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Page 105 of 1151906 · PDF PAGE 237
…e. More, its con- sclousness seems ingrained in my very nature, perhaps through my having known this for many incarnations. I have never thought otherwise.” ‘““ Rise, Sir Abhavananda, I dub thee Arahat!” cried the Buddha, striking the neophyte gently on the back with the flat of his ear.t And he perceived. When the applause and praise and glory had a little faded, the Buddha, in that golden delight of sunset, explained these marvellous events. ‘‘ Thou, Abhavananda,” he said, “art the Perdu’ R Abu of my lengthy tale. The wicked Jehjaour has got …
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…ere five great religions which had defiled the purity of the Virgin of the World: and "he whom thou now hast" was materialism (or modern thought). Other scenes also I saw in His Life: and behold I also was crucified! Now did I go backwards ion time even unto Berashith, the Beginning, and was permitted to see marvellous things. First the Abyss of the Water: on which I, even I, brooded amid other {192} 1. This incident was once quoted by one of my critics as illustrative of the absurdity of Magick --- as if Magick were responsible for the irratio…
1906 · PDF PAGE 279
…the wonderfully suggestive work, misnamed fiction, of our greatest novelist, H. G. Wells. This man, the John Bunyan of modern scientific thought, has repeatedly attacked the problem, or at least indicated the lines on which a successful research might be prosecuted, in many of his wonderful tales. He has (I say it not to rob you of the honour of your discoveries, but in compliment, and I can imagine none higher) put his finger on the very spot whence all research must begin : the illusionary nature of the time-idea. But I will leave you to stud…
1919 · PDF PAGE 457
…r’s poetry we are obliged to notice her debt to Swinburne, yet we find it, on the whole, good.. The colour is very strong; the shades of thought are clear, and often subtle. . ‘The uninitiated may certainly recognise great strength of conviction in Miss Archer, even if they cannot or do not wish to appreciate it.”—The Poetry Review. “Several of these unpleasant phantasies are reprinted from the Equinox, and there is an in- troduction by Aleister Crowley, in which he says this book is the hell of sterile passion glowing in the heart of the hell …
1929 · PDF PAGE 408
…alf awake from misery, the storm still blew. We waited till nearly nine. The Bedouins told us that four miles on there was a village. We thought of coffee and made tracks. So off we went over the sopping desert and reached the "village" in an hour. There were palms and gardens --- and one deserted hovel, with no door. The roof, made of boughs weighted with big stones and made tight with mud, was half broken through. A giant stone hung imminent, half-way fallen. All day we waited for the rain to stop falling in the place "where it never fell". N…
1929 · PDF PAGE 542
…riety. It had hardly occurred to me to inquire why such poetry as that of Keats and myself was not the daily joy of Minnesota farmers. I thought it simply showed their baseness. I now understand that the bonds of brotherhood which make mankind a spiritual unity are everywhere identical, though their appearance varies so as to be unrecognizable to all but very few initiates. I have attained to understanding, I have made my magical model of society, and I await the moment when those who have chosen me to carry out their colossal conception summon…
1906 · PDF PAGE 219
…y and of pity, rebuked them not. But master ever of himself he abode alone, about and above. So saw he his virginity deflowered, and his thoughts were otherwhere. Now loosed they his body; he bade it leap the wall. The giant flower of ocean bloomed above him! He had fallen headlong into the great deep. As the green and crimson gloom disparted somewhat before his eyes, he was aware of a Beetle that steadily and earnestly moved across the floor of that Sea unutterable. Elim he followed; ‘‘for I wit well,” thought the Adept, “that he goeth not bac…
1929 · PDF PAGE 215
…imal minority, who, like Allan, really understood the machinery of the business. Nor did I agree that the Buddha was altogether right. I thought it a great mistake to interfere with physiological processes. I was perfectly aware that greed, lust and hatred were the enemies of peace; but I was also aware that forcing oneself to abstain from food, love and society could only result in diverting the natural appetites into abnormal channels. St. Anthony attributed an exaggerated importance to sex. I was convinced that the repression of natural inst…
1929 · PDF PAGE 335
… his task was admirably accomplished, and there are passages of astonishing sublimity, not only in the matter of language but in that of thought. His point of view was indeed more subtle and profound than he himself realized. I am sure that many passages of this book will stand among the greatest monuments of English prose extant. But he reached his high-water mark with "The Treasure House of Images". Formally, this is the most remarkable prose that has ever been written. Each chapter of the main part of the book contains thirty sections, and e…
1904 · PDF PAGE 78
… potency from the aby ss of matter. ‘Son’ cried the Accursèd One, ‘seven days of hate unmarred by passion milder, seven days without one thought of pity , these avail to call me forth.’ ‘Slay me my enemy !’ howled the wretch. But M ara trembled, ‘Enquire of Ganesha concernin him!’ faltered at last the fiend. “Jehjaour awoke. IV. “ ‘Yes !’ said Ganesha gloomily, ‘the young man has given me up altogether. He tells me I am as m ortal as he is , and he doesn’t mean to worry about me any more.’ ‘Alas !’ sighed the deceitful Jeh- jaour, who cared no …
1929 · PDF PAGE 226
…eeding profusely and going slowly. Again and again I fired, but he always got away. Nothing seemed to cripple him, though one would have thought that he must have been more hole than bull by this time. At last he turned at a small clearing. As I came out from the thick jungle, I saw him not ten yards away. He lowered his head to charge. My bullet struck him again in the Ajna Cakkra, if a bull has such a thing; anyway, in {377} 1. At that time headquarters of Evangelicalism. the middle of the forehead just above the eyes. This time he dropped. I…
1912 · PDF PAGE 426
…oetry we are obliged to notice her debt to Swinburne, yet we find it, on the whole, good. . . . The colour is very strong; the shades of thought are clear, and often subtle. . . . The uninitated may certainly recognise Qreat strength of conviction in Miss Archer, even if they cannot or do not wish to appreciate it.”—The Poetry Review, “Several of these unpleasant phantasies are reprinted from the Zguinox, and there is an introduction by Aleister Crowley, in which he says this book is the hell of sterile passion glowing in the heart of the hell …
1912 · PDF PAGE 426
…oetry we are obliged to notice her debt to Swinburne, yet we find it, on the whole, good. . . . The colour is very strong; the shades of thought are clear, and often subtle. . . . The uninitated may certainly recognise Qreat strength of conviction in Miss Archer, even if they cannot or do not wish to appreciate it.”—The Poetry Review, “Several of these unpleasant phantasies are reprinted from the Zguinox, and there is an introduction by Aleister Crowley, in which he says this book is the hell of sterile passion glowing in the heart of the hell …
1913 · PDF PAGE 598
…oetry we are obliged to notice her debt to Swinburne, yet we find it, on the whole, good. . . . The colour is very strong; the shades of thought are clear, and often subtle. . . . The uninitated may certainly recognise great strength of conviction in Miss Archer, even if they cannot or do not wish to appreciate it.”— Tye Poetry Review. «Several of these unpleasant phantasies are reprinted from the Zgzinox, and there is an introduction by Aleister Crowley, in which he says this book is the hell of sterile passion glowing in the heart of the hell…
1913 · PDF PAGE 598
…oetry we are obliged to notice her debt to Swinburne, yet we find it, on the whole, good. . . . The colour is very strong; the shades of thought are clear, and often subtle. . . . The uninitated may certainly recognise great strength of conviction in Miss Archer, even if they cannot or do not wish to appreciate it.”— Tye Poetry Review. «Several of these unpleasant phantasies are reprinted from the Zgzinox, and there is an introduction by Aleister Crowley, in which he says this book is the hell of sterile passion glowing in the heart of the hell…
1904 · PDF PAGE 81
…tion to motor-cars, with ease and affability. But far was it from Indra’s pious m ind to flirt with his distinguished guest ! Rather, he thought of the hollow nature of the Safe, the change of money and of position; the sorrow of the too confiding bankers, and above all the absence of an Ego in the Brothers Crawford. “While he was thus musing, Bhavani got fairly mad at him. The Spretæ Injuria Formæ gnawed her vitals with pangs unassuageable : so, shaking him roughly by the arm, she Put It To Him Straight. ‘O Madam !’ said Indra. “This part of t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 64
… call this verse “Chris- tian optimism ?” See Caird’s “Hegel.” Hegel knew how to defend himself, though. As Goethe wrote of him : “ They thought the master too Inclined to fuss and finick. The students’ anger grew To frenzy Paganinic.* They vowed they’d make him rue His work in Jena’s clinic. They came, the unholy crew, The mystic and the cynic : He had scoffed at God’s battue, The flood for mortal’s sin—Ic- thyosaurian Waterloo ! They eyed the sage askew ; They searched him through and through With violet rays actinic They asked him ‘Wer bist …
1904 · PDF PAGE 83
…rse. More, its consciousness seems ingrained in my very nature, perhaps through my having known this for many incarnations. I have never thought otherwise.” ”Rise, Sir Abhavananda, I dub thee Arahat!” cried the Buddha, striking the neophyte ently on the back with the flat of his ear.1 And he perceived. When the applause and praise and glory had a little faded, the Buddha, in that golden delight of sunset, explained these marvellous events. “Thou, Abhavananda,” he said, “art the Perdu’ R Abu of my lengthy tale. The wicked Jehjaour has got someth…
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…ried woman. She was still playing at Magick, as another might play at bridge. But her true life was dresses, dinners and dances; and her thought were taken up by her husband and her lover. (In hot countries, white men being relaxed by the climate, European women, over- stimulated for the same reason, almost inevitably practise polyandry.) And she had won the first prize at a fancy dress ball by appearing in her adept's robes and regalia! No hope here, then! Nay, nor elsewhere! I saw clearly enough that the Gods meant me to work out my own puzzl…
1906 · PDF PAGE 252
…ty, through endless growths of sun and planet and satellite, through all varieties of matter ; through infinite diversities of' life and thought, possibly, through modes of being of which we neither have a conception, nor are competent to form any, back to the indefinable latency from which they arose. Thus the most obvious attribute of the cosmos is its impermanence. It assumes the aspect not so much of a permanent entity as of a changeful process, in which naught endures save the flow of energy and the rational order which pervades it.” This …