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Page 57 of 901929 · PDF PAGE 137
…the same level as the Stockbroker’s. Even the smallest baby is incompatible with the virginity of its mother. If you leave even a single spirit within the circle, the effect of the conjuration will be entirely absorbed by it. 2 1. See, however, the Essay on Truth in “Konx oin Pax”. The Circle (in one aspect) asserts Duality, and emphasizes Division. 2. While one remains exposed to the action of ail sorts of forces, they more or less counterbalance each other, so that the general equilib- rium, produced by évolution, is on the whole maintained. …
1910 · PDF PAGE 35
XXX PREFACE. defining Christianity as the religious expression of the slave- spirit in man. I do not wish to argue that the doctrines of Jesus, they and they alone, have degraded the world to its present con- dition. I take it that Christianity is not only the cause but the symptom of slavery. There were slaves in Rome, of course, even under the republic. But it was only through Paul that the slime found tongue, and uttered its agony and blasphemy. Now, through the steady growth of alt- ruism pari-passu with the Gospel that advocates it, the wo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 377
…d operates it in the name of the reversibility of solidarity,? or, in other words, of universal communion, the dogmatic principle of the spirit of charity. To substitute human arbitrament for the legitimate des- potism of the law, to put, in other words, tyranny in the place of authority, is the work of all Protestantism and of all democracies. What men call liberty is the sanction of illegitimate authority, or, rather, the fiction of power not sanctioned by authority. 1 The author had perhaps no space to continue with a demonstration that the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 377
…d operates it in the name of the reversibility of solidarity,? or, in other words, of universal communion, the dogmatic principle of the spirit of charity. To substitute human arbitrament for the legitimate des- potism of the law, to put, in other words, tyranny in the place of authority, is the work of all Protestantism and of all democracies. What men call liberty is the sanction of illegitimate authority, or, rather, the fiction of power not sanctioned by authority. 1 The author had perhaps no space to continue with a demonstration that the …
1922 · PDF PAGE 7
…e infernal potion of that flower, My poisonous passion for your blood! Behold! How utterly I yield, how gladly dower Our sin with my own spirit’s quenched gold, Clothe love with my own soul’s immortal power, Give thee my body as a fire to hold— O love, no words, no songs—your breast my bower! NON SUM QUALIS ERAM BONAE SUB REGNO CYNARAE (By Ernest Dowson. From Poems. 1905) LAs? night, ah yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine; And I was desolate and s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 9
…emight hear no more of that noise which was now leaving the English coast . Thereupon ( as the bravest will , when a long tension of the spirit is happily relaxed ) Sir Robert Howard let the strain down with a Alippant remark , that ' He could scarce have wished the
1904 · PDF PAGE 76
…and doth dispose of all things, heaven, firmament, earth, oD faorejita oresa. and the dwelling of darkness. YE GENERALL CURSE. YCLEPT YE SPIRITS’ CHAYNE, AGAYNSTE ALL SPIRITS YT REBELLE. §lasa babalonu gabe MQ. das ge-Dorebesa, bajilenu oborela, od vinu O thou wicked spirit N. that obeyeth not, because I made a law and invoked omaosa busada oD adapebabeta Aada CGooanu go-a-al tofijilo, od ilas the names of the glorious and ineffable God of Truth, the creator of all, and thou ge-Dorebesa sapabe Das gobas: eca ol amema ilasa pi-adapabe obeyest no…
1907 · PDF PAGE 95
…ose My whole live body , as a rich red rose Folding its sweetness round the honey - bee ! I felt a perfect soul embracing me , And in my spirit like a river flows A passion like the passion of the sea .* So ends the first part of this mystical and symbolic poem . In the second part the Queen speaks , her love 1 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 99 . 3 Ibid . 4 Ibid . 2 Ibid . vol . i, p . 100 .
1913 · PDF PAGE 566
…own reflection. To conceive the absolute of goodness and justice is to be one’s self exceeding just and good. The moral qualities of the spirit are riches, and the greatest of all riches. One must acquire them by strife and toil. One may bring this objection, the inequality of aptitudes; some children are born with organisms nearer to perfection. But we ought to believe that such organisms result from a more advanced work of Nature, and the children who are endowed with them have acquired them, if not by their own efforts, at least by the conso…
1913 · PDF PAGE 566
…own reflection. To conceive the absolute of goodness and justice is to be one’s self exceeding just and good. The moral qualities of the spirit are riches, and the greatest of all riches. One must acquire them by strife and toil. One may bring this objection, the inequality of aptitudes; some children are born with organisms nearer to perfection. But we ought to believe that such organisms result from a more advanced work of Nature, and the children who are endowed with them have acquired them, if not by their own efforts, at least by the conso…
1929 · PDF PAGE 60
…g by virtue of their wild and stormy but elastically resistless energy. The Central letter is Hé — the letter of breath — and represents Spirit. The first letter Àleph is the natural letter of Air, and the Final Mem is the natural letter of Water. Together, Aleph and Mem make Am — the mother within whose womb the Cosmos is conceived. But Yod is not the natural letter of Fire. Its juxta¬ position with Hé sanctifies that fire to the Yod of Tetragrammaton. Similarly we find Lamed for Earth, where we should expect Tau — in order to emphasize the in…
1954 · PDF PAGE 30
…s unworkable, what then are the conditions of progress? "Number One is obviously Irregularity, Eccentricity, Disorder, the Revolutionary Spirit, Experiment." These are obviously characteristics of Crowley himself as a person, and so we should expect him to project these as being the prerequisites for progress. His description of the so-called "crazy" adventurer who embodies .these characteristics, or the holy man, should also be read in conjunction with that lengthy section of The Book
1913 · PDF PAGE 466
…in d’Auxerre gave her, and holding a taper, which the devil tries to extinguish, but which is pro- tected from the breath of the unclean spirit by a miraculous little tabernacle. After the lady devotees came the clergy; then finally appeared the venerable Archbishop of Paris, mitred with a white mitre, wearing a cope which was supported on each side by his two vicars; the prelate, leaning on his cross, walked slowly, and blessed to right and left the crowd which knelt about his path. Eliphas saw the Archbishop for the first time, and noticed th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 466
…in d’Auxerre gave her, and holding a taper, which the devil tries to extinguish, but which is pro- tected from the breath of the unclean spirit by a miraculous little tabernacle. After the lady devotees came the clergy; then finally appeared the venerable Archbishop of Paris, mitred with a white mitre, wearing a cope which was supported on each side by his two vicars; the prelate, leaning on his cross, walked slowly, and blessed to right and left the crowd which knelt about his path. Eliphas saw the Archbishop for the first time, and noticed th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 169
…l brotherhood of kings ." The absolute crown and king dom of desire , the one God sealed in the seas and be tokened in the winds . “ The Spirit of Mankind !” Before the darkness , earlier than being , When yet thought was not , shapeless and unseeing , Made misbegotten of deity on death , There brooded on the waters the strange breath Of an incarnate hatred . Darkness fell And chaos , from prodigious gulphs of hell . Life , that rejoiced to travail with a man , Looked where the cohorts of destruction ran , Saw darkness visible , and was afraid …
1909 · PDF PAGE 97
…. Adonai. It is near the night of the Full Moon ; in my life the Full Moon hath ever been of great augury. But to—night I am too poor in spirit to hope. Lol I was travelling on the paths of Lamed and of Mem, of Justice and the Hanged Man, and I fell into both the pitfalls thereof. Instead of the Great Balance firmly held, I found only Libra, the house of Venus and of the exaltation of Saturn ; and these evil planets, smiling and frowning, overcame me. And so for the sublime Path of Mem ; instead of that symbol of the Adept, his foot set firmly up…
1954 · PDF PAGE 556
INDEX Sulphur, 12 Sun, Spirit of the, 8 Sunday, Billy, 73 Supernal Triad , 110, 179, 211 , 244 , 278,281 , 297 Swami, 288 Swastika, 392 Swift, 137 Swinburne, Algernon, 34, 399 Sword, 170 Sword of Song, 58 Tahuti, 8, 23,135 , 466 Talisman(s), 17, 157, 257,314 , 388, 389 Tamas, 12 Tantras, 74, 232 Tao, 60, 142, 206 , 207, 221 , 227, 228,318 Taoism, 69 Taoist doctrine; sectaries , 40 ; aspect, 221,228 Tao Teh King, The , 69, 85, 187, 227, 228, 231, 233 , 236 , 237, 238 , 243 Taphthartharath, 24 Tarot , 156, 157, 170 Tarquin , 291 Tat, I SO, 227 Ta…
1909 · PDF PAGE 90
…se for taking so elementary a view of physics.) And while there is a particle of matter, it must fill the Universe—there is no place for Spirit. His thought is controlled and smooth; his thought (even!) is stopped: but there the thought is. Immutable it abides, stronger than ever in its silence and vastness; and—O unhappy one! that which can be thought is not true. Thou hast taken thee the lies, those little foxes that spoil the grapes. Lie after lie thou hast suppressed; and what hast thou achieved? Thou hast smitten all the illusions—O misera…
1909 · PDF PAGE 90
…se for taking so elementary a view of physics.) And while there is a particle of matter, it must fill the Universe—there is no place for Spirit. His thought is controlled and smooth; his thought (even!) is stopped: but there the thought is. Immutable it abides, stronger than ever in its silence and vastness; and—O unhappy one! that which can be thought is not true. Thou hast taken thee the lies, those little foxes that spoil the grapes. Lie after lie thou hast suppressed; and what hast thou achieved? Thou hast smitten all the illusions—O misera…
1911 · PDF PAGE 253
…th solemn joy and laughter οἱlove; the grace Of all my body swaying stoops and dashes Swift to the daisy’s dawn of love: and swiftest, 0 Spirit of man, when unto me thou liftest! Dawn shakes the molten fire of my delight From the fine flower and fragrance of my tresses! Sunset bids darken all my body’s light, Mixing its music with the sad caresses Of the whole world: I wheel in Wingless flight Through lampless space, the starless wildernesses! Beyond the universal bounds that roll, There is the shrine and image of my soul. I am Nature and God : I r…