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Page 36 of 831907 · PDF PAGE 168
…mysterious way God moves in to fix up his Maskelyne tricks.” 2 Leaving now these satirical poems for other works of Crowley's , we shall find a deep , yet in no way less , intense hatred for the sham ideal of all religions . In “ Jephthah ” we listen to Jephthah praying to Jehovah , god of hosts , for victory over the Ammonites , not withstanding the fact that should victory be his lot a general violation of all the virgins of Ammon was to follow : And turn their own devouring blade On city fired and violate maid ,» Chemosh was probably no whit…
1909 · PDF PAGE 242
…hich he had seen, and which seemed so near; and yet, as we shall learn, proved to be so far away. In the first volume of the diaries, we find him deep in the study of the Alchemistic philosophers. Poring over Paracelsus, Benedictus Figulus, Eugenius and Eirenzeus Philalethes, he sought the Alchemical Azoth, the Catholicon, the Sperm of the World, that Universal Medicine in which is contained all other medicines and the first principle of all substances. In agony and joy he sought to fix the volatile, and transmute the formless human race into t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 316
…t section. “ At first there appeared to me a brightness in the West, and a darkening of the East; and whilst perplexed by this matter, I find I have entered a dirty street, and see near me a young child sitting on the doorstep of a very squalid house. “T approached the house, and seeing me, the child scrambled to his feet and beckoned me to follow him. Pushing open the rickety door, he pointed out to me a rotten wooden staircase, This I mounted, and entered a room which apparently belonged to a student. “Inthe room I found a little old man, but…
1909 · PDF PAGE 242
…hich he had seen, and which seemed so near; and yet, as we shall learn, proved to be so far away. In the first volume of the diaries, we find him deep in the study of the Alchemistic philosophers. Poring over Paracelsus, Benedictus Figulus, Eugenius and Eirenzeus Philalethes, he sought the Alchemical Azoth, the Catholicon, the Sperm of the World, that Universal Medicine in which is contained all other medicines and the first principle of all substances. In agony and joy he sought to fix the volatile, and transmute the formless human race into t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 316
…t section. “ At first there appeared to me a brightness in the West, and a darkening of the East; and whilst perplexed by this matter, I find I have entered a dirty street, and see near me a young child sitting on the doorstep of a very squalid house. “T approached the house, and seeing me, the child scrambled to his feet and beckoned me to follow him. Pushing open the rickety door, he pointed out to me a rotten wooden staircase, This I mounted, and entered a room which apparently belonged to a student. “Inthe room I found a little old man, but…
1916 · PDF PAGE 14
…rged from the smithy of Almighty God. And they would smite the hearer with such suddenness and vehemence that his inertia would not even find time to begin to operate. The present is such a moment. But people are not aware of it; they are still listening to the false prophets who prophesy smooth things. The critical situation of the world at present lies not in Europe. Europes fate is known. It lies in America and China. The attention of every man of even the smallest degree of foresight should be concentrated on this fact. It is emphasized cl…
1919 · PDF PAGE 406
…on the circumference of the sphere was going to touch that of the wheel of Nibbana, regain it two-millionths of a second later, and thus find Arhatship indefinitely postponed. I then said: O most excellent expounder of the good Law, prithee explain to me the exact difference between this Doc- trine and that which we heard from Shri Parananda that the attainment of Samadhi, though it depended to some extent upon the attainment of the Yogi, depended also upon the grace of the Lord Shiva, and that Yoga did us all no good unless the Lord Shiva happ…
1919 · PDF PAGE 414
THE EQUINOX while at the same time his air of hopelessness is intensely funny—to the Guru. So we find in this verse that the final result, or something very like it, is given as a qualification antecedent to the starting point; as if one told a blind man that he must be able to see through a brick wall before re- gaining his eyesight. 16. Thou shalt not let thy senses make a playground of thy mind. Following on the tremendous task of verse 15 comes the obvious elementary piece of instruction which one gives to a beginner. The best way out of th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 475
…"reds," foxhunters, Freemasons, Jews, "heaven-born," women's clubwomen (espeically in U.S.A.), "Methody," golfers, dog-lovers; you can't find one body without its 'natural' enemies. It's right, what's worse; every class, as a class, is almost sure to have more defects than qualities. As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, 442
1904 · PDF PAGE 28
…ith (silent, to himself, apart) This secret : “\yhla }ya”79 See the good Psalm ! And thus, my friend ! My diatribes approach the end And find us hardly quarelling. And yet—you seem not satisfied ? The literal mistranslated thing Must not by sinners be denied. Go to your Chapel then to pray ! (I promise Mr. Chesterton80 Before the Muse and I have done A grand ap-pre-ci-a-ti-on Of Brixton on Ascension Day.) He’s gone—his belly filled enough ! This Robert-Browning-manqué stuff ! ’Twill serve—Mercutio’s scratch !—to show Where God and I are disagre…
1907 · PDF PAGE 314
…y sense as ours are . . 2 God to him is a mahayogi . It is absolutely true of Hume , but Hume , studiously avoiding the word God , could find no helpmeet to fill his place : For my part , when I enter most intimately into what I call myself , I always stumble on some particular percep tion or other , of heat or cold , light or shade , love or hatred , pain or pleasure . I never can catch myself at any time without a perception , and never can observe anything but the perception . 3 1 Time , vol . ii, p . 275 . Three Dialogues , p . 106 . : Cite…
1913 · PDF PAGE 482
… the holy Qabalah ought to be found reunited in the signs them- selves of which the primitive alphabet is composed. Now, this is what we find in all Hebrew grammars.* There is a fundamental and universal letter which generates all the others. It is the 1op. There are two other mother letters, opposed and analogous among themselves; the ALEPH s and the MEM pn, according to others, the SCHIN w. There are seven double letters, the BETH 2, the GIMEL 3, the DALETH 7, the KAPH 9, the PE a, the RESH 9, and the TAU I. Finally, there are twelve simple l…
1913 · PDF PAGE 482
… the holy Qabalah ought to be found reunited in the signs them- selves of which the primitive alphabet is composed. Now, this is what we find in all Hebrew grammars.* There is a fundamental and universal letter which generates all the others. It is the 1op. There are two other mother letters, opposed and analogous among themselves; the ALEPH s and the MEM pn, according to others, the SCHIN w. There are seven double letters, the BETH 2, the GIMEL 3, the DALETH 7, the KAPH 9, the PE a, the RESH 9, and the TAU I. Finally, there are twelve simple l…
1929 · PDF PAGE 18
Perhaps Monsieur will find there what he requires, he said coldly. Furtively and hurriedly, his glance divided between the forbidden book and the shop-door, his only safe- guard from intrusion the thought that nobody who en- tered would be in a position to throw stones at a fellow- culprit, Theodore Bugg turned over the pages. The book began mildly enough with the winged Vic- tory and only entered the rapids with La Gioconda. Thence, Niagra-like, one plunge to the abyssthe Venus de Milo. The blood flame to his face; his breath came hot and q…
1907 · PDF PAGE 212
…igantic “ What ?" Crowley sets forth lucidly enough in “ Pentecost ” and “ Ascension Day ." He writes : To calculate one hour's result I find surpassing difficult ; One year's effect , one moment's cause ; What mind could estimate such laws ? Who then ( much more !) may act aright Judged by and in ten centuries ' sight ?! He shows us how utterly inadequate are our powers , how utterly absurd it is of us to hanker after infinite ideals with our finite minds . As a child cries for the moon , so do we cry for our ideal , ultimate , absolute , call…
1909 · PDF PAGE 13
…on blinded and bound, grinding corn for the Philistines! Not at all, dear boy! We shall put all the questions that we can put—but we may find a tower built upon a rock, against which the winds beat in vain. Not what Christians call faith, be sure! But what (pos- sibly) the forgers of the Epistles—those eminent mystics !— meant by faith. What I call Samadhi—and as “ faith with- 121
1919 · PDF PAGE 235
…tration of that secret Medicine which is known to members of the IX°. 60. Members of the Order may expect Brethren to busy themselves in finding remunerative occupation for them, where they lack it, or, if possible, to employ them personally. SEVENTH HOUSE 61. Members of the Order may expect to find suitable marriage partners in the extremely select body to which they belong. Community of interest and hope being already established, it is natural to suppose that where mutual at- 221
1907 · PDF PAGE 96
…ed his neck .” The King dies and soon the Queen also . Love is symbolized in this poem in its higher form as above death . She seeks and finds " There is no sin .” And I? I knew not anything , but know We are still silent , and united so , And all our being spells one vast To Be , A passion like the passion of the sea .? Besides the freedom of lovers , Aleister Crowley advocates the freedom of the children of love ; he does not visit the sins of the fathers on the children , as conventionality cruelly does . Though he is a firm believer in the …
1909 · PDF PAGE 194
… Ruach Elohim, brooding upon the Face of the Waters, co» (Maim), even as it is afterwards set forth in Verse 2. In the next word, nx, we find that the Conjunctive 1 makes of the Key number of the Essence of the Earth 11 instead of 5: symbolising how the World should fall unto the Kingdom of the Shells, and how it should be redeemed by the Son of Man. Ancient Hebrew Method of obtaining all numbers above 400 and below 1000, respectively8 and n, was to make up the number with the proper letters. Thus 500 would have been written pn, not 4, and 800 …
1909 · PDF PAGE 194
… Ruach Elohim, brooding upon the Face of the Waters, co» (Maim), even as it is afterwards set forth in Verse 2. In the next word, nx, we find that the Conjunctive 1 makes of the Key number of the Essence of the Earth 11 instead of 5: symbolising how the World should fall unto the Kingdom of the Shells, and how it should be redeemed by the Son of Man. Ancient Hebrew Method of obtaining all numbers above 400 and below 1000, respectively8 and n, was to make up the number with the proper letters. Thus 500 would have been written pn, not 4, and 800 …