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Page 159 of 1731929 · PDF PAGE 351
…heir thesis on an intuitive perception of the incompetence of reason and on their experience of the results of illumination. I devoted a great deal of time to various essays demonstrative of the general truth above set forth1 and to this practical problem. I took all the mystical and magical practices of all religions all over the world, and those of the secret teachers and associations to which I had access. I have little hesitation in saying that I have not omitted any practice of importance. I stripped these methods of all their dogmatic top…
1906 · PDF PAGE 206
…r'in the brain; When that rots out, and ends, There ends the hour of pain. III, If we can trust to this, Why, dance and drink and revel! Great scarlet mouths to kiss, And sorrow to the devil ! If pangs ataxic creep, Or gout, or stone, annoy us, Queen Morphia, grant thy sleep! Let worms, the dears, enjoy us ! IV. But since a chance remains That ‘‘I;’ survives the body (So talk the men whose brains Are made of smut and shoddy), I'll stop it ifI can. (Ah Jesus, if Thou couldest !) I'll go to Martaban To make myself a Buddhist. V. And yet: the bigg…
1944 · PDF PAGE 133
…er nor father, nor sister nor brother, nor wife nor child, who hast made thy self lonely as the hermit crab that is in the waters of the Great Sea, behold! when the sistrons are shaken, and the trumpets blare forth the glory of Isis, at the end therefore there is silence, and thou shalt commune with Nephthys. And having known these, there are the wings of Maut the Vulture. Thou mayest draw to an head the bow of thy magical will; thou mayest loose the shaft and pierce her to the heart. I am Eros. Take then the bow and the quiver from my shoulder…
1944 · PDF PAGE 17
…e than Mathers could have acquired by normal means from quite accessible sources, such as the British Museum. These circumstances, and a great deal of petty intrigue, led to serious dissatisfaction among the members of the Order. Frl. Sprengel’s judgment, that group‐working in an Order of this sort is possible, was shown in this case to be wrong. In 1900, the Order in its existing form was destroyed. The point of these data is simply to show that, at that time, the main preoccupation of all the serious members of the Order was to get in touch w…
1905 · PDF PAGE 69
… been so perfect: there was on the last passage of his work a hush, a silence almost as if the world—his world—awaited the voice of some great one. And now the silence is not broken. Jerhaps men were not ready for those final chords. Perhaps to hear them would be to pass where he has passed!) But oh! the pity! To leave his greatest task undone! To be stricken down in the last charge, a good soldier to the end ! Would God he could come back only for an hour to put the keystone to his palace that he built of running brooks and trees and buds and …
1904 · PDF PAGE 65
…in the brain ; When that rots out, and ends, There ends the hour of pain. III. If we can trust to this, Why, dance and drink and revel ! Great scarlet mouths to kiss, And sorrow to the devil ! If pangs ataxic creep, Or gout, or stone, annoy us, Queen Morphia, grant thy sleep ! Let worms, the dears, enjoy us ! IV. But since a chance remains That “I” surives the body (So talk the men whose brains Are made of smut and shoddy), I’ll stop it if I can. (Ah Jesus, if Thou couldest !) I’ll go to Martaban To make myself a Buddhist. V. And yet : the bigg…
1904 · PDF PAGE 79
APPENDIX I 72 V. “Now the great elephant strode with lordly footsteps in the forest, and Jehjaour shut himself up with his caldrons and things and felt quite happy, for he knew his danger was not near till the approachin of Perdu’ R Abu’s Arahatship. But in spite of the young gently-ambling cows which Ganesha took care to throw in his way , in spite of the tender shoots of green and the soft cocoanuts, this elephant was not as other elephants. The seasons spoke to him of change—the forest is ever full of sorrow— and nobody need preach to him th…
1904 · PDF PAGE 124
…ufficient evi- dence. W ith this word of warning, I leave the metaphysician to wallow in his m ire, and look toward better times for the great problems of philosophy . Remember that when the solution is attained it is not the solution of one learned man for his fellows, but one realised and assimilated by every man in his own consciousness. And what the solution may be none of us can foreshadow. To hoist the problem on to the horns of a dilem ma will avail nothing when A=A may be no longer true ; and this by no Hegelian word-juggle ; but by dir…
1911 · PDF PAGE 304
…y well-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the reeds by the River?” Well, Mr Victor Neuburg has discovered the answer, for he was obviously wandering near the river if he was not hidden in the reeds. . . .”—Rowert Ross in The Bystander. “There is no question about the poetic quality of much of Mr Neuburg’s verse... . We are given visions of love which open new amorous possibilities.” —Darly Chronicle.
1911 · PDF PAGE 304
…y well-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the reeds by the River?” Well, Mr Victor Neuburg has discovered the answer, for he was obviously wandering near the river if he was not hidden in the reeds. . . .”—Rowert Ross in The Bystander. “There is no question about the poetic quality of much of Mr Neuburg’s verse... . We are given visions of love which open new amorous possibilities.” —Darly Chronicle.
1929 · PDF PAGE 28
…Roman emperor as we romantically imagine him to have been, not as we see him in most sculpture. The tremendous brow, the eagle eyes, the great hooked arrogant nose, the firm mouth and the indomitable jaw combined to make him one of the most strikingly handsome men that I have ever seen. He lived in a stately splendour which had no hint of ostentation. I never knew his first wife, by whom he had two children, Claude and Agnes. Claude was strikingly ugly, so much so as to be attractive, and he had a touch of deformity without being actually a hun…
1944 · PDF PAGE 130
…to death, that even I, thy cup‐bearer, may understand. “Now, through the ruddy glow of the cup, I may perceive far above, and infinitely great, the vision of Babylon. And the Beast whereon she rideth is the Lord of the City of the Pyra‐ mids, that I beheld in the fourteenth Aethyr. “Now that is gone in the glow of the cup, and the Angel saith: Not as yet mayest thou understand the mystery of the Beast, for it pertaineth not unto the mystery of this Aire, and few that are new‐ born unto Understanding are capable thereof. “The cup glows ever brig…
1904 · PDF PAGE 95
…m and ill-luck com e to the Brethren. In this place, therefore, will I set down the exact truth of all that happened. In the year of the Great Passing Over were signs and wonders seen of all men, O m y Brethren, as it is written, and well known unto this day. And the first sign was of dancing: for every woman that was under the moon began to dance and was mad, so that headlong and hot-mouthed she flung herself down, desirous. Whence the second sign, that of musical inventions ; for in that year, and of Ros ewomen, came A and U and M,1 the might…
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
…cal occupation for a humane man who believed that even the noblest and best of mankind were doomed to eternal punishment. One card --- a great favourite, as being peculiarly deadly --- was headed "Poor Anne's Last Words"; the gist of her remarks appears to have been "Lost, lost, lost!" She had been a servant in the house of Edward Crowley the elder, and her dying delirium had made a deep impression upon the son of the house. By the way, Edward Crowley possessed the power, as per Higgins, the professor in Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, of telling ins…
1906 · PDF PAGE 268
…, and we see that the exostoses of the melanotic pyemata by the river's brim are exostoses and nothing more. . 7 An unpleasant subject—a great comfort to ‘think of—vide Wilde, of. czt., and A Woman | of 20 Importance. Also Krafft-Ebing, Psycho- pathia Sexualis, xx.; The Family Doctor, Quain, Anatomy of Grey Maiter, cxlv. 24. 8 The 24th part of a (solar) day. ® From French con, and Ang. Sax. fican, to tickle: hence, a friendly conflict. 10 10 See 9, above. 11 Vies imaginaires (Crates); also Eaux-de- Vie réelles (Martel). There is a fine model at…
1906 · PDF PAGE 232
… Birth that each birth may be as long as possible. Now the elephant is the longest lived of all beasts—’ ‘Done with you!’ sac Ganesha in great glee, for the idea struck him as ingenious. And he lumbered off to clinch the affair at once. ‘‘ And Perdw’ R Abu died. 1 The archdevil of the Buddhists.
1929 · PDF PAGE 111
…ion of Abra-Melin the Mage, having by God's Grace formulated even in this a new link with the Higher and gained a new weapon against the Great Princes of the Evil of the World. Amen. I went to Paris, discussed the situation with Mathers and formulated the following proposal for dealing with the refractory "temple". I. The Second Order to be summoned at various times during two or three days. They to find, on being admitted one by one, a masked man in authority and a scribe. These questions, etc. pass, after pledge of secrecy concerning intervie…
1929 · PDF PAGE 487
…olved in manufacture by machinery. Many of these produced effects of exquisite beauty of a land till then dreamed of in my philosophy. A great mass of pills in a highly polished and rapidly revolving receiver was infinitely fascinating to watch. The spheres tumbled over each other with a rhythmical rise and fall in a rhythm which sang to the soul. They were kind enough to interest themselves in my researches in Anhalonium Lewinii and made me some special preparations on the lines indicated by my experience which proved greatly superior to previ…
1944 · PDF PAGE 179
…re attributed to Netzach. The position is doubly unbalanced; off the mid‐ dle pillar, and very low down on the Tree. It is taking a very great risk to descend so far into illusion, and, above all, to do it by frantic struggle. Netzach pertains to Venus; Netzach pertains to Earth; and the greatest catastrophe that can befall Venus is to lose her Heavenly origin. The four Sevens are not capable of bringing any comfort; each one represents the degeneration of the element. Its utmost weakness is exposed in every case. The Seven of Wands is called V…
1929 · PDF PAGE 233
…n, but also in so-called rationalism, and I prosecuted these studies in a strictly scholarly spirit. I worked very hard at them and made great progress accordingly; but my true life was still the honeymoon, slightly diluted by the ordinary pleasures of sport and society. I relapsed into golf after some fourteen years' total abstinence; took a few lessons from the pro at the Turf Club, and found that my St. Andrews swing and the canniness inculcated by Andrew Kirkaldy {388} made a fine basis for playing a fairly decent game. We went to Helwan on…