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Page 45 of 731911 · PDF PAGE 111
…rgiven you. But the secular arm is not yet satisfied ; your crimes, the crimes 10 which you have confessed, must be expiated according to law, The sentence of the Court is that you be handed over to the secular arm ; and I beg of you [turning lo the Representative of the King efferum/em], the Court begs of you, that you will deal mercifully with the prisoner, without shedding of blood. REPRESENTATIVE OF K. OF ]. A stake shall be prepared. [T0 the soldiers] Remove the prisoner to the strongest dungeon, and let the guard be trebled. Witchcraft has…
1906 · PDF PAGE 153
…ll my lfe— War to the knife! War to the knife! No! on the other hand the Buddha Says: “I’m surprised at you! How coulda Person 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 …
1904 · PDF PAGE 37
…invade, insult, impress ? There comes a lightning of my wit And sees—nor good nor ill address Itself to task, creation’s ill, But a mere law without a will,40 Nothing resolved in something, fit Phantom of dull stupidity, And evolution’s endless stress All the inanity to knit Thence : such a dark device I see ! Nor lull my soul in the caress Of Buddha’s “Maya fashioned it.”41 My mind seems ready to agree ; But still my senses worry me. Nor can I see what sort of gain God finds in this creating pain ; Nor do the Vedas help me here. Why should the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 251
…ir friend into a God , they then proceeded to enlarge their enemy into a Devil . This gross materialism in accordance with the universal law of polarity , set in motion by the hand of Idealism , pro duced as effect a fanciful spiritualism , which sought in the mysteries of life an answer that lay still on the cold lips of Death . These two powers , the Pantheonic materialism and the Gnostic spiritualism , bore the hybrid - Christianity . As all religions have finally become subservient to an interested priesthood , so have all religions ( how e…
1996 · PDF PAGE 77
78 The Law is for All Pageant of Triumph as each Star, free from Confusion, sweepeth free in its right Orbit; all Heaven acclaimeth thee as thou goest, transcendental in Joy and in Splendour; and thy Light is as a Beacon to them that Wander afar, strayed in the Night. Amount The “old comment” covers the rest of this verse sufficiently for the present purpose.2 I see no harm in revealing the mystery of tzaddi to “the wise”; others will hardly understand my explanations. Tzaddi [H] is the letter of “The Emperor,” the Trump IV, and he [H] is “The …
1913 · PDF PAGE 544
…e loved two men of genius in succession. One finds peace through the protection which one’s own weariness of admiration gives; it is the law of equilibrium; but sometimes even sublime natures are surprised in caprices of vulgarity. Man, said the Abbé Gerbet, is the shadow of 246
1913 · PDF PAGE 544
…e loved two men of genius in succession. One finds peace through the protection which one’s own weariness of admiration gives; it is the law of equilibrium; but sometimes even sublime natures are surprised in caprices of vulgarity. Man, said the Abbé Gerbet, is the shadow of 246
1961 · PDF PAGE 194
… to Heaven, by the Expansion of thine Idea, and its Exaltation, of Concentration as thou understandest by thy Studies in The Book of the Law, the Word thereof concerning Our Lady Nuith and Hadith that is the Core of every Star. And this last Going upon thy Ladder is easy, if thou be truly Initiate, for the Momentum of thy Force in Transcendental Antithesis serveth to propel thee, and the Emancipation from the Fetters of Thought hat thou hast won in that Praxis of Art maketh the Whirlpool and Gravitation of Truth of Competence to Draw theeunto i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 275
275 every kind of magical and mystical lore into the volume, there is nowhere any reference to The Book of the Law. I was setting my whole strength against the Secret Chiefs. I was trying to forget the whole business. The book itself is a complete treatise on mysticism, expressed in the symbolism prescribed by Persian piety. It describes the relations of God and man, explains how the latter falls from his essential innocence by allowing himself to be deceived by the illusion of matter. His religion cease to be real and become formal; he falls i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 324
… small voice , and joining myself to God I become one spirit with him . As : O night ! Fade , love ! Fade , light ! I pass beyond Life's law . I melt as snow ; as ice 1 thaw ; As mist I dissipate : I am borne , I draw Through chasms on the mountains : stormy gusts Of ancient sorrows and forgotten lusts Bear me along : they touch me not : I waste. The memory of long lives interlaced Fades in my tading . I disintegrate Fall into black oblivion of Fate . My being divides . I have forgot my name . I am blown out as a thin subtle flame, I am no more…
1922 · PDF PAGE 360
346 The Diary of a Drug Fiend He repeated the words :— “IT do solemnly declare that I accept the Law of Thelema, that I will devote myself to discover my True Will, and to do it.” “Yes, yes, of course,” I said hurriedly. “I’m not trying to get out of it; but really, I am at the moment most frightfully preoccupied with this idea about the helicopter.” “ Thank you, that will do,”’ said King Lamus briskly. “ The meeting will now adjourn.” I felt a little irritation at his offhand manner, but I followed him in to lunch. He stood at the end of the t…
1912 · PDF PAGE 50
…r of the Soul," said Ananda Metteya, “ whence and in what order you have come” For three days—the longest period allowed by the Buddhist law—he remained in the Choung, meditating on this matter; but nothing seems to have come of it. He set his teeth and settled down doggedly to this consideration of the eternal why. Here is a being in Rangoon Why? Because he wanted to see Bhikku A. Μ. Why? Because . . . and so on to the half-forgotten past, dark seas that phosphoresced as the clean keel of his thought divided them. But, as appears, he was even …
1912 · PDF PAGE 50
…r of the Soul," said Ananda Metteya, “ whence and in what order you have come” For three days—the longest period allowed by the Buddhist law—he remained in the Choung, meditating on this matter; but nothing seems to have come of it. He set his teeth and settled down doggedly to this consideration of the eternal why. Here is a being in Rangoon Why? Because he wanted to see Bhikku A. Μ. Why? Because . . . and so on to the half-forgotten past, dark seas that phosphoresced as the clean keel of his thought divided them. But, as appears, he was even …
1913 · PDF PAGE 557
… the glory of St. Michael. Physical love is the most perverse of all fatal passions. It is the anarchist of anarchists; it knows neither law, duty, truth nor justice. It would make the maiden walk over the corpses of her parents. It is an irrepressible intoxication; a furious madness. It is the vertigo of fatality seeking new victims; the cannibal drunkenness of Saturn who wishes to 1 Not the sculptor.—TRANS. s2 259
1913 · PDF PAGE 557
… the glory of St. Michael. Physical love is the most perverse of all fatal passions. It is the anarchist of anarchists; it knows neither law, duty, truth nor justice. It would make the maiden walk over the corpses of her parents. It is an irrepressible intoxication; a furious madness. It is the vertigo of fatality seeking new victims; the cannibal drunkenness of Saturn who wishes to 1 Not the sculptor.—TRANS. s2 259
1907 · PDF PAGE 108
… by swarms of human blow - flies, that we shall tread on the scorpions of re ligion , the toads of society , and the blind -worms of the law ; that around us will whirl the vampires of the past , the kites of the present , the succubi of the future , is certain enough ; as a shrieking mass of hideous animosity they will conglobe around us, deafening us with the expletives of earth , blinding us with the fumes of hell , and rendering us insane with the inanities of heaven : This were my guerdon : to fade utterly Into the rose -heart of that sang…
1954 · PDF PAGE 412
…erfection is that one can "snap back" to the original condition, with no trace of the stress to which it has been subjected. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally , 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 510
SORE SPOTS 477 a dozen treatises to answer: so, take this, with my blessing! Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666 P.S. One further reflection. With all these "sore spots" is closely linked the idea of cruelty. I need not touch upon the relation of cruelty to sex; the theme has been worn threadbare. But in religion, note the Bottomless Pit and the Eternal Flame; in Buddhism, the eighteen hot and eighteen cold Hells, with many another beneath. Hindu eschatology has countless Hells; even pedestrian, precise Islam, and the calculating…
1906 · PDF PAGE 246
… deed, life, will-power, medi- tation, 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 having ‘any future results. The exoteric Christian and Hindu rather rely on another person to do this for them, and are further blinded by the thirst for ‘life and individual existence,- the most formidable obstacle of all, in fact a negation of the very object of all religion. Schopenhauer shows that life is …
1910 · PDF PAGE 269
…ough my waking or sleeping imagination, and mingled themselves with all I heard, or read, or saw. On the pages of Gibbon the palaces and lawns of Nicomedia were illustrated with a hasheesh tint and a hasheesh reality ; and journeying with old Dan Chaucer, I drank in a delicious landscape of revery along all the road to Canterbury. The music of my vision was still heard in echo; as the bells of Bow of old time called to Whittington, so did it call to me—“ Turn again, turn again.” And I turned. It will be remembered that the hasheesh states of ec…