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Page 65 of 1301954 · PDF PAGE 403
…lkali firms. However, it was a good mark for Geomancy. I am afraid that all this is a digression. As I indicated above, what you want to know is to be found in the official instruction on the subject in The Equinox . Now far be it from me to cast any doubt on any official instruction, but I cannot help saying that in this particular instance it does not give very full details, and I think you would be well advised to investigate the whole subject afresh, basing your enquiry on the general principles of the science. All systems of divinations wh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 139
…rapples with the problems of human consciousness and has realized the ab soluteness of zero. He perceives that when consciousness, as we know it, is absolutely indrawn, so that it exists in ure isolation, it knows an ecstasy which can only be ex— pressed in the thought, “ I 0 not exist." This last paradox of human manifestation as been perceived by every school of mystics. “ Man’s darkness is a leathern sheath, Myself the sun-bright sword,” is the feeling of the consciousness as it returns to its human state, admirably expressed by Mr. Crowley …
1899 · PDF PAGE 110
…air Swims through the purpling veins of lovers. Hark! A faint bird’s note, as if a silver spark Struck from a diamond; listen, wife, and know How perfectly I love to watch you so. Wake, lover, wake, but stir not yet the child: Wake, and thy brow serene and low and mild Shall take my kisses, and my lips shall seek The pallid roses on thy perfect cheek, And kiss them into poppies, and thy mouth Shall lastly close to mine, as in the south We see the sun close fast upon the sea; So, my own heart, thy mouth must close on me. Art thou awake? Those ey…
1911 · PDF PAGE 93
… the bravest fall first, LAYLAH. Thou ominous owl I Be silent, or I will have thee whipped. FATMA. Oh! Oh ! indeed Ι only say what we all know. If he should die indeed, thou mayst have Sidi Omar left, thy dear lord. And Othman, and Akbar, and Mohammedl LAYLAH. Sliman is my first-born. FATMA. Ay, he is not like his brothers. He is square and solid-set. He is more like the cedar than the palm. LAYLAH. Sidi Omar's mother was a princess from Lebanon. FATMA. He is silent and stem. LAYLAH. Sidi Omar’s father was the holiest man of Syria. He lived alone…
1911 · PDF PAGE 93
… the bravest fall first, LAYLAH. Thou ominous owl I Be silent, or I will have thee whipped. FATMA. Oh! Oh ! indeed Ι only say what we all know. If he should die indeed, thou mayst have Sidi Omar left, thy dear lord. And Othman, and Akbar, and Mohammedl LAYLAH. Sliman is my first-born. FATMA. Ay, he is not like his brothers. He is square and solid-set. He is more like the cedar than the palm. LAYLAH. Sidi Omar's mother was a princess from Lebanon. FATMA. He is silent and stem. LAYLAH. Sidi Omar’s father was the holiest man of Syria. He lived alone…
1954 · PDF PAGE 424
…orm or another; now, what of the causa finalis. the "practical angle" some would call it. What you want now is to learn how to apply the knowledge and power that you have gained to the execution of your True Will, to the accomplishment of the Great Work. Obviously, much must be left to your own common-sense ; the one technical point on which I insist above all others is the Magical Link. You must lay to heart Magick, Chapter XIV (pp. 106-122) and never forget one detail. More failure comes from neglect of this than from all other causes put tog…
1906 · PDF PAGE 214
…onsciousness exists.”’ He denies the assertion of duality; he has no datum to assert the denial of duality. I have. Consciousness, as we know it, has one essen- tial quality: the opposition of subject and object. Reason has attacked this and secured that complete and barren victory of convincing without producing conviction.* It has one quality apparently not essential, that of ex- ceeding impermanence. If we. examine what we call steady thought, we shall find that its rate of change is in reality inconceivably swift. To consider it, to watch i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 311
…tchen - knavery : You weary me with proof enough That all this meditation stuff Is self - hypnosis . Be it so ! Do you suppose I did not know ? Still , to be accurate ,I fear The symptoms are entirely strange . If I were hard , I'd make it clear That criticism must arrange An explanation different For this particular event . Surely , your best work always finds Itself sole object of the mind's In vain you ply the brush , distracted By something you have heard or acted . Expect some tedious visitor Your eye runs furtive to the door ; Your hand r…
1912 · PDF PAGE 78
…isted all without a murmur, and conquered all without a glimmer of self-satisfaction. When the Books are opened and the deeds of men are known, who dare say that there shall be found aught to surpass these marvellous months which Fra. P. set to the Operation of the Sacred Magic, the obtaining of the Know- ledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel ? We return to the Diary—— Oct. 2. (Fra. Ρ. has now retired into the Adytum of God- nourished Silence to some purposel We tran- scribe this day‘s entry; it is probably most important to us. The…
1912 · PDF PAGE 78
…isted all without a murmur, and conquered all without a glimmer of self-satisfaction. When the Books are opened and the deeds of men are known, who dare say that there shall be found aught to surpass these marvellous months which Fra. P. set to the Operation of the Sacred Magic, the obtaining of the Know- ledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel ? We return to the Diary—— Oct. 2. (Fra. Ρ. has now retired into the Adytum of God- nourished Silence to some purposel We tran- scribe this day‘s entry; it is probably most important to us. The…
1909 · PDF PAGE 98
…0.30. 10.40. 10. 57. THE EQUINOX joy, with a delicious awe? I must wash His feet with my tears; I must die at His gateway; I must. . . I know not what. . . Adonai, be Thou tender unto me Thy slave, and keep my footsteps in the Way of Truth! . . . Iwill return and humble myself before the Lord Adonai. Home again ; have done odd necessary things, and am ready to work. I feel slack; and I feel that I have been slack, though probably the Record shows a fair amount of work done. But I am terribly bruised by the Great Fall; these big things leave the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 103
…st sacred presence Not fill the Real, then this voice were whirled Away in the wind of its own folly, thrown Into forgotten places and unknown. So I sing on ! Sister and wife, dear wife Light of my love and lady of my life, Answer if thou canst from the unsullied place, Unveiling for one star-wink thy bright face ! Did we leave then, once cognisant, Time for some Fear to implant His poison ? Did we hesitate ? Leave but one little chance to Fate ? For one swift second did we wait ? There is no need to answer : God is God, A jealous God and evil …
1910 · PDF PAGE 35
…nds with downcast eyes in the temple of our Lady?” And the answer: “ A wanderer from the world who hath sought the halls of silence; Yet knoweth he not the Bride of the Darkness, Her of the sable wings, and eyes of terrible blindness That see through the worlds and find nothing and nothing, Who would smite the worlds to peace, save that so she would perish, And cannot, for that she is a goddess silent and immortal, Utterly immortal in the gods’ eternal darkness.” And the first voice cried: ‘‘ Oh, that we might perish, And become as pearls of bl…
1910 · PDF PAGE 46
…ut all these dreams gradually faded out. Lionel had become a translucid set of bones, with two big eyes heavily crowned. The time of his knowledge had come. XV THE DEVIL I trust I said nothing that could lead the reader into the belief that the cottage was a lonely spot. Men and women lived in its almost immediate neighbourhood. Among others, Sir Anthony Lawthon and his daughters. I propose that we concern ourselves solely with the eldest of these, Mary Lawthon. I hardly know how to describe her. She was a woman of six and twenty, most easy to …
1910 · PDF PAGE 35
…nds with downcast eyes in the temple of our Lady?” And the answer: “ A wanderer from the world who hath sought the halls of silence; Yet knoweth he not the Bride of the Darkness, Her of the sable wings, and eyes of terrible blindness That see through the worlds and find nothing and nothing, Who would smite the worlds to peace, save that so she would perish, And cannot, for that she is a goddess silent and immortal, Utterly immortal in the gods’ eternal darkness.” And the first voice cried: ‘‘ Oh, that we might perish, And become as pearls of bl…
1910 · PDF PAGE 46
…ut all these dreams gradually faded out. Lionel had become a translucid set of bones, with two big eyes heavily crowned. The time of his knowledge had come. XV THE DEVIL I trust I said nothing that could lead the reader into the belief that the cottage was a lonely spot. Men and women lived in its almost immediate neighbourhood. Among others, Sir Anthony Lawthon and his daughters. I propose that we concern ourselves solely with the eldest of these, Mary Lawthon. I hardly know how to describe her. She was a woman of six and twenty, most easy to …
1913 · PDF PAGE 324
…onsciousness and the confidence of love. Faith is the cry of reason, which persists in denying the absurd, even in the presence of the unknown. Faith is a sentiment necessary to the soul, just as breathing is to life; it is the dignity of courage, and the reality of enthusiasm. Faith does not consist of the affirmation of this symbol or that, but of a genuine and constant aspiration towards the truths which are veiled by all symbolisms. Ifa man rejects an unworthy idea of divinity, breaks its false images, revolts against hateful idolaters, you…
1913 · PDF PAGE 324
…onsciousness and the confidence of love. Faith is the cry of reason, which persists in denying the absurd, even in the presence of the unknown. Faith is a sentiment necessary to the soul, just as breathing is to life; it is the dignity of courage, and the reality of enthusiasm. Faith does not consist of the affirmation of this symbol or that, but of a genuine and constant aspiration towards the truths which are veiled by all symbolisms. Ifa man rejects an unworthy idea of divinity, breaks its false images, revolts against hateful idolaters, you…
1935 · PDF PAGE 4
…ove in accordance with their own Wills, which are each unique, yet coherent with the universal will. They perceive (that is, understand, know, and feel) in love, which is both unique and universal. 1. The Name of the Order and those of its three divisions are not disclosed to the profane. Certain swindlers have recently stolen the initials A A in order to profit by its reputation.
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
…l. Though their most ancient names may fall, They stir not nor are weary of Life, for with them, even as with us, Life is but Love. They know, weknow; let, then, the writing go! That, in the very deed, we do not know. 14. It may be in the centuries of our life Since we were man and wife There stirs some incarnation of that love. Some rosebud in the garden of spices blows, Some offshoot from the Rose Of the World, the Rose of all Delight, The Rose of Dew, the Rose of Love and Night, The Rose of Silence, covering as with a vesture The solemn unit…