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…eckoned with. If he progresses, his will become a great name. If he has arrived at his limits we shall hear no more of him. But from the power and earnestness of the book before us we are inclined to favour his chances in the future. He has shown at least the foot of Hercules.” —Birmingham Gazette. The Mother’s Tragedy, etc. 5s. The two dramas in this volume are of a nature to freeze the blood in the veins of the most sanguine of mankind. Also a short collection of lyrics of great beauty and horror is contained. “ Mr Aleister Crowley is a poet …
1930 · PDF PAGE 67
gold as other than metallic, of the same order of nature as the lead from which it had been made. That this gold should possess the power of multiplying itself, or of acting as a ferment upon other substances, seemed so absurd that he felt obliged to conclude that the alchemists who claimed these properties for their Gold must, after ail, hâve been referring not to Chemistry, but to some spiritual operations whose sanctity demanded some such symbolic veil as the cryptographie use of the language of the laboratory. The Master Therion is sanguine…
1954 · PDF PAGE 362
…covery, and arranged every detail of the incident in such a way that I should understand it as I did. Yes; this involves a theory of the powers of the Secret Chiefs so romantic and unreasonable that it seems hardly worth a smile of contempt. As it happens, an almost parallel phenomenon came to pass ten years later. I propose to quote it here in order to show that the most ordinary events, apparently disconnected, are in fact only intelligible by postulating some such people as the Secret Chiefs of the A :. A:. in possession of some such previsi…
1919 · PDF PAGE 144
…is Sin. To endeavour to bring all to the knowledge of the Law, is to keep the Law. Seek ye the Law that ye may be Free. Wisdom, Love and Power, these three are One. That these should be One is the Law. 136
1905 · PDF PAGE 93
…y thunder-clouds That blacken over the inane abyss But canst not tame one fierce desire of mine, Nor satiate my hatred, nor destroy This power of mine over thy devil-brood, The hatchment of thine incest, O thou God Who knowest me, me, mortal me, thy master, Thy master—and I laugh at thee, the slave ! Down from Thy throne, impostor, down, down, down To thine own Hell, immeasurable— O thou A VOICE. Strike| [The storm, gathering to a climax, bursts in a tremendous flash of lightning, and JARED zs killed. Enter JePUTHAI and Soldiers. JuPHTIAIL A te…
1930 · PDF PAGE 98
…thou also beware of disputation with the devil and pride in the cleverness of thine answers to him. Therefore, if thou hast not lost the power of silence, let it be hrst and last employed against him. 30. Concerning the Enflaming of the Heart. — Now learn that thy methods are dry, one and ail. Intellectual exercises, moral exercises, they are not Love. Yet as a man, rubbing two dry sticks together for long, suddenly found a spark, so also from time to time will true Love leap unasked into thy méditation. Yet this shall die and be reborn again a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 110
…ls in the world. He accordingly wrote a song, and produced the desired resuit. This is the most notorious example in recent times of the power exerted by a barbarous name of évocation. A few words may be useful to reconcile the general notion of Causality with that of Magick. How can we be sure that a person waving a stick and howling thereby produces thunderstorms ? In no other way than that familiar to Science ; we note that whenever we put a lighted match to dry gunpowder, an unintelligibly arbitrary phenomenon, that of sound, is observedj a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 179
…to make sure of his integrity. Accordingly you begin by asking his name. This is vital; because if he tells you the truth , it gives you power over him. But if, on the other hand , he tells you a lie, he abandons for good and all his fortress. He becomes rather like a submarine whose base has been destroyed. He may do you a lot of mischief in the meantime , of course , so look out! Well then, he tells you that his name is Ottilia. Shall we try to spell it in Greek or in Hebrew? By the sound of the name and perhaps to some extent by his appearan…
1905 · PDF PAGE 264
…THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. My name, sir, at your service, is Sefchift. TANNHAUSER. Sent? And the purpose of your coming here? You must. wield power to keep them silent so, When the first word had culminated else In twice the tempest echoed to the last! VOL. I. THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. It was most necessary for yourself To formulate your thought in Fnough— The thought transmuted in the very act. word. TANNHAUSER. You know? You know! The new illusion gone! Bitter, O bitter will it be to say ! THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. Due grace and courage will be found for …
1929 · PDF PAGE 27
…n he will be able to direct them with the calm, clear-headed confidence of an onlooker, with intelligence unclouded by self-interest and power unimpaired by passion.) (28) Every man has a right to fulfil his own will without being afraid that it may interfère with that of others; for if he is in his proper place, it is the fault of others if they interfère with him. (Illustration: If a man like Napoléon were actually appointed by destiny to contrai Europe, he should not be blamed for exercising his rights. To oppose him would be an error. Any o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 119
…ives by breath in the sense of his purpose, and to summon it to bear witness to his Word. The hands are used as symbols of his executive power, the bell to represent his consciousness exalted into music. To strike with the wand is to utter the fiat of création ; the cup vibrâtes with his delight in receiving spiritual wine. A blow with the dagger is like the signal for battle. The disk is used to express the throwing down of the price of one’s purchase. To stamp with the foot is to déclaré one’s mastery of the matter in hand. Similarly, any oth…
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
… what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one’s neighbour is superior to oneself. It is admirable only for its power to develop certain moral and mental qualities in primitive types, to prevent the atrophy of such facultés as our own vigilance, and for the interest which it adds to the “tragedy, Man.” 1. The People of England hâve made two révolutions to free them- selves from Popish fraud and tyranny. They are at their tricks again; and if we hâve to make a Third Révolution, let us destroy the germ itself ! — 339
1996 · PDF PAGE 61
…longer seek to cut the Gordian knot of our igno rance by the sword of a postulated Pantheon. Physiology leaves us in no doubt as to the power of our inher ited talisman. And modern discoveries in psychology have made it
1899 · PDF PAGE 249
…A book of wandering cries such as this - we cannot regard as of much significance. But we may hope that the author's indubitable singing power may gain an assured note with his further development. We would advise him to be less introspective and subjective and more objective and dramatic, to seek less to express directly his own thoughts than to present man and world in the light of his thoughts. This Spenserian stanza is not unworthy of the author of ‘ Adonais’: ‘So I press on, fresh strength from day to day Girds up my loins and beckons me o…
1905 · PDF PAGE 143
…s own fires, Seal with your voice the triumph of this hour, Children of our Jand, hear the children of | Your glory to our glory and our power, your sires. Alliance of one tongue, one faith, one clime ! Seal and clasp hands; and let the sea pro- We stretch out hands to-day when the white claim wings . 4 Friendship of righteous fame, ol eace are spread heneath you and your And lordship of two worlds that time can oe. never tame. O race of men that slay the slaves of kings! __ | Stoop not and tender not an hour’s regret We, whom the foam-crowned …
1930 · PDF PAGE 44
…l struck and hearing its chime. Our notion of “bell” is no more than a personification of its impressions on our senses. And our wit and power to make a bell “to order” imply a sériés of corres- pondences between various orders of nature precisely analogous to Magick, when we obtain a Vision of Beauty by the use of certain colours, forms, sounds, etc.) n) “Astral” Beings may thus be defined in the same way as “material objects”; they are the Unknown Causes of various observed effects. They may be of any order of existence. We give a physical fo…
1911 · PDF PAGE 310
…ablished position in the popular favour. The first ten volumes are now ready. HAVE YOU A STRONG WILL? How to Develop and Strengthen Will Power, Memory, or any other Faculty, or Attribute of the Mind by the Easy Process of Self-Hypnotism. By CHARLES Goprrry LeLanb. Third and enlarged Edition, containing the Celebrated Borrespondence between Kant and Hufeland, and an additional Chapter on Paracelsus and his Teaching. Price 35. 6d, net. THE GIFT OF THE SPIRIT. ASelection from the Essays of PRENTICE MULFORD. Reprinted from the ‘* White Cross Librar…
1911 · PDF PAGE 310
…ablished position in the popular favour. The first ten volumes are now ready. HAVE YOU A STRONG WILL? How to Develop and Strengthen Will Power, Memory, or any other Faculty, or Attribute of the Mind by the Easy Process of Self-Hypnotism. By CHARLES Goprrry LeLanb. Third and enlarged Edition, containing the Celebrated Borrespondence between Kant and Hufeland, and an additional Chapter on Paracelsus and his Teaching. Price 35. 6d, net. THE GIFT OF THE SPIRIT. ASelection from the Essays of PRENTICE MULFORD. Reprinted from the ‘* White Cross Librar…
1906 · PDF PAGE 142
…n! RUPHA. Ho! Ho! Criospa. Thus then at last the Luck of Maurya throws A double-six to lost Criosda. RupuHa. Ho! The Luck of Maurya! The power of the deed. CriIosDA. I find thee, mother, at last. Life’s final flash Gleams through the storm. RUPHA. I am found! Ho! Ho!
1907 · PDF PAGE 109
…as right sad with age. With him arose the ruddy and fair ; He was right debonair, They twain to upper air and lower Advanced the eyes of power. Ay! but above the dead man’s head A lotus-flower was spread. Thence dripped the Amrita, whereby Life learneth not to die. The seventh in silence tended it Against the horror of the pit. Ill. 103 1 A meaning may be found for this poem by any really profound student of the Qabalah, 2 Gulf of Martaban, South of Burma. Thus in a cage of wisdom lay The dead man, live as they.