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Page 121 of 1291907 · PDF PAGE 52
…ER (sotto voce). Ves! it’s all so blesséd and romantic, my dear, thank the Lord! They were both brought to Jesus on one night, Ascension Day, as the poor Pagan® bodies call it, through the ministration of Mr. Hogwash, 1 The lotus” position, in which Buddha is commonly represented as sitting. * By Plymouth Brethren all so-called Chris- tian festivals are (rightly, of course, from a historical standpoint) considered mere aliases of pagan [easts.—A, C,
1929 · PDF PAGE 482
…igned that silly letter. POSTSCRIPTUM: New Year, 1922; two years less two months since I wrote this paper. I "got it off my chest"; next day I had relapsed into my normal indifference to human imbecility. I never so much as troubled to revise it until yesterday. Then I rescued it from its dusty pigeon-hole simply because I heard from my representative in London that my supposed pro-Germanism was a bar to the recognition of my work in England. I care nothing for public opinion. I care nothing for fame or success. I am perfectly happy in my retir…
1929 · PDF PAGE 166
…dissatisfaction that springs from insecurity. Men can adapt themselves to pretty well any conditions, but when they do not know from one day to another whether some fundamental principle may not be abolished in the interests of progress, they no longer know where they are. They tend to adopt the principles of the man who flits from one place to another, grabbing portable property and dodging creditors and policemen. Civilization has become a hysterical scramble for momentary material advantage. Thrift is senseless when one is threatened with a …
1904 · PDF PAGE 5
…f gold :— The world is old, and I am strong— Awake, awake, O Sword of Song ! * The name of Siegfried’s sword. INTRODUCTION TO “ASCENSION DAY AND PENTECOST” NOT a word to introduce my introduction! Let me instantly launch the Boat of Dis- course on the Sea of Religious Speculation, in danger of the Rocks of Authority and the Quicksands of Private Interpretation, Scy lla and Charybdis. Here is the strait; what God shall save us from shipwreck? If we choose to understand the Christian (or any other) religion literally, we are at once over- whelmed…
1904 · PDF PAGE 101
…le though not infinite power. The Buddhists admit the existence of Maha-Brahma, but his power and knowledge are limited; and his agelong day must end. I find evidence every where, even in our garbled and mutilated version of the Hebrew Scriptures, that Jehovah’s power was limited in all sorts of way s. 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 Se…
1929 · PDF PAGE 422
…studies, however, tended to discourage me, for the fourfold reason above stated; and the proposed dictionary remains uncompleted to this day. During this summer I wrote no less than nineteen books of magical and 1. WEH Note: This was to be published as "Liber MCCLXIV", but despite being cited in "Magick in Theory and Practice" it was not published in Crowley's lifetime. The first publication came in the May 1979 e.v. issue of "The O.T.O. Newsletter", pp. 9 to 44. Unfortunately, when I edited the material together for that publication, I discove…
1904 · PDF PAGE 119
…, ’twill be a brave jest, my masters, to fling back on the materialists that terrible gibe of Voltaire’s at the m ystery- mongers of his day : “Ils nient ce qui est, et expliquent ce qui n’est pas.” NOTE TO SECTION VIII. Transfigured Realism. I will not waste my own time and that of my readers by any lengthy discussion of Mr. Herbert S pencer’s “ Transfigured Realis m.” I will not point out in greater detail how he proposes, by a chain of reasoning, to overthrow the conclusions he admits as being those of reason. But his statem ent that Idealis…
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
…iven by the outcome of my friendship with Pollitt. He was in residence during the Easter term of 1898 and we saw each other almost every day. In the vacation he accompanied me to Wastdale Head and used to walk with me over the fells, thought I could never persuade him to do any rock climbing. I was absorbed in The Cloud upon the Sanctuary, reading it again and again without being put off by the pharisaical, priggish and pithecanthropoid notes of its translator, Madame de Steiger. I appealed with the whole force of my will to the adepts of the H…
1929 · PDF PAGE 275
… did not suspect it, but the Bagh-i-Muattar is a symptom of supreme significance. I was on the brink of a totally new development. On Sunday, October 22nd, I had an astral interview with Soror F. which brought my up with a shock. She was accompanied by a golden hawk, in whom I later recognized one of the Secret Chiefs of the A.'. A.'.. The conversation turned on the subject of the Great Work. It was defined as the creation of a new universe. The interview left me spiritually prostrate. I had been perfectly happy with my programme, doing a littl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 6
…ent of his arrival. He bore on his body the three most important distinguishing marks of a Buddha. He was tongue-tied, and on the second day of his incarnation a surgeon cut the fraenum linguae. He had also the characteristic membrane, which necessitated an operation for phimosis some three lustres1 later. Lastly, he had upon the centre of his heart four hairs curling from left to right in the exact form of a Swastika2. He was baptised by the names of Edward Alexander, the latter being the surname of an old friend of this father's, deeply belov…
1919 · PDF PAGE 458
…e, and this allied to a com- mand of richly adorned language . . . have already assured for the author a prominent place amongst present-day poets... . An enthusiastic devotion to classic song. . . sustained metrical charm. From first to last the poet’s workis an important contribution to ‘the century's literature.” —Publishers’ Circular. “This [book] contains the answer to a very well-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing, the Great God Pan: Down in the re…
1944 · PDF PAGE 52
…emer or Phallus, the god through whose virtue man passes through the waters of death. The common name for this god, in southern Italy to‐day, and elsewhere, is Ii pesce. So, also, his female counterpart, Kteis, is rep‐ resented by the Vesica Piscis, the bladder of the fish, and this shape is continually exhibited in many church windows and in the episcopal ring.1 In the mythology of Yucatan it was the “old ones covered with feathers that came up out of the sea”. Some have seen in this tradition a reference to the fact that man is a marine anima…
1929 · PDF PAGE 412
…e to "recapture the first fine careless rapture". I accordingly jumped out of the train at El Kantara and wrote it that evening and next day. I had done little creative work during the walk. My Retirements, as a rule, especially when they involve physical hardship, keep me in intimate communion with the universe and rarely dispose me to write the result. I lie fallow and the expression of ecstasy follows my return to physical comfort and leisure. My last important work had been done at Marseilles on the way out, where we had to wait two days fo…
1912 · PDF PAGE 427
…ure, and this allied to a command of richly adorned language . . . have already assured for the author a prominent place amongst present-day poets. . . . Anenthusiastic devotion to classic song . . . sustained metrical charm, From first to last the poet's work is an important contribution to the century's literature.” —Publishers? Circular. “This [book] contains the answer to a very well-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the re…
1912 · PDF PAGE 427
…ure, and this allied to a command of richly adorned language . . . have already assured for the author a prominent place amongst present-day poets. . . . Anenthusiastic devotion to classic song . . . sustained metrical charm, From first to last the poet's work is an important contribution to the century's literature.” —Publishers? Circular. “This [book] contains the answer to a very well-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the re…
1929 · PDF PAGE 49
…rded later. There remains one remarkable incident of my climbing in Cumberland. I had been trying some new routes on the Pillar Rock one day, when I was {99} 1. See Collected Works, vol. 1, p. 127. caught by a terrific thunderstorm. Luckily for me, as it turned out, I was soaked to the skin in ten minutes. Any further serious climbing being impossible, I started back to Wastdale. In doing this one crosses the ridge of Pillar Mountain, along which runs a wire sheep fence. I crossed this; and, the storm increasing in violence, my attention was at…
1906 · PDF PAGE 275
… that they do not realise the inmmense K.. CHESTERTON * The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned them back in the day of battle.
1929 · PDF PAGE 44
…against his blows which he gave like a windmill on my skull. I remember acutely my surprise that they did not hurt me at all. During the day I worked at Eastbourne College in the chemical laboratory under Professor Hughes, and was privileged to assist that great man in several researches which go to prove that no two substances can combine in the absence of a third. It seems strange that I should have seen the bearings of this upon philosophy. One very significant incident is stamped upon my memory. I was spending an evening with the professor …
1913 · PDF PAGE 599
…ture, and this allied to a command ot richly adorned language . . . have already assured for the authora prominent place amongst present-day poets. . . . Anenthusiastic devotion to classic song . . . sustained metrical charm. From first to last the poet's work is an important contribution to the century’s literature.” —Publishers? Circular. “This [book] contains the answer to a very well-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the re…
1913 · PDF PAGE 599
…ture, and this allied to a command ot richly adorned language . . . have already assured for the authora prominent place amongst present-day poets. . . . Anenthusiastic devotion to classic song . . . sustained metrical charm. From first to last the poet's work is an important contribution to the century’s literature.” —Publishers? Circular. “This [book] contains the answer to a very well-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the re…