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Page 85 of 951944 · PDF PAGE 51
…wound of Amfortas which has removed the virtue frorn the temple. (Amfortas is the sym‐ bol of the Dying God.) Accordingly, to redeem the whole situation, to destroy death, to reconsecrate the tem‐ ple, he has only to plunge the lance into the Holy Grail; he redeems not only Kundry, but him‐ self. (This is a doctrine only appreciable in its fulness by members of the Sovereign Sanctuary of the Gnosis of the ninth degree of O.T.O.) The Crocodile (Mako, son of Set; or Sebek). This same doctrine of maximum innocence developing into maximum fertility…
1944 · PDF PAGE 85
…ed in the child. Thus, Romulus and Remus were twins begotten upon a virgin by the god Mars, and they were suckled by a wolf. On this the whole magical formula of the city Rome was founded. Reference has already been made in this essay to the legends of Hermes and Dionysus. The father of Gautama Buddha was said to be an elephant with six tusks, appearing to his mother in a dream. There is also the legend of the Holy Ghost in the form of a dove, impregnating the Vir‐ gin Mary. There is here a reference to the dove of Noah’s Ark, bringing glad tid…
1907 · PDF PAGE 243
…ng | translated into the English Tongue bya | Dead Hand | and | adorned with divers other matters germane | delightful to the wise | the whole | edited, verified, introduced and com- mented | by | Aleister Crowley | Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth| Boles- kine,-Foyers, Inverness | 1904. Collation :—Demy 4to, pp. ix+65, consisting of Half-title, Invocation in Greek on re- verse; Frontispiece; ‘Title-page as above, talisman on reverse; Prefatory Note, pp. v-vi;_Preliminary Invocation, pp. vii-ix; Text, pp. 1-65; colophon of Chiswic…
1906 · PDF PAGE 232
…l. ‘‘To what God should he appeal? own, Hanuman, was silent. Sacrifice, prayer, all were in vain. So Jehjaour gnashed his teeth, and his whole force went out ina mighty current of hate towards his former friend. His 1 Allan MacGregor Bennett (whose motto in the ‘‘ Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn,” was lehi Aour, z.e, ‘‘ Let there be light’’), now Ananda Metteya, to whom the volume in which this story was issuedis inscribed. 2 Taphtatharath, the spirit of Mercury. trance’ Mara! appeared to him. ‘*Now hate hath power, though not the power of lo…
1906 · PDF PAGE 17
…ep perfected of shames, - They burn to one another as the flames Of our hell fuse us into one wild soul: ~ Then, one immaculate divinest whole, Plunge, fire, within all fire, dive far to death ; Till, like king Satan’s sympathetic breath, Burn on us as a voicé from far above Strange nameless elements of fire and love ; And we, one mouth to kiss; one soul to.lure, For ever wedded, one, divine, endure
1929 · PDF PAGE 269
…illarmod came to see me and ask me to say no more in the public press, as far as he was concerned. On the twenty-fourth we discussed the whole matter. He admitted that he had been in the wrong and excused himself (on the ground of ill-health and nervousness) for his behaviour. I thought I knew him; he was simply a fool but incapable of malice or treachery. On the twenty-fifth he and Righi made a violent attack on me in the columns of a newspaper, but "out of their own mouths"! Their admission proved my case. In particular, they blamed the cooli…
1909 · PDF PAGE 13
…n, the Greek 71, the Arabic ~, and the Coptic "J, but the numeration is not the same. Again, we have a clear analogy in shape (perhaps a whole series of analogies), which, on comparing the modern alphabets with primeval examples, breaks up and is indecipherable. The same difficulty in another form permeates the question of gods. Priests, to propitiate their local fetish, would flatter him with the title of creator ; philosophers, with a wider outlook, would draw identities between many gods in order to obtain a unity. Time and the gregarious na…
1906 · PDF PAGE 235
…, Perfect, Ancient and Accepted, Just, Regular Mahabrahma. His only business was to meditate, for as long as he did this, the worlds—the whole system of 10,000 worlds— would go on peaceably. Nobody had better read the lesson of the Bible— the horrible results to mankind of ill-timed, though possibly well-intentioned, interference on the part ofa deity. ‘*Well, he curled himself up, which was rather clever for a formless abstraction, and began. There was a grave difficulty in his mind—an obstacle right away from the word ‘Jump!’ Of course there …
1929 · PDF PAGE 214
…. I was completely committed to rationalism and the occurrence of miracles was a nuisance. I should have like to deny the reality of the whole Abra-Melin business, but the phenomena were just as patent as the stones of the house. I lived the life of the ordinary Scottish laird in a dull mechanical way and drifted into beginning meditation on Buddhist lines; rather because I had nothing better to do than for any more positive reason. The record of the period from June 16th to July 13th is curiously dull. One notices chiefly the lack of driving f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 460
460 conformity. The whole history of the country has hammered into their heads the evident truth that unity is strength. Their very motto affirms it --- E Pluribus Unum. Their history itself bears witness to this. What was the Civil War but a murderous struggle against secession? Prussian methods were used to dragoon the pacifist majority into fighting Germany, and prohibition was put over by every unscrupulous trick against the will of the people. Today, we see the Ku Klux Klan attempting to impose, by secret society methods of anonymous menac…
1906 · PDF PAGE 237
…ed into the hands of his enemies. My First Precept 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.
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…hirling, intertwining infinitude of nebulae, many concentric systems, each system non-concentric to any other, yet all concentric to the whole. As I went backwards in time they grew faster and faster, and less and less material. (P.S. --- this is a scientific hypothesis, directly contrary to that of Anna Kingsford.) And at last are whirling wheels of light; yet through them waved a thrill of an intenser invisible light in a direction perpendicular to the tangents. I asked to go yet farther back; and behold! I am floating on my back --- cast dow…
1929 · PDF PAGE 585
…write on this matter, "So much to do, so little done." I am overwhelmed by the multiplicity of urgent work. I need the co-operation of a whole cohort of specialists and my helplessness lies heavy on my heart, yet the word which I uttered at my first initiation, "Perdurabo", still echoes in eternity. What may befall I know not, and I have almost ceased to care. It is enough that I should press towards the mark of my high calling, secure in the magical virtue of my oath, "I shall endure unto the End." -oOo- WEH note: Crowley's writing ends here, …
1906 · PDF PAGE 242
…llows. ‘ Whence whither, why, we know not; but we do | know that we are here, that we dislike being here, that there is a way out of the whole loathsome affair—let us make haste and take it!” . I am not so retiring in disposition ;' I per- sist in my inquiries, and at last the appalling question is answered, and the past ceases to’ intrude its problems upon my mind. Here you are! Three shies a penny! Change all bad arguments. | I -ASSERT THE ABSOLUTENESS OF THE QABALISTIC ZERO. When we say that the Cosmos sprang from 0, what kind of 0 do we mea…
1929 · PDF PAGE 198
…proaching middle age, sees before her; the hell of lost beauty, of decrepitude, of wrinkles and fat. The odour of man seemed to fill her whole subtle form with a feline agility, with a beauty irresistible. One step nearer and then she sprang at Frater P. and with an obscene word sought to press her scarlet lips to his. As she do so Frater P. caught her and holding her at arm's length smote the sorceress with her own current of evil, just as a would-be murderer is sometimes killed with the very weapon with which he has attacked his victim. A blu…
1906 · PDF PAGE 279
…is- order, where grave local mischief survives the disappearance of general symptoms. One man may forget a year of his life; another the whole of it; while yet another may have odd patches effaced here and there, while the inain current flows undisturbed. Myst. Weis so much the poorer for such losses? Scept. Certainly. Alfyst. Did the stars efface their tracks to correspond ? Scept. Joshua is dead. Myst. Yama! be praised ! Scept, Amen. Afyst. You have also, I make no doubt, 1 The Hindu Pluto, VOL, II. cases where the brain, from infancy, never …
1944 · PDF PAGE 124
…s relation with the Formula of INRI. Also by his Mystery of Number he made plain the Path for His Successor to declare the Nature of the whole Universe
1919 · PDF PAGE 457
…ly sensible of our outer darkness. Coming to Miss Archer’s poetry we are obliged to notice her debt to Swinburne, yet we find it, on the whole, good.. The colour is very strong; the shades of thought are clear, and often subtle. . ‘The uninitiated may certainly recognise great strength of conviction in Miss Archer, even if they cannot or do not wish to appreciate it.”—The Poetry Review. “Several of these unpleasant phantasies are reprinted from the Equinox, and there is an in- troduction by Aleister Crowley, in which he says this book is the he…
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
…sness 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 shine before men that they may glorify my Father which is in Heaven. Furthermore, I most solemnly promise and swear: to acquire this Holy Science in the manner prescribed in the Book of Abra-Melin, without omitting th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
… them even be I! Let me in most various song Be seasons, be rivers that roll, Be stars, the untameable throng, All parts of the ultimate whole; All nature in various attire Be woven to one tune of the lyre, One tune where a million belong— Multitudinous murmur and moan, melodious, one soul with my soul ! One soul with the wail of distress The ravished Persephone flung ; One soul with the song of success, Demeter’s, that found her and sung ; One soul with all spirits drawn nigher From invisible worlds to the lyre ;— They throng me and silently p…