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Page 39 of 1151907 · PDF PAGE 32
…t is to say what you mean because it all has to be put into dream talk, as of course the language of the wake-world is silence. So never mind! let me get on. We came by and by to the Sixth House. I forgot to say that all those three paths were really one, be cause they all meant that things were difi‘erent inside to outside, and so people couldn’t judge. It was fearfully interesting; but mind you don’t go in those passages without the Fairy Prince. And of course there’s the Veil. I don’t think I’d better tell you about the Veil. I’ll only put yo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 140
… graveyard put them in possession of the necessary garments; and Arthwait's palinode upon the "resurrection unto damnation" left in each mind due impression of the ghastliness of their projected rite. And, in Paris, Douglas, smashing the neck of a bottle of whisky on the edge of the table, was drinking the good health of his visitor, an American woman of the name of Cremers. Her squat stubborn figure was clad in rusty-black clothes, a man's except for the skirt; it was [198] surmounted by a head of unusual size, and still more unusual shape, fo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 339
…might stir his stagnant stupidity. To me every new scene, every new point of view, is welcome. I want to be taught. I want to enlarge my mind. Nihil humani a me alienum puto. Even so, humani is one word too many. As I wrote in The Book of Lies. The Chinese cannot help thinking that the octave has five notes. The more necessary anything appears to my mind the more certain it is that I only assert a limitation. It is natural that my attitude should be utterly abhorrent to my fellow countrymen. But they are quite wrong to think that my ideas are a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 125
…d with suicides and vampires as in happier days. Reflecting solidly and ably upon these points of modern degeneracy, Vesquit made up his mind to compromise, and accept the most agreeable substitute, a profaned chapel; it was easy to rent a villa with a chapel attached, and, to a man of Vesquit's ability, the work of a moment to profane it. This he accordingly arranged through Abdul Bey. The mind of this youth was very forcibly impressed by the preparations of the old coroner. He had been brought up in the modern school, and could laugh at super…
1899 · PDF PAGE 177
…ore divinely wrung By love and pity and regret and trust, © High hope from heaven that God will be just, Spurn not the child because his mind was dull, Still less condemn him for his father’s lust.
1912 · PDF PAGE 95
…ed authority, is that of Yajna Valkya, who says: “ By Pranayama impurities of the body are thrown out?,־by Dharana the impurities of the mind; by Pratyahara the impurities of attachment ; and by Samadhi is taken off everything that hides the lordship of the soul.” There is a modest statement in good literary form. If we can only do as well as that! In the first place, what is the meaning of the term? Etymologically, Sam is the Greek συν-, the English prefix “syn-” meaning “together 79
1913 · PDF PAGE 92
… of a Probationer. Lier CC.—Resh Vel Helios. An instruction for adorations of the Sun four times daily, with the object of composing the mind to meditation and of regularizing the practices. Liper CCVI.—Liber R V Vel Spiritus. Full instruction in Pranayama. Liser CCCLXI.—Liber H H H. Gives three methods of attainment through a willed series of thoughts. Liper CCCCXII.—4 Vel Armorum. An instruction for the preparation of the Elemental Instruments. Liper CDLI.—Liber Siloam. Not yet published. A direct method of inducing trance. Liner DLV.—Liber H…
1913 · PDF PAGE 92
… of a Probationer. Lier CC.—Resh Vel Helios. An instruction for adorations of the Sun four times daily, with the object of composing the mind to meditation and of regularizing the practices. Liper CCVI.—Liber R V Vel Spiritus. Full instruction in Pranayama. Liser CCCLXI.—Liber H H H. Gives three methods of attainment through a willed series of thoughts. Liper CCCCXII.—4 Vel Armorum. An instruction for the preparation of the Elemental Instruments. Liper CDLI.—Liber Siloam. Not yet published. A direct method of inducing trance. Liner DLV.—Liber H…
1929 · PDF PAGE 14
… him. And it was he who had solved a dozen other mysteries of crime, with apparently no other resource than pure capacity to analyse the minds of men. People had consequently begun to revise their opinions of him; they even began to read his books. But the man himself remained unspeakably mysterious. He had a habit of disappearing for long periods, and it was rumoured that he had the secret of the Elixir of Life. For although he was known to be over eighty years of age, [22] his brightness and activity would have done credit to a man of forty; …
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
…e my appearance with a yell. I grow. I die. There are the same phenomena of change which we all perceive around us. My three-dimensional mind thinks all this 'real,' a history; where at most it is a geography, a partial [62] set of infinite aspects. I say infinite, for the cone contains an infinite number of curves. Yet this three-dimensional being is actually a part of me, though such a minute one; and it rather amuses me, now I have discovered a little bit more of myself, to find that mind think that he, or even his yet baser body, is the one…
1929 · PDF PAGE 78
…things beyond our own consciousnesses are equally ourselves. For instance, I try to unite myself as intimately as I can with every other mind, or body, or idea, that comes in my way. To take that cone simile, I want to be all the different curves I can, so as to have a better chance of realizing the cone. The Black Lodge magician clings to his one curve, tries to make it permanent, to exalt it above all other curves. And of course the moment the cone shifts, out he goes: pop!" "Observe the poet!" remarked Simon Iff. "He values himself enormousl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 14
… all the stars I meet. The dull familiar and the homely drear Are lost for ever. Being asleep, I fear. Wake ! Let me cut the cable of my mind ! My harbour lies before, and not behind. Dreams are all lies ; those jetty shadows lie When the full moon doth crown the midnight sky. But shadows image truth, and dreams come true, For when I wake my arms are full of you. 9 A B
1912 · PDF PAGE 37
CHAPTER I ASANA ΗΕ problem before us may be stated thus simply. A man wishes to control his mind, to be able to think one chosen thought for as long as he will without interruption As previously remarked, the first difficulty arises from the body, which keeps on asserting its presence by causing its victim to itch, and in other ways to be distracted. He wants to stretch, scratch, sneeze. This nuisance is so persistent that the Hindus (in their scientific way) devised a special practice for quieting it. The word Asana means [505126763 but, as with …
1912 · PDF PAGE 82
…Know, the sane spirit keeps its course By this, that everything it thinks Hath causal or contingent links. Destroy them, and destroy the mind! Ο bestial, bottomless, and blind Black pit of all insanity! The adept must make his way to thee] This is the end of all our pain, The dissolution of the brain I For 101 in this no mortar sticks ; Down comes the house~a hail of bricks! The sense of all I hear is drowned ; Tap, tap, isolated sound, Patters, clatters, batters, chatters, Tap, tap, tap, and nothing matters! Senseless hallucinations roll Acros…
1912 · PDF PAGE 82
…Know, the sane spirit keeps its course By this, that everything it thinks Hath causal or contingent links. Destroy them, and destroy the mind! Ο bestial, bottomless, and blind Black pit of all insanity! The adept must make his way to thee] This is the end of all our pain, The dissolution of the brain I For 101 in this no mortar sticks ; Down comes the house~a hail of bricks! The sense of all I hear is drowned ; Tap, tap, isolated sound, Patters, clatters, batters, chatters, Tap, tap, tap, and nothing matters! Senseless hallucinations roll Acros…
1913 · PDF PAGE 88
…s arranged according to their numerical value. LiperR DXXXVI.—BATPAXO®PENOBOOKOSMOMAXIA. An instruction in expansion of the field of the mind. Liner DCCLXXVII.—Vel Prolegomena Symbolica Ad Systemam Sceptico-Mystice Vie Explicanda, Fundamentum Hieroglyphicum Sanctissimorum Scientia Summe. A tentative table of correspondences between various religious symbols. Liser DCCCLXVIII.—Liber Viarum Via. A graphic account of magical powers classified under the Tarot trumps. Liper CMXIII.—Liber Vie Memoria. 2wn Gives methods for attaining the magical memor…
1913 · PDF PAGE 88
…s arranged according to their numerical value. LiperR DXXXVI.—BATPAXO®PENOBOOKOSMOMAXIA. An instruction in expansion of the field of the mind. Liner DCCLXXVII.—Vel Prolegomena Symbolica Ad Systemam Sceptico-Mystice Vie Explicanda, Fundamentum Hieroglyphicum Sanctissimorum Scientia Summe. A tentative table of correspondences between various religious symbols. Liser DCCCLXVIII.—Liber Viarum Via. A graphic account of magical powers classified under the Tarot trumps. Liper CMXIII.—Liber Vie Memoria. 2wn Gives methods for attaining the magical memor…
1954 · PDF PAGE 462
…t interference from the other parts, so long as you happen to need them for some service or other in the Great Work. Please cleanse your mind once and for all of this delusion, disastrous and most damnable , that there can be opposition between two essential parts of your nature. I cannot write more; it makes me too sad. I hope there is no need. Do be your Self, the radiant Daugher of the Muse! With that command I tum to other tasks. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally yours ever, 666
1905 · PDF PAGE 116
… nor fan: Nor wash me all the waves of all the sea! Let all the sun’s light and the moon’s be blind, And all the stars be lampless to my mind, ' Until I see the destiny of man And span the cruelty that lurks behind Its beauty, and its glory, and its splendour !— The girl-babe’s face looks up to the mother tender, Looks for a kiss in dumb desire, and finds Her jaws closed trap-like to expunge and end her! 117
1929 · PDF PAGE 202
…n his family; enjoyed everything, worried about nothing --- it was not at all one's idea of a great artist. I had already got it into my mind that the life of the artist must be a sequence of pungent pangs either of pleasure or pain; that his nature obliged him to regard commonplace circumstances rather as the average man regards deep sleep. But Thäulow lived every line of his life; he had somehow attained that supreme philosophy which contemplates all things alike with cheerful calm. Marcel Schwob excited my unbounded admiration. He was admitt…