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Page 134 of 1731922 · PDF PAGE 21
… was still the most savage and implacable of publicists. “ Red in tooth and claw,” as Tennyson said. Yet the man had found time to write great literature ; and his rough and tumble with the world had not degraded his thought or spoilt his style. Sitting next him was a weak, good-natured, working journalist named Vernon Gibbs. He wrote practically the whole of a weekly paper—had done, year after year with the versatility of a practised pen and the mechanical perseverance of an instrument which has been worn by practice into perfect easi- ness. Y…
1922 · PDF PAGE 174
…g myself on the snow head first, swept down like a sack of oats, and sprang to my feet on the very edge of the precipice. _“ There was a great gasp of awed amazement while I walked up to the men. They followed me across the mauvis pas without a moment’s hesitation. They probably thought it was magic or something. No matter what. But at least they felt sure that they could come to no harm by following a man so obviously under the protection of the mountain gods.” Cockie had gone deathly white. He understood with absolute clarity the point of the…
1922 · PDF PAGE 272
…oneself by saying ‘yes’ just once. I can promise you a very interesting time watching your minds and spotting all the little dodges. The great thing I want you to remember is that you have to learn to take pleasure in what.is really the most pleasurable thing. in the world—introspection. You have got to find amusement in observing the details of the dis- comfort of being without the drug. And I don’t want you to overdo it, either. When the discomfort becomes so acute that you can’t enjoy it properly, then is the time to take a small dose and no…
1929 · PDF PAGE 33
…te snake of gold and green, with four eyes of fire, black fire and red, that darted rays in every direction; held within its coils was a great multitude of laughing children. And even as I looked, all this was blotted out. Crawling rivers of blood spread over the heaven, of blood purulent with nameless formsmangy dogs with
1954 · PDF PAGE 271
…g Lao-tze in language informed by the sympathetic understanding which initiation and spiritual experience had conferred on me. During my Great Magical Retirement on Aesopus Island in the Hudson River during the summer of 1918, I set myself to this work, but I discovered immediately that I was totally incompetent. I therefore appealed to an Adept named Amalantrah , with whom I was at that time in almost daily communion. He came readily to my aid, and exhibited to me a codex of the original, which conveyed to me with absolute certitude the exact …
1954 · PDF PAGE 361
…. Their sum struck me like a bullet in my brain. It was 418, the number of the Magical Formula of the Aeon, a numerica hieroglyph of the Great Work. Ab-ul-Diz had made no mistake. My recognition of the right place was not to depend on a mere matter of trees, which might be found almost anywhere. Recognition beyond all possibility of doubt was what he promised . He had been as good as his word. I was entirely overwhelmed. I jumped out of the car and ran up to the house. I found Virakam in the main room. The instant I entered I understood that it…
1922 · PDF PAGE 223
…o put her through the most frightful ordeals— for she was very dead indeed—but she got to the other end of the tunnel all right. She’s a Great Soul, if ever there was one in the world, and he has raised her mortal into immortality. Her corruptibility has put on incorruption—and she radiates light and life and love, leaping through the years in utter libert ” “ But what does she do now?” I asked with a dull pain at my heart. | “Why; her True. Will, of course!’’ came back the flaming answer. ‘‘ She knows that she came to this planet to bear witne…
1954 · PDF PAGE 25
… demonstrating the practice of the disciplines of meditation and Magick-often without supervision. They transformed him so that when the great illuminations occurred toward the end of the first decade of this century, he coined a Latin motto which, translated, meant "In my lifetime I have conquered the Universe by the force of Truth." Even then, he was not through with his self-discipline. During World War II, when he was in the United States, he pursued, stubbornly and steadfastly,
1954 · PDF PAGE 371
…is process is, naturally , very painful at times; for one thing, you can't dope yourself with illusions about your being a grand-souled, great-hearted , misunderstood saint, martyr, and hero. And-this I tell you from most bitter experience-the agony is sometimes all but unendurable. The Masters (or the Lords of Karma, or whatever you like: I have to put all this in a silly romantic language, if I am to get the meaning across at all) see the position with absolute accuracy; They know at once how so-and-so, which you made rather a point of offeri…
1929 · PDF PAGE 389
… or to break into it; so as to obsess him, to live in his life. O.V. had many narrow escapes, and once Choronzon made a long speech at a great pace to keep O.V. so busy writing it down that he would not notice that sand was being thrown from the Triangle so as to obliterate the Circle. The torrent of obscene blasphemy was beyond his power to keep up, concentration being impossible. It became an incoherent series of cries; then suddenly, perhaps catching the idea from O.V.'s mind, the demon began to recite Tom o"Bedlam. There was now a gap in th…
1899 · PDF PAGE 253
…, and dedi- cated to the white maidens of England. The poetic merit is unequal, and the lyrics have something lacking. Zeus, too, is too great and important a god to have ‘slept daintily,’ and why was Robert Browning’s evil example followed in writing Phoibos for Phoebus, and Bacchos for Bacchus? especially as Cytherea, Cypris, and Charicles are allowed to remain in more familiar guise."—TZhe Bristol Times. ‘‘¢A Gentleman of Cambridge’ has written, in ‘ The Tale of Archais,’ a volume which will make pleasant reading for ‘ The White Maidens of E…
1922 · PDF PAGE 73
Au Pays de Cocaine 59 will go a bit further than that. I don’t believe the greatest artist in the world could invent what we felt, and if he could he couldn’t describe it. I’m trying to describe it myself, and I feel that I’m not making out very well. Come to think of it, the English language has its limitations. When mathemati- cians and men of science want to exchange thoughts, English isn’t much good. They've had to invent new words, new symbols. Look at Einstein’s equations. I knew a man once that knew James Hinton, who invented the fourth …
1922 · PDF PAGE 241
… we fall into a torpor. Basil told me about it once. He called it the dark night of the soul. One has to go through it on the way to the Great Light. The light of day is torture. Every sense is an in- strument of the most devilish pain. There is no flesh on our bones. This perpetual craving for H! Our minds are utterly empty of everything else. Rushing into the void come tumbling the words of that abominable poem :— ‘‘A bitten and burning snake Striking its venom within it, As if it might serve to slake The pain for the tithe of a minute.”
1922 · PDF PAGE 357
…et. The eyes were tiny and green with a piquant elfin expression. Her hair was curiously colourless; it was very abundant; she had wound great ropes about her head. It reminded me of the armature of a dynamo. It produced a weird effect—this mingling of the savage Mongol with the savage Norseman type. Her strange hair fascinated me. It was that delicate flaxen hue—so fine. The face was extraordinarily young and fresh, all radiant with smiles and blushes. “ Peter, my boy,” I said to myself, ‘ you’d better get busy and finish that helicopter and m…
1954 · PDF PAGE 257
… of Wisdom; at least, it may quite possibly do so. Forgive me if I emulate the teacher! But this is not as simple as it sounds. There is great danger in this Golden Mean, one of whose main objects is to steer clear of shipwreck, Scylla being as fatal as Charybdis. No, this lofty and equable attitude is worse than wrong unless it derives from striking the balance between two very distant opposites. One of the worst perils of the present time is that ,
1954 · PDF PAGE 330
… Devachan, or Kama Lika, or some such place; when the balance is exhausted one may come back to earth, or in some other way carry on the Great Work. One theory-see Opus Lutetianum, The Paris Working-says that when one has quite finished with Earth-problems, one is promoted to Venus, where 'bodies' are liquid, and thence to Mercury, where they are gaseous, 1. It is quoted at the end of this particular letter, at length.
1904 · PDF PAGE 70
… may impress upon our scornful men of science that the study of the bacillus should give place to that of the baculum, the little to the great— how great one only realises when one identifies the wand with the Mahalingam,* up which Brahma flew at the rate of 84,000 yojanas a second for 84,000 mahakalpas, down which Vishnu flew at the rate of 84,000 crores of yojanas a second for 84,000 crores of mahakalpas—yet neither reached an end. But I reach an end. 23. The cryptic Coptic.3—Vide the Papyrus of Bruce. 24. ANET AER-K, etc.4—Invocation of Ra.…
1922 · PDF PAGE 286
…obvious as soon as the idea struck one. As long as the armies were evenly distributed along the line, it was a matter of trench warfare. Great victories and defeats were impossible in the nature of things. But once the troops were massed at points of vantage, aggregated in huge mobile units, it became possible to destroy them on the large scale. When a British square is broken, the annihilation of
1929 · PDF PAGE 48
…he ‘first noble truth’ uttered by Buddha, that Everything is sorrow. Nature, it seems, is a tragedy. He has perhaps even experienced the great trance called Sorrow. He should then consider whether there is not some Deity who expresses this Cycle, and yet whose nature is joy. He will find what he requires in Dionysus. There are three main methods of invoking any Deity. The First Method consists of dévotion to that Deity, and, being mainly mystical in character, need not be dealt with in this place, especially as a perfect instruction exists in L…
1930 · PDF PAGE 78
… must be practised until mastery of the image is attained, and an identity with it and with the God experienced. It is a matter for very great regret that no simple and certain tests of success in this practice exist. 3. The Vibration of God-names. As a further means of identifying the human consciousness with that pure portion of it which man calls by the name of some God, let him act thus : 4. (a) Stand with arms outstretched \ (See illustration, in Equinox No. 2, p. 13.) (b) Breathe in deeply through the nostrils, imagining the name of the G…