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Page 31 of 841954 · PDF PAGE 452
Cara Soror, 70 Morality (1) Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. "Tu l'as voulu. Georges Dandin!" I knew from the first that your sly, insidious, poisoned poniard, slipped in between my ribs, would soon or late involve a complete exposition of the whole subject of Morality. Off we go! What really is it? The word comes from Mos, Latin for 'custom', 'manner'. Similarly, ethics: from Greek ethos, 'custom' . "It isn't done" may be modern slang, but it's correct . Interesting to study the usage of moeurs and manieres in French. 'Manner' …
1910 · PDF PAGE 261
THE HASHEESH EATER For a place, New York for instance, a stranger accounts, not by saying that any one of the many who testify to its existence copied from another, but by acknowledging “there is such a place.” So do I account for the fact by saying “there is such a fact.” We try to imitate Eastern narrative, but in vain. Our minds can find no clew to its strange untrodden by-ways of speculation; our highest soarings are still in an atmosphere which feels heavy with the reek and damp of ordinary life. We fail to account for those storm-wrapped …
1910 · PDF PAGE 261
THE HASHEESH EATER For a place, New York for instance, a stranger accounts, not by saying that any one of the many who testify to its existence copied from another, but by acknowledging “there is such a place.” So do I account for the fact by saying “there is such a fact.” We try to imitate Eastern narrative, but in vain. Our minds can find no clew to its strange untrodden by-ways of speculation; our highest soarings are still in an atmosphere which feels heavy with the reek and damp of ordinary life. We fail to account for those storm-wrapped …
1907 · PDF PAGE 306
THE NEW WINE 299 Ah ! O in the silence, in the dark , In the intangible , unperfumed , Ingust abyss, abide and mark The mind's magnificence assumed In the soul's splendour ! Here is peace ; Here earneșt of assured release . Here is the formless all pervading Spirit of the World , rising , fading Into a glory subtler still . Here the intense abode of Will Closes its gates , and in the hall Is solemn sleep of festival . Peace ! Peace ! Silence of peace ! O visionless abode ! Cease ! Cease ! Through the dark veil pass on ! The veil Is rent asunder…
1913 · PDF PAGE 207
…nder the beechen boughs Still linger, as the hour of triumph grows In the Ram’s mouth: and the heart of day is torn With the fear of the new Birth: no more is set The Crown on the temples of the dawn; no more Is heard the clarion of the day; the ways Are darkened for delight, and pure for pain Of birth, stretch forth to the ends of the universe— A long, still road of longing, passion-pale With the dust of lives, and strewn with the bitterness Of the heart of man, the weary heart of man! And deeply set betwixt the pillars of day, There stands th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 207
…nder the beechen boughs Still linger, as the hour of triumph grows In the Ram’s mouth: and the heart of day is torn With the fear of the new Birth: no more is set The Crown on the temples of the dawn; no more Is heard the clarion of the day; the ways Are darkened for delight, and pure for pain Of birth, stretch forth to the ends of the universe— A long, still road of longing, passion-pale With the dust of lives, and strewn with the bitterness Of the heart of man, the weary heart of man! And deeply set betwixt the pillars of day, There stands th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 328
…which Madame Blavatsky was apparently content to let grow until the day of judgment. But that day is come since she wrote this Book; the New Zon is here, and its Word is Do what thou wilt. It is certainly time to give the order: “Chautauqua est delenda.” Love is the law, love under will.
1929 · PDF PAGE 522
… confident that at the right moment I should find myself in the right position to do what was right. Having witnessed the bedevilment of New Orleans, I was sent to Titusville, Florida, to complete my contemplation of the unspeakable degradation of humanity which is constantly being wrought by Christianity and commerce. I saw my cousin Lawrence, as decent a lad as one could wish to see, spiritually stunted and corrupted in every way by savage superstition; his wife, hardly turned thirty, a wrinkled hag of sixty, with no idea of life beyond the g…
1913 · PDF PAGE 121
… on every side , Till some great thought arising as a sun , Would drive the mists away and show in front The radiant living mountains of new truth . I know not if I understood aright His meaning , but I saw upon his face The rapture of a visionary inspired . And as I went from out the ancient gate , mber , Focked on a su min front 102
1929 · PDF PAGE 2
… the head-dress of Horus, c. 1910 Baphomet: Crowley in full Masonic regalia, 1916 The Arabian alchemist Leah Hirsig in Crowley´s studio, New York, 1918 Handwritten plan for climbing Mt Everest, 1921 Crowley and Alostrael (Leah Hirsig) at the Abbey of Thelema, 1921 Betty May Raoul Loveday (Frater Aud), 1923 Sketch by Crowley of Norman Mudd (Frater Omnia Pro Veritate) Frank Bennett (Frater Progradior) Maria de Miramar and Crowley Sketch by Crowley of a devouring demon 768-769 Crowley as a human being, 1934 Crowley as Fo-hi, the Chinese god of joy…
1907 · PDF PAGE 28
…Hatch from this egg a cockatrice Of novel style, that you who read The Sword of Song—(your poor, poor head !) Shall stand amazed (at the new note Flung faultless from this trembling throat) That Crowley, ever versatile And lord of many a new bad style Should still in’s gun have one more cartridge, And who Ixtaccihuatl’s 4 smart ridge Achieved should still be full of mettle To go up Popocatapetl. As song then chills or aches or burns, The metre shall slew round by turns. 1 The great task of Western occultism is to ‘ pronounce the name”’ of Jehov…
1907 · PDF PAGE 308
THE NEW WINE 301 Let human thought itself expand Bright Sun of Knowledge , in me rise ! Lead me to those exalted skies To live and love and understand ! Paying no price , accepting nought The Giver and the Gift are one With the Receiver -O thou Sun Of thought , of bliss transcending thought , Rise where division dies ! Absorb In glory of the glowing orb Self and its shadow ! 1 And , Within the charméd space is nought Possible unto thought . There in their equilibrium They float —how still , how numb ! There must they rest , there will they stay…
1924 · PDF PAGE 8
…tesquely stupid narrative defaming his life at Cefalù, accompanied by insulting taunts to fill his purse by means of a libel suit. These new lies were reprinted, in part, by various Italian newspapers, though not by the Sicilian journals ; and at the end of April Mr. 8
1929 · PDF PAGE 11
…he manoeuvred to get to the rear of the line of convicts, and only then dragged out There is a traitor, a spy. Henceforth I must find a new means of communicating the details of my plan. I have thought it all out. I shall speak in a sort of rebus, which not even you will be able to understand unless you have all the piecesand the key. Mind you engrave upon your memory every word I say. The following day: Do you remember the taking of the old mill by the Prussians in 70? My difficulty is that I must give you the skeleton of the puzzle, whi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 241
… back-label, ‘Crowley | Tann- | haiiser! | a story of | all time | Kegan Paul, |/ Trench, | Triibner & | Co. Ltd. | rg02. Price 5s. od. [NEW YEAR’S CARD, 1903] New Year, 190 A sonnet printed in gold on fily-sheets of Roman vellum (12) and hand-made paper (50) within a broad scarlet border, size 5% x 6%, ‘from Aleister Crowley, | wishing you a speedy termination of existence.” Printed throughout in capital letters. a 1 Note the misprint ‘‘aii” for ‘* au. [BERASHITH: 1903] A.B. 2447, | Paris | NWNID | an Essay | in | ontology | with some remarks …
1901 · PDF PAGE 92
…e you now again with an undivided song. Because I can never love you, I cannot do you wrong. I saw in your dying embraces the birth of a new embrace ; In the tears of your pitiful faces, another Holier Face. Unknowing it, undesiring, your lips have led me higher ; You have taught me purer songs that your souls did not desire ; You have led me through your chambers, where the secret bolt was drawn, To the chambers of the Highest and the secrets of the Dawn ! You have brought me to command you, and not to be denied ; You have taught me in perfect…
1907 · PDF PAGE 266
THE NEW WINE 259 infinitely small results in SOME UNKNOWN FINITE NUM BER EXTENDED IN AN UNKNOWN NUMBER OF CATEGORIES . It happened when this our Great Inversion took place , from the essence of the nothingness to finity extended in innumerable categories , that an incalculably vast system was produced . Merely by chance , chance in the truest sense of the term , we are found with gods , men , stars , plants , devils , colours , forces, and all the materials of the Cosmos : and with them , space and causality , the conditions limiting and involv…
1910 · PDF PAGE 72
… But come to me, Habib ! I will cherish thee as my life ; I will take thee in my garden and love thee ever as of old. El Qahar will make new songs for thee, till thy fame standeth for ever among men, as the sun standeth in the sky, not to be denied.6 So sayeth El Qahar. 1. Often the case in Persia. 2. Often the case in Persia. 3. Karenian — proverbial expression. (Write this up fully). (Major Lutiy did not live long enough to accomplish this intention and we cannot trace the phrase. Possibly it is more Indian than Persian.)
1913 · PDF PAGE 180
…an shuts his eyes and begins to look about him, at first there is nothing but darkness. If he continues trying to penetrate the gloom, a new pair of eyes gradually opens. Some people think that these are the " eyes of imagination." Those with more experience understand that this truly represents things seen, although those things are themselves totally false. At first the seer will perceive gray gloom ; in subsequent experiments perhaps figures may appear with whom the seer may converse, and under whose guidance he may travel about. This " plan…
1922 · PDF PAGE 246
…hanges into another to prevent the edge being taken off the suffering. It would be incredibly blissful if one could experience something new, however abominable. The man that wrote that poem has left out nothing. Everything that comes into my mind is no more than an echo of his groans. *““ Body and soul alike Traitors turned black-hearted, Seeking a place to strike In a victim already attuned To one vast chord of wound.” The rhythm of the poem, apart from the words, suggests this moto perpetuo vibration. Yet the nervous irritability tends to ex…