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"Nonsense, sir; you are not in a debating society or at a scientific tea- party." "That last, sir," replied Cyril coldly "is my unavailing regret." But Lord Juventius Mellor frustrated the effect of this impolitic speech. He fixed his languid eyes upon the red face of the veteran, and his voice came in a soft caressing whisper. "Pardon me; do let us be unofficial for five minutes more!" "Well, boy?" "I think it's only fair to let General Foch enjoy the joke. I hear he has been depressed lately." "He might not take it so easily. The French do [3…
1996 · PDF PAGE 14
…anifest the extremely elaborate nature of its pattern.1 1 [The source and authorship of this quotation is unknown.] 2 [Later termed the “Old Commentary”; published in The Equinox 1(7) (1912), pp. 387^00a.] 3 [Described by Crowley as the “New Commentary.”] The Book of the Law, however, is not only for mathematicians and mystics. In some one phrase or other of the Book there is a direct message for every human being. The best way for the layman to approach this Book is to regard it as a letter written directly to himself. Even though he may not b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 227
"A thousand congratulations, dear young man, upon your brilliant victory! You have succeeded where older and more learned men failed badly. I called you here to-night to tell you that you are now eligible for a place in the Fourteen, the Ghaagaael, for a seat is vacant since this morning." "They executed Balloch?" Douglas nodded with a gloating smile. "But why did you not save him, master?" "Save him! It was I that destroyed him when he tried to betray me. Candidates take notice!" Abdul protested his loyalty and devotion. "The supreme test," co…
1907 · PDF PAGE 101
…ain arrayed ? | Their light dismayed Before the vast blind spaces of the sky? O galaxy Of thousands upon thousands closely curled! Your golden world Incalculably small, its closest cluster Mere milky lustre Staining the infinite darkness! blind Our minion mind Seeks a great light, a light sufficient, light Insufferably bright, IIence hidden for an hour : imagining This vast vain thing, We call it God, and Father. Empty hand And prayer unplanned Stretch fatuous to the void. friends, What fury sends This folly to intoxicate your hearts? Dread air…
1929 · PDF PAGE 90
…e act of writing poetry. There is the same sort of feeling as one has when one finds a faded photo- graph or a lock of hair twenty years old among the rubbish in some forgotten cabinet. This feeling is independent of the ques¬ tion whether the thing remember was in itself a source of pleasure or of pain. Can it be that we resent the idea of our “previoüs condition of servitude”? We want to forget the past, however good reason we may hâve to be proud of it. It is well known that many men are embarrassed in the presence of a monkey. i. It is perh…
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
…t to practise smelling assafoetida until one likes it ; but not arsine or hydrocyanic acid. Again, one might hâve a liaison with an ugly old woman until one beheld and loved the star which she is; it would be too dangerous to overcome the distaste for dishonesty by forcing oneself to pick pockets. Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they should be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases. Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less seifish by applying it to what it loathes; bu…
1907 · PDF PAGE 159
LIBER PRIMUS VEL CARMINUM 153 I hear not a word, Though my music be rolled As the song of a bird Through fields of gold. Hast thou not heard? Have I not told The magic that bridleth the Gods, the Gods in their houses of old? Art thou elder than they In their mountain of light? Is thy fugitive way Lost in uttermost night? Shalt thou not obey, Or my lyre not affright, If I call thee by Heaven and Earth with a God’s tumultuous might? If I curse thee or chide Shalt thou tremble not, Thou? Not move thee and hide From the light of my brow? Shall my a…
1930 · PDF PAGE 52
…is bag for a journey, and then finds that he has forgotten his pyjamas. At most, it may revolutionise his ideas of the business, like an old bachelor with settled plans of life who meets a girl once too often. Any really first-class Astral Vision, even on low planes, should therefore both instruct the Seer, and préparé him for Initiation. Those failing to pass this test are to be classed as “practice”. One ïast observation seems fit. We mnst not assert tiie “reality” or “objeclivity ’ of an Astral Being on no better evidence than the subjective…
1944 · PDF PAGE 268
… Slain and Risen. The initials of these three divine beings thus make the more ancient name of Jehovah lAO. In this way the initiates of old expressed their understanding of the fact that the Universe was after all perfect, even if requiring a little manipulation; but as explained previously, this doctrine is for the weaker brethren, for those who are suffering from the illusion of imperfection; it enables them to make their way to the i1limitable Light. DIAGRAM 7. THE ELEMENTAL WEAPONS This diagram shows the attribution of the four Suits of th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 421
…mber rightly, Plato derives Theos from a verb meaning 'to run' , and is heartily abused by scholars for so doing. But perhaps the dreary old sophist was not far wrong, for once.) What you need to do, then, is to knot all these ideas into a very close pattern; to make of them a consecrated Talisman. Then, when rage takes you, it can be thrown upon the fire to stifle it: to thrust against the Demon, to disintegrate him. The great point is to have this weapon very firmly constructed, very complete . Your rage will pass in one of those two ways, wh…
1996 · PDF PAGE 129
…No matter where: somewhere away: somewhere into the good places of the world—not a boy’s heart but was stirred within him: and the brave old English blood rose in them as he spoke, in his deep bass tones, of the worth of a single man in those far-off lands;—an oration destined to bear fruit in after-days, when the lads, who talk yet with bated breath of the speech and the speaker, shall grow to man’s estate. “Dangerous, Dick,” said Farmer John. “What should I do with my labourers?” “Don’t be afraid,” said Dick. “There are not ten percent have t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 237
…ng as death ! Still, breath ! Life wakens and reposes, Love ever quickeneth ! Sweet, sweet, when Lion and Maiden,! The motley months of gold, Swoop down with sunlight laden, And eyes are bright and bold. Life-swelling breasts uncover Their warm involving deep— Love, sleep |— And lover lies with lover On air’s substantial steep. TANNHAUSER. Ah! sweeter was September— The amber rain of leaves, The harvest to remember, The load of sunny sheaves. In gardens deeply scented, In orchards heavily hung, Love flung Away the days demented With lips that c…
1996 · PDF PAGE 215
…pit upon them! 43. Let the Scarlet Woman beware! If pity and compassion and tenderness visit her heart; if she leave my work to toy with old sweetnesses; then shall my vengeance be known. I will slay me her child: I will alienate her heart: I will cast her out from men: as a shrinking and despised harlot shall she crawl through dusk wet streets, and die cold and an-hungered. 44. But let her raise herself in pride! Let her follow me in my way! Let her work the work of wickedness! Let her kill her heart! Let her be loud and adulterous! Let her be…
1905 · PDF PAGE 256
…gether sing (we hear) So sings the married life, a tuneful sphere. Hushand is he, and she is very dear. How truly beautiful it is to see Old age in perfect unanimity, Affections smooth, and buzzing like a bee. The sun sets, in conjunction with the moon. Death comes at last, a pleasure and a boon, And they arrive in heaven very soon. [ /mmense, Spontaneous, uncontrollable applause sweeps like a whirlwind through the court. AN UNKNOWN MINSTREL (breaking tn unheralded), Tender the phrase, and faint the melody, When poets praise a maiden’s purity ;…
1929 · PDF PAGE 102
… smooth down the knots: —this is the banishing. He will then rub it with the consecrated oil until it becomes smooth and glistening and golden. - He will then wrap it in silk of the appropriate colour: —this is the Consécration. He will then take it, and imagine that it is that hollow tube in which Prometheus brought down fire from Heaven, formulating to himself the passing of the Holy Influence through it. In this and other ways he will perform the initiation; and, this being accomplished, he will repeat the whole process in an elaborate cerem…
1996 · PDF PAGE 107
…e, labouring day and night to lose himself in lust for it, so that he leave no atom unconsumed in the furnace of their frenzy, as did of old his Father that begat him. He must realize himself wholly in the integration of the infinite Pantheon of images; for if he fail to formulate one facet of himself, by lack thereof will he know himself falsely. There is of course no ultimate difference between the Artist as here delineated and him who follows the “Way of the Tao,” though the latter finds perfection in his existing relation with his environme…
1905 · PDF PAGE 166
…her heart). You make me very glad. Yes, yes, indeed, Love is my meaning. Does it shame me much To talk so openly of love to you? But Iam old enough to be—to be-—— ULRIC (breaking right out). My wife! O Cora, I have loved you so! My heart is like a fountain of the sea. I burn, I tremble; in my veins there swims A torrid ecstasy of madness. Ah! Ah God! I kiss you, kiss you! O you faint! Swectheart, my passion overwhelms your soul. Your virginal sweet spirit cannot reach My fury. You are silent. Yet you love! I read it in the terror of your eyes, …
1906 · PDF PAGE 143
…ith a gesture that he knows his words avail nothing. Rupua. Ho! Ho! Criospa. I wittingly and well resumed the rite Learnt at thy breast, old wolf ! RupHaA. Ho! Ho! The might is mine O’ the rune divine. Silence, winds ! Peace, ye waves! The spell binds Their wrath In the graves Below ocean. Clear the path ! Cease your motion? Swift, be slow ! Ho! Ho! [ The storm ceases. CrIOSDA. 7y words avail then ? RupHa. Ha! Ha! They avail. I avail. Did Rupha fail, All would be done. Death to the sun ! I know. Ho! Ho! Criospa. All this I did for thee? Rupua. …
1910 · PDF PAGE 194
…in the character of an Inquirer on strictly scientific lines.* This is unhappily calculated to damp enthusiasm; but as I so carefully of old, for the magical path, excluded from my life all other interests, that life has now no particular meaning, and the Path of Research, on the only lines I can now approve of, remains the one Path possible for me to tread. On the rith of June P. records that he moved his bed into the temple that he had constructed at C . . . House, for con- venience of more absolute retirement. In this temple he was afflicted…
1910 · PDF PAGE 194
…in the character of an Inquirer on strictly scientific lines.* This is unhappily calculated to damp enthusiasm; but as I so carefully of old, for the magical path, excluded from my life all other interests, that life has now no particular meaning, and the Path of Research, on the only lines I can now approve of, remains the one Path possible for me to tread. On the rith of June P. records that he moved his bed into the temple that he had constructed at C . . . House, for con- venience of more absolute retirement. In this temple he was afflicted…