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Page 37 of 761919 · PDF PAGE 84
… in its inception. 15. Also I prayed unto the Elephant God, the Lord of Be- ginnings, who breaketh down obstruction. 16. These gods came right quickly to mine aid. I beheld them; I joined myself unto them; I was lost in their vastness. 17. Then I beheld myself compassed about with the In- finite Circle of Emerald that encloseth the Universe. 18. O Snake of Emerald, Thou hast no time Past, no time ToCome. Verily Thou art not. 19. Thou art delicious beyond all taste and touch, Thou art not-to-be-beheld for glory, Thy voice is beyond the Speech an…
1944 · PDF PAGE 43
…But who can be sure? THE CARDS OF THE TAROT AS LIVING BEINGS Victorian science, flushed with its victory over Supernaturalism, was quite right to de‐ clare the Immeasurable “Out of Bounds”. It had a right to do so on technical grounds, and it was a strategical necessity of its offensive; but it hampered itself by limiting its scope. It laid itself open to the deadliest attacks from Philosophy. Then, especially from the angle of Mathematical Physics, its own generals betrayed its dogmatism. The essence of Science to‐day is far more mysterious th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 349
…e upon a mighty tomb of ruins: “Here ends the parricide century! The century which murdered its God and its Christ!” In war, one has the right to kill, in order not to die: but in the battle of life the most sublime of rights is that of dying in order not to kill. Intelligence and love should resist oppression unto death— but never unto murder. Brave man, the life of him who has offended you is in your hands; for he is master of the life of others who cares not for his own... Crush him beneath your greatness : pardon him! “ But is it forbidden …
1913 · PDF PAGE 349
…e upon a mighty tomb of ruins: “Here ends the parricide century! The century which murdered its God and its Christ!” In war, one has the right to kill, in order not to die: but in the battle of life the most sublime of rights is that of dying in order not to kill. Intelligence and love should resist oppression unto death— but never unto murder. Brave man, the life of him who has offended you is in your hands; for he is master of the life of others who cares not for his own... Crush him beneath your greatness : pardon him! “ But is it forbidden …
1930 · PDF PAGE 60
…paths are guarded; there is a lion in the way. Technical expertness will not serve here; it is necessary to satisfy the Warders of one’s right to enter the presence of the Master. Particular pledges may be demanded, ordeals imposed, and initiations conferred. These are most serious matters; the Body of Light must be fully adult, irrevocably fixed, or it will be disintegrated at the outset. But, being fit to pass through such expériences, it is bound utterly to its words and acts. It cannot even appear to break an oath, as its fleshly fellow may…
1930 · PDF PAGE 52
…û ABPOTON Iû IAÛ. XAIPE (DAAAE KAIPE EfAMTAEE KAIPE IIANEENETOP. AriOS, AEIOS, AriOX IAÛ. {The PRIESTESS is seated with the Paten in her right hand and the Cup in her left. The PRIEST présents the Lance which she kisses eleven times. She then holds it to her breast while the PRIEST falling at her kneesy kisses themy his arms stretched along her thighs. He remains in this adoration while the Deacon intones the collects. Ail stand to ordery with the Dieu Gardey that is: feet squarey handsy with linked thumbsy held loosely. This is the universal p…
1903 · PDF PAGE 19
… at present to accept. The task of the Buddhist recluse is roughly as follows; He must plunge every particle of his being into one idea: right views, aspirations, word, deed, life, will- power, meditation, rapture, such are the stages of his liberation, which resolves itself into a struggle against the law of causality. He cannot prevent past causes taking effect, but he can prevent present causes from haying any future results. The exoteric Christian and Hindu rather rely on another person to do this for them, and are further blinded by the th…
1904 · PDF PAGE 24
…Across the gulf impassable, That He was damned and I was God ! Ay! Let him rise and answer me That false creative Deity, Whence came his right to rack the Earth With pangs of death,70 disease, and birth : No joy unmarred by pain and grief : Insult on injury heaped high In that quack-doctor infamy The Panacea of—Belief ! Only the selfish soul of man Could ever have conceived a plan Man only of all life to embrace, One planet of all stars to place Alone before the Father’s face ; Forgetful of creation’s stain, Forgetful of creation’s pain Not dum…
1904 · PDF PAGE 44
… best Of all your memories ? They say You paint—I think you should one day Take me to seek your Studio— Tell me, when all your work goes right, Painted to match some inner light, What of the outer world you know ! Surely, your best work always finds Itself sole object of the mind’s. In vain you ply the brush, distracted By something you have heard or acted. Expect some tedious visitor— Your eye runs furtive to the door ; Your hand refuses to obey ; You throw the useless brush away. I think I hear the Word you say ! I practice then, with conscio…
1929 · PDF PAGE 201
…tars are puffs of dust. Rise up, my soul! One stride, and space is spanned; Time, like a poppy, crushed in thy left hand, While with thy right thou reachest out to grip The Graal of God, and tilt it to thy lip? Lo! all the whirring shafts of Light, a web Wherein the Tides of Being flow and ebb, One heart-beat, pulsing the Eternal stress, Extremes that cancel out in Nothingness. Light thrills through Light, the spindle of desire, Cross upon Cross of elemental Fire; Life circles Life, the Rose all flowers above, And in their intermarriage they ar…
1930 · PDF PAGE 49
… of the lifted Lance! He rais es the Rance. Ail repeat Hailing Sign. A phrase of triumphant music. The PRIEST takes the PRIESTESS by her right hand with his lefty keeping the Rcmce raised. I, PRIEST and KING, take thee, Virgin pure without spot; I upraise thee; I iead thee to the East; I set thee upon the summit of the Earth. He thrones the PRIESTESS upon the altar. The DEACON and the children followy they in ranky behind him. The PRIESTESS takes the Book of the Rawy résumés her seaty and holds it open on her breast with her two handsy making a…
1930 · PDF PAGE 15
…happened to little Tommy. Very Good. All we have to do is to play on the alarm. We put into his mind that little Tommy (who turns up all right, if rather muddy, half an hour later) has almost certainly been kidnapped by the Jews for purposes of ritual murder. The main accusation against Gilles de Rais is therefore just this general accusation against anyone in Christendom who exhibited any desire for know- ledge. Only, in his case, it was concentrated and exaggerated to fantastic lengths by some factor or other on which I feel it useless to spe…
1907 · PDF PAGE 184
…n of the real , that the Nirvana of bliss is to be arrived at . It is terrible sailing this , Scylla lies to our left , Charybdis to our right , the blood - flecked foam of life is dashed on our lips , it is acrid and intoxicating . XII . No prostitution may be shunned by him Who would achieve this Heaven . No satyr - song , No maniac dance shall ply so fast a thong Of lust's imagining perversely dim That no man's spirit may keep pace , so strong Its pang must pierce ; Nor all the pains of hell may be one tithe as fierce . XIII . All degradatio…
1911 · PDF PAGE 131
… as a picture." “ It is a hieroglyph." “ But it is a fight ! " “ I do not believe in fights. I only believe in beauty.” " Oh how true, how right you are! How noble] " She hid her face in her hands and began to cry to herself. “ I see] I see! That is how God must see the Universe, or He could never tolerate such cruelty, such idiotcy, ineptitude.” “ Exactly. Suppose now that the world is only symbol—— I had rather say sacrament—suppose for example that all these stars swimming in boundless æther are but corpuscles in the blood of some toy terrier …
1911 · PDF PAGE 131
… as a picture." “ It is a hieroglyph." “ But it is a fight ! " “ I do not believe in fights. I only believe in beauty.” " Oh how true, how right you are! How noble] " She hid her face in her hands and began to cry to herself. “ I see] I see! That is how God must see the Universe, or He could never tolerate such cruelty, such idiotcy, ineptitude.” “ Exactly. Suppose now that the world is only symbol—— I had rather say sacrament—suppose for example that all these stars swimming in boundless æther are but corpuscles in the blood of some toy terrier …
1913 · PDF PAGE 126
…ing ourselves— What is life at best?. Mr. Crowley seems to hold that the worldis reek- ing with rottenness—and he is, to a great extent, right... . These daring verses contain a large share of elemental truth. But we liveina hypocritical 118
1904 · PDF PAGE 22
ASCENSION DAY 15 On just belief or unbelief ; And an involuntary act Make difference infinite in fact Between the right and left-hand thief ? Belief is not an act of will !” I think, Sir, that I have you still, Even allowing (much indeed !) That any will at all is freed, And is not merely the result Of sex, environment, and cult, Habit and climate, health and mind, And twenty thousand other things ! So many a metaphysic sings. (I wish they did indeed : I find Their prose the hardest of hard reading.) “But if,” you cry, “the world’s designed As …
1906 · PDF PAGE 153
…n accept my law and still Use hatred, the sole means of ill, In Truth’s defence? In praise of light ?” Well! Well! I guess Brer Buddha’s right ! I am no brutal Cain * to smash an Abel ; I hear that blasphemy’s unfashionable : So in the quietest way well chat about it ; No need to show teeth, claws of cat about it ! With gentle words—fiat exordium ; Exeat dolor, intret gaudium ! * It had a design of 666 and Crowley's name in Hebrew (which, like most names, adds up to that figure) on the reverse. Necessity of poem. Mysticism wv. literal interpre-…
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
…agic is the Highest, most Absolute, and most Divine Knowledge of Natural Philosophy, advanced in its Works and wonderful operations by a right understanding of the inward and occult virtue of things; so that true Agents being applied to proper Patients, strange and admirable effects will thereby be produced. Whence magicians are profound and diligent searchers into Nature j they, because of their skill, know how to anticipate an effect, the which to the vulgar shall seem to be a miracle.” The Goetia of the Lemegeton of King Solomon. “Wherever s…
1912 · PDF PAGE 101
… drawer. As luck would have it, the weapon exploded. The bullet broke his jaw, tore away four molars, smashed the cheek-bone, pulped the right eye, and, glancing from the frontal bone, found its billet in the ceiling. He lost consciousness and fell. His head struck the grate where yet smouldered the ashes of the photograph. It was three months before he recovered, and then with only half a face to face the world with. He still thinks that Gertrude gave him away, for the street-boys have taken to calling him “old Venus." But he is wrong; the boy…