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Page 60 of 801930 · PDF PAGE 6
…m of his Angel deprecates the interférence of ignorant kindlmess with diseases which may hâve been sent to the sufferer for a purpose profoundly important to his welfare. In the case af The Master Therion, he h ad originally the capacity for ail classes of Orgia. In the beginnmg, He cured the sick, bewitched the obstinate, allured the seductive, routed the aggressive, made himself invisible, and generaliy behaved like a Young-Man-About-Town on every possible plane. He would afflict one vampire with a Sending of Cats, and appoint another his pri…
1944 · PDF PAGE 147
…exercises for its own sake, “without lust of result”; perhaps his haughty contempt for the world at large‐which however coexists with profound and ecstatic respect for “every man and every woman” as “a star”—is responsible for this. When this card is badly dignified, the character degenerates. Each of the qualities men‐ tioned above is found in its antithesis. There is great cruelty in him, partly sadistic and partly due to callousness arising from indifference‐and, in a sense, laziness! So too he may be intol‐ erant, prejudiced and idle‐princi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 70
… brandy. When breakfast ended, she could not have walked across the room. It was dancing or nothing, so she said to herself. Somehow she found herself once more in the Chapel of Abominations. On the altar was laid a sprig of gorse, and the sunlight, streaming through the apex of the vault, made its thorny bloom of the very fire and colour of day. Simon Iff stood behind the altar; Cyril Grey was on her right hand, Sister Cybele on her left. They joined their hands about her. "I will now complete the formality of your reception," said the old man…
1939 · PDF PAGE 8
…r all the species of humanity than is generally supposed. What appear to be radical differences, irreconcilable by argument, are usually found to be due to the obstinacy of habit produced by generations of systematic sectarian training. (3) We must then begin the study of Yoga by looking at the meaning of the word. It means Union, from the same Sanskrit root as the Greek word Zeugma, the Latin word Jugum, and the English word yoke. (Yeug to join.) When a dancing girl is dedicated to the service of a temple there is a Yoga of her relations to c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 115
… 'From whom is the trouble?' 'Where is the trouble?' 'What shall I do?' And the same card answers all the questions!" The next day Gates found that the tongues of the birds were shrivelled up, and he divined that his mode of attack had been detected, and precaution
1906 · PDF PAGE 214
…e schoolmaster work of correcting the inky and ill-spelt exercises of the theologi- cal dunces in that great class-room, the world ; and found a little peace—while they play—in the intimate solitude of the laboratory and the passionless rapture of research—research into those very mysteries which our dunces have solved by rule of thumb; determining the nature of a bee by stamping .on it, and shout- ing ‘‘ bee’; while we patiently set to work with microscopes, and say nothing till we know, nor more than need be when we do. But Iam myself found g…
1905 · PDF PAGE 251
…. I have not gained one jot since first I saw The stately bosom of the Venusbherg, Save that mine eyes have seen a little truth, My body found a little weariness. © I am very feeble! Hither comes the hunt! [4 horn winds quite close by. The noble, doomed, swift beauty! Closer yet Pant the long hounds! What heart he has! One, two ! See the brach1 dying by his bloody flank ! So could not Tannhauser awhile ago. My help lay outside and above myself. What skills him he is brave? He ends the same. Poor stag! hunters up. My very kinsmen! too ! Here swe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 131
…nother. The nineteenth century saw the overthrow of most of the old ecclesiastical tyranny, and in the beginning of the twentieth it was found once more possible to make public the knowledge. The wise men gathered together, discovered a student who was trustworthy and possessed of the requisite literary ability; and by him the old knowledge was revised and made secure; it was finally published in a sort of periodical encyclopedia (already almost impossible to find, such was the demand for it) entitled The Equinox. Now in the science of antiquit…
1905 · PDF PAGE 123
… Breezes cool faces, rosy with the brand Of long sweet kisses; sun shall dawn and find Two lovers who have passed the land Of sleep—-and found Death kind. MAN’S HOPE. Ere fades the last red glimmer of the sun ; Ere day is night, when on the glittering bar The waves are foaming rubies, and afar Streaks of red water, gold on the horizon, On summer ripples rhythmically run ; Ere dusk is weaned, there sails on silver car From the expectant East, the evening Star ; And all the threads of sorrow are unspun.
1996 · PDF PAGE 158
Chapter III & Verse 19 159 I found XAIPE A/.A.-., 718, “Hail to the A.-.A.-..” I grace fully acknowledged the greeting to Our Holy Order, but went on with my search. There is no such word as AXPIETA,1 “unchristlike things”; only blind bigotry could be satisfied with so crude an invention. 1 [The ST has the numeration 6.] Then came XAPATH, 713, an “engraved character.” That was a true name for the Stèle; if I suffixed AA, 5, it might read “The Mark of Hadit.” But I did not feel inwardly that thrill of ecstasy that springs in the heart or that d…
1929 · PDF PAGE 40
… worse than the Greek, since ail required sounds can be more or less satisfactorily represented by either; yet both these alphabets were found so liitle satisfactory when it came to an attempt at phonetic printing of Oriental languages, that the alphabet had to be expanded by the use of italics and other diacritical marks. In the same way our magical alphabet of the Sephiroth and the Paths (thirtv-two letters as it were) has been expanded into the four worlds corresponding to the four letters of the name nîPP > and each Sephira is supposed to c…
1939 · PDF PAGE 7
…resh. There is naught, nor shall be, that my love cannot gnaw with insatiate tooth: I will wring forth the Truth from the lies as I once found the lies in the Truth. Astarte, I know thee for rotten as others have seen thee for pure; I tear off the mask that smiled false on the slaves who would have them endure. But Thou and Thy masks are but one, Thy corruption the Essence of Thee, It is all of the nature of things, their virtue whereby they may be. So therefore I hail Thee divine, All-one with the substance of Truth; Mine age holds thee naked,…
1907 · PDF PAGE 29
… House, and the first was Via? _ such a funny way. We walked through a pool, each on the arm of a “ cranium great big Beetle, and then we found ourselves on a narrow winding path. There were nasty Jackals about, they made such a noise, and at the end I could see two towers. Then there was the queerest moon you ever saw, only a quarter full. The shadows fell so strangely, one could see the most mysterious shapes, like great bats with women’s faces, and blood dripping from their mouths, and creatures partly wolves and partly men, everything changi…
1996 · PDF PAGE 9
…Wilkinson, but he quickly produced a first draft in 1946 e.v. It is reasonable to assume that Crowley reviewed the result, as a copy was found among his papers. Wilkinson made heavy cuts, but his selection brought the work into better balance and focus.1 1 Based on the pagination of the present edition, Chapter I was cut from 114 to 64 pages, Chapter II from 79 to 67 pages, and Chapter III from 49 to 35 pages. 2 It was however uncirculated. See John Cowper Powys, Letters to Louis Wilkinson (London: Village Press, 1974), p. 192n. 3 An exemplary …
1930 · PDF PAGE 122
… battle under Hamilcar. How do such memories help him ? Until he hâve thoroughly mastered the reason for every incident in his past, and found a purpose for every item of his présent equipment, he cannot truly answer even those Three Questions that were first put to him, even the Three Questions of the Ritual of the Pyramid ; he is not ready to swear the Oath of the Abyss. 38. But being thus enlightened, let him swear the Oath of the Abyss; yea, let him swear the Oath of the Abyss. I. A brother known to me was repeatedly baffled in this méditat…
1906 · PDF PAGE 202
…ummating their marriage!* This arrangement does not seem to have been greatly appreciated by the wife; at least one fine morning she was found to be enceinte. The foolish father never thought of the hypothesis which commends itself most readily to a man of the world, not to say a man of science, and adopted that of a second Messiah! He took the utmost pains to con- ceal the birth of the child, treated everybody who came to the house as an emissary of Herod, and finally made up his mind to flee into Egypt! Like most religious maniacs, he never h…
1909 · PDF PAGE 364
…ember. Passing a crowded street, I was surrounded by urchins who greeted me by the * After a long and painful inquiry the present writer found out the society referred to by his correspondent. It is the Society for the Prevention of Tail- biting of Puppies, and stands in great need of generous contributions. 356
1909 · PDF PAGE 364
…ember. Passing a crowded street, I was surrounded by urchins who greeted me by the * After a long and painful inquiry the present writer found out the society referred to by his correspondent. It is the Society for the Prevention of Tail- biting of Puppies, and stands in great need of generous contributions. 356
1929 · PDF PAGE 237
…to the British authorities; and it was Lord Antony Bowling who presented him to the President and Commander- in-Chief. At the banquet he found himself an Officer of the Legion of Honour; but his brilliancy and buoyancy were gone. He dined in dull decorum. His thoughts still turned to the shameful corpse in the ditch by the wayside. He excused himself early, and left the Elysee. At the gate stood an automobile. In it sat Lisa la Giuffria. She jumped out and caught him by the shoulders. She poured out the tale of her madness, and its result, and …
1905 · PDF PAGE 38
…istic description of Macroprosopus. Dew,” ‘* Deep Height,” etc., are his titles. 2 Microprosopus. ’ Malkuth, the Bride. Light may yet be found. 4 The Hebrew characters composing the name Achd, Unity, add up to 13. ® Binah, the Great Deep: Mother who shall. be daughter by Bn, the Son. 6 Bn adds to 52. In its darkness the the offended reconciled to her