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Page 107 of 1151929 · PDF PAGE 129
…ce, but in vain. On the other hand, when I reached Hong Kong, I recognized the place perfectly and picked out her house on the hillside, thought I had never seen so much as a photograph. These numerous practices were assigned to a regular schedule. Five different periods of the day were to be devoted to one or the other. On May 3rd I left for Honolulu on the Nippon Maru, arriving on the ninth. A strange destiny lay in ambush for me among the palms. The poetical side of me is annoyed to this day when I think of it. I ought to have followed the i…
1944 · PDF PAGE 22
…listic ideas. In the Hindu analysis of existence the Rishis (sages) postulate three qualities: Sat, the Essence of Be‐ ing itself; Chit, Thought, or Intellection; and Ananda (usually translated Bliss), the pleasure experienced by Being in the course of events. This ecstasy is evidently the exciting cause of the mobility of existence. It explains the assumption of imperfection on the part of Perfection. The Absolute would be Nothing, would remain in the condition of Nothingness; therefore, in order to be conscious of its possibilities and to enj…
1907 · PDF PAGE 250
…e western water lies a solar fire, 1. 214 O virgin! O my sister! Hear me, death! ill, 102 O voice of sightless magic, i. 103 O what pale thoughts like gum exude, ili, 12 O who shall overcome this earth, ii. 47 O world of moonlight, i. 205 PALE vapours lie like phantoms on the sea, i, 122 Paolo ignites, Francesca is consumed, iii. 120 Perfectly sad and perfectly resolved, iii. 114 Peintre, que ton amour inspire, i. 129 Pilgrim of the sun, be this thy scrip, ii. 121 Poor child, poor child, how are you? i. 62 Pray do not ask me where I stand, ii. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 270
…ugh we were able to use our limbs in the ordinary way. We communicated, sometimes by audible speech, sometimes by direct transmission of thought such as occurs every day in ordinary life, when one knows what a friend is going to say before he says it. One very curious phenomenon must be recorded. In the early days we had arranged special hours for our interviews by calculating the difference of time due to longitude. We now summoned each other by means of the astral bell. But on comparison of our records we discovered an astounding fact. Althou…
1906 · PDF PAGE 216
… Up, Guards, and at’em !/ Second, your facts are neatly put ; —Stay! In that mouth there lurks a foot ! One surgeon saw so many claps He thought: ‘‘ One-third per cent., perhaps, Of mortals ’scape its woes that knock us, And bilk the wily gonococcus.” So he is but a simple cynic Who takes the world to match his clinic ; And he assuredly may err Who, keeping cats, thinks birds have fur. You say: ‘‘ There's Berridge, Felkin, Mathers, Hysterics, epileptoids, blathers, Guttersnipe, psychopath, and mattoid, With ceremonial magic that toyed.” Granted…
1907 · PDF PAGE 132
…on the face of Aleister Crowley, that glory revealed to us by the genius of Captain 1. F. C. Fuller? Crowley has been reproached in some thoughtless or malicious quarters for his ignorance or tolerance of evil. But is this not because the holiness of his life and thought keeps him so close to his divine Master that he can only see good in all he gazes on? It is the eagle, ever steadfastly beholding the sun, that swoops down upon carrion, and thanks God for the meal. It is the urblind race of miserable men that turn fastidioust from wholesome an…
1929 · PDF PAGE 239
…Conquering Child. And again, Egyptology and psychology help us to understand what is implied, and what effect to expect, in the world of thought and action. Horus avenged his father Osiris. We know that the sun (indeed, every element of nature) does not suffer death. {399} The child is not merely a symbol of growth, but of complete moral independence and innocence. We may then expect the New Aeon to release mankind from its pretence of altruism, its obsession of fear and its consciousness of sin. It will possess no consciousness of the purpose …
1929 · PDF PAGE 287
…e made wretched and ashamed by the fact of selfconsciousness. I find by experience that this theory represents the facts very closely. I thought it necessary to give at least the bare skeleton, because the next months of our story compel me. It is no longer possible to interweave my three lives. My ordinary career becomes a welter of strange adventures, some of the most uncanny kind; yet the spiritual life is all-important and {469} absolutely simple. The one is linked to the other only by the fact that my adventures appear as if they were so m…
1944 · PDF PAGE 41
…ut the theory was that while anyone with a pair of eyes could see the pool, he could not see the nymph except by some accident. But they thought that a superior type of person, by dint of searching, study and experiment, might acquire this general power. A per‐ son still more advanced in this science could get into real connection with the superior, be‐ cause subtler, forms of Life. He could perhaps cause them to manifest themselves to him in material shape. A good deal of this rests upon the Platonic ideology, which maintained that any mate‐ r…
1904 · PDF PAGE 75
… Up, Guards, and at em! Second, your facts are neatly put ; —Stay ! In that mouth there lurks a foot ! One surgeon saw so many claps He thought : “One-third per cent., perhaps, Of mortals ’scape its woes that knock us, And bilk the wily gonococcus.” So he is but a simple cynic Who takes the world to match his clinic ; And he assuredly may err Who, keeping cats, think birds have fur. You say : “There’s Berridge, Felkin, Mathers, Hysteries, epileptoids, blathers, Guttersnipe, psychopath, and mattoid, With ceremonial magic that toyed.” Granted. A…
1929 · PDF PAGE 31
…thout a compass on a stormy sea. I cannot sink, for God will hold me up, etc. Again, I wrote a poem on the death of my Aunt Ada, which I thought good enough to include in my Songs of the Spirit, and is entirely irreproachable on the score of piety. It seems as if I possessed a theology of my own which was, to all intents and purposes, Christianity. My satanism did not interfere with it at all; I was trying to take the view that the Christianity of hypocrisy and cruelty was not true Christianity. I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God …
1929 · PDF PAGE 414
…and arrested. I went at once to the police court. Only one of his hundreds of devoted followers --- and they were extravagantly devoted, thought he was no less than Jesus Christ come back to earth, and allowed him to mock, bully and swindle them to the limit without losing faith in him --- had stuck to him in his misfortune. I went to him and affirmed my belief in his innocence (he had been "framed up" on a false charge) and offered to go bail for him and help him in every possible way. He was acquitted and we resumed our enmity. I am glad to s…
1904 · PDF PAGE 105
tycarb 98 it must sink down with the other forces. But by creating in thought an infinite Impersonal Personality, by defining it as such, all religions except the Buddhist and, as I believe, the Qabalistic, have sought to annihilate their own personality . The Buddhist aims directly at extinction; the Hindu denies and abolished his own finity by the creation of an absolute. As this cannot be done in reality , the process is illusory ; y et it is useful in the early s tages—as far, at any rate, as the fourth stage of Dhy ana, where the Buddha pl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 101
101 who follow this interest. Crowley's doctor prescribed heroin at a time in the 'teens when it was thought to be non-addictive! Crowley experienced the terrors of withdrawal, recounted in his "Liber XCIII", and ultimately died of respiratory infection in 1947, fifty years after the events described here. {180} Allan Bennett was tall, but his sickness had already produced a stoop. His head, crowned with a shock of wild black hair, was intensely noble; the brows, both wide and lofty, overhung indomitable piercing eyes. The face would have been …
1929 · PDF PAGE 340
… serve one right! In this way I passed the sentinels and mingled with the crowd. It was a wild tribe from Seoul. The women were present, thought they took no active part, and merely helped to keep the ring. The circle was some thirty feet across. Squatting on its edge were the usual musicians, playing as usual for dear life, while dancing and yelling were a number of men, armed with very small light axes of peculiar workmanship. They were evidently not the ordinary tools used in daily life, but manufactured for the purpose of the ceremony. {551…
1929 · PDF PAGE 358
…s what we wanted, but did not seem in the least happy about it. Further investigation, however, finally revealed that having money, they thought we must be brigands. We let it go at that. However, misunderstandings were not yet over. Three times on the road we were arrested as anarchists. The soldiers could not understand why anyone should want to go to Madrid except to kill Alphonso, and I suppose there {577} is something really to be said for this point of view. They gave us no real annoyance, our passports being as impressive as they were un…
1929 · PDF PAGE 219
…t the prose of the proceedings induced me to elaborate them by taking out {366} my dirk and kissing it, as a pledge of my faith. I never thought of kissing her! It then transpired that the sheriff had to have his little whack, after all, no less than an Armenian pimp. The marriage had to be registered in his office. We were completely at a loose end. I was to go back to Boleskine, of course, but there were some hours before the train started. She was to go back to Strathpeffer: but --- at this moment, Gerald Kelly burst into the room, his pale …
1929 · PDF PAGE 406
…for instance, writing in some article for the New York Vanity Fair, "Science offers her virgin head to the caress of Magick." The editor thought the word "virgin" a little risky and changed it to "maiden"!) Recovering from the first spasm of cynical appreciation, I saw that there was only one thing to be done in the interests of common decency and respect for Epstein. I detached the butterfly and put it under my waistcoat. The gate keeper did not notice how portly I had become. When I reached London, I put on evening dress and affixed the butte…
1906 · PDF PAGE 244
…eaning either; for change, to our minds, involves the idea of time. But the whole thing is inconceivable—to ratiocination, though not to thought. Note well too that if I say ‘© Absence-of-books is not on the _ table,” I cannot convert it into ‘‘ All books are on the table” but only to ‘‘some_ books are on the table.” The proposition is an ‘“*T” and not an ‘‘A” proposition. It is the Advaita blunder to make it so; and many a schoolboy has fed off the mantelpiece for less. There is yet another proof—the proof by exclusion. I have shown, and meta-…
1944 · PDF PAGE 50
…g. The Fool stirs within all of us at the return of Spring, and be cause we are a little bewil‐ dered, a little embarrassed, it has been thought a salutary custom to externalise the subcon‐ scious impulse by ceremonial means. It was a way of making confession easy. Of all these fes‐ tivals it may be said that they are representations in the simplest form, without introspection, of a perfectly natural phenomenon. In particular are to be noted the custom of the Easter Egg and the “Poisson d’avril”. (The Saviour Fish is discussed elsewhere in this…