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Page 129 of 1731904 · PDF PAGE 12
…mour and sparkling sarcasm were as froth upon the deep and terrible waters of his polished irony. It was a pity that he drank. There the great surgeon, and true gentleman, in spite of his exag- gerated respect for the memory of Queen Victoria, J . . . , would join in with his ripe and generous wit. Handsome as a god, with yet a spice of devils laughter lurking there, he would sit and enjoy the treasures of the conversation, adding at the proper interval his own rich quota of scholarly jest. Needless to say, so brilliant a galaxy attracted all …
1954 · PDF PAGE 369
… herself; then there is one thing, one thing only paramount; to find out who one is, what is one's necessary Way. The alternative to the Great Work is the hotchpot of dispersion, of fatuity, or disconnected nonsense. To the performance of this Work the nearest obstacle and the most obvious is the Family. Its presumption is manifest, in that it expects everybody to yield it first priority. In the Russian troubles following the October Revolution, General Denikin, who was trying to put Humpty-Dumpty back on the wall, captured the aged parents of …
1906 · PDF PAGE 148
…e Osiris Myth of the Egyptians. These ideas are all right, but they have no more to do with Christianity than the Metric System with the Great Pyramid. But see Piazzi Smyth! Henry Morley has even the audacity to claim Shelley—Shelley !—as a Christian ‘‘in spirit.” Talking of Shelley :—With regard to my open denial of the personal Christian God, may it not be laid to my charge that I have dared to voice in bald language what Shelley * As represented by his Encyclopzedia article; not in such works as ‘‘ Limits of Religious Thought.” —A. C. + Anas…
1929 · PDF PAGE 225
…s marred by the subconscious feeling that I am dependent on others for my sport. Moreover, the element of combat is missing. I can get a great deal of amusement out of rough shooting for the {375} pot; but artificiality of any kind is the very devil in sport. I do not even care for shooting from a machan. I like to be just one of the jungle folk and challenge any fellow animal I meet. I suppose that, logically, I should disdain the use of weapons. I never did. My most amusing adventures have been always when I strolled alone into the jungle wit…
1904 · PDF PAGE 63
…ou art not to go out of the circle until he or they be gone, and until thou shalt have made prayers and rendered thanks unto God for the great blessings He hath bestowed upon thee in granting thy desires, and delivering thee from all the malice of the enemy the devil. Also note! Thou mayest command these spirits into the Vessel of Brass in the same manner as thou dost into the triangle, by saying: “that thou dost forthwith appear before this Circle, in this Vessel of Brass, in a fair and comely shape,” etc., as hath been shown in the foregoing …
1922 · PDF PAGE 18
…ell, though somehow I was never sure either of myself or of my machine. My squadron commander used to tell me that I should never make a great airman. “Qld thing,” he said, “ you lack the instinct,” qualifying the noun with an entirely meaningless adjective which somehow succeeded in making his sentence highly illuminating. “Where you get away with it,” he said, “is that you have an analytic brain.” Well, I suppose I have. That’s how I come to be writing this up. Anyhow, at the end of the war I found myself with a knighthood which I still firml…
1922 · PDF PAGE 317
…resisting air. The humiliation was unspeakable. Lamus put his pipe away in his pocket, rose to his feet, and stretched himself like some great lazy lion. He took her in his arms and held her firmly, fixing his eyes upon her tortured face ; the long jagged scarlet mouth stretched to a tragic square through which the scream refused to come. He shook her shoulders gently. Her rigid muscles began to relax. “It’s a deal, then, little girl,”’ he said. Her mouth closed, and then curled itself into a smile of exquisite happiness. The sombre fire of lus…
1922 · PDF PAGE 381
…ople of the Abbey of Thelema. “Be the Priest pure of body and soul!” The love of Lou had consecrated me to do my will, to accomplish the Great Work. “‘ Be the Priest fervent of body and soul!” The love of Lou not only kept me from the contamina- tion of ideas and desires alien to my essential function in the universe, but inspired me to dynamic ecstasy. I do not know how long we sat under the stars. A deep eternal peace sat like a dove, a triple tongue of flame upon our souls, which were one soul for ever. Each of our lives was one, individual,…
1954 · PDF PAGE 13
…ay of introduction, setting the pace, as it were, for the later ones. But they are loaded with the most important details concerning the Great Work, his organization of the A :. A :. , and what is expected of the student once he has become a probationer of that Order. As soon as the chapter letters are reached, however, one is plunged into intellectual and spiritual depths or heights which the author struggles to make reasonably clear. The first letter borrows the axioms, theorems and propositions written for an earlier book, Magick in Theory a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 53
…. That verse (AL, I: 44) condenses the whole magical technique . It makes clear-when you have understood it-the secret of success in the Great Work. Of course at first it appears a paradox. You must have an aim, and one aim only: yet on no account must you want to achieve it!!! Those chapters of The Book of Lies quoted in my last letter 4 do throw some light onto this Abyss of self-contradiction; and there is meaning much deeper than the contrast between the Will with a capital W, and desire, want, or velleity. The main point seems to be that i…
1954 · PDF PAGE 99
… approaching a climax that it is necessary to write this essay. The adepts of the White School consider the present danger to mankind so great that they are prepared to abandon their traditional policy of silence, in order to enlist in their ranks the profane of every nation . We are in possession of a certain mystical document 2 which we may describe briefly, for convenience sake, as an Apocalypse of which we hold the keys, thanks to the intervention of the Master who has appeared at this grave conjuncture of Fate. This document consists of a …
1954 · PDF PAGE 445
… is the one letter which necessitates the exposure of the skeleton! (E.g., the SUbconscious.) Hence "Hush!" it is the hiss of the snake, great Lord of Life and Death-(life? yes, the spermatozoon, child!) "Silence! Danger! There is a man somewhere about." The savage reaction. And, sure enough , Ish is the Hebrew for man. (Mankind is ADM, Adam, Sanskrit Admi , the Father and Mother conjoined . "Male and Female created They Man.") The S-gods are innumerable. Asar (Asi, Isis, is his female twin) Astarte , Ishtar or Ashtoreth , Set, Saturn , Shu, Ze…
1996 · PDF PAGE 62
…s of imperfection is perceived as the absolute negative whose appre hension is identical with that duality—is the accomplishment of the Great Work. The anacephalepsis1 of these considerations is this: 1 [Recapitulation.] 1:53
1929 · PDF PAGE 446
… old to take active measures and so far there is no one to replace them. Worse, the general coarsening of manners which always follows a great war has embittered the rival jurisdictions and deprived freemasonry altogether of those elements of high-minded enthusiasms with regard to the great problems of society which still stirred even its most degenerate sections half a century ago, when Hargrave Jennings, Godfrey Higgins, Gerald Massey, Kenneth MacKenzie, John Yarker, Theodor Reuss, Wynn Westcott and others were still seeking truth in its trad…
1904 · PDF PAGE 82
…n more direct manner. But the passing fancy of the boy had gone, and he rudely repulsed the advances of his would-be lover. Andrew, with great self-command, withdrew in silence. Next day, however, they were both called before the Captain, read a long lecture on the sin of pederasty and severely repri- manded. It was evident that Captain Spelton liked his forehead very well as it was, and meant to keep a sharp look-out. Monty in his innocence was ter- ribly indignant and naturally became quite ready to cuckold the Captain if he could. At mess th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 68
…wledge. t This is the meaning of “Nequaquam Vacuum.” § Modern Materialism receives many a rude blow at the hands of Gustave le Bon. This great Frenchman writes: “These fundamental dogmas, the bases of modern science, the researches detailed in this work tend to destroy. If the principle of the conservation of energy—which, by the by, is simply a bold generalization of experiments made in very simple cases—likewise succumbs to the blows which are already attacking it, the conclusion must be arrived at that nothing in the world is eternal.” (“The…
1910 · PDF PAGE 181
…e Sun. + Or Rupa Visions, That is, visions of the three Lights of the Gunas. See “The Herb Dangerous.” THE EQUINOX, vol. i, No. 2. } The great Vision of Vishnu. See the Eleventh Discourse in the Bhagavad- Gita. “Unnumbered arms, the sun and moon. Thine eyes. I see Thy face, as sacrificial fire blazing, its splendour burneth up the worlds.” Verse 19. § Adonai. The Vision of the Holy Guardian Angel. || Atma-Darshana, the universal vision of Pan, or the vision of the Universal Peacock. It has many forms. {1 Vision of Shiva, which destroys the Atma…
1910 · PDF PAGE 68
…wledge. t This is the meaning of “Nequaquam Vacuum.” § Modern Materialism receives many a rude blow at the hands of Gustave le Bon. This great Frenchman writes: “These fundamental dogmas, the bases of modern science, the researches detailed in this work tend to destroy. If the principle of the conservation of energy—which, by the by, is simply a bold generalization of experiments made in very simple cases—likewise succumbs to the blows which are already attacking it, the conclusion must be arrived at that nothing in the world is eternal.” (“The…
1910 · PDF PAGE 181
…e Sun. + Or Rupa Visions, That is, visions of the three Lights of the Gunas. See “The Herb Dangerous.” THE EQUINOX, vol. i, No. 2. } The great Vision of Vishnu. See the Eleventh Discourse in the Bhagavad- Gita. “Unnumbered arms, the sun and moon. Thine eyes. I see Thy face, as sacrificial fire blazing, its splendour burneth up the worlds.” Verse 19. § Adonai. The Vision of the Holy Guardian Angel. || Atma-Darshana, the universal vision of Pan, or the vision of the Universal Peacock. It has many forms. {1 Vision of Shiva, which destroys the Atma…
1929 · PDF PAGE 124
…ng that the body was to be sent to England, had a dummy shipped off in a coffin, and kept Gates on ice, which may or may not have been a great comfort to him. Abdul had no difficulty in procuring the cats which, much to their dissatisfaction, were caged in Arthwait's study, and fed on human flesh, which Vesquit easily procured from the dissecting-rooms of the local hospitals. But the goat was a more serious matter. An ordinary goat will not do; it had to qualify in certain respects; Abdul succeeded in his quest only after a series of intrigues …