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Page 67 of 841996 · PDF PAGE 74
…tterfly thought as it flits, and offer the flower it most fancies. The vocabulary of Love is small, and its terms are hackneyed; to seek new words and phrases is to be affected, stilted. It chills. But the language of the body is never exhausted; one may talk for an hour by means of an eyelash. There are intimate, delicate things, shadows of the leaves of the Tree of the Soul that dance in the breeze of Love, so subtle that neither Keats nor Heine in words, neither Brahms nor Debussy in music, could give them body. It is the agony of every arti…
1929 · PDF PAGE 43
… with Strength and Severity: what sense is there in putting “Death”, the Scorpion, in its stead ? There are twenty other mistakes in the new wonderful illuminated-from-on-high attribution; the student can therefore be sure of twenty more laughs if he cares to study it. 2. Equally, of course, we hâve no means of knowing what we really are. We are limited to symbols. And it is certain that ail our sense- perceptions give only partial aspects of their objects. Sight, for instance, tells us very little about solidity, weight, composition, electrica…
1944 · PDF PAGE 95
…tant theme of these essays. The im‐ portant word in the injunction is the central word RECTIFICANDO; it implies the right leading of the new living substance in the path of the True Will. The stone of the Philosophers, the Universal Medicine, is to be a talisman of use in any event, a completely elastic and completely rigid vehicle of the True Will of the alchemists. It is to fertilize and bring to manifested Life the Orphic Egg. The Arrow, both in this card and in Atu VI, is of supreme importance. The Arrow is, in fact, the simplest and purest…
1939 · PDF PAGE 15
…e from trunk murders! Organisms developed by specialising their component structures have not achieved this so much by an acquisition of new powers, as by a restriction of part of the general powers. Thus, a Harley Street specialist is simply an ordinary doctor who says: 'I won't go out and attend to a sick person; I won't, I won't, I won't.' Now what is true of cells is true of all already potentially specialised organs. Muscular power is based upon the rigidity of bones, and upon the refusal of joints to allow any movement in any but the appo…
1943 · PDF PAGE 6
…nterpretation to fit the Aeon of Horus. This is a most meticulous and arduous work, entailing the designing and engraving of an entirely new set of Cards, as well as an accom- panying Book of Tarot which gives their history, their mystic and symbolic significance. It is essential, therefore, that we wholeheartedly contribute toward this Work to make possible its achievement. Personal necessities are also needed, which we should count it a privilege to supply. Contributions should be made for these purposes, and sent regularly, to the Treasurer,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 99
… of the Magician no easy one. He wanted a wand; and in order to eut and trim it he needed a knife. It was not sufficient merely to buy a new knife; he felt that he had to make it himself. In order to make the knife, he would require a hundred other things, the acquisition of each of which might require a hundred more; and so on. This shows the impossibility of disentangling one’s self from one’s environment. Even in Magick we cannot get on without the Help of others. 1 There was, however, a further object in this recommendation. Ihe more troubl…
1905 · PDF PAGE 11
…These little common sins may lead my lust To more deceitful vices, to the deeds At whose sweet name the side of Jesus bleeds In sympathy new-nurtured by the trust Of man’s forgiveness that his passion breeds— These petty crimes ! God grant they grow intense in newer, worthier times ! XX. Yet—shall I make me subject to a pang So horrible? O God, abase me still ! Break with Thy rod my unrepentant will, Lest Hell entrap me with an iron fang ! Grind me, most high Jehovah, in the mill That grinds so small ! Grind down to dust and powder Pride of Lif…
1905 · PDF PAGE 254
…for my sense. WOLFRAM. He has passed through some unimagined test, Or undergone some sorrow. Leave it so! I saw high grief upon him, and new love ! ~“ TLEINRICH. You are the poet! To your instinct then ! Here's to the insight given us by God! LANDGRAVE. Wolfram is right ; a truce to jest to-day, The dogs are loose. Ride forward, gentle- men! [Amid the winding of horns and cries of the huntsmen the company moves off. HEINRICH. They hate his very name! Dear Tannhiuser ! [ Axze. ACT IV. ‘* So, force is sorrow, and each sorrow, force: What then? si…
1906 · PDF PAGE 24
…quered, dost dream silently ! Grant that one day my soul ’neath Know- ledge-Tree Rest near thine own soul, when from thy forehead Like a new temple all its branches spread. THE FOUNT OF BI.OOD. SOMETIMES-I think my blood in waves ap- pears, Springs as a fount with music in its tears ; I hear it trickling with long murmuring sound, But search myself in vain to find the wound. Across the city, as in closéd meres, Making the pavements isles, it disappears ; In it all creatures’ thirst relief hath found ; All nature in its scarlet hue is drowned. I…
1929 · PDF PAGE 213
…nations, and so on; the governments think it's about commercial expansion; but I who made it know that it is the baptism of blood of the New Aeon. How could we promulgate the Law of Liberty in a world where Freedom has been strangled by industrialism? Men have become such slaves that they submit to laws which would have made a revolution in any other country since the world began; they have registration cards harder to bear than iron fetters; they allow their tyrants to bar them from every pleasure that even their poverty allows them. There is …
1907 · PDF PAGE 43
…ver passes to my bridal chamber. Then there are the three ways to the Holy House of the old King, the way by which he is joined with the new Fairy Prince, where dwells a moonlike virgin with an open book, and always, always reads beautiful words therein, smiling mysteriously through her shining veil, woven of sweet thoughts and pure kisses. And there is the way by which I always go to the King, my Father, and that passage is built of thunder and lightning; but there is a holy Magician called Hermes, who takes me through so quickly that I arrive…
1929 · PDF PAGE 30
… them to wander across his path. In the course of this Training, he will learn to explore the Hidden Mysteries of Nature, and to develop new senses and faculties in himself, whereby he may communicate with, and control, Beings and Forces pertaining to orders of existence which 2. Prof essor Sigmund Freud and his school hâve, in recent years, discovered a part of this body of Truth, which has been taught for many centuries in the Sanctuaries of Initiation. But failure to grasp the fullness of Truth, especially that implied in my Sixth Theorem (a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 214
… buy Italy. Bowling bought Belgium, you know, some time back. He was thick with Leopold, but the old man had too much sense to deal. He knew he would be the first to go smash when the war came. But Albert pocketed the good red gold without a second thought; that's partly what the trouble is over. Germany found out about it." "And why buy Italy? To keep Austria busy, I suppose? These Wops can hardly hope to force the line, especially with the Trentino Salient on the flank." "That's the idea. It would have been better and cheaper to buy Bulgaria.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 215
…l be a fluke if Paris is saved. As you know, it always takes England three years to put her boots on. If we had listened to the men who knew — like 'Bobs' — and fixed up an army of three millions, there could have been no war — at least, not in this particular tangle of alliances. There would have been a Social Revolution, more likely, an ignoble business of greed against greed, which would have left men viler and more enslaved than ever. As it is, the masses on both sides think they are fighting for ideals; only the governments know what hypoc…
1913 · PDF PAGE 308
…their virtues. and a worse persecution was threatened. Then St. Martin left his cell at Marmontier, and set out a second time to Tréves. News of the old man coming along the road on his ass reached his enemies. They met him at the gate and refused him entrance. “But,” said Martin, “I come with the peace of Jesus Christ.” And such was the power of his presence that they could not close the city gates against him. But the palace doors were closed. Martin refused to see the Ithacans or to receive the Communion with them, and their fury at this is …
1913 · PDF PAGE 308
…their virtues. and a worse persecution was threatened. Then St. Martin left his cell at Marmontier, and set out a second time to Tréves. News of the old man coming along the road on his ass reached his enemies. They met him at the gate and refused him entrance. “But,” said Martin, “I come with the peace of Jesus Christ.” And such was the power of his presence that they could not close the city gates against him. But the palace doors were closed. Martin refused to see the Ithacans or to receive the Communion with them, and their fury at this is …
1910 · PDF PAGE 6
… Crowley and his aims. In this book he not only calls attention to the poems of the writer, but he devotes some hundred odd pages to the new philosophy which is to lead man- kind to happiness and a nobler life. What is this philosophy ? It is devoted to a search after Ecstasy, and is called Scientific Illumin- ism. “ Religion and Science for many years seemingly ran antagon- istic to each other ; but in reality their antagonism has been of a superficial nature, and fundamentally they at heart are one,” thus writes Captain Fuller, whom we may ac…
1917 · PDF PAGE 4
…is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu.” It all depends on your own acceptance of this New Law, and you are not asked to believe anything, to accept a string of foolish fables beneath the intellectual level of a negro or a clergyman, and the moral level of a drug-fiend or a lawyer. All you have to do is to be yourself, to do your will, and to rejoice. “Dost thou fail? Art thou sorry? Is fear in thine heart?” He says again: ‘‘ Where I am, these are not.” There is much more of the same kind ; enou…
1907 · PDF PAGE 153
…sullen past, And tune its pain to tears, its peace to sing. The earth's lips cling To the child’s bosom, and low smiles revive ; Love is new-born upon the golden hour, And all the life of all the exultant spring Breathes in the wind that wakes the world alive Into the likeness of a flower. SUMMER. Full is the joy of Maidenhood made strong, Too proud to bend to swift Apollo’s kiss ; Rejoicing in its splendour, and the throng Of gaunt hounds leashless before Artemis. In strange exulting bliss The maiden stands, full-grown, with bound- ing breasts…
1929 · PDF PAGE 116
…ubled than the others, and she recognized the magical cause of the symptoms. She ran quickly to Brother Onofrio; he saw instantly that a new attack was in progress, and gave the sign agreed upon for retirement to a specially consecrated room in the square tower, a sort of inner circle, or citadel. The victims gathered in this room within a few minutes, and their symptoms abated on the instant. But Brother Onofrio had a glimpse of light, as he assisted one of the two boys, who was almost choking, to reach the refuge. The tower caught his eye, an…