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…t lies with Research. Aum ! I take my refuge holy in the Light and Peace of Buddh. Aum ! I take my refuge, slowly working out His Law of Good. Aum ! I take my refuge lowly in His Pitying Brotherhood.
… youth For some strange guerdon (or its counter- foil) Gainless or not-to-be-gained, priestly or royal, Profane, canaille—I know not, in good sooth ! books, men, strength and I might do this: or else I might repose Wrapped in the urned leaves of my love’s blown rose, Seek her in spirit, and commune, and wait Her freedom and the rapture to enclose In my own house her beauty intimate. I am a fool, tossing a coin with Fate. If. Is love indeed eternal? Otherwise Is evolution an eternal plan? Must I move upward in the stream of Man, God-ward: my lif…
There has been a good deal of discussion in the past within the Colleges of the Holy Ghost, as to whether it would be quite legitimate to seek to transcend this limitation. One need not présumé to pass judgment. One can leave the decision to the will of each magician. The Book of the Dead contains many chapters intended to enable the magical entity of a man who is dead, and so deprived (according to the theory of death then current) of the material vehicle for executing his will, to take on the form of certain animais, such as a golden hawk or …
…r about anything unless and until each one of them feels himself directly threatened. Now here I must tell you a story which may throw a good deal of light on much that is obscure in the political situation of '25 to date. The venerable lady (S.H. Soror I.W.E. go = 3°) who, on the death of S.H. Frater go = 3°, Otto Gebhardi, succeeded him as my representative in Germany (note that all this pertains to the A:. A:. ; the O.T.O. is not directly concerned) attained the Grade of Hermit (AL, I: 40). Watching the situation in Europe, she became consta…
…now! That was my private fiend again- the Demon of Digression. Back to our Gods!) 777 itself, to say nothing of The Golden Bough and the Good Lord knows how many other similar monuments of lexicography (for really they are little more) , is our text-book . We are bound to · note at once that the Gods sympathise , run into one another , coalesce much more closely than any other of the Orders of Being. There is not really much in common between a jackal and a beetle , or between a wolf and an owl, although they are grouped under Pisces or Aries r…
…ng on the staff of Love, blinking and droning along—and suddenly sees Him! I did the sum over, this time with my pen like a panther. Too good to be true! I added my figures; yes, 718 past denial. I checked my value of Stèle; 52, and no error. Then only I let myself yield to the storm of delight and wonder that rushed up from the Hand of Him that is throned in the Abyss of my Being; and I wrote in my Magical Record the Triumph for which I have warred for over seventeen years 718 XTHAH 666 NO FITTER NAME COULD BE FOUND, THAT WAS SURE... And then …
…ought I sported Roland’s crest,30 With wisdom saddled, spurred, and booted, (As I my Jesus) with a jest.31 So here is my tribute—a jolly good strong ’un— To the eunuch, the faddist, the fool, and the wrong ’un ! It’s fun when you say “A mysterious way32 God moves in to fix up his Maskelyne tricks. He trots on the tides, on the tempest he rides (Like Cosmo); and as for his pace, we bethought us Achilles could never catch up with that tortoise !” No flyer, but very “Who’s Griffiths ?”* No jackpot ! I straddle the blind, age ! At hymns I’m a moral…
…some intellectual grounds for identifying himself with some definite person in the immédiate past. A brief account of Aleister Crowley’s good fortune in this matter should be instructive. It will be seen that the points of contact vary greatly in character. i. The date of Eliphas Levi’s death was about six months previous to that of Aleister Crowley s birth. The reincarnating ego is supposed to take possession of the foetus at about this stage of development. i. This latter is a very valuable practice to perforai. See Liber HHH; also read up th…
…us, 1 Mayan, the greatest of ail the devils. Your may also try “rising on the planes”.2 With a little practice, especially if you hâve a good Guru, you ought to be able to slip in and out of your astral body as easily as you slip and out of a dressing-gown. It will then no longer be so necessary for your astral body to be sent far off ; without moving an inch you will be able to “turn on” its eyes and ears — as simplv as the man with the microscope (mentioned above) can transfer his complété attention from one eye to the other. Now, however uns…
…ed thereupon . While getting ready for this any plain circle of gold will have to serve your turn. Quite flat , of course. If you want a good simple design to go on interim. try the Rosy Cross or the Unicursal Hexagram. So much for the Weapons! Now, as to your personal accoutrements, Robe, Lamen, Sandals and the like, The Book of the Law has most thoughtfully simplified matters for us. "I charge you earnestly to come before me in a single robe , and covered with a rich head-dress." (AL , I: 61.) The Robe may well be in the form of the Tau Cross…
…uld upon a disused object. APXH AZA is, therefore, a precise expression of the doctrine expounded in our Law about “Because”. So far, so good; but this is in no sense the name of the Stèle. I worked on, and found XOIZA, 718, “Yesterday” which might be grasped as a straw if I sank the third time; but I was swimming strongly enough.
…Miss Tyson. MOLLY. SIR PERCY. I did indeed speak foolishly. ANGELA (aszde). Your purse ! SIR PERCY (aside). O that were devilish—she’s a good girl ! ANGELA. I hate her. SiR PERcY. Buy yourself a pretty hat ! Forget my pretty speeches | [Pings his purse down. CARRUTHERS. O Lord Christ ! In one short day—he was a gentleman ! Sir Percival! Would God I were dead too ! If he had lived—thank God he died! Sir Percy, Lend me your pistol ; here’s a heart to hit ! [Sir Percy descends, after taking fare- well of ANGELA, and appears agatn on horseback amon…
… passed, I discovered that it was Laleham—and then again that it wasn’t. But I anticipate—don’t try to throw me out of my stride. All in good time. In the meanwhile I found I was expected to address her as Lou. ‘“ Unlimited Lou” was her nickname among the initiate. Now what I am anxious for everybody to understand is simply this. There’s hardly anybody who under- stands the way his mind works; no two minds are alike, as Horace or some old ass said; and, anyhow, the process of thinking is hardly ever what we imagine. So, instead of recognising t…
…pompous or a prig; but she had taken him seriously and got the best out of him. “ Well, Sister Athena,” said Lou, “‘ if even heroin’s no good, what is?” “ T’m afraid I'll have to treat you to another paradox,” she said, lighting a cigarette. ‘‘ I’m afraid that at first sight you'll think there must be something wrong. It’s
… messages. His antics had made all sots of trouble with the coolies, who were at one time in open revolt. Pache managed to get them into good humour again. He was a gentleman; he understood the oriental mind instinctively. He was, in fact, making extremely good. As soon as he saw that Righi was half insane with the fear that comes to people of his class in the absence of a chattering heard of his fellows, and in the presence of the grandeur of nature, he assumed moral charge of him. The difficulties with the rearguard disappeared immediately. U…
…over, and mourned because he came not. But, giving up hope at last, she regained her cheerfulness. Cf 2 Samuel xii. 15-23. CHORUS. , Our good quest ended by thy father’s hate, And by thy own hour’s madness! This . see. ‘MEDEA. But if he gain the Fleece? CHORUS. . A blissful end. MEDEA. This end and that are moulded diversely. CHORUS. Riddle no more, nor ply with doubtful hope | Hearts ready to rejoice and to despair Equally minded. MEDEA. At the midmost hour, His mind given up to sleepless muttering Of charms not mine—decrees Olympian— All on a…
…IL: “ Let us giggle.” THEODORUS: “Hush, you have committed a horrible black magical act, you have slept with”... LEILA [a creamy girl]: “Good heavens, Sir, I faint; call a policeman.” THEODORUS: “ Become acquainted with the Queen of the nymphs.” . . . SISTER HELEN [nursing expert]: “A douche, smelling salts, eau de Cologne, quinine. . ,!” THEODORUS: “From the abode of . . . Brotherhood you are expelled [sods], to the British Museum you must go [svuffes], and read [pause] ‘The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians’!” THE DEVIL: “Tut, tut, . . . Dea…
…IL: “ Let us giggle.” THEODORUS: “Hush, you have committed a horrible black magical act, you have slept with”... LEILA [a creamy girl]: “Good heavens, Sir, I faint; call a policeman.” THEODORUS: “ Become acquainted with the Queen of the nymphs.” . . . SISTER HELEN [nursing expert]: “A douche, smelling salts, eau de Cologne, quinine. . ,!” THEODORUS: “From the abode of . . . Brotherhood you are expelled [sods], to the British Museum you must go [svuffes], and read [pause] ‘The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians’!” THE DEVIL: “Tut, tut, . . . Dea…
… He has found iambic tetrameters enriched with many rimec both internai and external very useful. “The Wizard Way” (Equinox 1,1) gives a good idea of the sort of thing. So does the Evocation of Bartzabel in Equinox I, IX. There are many extant invocations throughout his works, in many kinds of métré, of many kinds of being, and for many kinds of purposes. (See Appendix). Other methods of incantation are on record as efficacious. For instance Frater I. A., when a child, was told that he could invoke the devil by repeating the “Lord’s Prayer” bac…
…a of the play is to introduce him as deus ex machina, helping the characters one by one out of their various troubles. The idea sounds a good one, but apart from availing myself of my opportunities for double entendre ("I was told the other day that he held a lot of land in London and has more tenants than the Duke of Westminister!"), I could not make much of it. The repetition of the idea was bound to be rather ridiculous. It is my one failure in this period. {573} The truth doubtless is that I had used up the energy accumulated in my wanderin…