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Page 66 of 811917 · PDF PAGE 2
…nd dance and take delight, you are not being “immoral,” you are not “risking your immortal soul”; you are fulfilling the precepts of our holy religion—provided only that you remember to regard your actions in this light. Do not lower yourself and destroy and cheapen your pleasure by leaving out the supreme joy, the consciousness of “The Peace that passeth under- standing.” Do not embrace mere Marian or Melusine; she is Nuit Herself, specially concentrated and incarnated in a human form to give you infinite love, to bid you taste even on earth t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 535
…tten for a single moment that the central and essential work of the Magicians is the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. Once he has achieved this he must of course be left entirely in the hands of that Angel, who can be invariably and inevitably relied upon to lead him to the further great step-crossing of the abyss and the attainment of the grade of Master of the Temple. Anything apart from this course is a side issue and unless so regarded may lead to the complete ruin of the whole work of the Magician.
1910 · PDF PAGE 85
… detail, the Operation of Abramelin, in which the aspirant, having thoroughly prepared himself, devotes himself to the invocation of his Holy Guardian Angel. + In Bhakta Yoga the disciple usually devotes himself to his Guru, to whom he offers his devotion. The Guru being treated as the God himself with which the Chela wishes to unite. Eventually “He alone sees no distinctions! The mighty ocean of love has entered into him, and he sees not men, animals and plants or the sun, moon and the stars, but beholds his Beloved everywhere and in everythin…
1910 · PDF PAGE 85
… detail, the Operation of Abramelin, in which the aspirant, having thoroughly prepared himself, devotes himself to the invocation of his Holy Guardian Angel. + In Bhakta Yoga the disciple usually devotes himself to his Guru, to whom he offers his devotion. The Guru being treated as the God himself with which the Chela wishes to unite. Eventually “He alone sees no distinctions! The mighty ocean of love has entered into him, and he sees not men, animals and plants or the sun, moon and the stars, but beholds his Beloved everywhere and in everythin…
1907 · PDF PAGE 84
… the good or evil of their country or of the world; for who are they to interfere with a soul whose balance has been crowned by the most holy Tao? “ The masters shall be great men among men; but among great men they shall be friends. “ Since equilibrium will have become perfect, a greater than Napoleon shall arise, and the peaceful shall rejoice thereat; a greater than Darwin, and the minister in his pulpit give open thanks to God. “ The instructed infidel shall no longer sneer at the church-goer, for he will have been compelled to go to church …
1929 · PDF PAGE 106
…ey cannot fail of effect, for they hâve become the effect. Every wise magician will hâve constructed (according to the principles of the Holy Qabalah) many such words, and he should hâve quintessentialised them ail in one Word, which last Word, once he has formed it, he should never utter consciously even in thought, until perhaps with it he gives up the ghost. Such a Word should in fact be so potent that man cannot hear it and live. 1. See Part II. It should be said that in expérience no bell save His own Tibetan bell of Electrum Magicum has e…
1922 · PDF PAGE 238
…nature. Nature.is under a curse because of sex, and so this world is in the power of the Evil One. But I am chosen to redeem it, and the Holy Spirit overshadows me and sends angels to guard me. That is how we got rid of the servants. Peter suddenly attacked me. He got me down, and put his knee on my chest, and tried to strangle me. But the angel smote him suddenly, and all his muscles relaxed and he rolled over. His eyes were wide open, but I could only see the whites. That is a sign that he is possessed by the Devil, and that the angels are pr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 232
… When Englishmen return to the use of the dead languages, it is a sign of that moral state which is said by the Psalmist to resemble the Holy Oil that flowed down upon the head of Aaron, even unto the skirts of his garments. The orderly called the Staff to dinner. Cyril, as the guest of the evening, was on the Commander-in-Chief's right hand. "You have been very highly recommended to me," said the old Cavalry leader, when the time came to smoke, "and I look to you to distinguish yourself accordingly. You will be under the orders of Colonel Mavo…
1930 · PDF PAGE 93
…rdered energy which is yet so powerful as to effect the destinies of empires. But the phenomena of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel are a side issue ; the essence of the Union is the intimacy. Their intimacy (or rather identity) is independent of ail partial forms of expression ; at its best it is therefore as inarticulate as Love. The intensity of the consummation will more probably compel a sob or a cry, some natural physical gesture of animal sympathy with the spiritual spasm. This is to be criticised as incomplète s…
1954 · PDF PAGE 236
…lf-way across South-West China-I considered these alternatives. I thought to cut the Gordian Knot, and call it by Abramelin's title the "Holy Guardian Angel" because (I mused) that will be as intelligible to the villagers of Pu Peng as to the most learned Pundits; moreover, the implied theory was so crude that no one need be bound by it. 2. 'Within'. If you don't mind, we'll tackle this now, while 'higher' is fresh in our minds; for it is also a preposition. First you want to go up; then you want to go in. Why? As 'higher' gave the idea of aggr…
1905 · PDF PAGE 182
… the latter-day poets.”— Cambridge Magazine. Songs of the Spirit. 3s. 6d. A collection of delicate lyrics, illustrative 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 spiritual…
1907 · PDF PAGE 24
…u inmost A, Self-glittering image of my soul, Strong lover to thy Bride’s desire, Call me and claim me and control! I pray Thee keep the holy tryst Within this ring of Amethyst. For on mine eyes the golden Q Hath dawned ; my vigil slew the Night.
1930 · PDF PAGE 79
…zed and living corpse of Poe’s Monsieur Valdemar, is a “nearly liquid mass of loathsome, of détestable putrescence.” The student of this Holy Magick is most earnestly warned against frequenting their séances, or even admitting them to his presence. They are contagious as Syphilis, and more deadly and disgus- ting. Unless your aura is strong enough to inhibit any manifestation of the loatïily iarvae that hâve taken up their habitation in them, shun them as you need not mere lepers! 2 * * * 1. Even the earliest Initiations confer protection. Comp…
1954 · PDF PAGE 29
…own material. The only thing ever to issue from his pen which he demanded must never be edited was a group of select writings called The Holy Books. and above all, The Book of the Law. "Change not so much as the style of a letter .... " What I have deleted is mostly rambling or repetitious statements, a few quotations from Robert Browning-none of which in any case interfere with the meaning of any particular passage. This is then the cardinal rule that has applied at all times during the surgical intervention to the text of these letters. Nothi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 470
…blic, the best of the Universities: how little I know! I have travelled all over the world in all conditions, from "grand seigneur," to "holy man"; how little I know! What then of the ninety-and-nine, dragged by the ears through suicide examinations, and kicked out of school into factory in their teens? They have learnt only just enough to facilitate the swallowing of the gross venal lies of the radio and the Yellow Press; or, if mother-wit has chanced to warn
1954 · PDF PAGE 453
… political manoeuvre of the Brahman caste. Suppose we relax a little, come down to earth, and look at what the far-famed morality of the Holy Man was, and is, in actual practice. You will find this useful to crush Toshophist and Anthroposophagist cockroaches as well as the ordinary Christian Scolex when they assail you. In the lands of Hinduism and (to a less extent) of Islam, the Sultan, the Dewan, the Maharajah, the Emir, or whatsoever they call "the Grand Pandjandrum Himself, with the little round button on top," it is almost a 100 percent r…
1929 · PDF PAGE 389
…ate me into dead dust. Now being bidden to cross it consciously, I asked the Angel, "Is there not one appointed as a warden?" I meant my Holy Guardian Angel, for whose Knowledge and Conversation I had abandoned all. The answer: "Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabacthani". I knew that even my holiest, mine inmost self, might not protect me from the grim abominations of the Abyss. We therefore changed our magical procedure. We went far out from the city into a hollow among the dunes. There we made a circle to protect the scribe and a triangle wherein the Abys…
1922 · PDF PAGE 62
…eter in the Acts of the Apostles in which he was told, ‘ There is nothing common or unclean.” As Blake said, ‘‘ Everything that lives is holy.” Every act is a sacrament. Incidents which in the ordinary way would check one or annoy one, become merely material for joyous laughter. It is just as when you drop a tiny lump of sugar into champagne, it bubbles afresh. Well, this is a digression. But that is just what
1922 · PDF PAGE 241
Cold Turkey 227 work to be done. I have become quite blind to the spiritual world. Keletiel never comes. I must wait, wait, wait for the Holy Spirit ; but that’s a memory so far, far off ! There are times when I almost doubt it, yet my faith is the only thing that prevents my going insane. I can't endure without H. The sympathy of suffering has brought Peter closer. We lie about and look at each other; but we can’t touch, the skin is too painful. We are both restless as it is impossible to describe. It irritates us to see each other like this, …
1996 · PDF PAGE 83
… it to expression. To hell with this Verbotenism! In particular, let me exhort all men and all women, for they are Stars! Heed well this holy Verse! True Religion is intoxication, in a sense. We are told elsewhere to intoxicate the innermost, not the outermost; but I think that the word “wine” should be taken in its widest sense as meaning that which brings out the soul. Climate, soil, and race change conditions; each man or woman must find and choose the fit intoxicant. Thus hashish in one or other of its forms seems to suit the Moslem, to go …