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… deep wells and springs of tears! iii. 63 O the gloom of these distasteful tomes, li. 25 O there is edged the waning moon, iii. 36 O the time of dule and teen, i. 87 O thou, of Angels fairest and most wise, ii. 15 O triple form of darkness! Sombre splendour ! iil, 177 Our hair deep laden with the scent of earth, iil, I41 Our love takes on a tinge of melancholy, i. 84 Out of the seething cauldron of my woes, i. 202 Out of the waters of the sea, i. 79 Over a sea like stainéd glass, ii, 111 Over the western water lies a solar fire, 1. 214 O virgin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 92
…. Our dons never get nervous lest a rag should go too far, and we never betrayed their trust, at least not till quite recently. Since my time the tone of both universities has been lowered. Before 1900 a rag capable of scaring the women students would have been unthinkable. Tyranny always trembles, and I remember only too well the wave of sympathy which swept through Cambridge at the news that the Oxford authorities, panic-stricken at some projected demonstration, had actually imported mounted police from London. Our own dons would have cut the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 295
…ge rendered unpleasant towards the end by threatening rain, which carried out its fell designs in the course of the night. For the first time we experienced native curiosity in wholesale form. We had been recommended to avoid this by secretiveness. This strange wild beast, a white woman, was to be camouflaged in Chinese clothes and bundled out of sight as soon as possible. I adopted exactly opposite tactics. I said to the people, "Come and see, enlarge your minds, increase your experience, take the fullest advantage of this opportunity." They w…
1904 · PDF PAGE 68
…y do not understand, and whose nature is beyond them. 782. Christ ascends.82—And I tell you frankly that if he does not come back by the time I have finished reading these proofs, I shall give him up. 783. Bell.83—The folios have “bun.” NOTES TO PENTECOST 22. With sacred thirst.1—“He, soul-hy- droptic with a sacred thirst. ” A Grammarian’s Funeral. 23. Levi.2—Ceremonial magic is not quite so silly as it sounds. Witness the following mas-terly elucidation of its inner quintessence :— THE INITIATED INTERPRETATION OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC* It is loftil…
1906 · PDF PAGE 196
…rs, a juster appre- ciation of the glories of our greatest poet, a possibly jejune yet assuredly historic attempt to place for the first time William Shakespeare on his proper pedestal as an early disciple of Mr. George Bernard Shaw; and by conse- quence to carve myself a little niche in the same temple : the smallest contributions will be thank- fully received. NOTES TO ASCENSION DAY 1. 1 fung outof chapel,\—Browning, Xmas five, III. last line. 3. Venus’ Bower and Osiris’ Crowley, Zannhduser, 5. God.3—Hebrew DYN, Gen. iii. s. 5. gods.4—Hebrew …
1929 · PDF PAGE 511
… extraordinary. Eleven years had sufficed me to accomplish a task which in human experience had never required much less than triple the time. Moreover, the conditions had been almost {806} uniquely favourable for me. I possessed all the qualities, all the resources requisite. In the case of O.I.V. the period was shorter still, and by much; while for him the conditions had been wholly adverse. He was obliged to earn his living in a distasteful and exhausting manner. His domestic circumstances were atrocious. He had not the means of travel or ev…
1929 · PDF PAGE 447
…nd is found, is in daily use by initiates of our Order. Scientific facts are accumulating rapidly; and it is certain that within a short time we shall be able to dispose of a force more powerful than electricity and capable of more extended application, with the same certainly. Our qualitative results are unquestionable. The lack of quantitative methods, which has for so many centuries prevented the systematic application of our knowledge, will soon be supplied. I may say that the secret of the O.T.O., besides what has been mentioned above, has…
1929 · PDF PAGE 87
…y, to be able to occupy the mind in such ways when one has not the conveniences or inclination for one's regular work, and there is much time to kill in a hotel or a tent in bad weather. Personally, I have found chess solitaire and triple-dummy bridge or skat as good as anything. Eckenstein was a recognized authority on what is known as Kirkwood's schoolgirl problem, but we used to work all sorts of things, from problems connected with Mersenne's numbers and Fermat's binary theorem to the purely frivolous attempt to represent any given number b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 101
101 who follow this interest. Crowley's doctor prescribed heroin at a time in the 'teens when it was thought to be non-addictive! Crowley experienced the terrors of withdrawal, recounted in his "Liber XCIII", and ultimately died of respiratory infection in 1947, fifty years after the events described here. {180} Allan Bennett was tall, but his sickness had already produced a stoop. His head, crowned with a shock of wild black hair, was intensely noble; the brows, both wide and lofty, overhung indomitable piercing eyes. The face would have been …
1929 · PDF PAGE 391
…drowned in the desert. This sounds supremely absurd, water being the scantiest element of the Sahara. The root of the belief is that sometimes cloudbursts occur and sweep away camps which happen to have been pitched in ravines or depressions; but the most ordinary common sense tells one how to guard against any such accident. They are in terror of brigands and also of numerous varieties of devils. I thought it polite to impress them with my majesty as a Magician. With this object I took Burton's hint that a star sapphire was universally venerat…
1929 · PDF PAGE 219
219 discovered until breakfast time. We repaired to the hotel and ate and drank something in a state of suppressed nervous excitement. I confess to having been ashamed of myself. There I was, accoutred cap-a-pie from my bonnet to my claymore, and I had nothing at stake; and yet I was nervous! We were at the lawyer's on the stroke of eight, where we discovered that the sheriff was a mere flourish and that all we had to do was to consent to being married, and declare that we regarded ourselves as man and wife. A faint disgust at the prose of the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 541
…ds by penning them with the herd. The Abbey of Thelema has thus demonstrated practically how to cope with the three main problems of our time: sex, economics and education. We dealt with a host of minor difficulties. But the most striking phenomenon of all was that the majority of petty worries never appeared at all. It became clear that many such troubles have no real root in the facts of life, but are artificial symptoms suggested by the fundamental diseases. My final interpretation of my five years in America may be summarized somewhat as fo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 246
…4 Fraught with the glory of a dead despair, iii. 59 Fresh breath from the woodland blows sweet, i, I17 Fresh in the savage vigour of the time, iii. 117 From darkness of fugitive thought, iii. 127 From fourfold quarters, ili. 133 From the abyss, the horrible lone world, i. 200 From youth and love to sorrow is one stride, ili, 116 Full amber-breasted light of harvest-moon, 148 Full is the joy of Maidenhood made strong, iii, 147 Q
1929 · PDF PAGE 433
…epel, stimulate, puzzle and interest, are evidently some of its functions. Stupendously idiotic and amazingly cleaver, it is at the same time the quintessence of paradox and simplicity itself; yet when all this is said one is still far from the core, for just when one thinks to have discovered it, one finds that many obvious beauties of thought and expression have been overlooked, others misinterpreted. Sometimes one is even doubtful if the author himself could translate into definite terms the exact meaning of his aphorisms and paradoxes witho…
1904 · PDF PAGE 102
…e are all. Call the man X; his formula is then X t+s+b+h+h. If he now eat; he will cease to be extended in hunger; if he be cut off from time and gravitation as well, he will now be represented by the formula Xs+b. Should he cease to occupy s pace and to exist, his formula would then be X 0. This expression is equal to 1; whatever X may represent, if it be raised to the power of 0 (this meaning mathematically “if it be extended in no dimension or category”), the result is Unity, and the unknown factor X is eliminated. This is the Advaitist idea…
1929 · PDF PAGE 5
… Square, Leamington, Warwichshire2, on the 12th day of October3 1875 E.V. between eleven and twelve at night. Leo was just rising at the time, as nearly as can be ascertained. The branch of the family of Crowley to which this man belonged has been settled in England since Tudor times: in the days of Bad Queen Bess there was a Bishop Crowley, who wrote epigrams in the style of Marital. One of them --- the only one I know --- runs thus:
1929 · PDF PAGE 281
281 that I look back with the keenest interest and pleasure to the events which at the time were torture unassuaged. Imagine, then, how I gloried in the low of the silken waters about the ship, in the fantastically immaterial outlines of the Arakan hills, in the gloom of the gracious frondage of the forests, in the curves of the cobra coast, in the sinister stories of wreck and piracy which haunt that desolate abyss through which we were steaming, where for nine months of the year one can scarce distinguish between sky and sea, so dark and damp…
1929 · PDF PAGE 177
…or the Swiss newspapers, keeping an elaborate journal for the purposes of his book on the expedition, and spending the rest of his spare time in playing chess with me. Eckenstein made himself quite unpleasant to me, which was utterly out of his character; and, by itself, evidence of the strain on his temper caused by the Austrian idiocies and vanities. I wasted no words. I merely shrugged my shoulders and said: either I took my books with me or I left the expedition. Needless to say, I carried my point. It may strike some people that I was a li…
1904 · PDF PAGE 100
…the fort of Ethics, and warn metaphysics to keep off the rather green grass of religion. That its apologists should have devoted so much time, thought, scholarship and in- genuity to this question is the best proof of the fatuity of the Advaita position. There is then a flaw somewhere. I boldly take up the glove against all previous wisdom, 1 Or, as the Sunday -school boy said: “Faith is the power of believing what we know to be untrue.” I quote Deussen with the more pleasure, because it is about the only sentence in all his writings with which…
1929 · PDF PAGE 383
…nows no obstacle. It is true that one can lift a fallen flower from the floor and keep it on a table; but the forces are at work all the time, and the action has been completely compensated by the redistribution of the stresses on every material object in the whole universe, by the shifting of the centre of gravity of the cosmos, as my muscles sway from one state of equilibrium to another, and the flower exerts its energies from the mahogany instead of the carpet. Presumption in Magick is, therefore, sure to be punished --- swiftly and justly. …