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Page 77 of 911909 · PDF PAGE 330
…cosmic ray, answering to that symbol in the Sphere of his consciousness; but he shall receive this reflection, tinctured much by his own nature ; and therefore to an extent untrue. Because his united consciousnesses have not been able to focus along the thought-ray at the circumference of the Sphere of Sensation or M. M. of the U. And this is the reason why there are so many and multifarious errors in untrained Spirit Visions: for the untrained Skryer (i.e., Seer)—even supposing him free from the delusions of Obsession,* doth not know or unders…
1909 · PDF PAGE 330
…cosmic ray, answering to that symbol in the Sphere of his consciousness; but he shall receive this reflection, tinctured much by his own nature ; and therefore to an extent untrue. Because his united consciousnesses have not been able to focus along the thought-ray at the circumference of the Sphere of Sensation or M. M. of the U. And this is the reason why there are so many and multifarious errors in untrained Spirit Visions: for the untrained Skryer (i.e., Seer)—even supposing him free from the delusions of Obsession,* doth not know or unders…
1905 · PDF PAGE 187
…n Of midnight in a poet’s lonely hall ! Grave spirits answer (angels if he call) The invocations of his lofty tune. Thus in his measures nature craves the boon To be reflected ; and his rhymes appal Or charm mankind as tides that flow or fall, Waxes or wanes the tempestival moon. Her course is tether. Waxes the eightfold ecstasy ; exceeds The minor sestet, where some passion bleeds Or truth discourses: or eclipse may end, Proof against thought ; but if man com- prehend The stars in all their stations sing together. measured in the sonnet’s Il. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 154
…ut now the ancient root Of some wise oak betrays her to her lover: She stumbles and falls prone: the forest noon Guesses life’s law; all nature’s tune Tells that the hour is come when May musf grow to June. Then in the broad glare of the careless sun Apollo’s light is on her and within ; His shafts of glory pierce her one by one; His kisses darken, shivering and keen, Swift glories cold and clean Of that chaste bridal, and the earth gets gladness, Till the last winter’s traces Fall from the spring’s last cold wind—shining sadness !— And from th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 147
…twere better I should die." The formula of humanity is the willing acceptance [208] of death; and as love, in the male, is itself of the nature of a voluntary death, and therefore a sacrament, so that he who loves slays himself, therefore he who slays himself that life may live becomes a lover. Vesquit stretched out his arms in the sign of the cross, the symbol of Him who gives life through his own death, or of the instrument of that life and of that death, of the Holy One appointed from the foundation of the world as its redeemer. It was as if…
1904 · PDF PAGE 34
… but “invisible” is given in the majority. Yet the form of appearance of Foras as a strong man might warrant the former, though from the nature of his offices the invincibility would probably be rather on the mental than on the physical plane. 20
1910 · PDF PAGE 358
…n. . . .” And again: “, .. life is the attainment of self-consciousness, in order that the will may acquire a right knowledge of its own nature. . . .” (p. 157). “Evil and pleasure are but different manifestations of the one will to live” (p. 177). “The tormentor and the tormented are one.” . . . “ Therefore what is good for one person may be just the opposite for another . . . all suffering is nothing but unfulfilled or crossed willing” (pp. 178-182). “When a man has so far got rid of this veil that it no longer causes an egoistical distinctio…
1910 · PDF PAGE 358
…n. . . .” And again: “, .. life is the attainment of self-consciousness, in order that the will may acquire a right knowledge of its own nature. . . .” (p. 157). “Evil and pleasure are but different manifestations of the one will to live” (p. 177). “The tormentor and the tormented are one.” . . . “ Therefore what is good for one person may be just the opposite for another . . . all suffering is nothing but unfulfilled or crossed willing” (pp. 178-182). “When a man has so far got rid of this veil that it no longer causes an egoistical distinctio…
1907 · PDF PAGE 117
… tasks These arduous phantoms have achieved! The growth of mind to mortals asks A power not swift to be believed. What bosoms heaved ere Nature’s age From monkey-man deduced the sage ! So be thy spiral tower the type Of higher convolutions drawn From hunger’s woe and murder’s gripe And lust’s revulsion to the dawn Of days that spawn on holier soil Thy loftier sons, O Tower of Toil. There is a flower of native light That springs eternal on the earth. Carve us, O master-hand, aright That ecstasy of pain and mirth, A baby’s birth! That prize of fe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 93
…. He would tell her that her eyes were like the stars; and she would think that he meant: "What am I to say to this piece of wood?" Even nature seemed to stir his contempt in some way. One night she had noticed him rapt in a poetic trance leaning over the bows watching the foam. For a long while he remained motionless, his breast rising quickly and falling, his lips trembling with passion — and then he turned to her and said in cold blood: "Ought that to be used to advertize a dentifrice or a shaving soap?" She was sure that he had rehearsed th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 168
…onsciousness. Arose as Adonai, performed the Ritual of Pentagram, then prayed aloud and fluently, trying to unite consciousness with all Nature. Knelt again in Meditation, and arose much strengthened and with a feeling of the Divine Presence. (This is excellent for a beginner. But remember—all these divine illumina- tions are mere Breaks. O.M.) Note:—I find more and more difficulty in remembering any details of these practices the next day. Concentration was good. In this instance at end of practice could not remember what time I started, altho…
1906 · PDF PAGE 132
… barren plains. Reluctance to reveal my grief Is of my sickness a strange feature. Yea, verily ! beyond belief Is the machinery of man’s nature ! If thus spake Solomon in kind Of body, I of soul and mind ! The lazy accents stir at last The scented air: ‘‘ Oh, wherefore, lord, Is thy soul sad? This weary fast Strikes to my heart a lonely sword In brief words stammered forth I spoke My secret ; and the long spell broke. 1”? And now the gilded sin of her Leapt and was lambent in a smile: ‘*Give me but leave to minister This kingdom for a little wh…
1906 · PDF PAGE 218
…other Tarot symbols can be traced by any one who possesses, and to some degree understands, a pack of the cards. The occult views of the nature of these symbols are in some cases Crowley's own. 252
1907 · PDF PAGE 125
… universe: supple and slim She slides in vain. She loathes him—and doth yield. Shame, sorrow, these be sire and dam of song. Fatality, O Nature, is thy name. Along the accurséd river, stagnant shame, Eddying woe, from rape and godly wrong, Springs the immortal reed: the mortal’s cry Rises, an angry anthem, to the sky,_ 1 Written on a visit to the late W. E. Henley at Woking some three weeks before his death, The influence of the man has perhaps over- shadowed that of the bust of him by Rodin.
1929 · PDF PAGE 107
…ly to lead him to believe that the main attack lay there. Meanwhile he, Gates, was to devote himself, on the quiet, to divining the true nature of Grey's purpose. This information was essential; Douglas knew that it must be something tremendous; that the forces which Cyril was working to evoke were cosmic in scope. He knew it not only from his own divinations, but deduced it from the fact of the intervention of Simon Iff. He knew well that the old Master would not have lifted a finger for anything less than a world-war. Douglas therefore judged…
1905 · PDF PAGE 209
… sign, her sway. The twisted ether shapes itself: relumes The benediction all the faded fumes With holier incense: in the fervid way All nature rests: .with holy calm I blend Blessing and prayer at the appointed end. THE ROSE AND THE CROSS.! Our of the seething cauldron of my woes, Where sweets and salt and bitterness I flung; Where charméd music gathered from my tongue, And where I chained strange archipelagoes Of fallen stars ; where fiery passion flows A curious bitumen ; where among The glowing medley moved the tune unsung Of perfect love: …
1907 · PDF PAGE 222
216 ORPHEUS Ah! the bitter legacy left of lyre-light ! Thou wast Nature’s prophet, a wise magician; Magic fails, and love is a false physician :— Deep our disease is ! Now to us the crouching over the firelight, Eating out for hunger of love our vitals! (Eaten out the hollower for respitals Swift as the breeze is.) Ay ! the golden age is a broken vessel. All the golden waters exhale, evanish., Joy of life and laughter of love we banish : Damued is the will dead. Now with brass and iron we writhe and wrestle. Now with clay the torrent of fire is…
1929 · PDF PAGE 105
…eisure the galactic load, Abode alone, nor even rejoiced to know that it was God. Moneys-grubbing does its best to blaspheme and destroy nature. It is useless to oppose the baseness of humanity; if one touches pitch one runs the risk of being defiled. I am perfectly content to know that the vileness of civilization is rapidly destroying itself; that it stinks in my nostrils tells me that ti is rotting and my consolation is in the words of Lord Dunsany. In the meantime, the water was to be wasted in producing wealth --- the most dangerous of nar…
1910 · PDF PAGE 356
…tion will cease. And when such women as are Jorn prostitutes are utilized by the State for the benefit of men who are not monogamists by nature, procuring will vanish. But, if these women be so used, it behoves the nation to care for these talented girls, just as she cares, or should care, for her soldiers; and when the time was expired, she should pension them off, and award them a long service and good-conduct medal should they deserve it. This is a clean-minded book so far as it goes. We have no humbugging Horton, D.D., swooning at the thoug…
1910 · PDF PAGE 356
…tion will cease. And when such women as are Jorn prostitutes are utilized by the State for the benefit of men who are not monogamists by nature, procuring will vanish. But, if these women be so used, it behoves the nation to care for these talented girls, just as she cares, or should care, for her soldiers; and when the time was expired, she should pension them off, and award them a long service and good-conduct medal should they deserve it. This is a clean-minded book so far as it goes. We have no humbugging Horton, D.D., swooning at the thoug…