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Page 35 of 871954 · PDF PAGE 307
…r origin upon "Selfishness. " This question is one of the most critical in the whole of Magical Theory; for in one sense it is certainly true that every error without exception is due to exacerbation of the Ego. Yet The Book of the Law flings at us disdainfully: "It is a lie, this folly against self." How then? I fear there is nothing for it but to go thoroughly into the who I e matt e r of the 'self'. This may involve some recapitulation. 'Self' is one of the trickiest words afloat . Skeat gives merely the equivalents, all practically the same…
1961 · PDF PAGE 171
… but Artifice, and endureth not. So therefore is it Folly, and a Rape wrought upon Truth to aim at aught but the Fulfilment of thine own True Nature. Order then thy Workings in Accord with thy Knowledge of that Norm as best thou mayst, not heeding the Importunity of them that prate of he Ideal. For this Rule, this Uniformity, is proper only to a Prison, and a Man Liveth by Elasticity, nor endureth Rigor save in Death. But whoso groweth bodily by a Law foreign to his own Nature, he hath a Cancer, and his whole conomy shall be destroyed by that …
1907 · PDF PAGE 50
… vices of the next , so do the noble renderings of one age of literature become the hack neyed phraseology of the following , this being true whether we are speaking of poetry or prose . Yet one attribute alone remains ever youthful as the ages roll by into the aeons , and that is-Ecstasy ; whether we | Gargoyles , vol. iii, p . 94 . 2 Ibid . vol . iii, p . 100 .
1910 · PDF PAGE 19
… of my morals, aided and abetted me in extinguishing street lamps ; and how when a policeman pounced upon me, he forsook me and fled ! A true disciple of Jesus ! I had no playmates ; my morals might be corrupted ! Only the “ children of brethren ” were eligible, and these were as a rule socially impossible. I was always being watched for signs of masturbation, and always being warned and worried about it. It says something for human innocence that after four years of this insane treatment I was still absolutely ignorant, though on fire in every…
1909 · PDF PAGE 46
…i the Lord oversee the Work, that it be per- fect, a sure link with Him, a certain and infallible Conjuration, and Spell, and Working of true Magick Art, that I may invoke Him with success whenever seemeth good unto Him. Unto Him; not unto Me! Is it not written that Except Adonai build the House, they labour in vain that build it? Chez Lavenue. Not feeling like revision, will read through this record. My dinner is to be Bisque d’Ecrevisses, Tournedos Rossini, a Coupe Jack, half a bottle of Meursault, and Coffee. All should now acquit adepts of …
1910 · PDF PAGE 53
…, thy curv- ing feet, like the tusks of a young elephant. But no crone in Shiraz can seduce thee, O vir- tuous one ! Thou openest, it is true, thy podex, which appears like the sun through a dissolving mist upon Friday,4 but it is only to admit the dra- gon of El Qahar. Then there is an eclipse5 of all things : Allah is the uniter.6 1. About as vague a personage as we find in Mandeville, Malory, or Moore. It is a curious lite- rary phenomenon that in all countries poets will talk about “ Cashmere ” and “ Cathay ” and so on without the smallest …
1913 · PDF PAGE 73
…one: 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 Oath cannot be broken: you think it can, but it can't. This is the advantage of a real Magical Oath. However far you go around, you arrive at the end just the same, and all you have done by attempting to break your oath is to involve your- self in the most fri…
1913 · PDF PAGE 21
…ng? Maris. "Crowley comp id not SconMo, K.C. And what about his ob Marien’, Oh! tha'son Scorri0, KC. You mean it's Marien, Well it's not true. Scourto, K.C. Is that all you have against Crowley? Maries. No: he was divorced from his wife. ‘Sconr10, K.C. What was his fait? Marites, convio, K.C. Give the facts Martins. They are known to allMr. Ceowley’sintimate friends, ‘who approve bis action throughout, and they may be surmised from the poem * Rosa Decidva "publishedin “The Winged Beetle”. But the facts being detailed in Mr. Crowley's petition f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 80
…ofound thought assures your beetle-headed suppliant that your glorious nobility must meet him before the controversy can be decided. (9) True. Would your sublimity condescend to defile himself by entering this muck-sweeper’s miserable hovel? "T
1909 · PDF PAGE 89
…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” through the Egyptian plane, a partial illumination of the reason. It has cleared up the mind; but alas! the mind is still there. This is the strength and weakness both of the Egyptian plane, 87
1912 · PDF PAGE 38
…nd easy.” And again, “any posture which is steady and easy is an Asana; there is no other rule.” Any posture will do. In a sense this is true, because any posture becomes uncomfortable sooner or later. The steadiness and easiness mark a definite attain- ment, as will be explained later on. Hindu books, such as the “Shiva Sanhita,” give countless postures; many, perhaps most of them, im- possible for the average adult European. Others insist that the head, neck, and spine should be kept vertical and straight, for reasons connected with the subjec…
1913 · PDF PAGE 78
…s must the student make his Cup. Very little experience on the mystic path will show him that of all the impressions he receives none is true. Either they are false in them- selves, or they are wrongly interpreted in his mind. There is one truth, and only one. All other thoughts are false. And as he advances in the knowledge of his mind he will come to understand that its whole structure is so faulty that it is quite incapable, even in its most exalted moods, of truth. He will recognize that any thought merely establishes a relation be- tween t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 276
… of salvation , than attain to the uttermost bliss , whilst others are being damned . George Eliot , know ingly or unknowingly , set the true lyre of Buddhism reverberating in her grand and noble prayer , “ The Choir Invisible .” May I reach That purest heaven , be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony , Enkindle generous ardour , feed pure love , Beget the smiles that have no cruelty , Be the sweet presence of a good diffus'd And in diffusion ever more intense ! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness o…
1911 · PDF PAGE 108
… able brood of devils, and in particular have travelled by night in the form ofan owl to assault the virtue of many holy servants of the True Faith, notably at the Convent of St Anne in this city, whereby the bodies and souls of the nuns were possessed and destroyed. PROSECUTOR. We say this is plain witchcraft. [LAYLAH lakes no notice. BISHOP. Silence under such a charge is contumacious, and equivalent to confession. On the fourth count, guilty. [JUDGES echo “Guilty.” CLERK. Fifthly, that you do take the form of a bat, and suck the blood of sle…
1911 · PDF PAGE 108
… able brood of devils, and in particular have travelled by night in the form ofan owl to assault the virtue of many holy servants of the True Faith, notably at the Convent of St Anne in this city, whereby the bodies and souls of the nuns were possessed and destroyed. PROSECUTOR. We say this is plain witchcraft. [LAYLAH lakes no notice. BISHOP. Silence under such a charge is contumacious, and equivalent to confession. On the fourth count, guilty. [JUDGES echo “Guilty.” CLERK. Fifthly, that you do take the form of a bat, and suck the blood of sle…
1913 · PDF PAGE 118
…itement, another set for the perverse excitement which real or simulated horror affords. Very few people know that blood freshly ^ It is true that sometimes sympathy is necessary to comprehension.
1913 · PDF PAGE 178
…this image, we obtain mere smoke instead of perfect combustion. But we cannot use explosives instead of incense, because it would not be true. Our prayer is the expression of the lower aspiring to the higher; it is without the clear vision of the higher, it does not under- stand what the higher wants. And, however sweet may be its smell, it is always cloudy.
1913 · PDF PAGE 533
…peat, without contradiction and without error: “Gop AND LiBErTy.” As there is no liberty for man but in the order which results from the true and the good, one may say that the conquest of liberty is the great work of the human soul. Man, by freeing himself from his evil passions and their slavery, creates himself, as it were, a second time. Nature made him living and suffering; he makes himself happy and immortal; he thus becomes the representative of divinity upon earth, and (relatively) exercises its almighty power. Axiom I Nothing resists t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 533
…peat, without contradiction and without error: “Gop AND LiBErTy.” As there is no liberty for man but in the order which results from the true and the good, one may say that the conquest of liberty is the great work of the human soul. Man, by freeing himself from his evil passions and their slavery, creates himself, as it were, a second time. Nature made him living and suffering; he makes himself happy and immortal; he thus becomes the representative of divinity upon earth, and (relatively) exercises its almighty power. Axiom I Nothing resists t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 43
…the most irregular of Crowley's poems , yet its irregu larities are regularly irregular throughout , bearing a similar relationship to a true poem like “ Rosa Mundi ” | The Sword of Song , vol . ii, p . 145 . * Ibid . vol . ii, p . 148. Browning's cacophony in “ The Flight of the Duchess " is truly extraordinary : “ Soul a stir up ” with " streaky syrup ” “ Went trickle ' ventricle Sperm oil “ turmoil “ Wreathy hop " “ Æthiop ” “ Matters equine " “ French weak wine ." 1) 12