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Page 73 of 1051954 · PDF PAGE 151
…again, riding upon a dolphin. Now again I see those wandering souls, that have sought restricted love, and have not understood that the "word of sin is restriction. " It is very curious; they seem to be looking for one another, or for something, all the time, constantly hurrying about. But they knock up against one another and yet will not see one another, or cannot see Qne another, because they are so shut up in their cloaks. And a voice sounds: It is most terrible for the one that hath shut himself up and made himself fast against the univers…
1954 · PDF PAGE 162
… manipulation of energies ineffably secret and most delicately sensitive; it compares with the operations of ordinary Magick as the last word in artillery does with the blunderbuss! What is the damn thing, anyway?
1929 · PDF PAGE 147
…ority of people are absolutely impervious to facts. Test the average man by asking him to listen to a simple sentence which contains one word with associations to excite his prejudices, fears or passions --- he will fail to understand what you have said and reply by expressing his emotional reaction to the critical word. It was long before I understood this fact of psychology. Even to this day, it surprises me that there should be minds {253} which are unable to accept any impression equably and critically. I have heard many great orators. The …
1929 · PDF PAGE 247
…s the most frightful indictment of immorality that has ever been penned. Yet to the Anglo-Saxon it is "immoral". They don't understand a word, but it makes them think of their own beastliness; with the result that they discuss it furtively, licking their lips, and cry in the market place that it is an offence to their purity. I have never been able to comply with these foully perverse conventions. I face anything frankly and the phantasm fades. I do not permit any author to play on my passions. I read a book with my soul, and only those books a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 20
…rything I saw to its appropriate idea. I would walk out of the door of my house and reflect that door is Daleth. and house Beth; now the word dob is Hebrew for bear. and has the number 6. which refers to the Sun. Then you come to the fence of your property and that is Cheth-number 8. number of Tarot Trump 7, which is the Chariot; so you begin to look about for your car. Then you come to the street and the first house you see is number 86, and that is Elohim. and it is built of red brick which reminds you of Mars and the Blasted Tower, and so on…
1929 · PDF PAGE 81
…opes from all sorts of positions, and to pick myself up into any other desired position; to stop, to increase my pace or to jump, at the word of command. Why "starting from all sorts of positions"? The idea was that one might conceivably fall on to a snow slope or have to jump to it from a great height, and it was therefore necessary to know how to deal with such situations1. {151} 1 See The Diary of a Drug Fiend, pp. 159-60. The combination was ideal. Eckenstein had all the civilized qualities and I all the savage ones. He was a finished athle…
1909 · PDF PAGE 180
…, “Shiloh shall come” (the initial of which Mystery-Name is w = 300). And in the Grecian tongue it is written: “In the beginning was the Word,” &c., which is Aoyos (A = 30). But the best of all the Examples is found in the Holy Tetragram mm. For we may regard this venerable name as typical of the Father and the Mother, and so divided into m and m.{ Now if into the midst of this divided Name * 3, the Magus of Power in Taro = Will. + Ritual of the Path of the Daughter of the Firmament. t For it is written (Genesis v. 1, 2): : ONI Aap IAP INN Awy …
1909 · PDF PAGE 180
…, “Shiloh shall come” (the initial of which Mystery-Name is w = 300). And in the Grecian tongue it is written: “In the beginning was the Word,” &c., which is Aoyos (A = 30). But the best of all the Examples is found in the Holy Tetragram mm. For we may regard this venerable name as typical of the Father and the Mother, and so divided into m and m.{ Now if into the midst of this divided Name * 3, the Magus of Power in Taro = Will. + Ritual of the Path of the Daughter of the Firmament. t For it is written (Genesis v. 1, 2): : ONI Aap IAP INN Awy …
1912 · PDF PAGE 51
… ! I—Ed.), “and she, ap- parently inspired, says, ‘Shoot it I’ (I suppose she means the reason, but, 01 course, she did not understand a word of what I had been saying. I only told her for the sake 01 formulating my thought clearly in words.) I reply, ‘If I only had a gun.’ This makes me think 01 Siegfried and the Forging of the Sword. Can I heat my broken Meditation-Sword in the furnace of this despair? Is Discipline the Hammer? At present I am more like Mime than Siegfried; a gibbering 11
1912 · PDF PAGE 51
… ! I—Ed.), “and she, ap- parently inspired, says, ‘Shoot it I’ (I suppose she means the reason, but, 01 course, she did not understand a word of what I had been saying. I only told her for the sake 01 formulating my thought clearly in words.) I reply, ‘If I only had a gun.’ This makes me think 01 Siegfried and the Forging of the Sword. Can I heat my broken Meditation-Sword in the furnace of this despair? Is Discipline the Hammer? At present I am more like Mime than Siegfried; a gibbering 11
1922 · PDF PAGE 316
…hat, once more,” he said calmly, “is simply because you are a sick woman as much as he is a sick man.” “So it’s honourable to break your word to a sick woman, is it?” she flashed back. like a tigress. A curious smile curled his lips. “Well, what does Sir Peter say ? ” he asked with a kind of lazy humour. I suddenly became acutely conscious of what a ridiculous figure I was cutting, sitting there like a sick monkey with a towel round my head. I tore it off and dashed it to the ground. Lala came forward immediately and picked it up. I felt the ac…
1929 · PDF PAGE 333
…rom the Cairo working.) By the time he had written this chapter, I had brought him to see that materialism, in any ordinary sense of the word, was thoroughly unsatisfactory as an explanation of the universe; but he was not in the least inclined to accept any theories which might involve belief of any kind in a spiritual hierarchy. In the course of our argument I had myself been made uneasy by a subconscious feeling that, watertight as my system was in itself, certain legitimate inferences might be drawn from it which I was not drawing. The Book…
1922 · PDF PAGE 103
The Ghiter on the Snow 89 this; that we seemed to be endowed with what I must call the power of telepathy, for want of a better word. We didn’t need to explain ourselves to each other. Our minds worked together like those of two first- class three-quarters who are accustomed to play together. Part of the enjoyment, moreover, came from the knowledge that we were infinitely superior to anything we might happen to meet. The mere fact that we had so much more time to think than other people assured us of this. We were like a leash of greyhounds, an…
1944 · PDF PAGE 11
…t is to all intent an original work, including the latest discoveries in modern science, mathematics, philosophy, and anthropology; in a word, to reproduce the whole of his Magical Mind pictorially on the skeleton of the ancient Qabalistic tradition. He accepted this colossal burden; it renewed his energy and his enthusiasm. Yet the burden was sore: the anticipated three months’ work extended to five years. Her success as his interpreter surpasses belief. She had to work from his very rough sketches, often from mere descriptions, or from readin…
1954 · PDF PAGE 27
… reasons that the eleven volumes of The Equinox were so zealously sought after throughout the years. In letter 75, Crowley has written a word or two about what he intended to accomplish in these books. What he has to say is so interesting that the following is quoted from that letter. My special job was to preserve the Sacred Tradition, so that a new Renaissance might in due season rekindle the hidden Light. I was accordingly to make a Quintessence
1922 · PDF PAGE 374
…the principals of the Abbey were already robed for the ceremony ; but they furnished themselves with four weapons—a lance, a chalice, a sword, and a disk—from a pillar which had a door and a staircase which formed the only means of access to the upper rooms. Basil seated himself in one of the thrones, Sister Athena in another; while a very old man with a white beard, and a young woman whom we had not yet seen, took their places in the other two. Without formality of any sort beyond a series of knocks, the ceremony began. The impression was over…
1954 · PDF PAGE 16
…sons. The Sanctuary must be purged . ... He is not even a free man, but the hired tool of a woman. ... This woman-pollution to that pure word/-comes to us from the nauseous fraud by which she made herself the real if not the nominal mistress of the T.S. . .. This is the secret object of the attempt to hold the election of S. G.M. G. without due notice, to drag our holy Rite into the mire, to chain it to the chariot wheels of a Krishnamurti, to make us pandars to the antique and impotent uncleanness of a senile sodomite. Apart from the contempt …
1954 · PDF PAGE 308
… be. Or perhaps "that combination which is unified by Ahamkara, the 'Ego-making faculty'." Decidedly not illuminating! One can't use the word as an ordinary noun . Skeat doesn't even label it as such. One can hardly say: Mr. Blenkinsop's self is good, or rheumatic, or gone for a walk. It makes nonsense . Yet Philosophy has picked out this hapless Tetragrammaton, and made endless mud pies with it! When one says: "I fell and hurt myself," it's only a conventional abbreviation. One means "my nose," or "my elbow," as the case may be! No, I can't co…
1910 · PDF PAGE 92
THE EQUINOX coming straight from the Sham Bazaar, retail their wretched bak bak to their sheep-headed followers as the eternal word of Brahman—“ The shower from the Highest!” And, not in- frequently, end in silent meditation within the illusive walls of Wormwood Scrubbs. The East, like the West, has for long lain under the spell of that potent but Middle-class Magician—St. Shame- faced sex; and the whole of its literature swings between the two extremes of Paederasty and Brahmacharya. Even the great science of Yoga has not remained unpolluted b…
1910 · PDF PAGE 92
THE EQUINOX coming straight from the Sham Bazaar, retail their wretched bak bak to their sheep-headed followers as the eternal word of Brahman—“ The shower from the Highest!” And, not in- frequently, end in silent meditation within the illusive walls of Wormwood Scrubbs. The East, like the West, has for long lain under the spell of that potent but Middle-class Magician—St. Shame- faced sex; and the whole of its literature swings between the two extremes of Paederasty and Brahmacharya. Even the great science of Yoga has not remained unpolluted b…