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Page 90 of 1731922 · PDF PAGE 47
… Thee, Evoe! I adore Thee, I A O!” ‘‘ Quite so,” agreed King Lamus cheerfully. “ You'll excuse me, I know, if I ask whether you have any great experience of the effects of cocaine.” Lou glowered at him. I preferred to meet him frankly. I deliberately put a large dose on the back of my hand and sniffed it up. Before I had finished, the effect had occurred. I felt myself any man’s master. “Well, as a matter of fact,’’ I said superciliously, “ to-night’s the first time I ever took it, and it strikes me as pretty good stuff.” Lamus smiled enigmatic…
1907 · PDF PAGE 166
…otent , in a jest .' Crowley further shows , by quoting the parable of the sheep and the goats , that the historical (?) Christ was to a great extent devoid of pity , and a little further on in the same poem , “ Ascension Day ,” that he was but a cantankerous divider and obstreperous upstart : Give me omnipotence ? To call me God I would exert That power to heal creation's hurt ; Not to divide my devotees From those who scorned me to the close : A worm , a fire , a thirst for these ; A harp - resounding heaven for those !4 Concerning the mother…
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…of the glories of the past; and I made a firm resolution to be one of the glories of the future. I should like the haunted room over the Great Gate of Trinity to be turned into a vault like that of Christian Rosencreutz to receive my sarcophagus. I must admit that I don't know of much else in England of the works of man which I would not make haste to destroy if the opportunity occurred. But Trinity, except New Court and Whewell's Court, is enough for nay poet to live and die for. I remember being amazed in later years when my patriotism was do…
1902 · PDF PAGE 17
…I give you all full permission to conclude your review of this book by quoting from Act III. " Forget this nightmare!" I must express my great sense of gratitude to Oscar Eckenstein, Gerald Kelly, and Allan MacGregor, who have severally helped me in the work of revision, which has extended over more than a year of time and nearly twenty thousand miles of space. Some few of the very best lines were partially or wholly suggested by themselves, and I have not scrupled to incorporate these : if the book be but a Book, the actual authorship seems to…
1907 · PDF PAGE 91
… his words were the words of a dead God. Basil Gray, his brother, had come hot-foot from West Africa to see him. Basil had just made the great march from Tetuan to Lagos, and
1907 · PDF PAGE 33
…umper ” certainly would not have pleased Poe , who regarded him as the noblest poet that ever lived . Nevertheless we find traces of the great laureate's work in these poems , such as the idea contained in the following verse of “ De Profundis ”: I have dreamed life a circle or a line , Called God, and Fate , and Chance , and Man, divine . I know not all I say , but through it all Mark the dim hint of ultimate sunshine !? which is almost identical with that in Canto LIV of “ In Memoriam .” A poem written in the metre of Tenny Songs of the Spiri…
1907 · PDF PAGE 45
…ey are musical . And though in “ Rodin in Rime ” perhaps Crowley slightly overdoes this introduction of irregular lines , yet they add a great charm , as they do in many of his other poems , producing in their lingering pause or quick jump an ecstatic spasm , if we may so call it , which renders so many of these poems unique . Such as in “ Styx ” we find : 1 W. E. Henley , Rodin in Rime , vol . iii, p . 120. Compare the following verse in Swinburne's poem , The Centenary of the Battle of the Nile : The strong and sunbright lie whose name was Fr…
1907 · PDF PAGE 150
…Mundi , “ the keystone of the Royal Arch of Sex " : Single in love and aim , Double in form and name ,? that arch which rests on the two great pillars of Solomon's temple , black and white , and contrary , yet their power is one , for they are the limbs of God . “ Rosa Mundi ” stands before us crowned , naked , and wonderful . Neither Alice nor Archais , neither Ratoum nor Cora , neither Venus nor Isis , yet the woven filament of all these glowing petals into one flaming Rose of glory ; in whose sceptred - heart burns the white phallus of God ,…
1911 · PDF PAGE 40
…om thou adorest, as if thou didst unite with Him in the adoration of That which is beyond Him. 7. Thus shalt thou ever be mindful 01 the Great Work which thou hast undertaken to perform, and thus shalt thou be strengthened to pursue it unto the attainment 01 the Stone of the Wise, the Summum Bonum, True Wisdom and Perfect Happiness. 32
1911 · PDF PAGE 40
…om thou adorest, as if thou didst unite with Him in the adoration of That which is beyond Him. 7. Thus shalt thou ever be mindful 01 the Great Work which thou hast undertaken to perform, and thus shalt thou be strengthened to pursue it unto the attainment 01 the Stone of the Wise, the Summum Bonum, True Wisdom and Perfect Happiness. 32
1912 · PDF PAGE 96
…slation of the whole word would be “Union with God,” the exact term used by Christian mystics to describe their attainment. Now there is great confusion, because the Buddhists use the word Samadhi to mean something entirely different, the mere faculty of attention. Thus, with them, to think of a cat is to “ make Samadhi ” on that cat. They use the word Jhana to describe mystic states. This is excessively misleading, for as we saw in the last section, Dhyana is a preliminary to Samadhi, and of course Jhana is merely the wretched plebeian Pali co…
1913 · PDF PAGE 172
i6o which we wish to evoke is nothing partial, but whole, we shall have but a single symbol to combine the two. The Great Work will then form the subject of the design.^ In this Lamen the Magician must place the secret keys of his power. The Pentacle is merely the material to be worked upon, gathered to- gether and harmonized but not yet in operation, the parts of the engine arranged for use, or even put together, but not yet set in motion. In the Lamen these forces are already at work; even accomplishment is prefigured. In the system of Abrame…
1913 · PDF PAGE 342
…ty, and makes war at his own risk and peril. Crime should doubtless be repressed, and society must defend itself; but who is so just, so great, so pure, as to pretend that he has the right to punish ? Peace then to all who fall in war, even in unlawful war! For they have staked their heads and they have lost them; they have paid, and what more can we ask of them? Honour to all those who fight bravely and loyally! Shame only on the traitors and cowards ! Christ died between two thieves, and He took one of them with Him to heaven. The Kingdom of …
1913 · PDF PAGE 342
…ty, and makes war at his own risk and peril. Crime should doubtless be repressed, and society must defend itself; but who is so just, so great, so pure, as to pretend that he has the right to punish ? Peace then to all who fall in war, even in unlawful war! For they have staked their heads and they have lost them; they have paid, and what more can we ask of them? Honour to all those who fight bravely and loyally! Shame only on the traitors and cowards ! Christ died between two thieves, and He took one of them with Him to heaven. The Kingdom of …
1961 · PDF PAGE 64
… ariseth. Therefore, it is not proper to regard all Consequence of a Will as its Effect. Without the Revolution there could have been no great Effect of the Will of Napoleon; and moreover his Will was broken in the End, to the present Misfortune (as it seems to many beside myself) of Mankind. This Magick therefore, dependeth greatly on the Art to set many other Wills in sympathetic Motion; and the greatest Magus may not be the most successful in a mean conception of a Limit of Time. He may need to strike many Blows before he breaketh down his W…
1961 · PDF PAGE 215
…o ubi dico: Omnia Sunt (Of the Aphorism in which I declare: All Things Exist) Y Son, long did I await thee, yearning, and with Pride and Great Gladness did I bid thee Welcome to my City of the Pyramids, under the Night of Pan. Now then in my dear Love of thee will I reveal this Secret of Wisdom which I wrote occultly in my last Chapter, in these Words: All Things Exist. Considered by right Under- standing, this is to deny that there is anything imaginable or unimaginable which doth not exist. That is, the Body of Our Lady Nuith hath no Limit, a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 19
…GUE Good, by Jesus ! cried the Countess, as, with her fat arse poised warily over the ascetic face of the Archbishop, she lolloped a great gob of greasy spend from the throat of her bulging cunt into the gaping mouth of the half-choked ecclesiastic. It is well, my daughter, if thou art pleased, he replied, when he had swallowed the cachet of her emotions. But my venerable pudendum asks at- tention. It shall have it, father ! said the lady, and forthwith she caught his purple-knobbed pillar in her hands, and violently rubbed it in …
1919 · PDF PAGE 29
CURRICULUM OF A..A.. The object of this course of reading is to familiarize the student with all that has been said by the Great Masters in every time and country. He should make a critical exam- ination of them; not so much with the idea of discovering where truth lies, for he cannot do this except by virtue of his own spiritual experience, but rather to discover the es- sential harmony in those varied works. He should be on his guard against partisanship with a favourite author. He should familiarize himself thoroughly with the method of ment…
1919 · PDF PAGE 85
… my Maker, my Master, my Mate! 37. Lam like the little red dog that sitteth upon the knees of the Unknown. 38. Thou hast brought me into great delight. Thou hast given me of Thy flesh to eat and of Thy blood for an offering of intoxication. 79
1954 · PDF PAGE 427
…how bad it is! Then, again, when these powers have sprung naturally and spontaneously from the exercise of one's proper faculties in the Great Work, they ought to be a little more than leaks. You ought to be able to organize and control them in such wise that they are of actual assistance to you in taking the Next Step. After all, what moral or magical difference is there between the power of digesting one's food, and that of transforming oneself into a hawk? That being the case, let me transform myself into a butterfly, and flit on to other ho…