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Page 161 of 2251913 · PDF PAGE 529
…d the fanatical exhaustion of the pilgrims. Dr. Brierre de Boismont, in his curious treatise, 7vazté des hallucinations, tells us that a man, perfectly sane, who had never had visions, was tormented one morning by a terrible nightmare: he saw in his room a mysterious ape horrible to behold, who gnashed his teeth upon him, and gave himself over to the most hideous contortions. He woke with a start, it was already day; he jumped from his bed, and was frozen with terror on seeing, really present, the frightful object of his dream. The monkey was t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 529
…d the fanatical exhaustion of the pilgrims. Dr. Brierre de Boismont, in his curious treatise, 7vazté des hallucinations, tells us that a man, perfectly sane, who had never had visions, was tormented one morning by a terrible nightmare: he saw in his room a mysterious ape horrible to behold, who gnashed his teeth upon him, and gave himself over to the most hideous contortions. He woke with a start, it was already day; he jumped from his bed, and was frozen with terror on seeing, really present, the frightful object of his dream. The monkey was t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 31
… think it must be, I find myself writing hymns of quite acceptable piety. One was published in "The" "Christian;" it began: I am a blind man on a helmless ship Without a compass on a stormy sea. I cannot sink, for God will hold me up, etc. Again, I wrote a poem on the death of my Aunt Ada, which I thought good enough to include in my Songs of the Spirit, and is entirely irreproachable on the score of piety. It seems as if I possessed a theology of my own which was, to all intents and purposes, Christianity. My satanism did not interfere with it…
1907 · PDF PAGE 78
THE VIRGIN 71 eternal symbol of love and life , and the purest of human joys, " and which act being attributed to supernatural powers came under the authority of religion , and fell into the hands of an interested priesthood , giving them an immense power over women , and through women over men ; an influence that has been exercised in every land , and every age , by these spiritual leaders : an influence by which they have in so many cases ruled the minds of men , and by which for so many centuries they have blighted the happiest prospects of …
1913 · PDF PAGE 14
…ured , grasped and held until it became an Orpheus or a Hamlet , as the young men held Proteus until from running water he turned into a man again . To my thinking the common abnegation , in one day , of this most difficult part of the poet 's business may well account for the public neglect into which poetry has fallen as a pretty occupation for sensitive souls . Until we take the trouble to re - clothe it in con . crete forms — and the old forms lie ready to our hand , while new ones are well worth inventing — the virtuose may applaud , but w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 551
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES or wounded. At that time, in Normandy, the magnetic ill- nesses of mediums were hardly known, and this unhappy sleep-walker, who ought to have been cared for and cured, was roughly treated and even beaten, not even in his fluidic appearance, but in his proper person, by the Vicar himself. That is, one must agree, a singular kind of exorcism! If those violences really took place, and if they may be imputed to a Churchman whom one considers, and who may be, for all we know, very good and very respectable, let us admit tha…
1913 · PDF PAGE 551
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES or wounded. At that time, in Normandy, the magnetic ill- nesses of mediums were hardly known, and this unhappy sleep-walker, who ought to have been cared for and cured, was roughly treated and even beaten, not even in his fluidic appearance, but in his proper person, by the Vicar himself. That is, one must agree, a singular kind of exorcism! If those violences really took place, and if they may be imputed to a Churchman whom one considers, and who may be, for all we know, very good and very respectable, let us admit tha…
1913 · PDF PAGE 14
supreme power partly to snubthe rebels, and partly (as Tsai, another place) “to make a better man of him.” Sconrio, K.C. Besides the money that Crowley lent you, did he ever give you any? Marinas. Yes: a wealthy lady, the wife of an English fice, Colonel, being interested in occultisn, once gave him £20 for me. Scownio, K.C. Is that all? Matis, She gave him some jewels for the purpose of deco 1g statue of Isis for my temple, ‘Scorri0, K.C, She quarrelled with him subseques Maruuns. [believe so, In f Scourio, KC. They are good fri Matures, He ba…
1961 · PDF PAGE 118
… Virgin, doth not add a Fifth Person, but balanceth and perfecteth all. For his Shin, that is the Holy Spirit, pervadeth these, and is immanent. Thus in three Operations is the Pentagram formulated. But in the Figure of that Star these Operations are not indicated, for the five Lines of Force connect not according to any of them; but five new Operations are made possible; and these are the Works proper to the perfected man. First, the Work which lieth level, the Vau with the Hé, is of he Yang and the Yin, and maketh One the Human with the Divin…
1909 · PDF PAGE 130
…lay on her back; I opened the coat, turned her over. The gruesome task was nearly finished when the door of the house opened, and an old man, his face scarred, one lip cut half away in some old brawl, so that he grinned horribly and askew, rushed out at me, a rapier in his hand. My stiletto, though long beyond the ordinary, was useless against a tool of such superior reach. “A last wrench gave me the ermine cloak, an invaluable parry. Could I entangle his sword, he was at my mercy. He saw it, and fenced warily. Indeed, I had the upper hand thro…
1909 · PDF PAGE 130
…lay on her back; I opened the coat, turned her over. The gruesome task was nearly finished when the door of the house opened, and an old man, his face scarred, one lip cut half away in some old brawl, so that he grinned horribly and askew, rushed out at me, a rapier in his hand. My stiletto, though long beyond the ordinary, was useless against a tool of such superior reach. “A last wrench gave me the ermine cloak, an invaluable parry. Could I entangle his sword, he was at my mercy. He saw it, and fenced warily. Indeed, I had the upper hand thro…
1910 · PDF PAGE 320
…mselves, howling with intense pain and agony, all in a sweat, their bodies aching with all the torments of Fire. They could hear the old man, by his table, cursing them and hitting the wax figures with the hot poker, haphazard, careless of the spot where he struck; but he struck them all equally. The contortions of the men on the yellow painted floor were terrible. He took no heed of them, and went on, cursing them each by name and each time hitting one figure, corresponding to the name he was cursing. Finally, the red-hot iron had turned black…
1910 · PDF PAGE 320
…mselves, howling with intense pain and agony, all in a sweat, their bodies aching with all the torments of Fire. They could hear the old man, by his table, cursing them and hitting the wax figures with the hot poker, haphazard, careless of the spot where he struck; but he struck them all equally. The contortions of the men on the yellow painted floor were terrible. He took no heed of them, and went on, cursing them each by name and each time hitting one figure, corresponding to the name he was cursing. Finally, the red-hot iron had turned black…
1911 · PDF PAGE 178
…ork justifies itself as the reader reaches the end of the second volume, To the pharmacist it is an extremely useful book, and in a great many instances furnishes information of an interesting character, which the busy man would have difficulty in finding in pharmaceutical history. To the student of the occult it ought to appeal strongly, as the author gives a long list of drugs used in religious ceremonies in difierent ages, and although the present century is so much in advance, we find that the incenses and sweet odours used in ceremonial magic t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 178
…ork justifies itself as the reader reaches the end of the second volume, To the pharmacist it is an extremely useful book, and in a great many instances furnishes information of an interesting character, which the busy man would have difficulty in finding in pharmaceutical history. To the student of the occult it ought to appeal strongly, as the author gives a long list of drugs used in religious ceremonies in difierent ages, and although the present century is so much in advance, we find that the incenses and sweet odours used in ceremonial magic t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 83
…on, that they should believe alie. And again it is written: The Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart. And again it is written that God tempteth man. But thou hadst the word and the sign, and thou hadst authority from thy superior, and licence. And thou hast done well in that thou didst not dare, and in that thou dost dare. For daring is not presumption. And he said moreover: Thou dost well to keep silence, for I perceive how many questions arise in thy mind; yet already thou knowest that the answering, as the asking, must be vain. For NEMO hath all in…
1913 · PDF PAGE 13
…MEMORIAM—JOHN YARKER don the armour of a Knight? If it were so, perhaps it might be hard to say her nay. But it is none of these. This woman—pollution to that pure word l—comes to us from the nauseous fraud by which she made herself the real if not the nominal mistress of the TS, the fraud which did not shrink from profaning the death-bed of that master-fool of the movement, who was at least unquestionably honest. Is it then to defeat her intrigues that I am come to this Valley of Manchester from my peaceful encampment in the Valley of Paris? N…
1913 · PDF PAGE 29
…MEMORIAM—JOHN YARKER don the armour of a Knight? If it were so, perhaps it might be hard to say her nay. But it is none of these. This woman—pollution to that pure word !—comes to us from the nauseous fraud by which she made herself the real if not the nominal mistress of the T.S., the fraud which did not shrink from profaning the death-bed of that master-fool of the movement, who was at least unquestionably honest. Is it then to defeat her intrigues that I am come to this Valley of Manchester from my peaceful encampment in the Valley of Paris?…
1913 · PDF PAGE 29
…MEMORIAM—JOHN YARKER don the armour of a Knight? If it were so, perhaps it might be hard to say her nay. But it is none of these. This woman—pollution to that pure word !—comes to us from the nauseous fraud by which she made herself the real if not the nominal mistress of the T.S., the fraud which did not shrink from profaning the death-bed of that master-fool of the movement, who was at least unquestionably honest. Is it then to defeat her intrigues that I am come to this Valley of Manchester from my peaceful encampment in the Valley of Paris?…
1919 · PDF PAGE 336
… but always with the reservation that the absence of the thing enjoyed shall not cause regret. This is too hard for the beginner, and in many cases it is necessary for him to abandon pleasures in order to prove to himself that he is indifferent to them, and it may be occasionally advisable even for the Adept to do this now and again. Of course during periods of actual concentra- tion there is no time whatever for anything but the work itself; but to make even the mildest asceticism a rule of life is the gravest of errors, except perhaps that of…