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Page 31 of 831913 · PDF PAGE 79
…t him add the Moon, keeping well in mind the relative sizes of, and the distance between, the planet and its satellite. He will probably find the final trick of mind to be a constant disappearance of the image, and the appearance of the same upon a smaller scale. This trick he must outwit by constancy of endeavour. He will then add in turn Venus, Mars, Mercury and the Sun. It is permissible at this stage to change the point of view to the centre of the Sun, and to do so may add stability to the conception. The Practicus may then add the Asteroi…
1928 · PDF PAGE 114
The most terrible sorrows are those which find no voice. As to the father, he contented him- self with saying, half stupidly, half dreamily, After all, it is perhaps for the best; he was sure to finish badly. However, the body was stretched on my di- van, and, with the aid of a servant I was busy- ing myself with the final preparations when the mother came into my studio. She wished, she said, to see the body of her son. I could not, of course, prevent her from intoxicating herself with her unhappiness; I could not refuse her this supreme, …
1954 · PDF PAGE 331
…6 months before the birth of the new Adept, about 3 months after his last death . It depends to some extent, no doubt, on whether he can find a suitable vehicle. Presumably, he will make some sort of preparation while still alive. It seems that I personally must have taken this Oath quite a long while ago; for the Incarnations which I actually remember leave very few gaps to be filled in the last dozen centuries or so. Now, dear sister, I don't like this letter at all, and I am sorry that I had to write it. For most of these statements are insu…
1954 · PDF PAGE 403
… important deposits of alkali in South Africa. Mineral wealth indeed! He went home rejoicing and took the necessary steps to protect his find. In the course of the formalities he found it necessary to come to London, which he did, and told me the whole story. Unfortunately we end with an anti-climax. The negotiations went wrong; and the property was stolen from under his nose by one of the big alkali firms. However, it was a good mark for Geomancy. I am afraid that all this is a digression. As I indicated above, what you want to know is to be f…
1913 · PDF PAGE 496
…abominable practices we have denounced! It is only by magic that one can reply to the enigmatical questions of the Sphinx of Thebes, and find the solution of those problems of religious history which are sealed in the sometimes scandalous obscurities which are to be found in the stories of the Bible. 198
1913 · PDF PAGE 496
…abominable practices we have denounced! It is only by magic that one can reply to the enigmatical questions of the Sphinx of Thebes, and find the solution of those problems of religious history which are sealed in the sometimes scandalous obscurities which are to be found in the stories of the Bible. 198
1902 · PDF PAGE 18
…ions, and to examine the whole question of religion from its most funda- mental source in the consciousness of mankind. Such persons may find the reasoning of Tannhauser useful, if only to brace them to a more courageous attempt to understand the " Great Arcanum," and to attain at last, no matter at what cost, to "true Wisdom and perfect Happiness." So may all happen! Kandy, Ceylon, Sept. 1901. 16
1907 · PDF PAGE 144
…he intolerable flames of hair . Give thee my body as a fire to hold O love, no words , no songs—your breast my bower ! In “ Jezebel ” we find the same desire , but unfanned by restraint , in whose place stands a woman's disdain . He , the prophet , goes to curse her—but loves her instead : For lo ! she saw me , and beheld My trembling lips curled back to curse, Laughed with strong scorn , whose music knelled The empire of God's universe. And on my haggard face upturned She spat ! Ah God ! how my cheek burned ! Then as a man betrayed , and doome…
1910 · PDF PAGE 245
…has gone out with your mother. He'll come by-and-by, no doubt. Run and fetch Nurse, Charley ! [CHARLEY runs off. Oh dear! I wish I could find a good doctor. Nobody seems to do me any good. It’s pain, pain all the time. Nurse! can’t you tell me of a good doctor? For oh! for oh! [Ae looks about him fearfully; his voice sinks to a thrilled whisper] I am so afraid—afraid to die! Is there nobody——. [Enter tovp, and stands by his chair, layinghis hand on the old man’s shoulder. He looks up. I wish you were a doctor, Mr. Todd. You have such a soothing…
1910 · PDF PAGE 245
…has gone out with your mother. He'll come by-and-by, no doubt. Run and fetch Nurse, Charley ! [CHARLEY runs off. Oh dear! I wish I could find a good doctor. Nobody seems to do me any good. It’s pain, pain all the time. Nurse! can’t you tell me of a good doctor? For oh! for oh! [Ae looks about him fearfully; his voice sinks to a thrilled whisper] I am so afraid—afraid to die! Is there nobody——. [Enter tovp, and stands by his chair, layinghis hand on the old man’s shoulder. He looks up. I wish you were a doctor, Mr. Todd. You have such a soothing…
1954 · PDF PAGE 248
…ssence of truth'. (Browning discusses this in Mr. Sludge the Medium. ) Good: the fIeld is clear for an enquiry into this word 'God' . We fInd ourselves in trouble from the start. We must defIne, and to defIne is to limit; and to limit is to reduce 'God' to 'a God' or at best 'the God'. He must be omniscient omnipotent and omnipresent (8) ; yet to such a Being no purpose would be possible; so that all the apologies for the existence of "evil" crash. If there be opposites of any kind, there can be no consistency. He cannot be Two ; He must be One…
1907 · PDF PAGE 49
… keynote of the whole of his poetry, and , as we shall presently see , his philosophy as well , namely --- Ecstasy . In “ Gargoyles ” we find several truly wonderful picture poems . Thus in “ The White Cat ”: Hail , sweet my sister ! hail , adulterous spouse , Gilded with passionate pomp , and gay with guilt : Rioting , rioting in the dreary house With blood and wine and roses splashed and spilt About thy dabbling feet , and aching jaws Whose tongue licks mine , twin asps like moons that curl , Red moons of blood ! Whose catlike body claws , Li…
1907 · PDF PAGE 301
…s runs a great river of esoteric mystic ism , which in the earlier works was a glittering net work of sparkling streams . In “ Time ” we find the commandments of Yama and Niyama mentioned , though we must never forget that the conditions of success vary for every indi vidual , and that Crowley might advise one pupil to drink more , and another to abstain . He doubts That extreme virtue is a necessary condition for one who is desirous of attaining this state of bliss.3 In the beginning of “ Pentecost " descriptions of Asana and Prânâ yama : In s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 12
…e following pages prove , and prove amply , that she remains loyalas ever to the belief . Critics —middle aged critics especially — will find much amiss with them ; and the fault as usual will lie with Time at least as much as with Thyrsis , with the critic 's years as with the singer 's lack of them : Our feelings lose poetic flow Soon after thirty years or so : Professionising modern men Thenceforth admire what pleased them then (I am writing far from books and quote the author of Ionica from treacherous memory ). In the hey - day of the Eliz…
1910 · PDF PAGE 35
…ce; Yet knoweth he not the Bride of the Darkness, Her of the sable wings, and eyes of terrible blindness That see through the worlds and find nothing and nothing, Who would smite the worlds to peace, save that so she would perish, And cannot, for that she is a goddess silent and immortal, Utterly immortal in the gods’ eternal darkness.” And the first voice cried: ‘‘ Oh, that we might perish, And become as pearls of blackness on the breast of the silence, Lending the waste places of the world our darkness, That the vision might burst in the brai…
1910 · PDF PAGE 35
…ce; Yet knoweth he not the Bride of the Darkness, Her of the sable wings, and eyes of terrible blindness That see through the worlds and find nothing and nothing, Who would smite the worlds to peace, save that so she would perish, And cannot, for that she is a goddess silent and immortal, Utterly immortal in the gods’ eternal darkness.” And the first voice cried: ‘‘ Oh, that we might perish, And become as pearls of blackness on the breast of the silence, Lending the waste places of the world our darkness, That the vision might burst in the brai…
1961 · PDF PAGE 193
…in their Sphere of Union no more than one Quality that may be predicated of all Things. Furthermore, it is for the most Part not easy to find or to formulate the true Contradiction of any Thought as a positive Idea, but only as a Formal Negation in vague Terms, so that he ready Answer is but the Antithesis. Thus to White one putteth not the Phrase all that which is not white, for this is void, formless, neither clear, simple, nor positive in conception; but one answereth Black, for this hath an Image of his Significance. So the Cohesion o…
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
…he border I shall get myself a buxom bride, And ride—ride—ride ! [He rises. Ride to the blacksmith at Gretna Green, Kiss a fair lady and find her a queen ! O a Queen, for certain! It is I that ride, Ride in my youth and pride 1 The Indian generic term for any good spirit. 2 Rabbi Schimeon, who first wrote down the Zohar, the most sacred book of the Qabalah. With a long sword girt to my waist, And a strawberry mare sweet-paced, And a long night with no moon, no star! I will plunder the traveller from afar ;— Aye ! and find him an ancient sage, .…
1903 · PDF PAGE 18
…r control, all the divergent phenomena of our prison, a work which we undertake that at last we may be able to break down the walls, and find that freedom which an inconsiderate Inversion has denied. ‘The mystical precepts of pseudo-Zoroaster, Buddha, Gankaracharya, Pseudo-Christ and the rest, are for advanced students only, for direct attack on the problem. Our servants, the soldiers, lawyers, all forms of government, make this our nobler work possible, and it is the gravest possible mistake to sneer at these humble but faithful followers of t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 213
…, and Space the Here ; From us all Matter radiates , is a part Of our own thoughts and souls . So we see : For Gods , and devils too , I find Are merely modes of my own mind !4 2 1 Aceldama , vol . i, p . 4. Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 110 . 3 Ibid . vol . i, p. 119 . + Sword of Song , Pentecost , vol . ii, p . 177 .