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Page 124 of 1971909 · PDF PAGE 49
…n taken suffi- cient Conium (hemlock) to kill forty men without the smallest result of any kind. In KandyI had (for the first time in my life) taken two hundred and twenty-five drops of Laudanum in five hours, also with no more result than would have been produced by ten drops upon the average man. Our equation was therefore composed exclusively of variables, and wide variables at that! Nothing for it, then, 39
1909 · PDF PAGE 49
…n taken suffi- cient Conium (hemlock) to kill forty men without the smallest result of any kind. In KandyI had (for the first time in my life) taken two hundred and twenty-five drops of Laudanum in five hours, also with no more result than would have been produced by ten drops upon the average man. Our equation was therefore composed exclusively of variables, and wide variables at that! Nothing for it, then, 39
1910 · PDF PAGE 141
…ecome one with the Uncreated and the Indestructible. And now he stood once again on the shore line of existence and watched the waves of life roll landwards, curve, break and hiss up the beach only to surge back into the ocean from which they came. He did not deny the existence of the Divine, (how could he when he had become one with it?) but so filled was he with the light of Amitabha,+ that he fully saw that by Silence alone could the world be saved, and that by the denial of the Unknowable of the uninitiate, the Kether, the Atman, the First …
1910 · PDF PAGE 141
…ecome one with the Uncreated and the Indestructible. And now he stood once again on the shore line of existence and watched the waves of life roll landwards, curve, break and hiss up the beach only to surge back into the ocean from which they came. He did not deny the existence of the Divine, (how could he when he had become one with it?) but so filled was he with the light of Amitabha,+ that he fully saw that by Silence alone could the world be saved, and that by the denial of the Unknowable of the uninitiate, the Kether, the Atman, the First …
1930 · PDF PAGE 3
…self to be a weak human being humbly aspiring to something higher; a créature of circumstance utterly dépendent — even for the breath of life — upon a sériés of fortunate accidents. I. This is not merely to prove himself a person in authority. It is to trace the chain of causes that hâve led to the présent position, so that the operation is seen as karma. 123 —
1944 · PDF PAGE 112
…ius of the late J. W. N. Sulli‐ van: see The Bases of Modern Science.) In the centre, a wheel of Light initiates the form of the Tree of Life, shewing the ten principal bodies of the solar system. But this Tree is not visible except to those of wholly pure heart. 1. The primum mobile, represented by Pluto. (Compare the doctrine of the alpha particles of radium.) 2. The sphere of the Zodiac or fixed stars, represented by Neptune. 3. Saturn. The Abyss. This is represented by Herschel, the planet of disintegration and explosion. 4. Jupiter 5. Mars…
1906 · PDF PAGE 203
…k to have to write in cold blood the dread- ful truth about her death. She had the mis- fortune to contract, in the last few days of her life with him, the same terrible disease which he describes in the last poem of his coilection. ‘This shock, coming so soon after, and, as it were, aS an unholy perpetual reminder of the madness and sequestration of her lover, no less than of his infidelity, unhinged her mind, and she shot herself on July 5, 1869. Her last letter to Madame J S is one of the tenderest and most pathetic ever written. She seems t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 232
226 THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS II. ‘‘Jehjaour! was a mighty magician; his soul was dark and evil; and his lust was of life and power and of the wreaking of hatred upon the innocent. : And it came ‘to -pass that he gazed upon a ball of crystal wherein were shown him all the fears of the time unborn as yet on earth. And by his art he saw Perdu’ R ‘Abu, who had been his friend: for do what he would, the crystal showed always that sensual and frivolous youth as a Fear to him: even to him the Mighty One! But the selfish and evil are cowards; they fea…
1907 · PDF PAGE 212
…Ionian surges Roar back to our chant. FOURTH M-ENAD. Aha ! for the taunt Of Theban sages Is lost, lost, lost ! The wine that enrages Our life is enforced. We dare them and daunt. AGAVE. The spirits that haunt The rocks and the river, The moors and the woods, The fields and the floods, Are with us for ever! MAZNADS. Are of us for ever. Evoe! Evoe! AUTONOE. Agave! He cometh! AGAVE, Cry ho! Autonoe ! ALL. Ho! Ho! Evoe Ho! Iacche! Evoe! Evoe!
1907 · PDF PAGE 167
…is turn , is but an emanation of this world idea , no better than the rest : Baal and Jehovah , Ashtoreth And Chemosh and these Elohim , Life's panders in the brothel , Death ! Cloudy imaginings , a dream Built up of fear and words and woe . All , all my soul must overthrow .” Crowley further writes : Nor can I see what sort of gain God finds in this creating pain.3 1 The Sword of Song , Pentecost , p . 60 ; vol . ii, p . 182 . According to Al Beidâwi , Gabriel blew into the bosom of Mary's shift , which he opened with his fingers , and his bre…
1909 · PDF PAGE 80
…dge) as about the fifth power of the number of wives . . . I'm glad I’m awake! Yea, and how glad when I am indeed awake from this glamour life, awake to the love of my Lord Adonai ! It is bitter chill at dawn. Aconsecrating cold it seems to me—yet I will not confront it and rejoice in it— I am already content, having ceased to strive. Again awake, deliciously rested and refreshed. Again awake, ditto.
1909 · PDF PAGE 60
THE EQUINOX worker, who grips life’s throat and wrings out its secret, who selects austerely and composes concisely, whose work is as true and clean as razor-steel, albeit its sweep is vaster and swifter than the sun’s ! The discursive prattle of such superficial twaddlers as Longfellow and Tennyson is the most deadly poison of the mind. All this is true enough in the merest exoteric necessity of adult civilisation. But if we are to go further into the nature of things, to dive deeper than the chemist, soar higher than the poet, look wider than…
1909 · PDF PAGE 60
THE EQUINOX worker, who grips life’s throat and wrings out its secret, who selects austerely and composes concisely, whose work is as true and clean as razor-steel, albeit its sweep is vaster and swifter than the sun’s ! The discursive prattle of such superficial twaddlers as Longfellow and Tennyson is the most deadly poison of the mind. All this is true enough in the merest exoteric necessity of adult civilisation. But if we are to go further into the nature of things, to dive deeper than the chemist, soar higher than the poet, look wider than…
1930 · PDF PAGE 56
…ation of the Eléments. ( The PRIEST makes five crosses. } 3 —i— 1 “T*2 on paten and cup; +4 °n paten alone; -fon cup alone.) The PRIEST. Life of man upon earth, fruit of labour, sustenance of endeavour, thus be thou nourishment of the Spirit! {He touches the Host with the Tance. ) By the virtue of the Rod! Be this bread the Body of God! {He takes the Host.) TOTTO EUTI TO 20MA MOT. {He kneelsy adores, risesy turns y shows Host to the PE O P LE, turnSy replaces Host and adores. IVLusic. He takes the Cup.) Vehicle of the joy of Man upon Earth, sol…
1954 · PDF PAGE 282
WOMAN 249 ... the Law is for all. (34) I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy, nor do I demand aught in sacrifice. My incense is of resinous woods & gums; & there is no blood therein: because of my hair the trees of Rternity. My number is 11 as all their numbers who are of us. The Five Pointed Star, with a Circle in the Middle, & the circle is Red. My color is black to the blind, but the blue & gold are seen of the seeing. Also I have a secret glory for them that love…
1905 · PDF PAGE 101
…t, Break the spell’s power, and hid the spirit fly Who had come near to dwell with us. But I Bend through long hours above the dear twin life, Look from love’s guerdon to the lover-wife, And back again to that small face so swect, And downwards to the little rosy feet, And see myself no longer in her eyes So perfectly as here, where passion les Buried and re-arisen and complete. O happy life too sweet, too perfect sweet, O happy leve too perfectly made one Not to arouse the envy of the sun Who sulks six months! for spite of it! O love, Too pure…
1907 · PDF PAGE 125
…al , and the voluptuous .? Every man striving against his brother , struggling and elbowing his way through the seething crowds of human life to satisfy his own personal lusts . Gentility has become the lowest plane of mental degradation , and so as the monde sinks in this social earthquake does the demi - monde rise . Phryne trips lightly to - day down Piccadilly , bringing with her no little of the beauties of Praxiteles , and the craft of Apelles . We see her no longer the draggle - tailed prostitute of the more eminently Christian centuries…
1910 · PDF PAGE 162
… and mud of earth. He has gained perfect control over his body and his mind; and not only are his speech and actions right, but his very life is right, in fact his actions have become a Temple wherein he can at will 146
1910 · PDF PAGE 162
… and mud of earth. He has gained perfect control over his body and his mind; and not only are his speech and actions right, but his very life is right, in fact his actions have become a Temple wherein he can at will 146
1910 · PDF PAGE 11
…ke frank- ness of the Kashmiri, blurted out : The Sahib is not like other sahibs ; they begin by casting dirt at my people for their bad life, and end by spitting upon my beard, bidding me procure for them a fat and fair boy : but the Asylum of the World, who lives like a great prince and a fakir (mean- ing : “ You have illimitable resources, but are ab- stemious ”) really understands the ‘ hikmat-i-