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Page 81 of 1051954 · PDF PAGE 444
…est civilizations are thus named. In Sumer, He was AD, or ADAD, whence the later Egyptian Hadit, and the Semitic Adonai. (There are also words like AVO, the creative Magick.) So also the Greeks in Syria knew Adonis, and the Latin Deus is itself the general word for God. Again, Valhalla houses Odin, Woden; and there are others. When the dental is complicated to a sibilant, as we shall see later, another idea is introduced ; while the lightening of the sound to T has yet another effect. Sanskrit also helps us with such roots as DETH to show, DAM …
1922 · PDF PAGE 19
… country in her hour of need.” That’s the true Celtic psychology. When we've all finished talking, there’s something that never utters a word, but goes right down through the earth, plumb to the centre. And now comes the funny part of the business. I discovered to my amazement that the desperate wild
1954 · PDF PAGE 370
…ucian system that the Adept should "wear the costume of the country in which he is travelling." I take this in the widest sense. By that word "country" I understand this planet and this social status "to which it has pleased God to call me." The Brethren of the Rose and Cross deprecated monastic life or hermit life: perhaps they thought such expedients cowardly, or at least as a confession of weakness. I agree. One ought to be able to live the normal life of a member of one's class, to all external seeming; at least sufficiently so as not to ap…
1996 · PDF PAGE 124
…a new incarnation occurs. 45. There is death for the dogs. Commentary: The prigs, the prudes, the Christians, die in a real sense of the word; for although even they are “Stars,” there is not enough body to them (as it were) to carry on the individuality. There is no basis for the magical memory if one’s incarnation holds nothing worth remembering. Count your years by your wounds—forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit) In regard to this question of death I quote from Liber Aleph. Zi—DE MORTE [192—On Death] Thou hast made Question of me concernin…
1905 · PDF PAGE 71
…ere was light : the womb Of arth resounded, and the empyréan Roared : and the thunder of the seas averred The presence of thy recreating word. The stone rolls back : the charioted night, Stricken, swings backwards on her broken pinions : Faith sickens, drunken tyranny reels, the spite Of monarchs, ruinous of their chained dominions : 64
1930 · PDF PAGE 36
…iner in terms of his problem. It is not practicable to construct a lexicon in which the solution of every difficulty is given in so many words. It would be unwieldy 3 besides, nature does not happen to work on those lines. The theory of any process of divination may be stated in a few simple terms. 1. We postulate the existence of intelligences, either within or without the diviner, of which he is not immediately conscious. (It does not matter to the theory whether the communicating spirit so-called is an objective entity or a concealed portion…
1954 · PDF PAGE 18
…ach, but the concept is scattered throughout the book. His signature appended to all the letters is always "666." This may require a few words of explanation for the reader who has not read other Crowley books and become familiar with the symbol. Crowley was brought up in a household dominated by the religion of the Plymouth Brethren in England. This is a fundamentalist Christian sect which, among many other things, regarded the Bible literally as the inspired word of God. Thus it could not be changed in any way, and had to serve as the basis f…
1996 · PDF PAGE 91
… everywhere, the circumference nowhere; that “Every man and every woman is a star”, a “Khabs,” the name of the house of Hadit; that “The word of Sin is Restriction.” To us, then, “evil” is a relative term; it is “that which hinders one from fulfilling his true Will.” (E.g., rain is “good” or “bad” for the farmer accord ing to the requirements of his crops.) The Osirian Rituals inculcating self-sacrifice to an abstract ideal, mutilation to appease an ex cathedra' morality, fidelity to a priori formulas, etc., teach false and futile methods of a…
1930 · PDF PAGE 94
…of the matter. And let him not perform the act until he hath done this. As it is written : Liber VII, Cap. 5. — 22. aEvery breath, every word, every thought is an act of love with thee. 23. “The beat of my heart is the pendulum of love. 24. “The songs of me are the soft sighs. 25. “The thoughts of me are very rapture. 26. “And my deeds are the myriads of Thy Children, the stars and the atoms.” And Remember Well, that if thou wert in truth a lover, ail this wouldst thou do of thine own nature without the slightest flaw or failure in the minutest…
1938 · PDF PAGE 6
…s me that not all were sleeping; that there were watchers like myself, men more intent than I. I hear a murmur on my left. I catch three words: The Zero Hour. They call me back to myself: I know now that I am one of a great armyan army baffled and broken, but yet in being. Sharp comes a whisper of swift absolute authority: Zero is Two. Somehow I am awarelike a man stricken of lightning, in the same moment slain and initiatedthat the strange phrase declares a final Mystery of Truth, the word of the Plan of Battle, the Key of the Campaign. B…
1904 · PDF PAGE 126
…will go hard with us if we do not !) regard all progress in any direction as morbid. So (as with Lombroso) “disease” will become a m ere word, like its prede- cessor “infidelity,” and cease to carry any obloquy. If Science is never to go bey ond its present lim its; if the barriers which m eta- physical speculation shows to exist are never to be trans cended, then indeed we are thrown back on faith, and all the rest of the nauseous mess of medieval superstition, and we may just as well have vital principle and creative power as not, for Science…
1907 · PDF PAGE 138
…g is whirled ! Ye blossoms of lightning, Bare boughs of the tree Of life, where the brightening Abysses of sea Reveal ye, the whitening Swords kindled of me. Come forth ! I invoke thee, O lightning, the flames of the Gods flung free ! THE LIGHTNING. The wand of Hermes, the caduceus wonder-working, Sweeps in mid-zether— Where we are lurking It finds us and gathers. By our mother the amber In her glorious chamber; By the flames that enwreathe her ; By the tombs of our fathers; Awake! let us fly, the compeller is nigh. Strike ! let us die! ORPHEUS…
1907 · PDF PAGE 61
… are Dead. We do not hear of the resurrection of Jonathan; we do not read of a Jonathan Memorial Ward in the Jerusalem Lock Hospital; no word has come down to us through the ages of a Honeycomb Day, in view of the fact that the primrose is not indigenous to Palestine. [Laughter and altars. Jonathan was dead, and David probably let the dead bury him. Come Thou, and follow Mel adds Christ to a similar exhortation, and while we pass with a pitying smile over the antithesis, or allow that it is but a talking down to the level of his bearer, we must…
1930 · PDF PAGE 103
…n the House of Love.” 44. Concerning secrecy and the rites of Blood. —During this practice it is most wise that the Philosophus utter no Word con¬ cerning his working, as if it were a Forbidden Love that consumeth him. But let him answer fools according to their folly; for since he cannot conceal his love from his fellows, he must speak to them as they may understand. And as many Deities demand sacrifice, one of men, another of cattle, a third of doves, let these sacrifices be replaced by the true sacrifices in thine own heart. Yet if thou must…
1954 · PDF PAGE 136
… -you have got a fact which covers every possible case, and exhibits one aspect of the nature of numbers themselves. The importance of a word increases as its rank, from the particular and concrete to the general and abstract. (It is curious that the highest values of all, the "Laws of Nature, " are never exactly 'true' for any two persons, for one person can never observe the identical phenomena sensible to another, since two people cannot be in exactly the same place at exactly the same time: yet it is just these facts that are equally true f…
1919 · PDF PAGE 382
…he smallest—whether in right or wrong direction—can vanish from the world of causes. E’en wasted smoke re- mains not traceless. “A harsh word uttered in past lives is not destroyed, but ever comes again.” The pepper plant will not give birth to roses, nor the sweet jessamine’s silver star to thorn or thistle turn. Behold what is written for a Parable in the “Great Law”: Let not the failure and the pain turn aside the worshippers. The foundations of the pyramid were hewn in the living rock ere sunset; did the king weep at dawn that the crown of …
1929 · PDF PAGE 417
…te the comparatively profane achievements of these few months. Firstly, "Across the Gulf". This is a prose story of some twenty thousand words. The theme is my own life in the 26th Dynasty, when I was Ankh-f-n-khonsu and brought about the Aeon of Osiris to replace that of Isis. The story must not be taken as true in the ordinary sense of the word, but as allegorical. I wrote many lyrics, but especially "The Sevenfold Sacrament". This poem subsequently appeared in the English Review and has often been reprinted. It {665} is, one might say, a pen…
1929 · PDF PAGE 29
…lf, and make sure beyond doubt, who one is, what one is, why one is. This done, one may put the Will which is implicit in the “Why” into words, or rather into One Word. Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are spécially needed to control the aforesaid conditions. Let us make an analogy. A nation must become aware of its own ch…
1929 · PDF PAGE 80
…se each of us represents the pentagram or microcosm ; and our équilibration must therefore be with the hexa- gram or macrocosm. In other words, 50 = 6° is the formula of the Solar operation $ but then 6°=5° is the formula of the Martial operation, and this reversai of the figures implies a very different Work. In the former instance the problem was to dissolve the microcosm in the macrocosm 5 but this other problem is to separate a particular force from the macrocosm, just as a savage might hew out a flint axe from the deposits in a chalk cliff…
1930 · PDF PAGE 51
…ust guard himself constantly against supposing that this art affords any absolute means of discovering “truth”, or indeed, of using that Word as if it meant more than the i. As the poet puts it; “Psyché, beware how thou disclose Thy tricks of toilet to Eros, Or let him learn that those love-breathing Lyrical lins that whisper, wreathing His brows with sense-bewitching gold, Are equally expert to scold; 1 hat those caressing hands will maybe Yet box his ears and slap the baby ! ”