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Page 83 of 1301911 · PDF PAGE 93
… appointed as a warden? And he said: Eloi, Eloi, lama sabacthani. Such an ecstasy of anguish racks me that I cannot give it voice, yet I know it is but as the anguish of Gethsemane. And that is the last word of the Aethyr. The outposts are passed, and before the seer extends the outermost Abyss. I am returned. Bou-SAaba. December 5, 1909. 10.10-11.35 p.m. * Full title of Jesod is Tzediq Jesod Olahm, “ The Righteous is the Founda- tion of the World.” + 1. S. V. D., Jesod,=80, the number of pé, the letter of Mars. gi
1911 · PDF PAGE 97
…t I smile upon whom I would seduce, O inviolable one, that canst not be tempted. If thou canst command me by the power of the Most High, know that I did indeed tempt thee, and it repenteth me. I bow myself humbly before the great and terrible names whereby thou hast conjured and constrained me. But thy name is mercy, and I cry aloud for pardon. Let me come and put my head beneath thy feet, that I may serve thee. For if thou commandest me to obedience in the Holy names, I cannot swerve therefrom, for their first whispering is greater than the no…
1961 · PDF PAGE 13
1 a Apologia (Prologue) HAVE begotten thee, o my Son, and that strangely, as thou knowest, upon the Scarlet Woman called Hilarion, as it was mysteriously foretold unto me in The Book of the Law. Now therefore that thou art come to the Age of Understanding, do hou give ear unto my Wisdom, for that therein lieth a simple and direct Way for every Man that he may attain to the End. Firstly, then, I would have thee to know that Spiritual Experience and Perfection have no necessary connection with Advancement in our Holy Order. But for each Man is a …
1911 · PDF PAGE 23
…ere is a scroll over the top, saying: Ecclesia abhorret a sanguine; and there is another scroll below it in a language of which I do not know the sounds. The meaning is, Not as they have understood. The blood is thicker and darker now, and it is becoming clotted and black, so that everything is blotted out; because it coagulates, coagulates. And then at the top there steals a dawn of pure night-blue,—Oh, the stars, the stars in it deeply set!—and drives the blood down; so that all round the top of the oval gradually dawns the figure of our Lady…
1913 · PDF PAGE 428
THE EQUINOX assert that he is good or evil, I know nothing about it; but his atmosphere hurts me; near him I should feel myself, as it were, without force, even without life.” After which explanation, Mr. Home hastened to salute and withdraw. This terror of miracle-mongers in the presence of the veritable initiates of science, is not a new fact in the annals of occultism. You may read in Philostratus the history of the Lamia who trembles on hearing the approach of Apollonius of Tyana. Our admirable story-teller Alexander Dumas dramatized this m…
1913 · PDF PAGE 509
…ntrolled. The habitual folds of the hand determine its lines. These lines are, then, the traces of habits, and the patient observer will know how to recognize them and how to judge them. The man whose hand folds badly is clumsy or unhappy. The hand has three principal functions: to grasp, to hold, and to p2 211
1913 · PDF PAGE 559
… even of ideas, one gives up one’s personality, and becomes the slave of that multitudinous spirit whom the Gospel calls /egiov. Artists know this well enough. Their frequent evocations of the universal light enervate them. They become medzums, that is to say, sick men. The more success magnifies them in public opinion, the more their personality diminishes. They become crotchety, envious, wrathful. They do not admit that any merit, even in a different sphere, can be placed beside theirs; and, having become unjust, they dispense even with polit…
1913 · PDF PAGE 428
THE EQUINOX assert that he is good or evil, I know nothing about it; but his atmosphere hurts me; near him I should feel myself, as it were, without force, even without life.” After which explanation, Mr. Home hastened to salute and withdraw. This terror of miracle-mongers in the presence of the veritable initiates of science, is not a new fact in the annals of occultism. You may read in Philostratus the history of the Lamia who trembles on hearing the approach of Apollonius of Tyana. Our admirable story-teller Alexander Dumas dramatized this m…
1913 · PDF PAGE 509
…ntrolled. The habitual folds of the hand determine its lines. These lines are, then, the traces of habits, and the patient observer will know how to recognize them and how to judge them. The man whose hand folds badly is clumsy or unhappy. The hand has three principal functions: to grasp, to hold, and to p2 211
1913 · PDF PAGE 559
… even of ideas, one gives up one’s personality, and becomes the slave of that multitudinous spirit whom the Gospel calls /egiov. Artists know this well enough. Their frequent evocations of the universal light enervate them. They become medzums, that is to say, sick men. The more success magnifies them in public opinion, the more their personality diminishes. They become crotchety, envious, wrathful. They do not admit that any merit, even in a different sphere, can be placed beside theirs; and, having become unjust, they dispense even with polit…
1916 · PDF PAGE 11
…me or another has been the subject of violent praise and violent blame. If any one asks me for the meaning of the word God, I must first know whether the word is being used by the Pope or Mr. G. W. Foote or Herbert Spencer or Billy Sunday. If you ask me for the meaning of the word soul, I am equally at a loss. To the Buddhist it is a figment of the imagination of certain Hindu philosophers. The Qabalists use it as almost synonymous with body. Every metaphysician that ever lived has used this word in a different sense, and has nearly always …
1906 · PDF PAGE 164
158 THE SWORD OF SONG Will Satan be saved? Who pardons Judas ? God's fore- knowledge of Satan's fall and eternal misery makes him re- sponsible for it. It he and Judas are finally re- deemed, we might perhaps look over the matter this once. Poet books his seat. Creator in (Granting him Godhead) merciless To all the anguish and distress About him—save to him it clung And prayed. Give me omnipotence? I am no fool that I should fence That power, demanding every tongue To call me God—I would exert That power to heal creation’s hurt ; Not to divide …
1907 · PDF PAGE 263
…eing , because It is anterior to the entire universe ... ' No clear formulated reply can naturally be given to the Formless , all we can know concerning it is : that Something emanates from No - thing ; that out of the Formless emerges the Formed , how and why remains unanswered : this alone is the only meaning we can give to creation ex nihilo . 1 But Crowleyanity may be new , for it is not under the sun . Qabbalah . Isaac Meyer , p . 124 .
1909 · PDF PAGE 95
…reach a point where, as Mr. Waite jeers, we are driven to take refuge in portentous darkness and irretrievable mystery (because we don’t know anything about it)—he sits down and contemplates the Three Characteristics. This will presumably be very difficult to do because he is probably (for all the “ Grace of the Lord Shiva” business) an expert in the Vififianam trances, and having thus created an eternal Universe and an even more eternal Absence of Universe, both of which, too, are probably mere masses of Sat—Chit—Ananda (Being—Knowledge—Bliss)…
1909 · PDF PAGE 95
…reach a point where, as Mr. Waite jeers, we are driven to take refuge in portentous darkness and irretrievable mystery (because we don’t know anything about it)—he sits down and contemplates the Three Characteristics. This will presumably be very difficult to do because he is probably (for all the “ Grace of the Lord Shiva” business) an expert in the Vififianam trances, and having thus created an eternal Universe and an even more eternal Absence of Universe, both of which, too, are probably mere masses of Sat—Chit—Ananda (Being—Knowledge—Bliss)…
1911 · PDF PAGE 114
…shall appear unto him, so that he shall be wrapt away into the Mystery of Holiness. All that day shall he remain in the enjoyment of the know- ledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. 112
1954 · PDF PAGE 187
… so much better than your present best, or whether it will be finished in time . Then, wear that present best to-night (wet , of course) knowing you are sure to soil it. 3. Obviously, all the usual conditions of a Magical Operation apply in this as in all cases; your aim must conform with your True Will, and all that; but there is one curious point about an Act of Truth: this , that one should resort to it only when there is no other method possible. In the explorer's case, above, it won't do if he has any means of hurrying up the messenger. It…
1929 · PDF PAGE 100
100 people are necessarily narrow in this one respect. They may know how all sorts of people treat them, but they cannot know, except at second hand, how those same people treat others. To return to Allan Bennett. I found him staying with V. H. Frater Aequo Animo1 in a tiny tenement in Southwark or Lambeth --- I forget which. It was a mean, grim horror. AE. A., whose name was Charles Rosher, was a widely travelled Jack-of-all-trades. He had invented a patent water-closet and been court painter to the Sultan of Morocco. He wrote some of the wors…
1907 · PDF PAGE 138
…mate blending of our extreme per fections and imperfections — vice and virtue — in one great monistic unity . He that would be wise must know all things , all things that his transient life can enable him to grasp . In the age which produced Rabelais and Boccaccio , vice was flagrantly open , and the lust which the early Christians had first opposed and secondly absorbed , slowly burnt within the society of their days , till it burst out in the lecherous flames
1907 · PDF PAGE 209
… The seer is intelligence only , and though pure , sees through the colouring of the intellect .” In “ Pentecost ," Crowley writes : You know for me the soul is nought Save a new phantom in the thought , That thought itself impermanent , Save as a casual element With such another may combine To form now water and now wine ; The element itself may be Changeless to all eternity , But compounds ever fluctuate With time or space or various state . ( Ask chemists else !) So I must claim Spirit and matter are the same Or else the prey of putrefaction…