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Page 58 of 1071913 · PDF PAGE 544
…erly to take great care of him, perhaps he is consumptive. Has your wife been ill for along time? Cheer up, she will die of it! Hope and work is the message of Heaven to us by the voice of all good souls. Despair and die, Hell cries to us in every word and movement, even in all the friendly acts and caresses of imperfect or degraded beings. Whatever the reputation of any one may be, and what- ever may be the testimonies of friendship that that person may give you, if, on leaving him, you feel yourself less well disposed and weaker, he is pernic…
1913 · PDF PAGE 571
…man possesses; and the changing of the companions of Ulysses into hogs is not a story peculiar to that time. But no metamorphosis may be worked without destruction. To change a hawk into a dove, one must first kill it, then cut it to pieces, so as to destroy even the least trace of its first form, and then boil it in the magic bath of Medea. Observe how modern hierophants proceed in order to accomplish human regeneration; how, for example, in the Catholic religion, they go to work in order to change a man more or less weak and passionate into a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 544
…erly to take great care of him, perhaps he is consumptive. Has your wife been ill for along time? Cheer up, she will die of it! Hope and work is the message of Heaven to us by the voice of all good souls. Despair and die, Hell cries to us in every word and movement, even in all the friendly acts and caresses of imperfect or degraded beings. Whatever the reputation of any one may be, and what- ever may be the testimonies of friendship that that person may give you, if, on leaving him, you feel yourself less well disposed and weaker, he is pernic…
1913 · PDF PAGE 571
…man possesses; and the changing of the companions of Ulysses into hogs is not a story peculiar to that time. But no metamorphosis may be worked without destruction. To change a hawk into a dove, one must first kill it, then cut it to pieces, so as to destroy even the least trace of its first form, and then boil it in the magic bath of Medea. Observe how modern hierophants proceed in order to accomplish human regeneration; how, for example, in the Catholic religion, they go to work in order to change a man more or less weak and passionate into a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 10
…that by declaring the Warrant to be a forgery, I fad destroyed my own authority Secondly, because they couldn't make my methods of magic work y- Thirdly, because they were tired of my incessant demands, Fourthly, becauseI refused to expel Dr. Berridge from the Order. Scounio, KC, WI Dr, Berridge? Martens. That girls who came to him for examination in the Knowledge Lectures were subjected to insult Sconvi0, KC. te this charge? Maries. Sconrio, KC. W any other charge? complaints were made aga 0, K.C. What was it? Maritexs, ‘That he was disseminat…
1919 · PDF PAGE 343
… result of failing to reject rewards is the return to earth. The temptation is to regard oneself as having at- tained, and so do no more work. 34. Behold the Hosts of Souls. Watch how they hover o’er the stormy sea of human life, and how, exhausted, bleeding, broken-winged, they drop one after another on the swelling waves. Tossed by the fierce winds, chased by the gale, they drift into the eddies and disappear within the first great vortex. In this metaphor is contained a warning against identify- 2
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
…o round the corner to find an honest tradesman. I did this sort of thing on purpose to affirm magically that nothing mattered except the work of the moment. It was "Take not thought for the morrow" carried out in its most literal sense. I made a point of putting God on His honour, so to speak, to supply anything I might need by demonstrating to {147} him that I would not keep back the least imaginable fraction of my resources. I acquired this custom later on, when I had definitely discovered the direction of my destiny; but the moral basis of m…
1904 · PDF PAGE 20
… PRELIMINARY DEFINITION OF MAGIC,’ Macic is the Highest, most Absolute, and most Divine Knowledge of Natural Philosophy, advanced in its works and wonderful operations by a right understanding of the inward and occult virtue of things ; so that true Agents’ being applied to proper Patients,’ strange and admirable effects will thereby be produced. Whence magicians are profound and diligent searchers into Nature: they, because of their skill, know how to anticipate an effort,‘ the which to the vulgar shall seem to be a miracle. Origen saith that …
1906 · PDF PAGE 171
…t Ve wa B ayfas AMA Bobbie| Zi ATS WTATH | AARTT ATA fant 4 ata a fear 2 zat ara Bra Vo 1 ea eas 65 faal a ae emu ztasaid 1: ‘Pm game to work through all eternity, Your holiness the Guru Swami!”* ‘Thus I studied with him till he told me 7a y He taught the A B C of Yoga: a0 lasked fae areata" aut ata” In strange and painful attitude," I sat, while he was very rude." With eyes well fixed on my proboscis, J soon absorbed the Yogi Gnosis. 65 He taught me to steer clear of vices, The giddy waltz, the tuneful aria, Those fatal foes of Brahma-charya ;…
1907 · PDF PAGE 36
THE LOOKING -GLASS 29 The work is finished , and the Night rolled back ! I am the rising Sun of Life and Light , The Glory of the Shining of the Dawn ! I am Osiris ! I the Lord of Life Triumphant over death O Sorrow , Sorrow , Sorrow of the World ! 1 That such similarities as we have pointed out above show Aleister Crowley to be a copyist , must be far from the minds of all his readers . Youth most certainly tends towards certain ideals , and frequently results in a definite hero - worship ; but genius cannot be bound for long ; it will eventua…
1909 · PDF PAGE 47
…he mystic regenerative process Isis Apophis Osiris I A O; or the Black Dragon in the alchemical translation from the First Matter of the Work into the Elixir. 37
1909 · PDF PAGE 47
…he mystic regenerative process Isis Apophis Osiris I A O; or the Black Dragon in the alchemical translation from the First Matter of the Work into the Elixir. 37
1911 · PDF PAGE 31
… to be the blacksmiths of heaven beating the steel of the worlds upon the anvils of hell, to make a roof to the Aethyr. For if the great work were accomplished and all the Aethyrs were caught up into one, then would the vision fail; then would the voice be still. Now all is gone from the stone. AIN EL HajeEL. November 26, 1909. 2-3.25 p.m. THE CRY OF THE 23RD AETHYR, WHICH Is CALLED TOR In the brightness of the stone are three lights, brighter than all, which revolve ceaselessly. And now there isa spider's web of silver covering the whole of th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 257
DEAD WEIGHT eradicable; and he used to wince when his familiars called him “ Art,” as it revived the story of Crowley’s epigram on his work, as Art for Art's Sake. Again, he objected to references to the “wait-a-bit” thorn in connection with occult style and subject, so that he took what was really quite an unreasonable dislike to Fra. S. P. merely because that worthiest of men had spent some years in Africa. However, these were small blemishes on a_ beautiful character. Having given up trying to look wise, he began to be wise ; and he never fo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 457
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES put together ; it only lacks one thing—it will not work : there is a hidden defect in the machinery. What was that defect? The evil spirit alone could tell him. It is then absolutely necessary to evoke him! .. . “Take care you do not!” said Eliphas. ‘You had much better say for nine days this qabalistic evocation.” He gave him a leaf covered with manuscript. ‘‘ Begin this evening, and return to-morrow to tell me what you have seen, for to night you will have a manifestation.” The next day, our good man did not miss the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 460
…ittle black book, now-a-days almost impossible to find. “T would gladly give a hundred francs for a copy of that grimoire,”said he. “The work in itself is valueless,” said Eliphas. “It isa pretended constitution of Honorius II, which you will find perhaps quoted by some erudite collector of apocryphal con- stitutions; you can find it in the library.” “T will do so, for I pass almost all my time in Paris in the public libraries.” 162
1913 · PDF PAGE 512
THE EQUINOX and what we have understood through deciphering the qabalistic characters, and the allegories of which he makes use in his work: The human soul is material; the divine sevs is offered to it to immortalize it and to make it live spiritually and indi- vidually, but its natural substance is fluidic and collective. There are, then, in man, two lives: the individual or reasonable life, and the common or instinctive life. It is by this latter that one can live in the bodies of others, since the universal soul, of which each nervous organi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 257
DEAD WEIGHT eradicable; and he used to wince when his familiars called him “ Art,” as it revived the story of Crowley’s epigram on his work, as Art for Art's Sake. Again, he objected to references to the “wait-a-bit” thorn in connection with occult style and subject, so that he took what was really quite an unreasonable dislike to Fra. S. P. merely because that worthiest of men had spent some years in Africa. However, these were small blemishes on a_ beautiful character. Having given up trying to look wise, he began to be wise ; and he never fo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 457
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES put together ; it only lacks one thing—it will not work : there is a hidden defect in the machinery. What was that defect? The evil spirit alone could tell him. It is then absolutely necessary to evoke him! .. . “Take care you do not!” said Eliphas. ‘You had much better say for nine days this qabalistic evocation.” He gave him a leaf covered with manuscript. ‘‘ Begin this evening, and return to-morrow to tell me what you have seen, for to night you will have a manifestation.” The next day, our good man did not miss the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 460
…ittle black book, now-a-days almost impossible to find. “T would gladly give a hundred francs for a copy of that grimoire,”said he. “The work in itself is valueless,” said Eliphas. “It isa pretended constitution of Honorius II, which you will find perhaps quoted by some erudite collector of apocryphal con- stitutions; you can find it in the library.” “T will do so, for I pass almost all my time in Paris in the public libraries.” 162