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Page 43 of 671961 · PDF PAGE 120
…crocosm) HUS far then concerning the Pentagram, how it is of the Cross, and its Virtue of the Highest; but the Hexagram is for the most Part a Detail of the Formula of the Rose and Cross. Already have I shewed unto thee how the Most Holy Trinity is the Yang; but the Spirit, and the Water (or Fluid) and the Blood, that bear Witness in the Inferior, are of the Yin. Thus the Operation of the Hexagram lieth wholly within the Order of our Plane, uniting indeed any soul with its Image, but not transcendentally, for its Effect is Cosmos, the Vau hat s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 243
…front, ‘‘Why | Jesus | Wept | Aleister | Crowley |”; reverse, colophon of Press; back, ‘' Why Jesus Wept.” [ORACLES: THE BIOGRAPHY OF AN ART: 1905] Oracles | the biography of an art | unpublished fragments of the work of Aleister Crowley with | explanatory notes by R. P. Lester and the Author | 1905 | Society for the Propaga- tion of Religious Truth | Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness, Collation:—Demy 8vo, pp. vili+175+16 ad- vertisements, consisting of Half-title ; Title as above; prefatory note ‘‘ To Explain”’; Contents, pp. vii, vill; Text, pp. 1…
1961 · PDF PAGE 64
…en in the End, to the present Misfortune (as it seems to many beside myself) of Mankind. This Magick therefore, dependeth greatly on the Art to set many other Wills in sympathetic Motion; and the greatest Magus may not be the most successful in a mean conception of a Limit of Time. He may need to strike many Blows before he breaketh down his Wall, if that be strong, while a Child may push over one that is ready to crumble. a
1906 · PDF PAGE 268
…owley, Ogera, i. 216; R. Ischak ben Loria, De Revolu- tiontbus Animarum, cci, 14 (see under mipdp, et seg., g.v. p. iil); O. Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, ed. princ., p. 4; Lev. xvii. Further historical authority may be found in Gibbon and others. 2 Punch, vols. viii., Ixvi. Cf. Art. ‘ Bur- nand” in Dict. Nat. Biog., scil, Viz. a-u-c, xvii, S. P. Q. R. 3 From Z£ucyc. Brit., Art. ‘‘ Existence,’ and ‘* Buddha,’”’ Mahaparinibbana Sutta, to whom the author wishes to express his acknowledg- ments. 4 This joke is the old one. Jones asks Smith, ‘…
1906 · PDF PAGE 232
…nnocent. : And it came ‘to -pass that he gazed upon a ball of crystal wherein were shown him all the fears of the time unborn as yet on earth. And by his art he saw Perdu’ R ‘Abu, who had been his friend: for do what he would, the crystal showed always that sensual and frivolous youth as a Fear to him: even to him the Mighty One! But the selfish and evil are cowards; they fear shadows, and Jehjaour scorned not his art. ‘Roll on in time, thou ball!’ he cried. ‘Move down the stream of years, timeless and hideous servant of my will! Taph! Tath! Ar…
1904 · PDF PAGE 19
…easy spend from the throat of her bulging cunt into the gaping mouth of the half-choked ecclesiastic. It is well, my daughter, if thou art pleased, he replied, when he had swallowed the cachet of her emotions. But my venerable pudendum asks at- tention. It shall have it, father ! said the lady, and forthwith she caught his purple-knobbed pillar in her hands, and violently rubbed it in a direction perpendicular to its length, increasing both pace and pressure as the excitement of the gentleman grew more intense. But in spite of all she…
1913 · PDF PAGE 250
…tand the Integral Calculus, and there are people capable of disentangling words and sentences. Or rather, at that time, that was so. The art of darkening counsel was in its infancy. The future saint was predestined to change all that. Arthur were wise, therefore, to find, if possible, a science so abstruse and venerable that no one at all understood it, and whose most respected authors wrote in an indecipherable cryptogram. Such a science was found for little Arthur (the future saint!) in Alchemy. To establish a reputation was the work of a mom…
1913 · PDF PAGE 250
…tand the Integral Calculus, and there are people capable of disentangling words and sentences. Or rather, at that time, that was so. The art of darkening counsel was in its infancy. The future saint was predestined to change all that. Arthur were wise, therefore, to find, if possible, a science so abstruse and venerable that no one at all understood it, and whose most respected authors wrote in an indecipherable cryptogram. Such a science was found for little Arthur (the future saint!) in Alchemy. To establish a reputation was the work of a mom…
1919 · PDF PAGE 358
…it intimates that the internal image or reality of the object must be destroyed as well as the outer image and the ideal image. 77. Thou art now in DHARANA, the sixth stage. DHARANA has been explained thoroughly in Book 4, q.v- 78. When thou hast passed into the seventh, O happy one, thou shalt perceive no more the sacred Three, for thou shalt have become that Three thyself. Thyself and mind, like twins upon a line, the Star whichis thy goal burns overhead. The Three that dwell in glory and in bliss ineffable, now in the World of Méyé have lost…
1919 · PDF PAGE 420
… virtues five, the fivefold source of Bodhi power, and of the seven steps in Knowledge. 28. Pass on! For 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 ano…
1919 · PDF PAGE 367
…within thy body—the shrine of thy sensations— seek in the Impersonal for the “Eternal Man’; and having sought him out, look inward: thou art Buddha. “Shun ignorance”: Keep on acquiring facts. “Shun illusion”: Refer every fact to the ultimate reality. “Interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with your Soul.” “Mistrust thy senses”: Avoid superficial judgment of the facts which they present to you. The last paragraph gives too succinct a statement of the facts. The attainment of the knowledge of the Holy Guar- dian Angel is only …
1961 · PDF PAGE 184
…onstantly the Wit and Power to arrange Things at his Bidding, and she payeth this Price of his Alliance. But a Man hath one Jewel, and, bartering this, he becometh the Mockery of Satanas. Let then his tutor thee in thine own Art of Magick, that thou employ Women in all Practical Matters, to order them with Cunning, but Men in thy Need of Transfiguration or Transmutation. In a Trope, let the Woman direct the Chess-Play of Life, but the Man alter the Rules, if he so will. Lo! in ill Play is Mischief and Disorder, but in a New Law is Earthquake, a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 185
…OST 179 595 600 605 610 616 vA * See his remarks upon the Rational piano, and the conclusions to whi: An explanation different For this particular event. Though surely I may find it queer That you should talk of self-hypnosis, When your own faith so very close is To similar experience ; Lies, in a word, beneath suspicion To ordinary common sense . And logic’s emery attrition. I take, however, as before Your own opinions, and demand Some test by which to understand Huxley’s piano-talk,* and find If my hypnosis may not score A point against the n…
1907 · PDF PAGE 109
…You want a tender gray, Prepare your palette half the day, Take brush, and find to your surprise The snout of scarlet stab your eyes. Bad art, my boy! I never cared To try the piece again. —We’ve aired Our dinner. By the way, though, here You are. That ’s it! How smooth and clear The moonlight runs from point to hilt! Steel in the end beats silver-gilt! Well, there’s an end of my cigar: The girls will wonder where we are. Strange! how this question of motive deceives historians—and others! said the scholar. Froude was hardly a fool; but his Henr…
1911 · PDF PAGE 145
…ess . . . and she rattled off a story of a stag—hunt at Fontainebleau in which the Cornish girl had played the principal, an incredible part. The cafe pricked up its ears, and dissolved in laughter at the culminating impossibility. But Edgar Rolles only frowned. “ I am sorry for Ida," he said slowly. " If your story were true I should be glad; but she is only the painter with his palette mixing paints: she never gives her soul up to the canvas. Tigress ? yes : but not the Bodhi—sattva who let the tigress eat him. She always wins ; she cannot lo…
1911 · PDF PAGE 145
…ess . . . and she rattled off a story of a stag—hunt at Fontainebleau in which the Cornish girl had played the principal, an incredible part. The cafe pricked up its ears, and dissolved in laughter at the culminating impossibility. But Edgar Rolles only frowned. “ I am sorry for Ida," he said slowly. " If your story were true I should be glad; but she is only the painter with his palette mixing paints: she never gives her soul up to the canvas. Tigress ? yes : but not the Bodhi—sattva who let the tigress eat him. She always wins ; she cannot lo…
1919 · PDF PAGE 374
…ri- ence. 34. Have patience, Candidate, as one who fears no failure, courts no success. Fix thy Soul’s gaze upon the star whose ray thou art, the flaming star that shines within the lightless depths of ever-being, the boundless fields of the Unknown. 52
1911 · PDF PAGE 72
…e water. And I said: " Come up hither.” And the wild swan said : “ How shall I come up thither ? " I will guide thee.?].י The Swan : Who art thou? I: My Father is the keeper of the King’s Cup: I have prepared a little ship wherein I may go my journeys upon the great river. Who will draw it? The Swan: I will draw it. So we set forth together; and of the horrible tempests that arose it is unworthy discourse. And of what followed after is discourse unprofitable; but the wild swan still guides my ship. 64
1911 · PDF PAGE 72
…e water. And I said: " Come up hither.” And the wild swan said : “ How shall I come up thither ? " I will guide thee.?].י The Swan : Who art thou? I: My Father is the keeper of the King’s Cup: I have prepared a little ship wherein I may go my journeys upon the great river. Who will draw it? The Swan: I will draw it. So we set forth together; and of the horrible tempests that arose it is unworthy discourse. And of what followed after is discourse unprofitable; but the wild swan still guides my ship. 64
1913 · PDF PAGE 131
…possible that electric shocks of this nature ‘may prove beneficial in some cases.’ Literary Guide. Oracles. 55. “The Autobiography of an Art.” This volume contains unpublished poems dating from 1886 to 1903. 123