latter becomes sensible to Mind as soon as the Argument is accepted, and disappears with its Rejection. Nor is the Qabalah dependent upon its Realism, and its Application to the Works magical-—but I am defending a Philosophy which I was asked to describe, and this is not lawful. A great Deal may be learned from the Translation of the …
1906 · PDF PAGE 61
…There silence, arrayed as a spectre, Is visible, tangible, near, To the cup of the man pours nectar, To the heart of the coward is fear: Though the desolate waste be enchaunted By a spell that bewilders and chills, To me it is granted to worship the haunted Delight of the hills. To me all the blossoms are seedless, Yet big with all manner of fruit : And a voice in the waste is needless Since my soul in its splendour is mute. Though the height of the hill be deserted, The soul of a man has its mate; With the wide sky skirted his heart is reverte…
1907 · PDF PAGE 14
…omplex symbols Crowley has written with St. Leo :— “ Know , O man , thy dignity ; ” and this I have in this essay attempted to explain , though many I am afraid will misunderstand me , and more still misinterpret my modest efforts . For these latter ones I can but exclaim : “ Caeterum scis quid ego cogitem , scortum scorteum ; Di tibi dent , nudosque lares inopemque senectam et longas hyemes perpetuamque sitim ." And for those former , bid them contemplate well the words of St. Augustine : “ Such as the love of man is, such is he himself . Dost…
1907 · PDF PAGE 124
…” he strongly urges union between Great Britain and the United States . That friendship and dominion shall be wrought Out of the womb of thought , And all the bygone days be held as things of nought . Are we not weary of the fangéd pen ? Are we not friends , and men ? Let us look frankly face to face — and quarrel then !" Strongly advocating fraternity between the two great nations , he vehemently deprecates “ The hireling quillmen and the jingo crowd .” In a poem called “ A Valentine " in " Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic " —though a footnote…