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Page 147 of 1591929 · PDF PAGE 233
…ose.) As to my study of Islam, I got a sheikh to teach me Arabic and the practices of ablution, prayer and so on, so that at some future time I might pass for a Moslem among themselves. I had it in my mind to repeat Burton's journey to Mecca sooner or later. I learnt a number of chapters of the Koran by heart. I never went to Mecca, it seemed rather vieux jeu, but my ability to fraternize fully with Mohammedans has proved of infinite use in many ways. My sheikh was profoundly versed in the mysticism and magic of Islam, and discovering that I wa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 269
…and emphasize my own testimony to their steadiness, capacity and goodwill." Guillarmod's overtures had been intended merely to give them time to strike. "Cet animal est trs mcant: quand on l'attaque il se dfend." I hit back and cut Guillarmod publicly on the twenty-sixth. On the twenty seventh I received the following amazing letter. 27.IX.05 Lord Boleskne, Vos procédés financiers puent l'escroc ŕ plein nez & font honneur ŕ la noblesse irlandaise. Faire signer un papier par lequel je déclare ne plus rien réclamer alors que vous savez pertine…
1929 · PDF PAGE 39
…om of our form master to remit twenty per cent of any number of lines that might be given one to write if they were delivered before the time appointed. It happened that I was set a number of lines by some other master and I handed in eighty per cent with the written remark, "Twenty per cent deducted as usual for premature delivery." He thought that I was "getting at him", but on investigation I was acquitted; in fact, I had no idea of any ambiguity. My life at Malvern made little impression on me. For the most part I was lost in my own thought…
1929 · PDF PAGE 57
…omen whose husbands are strictly business machines) who pick up men with the same nonchalance as the young "blood" picked up women in my time at Cambridge. I found myself, from the very beginning of my university career, urged by circumstances of every sort to indulge my passion in every way but the right one. My ill-health had prevented me from taking part in the ordinary amusements of the public school boy. My skill in avoiding corporal punishment and my lack of opportunity for inflicting it had saved me from developing the sadistic or masoch…
1907 · PDF PAGE 29
…e a clump of banyans,? Of Early Training Well the just Effect ! 1 A reference to ‘‘looping the loop,” an acro- batic feat popular at the time. Hence, to go a Wild and dangerous, as well as an indirect, course. 2 A sarcastic reference to the inane theory that the plays of Shakespeare were written by Bacon. The misquotation is from Hamlet— “ Those, friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.”’ 3 The banyan tree puts forth branches which droop to the earth and take root. A single tree may thus spread …
1907 · PDF PAGE 116
IIo RODIN IN RIME given to understand that something of the sort described above does sometimes take place in the naming of a statue (of the allegorical de- scription especially). But that is a question of felicity, of epigram ; never of subject. In ‘‘ La Main de Dieu,” for example, the meaning is obvious, and not to be wrested or distorted. What does it matter if we call it as at present, or (2) The Hand of Creation, (5) The First Lovers, (c) The Security of Love, (2) The invisible Guard —anything in reason? ‘These are only ways of looking at …
1906 · PDF PAGE 242
…hat about which no posi- - tive proposition is valid. We cannot truly affirm : ‘* Nothingness is green, or heavy, or sweet.’ Let us call time, space, being, heaviness, hunger, the categories.1_ If a man. be heavy 1 J cannot here discuss the propriety of re- presenting the categories as dimensions. It will be obvious to any student of the integral calculus, or to any one who’ appreciates the geometrical significance ofthe term 2#4,—A, C,
1929 · PDF PAGE 198
…rater P. caught her and holding her at arm's length smote the sorceress with her own current of evil, just as a would-be murderer is sometimes killed with the very weapon with which he has attacked his victim. A blue-greenish light seemed to play round the head of the vampire, and then the flaxen hair turned the colour of muddy snow, and the fir skin wrinkled, and those eyes, that had turned so many happy lives to stone, dulled and became as pewter dappled with the dregs of wine. The girl of twenty had gone; before him stood a hag of sixty, ben…
1929 · PDF PAGE 509
…hat the theory of ethics thus outlined involves the consideration of many difficult and important problems. I did not understand at that time the extent of the implication and have devoted immense labour in recent years to the solution of the theorems which are corollary to the fundamental proposition. It must suffice for the present to record the writing of this message. The act was the ceremonial gesture significant of my attainment: as one may say, the King's speech at the opening of the Parliament of the New Aeon. {804} 82
1906 · PDF PAGE 234
… alreadyin thé toils ? She had only lived eight months. a 0.¢ ‘** Flow you bungle!’ growled Ganesha. ‘Fortunately we are better off this time. Indra has been guillotined for his dastardly murder ; So his place is vacant.” ‘ Eurekas !’ yelled the magus, ‘his very virtue will save him from his predecessor’s fate.’ ‘Behold Perdu’ R Abu then as Indra! But oh, dear me! what a memory he was getting ! ‘ It seems to me,’ he mused, ‘that I’ve been changing about a lot lately. Well, I am virtuous—and I read in Crowley’s new translation of the Dhammapada?…
1906 · PDF PAGE 260
…of his day: ‘‘Ils nient ce qui est, et expliquent ce qui n’est pas.” Note To Section VIII. Transfigured Realism. I will not waste my own time and that of my readers by any lengthy discussion of Mr. Herbert Spencer’s ‘‘ Transfigured Realism.” I will not point out in greater detail how he proposes, by a chain of reasoning, to over- throw the conclusions he admits as being those of reason. But his statement that Idealism is but verbally intelligible is for my purpose the most admirable thing he could have said. He is wrong in saying that the ideal…
1919 · PDF PAGE 457
…ows with his inverted commas... . unless, indeed, as Mr. Aleister Crowley authoritatively hints in his sacerdotal preface, . . . But the time, we think, is hardly ripe for such disclosures, although the more intelligent among us may have seen a certain Writing upon the Wall, setting forth, in clearest language, that r+1=3.”—The English Review. “Poems by a new writer who possesses imaginative gifts of unusual quality. Miss Archer’s Poems are both mystical and realistic, and they bear traces of having been to some extent influenced by the work of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
…yages upon divers spiritual planes. It seems worth while to record a few of these. They afford a clear indication of my progress at this time. In bed, I invoked the Fire angels and spirits on the tablet, with names, etc., and the 6th Key. I then (as Harpocrates) entered my crystal. An angel, meeting me, told me, among other things, that they (of the tablets) were at war with the angels of the 30 Aethyrs, to prevent the squaring of the circle. I went with him unto the abodes of fire, but must have fallen asleep, or nearly so. Anyhow, I regained …
1944 · PDF PAGE 56
…sun in the midst of the twelve signs. It was only very much later that any alchemical significance was attributed to this, and that at a time when the Renaissance schol‐ ars made rather a point of finding something serious and important in symbols which were, in reality, quite frivolous. Baphomet. There is no doubt that this mysterious figure is a magical image of this same idea, de‐ veloped in so many symbols. Its pictorial correspondence is most easily seen in the figures of Zeus Arrhenothelus and Babalon, and in the extraordinarily obscene r…
1929 · PDF PAGE 324
…. They went away as they had come, into the fringe of reeds across the lake. And that was all I saw. I remained unable to reply. At this time I was the last man in the world to take anything of the sort seriously; more I was resolved not to do so even {527} at the cost of restraining the theory of sensory hallucination. What struck me dumb was hearing an old shikari tell the story of Excalibur in language so near to that of Malory as to make no odds. Could one of his sahibs have told him the tale long ago, so that it popped up in this strange f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 329
… Confronted with the fact, she broke down and agreed to take a cure for two months, in an establishment at Leicester. At the end of that time I took her climbing for a fortnight and she came back to London in excellent health; but ten days later the disease broke out with redoubled violence. I did everything that was humanly possible; but it was fighting a losing game. Finally, early in 1909, the doctor threw up the sponge. He told her that she must agree to be sequestrated for two years. She refused: I insisted upon a divorce. I loved her as p…
1929 · PDF PAGE 141
…from the above remarks that a very superficial investigation of thought leads inevitably to the most revolutionary consequences. At this time, however, I was not sufficiently advanced to perceive the full implications of these discoveries. My record contents itself with noting the mere symptoms produced by the practices. Even before leaving Colombo, I had heard the astral bell, to which so much factitious importance has been given. I had also purified what are called the Nadi. My complexion {245} became strangely clear; my voice had lost the ha…
1944 · PDF PAGE 32
…hardly be attained in any other way; it produces an internal harmony which ends in an acceptance of Life and of Nature. It is now almost time to analyse and define the traditional characteristics of these symbols; but perhaps it would be better, first of all, to build on a sure foundation by consid‐ eration of the number Two, which hitherto has not been taken into account. There are only two operations possible in the Universe, Analysis and Synthesis. To di‐ vide, and to unite. Solve et coagula: said the Alchemists. If anything is to be changed…
1907 · PDF PAGE 231
…symbolic silence in costume) to repeat the experiment of Pentecost. But they lacked the stimulus of Syrian air, and that of the stirring times of the already visible sparks of national revolt: they should have sought to replace these by passing the bottle round in their as- semblies, and something would probably have happened, an ’twere only a raid of the police. Better get forty shillings or a month than live and die as lived and died John Bright ! Better be a Shaker, or a camp-meeting homunculus, or a Chatauqua gurl, or a Kes- wick week lunat…
1944 · PDF PAGE 38
…d that it is 100 li from Yung Chang to Pu Peng, but only 40 li from Pu Peng to Yung Chang. The answer is that the li is a measure of the time of marching, not of miles. The difference of calculation informs one that Pu Peng is a long way up the hill. It is very much the same with the Tarot. The 6 of Wands is referred to Jupiter in Leo, and called the Lord of Victory. This dictates not only what victory is like, but also the condi‐ tions to be fulfilled in order to obtain victory. There is need of the fiery energy of the suit of Wands, the balan…