Composed by Aleister Crowley for the Order A∴A∴ Unofficial notes and comments in brackets by Sabazius. [I. ] Facing East, in the centre, draw deep deep deep thy breath closing thy mouth with thy right forefinger prest against thy lower lip. Then dashing down the hand with a great sweep back and out, expelling forcibly
Comments Off on Liber XXV: The Star RubyThis is a transcription of the notes toward an E.G.C. baptism ritual from the unpublished diaries of Aleister Crowley (August 10, 1921 e.v.): Ideas about our baptismal ceremony All born free – quote Law. [illegible] CCXX about children. Object of rite. Address to mother, who abandons the Child & goes out. Address to Godfathers and
Comments Off on Crowley’s Notes Toward a Baptism Ritualfrom The Temple of the Holy Ghostby Aleister Crowley1 The fragrant gateways of the dawn 2 Teem with the scent of flowers. The mother, Midnight, has withdrawn Her slumbrous kissing hours: Day springs, with footsteps as a fawn, Into her rosy bowers. The pale and holy maiden horn 3 In highest heaven is set. My
Comments Off on The Palace of The Worldby Aleister Crowley You are supposed to be standing at the intersection of the paths of Samekh and Peh. You are facing Tiphareth (the Sun), thus on your right hand is Netzach (Venus) on your left hand Hod (Mercury), and behind you Yesod (the Moon). You take one step with the right heel in the
Comments Off on Notes on the Ritual of the Pentagramby W.B. Crow and Aleister Crowley (1944) GNOSTIC CATHOLIC CHURCH Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. The world has entered (March, 1904) the New Æon, the Age of the Crowned and Conquering Child. The predominance of the Mother (Æon of Isis) and of the Father (Æon of Osiris) are of
Comments Off on Manifesto of the Gnostic Catholic Church11:40 P.M. I feel easier, but over excited. Gauguin literally torments me; I feel as if by my own choice of exile rather than toleration of the bourgeois, I am invoking him, and this painting of my house seems a sort of religious-magical rite, like the Egyptian embalmers’, but of necromancy. I would he might
Comments Off on An extract from Crowley’s diaries (1921 – Cefalù)The Great Announcement. This is the Book of the Showing Forth of Voice-and-Name from the Thought of the Great Power, the Boundless. Wherefore shall it be sealed up, and hidden, and veiled, and shall be laid in the Habitation wherein the Root of the Worlds is established. Unto you, therefore, I say what I say,
Comments Off on A Fragment of the Apophasis Megalê of Simon Magus