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Page 50 of 1731910 · PDF PAGE 503
…124, Victoria Street, S.W. Mr. Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street, W. The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Paternoster Square, E.C. Mr. F. Hollings, Great Turnstile, Holborn. And through all Booksellers. ACELDAMA. Crown 8vo, 29 pp., £2 2s.net. Of this rare pamphlet less than 10 copies remain. It is Mr. Crowley’s earliest and in some ways most striking mystical work. JEPHTHAH AND OTHER MYSTERIES, LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC. Demy 8vo, boards, pp. xxii-+223, 75. 6d. net. SONGS OF THE SPIRIT. Pp.x+109. A new edition. 3s. 6d. net. These two volumes breathe the pure s…
1910 · PDF PAGE 503
…124, Victoria Street, S.W. Mr. Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street, W. The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Paternoster Square, E.C. Mr. F. Hollings, Great Turnstile, Holborn. And through all Booksellers. ACELDAMA. Crown 8vo, 29 pp., £2 2s.net. Of this rare pamphlet less than 10 copies remain. It is Mr. Crowley’s earliest and in some ways most striking mystical work. JEPHTHAH AND OTHER MYSTERIES, LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC. Demy 8vo, boards, pp. xxii-+223, 75. 6d. net. SONGS OF THE SPIRIT. Pp.x+109. A new edition. 3s. 6d. net. These two volumes breathe the pure s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 70
…, and be hugged! She had regained at a single [100] stroke the infant's faith in human nature; she looked at the universe as simply as a great artist does. (For in him too lives and rejoices the Eternal Babe). But her greatest surprise was in her physical health and energy. She had passed through a fierce and furious day, a night of infernal torture; yet she was unaccountably buoyant, eager, assiduous in every act, from her smiled word of pleasure to the drinking of her coffee. Everything at that meal seemed matter of intoxication. She had not …
1929 · PDF PAGE 139
…l? ” “It is my will to eat and drink ” “To what end?” “That my body may be fortified thereby.” “To what end?” “That I may accomplish the Great Work.” “Love is the law, love under will.” “Fall to!” This may be adapted as a monologue. One may also add the inquiry “What is the Great Work?” and answer appropriately, when it seems useful to specify the nature of the Operation in progress at the time. The point is to seize every occasion of bringing every available force to bear upon the objective of the assault. It does not matter what the force is …
1898 · PDF PAGE 26
…is mercy was mighty on us ; His lips are as rosy as day Broken out of the sea at the sunrise, as fragrant as flowers in May. Our sin was great in His sight: _ We chased from our gates our brother, We shamed his father’s might, We spat on the grave of his mother, We laughed in his face and mocked, looking slyly one to another. But God beheld, and His hand Was heavy to bring us grief; He brought down fire on the land, And withered us root and leaf Until we were utterly broken, lost men, without a chief. But whom we scorned we have set A leader an…
1903 · PDF PAGE 34
The stellar drift, the solar storm, The protoplasmic shiver, each Little or great, determinate In law from Fate, the Ultimate. If this be meaningless, much more Vacant your speech and sophic skill (My feminine and fair Escobar!) To prove mere circumstance is no bar Against the freedom of the will. However this may be, we are Here and not otherwhere, star to star ! Hence then act thou! Restrain the ‘‘ Damn!” Evoked by “I am that I am.” Perpend! (Hark back to Hamlet!) If You stand thus poised upon the cliff Freewill—I await that will; (One) laugh…
1909 · PDF PAGE 30
… se . | a Pyrrho-Zoroastrianism (Accomplish- 1 [o]. . .|b Tareetost J] | O | .| pevotion 2 Ce]. - e+ Dp. Energy . 5 w 3 WwW, Devotion to Great Work . 6 . Le]. =, _€, Unselfishness . 7 J&, .q., Truthfulness . 8 we . é - x, Independence . 9 . 2. .é. &; Scepticism . 10 . am, Jt, JA, Noscere . ll . BB. oh, . BR . Falsehood, Dishonesty [Envy] . 12 -y- ar ee .v;, Contentment [Idleness} 13 . 8, >, . vA . Unchastity [Lust] 14 Qe. . oS. 15 Ff. 3 a 16| ¢. j Ss. 17 nh. -ce D. 18 0. Jb, _8. 19 t Se : I : 20 LK, oe. JK: Bigotry, Hypocrisy [Gluttony] . 21 JA…
1913 · PDF PAGE 193
…he wind sighing , Gaze I long with fervid power At leaf and branch and grass and flower , Breathe I breaths of trembling sight Shed from great urns of green delight , Take I draughts and drink them up Poured from many a stalk and cup . 174
1907 · PDF PAGE 20
… imperfect fashion, So that thy wisdom and they strength are sold In every mart of earth ; So that thine eyes enfold The universe in one great look of love Bring this, bring this to birth ! And neither hate below, nor hate above, Nor chance, nor force, nor cunning shall deprive Man of thy gift, a love alive With more than men to-day can understand. XV IVE me thine hand, Rose of the Stars, and we will soar above Wisdom and Strength and Love, Into the sphere where all delight retires In azure flames and silver-edgéd fires. Now through the veil we…
1911 · PDF PAGE 115
…! URCHIN. ΓΗ be a dragon, with wings. They shan’t burn me; I'll burn them. ISAAC. Of course, you will, you little fire-aatem What‘s your great name? URCHIN. Saladin. CURTAIN. [o7
1911 · PDF PAGE 115
…! URCHIN. ΓΗ be a dragon, with wings. They shan’t burn me; I'll burn them. ISAAC. Of course, you will, you little fire-aatem What‘s your great name? URCHIN. Saladin. CURTAIN. [o7
1944 · PDF PAGE 94
…ven if months were required to consummate the Work. (Months, at that period of civilization, were at the disposal of enquiring minds.) A great deal of what people now consider ignorance, being themselves ignorant of what the men of old time thought, comes from this misapprehension. At the bottom of this card, for example, are seen Fire and Water harmoniously mingled. But this is only a crude symbol of the spiritual idea, which is the satisfaction of the desire of the incomplete element of one kind to satisfy its formula by assimilation of its e…
1913 · PDF PAGE 596
…os, South Kensington, S.W. Mr. Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street, W. The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Paternoster Square, E.C. Mr. F. Hollings, Great Turnstile, Holborn. And through all Booksellers. ACELDAMA. Crown 8vo, 29 pp., 42 25. net. Of this rare pamphlet less than ten copies remain, It is Mr. Crowley’s earliest and in some ways most striking mystical work. JEPHTHAH AND OTHER MYSTERIES, LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC. Demy 8vo, boards, pp. xxii + 223, 75. 6d. net. SONGS OF THE SPIRIT. Pp.x+ 109. Anewedition. 3s. 6d. net These two volumes breathe the pure …
1913 · PDF PAGE 596
…os, South Kensington, S.W. Mr. Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street, W. The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Paternoster Square, E.C. Mr. F. Hollings, Great Turnstile, Holborn. And through all Booksellers. ACELDAMA. Crown 8vo, 29 pp., 42 25. net. Of this rare pamphlet less than ten copies remain, It is Mr. Crowley’s earliest and in some ways most striking mystical work. JEPHTHAH AND OTHER MYSTERIES, LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC. Demy 8vo, boards, pp. xxii + 223, 75. 6d. net. SONGS OF THE SPIRIT. Pp.x+ 109. Anewedition. 3s. 6d. net These two volumes breathe the pure …
1929 · PDF PAGE 316
316 It was from him that he received the instructions which were to help him to reach the great and terrible pinnacle of the mind whence the adept must plunge into the Abyss, to emerge naked, a babe --- the Babe of the Abyss. {515} "Explore the River 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 considera…
1899 · PDF PAGE 12
xii DEDICATION. That even my song may pierce the iron night, Invoking dawn in thy great name, O Master! Till to the stainless heaven of the soul Even my chariot-wheels on thunder roll. And so, most sacred soul, most reverend head, The silence of deep midnight shall be bound, And with the mighty concourse of the dead That live, that contemplate, my place be found, Even mine, through all the seasons that are shed Like leaves upon the darkness, where the sound Of all high song through calm eternity Shall beat and boom, thine own maternal sea. For …
1899 · PDF PAGE 69
…despair, but pitying His soul struck through with darts : A bitter Thing (She cried) thou sayest, yet perchance my power Is not as great as thine, for while I cower Under the lash of Zeus, stand thou upright, And laugh him to his beard for all his spite. I, even now beneath his doom ? Even thou ! For learn this law, writ large upon the brow Of white Olympus, writ by him who made Thee, yea and Zeus, of whom is Zeus afraid
1901 · PDF PAGE 107
…e torment of the light of day. Swings the swift sword in paths of vivid blue ; Rings the sharp summons in the halls of fear ; Flames the great lamen ; as a fiery dew Falls the keen chanted music ; fierce and true Beams the bright diamond of the crowning sphere. None may withstand the summons : like dead flame Flares darkness deeper, and demands its name. F
1912 · PDF PAGE 74
…d The secret passage ; have no fear. MONICA. Oh, love is blind. Did you do wisely ? ORLANDO. Stratagem secure. MONICA. Then how Goes the great chance ? ORLANDO. Too well for them, dear love, just now ! They have seized a few imprudent friends, they watch the rest. Our hope is, the good Abbess sends a courier pressed To Rome ; the Archbishop doubts his eyes and ears that saw And heard such sacrilege. He lies at odds with law, Hanging on the breath of Rome ; who knows what tale he has told ?
1899 · PDF PAGE 44
…is mercy was mighty on us ; His lips are as rosy as day Broken out of the sea at the sunrise, as fragrant as flowers in May. Our sin was great in His sight: _ We chased from our gates our brother, We shamed his father’s might, We spat on the grave of his mother, We laughed in his face and mocked, looking slyly one to another. But God beheld, and His hand Was heavy to bring us grief; He brought down fire on the land, And withered us root and leaf Until we were utterly broken, lost men, without a chief. But whom we scorned we have set A leader an…