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Page 91 of 1031906 · PDF PAGE 25
CALL OF THE SYLPHS 19 Coldly they set themselves to gaze on me, Like passers-by a madman that they see— I heard them laugh and chuckle, as I think, Now interchange a signal, now a wink. ** Let us at leisure view this caricature, This shade of Hamlet mimicking his posture, The doubting look and hair flung wide to wind ! A pity, eh? to see this merry hind, This beggar, actor out of work, this droll, Because he plays artistically his réle, Wishing to interest in his chanted woes Brooks, eagles, crickets, every flower that blows, And even to us the…
1939 · PDF PAGE 65
that the old antinomies of Magick and Yoga have been completely resolved. You all know what Yoga is. Yoga means union. And you all know how to do it by shutting off the din of the intellectual boiler factory, and allowing the silence of starlight to reach the ear. It is the emancipation of the exalted from the thrall of the commonplace expression of Nature. 5. Now what is Magick? Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will. How do we achieve this? By exalting the will to the point where it is master of c…
1939 · PDF PAGE 67
…Now I cannot read my manuscript. I had two sets of lenses, one natural, one artificial. If I had been looking through a telescope of the old pattern I should have had three sets of lenses, two artificial. If I go and put on somebody else's glasses I shall get another kind of blur. As the lenses of my eyes change in the course of my life, what my sight tells me is different. The point is that we are quite unable to judge what is the truth of the vision. Why then do I put on my glasses to read? Only because the particular type of illusion produce…
1906 · PDF PAGE 50
…and vanish Into peace and light and bliss, whose nature Baffles so the little tongues of mortals That we name it not, but from its threshold, From the golden word upon its gateway, Style ‘‘ Cessation”; that whose self we guess not. Thus the wise most mystically interpret Into wisdom the worst folly spoken By the mortal of a god deluded. So, the last wise word rejected, Pentheus Cries, ‘‘ dy’ ws rdxuora, To0 xpbvov dé co. POovar’” —“ Why waste we time in talking ? Let us now away unto the mountains !” So the wise, enlightened by compassion, Seek…
1929 · PDF PAGE 438
…ing to join the Royal Arch, called on its venerable Secretary. I presented my credentials. "O Thou Great Architect of the Universe," the old man sobbed out in rage, "why dost Thou not wither this impudent impostor with Thy fire from heaven? Sir, begone! You are not a Mason at all! As all the world knows, the people in Z--- are atheists and live with other men's wives." I thought this a little hard on my Reverend Father in God, my proposer; and I noted that, of course, every single English or American visitor to our Lodge in Z--- stood in peril …
1929 · PDF PAGE 489
…t their prosperity as producers could be imperilled by the calamities of their transport agents and customers. On the coast, this hard, cold-blooded selfishness was tempered by the climate. I met much superficial sympathy with both sides. But there was a universal agreement to refuse to judge the rights and wrongs of the war. It was Europe's business and nobody else's. It would be a crime, a blunder and stark treason to the constitution for America to take a hand. Since my last visit San Francisco had been rebuilt. The old charm had vanished co…
1944 · PDF PAGE 117
Attainment of the Virgin of the Absolute; who, being manifested, is the Player upon the seven‐ fold pipe, the Great God Pan, and, being withdrawn into the Perfection that he willed, is Si‐ lence. 2. DE SAPIENTIA ET STULTITIA1 O, my Son, in this the Colophon of mine Epistle will I recall the Title and Superscription thereof; that is, the Book of Wisdom or Folly. I proclaim Blessing and Worship unto Nuith our Lady and her Lord, Hadith, for the Miracle of the Anatomy of the Child Ra‐Hoor‐Khuit, as it is shewed in the design Minutum Mundum, the Tre…
1939 · PDF PAGE 69
…. Paul replied to the centurion who boasted of his Roman citizenship 'With a great sum obtained I this freedom'; and Paul, fingering the Old School Tie, sneered: 'But I was free born.' 18. It is not for us here to enquire as to how it should happen that certain human beings possess from birth this right of intimacy with the highest reality, but Blavatsky was of this same opinion that the natural gift marks the acquisition of the rank in the spiritual hierarchy to which the student of Magick and Yoga aspires. He is, so to speak, an artist in the…
1944 · PDF PAGE 226
…ous packs are of little more than archaeological interest; for the New Aeon demanded a new system of symbolism. Thus, in particular, the old conception of the Earth as a passive, immobile, even dead, even “evil” element, had to go. It was imperative to restore the King‐Scale colour attribution to that of the Aeon of Isis, Emerald Green, as was understood by the Egyptian Hierophants. This green is, however, not the original vegetable green of Isis, but the new green of spring following the resurrection of Osiris as Horus. Nor are the Disks any m…
1905 · PDF PAGE 37
…orn houses tottering, like the fate That hangs above my head even now, and meets Prayer and defiance as not hearing it. They lean, these old black streets ! a little sky Peeps through the gap, the rough stone path is lit Just for a little by the sun, and I Watch his red face pass over, fade away To other streets, and other passengers, See him take pleasure where the heathen pray, See him relieve the hunter of his furs, All the wide world awaiting him, all folk Glad at his coming, only I must weep: Rise he or sink, my weary eyes invoke Only the …
1905 · PDF PAGE 184
THE COURT OF THE PROFANE 177 THE MAY QUEEN. (OLD STYLE.) IT is summer and sun on the sea, The twilight is drawn to the world : We linger and laugh on the lea, The light of my spirit with me, Sharp limbs in close agony curled. The noise of the music of sleep, The breath of the wings of the night, The song of the magical deep, The sighs of the spirits that weep, Make murmur to tune our delight. Slow feet are our measures that move 3 Swift songs are more soft than the breeze ; Our mouths are made mute for our love ; Our eyes are made soft as the d…
1907 · PDF PAGE 239
…teries | lyrical & | dramatic | Kegan Paul, | Trench | Triibner & | Co, Ltd. | 1899| Price 7s. 6d." The six India-paper copies issued in old gold coloured buckram, lettered on cover ‘‘ Jephthah”’ in red. [SONGS OF THE SPIRIT: 1898] Songs of the Spirit | by | Aleister Crowley | ‘*Sublimi feriam sidera vertice” Hor. | London | Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner & Co. | MDCCCXCVIII. Collation :—Pott 8vo, pp. X4+- 109. Half-title ; on reverse, quotation from The Tale of Archais ; Titlein red and black as above ; reverse, quotation from Zcclesiastes,‘‘ af…
1929 · PDF PAGE 315
… I have outlined it in an earlier chapter. I quote from The Temple of Solomon the King (The Equinox, vol. I, No. VIII). ... he found his old comrade, I.A, now a member of the Buddhist Sangha, under the name of Bhikku Ananda Metteya.
1919 · PDF PAGE 172
…striking out, I after a short while perceived a boat, something like a gondola, and swam towards it. It was rowed by a dark-skinned man, old and wrinkled, whom I at first thought to be an Indian. As I reached the boat and put my hand on the side, it seemed as if he would strike at me with his oar, but no, he grinned, and I drew myself into the boat and sat in the fore part, which was high and covered by a sort of hood. Presently, it struck me that the man was not living but dead. Death. We then drifted in a mist, and all be- came blank for a wh…
1906 · PDF PAGE 231
… in his trade of weaving. The loom went merrily, but to the rhythm of a mantra; and the silk slipped through his fingers, but as if one told his beads. Where- fore the work was marred, and the hearts of the parents were woe because of him. But it is written that misfortune knoweth not the hour to cease, and that the seed of sorrow is as the seed of the Banyan Tree. It groweth and is of stature as a mountain, and, ay me! it shooteth down fresh roots into the aching earth. For the boy grew and became a man; and his eyes kindled with the lust of l…
1929 · PDF PAGE 373
…ls, Mandarin, a Palette, Napoleon Brandy, canvases and other appurtenances of the artist's dismal trade. I took occasion to call upon an old mistress of mine, Jane Chéron, concerning whom see The Equinox, vol. I, No. VI, "Three Poems". She has never had the slightest interest in occult matters and she has never done any work in her life, even of the needlework order. I had seen her once before since my escape from America, and she said she had something to show me, but I took no particular notice and she did not insist. My object in calling on …
1944 · PDF PAGE 89
…xts of the Book of the Law are the answer to it. But water is the element of Illusion; one may regard this symbol n evil legacy from the old Aeon; to use an anatomical analogy, it spiritual vermiform appendix. It was the water, and the Dwellers of the Water that slew Osiris; it is the crocodiles that threaten Hoor‐Pa‐Kraat. This card is beautiful in a strange, immemorial, moribund manner. It is the card of the Dying God; its importance in the present pack is merely that of the Cenotaph. It says: “If ever things get bad like that again, in the n…
1944 · PDF PAGE 97
…h stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, joyful Endeavour. Hear me, O lilywhite goat Crisp as a thicket of thorns, With a collar of gold for thy throat, A scarlet bow for thy horns.” The sign of Capricornus is rough, harsh, dark, even blind; the impulse to create takes no account of reason, custom, or foresight. It is divinely unscrupulous, sublimely careless of result. “thou hast no right but to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say nay. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.” …
1944 · PDF PAGE 140
… to exercise definite functions. The Princes represent the Forces of the letter Vau in the Name. The Prince is the Son of the Queen (the old King’s daughter) by the Knight who has won her; he is therefore repre‐ sented as in a chariot, going forth to carry out the combined Energy of his parents. He is the active issue of their union, and its manifestation. He is the intellectual image of their union. His action is consequently more enduring than that of his forbears. In one respect, indeed, he ac quires a relative permanence, because he is the …
1906 · PDF PAGE 46
…ffer.” In the place Where men most walked a tablet of fine brass Was set on marble, with an iron style That all might carve within that golden space If one grief came—and still the people pass, And since the city first began None wrote one word thereon till one—a man Witty in spite of happiness—wrote there : ‘*T grieve because the tablet is so fair And still stands bare, There being none to beautify the same _ With the moon-curved Arabian character.” Whereat the king, ‘‘ Thy grief itself removes In its own cry its cause.” And thence there came …