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…little more than a setting for the soloists. These were principally three; myself, reciting appropriate lyrics --- this involved, by the way, my learning by heart many hundreds of lines of verse every week --- Leila Waddell, violinist, and Neuburg, dancer. I sometimes suspect that he was the best of the three. He possessed extraordinary powers. He gave the impression that he did not touch the ground at all, and he would go round the circle at a pace so great that one constantly expected him to be shot off tangentially. In the absence of accurat…
1929 · PDF PAGE 220
220 At the sheriff's door we found the vehicle which was to take us to the wayside station. Rose and I got in, feeling as if we had been through a mangle; but the sense of humour came most opportunely to our rescue. The vehicle chanced to resemble a prison van, and the circumstance tickled our imagination and helped to break down our embarrassment. But it was a frightfully long drive to the wayside station and a frightfully long wait when we got there. I don't know whether it was part of the arrangement or not that we should take tickets to the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 276
276 There is an idol in my house By whom the sandal always steams. Alone, I make a black carouse With her to dominate my dreams. With skulls and knives she keeps control (O Mother Kali!) of my soul. She is crowned with emeralds like leaves, and rubies flame from either eye; A rose upon her bosom heaves, Turquois and Lapis Lazuli. She hath a kirtle like a maid --- Amethyst, amber, pearl, and jade! This poem is important as foreshadowing my final solution of the problem of evil and sorrow, the interpretation of illusion by the initiate and its tr…
1904 · PDF PAGE 79
… till the approachin of Perdu’ R Abu’s Arahatship. But in spite of the young gently-ambling cows which Ganesha took care to throw in his way , in spite of the tender shoots of green and the soft cocoanuts, this elephant was not as other elephants. The seasons spoke to him of change—the forest is ever full of sorrow— and nobody need preach to him the absence of an ego, for the brutes have had more sense than ever to im agine there was one. So the tusker was usually to be found, still as a rock, in s ome secluded place, m editating on the Three C…
1904 · PDF PAGE 94
…nd bade him be comforted. With that he awoke and saw that he would have all his desi re. In the m orning therefore he arose and went his way into the desert. There he clomb an high rock and called forth the eagles, that th eir shadow floating over the desert should be as a book that men might read it. The shadows wrote and the sun recorded ; and on this wise cometh it to pass, O my Brethren, that by darkness and by sunlight y e will still learn ever these the Arcana of our Science. Lo ! who learneth by moonlight, he is the lucky one ! So our Fa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 134
…ld arrive, to accept either amicably or dismiss both disdainfully. Meanwhile, I was simply an adept --- wandering round the world in the way adepts have --- bent on picking up any pearls that proved their pedigrees from honest oysters and were guaranteed rejected by swine. So, when I saw Allan, I put my question, referred to above, and got my answer. The official record is subjoined. {234} D.D.C.F., Mathers, had told me a certain incident which had taken place between himself and Bennett as follows:
1929 · PDF PAGE 26
…were indeed holding one. As they saw me one said, "Brother Crowley will now lead us in prayer." Brother Crowley was too wary and walked away. But instead of doing what a wise boy would have done: gone straight to the head and accused them of forty-six distinct unmentionable crimes, I let things slide. So, fearing that I might go, they hurried off themselves and told him how that wicked Crowley had tried to lead them away from Jesus. Worse, I had called Page I a pharisee. That was true; I had said it. Dreadful of me! And Page I, who "walked very…
1944 · PDF PAGE 51
…is salvation? Where is Monsalvat, the mountain of salvation, which he has sought so long in vain? He worships the lance: immediately the way, so long closed to him, is open; th£ scenery revolves rapidly, there is no need for him to move. He has arrived at the Temple of the Graal. All true ceremonial religion must be solar and phallic in character. It is the wound of Amfortas which has removed the virtue frorn the temple. (Amfortas is the sym‐ bol of the Dying God.) Accordingly, to redeem the whole situation, to destroy death, to reconsecrate th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
…er". On the other hand, the unsaved went to the lake of fire and brimstone which burneth for ever and ever. Edward Crowley used to give away tracts to strangers, besides distributing them by thousands through the post; he was also constantly preaching to vast crowds, all over the country. It was, indeed, the only logical occupation for a humane man who believed that even the noblest and best of mankind were doomed to eternal punishment. One card --- a great favourite, as being peculiarly deadly --- was headed "Poor Anne's Last Words"; the gist …
1929 · PDF PAGE 439
…heled" their breach with antiquity by recognizing them. They replied that they relied on the forged document. He said that he would cut away the ground from under their feet by publishing the proofs that their charter was worthless. Then they said that they {696} knew as well as he did that the document was forged; but they didn't care, because they had induced the Prince of Wales to join them! 2. Several of the main rites of English masonry are not recognized by each other, and some of these are not even tolerated (that is, if a member of A jo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 238
… good their claim. It has been shown above that The Book of the Law does demonstrate the prime position of religion in the only possible way. The only possible argument, on the other side, is that the communication cannot have been made by a discarnate intelligence, because there are none such. That indeed constitutes the supreme importance of The Book of the Law. But there is no a priori reason for doubting the existence of such beings. We have long been acquainted with many discarnate forces. Especially in the last few years science has been …
1944 · PDF PAGE 24
…lement; it means a set of ideas; it summarises certain qualities or properties. It seems hardly possible to define these terms in such a way as to make their meaning clear to the student. He must discover for himself by constant practice what they mean to him. It does not even follow that he will arrive at the same ideas. This will not mean that one mind is right and the other wrong, because each one of us has his own universe all to himself, and it is not the same as anybody else’s universe. The moon that A. sees is not the moon that B., stand…
1944 · PDF PAGE 180
… onrush of the idea. In the Kerubic sign, the element has come to its full balance of power; and in the other signs the force is fading away. Thus, Aries represents the rush of fire, Lightning; Leo, its power, the Sun; and Sagittarius, the rainbow, its sublimation. Similar considerations apply to the other ele‐ ments. See the Attributions section: The Triplicities of the Zodiac.) In the Eight of Wands, fire is no longer conjoined with the ideas of combustion and de‐ struction. It represents energy in its most exalted and tenuous sense; this sug…
1904 · PDF PAGE 82
…M athers to the “Kabbalah Unveiled.” correct deductions.’ ‘Yes, y ou can, if only your logical methods are unsound. That’s the Christian way of getting truth.’ ‘True!’ replied the sage, ‘but precious little they get. Learn, O Mahabrahma (for I penetrate this disguise), that all existin things, even from thee unto this grain of sand, possess Three Characteristics. These are Mutability, Sorrow, and Unsubstantiality.’ “ ‘All right for the sand, but how about Me ? Why , the y define me as unchange- able.’ ‘You can define a quirk as being a two-side…
1906 · PDF PAGE 281
TIME 275 dreams !””—and a damned good way to look at death, by heaven ! Myst. Yes! But I meant that some dreams are more vivid than some waking states, even adult states hours long. You remember the ‘‘ Flying dream,” though I daresay you have not experienced it since childhood : it is part of your identity, ashape or defining idea of your mind: but you have forgotten the picnic at—-where you will. Scept. There is something to be thankful for in that. Then, there are incidents of sport Alyst. Mysteries of initiation —— Scept. Narrow escapes Myst…
1906 · PDF PAGE 248
…p thinking. For, needless to say, the universe, including the thinker, exists only by virtue of the thinker’s thought.! In yet one other way is magic a capital training ground for the Arahat. True symbols do really awake those macrocosmic forces of which they are the eidola, and it is possible in this manner very largely to in- crease the magical ‘‘ potential,” to borrow a term from electrical scrence. | Of course, there are bad and invalid pro- cesses, which tend rather to disperse or to excite the mind-stuff than to control it; these we must …
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
…oy's psychology at this period. It was probably determined by his admiration for his father, the big, strong, hearty leader of men, who swayed thousands by his eloquence. He sincerely wished to follow in those mighty footsteps and so strove to imitate the great man as best he might. Accordingly, he aimed at being the most devoted follower of Jesus in the school. He was not hypocritical in any sense. All this strikes one as absolutely natural; what is extraordinary is the sequel. A letter dating from his early school life at Cambridge: Dear Papa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…fection. It came natural to me to despise and reject utterly, without a second's hesitation or regret, anything soever that stood in the way of my purpose. Equally, I could hold that purpose itself as nothing in comparison with the greater purpose of the Order to which I was pledged. Early in 1900 I applied to the Second Order in London for the documents to which my initiation in Paris entitled me. They were refused in terms which made it clear that the London body was in
1906 · PDF PAGE 242
…vidence everywhere, even in our garbled and mutilated version of the Hebrew Scriptures, that Jehovah’s power was limited in all sorts of ways. At the Fall, for instance, Tetragrammaton Elohim has to summon his angels hastily to guard the Tree of Life, lest he should be proved a liar. For had it occurred to Adam to eat of that Tree before their transgression was discovered, or had the Serpent been aware of its properties, Adam would indeed have lived and not died. So that a mere acci- dent saved the remnants of the already be- smirched reputatio…
1944 · PDF PAGE 124
…y on silk, and repeated in varying MISSING TEXT? that the tearing asunder is a crushing together.) All the double phenomena are only two ways of looking at a single phenomenon; and the single phenomenon is Peace. There is no sense in my words or in my thoughts. “Faces half‐formed arose.” This is the meaning of that passage; they are attempts to interpret Chaos. But Chaos is Peace Cosmos is the War of the Rose and the Cross. That was a “half‐formed face” that I said then. All images are useless. Yea, as in a looking‐glass, so in thy mind, that i…