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Page 164 of 2251929 · PDF PAGE 367
…elves completed the work of criticism of the most destructive kind before presenting themselves at all. Buddhist psychology has analysed many of these characteristics of super-consciousness and even arranged them in an order corresponding with spiritual development. I may say that I have toiled for many years to express ideas of this order in terms intelligible to the normal consciousness and susceptible of apprehension by the normal intellect. Success has scarcely been complete; only on rare occasions has the flash fixed itself on the film whe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 263
…ad expected to find quite easy walking, but there were a few passages where it amounted to scrambling from the point of view of a loaded man. I decided to arrange for a fixed rope as a measure of safety, it being my plan to send the picked coolies up and down regularly to bring up supplies as they {434} were needed. In the meantime, the men behaved magnificently, laughing and joking and giving each other a helping hand whenever required. I posted the Kashmiris and the other personal servants at the mauvais pas, but there was no hint of any real…
1912 · PDF PAGE 109
…Skiring? Mrs. B. The little school teacher. Oh! I’d no idea she was so ill. I am sorry. [T118 consulting—room door opens, nnd an elder/y man, ?0/1058 lm! and stick are on 1/18 tab/e, comes ant. His face is drawn nnd lzis eyes haggard. He takes no notice of t/ie ῤεσῥίεῤεεεεπἰ, or ofliis hai and stick, 0111 goes sleazy/it out, R. Tlie öangz'ng of a 07007 is nmi/a'. Enter Με Servant, running; flicks up the hat and stick, nnd 721715 out after Iii/ii. Dr. Fielding and Mrs. Bob exchange glances significant ofs/zackedþain. Tlie consulting-room !10075 be…
1912 · PDF PAGE 109
…Skiring? Mrs. B. The little school teacher. Oh! I’d no idea she was so ill. I am sorry. [T118 consulting—room door opens, nnd an elder/y man, ?0/1058 lm! and stick are on 1/18 tab/e, comes ant. His face is drawn nnd lzis eyes haggard. He takes no notice of t/ie ῤεσῥίεῤεεεεπἰ, or ofliis hai and stick, 0111 goes sleazy/it out, R. Tlie öangz'ng of a 07007 is nmi/a'. Enter Με Servant, running; flicks up the hat and stick, nnd 721715 out after Iii/ii. Dr. Fielding and Mrs. Bob exchange glances significant ofs/zackedþain. Tlie consulting-room !10075 be…
1996 · PDF PAGE 213
…for they swell with my force. All before me. 30. My altar is of open brass work: burn thereon in silver or gold! 31. There cometh a rich man from the West who shall pour his gold upon thee. 32. From gold forge steel! 33. Be ready to fly or to smite! 34. But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries: though with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall arise and the double-wanded one assume my throne and place. A…
1906 · PDF PAGE 258
…facts here stated, I have nothing to say in this place. The facts are not at the disposition of all; from the nature of the subject each man must be his own witness. I was once twitted by some shallow-pated person with the fact that my position cannot be demon- strated in the laboratory, and that therefore (save the mark!) I must be a mystic, an occultist, a theosophist, a mystery-monger, and what not. I am none of these. The above criticism applies to every psychologist that ever wrote, and to the man who makes the criticism by the fact of his…
1929 · PDF PAGE 468
…r, attempting to resist being blackmailed, was beginning to see one of the magical virtues of silence. I couldn't publish an attack on a man in the witness-box which was evidently temporary accommodation on the way to the dock. So I held my peace and wrote to Bottomley to tell him that I bore no malice and hoped he would clear himself. I hope it comforted him in penal servitude to remember that one, at least, of the men whom he had wantonly wronged wished him well. I wish him well no less today, but alas that he cannot be hurt by the hard thing…
1904 · PDF PAGE 65
mere picklock of a quiet and decent clerical gen- tleman. But the very stricture served its turn. The retention of semen in which lies the whole Art and Mystery of the brangle buttock game was much facilitated by the natural narrowing of the urethra : when I did come, it was more like an eruption of Mont-Pelee than a poor priest spunk-spitting at a meat-market. More, the acrid juice of the morbid secretion was far more exciting to the worn-out waste pipe of my gay Flirtina Cop-all than any mere baby-bouillon would have been. Her finish was mor…
1907 · PDF PAGE 100
…hall find Chastity white as a lily . This system of extremes has during the world's history exerted an overwhelming force on the will of man . Beholding a satyr he worshipped a virgin ; feel ing the ills of the flesh , he conceived the bliss of the soul . This diametric opposition , verging ever towards the extreme circumference of utility , has given and is giving birth to numerous world - wide systems and philosophies . The taboos of the South Seas , the restrictions laid on widow - remarriage in India , the purdah of the Mussulman , the veil…
1913 · PDF PAGE 135
…is life and vigour and realityin it, and a personality sincerely expressed in spite of what appears to be wilful eccentricities.” —Book- man. The Winged Beetle. ros. A collection of lyrical poems. ‘In the face of the whole horde of reviewers, critics, and in the face of the British public,I declare that Aleister Crowleyis among the first of living poets. It will not be many years before this factis generally recognized and duly appreciated. ‘Rosa Coeli’ and ‘Rosa Decidua ’ are two mag- nificent poems. The latteris ‘no tragedy of little tears,’ …
1913 · PDF PAGE 507
…F THE MYSTERIES spiritualistic empiric; and the successors of Peter, were they Alexander VI, or even John XXII, are infallible for every man who is properly brought up, who does not wish to put himself uselessly outside the pale of society. So goes the world. Charlatanism, when it is successful, is then, in magic as in everything else, a great instrument of power. To fascinate the mob cleverly, is not that already to dominate it? The poor devils of sorcerers who in the Middle Ages stupidly got themselves burnt alive had not, it is easy to see, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 522
THE EQUINOX the mockery of the normal man, even when these normal men are as witty as this or that editor of this or that comic journal. These phenomena of the light which produce apparitions always appear at epochs when humanity is in labour. They are phantoms ofthe delirium of the world-fever; it is the hysteria of a bored society. Virgil tells us in fine verse that in the time of Caesar Rome was full of spectres; in the time of Vespasian the gates of the Temple of Jerusalem opened of themselves, and a voice was heard crying, “‘ The gods depa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 507
…F THE MYSTERIES spiritualistic empiric; and the successors of Peter, were they Alexander VI, or even John XXII, are infallible for every man who is properly brought up, who does not wish to put himself uselessly outside the pale of society. So goes the world. Charlatanism, when it is successful, is then, in magic as in everything else, a great instrument of power. To fascinate the mob cleverly, is not that already to dominate it? The poor devils of sorcerers who in the Middle Ages stupidly got themselves burnt alive had not, it is easy to see, …
1913 · PDF PAGE 522
THE EQUINOX the mockery of the normal man, even when these normal men are as witty as this or that editor of this or that comic journal. These phenomena of the light which produce apparitions always appear at epochs when humanity is in labour. They are phantoms ofthe delirium of the world-fever; it is the hysteria of a bored society. Virgil tells us in fine verse that in the time of Caesar Rome was full of spectres; in the time of Vespasian the gates of the Temple of Jerusalem opened of themselves, and a voice was heard crying, “‘ The gods depa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 13
…moted to the governorship was of a nature unpardonable by any Government. He was in reality more a prisoner than ourselves; (c) he was a man of immense wealth, assured career, and known probity.
1929 · PDF PAGE 338
338 Coke himself had married an American woman of the meanest character. She would ring the bell to have the pleasure of hearing the servants call her "my lady," Coke saw witchcraft in every trifle. When the countess happened to sneeze he would deduce that his mother was on the job. He had told his troubles to many people, and trusted them at first quite blindly, and then without a word of warning concluded from some harmless word or act that they had joined the conspiracy against him. Of course, it was a perfectly plain case of persecution man…
1929 · PDF PAGE 488
… impression of being a pure machine. Its artistic and cultured side shares the deadness of the rest. It compares with New York rather as Manchester with London. I called on Narnet Munroe, described in the charge sheet as a poetess. She edits a periodical called Poetry. I am still not sure if she knew my name and my work, but she showed no interest whatever! She was loaded to the gunwhale with a cargo of conceit. She was the standard of perfection by which Milton and Keats might be measured in terms of their inferiority to her. Incidentally thes…
1907 · PDF PAGE 92
…ven him of His own life, and sent him among men. But men knew him not. Only the babes could understand his strange grave smile. The fifth man was a classical scholar; much learning had made him mad. Yet, well as he knew Greek and Latin, he had not yet read enough to see therein the luminous image of the Creator. Last was a doctor who, gazing ever on madness, had himself become mad. He, too, saw God, but, being already mad, died not. Men thought they understood him, and for that reviled him. Being mad, he did not care. All these men smoked heavil…
1907 · PDF PAGE 28
…hing , yet the government of this nation cannot stomach them thus , and seizes , expels , and burns ; but if these horrid sores of the human soul are cut out and plastered on the pages of the fickle fiction of the day , then are they passed in seductive covers as proper nourishment for the nation , and devoured with relish and avidity . One minute , impatient reader , for I hear you mutter : “ Are not these very aberrations set forth with no mean lustre on the pages of the works of Aleister Crowley ? " Listen . Have any of Crowley's works been …
1919 · PDF PAGE 412
…- chief has been done by the pedant, and the distinctions be- tween the various Jhanas will convey little to the Western mind, even of a man who has some experience of them. The question of mistranslation alone renders the majority of Buddhist documents, if not valueless, at least unreliable. We, however, taking this book as an original work by Bla- vatsky, need not be bothered by any doubts more deadly than that as to whether her command of English was per- fect; and in this treatise, in spite of certain obvious senti- mentalities and bombasti…