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Page 132 of 1731922 · PDF PAGE 358
…I wanted to be an engineer. I was keen as mustard on bicycles and automobiles. Even as a boy I had had a sort of workshop of my own. The greatest pleasure of my childhood had been the rare visits to my mother’s father, who in his time had been a great inventor and done an immense amount of work relative to the mechanical perfection of railway travelling. When the war broke out I had gone straight to the engineering shops; and I became a flying man rather against my will, on account of my weight and the dearth of pilots. I broke off in my enthus…
1954 · PDF PAGE 301
…incidence. From 1895 e.v. onwards I dealt with Colin Lunn. Of all the tobacconists under the sun, There is none, there is none, like the great Colin Lunn- of Sidney Street, Cambridge. When I started round the world, alas for fidelity! I began to forget him. By 1906 e.v. the operation was practically complete . In '42 e.v. I spent a few days with friends in Cambridge. Sauntering along K.P. (King's Parade to you , madam!) on my way back to the station with half an hour or so to kill, I thought I would pop in to Lunn's new shop there , and pass th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 416
…power to communicate with U'changels, angels, the Jinn, and even with Gabriel himself. Iowever this may have been, he held Isaak in very great steem and affection. It was shortly after leaving his friend's house after a short isit to Baghdad that he met Death. "Good morning," said he saint. "I do hope you're not going to Isaak's, he is a very lear friend of mine." "No," said Death, "not just now; but ince you mention it, I shall be with him at noonrise on the hirteenth of next month. Sorry he's a friend of yours; but to one knows better than yo…
1996 · PDF PAGE 202
…ve. There is the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the for tress, and the great mystery of the House of God. All these old letters of my Book are aright; but is not the Star. This also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. 58. 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. 59. My incense is of resinous woods & gums; and there is no blood therein: because of my hair…
1929 · PDF PAGE 321
…a beacon light. Never lose sight of that! You Elaine (F's earth- name) will meet with subtle temptation from this object --- promises of great power and illumination; but heed them not. Aleister is your true helper from whom you have right to look and demand help. You must never cease to demand this aid and by your demand strengthen and aid your comrade. I, your Guardian Angel, tell you this." (The falsity of all this patent more at the time than now --- I foresaw what follows.) I ask proof that he is G. A. It is clear that voice and brilliance…
1907 · PDF PAGE 15
…erceive both sides of the question; then will open to us that world where there is neither marrying nor giving in marriage, of which the great enemy of his age’s morality has so eloquently spoken. If in the jungle two elephants fight lustily, he shall do little who champions either; rather snare both, tame both, ride both, as the charioteer of the Tarot with the opposing sphinxes, black and white. Nor, 0 man, believe thou that finality is anywhere to be reached in words. I balance A and not-A (a), and finding both false, both true, transcend with …
1910 · PDF PAGE 499
…ASMS OF THE LIVING. By E. Gurney, Frep. W. H. Myers, and Frank Popstons. 2 thick vols. 80. Cloth, wncut, 1886. 2 108. FRANK HOLLINGS, 7, GREAT TURNSTILE, HOLBORN. PHOTOGRAPHS. To be had of THE EQUINOX. Price Ten Shillings each. Neatly framed in gold. The original panel Photographs: THE STUDENT. (A reproduction faces « Aha!” in No. III.) THE INTERPRETER. (Reproduced on p. 279 of No. IV.) THE GUARDIAN OF THE FLAME. THE GODDESS. No student of the mysteries should be without one at least of these remarkable and beautiful studies. Their presence ser…
1910 · PDF PAGE 499
…ASMS OF THE LIVING. By E. Gurney, Frep. W. H. Myers, and Frank Popstons. 2 thick vols. 80. Cloth, wncut, 1886. 2 108. FRANK HOLLINGS, 7, GREAT TURNSTILE, HOLBORN. PHOTOGRAPHS. To be had of THE EQUINOX. Price Ten Shillings each. Neatly framed in gold. The original panel Photographs: THE STUDENT. (A reproduction faces « Aha!” in No. III.) THE INTERPRETER. (Reproduced on p. 279 of No. IV.) THE GUARDIAN OF THE FLAME. THE GODDESS. No student of the mysteries should be without one at least of these remarkable and beautiful studies. Their presence ser…
1954 · PDF PAGE 106
THREE SCHOOLS OF MAGICK (2) 73 even conceivable, and this way is quite simple, annihilation. (Shallow critics of Buddhism have wasted a great deal of stupid ingenuity on trying to make out that Nirvana or Nibbana means something different from what etymology, tradition, and the evidence of the Classics combine to define it. The word means, quite simply, cessation: and it stands to reason that, if everything is sorrow, the only thing which is not sorrow is nothing, and that therefore to escape from sorrow is the attainment of nothingness.) Weste…
1954 · PDF PAGE 278
…n . I am in my Astral Form, in my best Sunday-go-to-meeting Ceremonial Vestments, and with my Wand-I seem to hold this raised, attaching great importance to the act-looking down upon the corpse, exactly as one does at the outset of an "Astral Journey" in one's days of learning how to do it. I recall no impression at all made by this sight; neither regret nor relief nor even surprise. But there is one intensely strong reaction-I fancy I have mentioned this already-when one first remembers one of one's deaths: "By Jove! that was a narrow squeak!"…
1929 · PDF PAGE 261
…In short, not one dark spot upon the horizon. Camp 2, though no place for a golf course, as the game is at present played, possesses the great advantage of being a perfect Pisgah. The summit of Kangchenjunga is only two miles away and I am able to see almost the whole of the debatable ground which my reconnaissance from above Darjeeling had denied me. I climbed to a short distance above the camp: the last doubt disappeared. The level glacier stretched less than a mile away. Thence rose a ridge covered by steep glacier except at its eastern edge…
1910 · PDF PAGE 348
…uit and a poisoner will be revealed at the Last Day. Perhaps, like us, he can’t catch him. Or perhaps it is that he is contented to be a great novelist—as he is, bar the weakness of his English and an occa- sional touch of Early Victorian prunes-and-prismism. He has every other qualification. God bless him! BOLESKINE. IN THE NAME OF THE MEssIAH. By E. A. GORDON. KEISERSHA. Tokyo. N.D. N.P. The only way to read this book is to run at it, shouting a slogan, and to stick a skean dhuibh in it somewhere and read the sentence it hits. Thus, perhaps, …
1910 · PDF PAGE 348
…uit and a poisoner will be revealed at the Last Day. Perhaps, like us, he can’t catch him. Or perhaps it is that he is contented to be a great novelist—as he is, bar the weakness of his English and an occa- sional touch of Early Victorian prunes-and-prismism. He has every other qualification. God bless him! BOLESKINE. IN THE NAME OF THE MEssIAH. By E. A. GORDON. KEISERSHA. Tokyo. N.D. N.P. The only way to read this book is to run at it, shouting a slogan, and to stick a skean dhuibh in it somewhere and read the sentence it hits. Thus, perhaps, …
1912 · PDF PAGE 360
…and 406, X17 DH B. R \aZ and FMN [406 = yn], where AThH = Microprosopus, and HVA = Macro- prosopus. The Arcanum is therefore that of the Great Work. 2° method. A B AA RwH HereBHR=207 KO p&p =N AID PS, etc. and DBR=Voice (“The Vision and the Voice”); thus showing, by Yetziratic attribution, the Three Wands—Caduceus : Phoenix: Lotus. Note always 4N are the three Supernals. 3% method. A AxA RB both mean “ Mighty,” whence Abra- hadabra is “The Word of Double A ne pee 205 +213; 44 Power.” AAB show AB: AIMA: BN, viz, Amoun : Thoth : Mout. By Yetzirat…
1912 · PDF PAGE 360
…and 406, X17 DH B. R \aZ and FMN [406 = yn], where AThH = Microprosopus, and HVA = Macro- prosopus. The Arcanum is therefore that of the Great Work. 2° method. A B AA RwH HereBHR=207 KO p&p =N AID PS, etc. and DBR=Voice (“The Vision and the Voice”); thus showing, by Yetziratic attribution, the Three Wands—Caduceus : Phoenix: Lotus. Note always 4N are the three Supernals. 3% method. A AxA RB both mean “ Mighty,” whence Abra- hadabra is “The Word of Double A ne pee 205 +213; 44 Power.” AAB show AB: AIMA: BN, viz, Amoun : Thoth : Mout. By Yetzirat…
1919 · PDF PAGE 165
…irect guidance of Frater O.M. This event must not be supposed to reflect in any way on Frater P.A. for whom he always felt and will feel great love and respect; the circumstances leading up to this change were outside the sphere of influence of Fra V.I.O. and the more difficult to judge owing to his isolation in Canada. With this brief allu- sion to the change in his occult affairs, we may pass on to a 157
1922 · PDF PAGE 180
…ling; they can buy the stuff at a few shillings an ounce and sell it for I don’t know how many times its weight in gold. We shall have a great night to-night ! August 22 A hellish night ! Cockie kept his date with the pedlar, got ten pounds’ worth of H. and fifteen of C., and the H. was nothing at all and the C., so adulterated that we took the whole lot and it was hardly worth talking about. , What filthy mean beasts people are! ... How can men take advantage of the bitter needs of others ? It was the same in the war with the profiteers. It’s …
1954 · PDF PAGE 54
…hat the gradual merging of all these Ways into an interwoven unity may be taken as one mode of presentation of the Accomplishment of the Great Work itself?
1954 · PDF PAGE 122
… the nature of The Book of the Law, the Sacred Scripture of Thelema. Even after forty years of close expert examination, it remains to a great extent mysterious; but the little we know of it is enough to show that it is a sublime synthesis of all Science and all ethics. It is by virtue of this Book that man may attain a degree of freedom hitherto never suspected to be possible, a spiritual development altogether beyond anything hitherto known; and, what is really more to the point, a control of external nature which will make the boasted achiev…
1929 · PDF PAGE 30
…at if God had intended men to smoke He would have supplied a chimney at the top of the head2. I had no hesitation, therefore in making a great point of smoking. I had no thought of connecting the service of the "third King" with the reproduction of the species, and therefore no reason to suppose that my father had ever so far forgotten himself. I spent my whole time trying to enrol myself under the royal banner; but this could only be done by cooperation and it was sometime before I found the means. To return to my tutors. Relations were invari…