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Page 161 of 1971929 · PDF PAGE 573
…lem. In the abbey he would be able to make himself a career as a writer as he could not hope to do in the loathsome surroundings of slum life in London. His health, too, demanded urgently a complete change. He had already been ill at frequent intervals. During October the foulness of Fitzroy Street fastened its foetid fangs on his throat. Both he and Betty escaped death by a hairbreadth. It decided him to accept my offer which I had renewed in a long letter written from Rome. I was equally anxious to rescue him for the verminous vagabonds, squa…
1930 · PDF PAGE 131
…nto me in the Beginning; for if ye take but one step in this Path, ye must arrive inevitably at the end thereof. 20. This Path is beyond Life and Death; it is also beyond Love, but that ye know not, for ye know not Love. 21. And the end thereof is known not even unto Our Ladv, J s nor to the Beast whereon She rideth, nor unto the Virgin her daughter, nor unto Chaos her lawful Lord; but unto the Crowned Child is it known ? It is not known if it be known. 22. Therefore unto Hadit and unto Nuit be the glory in the End and the Beginning; yea, in th…
1905 · PDF PAGE 182
…wfall, at the dawn Sin and sorrow, interwoven, Like a veil are drawn Over love and all delight ; Grey desires invade the white, Love and life are but a span ; Woe is me ! and woe is man ! ’ “ In conclusion, as far as descriptive power and beauty of thought are concerned, we consider that the author of ‘ The Tale of Archais ’ holds the first place among the latter-day poets.”— Cambridge Magazine. Songs of the Spirit. 3s. 6d. A collection of delicate lyrics, illustrative of the vague yet holy aspirations of adolescence. “ We shall be sorry if any…
1909 · PDF PAGE 380
…anxious to know more about the Man-Cover, and my duty as a reporter has made me forget the moral ideas painfully inculcated unto me by a life of hard experience and severely-paid-for mistakes. Scratch the man, you will find the beast. I must admit this has proved true for me also. It is the last time that I let my own personality come between the readers and the wickedly mad hero of history, and I apologise for this intrusion. I now give place to him, and will publish his notes as I receive them. The contents of the coffin have not suffered fro…
1909 · PDF PAGE 380
…anxious to know more about the Man-Cover, and my duty as a reporter has made me forget the moral ideas painfully inculcated unto me by a life of hard experience and severely-paid-for mistakes. Scratch the man, you will find the beast. I must admit this has proved true for me also. It is the last time that I let my own personality come between the readers and the wickedly mad hero of history, and I apologise for this intrusion. I now give place to him, and will publish his notes as I receive them. The contents of the coffin have not suffered fro…
1929 · PDF PAGE 24
…ng it to eut himself whenever he unguardedly utters a chosen word. He may serve the same purpose by resolving that every incident of his life shall remind him of a particular thing, making every impression the starting point of a connected sériés of thoughts ending in that thing. He might also devote his whole energies to some one particular object, by resolving to do nothing at variance therewith, and to make every act turn to the advantage of that object.) (18) He may attract to himself any force of the Uni verse by making himself a fit récep…
1954 · PDF PAGE 120
…ine. Their formula has attained the destruction of all positive qualities. It is only one step to the stage when the annihilation of all life and thought will appear as a fatal necessity. The materialism and vital scepticism of the present time, its frenzied rush for pleasure in total disregard of any idea of building for the future, testifies to a condition of complete moral disorder, of abject spiritual anarchy. The White School has thus been paralysed. We are reminded of the spider described by Fabre, who injects her victims with a poison wh…
1954 · PDF PAGE 392
… the "evocation to visible appearance" of the Goetia demon Buer by myself and V.H. Frater "Volo Noscere." (Our object was to prolong the life, in imminent danger, of V.H. Frater lehi Aour-Allan Bennett-Bhikkhu Ananda Metteya-and was successful; he lived another 20 odd years. And odd years they were!) I was wide awake, keyed up, keenly observant at the time. The temple was approximately 16 feet by 8, and 12 high. A small "double-cube" altar of acacia was in the centre of a circle; outside this was a triangle in which it was proposed to get the d…
1954 · PDF PAGE 470
…push against brick walls. Yet one last point. I am as near seventy as makes no matter, and I am still learning with all my might. All my life I have been taught: governesses, private tutors, schools, private and public, the best of the Universities: how little I know! I have travelled all over the world in all conditions, from "grand seigneur," to "holy man"; how little I know! What then of the ninety-and-nine, dragged by the ears through suicide examinations, and kicked out of school into factory in their teens? They have learnt only just enou…
1905 · PDF PAGE 239
… thing. But of Thy likeness have I often seen The vast presentment—formless, palpable, Breathing. Not breathing as we use the word, When life and spirit mingle in one breath, Slay passion in one kiss—breathing, I say, Differently from Thee! VENUS. Explain, explain ! TANNHAUSER. As if were kindled into gold and fire The East ! VENUS. The East ! TANNHAUSER. As ifa flowerless moss Suddenly broke in passionate primroses !! VENUS. Violets, violets ! TANNHAUSER. Or as if a man Lay in the fairest garden of the world, In the beginning: and grew suddenl…
1922 · PDF PAGE 272
…le to say “‘ Some of it’s done very fully,’”’ she said, “ but you know there were days and weeks when I couldn’t think, I couldn’t move. Life was a perpetual struggle to get back to——” she hesitated for a word, and then ended with a pained little laugh, “ oh, to anywhere.” King Lamus nodded gravely. We had finished our coffee. “Now,” said he, “ to business,’ to the door. I stayed behind for a moment to pay the bill. There , and led the way
1929 · PDF PAGE 6
…er of these matters. Well, sir, to my story! Among the convicts there was one universal pleasure, a pleasure that could cease only with life or with the empire of the reason, a pleas-
1930 · PDF PAGE 11
…metaphysical antithesis that Magick is the Art of the Will-to-Live, Mysticism of the Will-to-Die; but—“Truth cornes bubbling to my brim; Life and Death are one to Him!”. 2. The earliest and truest Christians used what is in ail essentials this method. See “Fragments of a Faith Forgotten” by G. R. S. Mead, Esa. B. A., pp. 80-81. There is a real connexion between what the vulgar call blasphemy and 131 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 54
… account, but by great good fortune he was a man of extraordinary ability --- Dr. A. W. Verrall. He accepted my plea that my business in life was to study English literature. He was, indeed, most sympathetic. He knew only too well that the university curriculum {108} afforded no opportunities. He knew, too, that my school knowledge was amply sufficient to take me through the university examinations without my doing any work for them. In fact, during my three years I only did one day's work for the university, and that consisted in employing a b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 92
devoted one’s incarnation to discharging the liabilities of one part of one’s previous character. For instance, one might devote a lifetime to settling the bill run up b y Napoléon for causing un- necessary suffering, with the object of starting afresh, clear of debt, in a life devoted to reaping the reward of the Corsican’s invaluable services to the race. The Master Therion, in fact, rernembers several incarnations of almost uncompensated wretchedness, anguish and humiliation, voluntarily undertaken so that he might résumé his work un- hamper…
1954 · PDF PAGE 25
…terpretation that should not be missed. (4) Finally, he was capable of what most present-day hippies are not-self-discipline. His entire life is a dynamic testimonial to that fact, demonstrating the practice of the disciplines of meditation and Magick-often without supervision. They transformed him so that when the great illuminations occurred toward the end of the first decade of this century, he coined a Latin motto which, translated, meant "In my lifetime I have conquered the Universe by the force of Truth." Even then, he was not through wit…
1904 · PDF PAGE 52
….) which, as you will observe, is ninety-seven yards, two feet, and four and three quarter inches in length it is the sor- row of my life that I have never touched the 100 yard mark ! And standing in a long row, began to frig and suck it madly. As you can see, I can coil and uncoil it at pleasure : I can wind myself up in it : I could hang myself in it if the whim took me. I have dipped it in treacle, and given a Sunday- School treat which the children will remember for years they all got the clap ! I have smeared it in birdlime, and …
1905 · PDF PAGE 68
…ave I risen, but not far enough to forget that you are the most abominable villain that plagues God’s beautiful world with his infesting life. BRANDON [ze2¢h setdden calnness|. This to his father! say, you wretch? PERCY [to VAUGHAN]. I will go, my true new father. Kiss Esmé for me a hundred times ! BRANDON [breaking from the Footmen]. Damn you; that’s your game, is it? No, you go with me, Sir Poet. [Rushing at his son, strikes. PERCY, warding off the unexpected blow, staggers. BRANDON, maddened by the idea of fighting, snatches up a knife and d…
1907 · PDF PAGE 139
… obey me and hear? Shall Above, the supernal ! Below, the infernal ! Of all am I master. On Earth, the diurnal ! In all things eternal ! Life, love, or disaster ! Abiding unshaken, I sleep and I waken On wonderful wings; In depth and in height, In darkness and light, In weakness and might, In blindness and sight, In mercy and spite, In day and in night, Averse or aright, For dule or delight, I am master of things. ORPHEUS. O mother, I fear me! The might of the lyre ! They tremble to hear me, The powers of the fire. Come near me to cheer me! Be …
1922 · PDF PAGE 220
… and don’t know it ; who suffer from the delusion that they ought to bow to public opinion, all sorts of alien domination. He spends his life fighting to emancipate people in this false subjection, because they are parts of himself. He has no ideas about morality. His sense of honour, even, means nothing to him as such. It is simply that he happened to be bornagentleman. ‘If I were a dog,’ he said to me once, ‘I should bark. If I were an owl, I should hoot. There’s nothing in either which is good or bad in itself. The only question is, what is …