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Page 29 of 1591901 · PDF PAGE 88
…Christian ” parents marred our youth : “ One thing is certain of our origin. We are born Adam’s bastards into sin, Servants to Death and Time’s devouring tooth. God, damning most, had this one thought of ruth To save some dozens—Us : and by the skin Of teeth to save us from the devil’s gin— Repentance ! Blood ! Prayer ! Sackcloth ! This is truth.” Our parents answer jesting Pilate so. I am the meanest servant of the Christ : But, were I heathen, cannibal, profane, My cruel spirit had not sacrificed My children to this Moloch. I am plain ? “ Bla…
1913 · PDF PAGE 93
…s at night, alone : I was a poet, I was young . Since I can never see your face, And never shake you by the hand, I send my soul through time and space To greet you . You will understand . TENEBRIS INTERLUCENTEM . A LINNET who had lost her way n Sang on a blackened bough in Hell, Till all the ghosts remembered well The trees , the wind, the golden day . At last they knew that they had died When they heard music in that land , And someone there stole forth a hand To draw a brother to his side .
1913 · PDF PAGE 80
…ision until it include a star. And thus, gathering one star after another, let his contemplation become vast as the heaven, in space and time ever aspiring to the perception of the Body of Nuit ; yea, of the Body of Nuit.
1913 · PDF PAGE 80
…ision until it include a star. And thus, gathering one star after another, let his contemplation become vast as the heaven, in space and time ever aspiring to the perception of the Body of Nuit ; yea, of the Body of Nuit.
1904 · PDF PAGE 91
…y grew again in sixfold order, so that this latter work was double: but unto the first three he laid not his hand, neither for the first time, nor for the second time, nor for the third time. So to them he added3 that spiritual flame (for they were one, and ten, and fifty , thrice, and again) and that was the Beas t, the Living One that is Lifan. Let us be silent, therefore, my brethren, worshipping the holy sixfold Ox 4 that was our F ather in his peace that he had won into, and that s o hardly. For of this shall no man speak. Now therefore le…
1912 · PDF PAGE 120
…things should sink to climb! Ο mystery incarnate of the soul, That dies but to be born anew! The whole One monstrous effigy of Life, that Time Scrawls with fantastic hands from pole to pole. ARCHER??:חתפמ
1912 · PDF PAGE 120
…things should sink to climb! Ο mystery incarnate of the soul, That dies but to be born anew! The whole One monstrous effigy of Life, that Time Scrawls with fantastic hands from pole to pole. ARCHER??:חתפמ
1907 · PDF PAGE 122
… Rodin discerned. We see the eagle-eyed Glory of echoing kisses ; hear the sound Of glutted raptures break in the profound, The abyss of time: upsurge the dead. Why hide Thy sorrowful god’s brow, O sculptor, mage, Child of eternity, father of an age? Thou hast seen, thou hast showed, that as it was on earth So shall it be in resurrection birth. The cycle of weariness and passionate pain Is and was ever and must be again. There is no death! Ah! that is misery ! For this, Lord Christ, is it that thou wouldst be, Thou yesterday, to-day, and thou t…
1912 · PDF PAGE 12
…ion steep and strong, Slaying even God, should He distract Thy attention from the chosen act! Last, all these things in one o’erpowered, Time that the midnight blossom flowered! The oneness is. Yet even in this, My son, thou shalt not do amiss If thou restrain the expression, shoot Thy glance to rapture’s darkling root, Discarding name, form, sight, and stress Even of this high consciousness; Pierce to the heart! I leave thee here: Thou art the Master. I revere Thy radiance that rolls afar, O Brother of the Silver Star! CROWLEY“ AHA l”
1912 · PDF PAGE 10
Autcra. Master, still sad? Crassus. These faint and fearful shores Of time are beaten by the surge of sense, Love worn away—by love?—to indifference. Who knows what god—or demon—she adores? Or in what wood she shelters, or what grove Sees her profane our sacrament of love? Aurcta. I saw her follow ‘The stream in the hollow Where never Apollo Abides. So thick are the trees That never the breeze Stirs them, or sees ‘What satyr inhabits the glen, what nymph in the pools of it hides. Lighter of foot Than a syiph or a fairy, Sinuous, wary, T passed …
1907 · PDF PAGE 195
188 THE STAR IN THE WEST ing cup of thine Illusions shalt thou hurl beyond the confines of Space over the very rim of Time . Thou O seeker after Wisdom , and Virtue , and multiscient Truth , thou O wanderer in the groves of Eleusis , thou , even thou shalt drink of the wine of Iacchus , and thy cup shall be as a triple flame set with sapphire , and beryl, and amethyst ; for it is the cup of Adepts , and of Heroes , and of Gods . Then all the absinthial bitterness of thine heart shall vanish midst the chaunting of souls lost in the ocean of unde…
1911 · PDF PAGE 156
… name of God, summarized in the letter cheth; for which see the Aethyr which correspondeth to that letter, the twelfth Aethyr.) Now from time to time I have looked into the Stone, but 154
1922 · PDF PAGE 304
…” he pursued, with a heavy sigh, “you can easily understand that, huge as my fortune, thanks to the inscrutable ways of Destiny, now is, time is necessary to realise it fully—and, by a singular and most unfortunate conjunction of circumstances, not only time is required, but—Capital.” “Unfortunate conjuncture of circumstances?” I echoed dreamily—my mind was royally racing in the Circus of Infinity, a billion leagues from where anybody sat. “Unfortunate, that is, for me,” corrected Platt, “no, no, I won’t say that, since it is fortunate for my f…
1954 · PDF PAGE 339
…ter another. Three quarters of the Aeon had elapsed before the wine of that vintage was really drinkable. I expect, as I hope, that this time (communication heing universaHy better established, the foundations better laid, and things in general moving quicker) we may be able to enjoy the harvest in very much less time. But hang it all! it's hardly reasonable to expect complete fruition after only 40 years. What seems to me the most encouraging symptom of all is this: the Book itself, and the system of Magick based thereon, and the bankruptcy of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 471
…d be sent over for his approval. (As a matter of fact, I had understood him as offering to purchase them all outright. Money was at this time of considerable moment to me. In the upshot, he purchased between seven and eight hundred dollars' worth of my goods, instead of between three and four thousand dollars' worth, as I had expected; and this disappointment left me in great straits financially, as I had at that time no immediately available resources in England.) The Patriot Bottomley is in error, I pray that he may pardon me if I indicate it…
1919 · PDF PAGE 161
…Lack of money. He determined however to go ahead in spite of apparent obstacles, and duly made a start at Midnight, August 31. From that time until Sep- tember 18th he was occupied by the Preparatory work, and from Midnight September 18th to Midnight September 30th by the Purity Section. October 1st to October 12th Proper Retirement, and on October 12th Invocation of Holy Guar- dian Angel. All this meant a great deal of work and trouble, and much new experience gained, but was on the whole a failure, though a Step on the Path. During this retir…
1908 · PDF PAGE 50
…brand, And smote the sons of hell. Be present all the starry host Of cherubim and seraphim, While, hasted by the HOLY GHOST, We raise on Time’s eroded coast Our rare and royal hymn. Let all the ripples of our song Exulting evermore converge In one the virgin wave and strong, Combine their chorus loud and long Re-quicken and up-surge ! Hail to the Virgin ! Hail ! we cry. Hail, Mary ! Hail ! All hail ! All hail ! The utmost caverns of the sky, The abysses of eternity, Repeat the hail ! All hail ! S 43
1913 · PDF PAGE 296
…dden sense of the Zohar, the great dogmatic treatise of the Qabalah of the Hebrews. The Clavicles of Solomon, forgotten in the course of time, and supposed lost, have been re- discovered by ourselves; without trouble we have opened all the doors of those old sanctuaries where absolute truth seemed to sleep,—always young, and always beautiful, like that princess of the childish legend, who, during a century of slumber, awaits the bridegroom whose mission it is to awaken her. After our book, there will still be mysteries, but higher and farther i…
1913 · PDF PAGE 296
…dden sense of the Zohar, the great dogmatic treatise of the Qabalah of the Hebrews. The Clavicles of Solomon, forgotten in the course of time, and supposed lost, have been re- discovered by ourselves; without trouble we have opened all the doors of those old sanctuaries where absolute truth seemed to sleep,—always young, and always beautiful, like that princess of the childish legend, who, during a century of slumber, awaits the bridegroom whose mission it is to awaken her. After our book, there will still be mysteries, but higher and farther i…
1904 · PDF PAGE 36
…n which I naturally relied to gain my point. But not for nothing had I been trained in the School of Mines ! (I thought you were at this time but seven years old, I ven- tured. He seemed not to hear.) By pulling at her bubbies by their nipples, which were an excellent grip, I was able to start a swinging movement, whose aim the charming but unscientific girl did not suspect. In a few moments my ponderous balls were again thundering on her already weak- ened isthmus, and at the same time I was gather- ing myself, excited by the voluptuous nature…