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…n the Weekly Critical Review, an attempt to establish an artistic entente cordiale. The entire series constitutes my Rodin in Rime. This book is illustrated by seven often lithographs of sketches which Rodin gave me for the purpose. {340} 43 Any other man but myself would have made a ladder to fame out of the success of this winter. I had no such idea. I had been thoroughly disillusioned, not only by the original trance of sorrow which had struck me between wind and water in 1897, but by the experience of my travels. The natives of Hawaii were …
1944 · PDF PAGE 97
…ts of Horus and Osiris. 1The Early Christians also were accused of worshipping an Ass, or ass‐headed god. See Browning, The Ring and the Book (The Pope). “Hear me, Lord of the Stars, For thee have I worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, joyful Endeavour. Hear me, O lilywhite goat Crisp as a thicket of thorns, With a collar of gold for thy throat, A scarlet bow for thy horns.” The sign of Capricornus is rough, harsh, dark, even blind; the impulse to create takes no account of reason, custom, or foresight. It is divinely…
1944 · PDF PAGE 54
…t by the arising of the contradictory. Hegel and Nietzsche had glimmerings of the idea, but it is described very fully and simply in the Book of Wisdom or Folly. (See citation, below, Appendix.) This point about the crocodile is very important, because many of the traditional forms of “The Fool” of the Tarot show the crocodile definitely. In the commonplace interpretation of the card, the Scholiasts say that the picture is that of a gay, careless youth, with a sack full of follies and illusions, dancing along the edge of a precipice, unaware th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
…e in my youth and pride 1 The Indian generic term for any good spirit. 2 Rabbi Schimeon, who first wrote down the Zohar, the most sacred book of the Qabalah. With a long sword girt to my waist, And a strawberry mare sweet-paced, And a long night with no moon, no 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 swa…
1906 · PDF PAGE 228
…hinxes, shall never be carried away, not by the whitest horses of the world. ‘To you I have no word to say. All is written in the sacred Book. To that look ye well ! Ambrose, old friend, he said, turning to me—and I wept ever sore— do thou write for the little ones, the children of my children, for them that understand not easily our high Mysteries; for in thy pen is, as it were, a river of clear water; without vagueness, without ambiguity, 1 Aum! The sacred word. 2 Oy. M (the car) becomes O (a wheel). The commentators who have suspected the ho…
1929 · PDF PAGE 480
…e evidence of what wealth of magnanimity was buttoned beneath that patriotic waistcoat. A well-known journalist, who has never written a book on the Musical Glasses, a biography of either Lord Henry Somerset, Canon Aitken or F. E. Smith, any novel about Fenian dynamiters, or any short story about Portuguese matadors, had written various articles for the Patriot Bottomley; and he had not been paid. Now it came to pass in the fulness of time that the Patriot felt it his painful public duty to make weekly attacks upon the firm of Waring and Gillow…
1944 · PDF PAGE 178
…ce. The climate of India is perhaps partly responsible for this notion. The Adepts of the White School, of which the Tarot is the sacred book, cannot agree to such a simplification of existence. Every phenomenon is a sacrament. For all that, a disturbance is a disturbance; the five of Wands is called Strife. On the other hand, the Five of Cups is called Disappointment, as is only natural, be‐ cause Fire delights in superabundant energy, whereas the water of Pleasure is naturally placid, and any disturbance of ease can only be regarded as misfor…
1907 · PDF PAGE 131
…entific Buddhism end. It will not please all tastes, nor is it suitable for all, but verses like this—and there are scores as good in the book—are too rare to be the property of a few: The spears of the night at her onset ThAre lordslof the da l!lor a while, {hméfii'ifohfiiiiil Afloat are the gales In our slumberous i On the beautiful breast o the Nile. Tm: Ens'r ANGLIAN DAILY Tmas says: “The Star in the West," by Captain J. F. C. Fuller (the Walter Scott Publishing Company, Limited), consists of a critical essay upon the works of Aleister Crowley,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 12
…o, Lilly, Eliphaz Levi, Sir R. Burton, Swami Vivekananda, the Hindu, Buddhist, and Chinese Classics, the Quran and its commentators, the Book of the Dead, and, in particular, original research. The Chinese, Hindu, Buddhist, Moslem, and Egyptian systems have never before been brought into line with the Qabalah; the Tarot has never been made public. - Eliphaz Levi knew the true attributions, but was forbidden to use them.! All this secrecy is very silly. An indicible Arcanum is an arcanum that cannot be revealed. It is simply bad faith to swear a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 95
…xes, shall never be carried away , not by the whites t horses of the world. To y ou I have no word to say . All is written in the sacred Book. To that look ye well ! Ambrose, old friend, he said, turning to me—and I wept ever sore—do thou write for the little ones, the children of m y children, for them that understand not easily our high My steries; for in thy pen is, as it were, a river of clear water ; w ithout vagueness, without ambiguity, 1 Aum! The sacred word. 2 Qy. j (the cart) becom es O (a wheel). The com mentators who have suspected …
1929 · PDF PAGE 111
… any new member. IV. Vault to be reconsecrated. This was accepted, and I crossed to London to carry it out. I find an entry in my little book of Magical Rituals which reveals my state of mind. April 12th, 1900. I, Perdurabo, as the Temporary Envoy Plenipotentiary of Deo Duce Comite Ferro & thus the Third from the Secret Chiefs of the Order of the Rose of Ruby and the Cross of Gold, do deliberately invoke all laws, all powers Divine, demanding that I, even I, be chosen to do such a work as he has done, at all costs to myself. And I record this h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 233
…t repent and be redeemed by the Precious Blood. I conclude my allusion to 66: Ho! I adopt the number. Look At the quaint wrapper of this book! I will deserve it if I can: It is the number of a Man. I had thus dismissed my mystical fancies about the number; I accepted it for purely moral reasons and on purely rationalistic grounds. I wanted to be a man in the sense in which the word is used by Swinburne in his Hymn of Man. Having to choose a Persian name, I made it Chioa Khan (pronounced Hiwa Khan) being the Hebrew for The Beast. (Khan is one of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
…hoiler3 a little while ago, no jokes. We had a ý holiday given us on Friday. Please send me a little money for fireworks. Send up my bankbook by the 1st please. I am awfully well, thank you! I have joined a sort of band of chaps, who are with God's blessing, going to try & help others & speak to them about their souls. I will write soon again. Write quick please. Good bye Yr loving son Alec He was thoroughly happy at this school; the boys liked and admired him; he made remarkable progress in his studies and was very proud of his first prize, Wh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 245
…he midnight hour, i. 53 Although I cannot leave these bitter leas, iii. 65 Amata’s path is Earnestness, ii. 46 Amat janua limen! (Closes book.| Now, my friend, iil. 72 Amid earth’s motley, Gaia’s cap and bells, i. 250 Amid the drowsy dream, ii, 61 A miner laboured in a mine, ili. 90 I., I0., IIT. Among the lilies of the sacred stream, i. 38 And death in kissing. How I have despised, i. 230 ‘And now (I'll quote you Scripture anyhow), li, 176 And though you claim Salvation sure, li. 159 And thus to-day that ‘‘ Christ ascends,” ii. 162 And who is …
1929 · PDF PAGE 585
585 I have written a very full comment on The Book of the Heart Girt with a Serpent, which as I proceeded manifested innumerable mysteries of transcendent importance which I had till then never suspected to inform the text. I also began an examination of The Golden Verses of Pythagoras. I was struck by the fact that it was incumbent on disciples to commit them to memory and repeat them daily. From this I deduced that the somewhat shallow meaning of their injunctions concealed the heart of the initiated doctrine. This speculation was confirmed b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 45
…erature. In my play time I was either hunting flappers on the front, playing chess or climbing Beachy Head. My chess was almost entirely book learning and I was very mush surprised to find myself the best player in the town. For although the local champion insisted on giving me pawn and more, I beat him so easily every time I met him that the odds might have been reversed without making much difference {93} to the result. I edited a chess column in the Eastbourne Gazette and made myself a host of enemies by criticizing the team. I wanted to aro…
1929 · PDF PAGE 509
…ent.) By thus accepting the Grade of Magus I had incurred certain responsibilities. Previously, I had taken the attitude that, while The Book of the Law had been given to the world through me, and though I was ineluctably 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 personalit…
1944 · PDF PAGE 124
…d Virus, and Virtus, and Viridis, in one name that is all these, and above all these.1 * * * The following excerpt from Liber Aleph, the Book of Wisdom or Folly, may also help to eluci‐ date the meaning of this card. “Tahuti, or Thoth, confirmed the Word of Dionysus by continuing it; for He shewed how by the Mind it was possible to direct the Operations of the Will. By Criticism and by re‐ corded Memory Man avoideth Error, and the Repetition of Error. But the true Word of Tahuti was A M O U N, whereby He made Men to understand their secret Natu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
… Father which is in Heaven. Furthermore, I most solemnly promise and swear: to acquire this Holy Science in the manner prescribed in the Book of Abra-Melin, without omitting the least imaginable thing of its contents; not to gloss or comment in any way on that which may be or may not be, not to use this Sacred Science to offend the Great God, not to work ill unto my neighbour: to communicate it to no living person, unless by long practice and conversation I shall know him thoroughly, well examining whether such an one really intendeth to work f…
1911 · PDF PAGE 307
…es, as far as we can see, explain nothing—together with a weird preface in scraps of twelve or fifteen languages. The best poetry in the book is contained in the last section—‘The Stone of the Philosophers,’ Here is some fine work,” k