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Page 104 of 1591909 · PDF PAGE 308
…y out of you, and the less you consider their names the better; for name-chang- ing only creates unnecessary confusion and is a waste of time. Let us therefore call the world a series of existences and have done with it, for it does not matter a jot what we mean by it so long as we work; very well then; Science is a part of this series, and so is Magic, and so are cows and angels, and so are landscapes, and so are visions ; and the difference between these existences is the difference which lies between a cheesemonger and a poet, between a blin…
1909 · PDF PAGE 367
…rd, “ Scat,” and we started at a terrific speed and were soon off on the road. I began to feel uneasy; but prudence stopped my speech in time, and the man next to me began to titter. Then he spoke; and though he may have uttered different words, this is what I understood: “You are trying to deceive us. I always notice such an attempt, even when it has only reached its mental stage. Indeed, I cannot help noticing it. No doubt you have heard of me; Iam ¢he-man-whose-nose-sings-at-will, That power has been granted me ever since I felt a strong imp…
1909 · PDF PAGE 308
…y out of you, and the less you consider their names the better; for name-chang- ing only creates unnecessary confusion and is a waste of time. Let us therefore call the world a series of existences and have done with it, for it does not matter a jot what we mean by it so long as we work; very well then; Science is a part of this series, and so is Magic, and so are cows and angels, and so are landscapes, and so are visions ; and the difference between these existences is the difference which lies between a cheesemonger and a poet, between a blin…
1909 · PDF PAGE 367
…rd, “ Scat,” and we started at a terrific speed and were soon off on the road. I began to feel uneasy; but prudence stopped my speech in time, and the man next to me began to titter. Then he spoke; and though he may have uttered different words, this is what I understood: “You are trying to deceive us. I always notice such an attempt, even when it has only reached its mental stage. Indeed, I cannot help noticing it. No doubt you have heard of me; Iam ¢he-man-whose-nose-sings-at-will, That power has been granted me ever since I felt a strong imp…
1929 · PDF PAGE 46
…he putre- factive changes in the dead man's brain were setting in motion every memory of his, and smearing them with hell's own paint. I timed one thought: despite its myriad million de- tails, each one clear, vivid and prolonged, it occupied but three seconds of earthly time. I considered the incalculable array of the thoughts in his well-furnished mind; I saw that thousands of years would not exhaust them. But, perhaps, when the brain was destroyed beyond recognition of its component parts We have always casually assumed that conscious- nes…
1929 · PDF PAGE 131
…f sin, would be to me no more than a symbol in whose particular virtue my love could fins the bread and wine of its universal eucharist. Time has confirmed this claim: I have loved many women and been loved. But I have never wavered from my Work; and always a moment has come when the woman had to choose between comradeship and catastrophe. For in truth, there was no Aleister Crowley to love; there was only a Word for the utterance of which a human form had been fashioned. So the foolish virgins, finding that love and vanity could not live toget…
1907 · PDF PAGE 229
…nching him to the skin, whistling through his very bones, scaring him almost to death with a flash of lightning, and so on. When he gets time to think, he thinks just that. In a church all is too clearly the work of man: in the matter of man’s comfort man’s devices are so obviously superior to God’s: so that we compare hats and languidly discuss the preacher. Religion is alive in Wales, because people have to walk miles to chapel. 1 Tet me run wild for once, I beg; I am tired of emulating Mr. Storer Clouston’'s Sir Julian Wallingford, ‘‘ whose …
1912 · PDF PAGE 432
… the great religions of the world ; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time published ; also the complete secret magical correspondence of the G.*. D.*. and R. R.et A. C. It forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. For the first time Western and Qabalistic symbols have been harmonised with those of Iinduism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Taoism, etc. By a glance at the Tables, anybody conversant with …
1912 · PDF PAGE 432
… the great religions of the world ; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicrucians, are now for the first time published ; also the complete secret magical correspondence of the G.*. D.*. and R. R.et A. C. It forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. For the first time Western and Qabalistic symbols have been harmonised with those of Iinduism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Taoism, etc. By a glance at the Tables, anybody conversant with …
1905 · PDF PAGE 147
…rand, The likeness of our love, the clasp of hand in hand. And men who come behind us yet unborn, Nor dimly guessed at down the brook of time, Shall celebrate the brave undying morn When the free nations put aside their scorn For friendship, rock no sundering surge may climb, the sea, Flushed with fresh victory, Lands royal, leal, and great, vast, beautiful, and free. Our children’s children shall unsheathe the sword Against the envy of some lyrant power : The leader of your people and our lord Shall join to wrest from slavery abhorred Some oth…
1907 · PDF PAGE 293
…from the specu lative understanding to more active powers which > 3 1 Eleusis , vol . iii, p . 220 . 2 Whittling shoe soles seems at one time to have been a special calling for mystics , besides Jacob Boehme , there was George Fox , and John Bunyan ; also Eliphas Lévi was the son of a shoemaker . It might be noted here that in India all leather workers are considered unclean , and in caste rank with sweepers and pork butchers . 3 Eleusis , vol . iii, p . 228. After the colossal fable of Edipus we find the gracious poem of Psyche , which was cer…
1909 · PDF PAGE 341
…e place of Illumination, and failure that of success. Between the grades 4° = 7° and 5° = 6° seven months had to elapse, and during this time we find P. busily travelling the British Isles searching for a suitable house wherein to perform the Operation of Abramelin the Mage, which ever since the previous autumn had engaged his attention. In the month of May he had met D. D.C. F.7° = 4°, official head of the Order of the Golden Dawn. But he was still bent on carrying out the Operation of Abramelin, and journeyed to and fro all over the country e…
1909 · PDF PAGE 390
…soon found out the truth. Cut in the most precious wood of the island, a cover was made of my shape, and prepared to take my place every time my various duties should call me away. Acting upon the advice of my wives, I had the coffin hidden from sight; and only once a month, when the moon breaks up with her thinnest crescent, are the natives admitted to the contemplation of its contents. Before I take again to the main road of my history, which I shall neither leave again or follow further than necessary, I must give a word of praise to my wive…
1909 · PDF PAGE 341
…e place of Illumination, and failure that of success. Between the grades 4° = 7° and 5° = 6° seven months had to elapse, and during this time we find P. busily travelling the British Isles searching for a suitable house wherein to perform the Operation of Abramelin the Mage, which ever since the previous autumn had engaged his attention. In the month of May he had met D. D.C. F.7° = 4°, official head of the Order of the Golden Dawn. But he was still bent on carrying out the Operation of Abramelin, and journeyed to and fro all over the country e…
1909 · PDF PAGE 390
…soon found out the truth. Cut in the most precious wood of the island, a cover was made of my shape, and prepared to take my place every time my various duties should call me away. Acting upon the advice of my wives, I had the coffin hidden from sight; and only once a month, when the moon breaks up with her thinnest crescent, are the natives admitted to the contemplation of its contents. Before I take again to the main road of my history, which I shall neither leave again or follow further than necessary, I must give a word of praise to my wive…
1929 · PDF PAGE 86
…demonstration of how the accumulation and consequence of large numbers of apparently disconnected facts have culminated in bringing "the time and the place, and the loved one all together". Eckenstein's parents had escaped from Germany in '48, or thereabouts, as political exiles, or so I imagine; I do not remember any details. But he was educated at Bonn and knew Bloody Bill intimately. This luckless despot {158} was at that time a young man of extraordinary promise, taking himself with the utmost seriousness as realizing the gigantic responsib…
1929 · PDF PAGE 331
…ends to disappear; the supreme doubt is more positive than the more limited assertion. "The Psychology of Hashish" pleases me more every time I read it. It contains such a wealth of knowledge, it shows such profundity of thought, that I find myself today still wondering how I ever wrote it. I find in it ideas which I am hardly aware that I possess today; how I could have thought {537} thus at this elementary stage of my career, and written it all down in a single day, is bewildering. It is completely free from any blemishes of the old type. The…
1929 · PDF PAGE 339
… by making excursions after dark into the suburbs and courting all adventures that might come my way. I had in fact a perfectly gorgeous time. But poor Coke would not enter into the spirit of the East --- in which we humorously include a country whose name (Morocco, Al'Maghrabi) means west and whose most easterly point is in the longitude of Oxford. He was homesick for the dull uniformity of family life. That is, I believe, the heart of England's horror. Frank Harris has described English vices as "Adultery with home comforts". The average Engl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 345
… wealth of expression, and my power of bringing together the most incongruous ideas so as to enrich my matter to the utmost. At the same time, I succeeded in reaching the greatest height of spiritual enthusiasm, human indignation, and demoniac satire. I sound the gamut of every possibility of emotion from innocent faith and enthusiasm to experienced cynicism. {558} 62 Beside all these activities of my own, I came into a new world. My Operation of the Sacred Magick was not sterile. After returning from Morocco, the spirit came upon me and I wrot…
1929 · PDF PAGE 560
…s the blarney stone. The English mind is accordingly shocked. It is so fixed in the point of politeness to refuse reality. For the first time in my life, Paris disappointed me. All the old enchantments had somehow vanished. I felt that my work lay elsewhere. London called to me. It was quite unreasonable. I had no motive for going. I had no means to go. Uneasy and undecided I got through the days as best I could. {884} I decided to seek a solitude favourable for concentration at Hardelot, near Boulogne, in a delightful old inn where I had staye…