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Page 82 of 951906 · PDF PAGE 229
…ad. But for seventy days and seventy nights we touched him not, but abode ever about him: and the smile changed not on his face, and the whole grove was filled with sweet and subtle perfumes. Now on the 71st day arose there a great dispute about tis body; for the angels and spirits and demons did contend about it, yat they might possess it. But our eldest brother V. N. bade all be still ; -nd thus he apportioned the sacred relics of our Father. To the Angel Agbagal, the fore part of the skull ; To the demon Ozoz, the back left part of the skull…
1907 · PDF PAGE 104
…queen, Made earth and heaven with all its stars, The storm, the hunger epicene, The raging at invisible bars, The hideous cruelty of the whole ?— These are of Kali, O my soul ! The sterile force of bronze and gold Bends to my passion, as it grips With feverish claws the metal cold, And burns upon the brazen lips That, parted like a poppy bud, Have gemméd curves like moons of blood. The mazes of her many arms Delude the eye; they seem to shift As if they spelled mysterious charms Whereby some tall grey ship should drift Out to a windless, tidele…
1905 · PDF PAGE 49
…k and blind in either eye. I move for ever to my mystic goal Where I may drain a fountain never dry, And of Life’s guerdon gather in the whole, And on celestial manna satisfy my soul. Fresh strength from day to Each night new failure and each day fresh strength, A sense of something nearer day by day ; Though the ill road’s intolerable length, League upon league, fling back the torrid ray Of the fierce sunlight night can scarce allay With the incessant beating of cool wings, And men’s bleached skeletons infest the way ; Yet Hope her passion lik…
1919 · PDF PAGE 159
A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE days; then, having got into the swing, I roughly attempted a short and incom- plete review of my whole life, which although brief, was much fuller than I expected. I remembered things connected with early childhood quite accurately, but of course not with full connections. Then something occurred that I really did not expect, and only later trials will prove if it was an illusion or not. Having tried hard to pierce the blank, back of all, I had a sudden clear sensation of lying on a bed with people around, and in particul…
1911 · PDF PAGE 174
…edge of HermeticGreek, muchmeaningwhich escapes us in the authorised version. In the “ Unsealing,” Mr Pryse goes solid for the book, the whole book, and nothing but the book, as the veritable work of the Apostle John, hence the clergy may extend a welcome hand to it. He quite believes it is a work of the Apostle John, and defends the style; amongst these there are some doubtless who are narrow-minded, but here, and still more prominently in America, there are broad-minded clergy who will welcome the Unsealing. The Freemasons too in their higher…
1911 · PDF PAGE 174
…edge of HermeticGreek, muchmeaningwhich escapes us in the authorised version. In the “ Unsealing,” Mr Pryse goes solid for the book, the whole book, and nothing but the book, as the veritable work of the Apostle John, hence the clergy may extend a welcome hand to it. He quite believes it is a work of the Apostle John, and defends the style; amongst these there are some doubtless who are narrow-minded, but here, and still more prominently in America, there are broad-minded clergy who will welcome the Unsealing. The Freemasons too in their higher…
1905 · PDF PAGE 8
ACELDAMA, A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS IN. A PHILOSOPHICAL POEM. 1898. [The poems collected in Volume I. comprise the whole of the first period of Crowley’s life ; namely, that of spiritual and mystic enthusiasm. to class them as Juvenilia. to 1897 have been sedulously sought out and ACELDAMA. '‘T contemplate myself in that dim sphere Whose hollow centre I am standing at With burning eyes intent to penetrate The black circumference, and find out Ged.” ‘Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringet…
1907 · PDF PAGE 13
…own the event, And sociology content, Ethics suffice, the simple story ! (Oh! that a woman ever went Through course of science, full and whole, Without the loss of beauty’s scent, And grace, and subtlety of soul. Ah God! this Law maketh hearts ache, ‘Who eateth shall not have his cake.’’) If XIV. AccEpr measIam! I give All you can take. If you dislike Some fragments of the life I live, They are not yours: I scorn to strike One sword-swift pang against your peace. See! T’mamountaineer. Release That spirit from your bonds: or come With me upon th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 301
…e, and if we grant the reality of the facts, they have very considerable psychological interest. Of course, it is hard to prove that the whole thing is not a clever fraud. Girls of the kind have a habit of playing such parts, because of the attention they thereby attract; but let us grant their reality, for the sake of the argument. We have, then, an abnormal individual, who needs treatment and cure; and the sooner cured the better! Now, at this point, our friends begin messing-about with “mediums,” and as the result, obtain an extraordinary am…
1905 · PDF PAGE 50
…the skies are riven— A God flames forth my spirit to beget ; And where my body and his love are met A new desire possesses altogether My whole new self as in a golden net Of transcendental love one fiery tether, Dissolving all my woe into one sea of weather. So I am reacly to assume the Cross, Start on my journey with the last word said ; Turn my back resolute on dung and dross, And face the future with no twitch of dread, But dare to converse with the holy dead, And taste the earnest of the church’s bliss. Love, God be with you! He is overhead…
1905 · PDF PAGE 219
…thy breast ! Even the perfumes of the dawn Intoxicate, deceive the soul. Let every shadow be withdrawn ! Let there be Light, supreme and whole ! O Ra,® thou golden Lord of Day, The Sun of Righteousness display ! The burden is so hard to bear. I took too adamant a cross; This sackcloth rends my soul to wear ; My self-denial is as dross ! O Shu,’ that holdest up the sky, Hold thou thy servant, lest he die ! 1 The Redeemer by His suffering. 2 Thoth, the Ibis God. Equivalent to the higher Hermes. 3 Khabs am Pekht again. 4+ Goddess of Justice. 5 God…
1944 · PDF PAGE 66
…azzled by any given manifestation may be led astray. In no other card is it so necessary to disregard the parts, to concentrate upon the whole.
1907 · PDF PAGE 132
…epeated ; to average some high percentage of double rhymes—in brief, to perform a gigantic juggle with the unhappy English language. The whole of this first book is technically an ode (!!!) and was so designed. So colossal an example of human fatuity truly deserves, and shall have, a complete ex- posure.! Book I. was finished in Hawaii, ere June expired, and Book IT. begun. I had just begun to study the Theosophic writings—their influence, though slight, is apparent. So intent was I on producing a 1 Vide the Contents. Can the Spirit of Per- ver…
1904 · PDF PAGE 96
…d. But for seventy days and seventy nights we touched him not , but abode ever about him: and the smile changed not on his face, and the whole grove was filled with sweet and subtle perfumes. Now on the 71st day arose there a great dispute about his body ; for the angels and spirits and demons did contend about it, that they might possess it. But our elde st brother V. N. bade all be still ; and thus he apportioned the sacred relics of our Father. To the Angel Agbagal, the fore part of the skull ; To the demon Ozoz, the back left part of the sk…
1944 · PDF PAGE 21
…d thing. We must have another point. One must invent The Surface; one must invent The Triangle. In doing this, incidentally, appears the whole of Plane Geometry. One can now say, “A is nearer to B than A is to C”. But, so far, there is no substance in any of these ideas. In fact there are no ideas at all, except the idea of Distance and perhaps the idea of Between‐ness, and of Angular Measure‐
1905 · PDF PAGE 234
…the fingers raised in blessing as figured in Eliphaz Levi's ‘‘ Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie” and elsewhere. Upon this tradition the whole play hangs.
1919 · PDF PAGE 297
…claims this same deliberate and detached American humour, a humour that is no salt for sprinkling, but is stocked in chunks to be made a whole meal of at a time. Stark Realism might have got into The Smart Set if the manuscript had been sent there and had happened upon a hospitable editorial mood. L’homme Moyen Sensuel is in its way a more striking affair, because the attempt to spring is so evident that one is positively startled by its not coming off. You wonder where the author has landed; and you find, quite surprisingly, that he has not la…
1919 · PDF PAGE 306
…ic. His mysticism makes even Maeterlinck’s wishy-washy twaddle seem virile. I have never read such slop. The illustrations match it. The whole pro- duction of Young India is babu in the Anglo-Indian sense of the word. The spirit of India is utterly absent. Drawings and writing alike resemble the senseless flourishes of some callow student. And all this while the babu, while accepting what he imagines to be honours, such as knighthood, from England, is plotting sneakishly in the Bengali manner against her. I would to God that the British would w…
1919 · PDF PAGE 308
…. Unfortunately, as it appears to us, Mr. Bragdon is tied up with theosophical dog- mas. He talks about the ‘new freedom,’ and bases his whole argument on the idea that the material world is a shadow show. Yet he seems to think that the real (that is, the ideal) world is more easy of apprehension, if we bind ourselves hand and foot by the senseless and cruel taboos of the most primitive tribes. He also errs, as it seems to us, in placing the yogi whose attainment is wholly selfish above the man of genius. Blavatsky made no such error. She place…
1905 · PDF PAGE 171
…From al] but my corruption’s self. Come here And look within mine eyes, if you can see Remembrance that there was a God! I say I see the whole bright universe a tomb, With creeping spectres moving in the mist, Some suffocating poison that was air. O Phaedra !! lend me of thy wickedness, Lest I go mad to contemplate myself! I choke—I grope—I fall ! What name is this That strikes my spirit as a broken bell Struck by some devilish hammer? In my brain Reverberates some word impossible. O I am broken on the wheel of death ; My bones are ground in so…