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Page 99 of 1281913 · PDF PAGE 560
… be the recompense and crown of genius. But all spirits do not see with justness, because all hearts do not will with justice. There are souls for whom the true light seems to have no right to be. They content themselves with phosphorescent visions, abortions of light, hallucinations of thought; and, loving these phantoms, fear the day which will put them to flight, because they feel that, the day not being made for their eyes, they would fall back into a deeper darkness. It is thus that fools first fear, then calumniate, insult, pursue and con…
1906 · PDF PAGE 150
… hall and meeting-room, Venus’ Bower and Osiris’ Tomb,? And left the devil in the lurch, While God ? got lost in the crowd of gods,! And soul went down ® in the turbid tide Of the metaphysical lotus-eyed,® And I was-—anyhow, what’s the odds? or What isTruth? The life tolive? The thought to think? Shall I take refuge sald jesting In a tower like once Childe Roland {7 found, blind, deaf, huge, 10 ilate: but . Crowley waits Or in that forest of two hundred thousand for an answer.t Trees,® fit alike to shelter man and mouse, and— Shall I say God? B…
1910 · PDF PAGE 38
30 Is the passion of man for man. Let him but taste the wine ! It grips him body and soul. Once and for all, Whatever befall, He is bound to the golden goal By the joy of his shuddering spine.” He will know that in the rites of sodomy duly done, even more than in the rites of heterosexual passion, lies the great secret of the Universe, the Key of the Gardens of God..... But I must not proselytize : many are called, but few chosen ; a sodomite is born, not made ; you can’t make a silk sodomite out of an English groc- er’s boy ; one sodomite does…
1996 · PDF PAGE 213
… Another prophet shall arise, and bring fresh fever from the skies; another woman shall awake the lust & wor ship of the Snake; another soul of God and beast shall min gle in the globed priest; another sacrifice shall stain the tomb; another king shall reign; and blessing no longer be poured To the Hawk-headed mystical Lord! 35. The half of the word of Heru-ra-ha, called Hoor-pa-kraat and Ra-Hoor-Khut.
1929 · PDF PAGE 76
… triumph, to find my way out on the other side. Baudelaire and Swinburne, at their best, succeed in celebrating the victory of the human soul over its adversaries, just as truly as Milton and Shelly. I never had a moment's doubt that I belonged to this school. To me it is a question of virility. Even James Thomson, ending with "confirmation of the old despair", somehow defeats that despair by the essential force of his genius. Keats, on the contrary, no matter how hard he endeavours to end on a note of optimism, always leaves an impression of f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 353
353 Late in 1908 I picked up a book. The title attracted me strongly, The Magician. The author, bless my soul! No other than my old and valued friend. William Somerset Maugham, my nice young doctor whom I remembered so well from the dear old days of the Chat Blanc. So he had really written a book --- who would have believed it! I carried it off to Scott's. In my excitement, I actually paid for it. I think I ate two dozen oysters and a pheasant, and drank a bottle of No. III, one of the happiest champagnes in the famous --- can you say "caterer'…
1944 · PDF PAGE 127
…ment. “A voice comes: For he is a jocund and ruddy god, and his laughter is the vibration of all that exists, and the earthquakes of the soul. “One is conscious of the whirring of the wheel thrilling one, like an electric discharge passing through one. “Now I see the figures on the wheel, which have been interpreted as the sworded Sphinx, Hermanubis and Typhon. And that is wrong. The rim of the wheel is a vivid emerald snake; in the centre of the wheel is a scarlet heart; and, impossible to explain as it is, the scar‐ let of the heart and the g…
1905 · PDF PAGE 64
…ou doing here? Iam hungry for a little love, a little pity. Excuse my rudeness—you seem so sad. By ‘ pry To-night you have shown me your soul, and 1 See Daniel iii. 25. ‘I am not hungry any more. * Like all plays of this form, it may be read as a delicate idyll or a screaming parody, according to the nature and mood of the reader. 57
1907 · PDF PAGE 200
…hape of my passion And bitter distress Shall clothe ye, and fashion An equal dress. Ye shall force compassion With awful stress From the soul that hath mocked me, and turned his heart from my song’s excess. The ruler of Hell, The invisible Lord, Hath laughed at my spell, Hath slept at my word. He hath heard me well— Awake, O Sword ! Shall he flout a suppliant thus and no answer of favour accord? If mercy be sundered From splendour and power ; If he answer with thunder The plaint ofa flower ; Shall justice wonder If Furies devour So bitter a hea…
1907 · PDF PAGE 100
…ing force on the will of man . Beholding a satyr he worshipped a virgin ; feel ing the ills of the flesh , he conceived the bliss of the soul . This diametric opposition , verging ever towards the extreme circumference of utility , has given and is giving birth to numerous world - wide systems and philosophies . The taboos of the South Seas , the restrictions laid on widow - remarriage in India , the purdah of the Mussulman , the veil of the Vestal , the numerous accounts of Virgin - mothers , all find their origin in this idea . The laws of th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 234
…. uation of nature , from , and to eternity ?” — P . 173 . 66 ex “ For all the notion I have of God is obtained by reflect ing on my own soul , heighten ing its powers , and removing its imperfections . I have , therefore , though not an in active idea , yet in myself some sort of an active thinking im age of the Deity . And though I perceive Him not by sense , yet I have a notion of Him , or know Him by reflexion and reasoning .” — P. 93 . " The existence , therefore , of any being can only be proved by arguments from its cause or its effect ;…
1913 · PDF PAGE 135
…ar of the Tree of Life, from Malkuth to Kether. ‘Telepathy,’ ‘The Opium Smoker,’ ‘ The Muse,’ are all poems which will grip and hold the soul of the reader. “What is not least remarkable in Crowley’s poetry is his amazing variety. In some respects he is not unlike William Blake, but he is free from Blake’s metrical deficiencies whilst retaining all the 127
1913 · PDF PAGE 522
…ods depart.” Now, when the gods depart, the devils return. Religious feeling transforms itself into superstition when faith is lost; for souls need to believe, because they thirst for hope. How can faith be lost? How can science doubt the infinite harmony? Because the sanctuary of the absolute is always closed for the majority. But the kingdom of truth, which is that of God, suffers violence, and the violent must take it by force. There exists a dogma, there exists a key, there exists a sublime tradition; and this dogma, this key, this traditio…
1913 · PDF PAGE 522
…ods depart.” Now, when the gods depart, the devils return. Religious feeling transforms itself into superstition when faith is lost; for souls need to believe, because they thirst for hope. How can faith be lost? How can science doubt the infinite harmony? Because the sanctuary of the absolute is always closed for the majority. But the kingdom of truth, which is that of God, suffers violence, and the violent must take it by force. There exists a dogma, there exists a key, there exists a sublime tradition; and this dogma, this key, this traditio…
1929 · PDF PAGE 155
… the deep-breathing amorous bosom of forests of Amazon might, By palm and pagoda enchaunted. By spells that are murmured, and rays of my soul strongly flung, never daunted; By gesture and tracery traced with a wand dappled white, I summon the spirits of earth from the gloom they for ages have haunted. O woman of deep red skin! Carved hair like the teak! O delight Of my soul in the hollows of earth --- how my spirit hath taunted . . . Away! I am here, I am laid to the breast of the earth in the dusk of the night, By palm and pagoda enchaunted.
1907 · PDF PAGE 28
… , yet the government of this nation cannot stomach them thus , and seizes , expels , and burns ; but if these horrid sores of the human soul are cut out and plastered on the pages of the fickle fiction of the day , then are they passed in seductive covers as proper nourishment for the nation , and devoured with relish and avidity . One minute , impatient reader , for I hear you mutter : “ Are not these very aberrations set forth with no mean lustre on the pages of the works of Aleister Crowley ? " Listen . Have any of Crowley's works been prin…
1912 · PDF PAGE 288
…his whole time was free to devote to his great scheme. “Punctuality,” he often said to me, “is the thief of time; procrastination is the soul of business,” and would justify his paradox by pointing out that if you only left letters unanswered long enough, the need to answer them disappeared. His system, in fact, became extremely popular; even Charles Dickens playfully animadverts upon it in one of his novels. A secretary being necessary to him, he pressed his sister A—— into the service, thereby saving her from such terrible temptations as love…
1912 · PDF PAGE 288
…his whole time was free to devote to his great scheme. “Punctuality,” he often said to me, “is the thief of time; procrastination is the soul of business,” and would justify his paradox by pointing out that if you only left letters unanswered long enough, the need to answer them disappeared. His system, in fact, became extremely popular; even Charles Dickens playfully animadverts upon it in one of his novels. A secretary being necessary to him, he pressed his sister A—— into the service, thereby saving her from such terrible temptations as love…
1919 · PDF PAGE 423
…ethren, is the Devil. 36. Beware, Disciple, of that lethal shade. No light that shines from Spirit can dispel the darkness of the nether Soul unless all selfish thought has fled therefrom, and that the pil- grim saith: “I have renounced all this passing frame: I have destroyed the cause: the shadows cast can, as effects, no longer be.” For now the last great fight, the final war be- tween the Higher and the Lower Self, hath taken place. Be- hold, the very battlefield is now engulfed in the great war, and is no more. The quotation is only proper…
1919 · PDF PAGE 433
…ceive more clearly the meaning of this pas- sage. Just as the man, in order to conquer the woman, used restraint, so also must this true Soul restrain itself, even at this high stage, although it gives itself completely up. Al- though it creates without thought and without desire, let it IItr