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Page 122 of 1291929 · PDF PAGE 235
… amending them. She emphatically refused to allow a single detail to be altered. She promised success (whatever that might mean) on Saturday or Sunday. If I had any aspiration left at all, it was to attain Samadhi (which I had not yet ever done). She promised that I should do so. I agreed to carry out her instructions, avowedly in order to show her that nothing could happen if you broke all the rules. On some day before March 23rd, Ouarda identified the particular god with whom she was in communication from a stele in the Boulak Museum, which w…
1944 · PDF PAGE 123
…they cry: Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, that art not shaken in the earthquakes, and in the thunders! The end of things is come upon us; the day of Be‐with‐us is at hand! For he hath created the Universe, and overthrown it, that he might take his pleasure thereupon. And now, in the midst of the Aethyr, I behold that god. He hath a thousand arms, and in each hand is a weapon of terrible strength. His face is more terrible than the storm, and from his eyes flash lightnings of intolerable brilliance. From his mouth run seas of blood. Upon his head is …
1929 · PDF PAGE 378
…t him to go to bed. He was a good deal scared about the police, in case he had killed the man. We watched the papers anxiously. The next day a paragraph appeared. Mysterious midnight assault near Hyde Part. Dr. Herpes-Zoster1, a prominent physician of Clyster Street, was assaulted brutally, and battered by a thug at the door of 606 Mercury Mansions, Iodine Street, Hyde Park, about one o'clock this morning. He was discovered unconscious by the policemen on the beat and taken to Knocks Hospital, where he was found to be suffering from numerous co…
1904 · PDF PAGE 99
tycarb 92 joss of Genesis to the intangible, but self- contradictory spectre of to-day. But if G be infinite, the other forces can have no possible effect on it. As Whewell says, in the strange accident by which he anticipates the m etre of In Memoriam: “No force on earth, however great, can s tretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.” The definition of God as infinite therefore denies man implicitly; while if he be finite, there is an end of the usual Christian reasons for worship, though I daresay …
1907 · PDF PAGE 135
…[Follows a long excursus on Daniel X.] . . . The ever-present sense of God in the mind of the ct leads us to the prayerful hope that one day he may be enlightened . . . [More a ut Daniel.] . . . We congratulate Captain Fuller upon his marvellous feeling for the unseen. We feel that he is very near to a complete understanding of prophetic truth. [Excursus on the “ Little Horn.”] The QUARTERLY COURIER says: In one of Mr. Aleister Crowley's vilest books—a book the horrid blasphemy of whose title we must be excused from quoting—the poet —save the m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 387
…ter of the Koran: Qol: hua allahu achad: alahu assmad: lam yalid: walam yulad: ya lam yakun lahu kufwan achad a thousand and one times a day during the march, prostrating myself after {619} each repetition. The physical effort of this exercise beneath the blazing sun as I marched, mile after mile, across the dusty, stony, glaring stretches of sterile solitude was very severe; but the exhaustion of my body and the pain of my mutinous mind as I thrashed it into submission with the lash of the mantra, prepared me for the moment of invoking the Aet…
1929 · PDF PAGE 270
…imbs 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. Although we agreed about the charac…
1929 · PDF PAGE 295
… which are really quite harmless and natural. They persuade themselves that everything {482} which their grandmothers would not do in Sunday School must be resented with the utmost rigour. This attitude is the root of at least ninetenths of the trouble about "foreign devils". The only unpleasantness between local natives and alleged whites which came under my notice during this journey was when some travelling missionary, instead of attending to his own affairs, took it upon himself to insult (in wretchedly and comically illiterate Chinese) som…
1929 · PDF PAGE 348
…er, and of himself. The first task was to get rid, as far as possible, of his physical defects, which turned out to be very serious. One day during our walk through Spain, we came upon a waterfall, and, the weather being oppressively hot, we decided to take a dip. In this way I discovered that he was suffering from varicocele very badly indeed and as soon as we got to England I sent him to my doctor, who advised an operation, which was duly performed. He had also pyorrhea so badly that my dentist said that if he had delayed the visit three week…
1929 · PDF PAGE 168
… if it contained half a dozen matches which lit without argument. When we got to the glacier, we sued to spend much of our time on sunny days trying to dry them on convenient rocks. The general bandobast of the expedition was open to a good deal of criticism. One of Eckenstein's few failings was his faith in professorial science. Because the German soldier thrives on Erbs-suppe and the British on "Bovril bacon rations", he expected us to do the same, with the result that much of our provisions was quite uneatable. The general plan was to pack b…
1907 · PDF PAGE 132
…EEKBR says: Years ago, the saintly Novalis called Baruch de Spinoza “ that God-intoxicated Man.” What would he have said had he lived to-day, and looked upon 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 beh…
1929 · PDF PAGE 87
… after dinner. If it had been a cobra Eckenstein could not have been more upset! He had also an idiosyncrasy about artificial scent. One day my wife and a friend came home from shopping. They had called at the chemist's who had sprayed them with "Shem-el-nessim". We saw them coming and went to the door to receive them. Eckenstein made one rush --- like a bull --- for the window of the sitting-rrom, flung it open and spent the next quarter of an hour leaning out and gasping for breath. Eckenstein was a great connoisseur of puzzles. It is extreme…
1929 · PDF PAGE 358
…avage than anything even in German Switzerland. The people are neither polite nor picturesque --- they snarl and stink. We had a longish day into Pamplona, forty-two kilometres, and got the first decent meal since leaving Bayonne. The poverty of the country is really pitiful. As George Borrow recounts, the Church sucks the life-blood of the people. One can quite understand the moralizing of Protestant travellers. Prosperity varies inversely with piety. Italy is only flourishing today in those districts where the alimentary canal of industry has…
1929 · PDF PAGE 172
… of taking life too seriously. It is really almost expected of the man who happens to run over to Philadelphia from New York {293} for a day, that he should forthwith write an encyclopaedic history of the Quakers. It is hard to prophesy the issue of this tendency, but one can see already that the chivalry of sport is following that of arms into oblivion. {294} 36 Skardu, 2,228 metres above sea-level, is the capital of Baltistan, and contains some twenty thousand inhabitants. The mountains here seem to have conspired to stop suddenly so as to al…
1906 · PDF PAGE 244
…existence.2 The war of the contend- ing forces as they grind themselves down to the final resultant must cause endless agony. We may one day be able to transform the categories of emotion as certainly and easily as we now transform the categories of force, so that in a few years Chicago may be im- porting suffering in the raw state and turning it into tinned salmon: but at present the reverse process is alone practicable. How, then, shall we escape? Can we expect the entire universe to resolve itself back into the phase of 0°2 Surely not. In th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 5
…s determined the sections of my life. My spiritual activities fit into those frames, whereas, more recently, {33} 1. WEH Note: Raoul Loveday, who died at the Abbey of Thelema after drinking from a polluted stream. See part 6 of this work for the rest. the converse is the case. My physical environment fits into my spiritual preoccupation. This change would be sufficient by itself to ensure the theoretical impossibility of editing a life like mine on any consistent principle. I find myself obliged, for these and many other reasons, to abandon alt…
1929 · PDF PAGE 99
…. I returned home in a somewhat chastened spirit; and, having found out where Iehi Aour lived, I determined to call on him the following day. I should have explained that, on deciding to join the Order, I had taken a flat at 67 and 69 Chancery Lane1. I had already determined to perform the Operation of Abra-Melin, but Jones had advised me to go through my {178} 1. My innocence after three years at Cambridge may be gaged by my conduct in the matter of choosing a residence. I understood it as a fixed principle of prudence, "When in a difficulty c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 207
…s being a confirmed stammerer, by ringing the changes on this disgraceful episode of his career. Morrice was invariably mellow drunk all day and all night. He would look up from his crčme de menthe and oeufs sur le plat, clear his throat and tell Maugham with grave importance that he would like to consult him on a matter concerning the welfare of art and artists. "What would you do if ---" and after repeating himself in a hundred ways so as to prolong the rigmarole to the utmost, he would wind up by confessing to the premonitory symptoms of som…
1929 · PDF PAGE 523
…on't quite remember what I did about eating. I suppose I must have earned a few dollars now and again in one way or another. The Chokmah day beginning in June saw the break-up of these conditions. A new officer appeared. The initiation had now entered upon an entirely different phase. The function of the officers was no longer to administer ordeals (I had passed the tests); they were sent as guides to lead me on a journey through the Desert to the appointed "House of the Juggler" in which a Magus symbolically lives. The first part of the initia…
1929 · PDF PAGE 570
…upon anyone she might meet. I waited some time hoping Betty would return. She did not and it was arranged for me to come to tea the next day. I found her in a curious state. She had lost most of the wholesomeness and health which she had enjoyed when I last saw her. She knew she was going downhill and in danger of stumbling and pitching over the cliffs in the dark. She clung to spiritual aspirations as her only hope and told me her experiences. They resembled Jane's for the most part, but certain incidents were indubitably evidential of genuine…