Balder Ex-Libris - Crowley AleisterReview of books rare and missing2024-03-16T01:56:42+00:00urn:md5:aa728a70505b2fae05796923271581c2DotclearCrowley Aleister - White Stainsurn:md5:cb191f6091f00d20300c9c1419e3ced82012-04-05T01:37:00+01:002014-05-07T21:12:39+01:00balderCrowley AleisterJewMagicO.T.O.Satanism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Crowley_Aleister_-_White_Stains_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Crowley Aleister (Crowley Edward Alexander)</strong><br />
Title : <strong>White Stains The literary remains of George Archibald Bishop A neuropath of the second empire</strong><br />
Year : 1898<br />
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PREFACE. In the fevered days and nights under the Empire that perished in the struggle of 1870, that whirling tumult of pleasure, scheming, success, and despair, the minds of men had a trying ordeal to pass through. In Zola's 'La Curee' we see how such ordinary and natural characters as those of Saccard, Maxime, and the incestuous heroine, were twisted and distorted from their normal sanity, and sent whirling into the jaws of a hell far more effrayant than the mere cheap and nasty brimstone Sheol which is a Shibboleth for the dissenter, and with which all classes of religious humbug, from the Pope to the Salvation ranter, from the Mormon and the Jesuit to that mongrel mixture of the worst features of both, the Plymouth Brother, have scared their illiterate, since hypocrisy was born, with Abel, and spiritual tyranny, with Jehovah! Society, in the long run, is eminently sane and practical; under the Second Empire it ran mad. If these things are done in the green tree of Society, what shall be done in the dry tree of Bohemianism? Art always has a suspicion to fight against; always some poor mad Max Nordau is handy to call everything outside the kitchen the asylum. Here, however, there is a substratum of truth. Consider the intolerable long roll of names, all tainted with glorius madness. Baudelaire the diabolist, debauchee of sadism, whose dreams are nightmares, and whose waking hours delirium; Rollinat the necrophile, the poet of phthisis, the anxiomaniac; Peladan, the high priest - of nonsense; Mendes, frivolous and scoffing sensualist; besides a host of others, most alike in this, that, below the cloak of madness and depravity, the true heart of genius burns. No more terrible period than this is to be found in literature; so many great minds, of which hardly one comes to fruition; such seeds of genius, such a harvest of - whirlwind! Even a barren waste of sea is less saddening than one strewn with wreckage. In England such wild song found few followers of any worth or melody. Swinburne stands on his solitary pedestal above the vulgar crowds of priapistic plagiarists; he alone caught the fierst frenzy of Baudelaire's brandied shrieks, and his First Series of Poems and Ballads was the legitimate echo of that not fierier note. But English Art as a whole was unmoved, at any rate not stirred to any depth, by this wave of debauchery. The great thinkers maintained the even keel, and the windy waters lay nor for their frailer barks to cross. There is one exception of note, till this day unsuspected, in the person of George Archibald Bishop. In a corner of Paris this young poet (for in his nature the flower of poesy did spring, did even take root and give some promise of a brighter bloom, till stricken and blasted in latter years by the lightning of his own sins) was steadily writing day after day, night after night, often working forty hours at a time, work which he destined to entrance the world. All England should ring with his praises; bye-and-bye the whole world should know his name. Of these works none of the longer and more ambitious remains. How they were lost, and how those fragments we possess were saved, is best told by relating the romantic and almost incredible story of his life. The known facts of this life are few, vague, and unsatisfactory; the more definite statements lack corroboration, and almost the only source at the disposal of the biographer is the letters of Mathilde Doriac to Mdme J. S., who has kindly placed her portfolio at my service. A letter dated Oct. 15th, 1866 indicates that our author was born on the 23rd of that month. The father and mother of George were, at least on the surface, of an extraordinary religious turn of mind. Mathilde's version of the story, which has it's source in our friend himself, agrees almost word for word with a letter of the Rev. Edw. Turle to Mrs. Cope, recommending the child to her care. The substance of the story is as follows. The parents of George carried their religious ideas to the point of never consummating their marriage! This arrangement does not seem to have been greatly appreciated by the wife at least; one fine morning she was found to be enceinte. The foolish father never thought of the hypothesis which commends itself most readily to a man of the world, not to say a man of science, and adopted that of a second Messiah! He took the utmost pains to conceal the birth of the child, treated everybody who came to the house as an emissary of Herod, and finally made up his mind to flee into Egypt! Like most religious maniacs, he never had an idea of his own, but distorted the beautiful and edifying events of the Bible into insane and ridiculous ones, which he proceeded to plagiarize. On the voyage out the virgin mother became enamoured, as was her wont, of the nearest male, in this case a fellow-traveller. He, being well able to support her in the luxury which she desired, easily persuaded her to leave the boat with him by stealth. A small sailing vessel conveyed them to Malta, where they disappeared. The only trace left in the books of earth records that this fascinating character was accused, four years later, in Vienna, of poisoning her paramour, but thanks to the wealth and influence of her new lover, she escaped. <strong>...</strong></p>Crowley Aleister - The Sword of Songurn:md5:d4c29092e8b0e200e4c3db43052753a92012-04-05T01:33:00+01:002014-05-07T21:12:44+01:00balderCrowley AleisterJewMagicO.T.O.Satanism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Crowley_Aleister_-_The_Sword_of_Song_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Crowley Aleister (Crowley Edward Alexander)</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The Sword of Song Called by Christians The book of the Beast</strong><br />
Year : 1904<br />
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“Here is wisdom: let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the Beast. For it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred, three score, and six” The Apocalypse of John. <strong>...</strong></p>Crowley Aleister - The old and new Commentaries to Liber Alurn:md5:f541977ca63ab0a1260a796b2c7443e92012-04-05T01:30:00+01:002014-05-07T21:12:48+01:00balderCrowley AleisterJewO.T.O.Satanism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Crowley_Aleister_-_The_old_and_new_Commentaries_to_Liber_Al_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Crowley Aleister (Crowley Edward Alexander)</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The old and new Commentaries to Liber Al</strong><br />
Year : 19**<br />
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Most of the text below has been entered by Frater H.B., except for the text of Liber AL (entered by Frater Ebony and proofread by many others), The Old Comment and portions of the New Comment omitted by L. Wilkenson in his abridgement. This text of Liber 220 has been restored by comparison with an early surviving typescript of the work, except for Chapter II, the portion not covered by the typescript available at this time. The Old Comment has been restored by BH, except for Chapter II, from the TS. In that portion, the Old Comment has been restored from less reliable sources and may need further revision to Crowley's text. The New Comment to Chapter II also needs further revision and expansion beyond the Wilkenson abridgement. Some verses of Liber AL have were not individually commented by Crowley in this text. Some have only a New Comment, and not an Old one. Crowley's footnotes have been moved up into the text and enclosed in double angle brackets: <<Crowley note>>. Again, for the comment to Chapter II, these may be in need of further correction to the original. All other notes are enclosed in curly brackets, with attribution of origin: {WEH NOTE: ...} if no attribution of origin is given, the content of the curly brackets is an interpolation of a gap in the TS. These gaps were intended to be filled by hand-written symbols and foreign letters not available on the typewriter used to prepare the TS. They are in a variety of hands, sometimes missing altogether. The accuracy of these interpolations is very high, but not certain. <strong>...</strong></p>Crowley Aleister - The Lost Continenturn:md5:61edbe2bb19f346a199d50acdbc71de32012-04-05T01:28:00+01:002014-05-07T21:12:52+01:00balderCrowley AleisterJewO.T.O.Satanism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Crowley_Aleister_-_The_Lost_Continent_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Crowley Aleister (Crowley Edward Alexander)</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The Lost Continent</strong><br />
Year : 19**<br />
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PREFACE. Last year I was chosen to succeed the venerable K-Z--who had it in his mind to die, that is, to join Them in Venus, as one of the Seven Heirs of Atlantis, and I have been appointed to declare, so far as may be found possible, the truth about that mysterious lost land. Of course, no more than one seventh of the wisdom is ever confided to one of the Seven, and the Seven meet in council but once in every thirty-three years. But its preservation is guaranteed by the interlocked systems of "dreaming true" and of "preparation of the antinomy". The former almost explains itself; the latter is almost inconceivable to normal man. Its essence is to train a man to be anything by training him to be its opposite. At the end of anything, think they, it turns out to be its opposite, and that opposite is thus mastered without having been soiled by the labours of the student, and without the false impressions of early learning being left upon the mind. I myself, for example, had unknowingly been trained to record these observations by the life of a butterfly. All my impressions came clear on the soft wax of my brain; I had never worried because the scratch on the wax in no way resembled the sound it represented. In other words, I observed perfectly because I never knew that I was observing. So, if you pay sufficient attention to your heart, you will make it palpitate. I accordingly proceed to a description of the country. Aleister Crowley. <strong>...</strong></p>Crowley Aleister - The I Chingurn:md5:283382038921695c39714bf253d1e3f32012-04-05T01:25:00+01:002014-05-07T21:12:54+01:00balderCrowley AleisterJewMagicO.T.O.Satanism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Crowley_Aleister_-_The_I_Ching_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Crowley Aleister (Crowley Edward Alexander)</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The I Ching A new translation of the Book of changes by The Master Therion</strong><br />
Year : 1989<br />
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INTRODUCTION The Yi King is mathematical and philosophical in form. Its structure is cognate with that of the Qabalah; the actual apparatus is simple, and five minutes is sufficient to obtain a fairly detailed answer to any but the most obscure questions. To Mega Therion. <strong>...</strong></p>Crowley Aleister - The Heart of the Masterurn:md5:ecb4fd072503f869438be7eeb86fd3752012-04-05T01:23:00+01:002014-05-07T21:13:03+01:00balderCrowley AleisterJewO.T.O.Satanism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Crowley_Aleister_-_The_Heart_of_the_Master_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Crowley Aleister (Crowley Edward Alexander)</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The Heart of the Master</strong><br />
Year : 1985<br />
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THE HEART OF THE MASTER By Khaled Khan (Aleister Crowley) I. THE VISION Penumbra. I am one of a concourse. All, or nigh all, seem fallen into heaviness, not from exhaustion of labour, but from lethargy. The plain is vast beyond eye to mark it's bounds, even were not all dark with blight of fog and thick with marish damp. A few of us are half awake, gaze dumbly on the East. No light responds. Alas for me who am too much alive with the horrible and hopeless ache for sleep of one half-drugged! Dazed, stupified - I know not who I am - I know not whence I came - I know not whither I go. Vaguely I say within my dull heart: I must not sleep because I am a soldier. But of what captain, in what war? I cannot guess. There is but a dim shape as of some disaster long, oh! very long ago - the dusty memory of some leader who failed, some plan that broke its spine - I am sure of this: that all discipline is done, all courage quashed, all purpose perished. Behind me - strange! - the gloom is less obscure than in the East to which the eyes yearn feebly. Do I feel it by instinct - the form of a vast pyramidal hill of stark black rock? I am too weary to turn my head to look. All of a sudden, far behind me, far beyond that crest, if it be one, rings out a voice, clear, firm, courageous, confident. It is a soldier's voice, the accent of command, the valour of manhood. None can mistake - I am assured - that ringing call. Truth, Victory, in each trumpet tone: Listen! <strong>...</strong></p>Crowley Aleister - The Greater Ritual of the Pentagramurn:md5:b647a9438e628bf7d1dc83aa4a7ffb002012-04-05T01:20:00+01:002014-05-07T21:13:07+01:00balderCrowley AleisterJewMagicSatanism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Crowley_Aleister_-_The_Greater_Ritual_of_the_Pentagram_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Crowley Aleister (Crowley Edward Alexander)</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The Greater Ritual of the Pentagram</strong><br />
Year : 1906<br />
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THE TRUE GREATER RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM. As the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram places the Magician on the Path of Samech, so this Greater Ritual places him on the Path of Gimel above, instead of below Tiphareth. Perform the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram and annoint body with Holy Oil before performing this Greater Ritual of the Pentagram. Take up your position facing the West, strike the bell once and cry aloud Abrahadabra! giving the Threefold Sign of Enterer (Horus), Silence (Harpocrates), and Apophis (Set Triumphant). Whirl around as on a pivot as rapidly as you can with the Wand or Sword outstretched, thus making a magick circle. Then say, with all the exaltation possible: The light is mine; its rays consume me: I have made a secret door into the House of Ra (Enterer towards East) and Tum (Enterer towards West), of Khephra (Enterer towards North) and of Ahathoor (Enterer towards South). (In centre, facing West, in Sign of Silence) I am thy Theban, O Mentu, The prophet Ankh-af-na-khonsu! Bell. Turning 60 degrees to your left, make the inverted Invoking Pentagram of Fire and cry NUIT. Turning 60 degrees to your original right (i.e. to the North of West) make the same Pentagram and cry HADIT. Turn to the East, make the same Pentagram and cry RA-HOOR-KHUIT. Then turn 60 degrees North of East, make the erect Invoking Pentagram of Fire and cry BES-NA-MAUT. Then turn 60 degrees South of East, make the same Pentagram and cry TA-NECH. Then to the West, make the same Pentagram and cry ANKH-AF-NA-KHONSU. Seat yourself with your hands on your knees, like an enthroned Egyptian God, or stand in the Sign of Hoor- Paar-Kraat.Say slowly, and very forcibly, in a low voice: Ardent and awful on my right Rage Ratziel and Tzadkiel. Red Raphael on his burning throne Guards me behind: with magian might Dread Khamael and Tzaphkiel War on my left: the avengers own Before me flaming out alone The Majesty of Metatron! For around me in six several ways The fivefold sword-stars beat and blaze; While in the column shines and slays The star that hath eleven rays. Abrahadabra! Bell. Rise and give the Threefold Sign, remaining in the Sign of Apophis- Typhon to invoke whatever force thou wishest to invoke. <strong>...</strong></p>Crowley Aleister - The Complete Astrologica Writingsurn:md5:dea3dcf5d823f6ed36168340edaa496f2012-04-05T01:18:00+01:002014-05-07T21:13:10+01:00balderCrowley AleisterJewMagicO.T.O.Satanism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Crowley_Aleister_-_The_Complete_Astrologica_Writings_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Crowley Aleister (Crowley Edward Alexander)</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The Complete Astrologica Writings containing A treatise on astrology LIBER 536. How Horoscopes are faked by Cor Scopions Batrachophrenoboocosmomachia</strong><br />
Year : 1974<br />
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Preface. Astrologers sometimes make mistakes. From this fact, which even they are scarcely sufficiently brazen to dispute, it follows with mathematical certainty that astrology is not a science but a sham, a quackery and a fraud. 1 Contrast its shameful uncertainty with medicine, where no doctor ever lost a patient; with law where no lawyer ever lost a case, or even with arms, where no soldier ever lost a battle! It is true that nine times out of ten, an astrologer glancing at a stranger can tell at what hour of the day he was born. This must be guesswork, for we do not see how it is done or can be done. It is an obvious canon of all sound philosophy that unless wc know exactly how things happen, wc must deny that they do happen, or, if ever philosophy cannot so far close eyes on actuality, we must ascribe them to chance. Thought of this altitudinous brilliance is the guarantee of human progress; it reminds one of the sun rising over the crest of some mighty pyramid of rock and ice, crowned with the everlasting snows. True it is that in all cases, an astrologer in the front rank of his profession, gives good advice, kind, shrewd, disinterested and worldy-wise, yet inspired by a diviner wisdom such as the fact that he spends his life in the contemplation of the noblest phenomena of nature, that the Soul behind them cannot but operate to bestow; true also that any astrologer of eminence can point to hundreds of people whose life, honour, and property have been preserved. <strong>...</strong></p>Crowley Aleister - The Banned Lecture Gilles de Raisurn:md5:607b31e87074b7d01895165d84acc8912012-04-05T01:13:00+01:002014-05-07T21:13:14+01:00balderCrowley AleisterGolden DawnJewMagicSatanism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Crowley_Aleister_-_The_Banned_Lecture_Gilles_de_Rais_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Crowley Aleister (Crowley Edward Alexander)</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The Banned Lecture Gilles de Rais</strong><br />
Year : 19**<br />
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The Banned Lecture GILLES de RAIS to have been delivered before the University Poetry Society by ALEISTER CROWLEY on the evening of Monday, Feb.3rd.1930 Long ago when King Brahmadatta reigned in Benares, a gentleman whose Christian names were Thomas Henry - you possible have heard of him - he was no less apersonage than the Grandfather of the great Aldous Huxley- once found himself threatened be a perdicament similar to that in which I stand tonite. He had been asked to lecture a distinguished group of people. What bothered him was this: what assumption was he to make about the existing knowledge of the audience? He adoÿted the sensible course of asking the advice of an old hand at the game; and was told "You must do one of two things. You may assume that they know everything, or that they know nothing." Thomas Henry thought it over, and decided that he would assume that they know nothing. I think that merely shows how badly brought up he must have been; and explains how it was that he became a kirty little atheist, and repented on his death-bed, and died blaspheming. Gilles de Raise was born sometime in 1404. He married Catherine de Thonars on the 30th of November, 1420, thus becoming the richest noble in Europe. He lived extravagantly until his arrest by the Church. He geban alchemical studies under the instruction of Gilles de Sille, a priest of St. malo. Montague Summers believes he sacrificed around eight hundred children and quotes the proceedings of ecclesiastical high court in which a Dominican priest named Jean Blouyn took over as the delegate of the Holy Inquisition for the city and diocese of Nantes. Needless to say, Gilles "confessed", and was put to the stake and charcoaled on October 26th., 1440 leaving his estates and untold riches to Mother Church, who, wasting no time, added them to her list of material gains. Included in this particular catche were Gilles personal hand-painted manuscripts which were eagerly welcomed into the Mother Lode’s vault where they sit to this day. Unfortunately, the Vatican’s library is inaccessible to "common folk", and will probably remain so until the demise of Mother Church herself, at which time this author will assist other interested persons in converting it into a public library. No! No! that would be quite impossibly bad manners. I shall assume that you know everything about Gilles de Rais; and that being the case, it would evidently be impertinent for me to tell you anything about him. So that we can consider the lecture at an end, and (after the usual vote of thanks) pass on immediately to the discussion, which I think ought to be more amuising, if scarcely as informative. It is rather an hard saying— however worthy of all acceptation in a university like Oxford, where, I understand, the besetting sin of the inmates is lecturing and being lectured, but discussions are always apt to turn out to be amusing, especially if conducted with blackthorns or shotguns, where as lecturing is merely an attempt, fordoomed to failure, to communicate knowledge which usually the lecturer does not possess. I am sure that we all recognise that an attempt of this kind is impossible in nature. No! I am not proposing to inflict upon you my celebrated discourse on Scepticism of the Instrument of Midn. I am not even going to refer to the first and last lecture which I suffered at a dud university somewhere near Newmarket, in which the specimen of old red sandstone in rostrum began by remarking that political economy was a very difficult subject to theorise upon because there were no reliable data. Never would I tell so sad a story on a Monday evening, with the idea of Tuesday already looming darkly in every melancholic mind. I should like to be just friendly and sensible, though it is perhaps too much to expect me to be cheerful. The fact is that I am in a very depressed state. My attention was attracted by that little work "knowledge" of which we hear so much and see so little. I don’t pr&127;pose to inflict upon you the M.C.H., and demonstrate that the life and opinions of Filles de Rais were inevitably determioned by the price of onions in Hyderabad. But I do think that in approaching a historic question, we should be very careful to define what we mean—in our particular universe of discourse—by the work "knowledge." May I ask a question? Does anyone here know the date of the battle of Waterloo? Pause-- (Someone—I bet—tells me "1815.") Thank you very much. To be frank with you, I know it myself. I did not require information on that particular point. What I asked was, wheter anyone know the date. I felt that, if so, it would have created a sympathetic atmosphere. But since we are talking about Waterloo, we may ask ourselves what, roughly speaking, is the extent of our knowledge? I have heard plenty of theories about why Napoleon lost the battle. I have been told that he was already suffering from the disease which killed him. I have been told that he was outgeneralled by Wellington. I have been told that his army of conscripts was underfed and not properly drilled. I have also been told that the battle was won by the Belgians. Now, all these things are merely matters of opinion. <strong>...</strong></p>Crowley Aleister - The Argonautsurn:md5:9c2c4e853dad6f7a6c15b4503287f1a72012-04-05T01:10:00+01:002014-05-07T21:13:17+01:00balderCrowley AleisterJewO.T.O.SatanismTheater <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Crowley_Aleister_-_The_Argonauts_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Crowley Aleister (Crowley Edward Alexander)</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The Argonauts</strong><br />
Year : 1904<br />
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ACTUS PRIMUS. PELrAs. JASON. Semi'-dwrus of Ioklzi'an Men. Semi-dwrus of Ioldzian Women. ScENE: Tlze T!zrone-clzamber ofKrNG PELrAS. SEMI-cHORUS OF MEN. The prophecies are spoken in vain, The auguries vainly cast, Since twenty years of joyous reign In peace are overpast; And those who cursed our King's desires Are branded in the brow for liars. SEMI-cHORUS OF WOMEN. We beard the aged prophet speak The doom of woe and fear. We wait with blanched and icy cheek The one-and-twentieth year: For Justice lies, as seeds lie, dead, But lifts at last a Gorgon head! MEN. What fear cao reach our Thessaly? What war disturb our peace? <strong>...</strong></p>Crowley Aleister - Tannhäuser A story of all timeurn:md5:ccc0236a41d104c7e2b79a7678c9a1952012-04-05T01:04:00+01:002014-05-07T21:13:21+01:00balderCrowley AleisterGolden DawnJewMagicSatanism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Crowley_Aleister_-_Tannhauser_A_story_of_all_time_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Crowley Aleister (Crowley Edward Alexander)</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Tannhäuser A story of all timeh</strong><br />
Year : 1907<br />
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PREFACE. As, after long observation and careful study, the biologist sees that what at first seemed isolated and arbitrary acts are really part of a series of regular changes, and presently has the life-history of the being that he is examining clear from Alpha to Omega in his mind ; as, during a battle, the relative importance of its various incidents is lost, the more so owing to the excitement and activity of the combatant, and to the fact that he is himself involved in the vicissitudes which he may have set himself to observe ; while even for the commander, though the smoke-pall may lift now and again to show some brilliant charge or desperate hand-tohand struggle, he may fail to grasp its significance in his dispositions ; or indeed find it to be quite unexpected and foreign to his calculations ; yet a few years or months later the same battle may be lucidly, tersely, and connectedly described, so that a child is able to follow its varying fortunes with delight and comprehension : just so has my own observation of a life-history more subtle, a battle more terrible, been at last co-ordinated : I can view the long struggle from a standpoint altogether complete, calm, and philosophical ; and the result of this review is the present story of Tannhauser, just as the isolated and often apparently contradictory incidents of the fight were recorded in that jungle of chaotic emotions which I printed under the title of " The Soul of Osiris," calling it a history so that my readers might discover for themselves (if they chose to take the trouble) the real continuity in the apparent disjointedness. The history of any man who seriously and desperately dares to force a passage into the penetralia of nature ; not with the calm philosophy of the scientist, but with the burning conviction that his immortal destiny is at stake ; must be a strange one : to me at least strangely attractive. The constant illusions ; the many disappointments ; the bitter earnestness of the man amid the grim humour, or more often sheer cacchination of his surroundings ; all the bestial mockery of the baffling fiends ; the still more hideous mockery in which the Powers of Good themselves seem to indulge ; doubt of the reality of that which he seeks ; doubt even of the seeker ; the irony of the whole strife : are fascinating to me as they are, I make no doubt, to the majority of mankind. <strong>...</strong></p>Crowley Aleister - Sepher Sephirothurn:md5:7f717fd2523857d5444d032d102f46722012-04-05T01:03:00+01:002014-05-07T21:13:26+01:00balderCrowley AleisterJewMagicSatanismZohar <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Crowley_Aleister_-_Sepher_Sephiroth_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Crowley Aleister (Crowley Edward Alexander)</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Sepher Sephiroth</strong><br />
Year : 19**<br />
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Sepher Sephiroth (revised). By Allan Bennett and Aleister Crowley. Revised by Ian Rons. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. This numerical dictionary has been revised and updated, including much new material. It has also been stripped of much extraneous material such as planetary spirits, etc., to make it a more “purist” production, since much of the material of that type is rather unreliable. All the numerations have been checked, and the Latin originally given from Kabbalah Denudata has been translated and checked against the Hebrew (using Brown-Driver-Briggs and Megiddo). The references to Zoharic texts, etc., have been checked, and are now given with verse numbers (rather than page numbers) wherever possible. Furthermore, new Zoharic and other references have been inserted. Biblical references have been checked, and given KJV (rather than Vulgate) verse numbers, and many new Biblical references have been found. Hebrew words and phrases without a translation have been translated, and many of the other Hebrew translations have been checked also. Words and phrases with a possible “final letters” value have all been enumerated. Love is the law, love under will. I.R. <strong>...</strong></p>Crowley Aleister - Ordo Templi Orientisurn:md5:04b528d9a51db9290131abba382fdfd52012-04-05T01:01:00+01:002014-05-07T21:13:29+01:00balderCrowley AleisterO.T.O.Satanism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Crowley_Aleister_-_Ordo_Templi_Orientis_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Crowley Aleister (Crowley Edward Alexander)</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Ordo Templi Orientis</strong><br />
Year : 1974<br />
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. According to Aleister Crowley, ORDO TEMPLI ORIENTIS is "The first of the Great Orders of antiquity to accept the LAw of the New Aeon emanating from the A.:. A.:., which is : Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law! <strong>...</strong></p>Crowley Aleister - Magick without Tearsurn:md5:f97d4feacebdd2ea580a151e5e66d6f32012-04-05T00:56:00+01:002014-05-07T21:13:32+01:00balderCrowley AleisterGolden DawnJewMagicSatanism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Crowley_Aleister_-_Magick_without_Tears_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
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Title : <strong>Magick without Tears</strong><br />
Year : 1954<br />
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FOREWORD. In 1943 Aleister Crowley met a lady who, having heard of his wide knowledge and experience, asked his advice on occult, spiritual, and practical matters. This chance connection resulted in a stimulating exchange of letters. Crowley then asked others to put similar questions to him. The result was this collection of over eighty letters which are now being issued over the title that he chose, "MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS". Crowley did not keep copies of his early letters to the above-mentioned lady, so was unable to include them in the collection that he planned to publish. Fortunately they have been preserved and are now included in the introduction to this book. Their original form has been retained with the opening and closing formulae which Crowley used in all his letters. Crowley at first intended to call the book "ALEISTER EXPLAINS EVERYTHING", and sent the following circular to his friends and disciples asking them to suggest subjects for inclusion. ALEISTER EXPLAINS EVERYTHING. <strong>...</strong></p>Crowley Aleister - Magick in Theory and Practiceurn:md5:e2347340f486f2a75f077afa2f9766ce2012-04-05T00:54:00+01:002014-05-07T21:13:37+01:00balderCrowley AleisterJewMagicSatanism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Crowley_Aleister_-_Magick_in_Theory_and_Practice_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
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Title : <strong>Magick in Theory and Practice</strong><br />
Year : 19**<br />
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Thrill with lissome lust of the light, O man! My man! Come careering out of the night Of Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan! Come over the sea From Sicily and from Arcady! Roaming as Bacchus, with fauns and pards And nymphs and satyrs for thy guards, On a milk-white ass, come over the sea To me, to me, Come with Apollo in bridal dress (Shepherdess and pythoness) Come with Artemis, silken shod, And wash thy white thigh, beautiful God, In the moon of the woods, on the marble mount, The dimpled dawn of the amber fount! Dip the purple of passionate prayer. <strong>...</strong></p>Crowley Aleister - Liberal The Book of the Lawurn:md5:c6bd3ba162daec2b88974b10772240422012-04-05T00:51:00+01:002014-05-07T21:13:40+01:00balderCrowley AleisterGolden DawnJewO.T.O.Satanism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Crowley_Aleister_-_Liberal_The_Book_of_the_Law_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Crowley Aleister (Crowley Edward Alexander)</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Liberal The Book of the Law</strong><br />
Year : 1938<br />
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THE COMMENT. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The study of this Book is forbidden. It is wise to destroy this copy after the first reading. Whosoever disregards this does so at his own risk and peril. These are most dire. Those who discuss the contents of this Book are to be shunned by all, as centres of pestilence. All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. Love is the law, love under will. The priest of the princes, ANKH-F-N-KHONSU. <strong>...</strong></p>Crowley Aleister - Liber XV O.T.O. Ecclesiae Gnosticae Catholicae Canon Missaeurn:md5:5fd2d24e0c738a477b566bff4146f1d82012-04-05T00:45:00+01:002014-05-07T21:13:43+01:00balderCrowley AleisterJewO.T.O.Satanism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Crowley_Aleister_-_Liber_XV_OTO_Ecclesiae_Gnosticae_Catholicae_Canon_Missae_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Crowley Aleister (Crowley Edward Alexander)</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Liber XV O.T.O. Ecclesiae Gnosticae Catholicae Canon Missae</strong><br />
Year : 1915<br />
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Crowley composed the O.T.O. Gnostic Mass on a visit to Moscow in 1915 E.V. It is the central ritual of the O.T.O., public and private. He gave it its first publication in New York in The International several years later. Variant versions subsequently appeared in The Equinox III(1) (Detroit: Universal, 1919) and in Magick in Theory and Practice (Paris: Lecram, 1929). This edition of the Gnostic Mass is a composite of the three versions. Prepared by Frater HaLayL, it was first published in the journal Ecclesia Gnostica I(3), and is here republished with Frater HaLayL's annotations.--H.B. <strong>...</strong></p>Crowley Aleister - Liber LVIIIurn:md5:e03ce24ecd8acc7c9ad194f3debff9272012-04-05T00:43:00+01:002014-05-07T21:13:48+01:00balderCrowley AleisterIsraëlJewO.T.O.Satanism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Crowley_Aleister_-_Liber_LVIII_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Crowley Aleister (Crowley Edward Alexander)</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Liber LVIII Including An Essay upon Number</strong><br />
Year : 19**<br />
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THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING (Continued) Great as were Frater P.’s accomplishments in the ancient sciences of the East, swiftly and securely as he had passed in a bare year the arduous road which so many fail to traverse in lifetime, satisfied as himself was—in a sense—with his own progress, it was not yet by these paths that he was destined to reach the Sublime Threshold of the Mystic Temple. For though it is written, “To the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift,” yet, were it otherwise, no mortal however persevering could attain the immortal shore. As it is written in the Fifteenth Chapter of St. Luke’s Gospel, “And when he was yet afar off, his Father saw him and ran.” Had it not been so, the weary Prodigal, exhausted by his early debauches (astral visions and magic) and his later mental toil (yoga) would never have had the strength to reach the House of his Father. One little point St. Luke unaccountable omitted. When a man is as hungry and weary as was the Prodigal, he is apt to see phantoms. He is apt to clasp shadows to him, and cry: “Father!” And, the devil being subtle, capable of disguising himself as an angel of light, it behoves the Prodigal to have some test of truth. Some great mystics have laid down the law, “Accept no messenger of God,” banish all, until at last the Father himself comes forth. A counsel of perfection. The Father himself does send messengers, as we learn in St. Mark xii.; and if we stone them, we may perhaps in our blindness stone the Son himself when he is sent. So that is no vain counsel of “St. John” (1 John iv. 1), “Try the spirits, whether they be of God,” no mistake when “St. Paul” claims the discernment of Spirits to be a principal point of the armour of salvation (1 Cor. xii. 10). Now how should Frater P. or another test the truth of any message purporting to come from the Most High? On the astral plane, its phantoms are easily governed by the Pentagram, the Elemental Weapons, the Robes, the God-forms, and such childish toys. We set phantoms to chase phantoms. We make our Scin-Laeca1 pure and hard and glittering, all glorious within, like the veritable daughter of the King; yet she is but the King’s daughter, the Nephesch adorned: she is not the King himself, the Holy Ruach or mind of man. As as we have seen in our chapter on Yoga,2 this mind is a very aspen; and as we may see in the last chapter of Captain Fuller’s “Star in the West,” this mind is a very cockpit of contradiction. What then is the standard of truth? What tests shall we apply to revelation, when our tests of experience have been found wanting? If I must doubt my eyes that have served me (well, on the whole) for so many years, must I not much more doubt my spiritual vision, my vision just open like a babe’s, my vision untested by comparison and uncriticized by reason? <strong>...</strong></p>Crowley Aleister - Liber DCCCXXXVII The Law of Libertyurn:md5:a752023def310fd5bb8e36af0a1a6fef2012-04-05T00:42:00+01:002014-05-07T21:13:52+01:00balderCrowley AleisterGolden DawnJewSatanism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Crowley_Aleister_-_Liber_DCCCXXXVII_The_Law_of_Liberty_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
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Title : <strong>Liber DCCCXXXVII The Law of Liberty</strong><br />
Year : 19**<br />
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I. I am often asked why I begin my letters this way. No matter whether I am writing to my lady or to my butcher, always I begin with these eleven words. Why, how else should I begin? What other greeting could be so glad? Look, brother, we are free! Rejoice with me, sister, there is no law beyond Do what thou wilt! II. I write this for those who have not read our Sacred Book, the Book of the Law, or for those who, reading it, have somehow failed to understand its perfection. For there are many matters in this Book, and the Glad Tidings are now here, now there, scattered throughout the Book as the Stars are scattered through the field of Night. Rejoice with me, all ye people! At the very head of the Book stands the great charter of our godhead: "Every man and every woman is a star." We are all free, all independent, all shining gloriously, each one a radiant world. Is not that good tidings? Then comes the first call of the Great Goddess Nuit, Lady of the Starry Heaven, who is also Matter in its deepest metaphysical sense, who is the infinite in whom all we live and move and have our being. Hear Her first summons to us men and women: "Come forth, O children, under the stars, and take your fill of love! I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy." Later She explains the mystery of sorrow. "For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union." <strong>...</strong></p>Crowley Aleister - Liber CLVII Tao The Kingurn:md5:8f2dd7a8cf60af253d76e9c45b4995042012-04-05T00:39:00+01:002014-05-07T21:13:57+01:00balderCrowley AleisterJewSatanism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Crowley_Aleister_-_Liber_CLVII_Tao_The_King_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Crowley Aleister (Crowley Edward Alexander)</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Liber CLVII Tao The King The Equinox (Volume III, No. VIII.)</strong><br />
Year : 19**<br />
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I bound myself to devote my life to Magick at Easter 1898, and received my first initiation on November 18 of that year. My friend and climbing companion, Oscar Eckenstein, gave me my first instructions in learning the control of the mind early in 1901 in Mexico City. Shri Parananda, Solicitor General of Ceylon and an eminent writer upon and teacher of Yoga from the orthodox Shaivite standpoint, and Bhikkhu Ananda Metteya, the great English Adept, who was one of my earliest instructors in Magick and joined the Sangha in Burma in 1902, gave me my first groundings in mystical theory and practice. I spent some months of 1901 in Kandy, Ceylon, with the latter until success crowned my work. I also studied all varieties of Asiatic philosophy, especially with regard to the practical question of spiritual development, the Sufi doctrines, the Upanishads, the Sankhya, Vedanta, the Bagavad Gita and Purana, the Dhammapada, and many other classics, together with numerous writings on the Tantra and Yoga of such men as Patanjali, Vivekananda, etc. etc. Not a few of these teachings are as yet wholly unknown to scholars. I made the scope of {1} my studies as comprehensive as possible, omitting no school of thought however unimportant or repugnant. I made a critical examination of all these teachers in the light of my practical experiences. The physiological and psychological uniformity of mankind guaranteed that the diversity of expression concealed a unity of significance. This discovery, furthermore, was confirmed by reference to Jewish, Greek and Celtic traditions. <strong>...</strong></p>