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Page 63 of 811954 · PDF PAGE 16
…al mistress of the T.S. . .. This is the secret object of the attempt to hold the election of S. G.M. G. without due notice, to drag our holy Rite into the mire, to chain it to the chariot wheels of a Krishnamurti, to make us pandars to the antique and impotent uncleanness of a senile sodomite. Apart from the contempt exuded in this speech, there is an amusing and hypocritical element to be detected here that should not be lost in the shuffle. By his own admission Crowley was, if not an overt homosexual deviant, then a person who had a powerful…
1911 · PDF PAGE 66
…awn itself; and the old King lies prostrate, abject. And the virgin that rode upon the bull cometh forth, led by all those Angels of the Holy Sevenfold Table, and they are dancing round her with garlands and sheaves of flowers, loose robes and hair dancing in the wind. And she smiles upon me 64
1911 · PDF PAGE 127
THE VISION AND THE VOICE before the true vine could be planted upon the holy hill of Zion. Now again I stand in the centre, and all things whirl by with incessant fury. And the thought of the god entereth my mind, and I cry aloud: Behold, the volatile is become fixed; and in the heart of eternal motion is eternal rest. So is the Peace beneath the sea that rageth with her storms; so is the changeful moon, the dead planet that revolveth no more. So the far-seeing, the far-darting hawk is poised passionless in the blue; so also the ibis that is lo…
1911 · PDF PAGE 47
…with delight. This vision is not perfect. I am only in the outer court of the vision, because I have undertaken it in the service of the Holy One, and must retain sense and speech. No recorded vision is perfect, of high visions, for the seer must keep either his physical organs or his memory in working order. And neither is capable. There is no bridge. One can only be conscious of one thing at a time, and as the consciousness moves nearer to the vision, it loses control of the physical and mental. Even so, the body and the mind must be very per…
1907 · PDF PAGE 292
… the dazzling light , likewise only the prepared soul can bear its lustre . Never theless the great Something which is the inmost of the Holy mysteries has never been hidden from the piercing gaze of him who can bear the light.2 The whole progress of the Adept is to speed out of this changing shadow - land into the full blaze of the sunlight ; in the words of the Qabalist , “ to attain to the Crown ," and those of the Christ , “ To be one with the Father .” Now a curious vista opens out before our gaze , and it is this : A man or woman to becom…
1954 · PDF PAGE 147
…em. Their sandals were the pure light, and they have taken them from their feet and cast them down through the abyss; for this Aethyr is holy ground. Herein no forms appear, and the vision of God face to face, that is transmuted in the Athanor called dissolution, or hammered into one in the forge of meditation, is in this place but a blasphemy and a mockery. And the Beatific Vision is no more, and the glory of the Most High is no more. There is no more knowledge. There is no more bliss. There is no more power. There is no more beauty. For this …
1905 · PDF PAGE 173
THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST.* IQO1. _ I. THE COURT PROLOGUE. OBSESSION. TO CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, ‘Car ce que ta bouche cruelle Eparpilie en lair, Monstre assassin, c’est ma cervelle, Mon sang et ma chair!” THY brazen forehead, and its lustre gloom, Great angel of Night’s legion chosen chief, Beam on me like the hideous-fronted tomb, Whereon are graven strange words of mis- belief ; Thy brazen forehead, and its lustre gloom ! Sinister eyes, you burn into my breast, Creating an infernal cavern of woe, Where strange sleek leopards lash them in unre…
1911 · PDF PAGE 154
…ty, furnishing you with a power of understanding, that ye might dispose all things according to the foresight of Him that sitteth on the Holy Throne, and rose up in the beginning, saying, The earth, let her be governed by her parts (this is the prostitution of BABALON to Pan), and let there be division in her (the formation of the Many from the One), that her glory may be always ecstasy and irritation of orgasm. Her course let it round with the heavens (that is, let her way be always harmonious with heaven), and as an 152
1905 · PDF PAGE 6
… . . . 103 THE TRIUMPH OF MAN. 1051 THE MOTHER’S TRAGEDY... 154 THE DREAMING DEATH . . 108 A SONNET IN SPRING. + 10?| F155 TEMPLE OF THE HOLY 4 4 DE PROFUNDIS . . . . 109 GHOST ~ Two SONNETS— _ I. ‘*My soul is aching,” &c. . 113 I. THE Court OF THE PROFANE— II. ‘The constant ripple,” &c. . 113 PROLOGUF.-—OBSESSION. . 166 A VALENTINE. . . . 113 FAME. . - oe . . 167 ODE TO PoEsy . . . . 114 THE MOTHER AT THE SABBATH 167 Two SONNETS— TitE BRIDEGROOM . . . 168 I. ‘‘ Self-damned, the leprous THE ALTAR OF ARTEMIS . 169 moisture,” &c. . , . LIS THE Co…
1910 · PDF PAGE 73
…of Netzach. When this fire is extinguished comes the Voice or Lightning, after which the Light which guides the aspirant is Himself, his Holy Guardian Angel, the Atman—Adonai. 61
1910 · PDF PAGE 73
…of Netzach. When this fire is extinguished comes the Voice or Lightning, after which the Light which guides the aspirant is Himself, his Holy Guardian Angel, the Atman—Adonai. 61
1912 · PDF PAGE 4
…ins, he is compelled to put to death his only remaining child. By this sacrifice he saves the world of chivalry. vi. He having become an holy hermit, a certain dwarf, splendidly clothed, cometh to Arthur’s court, bearing tidings of a Questing Beast, The knights fail to lift him, this being the test of worthiness. vii. Lancelot findeth him upon Scawfell, clothed in his white beard. He returneth, and, touching the dwarf but with his finger, hurleth him to the heaven, viii. Sir Palamede, riding forth on the quest, seeth a Druid worship the sun upo…
1930 · PDF PAGE 85
…l moreover encourage him in Magick, to recall that indeed there was One who attained by its use to the Knowledge and Conversation of His Holy Guardian Angel, the which forsook him no more, but made Him a Magus, the Word of the Aeon of Horus ! For know this, that the Name IAF in its most secret and mighty sense declareth the Formula of the Magick of the BEAST whereby he wrought many wonders. And because he doth will that the whole world shall attain to this Art, He now hideth it herein so that the worthy may win to Elis Wisdom. Let I and F face …
1906 · PDF PAGE 125
… her womb That darkness covers A terror, and waits The hour that is Fate’s. The work is done. Let miracle inspire Tolchian voices to the holy hymn, Praise to black Ares, echo of this doom.
1910 · PDF PAGE 19
…horised Sufi, one of those who ‘ creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold ’, cannot, by possession of the elementary keys, unlock the Holy of Holies of the ‘ hikmat-i-Illahi ’. It is as a violator of the Magian secrecy, even more than as a Christianizer, that
1911 · PDF PAGE 60
… mysteries that are beyond. And the method and the form of invocation whereby aman shall attain to the knowledge and conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel shall be given unto thee in the proper place, and seeing that the word is deadlier than lightning, do thou meditate straitly thereupon, solitary, in a place where is no living thing visible, but only the light of the sun. And 58
1930 · PDF PAGE 128
…rs. Thus bind thyself, and thou shalt be for ever free. III. o. The Ox is Thought. Man, rule thy Thought! How else shalt thou master the Holy Spirit, and answer the High Priestess in the Middle Gateway of the Crown ? 1. Here are practices. Each may last for a week or more. (a) Avoid thinking of a definite subject and ail things con- nected with it, and let that subject be one which commonly occu- pies much of thy thought, being frequently stimulated by sense- perceptions or the conversation of others. — 428 —
1910 · PDF PAGE 145
…o- ciations clinging to a name, he, anathematizing the Atman, in * “The Questions of King Milinda,” iv, 1, 48. See also the story of the Holy Quail in Rhys Davids’ “ Buddhist Birth Stories,” p. 302. These Iddhis are also called Abhijnyds. There are six of them: (1) clairvoyance; (2) clairaudience; (3) powers of transformation; (4) powers of remembering past lives; (5) powers of reading the thoughts of others; (6) the knowledge of comprehending the finality of the stream of life. See also “Konx om Pax,” pp. 47, 48. Iv I 129
1910 · PDF PAGE 145
…o- ciations clinging to a name, he, anathematizing the Atman, in * “The Questions of King Milinda,” iv, 1, 48. See also the story of the Holy Quail in Rhys Davids’ “ Buddhist Birth Stories,” p. 302. These Iddhis are also called Abhijnyds. There are six of them: (1) clairvoyance; (2) clairaudience; (3) powers of transformation; (4) powers of remembering past lives; (5) powers of reading the thoughts of others; (6) the knowledge of comprehending the finality of the stream of life. See also “Konx om Pax,” pp. 47, 48. Iv I 129
1911 · PDF PAGE 131
…an a man may reach. But the Angel that was with me lifted me, and I saw that the edge of the altar, as I must call it, was surrounded by holy men. Each has in his right hand a weapon—one a sword, one a spear, one a thunderbolt, and so on, but each with his left hand gives the sign of silence. I wish to see what is within their ring. One of them bends forward so that I may whisper the pass-word. The Angel prompts me to whisper: “There is no god.” So they let me pass, and though there was indeed nothing visible therein, yet there was a very stran…