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…s the nature of that Aeon, is not unsympathetic either to Water or to Fire; compromise was a mark of that period. But now, under a Fiery lord of the Aeon, the watery element, so far as water is below the Abyss, is definitely hostile, unless the opposition is the right opposition implied in marriage. But in this card the only question is of the “redemption” of the submerged element, and therefore every‐ thing is reversed. This idea of sacrifice is, in the final analysis, a wrong idea. “I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, whi…
1944 · PDF PAGE 97
…e Early Christians also were accused of worshipping an Ass, or ass‐headed god. See Browning, The Ring and the Book (The Pope). “Hear me, Lord of the Stars, For thee have I worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, joyful Endeavour. Hear me, O lilywhite goat Crisp as a thicket of thorns, With a collar of gold for thy throat, A scarlet bow for thy horns.” The sign of Capricornus is rough, harsh, dark, even blind; the impulse to create takes no account of reason, custom, or foresight. It is divinely unscrupulous, sublimely ca…
1904 · PDF PAGE 92
…d, and the tw ined is the coiled, and the coiled is the twin, and the twin are the stoopers. They think as the Big-Nose-Folk. Save us, O Lord! 1 Nechesh the Serpent and Messiach the Redeemer. 2 Abigenos, Abiagnus, Biagenos, Abiegnus , m etatheses of the nam e of the Mystic Mountain of Initiation. The next pa ragraph has been explained in the essay “Qabalistic Dogma.” 3 The belief in a Trinity—ignorance of Daath. 4 Belief in Monism , or rather Advaitism . Crowley was a Monist only in the modern scientific sense of that word. 5 Confusion of the v…
1944 · PDF PAGE 78
head is the Uraeus serpent, Lord of Life and Death. She is masked, and her expression shows her secret intimate satisfaction in her domination of every element of dis‐equilibrium in the Universe. This condition is symbolized by the Magic Sword which she holds in both hands, and the balances or spheres in which she weighs the Universe, Alpha the First balanced ex‐ actly against Omega the Last. These are the Judex and Testes of Final Judgment; the Testes, in particular, are symbolic of the secret course of judgment whereby all current experience …
1907 · PDF PAGE 163
… From me was born, and shall return to me! I am: for men and beings passionate, For mine own self calm as the river-cleaving Lotus-borne lord of Silence: I create Or discreate, both in my bosom heaving : My lightest look is mother of a Fate : My fingers sapphire-ringed with sky are weaving Ever new flowers and lawns of life, designed Nobler and newer in mine olden mind. Iam: I am not, but all-changing move The worlds evolving in a golden ladder Spiral or helical, fresh gusts of love Filling one sphere from the last sphere grown gladder ; All ga…
1929 · PDF PAGE 480
…ed beneath that patriotic waistcoat. A well-known journalist, who has never written a book on the Musical Glasses, a biography of either Lord Henry Somerset, Canon Aitken or F. E. Smith, any novel about Fenian dynamiters, or any short story about Portuguese matadors, had written various articles for the Patriot Bottomley; and he had not been paid. Now it came to pass in the fulness of time that the Patriot felt it his painful public duty to make weekly attacks upon the firm of Waring and Gillow. A few days before these attacks ceased, which the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 398
…is through this weakness that the perfected man, the Sun, is of dual nature, and his evil twin slays him in his glory. So the triumphant Lord of Heaven, the beloved of Apollo and the Muses is brought down into the dust, and who shall mourn him but his Mother Nature, Venus, the lady of love and sorrow? Well is it if she bears within her the Secret of Resurrection! But even Venus owes all her charm to the swift messenger of the gods, Mercury, the joyous and ambiguous boy whose tricks first scandalize and then delight Olympus. But Mercury, too, is…
1909 · PDF PAGE 12
…arm, and even some accuracy, in order to bring out the one great point. This: That when a Japanese thinks of Hachiman, and a Boer of the Lord of Hosts, they are not two thoughts, but one. The cause of human sectarianism is not lack of sympathy in thought, but in speech ; and this it is our not unambitious design to remedy. Every new sect aggravates the situation. Especially the Americans, grossly and crapulously ignorant as they are of the rudiments of any human language, seize like mongrel curs upon the putrid bones of their decaying monkey-ja…
1944 · PDF PAGE 130
…he ruddy glow of the cup, I may perceive far above, and infinitely great, the vision of Babylon. And the Beast whereon she rideth is the Lord of the City of the Pyra‐ mids, that I beheld in the fourteenth Aethyr. “Now that is gone in the glow of the cup, and the Angel saith: Not as yet mayest thou understand the mystery of the Beast, for it pertaineth not unto the mystery of this Aire, and few that are new‐ born unto Understanding are capable thereof. “The cup glows ever brighter and fierier. All my sense is un steady, being smitten with ecstas…
1944 · PDF PAGE 55
… in consequence, too many leg‐ ends gathered around him; but the important fact for this present purpose is that Zeus was peculiarly the Lord of Air.2 Men who sought the origin of Nature in the earliest days tried to find this origin in one of the Elements. (The history of philosophy describes the controversy between Anaximander and Zenocrates; later, Empedocles.) It may be that the original authors of the Tarot were trying to promulgate 1It was a tribal necessity of the savage wanderers to have an uncivilized and simple Demiurge for god; the c…
1906 · PDF PAGE 268
…8; Crowley, Ogera, i. 216; R. Ischak ben Loria, De Revolu- tiontbus Animarum, cci, 14 (see under mipdp, et seg., g.v. p. iil); O. Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, ed. princ., p. 4; Lev. xvii. Further historical authority may be found in Gibbon and others. 2 Punch, vols. viii., Ixvi. Cf. Art. ‘ Bur- nand” in Dict. Nat. Biog., scil, Viz. a-u-c, xvii, S. P. Q. R. 3 From Z£ucyc. Brit., Art. ‘‘ Existence,’ and ‘* Buddha,’”’ Mahaparinibbana Sutta, to whom the author wishes to express his acknowledg- ments. 4 This joke is the old one. Jones asks Smi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 111
…ved in the grade of 5° = 6ř? Yes or No? If yes (1) Then their origin can spring from a pure source only? If no (2) I degrade you to be a Lord of the Paths in the Portal in the Vault of the Adepts. B. If he reply "yes", the masked man continues: Are you satisfied with the logic of this statement? Do you solemnly promise to cease these unseemly disputes as to the headship of this Order! I for my part can assure you from my own knowledge that D.D.C.F. is really a 7° = 4ř. If yes (3) Then you will sing this paper; it contains a solemn reaffirmation…
1929 · PDF PAGE 269
…nd." I hit back and cut Guillarmod publicly on the twenty-sixth. On the twenty seventh I received the following amazing letter. 27.IX.05 Lord Boleskne, Vos procédés financiers puent l'escroc ŕ plein nez & font honneur ŕ la noblesse irlandaise. Faire signer un papier par lequel je déclare ne plus rien réclamer alors que vous savez pertinemment que j'oublie plusieurs dépenses est un acte aussi honnęte que l'hospitalité écossaise (haggis). Je comprends maintenant les raisons qui vous font rechercher les endroits reculés & inhabités; vous craignez …
1907 · PDF PAGE 29
…ger eye, aware Of misery occult in youth, awake At the first touch of the diviner air Of manhood, that could bane and blessing make, The Lord of Life and Death, the secret of the Snake. The snake of Egypt hath a body twin ; It hath bright wings wherewith it well can fly ; It is of virtue and of bitter sin; It beareth strength and beauty in its eye ; Beneath its tongue are Hate and Misery ; Love in its coils is hidden, and its nature Is double everyway ; dost wonder why The poet worships every scaléd feature, And holds him lordliest yet of every…
1907 · PDF PAGE 245
…his recede, ili. 14 BEFORE the altar of Famine and Desire, i. 181 Before the darkness, earlier than being, i. 105 Behold a virgin to the Lord, i. 83 Behold, Iam; acircle on whose hands, ii. 19 240
1907 · PDF PAGE 116
…nvy, and I resent that when I see it employed as the medium for this. Without your compliment, M. D , I might have left you to crawl on, lord of your own muck-heap ; with it, I take this opportunity of stamping on you. Note.—I had intended ! to include reproduc: tions of photographs of those few statues which I have written upon; but [ prefer to pay my readers the compliment of supposing that they possess the originals in either bronze or marble. 1 J,e., in the large first edition, which con- tains seven of M. Rodin’s water-colours. V2de Biblio…
1906 · PDF PAGE 147
… Awake to wound, awake to heal By wounding, thou resistless sword ! Raise the prone priestcrafts that appeal In agony to their prostrate Lord ! Raise the duped herd—they have suffered long ! Awake, awake, O Sword of Song ! My strength this agony of the age Win through ; my music charm the old Sorrow of years: my warfare wage By iron to an age of gold :— The world is old, and I am strong— Awake, awake, O Sword of Song ! * The name of Siegfried’s sword. INTRODUCTION TO ‘! ASCENSION DAY AND PENTECOST.” Nor a word to-introduce my introduction! Let …
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
…der be chained to my car, The sea roll asunder that bore me, The sky peal my clarion of war ! As a warrior’s my chariot shall gyre! As a lord I will sharpen the lyre ! The stars and the moon shall adore me, Not seeing mean me, but Thyself in the glory, the splendidest star. Around me the planets shall thunder, And earth lift her voice to the sea ; The moon shall be smitten with wonder, The starlight look love unto me. Comets, meteors, storms shall admire, Be mingled in tune to my lyre, The universe broken in sunder,— And I—shall I burn, pass aw…
1929 · PDF PAGE 329
…tographed together, with the baby, at the Dover Street studios. I had written the agony of my soul in Rosa Decidua, which I dedicated to Lord Salvesen (not Salvarsan), the judge who presided at the trial. This poem was printed privately and a copy with the best of the photographs was sent to the judge, with a polite letter of thanks. (It is reprinted in The Winged Beetle, pp. 130-149.) This poem is, perhaps, my high-water mark in realism. It reveals my human self as I had never even attempted to do. I trace my agony through every writhe. I feel…
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
… memory which I possess enabled me years after to recall and interpret his meaning. He used a coarser phrase.) 3. We were told that "the Lord had a special care of the school and brought to light that which was done in darkness," etc., etc. Ad nauseam. "The instrument was on this occasion so-and-so, who had nobly come forward," etc., etc. In other words, hypocrisy and sneaking were the only virtues. Naturally, one of several boys who might be involved in the same offence would take fright and save his skin by sneaking. The informer was always b…