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Page 159 of 1971922 · PDF PAGE 253
…vered my own well-being when I was forced to forget about it ! Peter is still desperately striving to save himself. “ He that loveth his life shall lose it.” I must dedicate my miraculously restored faculties to his salvation. Only I don’t see how to set to work. If only Basil were here. He would know. He has worked out the technique. All I can do is to love and labour blindly. After all, there must have been angels looking after me in some sense which I don’t pretend to understand. Why should they not be even more vigilant on his behalf ? I am…
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
…e Gertie! There was a silence. Excuse me, father, said the girl at last, but I've just had a glimpse of you for the first time in my life, and it's a bit of a shock. I must think. And she stood motionless until her hapless father at- tracted her attention by backing into his wicker chair. Don't touch holy things, she snapped suddenly, taking the sketch from his nerveless hand, and replacing it rev- erently in the portfolio. The action seemed to decide her.
1944 · PDF PAGE 86
…for, the diatribes against the Beast and the Scarlet Woman in the XIII, XVII and XVIII‐th chapters of the Apocalypse; but on the Tree of Life, the path of Gimel, the Moon, descending from the highest, cuts the path of Teth, Leo, the house of the Sun, so that the Woman in the card may be regarded as a form of the Moon, very fully il‐ luminated by the Sun, and intimately united with him in such wise as to produce, incarnate in human form, the representative or representatives of the Lord of the Aeon. She rides astride the Beast; in her left hand …
1929 · PDF PAGE 369
…t me free for my proposed Retirement, which I decided to undertake in Paris rather than London. The details of every single minute of my life for the next fortnight are accurately recorded in "John St. John". Here I need only say that the work was successful beyond all expectations. I not only achieved my stated object, but obtained access to a reserve of energy which carried me on for years, performing Herculean labours without conscious effort. My time was in fact very fully taken up with the preparation of The Equinox. I had to be constantly…
1922 · PDF PAGE 313
…inly,” I returned, and I could feel the hostility creeping into my voice. “And why not? It’s a wonderful investment and the chance of my life financially, and I don’t see why women have to poke their noses into men’s business which they don’t under- stand and never will. Between you, you may have made me miss my chance. Confound you! If I knew where to find Platt, I’d go around and sign the contract this moment. As it is, I can go down to the bank and arrange to get the money.” I pulled out my watch. “T can’t even have my lunch, I suppose,” I w…
1922 · PDF PAGE 352
…ad even got through a whole game of Thelema without having to sit down and gasp. But there was still an obscure hankering after the drug life. It had been burnt into me that normal interests were not worth while. King Lamus had taken me out climbing several times ; but while I experienced profound physical satisfaction, I could not overcome the moral attitude which is
1930 · PDF PAGE 115
…lse notions before giving them up. Unless this be done perfectly, one will get the True mixed up with the remains of the False. 3. One’s life has hitherto been guided by those false notions. There¬ fore on giving them up, one has no standard of control of thought or action; and, until the truth is born, one can move only by virtue of one’s momentum. It is jumping off. 415 —
1954 · PDF PAGE 491
…iesced in and helped to fulfil, the formula of the catastrophic succession of the Aeons. An analogy. We have the secret of the Elixir of Life, and could carryon in the same body indefinitely; yet at least some Masters prefer to reincarnate in the regular way, only taking care to waste no time in Amennti, but to get back to the Old Bench and pick up the New Tools with the minimum of delay. By having attained the Freedom of "Elysian, windless, fortunate abodes Beyond Heaven's constellated wilderness" "we are blessed; and bless" by refusing to lin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 78
…y men and to acquire the power of communicating with the angelic and divine intelligence of the universe. I longed for perfect purity of life, for mastery of the secret forces of nature, and for a career of devoted labour on behalf of "the Creation which groaneth and travaileth". My poetry at this time is charged to the highest point with these aspirations. I may mention the dedication to Songs of the Spirit, "The Quest", "The Alchemist", "The Philosopher's Progress", "A Spring Snowstorm in WAstdale", "Succubus", "Nightfall", "The Storm", "Whea…
1904 · PDF PAGE 62
…an ever came out of it. Such was my fond farewell to Stephen Jimson. But Leila, who ran to embrace me, was for the first time in all her life defeated. For seven days she buffeted my beard-splitter like Palinurus and the waves ; but she too failed. I had broken every record in the long-distance competition : and I needed rest. Even the pelvis of my boy love failed to rouse me : once the reaction had set in, nothing could stop it. On the eighth day Leila fell back with a weary and long-drawn howl : on the twenty- sixth she recovered sufficiently…
1907 · PDF PAGE 129
…hou shalt drink the hemlock; thou shalt suffer And die for self-respect, for love of others! To-day are men indissolubly brothers? Is my life smoother than the Greek’s or rougher ? The Greek at least shall stead me in my craft. Crucify Crowley! Nay, my friends! the draught. COLOPHON. INCIDENT. (RUE DE L'UNIVERSITE, 182.) SPELL-BOUND we Sat: the vivid violin Wailed, pleaded, waited, triumphed. Kingly note By note imperial from its passionate throat Vibrates : the shadows fall like pauses in The workshop of the Master: where there spin Phrases in…
1922 · PDF PAGE 153
…re like Europe after the war. The worst and the best we could do was to become utterly disgusted with ourselves, each other, Naples, and life in general. The spirit of adventure was dead—as dead as the spirit of love. We had just enough moral courage after a very good lunch at Gambrinus, to make up our minds to get out of the entire beastly atmosphere. Our love had become a mutual clinging, like that of two drowning people. We shook hands on the definite oath to get back to England, and get back as quick as we could. . I believe I might have fa…
1954 · PDF PAGE 414
… of all my passions-bar sloth-is Pride; and here was I, the object of universal contempt. So, when I was able to determine my own way of life, I observed mildly "Pike's Peak or bust!" and chose for my sports the two, mountain climbing and big-game shooting, reputed the most dangerous. It was a desperate remedy, but it worked. No half measures, either! I used to wander into the jungle alone, looking for tigers, and trusting to my sense of direction to take me back to camp. All my mountain climbing was guideless, and a very great deal of it solit…
1904 · PDF PAGE 66
…e place to a momentary glimmer of any higher form of intelligence than that ever necessarily concentrated on the actual business of camp life. The rest, and the final revision, occupied a good deal of my time during the winter of 1902-1903. The MS. was accepted by the S. P. R. T. in May of this year, and after a post- final revision, rendered necessary by my Irish descent, went to press. 618. Each life bound over to the wheel.72— Cf. Whatley, “Revelation of a Future State.” [* These page r eferences have been alter ed to conform to the paginati…
1906 · PDF PAGE 211
…cine for the mind.” * The Phallus of Shiva the Destroyer. It is really identical with the;Qabalistic ‘‘ Middle Pillar” of the ‘* Tree of Life.” t An imaginary laiy to whom Sairey Gamp in Dickens’ ‘* Martin Chuzzlewit ” used to appeal. { Vide the daily papers of June-July rgor. Cf. Macbeth: ‘‘Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ? ” 58. VA tl.10_Enough. N 60. FHAATAA i u— why? 60. WA VIT1'—What will be? 61. Strange and painful attttude.'3 — Sid- dhasana. 62, He was very rude.\4—The following is a sample :— ‘*O Devatas! behold this yogi ! A…
1910 · PDF PAGE 177
… Pranayama.” Thus he thought, and said. Further he said: “Let me abandon these follies of poesy and Vamacharya (“debauchery,” ze, normal life) and health and vain things and let me put in some work.” 22nd. Began Suddhi and “ Namo Shivaya Namaha Aum.” to.1g-11.15 A’sana, Pranayama. Nine minutes 10, 20. 30. am. am. Dharana on nose ten minutes. 5.55-6.25, Pranayama. Four minutes: 10. 20. 30. p.m. p.m. Pranayama. Ten minutes: 10. 20. 30. Prandyama. One of 30. 15. 60. twice. Two such consecu- tively quite out of the question. 9.12-9.45 Pranayama. Tw…
1910 · PDF PAGE 177
… Pranayama.” Thus he thought, and said. Further he said: “Let me abandon these follies of poesy and Vamacharya (“debauchery,” ze, normal life) and health and vain things and let me put in some work.” 22nd. Began Suddhi and “ Namo Shivaya Namaha Aum.” to.1g-11.15 A’sana, Pranayama. Nine minutes 10, 20. 30. am. am. Dharana on nose ten minutes. 5.55-6.25, Pranayama. Four minutes: 10. 20. 30. p.m. p.m. Pranayama. Ten minutes: 10. 20. 30. Prandyama. One of 30. 15. 60. twice. Two such consecu- tively quite out of the question. 9.12-9.45 Pranayama. Tw…
1922 · PDF PAGE 363
…et your breakfast get cold, you don’t know your wife when she brings it, and you can talk about nothing else. For the first time in your life your self- consciousness is obliterated, You even start to explain your ideas to me, though I know nothing whatever of the subject. It doesn’t require any particular genius to see that you have discovered your true will. And that accounts for the champagne and applause at lunch.” I scratched my head, still hardly comprehending. But one clause in the Big Lion’s roar had struck me with appalling force. I lo…
1954 · PDF PAGE 213
…o me himself, and undoubtedly believed it, although he was an average tough Bolshevik who naturally disbelieved in Heaven and Hell and a Life beyond the Grave. This man was doing "underground" revolutionary work in St. Petersburg when the War broke out; but he was caught by the police and exiled to the far north of Siberia. In the second winter of the War he escaped from his prison camp and reached an Eskimo village where they gave him shelter until the spring. They lived, he said, in beastly conditions, and the only one whom he could talk to w…
1954 · PDF PAGE 416
… second youth, he was in such health, enjoyed uch prosperity, and commanded such universal respect and levotion that every moment of his life was dear to him. lmong his pleasures one of the chief was the friendship of he aged Mohammed ibn Mahmed of Bassorah, reputed a sage f no common stature, for (it was said) his piety had been ewarded with such gifts as the power to communicate with U'changels, angels, the Jinn, and even with Gabriel himself. Iowever this may have been, he held Isaak in very great steem and affection. It was shortly after le…