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Page 83 of 901909 · PDF PAGE 12
…the object of their paranoiac fetishism. | Even among serious philosophers the confusion is very great. Such terms as God, the Absolute, Spirit, have dozens and dozens of connotations, according to the time and place of the dispute and the beliefs of the disputants. Time enough that these definitions and their inter-relation should be crystal- lised, even at some expense of accepted philosophical accuracy. 2. The principal sources of our tables have been the philosophers and traditional systems referred to above, as also, among many others, Pie…
1929 · PDF PAGE 28
…ted on the magical plane, so to speak. It was as if I had made wax figures of the most inoffensive sort, that yet were recognized by the spiritual instinct of Champney as idols or instruments of witchcraft. I was punished with absolute injustice and stupidity, yet at the same time the mystical apprehension of Champney made no mistake. 1. Evangelizing was almost all plain terrorism. Besides the torments of hell, there were "judgments". For instance, the Blasphemous Butcher who, begged to get "washed in the Blood of the Lamb", replied "Right you …
1944 · PDF PAGE 31
…d not facilitate the work of navigators. It is important to have this idea in one’s mind, because otherwise one fails to grasp the whole spirit of modern Science‐Philosophy. It does not aim at Truth; it does not conceive of Truth (in any ordinary sense of the word) as possible; it aims at maximum convenience. 2. To return to the picture of the Solar System. The Sun is the Hub of the Wheel; the outermost Planet is on its rim; and beyond, but laterally within that rim, are the Twelve Con‐ stellations of the Zodiac. Why twelve? The first rough div…
1944 · PDF PAGE 24
…nd its weight and hardness earthy. Yet, weight is but a function of the curvature of the “space‐time Continuum”: “Earth is the Throne of Spirit.” This is true, even in matters of the strictest science. The scientific description of an object is universally true; and yet it is not completely true for any single observer. The phenomenon called the Daughter is ambiguous. It has been explained above as the spiritual ingredient in the result of the marriage of the Father and the Mother; but this is only one interpretation. THE TAROT AND THE ELEMENTS…
1905 · PDF PAGE 101
…nowy fruit Whose bloom to-night lay sleeping on her breast, As ifa touch might stir the sunny nest, Break the spell’s power, and hid the spirit fly Who had come near to dwell with us. But I Bend through long hours above the dear twin life, Look from love’s guerdon to the lover-wife, And back again to that small face so swect, And downwards to the little rosy feet, And see myself no longer in her eyes So perfectly as here, where passion les Buried and re-arisen and complete. O happy life too sweet, too perfect sweet, O happy leve too perfectly m…
1906 · PDF PAGE 17
…s quickened with the blood Of that desire which pours its deadly flood Through soul and shaken body; scarce a thought, But sense through spirit most divinely wrought To perfect feeling ; only through the lips Electric ardour kindles, flashes, slips Through all the circle to her lips again, And thence, unwavering, flies to mine, to drain All pleasure in one draught. sigh ; No change of breast; love’s posture perfectly Once gained, we change no more. The fever grows Hotter or cooler, as the night wind blows Fresh gusts of passion on the outer gat…
1929 · PDF PAGE 233
…te fixed in scepticism, as I have always been, but also in so-called rationalism, and I prosecuted these studies in a strictly scholarly spirit. I worked very hard at them and made great progress accordingly; but my true life was still the honeymoon, slightly diluted by the ordinary pleasures of sport and society. I relapsed into golf after some fourteen years' total abstinence; took a few lessons from the pro at the Turf Club, and found that my St. Andrews swing and the canniness inculcated by Andrew Kirkaldy {388} made a fine basis for playin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 57
…ty of contracting a suitable and serious relation did not worry me. I found, moreover, that any sort of satisfaction acted as a powerful spiritual stimulus. Every adventure was the direct cause of my writing poetry. In the periods of suppression my brain had been completely clogged; I was as incapable of thought of any kind as if I had had the toothache. I have a genuine grudge against the system on this account. Whole months of my life, which might have been profitably spent in all sorts of work, were taken up by the morbid broodings of the un…
1907 · PDF PAGE 29
…ear dead chief. Long, long he wept, nor bought with tears relief. He knew the loss, the old head wise and grey Well to assoil him of his spirit’s grief, The twilight dangers of a boy’s dim way, His dragons to confront, his minotaurs to slay. Yet, when he knew himself the baronet, He took good order for the house, and bore Him as beseemed the master ; none may fret All are as well bestowed as aye before. His father’s eighty was with him fourscore. His father’s old advisers well he groups Into a closer company ; their lore He ardently acquires—he…
1907 · PDF PAGE 245
… things are good” exclaimed the boy, ili. 93 All thought of work is almost cast aside, ii. 66 Al Malik the magnificent, iii, 86 A lonely spirit seeks the 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 n…
1906 · PDF PAGE 237
… is merely a general rule.? In 1 The Buddha had such long ears that he could cover the whole of his face with them. Ears are referred to Spirit in Hindu symbolism, so that the legend means that he could conceal the lower elements and dwell in this alone. 2 Here is the little rift within the lute which alienated Crowley from active work on Buddhist lines ; the orthodox failing to see his attitude. 3 A more likely idea than the brilliantly logical nonsense of Pansil, svpra.
1944 · PDF PAGE 124
…diles of hell await? Aleph, Vau, Yod, Ayin, Resh, Tau, is his name.1 Beneath his feet is the Kingdom, and upon his head the Crown. He is spirit and matter; he is peace and power; in him is Chaos and Night and Pan; and upon BABALON his concubine, that hath made him drunk upon the blood of the saints that she hath gathered in her golden cup, hath he begotten the virgin that now he doth deflower. And this is that which is written: Malkuth shall be uplifted and set upon the throne of Binah. And this is the stone of the phi‐ losophers that is set as…
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
…o place to Evil: and to make eternal war against the Forces of Evil: until even they be redeemed unto the Light. (6) To harmonize my own spirit so that Equilibrium may lead me to the East; and that my Human consciousness shall allow no usurpation of its rule by the Automatic. (7) To conquer the temptations. (8) To banish the illusions. (9) To put my whole trust in the Only and Omnipotent Lord God: as it is written, "Blessed are they that put their trust in Him." (10) To uplift the Cross of Sacrifice and Suffering; and to cause my Light so to sh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
… veils of the Heaven be rended and ended. Now, single myself as thy soul, I pray to Apollo indeed ! Fling forth to the starriest goal My spirit, invoking his rede ;? Care nought for his mercy or ire $ Reach impious hands to his lyre. Determined to die or control Those strings the immortal at last, though the strings of this heart of me bleed. Come life, or come death ; come disdain Or honour from mutable men, I cry in this passionate pain— My blood be poured out in the pen! Euterpe ! Espouse me ! Inspire My life looking up to Thy lyre! Of thy l…
1944 · PDF PAGE 267
… the Christian Qabalah, this is symbolized by introducing the letter Shin in the midst of the Tetragrammaton to represent the element of Spirit harmonizing and ruling the four rigid and opposing Elements. The name Jehovah IHVH, thus becomes IHShVH, Yeheshuah, Jesus. This is the Qabahstic method of ex pressing the doctrine of Jesus as the Redeemer. The method was
1911 · PDF PAGE 307
… Age” “ Yours also is the Reincarnation and the Life, O laughing lion that is to be ! “Here you have distilled for our delight the inner spirit of the Tulip’s form, the sweet secret mystery of the Rose’s perfume: you have set them free from all that is material whilst preserving all that is sensual. ‘So also the old mystics were right who saw in every phenomenon a dog-faced demon apt only to seduce the soul from the sacred mystery.’ Yes, but the phenomenon shall it not be as another sacred mystery ; the force of attraction still to be interpret…
1911 · PDF PAGE 307
… Age” “ Yours also is the Reincarnation and the Life, O laughing lion that is to be ! “Here you have distilled for our delight the inner spirit of the Tulip’s form, the sweet secret mystery of the Rose’s perfume: you have set them free from all that is material whilst preserving all that is sensual. ‘So also the old mystics were right who saw in every phenomenon a dog-faced demon apt only to seduce the soul from the sacred mystery.’ Yes, but the phenomenon shall it not be as another sacred mystery ; the force of attraction still to be interpret…
1912 · PDF PAGE 430
…w Age “ Yours also is the Reincarnation and the Life, O laughing lion that is to be ! “Here you have distilled for our delight the inner spirit of the Tulip's form, the sweet secret mystery of the Rose’s perfume: you have set them free from all that is material whilst preserving all that is sensual. ‘So also the old mystics were right who saw in every phenomenon a dog-faced demon apt only to seduce the soul from the sacred mystery.’ Yes, but the phenomenon shall it not be as another sacred mystery; the force of attraction still to be interprete…
1912 · PDF PAGE 430
…w Age “ Yours also is the Reincarnation and the Life, O laughing lion that is to be ! “Here you have distilled for our delight the inner spirit of the Tulip's form, the sweet secret mystery of the Rose’s perfume: you have set them free from all that is material whilst preserving all that is sensual. ‘So also the old mystics were right who saw in every phenomenon a dog-faced demon apt only to seduce the soul from the sacred mystery.’ Yes, but the phenomenon shall it not be as another sacred mystery; the force of attraction still to be interprete…
1910 · PDF PAGE 502
…w Age” “ Yours also is the Reincarnation and the Life, O laughing lion that is to be! “Here you have distilled for our delight the inner spirit of the Tulip’s form, the sweet secret mystery of the Rose’s perfume: you have set them free from all that is material whilst preserving all that is sensual. ‘So also the old mystics were right who saw in every phenomenon a dog-faced demon apt only to seduce the soul from the sacred mystery.’ Yes, but the phenomenon shall it not be as another sacred mystery; the force of attraction still to be interprete…