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Page 27 of 1731929 · PDF PAGE 95
…n old stone bridge, a flying arch set steeply from the road to the house. It almost gave the effect of a frozen cascade issuing from the great doorway. Cyril led Lisa across the bridge. This house was not served like that they had left behind them in Paris. Visitors were not expected or desired at any time, and the inmates rarely left the grounds, except on duty. [136] It was therefore some time before an answer to the summons reached them. Cyril's hand, dragging down an iron rope, had set swinging a great bell, deep and solemn, like a tocsin, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 192
…and bad , are made one , lost in the depths of the Lethean sea. And what can all this lead us to , this progress through misery ? To the great archetype the Arahat ship of Buddha . It was by gazing on the sunken eyes of a corpse , so the legend runs , that Gautama forsook pleasure for a life of pity . Life is feodal to Death , and our ultimate sleep is greater than our first awakening . The womb was dark ; from out it sprang the thought less ; the tomb is darker still ; into it creeps the thoughtful . The dead are our gods , soon we shall strik…
1907 · PDF PAGE 207
…gar ap preciation , and when vulgar understanding has , swine like , trodden their pearls of wisdom back into the mud of its own sty , a great wave of materialism sweeps over the face of the globe . This system of thought , built on the illusive phantasmagoria of the mind , found in the West a master - mind to mould it into shape , in the personality of Democritus of Abdera ; and from the day when that sage materialized the creations of his brain to that of Büchner and the present - day mud - larks , it has formed the stumbling - block to nearl…
1911 · PDF PAGE 26
…nd on each hair of the tail is some- thing or other—sometimes a little house, sometimes a planet, at other times a town. Then there is a great plain with soldiers fighting upon it, and an enormously high mountain carved into a thousand temples, and more houses and fields and trees, and great cities with wonderful buildings in them, statues and columns and public buildings generally. This goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on—all on the hairs of this lion’s tail. And then there is the tuft of his tail, which is like a comet, but the …
1909 · PDF PAGE 54
… Looking with fire-keen evvs on life and death In simple state and cardinal content : Even as the holy hawk that towers sublime Into the great abyss, with icy gaze Fronting the calm immensities of time And making space to shudder; so I praise With infinite contempt the joyous world That I have figured in this brain of mine. The sails of this life’s argosy are furled; The anchor drops in those abodes divine. Master of self and God, freewill and Fate. [ am alone — at last — to meditate,
1919 · PDF PAGE 13
HYMN TO PAN The gods withdraw: The great beasts come, Io Pan! Iam borne To death on the horn Of the Unicorn. Iam Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Iam thy mate, Iam thy man, Goat of thy flock, Iam gold, I am god, Flesh to thy bone, flower to thy rod. With hoofs of steel I race on the rocks Through solstice stubborn to equinox. And I rave; andI rape and I rip andI rend Everlasting, world without end, Mannikin, maiden, mzenad, man, In the might of Pan. Io Pan! Io Pan Pan! Pan! Io Pan!
1907 · PDF PAGE 36
… here as they have occurred elsewhere , should be as a literary barometer , enabling us to judge the mental standard of the writer . All great writers will have many points in common . It is more than probable that Aleister Crowley had already read most of Shakespeare before he wrote “ The Mother's Tra gedy ,” and yet , because of this we should not neces sarily say that the following magnificent lines were due to the influence of the great master , notwith standing the fact that they are in many respects equal to much of his best : Your breath…
1913 · PDF PAGE 331
…ose fulfilment was sought successively by the Assyrians, the Medes, the Persians, Alexander, Rome, Napoleon, the successors of Peter the Great, and always unfinished because of the dispersion of interests, symbolized by the confusion of tongues. The universal empire could not realize itself by force, but by intelligence and love. Thus, to Nimrod, the man of savage ‘right,’ the Bible opposed Abraham, the man of duty, who goes voluntarily into exile in order to seek liberty and strife in a strange country, which he seizes by virtue of his Zdea. H…
1913 · PDF PAGE 455
… he paled, and his glance became troubled. “Master, you know better than I what it is,” said he humbly in a low voice. ‘Oh, it cost me a great deal to do it; above all, the first time, with a single blow of the magic knife to cut the throat of that innocent creature! One night I had just accomplished the funereal rites, I was seated in the circle on the interior threshold of my door, and the victim had just been consumed in a great fire of alder and cypress wood. . All of a sudden, quite close to me... . I dreamt or rather I felt it pass... I h…
1913 · PDF PAGE 470
…this appeal, and when he had got out of the crowd with this lady: ‘“‘ How happy I am,” said she, ‘‘ to have met a man who weeps for this great crime, for which, at this moment, so many wretches rejoice!” “What are you saying, madam? How is it possible that there should exist beings so depraved as to rejoice at so great a misfortune ?” “Silence!” said the old lady; “perhaps we are over- heard. . . . Yes,” she added, lowering her voice; ‘there are people who are exceedingly pleased at what has happened. And look there, just now, there was a man o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 331
…ose fulfilment was sought successively by the Assyrians, the Medes, the Persians, Alexander, Rome, Napoleon, the successors of Peter the Great, and always unfinished because of the dispersion of interests, symbolized by the confusion of tongues. The universal empire could not realize itself by force, but by intelligence and love. Thus, to Nimrod, the man of savage ‘right,’ the Bible opposed Abraham, the man of duty, who goes voluntarily into exile in order to seek liberty and strife in a strange country, which he seizes by virtue of his Zdea. H…
1913 · PDF PAGE 455
… he paled, and his glance became troubled. “Master, you know better than I what it is,” said he humbly in a low voice. ‘Oh, it cost me a great deal to do it; above all, the first time, with a single blow of the magic knife to cut the throat of that innocent creature! One night I had just accomplished the funereal rites, I was seated in the circle on the interior threshold of my door, and the victim had just been consumed in a great fire of alder and cypress wood. . All of a sudden, quite close to me... . I dreamt or rather I felt it pass... I h…
1913 · PDF PAGE 470
…this appeal, and when he had got out of the crowd with this lady: ‘“‘ How happy I am,” said she, ‘‘ to have met a man who weeps for this great crime, for which, at this moment, so many wretches rejoice!” “What are you saying, madam? How is it possible that there should exist beings so depraved as to rejoice at so great a misfortune ?” “Silence!” said the old lady; “perhaps we are over- heard. . . . Yes,” she added, lowering her voice; ‘there are people who are exceedingly pleased at what has happened. And look there, just now, there was a man o…
1912 · PDF PAGE 50
…t Sangha, under the name οί Bhikku Ananda Metteya. It was from him that he received the instructions which were to help him to reach the great and terrible pinnacle of the mind whence the Adept must plunge into the Abyss, to emerge naked, a babe—the Babe of the Abyss “Explore the River of the Soul," said Ananda Metteya, “ whence and in what order you have come” For three days—the longest period allowed by the Buddhist law—he remained in the Choung, meditating on this matter; but nothing seems to have come of it. He set his teeth and settled dow…
1912 · PDF PAGE 50
…t Sangha, under the name οί Bhikku Ananda Metteya. It was from him that he received the instructions which were to help him to reach the great and terrible pinnacle of the mind whence the Adept must plunge into the Abyss, to emerge naked, a babe—the Babe of the Abyss “Explore the River of the Soul," said Ananda Metteya, “ whence and in what order you have come” For three days—the longest period allowed by the Buddhist law—he remained in the Choung, meditating on this matter; but nothing seems to have come of it. He set his teeth and settled dow…
1928 · PDF PAGE 109
Save for the fear of making a fool of myself before so great an assembly, I would gladly have fallen at the feet of this generous game- ster to thank him for his unheard-of munifi- cence; but, little by little, after I had left him, incurable mistrust entered again into my bosom; I no longer dared to believe in such prodigious happiness, and, as I lay down to sleep, kneeling once more in prayer (a tag of imbecile custom!) I repeated, half asleep; Oh God. Oh Lord my God, do Thou grant that the devil keep his word to me!
1913 · PDF PAGE 511
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES the effects in the causes. Previous to all great events, there have been most astonishing predictions. In the reign of Louis Philippe we heard sleep-walkers and ecstatics announce the return of the Empire, and specify the date of its coming. The Republic of 1848 was clearly announced in the prophecy of Orval, which dated at least from 1830 and which we strongly suspect to be, like those works attributed to the brothers Olivarius, the posthumous work of Mlle. Lenormand. This is a matter of little importance in this thesi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 511
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES the effects in the causes. Previous to all great events, there have been most astonishing predictions. In the reign of Louis Philippe we heard sleep-walkers and ecstatics announce the return of the Empire, and specify the date of its coming. The Republic of 1848 was clearly announced in the prophecy of Orval, which dated at least from 1830 and which we strongly suspect to be, like those works attributed to the brothers Olivarius, the posthumous work of Mlle. Lenormand. This is a matter of little importance in this thesi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 412
…not merely to avoid interference or annoyance, but to teach the mind to think down to the roots of the local customs. You learn also the great lesson of Thelema, that nothing is right or wrong in itself; as we say "Circumstances alter cases." One trains oneself to adapt one's life to the impinging facts: to "cut one's coat according to one's cloth." It leads one to the understanding of that great Principle of Compromise which has kept England's head above water through the tempests of a chiliad. Remember that the slightest sign of inelasticity …
1904 · PDF PAGE 105
… to while away the idle hours While Jason hunts — ALCESTIS. How grand it were to see Our aged father rival the strong youths In feats of great agility! MEDEA. Agreed! But surely you should work the charm yourselves. For children magic is a blithesome game! DANAIDES. Dear lady! teach us how to say the spell! MEDEA, Words must be aided by appalling deeds! ALCESTIS. O! O! you frighten us. MEDEA, Be brave, my child! I too passed through unutterable things! ALCESTIS, Let me fetch father!