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Page 49 of 1071944 · PDF PAGE 81
…ent into Matter is the signal for the redintegration by Spirit. It is the Formula of the Princess, the mode of ful‐ filment of the Great Work. This card recalls the Legend of Persephone, and herein is a dogma. Concealed within Mercury is a light which pervades all parts of the Universe equally; one of his titles is Psychopompos, the guide of the soul through the lower regions. These symbols are indi‐ cated by his Serpent Wand, which is actually growing out of the Abyss, and is the sper‐ matozoon developed as a poison, and manifesting the foetus…
1909 · PDF PAGE 13
JOHN ST. JOHN VIII. that I will work in truth: IX. that Iwill rely only upon myself: X. that I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul. And if I fail herein, may my pyramid be profaned, and the Eye be closed upon me I All this did I swear and seal with a stroke upon the Bell. Then I steadily sat down in my Asana (or sacred Posture), having my left heel beneath my body pressing into the anus, my right sole closely covering the phallus, the right leg vertical; my head, neck, and spine in one straight vertical l…
1909 · PDF PAGE 96
…)?ושמthink af Adonai! Exactly: the one difficulty] My best way out will be to concentrate on the New Ritual, learn it perfectly by heart, work it at the right moment. . . . I will go, with this idea, to have a Citron presse; thence to my Secret Restaurant, and dine, always learning the Ritual. I will leave off the mantra, though it is nearly as much part of me as my head by now; and instead repeat over and over again the words of the Ritual so that I can do it in the end with perfect fluency and comprehension. And this time may Adonai build the H…
1912 · PDF PAGE 101
…he answer to my prayer. In ignorance I asked the crown of martyrdom ; My soul serenely basked in that suns holy home. How finer far the work now given me to do, My service not to shirk, a service all for you ! It were an easy ascent to heaven, to have died. How harder to consent to be your Doges bride ! Praise me not ; still I smart ; half renegade I rank me But no Venetian heart that shall not learn to thank me ! ALESSANDRO. [Without.] Praise to the King of Kings ! we bow before His will. She hath not soiled her wings ; she is out Angel stil…
1912 · PDF PAGE 115
…ing-room door hui/515 ope/1. Dr. B. (in doorway) Here, Fieldingl [FIELDING goes in. JANE is lying on floor ih utter cot/(rpm Both doctors work hard on her with heart massage and 73
1912 · PDF PAGE 115
…ing-room door hui/515 ope/1. Dr. B. (in doorway) Here, Fieldingl [FIELDING goes in. JANE is lying on floor ih utter cot/(rpm Both doctors work hard on her with heart massage and 73
1913 · PDF PAGE 458
THE EQUINOX “Say, rather, thanks to your faith and your docility. And now, farewell: I must work... Well, why do you assume this suppliant air, and what more do you want of me?” “Oh, if you only would——” “Well, what now? Have you not obtained all that you asked for, and even more than you asked for, for you did not mention money to me?” “Yes, doubtless,” said the other sighing; “ but I do want to see him again!” “Incorrigible!” said Eliphas. Some days afterwards, the Professor of Transcendental Magic was awakened, about two o'clock in the morni…
1913 · PDF PAGE 458
THE EQUINOX “Say, rather, thanks to your faith and your docility. And now, farewell: I must work... Well, why do you assume this suppliant air, and what more do you want of me?” “Oh, if you only would——” “Well, what now? Have you not obtained all that you asked for, and even more than you asked for, for you did not mention money to me?” “Yes, doubtless,” said the other sighing; “ but I do want to see him again!” “Incorrigible!” said Eliphas. Some days afterwards, the Professor of Transcendental Magic was awakened, about two o'clock in the morni…
1954 · PDF PAGE 12
…t Tears is a serious, sober and sophisticated piece of good writing. It dazzles, but in a rather more restrained way than his antecedent work. It requires quiet study and sober meditation to appreciate its scholarship, its profound insight and its great worth. The letters that comprise this volume were written fairly close to the end of Crowley's life here on earth. (It seems difficult at this writing to realize that he was born almost a century ago-in 1875!) Some critics are inclined to believe that he had become feebleminded toward the end, a…
1961 · PDF PAGE 217
…f. It shall be a beacon to enlighten him, to comfort him, and to direct him; and it shall be a Witness and Memorial of my Word and of my Work, as of mine Attainment unto Wisdom. o
1909 · PDF PAGE 61
…I can say is that Ithink They don’t play fair. Iwill now go and get something to eat, and (God willing) on my return settle down to real work, for I need daylight to copy my Ritual. A sandwich and two coffees at the Versailles and a citron pressé at the Dome, some little chatter with M—e, Β e, H s, and others. In fact, I’m a lazy unconcentrated hound. I started Mantra again, though ; of course it goes quite easily. Undressed, and the mantra going, and the Will toward Adonai less unapparent. To—day I began ill, full of spiritual pride—look at th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 137
125 Karma does not work in this way at all. In any case moral fables have to be very carefully constructed, or they may prove dangerous to those who use them. You will remember Bunyan's Passion and Patience: naughty Passion played with all his toys and broke them, good little Patience put them carefully aside. Bunyan forgets to mention that by the time Passion had broken all his toys, he had outgrown them. Karma does not act in this tit-for-tat way. An eye for an eye is a sort of savage justice, and the idea of justice in our human sense is qui…
1913 · PDF PAGE 554
…made saints of scoundrels; but He has never done anything with the half-hearted and the cowardly. Under penalty of reprobation, one must work, one must act. Nature, moreover, sees to this, and if we will not march on with all our courage towards life, she flings us with all 256
1913 · PDF PAGE 554
…made saints of scoundrels; but He has never done anything with the half-hearted and the cowardly. Under penalty of reprobation, one must work, one must act. Nature, moreover, sees to this, and if we will not march on with all our courage towards life, she flings us with all 256
1954 · PDF PAGE 382
…ith 1000 franc notes, or tear them up and strew the floors of banks with them. Grimly I prognosticated Twenty-Nine. And it was so. "Nice work!" you charmingly remark; "but hardly what I sought to know." Patience, child! 1. No money-lender in the drunkenness of guilt plus the delirium of cocaine fortified by buckets of hashish would dare dream of getting such interest on his capital as these vampires. 349
1909 · PDF PAGE 53
…d-in), when one is rigid to a strong projectionofWill toward Adonai,ashas been mycustom. I hope to-day will be more hard definite magical Work, less discourse, less beatific state of mind—which is the very devil! the real Calypso, none the less temptress because her name happens to be Penelope. Ah Lord Adonai, my Lord! Grant unto me the Perfume and the Vision; let me attain the desirable harbour; for my little ship is tossed by divers tempests, even by Euroclydon, in the Place where Four Winds meet. Therefore I shall go to rest, letting my mind r…
1913 · PDF PAGE 476
…etic sleep-waking. This word “sleep-waking” brings us back to Mr. Home, and our anecdotes have not made us forget what the title of this work promised to our readers. We ought, then, to tell them what Mr. Home is. We keep our promise. Mr. Home ts an invalid suffering from a contagious sleep- waking. 178
1913 · PDF PAGE 476
…etic sleep-waking. This word “sleep-waking” brings us back to Mr. Home, and our anecdotes have not made us forget what the title of this work promised to our readers. We ought, then, to tell them what Mr. Home is. We keep our promise. Mr. Home ts an invalid suffering from a contagious sleep- waking. 178
1954 · PDF PAGE 501
77 Work Worthwhile: Why? Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Your remarks on my 0 = 2 letter are very apt and inspiriting-that is if I have rightly understood what you want to say. (Really, you know, they are a bit muddled-or I am!) May I frame your question, if it is a question, in my own terms? You say that I have advanced an invulnerable theory of the Universe in philosophical and mathematical language, and you suppose (underlined three times with two question marks) that one could, with a great effort, deduce theref…
1919 · PDF PAGE 440
… is important not to keep on worrying about one’s progress; otherwise all the concentra- tion is lost, and a mood of irritability rises, work is given up, and the student becomes angry with his Teacher. His Mind- Soul becomes as a mad elephant that rages in the jungle. He may even obtain the Vision of the Demon Crowley. But by persistence in the appointed Path, by avoiding dis- appointment through not permitting the fiend Hope to set its suckers on your Soul, by quietly continuing the appointed discourse in spite of Mara and his hosts, the whee…