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Page 97 of 1071929 · PDF PAGE 9
…e as having been lost eternally. The lot of the saved, even on earth, was painted in the brightest colours. It was held that "all things work together for good to them that love God and are called according to His purpose". Earthly life was regarded as an ordeal; this was a wicked world and the best thing that could happen to anyone was "to go to be with Christ, which is far better". On the other hand, the unsaved went to the lake of fire and brimstone which burneth for ever and ever. Edward Crowley used to give away tracts to strangers, beside…
1907 · PDF PAGE 243
…rtisement; back of cover author's name in Hebrew characters adding up to '' 666,” in gold; inside of back page of cover list of author’s works in gold; back of cover ‘‘ The | Sword | of| Song.’’ Price ros. od. [GOETIA: 1904] The Book of the | Goetia | of | Solomon the King | translated into the English Tongue bya | Dead Hand | and | adorned with divers other matters germane | delightful to the wise | the whole | edited, verified, introduced and com- mented | by | Aleister Crowley | Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth| Boles- kine,-Fo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 111
…Rose of Ruby and the Cross of Gold, do deliberately invoke all laws, all powers Divine, demanding that I, even I, be chosen to do such a work as he has done, at all costs to myself. And I record this holy aspiration in the presence of the Divine Light, that it may stand as my witness. In Saecula Saeculorum. Amen! A further complication had suddenly arisen. In Mathers' fatal letter to Mrs. Emery, he wrote that Sapiens Dominabitur Astris was not dead after all; but in Paris, working with him at that very moment. But when I arrived in Paris, Mathe…
1944 · PDF PAGE 179
…g to “come back” after being out of the ring for years. Its ruler is the Moon. The little energy that it possesses is no more than dream‐work; it is quite inca‐ pable of the sustained labour which alone, bar miracles, can bring any endeavour to fruition. The comparison with the Seven of Wands is most instructive.
1906 · PDF PAGE 221
…means ox-goad; Aleph, an ox. Lamed Aleph means No, the denial of Aleph Lamed, El, God. 2 Read reverse, the Star [=the Will and the Great Work] is to fold up the Sephiroth; z.e. to attain Nirvana. 3 The houses of the Moon. All the gifts are lunar symbols. Sapientiae Lux Viris Baculum. Femina Rapta Inspirat Gaudium. Pleiades. Dignitates. Amicitia. Amor. Sophia,
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
… natural; what is extraordinary is the sequel. A letter dating from his early school life at Cambridge: Dear Papa & Mama, For my holiday work prize I have got a splendid knife, 2 blades, a saw, a screwdriver, a thing to pull out thorns, another to get stones out of horse's shoes, another I don't know what for, a leather piercer, a gimlet & a corkscrew and name plate. It is nicol plated in some parts, but the handle is ivory. The asphalt2 gave way near the middle. We were nearly blown hup bu the hoiler3 a little while ago, no jokes. We had a ý h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 39
…nly claim to distinction. I do not think we had a single member in either of the elevens. The prefects were hulking louts, shirking both work and play, and concentrating on obscenity and petty tyranny. It annoyed them particularly that my conduct was irreproachable. They could not cane me without the housemaster's permission. I did not realize how closely I was being watched, but ultimately I committed some trifling breach of discipline during "prep". After the hour was over the prefect in charge gleefully hastened to the housemaster. He found …
1907 · PDF PAGE 245
…e are from mind results, ii. 44 All things are branded change, iii. 18 ‘* All things are good” exclaimed the boy, ili. 93 All thought of work is almost cast aside, ii. 66 Al Malik the magnificent, iii, 86 A lonely spirit seeks the midnight hour, i. 53 Although I cannot leave these bitter leas, iii. 65 Amata’s path is Earnestness, ii. 46 Amat janua limen! (Closes book.| Now, my friend, iil. 72 Amid earth’s motley, Gaia’s cap and bells, i. 250 Amid the drowsy dream, ii, 61 A miner laboured in a mine, ili. 90 I., I0., IIT. Among the lilies of the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 214
… to issue it privately. I had no longer any ideas about the "best publisher". I felt in a dull way that it was a sort of duty to make my work accessible to humanity; but I had no idea of reaping profit or fame thereby. {359} 45 On the thirteenth of July I went to Edinburgh, partly to renew my stock of wines and partly to pick up some kind of companion-housekeeper, but ostensibly toe meet Gerald Kelly who was due to spend the summer at Strathpeffer. His sister Rose was engaged to a man named Howell, who was coming from America to marry her in a …
1906 · PDF PAGE 237
… could conceal the lower elements and dwell in this alone. 2 Here is the little rift within the lute which alienated Crowley from active work on Buddhist lines ; the orthodox failing to see his attitude. 3 A more likely idea than the brilliantly logical nonsense of Pansil, svpra.
1904 · PDF PAGE 87
… up and down as a very cork on waters of wailing. “Woman,” he bade sternly, “ be still. Cleave that with thy sword: or that m ust I well work?” But she cleft the cords, bitter-faced, smiling goddess as she was; 1 The sacrifices are the ten Sephiroth. 2 See Table. 3 Ancient form of the Key of s. 4 Considered as the agent of resurrection. 5 In the true key of m the tree is shap ed like the letter d = Venus or love. The figure of the man forms a cr oss above a tr iangle, with apex upwar ds, the sign of redemption. Adest Rosa Secreta Eros. Hermaphr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 585
…ea. It is heartbreaking to have to write on this matter, "So much to do, so little done." I am overwhelmed by the multiplicity of urgent work. I need the co-operation of a whole cohort of specialists and my helplessness lies heavy on my heart, yet the word which I uttered at my first initiation, "Perdurabo", still echoes in eternity. What may befall I know not, and I have almost ceased to care. It is enough that I should press towards the mark of my high calling, secure in the magical virtue of my oath, "I shall endure unto the End." -oOo- WEH …
1929 · PDF PAGE 198
… house, for some time he turned over in his mind these strange happenings and was not long in coming to the opinion that Mrs. M. was not working alone, and that behind her probably were forces far greater than she. She was but the puppet of others, the slave that would catch the kids and the lambs that were to be served upon her master's table. Could P. prove this? Could he discover who her masters were? The task was a difficult one; it either meant months of {336} work, which P. could not afford to give, or the mere chance of a lucky stroke wh…
1929 · PDF PAGE 437
…as to ask me personally to get him over the stile. I did so. At the very first trial I enabled him to use his astral eyesight. Our joint work developed and we resolved to make a series of investigations of "The Watch Towers of the Elements", beginning with that of Fire. The {693} question arose: "Why does the instruction tell us to rise vertically in the astral body for a great distance before penetrating the symbol under examination?" I said, "It seems to me a mere superstition connected with the idea that heaven is above and hell beneath one.…
1906 · PDF PAGE 279
…possible argument. Scept. There are several things that spring instantly into the mind. First and foremost is the wonderfully suggestive work, misnamed fiction, of our greatest novelist, H. G. Wells. This man, the John Bunyan of modern scientific thought, has repeatedly attacked the problem, or at least indicated the lines on which a successful research might be prosecuted, in many of his wonderful tales. He has (I say it not to rob you of the honour of your discoveries, but in compliment, and I can imagine none higher) put his finger on the ve…
1929 · PDF PAGE 143
…ies of the intelligence are not subject to the same laws as the lower. I continually increased the number of hours which I devoted to my work. On October 2nd, to my amazement, I was successful in reaching the state of Dhyana. The experience was repeated on the following day. I quote the record verbatim: After some eight hours' discipline by Pranayama arose "the Golden Dawn". While meditating, suddenly I became conscious of a shoreless space of darkness and a glow of crimson athwart it. Deepening and brightening, scarred by dull bars of slate-bl…
1910 · PDF PAGE 500
…Mulford embody a peculiar philosophy, and represent a peculiar hase of insight into the mystery which surrounds man. The essays were the work, as the insight was the gift, of a man who owed nothing to books, perhaps not much to what is ordin- arily meant by observation, and everything or nearly everything to reflection nourished by contact with nature.”"—Z. A. Waite, in the Introduction. Under the title “Your Forces and How to Use Them,” the Essays of Prentice Mulford have obtained the greatest popularity in America. THE GIFT OF UNDERSTANDING. …
1910 · PDF PAGE 500
…Mulford embody a peculiar philosophy, and represent a peculiar hase of insight into the mystery which surrounds man. The essays were the work, as the insight was the gift, of a man who owed nothing to books, perhaps not much to what is ordin- arily meant by observation, and everything or nearly everything to reflection nourished by contact with nature.”"—Z. A. Waite, in the Introduction. Under the title “Your Forces and How to Use Them,” the Essays of Prentice Mulford have obtained the greatest popularity in America. THE GIFT OF UNDERSTANDING. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 329
… domestic tragedy was becoming constantly more acute. Rose told me that she was keeping her word, but it had become impossible to do any work where she was. She was in a state of continual irritation. I was obliged to take rooms in Jermyn Street in order to have a moment to myself. In the autumn of 1907 on returning from Tangiers, I {534} found that she had obtained one hundred and fifty bottles of whisky from one grocer alone in five months. Confronted with the fact, she broke down and agreed to take a cure for two months, in an establishment …
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
…it. I was put into "Coventry", i.e. no master nor boy might speak to me, or I to them. I was fed on bread and water; during play hours I worked in the schoolroom; during work hours I walked solitary round and round the playground. I was expected to "confess" the crime of which I was not only innocent, but unaccused. This punishment, which I believe criminal authorities would consider severe on a poisoner, went on for a term and a half. I was, at last, threatened with expulsion for my refusal to "confess", and so dreadful a picture of the horror…