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Page 48 of 841909 · PDF PAGE 169
…ING A FIGURE REMEMBER always that if % or : fall in the Ascendant, the figure is not fit for judgment. Destroy it instantly, and erect a new figure not less than two hours afterwards. Your figure being thoroughly arranged as on p. 144, note first to what House the demand belongs. Then look for Witnesses and Judge in their special table, and see what is said under the head of the demand. Put this down. Note next what figure falls in the House required (if it spring into other Houses, these too should be considered); eg., in a question of money s…
1909 · PDF PAGE 169
…ING A FIGURE REMEMBER always that if % or : fall in the Ascendant, the figure is not fit for judgment. Destroy it instantly, and erect a new figure not less than two hours afterwards. Your figure being thoroughly arranged as on p. 144, note first to what House the demand belongs. Then look for Witnesses and Judge in their special table, and see what is said under the head of the demand. Put this down. Note next what figure falls in the House required (if it spring into other Houses, these too should be considered); eg., in a question of money s…
1954 · PDF PAGE 187
…er. There must be no causal link. 2. The Act must be one which makes the situation definitely worse. E.g.: suppose you are counting on a new dress to make a hit at a Reception, and doubt whether it is so much better than your present best, or whether it will be finished in time . Then, wear that present best to-night (wet , of course) knowing you are sure to soil it. 3. Obviously, all the usual conditions of a Magical Operation apply in this as in all cases; your aim must conform with your True Will, and all that; but there is one curious point…
1907 · PDF PAGE 138
…his actions , changes , growing little by little from a spark into a flaming volcano of scorching pain , which he alone seeks , find ing new pleasures in the pain he himself endures , and fresh pleasures in the pain he himself inflicts . This is Lust . Peopled with all the horrors of inversion , we pass from the simple realms of prostitution , to the dismal Kingdoms of Sodom and Lesbos . Paederasts and Tribades flock round us , yet we break away from them only to enter the foul jaws of the sexual hell of shrieking flagellants , who rush upon us…
1907 · PDF PAGE 201
…han that of acting as ballast to the good ship which is to carry us across the turbid ocean of raging Eclectics . Crowley is more than a new - born Dionysus , he is more than a Blake , a Rabelais or a Heine ; for he stands before us as some priest of Apollo , hovering ’ twixt the misty blue of the heavens , and the more certain purple of the vast waters of the deep . Before the name of That which is beyond life and death , beyond matter and energy , beyond the human and the mortal ; he stands , holding before us as a stan dard , the homologue o…
1907 · PDF PAGE 209
…hough pure , sees through the colouring of the intellect .” In “ Pentecost ," Crowley writes : You know for me the soul is nought Save a new phantom in the thought , That thought itself impermanent , Save as a casual element With such another may combine To form now water and now wine ; The element itself may be Changeless to all eternity , But compounds ever fluctuate With time or space or various state . ( Ask chemists else !) So I must claim Spirit and matter are the same Or else the prey of putrefaction .? And we intend to take it as such ,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 366
THE EQUINOX rather new-edge his sword for a deeper analysis, and cut away the veil from the face of our Mother. ’Sdeath, man, is there nothing we may love? He is wrong, anyway, to gibe at Scripture. For, like Balaam, I came to curse, and appear to be blessing him! (with scarce a monitory word). And, like Balaam, too, I have been reviewed by G. K. Chesterton. To pass from this painful subject... . Let me rouse myself to a really resolute effort to denounce Shaw as a niddering. Aha! I have it. The man is a journalist after all. We have to thank h…
1910 · PDF PAGE 366
THE EQUINOX rather new-edge his sword for a deeper analysis, and cut away the veil from the face of our Mother. ’Sdeath, man, is there nothing we may love? He is wrong, anyway, to gibe at Scripture. For, like Balaam, I came to curse, and appear to be blessing him! (with scarce a monitory word). And, like Balaam, too, I have been reviewed by G. K. Chesterton. To pass from this painful subject... . Let me rouse myself to a really resolute effort to denounce Shaw as a niddering. Aha! I have it. The man is a journalist after all. We have to thank h…
1954 · PDF PAGE 11
…ts, in less than a month .... It is proposed ultimately to issue the series in book form. This has now been done. January, 1954 Hampton, New Jersey Karl J. Germer
1904 · PDF PAGE 23
… a fire, a thirst for these ; A harp-resounding heaven for those ! And though you claim Salvation sure For all the heathen68—there again New Christians give the lie to plain Scripture, those words which must endure ! (The Vedas say the same !) and though His mercy widens ever so, I never met a man (this shocks, What I now press, so heterdox, Anglican, Roman, Methodist, Peculiar Person—all the list !— I never met a man who called Himself a Christian, but appalled Shrank when I dared suggest the hope God’s mercy could expand its scope, Extend, or…
1909 · PDF PAGE 389
… aware that I was fated to conceal my thoughts for a very long while, I allowed them to advance and attend upon me. In that way began my new life as master of a harem. At first the negroes treated me with a certain reserve, even with hostility; but they soon changed, seeing me so tame and amiable. As the story goes, The King of France and forty thousand men They drew their swords and put them back again. But I now perceive that my narrative will appear almost incoherent if I do not at this point of the history pass over a few incidents and the …
1909 · PDF PAGE 389
… aware that I was fated to conceal my thoughts for a very long while, I allowed them to advance and attend upon me. In that way began my new life as master of a harem. At first the negroes treated me with a certain reserve, even with hostility; but they soon changed, seeing me so tame and amiable. As the story goes, The King of France and forty thousand men They drew their swords and put them back again. But I now perceive that my narrative will appear almost incoherent if I do not at this point of the history pass over a few incidents and the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 494
…kless toil in the crypts of lost sciences and the cemeteries of the past. One of the first results of this discovery should be to give a new direction to the study of the hieroglyphic writings as yet so imperfectly deciphered by the rivals and successors of M. Champollion. The system of writing of the disciples of Hermes being analogical and synthetical, like all the signs of the Qabalah, would it not be useful, in order to read the pages engraved upon the stones of the ancient temples, to replace these stones in their place, and to count the n…
1913 · PDF PAGE 494
…kless toil in the crypts of lost sciences and the cemeteries of the past. One of the first results of this discovery should be to give a new direction to the study of the hieroglyphic writings as yet so imperfectly deciphered by the rivals and successors of M. Champollion. The system of writing of the disciples of Hermes being analogical and synthetical, like all the signs of the Qabalah, would it not be useful, in order to read the pages engraved upon the stones of the ancient temples, to replace these stones in their place, and to count the n…
1919 · PDF PAGE 456
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1930 · PDF PAGE 77
…hey are ail — ultimately — of equal importance. The fact that he is what he is proves that each item is equilibrated. The impact of each new impression affects the entire System in due measure. He must thereiore realize that every event is subject to him. It occurs because he had need of it. Iron rusts because the molécules demand oxygen for the satisfaction ©f — 281 —
1954 · PDF PAGE 449
…the Infernal Gods! The Englishman lives upon the excrement of his forefathers. All moral codes are worthless in themselves; yet in every new code there is hope. Provided always that the code is not changed because it is too hard, but because it is fulfilled.
1929 · PDF PAGE 334
334 As the sequel will show, the gods knew when to lay their hands on it. I surrendered at discretion, re-obligated myself and in September 1909 wrote my greatest magical poem "Aha!" in which the Cairo working is restored to its proper place in my life. I have made many insurrections since then; but they have always been quelled in very short order and punished as they deserved. This lengthy preamble will enable the reader to fit into their proper places the ostensibly incoherent events of 1907 and 1908. My own continuous illness, the birth of …
1907 · PDF PAGE 206
THE NEW WINE 199 instead of blundering in attempts to do so for our selves , without knowledge, or even the necessary in struction as to the subtle adjustment of the different parts . And it is on account of the want of this “ I ” that all science resting on the inquiry “ What do I know ? ” without the “ I” being analytically disclosed , must , and does , rest upon knowledge purely accidental or hypothetical . It is quite as possible for hypothetical arguments to be rightly and wrongly applied , as it is for mechan ical tools . A pick - axe is …
1912 · PDF PAGE 289
…really interested in Judges to switch off to Leviticus Christian parents were, however, quick to see that my uncle's genius had forged a new tyranny, and his scheme had the heartiest of receptions. The Children‘s Special Service Mission had met with un— qualified success ; his own might easily match it, so he surmised—as the event proved, justly. Children were obliged to throw down spade and bucket, and gather round the un- washed (eet and swelled head of the “ university man”— usually non-collegiatel—who found himself free to splutter 247