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Page 38 of 831912 · PDF PAGE 426
… in the design ; itis certainly good. Mr. Aleister Crowley introduces Miss Archer briefly but splendidly, with phrases of this sort: ‘We find such rime-webs as abaaab-babbba . . ., more exquisite than all the arabesques of the Alhambra.’ . . . It is all wery splendid. . - . We feel dveatily sensible of our outer darkness. "Coming to Miss Archer's poetry we are obliged to notice her debt to Swinburne, yet we find it, on the whole, good. . . . The colour is very strong; the shades of thought are clear, and often subtle. . . . The uninitated may c…
1912 · PDF PAGE 426
… in the design ; itis certainly good. Mr. Aleister Crowley introduces Miss Archer briefly but splendidly, with phrases of this sort: ‘We find such rime-webs as abaaab-babbba . . ., more exquisite than all the arabesques of the Alhambra.’ . . . It is all wery splendid. . - . We feel dveatily sensible of our outer darkness. "Coming to Miss Archer's poetry we are obliged to notice her debt to Swinburne, yet we find it, on the whole, good. . . . The colour is very strong; the shades of thought are clear, and often subtle. . . . The uninitated may c…
1913 · PDF PAGE 598
… in the design ; itis certainly good. Mr. Aleister Crowley introduces Miss Archer briefly but splendidly, with phrases of this sort: ‘We find such rime-webs as abaaab-babbba . . ., more exquisite than all the arabesques of the Alhambra’. . . Itis all very splendid. . . . We feel drearily sensible of our outer darkness. Coming to Miss Archer's poetry we are obliged to notice her debt to Swinburne, yet we find it, on the whole, good. . . . The colour is very strong; the shades of thought are clear, and often subtle. . . . The uninitated may certa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 598
… in the design ; itis certainly good. Mr. Aleister Crowley introduces Miss Archer briefly but splendidly, with phrases of this sort: ‘We find such rime-webs as abaaab-babbba . . ., more exquisite than all the arabesques of the Alhambra’. . . Itis all very splendid. . . . We feel drearily sensible of our outer darkness. Coming to Miss Archer's poetry we are obliged to notice her debt to Swinburne, yet we find it, on the whole, good. . . . The colour is very strong; the shades of thought are clear, and often subtle. . . . The uninitated may certa…
1904 · PDF PAGE 19
…ng My hand down on this table-thing,61 And that commotion widens thus And shakes the nerves of Sirius ! To calculate one hour’s result I find surpassing difficult ; 380 385 390 395 400 405 410 415 My own vague optimism. Im- possibility of tracing cause back or effect forward to the ultimate. Ethics individual.
1907 · PDF PAGE 107
… the primal protoplasmic jelly without countless generations of weeping and tortured life . The path of Vice we must tread before we can find the high road of Virtue , and Vice we must wed before we can open the gates of a more perfect understanding . The great Command ment is : “ Live in the midst of Vice ; but heed that Vice doth not live in thy midst.” “ God is the Complex and the Protoplast ." And so are we ; entwined within us , as in the poem of Tannhäuser , lie the countless threads of inherited tendencies . To suspend our soul on one al…
1909 · PDF PAGE 39
…put it more simply, straight upwards). 4. Instead of stopping, let him continue to rise until fatigue almost overcomes him. If he should find that he has stopped without willing to do so, and that figures appear, let him at all costs rise above them. Yea, though his very life tremble on his lips, let him force his way upward and onward! 5. Let him continue in this so long as the breath of life is in him. Whatever threatens, whatever allures, though it were Typhon and all his hosts loosed from the pit and leagued against him, though it were from…
1909 · PDF PAGE 39
…put it more simply, straight upwards). 4. Instead of stopping, let him continue to rise until fatigue almost overcomes him. If he should find that he has stopped without willing to do so, and that figures appear, let him at all costs rise above them. Yea, though his very life tremble on his lips, let him force his way upward and onward! 5. Let him continue in this so long as the breath of life is in him. Whatever threatens, whatever allures, though it were Typhon and all his hosts loosed from the pit and leagued against him, though it were from…
1930 · PDF PAGE 18
… to dissect. For at that time, it will be remembered, hospitals were not as flourishing as they are to-day, and it was very difficult to find living people whom you could cut up to see what came of it. The surgeon was, in fact, not understood at all, except in the one way which such people were capable of understanding ; i.e., as the body-snatcher. The rest of his proceedings were perfectly mysterious to them. You notice that even Charles Dickenswho may yet go down to history for having wished to prosecute Holman Hunt, of all people in the wor…
1904 · PDF PAGE 43
…he individual case allows Some chance to operate, and thus Destroys its value quite for us. So that is why I knit my brows And think—and find no thing to say Or do, so foolish as to pray. “So much for this absurd affair52 About” validity of prayer. But back ! Let once again address Ourselves to super-consciusness ! You weary me with proof enough That all this meditation stuff Is self-hypnosis. Be it so ! Do you suppose I did not know ? Still, to be accurate, I fear The symptoms are entirely strange. If I were hard, I’d make it clear That critic…
1907 · PDF PAGE 119
…- read me !2 In this extraordinary volume , which seems to be the child of a promise made to Mr. Chesterton in the “ Sword of Song ,” we find a deeply cynical satire castigating with no little severity the menial servility of modern society , as scathing as a Beverland , as cynical as a Carlyle , and as satirical as a Butler . Its great theme is the contest “ of age and sense with flatulence and youth .” We have already shaken hands with Percy , Molly , and Lady Baird ( Angela ) ; we have still to be introduced to Lord Glenstrae . The first two…
1909 · PDF PAGE 77
…of power, cleanliness and light; by his self-control, his concentration of thought and action, his vigour, his patience. You will rarely find them at afternoon tea gossiping about clairvoyance, or even “ playing Adam.” What? you don’t know how to play “Adam”? And you call yourself a sage? Tut! The game of “ Adam” is played as follows. Take a key, a Bible, an elastic band. 67
1909 · PDF PAGE 77
…of power, cleanliness and light; by his self-control, his concentration of thought and action, his vigour, his patience. You will rarely find them at afternoon tea gossiping about clairvoyance, or even “ playing Adam.” What? you don’t know how to play “Adam”? And you call yourself a sage? Tut! The game of “ Adam” is played as follows. Take a key, a Bible, an elastic band. 67
1913 · PDF PAGE 525
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES we find traces of them in Hesiod, who expressly forbids that linen, stained by a pollution of any sort, should be dried before a fire. Persons who are obsessed by phantoms are usually exalted by too rigorous celibacy, or weakened by excesses. Fluidic phantoms are the abortions of the vital light; they are plastic media without body and without spirit, born from the excesses of the spirit and the disorders of the body. These wandering media may be attracted by certain degenerates who are fatally sympathetic to them, and …
1913 · PDF PAGE 525
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES we find traces of them in Hesiod, who expressly forbids that linen, stained by a pollution of any sort, should be dried before a fire. Persons who are obsessed by phantoms are usually exalted by too rigorous celibacy, or weakened by excesses. Fluidic phantoms are the abortions of the vital light; they are plastic media without body and without spirit, born from the excesses of the spirit and the disorders of the body. These wandering media may be attracted by certain degenerates who are fatally sympathetic to them, and …
1906 · PDF PAGE 184
…he individual case allows Some chance to operate, and thus Destroys its value quite for us. So that is why I knit my brows And think—and find no thing to say Or do, so foolish as to pray. “So much for this absurd affair ” About ” validity of prayer. But back! Let once again address Our minds to super-consciousness ! You weary me with proof enough That all this meditation stuff Is self-hypnosis. Be it so! Do you suppose I did not know? Still, to be accurate, I fear The symptoms are entirely strange. If I were hard, I’d make it clear That critici…
1907 · PDF PAGE 181
…tains , the swamps , the forests of existence to that great road , the road of the Soul . From the supernal flights of Idealism , we now find Crowley in the most infernal depths of realism striving through a sea of blood towards that flaming pentacle which flares on the dim horizon of Hope . All is night , yet all is expectation ; herculean is the task , yet the heart is that of a Titan . Blake saw that “ Prisons are built with stones of Law ; brothels with bricks of Religion ,” and so does Crowley . Both in their sagacity perceive that the one…
1907 · PDF PAGE 184
…wheel of Fate —why contemplate what is so unprofitable and use less ? Yet in this mysticism which is more intrinsically of the East , we find an intricate web of Egotism tangled with the utilitarianism of the West ; for it seems on reading further that it is not in mere abstraction of the real , but rather in the total absorption of the real , that the Nirvana of bliss is to be arrived at . It is terrible sailing this , Scylla lies to our left , Charybdis to our right , the blood - flecked foam of life is dashed on our lips , it is acrid and in…
1913 · PDF PAGE 495
…eive its complete sense from the analogy of contraries. M. Champollion found Coptic in the hiero- glyphics, another savant would perhaps find more easily, and more fortunately, Hebrew; but what would one say if it were neither Hebrew nor Coptic? If it were, for example, the universal primitive language? Now, this language, which was that of the transcendental Qabalah, did certainly exist; more, it still exists at the base of Hebrew itself, and of all the oriental languages which derive from it; this language is that of the sanctuary, and the co…
1913 · PDF PAGE 495
…eive its complete sense from the analogy of contraries. M. Champollion found Coptic in the hiero- glyphics, another savant would perhaps find more easily, and more fortunately, Hebrew; but what would one say if it were neither Hebrew nor Coptic? If it were, for example, the universal primitive language? Now, this language, which was that of the transcendental Qabalah, did certainly exist; more, it still exists at the base of Hebrew itself, and of all the oriental languages which derive from it; this language is that of the sanctuary, and the co…