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Page 48 of 901907 · PDF PAGE 144
…sire : Passion to feed upon your shoulders bare , And pass the dewy twilight of our sin In the intolerable flames of hair . Give thee my body as a fire to hold O love, no words , no songs—your breast my bower ! In “ Jezebel ” we find the same desire , but unfanned by restraint , in whose place stands a woman's disdain . He , the prophet , goes to curse her—but loves her instead : For lo ! she saw me , and beheld My trembling lips curled back to curse, Laughed with strong scorn , whose music knelled The empire of God's universe. And on my haggar…
1909 · PDF PAGE 99
… the Path: the Question is reduced to the simple problem: Am I, or am I not, going to burst? I got all the sweating and trembling of the body that heart could desire; but no “ jumping about like a frog” or levitation. A pity ! I shall read for a little in the Yoga-Shastra as a rest. Then for the end of the day and the Beginning of the Ninth Day. Zoroaster (or Pythagoras ?) informs us that the number Nine is sacred, and attains the summit of Philosophy. I’m sure I hope so! I get into Asana . . . and so endeth the Eighth Lesson. The Ninth Day Thu…
1912 · PDF PAGE 23
…s no deeper than her eyes, Blue skies no gayer, bells no merrier, psaltries No holier than her laugh, most suave and sleek and slim, Her body, the pure graff of sylph and seraphim, Her mind a beryl-stone all faery, fleckless, flawless ; Compared with her I own St. Thomas lewd and lawless ;
1919 · PDF PAGE 278
…enant of Resurrection. The PRIEST offers the Lance to the PriEsTEss, who kisses it; he then touches her between the breasts and upon the body. He then flings out his arms upward, as comprehending the whole shrine. Let this offering be borne upon the waves of AZthyr to our Lord and Father the Sun that travelleth over the Heavens in his name ON. He closes his hands, kisses the Priestess between the breasts, and makes three great crosses over the Paten, the Cup, and himself. He strikes his breast. All repeat this action. Hear ye all, saints of the…
1961 · PDF PAGE 169
…th, and maketh his Way through the Generations in Silence. And the Eagle is that Might of Live which is the Key of Magick, uplifting the Body and its Appurtenance unto high Ekstacy upon his Wings. It is by Virtue thereof that the Sphinx beholdeth he Sun unwinking, and confronteth the Pyramid without Shame. Our Dragon, therefore, combining the Natures of the Eagle and he Serpent, is our Love, the Organ of our Will, by whose Virtue we perform the Work and Miracle of the One Substance, as saith thine Ancestor Hermes Trismegistus, in his Tablet of …
1907 · PDF PAGE 49
… About thy dabbling feet , and aching jaws Whose tongue licks mine , twin asps like moons that curl , Red moons of blood ! Whose catlike body claws , Like a white swan raping a jet - black girl , Mine , with hysteric laughter And the following four verses in " Saida ” superb : The spears of the night at her onset Are lords of the day for a while , The magical green of the sunset , The magical blue of the Nile . Afloat are the gales In our slumberous sails On the beautiful breast of the Nile . are We have swooned through the midday exhausted By …
1909 · PDF PAGE 116
…nds; He must end it, either with that mighty spiritual Experience which I have sought, or else with black madness, or with death. By the Body of God, swear thou that death would come— welcome, welcome, welcome!
1909 · PDF PAGE 37
…ne his own figure (preferably robed in the proper magical garments and armed with the proper magical weapons) as enveloping his physical body, or standing near to and in front of him. 3. Let him then transfer the seat of his consciousness to that imagined figure; so that it may seem to him that he is seeing with its eyes, and hearing with its ears. This will usually be the great difficulty of the operation. 4. Let him then cause that imagined figure to rise in the air to a great height above the earth. 5. Let him then stop and look about him. (…
1909 · PDF PAGE 37
…ne his own figure (preferably robed in the proper magical garments and armed with the proper magical weapons) as enveloping his physical body, or standing near to and in front of him. 3. Let him then transfer the seat of his consciousness to that imagined figure; so that it may seem to him that he is seeing with its eyes, and hearing with its ears. This will usually be the great difficulty of the operation. 4. Let him then cause that imagined figure to rise in the air to a great height above the earth. 5. Let him then stop and look about him. (…
1913 · PDF PAGE 12
INTRODUCTION . xiii swordsmanship to the complete grace of his body : and this doubt is strengthened in me by reflecting how certainly the final grace withholds itself from one who lacks understanding of poetry and how usefully the attempt to write it enlarges that understanding. In this efficacy Cambridge , at any rate, has always trusted ; and the following pages prove , and prove amply , that she remains loyalas ever to the belief . Critics —middle aged critics especially — will find much amiss with them ; and the fault as usual will lie wit…
1944 · PDF PAGE 62
…which hides that Spirit. It does so all the more effectively because of its incomparably dazzling brilliance.1 Thus she is light and the body of light. She is the truth behind the veil of light. She
1954 · PDF PAGE 524
…the Aspirant is to write his Magical Record. You know some elementary Mechanics-the Triangle of Forces, and all that. Well, if we have a body acted on by two equal forces, one pulling it East, the other South, it will tend to move in a South-Easterly direction. But if the "south" force is (say) twice as strong, it will move south of South-East. Now you, sitting in your study reading this letter, got there and were compelled to do that, as the result of the impact upon you of countless quintillions of forces of every kind. I don't expect you to …
1903 · PDF PAGE 25
…ons of thought through which we have so recently, and so hardly, travelled. Eight are the limbs of Yoga: morality and virtue, control of body, thought, and force, leading to concen- tration, meditation, and rapture. Only when the last of these has been attained, and itself refined upon by removing the gross and even the fine objects of its sphere can the causes, subtle and coarse, the unborn causes whose seed is hardly sown, of continued existence be grasped and annihilated, so Gite the Arahat is sure of being abolished in the utter extinction.…
1909 · PDF PAGE 16
…gain the Cross of Blood ; and now a third time will I do it. And I will take out the Magical Knife and sharpen it yet more, so that this body may fear me ; for that I am Horus the terrible, the Avenger, the Lord of the Gate of the West. 4.15— Read Ritual DCLXXI. [The nature of this Ritual is 4.30. explained later.—ED.] 5.10. I have returned from my shopping. Strange how 14 solemn and dignified so trivial a thing becomes, once one has begun to concentrate l I bought two pears, half a pound of Garibaldi biscuits, and a packet of Gaufrettes. I hada…
1909 · PDF PAGE 98
…ck, though probably the Record shows a fair amount of work done. But I am terribly bruised by the Great Fall; these big things leave the body and mind no worse, apparently ; but they hurt the Self, and later that is reflected into the lower parts of the man as insanity or death. I must attain, or . . . an end of John St. John. An end of him, one way or the other, then l Good-bye, John ! Ten minutes wasted in sheer mooning! I’m getting worse every minute. Fooled away ten minutes more! Humiliation enough! For though I made the cross with Blood and…
1935 · PDF PAGE 4
…wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 1. The Order of the Star called S. S. is, in respect of its exist- ence upon the Earth, an organized body of men and women distinguished among their fellows by the qualities here enumerated. They exist in their own Truth, which is both universal and unique. They move in accordance with their own Wills, which are each unique, yet coherent with the universal will. They perceive (that is, understand, know, and feel) in love, which is both unique and universal. 1. The Name of the Order and those of its three divi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 231
Cara Soror, 27 Structure of Mind Based on That of Body Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Was the sudden cloudburst at the end of my last letter somewhat of a surprise, and more than somewhat of a shock? Cheer up! The worst is yet to come. It is surely the wise course to accept the plain facts; to try to explain them away, or to excuse them, is certain to involve one in a maelstrom of sophistry; and when, despite these laudable efforts, the facts jump up and land a short jab to the point, one is even worse off than before. This ha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 223
… plus ultra of Crowleyanity , it will be necessary to arrive at a state of desperate de spair , a state in which the equilibrium of both body and mind are balancing between conscious alienation and unconscious insanity ; and this state is the Cer berus we all have to pass before we can regain the blissful arms of our long - lost Eurydice . To clearly illuminate the Orphic progress through the Plutonic regions of Philosophy , it will be necessary , first of all to satisfy the three heads of the terrible offspring of Echidna's womb , whose names …
1913 · PDF PAGE 329
…e the ignorant person who judges the picture by the beginning of the sketch, and says, when the head is done, ‘‘What! Has this figure no body ?” Nature remains calm, and accomplishes its work. The ploughshare is not cruel when it tears the bosom of the earth, and the great revolutions of the world are the husbandry of God. There is a place for everything: to savage peoples, bar- barous masters; to cattle, butchers; to men, judges and fathers. If time could change the sheep into lions, they would eat the butchers and the shepherds. Sheep never c…
1913 · PDF PAGE 329
…e the ignorant person who judges the picture by the beginning of the sketch, and says, when the head is done, ‘‘What! Has this figure no body ?” Nature remains calm, and accomplishes its work. The ploughshare is not cruel when it tears the bosom of the earth, and the great revolutions of the world are the husbandry of God. There is a place for everything: to savage peoples, bar- barous masters; to cattle, butchers; to men, judges and fathers. If time could change the sheep into lions, they would eat the butchers and the shepherds. Sheep never c…