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Page 95 of 1061906 · PDF PAGE 139
…titute—- [ Drinks. Why, how thou fir’st me ! with that icy fire Of adamant thought. Kt well befits this hour If I recoil the chain whose last smooth link Slides o’er Time’s cogwheel. In the be- ginning then The vastness of the heavens and the earth Created the idea of (od. So Levi once Sarcastic in apostasy ; @ rebours. So Miiller, mythopoeic in his mood Of the unmasking mythopoeia, Now Profounder science, Spencer’s amplitude, Allen’s too shallow erudition, Frazer’s Research, find men have made—since men made aught— Their Gods, and slain, and e…
1907 · PDF PAGE 239
… Dedication in verse to J. L. B.,1 pp. v-vii. Contents, pp. ix-x; Second Half-title; Text, pp. 3- 104; Epilogue, pp. 105-109. Imprint on last page, ‘‘Chiswick Press :—Charles Whit- tingham and Co. | Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London ” ; surmounted by colophon. No headlines, Edition: 1 copy on vellum, 50 copies on hand-made paper numbered and signed,? joo copies on machine-made paper. Issued in Japanese vellum with gold letter- ing on front of cover ‘‘Songs of the Spirit” for copies printed on hand-made paper; and in grey cloth boards, lettered…
1939 · PDF PAGE 34
…ntolerable' means. I rudely answer: 'Find out!' But it may give you some idea of what is, after all, not too bad, when I say that in the last months of my own work it often used to take me ten minutes (at the conclusion of the practice) to straighten my left leg. I took the ankle in both hands, and eased it out a fraction of a millimetre at a time. 20. At this point the band begins to play. Quite suddenly the pain stops. An ineffable sense of relief sweeps over the Yoginotice that I no longer call him 'student' or 'aspirant'and he becomes awa…
1905 · PDF PAGE 17
…ound stood trembling in the forest dim Lingering a little, yet there taketh him A strong man’s one short moment of despair. He fell, the last of Titans, his loose hair Tangled in roses ; while his heart and mind Broken and yet imperishable, blind, Hateful, desire they know not what, and turn Lastly to pray for death ; his wild eyes burn, And bitter tears divide his doubtful breath. So grew his anguish to accomplish death, Had not the goddess with the rosy shoon Stoop’d o’er the silver surface of the moon To touch his brow with slumber, like a k…
1905 · PDF PAGE 18
…’s breath- Ing space ; Her heart’s desire welled up, and then again Whitened her cheeks with the exceeding pain Of uttermost despair. At last her strength Failed, and she flung her weary body at length Amid the bruiséd flowers; while from her eyes Surged the salt tears; low moans she multiplies Because her love is blasphemous ; the wind Sighs for all answer, sobs and wails behind Among the trees; the stream grows deadly pale Hearing her weep, and like a silver sail The fading moon drifts sorrowful above. Then Charicles must ask his weeping love…
1905 · PDF PAGE 114
…onquer our hatreds as the dawn of love Conquered that fiend whose ruinous throne above Broke lofty spirits once, now falls with Fate, At last through his own violence violate ; the martyrs 1 z7.e. the idea of God, dissociated from the legends of priests, and assimilated to the impersonal Parabrahma of the Hindu. This dual use of the word is common throughout Crowley: the context is everywhere sufficient to decide. In the play ‘‘ Jephthah,” however, conventional ideas are followed. of the To live in life, breathe freedom with cach breath, As God…
1929 · PDF PAGE 201
… in 1897, but by the experience of my travels. The natives of Hawaii were not worrying about Sophocles; Chogo Ri would be there when the last echo of Napoleon's glory had died away. I was more than ever convinced that to take an interest in the affairs of this world, one must turn one's back on truth. Buddhism might be right or wrong in saying that nothing is worth while; but anyhow there could be no doubt that the conventional standards of value were simply comic. If anything were worth while, it could only be discovered by turning one's back …
1929 · PDF PAGE 372
…ok it mentally as referring to the expected arrival of Our Lady, but it might mean a trance, or almost anything. So I will ask Yi, as my last magical act for the time being. ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ I think this means the arrival of ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ our Lady. I have serious doubts ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ whether the hexagram should not ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ have been: ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ which would have certainly meant ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ that. That I should doubt anything ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ is absurd: I shall know the Sign, Ü…
1929 · PDF PAGE 373
…ve, how closely the words of my entry of January 12th describe the Sign, "... the omnipresence of my body." And there She was --- in the last place in the world where one would have sought Her. ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ Note too, the ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ accuracy of the ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ "Yi King" symbol ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ for ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ is, of course the symbol of our Lady, and the God below Her in the stele ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ is ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ the sun. ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ …
1944 · PDF PAGE 122
…ds; until we return to the Father of All, when our experiences link together, become intelligible, and star speaks to star. Terra is the last planet where bodies are made of earth; in Venus they are fluid; on Mercury aerial; while in the Sun they are fashioned of pure fire”.1 “I now see the eightfold star of Mercury suddenly blazing out; it is composed of four fleurs‐de‐lys with rays like anthers, bulrushes in shape between them. The central core has the cypher of the Grand Master, but not the one you know. Upon the cross are the Dove, the Hawk…
1907 · PDF PAGE 111
…and limp; the purple tongue Shooting out swollen and awry. Men cheered to see the poisoner die. Not he! He grinned one visible grin, The last ; then, muffled in his sin, He lived and moved unseen of those Nude souls that masquerade in clothes, Confuse the form and the sensation, And have the illusion, incarnation. I bore myself. Death was so dull. The dead are strangely beautiful To the new-comer ; it wears off. II. They told me I was damned. The Shroff? Gave me ten dollars Mex. (For ease Of English souls the dead Chinese 1 Money-changer. long …
1906 · PDF PAGE 227
…nto and across each other, so that he feared greatly, for the stability of the universe is the great enemy; the unstable being the ever- lasting, saith Adhou Bin Aram, the Arab. O Elmen Zata, our Sophic Pilaster! Further in the dream there was let down from heaven a mighty tessaract, bounded by eight cubes, whereon sat a mighty dolphin having eight senses. Further, he beheld a cavern full of most ancient bones of men, and therein a lion with a voice of a dog. Then came avoice: ‘Thirteen! are they, who are one. Once is a oneness: twice is the Na…
1907 · PDF PAGE 139
…ouds of rain. God I have Thou pity soon on this amazing pain. And in another describes the mystic goal: So shalt thou conquer Space, and lastly climb The \gyalliof 'Iiidme; m m h 0d And tego enpa egreat avetr Reach up to God- ’ He grapples with the problems of human consciousness and has realized the ab soluteness of zero. He perceives that when consciousness, as we know it, is absolutely indrawn, so that it exists in ure isolation, it knows an ecstasy which can only be ex— pressed in the thought, “ I 0 not exist." This last paradox of human ma…
1906 · PDF PAGE 46
…out that he had seen that face Limned with incomparable grace Even in the shape of splendour as she passed. The king’s thought turned at last To that forgotten story: and desire Filled all his heart with aureate fire Whose texture was a woman’s hair; so fine Bloomed the fair flower of pleasure : Not the wild solar treasure Of gleaming light, but the moon’s shadowy pearl, | The love of a young girl
1905 · PDF PAGE 104
…even the boat As dust beneath our feet, leap up and run Upward, and flash, and suddenly sigh back Happy, and rest.with limbs entwined at last On pale blue air, the empyreal floor, As on a bank of flowers in the old days Before this journey. So I think we slept. But now, awaking, suddenly we feel A sound as if within us, and without, So penetrating and so self-inspired G
1944 · PDF PAGE 28
…gend which circulated among initiates, and became vulgar‐ ised in the fable of a Female Pope. More important still, “The Angel”, or “The Last Judgment”, represented the destruction of the world by fire. Its hieroglyph is, in a way, prophetic, for when the world was destroyed by fire on 21st March, 1904,1 one’s attention was inevitably called to the similarity of this card to the Stele of Revealing. This being the beginning of the New Aeon, it has seemed 1See The Equinox of the Gods, loc. cit. more fitting to show the beginning of the Aeon; for …
1904 · PDF PAGE 92
…n both at once: after two hundred and sixty, the sun drove away the rain, and the Star shone in the day-time, making it Night. After the last day came his Mother, his Redeem er, and Him self ; and joining together they were even as I am who write unto y ou. Seventeen they were, the three Fathers : with the three Mothers they were thirty -two, and sixfold therein, being as countenance and countenance. Yet, being seventeen, they were but one, and that one none, as before hath been showed. And this enumera- tion is a great Mysterium of our art. Wh…
1929 · PDF PAGE 440
…f the exoteric forms of religion. How is it that the same Order satisfies --- more or less --- aspirations so diverse? We are brought at last face to face with the fundamental problem of the masonic historian --- the origin of the whole business. Without any hesitation at all, one may confess that on this critical question nothing is certainly known. It is true, indeed, that the Craft Lodges in England were originally Hanoverian clubs, as the Scottish Lodges were Jacobite clubs, and the Egyptian Lodges of Cagliostro revolutionary clubs. {698} B…
1907 · PDF PAGE 163
… am not, but all-changing move The worlds evolving in a golden ladder Spiral or helical, fresh gusts of love Filling one sphere from the last sphere grown gladder ; All gateways leading far to the above. Even as the bright coilsof the emerald adder Climb one by one in glory of sunlight, climb My children to me up the steep of Time. Iam: before me all the years are dead, And all the fiery locks of sunrise woven Into the gold and scarlet of my head: In me all skies and seas are shaken and cloven : All life and light and love about me shed Begotte…
1929 · PDF PAGE 480
…e shame", starvation and solitude of soul and body: I was content. But, as in a Greek tragedy, just when I thought myself most safe, the last straw was gently but firmly placed on my back by two of my oldest friends. The first of these is named George Cecil Jones. I had known him intimately since the autumn of 1898. We had been co-workers in the most arduous task known to mankind: that which Bergson --- so far as his ignorance allows --- {758} described as "creating oneself a God". But he had weakened in late years. He had married. Life to his …