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Page 125 of 1591996 · PDF PAGE 121
…isappears as a consequence of innumerable antecedents, each equally mysterious. To ask questions is thus evidently worse than a waste of time, so far as one is looking for an answer. There is also the point that any proposition S is P merely includes P in the connotation of S, and is therefore not really a statement of relation between two things, but an amendment of the definition of one of them. “Some cats are black” only means that our idea of a cat involves the liability to appear black, and that blackness is consistent with those sets of i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 565
…gned to please. The circulation sagged lower every month. Its dullness became devastating. Harrison's own work is always amazing and sometimes first-rate. But other contributors fell off. They got tired of being asked to write at nominal rates, and at that to have to extract the cheque with a Big Bertha corkscrew. He paid me five pounds for my Shelley essay. Subsequent articles were even less adequately remunerated. And it was not only a task which Jove would have thrown up to get paid at all, but after prolonged humiliating haggling over the p…
1930 · PDF PAGE 14
It may be that tiie place or time is wrong. One cannot easily evoke water-spirits in the Sahara, or salamanders in the English Lake District. Hismael will not readily appear when Jupiter is below the horizon. 1 2 In order to counteract a natural deficiency of this sort, one would hâve to supply a sufficient quantity of the proper kind of material. One cannot make bricks without straw. With regard to invocations of the Gods, such considérations do not apply. The Gods are beyond most material conditions. It is necessarv to hll the heart and mïnd …
1930 · PDF PAGE 27
of an hour’s journey you can reckon on having a fairly eventful time, turn your attention to rcaching a definite place on the astral plane j invoke Mercury, for example, and examine carefully your record of the resulting vision — discover whether the symbols which you hâve seen correspond with the conventional symbols of Mercury. Tliis iesting of the spirits is the most important branch of tlie whoïe tree of Magick. Without it, one is lost in the jungle of delusion. Every spirit, up to God himself, is ready to deceive you if possible, to make h…
1930 · PDF PAGE 101
…. 36. Concerning minor adjuvant in the ceremonies. — I. Rising on the planes. — B y this method mayst thou assist the imagination at the time of concluding thine Invocation. Act as taught in Liber Q, by the light of Liber 777. 37. Concerning minor methods adjuvant in the ceremonies. — IL Talismanic Magic. — Having made by thine Ingenium a talisman or pantacle to represent the particular Deity, and conse- crated it with infinité love and care, do thou burn it ceremonially before the shrine, as if thereby giving up the shadow for the substance. B…
1954 · PDF PAGE 136
… can never observe the identical phenomena sensible to another, since two people cannot be in exactly the same place at exactly the same time: yet it is just these facts that are equally true for all men.) Observe, I pray, the paramount importance of memory .
1954 · PDF PAGE 516
…obot soul-killing, nerve-crushing, mind-infuriating routine job for even one half-hour a day! When I am on a piece of work, I grudge the time for eating; and when it's done, I need the absolute relaxation of leisured luxury. Then what of the Work itself? If the Idea be truly new and important, God help it! The whole class of men affected jump on it with one accord, if haply they may crush it in the germ. Read a little of the History of Medicine! Any man who shows a sign of independent thought is watched. is thwarted. He persists and is threaten…
1996 · PDF PAGE 157
… in no sense the name of the Stèle. I worked on, and found XOIZA, 718, “Yesterday” which might be grasped as a straw if I sank the third time; but I was swimming strongly enough.
1996 · PDF PAGE 161
…uded the passions, of the multitude.) For machines are dodges for avoiding Hard Work; and Hard Work is the salvation of the race. In The Time Machine, H.G. Wells draws an admirable picture of a dichotomized humanity, one branch etiolated and inane, the other brutalized and automatic. Machines have already nearly completed the destruction of individual craftsmanship. A man is no longer a worker, but a machine-feeder. The product is standardized; the result mediocrity. Nobody can obtain What He Will; he must be content with what knavery puts on t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 220
…s siren spell Soft-sounded in a spiral shell Were quite so exquisite, were all so admir- able ! LESBIAN SHORE. Nay! but the agony of the time Rings in the royal rime! She hath touched the intimate, and chanced on the sublime.
1922 · PDF PAGE 29
…ed, I discovered that it was Laleham—and then again that it wasn’t. But I anticipate—don’t try to throw me out of my stride. All in good time. In the meanwhile I found I was expected to address her as Lou. ‘“ Unlimited Lou” was her nickname among the initiate. Now what I am anxious for everybody to understand is simply this. There’s hardly anybody who under- stands the way his mind works; no two minds are alike, as Horace or some old ass said; and, anyhow, the process of thinking is hardly ever what we imagine. So, instead of recognising the gi…
1922 · PDF PAGE 201
…out.” I knew he didn’t believe me, and I knew he didn’t care where I went or what I did. He was not shocked at my lying to him—the first time I had ever done so. I took a taxi round to the studio. My he was half truth. I was going to ask him to help in the cure; but my real object was to induce him, no matter how, to give me at least one dose. I didn’t care how I got it. I would try pretending illness. I would appeal to our old relations, and I would look about slyly to see if I couldn’t find some and steal it. And I didn’t mean to let Peter kn…
1929 · PDF PAGE 417
… called the Vanne Rouge, on the bank of the Loing overlooking a weir. (The inn has since then become fashionable and impossible; at that time it was adorable in every way.) In eddies of obsidian, At my feet the river ran Between me and the poppy-pranky Isle, with tangled roots embanked, Where seven sister poplars stood Like the seven sisters of god. Soft as silence in mine ear, The drone and rustle of the weir Told in bass the treble tale Of the embowered nightingale. Higher, on the patient river, Velvet lights without a quiver Echoed through t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
…him. (Illustration, fhe first principle of success in évolution is that the individual should be true to his own nature, and at the same time adapt himself to his environment.) (10) Nature is a continuous phenomenon, through we do not know in ail cases how things are connected. (Illustration: Human consciousness dépends on the properties of pi otoplasm, the existence of which dépends on innumerable physical conditions peculiar to this planetj and this planet is determined by the mechanical balance of the whole universe of matter. We may then sa…
1930 · PDF PAGE 20
…dition of progress to build up ideas into the subconscious. The necessity of sélection should therefore be obvious. True, there cornes a time when ail éléments soever must be thus assimilated. Samadhi is, by définition, that very process. But, from the point of view of the young magician, there is a right wav — strait and difficult •— of performing ail this. One cannot too frequently repeat that what is lawful and proper to one Path is alien to another. Immediately after the License to Départ, and the general closing up of the work,it is necess…
1954 · PDF PAGE 509
476 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS to-day-in the times of "evangelical revival" the number was fantastic-who got there through fear that they had somehow committed that aforesaid "blasphemy against the Holy Ghost ." The unknown again. The Bible does not tell us what it is; only that it is unpardonable . Nor Grace, nor Faith, nor Predestination avail in the least ; for all you know , you may have committed it. Reassurance is impossible ; no ceinture de chastete avails to avert this danger. Again with drugs, it is the unknown which is the horrific factor. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 262
…om the rearguard. Righi sent up bitterly quarrelsome messages. His antics had made all sots of trouble with the coolies, who were at one time in open revolt. Pache managed to get them into good humour again. He was a gentleman; he understood the oriental mind instinctively. He was, in fact, making extremely good. As soon as he saw that Righi was half insane with the fear that comes to people of his class in the absence of a chattering heard of his fellows, and in the presence of the grandeur of nature, he assumed moral charge of him. The diffic…
1907 · PDF PAGE 140
…. So silent and wise In her cerement clothes, So secretly lies My soul in my snows ; I awake, I arise, For my spirit now knows The first time in her eyes That a voice may unclose My petals: I hear it; I come; I clasp the warm ground In my passion profound. ORPHEUS. In valleys heaped high, In drifts lying low, Swift slopes to the sky, Come forth to me, snow ! Thy beauty and I Are of old even so As lover and lover. Come forth! I invoke thee ! the hills are aglow. THE SNOW. Bright breasts I uncover, Heart's heart to thy gaze ; O lyre of my lover, …
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…ith himself. (e) His power to interpret the Spirit of the New Aeon, the relapse into ruthless savagery of the most civilised races, at a time when war was discredited by most responsible men. ( (f) His power to comprehend and control these various orders of ideas and events, demonstrating thereby a mind and a means of action intelligible to, yet immensely above, ail human capacity; to bind the whole into a compact cryptograph displaying mastery of English, of mathematical and philosophical conceptions, of poetic splendour and intense passion, w…
1954 · PDF PAGE 359
326 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS material considerations to influence me, and I clung-oh triple fool!-to my sentimental obligations towards Laylah. We finally decided to do what he asked, though part of my objection was founded on his refusal to give us absolutely definite instructions. However, we crossed the Passes in a sleigh to Chiavenna, whence we took the train to Milan. In this city we had a final conversation with Ab-ul-Diz. I had exhausted his patience, as he mine, and he told us that he would not visit us any more. He gave us his final instru…