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…rgy , or in other words the law of Cause and Effect . A law we have gone to some length in demonstrating to be apodictically untenable , though highly probably à posteriori . Crowley , like Hume and Huxley , solely identifies it as a law based upon inference . This sequence of events is vividly demonstrated in “ The Mother's Tragedy . Cora thinks , “ God hath made smooth the road beneath the hearse of my forgetful age ." Not so however : They know not , learn not , cannot calculate How subtly Fate Weaves its fine mesh , perceiving how to wait ;…
1909 · PDF PAGE 50
… and Harpocrates—the twins of the twin signs of o°=o" ritual—are the slayers of Typhon. So all the rituals get mixed: the symbols recur, though in a different aspect. Anyway, one wants something a deal better than the path of Pe in 4": 7° ritual. I think the postulant should be actually scourged, tortured, branded by fire for his equilibrations at the various “Stations of the Cross " or points upon his mystic journey. He must assuredly drink blood for the sacrament—ahl now I see it all so well! The Initiator must kill him, Osiris ; he must rise …
1909 · PDF PAGE 93
…3% coils of the Kundalini are implied by this) and this Ekagrata is the little cloud like an hand (Yod, the Lingam of great Shiva). And, though I catch up my robe and run before the chariot of the King into Jezreel, it may be 9}
1930 · PDF PAGE 9
…raying.” 1 The mind must be exalted until it loses consciousness of self. The Magician must be carried forward blindly by a force which, though. in him and of him, is by no means that which he in his normal State of consciousness calls I. Just as the poet, the lover, the artist, is carried out of himself in a Creative frenzy, so must it be for the Magician. It is impossible to lay down rules for the obtaining of this spécial stimulus. To one the mystery of the whole ceremony may appeal; another may be moved by the strangeness of the words, even…
1906 · PDF PAGE 169
…ture, best Dismissing Jesus with a jest. Ah! Christ ascends?* Ascension day? The Jest. Old wonders bear the bell ®! away? Santos-Dumont, though! Who can say?
1907 · PDF PAGE 33
…amount of horror in the one case , and of desire in the other . Very different from Blake do we find such a poem as “ Vespers ,” which , though differing in rime , in cadence and spirit , is reminiscent of Rossetti's “ Blessed Damozel " : Still in those avenues of light, No maid , with golden zone , And lily garment that from sight Half hides the ivory throne , Lay in my arms the livelong night To call my soul her own . ? Whilst parts of the poem “ Messaline " with which “ Alice ” opens remind us of poor " Jenny." Tennyson , if we are to judge …
1907 · PDF PAGE 45
…thdraw ! 22 Again the same mental stress . All the above are contrary to the rules of scansion , yet nevertheless they are musical . And though in “ Rodin in Rime ” perhaps Crowley slightly overdoes this introduction of irregular lines , yet they add a great charm , as they do in many of his other poems , producing in their lingering pause or quick jump an ecstatic spasm , if we may so call it , which renders so many of these poems unique . Such as in “ Styx ” we find : 1 W. E. Henley , Rodin in Rime , vol . iii, p . 120. Compare the following …
1909 · PDF PAGE 32
… for it, Lord knows! I can’t make up my mind whether to starve or sand- wich or gorge the beast St. John. He’s not the least bit hungry, though he’s had nothing to call a Meal since Thursday lunch. The Hatha-Yoga feeding game is certainly marvellous. I should like to work marching and breathing with this mantra as I did of old with Aum Tat Sat Aum. Perhaps two steps to a mantra, and 4—8—16 steps to a breath— cycle? This would mean 28 seconds for a breath— cycle; quite enough for a marching man. We might try 4—8—8 to start; or even 8—8—8 (for th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 342
…arm He spueth forth from His mouth. Duty is to live, were it but for an instant! It is fine to have reigned for a day, even for an hour! though it were beneath the sword of Damocles, or upon the pyre of Sardanapalus ! But it is finer to have seen at one’s feet all the crowns of the world, and to have said, “I will be the king of the poor, and my throne shall be on Calvary.” There is one man stronger than the man that slays; it is he who dies to save others. There are no isolated crimes and no solitary expiations. There are no personal virtues, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 342
…arm He spueth forth from His mouth. Duty is to live, were it but for an instant! It is fine to have reigned for a day, even for an hour! though it were beneath the sword of Damocles, or upon the pyre of Sardanapalus ! But it is finer to have seen at one’s feet all the crowns of the world, and to have said, “I will be the king of the poor, and my throne shall be on Calvary.” There is one man stronger than the man that slays; it is he who dies to save others. There are no isolated crimes and no solitary expiations. There are no personal virtues, …
1916 · PDF PAGE 8
…onquered, because the Anglo-Saxon can never get her point of view. In the same way India has overcome every one of her invaders in turn, though she has never been able to resist even the least of them successfully by arms. The English in India have become, within two generations, more Indian than the Indians themselves, in many important respects, particularly in that of caste. In the case of South Africa it is once again evident how far more vital than material considerations are the spiritual. The Boers, driven from one settlement to another …
1911 · PDF PAGE 70
…the skin and tastes the sweat of my left arm, and says: TAN, TAN, TAN, TAN. And the fourth Adept examines my neck, and seems to approve, though he says nothing; and he hath opened the right half of my brain, and he makes some examination, and says: “Samajh, samajh, samajh.” And the fifth Adept examines the left half of my brain, and then holds up his hand in protest, and says “PLA .. .” (I cannot get the sentence, but the meaning is: In the thick darkness the seed awaiteth spring.) And now am I again rapt in contemplation of that universe of le…
1904 · PDF PAGE 42
… is, have conquered and made still Mind’s lower powers by utter Will. It may be that pure Nought will fail Quite to assuage the needs of thought ; But—who can tell me whether Nought Untried, will or will not avail ? Aum ! Let us meditate aright50 On that adorable One Light, Divine Savitri ! So may She Illume our minds ! So mote it be ! I find some folks think me (for one) So great a fool that I disclaim Indeed Jehovah’s hate for shame That man to-day should not be weaned Of worshipping so foul a fiend In presence of the living Sun, And yet repl…
1906 · PDF PAGE 183
… is, have conquered and made still Mind’s lower powers by utter Will. It may be that pure Nought will fail Quite to assuage the needs of thought ; But—who can tell me whether Nought Untried, will or will not avail? Aum! Let us meditate aright °° On that adorable One Light, Divine Savitri! So may She Tliume our minds! So mote it be! I find some folks think me (for one) So great a fool that I disclaim Indeed Jehovah’s hate for shame That man to-day should not be weaned Of worshipping so foul a fiend In presence of the living Sun, And yet replace …
1907 · PDF PAGE 179
…ns applauded it, and even now in Christian Churches is still sung the beautiful hymn : Nearer , my God , to thee , Nearer to thee , E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me ! Still all my song shall be Nearer , my God , to thee , Nearer to thee . To raise oneself through the vicious and the virtuous , to reside , as Adonis did , six months with Proserpine , and six with Venus , to be as day and night , winter and summer , is no easy path to tread ; and if it be necessary for the initiate to gaze on the back parts of Jahveh , it is, however , m…
1910 · PDF PAGE 11
… alike of love and of litera- ture : and its possession is a very talisman from Kabul to Yarkand. As a subaltern stationed at R... P..., though in a British regiment, I found it my first duty to acquire a thorough grounding in the tongue of Hafiz, for these as well as professional reasons. Thus I made the acquaintance of Munshi Mahbub Tantra, a Kashmiri from Bandipur, but one residence of nearly 30 years in Shiraz and Bushir. My know- ledge of the writings of Richard Burton came in very handy, as also the vague studies of Oriental mysticism wit…
1919 · PDF PAGE 420
… thou hast brought the key; thou art secure. The row of dots in the text (after verse 25) appears to im- ply complete change of subject, though on other occasions it did not doso. Ihave already explained one of the technical meanings of Dana, and undoubtedly the Path seems attrac- tive at this stage. One thinks of the joyous reception into the Company of Adepts. One goes almost as a boy goes to meet his first sweetheart. But there is here another allusion to the beginnings of Meditation, when everything seems so simple and straight- forward, an…
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
…e than a hint of its nature from the following books, which are to be taken as serious and learned contributions to the study of Nature, though not necessarily to be implicitly relied upon. aThe Yi King” (S.B.E. Sériés, Oxford University Press.) “The Tao Teh King” (S.B.E. Sériés.) “Tannh'âuser”, by A. Crowley. “The Upanishads”. “The Bhagavad-Gita”. “The Voice of the Silence”. “Raja Yoga”, by Swami Vivekananda. “The Shiva Sanhita”. “The Aphorisms of Patanjali”. “The Sword of Song”. “The Book of the Dead”. “Rituel et Dogme de la Haute Magie”. — 3…
1906 · PDF PAGE 281
…s! But I meant that some dreams are more vivid than some waking states, even adult states hours long. You remember the ‘‘ Flying dream,” though I daresay you have not experienced it since childhood : it is part of your identity, ashape or defining idea of your mind: but you have forgotten the picnic at—-where you will. Scept. There is something to be thankful for in that. Then, there are incidents of sport Alyst. Mysteries of initiation —— Scept. Narrow escapes Myst. The presence of death —— Scept. Shocks-—— Myst. Some incidents of earliest chi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 31
…d Hermaphrodite of Panormita, form a valuable commentary on his remarks. Ulrichs and Sy- monds have treated the subject sympathetically (though rather timidly and as it were with the cold ardour of the special pleader) in its modern prac- tical aspects : but with the exception of Verlaine in Hombres, Wilde in ‘ Teleny ’, the pseudonymous (as