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Page 30 of 1731913 · PDF PAGE 559
…rent sphere, can be placed beside theirs; and, having become unjust, they dispense even with politeness. To escape this fatality, really great men isolate themselves from all comradeship, knowing it to be death to liberty. They save themselves by a proud unpopularity from the contamina- tion of the vile multitude. If Balzac had been during his life a man of a clique or of a party, he would not have remained after his death the great and universal genius of our epoch. The light illuminates neither things insensible nor closed eyes, or at least i…
1913 · PDF PAGE 561
…, you have not yet lived. What you have been taking for life is but the hallucinations and the dreams of the first slumber of death! All great criminals have hallucinated themselves on pur- pose; and those who hallucinate themselves on purpose may be fatally led to become great criminals. Our personal light specialized, brought forth, determined by our own over- mastering affection, is the germ of our paradise or of our Hell. Each one of us (in a sense) conceives, bears, and nourishes his good or evil angel. The conception of truth gives birth …
1910 · PDF PAGE 58
…g my obligations unto the Chiefs of the R. R. et A.C. Now did I deem it well that I should rest awhile before resuming my labours in the Great Work, seeing that he, who sleepeth never, shall fall by the wayside, and also remembering the twofold sign: the Power of Horus: and the Power of Hoor-pa-Kraat.* Now, the year being yet young, One D. A. came unto me, and spake. And he spake not any more (as had been his wont) in guise ofa skeptic and indifferent man: but indeed with the very voice and power of a Great Guru, or of one definitely sent from …
1910 · PDF PAGE 58
…g my obligations unto the Chiefs of the R. R. et A.C. Now did I deem it well that I should rest awhile before resuming my labours in the Great Work, seeing that he, who sleepeth never, shall fall by the wayside, and also remembering the twofold sign: the Power of Horus: and the Power of Hoor-pa-Kraat.* Now, the year being yet young, One D. A. came unto me, and spake. And he spake not any more (as had been his wont) in guise ofa skeptic and indifferent man: but indeed with the very voice and power of a Great Guru, or of one definitely sent from …
1906 · PDF PAGE 162
…the bara* slam? Eternal life. Divergent views of its desirability. Buddhist idea. Dogma of Belief. - But if you drink your mystic fill * Great slam-—a term of Bridge-Whist. + John iii, 18, ‘‘ He that believeth not is condemned already.”’ Under the good tree Igdrasil © Where is at all your use for Christ? Hath Krishna not at all sufficed? I hereby guarantee to pull A faith as quaint and beautiful As much attractive to an ass, And setting reason at defiance, As Zionism, Christian Science, Or Ladies’ League, ® ‘‘ Keep off the Grass !”’ From “ Alic…
1907 · PDF PAGE 146
…ted in the brain of man , but to become a man is to become a progenitor of gods ; and then perchance we may realize the sublimity of the Great Mother hood , whose children are as one , a flaming crown of glory twined and interwoven with roses both white and red . This mingling of the passionate and the chaste we find is the new ideal that Crowley flashes before our dazzled sight. Away with Mary, immaculate Mother of Christ : away with Messalina , incestuous prophetess of Lust . Away ! Away ! To the West , to the East , till they meet in some fl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 76
LE BAISER NFINITE delicacy in great strength Holds the white girl and draws her into love. All her lithe subtlety, her lovely length, Is sealed in the embrace about, above Her visible life. What mastery of repose, Compulsion of motion lurks for us therein. As we gaze back on Greece, as Nature glows, Simple and sacred, with no thought of sin, Yet born to trouble us, to fascinate. Here we are, back i’ th’ springtime of the earth; God above man; and above God, dire fate. Ancient cosmogony of peace and mirth! Careless, we careless, do invoke thy ri…
1908 · PDF PAGE 66
… I bow my weary head Within Her melancholy doors. I shall not ever be content With earth and all its tedious pleasure. I look toward the great event, To Mary’s bliss, the starry treasure. I scourge my body till the blood Pours from this heart that hateth light, Mix with its tide Thy crystal flood ! O Mary, cleanse Thine acolyte ! Accept this offering of pain ! Receive Thy neophyte’s devotion, Till to Thy peace he rise again, O star of love on sorrow’s ocean ! Amen. B 59
1910 · PDF PAGE 109
… own mastery of song And light, shown ever as silence and deep night Secret as death and final. Let me long Never again for aught ! This great delight Involves me, weaves me in its pattern of bliss, Seals me with its own kiss, Draws me to thee with every dream that glows. Poet, each word ! Maiden, each burden of snows Extending beyond sunset, beyond dawn ! O Rose, inviolate, utterly withdrawn In the truth :for this is truth ; Love knows ! Ah ! Rose of the World ! Rose ! Rose !
1919 · PDF PAGE 294
…Napoleon was probably in an extremely bad temper when he spoke of Saint Basil’s as “that mosque,” but it is a mosque. It is probably the greatest building in the world in its peculiar way, but that way is the way of the mosque, even more so than St. Mark’s or the cathedral at Granada. But the great Russians are not less because they have been compelled to wear civilized clothing. There is only one art purely Russian, and that is the ‘Russian Ballet,’ which was not invented by Russians at all. The real Russian ballet is a savage mimicry of the I…
1907 · PDF PAGE 26
THE LOOKING-GLASS 19 epic was of itself a nullity , and that a poem of great length , commencing as it might in exaltation , ended in nine cases out of ten in somnolence . Poetry must stimulate , it must irritate the soul in some definite manner , or else it ceases to be poetry . For when once poetry exerts a soporific power its whole object is lost , and , as a flash of lightning , it must be vivid , bright , flaming for a moment , awful , eloquent , rush ing from the darkness of night through the flashing elements of day into the silence of e…
1909 · PDF PAGE 98
…ce of the King, and answer the Riddle of the Sphinx. All science only brings us up to a blind wall, the wall of Philosophy; here is your great Ram to batter a breach and let in the forlorn hope of the Children of the Curse to storm the heights of heaven. One single trained observer with five years’ work, less money than would build a bakehouse, and no more help than his dozen of volunteer students could give him, would earn himself a fame loftier than the stars, and set mankind on the royal road to the solution of the One great problem. Scienti…
1909 · PDF PAGE 98
…ce of the King, and answer the Riddle of the Sphinx. All science only brings us up to a blind wall, the wall of Philosophy; here is your great Ram to batter a breach and let in the forlorn hope of the Children of the Curse to storm the heights of heaven. One single trained observer with five years’ work, less money than would build a bakehouse, and no more help than his dozen of volunteer students could give him, would earn himself a fame loftier than the stars, and set mankind on the royal road to the solution of the One great problem. Scienti…
1910 · PDF PAGE 224
…s breadth; nay, it seemed bigger than before—a very gape in the womb of the Universe. Crestfallen, Kamael the mighty returned before the Great White Spirit, his serpents drooping behind him; and they grovelled before the throne of that All-powerful One. He dismissed them with a short laugh, and a wave of His right hand. If He was disturbed, He was too proud to show it. “This,” he said to himself, “is clearly a matter for Elohim Gibor.” Therefore He summoned that divine power before Him. The crown of Elohim Gibor was Space itself; the two halves…
1910 · PDF PAGE 224
…s breadth; nay, it seemed bigger than before—a very gape in the womb of the Universe. Crestfallen, Kamael the mighty returned before the Great White Spirit, his serpents drooping behind him; and they grovelled before the throne of that All-powerful One. He dismissed them with a short laugh, and a wave of His right hand. If He was disturbed, He was too proud to show it. “This,” he said to himself, “is clearly a matter for Elohim Gibor.” Therefore He summoned that divine power before Him. The crown of Elohim Gibor was Space itself; the two halves…
1911 · PDF PAGE 16
… are indeed four, and they have none above them; wherefore dispersion and disorder. Now cometh from every side at once a voice, terribly great, crying: Close the veil; the great blasphemy hath been uttered; the face of my Mother is scarred by the nails of the devil. Shut the book, destroy the breaker of the seal! 14
1898 · PDF PAGE 6
…youngman. The gentleman stops and gives the lstile girl a halfpenny. The young man smiles. The gentleman notices the smile, and sees how great a sadness underlies it. VAUGHAN. [Durning to the young man.] ND you—what are you doing here? Excuse my rudeness—you seem so sad. PERCY. I am sad to-night. I am very lonely in this place. VAUGHAN. There are plenty of people about. PERCY. People—mere shells, husks of the golden wheat that might grow even here. VAUGHAN. Why do you stay here?
1911 · PDF PAGE 66
… I bow my weary head Within Her melancholy doors. I shall not ever be content With earth and all its tedious pleasure. I look toward the great event, To Mary’s bliss, the starry treasure. I scourge my body till the blood Pours from this heart that hateth light, Mix with its tide Thy crystal flood ! O Mary, cleanse Thine acolyte ! Accept this offering of pain ! Receive Thy neophyte’s devotion, Till to Thy peace he rise again, O star of love on sorrow’s ocean ! Amen. B 59
1912 · PDF PAGE 18
… Oh, it is vague and vacillatin; Aucta. Love, ‘Young love of maidens, is the soul thereof. And in the midst, behold, O man! The image of great Pan. at
1944 · PDF PAGE 46
… (KEYS or TRUMPS) 0. The Fool. The Formula of Tetragrammaton; The Green Man of the Spring Festival. April Fool; The Holy Ghost; The Great Fool of the Celts (Dalua); The Rich Fisherman; Percivale; The Croco dile (Mako, Son of Set, or Sebek); HoorPaKraat; Zeus Arrheno theleus; Dionysus Zagreus; Bacchus Diphues; Baphomet; Sum mary. I. to XXI. The Juggler; The High Priestess; The Empress; The Em peror; The Hierophant; The Lovers (or, The Brothers); The Char iot; Adjustment; The Hermit; Fortune; Lust; The Hanged Man; Death; Art; The D…