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Page 167 of 1731909 · PDF PAGE 410
… PRICE 10s. AAS PUBLICATION IN CLASS B. BOOK 111 Ts book contains in concise tabulated form a comparative view of all the symbols of the great religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicru- cians, are now for the first time published ; also the complete secret magical correspondences of the G.*.D.+. and R. R. et A.C. It forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. ___ For the first time Western and Qabalistic symbo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 410
… PRICE 10s. AAS PUBLICATION IN CLASS B. BOOK 111 Ts book contains in concise tabulated form a comparative view of all the symbols of the great religions of the world; the perfect attributions of the Taro, so long kept secret by the Rosicru- cians, are now for the first time published ; also the complete secret magical correspondences of the G.*.D.+. and R. R. et A.C. It forms, in short, a complete magical and philosophical dictionary; a key to all religions and to all practical occult working. ___ For the first time Western and Qabalistic symbo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 160
…imself as in charge of some Boer prisoners and obtain credit and cash by various misrepresentations. The twentieth and twenty-first were great days in my life. I wrote an essay which I originally gate the title "Crowleymas Day" and published under the title "Berashith" in Paris by itself, incorporating it subsequently in The Sword of Song. The general idea is to eliminate the idea of infinity from our conception of the cosmos. It also shows the essential identity of Manichaeism (Christianity), Vedantism and Buddhism. Instead of explaining the u…
1929 · PDF PAGE 189
…liver chill on the twenty-seventy of July and lasted till the end of the month, kept my temperature at 39.3° or thereabouts. Pfannl, the great athlete, had a story of his own. (Coming soon.) Owing to the fact that snow at these altitudes evaporates without melting, it disappears from the neighbourhood of a tent, leaving a pinnacle where it is protected by the canvas. Thus, at the end of five days' snowstorm one would find oneself perched on a plateau some feet above the rest of the glacier. (This illustrates the formation of glacier tables.) It…
1904 · PDF PAGE 7
…ful and elaborate vane : and in this sense it is m y most eager hope that I may not unjustly draw a com- parison between my self and the great re- formers of eighty years ago. * So it is usually supposed. Maybe I shall one day find wor ds to com bat, perhaps to over throw, this position. P.S. As, f or exam ple, the Note to this I ntroduction. As a pr omise-keeper I am the original eleven stone three Peacherine.—A.C. I must apologise (perhaps) for the new note of frivolity in m y work : due doubtless to the frivolity of m y subject : these poems…
1906 · PDF PAGE 66
…terwards? : ‘ There is an end of joy and sorrow, Peace all day long, all night, all morrow,” he began drowsily. A shrill voice rose in a great curse. The hoarse anger of drunken harlotry snarled back. ‘*Not a drop more,” shouted my friend, adding many things. It was time for my return. ‘“‘T will let them know,” I whispered. ‘* Good-bye.” ‘¢« There is not one thing with another; But Evil saith toGood: ‘‘ My brother—"’"’ 2 he went on unheeding. I left him to his peace. My re-appearance restored harmony. The 1 ‘*Glory to the Blessed One, the Perfe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 202
…left no scars. He believed in his art and in his family; enjoyed everything, worried about nothing --- it was not at all one's idea of a great artist. I had already got it into my mind that the life of the artist must be a sequence of pungent pangs either of pleasure or pain; that his nature obliged him to regard commonplace circumstances rather as the average man regards deep sleep. But Thäulow lived every line of his life; he had somehow attained that supreme philosophy which contemplates all things alike with cheerful calm. Marcel Schwob exc…
1929 · PDF PAGE 404
… been put in the cemetery than the guardian objected to it as indecent. The Prefect of the Seine upheld him. I went to see it. I did not greatly admire it; I thought the general design lumpish and top-heavy, but the modelling of the winged sphinx, or whatever it was, seemed admirably simple and subtle. The aesthetic point was, however, not at stake. The attitude of the authorities was an insult and outrage to the freedom of art. The entire innocence of the statue made their action less defensible, thought personally I do not believe in any rest…
1929 · PDF PAGE 575
…tions in other directions. He allowed his inspiration too much liberty. It being late in life when he devoted himself exclusively to the Great Work, he had not learned that Pegasus should be ridden on the curb when riding out with friends who bestrode spavined hacks. Harrison constantly hinted he was insane. This he was not. But I thought that his friend and his wife were conspiring to put him into an asylum; in fact I was definitely warned by the Secret Chiefs of his danger, and wrote in veiled language, in view of his mail being tampered with…
1904 · PDF PAGE 120
…d by the clam our of priests, presby- ters, ministers: whatever name they choose for them selves, we can at leas t put them aside in one great class, the Thought-stiflers; and these truths are thosse which we have long accepted and to which you have recently and hardly won. It is to men of your stamp, men of inde-
1929 · PDF PAGE 82
…ich my knowledge is practically nil. In spite of innumerable nights spent under the stars, I can recognize few constellations except the Great Bear and Orion. Besides my sense of direction on the large scale, I have a quite uncanny faculty for picking out a complicated route through rocks and ice falls. This is not simply a question of good judgment; for in any given route, seen from a distance, there may always be a passage, perhaps not twenty feet in height, which would render the whole plan abortive. This is especially the case with ice fall…
1929 · PDF PAGE 217
… display a wise benevolence and incorruptible justice, being detached from every form of desire. So Rose confessed to me that she was in great trouble, as we wandered out over the links to walk the last few holes with Kelly and Hill. She told me that she was being forced into the marriage with Howell by her family. She had been carrying on an intrigue with a married man named Frank Summers. This had got to the ears of her family because, {363} being hard up for money, she had told her mother that she was pregnant and got forty pounds from her f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 229
…utrageously outspoken account of the affair1. On the heels of this came the news that MacDonald had shot himself in the Regina. He was a great simple lion-hearted man with the spirit of a child; with all his experience in the Army, he still took the word honour seriously, and the open scandal of the accusation had struck down his standard. One incredible detail must be told. The hotel communicated at once with the British Embassy, and the attaché who went down to see the body told Gerald Kelly that MacDonald's pockets were stuffed with obscene…
1929 · PDF PAGE 247
…o object in life but to attain sexual possession of so many pounds of flesh. Nor does the interest of these books really depend on love. Great artists {411} 1. I have never read a word of her. But somehow I don't like the idea. always find more serious themes. Sex is a means of intoxication; it is therefore proper to celebrate it in lyrics. But when one is sober, as one is when reading a novel, one doesn't want sex thrust down one's throat. One doesn't mind white wine in the sauce of the fish, and the man who is upset by its presence is a neuro…
1929 · PDF PAGE 403
…maged by some silly scandal. I turned pale and began to breathe quickly, crossed to my bookcase and opened some volume of mine. I gave a great sigh of relief and came back, {643} my face flooded with joy. "Dear friend," I said pointing to the page, "your fear is quite ill founded." For a moment I thought that a semi-colon might have been changed into a comma. As to the other point, I sometimes wonder whether I have not been affected by an incident of early childhood. My father used to go evangelizing the villages on foot. I would go with him. S…
1929 · PDF PAGE 434
…ly incomprehensible to me that he should be such an arrant blockhead. Most of my time in 1912 was taken up by the O.T.O. The Order was a great success and ceremonies of initiation were of almost daily occurrence. I was also very busy helping Laylah in her career. The problem was not easy. I soon discovered that it was not in her to undergo the dreary remorseless drudgery demanded by ambition to the classical concert platform. Striking too as her success had been in the Rites of Eleusis, it soon became {689} clear that its source was the impulse…
1929 · PDF PAGE 530
…l sources of income dried up completely. I therefore borrowed a canoe, tent and camp outfit from a friend and started up the Hudson on a Great Magical Retirement with two dollars and twenty-five cents as my total capital, no prospect of obtaining more when that was exhausted, and full confidence that the Secret Chiefs would supply my physical needs. It was my business to do their work and theirs to look after their servant. This Magical Retirement proved of critical importance. A week's paddling put me in perfect physical and mental condition. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 252
…, ii. 182 This time she set her will against my will, ii. 75 Those who are most familiar with the spirit of fair play which pervades our great public schools, iii. 219 Thou fair Republic oversea afar, i. 136 Thou knowest, O Love, ii. 83 Thou Sun, whose swift desire to-day is dull, i. 39 Through fields of foam ungarnered, i. 149 Thus all conceptions fail and fall, ii. 172 Thus, in Ascension, you and I, ii. 152 Thy brazen forehead, and its lustre gloom. i, 166 To-day thrice halves the lunar week, ii. 164 To die amid the blossoms of the frost, i. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 246
246 largely recruited from the assassin class --- there is no other --- one can well understand why the gentry maintain, to a great extent, the ancient custom of surrounding themselves with armed retainers. As soon as Beelzebub got on the job, the magical assaults ceased; and, deprived of the stimulus to perform Magick, my interest faded once more. We spent out time in sport an society, tempered by pregnancy, as if there were no hereafter. I used my official titles and position without emphasis, very much as a peer takes advantage of his social…
1929 · PDF PAGE 293
…I had done what was necessary, we proceeded to disinfect ourselves before rejoining the rest. The missionary Amundsen rushed up to us in great excitement and called our attention to an illustrated newspaper which he had just received. "Look," he cried, "there is the Norwegian royal family!" We buried Litton the following day. The next business was to get off. My permission had arrived, but I was told that I must engage an interpreter. I should have been only too glad to have one; but I might as well have looked for a snowball in hell. Eventuall…