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Page 97 of 2031911 · PDF PAGE 197
PART IV Darkness AQUARIUS. In truth, master, the ceremony cannot proceed. There is no god in the shrine. MAGISTER TEMPLI. Brother Aquarius, let search be made. AQUARIUS. Brother Capricornus, let search be made. [Light on. [CAPRICORNUS enters veil and walks πῤand down. He returns.] [bg/tts mir. Brother Capricornus, what do you find ? CAPRICORNUS. Master, there is nothing but a little pile of dust. AQUARIUS. There is no living thing therein? CAPRICORNUS. There is no living thing therein. MAGISTER TEMPLI. [Reni/e: poem: “ Collogue sen/z'men/al."] I…
1930 · PDF PAGE 73
… false name invenîed by tlie Black Brothers to imply a Unity in tlieir ignorant muddle of dispersions» A devil who liad unity would be a God L. It was said by the Sorcerer of the Jura that in order to invoke the Devil it is only necessary to caîl him with y our whole will. This is an universal magical truth, and applies to every other being as much as to the Devil. For the whole will of every man is in reality the whole will of the Uni verse. It is, however, always easy to call up the démons, for they are always calling you; and you hâve only t…
1898 · PDF PAGE 65
… Filled with thy lust and abundant might, Filled with the phantom desire to free Body and soul from the sound and sight Of a world and a God that doth not right.
1901 · PDF PAGE 24
…rade ; Moveless, beyond the mighty name ; A mystic mortal and a maid, Filled with all things to fill the same, To overflow the shores of God, Mingling our proper period. The agony is passed : behold How shape and light are born again ; How emerald and starry gold Burn in the midnight ; how the pain Of our incredible marriage-fold And bed of birthless travail wane ; And how our molten limbs divide, And self and self again abide.
1907 · PDF PAGE 58
…of echoing kisses; hear the sound Of glutted raptures break in the profound, The abyss of time: upsurge the dead. Why hide Thy sorrowful god’s brow, O sculptor, mage, Child of eternity, father of an age? 34
1910 · PDF PAGE 122
…ks a great light, a light sufficient, light Insuf- ferably bright, Hence hidden for an hour : imagining This vast vain thing, We call it God, and Father. Empty hand And prayer unplanned Stretch fatuous to the void. Ah ! men my friends, What fury sends This folly to intoxicate your hearts ? Dread air disparts Your vital ways from these unsavoury follies. Black melancholies Sit straddled on your bended backs. The throne Of the unknown
1910 · PDF PAGE 117
…o gave thee power to rend and rip the hearty out from a courtezan ? I roved from town to town : I played the whore in every slimy stews. God ! I am like a moon-struck maid, easing her drought on sister dews.
1913 · PDF PAGE 25
…visions sprung with each new date , Of fields unknown , and paths untrod , What sounds should I then resonate Beneath the urgent hand of God ?
1913 · PDF PAGE 400
…tal. Q. POPO> 0° What is that? The supreme reason of being. Do you know it, and can you define it ? Faith alone affirms it, and names it God. Is there anything above truth? Above known truth, there is unknown truth. . How can one construct reasonable hypotheses with regard to this truth? Go 1020BPOPOPOPO> . By analogy and proportion. How can one define it ? By the symbols of faith. Can one say of reality the same thing as of truth ? Exactly the same thing. Is there anything above reason ? Above finite reason, there is infinite reason. What is i…
1913 · PDF PAGE 400
…tal. Q. POPO> 0° What is that? The supreme reason of being. Do you know it, and can you define it ? Faith alone affirms it, and names it God. Is there anything above truth? Above known truth, there is unknown truth. . How can one construct reasonable hypotheses with regard to this truth? Go 1020BPOPOPOPO> . By analogy and proportion. How can one define it ? By the symbols of faith. Can one say of reality the same thing as of truth ? Exactly the same thing. Is there anything above reason ? Above finite reason, there is infinite reason. What is i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 147
…oolish enough to suppose that ail classes of Magical Operations were equally easy. They seem to hâve assumed that the “almighty power of God” was an infinité quantity in presence of which ail finites were equally insignifiant. “One day is with the Lord as a thousand years” is their first law of Motion. “Faith can move mountains” they sav, and disdain to measure either the faith or the mountains. If you can kill a chicken by Magic, why not destroy an army with equal exertion? “With God ail things are possible.” This absurdity is an error of the …
1906 · PDF PAGE 270
…beat that beggar’s bleeding NWN IA With truth veracious, aletheiac, true! John ye hear. Cuddle, cubs, doves, lambs, kids, come !] First, God made heav’n, earth: Earth gauche, void; deep, dark. God's Ghost stirred sea, God said ‘ Light!" "Twas. ‘Saw light, Good, split off dark, call’d light ‘day,’ dark ‘night.’ Eve, Morn, day I. ‘Said, ‘‘’Twixt wets be air, split wets !"’ ‘Madeair, split wets ‘neath air, wets top air; so. Call’d air ‘heav'n.’ Eve, morn, day II. ‘Said, ‘* Low wets, Cling close, show earth.” So. ‘Call’d dry ‘earth,’ wet ‘sea.’ Rub…
1996 · PDF PAGE 30
…absolute authority when it appears at all, despite con scious reason and judgment. 1 [John 3:8.] 2 Six being the number of the Sun, the God-Man, etc. 3 See Liber 418. [Crowley, Liber XXX /Erum ... The Vision and the Voice; see Works Cited. See especially the 16th /Ethyr.] Aiwass is then, as this verse 7 states, the “minister” of this Hoor-paar-kraat, that is of the Saviour of the World in the larger sense, and of mine own “Silent Self” in the lesser. A “minister” is one who performs a service, in this case evidently that of reveal ing; He was…
1901 · PDF PAGE 35
THE MOTHER'S TRAGEDY 21 ULRIC. Stop! stop! I did not hear you. O my God! What agony is this? What have I done To earn this infamy? Or rather, Thou, What have I not done? Have Thou pity yet; Sustain me in this vile extremity! [He prays silently. CORA, watching him. How wonderful! He will abide the shock. Death and mute horror fight within his face Against a will made masterful to Fate. ULRIC razses his eyes and lifts hts arm in act to strike. Then I detest you! Mother! Treacherous! Vile as the worm that battens on the dead! CORA. Ulric! He’s mad…
1901 · PDF PAGE 125
…quil, in the surge of things ; I bring them from the well of Life, Love, from celestial water-springs ! From the shrill fountain-head of God I draw out water with the rod Made luminous with light of power. I seal each æon’s period, And wait the moment and the hour. Aloof, alone, unloved, I stand With love and worship in my hand. I commune with the Gods : I wait Their summons, and I fire the brand. I speak their Word : and there is Fate. I know no happiness, no pain, No swift emotion, no disdain, No pity : but the boundless light Of the Eternal …
1905 · PDF PAGE 54
I am fire in the palace of water; I am God, and my glory is one! I am bride of the sun and the starlight ; The moonlight is.bride unto me; . I am lit of my deeps with a far light, My heart and its flame flung free. I am She, the beginning and end; I am all, and my name is the Sea! ORPHEUS Then thou, O my mother, Hast given to me The power of another, The watery key. Bright air is my brother, My sister the sea; I have called, and they answer and come; and their song is but glory to thee. One other is left me, The light of the earth. If Fate had …
1906 · PDF PAGE 2
…on. 75. 6d. THE SOUL oF OsiRIs. 55. CARMEN SAECULARE. 25. 6d. TANNHAUSER. New Edition. 153. BERASHITH. 55. AHAB, ETC. 55. ALICE. 55. THE GOD-EATER. 25. 6d. THE SworD OF SonG. Fifth Impression. 20s. THE STAR AND THE GARTER. Popular Edition. 15. THE ARGONAUTS, 55. Why Jesus WEpT. Sixth Impression. ars. ORACLES. 55 ORPHEUS. ros. (2 vols.) GOETIA. aIs. COLLECTED WORKS, containing some unpublished matter (3 vols.). £10 ros. [7 the Press. ROSA MUNDI, with Lithograph by RODIN. 16s. ROSA INFERNI, with Lithograph by RODIN. 16s. [Jn the Press. Rosa COELI…
1910 · PDF PAGE 461
…ight of the dread oath that bound him: He would not yet give up the quest. “Nay! while I am,” quoth he, “ though Hell Engulph me, though God mock me well, I follow as I sware; I follow, Though it be unattainable. Nay, more! Because I may not win, Is’t worth man’s work to enter in! The Infinite with mighty passion Hath caught my spirit in a gin. Come! since I may not imitate The Beast, at least I work and wait. We shall discover soon or late Which is the master—I or Fate!” 85
1910 · PDF PAGE 461
…ight of the dread oath that bound him: He would not yet give up the quest. “Nay! while I am,” quoth he, “ though Hell Engulph me, though God mock me well, I follow as I sware; I follow, Though it be unattainable. Nay, more! Because I may not win, Is’t worth man’s work to enter in! The Infinite with mighty passion Hath caught my spirit in a gin. Come! since I may not imitate The Beast, at least I work and wait. We shall discover soon or late Which is the master—I or Fate!” 85
1910 · PDF PAGE 59
…issful bale. My cold grey kisses awake From the silence of utmost eld The grey cold slime of the snake That her beautiful body held. ButGod ! I was not content With the blasphemous secret of years, The veil is hardly rent While the eyes rain stones for tears. So I clung to the lips and laughter As the storms of death abated, The storms of the grievous graft By the swing of her soul unsated.