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Page 198 of 2031929 · PDF PAGE 44
… blushing cheek? Heaven at your accurst creation ...Shall become a hell of fire: Death for kisses, and damnation ...For your love, shall God require! What is worthy of note is what I may call the Laus veneris point of view; which symbolizes my revolt and required many years to wear out. It seems as if I clung to the idea of the wickedness of love and the belief that it entailed divine retribution, partly perhaps because of my tendency to masochism, but consciously, at least, as adding actual value to sin. Pleasure as such has never attracted me…
1913 · PDF PAGE 599
…-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the reeds by the River?’ Well, Mr. Victor Neuburg has discovered the answer, for he was obviously wandering near the river if he was not hidden in the reeds. . . .”—RoserT Ross in The Bystander. “There is no question about the poetic quality of much of Mr, Neuburg’s verse. . . . We are given visions of love which open new amorous possibilities.”—Daily Chronicle. “Sheer ennui is apt to say ‘mor…
1913 · PDF PAGE 599
…-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the reeds by the River?’ Well, Mr. Victor Neuburg has discovered the answer, for he was obviously wandering near the river if he was not hidden in the reeds. . . .”—RoserT Ross in The Bystander. “There is no question about the poetic quality of much of Mr, Neuburg’s verse. . . . We are given visions of love which open new amorous possibilities.”—Daily Chronicle. “Sheer ennui is apt to say ‘mor…
1907 · PDF PAGE 227
…lost. To control the ethics of the state is to adopt the ethics of the state: and the first duty of the state will be to expel the rival god Religion. In such a cycle we in Eng- land seem to be now revolving, and the new forced freedom of the Church is upon us. If only the destruction is sufficiently com- plete, if only all England will turn Atheist, we may perhaps be able to find some Chris- tians here and there. As long as ‘‘ church” means either a building, an assembly, or even has any meaning at all of a_ kind to be intelligible to the ordi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 216
…fe. ‘“ Yoga? There’s danger in the biz ! But, it’s the only chance there is !”’ (For life, if left alone, is sorrow, And only fools hope God’s to-morrow.) Up, Guards, and at’em !/ Second, your facts are neatly put ; —Stay! In that mouth there lurks a foot ! One surgeon saw so many claps He thought: ‘‘ One-third per cent., perhaps, Of mortals ’scape its woes that knock us, And bilk the wily gonococcus.” So he is but a simple cynic Who takes the world to match his clinic ; And he assuredly may err Who, keeping cats, thinks birds have fur. You say…
1929 · PDF PAGE 239
…n, of his period. Similarly, Aiwass, uttering the word Thelema (with all its implications), destroys completely the formula of the Dying God. Thelema implies not merely a new religion, but a new cosmology, a new philosophy, a new ethics. It co-ordinates the disconnected discoveries of science, from physics to psychology, into a coherent and consistent system. Its scope is so vast that it is impossible even to hint at the universality of its application. But the whole of my work, from the moment of its utterance, illustrates some phase of its po…
1904 · PDF PAGE 75
…life. “Yoga ? There’s danger in the biz ! But, it’s the only chance there is !” (For life, if left alone, is sorrow, And only fools hope God’s to-morrow.) Up, Guards, and at em! Second, your facts are neatly put ; —Stay ! In that mouth there lurks a foot ! One surgeon saw so many claps He thought : “One-third per cent., perhaps, Of mortals ’scape its woes that knock us, And bilk the wily gonococcus.” So he is but a simple cynic Who takes the world to match his clinic ; And he assuredly may err Who, keeping cats, think birds have fur. You say :…
1906 · PDF PAGE 149
…Politics of modern times: Shelley on the brink of such another Political upheaval. Shake- speare alone sat enthroned above it all like a god, and is not lost in the mire of contro- versy.* This also, though ‘ I’m no Shakes- peare, as too probable,” I have endeavoured to avoid : yet I cannot but express the hope that my own enquiries into religion may be the reflection of the spirit of the age; and that plunged as we are in the midst of jingoism and religious revival, we may be standing on the edge of some gigantic precipice, over which we may c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 243
…d Works, supplying learned notes to divers obscure passages. My activities as a publisher were at this time remarkable. I had issued The God-Eater and The Star & the Garter through Charles Watts & Co. of the Rationalist Press Association, but there was still no such demand for my books as to indicate that I had touched the great heart of the British public. I decided that it would save trouble to publish them myself. I decided to call myself the Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth, and issued The Argonauts, The Sword of Song, the Boo…
1944 · PDF PAGE 73
…ree Supernals of the Tree of Life. The colour of the Serpent is purple, Mercury in the scale of the Queen. It is the influ‐ ence of that God manifested in Nature, whereas the wings are tinged with crimson, the colour (in the King scale) of Binah the great Mother. In this symbol is therefore a complete glyph of the equilibrium necessary to begin the Great Work. But, as to the final mystery, that is left un‐ solved. Perfect is the plan to produce life, but the nature of this life is concealed. It is capable of taking any possible form; but what f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 406
…ly is a characteristic of puritan psychology. Nobody would notice that side of nature to which those folk whose goodness resents that of God, attach a "bad" meaning, if they did not persistently emphasize its existence. The bad taste of this outrage went even further. The butterfly was notoriously the emblem of Whistler, whose controversies with Wilde were so savagely witty. To put this on the very symbol of Wilde's creative genius was the most obscene insult which could have been imagined. Martial never composed an epigram so indecently mockin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 433
…htenment and ecstasy in these mysterious mutterings. One brilliant boy wrote in Poetry and Drama as follows: Creation and destruction of gods has been for centuries mankind's favourite religious mania and philosophical exercise. The Book of Lies is a witty, instructive and wholly admirable collection of paradoxes, in themselves contradictory, summing up and illustrating various experiments in god- making. Frater Perdurabo, however, has not written a philosophical or mystical treatise; on the contrary, his book leaves one with a feeling of inten…
1929 · PDF PAGE 149
…mfortas: I had not got rid of the shame of sex. My instinct told me that Blake was right in saying "The lust of the goat is the glory of god." But I lacked the courage to admit it. The result of my training had been to obsess me with the hideously foul idea that inflicts such misery on Western minds and curses life with civil war. Europeans cannot face the facts frankly; they cannot escape from their animal appetite, yet suffer the tortures of fear and shame even while gratifying it. As Freud has now shown, this devastating complex is not merel…
1929 · PDF PAGE 177
…ge; but my experience had already shown me that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. I attributed the almost universal mental and moral instability of Europeans engaged in exploring to their lack of proper intellectual relaxation far more than to any irritations and hardships inseparable from physical conditions. Conrad's "An Outpost of Progress" and Kipling's story of the lighthouse keeper who went mad are outstanding examples of the psychological processes which are likely to occur. Per…
1907 · PDF PAGE 230
…e universe alone in the storm. Nor does Browning anywhere draw so perfect and so credible a picture of the inter- course between man and God as the exquisite vision of Pan in ‘* Pheidippides.” It is all perfectly natural and therefore miraculous; there is no straining at the gnats of vestment in the hope of swallowing the camel of Illumination. In the matter of Pentecost, we hear only, in the way of the ‘conditions of the experiment,” that ‘‘they were all with one accord in one place.” Now, this being
1929 · PDF PAGE 367
… such places to practise the tenth clause of my vow as a Master of the Temple, "To interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul", by forcing advertisements and other public announcements to yield some spiritual significance. I would either apply the Cabbala to the words and manipulate the numbers so as to reach a state of mind in which some truth might suddenly spring in the silence, or I would play upon the words as if they were oracles, or else force the filthy falsehoods of fraudulent dollar-dervishes to transfigure…
1944 · PDF PAGE 127
…hat the hand is spinning the wheel merely for pleasure‐it would be better to say amusement. “A voice comes: For he is a jocund and ruddy god, and his laughter is the vibration of all that exists, and the earthquakes of the soul. “One is conscious of the whirring of the wheel thrilling one, like an electric discharge passing through one. “Now I see the figures on the wheel, which have been interpreted as the sworded Sphinx, Hermanubis and Typhon. And that is wrong. The rim of the wheel is a vivid emerald snake; in the centre of the wheel is a sc…
1929 · PDF PAGE 165
…less of reason. But India has always conquered its invaders by initiating them. No sooner does the sahib suspect that he is not Almighty God than the attributes of Jehovah cease to arm him with unreasonable omnipotence. Our rule in India has perished because we have allowed ourselves to consider the question of divine right. The proverb says that the gods themselves cannot contend with stupidity, and the stupidity of the sahib in the days of Nicholson reduced India to impotence. But we allowed the intellectual Bangali to invade England and care…
1929 · PDF PAGE 442
…d that there is some truth in all of them. Their tenets are explained in many cases with egregious error. The description of Buddha as a god is typical. I saw no point in overloading the system with superfluous information. Another essential point was to reduce the unwieldly mass of material to a compact and coherent system. I thought that everything worth preserving could and should be presented in not more than a dozen ceremonies, and that it should be brought well within the capacity of any officer to learn by heart his part during the leisu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 325
…opposites, as is done in The Book of the Law. Hardly anything is more important for the aspirant than to get rid of the tendency to make God in his Own image. One should learn to regard the formula of Yod, Hé, Vau as universal, not as generalized from the reproductive process of mammals, but vice versa. That process should be regarded as one particular case of the Law, and that case by no means an important one. We must be constantly on our guard against egocentric implications; they do not even exalt the ego as they pretend to do, they limit i…