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… world cry?” Now thou hast heard that which was said. Again we descend to the anti-climax of a somewhat mawkish sentimentality. Again we find the mistake of duality, of that opposition between self and others which, momentarily destroyed even in the most elementary periods of Samadhi, is completely wiped out by progress through 131
…ng of the sort ; and King Lamus retorted at once that it was the moral attitude which made possible the physical attain- ment. “You will find that out for yourself in the case of your own experiment. It will do you very little good to break off your present practice. When you begin to tackle a subject, you must endure to the end, and the end never comes until you can say either yes or no, indifferently, to physical considerations.” But for all that, both Lou and I were exalted by our physical triumph over the rock, trifling as it was; and our s…
… in the design; it is certainly good. Mr. Aleister Crowley introduces Miss Archer briefly but splendidly, with phrases of this sort: ‘We find such rime-webs as abaaab-babbba . . ., more exquisite than all the arabesques of the Alhambra.’ It is all very splendi We feel drearily sensible of our outer darkness. Coming to Miss Archer’s poetry we are obliged to notice her debt to Swinburne, yet we find it, on the whole, good.. The colour is very strong; the shades of thought are clear, and often subtle. . ‘The uninitiated may certainly recognise gre…
…s it us as it is written without respect of persons or opinions , for his masters have been the greatest of our race . In these poems we find a certain preponderance of Swinburne , Blake , Browning , Keats , Shelley , and Rossetti . In the dedication to “ Jephthah ,” which is addressed to Algernon Charles Swinburne , we read the following : As streams get water of the sun -smit sea , Seeking my ocean and my sun in thee . 1 And this discipleship to the greatest and last of the Victorian poets has given us many a subtle and enthralling line . The…
…irst Matter of the Work," which is to be transmuted into gold. The joy is a function of our own part in this alchemy. For this reason we find the boldest and most skilful adepts deliberately seeking out the most repugnant elements of Nature that their triumph may be the greater. The formula is evidently one of dauntless courage. It expresses the idea of vitality and manhood in its most dynamic sense. The only religion which corresponds to this School at all is that of ancient Egypt; possibly also that of Chaldea. This is because those religions…
…mper, soberly we’ll state The problem, and investigate In purely scientific mood The sheer Ananke of the mind, A temper for our steel to find Whereby those brazen nails subdued Against our door-post may in vain Ring. We’ll examine, to be plain, By logic’s intellectual prism The spiritual Syllogism. We know what fools (only) call Divine and Supernatural And what they name material Are really one, not two, the line By which divide they and define Being a shadowy sort of test ; A verbal lusus at the best, At worst a wicked lie devised To bind men’…
…ng My hand down on this table- thing,*! And that commotion widens thus And shakes the nerves of Sirius ! To calculate one hours result I find surpassing difficult ; 380 385 390 395 400 405 410 415
…ristian faith , Aleister Crowley by no means goes simply baldheaded for it like the unread secularist of the sixpenny platform ; for, we find a distinct growth from a reverential regard towards its founder , to a satirical disregard for him , and his final dismissal in a jest . Such a mental pro gression is only natural ; from the sublime irrationality of a de Kempis the student will almost inevitably , even unwittingly , pass through the adulations of a 1 The God - Eater , vol . ii, p . 137 . Ibid . vol . ii, p . 139 . 3 Ibid . vol . ii, p . 1…
…usts his physical strength. It should cause him to grow hot all over, or to perspire violently, and it should so weaken him that he will find it difficult to remain standing. 6. It is a sign of success, though only by the student himself is it perceived, when he hears the name of the God vehemently roared forth, as if by the concourse of ten thousand thunders ; and it should appear to him as if that Great Voice proceeded from the Universe, and not from himself. In both the above practices all consciousness of anything but the God-form and name …
…usts his physical strength. It should cause him to grow hot all over, or to perspire violently, and it should so weaken him that he will find it difficult to remain standing. 6. It is a sign of success, though only by the student himself is it perceived, when he hears the name of the God vehemently roared forth, as if by the concourse of ten thousand thunders ; and it should appear to him as if that Great Voice proceeded from the Universe, and not from himself. In both the above practices all consciousness of anything but the God-form and name …
…s is the sigil of the Aethyr, gold and azure and green. Yet also these are the Severities. It is only in the first three Aethyrs that we find the pure 141
…the darkness of the earth. “Through the midnight thou art dropt, O my child, my conqueror, my sword-girt captain, O Hoor! and they shall find thee as a black gnarl’d glittering stone, and they shall worship thee.” 37. Step out from sunlight into shade, to make more room for others. The tears that water the parched soil of pain and sorrow bring forth the blossoms and the fruits of Karmic retribution. Out of the furnace of man’s life and its black smoke, winged flames arise, flames purified, that soaring onward, ’neath the Karmic eye, weave in th…
THE MOTHER 141 Force , ” we find that of Motherhood . The true wife must sacrifice her children before the shrine of her lover , and the true mother must sacrifice her lover on the altar of her children . This is no paradox , no riddle , no twisting of words ; for Crowley offers us in the glittering chalice of Eternity the sacred blood of the Bull , the Second Christ ; and as the first, the Lamb of God, sprang from the immaculate womb of the Virgin -Mother , so shall this second incarnation spring blood -red from the snowy lips of the great Sup…
…golden net Of transcendental love one fiery tether , Dissolving all my woe into one sea of weather ." In many other of these poems do we find depicted other phases of the philosophy of the Qabalah ; one , Songs of the Spirit , vol . i, p . 42 . ? The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 190 . • Songs of the Spirit , vol . i, p . 42 . 4 Ibid . vol . i, p . 50 . 5 Ibid . vol .i, p . 42 . 6 Ibid . vol . i, p . 54 . ? Ibid . vol . i, p . 43 .
…might Of the great Light above all gods, the fire Of our supreme desire. So out of grievous labyrinths of the mind The souls desire may find Some passionate thread, the clear note of a bird, To make the dark ways of the gods as light, To bring forth music from slow chants unheard, And visions from the fathomless night. So is the spirit of the loftier man Made holy and most strong against his fate ; So is the desolate visage of the wan Lord of Amenti covered, and the gate Of Ra made perfect. So the waters flow Over the earth, throughout the sea…
…at which is beyond change and sorrow, and resolves that he will, by strenuous effort,t reach to the peace beyond; to where his heart may find rest, his mind become steadfast, untroubled, and serene.t At this stage the Bodhi Satva of Work commences to revolve within the heart of the aspirant and to break up the harmony of the elements only to attune his aspirations for a time to a discord nobler than all harmony, and eventually to that Peace which passeth Understanding. Ill. Right Speech. Right Speech is a furthering of Right Aspirations. It con…
…at which is beyond change and sorrow, and resolves that he will, by strenuous effort,t reach to the peace beyond; to where his heart may find rest, his mind become steadfast, untroubled, and serene.t At this stage the Bodhi Satva of Work commences to revolve within the heart of the aspirant and to break up the harmony of the elements only to attune his aspirations for a time to a discord nobler than all harmony, and eventually to that Peace which passeth Understanding. Ill. Right Speech. Right Speech is a furthering of Right Aspirations. It con…
…er of occult medicine throws a fierce light on all the phenomena of somnambulism and of divination. There also, for whoever knows how to find it, is the true key of evocation, and of communication with the fluidic soul of the earth. Those persons whose dangerous influence makes itself felt by a single touch are those who make part of a fluidic association, or who either voluntarily or involuntarily make use of a current of astral light which has gone astray. Those, 251
…er of occult medicine throws a fierce light on all the phenomena of somnambulism and of divination. There also, for whoever knows how to find it, is the true key of evocation, and of communication with the fluidic soul of the earth. Those persons whose dangerous influence makes itself felt by a single touch are those who make part of a fluidic association, or who either voluntarily or involuntarily make use of a current of astral light which has gone astray. Those, 251
…st the interests of the Church, and in those times it was much easier to suppress people and ideas than it is now, though even to-day we find priestsat least in Oxfordwho appear not to have heard of a certain recent invention by a notorious Magician inspired by the Devilthe Printing Press. But they feared. So those who pursued know-