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Page 75 of 901929 · PDF PAGE 105
…s limited by his inordinate conceit. He hated Cyril Grey as much as he hated any one, because his books had been reviewed by that bright spirit, in his most bitterly ironical strain, in the Emerald Tablet, the famous literary review edited by Jack Flynn; and Grey had been at particular pains to point out elementary blunders in translation which showed that Arthwait was comically ignorant of the [151] languages in which he boasted scholarship. But he was not the man for the
1996 · PDF PAGE 297
…Charles Howard 52 hippomanes 140 Hiram 163 holy ghost 31 Holy Guardian Angel 29,31.134,163 knowledge and conversation of the 31,184 holy spirit 63 homosexuality 51,52,54.68 Horus 31,47,170 as Hoor 47 Hosea 33,180 humanitarianism 102,157 humility 152 Huxley, Thomas Henry, Evolution and Ethics 161 Hyacinth 63 hypnotism 98 iao 30 Ibsen, Henrik 18,109 immortality 92,103,124,127 imperfection 33,105,118 consciousness of 63,104,152 incarnation, see reincarnation incest 55, 180 India 144 infinite space 28,33
1907 · PDF PAGE 217
…lse in him Is hidden: he the secret and the self Shrined central in. this orb of eyeless Fate, | Phantom, elusive, permanent. In all, In spirit and in matter immanent, He also is the all, and all is ill. Three forms and functions hath the soul; the sea Murmurs their names repeating: Marts call The soul as it engendereth things below ; Neptune the soul that contemplateth things Above ; and Ocean as itself retracts Itself into itself: choose ye of these !? But I hymn Pan. Awake, O lyre, awake ! As if it were for the last time, awake ! [He sings. …
1909 · PDF PAGE 329
…not apart, seeing that the Elohim took possession of his being.” This is also a great mystery which the Adeptus Minor must know: How the Spiritual Consciousness can act around and beyond the Sphere of Sensation, “ Thought ” isa mighty force when projected with all the strength of the Lower Will, under the Guidance of the Reasoning Faculty, and illuminated by the Higher Will. Therefore, it is, that in thine occult working thou art advised to invoke the Divine and Angelic Names, so that thy Lower Will may wildingly receive the influx of the Highe…
1909 · PDF PAGE 329
…not apart, seeing that the Elohim took possession of his being.” This is also a great mystery which the Adeptus Minor must know: How the Spiritual Consciousness can act around and beyond the Sphere of Sensation, “ Thought ” isa mighty force when projected with all the strength of the Lower Will, under the Guidance of the Reasoning Faculty, and illuminated by the Higher Will. Therefore, it is, that in thine occult working thou art advised to invoke the Divine and Angelic Names, so that thy Lower Will may wildingly receive the influx of the Highe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
…ly acquiesce that some men can read Homer because — well, it's their intellectual laziness. A really stout intelligence would doubt it. "Spiritualism and Christian Science, which are either fraud or bluff or misinterpretation of facts, have spread all over the Anglo-Saxon world because there is no true critical spirit among the half-educated. But we are not willing to have our laboratories invaded by reporters and curiosity-mongers; we are dealing with delicate forces; we have to train our minds we with an intensity which no other study in the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 117
… existence of our miserable species lies not in intelligence, but in this masterful courage, this aspiration to extend the empire of the spirit. Even the blackest of magicians, like Douglas, or the stupidest, like Arthwait, is a higher type of being than the bourgeois who goes along with his nose on the ground picking up gold bricks in the mire. Now when Brother Onofrio found Gates perched upon the campanile, he saw the Martial symbol complete — only awaiting the lightning-flash. There was no need for him to produce a thunderstorm, as it would …
1929 · PDF PAGE 194
…f sensuality in abnormal and extra-human channels. So, while a fierce pride now thrilled him, there was mingled with it a sinking of the spirit; for he realized that its mistress had been sterility and death. And it was of death that he was most afraid. The cynical calm of Douglas appalled him; he recognized the superiority of that great sorcerer; and his hope to supplant him died within his breast. At that moment Hecate herself passed into him, and twined herself inextricably about his brain. He accepted his destiny as her high-priest; in futu…
1905 · PDF PAGE 75
…the earth are tanned With the sun and the sea and the yellow sand ; And the face of earth is dark with love Of the lords of hell and the spirits above That move in the foggy air of night, And the spirit of God, most like a dove, Hovers, and lingers, and wings his flight, Spurned and rejected and lost to sight ; But we desire him, a holy bird, And we turn eyes to the hollow hills; For God is strong, and His iron word Mocks at the gods of the woods and rills. For our God is as a fire That consumeth every one That is underneath the sun. We, for ut…
1905 · PDF PAGE 184
… Mr Crowley has dedicated his book to that distinguished singer. To our mind, whatever may be said of the earlier effort, ‘ Songs of the Spirit,’ the present book is not distinctly Swinburnian. There is no need to compare the writer with any other, but if we had to elect we should declare for Milton ; that is, Milton plus two centuries. We make no comparisons ; rather does Mr Crowley appear to be in style a strong eclectic, with a due measure of the unique which represents an unfettered, unsophisti-cated self. He can hardly be called a minor po…
1929 · PDF PAGE 58
… vase which was offered on this occasion to the infernal gods. The mediumistic powers of the lady began to develop at the same time. The spirit had devised an ingenious method of communication, known to science as Planchette. This instrument is probably familiar to you all; it is am inconvenient way of writing, but otherwise exhibits no marked peculiarity. Now that we have accepted 'automatic wrriting' as automatic, there is really no reason why mediums should pretend that a planchette is not under control. "This planchette gave us much invalua…
1929 · PDF PAGE 140
…ainst man, against love, or beauty, against life itself. She was a combination of the witch-burner with the witch; an incarnation of the spirit of Puritanism, from its sourness to its sexual degeneracy and perversion. Douglas put the broken glass to his mouth, and gulped down a bumper of whisky. Then he offered the bottle to his visitor. She refused by saying that it "played hell with the astral body," and asked her host to give her the price of the drink instead. Douglas laughed like a madman — a somewhat disgusted madman, for in him was some …
1905 · PDF PAGE 274
… The Sign of the Mourning of Isis. 2nc. With erect Head, raises his Arms to form a V (but really to form the triple Tongue of Flame, the Spirit), and says :— The Sign of Apophis and Typhon.
1906 · PDF PAGE 90
…oon she sailed for home, a weeping bride | Widowed before the honeymoon was done. Always before the rising of the sun I swore to come in spirit to her side And lie like love; and she at eventide Swore to seek me and gather one by one The threads of labyrinthine love new spun, Cretan} for monstrous shadows serpent- eyed. So the last kiss passed like a poison-pain, Knowing we might not ever kiss again. Mad tears fell fast: ‘‘ Next year!” in cruel distress 1 The reference is still to the Minotaur, who dwelt in a labyrinth in Crete.
1907 · PDF PAGE 213
LIBER QUARTUS VEL MORTIS 207 The white air hummeth With force of the spirit. We are heirs: we inherit. Our joys are as theirs ; Weave with your prayers The joys of a kiss! Ho! for the bliss Of the cup and the rod. He cometh ! O lover ! O friend and O God, Cover us, cover Our faces, and hover Above us, within us! Daintily shod, Daintily robed, His witcheries spin us A web of desire. Subtle as fire He cometh among us. The whole sky globed Is on fire with delight, Delight that hath stung us, The passion of night. Night be our mistress ! That tress…
1907 · PDF PAGE 238
…. | privately printed. | London: | 1898. Collation:—Crown 8vo, pp. 29, consisting of Half-title, quotation on reverse from ‘Songs of the Spirit,” p. 13, ll. 1-4; Title-page as above, quotation on reverse St. John xii. 24, 25; prose Prologue, quo- tation on reverse Acts i. 18, 19; Dedica- tion dated ‘‘ Midnight, 1897-1898,” on reverse ‘‘d oz” ; second half-title, quotation on reverse from Swinburne’s ‘‘ The Leper”; ‘*Poems and Ballads,” 1866, pp. I-10; Text, pp. 11-27; no headline; Epilogue p. 28; po imprint, but printed by an obscure printer in…
1929 · PDF PAGE 122
…ome one. In him there had been the makings of a fairly strong man; and, with Douglas to push him on, he was still capable of acting with spirit and determination. Also, he had the habit of authority. He set Arthwait to worrk on the Grimoire; for, in a operation of this importance, one must make all one's instruments. Beginning with a magic knife, which one is allowed to buy, one cuts the magic wand from a hazel, the magic quill from a goose, and so on. The idea is to confirm the will to perform the operation by a long series of acts ad hoc. It …
1909 · PDF PAGE 58
…nd East to Ad and }. Cot. LXIX.— Sattvas, | . In a close Rajas, ? | analogy. Tamas, Cot. LXXIX., Line 9.— Add (3321) JNNW NAYOAW IW, the Spirit of the Spirits of the Moon. The final ? is counted as 7oo, as are the final D’s in Col. LXXVIII., line 9. Cor. LXXXV.— Liner 6.—Or Seow. Ling 9.—Or Snoop. Cor. LXXXIX.—Add Daath, Nj3;1. Cor. XCIII., Linz 10.—Contains the Earth. Cor. XCVI.—Add Daath, 7R}'74. Cot. XCIX.—Add among Archangels :— Azrael, Angel of Death (3). Israfel, of Last Trump (¥).° Cot. C.—Our order of Angelic Choirs is from R. Mosheh be…
1929 · PDF PAGE 104
… handkerchief. Also, most practical magick starts on the material plane, and proceeds to create images on other planes. Thus, to evoke a spirit, you first obtain the objects necessary for its manifestation, and create subtler forms of the same nature from them. The Butterfly-net was worked on exactly the same lines. Morality enters into magick no more than into art or science. It is only when the effects react upon the moral nature of man that this question arises. The Venus de Medici is neither good nor bad; it is merely beautiful; but its rea…
1919 · PDF PAGE 310
…a genius whose every act was wrought from the white heat of passion. This is a smaller fish swimming in shallower and calmer waters. The spirit is more French than Irish. However, he is short enough to speak for himself. Here is one of his parables: THE SCARECROW Once I said to a scarecrow, “You must be tired of standing in this lonely field.” And he said, “The joy of scaring is a deep and lasting one, and I never tire of it.” Said I, after a minute of thought, “It is true; for I too have known that joy.” Said he, “Only those who are stuffed wi…