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Page 119 of 1231944 · PDF PAGE 123
…is an intolerable an‐ guish; yet it is the cry of their rapture, so that every pain, and every curse, and every be‐ reavement, and every death of everything in the whole universe, is but one little gust of wind in that tempest‐scream of ecstasy.1 And an Angel speaks: “Behold, this vision is utterly beyond thine understanding. Yet shalt thou endeavour to unite thyself with the dreadful marriage‐bed.” So I am torn asunder, nerve from nerve and vein from vein, and more intimately—cell from cell, molecule from molecule, and atom from atom, and at t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 378
…ry long time. These standards were set by imperial edict, and when originally propagated had penalties for violation up to and including death by torture. In plain words, when the Engineer demanded a change from the official standard, he coerced a violation of the law. The contractor attempted to explain by saying that the size of the bricks was a matter of ancient imperial law = "from the Jade Emperor, or spirit of the past Emperors, in Heaven". 2. WEH Note: Possibly for the same reasons as the Chinese brick of the previous note. Most countrie…
1907 · PDF PAGE 250
…f the sea, i. 79 Over a sea like stainéd glass, ii, 111 Over the 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 c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 270
…a week later accepted an invitation from the Maharaja of Moharbhanj to shoot big game in his province. I was very sad at heart about the death of my friends, but with regard to the mountain I was in excellent spirits. I had demonstrated beyond doubt the existence of an easy way up. I was sure of being able to establish a main camp within striking distance of the summit, and I had familiarized myself with all the vagaries of the weather and the snow. Cut short as the expedition had been, at its first leap, the actual attainment had not been insi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 295
…it --- whatever terms of abuse chance to be in fashion. The abolition of slavery, humane treatment of the insane, the restriction of the death penalty to serious offences, and of indiscriminate flogging, the admission of Jews, Catholics, Dissenters and women as citizens, the introduction of the use of chloroform and antiseptics, the application of stem to travel, and of mechanical principles to such arts as spinning and printing, the systematic study of nature, the extension of the term poetry to metres other than the heroic, the recognition of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 127
… describes the visit of Orpheus to Hades; and contains the invocations of the necessary deities, with their replies. Book IV relates the death of Orpheus. Unwieldy as the poem is, it contains some of my best lyrics. Further, even conceding that the entire effort was a fiasco, it must be admitted that the task of writing it was an excellent discipline; it taught me a great deal about technique and its very awkwardness warned me what to avoid. On May 1st I find in my diary the following words: "I solemnly began anew the operations of the Great Wo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 299
… glowing patch of cultivated soil. The approach to Tali itself inspires the stranger with a certain awe, for life is seen wrestling with death in a supreme spasm. The pullulating towers and temples of the town seem literally to quake amid the rotten and restless ruins with which they are interspersed. And thereby hangs a tale. During eighteen years the province of Yunnan had been the theatre of civil war. Tali was the greatest stronghold of the Mohammedans, their opponents being (more or less) Mahayana Buddhists. There was not really, I fancy, …
1906 · PDF PAGE 216
…pine Journal’s border Of black grow broader, broader, broader, Until the Editor himself Falls from some broad and easy shelf, And in his death the Journal dies. Ah ! bombast, footle, simple lies ! Where would you then appear in type? The Poet ‘‘ retires up.” Hts attitude undig- nified, his pleasure momentary, the after results quite disproportionate. He contem- plates his end. Therefore poor Crowley lights his pipe, Maintains: ‘‘ The small-shot kills the snipe, But spares the tiger; goes on joking, And goes on smirking, on invoking, On climbing…
1929 · PDF PAGE 239
…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 of its own existence. It will not be possible to persuade it that it should submit to incomprehensible standards; it will su…
1904 · PDF PAGE 75
…pine Journal’s border Of black grow broader, broader, broader, Until the Editor himself Falls from some broad and easy shelf, And in his death the Journal dies. Ah ! bombast, footle, simple lies ! Where would you then appear in type ? The Poet retires up. His attitude undig- nified, his pleasure momentary, the after results quite disproportionate. He contem- plates his end. Therefore poor Crowley lights his pie, Maintains : “The small-shot kills the snip, But spares the tiger ;” goes on joking, And goes on smirking, on invoking, On climbing, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 31
…lind man on a helmless ship Without 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 …
1929 · PDF PAGE 87
…of us, including Eckenstein and myself, were sleeping in the barn. One of Eckenstein's greatest friends was Mrs. Bryant, whose beautiful death between Chamonix and Montanvers in 1922 was the crown of a noble life. She had brought her niece, Miss Nichols, who to intrepidity on rocks added playfulness in less austere surroundings. I formally accuse her of putting a kitten under Eckenstein's pillow in the barn while we were in the smoking- room after dinner. If it had been a cobra Eckenstein could not have been more upset! He had also an idiosyncr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 433
…develop her faculty to perfection. He gets Bright's disease and dies, while she records what he thinks during delirium, coma and finally death. I managed to make the story sound fairly plausible and let myself go magnificently in the matter of horror. I read it aloud to a house party on Christmas Eve; in the morning they all looked as if they had not recovered from a long and dangerous illness. I found myself extremely disliked! Encouraged by this, I decided to offer the story to the English Review; but (for various reasons) sent it in as from …
1929 · PDF PAGE 177
…mia in this question, there is an observation to make. Crowley speculated elsewhere that the human spirit might attach to the body after death in just such a manner as the vital principle in food. This led him to recommend cremation as a remedy for prolonged post- mortum agony. 37 From the hot spring one goes gently along the valley to Askole. The whole march is short, easy and delightful. It only occupied five hours, of which at least three were spent at the rope bridge and in the pool. The entire journey had been extraordinarily favourable. W…
1907 · PDF PAGE 230
…s down to the pool, musing, as boys will; is it strange that a nymph should reward him, sometimes even with wine from the purple vats of death? Poor dullards! in your zeal to extinguish the light upon our altars you have had to drench your own with the bitter waters of test of faith to utter either a lie or a jest, this with reverence, and that with conviction, Achieve it; the one becomes the truth, the other a formula of power. Hence the real value of the Egyptian ritual by which the theurgist identified himself with the power he invoked. Mode…
1929 · PDF PAGE 33
…omposed of a few of the old guard, my father the last of them all, and the meanest crew of canaille that ever wriggled. With my father's death the small schisms which had hitherto lopped off a few members every year or two were altogether surpassed by the great Raven heresy, which split the body into two nearly equal halves and extinguished the last sparks of its importance.
1929 · PDF PAGE 532
…ent how I had to invoke {839} the deep-seated habit of years to get courage to drag myself to my diary. I felt like a soldier wounded to death, scrawling in his own blood the horrifyingly disastrous information which he has lost his life in seeking. 5:00 p.m. The meditation of this afternoon resulted in an initiation so stupendous that I dare not hint at its Word. It is the supreme secret of a Magus, and its is so awful that I tremble even now --- two hours later and more --- 2:20 p.m. was the time --- as I write concerning it. In a single inst…
1904 · PDF PAGE 110
…re here to include such a phenomenon as the tendency of two molecules of hy drogen and chlorine to com bine under certain conditions. If death be painful to m e, it is presum ably so to a m olecule ; if we represent one opera- tion as pleasant, the converse is presumably painful. Though I am not conscious of the individual pain of the countless deaths in- volved in this my act of writin, it m ay be there. And what I call “ fatigue” may be the echo in my central consciousness of the 1 See Prof. Rhys Davids on the “Jataka.”
1907 · PDF PAGE 133
…l in the Mustagh ‘Tagh. Orpheus slept. Book IV. was begun in Cairo on my way to England, and bears marks of confirmed Buddhism up to the death of Orpheus. 3ut the more I saw of Buddhism the less I liked it, and the first part of Book IV. is flatly contradicted by its climax. This is a pitiable sort of confession for a man to make ! What was I to do? I could not rewrite the whole in order to give it a philosophic unity. Gerald Kelly forcibly prevented me from throwing it into the river at Marlotte, though he admitted quite frankly that he could …
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
…nce of the spirit of life, combined to make me detest my mother's family. There was, incidentally, a grave complication, for my father's death had increased the religious bigotry of my mother very greatly; and although she was so fond of her family, she was bound to regard them as very doubtful candidates for heaven. This attitude was naturally inexplicable to a child of such tender years; and the effect on me was to develop an almost petulant impatience with the whole question of religion. My Aunt Ada was my mother's favourite sister; yet at h…