Thelema ScholarTHE ALEISTER CROWLEY COLLECTION
FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION

Search the corpus.

Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.

2,226 matching pages

Page 46 of 112
1905 · PDF PAGE 118

Collected Works (Vol. I)

…orgotten zest In all the pleasures of o’erflowing life, Wine tasteless, tired the brain, and cold the breast ! Ah! but if with it is one good deed wrought, One kind word spoken, one immortal thought Born in thee, all is paid; the weary strife Grows victory. ‘‘ Love is all and Death is nought.” Such an one wrote that word! as I would meet, Lay my life’s burden at his silver feet, Have him give ear if I say ‘‘ Master.” Yea! I know no heaven, no honour, half so sweet ! Ife passed before me on the wheel of Time, He who knows no Time—the intense sub…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1907 · PDF PAGE 78

Collected Works (Vol. III)

… box to an ace and a deuce but she call me a tall fellow of my hands and bid me sit to supper. Warily now!... [Pushes past arras. ALAIN. Good evening, good evening, my dear young friend. Welcome, very welcome! Come to the fire, man, and warm your- self. ‘‘ Jam satis terris nivis,”—if you know your Horace as you know your Ovid, we shall get along splendidly. [DENYS stands stupefied. A\.AIN watts, DENYs., I fear, sir, I don’t know my Ovid. [Vth the air of one primed to repeat a lesson.) I beg a thousand pardons, Monsieur. ALAIN, Don’t apologise, …

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1899 · PDF PAGE 138

Jephthah and Other Mysteries

…hem would be to pass where he has passed! But oh! the pity! To leave his greatest task undone! To be stricken down in the last charge, a good soldier to the end! Would God he could come back only

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1909 · PDF PAGE 58

John St. John

…imes, and if I had not been a worm would have scattered it like chaff I ,, IV. δὲhours ; and I wake fresh. ,, V. I%+4§+ I hour; and real good work done in the intervals. [P.S. ,, VI. Probably 4 hours. ,, VII. 2+2+§ hours. ,, VIII. 6 hours much broken. ,, IX. 112—4-2—0-2 hours. ,, X. 4+ 1}; hours. ,, XI. 1%+4-21 hours. ,, XII. Back tothe normal—7 hours perfect sleep]

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1911 · PDF PAGE 233

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…e creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory! [SCORPIOþ/ays in awordame * BRO. ARIES. Hail to Thee that sailest heavenwardsl Hail to Thee in whose eye is a Flame of Fire! Hail, Lord of the Destroying Army! MARS. Hail, brethren. BRO. ARIES. Hail unto Thee, that hast fought at the Side of our Lord in the great Battle !} Hail unto Thee, our Lady of Tumult ! Terrible and…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1911 · PDF PAGE 233

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…e creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory! [SCORPIOþ/ays in awordame * BRO. ARIES. Hail to Thee that sailest heavenwardsl Hail to Thee in whose eye is a Flame of Fire! Hail, Lord of the Destroying Army! MARS. Hail, brethren. BRO. ARIES. Hail unto Thee, that hast fought at the Side of our Lord in the great Battle !} Hail unto Thee, our Lady of Tumult ! Terrible and…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1912 · PDF PAGE 359

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VII)

… bon ‘Tiphareth Fundamenta Terrae ys “DID Habitaculum xwvD Ordo temporum ppt ID Desolation, emptiness. (Ex- AM presses first root of all good) 412 ‘The letter Beth na 43 New. (Ch.) nan Jesus GOD pnbs myn White whorl poy Celsitudo superna poy on A longing for man Azoth, the fluid. A+Z (Lat.) TYIN +0 (Grk.) +N (Heb.). In- itial and final in 3 tongues The Limitless Light VWs 5D ps Meditation. [Ps. xlv. 4] nun Going forth. [Videno. 770] DYOMIWE The Voice of the Chief 937 ANIIN Seer Sister Mins The Holy One; Sodomite wpa Work mwy Angel of 10 C. movy…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1912 · PDF PAGE 359

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VIII)

… bon ‘Tiphareth Fundamenta Terrae ys “DID Habitaculum xwvD Ordo temporum ppt ID Desolation, emptiness. (Ex- AM presses first root of all good) 412 ‘The letter Beth na 43 New. (Ch.) nan Jesus GOD pnbs myn White whorl poy Celsitudo superna poy on A longing for man Azoth, the fluid. A+Z (Lat.) TYIN +0 (Grk.) +N (Heb.). In- itial and final in 3 tongues The Limitless Light VWs 5D ps Meditation. [Ps. xlv. 4] nun Going forth. [Videno. 770] DYOMIWE The Voice of the Chief 937 ANIIN Seer Sister Mins The Holy One; Sodomite wpa Work mwy Angel of 10 C. movy…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1911 · PDF PAGE 134

The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

…mpagne of the Cafe Riche are more to be desired than all the hashish dreams of all the wicked, and than all the divine dreams 01 all the good. We shall walk there, and drive back. This incense shall be kindled, and this lamp left burning.” He took a strange object from a locked cabinet. It had flowered chased pipes of gold, copper and platinum, coiling about an egg of crystal. The three snakes met just above the egg, as if to bite or to kiss. Rolles filled the egg with a pale blue liquid from a Venetian flask, then pressed the heads of the serpent…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1911 · PDF PAGE 134

The Equinox (Volume I, Number VI)

…mpagne of the Cafe Riche are more to be desired than all the hashish dreams of all the wicked, and than all the divine dreams 01 all the good. We shall walk there, and drive back. This incense shall be kindled, and this lamp left burning.” He took a strange object from a locked cabinet. It had flowered chased pipes of gold, copper and platinum, coiling about an egg of crystal. The three snakes met just above the egg, as if to bite or to kiss. Rolles filled the egg with a pale blue liquid from a Venetian flask, then pressed the heads of the serpent…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1922 · PDF PAGE 141

Diary of a Drug Fiend

…o get away from these wretched people, to get back to the Caligula ; to have a bath and a meal; and above all, to ease our nerves with a good stiff dose of heroin and a few hearty sniffs of cocaine.

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1922 · PDF PAGE 233

Diary of a Drug Fiend

… when he had anything big on. Let’s see what we can do to-night.” - That was delightful. That was his old self. We thought it would be a good plan to coke up pretty hard before starting.

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1928 · PDF PAGE 68

Little Poems in Prose

… between man and God, is like us ruled by the terrible law of Time, and of its infinite posterity,—days, hours, minutes, and seconds. In good sooth they were flurried as are min- isters on a reception day, or the assistants in the Government pawn-shop when a national festival allows redemptions without interest. I even believe that from time to time they watched the hand of the clock with as much impatience as human judges who, in session since the morning, cannot prevent themselves from thinking of dinner, of their families, and of their comfo…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1909 · PDF PAGE 20

John St. John

…correspondence and other business and drunk a citron pressé. The Voice of the Nadi began to resound. Have done ”Bornless One ” in Asana. Good; yet I am filled with utter despair at the hopelessness of the Task. Especially do I get the Buddhist feeling, not only that Asana is intensely painful, but that all conceivable positions of the body are so. Still sitting; quite sceptical; sticking to it just because I am a man, and have decided to go through with it. Have done 10 RY. cycles. Α bit better, and a slight hint of the Bhuchari Siddhi foreshado…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1939 · PDF PAGE 9

Temperance: A Tract for the Times

…ke, To the Palace of Wisdom leads one; Open a bottle for Wisdom’s sake! And I am the boy that needs one. It’s a long, long way, but it’s good to take— Open a bottle for Mishter Blake! At the door of Burgess’ Fish Sauce Shop She stood, oh, how does it go, boys? Well, “truly rural” will do for the cop, If you say it quiet and slow, boys. Why the devil should anyone stop, When “truly rural” will do for the cop? I d’know ’f ’t struck you, i’ shtruck me Th’was somethin’ wrong with the pheasant. Say, how would a little drink, maybe— You’know, ’void a…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1954 · PDF PAGE 430

Magick Without Tears

…essary?" So musing, I rang you up for details. Vampires, you say, might be a temptation to yourself, or they might sap your energy. Very good. I will tell you the little I know. Listen to Eliphas Levi! He warns us against a type of person, fearless and cold-blooded, who seems to have the power to cast a sudden chill, merely by entering the room, upon the gayest party ever assembled. Tete-a-tete, they shake one's resolution, kill one's enthusiasm, devitalize one's faith and courage. Yes, we all know such people. Mercury, by the way, is the plane…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1912 · PDF PAGE 45

Mortadello

OR, THE ANGEL OF VENICE 27 ALESSANDRO. Good soup, the end of stir. She has filled their folly full : now she might do her will At noonday with a bull, and be a virgin still ! LUCREZIA. So there’s the use of fame ; it makes the fact forsworn. ALESSANDRO. Count Mortadello came for wool, we’ll send him shorn. SCENE II. The Cabinet of THE DOGE. It is furnished as a work-room with papers, etc. But there is a throne, with five seats on either hand. THE DOGE is with a Secretary at work. An officer is on guard at the door. A knock. The officer opens an…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1910 · PDF PAGE 342

The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

…ost vividly different to them. They could not speak, the two detractors, for they had learnt the wisdom and merit of sin. They knew that good and evil are the same thing, that in a world of illusion he who has the most illusions is the richest man, that to be wise unto ignorance is the fairest counsel, that they knew nothing and yet all, that... And the heart-worm, whose judgment and reasonings had been so readily accepted by the others, grew in his turn a sceptic, since faith cannot live without doubt, and truth is only co-existent with untrut…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1910 · PDF PAGE 342

The Equinox (Volume I, Number IV)

…ost vividly different to them. They could not speak, the two detractors, for they had learnt the wisdom and merit of sin. They knew that good and evil are the same thing, that in a world of illusion he who has the most illusions is the richest man, that to be wise unto ignorance is the fairest counsel, that they knew nothing and yet all, that... And the heart-worm, whose judgment and reasonings had been so readily accepted by the others, grew in his turn a sceptic, since faith cannot live without doubt, and truth is only co-existent with untrut…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →
1913 · PDF PAGE 58

Book 4 (Part II)

… as saying this " for the hardness of men's hearts." The turbine is more efficient than a reciprocating engine ; and his counsel is only good for the beginner. Ultimately the Magical Will so identifies itself with the man's whole being that it becomes unconscious, and is as constant a force as gravitation. One may even be surprised at one's own acts, and have to reason out their connection. But let it be understood that when the Will has thus really raised itself to the height of Destiny, the man is no more hkely to do wrong than he is to float…

original embedded textRead original & transcription →