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Page 101 of 1291954 · PDF PAGE 25
…ck without Tears, there are some fine gems of interpretation that should not be missed. (4) Finally, he was capable of what most present-day hippies are not-self-discipline. His entire life is a dynamic testimonial to that fact, demonstrating the practice of the disciplines of meditation and Magick-often without supervision. They transformed him so that when the great illuminations occurred toward the end of the first decade of this century, he coined a Latin motto which, translated, meant "In my lifetime I have conquered the Universe by the fo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 305
…that practically every dream that I could remember, could be quite clearly ascribed to one of two causes: (a) the events of the previous day or days, or the subjects which had interested and excited me during that period, and (b) the physical conditions of the moment. For instance, a good deal of the time of the experiment, I was sleeping in what might have been euphemistically called a houseboat. It was liable to leak; and on such occasions as I woke to find water trickling down my nose, I found that the dream from which I had wakened was an a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 356
…r efforts had met with a derisory disaster. More, one does not wipe out a lustre of lunacy by a moment of sanity. I am suffering to this day from the effects of having wasted some of the best years of my life in the stupid and stubborn struggle to set up my conscious self against its silent sovereign, my true Soul. "Had Zimri peace who slew his master?" 3 A boisterous party was in progress. The dancer's lifelong friend, whom I will call by the name she afterwards adopted, Soror Virakam, was celebrating her birthday. This lady, a magnificent spe…
1954 · PDF PAGE 371
…in a mood of humility . A pawn may be more powerful than a Rook, in some positions. However, even if you are not on it, you can start to-day. That is one of the matters that depends exclusively on you. So you may content yourself with a simple, reasonable and intelligible Oath for the present: to devote "all that you have and all that you are" to the service of the Order. The advantage of so doing is that the Grand Auditor of the City of the Pyramids takes immediate notice. He brings your account (Karma) up to date, and starts you off with a Ca…
1899 · PDF PAGE 253
… And Slay me with the Gold of Your Forehead ! And bring me with you to the swarthy south! And bury me in your desire’s bed !’” —The Saturday Review. “ This is not a very pretty story. The passions and adventures of Charicles and Archais are in a sickly, sensuous vein, which does not strike us as particularly Hellenic; or if Hellenic, it is Hellenic of the decadence. And when Zeus and Aphrodite in- tervene, it is in a fashion characteristic enough of their dis- reputable duties, but barely edifying. However, the ‘Gentleman of Cambridge,’ though …
1904 · PDF PAGE 32
… not eat them, preferring “dok,” a paste of coarse flour and water, wrapped round a hot stone. It cooks gradually , and remains warm all day. 115 120 125 130 135 140 145 Live out thy life ! Charac- ter of Balti. His religious sincerity. Re- lations of poet and the Egyp- tian God of Wisdom. Crowley dis- missed with a jest.
1909 · PDF PAGE 349
… newspaper may be appropriately given : A MERMAID ON AN ORKNEY ISLE.—A strange story of the mermaid comes from Birsay, Orkney. The other day a farmer’s wife was down at the sea- shore there, and observed a strange marine animal on the rocks. When she returned with her better half, they both saw the animal clambering amongst the rocks, about four feet of it being above water. The woman, who had a splendid view of it, describes it as a “ good-looking person,” while the man says it was “a woman covered over with brown hair.” At last the couple tri…
1909 · PDF PAGE 349
… newspaper may be appropriately given : A MERMAID ON AN ORKNEY ISLE.—A strange story of the mermaid comes from Birsay, Orkney. The other day a farmer’s wife was down at the sea- shore there, and observed a strange marine animal on the rocks. When she returned with her better half, they both saw the animal clambering amongst the rocks, about four feet of it being above water. The woman, who had a splendid view of it, describes it as a “ good-looking person,” while the man says it was “a woman covered over with brown hair.” At last the couple tri…
1922 · PDF PAGE 62
… is utterly abrogated. Nobody would be really much the worse for a night with the drug, provided that he had the sense to spend the next day in a Turkish bath, and build up with food and a double allowance of sleep. But cocaine insists upon one’s living upon one’s capital, and assures one that the fund is inexhaustible. As I said, it is a local anesthetic. It deadens any feelng which might arouse what physiologists call inhibition. One becomes absolutely reckless. One is bounding with health and bubbling with high spirits. It is a blind excitem…
1938 · PDF PAGE 21
S∴S∴ and this is, being interpreted, The Great White Brotherhood. Below was written: With Us Two Thousand Years is as One Day. Then my Instructor showed me that the Brotherhood send forth one of their fellows every two thousand years, bringing one Word to serve Mankind as a new Formula of Magick, that it may take one further step on the long road that leadeth to Perfection. Also, twice in that period, that is, at intervals of a little more than three, and a little less than seven, centuries, they send a lesser prophet to prepare the Way of th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 393
…ave helped our Magick.) From that point it was all a wash-out. We could not get back the enthusiasm necessary to persist. We called it a day, did the banishings, closed the temple, and went to bed with our tails between our legs. (And yet, from a saner point of view, the Operation had been a shining success. "Miraculous" things began to happen; in one way and another the gates opened for Allan to migrate to less asthmatic climes; and the object of our work was amply attained.) I give prominence to this phenomenon because what we saw, little and…
1929 · PDF PAGE 187
187 Eckenstein and Knowles came up on the eleventh. Another fine day. I was still very ill; my temperature 39.4° Centigrade. I did not at all realize the cause at first, simple as it was. The true explanation was very far-fetched in the actual sense of the word. My symptoms became unmistakable before long and I had to admit that I was suffering from malaria. The hardships of the journey had removed my physiological protection and the bug stated to buzz about. I was thus the proud possessor of another world's record; the only man who had had mal…
1904 · PDF PAGE 42
…able to reproduce its species. So he spoke, while I la- boured at the foaming oyster-catcher before me. I was now it was the fifteenth day since the last relief party had fallen, for all England was now up in arms against what their freeborn spirit consid- ered an unwarrantable and tyrannical demand on their manhood it is a good thing, said George W.....m himself, to have a giants strength, but tyr- annous to use it like a giant while the sporting instinct of the race was equally aroused, and they were as one man (so the Pink Un voiced …
1906 · PDF PAGE 127
…of bronze, A curling beard of vigorous black, And dusky red of desert suns Burnt in my cheeks. Who saith me Nay? Who reigns in Israel to-day? Samaria in well-ordered ranks Of houses stands in honoured peace: Sweet nourishment from Kenah’s banks Flows, and the corn and vine increase. In two pitched fields the Syrian hordes Fled broken from our stallion swords. Ay me! But that was life! I see Now, from that hill, the ordered plain ; The serried ranks like foam flung free, Long billows, flashing on the main. Past the eye’s grip their legions roll—…
1907 · PDF PAGE 16
…be he: that is enough; there is no more to say. Dear children of earth, long have you wandered in darkness; quit the night, and seek the day! Seek not to imitate the language of the wise ,- ’tis easy. There is no royal road to illumination; that which I say in Light is truth to the children of the Light; to them of darkness is a confusion and a snare. Knew ye what agony the nimble acuteness of mine own dialectic was to me, ye would not envy me, O dullardsl For I fear ever, lest I be replacing truth of thought by mere expertness of mechanic skil…
1929 · PDF PAGE 266
… nonsense of Tartarin and Righi. They had brought up all these men without any provisions for food or shelter and it was now late in the day. The snow was in an absolutely unsafe condition and though I had chosen the route so as to minimize the danger, it was absolutely criminal to send men down. But the mutineers were utterly insensible to the voice of reason. I told the coolies that since they could not stay at Camp 5, the best thing they could do was to shelter under the rocks at Camp 4, and they went off and did so. I warned the mutineers t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 61
day, entirely surpassing for I was now come to my strength the childish efforts upon the queenly butter-boat of E.....ds debauched ruler. As the work of putrefaction proceeded and the stench was awful, for S...ys little leaven had per- vaded his whole lump I rammed my arse-wedge frantically into his holes as they formed, as if in the insane hope of damming the damage of damned deaths fell flood. Indeed for a week or so I did more than this. The patient actually gained weight. But time tells on the strongest. In the second week I kept…
1912 · PDF PAGE 299
…then again, perhaps the author has never read Kipling. The following, from “ The Leper,” is characteristic— " Here through the live-long day I wait, Allah! Allah! In the shadows flung by the city gate, Allah! Allah! My fingers have gone and my toes as well, And the leprous spots on my body swell, But Allah Eternal does all things well. Allah l Allah! Akbar !" BUNCO. THE 8001: OF REVELATIONS OF Jm CROW, J. & J. BENNETT. 1:. THE best of this book is that it reads well. Ithought a priori (a) it read very well weekly; in a lump it will bore; (b) it o…
1912 · PDF PAGE 299
…then again, perhaps the author has never read Kipling. The following, from “ The Leper,” is characteristic— " Here through the live-long day I wait, Allah! Allah! In the shadows flung by the city gate, Allah! Allah! My fingers have gone and my toes as well, And the leprous spots on my body swell, But Allah Eternal does all things well. Allah l Allah! Akbar !" BUNCO. THE 8001: OF REVELATIONS OF Jm CROW, J. & J. BENNETT. 1:. THE best of this book is that it reads well. Ithought a priori (a) it read very well weekly; in a lump it will bore; (b) it o…
1922 · PDF PAGE 131
…and fix a dictaphone in the room where he was going to have dinner. So I had Lou all to myself until he came with the disguises the next day in the afternoon. And I wasn’t going to waste a minute. - J admit I was pretty sick about the way the white cloud let me down. I’d have gone after the silly old sun myself if: I hadn’t been a married man. - However, there we were alone, alone for ever, Lou and I in Capri, it was all much too good to be true! Sunlight and moonlight and starlight! They were all in her eyes. And she handed out the cocaine wit…