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Page 64 of 1061913 · PDF PAGE 29
…r one will not lower visor or lay lance in rest. What is it then that has brought me hot-foot to this illegal Convocation? What but that last infamy which has roused even the holy calm of our Most Illustrious Sovereign G.M. General in Austria to hurl the lightnings of his excommunica- tion against its perpetrators? Very Illustrious P.P.,I am no prude. But I amastickler for the value of words: and I deem that the French slang “ Petit Jésus” is being taken too seriously when a senile sex-maniac like Leadbeater proclaims his catamites as Coming Ch…
1913 · PDF PAGE 29
…r one will not lower visor or lay lance in rest. What is it then that has brought me hot-foot to this illegal Convocation? What but that last infamy which has roused even the holy calm of our Most Illustrious Sovereign G.M. General in Austria to hurl the lightnings of his excommunica- tion against its perpetrators? Very Illustrious P.P.,I am no prude. But I amastickler for the value of words: and I deem that the French slang “ Petit Jésus” is being taken too seriously when a senile sex-maniac like Leadbeater proclaims his catamites as Coming Ch…
1904 · PDF PAGE 21
…hn’s third chapter (sixteenth verse). But now (you say) broad-minded folk Think that those words the Master spoke Should save all men at last. But mind ! The text says nothing of the kind ! Read the next verses !† Then—one third Of all humanity are steady In a belief in Buddha’s word, Possess eternal life already, And shun delights, laborious days Of labour living (Milton’s phrase) In strenuous purpose to—? to cease ! “A fig for God’s eternal peace ! True peace is to annihilate The chain of causes men call Fate, So that no Sattva66 may renew On…
1907 · PDF PAGE 193
…hiteness cleaving through the sky For gods to dwell in? So I pass the hall And seek the gloomy thrones of majesty, Where I may pledge my last despairing call Unto the mightiest of the House of Dread, And loosen Death’s inexorable thrall
1907 · PDF PAGE 245
…rasped the supreme truth of Crowleyanity , when he postulated : “ Being and Non -Being are the same.” He saw that pure being is , in its last analysis , beyond fertilization , development , or motion , and is practical nothingness . “ The fertilization of Being , according to Hegel , arose by the passing over , as it were , of Being into its antitheses , otherness , or complement — that is, into Non - Being . But this antithesis , otherness , comple 1 It should never for a moment be forgotten that any attempt to construct a positive philosophic…
1907 · PDF PAGE 333
…e idea of “ constipation ” which Seidlitz powders will also remove -- to that of Heaven and Hell ,' which Swedenborg also dislodges . At last we have arrived at the close of a difficult yet intensely interesting journey . Crowleyanity has led us through more marvels than Dante ever bore witness to in the “ Paradiso " and the “ Inferno ." His may have been a Divine Comedy , but here before us has been unrolled the vast drama of a Sublime Tragedy : “ All arguments are arguments in a circle ," and there is a home to which we all one day shall have…
1910 · PDF PAGE 286
…. The second but rarely opens to the wretch unless he prises it open with his knife; ordinarily its hinges turn lingeringly. Towards the last let him struggle, though a nightmare torpor petrify his limbs—though on either side of the road be a phalanx of monstrous Afreets with drawn swords of flame— though demon cries peal before him, and unimaginable houris beckon him back—over thorns, through furnaces, but into —Life! To the first restaurant at hand we hastened. Passing in, I called for that only material relief which I have ever found for the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 286
…. The second but rarely opens to the wretch unless he prises it open with his knife; ordinarily its hinges turn lingeringly. Towards the last let him struggle, though a nightmare torpor petrify his limbs—though on either side of the road be a phalanx of monstrous Afreets with drawn swords of flame— though demon cries peal before him, and unimaginable houris beckon him back—over thorns, through furnaces, but into —Life! To the first restaurant at hand we hastened. Passing in, I called for that only material relief which I have ever found for the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 156
…e bodies and minds of all men. He has made his darkness light; that light must illuminate the darkness of all. Having then received this last Initiation, this destruction of the opposition between One and the Many, he descended from the mountain, and awaited nightfall. The nature of the Initiation itself—its climax and comple- tion—can only be given in the sublime words of the Angel of the A&thyr itself. We therefore quote it in full— The Angel reappears. The blackness gathers about, so thick, so clinging, so penetrating, so oppressive, that al…
1913 · PDF PAGE 498
THE EQUINOX In the last century all Europe resounded with the miracles of Cagliostro. Who is ignorant of what powers were attri- buted to his ‘wine of Egypt,’ and to his ‘elixir’? What can we add to the stories that they tell of his other-world suppers, where he made appear in flesh and blood the illustri- ous personages of the past? Cagliostro was, however, far from being an initiate of the first order, since the Great White Brotherhood abandoned him! to the Roman Inquisition, before whom he made, if one can believe the documents to his trial,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 156
…e bodies and minds of all men. He has made his darkness light; that light must illuminate the darkness of all. Having then received this last Initiation, this destruction of the opposition between One and the Many, he descended from the mountain, and awaited nightfall. The nature of the Initiation itself—its climax and comple- tion—can only be given in the sublime words of the Angel of the A&thyr itself. We therefore quote it in full— The Angel reappears. The blackness gathers about, so thick, so clinging, so penetrating, so oppressive, that al…
1913 · PDF PAGE 498
THE EQUINOX In the last century all Europe resounded with the miracles of Cagliostro. Who is ignorant of what powers were attri- buted to his ‘wine of Egypt,’ and to his ‘elixir’? What can we add to the stories that they tell of his other-world suppers, where he made appear in flesh and blood the illustri- ous personages of the past? Cagliostro was, however, far from being an initiate of the first order, since the Great White Brotherhood abandoned him! to the Roman Inquisition, before whom he made, if one can believe the documents to his trial,…
1905 · PDF PAGE 171
…m Love ; or else being a lover of wisdom, called him Force ; or being a cynic, called him Lust ; or being a pietist, called him God. The last—thou seest !—(he said), a lie of Hell’s, and all a partial course of the great circle of whirling dust (stirred by the iron rod of thought) that men call wisdom. So I looked deep in his beauty, and beheld its truth. The life of that fair youth was as a whiz of violent little whirls, helical coils of emptiness, grey curls of misty and impalpable stuff, torn, crooked, all ways and none at once, but ever pre…
1910 · PDF PAGE 267
…cination. The first emotion that I felt upon opening my eyes was happiness to find things again wearing a natural air. Yes; although the last experience of which I had been conscious had seemed to satisfy every human want, physical or spiritual, I smiled on the four plain white walls of my bed-chamber, and hailed their familiar unostentatiousness with a pleasure which had no wish to transfer itself to arabesque or rainbows. It was like re- turning home from an eternity spent in loneliness among the palaces of strangers. Well may I say an eterni…
1910 · PDF PAGE 267
…cination. The first emotion that I felt upon opening my eyes was happiness to find things again wearing a natural air. Yes; although the last experience of which I had been conscious had seemed to satisfy every human want, physical or spiritual, I smiled on the four plain white walls of my bed-chamber, and hailed their familiar unostentatiousness with a pleasure which had no wish to transfer itself to arabesque or rainbows. It was like re- turning home from an eternity spent in loneliness among the palaces of strangers. Well may I say an eterni…
1910 · PDF PAGE 87
…er. I found that I could readily master any of the shorter chapters in an hour or so, while the acquirement of a dozen stray words would last me the whole day. 5. This attempt to reconcile all-Power and all- Benevolence is formally identical with that of the veriest Evangelical, and is none the less shameless casuistry for its Oriental phraseology. 6. This is a common practical joke among friends. The recalcitrant pathic is treated more severely by sharp taps on the coccyx with the knuckle, dagger-hilt, or tent-peg. Genuine obsti- nacy would le…
1911 · PDF PAGE 115
…there is nothing else that he need- eth, so long as he continue in the knowledge and conversation of the Angel, so that he shall come at last into the City of the Pyramids. Lo! two and twenty are the paths of the Tree, but one is the Serpent of Wisdom; ten are the ineffable emanations, but one is the Flaming Sword. Behold! There is an end to life and death, an end to the thrusting forth and the withdrawing of the breath. Yea, the House of the Father is a mighty tomb, and in it he hath buried everything whereof ye know. All this while there hath…
1911 · PDF PAGE 149
… that which bindeth her unto the Crown, and barreth her from the Crown; for not until thou art made one with CHAOS canst thou begin that last, that most terrible projection, the three-fold Regimen which alone constitutes the Great Work. For Choronzon is as it were the shell or excrement of these three paths, and therefore is his head raised unto Daath, and therefore have the Black Brotherhood declared him to be the child of Wisdom and Understanding, who is but the bastard of the Svastika. And this is that which is written in 147
1996 · PDF PAGE 133
…consecration of The Beast to the task of putting forth The Law. “thou art overcome”. The conscious resisted desperately, and died in the last ditch. 65. I am the Master: thou art the Holy Chosen One. Commentary: It is curious that this verse should be num bered 65, suggesting l.v.x. and Adonai, the Holy Guardian Angel. It seems then that He is Hadit. I have never liked the term
1904 · PDF PAGE 123
… Sammasati. And by the power of this transcendent faculty, rising through the Eight High Trances to the very threshold of Nirvana, he at last, in the Trance called Nirodha Samapatti, attains, even in this life, to the Deathless Shore of Nirvana, by the power of Sammasamadhi, Right Concentration. Such a one has finished the Path—he has destroyed the cause of all his chain of lives, and has become Arahan, a Saint, a Buddha himself.” But none knows better than the venerable Bhikkhu himself, as indeed he makes clear with regard to the steps Sam máv…