My adepts stand upright; their head above the heavens, their feet below the hells.

Aleister Crowley, Liber צ (Tzaddi) vel Hamus Hermeticus sub figurâ XC

Hermetic quote Crowley Liber Tzaddi Hamus Hermeticus adepts stand upright head above heavens feet below hells

Consider also:

  1. The Deadly Grimoire
  2. Son Of The Staves Of Time
  3. “‘Resolve all question by a moonward tread. Follow the moon!’ Even so the king had said. My thought had thanked him for the generous breath Wherewith he warned us: for delay were death. And now, too late! no moon is overhead– Some other meaning in the words he saith? Or, am I tricked in such a little snare?”
  4. “In the first Egyptian Room at the British Museum a painting, said to be of Queen Hatshepset, who lived about B.C. 1600, is hung on the walls (the Queen’s name has been painted out and that of Thothmes III. substituted), she is making perfume offerings; this picture is reproduced from an obelisk now fallen, which was set up by this Queen at Karnak. A print of this painting is reproduced in the English translation of Wiedemann’s Immortality of the Soul.”
  5. “There must be some sort of logic hidden here, but if there is, it’s beyond me.”