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Page 75 of 1051996 · PDF PAGE 90
…—to enjoy—the idea. The difference between the scholar and the schoolboy is that the former glows and exults when he is reminded of some word like thalassa.1 Ourselves:— What a pageant of passion empurples our minds whenever we think of the number 93! Most of all, each new thing that we know about ourselves helps us to realize what we mean by our “Star.” 1 [Grk., “sea.”] Now, “the rituals of the old time” are no longer valid vehicles; Knowledge cannot “go aright” until they are adapted to the Formula of the New /Eon. Their defects are due princ…
1996 · PDF PAGE 216
…n he fall from it. 48. Now this mystery of the letters is done, and I want to go on to the holier place. * 49. I am in a secret fourfold word, the blasphemy against all gods of men. 50. Curse them! Curse them! Curse them! 51. With my Hawk’s head I peck at the eyes of Jesus as he hangs upon the cross. 52. I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed & blind him. 53. With my claws I tear out the flesh of the Indian and the Bud dhist, Mongol and Din. 54. Bahlasti! Ompehda! I spit on your crapulous creeds. 55. Let Mary inviolate be torn upon wheels: fo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 332
…ntirely directed to attain this end , and forms a magnificent gymnasium for those who are not already finished mental athletes . By act, word , and thought , both in quantity and quality , the one object of the ceremony is being constantly indicated . Every fumigation , purification , banishing , invocation , evocation , is chiefly a reminder of a single purpose , until the supreme moment arrives , and every fibre of the body , every force -channel of the mind , is strained , and in one overwhelming rush of the Will in the direction desired . S…
1954 · PDF PAGE 132
… to brick, which shall excite the sense of wonder at the magnificent progress and super-progress-I present the American public with this word-which is supposed to have been made. Probably the whole thing is a bluff without a single fact behind it. Almost the whole of the Hindu psychology is an example of this kind of journalism. They are not content with the supreme God. The other man wishes to show off by having a supremer God than that, and when a third man comes along and finds them disputing, it is up to him to invent a supremest super-God.…
1954 · PDF PAGE 314
THE HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL 281 of will in any intelligible sense of the word. Their actions in fact are merely re-actions. They are, of course, entirely lacking in the Supernal Triad. There is therefore no question of anything in them which would persist through change. Perhaps it would be better to say that change does not really affect them. Another way to put it would be that they are adjectives, not nouns. They are merely sensible manifestations of the elements to which they are attributed , and to the letters of their name. Now, on the othe: …
1996 · PDF PAGE 23
…ad, Set, Satan, sat (equals “Being” in Sanskrit), South. He is then the Sun, one point concentring Space, as also is any other star. The word Abrahadabra is from Abrasax, Father Sun, which adds to 365. For the North-South antithesis see Fabre-d’Olivet’s Hermeneutic Interpretation of the Origin of the Social State of Man) Note sax also as a Rock, or Stone, whence the symbol of the Cubical Stone, the Mountain Abiegnus, and so forth. Nu is also reflected in naus, “Ship,” etc., and that whole symbolism of Hollow Space which is familiar to all. Ther…
1996 · PDF PAGE 165
… thy Mind be open unto the Higher! May thy Heart be the Centre of Light! May thy Body be the Temple of the Rosy Cross!1 1 [These are the words of Reception in the Adeptus Minor 5°=6° ritual of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. See Israel Regardie, The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic (Phoenix: Falcon, 1984), vol. 7, p. 52. This passage is omitted in Crowley’s account of this ritual in The Equinox 1(3) (1910). The formula does however occur in Liber 418, 9th Aithyr, and in “John St. John,” The Equinox 1(1) (1909).] 38. So that thy light…
1996 · PDF PAGE 294
…3 Antinoiis 52 Antoinette, Marie 84 Antony, Mark 53,116 Anu 24 ^on of Horus 31,47,89.91,124,128 lord of the 34 magical formula of the 31 word of the 149 yton of Osiris 59,163 as aeon of the dying god 89 Aphrodite 84, 85 Apollo 52,63,84,85 oracle of 92 Aquarius 78 Archimedes 82 Ares 181 Armida 171 Arnold, Matthew 112,113 art 53.65,70,72,74,104,111-112.137, 141,179,180,184 artists 107-109,111 112 Asar 46,126 Astarte 53 astral plane 67,126 astral vision T7 astronomers 123 Atthis 63 Attis 30,47 Atum (Turn) 166,192 Augceides 163 Australia 43 Babaion…
1922 · PDF PAGE 173
…kinds of complicated positions ; head first and so on; and I had to let myself slide without attempting to save myself until he gave the word, and then I had to recover myself and finish, either sitting or standing, as he chose, to swerve or to stop; while he counted five. And he gave me progressively dangerous exercises. Of course, this sounds all rather obvious, but as a matter of fact, he was the only man who had learnt and who taught to glissade in this thorough way. “The acquired power, however, staod me in very good stead on many occasion…
1954 · PDF PAGE 140
…y) class, thus boosting you vigorously to the fourth stage, the last before the last! of the practice of Mahasatipathana . Just one more word about the element of Vedana. The Intellect is a purely mechanical contrivance, as accurate and as careless of what it turns out as a Cash Register. It receives impressions, calculates, states the result: that is A double L, ALL! Try never to qualify a thought in any way, to see it as it is in itself in relation to those other elements which are necessary to make it what it is. Above all, do not "mix the p…
1954 · PDF PAGE 165
…emporarily in abeyance; secondly, because its normal effect on the material plane is, or may be, incalculably vast. (The emphasis on the word "due" is absolute.) Precisely because it is so powerful a weapon, its use is hedged in with manifold precautions, and its abuse deprecated in injunctions heavily charged with menace .... "Also, take your fIll and will of love as ye will, when, where and with whom ye will! But always unto Me." If this be not aright; if ye confound the space-marks, saying: They are one; or saying, They are many; if the ritu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 454
…ew too well my own limitations. It is true that I had been used as a Magus in the Cairo working; that is, I had been chosen to utter the Word of a New Aeon. But I did not regard this as being my Word. I felt myself ridiculously unworthy of the position assigned to me in The Book of the Law itself. When therefore I proposed to devote myself to my own initiations, I meant no more than this: that I would try to perfect myself in the understanding and powers proper to a Master of the Temple. At the end of 1913, I found myself in Paris with a Zelato…
1922 · PDF PAGE 268
…we were impotent to deal with them. Did you ever meet any one that had been indiscreet about taking drugs? Presumably not. Well, take my word for it, those people get into a state which is in many ways very like death. And the tragic thing about the situation is
1929 · PDF PAGE 195
… sorcerer even, for [275] the moment; nothing but two murderers, and the corpse of a martyr between them. Douglas did not waste a single word of abuse on Balloch. "This is for you to clear up," he said, with a simplicity that cut deeper than sneer or snarl, and walked out of the cellar. Balloch, left to himself, became hysterical. In his act he recognized the first-fruits of the divine possession; his offering to the goddess had been stupendous indeed. All his exaltation returned: now would Hecate favour him above all men. Well, he had but to t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 29
…ver, be constituted in harmony with the A.*. A.*, as regards the essential principles. Ail members of the Order are in possession of the Word of the existing Aeon, and govern themselves thereby. They are entitled to communicate directly with any and every member of the Order, as they may deem fitting. Every active Member of the Order has destroyed ail that He is and ail that He has on Crossing the Abyss; but a star is cast forth in 233
1954 · PDF PAGE 98
…utline of its historical aspects. There have always been, at least in nucleus, three main Schools of Philosophical practice. (We use the word 'philosophical' in the old good broad sense, as in the phrase "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society for the Advancement of Knowledge.") It is customary to describe these three Schools as Yellow, Black and White. The first thing necessary is to warn the reader that they must by no means be confounded with racial distinctions of colour; and they correspond still less with conventional symbols suc…
1929 · PDF PAGE 427
…rees, which might be found almost anywhere. Recognition beyond all possibility of doubt was what he promised. He had been as good as his word. I was entirely overwhelmed. I jumped out of the car and ran up to the house. I found Virakam in the main room. The instant I entered I understood that it was entirely suited for a Temple. The walls were decorated with crude frescoes which somehow suggested the exact atmosphere proper to the Work. The very shape of the room seemed somehow significant. Further, it seemed as if it were filled with a peculia…
1904 · PDF PAGE 41
… arsed schickster. Shit ! She sighed ; shut your mug and open your urethra, and get on with the bum tickling, cant you ? (I give you my word I had not spoken for three days and more.) But argu- ment is proverbially vain with a woman in the middle of a rousing bacon-rubbing. I blocked steadily on. In vain I had cudgelled my wits to find some substitute for the fatiguing exercise of rump- ing ; but the surgeon warned me that the sugges- tion would be taken in ill part. Her Majesty, he explained, is before all things respectable : not to save lif…
1922 · PDF PAGE 18
…e part of some official. As for Uncle Mortimer, he lived on in his crustacean way; a sulky, rich, morose, old bachelor. We never heard a word of him. And then, about a year ago, he died; and I found to my amazement that I was sole heir to his five or six thousand a year, and the owner of Barley Grange; which is really an awfully nice place in Kent, quite near enough to be convenient for the prosperous young man about town which I had become; and for the best of it, a piece of artificial water quite large enough for me to use for a waterdrome fo…
1930 · PDF PAGE 132
…d and fix his basilisk eye upon the sigil of the démon. Then let him sway the force of him to and fro like a satyr in silence, until the Word burst from his throat. 14. Then let him not fall exhausted, although he might hâve been ten thousandfold the human; but that which floodeth him is — 432