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Page 59 of 841954 · PDF PAGE 269
…ced Lao-tze to Qabalistic form, it was easy to translate the result into the language of philosophy. I had already done much to create a new language based on English with the assistance of a few technical terms borrowed from Asia, and above all by the use of a novel conception of the idea of Number and of algebraic and arithmetical procedure to convey the results of spiritual experience to intelligent students. It is therefore not altogether without confidence that I
1922 · PDF PAGE 72
…r herself. She took it with a deep, grave interest. I was reminded of the manner of my old professor at U.C.H. when he came to inspect a new case; a case mysterious but evidently critical. The excitement of the cocaine had somehow solidified. Our minds had stopped still, and yet their arrest was as intense as their previous motion. We found ourselves looking into each other’s eyes with no less ardour than before; but somehow it was a different kind of ardour. It was as if we had been released from the necessity of existence in the ordinary sens…
1930 · PDF PAGE 131
…the l'ruth. Unto thee shall be granted joy and health and wealth and wisdom when thou art no longer thou. 14. Then shall every gain be a new sacrament, and it shall not défile thee; thou shalt revel with the wantons in the market place, and the virgins shall fling roses upon thee, and the merchants bend their knees and bring thee gold and spiees. Also young boys shall pour wonderful wines for thee, and the singers and the dancers shall sing and dance for thee. 15. Yet shalt thou not be therein, for thou shalt be forgotten, dust lost in dust. 16…
1954 · PDF PAGE 252
…means an enthusiastic putting-together of a series of doctrines, no one of which must in any way clash with Science or Magick. Call it a new religion, then, if it so please your Gracious Majesty; but I confess that I fail to see what you will have gained by so doing, and I feel bound to add that you might easily cause a great deal of misunderstanding, and work a rather stupid kind of mischief. The word does not occur in The Book of the Law. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1929 · PDF PAGE 538
… is evident that the Secret Chiefs have prevented me from putting in the clutch, as I may say, from releasing the enormous energy of the New Aeon, until on the one hand, I had become capable of directing that energy wisely, and on the other, until civilization had reached the crisis in which my interference would save the race from crashing into chaos. For three years I have laboured to construct an Abbey of Thelema in Sicily on the principles of the Law, so that I might have experience of the problems of government. Those years have taught me …
1905 · PDF PAGE 182
…e of the vague yet holy aspirations of adolescence. “ We shall be sorry if any one who cares much for verse in itself, who is curious of new tendencies in contemporary poetry, and values the articulate expression of an individuality, should miss a little book of unusual quality called ‘ Songs of the Spirit,’ by Aleister Crowley (Kegan Paul and Co., 8vo, pp. 109, 3s. 6d.). We have read it with admiration for its intense spirituality, as well as for its technical superiorities, and with sympathy for its spontaneous reflection of certain moods—byw…
1909 · PDF PAGE 380
…d before we arrive at the part of the Man-Cover’s adventures with which this last message is concerned, he informs me of such surprising news that I think it my duty to let the readers share it atonce. The news is startling. Having received my letter, he threatens to blow the island into the air, should any vessel approach within three miles, He informs me of his absolute decision never to leave the place, and never to allow any one to come within the distance mentioned. Provided he receives my pledge never to reveal the situation of his new la…
1909 · PDF PAGE 380
…d before we arrive at the part of the Man-Cover’s adventures with which this last message is concerned, he informs me of such surprising news that I think it my duty to let the readers share it atonce. The news is startling. Having received my letter, he threatens to blow the island into the air, should any vessel approach within three miles, He informs me of his absolute decision never to leave the place, and never to allow any one to come within the distance mentioned. Provided he receives my pledge never to reveal the situation of his new la…
1922 · PDF PAGE 160
…ked about it a bit. She hasn’t got the energy, she said, and the idea of men disgusts her. She wears the most wonderful boots. She has a new pair almost every day, and hardly ever puts the same pair on twice. I think she’s a little bit crazy. ... London. seems different somehow. I used to be interested in every funny little detail. I want to get. back to myself. Drugs help me to get almost there; but there is always one little corner to turn and they never take one round.
1922 · PDF PAGE 281
…joyed it; but the act was mechanical, and the effect in some obscure fashion unsatisfactory. We drove back to town, and had dinner in my new apartment, where they had an excellent restaurant service. , I found that during the day I had had fifteen sniffs of heroin. Lou had only had eleven. The reaction in my mind was this: If she can get on with eleven, why shouldn’t I? though I hadn’t sufficient logic to carry on the argument to the people, millions of them, who hadn’t had any at all, and seemed to be thriving ! We were both pretty tired. Just…
1954 · PDF PAGE 120
…sters and his brethren, to save the Theory and Practice, is armed with a sword far mightier than Excalibur. He has been entrusted with a new Magical formula, one which can be accepted by the whole human race. Its adoption will strengthen the Yellow School by giving a more positive value to their Theory; while leaving the postulates of the Black
1996 · PDF PAGE 127
…ey obtain full sexual satisfaction. Also, women outnumber men; and one man cannot satisfy a woman unless he be skilful and diligent. The New /Eon will have a foundation of Happy Women. A Woman under tabu is loath some to Life, detested by her fellows, and wretched in herself. [Qu’ran 2:223.] The student should study, in Liber Aleph and Liber 418, the connection between “modesty” and the attitude of the “Black Brothers.” 1
1922 · PDF PAGE 203
… play with it again. “And some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship, they all came safe to land.” One’s familiarity with the New Testament makes a quotation somehow significant, however little one may believe in the truth of the book. I felt that his voice was the voice of a prophet. I felt myself already saved. “You take some of this,”’ he went on, bringing a white tablet from a little cedar cabinet, and a big glass of cold water. ‘“‘ Throw your head back, and get it well down, and drink all this right off. Here is another to take …
1930 · PDF PAGE 11
…r devices to aid invocation, so many that it is impossible to enumerate them; and the Magician will be wise to busy himself in inventing new ones. We will give one example. Suppose the Suprême Invocation to consist of 20 or 30 barbarous liâmes, let hirn imagine these liâmes to occupy sections of a vertical column, each double the length of the preceding one 5 and let him imagine that his consciousness ascends the column with each name, The mere multiplication will then produce a feeling of awe and bewilderment which is the proper forerunner of …
1954 · PDF PAGE 361
…sion at a small rent. We went in on the following day, and settled down almost at once to consecrate the Temple and begin the book. 4 I knew in myself from the first that the revelation in 4. From The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (New York: Hill and Wang, 1970) p. 598 et seq.
1996 · PDF PAGE 46
…t rested on the ignorant belief that the Sun died every day, and every year, and that its resurrection was a miracle. The Formula of the New £on recognizes Horus, the Child crowned and conquering, as God. We are all members of the Body of God, the Sun; and about our System is the Ocean of Space. This formula is then to be based upon these facts. Our “Evil,” “Error,” “Darkness,” “Illusion,” whatever one chooses to call it, is simply a phenomenon of accidental and temporary sepa rateness. If you are “walking in darkness,” do not try to make the …
1954 · PDF PAGE 268
…ammapati , in which are destroyed all forms soever of consciousness, there appears in that abyss of annihilation the germ of an entirely new type of idea, whose principal characteristic is this: that the entire concatenation of One's previous experiences and conceptions could not have happened at all, save by virtue of this indescribable necessity. I am only too painfully aware that the above exposition is faulty in every respect. In particular , it presupposes in the reader considerable familiarity with the subject, thus practically begging th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 356
… God, exchanging electricity with her. After some weeks' preliminary skirmishing, we joined 3. From The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (New York: Hill and Wang, 1970) p. 676 et seq.
1905 · PDF PAGE 68
…d with his infesting life. BRANDON [ze2¢h setdden calnness|. This to his father! say, you wretch? PERCY [to VAUGHAN]. I will go, my true new father. Kiss Esmé for me a hundred times ! BRANDON [breaking from the Footmen]. Damn you; that’s your game, is it? No, you go with me, Sir Poet. [Rushing at his son, strikes. PERCY, warding off the unexpected blow, staggers. BRANDON, maddened by the idea of fighting, snatches up a knife and drives it into hts heart. He falls with a lowcry. NAUGHAN dashes forward and strikes BRAN- DON heavily. Sle falls; fo…
1905 · PDF PAGE 261
…ise, And lo! the Pyramid! The Sages say : Unite that to the-Sphinx, and all is done, Completion of the Magnum Opus. TANNHAUSER. No! Each new dimension lands me farther yet In the morass of limit. THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. Be it so! But follow me through all the labyrinth, And ten rewards us. And your Zero’s found To have an actual value and effect On unity—your Will. ' & TANNHAUSER, What’s then to seek? THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. The fourth dimension, for the early step. LANDGRAVE. It seems this talk is merely mystical. This is no College of the Holy Gh…