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Page 75 of 781905 · PDF PAGE 141
…t And the poor man’s lamb.” Thou art the man ! Our love must lie beneath thy Thou petty, envious God! sure His brute took Vitter ban! My king, be force shall not to the end endure 3; Some stronger soul than thine shall wrest his crown And thrust him from his own high heaven down To some obscure forgetful hell. Forsake thy hopes in him! we, Rather the dear delights we know and hold ; The first cool kiss, within the water cold That draws its music from some bubbling well, Looks long, looks deadly, looks desirable, The touch that fires, the next k…
1905 · PDF PAGE 115
…ght along, Whose virtue is so bitter strong That he who bathes within them straight Rises an angel to the gate Of heaven and enters as a king. Birds people it on varied wing Of rainbow ; fishes gold and fine Dart like bright stars through fount and brine, And all the sea about our wake Foams with the silver water-snake. There is a palace veiled in mist. A single magic amethyst Built it ; the incense soothly sighs ; So the light steam upon it lies. There thou art dwelling. Iam ware The music of thine eyes and hair Calls to the wind to chase our …
1907 · PDF PAGE 25
…, German, from thy throne ! Leave Greek and Papuan alone! What foreign tongues be worth our own? Is Armour jointed unawares ? Is Canning King, as Carlyle swears? This is indeed Cumaean lore— Ah well, ‘tis pity !—say no more! | Yet to yourself avail. There's one and twenty for your score, Ah, how your divination slewed awry, Ye prurient guttersnipes of prudery ! We know as much, my girl! We laughed, And still can laugh at Barbercraft Plied thus askew. Then leave them so! Evoke the ancient afterglow Rose on our sacramental snow Of silent love, of…
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
…star! I will plunder the traveller from afar ;— Aye ! and find him an ancient sage, . Learn all his wisdom, marry his daughter, Become a king and a mage, Lord of Fire, Earth, Air, and Water ! Ho! my horse, lads! Away! To the moor | Ho! there’s a fox i’ the hole, that’s sure. [Flings swaggering out of the room. SCENE IV. ANGELA, LaDy BAIRD (regarding herself in a mirror). I thank you, M. Davenport !! This smile Is worth a husband. Here, one touch of pink Completes a perfect picture—Are these eyes Dark eno’ to look love or sin, and large (O Atrop…
1944 · PDF PAGE 33
…ervation of any common object is made by two people 1The present author discovered this fact during his study—still incomplete—of the Yî King. of identical sensory reactions from the same spot, it cannot be done directly at the same time; and even the smallest fraction of a second is sufficient to move both object and observer in space. This fact is to be emphasised, because one must not take the Tree of Life as a dead fixed formula. It is in a sense an eternal pattern of the Universe, just because it is infinitely elastic; and it is to be used…
1904 · PDF PAGE 77
70 1902 THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS “LISTEN to the Jataka!” said the Buddha. And all they gave ear. “Long ago, when King Brahmadatta reigned in Benares,1 it came to pass that there lived under his admirable government a weaver named Suraj Ju 2 and his wife Chandi. 3 And in the fulness of her time did she give birth to a man child, and they called him Perdu’ R Abu. 4 Now the child grew, and the tears of the mother fell, and the wrath of the father waxed: for by no means would the boy strive in his trade of weaving. The loom went merrily, but to th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 571
…erwoven, so complete an hieroglyph of an idea which defied my skill to analyse. As is my custom I sought in the Holy Books and in the Yi King for an interpretation of the word in terms of the events of the ensuing six months. I will mention one or two signal examples of the trustworthiness of such divination. 1. The hexagram which defined the scope of the work of the Order was "Kieh" meaning "Regulations". In the first three months I am described as unable to organize the affairs of the Order. But in the last three, a sudden change takes place.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 286
…asserting a medical theory of his own, that plague, cholera, dysentery and typhoid (the four princes of the blood royal in the palace of King Death) were merely varieties of malarial fever. I said scornfully, "Next time you get cholera, I hope they'll give you quinine." The joke came three days later, when he died of cholera. I do not know whether they gave him quinine or not. Bhamo is a delightful outpost. One is outside the malarial stewing of the jungle. But I got to hate it, as I wanted to proceed to China, and was held up for seventeen day…
1944 · PDF PAGE 51
…liande. Some scholars suppose that the Welsh form of this tradition, which lends much of its impor‐ tance and its beauty to the Cycle of King Arthur, is even earlier. This is in this place irrelevant; but it is vital to realize that the legend, like that of The Fool, is purely pagan in origin, and comes to us through Latin‐Christian recensions: there is no trace of any such matters in the Nordic mythologies. (Percivale and Galahad were “innocent”: this is a condition of the Guard‐ ian ship of the Grail). Note also that Monsalvat, mountain of Sa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 243
…or’s works in gold; back of cover ‘‘ The | Sword | of| Song.’’ Price ros. od. [GOETIA: 1904] The Book of the | Goetia | of | Solomon the King | translated into the English Tongue bya | Dead Hand | and | adorned with divers other matters germane | delightful to the wise | the whole | edited, verified, introduced and com- mented | by | Aleister Crowley | Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth| Boles- kine,-Foyers, Inverness | 1904. Collation :—Demy 4to, pp. ix+65, consisting of Half-title, Invocation in Greek on re- verse; Frontispiece; ‘…
1929 · PDF PAGE 439
…s previously with John Yarker. Yarker pointed out that their only real authority was derived from their agreement with him, since he, working under a genuine charter, had "heled" their breach with antiquity by recognizing them. They replied that they relied on the forged document. He said that he would cut away the ground from under their feet by publishing the proofs that their charter was worthless. Then they said that they {696} knew as well as he did that the document was forged; but they didn't care, because they had induced the Prince of …
1906 · PDF PAGE 269
… every word in this manner in order (as he supposed) to attain a reputation like that of Max Miiller e¢ hoc genus omne.) 2 Auberon Quin, King of England, in a novelette called ‘‘ The Napoleon of Notting Hiil.”’ 3 Wells, ‘‘ There are better dreams’; but it turns out to mean that the young man is drowned, and at Folkestone too. 4 Cf. Prof. Rice. ‘'The waters of the Hoang-Ho rushing by intoned the Kung.” my breeches— worse than Plato’s in his bonnet. -M. A Scottish sceptic ! S. A Wee Free, Mysticus. . A gaelic- speaking Calvinist with three thousa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 8
…le, authorized version, was literally true, having been dictated by the Holy Ghost himself to scribes incapable of even clerical errors. King James' translators enjoyed an equal immunity. It was considered unusual --- and therefore in doubtful taste --- to appeal to the original texts. All other versions were regarded as inferior; the Revised Version in particular savoured of heresy. John Nelson Darby, the founder of the Plymouth Brethren, being a very famous biblical scholar, had been invited to sit on the committee and had refused on the grou…
1944 · PDF PAGE 24
…g the Tarot, then proceeded to make pictures of these extremely abstract ideas of Father, Mother, Son and Daughter, and they called them King, Queen, Prince and Princess. It is confus‐
1909 · PDF PAGE 13
…early Genesis, that lawgiver of Leviticus, that war-god of Joshua, that Phallus of the depopulated slaves of the Egyptians, that jealous King-God of the times of the Kings, that more spiritual conception of the Captivity, only invented when all temporal hope was lost, that medizval battle- ground of cross-chopped logic, that Being stripped of all his attributes and assimi- lated to Parabrahma and the Absolute of the Philosopher? | Satan, again, who in Job is merely Attorney-General and prosecutes for the Crown, acquires in time all the obloquy …
1906 · PDF PAGE 235
…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 quite roughly by the arm, she Put It To Him Straight. ‘O Madam !’ said Indra. ‘‘This part of the story has been told before—about Joseph; but Bhavani simply lolled her ‘tongue out, opened her mouth, and gulped him down at a swallow. ‘fJehjaour simply wallowed. Indra had passed in seven days. X. “There is only one more birth,’ he groaned. ‘This time we must win or die.’ ‘Goetia! expects every God to do…
1929 · PDF PAGE 509
…uctably bound thereby, I could stand aloof to some extent. I could consider myself as a Magician pledged to the Law, accepting it and working by its formula: but not identified with its promulgation to the exclusion of all other aims. My formal attainment of the Grade involved my identifying myself with the word Thelema. My personality must be completely merged in it. On realizing this I realized also how carefully I had avoided compromising myself in this respect. I had never openly proclaimed the Law in the first person, as one might say, eit…
1929 · PDF PAGE 335
…friendship were indeed fertile. We saw each other nearly every day and worked together in perfect harmony. In "The Temple of Solomon the King" Fuller's style was already much improved, though the story of my life might have been set forth more simply. Though his tendency to burst out into ecstatic rhapsodies resulted in disordering the proportions of its events, in the main his task was admirably accomplished, and there are passages of astonishing sublimity, not only in the matter of language but in that of thought. His point of view was indeed…
1904 · PDF PAGE 81
…. “While he was thus musing, Bhavani got fairly mad at him. The Spretæ Injuria Formæ gnawed her vitals with pangs unassuageable : so, shaking him roughly by the arm, she Put It To Him Straight. ‘O Madam !’ said Indra. “This part of the story has been told before—about Joseph; but Bhavani simply lolled her tongue out, opened her mouth, and gulped him down at a swallow. “Jehjaour simply wallowed. Indra had passed in seven days. X. “ ‘There is only one more birth,’ he groaned. ‘This time we must win or die.’ ‘Goetia1 expects every God to do his du…
1911 · PDF PAGE 309
… Lévi NOSTRODAMUS.—The True Prophecies and Prognostications of Michael Nostrodamus, Physician to Henry II., Francis IL, and Charles IX., Kings of France, and one of the best Astronomers that ever were ; a Work full of Curiosity and Learning, Translated and Commented by THorxiLus GARIENCERES, M.D. Folio, fine portraitfrontis- biece by Dolle, orig. calf, fine sound copy, rare in this state, 1672. 455 THE KEY OF SOLOMON THE KING (Clavicula Salomonis), translated and edited from Ancient MSS, in the British Museum, by S. Lippett. MacGrecor-Matuers, …