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Page 72 of 831929 · PDF PAGE 158
…elf with him, and thus constitute a subtler, stronger and more complete invocation of him that by any direct address. I might even go so far as to say that the form of the latter implies the consciousness of duality and therefore tends to inhibit identification. My predilection is due to the fact that I am primarily a lyric poet. My deepest natural tendency is to exalt my soul by what I may call straightforward intoxication. Thus Shelly and Swinburne come more natural to {273} me than Aeschylus and Shakespeare, who intoxicate the reader by tran…
1929 · PDF PAGE 440
…profess to do; they are meaningless conventions. 13. With the rarest exceptions, freemasons make no attempt to keep their obligations so far as the moral principles inculcated are concerned. For instance, the Master Mason is sworn to respect the chastity of the wife, sister and daughter of his Brother. Those who do so probably respect the chastity of any woman irrespective of her male connections. 14. Freemasons, generally, but especially in England and America, resent any attempt to take masonry seriously. I may quote an essay by a Past Grand …
1907 · PDF PAGE 163
…g in a golden ladder Spiral or helical, fresh gusts of love Filling one sphere from the last sphere grown gladder ; All gateways leading far to the above. Even as the bright coilsof the emerald adder Climb one by one in glory of sunlight, climb My children to me up the steep of Time. Iam: before me all the years are dead, And all the fiery locks of sunrise woven Into the gold and scarlet of my head: In me all skies and seas are shaken and cloven : All life and light and love about me shed Begotten in me, in my moving moven, Are as my tears: all…
1906 · PDF PAGE 206
…th a bitch ! I was ever a hog ; Muck? Iam one with it! Let me die like a dog; Die, and be done with it! * Famous Adelphi villain. II, As far as reason goes, There's hope for mortals yet : When nothing is that knows, What is there to regret? Our consciousness depends On matter'in the brain; When that rots out, and ends, There ends the hour of pain. III, If we can trust to this, Why, dance and drink and revel! Great scarlet mouths to kiss, And sorrow to the devil ! If pangs ataxic creep, Or gout, or stone, annoy us, Queen Morphia, grant thy sleep…
1906 · PDF PAGE 282
…s, define me this Dhyana. Myst. The method is to concentrate the attention on any object (though in Hindu estimation some objects may be far more suitable than others, I believe Science would say any object) Scept. That was my method. Myst. Suddenly the object disappears: in its stead arises a great glory, characterised by a feeling of calm, yet of intense, of un- imaginable bliss. Scept. That was my result. But, more re- markable still, the change was not from the consciousness ‘‘I behold a blue pig’’—the object I have ever affected—to ‘‘I beh…
1929 · PDF PAGE 480
…own him intimately since the autumn of 1898. We had been co-workers in the most arduous task known to mankind: that which Bergson --- so far as his ignorance allows --- {758} described as "creating oneself a God". But he had weakened in late years. He had married. Life to his optimistic eyes looked like a green field with a watering trough. Death in his mind became inseparably connected with the idea of mutton chops.
1907 · PDF PAGE 131
…superseding Swinburne. WHAT ’8 ON says: This work is called "a critical essay on the writings of Aleister Crowley." Yet it is, in truth, far more than this, being a highly original study of morals and religion by a new writer, who is as entertaining as the average novelist is dull. Nowadays human thought has taken a higher place in the creation; our emo tions are weary of bad baronets and stolen wills; they are now only excited by spiritual crises, catastrophes of the reason, triumphs of the intelligence. In these 3
1904 · PDF PAGE 65
…bitch ! I was ever a hog ; Muck ? I am one with it ! Let me die like a dog ; Die, and be done with it ! * Famous Adelphi villain. II. As far as reason goes, There’s hope for mortals yet : When nothing is that knows, What is there to regret ? Our consciousness depends On matter in the brain ; When that rots out, and ends, There ends the hour of pain. III. If we can trust to this, Why, dance and drink and revel ! Great scarlet mouths to kiss, And sorrow to the devil ! If pangs ataxic creep, Or gout, or stone, annoy us, Queen Morphia, grant thy sl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 432
…rst-rate lyrics, a few more or less important essays, such as "Energized Enthusiasm", but on the whole, the virtue had gone out of me as far as big conceptions and elaborate executions were concerned. The campaign of 1911 had exhausted my heavy ammunition for the time being. None the less, I could point to one solid achievement on the large scale, as I must consider it, although it is composed of more or less disconnected elements. I refer to The Book of Lies. In this there are ninety-three chapters: we count as a chapter the two pages filled r…
1905 · PDF PAGE 238
…! And I— yes, goddess ! in this passionate Life in our secret mountain, well I know Thy beauty, and Thy love (although they be Infinite, far beyond the mortal mind, Body, or soul to touch, to comprehend, And dwell in), that the utter intimate Knowledge of Thee, if once I ravelled out Thy secret, laid Thee naked to the bone— Nay, to the marrow ! were to come, aware, Face to face full with deity itself. And this I strive at! Therefore is my love Wholly in tune with that concealed desire Bred in each mortal, though he never know (Few do know), to …
1944 · PDF PAGE 130
…et thy kisses wanton me unto death, that even I, thy cup‐bearer, may understand. “Now, through the 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…
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
…was regarded as an ordeal; this was a wicked world and the best thing that could happen to anyone was "to go to be with Christ, which is far better". On the other hand, the unsaved went to the lake of fire and brimstone which burneth for ever and ever. Edward Crowley used to give away tracts to strangers, besides distributing them by thousands through the post; he was also constantly preaching to vast crowds, all over the country. It was, indeed, the only logical occupation for a humane man who believed that even the noblest and best of mankind…
1929 · PDF PAGE 111
111 Anyhow, as far as I was concerned, Mathers was my only link with the Secret Chiefs to whom I was pledged. I wrote to him offering to place myself and my fortune unreservedly at his disposal; if that meant giving up the Abra-Melin Operation for the present, all right. The result of this offer was recorded as follows: D.D.C.F. accepts my services, therefore do I rejoice that my sacrifice is accepted. Therefore do I again postpone the Operation of Abra-Melin the Mage, having by God's Grace formulated even in this a new link with the Higher and…
1944 · PDF PAGE 179
… The position is doubly unbalanced; off the mid‐ dle pillar, and very low down on the Tree. It is taking a very great risk to descend so far into illusion, and, above all, to do it by frantic struggle. Netzach pertains to Venus; Netzach pertains to Earth; and the greatest catastrophe that can befall Venus is to lose her Heavenly origin. The four Sevens are not capable of bringing any comfort; each one represents the degeneration of the element. Its utmost weakness is exposed in every case. The Seven of Wands is called Valour. Energy feels itsel…
1906 · PDF PAGE 221
…d our Father being cunning to place Aleph over Tau read this reverse, and so beheld Eden, even now and in the flesh. Whence he sojourned far, and came to a great Emperor, by whom he was well received, and from whom he gat great gifts. And the Emperor (who is Solomon) told him of Sheba’s Land and of one fairest of women there enthroned. So he journeyed thither, and for four years and seven months abode with her as paramour and light-of-love, for she was gracious to him and showed him those things that the Emperor had hidden; even the cubical sto…
1929 · PDF PAGE 269
… interest to bring about a European war. On the twenty-third Guillarmod came to see me and ask me to say no more in the public press, as far as he was concerned. On the twenty-fourth we discussed the whole matter. He admitted that he had been in the wrong and excused himself (on the ground of ill-health and nervousness) for his behaviour. I thought I knew him; he was simply a fool but incapable of malice or treachery. On the twenty-fifth he and Righi made a violent attack on me in the columns of a newspaper, but "out of their own mouths"! Their…
1906 · PDF PAGE 235
…ong time, conversed of the weather, the crops: the affaire Humbert, and the law in relation to motor-cars, with ease and affability. But far was it from Indra’s pious mind to flirt with his distinguished guest! Rather, he thought of the hollow nature of the Safe, the change of money and of position; the sorrow of the too confiding bankers, and above all the absence of an Ego in the Brothers Crawford. ‘While he was thus musing, Bhavani got fairly mad at him. The Spretae Injuria Formae gnawed her vitals with pangs un- assuageable: so, shaking him…
1907 · PDF PAGE 245
…iii. 58 An island of the mist, i. 102 Another day rose of unceasing fire, li, 70 As, after long observation and careful study, 1, 223 As far as normal reasoning goes, il. 173 As for a quiet talk on physics, ii. 150 Ashes and dust, i. 112 As I one day to nature made lament, ii. 18 As I pass in my flight, iii, 174 As I sit in the sound, ili. 154 As some lone mountebank of the stage, li. 52 -As the tides invisible of ocean, iii. 131 At last I met a maniac, ii. 165 At last we arrive at the end, ii. 194 At least your faith should be content, ii. 163…
1907 · PDF PAGE 116
…re of their detestable presence, the heel is ground down in one generous impulse, and the slimy thing is no more. Decomposition, already far advanced, may be trusted speedily to resolve the remains into the ultimate dust of things, mere matter for some new and hope- fuller avatar. Such a worm are you, M. D , who once, as above described, voided your noxious nastiness in my presence, trusting to con- ciliate me by the intended compliment that my poems on Rodin were from myself and not from him, and that any other statues would have done as well.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 231
231 And that is why I sit and spoil So much clean paper with such toil By Kandy Lake in far Ceylon. I have my old pyjamas on: I shake my soles from Britain's dust; I shall not go there till I must; And when I must! --- I hold my nose. Farewell, you filthy-minded people! I know a stable from a steeple. Farewell, my decent-minded friends! I know arc lights from candle-ends. Farewell-a poet begs your alms, Will walk awhile among the palms, An honest love, a loyal kiss, Can show him better worlds than this; Nor will he come again to yours While he …