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Page 162 of 1971922 · PDF PAGE 241
…fingers. The only respite I have is this diary. It relieves me to write of my sufferings; and besides, it is important for the spiritual life. Basil must have the record to read. I can’t remember dates, though. I don’t even know what year it is. The leaves in the park tell me it is autumn, and the nights are getting longer. The night is better than the day; there is less to irritate. We don’t sleep, of course, we fall into a torpor. Basil told me about it once. He called it the dark night of the soul. One has to go through it on the way to the …
1904 · PDF PAGE 70
…dicine for the mind.” * The Phallus of Shiva th e Destro yer. It is really identical with the Qabalistic “Middle Pillar” of the “Tree of Life.” † An imaginary lady to whom Sairey Gamp in Dickens’ “Martin Chuzzlewit” used to appeal. ‡ Vide the daily papers of June-July 1901. Cf. Macbeth : “Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ?” 58. bs.10—Enough. 60. ik vaSte,.11—Why ? 60. kya haega ..12—What will it be ? 61. Strange and painful attitude.13—Sid- dhasana. 62. He was very rude.14—The following is a sample :— “O Devatas ! behold this yogi ! O…
1929 · PDF PAGE 47
…r interest in him may be swept off its feet and become secondary. Worse --- she will expect her man to abandon the whole interest of his life in order to look after her new toy. A bitch does not lose all her interest in her master just because she has puppies. I found a new climbing companion on Beachy Head in a man named J. S. New. We worked out the possible climbs systematically and made a largescale map of the cliff. I ultimately contributed an illustrated article on the subject to the Scottish Mountaineering Journal. But with the exception …
1906 · PDF PAGE 127
…Flows, and the corn and vine increase. In two pitched fields the Syrian hordes Fled broken from our stallion swords. Ay me! But that was life! I see Now, from that hill, the ordered plain ; The serried ranks like foam flung free, Long billows, flashing on the main. Past the eye’s grip their legions roll— Anguish of death upon my soul! For, sheltered by the guiet hill, Like two small flocks of kids that wait, Going to water, ere the chill Blow from the East’s forsaken gate, Lie my weak spears: O trembling tide Of fear false-faced and shifty-eyed…
1929 · PDF PAGE 48
…particular mammer this question of the Nature of Ritual, we may suppose that he finds himself lacking in that perception of the value of Life and Death, alike of individuals and of races, which is characteristic of Nature. He has perhaps a tendency to perceive the ‘first noble truth’ uttered by Buddha, that Everything is sorrow. Nature, it seems, is a tragedy. He has perhaps even experienced the great trance called Sorrow. He should then consider whether there is not some Deity who expresses this Cycle, and yet whose nature is joy. He will find…
1954 · PDF PAGE 323
290 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS continued indefmitely. X had one rule of life, and one only; to do whatever came first on the list of agenda, and never to count the cost. Because this course of conduct was so rigidly rational, it appeared to others irrational and incalculable; because it was so serenely simple, it appeared an insoluble mystery of a complexity utterly unfathomable! But-I fear that you are only too likely to ask-is not this system (a) absurd, (b) wrong, as certain in the long run to defeat its own object? Well, as to (a), everything is …
1996 · PDF PAGE 168
… — his outward semblance — that is to be covered with His wings. The tenets of Islam, correctly interpreted, are not far from our Way of Life and Light and Love and Liberty. This applies espe cially to the secret tenets. The external creed is mere nonsense suited to the intelligence of the peoples among whom it was promulgated; but even so, Islam is magnificent in practice. Its code is that of a man of courage and honour and self-respect; con trasting admirably with the cringing cowardice of the damnation dodging Christians with their unmanl…
1904 · PDF PAGE 61
… how much more of a Christian ! To allow a personal grief, however severe, to blind one for ever alike to the beauty and the duty of life. In vain I replied that there was now no beauty for me [59]
1907 · PDF PAGE 54
…f his academic career, only to discover (if he have sufficient wit left over from the process) that the qualities required for success in life are a set different from, and even incompatible with, those which gave him his fellowship; so also we may help those weaker brethren who animadvert scomfully upon the circumstance that a poet, a philosopher, an adept, an emancipated man of any sort, rarely speaks the truth in the sense that the witness in a divorce case is expected to, by indicating to them the true nature of those sparks of light shaken …
1922 · PDF PAGE 183
…brought the tears to my eyes. I shook out a dose of the dull white He sniffed it up with stupid lethargy like a man who has lost hope of life, yet still takes his medicine as a routine. He came up gradually, but was hardly himself till after the third dose. I took one, too, to keep him company, not because I needed it. I sent bim out to get shaved and buy clean linen. I take a curious delight in writing this diary. I know now why it is and it has rather startled me. It’s just that chance phrase of King Lamus: “ Your magical diary.” I have flirt…
1954 · PDF PAGE 530
…te. Still there is no extra charge for thinking on those lines if you so wish. I have paid a great deal of attention in the course of my life to the method of exalting the human consciousness in this way; and it is really quite legitimate to identify my teaching with that of the Yogis. I must however point out that in the course of my instruction I have given continual warnings as to the dangers of this line of research. For one thing there is no means of checking your results in the ordinary scientific sense. It is always perfectly easy to fin…
1922 · PDF PAGE 131
… and as soon as the coast was clear he would pick us up and take us along to the Gatto Fritto, and we would know for the first time what life was really like. ‘Well, I call that a perfectly straight, decent, sensible programme. It’s the duty of every Englishman to learn as much of foreign affairs as he can without inter- fering with his business. That sort of knowledge will always come in useful in case of another European War. It was knowing that sort of thing that had put Feccles where he was in the Secret Service, the trusted confident of th…
1944 · PDF PAGE 212
…s the Spirit (not Air) of the Gods of the Liv‐ ing”? And is not Air, the element attributed to Mercury, also most properly the Breath of Life, the Word, the Logos itself? The student must be referred to some less raw, cursory, elementary and superficial Treatise than this present bat‐eyed, penguin‐winged, bluebottle‐brained buzzing. Neverthe‐ less, although Air is in no system the lowest, and so cannot claim benefit of clergy from the doctrine that Malkuth automatically resolves into Kether, the following reference seems not wholly to lack eith…
1954 · PDF PAGE 49
…f mind which is favourable or unfavourable to the work, and you also discover what is helpful and harmful to these states in your way of life. For instance, the practice like the non-receiving of gifts is all right for a Hindu whose mind is branded for ten thousand incarnations by the shock of accepting a cigarette or a cup of tea. Incidentally, most of the Eastern cults fall down when they come West, simply because they make no allowance for our different temperaments. Also they set tasks which are completely unsuitable to Europeans-an immense…
1954 · PDF PAGE 327
…nemies of the Ethic of Thelema. They are the traditional obstacles to success in Yoga as well as in Magick. Now in practice, in everyday life, this unselfishness is always cropping up. Not only do you insult your brother King by your "noble self-sacrifice," but you are almost bound to interfere with his True Will. "Charity" always means that the lofty soul who bestows it is really, deep down, trying to enslave the recipient of his beastly bounty! In practice, I begin afresh, it is almost entirely a matter of the point of view. "That poor chap l…
1922 · PDF PAGE 221
…ther, showed me how to prove _to my own satisfaction—that my true Will was to be a singer. We began by going through all the facts of my life from my race and parentage to my personal qualities, such as my ear and my voice being physio- logically superior to that of the average musician, and my circumstances enabling me to devote myself entirely to training myself to develop my powers to the best advantage. Even things like my guardian being a great composer! He won’t admit that was an accident. ‘“‘ He claims that the coincidence of so many cir…
1922 · PDF PAGE 354
…re my powers have had a chance to ripen. I’ve thought it necessary to keep off heroin in order to give myself a show. But I’m left flat. Life becomes more tedious every day, and the one way of escape is barred by flaming swords.” “ Bxactly,” he replied. ‘“ You’ve only discovered one thing that you don’t will; you have still to find the one thing that you do will. And yet there are quite a number of clues in this manuscript of yours. I note you say that your squad commander, who didn’t become that without some power of dealing with men, told you…
1944 · PDF PAGE 167
…l‐starred indeed and black with bile are those who have profaned the Sacred Fire, not enkindling Earth to new, more copious, more varied life, but peering in deceptive moonlight, turning their faces from their mother Earth.
1954 · PDF PAGE 19
…me his guru. Wherever he went, he took special notice of any person, object or event with a view to placing it on the Qabalistic Tree of Life. Slowly, in this way, he became adept in using the Tree as a referent for all phenomena whatsoever, and the so-called stereotyped attributions of color, planet, Tarot
1954 · PDF PAGE 384
…ing worth having" to "Things worth having annot be estimated in terms of money." You see, no ounting. The operation to save your child's life: do you are if the surgeon wants five pounds or fifty? Of course, you [lay not have the fifty, or be obliged to retrench in other vays to get it; but it makes no odds as to what you feel bout it. What is the value of a University Education? The nswer is that it is a pure gamble. The student may use his dvantages to make a rich marriage, to attract the wife of a rlillionaire, to earn a judgeship or a post …