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letter of your oath! The most exquisite deceit of the devil is to lure you from the plain meaning of words. So, though your instinct, and your reason, and your common sense, and your intelligence all urge you to interpret some duty otherwise than in the plain original sense; don't do it!" "I don't see what you mean." "Here's a case. Suppose you swore 'not to touch alcohol.' The devil would come with a sickness, and an alcholic medicine; he would tempt you to say that of course your oath didn't mean 'medicinally.' Or you would wish to rub your s…
1905 · PDF PAGE 161
…the beautiful Eyes that they half discover? me. I have long thought a secret was your spouse, Shared your deep fancies and your lightest word, Partook your maiden bed, and gave you dreams Somewhat too troublous to be virginal. Speak to MADELINE. My dear kind Cora, do they lie to you, These fancies of my idle hours? Lelieve, I seem to tremble at my inward thought ; My heart is full of wonder. When I go Nightward beneath the moon, and take my thoughts Past her pale beauty through some glowing skies * The justification of this play, both in subjec…
1939 · PDF PAGE 21
…The subject of my third lecture is Niyama. Niyama? H'm! The inadequacy of even the noblest attempts to translate these wretched Sanskrit words is now about to be delightfully demonstrated. The nearest I can get to the meaning of Niyama is 'virtue'! God help us all! This means virtue in the original etymological sense of the wordthe quality of manhood; that is, to all intents and purposes, the quality of godhead. But since we are translating Yama 'control,' we find that our two words have not at all the same relationship to each other that the …
1930 · PDF PAGE 99
…ve been certain saints who are capable of love for an idea as such without it being otherwise than degraded by idolising it, to use this Word in its true sense. Thus one may be impassioned of beauty, without even the need of so small a concrétion of it as “The beauty of Apollo”, the “beauty of roses”, the “beauty of Attis”. Such persons are rare 5 it may be doubted whether Plato himself attained to any vision of absolute beauty without attaching to it material objects in the first place. A second class is able to contemplate ideals through this…
1929 · PDF PAGE 135
One word of warning is perhaps necessary for the begirmer. The victim must be in perfect health — or its energy may be as it were poisoned. It must also not be too large: * 1 2 3 the amount of energy disengaged is almost unimaginably great, and out of ail anticipated proportion to the strength of the animal. Con- sequently, the Magician may easily be overwhelmed and obsessed by the force which he has let loose; it will then probably manifest itself in its lowest and most objectionable form. The most intense spirituality of purpose is absolutely…
1907 · PDF PAGE 40
34 WHY JESUS WEPT Do I perspire now? Do my cheeks run down nasty wet tears? Is my love a mono- tonous harping on one word? Love, Percy —dare I call you Percy? SiR PERcY. If I may call you Angela. ANGELA. Love, Percy (she lays one hand on his shoulder and looks deeply in his eyes), is wit, and laughter, and wisdom; all of love, and in it; but love without these is a mawkish, moonish distemper of folly—and will pass. I shall not pass, my love!—Ah! you feel my breath upon your face |! Sir PERcY. ~Yes—do not! ANGELA. I shall do so—you dare not move…
1906 · PDF PAGE 42
…yelids filled of flame, Wild lightnings from Him glancing, Lord Shiva went and came. The dancing of His feet was heard And was the final word. 1 The MS. of this Hymn most mysteriously (for I am very careful) disappeared two days after being written. I can remember no more of it than the above; nor willinspiration return, —A, C. He danced the measure golden. On dead men... His Saints and Rishis ' olden, : The yogins that... He trampled them to dustand they Were sparks and no more clay. The dust thrown up around Him _ In cycles whirled and twined…
1904 · PDF PAGE 52
…which she herself was at that moment being punished. It is the spite of baffled dissimulation against triumphant honesty. Goneril adds a word of positive advice. “You,” she says in effect, “who prate of duty thus, see you show it to him unto whom you owe it.” That this advice is wasted is clear from Act V. Sc. iii., where the King of France takes the first trivial opportunity* to be free of the vile creature he had so foolishly married. Cordelia goes, and the sisters talk together. Theirs is the language of quiet sorrow for an old man’s failing…
1907 · PDF PAGE 156
…ings As a serpent’s encompassing Time. forth ! on the heavy grey wings! Come Ye arbiter lords That sit as for doom, Bright splendour of swords Leaps forth in your gloom ! But stronger my chords Shall lift in your womb The love of your passage and time, imme- morial ages, your tomb. | Ye linger for long, But ye pass and are done: But I, my sweet song Outliveth the sun ! Ye are many and strong; I am stronger, and one ! Come forth! I invoke ye, O years, in my evening orison. THE YEARS. Crowned with Eternity, beyond beginning; Sandalled with wings,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 486
…t I can quote. He always took pains to make the most of his material. If a contribution did not suit him, he did not reject it without a word of explanation. He talked it over, and suggested modifications. I thus found out how to suit his taste without injuring my self-respect. Most editors drive away their best contributors by treating them like street beggars and leave them bewildered at the rejection. Others, again, haggle over the terms and as often as not delay or evade payment. They then wonder why they fail to hit the public taste. It so…
1929 · PDF PAGE 136
… the floor in a swoon which lasted several hours, during which I was initiated.” Soror A.*,. Cf. Rev. I, 12-17. 1. The whole idea of the Word Sacrifice, as commonly understaad, rests upon an error and superstition, and is unscientific, besides being metaphysically false. The law of Thelema has totally changed the Point of View as to this matter. Unless you hâve thoroughly assimilated the Formula of Horus, it is absolutely unsafe to meddle with this type of Magick. Let the young Magician reflect upon the Conservation of Matter and of Energy. 2. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 68
…ng. She gained the consciousness of her own nature, something far deeper than anything she had ever known, and she expressed its will in words of absolute despair. "I can't leave Cyril Grey." "I'm afraid of him more than all the others," whispered the girl." I loved him too. And when I came to him two days ago, thinking that he still loved me — he laughed — and he had me whipped. Oh come away!" "I can't," said Lisa, brokenly. "But you shall go. Here, take my dress; give me your robe. The chauffeur won't know the difference. Tell him to drive to…
1929 · PDF PAGE 139
…mself subsequently agreed, the secret of the Universe is revealed to those who are worthy to partake of it. Iliel could not understand a word of what was written, but she realized that it must be valuable, and, taking the tablet, she hid it in her robe and came out of the cave. Then she saw that the coast was changed: it was the familiar Posilippo which hung above her, and she could see Vesuvius away to the right. She turned to breast the steep slope between her and the road, when she found herself confronted by something that she could not see…
1919 · PDF PAGE 312
…you see the lowest fetichism intent in its grovelling rites.” How does this animal know what the people were doing? He could not speak a word of their language. He was seeing them for the first time, and his criti- cisms are just as valuable as would be those of a savage who dropped in on a telephone exchange. The wretched creature keeps on, page after page: “Barbarian, barbarism, barbarous—I am sorry to harp so much on these words. But they express the essence of the situation.” “There never was a ‘great civilization’ in India . . .” ‘With the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 215
…. An hour later they were aboard the destroyer; [302] they shook hands in silence. Simon Iff went down the gangway, and Manners gave the word. As they raced northward, they passed under the lee of Abdul's yacht, where Lisa, up to the eyes in champagne, was fondling her new lover. Her little pig-like eyes sparkled through their rolls of fat; her cheeks, the colour and consistency of ripe Camembert cheese, sagged pendulous upon a many-chinned neck which looked almost goitrous; and the whole surmounted one of those figures dear to engineers, becau…
1913 · PDF PAGE 308
THE EQUINOX himself from the communion of the tyrant who wished to impose faith by the sword. It is by charity that so great a crowd of saints have forced the world to accept them as expiation for the crimes com- mitted in the name of religion itself, and the scandals of the profaned sanctuary. It is by charity that St. Vincent de Paul and Fénelon compelled the admiration of even the most impious centuries, and quelled in advance the laughter of the children of Voltaire before the imposing dignity of their virtues. and a worse persecution was t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 308
THE EQUINOX himself from the communion of the tyrant who wished to impose faith by the sword. It is by charity that so great a crowd of saints have forced the world to accept them as expiation for the crimes com- mitted in the name of religion itself, and the scandals of the profaned sanctuary. It is by charity that St. Vincent de Paul and Fénelon compelled the admiration of even the most impious centuries, and quelled in advance the laughter of the children of Voltaire before the imposing dignity of their virtues. and a worse persecution was t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 6
…entirely directed to attain this end, and forms a magnificent gymnasium for those who are not already finished mental athletes.” By act, word, and thought, both in quantity and quality, the one object of the ceremony is being constantly indicated. In order to induce this religious ecstasy in its highest form Crowley proposes to hold a series of religious services ; seven in number. These services are to be held at Caxton Hall, Westmins- ter, and will be conducted by Aleister Crowley himself, assisted by other Neophytes of the A∴ A∴, the mystica…
1917 · PDF PAGE 4
… taking our pleasure as Kings and Queens in Heaven and on Earth. The sun is arisen; the spectre of the ages has been put to flight. ‘The word of Sin is Restriction,” or as it has been other- wise said on this text: ‘ That is Sin, to hold thine holy spirit in!” Go on in thy might ; and let no man make thee afraid. Love is the Law, Love under Will or with the Grand Secretary General,—Offices of the UMM. & 0.T.0., 93 Regent Street, London, W.C.
1929 · PDF PAGE 173
…n in either of these two ways. Alter it, or withdraw to higher ground. The black magician, or as I prefer to call him, sorcerer, for the word magick should not be profaned, invariably withdraws to lower planes. Let us seek an analogy in the perfectly concrete case of the bank cashier. "This gentleman, we will assume, finds his salary inadequate to his outgoings. Now he may economize, that is, withdraw himself to a kind of life where money is no longer needed in such quantity, or he [244] may devote himself day and night to his business, and so …