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Page 148 of 1591929 · PDF PAGE 484
…e subject is as great as ever. I propose to demonstrate once for all the truth of the proposition, that the aspect of the heavens at the time of birth is connected with the observed characteristics of the native by collecting a large number of photographs, full face and profile for each subject, and classifying them according to the horoscope. I will thus have twelve sets, one for each sign ascending, twelve showing the possible positions of the sun. I should also examine the assertion that people with Mars rising have some scar or other abnorm…
1912 · PDF PAGE 426
… 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 1 -+ 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 w…
1912 · PDF PAGE 426
… 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 1 -+ 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 w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 598
… 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 1 + 1 = 3.”— Zhe 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 w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 598
… 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 1 + 1 = 3.”— Zhe 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 w…
1944 · PDF PAGE 40
… the matter here. But the position is made clear enough by the accompanying diagram. It will be seen at a glance that now, for the first time, is a perfect symmetry established in the Tarot. The justice of the exchange is evident when one considers Etymology. It is natural that the Great Mother should be attributed to Hé, which is her letter in the Tetragrammaton, while the letter Tzaddi is the natural letter of the Emperor in the original phonetic system, as shown in the words Tsar, Czar, Kaiser, Cæsar, Senior, Seigueur, Señor, Signor, Sir. TH…
1906 · PDF PAGE 240
…nd pitiful plaints against the logical results of the Advaitist School. But on his basal hypothesis of an infinite God, infinite. space, time, and so on, no other conclusion is possible. Dean Mansel is found in the im- possible position of one who will neither give up his premisses nor dispute the validity of his logical processes, but who shrinks in horror from the inevitable conclusion; he supposes there must be something wrong somewhere, and concludes that the sole use of reason is to discover its. own inferiority to faith. As Deussen? well …
1944 · PDF PAGE 43
…derive the Sitting‐down‐ Thirteen‐at‐Table nonsense from the legend of the Last Supper. (Incidentally, it can hardly have been the first time that those thirteen sat down to table.) But the really primitive superstitions cannot be explained so simply. It seems more probable that they arose from the unscientific habit (extremely common among men of sci‐ ence) of generalising from too few facts. It might happen by chance that on half a dozen occa‐ sions within a short period, a hunter, setting out at Full Moon, was killed. The old fallacy of Post…
1929 · PDF PAGE 445
…s vessel was laughed at, but afterwards it was found that it held one third more and sailed better than any other merchant vessel of the time. Thus we have a collateral proof no way inconsiderable that the Spirit of God, from whom commeth all understanding, directed Noah in that manner. Again, the central secret of a Master Mason is in a Word which is lost. This fact has induced various and ingenious persons to invent ceremonies in which it is found (in some more or less remarkable manner) amid the acclamations of the assembled populace, and pr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 416
…ter (my diary of 1911 is missing --- if, indeed, it was ever kept --- so I am uncertain of my dates) I went into Retirement, spending my time alternately between Paris and Montigny-sur-Loing on the southern edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau. It was immediately evident that I was in the right path. I had placed my body and mind entirely at the service of the Master of the Temple who had filled the vacuum of the universe caused by the annihilation of Aleister Crowley. I kept my body in perfect condition by walking almost every day to Fontainebl…
1906 · PDF PAGE 285
TIME 279 7@:c¢::¢:a—an infinite process. The final factor is always unknowable—yet it is the one thing known. Afyst. And because it is always present, therefore it is unkenned. Scept. We are now nearer Spencer than appeared. For the fact that it must be there, unchanging in function, while con- sciousness persists, gives the idea of a definite substratum to subserve that function. Myst. I cannot but agree; and I would further observe that when, in Dhyana, it ceases to examine, and apperceives, the ‘‘ relative eternity,’ z.¢., the intense vividn…
1929 · PDF PAGE 482
…llectual opinions, I am willing to make this public statement as to what I did in the war, and why I did it. My attitude is unaltered by time. I still think the English pot as black as the German kettle, and I am still willing to die in defence of the pot. Mine is the loyalty of Bill Sikes' dog; you can't make me believe that my master is an injured innocent; and the fact that he starves and beats me doesn't alter the fact that I am his dog, and I love him. Let the publication of this paper make clear my integrity! Let the British public come t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 233
… biographer is in fact the key to his whole char- acter, life, and opinions. This is no place to labour the point; I have That he at one time or another achieved }at hand none of the necessary documents; but . . - . ~ success is certain from the universal report of his holiness and from the nature of his writings. The repeated phrase in the Optics, ‘‘ God is 1 The italics are ours.—Epb. it might be worth the research of a scholar to trace Berkeley’s progress through the grades of the Great Order.—A. C. 2 It occurs in James i. 17.
1929 · PDF PAGE 110
…ent, at least, though you are at perfect liberty to show him this if you think fit, after mature consideration. He has NEVER been at any time either in personal or written communication with the Secret Chiefs of the order, he having either himself forged or procured to be forged the professed correspondence between him and them, and my tongue having been tied all these years by a Previous Oath of Secrecy to him, demanded by him, from me, before showing me what he had either done or caused to be done or both. You must comprehend from what little…
1929 · PDF PAGE 7
7 unconquerable dislike for for the cold plunge, and at the same time a vivid passion for ceremonial speech. These two qualities have played highly important parts in his development. This baptism, by the way, though it never worried him, provided a peril to the soul of another. When his wife's conduct compelled him to insist upon her divorcing him --- a formality as meaningless as their marriage --- and she became insane shortly afterward, an eminent masochist named Colonel Gormley, R.A.M.C. (dead previously, then and since) lay in wait for he…
1929 · PDF PAGE 133
…rrasses its elders by its unconscious absurdity. Lastly, look eastward! There lies China; there is the only civilization that has looked time in the face without a blush; an atheism with good manners. There broods the old wise man, he who has conquered life without the aid of death, who may survive these strenuous youths and even the worn barren widow mumbling meaningless memories in her toothless mouth.
1929 · PDF PAGE 422
…m Abif, to the plays of Shakespeare, Ibsen and many others. I now turn to my magical writings during this astounding summer. In my spare time I began to make a list of Greek words connected with Magick and similar subjects, arranging them by their numerical order. The idea was to construct a dictionary of the Greek Cabbala1 similar to that of the Hebrew Cabbala on which I had been at work since 1899 and ultimately published in The Equinox, vol. I, No. VIII. But the Greek Cabbala presents difficulties which do not arise in the case of Hebrew. Fi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 119
…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 S pencer’s “ Transfigured Realis m.” I will not point out in greater detail how he proposes, by a chain of reasoning, to overthrow the conclusions he admits as being those of reason. But his statem ent that Idealism is but verbally intelligible is for m y purpose the most admirable thing he could have said. He is wrong in say ing that idealis…
1929 · PDF PAGE 139
…dly, there is a class of breaks partaking of the nature of reverie or "daydreams". These are very insidious --- one may go on for a long time without realizing that one has wandered at all. Fourthly, we get a very high class of break, which is as sort of aberration of the control itself. You think, "How well I am doing it!" or perhaps that it would be rather a good idea if your were on a desert island, or if your were in a sound-proof house, or if your were sitting by a waterfall. But these are only trifling variations from the vigilance itself…
1929 · PDF PAGE 275
…iption, in 1910. I have heard of a copy changing hands at fifty guineas. This spurt of genius is an eloquent portrait of my mind at this time. I was absolutely convinced of the supreme importance of devoting my life to attaining Samadhi, conscious communion with the Immanent Soul of the Universe. I believed in mysticism. I understood perfectly the essence of its method and the import of its attainment, but I felt compelled to express myself in a satirical and (it might appear to some) almost scandalous form. I testified to the tremendous truth …