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…and, ay me! it shooteth down fresh roots into the aching earth. For the boy grew and became a man; and his eyes kindled with the lust of life and love; and the de- sire stirred him to see the round world and its many marvels. Wherefore he went forth, taking his father’s store of gold, laid up for him against that bitter day, and he took fair maidens, and was their servant. And he builded a fine house and dwelt therein. And he took no thought. But he said: Here is a change indeed ! 1 The common formula for beginning a ‘‘ Jataka,” or story of a p…
1929 · PDF PAGE 373
…quinox, vol. I, No. VI, "Three Poems". She has never had the slightest interest in occult matters and she has never done any work in her life, even of the needlework order. I had seen her once before since my escape from America, and she said she had something to show me, but I took no particular notice and she did not insist. My object in calling on this second occasion was multiple. I wanted to see the man with whom she was living, who had not yet {599} returned from Russia; I wanted to make love to her, and I wanted to smoke a few pipes of o…
1939 · PDF PAGE 17
European mind. If someone gives me £200,000 pounds I automatically fail to notice it. It is a normal circumstance of life. Test me! 9. There are a great many other injunctions, all of which have to be examined independently in order to find whether they apply to Yoga in general, and to the particular advantage of any given student. We are to exclude especially all those considerations based on fantastic theories of the universe, or on the accidents of race or climate. For instance, in the time of the late Maharajah of Kashmir, mahsir fishing wa…
1906 · PDF PAGE 46
…t, Nor moon’s benignant might. And looking downward he beheld his folk Bound in no tyrant’s yoke ; Knowing no God, nor fearing any man ; Life’s enviable span Free from disease and vice, sorrow and age. Only death’s joys assuage A gathering gladness at the thought of sleep. Never in all the archives, scroll on scroll, Reaching from aeons wrote they ‘‘ Women weep, Men hate, the children suffer.” In the place Where men most walked a tablet of fine brass Was set on marble, with an iron style That all might carve within that golden space If one grie…
1906 · PDF PAGE 266
…ts ; add men of Science and we form an absolute majority; among Buddhists a very large proportion have deliberately gone out from social life of any kind to tread these paths of Research. Is the Way very hard? Is the brain tired? The results slow to come ? Others are work- ing, failing, struggling, crowned here and there with rare garlands of success. Success for ourselves, success for others; is it not Compassion that binds us closer than all earthlier ties? Ay, in joy and in sorrow, in weakness and in strength, do I take my refuge in the Sang…
1905 · PDF PAGE 141
…with sly, skulking brow, You must leave Sodom for your spouse’s sake. Coward and coward and coward! who would take The best flower of my life and leave me so, Still loving you—Ah ! weak—and turn to go For me We worship, You dared enough—so_ long
1905 · PDF PAGE 104
…devil-tribe Born of our own selves. These, grown furious At dispossession by the subtle air, Contend with us, who know the agony Of half life drawn out lingering, who groan Eaten as if by worms, who dash ourselves Vainly against the ethereal essences That make our boat, who vainly strive to cast Our stricken bodies over the pale edge And drop and end it all. No nerve obeys ; But in the torn web of our brains is born The knowledge that release is higher yet. So, lightened of the devils that possessed In myriad hideousness our earthier lives, Wit…
1919 · PDF PAGE 319
…ess, that one has wished the Absolute at the devil. There is nothing of this in this book. We feel that Mr. Klein is enjoying the Light, Life, Love and Liberty which come from the acceptance of the Law of Thelema. But I must still ask him for another volume. The greater part of his difficulty in explanation seems to arise from the fact that he has no conception of a technique of attainment. He says quite rightly that it is all a matter of thinking right instead of wrong, and certainly a study of his pages should do a great deal to clear up inte…
1904 · PDF PAGE 92
…UM 85 and fifty and eight years,1 set forth upon a journey into the Mystic Moun- tain of the Caves. He took with him his Son, 2 a Lam b, Life, and Strength, for these four were the Key s of that Mountain. So by ten days and fifty days and two hundred day s and yet ten days he went forth. After ten day s fell a thunderbolt, whirling through black clouds of rain: after sixty the road split in two, but he travelled on both at once: after two hundred and sixty, the sun drove away the rain, and the Star shone in the day-time, making it Night. After …
1904 · PDF PAGE 77
… ay me! it shooteth down fresh roots into the aching earth. F or the boy grew and becam e a m an; and his ey es kindled with the lust of life and love; and the de- sire stirred him to see the round world and its many marvels. Wherefore he went forth, taking his father’s store of gold, laid up for him against that bitter day , and he took fair maidens, and was their servant. And he builded a fine house and dwelt therein. And he took no thought. But he said : Here is a change indeed ! 1 T he com mon for mula for beginning a “Jataka,” or story of …
1929 · PDF PAGE 440
… 9. In Detroit, a member of the 32° was threatened by certain 33°s with expulsion unless he complied with their views as to his domestic life. The matter was one with which they had no right to meddle on any conceivable theory of human relations. 10. In some parts of America, financial and social pressure is put upon {697} people to compel them to take the 32°! It is common to boycott men in trade or business for refusing to give unfair advantages to their fellow masons. 11. A 33° mason, of many years' standing, holding high office in the Supre…
1906 · PDF PAGE 206
… cause of it desire, A merry tune I borrow To light upon the lyre: If death destroy me quite, Then, I cannot lament it; I've lived, kept life alight, And—damned if I repent it! Let me die in a ditch, Damnably drunk, Or lipping a punk, Or in bed with a bitch ! I was ever a hog ; Muck? Iam one with it! Let me die like a dog; Die, and be done with it! * Famous Adelphi villain. II, As far as reason goes, There's hope for mortals yet : When nothing is that knows, What is there to regret? Our consciousness depends On matter'in the brain; When that ro…
1929 · PDF PAGE 480
…n --- so far as his ignorance allows --- {758} described as "creating oneself a God". But he had weakened in late years. He had married. Life to his optimistic eyes looked like a green field with a watering trough. Death in his mind became inseparably connected with the idea of mutton chops.
1906 · PDF PAGE 236
…d unity of the thought-formulated Abstract; and eternally that voice formu- lates a word which is glyphed in the vast ocean of limitless life.2 Do I make myself clear?’ ‘Perfectly. “Who would have thought it was all so simple?’ The God cleared his throat, and rather diffidently, even shamefacedly, went on: ‘¢* But what I really wished to know was about my incarnation. How is it I have so suddenly risen from change and death to the unchangeable ?’” . ‘“‘ ‘Child !’ answered Gautama, ‘ your facts are wrong—you can hardly expect to make 1 Feet. 2 T…
1944 · PDF PAGE 15
… called Tile Chariot and The Devil. He seems to have un‐ derstood that the Tarot was actually a pictorial form of the Qabalistic Tree of Life, which is the basis of the whole Qabalah, so much so that he composed his works on this basis. He wished to write a complete treatise on Magick. He divided his subject into two parts—Theory and Practice which he called Dogma and Ritual. Each part has twenty‐two chapters, one for each of the twenty‐two trumps; and each chapter deals with the subject represented by the picture displayed by the trump. The im…
1904 · PDF PAGE 125
…ts; add men of Science and we form an absolute majority ; among Buddhists a very large proportion have deliberately gone out from social life of any kind to tread t hese paths of Research. Is the Way very hard? Is the brain tired? The results slow to com e? Others are working, failing, struggling, crowned here and there with rare garlands of success. Success for ourse lves, success for othe rs; is it not Compassion that binds us closer than all earthly ties? Ay, in joy and in sorrow, in weakness and in strength, do I take my refuge in the Sangh…
1929 · PDF PAGE 423
… formula of Attainment by devotion to our Lady {673} Babalon. It instructs the aspirant how to dissolve his personality in the Universal Life. LIBER CLXXV. Astarte, The Book of the Beryl Stone, gives the complete formula of Bhaki-Yoga; how one may unite oneself to any particular deity by devotion. Both magical and mystical methods are fully described. LIBER CC. The Book of the Sun. Here are given the four Adorations to the sun, to be said daily at dawn, noon, sunset and midnight. The object of this practice is firstly to remind the aspirant at …
1907 · PDF PAGE 131
…any, Limited), consists of a critical essay upon the works of Aleister Crowley, who is described as having “ unstrung the mystic lyre of life from the tree of the knowledge of Good and of Evil, singing old songs and new, flinging shrill notes of satire to this tumultuous world, as some stormy petrel shrillyc 'ng to the storm; or sweet notes of love, soft as the whispering wings of a butterfly.’ Captain Fuller’s language is always picturesque, and those who have not read Crowley’s poems could not discover a more enthusiastic cicerone. He insists o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 220
…. Damn it, I had to play up to my partner! Rose on the breast of the world of spring, ....I press my breast against thy bloom; My subtle life drawn out to thee; to thee ....its moods and meaning cling. I pass from change and thought to peace, ....woven on love's incredible loom, Rose on the breast of the world of spring! How shall the heart dissolved in joy take ....form and harmony and sing? How shall the ecstasy of light fall back to ....music's magic gloom? O China rose without a thorn, O honey-bee ....without a sting!
1904 · PDF PAGE 65
…ause of it deisre, A merry tune I borrow To light upon the lyre : If death destroy me quite, Then, I cannot lament it ; I’ve lived, kept life alight, And—damned if I repent it ! Let me die in a ditch, Damnably drunk, Or lipping a punk, Or in bed with a bitch ! I was ever a hog ; Muck ? I am one with it ! Let me die like a dog ; Die, and be done with it ! * Famous Adelphi villain. II. As far as reason goes, There’s hope for mortals yet : When nothing is that knows, What is there to regret ? Our consciousness depends On matter in the brain ; When…