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Page 103 of 1041929 · PDF PAGE 364
…ough the tedium. We crossed to Tangiers without delay and I revelled once more and rejoiced to feel myself back among the only people on earth with whom I have ever felt any human affinity. My spiritual self is at home in China, but my heart and my hand are pledged to the Arab. I had begun to train Neuburg seriously in Magick and mysticism. The first point was, of course, to get rid of any prejudices and superstitions. This was not too difficult, he being a professed agnostic. But the second point was to train him in the technique. This was wel…
1929 · PDF PAGE 450
…atiable eyes and a long straight thin mouth, a scarlet scar which seemed to ache with the anguish of hunger for some satisfaction beyond earth's power to supply. We came together with irresistible magnetism. We could not converse in human language. I had forgotten nearly all my Russian; and her German was confined to a few broken cries. But we had not need of speech. The love between us was ineffably intense. It still inflames my inmost spirit. She had passed beyond the region where pleasure had meaning for her. She could only feel through pain…
1929 · PDF PAGE 55
…alities draw attention to one; the cruel consciousness of self is reawakened, one becomes utterly miserable and flees to the ends of the earth to be rid of one's admirers. A certain coarseness is inseparable from popularity and one is therefore constantly driven away from the very thing one needs most. It is a quasi- electrical phenomenon. One can only find satisfaction in intimate union with one's opposite. This fact explains very largely the peculiar nature of the love affair of great men. They cannot tolerate their like. Their superiority is…
1929 · PDF PAGE 67
…nce: that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent interference. If our monkey mischief should ever reach the point of blowing up the earth by decomposing an atom, and even annihilate the sun himself, I cannot really suppose that the universe would turn a hair. If we are ever to do anything, it can only be by the manipulation of those spiritual forces which lie behind the consciousness of which the universe of matter is but a symbolic phantasm. The second of these exploits --- the Vuibez Séracs -- constituted one of the most interesting ice …
1929 · PDF PAGE 537
… refuge, in which that which was worth saving from the Aeon of the Dying God might be in safety while the floods covered the face of the earth; and it is really not for me but for history to record and interpret the events of my life following my return to England at the end of 1919. I will only say that my main idea had been to found a community on the principles of The Book of the Law, to form an archetype of a new society. The main ethical principle is that each human being has his own definite object in life. He has every right to fulfil th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 310
…o the climax of my career. I had attained all my ambitions, proved myself at every point, dared every danger, enjoyed every ecstasy that earth has to offer; the rest of my life recedes from romance in that boyish idea of what romance should be. From this time, though much lay in store for me to accomplish, summit soaring beyond summit of spiritual success, giant ranged behind giant for me to challenge, I now learnt to look upon life with enlightened eyes. I had sought and I had found. I must now seek them who seek that they might also find. I m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 343
343 earth, shaken by every irregularity of the surface, but course at a large through the boundless ether. This is not merely a matter of actual ceremonies; I insist that in private life men should not admit their passions to be an end, {554} indulging them and so degrading themselves to the level of the other animals, or suppressing them and creating neuroses. I insist that every thought, word and deed should be consciously devoted to the service of the great work. "Whatsoever ye do, whether ye eat or drink, do all to the glory of God." One ni…
1929 · PDF PAGE 359
…e evening of August 9th to a place that we called "Jack Straw's Castle", at the opening of a magnificent ravine through mighty cliffs of earth. The following day the road led over a high pass, a barren wilderness of bizarre beauty. It was nearly nightfall when we reached a wretched hamlet, so poor that there was really no food to be had. There was not even any pretence of an inn, and it was only by long negotiation and the display of wealth beyond the dreams of avarice, in the shape of a silver dollar, that we persuaded the inhabitants to let u…
1907 · PDF PAGE 247
… worse, ii. 156 Here goes my arrow to the gold, ii. 154 Here in the evening curl white mists, i, 118 Here in the extreme west of all the earth, ii. 67 Here, in the home of a friend, i. 154 Here in the wild Caucasian night, i. 125 Here is a man! _ For all the world to see, ili, L1O Here most philosophers agree, ii. 173 Here, on the crimson strand of blood-red waters, 1. 15 Here's a test, il. 179 Here’s how I got a better learning, ii. 164 Here's just the chance you'd have, ii. 149 Here, then, lives the pretty piece of goods, lii, 38 Here we come…
1929 · PDF PAGE 321
…n be no obstacle to this union ... You must look towards this time and towards a beacon light. Never lose sight of that! You Elaine (F's earth- name) will meet with subtle temptation from this object --- promises of great power and illumination; but heed them not. Aleister is your true helper from whom you have right to look and demand help. You must never cease to demand this aid and by your demand strengthen and aid your comrade. I, your Guardian Angel, tell you this." (The falsity of all this patent more at the time than now --- I foresaw wh…
1929 · PDF PAGE 22
…al; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs. I suppose that there comes to all of us only too often the feeling which {59} Freud calls the OEdipus complex. We want to repose, to be at peace with our fellows whom we love, who misunderstand us and for whose love we are hungry. We want to make terms, we want to surrender. But I have always found that, though I could acqu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 362
…rse but their crops and the coins which they hoarded at harvest, only to pass into the {584} pouch of the priest and pay for a parcel of earth in which they might conceal their carcases from the eye of the vulture. On August the second, we found ourselves in Madrid and turned wearily into the first hotel we came to in Puerto del Sol. Neuburg was by this time a pretty sick man. He could not stand the rough food
1929 · PDF PAGE 344
…st terrible of all anticlimaxes to have to return to the petty life which is bound by space and time. I had the option of coming down to earth or enlisting death in my service. I chose the latter course. My model was a woman very distinguished and very well known in London society. She had already figured as the heroine of Felix. She had been one of the best and most loyal friends of Oscar Wilde.
1929 · PDF PAGE 388
…at the exact moment here predicted. The thirteenth Aethyr explains the work which a Master of the Temple must do. He is hidden under the earth and tends his garden. These gardens are of many kinds, but in every case he treats the roots of the flowers in various ways. Each flower gives birth to a maiden, save one, of which commeth a man child who shall be Nemo after him. Nemo must not seek to know which flower this is. He must tend his garden with absolute impartiality. The twelfth Aethyr describes the City of the Pyramids, whose queen is called…
1929 · PDF PAGE 142
…n space. There is no a priori reason why the forces which prevent them rushing together should not come into operation in respect of the earth and the body. Again, you can prevent things from biting you by certain breathing exercises. Hold the breath in such a way that the body becomes spasmodically rigid, and insects cannot pierce the skin. Near my bungalow at Kandy was a waterfall with a pool. Allan Bennett used to feed the leeches every morning. {246} At any moment he could stop the leech, though already fastened to his wrist, by this breath…
1929 · PDF PAGE 183
…agreeable. The presence of still water lends it the charm of utter peace, and the absence of the vermin which desecrate the crust of the earth so objectionably in other places is rendered even more agreeable by the holly courageous children who were my comrades and my friends. I went out reconnoitering for three hours in the middle of the day and got a very clear idea of the situation. A sudden snowstorm of a rather severe type swept the camp for an hour; but at four o'clock the weather again cleared. "Tomorrow to fresh woods an pastures new" -…
1929 · PDF PAGE 558
…render of her soul. The obsession grew to insane intensity. She felt that she was not safe in France. She must escape to the ends of the earth. She would hide herself in America. The poor child never guessed that she was trying to elude herself. However, she was carried away by her fears and fled to the States, where she paid the penalty of her panic. Fate has smitten again and again, and I hope that suffering will teach her
1929 · PDF PAGE 38
…stance had been passed across my face; and found myself standing on the brink of a hole in the ground of no mean size. I wondered how on earth it could have happened that my experiment had failed. I remember apologizing for the failure and saying that I must go up to the house to wash my face. I discovered that I was being supported on the journey by my private tutor and my mother. Then I found myself in the headmaster's sanctum, receiving first aid. I remember nothing more for some time except the annoyance {83} of being awakened to have my dr…
1906 · PDF PAGE 199
…ver minute, the volition of others. If I breathe, I diminish the stock of oxygen available on the planet. In those far distant ages when Earth shall be as dead as the moon is to-day, my breathing now will have robbed some being then living of the dearest necessity of life, That the theft is minute, incalculably trifling, is no answer to the moralist, to whom degree is not known; nor to the scientist, who sees the chain of nature miss no link. If, on the other hand, the store of energy in the universe be indeed constant (whether infinite or no),…
1919 · PDF PAGE 459
…as is contained, for example, in ‘The Sunflower,’ ‘where we are informe: how, among other portents— “| greater god arose, ‘And stole the earth by standing on his toes And blowing through the air.” secilt is difficult to believe that the persons to whom certain poems are inscribed will experience any very lively gratification at ‘the compliment” —dtheneum. “.. . really notable fluency and fecundity of expression. that is usually termed ‘strong meat.’ . . ; his dedicatory pocm is'the one that fascinates me moste ft is a tender Jittle lyric, delic…