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…ness ; he is spotted like a leper. He is no more fit for the desire of a clean man ; even his seducers, the black-skinned swine ! having found a boy with tulip cheeks and coralline ; and a bosom of jessamine ; and eye- brows like Karenian3 bows for beauty of line ; and breath like wine ; and buttocks fair and firm and fine ; and a podex like a ruby mine ; have cast him off.4 Until Shahrava5 return he will no more pass current. Let him buy a dildo, for his cry for mem- bers is ceaseless as the jackal’s ! Nay ! But come to me, Habib ! I will cher…
1913 · PDF PAGE 119
I07 spilled in the sunlight is perhaps the most beautiful colour that is to be found in nature. It is a notorious fact that it is practically impossible to get a reliable description of what occurs at a spiritualistic seafice; the emotions cloud the vision. Only in the absolute calm of the laboratory, where the observer is perfectly indifferent to what may happen, only concerned to observe exactly what that happening is, to measure and to weigh it by means of instruments incapable of emotion, can one even begin to hope for a truthful record of …
1928 · PDF PAGE 106
… inexhaustible in light and unanswerable jests, and expressed himself in a suavity of speech and a calm in jest-making that I have never found in any of the most famous of mor- tal talkers. He explained to me the absurdity of the different philosophies that have till now ob- sessed the human brain, and condescended even to confide to me some fundamental prin- ciples whose advantages and propriety it is in- convenient to discuss with the first-comer. He did not at all complain of the bad reputation which he enjoyed in every part of the world, an…
1909 · PDF PAGE 138
…hrough me. The consciousness again died and was reborn as the divine, always without shock or stress. How easy is magic, once the way is found! How still is the soul! The turbid spate of emotion has ceased; the heavy particles of thought have sunk
1913 · PDF PAGE 242
CROWLEY POOL [Tus pool will be found superior to the “Calcutta Sweep” usually held on steamers.] 1. A pack of cards is shuffled, cut, and sealed up by the purser, or other disinterested party. 2. Tickets are bought, and numbers drawn as usual. 3. The numbers from “ Low Field” to “ High Field” are sold by auction as usual, half the price going to the original drawer, half being added to the pool. 4. The ship’s run is declared, and the winner has a temporary claim on the pool. 5. The purser now takes the sealed pack of cards, and deals them one b…
1913 · PDF PAGE 242
CROWLEY POOL [Tus pool will be found superior to the “Calcutta Sweep” usually held on steamers.] 1. A pack of cards is shuffled, cut, and sealed up by the purser, or other disinterested party. 2. Tickets are bought, and numbers drawn as usual. 3. The numbers from “ Low Field” to “ High Field” are sold by auction as usual, half the price going to the original drawer, half being added to the pool. 4. The ship’s run is declared, and the winner has a temporary claim on the pool. 5. The purser now takes the sealed pack of cards, and deals them one b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 63
…Church was that Romanism was a late heresy, or at least schism. The finest cathedral in the world was too small for the Church, as Brand found. The mountains and forests were consecrated sports. The nearest thing to a material house would be a hermitage such as one was likely to encounter while traveling on the Quest. But all these ideals, seriously as I entertained them, were in the nature of reverie. In practical life I was still passionately engaged in cleansing myself from the mire of Christianity by deliberate acts of sin and worldliness. …
1909 · PDF PAGE 112
… shield, second his blows with Thy spear and with Thy sword. Aye! let the Ninth Day close in silence and in dark- ness, and let 0. M. be found watching and waiting and willing Thy Presence. Adonai! Adonai! Ο Lord Adonai! Let Thy Light illumine the Path of that darkling wight John St. John, that being who, separate from Thee, is separate from all Light, Life, Love. Adonai! Adonai! let it be written of 0. M. that " the Lord Adonai is about him like a thunderbolt and like a Pylon and like a Serpent and like a Phallus—and in the midst thereof like …
1912 · PDF PAGE 138
…d the legend of the Gospels at his mother's knee. “ But there is news!” he added gaily. “ I'm going to show you my great discovery. I’ve found out how to make 96
1912 · PDF PAGE 138
…d the legend of the Gospels at his mother's knee. “ But there is news!” he added gaily. “ I'm going to show you my great discovery. I’ve found out how to make 96
1907 · PDF PAGE 48
…om poems published in 1898 , and the last from those published a year later . I will not say that they are the only im perfections to be found throughout these works , but I will say that there are very few others . And con sidering that Aleister Crowley has written about one hundred thousand lines in the space of ten years , or half the quantity produced by Robert Browning in fifty - six , the fewness of imperfections in his work is truly remarkable . Let us now pass from what I may call the Poetic Iconomachy to the Poetic Iconolatry of these …
1913 · PDF PAGE 8
…ing their right to be present and vote in this Convocation of Prince Patriarch Grand Conservators, and the same having been examined and found to be legal and 8
1930 · PDF PAGE 4
…s were Thomas Henryyou may possibly have heard of himhe was no less a personage than the Grand- father of the great Aldous Huxleyonce found himself threatened by a predicament similar to that in which I stand tonight. He had been asked to lecture a distinguished group of people. What bothered him was this : what assumption was he to make about the existing knowledge of the audience ? He adopted the sensible course of asking the advice of an old hand at the game ; and was told You must do one of two things. You may assume that they know eve…
1929 · PDF PAGE 315
…Their influence had been removed. For the first time in my life I was really free. I had no personality left. To take a concrete case: I found myself in the middle of China with a wife and child. I was no longer influenced by love for them, no longer interested in protecting them as I had been; but there was a man, Aleister Crowley, husband and father, of a certain caste, of certain experience, of travel in remote parts of the world; and it was his business to give them his undivided love, care and protection. He could do this very much more ef…
1913 · PDF PAGE 32
…ize cosmic measurements. For example, he may take the two diagonals as (say) the diameter of the sun. Then the side of the altar will be found to have a length equal to some other cosmic measure, a vesica drawn on the side some other, a "rood cross" within the vesica yet another. Each Magician should work out his own system of symbolism —and he need not confine himself to cosmic measurements. He might, for example, find some relation to express the law of inverse squares. The top of the Altar shall be covered with gold, and on this gold should …
1913 · PDF PAGE 73
…th, and there is no return. You will re- member in Browning's " Childe Roland to the dark Tower came": For mark ! no sooner was I fairly found Pledged to the plain, after a pace or two. Than, pausing to throw backwards a last view O'er the safe road, 'twas gone: grey plain all round. Nothing but plain to the horizon's bound. I might go on ; naught else remained to do. And this is universally true. The statement that the Probationer can resign when he chooses is in truth only for those who have taken the oath but superficially. A real Magical Oa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 474
THE EQUINOX for he told me he had seen you, and it is I who sent him to you.” No more doubt, then; the unhappy priest had found the fatal grimoive, he had done the evocation, and prepared himself for the murder by a series of sacrileges. For this is in what the infernal evocations consist, according to the grimotre of Honorius: “Choose a black cock, and give him the name of the spirit of darkness which one wishes to evoke. “ Kill the cock, and keep its heart, its tongue, and the first feather of its left wing. “Dry the tongue and the heart, and…
1913 · PDF PAGE 474
THE EQUINOX for he told me he had seen you, and it is I who sent him to you.” No more doubt, then; the unhappy priest had found the fatal grimoive, he had done the evocation, and prepared himself for the murder by a series of sacrileges. For this is in what the infernal evocations consist, according to the grimotre of Honorius: “Choose a black cock, and give him the name of the spirit of darkness which one wishes to evoke. “ Kill the cock, and keep its heart, its tongue, and the first feather of its left wing. “Dry the tongue and the heart, and…
1909 · PDF PAGE 79
…an annoying type—every one acted as badly as he knew how, and as unexpectedly. Waking just now, and instantly concentrating on Adonai, I found my body seized with a little quivering, very curious and pleasant, like trembling leaves in a continuous air. I think I have heard this state of Interior Trembling described in some mystic books. I think the Shakers and Quakers had violent shudderings. Abdullah Haji of Shiraz writes :— ]ust as the body shudders when the Soul Gives up to Allah in its quick career Itself. . . . It is the tiniest, most inti…
1909 · PDF PAGE 89
…d! The L.V.X. came, too; but not enough to pierce the awful shroud of darkness that by my folly I have woven for myself. So at the end I found myself on the floor, so like Rodin’s Cruche Cassée Danaide girl as never was . . . As I ought to have been in the beginning] Well, one thing I got (again !), that is, that when all is said and done, I am that I am, and all these thoughts of mine, angels and devils both, are only fleeting moods of me. The one true self of me is Adonai. Simple! Yet I cannot remain in that simplicity. I got this “revelation” …