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Page 69 of 921930 · PDF PAGE 75
… that this unity with that quarter of the Universe confers upon him the fullest freedom and privilège appurtenant thereto. Let the Adept take note of the wording of the Charge. The “Firmament” is the Ruach, the “mental plane” ; it is the realm of Shu, or Zeus, where revolves the Wheel of the Gunas, the Three forms1 of Being. The Aethyr is the I* They correspond to the Sulphur, Mercury, and Sait of Alchemy; to Sattvas, Rajas, and Tamas in the Hindu System; and are rather modes of action than actual qualities even when conceived as latent. They a…
1996 · PDF PAGE 58
…t the environment, in respect of place or period.” To these remarks I can but smile my most genial assent. The only objection that I can take to them is to point out that the con notation of the word “chastity” may have been misunderstood from a scientific point of view, just as modern science has modi fied our conception of the relations of the earth and the sun with out presuming to alter one jot or tittle of the observed facts of Nature. So we may assert that modern discoveries in physiology have rendered obsolete the Osirian conceptions …
1904 · PDF PAGE 10
…en pence of it ?17 Try something easier,18 where the bard seems to me Seeking that light, which I find comes in dreams to me. Even as he takes to feasts to enlarge upon, So will I do too to launch my old barge upon Analyse, get hints from Newton19 or Faraday,20 Use every weapon—love, scorn, reason, parody ! Just where he worships ? Ah me ! shall his soul, Far in some glory, take hurt from a mole Grubbing i’ th’ ground ? Shall his spirit not see, Lightning to lightning, the spirit in me ? Parody ? Shall not his spirit forgive Me, who shall love …
1907 · PDF PAGE 199
…he Two made Eleven, The dragon’s devise ; The Eight against Heaven, All crowns of lies ; Come forth! I invoke ye, Erinyes, move, answer, take shape and arise! By the cross and the wheel I call ye to hear ; By the dagger of steel I command ye, give ear! By the word that ye feel, The summons of Fear ; Come forth! I invoke ye, Erinyes, move, answer, arise and appear !
1929 · PDF PAGE 144
Let us take a very simple example of a Magical Act: that of a man blowing his nose. What are the conditions of the success of the Operation? Firstly, that the man’s Will should be to blow his nose; secondly, that he should hâve a nose capable of being blown; thirdly, that he should hâve at command an apparatus capable of expressing his spiritual Will in terms of material force, and applying that force to the object which he desires to affect. His Will may be as strong and concentrated as that of Jupiter, and his nose may be totally incapable of…
1996 · PDF PAGE 115
…oga” practices taught in Book 4 (Part I), “Liber xvi,” etc. He is then ready to analyze them, to organize them, to drill them, and so to take advantage of the properties peculiar to each one by employing its energies in the service of his imperial purpose. 1 [“Thien Tao” appears in Konx Om Pax (1907); see Works Cited.] 2 [Lat., “secret rites”; Crowley’s usual definition was “works.”] 3 [Possibly the commentary to ch. II, v. 21, beginning on p. 105.] 26. I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. If I lift up my …
1929 · PDF PAGE 60
…ristianity which pollutes the race. Only the wellfed pagen, whether he be a bishop or a bookmaker, is exempt, because he either does not take religion seriously or takes it individually without reference to his neighbour. The most bigoted members of the Greek and Roman communions of the Continent, though they may feel their religion passionately and make it the mainspring of their lives, are not bound together by that insect-like collective consciousness which stamps the Anglo-Saxon. The English pagan is in nine cases out of ten a Norman or a C…
1905 · PDF PAGE 255
…m How you would come. TANNHAUSER. And now? So sure are you The loving word you spoke an hour ago Came from the heart—who called me by mistake ? ELIZABETH. So sure? You want me to confess again The deep pure love, the love indicible. TANNIAUSER (¢o himself), Words, thoughts, that fail her? How should acts exceed? (Aloud.) Better sit thus and read each other’s thoughts— I in the blue eyes, in the hazel you! Then, bending, I may touch my lips upon Sweet thoughtful brows. ELIZABETH. Your kisses move my soul. Strange thoughts and unimagined destinie…
1929 · PDF PAGE 55
…ts truncated for convenience. Around this there were six seats, made of ebony inlaid with silver discs. Sister Cybele left the others to take her seat as president of the circular table. Simon Iff himself sat at the head of the triangle, placing Cyril Grey and the Mahathera Phang at the other corners. Lord Antony Bowling was at his left, Lisa at his right; Morningside faced him from the base. When all were seated, Sister Cybele rose, struck a bell that stood at her hand, and said: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. O Master of th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 31
…hat sometimes I. The Hon. Bertrand Russell’s Princifia Mathemcitica may be said to “lie beyond” Colenso’s School Arithmetic; but one can take the former book from one’s shelves — as every one should — and read it without first going ail through the latter again.
1929 · PDF PAGE 138
The Magician must therefore take the utmost care in the matter of purification, firstly, of himself, secondly, of his instru¬ ments, thirdly, of the place of working. Ancient Magicians recommended a preliminary purification of from three days to many months. Durîng this period of training they took the utmost pains with diet. They avoided animal food, lest the elemental spirit of the animal should get into their atmosphère. They practised sexual abstinence, lest they should be influenced in any way by the spirit of the wife. Even in regard to t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 67
… dyes does not enable us to dispense with the original aniline, and use sugar instead. Thus the Alchemists said : “To make gold you must take gold”; their art was to bring each substance to the perfection of its own proper nature. No doubt, part of this process involved the withdrawal of the essence of the “First Matter” within the homogeneity of “Hyle”, just as initiation insists on the annihilation of the individual in the Impersonal Infinity of Existence to emerge once more as a less confused and deformed Eidolon of the Truth of Himself. Thi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 93
…ail. And We bear witness that this which followeth is the Crux and Quintessence of the whole Method. First, if he hâve no Image, let him take anything soever, and consecrate it as an Image of his God. Likewise with his robes and instruments, his suffumigations and libations ; for his Robe hath he not a nightdress; for his instrument a walking stick ; for his suf- fumigation a burning match ; for his libation a glass of water ? But let him consecrate each thing that he useth to the service of that particular Deity, and not profane the same to an…
1996 · PDF PAGE 105
… a million billion (British) or a million trillion (American).] 2 [A Buddhist concept, Pali sammasati.] There is another Way that we may take, if we will; I say “another,” though it seems perhaps to some no more than a development of the other which happens to be proper to some people. Even in the first Way, it is of all things necessary to begin by exploring one’s own Nature, so as to discover what its pecul iarities are; this is accomplished partly by introspection, but prin cipally by Right Recollection1 2 of the whole phantasmagoria prese…
1907 · PDF PAGE 321
… , the more bitter will be the cup he gives her to drink . “ The cup is that she is to cease from all her own thoughts . . . for she can take pleasure in nothing that is not her own .” She must be made like the Bridegroom , and humbly submit to the process , and joy in suffering for his sake , until she “ is wholly purified from all faults and stain of sin , and become perfectly fair and unspotted .” Her wedding gift is “ The Holy Ghost . He sheds forth upon the Bride the torrent of divine love ... insomuch that the Bride loseth herself and is …
1929 · PDF PAGE 70
…he temptation to return to her for refuge. Kundry, Armida, Jocasta, Circe, etc., are svmbols of this force Which tempts the Hero. He may take her as his servant1 when he has mastered her, so as to heal his father (Amfortas), avenge him (Osiris), or pacify him (Jéhovah). But in order to grow to manhood, he must cease to dépend on her, earning the Lance (Parzival), claiming his arms (Achilles), or making his club (Hercules) 2, and wander in the waterless wilderness like Krishna, Jésus, Oedipus, x. t. A. — until the hour when, as the “King’s Son” …
1929 · PDF PAGE 97
…should the magician hâve any unbalanced ornament. If he hâve the wand in his right hand, let him hâve the Ring " on his left, or let him take the Ankh, or the Bell, or the Cup. And however little he move to the right, let him balance it by an équivalent movement to the left; or if forwards, backwards; and let him correct each idea by implying the contradictory contained therein. If he invoke Severity, let him recount that Severity is the instrument of Mercy; 4 if Stability, let him show the basis of that Stability to be constant change, just as…
1929 · PDF PAGE 349
…--- but I anticipate.) Neuburg was the moving spirit of one of those societies which are always springing up in universities. They never take root; because death comes to all alike at the end of three years, so to speak. People who stay up for a fourth year are Ancient Mariners, but lack the power to hold the wedding guest. Of course people overlap; but the generations follow each other so quickly and the spirit of youth is so impotent to stamp itself upon history, that it is a rare piece of luck when any of these clubs or societies live beyond…
1906 · PDF PAGE 94
…he not find a fitter messenger? JASON. Her cause is Jason’s. Jason therefore speaks. PELIAS. Aha! A suppliant to our clemency ! I did mistake the gesture and the sword Angrily gripped, the foot flung terribly Foremost, the fierce, constrainéd attitude. But—as a suppliant ! Tell thy woeful tale, Sad youth ! Some woman thou hast loved and lost ? JASON. Thou hast robbed me of this kingdom. Thou hast kept My father (poor half-witted man !) a slave And parasite about thy court (one grief The more I add to this account of thine !) Myself a babe thou …
1929 · PDF PAGE 113
…l. (In fact, it is certain that an event can never occur twice in precisely the same circum- stances.) 1 “Further, my ‘laws’ must always take nearly ail the more important éléments of knowledge for granted. I cannot say — finally — how an electric current is generated. I cannot be sure that some totally unsuspected force is not at work in some entirely arbitrary way. For example, it was formerly supposed that Hydrogen and Chlorine would unité when an electric spark was passed through the mixture ; now we “knowJ that the presence of a minute qua…