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Page 89 of 1291919 · PDF PAGE 430
…nally an individual thing, is applied to a mob, because a mob has no Soul. A very great many elementals are to be found in human form to-day; they are nearly al- ways women, or such men as arenot men. Such beings are imitative, irresponsible, always being shocked, without any standard of truth, although often extremely logical; crim- inal without a sense of right and wrong, and as shameless as they are prudish. Truth of any kind frightens them. They are usually Christian Scientists, Spiritualists, Theos- ophists, or what not. They reflect the p…
1922 · PDF PAGE 229
…ive. It’s part of the spiritualising of my life, I suppose. I’m glad, though, that the new honeymoon didn’t last more than three or four days. It is irritating to one’s vanity. But that is merely a memory. How can vanity co-exist with the spiritual life? e I saw the Spirit of heroin to-day when I went up to the magic room. It is tremendously tall and thin, with tattered rags fluttering round it, and these turn into D.D.F. P
1904 · PDF PAGE 46
…ing and the night ! O fuck- ing ! What fun you are ! Sweet, when the morn is grey ; Sweet, when they clear away Lunch, and at close of day Possibly sweetest. But I am forgetting. The passion of the wild Bedawi for his untiring steed is indeed a theme for the noblest of poets. Here he indicated the camel Hassan with an airy wave of the hand, at the same time with incomparable dexterity directing the vast battering-ram into, and engulfing it within, his pile-ridden and fistula-riddled bung- hole is a camel. See with what joy he plunges in …
1907 · PDF PAGE 194
…the filthy philtres of her whoredoms ; and they have become truculent , and boisterous , and mad ; cloaking the silken naked ness of the day with their woollen shroud of darkness , and seeking in the depths of night the mysteries of everlasting light . O Dweller in the Land of Uz , thou also shalt be made drunken , but thy cup shall be hewn from the sapphire of the heavens , and thy wine shall be crushed from the clusters of innumerable stars ; and thou shalt make thyself naked , and thy white limbs shall be splashed with the purple foam of imm…
1910 · PDF PAGE 57
…lla and Charybdis; be- yond the singing sisters of Sicily, back to the fair plains of Thessaly and the wooded slopes of Olympus. And one day shall it come to pass that he will return to that far distant land where hung that Fleece of Gold, the Fleece he brought to the Children of Men so that they might weave from it a little garment of comfort; and there on that Self-same Tree shall he hang himself, and others shall crucify him; so that in that Winter which draweth nigh, he who is to come may find yet another garment to cover the hideous nakedn…
1910 · PDF PAGE 57
…lla and Charybdis; be- yond the singing sisters of Sicily, back to the fair plains of Thessaly and the wooded slopes of Olympus. And one day shall it come to pass that he will return to that far distant land where hung that Fleece of Gold, the Fleece he brought to the Children of Men so that they might weave from it a little garment of comfort; and there on that Self-same Tree shall he hang himself, and others shall crucify him; so that in that Winter which draweth nigh, he who is to come may find yet another garment to cover the hideous nakedn…
1911 · PDF PAGE 146
…e method of the primitives—d0 you think men and women are really like Fra Angelicos pictures look to the eye of the untaught? We may one day acquiesce in all the noughts and crosses of Nadelmann ! It’s the same everywhere. I draw a curve and a circle and a waggle up and down; and everybody who can read English is perfectly satisfied that I mean that placid ruminant, female, herbivorous, and lactiferous, to which we compare our more domesticated courtesans and our less domesticated policemen. So Being is not in Form ; it is however only to be und…
1911 · PDF PAGE 146
…e method of the primitives—d0 you think men and women are really like Fra Angelicos pictures look to the eye of the untaught? We may one day acquiesce in all the noughts and crosses of Nadelmann ! It’s the same everywhere. I draw a curve and a circle and a waggle up and down; and everybody who can read English is perfectly satisfied that I mean that placid ruminant, female, herbivorous, and lactiferous, to which we compare our more domesticated courtesans and our less domesticated policemen. So Being is not in Form ; it is however only to be und…
1911 · PDF PAGE 25
…that devoureth with her water all the fire of God. Alas! my lord, thou art joined with him that knoweth not these things. When shall the day come that men shall flock to this my gate, and fall into my furious throat, a whirlpool of fire? This is hell unquenchable, and all they shall be utterly consumed therein. Therefore is that asbestos unconsumable made pure. Each of my teeth is a letter of the reverberating name. My tongue is a pillar of fire, and from the glands of my mouth arise four pillars of water. TAOTZEM is the name by which Iam blasp…
1913 · PDF PAGE 427
…dy whose kindly welcome had been one of the first happinesses which he had tasted in France. Mme. de B. . . treated him very kindly that day, as always, and asked him to stay to dinner; the man of mystery was about to accept, when, some one having just said that they were waiting for a qabalist, well known in the world of occult science by the publication of a book entitled Dogme et rituel de la haute magie, Mr. Home suddenly changed countenance, and said, stammering, and with a visible embarrassment, that he could not remain, and that the appr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 427
…dy whose kindly welcome had been one of the first happinesses which he had tasted in France. Mme. de B. . . treated him very kindly that day, as always, and asked him to stay to dinner; the man of mystery was about to accept, when, some one having just said that they were waiting for a qabalist, well known in the world of occult science by the publication of a book entitled Dogme et rituel de la haute magie, Mr. Home suddenly changed countenance, and said, stammering, and with a visible embarrassment, that he could not remain, and that the appr…
1909 · PDF PAGE 25
…. I expect that ten centuries hence the “nominal Crowleians” will be as pestilent and numerous a body as the “nominal Christians” are to-day; for (at present)I have been able to devise no mechanism for excluding them. Rather, perhaps, should I seek to find them a niche in the shrine, just as Hinduism provides alike for those capable of the Upanishads and those whose intelligence hardly reaches to the Tantras. In short, one must abandon the reality of religion for a sham, so that the religion may be universal enough for those few who are capable…
1922 · PDF PAGE 140
…ish, and no interpreter was immediately available. She looked absolutely wretched. There had been no conveniences for toilet, and in the daylight the disguise was a ridiculous travesty. | Her hair was tousled and dirty; her complexion was sallow, mottled with touches of unwholesome red. Her eyes were bleared and bloodshot. Dark purple rims were round them. I was extremely angry with her for her unprepossessing appearance. It then occurred to me for the first time that perhaps I myself was not looking like the Prince of Wales on Derby Day. The c…
1954 · PDF PAGE 487
…ry form of wealth are the forebears of Big Business; and Big Business, directly or indirectly, is the immediate cause of War. In the "To-day and to-morrow" series is an essay called Ouroboros, by Garet Garrett; one of the most shrewd and deep-delving analyses of economics ever written. May I condense him crudely? Mass Production for Profit fails when
1904 · PDF PAGE 78
…nd power, and I bind thee in the depths of Abaddon, pa-aotza kakareji basajinu 30Di-300arasa soba iu tpamisa, gobus, to remain until the day of judgment whose end cannot be, I say, pujo-3o0umebi pereji od salaberot3a, Das aberamiji pujo-babalonu unto _ the seas of fire and sulphur which I have prepared for the wicked gabe, Das ge-Dorebesa, nore madarida. spirits that obey not; the sons of iniquity. Christeos coremefa peripesol amema ilasa! Let the company of heaven curse thee! Christeos rorap, geraa, tofajilo aoiveae amema ilasa! Let the sun, m…
1913 · PDF PAGE 157
…words, he answered me with the great word that is the Key of the Abyss. And he said: Thou hast entered the night; dost thou yet lust for day? Sorrow is my name, and affliction. I am girt about with tribulation. Here still hangs the Crucified One, and here the Mother weeps over the children that she hath not borne. Sterility is my name, and desolation. Intolerable is thine ache, and incurable thy wound. I said, Let the darkness cover me; and behold, I am compassed about with the blackness that hath no name. O thou, who hast cast down the light i…
1913 · PDF PAGE 157
…words, he answered me with the great word that is the Key of the Abyss. And he said: Thou hast entered the night; dost thou yet lust for day? Sorrow is my name, and affliction. I am girt about with tribulation. Here still hangs the Crucified One, and here the Mother weeps over the children that she hath not borne. Sterility is my name, and desolation. Intolerable is thine ache, and incurable thy wound. I said, Let the darkness cover me; and behold, I am compassed about with the blackness that hath no name. O thou, who hast cast down the light i…
1922 · PDF PAGE 227
Towards Madness 213 spirits and demons every day than he ever saw in ten years. They are nothing to be afraid of. I should like to see the old Boy himself. I’d—— , September 18 We found a book in the library one rainy afternoon. It told us how to make the Devil appear. Cockie’s grandfather was great on that stuff. There’s a room in the north tower where he did his stunts. We went up after dinner. Everything had been left more or less the way it was. Uncle Mortimer never troubled to alter anything. There was a legend about this room too. For one…
1904 · PDF PAGE 55
… quence to carve myself a little niche in the same temple : the smallest contributions will be thank- fully received. NOTES TO ASCENSION DAY 1. I flung out of chapel.1—Browning, Xmas Eve, III. last line. 3. Venus Bower and Osiris Tomb.2— Crowley, Tannhaäuser. 5. God.3—Hebrew, \yhla, Gen. iii. 5. 5. gods.4— Hebrew, \yhla, Gen. iii. 5. The Revisers, seeing this most awkard juxtaposition, have gone yet one step lower and translated both words by “God.” In other passages, however, they have been compelled to disclose their own dishonesty and tran…
1929 · PDF PAGE 322
322 am not exhausted after all this, as I was yesterday. Is this a proof that all is Right Magick, or that little force was expended? Where am I, in fact? O Holy Exalted One, do Thou illuminate my mind! {524} 59 I left Shanghai on the twenty-first of April. On the twenty-second I was sick and stayed in bed all day. I did no regular invocation, but thought over the recent crisis. I dismissed the Shanghai experience as a morbid dream. Reading through the above record at this distance of time, after deliberately avoiding doing so for so long, I fe…