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Page 72 of 911906 · PDF PAGE 195
… of his beloved mistresses he cries, **T was contracted to them both: all three Now marry in an instant At the moment of death his great nature (self-accusatory, as the finest so often are) asserts itself, and he forgives even the vilest of the human race,—“‘ I pant for life: some good I mean to do Despite of mine own nature.! Quickly send, Be brief in it, to the castle; for my writ Is on the life of Lear and on Cordelia. Nay, send intime" (IL. 245-249). And in that last supreme hour of agony he claims Regan as his wife, as if by accident; it i…
1909 · PDF PAGE 271
…three above- mentioned paths connecting Malkuth with the above Sephiroth, while the cross is the hidden DiacRam 13. wisdom of the Divine nature which can be ‘ ae ‘The Altar Symbol DiacraM 12. obtained by their aid. The two construed in the ‘The Flaming Sword, mean: LIFE IN LIGHT.” 1° = 10° Ritual. “This grade is especially referred to the Element Earth, and therefore, one of its principal emblems is the Great Watch-tower on the Terrestrial Tablet of the North. . . .” . You will observe that the Hermetic Cross, whichis also called Fylfat, . . is…
1909 · PDF PAGE 271
…three above- mentioned paths connecting Malkuth with the above Sephiroth, while the cross is the hidden DiacRam 13. wisdom of the Divine nature which can be ‘ ae ‘The Altar Symbol DiacraM 12. obtained by their aid. The two construed in the ‘The Flaming Sword, mean: LIFE IN LIGHT.” 1° = 10° Ritual. “This grade is especially referred to the Element Earth, and therefore, one of its principal emblems is the Great Watch-tower on the Terrestrial Tablet of the North. . . .” . You will observe that the Hermetic Cross, whichis also called Fylfat, . . is…
1930 · PDF PAGE 96
…té sériés” and “Cantorian continuity” is to schoolboy arith- metic. Each implies the other, though by that one may explore the essential nature of existence, and by this a pawnbroker’s profits. This then is the true aim of the Adept in this whole operation, to assimilate himself to his Angel by continuai conscious com¬ munion. For his Angel is an intelligible image of his own true Will, to do which is the whole of the law of his Being. Also the Angel appeareth in Tiphereth, which is the heart of the Ruach, and thus the Centre of Gravity of the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 319
…st grins the truth! The King-Ghost boasts eternal usurpature; ....For in this pool of tears his fingers fret I had imagined, by enduring nature, ....The twin gods "Thus-will-I" and "May-be-yet". ........God, keep us most from ill, ........What time the King-Ghost grips the will! Silver and rose and gold what flame resurges? ....What living light pours forth in emerald waves? What inmost Music drowns the clamorous dirges? {520} Shrieking they fly, the King-Ghost and his slaves. Lord, let Thy Ghost indwell, And keep us from the power of Hell! Ame…
1929 · PDF PAGE 238
…entity of himself with all other living things had come to him, and raised him to a great Adeptship. But there was one to comprehend the nature of that initiation. As Cyril walked, leaning on the arm of Sister Cybele, to the room appointed for his prescribed solitude, he beheld a great light. It shone serenely from the eyes of the Mahathera Phang.
1929 · PDF PAGE 167
… in favour of the document, but failed to explain how the fortress was to be reduced from the inside. He was clear in his mind as to the nature of Grey's operation; he saw perfectly that Lisa herself was the weak point in it; but he did not see how to get at her. He continued in his bitter mood until the early hours, and he was interrupted by the return of his wife from her miserable night's trudging. She put two francs on the table without a single word as soon as she entered. "Is that all?" snarled Douglas. "You ought to be getting fives agai…
1930 · PDF PAGE 37
…tion of a third identical expression whose function should be to transmute them. Such a term must be in itself a mode of Naught, and its nature cannot encroach on the perfections of Not-Being, LA, or of Being, AL. It must be purely Nothing- Matter, so as to create a Matter-in-Motion which is a function of “Something”. Thus ShT is Motion in its double phase, an inertia composed of two opposite currents, and each current is also thus polarized. Sh is Heaven and Earth, T Male and Female j ShT is Spirit and Matter- one is the Word of Liberty and Lo…
1930 · PDF PAGE 38
… the Lord ! His sister has seduced her brother Beast, shaming the Sun with her sin; she has mastered the Lion and enchanted the Serpent. Nature is outraged by Magick ; man is bestialized and woman defiled. The conj miction produces a monster; it, affirms régression of types. Instead of a man-God conceived of the Spirit of God by a virgin in innocence, we are asked to adore the bastard of a whore and a brute, begotten in shamefullest sin and born in most blasphemous bliss. This is in fact the formula of our Magick ; we insist that ail acts must …
1996 · PDF PAGE 103
…ous of itself wears off. It becomes aware of the external imperfection of marrons glacés; they no longer represent its infinitely varied nature. It therefore rejects them, and creates a new form of itself, such as Nightgowns with pale yellow ribbons or Amber Cigarettes. In the same way a poet or painter, wishing to express Beauty, is impelled to choose a particular form; with luck, this is at first able to recompose in him what he feels; but sooner or later he finds that he has failed to include certain elements of himself, and he must needs em…
1929 · PDF PAGE 51
…f the sorrowing Isis and of the triumphant Osiris, not forgetting their link in the destroyer Apophis, there remains no secret veiled in Nature. He cries that name of God which throughout History has been echoed by one religion to another, the infinité swelling paean I.A.O. ! 2 1. See “The Book of Lies”, Liber 333, for several sermons to this effect. The whole theory of Death must be sought in Liber CXI Aleph. 2. This name. I. A. O. is qabalistically identical with that of The Beast and with His number 666, so that he who invokes the former inv…
1929 · PDF PAGE 73
… ail its adventures, and in ail its disguises. We see moreover that it can only make use of its powers, fulfil the possi¬ bilités of its nature, and satisfy its équations, by thus combining with its counterparts. Its existence as a separate substance is evidence of its subjection to stress; and this is felt as the ache of an incompréhensible yearning until it réalisés that every expérience is a relief, an expression of itself; and that it cannot be injured by aught that may befall it. In the Aeon of Osiris it was indeed' realised that Man must …
1902 · PDF PAGE 146
…" " Always melodiously . . . sometimes nonsensically." "A sinister rival to the mutoscope." "Self-revelation of an intensely p.issionate nature, expressed with a rare command of poetic form . . . largely Pagan in sentiment." "Clever imitations of a brilliant yet somewhat leprous style . . . gilded pastiness. " " Veils a morbidly exaggerated Catholicism under an ultra- Egyptian passion for death. . . . Aleister Crowley is a true poet." " We quote . . . There is a good deal of similar drivel further on." " Real and striking gifts both of im.igina…
1929 · PDF PAGE 56
… in a particular place in Hell, or if some other magician îs conjuring him so that he cannot comc, then let him send a spirit of simîlar nature, or otherwisé avoid the dif- ficulty. But of course so vulgar a conception would not occur to the student of the Qabalah. It is just possible that the magi wrote their conjurations on this crude hypothesis in order to avoid the clouding of the mind by doubt and metaphysical spéculation. He who became the Master Therion was once confronted by this very difficulty. Being determined to instruct mankind, He…
1930 · PDF PAGE 21
…ithout keeping a record is like tiying to run a business without book-keeping. There are a great manv people who quite misunderstand the nature of Magick. They hâve an idea that it is something vague and unreal, instead ot being, as it is, a direct means of coming into contact with reauty. It is these people who pay themselves with phrases, who are always using long words with no definite connotation, who p aster themselves with pompous titles and décorations which mean nothing whatever. With such people we hâve nothing to do But to those who s…
1904 · PDF PAGE 54
… his beloved mistresses he cries, “I was contracted to them both : all three Now marry in an instant——” At the moment of death his great nature (self-accusatory, as the finest so often are) asserts itself, and he forgives even the vilest of the human race,—“I pant for life : some good I mean to do Despite of mine own nature. 1 Quickly send, Be brief in it, to the castle ; for my w rit Is on the life Lear and on Cordelia. Nay, send in time.” (ll. 245-249). And in that last supreme hour of agony he claims Regan as his wife, as if by accident ; it…
1929 · PDF PAGE 20
… same moment as the other. Lisa had risen from the divan. She could see that some intricacy was on foot, but could form no notion of its nature. When the newcomers were seated, Lisa found that she was expected to regale them with the news of Paris. It was rather a relief to her to get away
1996 · PDF PAGE 13
…f this Book. He writes: The Qabalists conceal the value of it in the name of alhim, which is God considered as the cooperative forces of Nature, and by taking the significant figure in the conventional value of these letters you obtain the number 3.1415. But this is incorrect. In The Book of the Law (ch. 3, v. 47) “this circle squared in its failure is a key also.” By “in its failure” is implied, as Aiwaz knew, that the figures were not fully cor rect. But in the concealed collocation of letters on that page is found the figure 3.141593, which…
1996 · PDF PAGE 130
…le for the bad servants. It is essential to teach the masters that each one must discover his own will, and do it. There is no reason in nature for cut-throat competition. All this has been explained previously in other connections; here it is only neces sary to emphasize the point. It must be clearly understood that every man must find his own happiness in a purely personal way. Our troubles have been caused by the assumption that everybody wanted the same things, and thereby the supply of those things has become artificially limited; even th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 146
…. We respect the Will-to-Live; we should respect the Will-to Die. The race is auto-intoxicated by suppressing the excretory processes of Nature. Each case must of course be judged on its merits. His neigh bours do well to assist one who is weak by accident or misfor tune, if he wishes to recover. But it is a crime against the state and against the individuals in question to hinder the gambler, the drunkard, the voluptuary, the congenital defective, from drifting to death, unless they prove by their own dogged determination to master their cir…