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Page 57 of 1141910 · PDF PAGE 157
… like to hint that in the restoration of a duodecimal notation and cos- mography lies the best hope of a perfect recovery of the perfect Way. A. L. One is sorry to have to object that the Arabic Hua is spelt [Persian text] not [Persian text] and equals 11, not 12. The number 11 however does represent the squaring of the circle, the Great Work, since there are 11 letters in Abrahadabra, whose symbolism is so enigmatical : [Persian text] is further the equation of [Persian text] 5 the Pen- tagram and [Persian text] 6 the Hexagram, Micro and Macro…
1922 · PDF PAGE 245
Cold Turkey 231 unique. But, of course, he is not really unique in the way that I am.... We have lighted a huge fire in the billiard-room. We sleep there so far as we sleep at all. We got the waiter to bring down blankets and quilts from the bedroom, and he leaves the food on the table. But fires are no good. The cold comes from inside us. We sit in front of the blaze, roasting our hands and faces; but it makes no difference. We shiver. We try to sing like soldiers round a camp fire, but the only words that come are the appropriate ones. That p…
1922 · PDF PAGE 51
…ER III PHAETON Lou clung to me as I gripped the wheel. There was no need for us to speak. The trembling torrent of our passion swept us away. I had forgotten all about Lamus and his car. We were driving like the devil to Nowhere. A mad thought crossed my mind. It was thrown up by my “ Unconscious,” by the essential self of my being. Then some familiar object in the streets reminded me that I was not driving back to the studio. Some force in myself, of which I was not aware, had turned my face towards Kent. I was interpreting myself to myself. I…
1906 · PDF PAGE 153
… Well! I guess Brer Buddha’s right ! I am no brutal Cain * to smash an Abel ; I hear that blasphemy’s unfashionable : So in the quietest way well chat about it ; No need to show teeth, claws of cat about it ! With gentle words—fiat exordium ; Exeat dolor, intret gaudium ! * It had a design of 666 and Crowley's name in Hebrew (which, like most names, adds up to that figure) on the reverse. Necessity of poem. Mysticism wv. literal interpre- tation. Former excused. Buddha re- bukes poet. Detailed scheme of modified poem.
1907 · PDF PAGE 101
94 THE STAR IN THE WEST with Lust . As every one of us has been bred on dead flesh , so every one of us passes along our way spiritu ally encumbered with the dead bones of our ancestors ' opinions ; and living with them we die , only to add more mental tibias and spiritual metatarsals to the groaning back of the future . In the Kingdom of Love these extremes gave birth to two forces , “ Neronic Lust ” and “ Platonic Affec tion .” From a heterogeneous mass of ics , ists , and ians , sprang the idea that there was an inherent evil in the culminat…
1919 · PDF PAGE 131
…rtue, as also doth personality itself. For the third time, then, in even subtler sense, “The word of Sin is Restriction.” Lastly, in the Way of Light this same versicle is the key to the conception of Evil. But here Restriction is in the failure to solve the Great Equation, and, later, to prefer one expression or phase of the Universe to the other. Against this we are warned in the Book of the Law by the Word of Nuit, saying: “None .. . and two. For I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union,” and therefore, “If this be not aright: i…
1919 · PDF PAGE 397
…inning the Magician has had to work entirely regardless of any fruits, and his principal method has been to reject any that may come his way. Again all this about the ‘sake of others’ and ‘suffering fellow-men,’ is the kind of sentimental balderdash that assures one that this book was intended to reach the English and not the Tibetan public. The sense of separateness from others has been weeded out from the consciousness long, long ago. The Buddha who accomplishes the greater Renunciation is a Saviour of the World—it is the dogginess of a dog t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 161
…lieve, whate’er we do Is best for me and best for you And best for all: I line no brow With wrinkles, meditating how.) Well, but another way remains. Caird's inter- Shall we expound the cosmic plan Heese his By symbolising God and man identification And nature thus? As man contains of it with ohris- Cells, nerves , grey matter in his brains, to be mystical. Each cell a life, self-centred, free His interpreta- Yet self-subordinate to the whole tion false. For its own sake—expand !—so we Molecules of a central soul, Time’s sons, judged by Eternit…
1907 · PDF PAGE 106
…ritual victory ; whilst in “ The Nameless Quest " the knight , fearful of falling in the sensual slough , seeks , and loses his straight way in the spiritual desert . Thus , as in the latter case , the striving against the desire of a pure love leads to an almost certain failure , so in the former , when sunk deep in the mud of an impure affection , even if released from its circling arms , worldly mercy is as cold to him who 1 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 192 2 Ibid .
1912 · PDF PAGE 94
…. I know there‘s shops about here. So, turning,in his excitement and determination, he saw —when you invoke the devil he is usually half—way to you—a shop window full of photographs of the pictures and sculptures of the Louvre He looked up and down the street—the sight of a top hat might have saved him even at the eleventh houri But no! nothing that looked in the least like an Englishman, even to his overheated fear of discovery. He peered and dodged about for a little like a man stalking dangerous game, 52
1912 · PDF PAGE 94
…. I know there‘s shops about here. So, turning,in his excitement and determination, he saw —when you invoke the devil he is usually half—way to you—a shop window full of photographs of the pictures and sculptures of the Louvre He looked up and down the street—the sight of a top hat might have saved him even at the eleventh houri But no! nothing that looked in the least like an Englishman, even to his overheated fear of discovery. He peered and dodged about for a little like a man stalking dangerous game, 52
1919 · PDF PAGE 375
…nce that that result will follow. Cf. Liber CCXX.I. “For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, de- livered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.” 35. Have perseverance as one who doth for evermore en- dure. Thy shadows live and vanish; that which in thee shall live for ever, that which in thee knows, for it is knowledge, is not of fleeting life: it is the Man that was, that is, and will be, for whom the hour shall never strike. Compare Levi’s aphorism, “The Magician should work as though he had omnipotence at his command and eternity at hi…
1919 · PDF PAGE 431
…the crucified one, the extended one, the Secret Saviour, consents to redeem them, and can do so without losing his power, without in any way yielding to them, their next step is accomplished, and they are re-born as men. This brings us back to our subject, for the lower man, of whom we are still speaking, possesses, above Yesod, five forms of intellect and Daath their Crown. We then come to another marriage on a higher plane, the redemption of Malkuth by Tiphareth; the attaining of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. The …
1954 · PDF PAGE 284
…re is quite a little that I should not care to boast that I had altogether clear in my own mind. Leaving out nearly everything, the only way to simplify it is to call Hadit the "Point-of-View," and "Anywhere" to be the radix of all possible "Point-Events," or "experiences," or "phenomena"; Nuit is the complement, the total possibilities of any such radix. You can only get this properly into that part of your mind which is "above the Abyss," i.e., Neschamah; even so, Neschamah must be very thoroughly fertilized by Chiah, and illuminated by Jechi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 101
…idence every where, even in our garbled and mutilated version of the Hebrew Scriptures, that Jehovah’s power was limited in all sorts of way s. At the Fall, for instance, Tetragrammaton Elohim has to summon his angels hastily to guard the Tree of Life, lest he should be proved a liar. For had it occurred to Adam to eat of that Tree before their transgression was discovered, or had the Serpent been aware of its properties, Adam would indeed have lived and not died. S o that a m ere accident saved the rem nants of the already be- smirched reputat…
1929 · PDF PAGE 7
…e a vivid passion for ceremonial speech. These two qualities have played highly important parts in his development. This baptism, by the way, though it never worried him, provided a peril to the soul of another. When his wife's conduct compelled him to insist upon her divorcing him --- a formality as meaningless as their marriage --- and she became insane shortly afterward, an eminent masochist named Colonel Gormley, R.A.M.C. (dead previously, then and since) lay in wait for her at the asylum gates to marry her. The trouble was that he included…
1907 · PDF PAGE 192
…. The dead are our gods , soon we shall strike our tent for the last time and join the great caravanserai of the departed : Wend now thy way with brow serene , fear not thy humble tale to tell : The whispers of the Desert - wind ; the tinkling of the camel's bell . This beauty of Death as the releaser from the temptations of life , is finely drawn by the subtle pen of Aleister Crowley . Death is no longer the grub slimed skull , about whose sticky lips buzz the blue blow - flies of decay ; but rather a divine goddess , whose arms are ever about…
1909 · PDF PAGE 91
…at all that negative Atmadarshana is destroyed ; it is only an illusion that goes. Yet there is indeed Nothing in its place—and the only way to express the matter is to spell that Nothing with a capital N. If the rationalist reader has had the quite super-Stylite patience to read to this point, he will surely now at last throw down the book with an ethically justifiable curse. Yet I beg him to believe that there is a shade of difference between me and a paradox-monger. I am not playing with words—Lord knows how I wish I could! I find that they …
1909 · PDF PAGE 91
…at all that negative Atmadarshana is destroyed ; it is only an illusion that goes. Yet there is indeed Nothing in its place—and the only way to express the matter is to spell that Nothing with a capital N. If the rationalist reader has had the quite super-Stylite patience to read to this point, he will surely now at last throw down the book with an ethically justifiable curse. Yet I beg him to believe that there is a shade of difference between me and a paradox-monger. I am not playing with words—Lord knows how I wish I could! I find that they …
1911 · PDF PAGE 26
…his lion’s tail. And then there is the tuft of his tail, which is like a comet, but the head is a new universe, and each hair streaming away from it is a Milky Way. And then there is a pale stern figure, enormous, enormous, bigger than all that universe is, in silver armour, with a sword and a pair of balances. That is only vague. All has gone into stone-gray, blank. There is nothing. AIN EL HajeEL. November 25, 1909. 8.40-9.40 p.m. 24