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Page 121 of 1591922 · PDF PAGE 73
…s Hinton, who invented the fourth dimension. Pretty bright chap, he was, but Hinton thought, on the most ordinary subjects, at least six times as fast as he did, and when it came to Hinton’s explaining himself, he simply couldn’t do it. That’s the great trouble when a new thinker comes along. They all moan that they can’t understand him ; the fact annoys them very much ; and ten to one they persecute him and call him an Atheist or a Degenerate or a Pro-German or a Bolshevik, or whatever the favourite term of abuse happens to be at the time. Wel…
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
"I'm always in at tea-time," said Lisa suddenly to Cyril. He simpered over her hand. Before they realized it, he had bowed himself out of the room. The three women looked at each other. Suddenly Lavinia King began to laugh. It was a harsh, unnatural performance: and for some reason her friend took it amiss. She went tempestuously into her bedroom, and banged the door behind her. Lavinia, almost equally cross, went into the opposite room and called her maid. In half-an-hour she was asleep. In the morning she went in to see her friend. She found …
1954 · PDF PAGE 257
… worse than wrong unless it derives from striking the balance between two very distant opposites. One of the worst perils of the present time is that ,
1954 · PDF PAGE 333
…ntial mechanical concord whose final law is inertia. And in these meditations let him avoid as if it were the plague any speculations sentimental or fantastic . Second Method-The Practice Proper. Having then perfected in his mind these conceptions, let him apply them to his own career, forging the links of memory into the chain of necessity. And let this be his final question: To what purpose am I fitted? Of what service can my being prove to the Brothers of the A:. A:. if I cross the Abyss and am admitted to the City of the Pyramids? Now that …
1929 · PDF PAGE 187
…nable to move his upper jaw, I had been annoyed by reading somewhere that it was impossible to find a rime to "silver". I spent my spare time in thinking up all the most impossible words in the language, finding rimes for them --- good rimes, not mere assonances --- and introducing them into "Ascension Day" and "Pentecost". In that poem will therefore be found rimes for refuge, reverence, country, virgin, courtesan, Euripides, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Aischulos, Sophocles, ARistobulos, Alcibiades, fortress, unfashionable, sandwich, perorate, si…
1904 · PDF PAGE 42
that you see no moral difference between the em- ployment of a horse and a motor car would, at a time when your services were less necessary than at present, expose you to the gravest reprimand from the Censor of Plays, or possibly the London County Council, while I myself as a scientist should feel obliged to remind you that in the pre- sent state of our knowledge we are not acquainted with any means by which the motor car is able to reproduce its species. So he spoke, while I la- boured at the foaming oyster-catcher before me. I was now it …
1910 · PDF PAGE 183
…arrived at Madura, and from there he journeyed to Calcutta. At this city he remained for about a month, during almost the whole of which time he suffered from sickness and fever. He however records one interesting incident, which took place during an early morning walk whilst he was in deep meditation: “Whilst in this meditation, a kind of inverted Manichaeism seemed to develop and take possession of it, Nature appearing as a great evil and fatal force, unwittingly developing within * This is a mere thought-form induced by misunderstanding the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 183
…arrived at Madura, and from there he journeyed to Calcutta. At this city he remained for about a month, during almost the whole of which time he suffered from sickness and fever. He however records one interesting incident, which took place during an early morning walk whilst he was in deep meditation: “Whilst in this meditation, a kind of inverted Manichaeism seemed to develop and take possession of it, Nature appearing as a great evil and fatal force, unwittingly developing within * This is a mere thought-form induced by misunderstanding the …
1919 · PDF PAGE 164
…ned the following passage, which is important, in the light of later events: “We wish our Body to be a Body of Servants of Human- ity. A time will come when you will obtain the experience of the 14th Athyr. You will become a Master of the Temple. That experience must be followed by that of the 13th Athyr, in which, the Master, wholly casting aside all ideas of per- sonal attainment, busies himself exclusively with the care of others.” The year 1913 was an important one for Frater V.I.O. in many ways. For one thing, it was during this period tha…
1922 · PDF PAGE 125
…at,” she said. “If we could only help you spot this swine!” “You bet I will,” said Feccles heartily,.and we all shook hands on it. “‘Any time anything happens where you could be useful, I'll tell you what to do. But of course you'll have to remember the rules of the service—absolute silence and obedience. And you stand or fall on your own feet, and if the umpire says ‘out,’ you’re out, and nobody’s going to pick up the pieces.” This honeymoon was certainly coming out in the most wonderful way. We had left the cinema people at the post. Here we …
1930 · PDF PAGE 78
…hands (drawn back to the side of the eyes) shoot out, so that you are standing in the typical position of the God Horus, and at the same time imagine the Name as rushing up and through the body, while you breathe it out through the nostrils with the air which has been till then retained in the lungs. Ail this must be done with ail the force of which you are capable. (e) Then withdraw the left foot, and place the right forefinger I 2 I* This injunction does not apply to gods like Phthah or Harpocrates whose natures do not accord with this gestur…
1930 · PDF PAGE 108
… simulacrum of the results of the proper practices and thereby enheartening the Zelator. 16. Kleventh practice. — Let the Zelator at any time during the practices, especially during the periods of Kumbhakarn, throw his will utterly towards his Holy Guardian Angel, directing his eyes inward and upward, and turning back his tongue as if to swallow it. 1. Note that in the early stages of concentration of the mind, such annoyances become negligible. 408 —
1954 · PDF PAGE 323
…They also will the means. I shall do all that is possible to me by buying the house; I shall leave it to Them to do Their share when the time comes. This "Act of Truth" is already a Magical Formula of infallible puissance; the man who is capable of so thinking and acting is far more likely to get what he wanted from the Sacrifice-when at long last the Camel appears on the premises-than he who, having ample means to carry out the whole Operation without risk of failure, goes through the ceremony without ever having experienced a moment's anxiety…
1996 · PDF PAGE 174
…h of maidenhood to suffer sickness, weakness, danger of death, choosing to live the life of a cow—that so Mankind might sail the seas of time. She knew that man wanted nothing of her but service of his base appetites; in his true manhood-life she had nor part nor lot; and all her wage was his careless contempt.
1929 · PDF PAGE 50
…rmance and said that I was wie ein Führer." A year before the compliment would have persuaded me that I had died and gone to heaven, but time had changed all that. I still clung pathetically to Badminton; I had merely reached the stage of praying pathetically to meet the good guides described in the book. I was still obsessed by the idea that it was suicidal to cross snow-covered glaciers without a rope. So I took a porter: he was quite willing to obey my orders implicitly, since I was regarded as a Wunderkind. We went up the Jungfrau by the Sc…
1929 · PDF PAGE 97
…inox; but the story is so lengthy and complex that it would require a volume to itself. Briefly, however, the facts are as follows: Some time in the 'seventies or 'eighties, a cipher manuscript was found on a bookstall by a Dr. Woodman, a colleague in magical study of Dr. W. Wynn Westcott. It was beyond their powers to decipher it, though Mrs. Emery (Miss. Florence Farr) told me that a child could have done so. They called in a man named Samuel Liddell Mathers, a scholar and Magician of considerable eminence. The manuscript yielded to his scrut…
1904 · PDF PAGE 61
…f damming the damage of damned deaths fell flood. Indeed for a week or so I did more than this. The patient actually gained weight. But time tells on the strongest. In the second week I kept barely level : in the third he steadily lost ground : in the fourth he fell to pieces under me : in the fifth I sedulously and conscien- tiously buggered the pieces one by one : but it was no good. Steven Jimson was (in the immortal word of Poe) a nearly liquid mass of loathsome, of de- testable putrescence. Do not think for a moment that my affection was …
1910 · PDF PAGE 128
…o a table, but cannot remember whether I accom- plished the act or not. I said “Ave Soror” aloud (and I think audibly) and remained some time.* This astral projection is an operation of Chokmah; for the Chiah must vivify the Nephesch shell. After returning P. records that on his journey back he saw “ his Magical Mirror of the Universe very clearly in its colours.” Towards the end of April P. drew up for himself the fol- lowing daily Task: (1) To work through the first five of the seven mental operations. (2) The assumption of God forms.t (3) To…
1910 · PDF PAGE 128
…o a table, but cannot remember whether I accom- plished the act or not. I said “Ave Soror” aloud (and I think audibly) and remained some time.* This astral projection is an operation of Chokmah; for the Chiah must vivify the Nephesch shell. After returning P. records that on his journey back he saw “ his Magical Mirror of the Universe very clearly in its colours.” Towards the end of April P. drew up for himself the fol- lowing daily Task: (1) To work through the first five of the seven mental operations. (2) The assumption of God forms.t (3) To…
1996 · PDF PAGE 117
…g Because, then Will stops & does nought. Commentary: There is no “reason” why a Star should con tinue in its orbit. Let her rip! Every time the conscious acts, it interferes with the Subconscious, which is Hadit. It is the voice of man, and not of a God. Any man who “listens to reason” ceases to be revolutionary. The newspapers are Past Masters in the Lodge of Sophistry Number 333. They can always prove to you that it is necessary, and patriotic, and all the rest of it, that you should suffer intolerable wrongs.