Thelema ScholarTHE ALEISTER CROWLEY COLLECTION
FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION

Search the corpus.

Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.

2,048 matching pages

Page 35 of 103
1903 · PDF PAGE 15

The God-Eater

…ounds. The door slowly opens of itself.] Criospa. [Recovering.] Whois at the door? Back, back. It is ill luck, ill luck, I say. Where is old Andrew? The faithful fool—Oh, the last dreadful look of his glazed eyes! What am I saying? Maurya, girl, go! I must tend the temple. I must be alone. It is not fitting— Maurya. You are ill; come and be tended yourself, first. Criospa. No! I am well. You are a girl, not a God. Maurya. Oh! Oh! Have I done amiss? Am I not Criospa. Stop, don’t! [Aside.] I must be man—tut ! tut !— [Aloud.| Why, little sister, k…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1912 · PDF PAGE 122

Mortadello

…lowed by many nobles and burgesses. Most welcome, holy father ! You were not hurt at all ? LEGATE. Not hurt, but shaken rather. Mine are old bones to fall. MONICA. Welcome my lords ! You, too, are welcome citizens ! All your attention due to hear his eminence Speak for his Holiness the Pope. LEGATE My friends, I came Charged with all strain and stress to watch a glamoured game. I watched. I waited. Not one word have I let fall. It was enough to allot your portions to you all. One I found faithful, one ; your devilish Doge’s wife, The saint and …

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1906 · PDF PAGE 39

Collected Works (Vol. II)

…ay and woe, Gorged with the day's indecent festival. I think these birds were once the souls of priests. They haunt by ancient habit the old home Wherein they held high mass in days of old. But now they soar above it—for behold ! God hath looked mercifully down on Rome, Promoting thus her children to be beasts. ADVICE OF A LETTER! THE Wingéd Bull that dwelled in the north Hath flown into the West, and uttered forth His thunders in the Mountains. He shall come Where blooms the sempiterne chrysanthe- mum. The wingéd Lion, that wrought dire amaze …

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1944 · PDF PAGE 107

The Book of Thoth

…alike the cause and the result of the new access of solar energy upon the earth. The restriction of such ideas as sin and death in their old sense has been abolished, At their feet are the most sacred signs of the old Aeon, the combination of the Rose and Cross from which they are arisen, yet which still forms their support. The card itself symbolizes this broadening of the idea of the Rose and Cross. The Cross is now expanded into the Sun, from which, of course, it is originally derived. Its rays are twelve‐not only the number of the signs of …

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1905 · PDF PAGE 154

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…pon the desert, and my eyes Beheld the splendid and supernal dawn Flame underneath the single star that burns Within the gateway of the golden East To rule my fate; but I have conquered Fate Thus far, that I am perfect in inyself, The absolute unity and triple power Engrafted. For the foolish people see An old grey woman, wicked, not divine, Who! shall this hour assume the royal self And the old godhead, and the lithe strong limbs And supple loins and splendid bosom bare Full of bright milk, the breast of all the world. This lesser mastery I ha…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1929 · PDF PAGE 210

Moonchild

…ad gone up to the house to make ready for the adoration of the setting of the sun. Up the uneven flagstones of the lane below toiled the old fishwife with her burden, and looked up with the usual cheery greeting. At that moment the crone slipped and fell. "I'm afraid I've hurt my back," she cried, with an adjuration to some saint. "I can't get up." Iliel, whether she understood the Italian words fully or no, could not mistake the nature of the accident. She did not hesitate; in a moment she had lowered herself from the wall. She bent down and g…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1898 · PDF PAGE 29

Jephthah

…ous that thus invade Our fencéd cities, these that put to sword Our helpless. Hear the cry of widowed men! And young men fatherless! And old men reft Of children! Grant us victory to avenge Their innocent shed blood, and ruined land. So, to gain time for prayer and penitence For grievous trespass of idolatry Done to th’ accurséd Baalim, and time To gather fugitives, and make them men, And straggling herdsmen for our armament, We send thee, herald, to the furious king Who lies with all his power encamped somewhere Hence southward toward Mahanaim…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1903 · PDF PAGE 11

Alice: An Adultery

…talk, which, indeed, I did not. But I felt inspired. “ Ay me, they died—as I am dying now.” He turned to the wall and sought a bundle of old writing on a shelf. “ Take this,” he said. “ Edit it as if it were your own : let the world know how wonderful it was.” I took the manu- script from the frail, white hand. viii

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1905 · PDF PAGE 121

Orpheus

… I flung it in my anguish to the ground. I raise it, and its music hath not found One string or snapped or loosened, and the tune Is the old triumph garlanded and crowned ! Folly and hate! Blithe mockery of sorrow ! Shrill me no harsh lies of some sweet to-morrow! Soothe me no hateful mysteries of the moon, How one life lends what other lives may borrow! 122

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1913 · PDF PAGE 78

Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

… to the violent sun , Yet none the less in ardour lives An hour , and then her day is done . Back from my lips, back from my breast ! I hold you as I always will, You unprofaned and uncaressed , Silent, majestical , and still. Back ! for I love you . Even yet Do you not see my deepest fire Burn through the veils and coverings set By fatuous phantoms of desire ? Back ! 0 I love you evermore . But , be our bed the bridal sky ! I love you , love you . Hither , shore Of far unstained eternity ! There will we rest . Beware ! Beware ! For I am young …

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1961 · PDF PAGE 20

Liber Aleph

… his Mind utterly desert, and his Soul Madness. Give Ear, give Ear attentively; the Will is not lost; though it be buried beneath a life-old midden of Repressions, for it persisteth vital within thee (is it not the true Motion of thine inmost Being?) and for all thy conscious Striving cometh forth by Night and by Stealth in Dream and Phantasy. Now is it naked and brilliant, now clothed in rich Robes of Symbol and Hieroglyph; but always travelleth it with thee upon thy Path, ready to acquaint thee with thy true Nature, if thou attend unto its Wo…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1899 · PDF PAGE 67

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…, and boys With bright unsullied curls shall minister Before him all the days of life God grants, And all his platters shall be made of gold, And jewels beyond price shall stud them all. What sayest thou, O wisest of our race, Ahinoam, the aged priest of God, , Who weighest out the stars with balances, And knowest best of men the heart of man? AHINOAM. Ye are as children, and nowise your tongues Speak sense. I never hear your voice but know Some geese are gabbling. Sing to him perchance! The voice of old men is a pleasant thing. CHORUS. What sa…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1910 · PDF PAGE 123

The Scented Garden

…f Habib, the piety of El Qahar, and of the great wisdom and tunefulness of his songs.3 1. These similes are very affected. 2. Dinar — a gold coin worth about 10/- 3. Evidently the reviewer is as old as the world.

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1907 · PDF PAGE 54

Collected Works (Vol. III)

…! Sir HERPES Z. So? Why the deception? S1R GRABSON J. A Jesuit, no doubt! But about Lady Percivale now? SiR HERPES Z, Better and better. Old Farmer Tyson, luckily enough, as it turned out, insisted on examination, and no less than: twenty-three skilled surgeons—all men of note !—declared her to be wzrxvo0 tntacta. SiR GRABSON J. Eh? What? SIR HERPES Z, You see, Englishmen—ah ! SIR GRARSON J. Er—ah? 1 The Abbot of the Fort-Augustus Abbey was at this time a German, Sirk HERPES Z, Ah! SIR GRABSON J. Er—ah! As Whistler said, ‘‘ You put out your arm…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1907 · PDF PAGE 107

Konx Om Pax

…waves Break back to spumed and shattered graves. A man (at heart they’re well aware) May love, maybe! can never care. I bore you with an old fool’s prosing? No? I was right, then, in supposing Modern conditions hamper youths Who seek to grasp these simple Truths. But to my yarn. Carlotta lay So sleepy-soft one summer’s day That really I could not resist it. I took the dagger out and kissed it. Like a cat’s tongue that daintily laps, I slipped it in between her paps. At first, of course, the shrieking swerves One’s thought: it irritates the nerve…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1909 · PDF PAGE 32

The Holy Books

…pit upon them! 43. Let the Scarlet Woman beware! If pity and compassion and tenderness visit her heart; if she leave my work to toy with old sweetnesses; then shall my vengeance be known. I will slay me her child: I will alienate her heart: I will cast her out from men: as a shrinking and despised harlot shall she crawl through dusk wet streets, and die cold and an-hungered. 44. But let her raise herself in pride! Let her follow me in my way! Let her work the work of wickedness! Let her kill her heart! 31

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1899 · PDF PAGE 47

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…ous that thus invade Our fencéd cities, these that put to sword Our helpless. Hear the cry of widowed men! And young men fatherless! And old men reft Of children! Grant us victory to avenge Their innocent shed blood, and ruined land. So, to gain time for prayer and penitence For grievous trespass of idolatry Done to th’ accurséd Baalim, and time To gather fugitives, and make them men, And straggling herdsmen for our armament, We send thee, herald, to the furious king Who lies with all his power encamped somewhere Hence southward toward Mahanaim…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1926 · PDF PAGE 31

Liber Al vel Legis

…pit upon them! 43. Let the Scarlet Woman beware! If pity and compassion and tenderness visit her heart; if she leave my work to toy with old sweetnesses; then shall my vengeance be known. I will slay me her child: I will alienate her heart: I will cast her out from men: as a shrinking and despised harlot shall she crawl through dusk wet streets, and die cold and an-hungered. 44. But let her raise herself in pride! Let her follow me in my way! Let her work the work of wickedness! Let her kill her heart! 31

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1928 · PDF PAGE 76

Little Poems in Prose

…d I recalled both the most delicious con- tralto singers, and also a little of that hoarse- ness which characterizes the throats of very old drunkards. “Wilt though know my power?” cried the false goddess with her charming and paradoxi- cal voice; “Listen!” and she put to her mouth a gigantic trumpet covered with ribands like the reed-pipe, on which were written the titles of all the newspapers in the world, and through this trumpet she cried my name, which thus rolled across space with the noise of a hundred thousand thunders, and came back to…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1929 · PDF PAGE 501

Confessions of Aleister Crowley

…at paid a very poor compliment to his audience. Among my hearers was only one bearing even a remote resemblance to the human species, an old lady painted to resemble the cover of a popular magazine. I went to talk to her after the lecture and found she was an intimate friend of dear Hereward's. I saw no more of her except by accident for a few minutes' chat on two or three occasions. One evening in the spring of 1918, I was surprised by her calling with her youngest sister. I could not ask them into the studio, being engaged in an important con…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →