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Page 177 of 2031929 · PDF PAGE 217
…t busy, and find a neutral ship to rob." "I shall do my best to maintain the law of the sea." "Made by the pirate to suit his game. Good God! I can't see why we shouldn't be sensible. Why must we invoke Law and Gospel every time we want to do a dirty act? My character's strong enough to let me kill all the Germans I can without persuading myself that I'm saving them from Prusian Tyranny! Good-night!" "The youth is unintelligible or immoral," thought Manners, as he turned his face to the spindrift; "but I bet he kills a lot of Germans!" [305]
1907 · PDF PAGE 26
WHY JESUS WEPT A STUDY OF SOCIETY AND OF THE GRACE OF GOD 1905 PERSONS STUDIED. THE MARQUIS OF GLENSTRAE, K.G, TYSON, @ farmer. SIR PERCIVAL DE PERCIVALE, Bart., K,C,B. SIR PERCY DE PERCIVALE, Azs son, JOHN CARRUTHERS, his friend and steward of his house, GREUMOCH, a Aiighland gillie, RENOLD, \ household servants, Sir HERPES ZOSTER, M.D,, a celebrated physician, S1R GRABSON JOBBS, Q.C., Solicitor-General, Mr. G. K,. CHESTERTON, LORD RONALD GOWER, as Chorus. A Horny-Handed Brother (Plymouth), A conscientious Chemist. A Theatre-Goer. Large but un…
1922 · PDF PAGE 106
…essary. The mouth had to be repeated symbolically. That’s the whole secret of art. So he fished out a snake of pigeon’s blood rubies. My God! it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life, except Lou herself. And you couldn’t look at it without thinking of her mouth, and you couldn’t think of her mouth without wanting to kiss it, and it was up to me to prove to Paris that I had
1906 · PDF PAGE 174
…ibute —a jolly good strong ’un—— 160 To the eunuch, the faddist, the fool, and the wrong ’un ! It’s fun when you say “A mysterious way * God moves in to fix up his Maskelyne tricks. He trots on the tides, on the tempest he rides (Like Cosmo); and as for-his pace, we bethought us 165 Achilles could never catch up with that tortoise !” No flyer, but very “ Who’s Griffiths?” * No jackpot ! I straddle the blind, age! At hymns I’m a moral ; In Sankey, your kettle may call me a black pot. Here’s diamond for coke, and pink pearl for pale coral. 170 Th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 158
152 ORPHEUS As the children of Fear In the Fear-God’s Power, And their names disappear As the fall of a flower! The universe-day (Whereof I am a second) Shall fall away And be no more reckoned; Shall fall into ruin. (Sad garden it grew in !) Unguessed at, unknown, Beyond them alone, Is a space that is grey As it caught them, and beckoned, And lost them—their way Is nor counted nor reckoned ! Inconceivable hollow, Eternity’s womb! Cataclysmal they follow, Tomb hidden in tomb. Keeled off and unspun, Time’s fashion is done In the ultimate Abysses …
1922 · PDF PAGE 19
A Knight Out 5 Universe but you and the Boche you are trying to pot. There is something detached and god-like about it. And when I found myself put out on the streets by a grateful country, I became an entirely different animal. In fact, I’ve often thought that there isn’t any “1” at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion. Well, bother that! The plain fact is that I had become a desperate wild animal. I was too hungry, so to speak, even to w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 50
…ut in the union of the Cross and the Rose is a constant 1. There is a much deeper interprétation in which Pentheus is himself “The Dying God”. See my “Good Hunting!” and Dr. J. G. Frazer’s “Golden Bough 2. See “The Book of Lies,” Liber 333, for se vend sermons to this effect. Caps. A, Af H, LE, II, IH, KA, KH, in particular. The réin¬ carnation of the Khu or magical Self is another matter entirely, too abstruse to discuss in this elementary manual. 14
1954 · PDF PAGE 83
… should put down the words that are bound to come in your way in any case: numbers like II, 13, 31, 37 and their multiples; the names of God and the principal angels; the planetary and geomantic names; and your own private and particular name with its branches. After that, let your work on the Astral Plane guide you.
1954 · PDF PAGE 370
…lling." I take this in the widest sense. By that word "country" I understand this planet and this social status "to which it has pleased God to call me." The Brethren of the Rose and Cross deprecated monastic life or hermit life: perhaps they thought such expedients cowardly, or at least as a confession of weakness. I agree. One ought to be able to live the normal life of a member of one's class, to all external seeming; at least sufficiently so as not to appear unduly eccentric. Perhaps "Let my servants be few and secret!" bears some such impl…
1996 · PDF PAGE 124
…Question of me concerning Death, and this is mine Opinion, of which I say not: This is the Truth. First: in the Temple called Man is the God, his Soul, or Star, indi vidual and eternal, but also inherent in the Body of Our Lady Nuit. Now this Soul, as an Officer in the High Mass of the Cosmos, taketh on the Vesture of his Office, that is, inhab- iteth a Tabernacle of Illusion, a Body and Mind. And this Tabernacle is subject to the Law of Change, for it is complex, and diffuse, reacting to every Stimulus or Impression. If then 1 [Lat., from Vir…
1905 · PDF PAGE 71
…s blessing flung the dust upon her: The horses of Destruction dragged the hearse Over besmirchéd roads of Truth and Honour : The obscene God spat on the universe: The sods of Destiny were spattered on her:— Then rose thy spirit through the shaken skies: ‘* Child of the Dawn, I say to thee, arise !” Through the ancestral shame and feudal gloom, Through medieval blackness rung thy peean : Let there be light !—the desecrated tomb Gaped as thy fury smote the Galilean. Let there be light ! and there was light : the womb Of arth resounded, and the em…
1909 · PDF PAGE 331
…o the desired place can be carried out successfully, the highest illumination may be obtained thereby, supposing the desired place to be God or Kether. To a beginner this particular method of Attainment will appear very vague and unbalanced, for his astral journeys will consist of a chain of alarms and surprises; and the reason for this is that in almost every case he sets out with no clear idea of the place he is struggling to journey to, or the route he has chosen to adopt. He is like an explorer who sets out on a journey of discovery ; the f…
1909 · PDF PAGE 331
…o the desired place can be carried out successfully, the highest illumination may be obtained thereby, supposing the desired place to be God or Kether. To a beginner this particular method of Attainment will appear very vague and unbalanced, for his astral journeys will consist of a chain of alarms and surprises; and the reason for this is that in almost every case he sets out with no clear idea of the place he is struggling to journey to, or the route he has chosen to adopt. He is like an explorer who sets out on a journey of discovery ; the f…
1930 · PDF PAGE 47
…ment of the student. He must be absolutely at ease in his Body of Light, and hâve made it invulnérable. He must be adept in assuming ali God- forms, in using ail weapons, sigils, gestures, words, and signs. He must be familiar with the names and numbers pertinent to the work in hand. He must be alert, sensitive, and ready to exert his authority; yet courteous, gracious, patient, and sympathetic. 16) There are two opposite methods of exploring the Astral Plane. (a) . One may take some actual object in Nature, and analyse it by evoking its astral…
1954 · PDF PAGE 18
…in England. This is a fundamentalist Christian sect which, among many other things, regarded the Bible literally as the inspired word of God. Thus it could not be changed in any way, and had to serve as the basis for general daily behavior throughout life. In this household, he was permitted no other
1996 · PDF PAGE 112
…erses 22-24 113 It is the heritage of the whip, the brand of the born slave. Inciden tally, we cannot allow people who believe in this “God;” they are troglodytes, as dangerous to society as any other thieves and murderers. The Christians to the Lions! Yet, in the reign of Good Queen Victoria, Matthew Arnold was considered rather hot stuff as an infidel! Tempora mutantur, p.d.q.,1 when a Magus gets on the job. 1 [Lat. “times change” and slang “pretty damn quick.”] The quintessence of this verse is (however) its revelation of the nature of Hadi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 41
… be properly directed . You must find your True Will, and make all your actions subservient to the one great purpose. Ra Hoor is the Sun God ; Tahuti is the Egyptian Mercury; Khephra is the Sun at midnight. About your problems : what I have to do is to try to teach you to think clearly. You will be immensely stimulated by having all the useless trimmings stripped from your thinking apparatus. For instance, I don't think you know the first principles of logic. You apparently take up a more or less Christian attitude, but at the same time you lik…
1929 · PDF PAGE 220
… libertines. "Only the men." "And few there are, in the crowd of canaille, old women, slackers, valetudinarians, eaters of nuts!" [309] "God rest the soul of Edward Seventh! I thought all would be well when Victoria died; but now —" "This is no hour of the night to lapse into poetry! Anyhow, Germany is nearly as bad, with her Social Democratic Party." "Do you think that?" cried Cyril, sharply, sitting up. His gesture was indecipherably intense; it seemed utterly disproportionate to Bowling's casual commonplace. "I know it. It's one of the chief…
1938 · PDF PAGE 20
…took a phial of golden oil from their midst, and anointed mine eyes, and mine ears, and my lips. With that I was aware of the image of a God, severe and noble of aspect, his spirit utterly calm, in his right hand a sickle and in his left an hourglass. And as I looked upon him, he reversed his wrist, for the last grain of sand was fallen through. Then did my Instructor point with a little wand to a great chart not wholly filled, and there came the shadow of a man's hand, and drew the image of a Lion at the end of the writing. Above this parchmen…
1996 · PDF PAGE 76
…here is the serpent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God. All these old letters of my Book are aright; but li is not the Star. This also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. Commentary: “Love is the law, love under will” is an inter pretation of the general law of Will. It is dealt with fully in the Book Aleph. I here insert a pertinent passage from that Book. [EX — De Harmonia Voluntatis et Parcarum 142—On the Harmony of Will and Fate] This is th…