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Page 39 of 1591954 · PDF PAGE 14
…ture of the material presented. Do remember that there is a table of contents and an index. Later, the reader could take one letter at a time, dealing with a certain topic, study it, and meditate on whatever sections of that letter seem to warrant it. In this way, I believe, he will obtain a great deal more from this very profound book than if he tried to read it straight through as though it were a novel, or an otherwise conventional textbook. Letters (divided here into chapters) 6, 7 and 8 are entitled "The Three Schools of Magick." They were…
1929 · PDF PAGE 472
…t me press cuttings which described me as the greatest poet, philosopher, blackguard, mountaineer, magician, degenerate and saint of all time; and I was thinking that, as in the case of the Queen of Sheba, when she visited King Solomon, the half had not been told. I was aroused from this mood of mingled gratification and disappointment by a tap on the shoulder. A voice asked me to excuse its intrusion. Its owner explained that, seeing me reading cuttings with the superscription of a London firm, he assumed me to be at least English-speaking, in…
1929 · PDF PAGE 26
…tandards is to outrage, not only him, but oneself, since both parties are equally born of necessity.) (25) Every man must do Magick each time that he acts or even thinks, since a thought is an internai act whose influence ultimately affects action, though it may not do so at the time. (Illustration: The least gesture causes a change in a man’s own body and in the air around him; it disturbs the balance of the entire Universe, and its effects continue eternally throughout ail space. Every thought, however swiftly suppressed, has its effect on th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 65
…s being mastered, add 8. Then add 9-13. Then being prepared and fortified, well fitted for the work, perform the whole méditation at one time. And let this be con- tinued until perfect success be attained therein. For this is a mighty méditation and holy, having power even upon Death, yea, having power even upon Death. (Note by Fra. O. M. At any time during this méditation the 365
1954 · PDF PAGE 224
FASCINATIONS 191 Did I hear you mutter "Transmutations? Werewolves? Golden Hawks?" Likely enough; it's time we touched on that. In certain types of animal there appears, if tradition have any weight, to be a curious quality of-sympathy? I doubt if that be the word, but can think of none better-which enables them to assume at times the human form. No. I-and the rest are also rans-is the seal. There is a whole body of literature about this. Then come wolves, hyc:enas, large dogs of the hunting type; occasionally leopards. Tales of cats and serpen…
1903 · PDF PAGE 81
THE TWENTY-SIXTH DAY “ I think the devil will not have me damned. . . . he would never else cross me thus.” Merry Wives of Windsor. This time she set her will against my will ; Swore that she would not come : in my despair I half believed her an enchantress fair Cruel as hell and dowered with subtle skill To strain my life out with her love, and kill My soul with misery : suddenly a rare Swift smile set shimmering all the ambient air, And then I knew she was my true love still. She would not come ? Why, were Hell’s portals fast Shut, as to Orph…
1910 · PDF PAGE 161
…ld die. Ashes to ashes ? Dust to dust ? So let it be ! In God we trust. Though ruin wash the world in blood, Though death devour, though time decay,
1913 · PDF PAGE 45
KE®AAH AA THE GAROTTE IT moves from motion into rest, and rests from rest into motion. These IT does alway, for time is not. So that IT does neither of these things. IT does THAT one thing which we must express by two things neither of which possesses any rational meaning. Yet ITS doing, which is not-doing, is simpleand yet complex, is neither free nor necessary. For all these ideas express Relation; and IT, comprehending all Relation in ITS sim- plicity, is out of all Relation even with ITSELF. All this is true and false; and it is true and fa…
1922 · PDF PAGE 384
…ul novel shows the dilemma of a middle-aged man with an invalid wife and grown-up children, who falls passionately in love for the first time. As he is a man of iron self-control he represses his passion till it bursts all bounds, with a tragic result. No one now writing knows so well or describes so vividly life in the English countryside as does Bernard Gilbert. THE PIT-PROP SYNDICATE Freeman Wills Crofts Another brilliantly ingenious detective story by the author of The Ponson Case. The mystery of the real business of the syndicate utterly b…
1910 · PDF PAGE 116
THE EQUINOX He should perform Kumbhakas four times a day—in the early morning, midday, evening, and midnight—till he increases the number to eighty.* This will make 320 Kumbhakas a day. In the early stages the Prana should be restrained for 12 matras (seconds) in- creasing as progress is made to 24 and to 36. In the first stage, the body perspires; in the second, a tremor is felt throughout the body; and in the highest stage, the Prana goes to the Brahma- randhra.t This exercise may also be practised with an additional meditation on the Pranava…
1910 · PDF PAGE 116
THE EQUINOX He should perform Kumbhakas four times a day—in the early morning, midday, evening, and midnight—till he increases the number to eighty.* This will make 320 Kumbhakas a day. In the early stages the Prana should be restrained for 12 matras (seconds) in- creasing as progress is made to 24 and to 36. In the first stage, the body perspires; in the second, a tremor is felt throughout the body; and in the highest stage, the Prana goes to the Brahma- randhra.t This exercise may also be practised with an additional meditation on the Pranava…
1922 · PDF PAGE 71
…best results ; but it’s rather a nuisance, and there’s always danger of getting dirt in. You have to look out for blood-poisoning aH the time. It stimulates the imagination marvellously. It kills all pain and worry like a charm. But at the very moment when you have the most gorgeous ideas, when you build golden palaces of what you are going to do, you have a feeling at the same time that nothing is really worth doing, and that itself gives you a feeling of terrific superiority to every- thing else in the world. And so, from the objective point …
1922 · PDF PAGE 181
…it is, but the feeling of annoyance is acute. It’s mixed up with a vague fear. I’ve often forgotten things before—every one does all the time, but it doesn’t bother one. But now, every time that I remember that I’ve forgotten something, I wonder whether it’s H. or C. or mixing the two that is messing up my mind... . My mind keeps on running back to that American nigger we met in Naples. He said snow made people “ flighty and sceptical.”’ It was such a queer expression. By sceptical he meant suspicious, I think. Anyhow, I’ve got that way. Flight…
1913 · PDF PAGE 132
…hrough the dim millennial years Back to the utter source of pain He bore me surfeited with tears . Swift from the present , back through time , Swifter than spears the keen sun throws , He bore and set me in the slime Where our first father - man arose . A hairy beast , with furtive eye , And hunger for a sense of good , Fulfilled of lust and terror , I Crept from the sea towards the wood , 113
1929 · PDF PAGE 351
… an intuitive perception of the incompetence of reason and on their experience of the results of illumination. I devoted a great deal of time to various essays demonstrative of the general truth above set forth1 and to this practical problem. I took all the mystical and magical practices of all religions all over the world, and those of the secret teachers and associations to which I had access. I have little hesitation in saying that I have not omitted any practice of importance. I stripped these methods of all their dogmatic top-hamper, all t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 178
…. She rather shut up. Either she thinks we're police spies or she’s made up her mind to rob us. The sight of the cash knocked her out of time! It destroyed her sense of proportion. It put all her ideas of straight dealing out of her mind. Her manner changed. She went off. Pete told me to go and see the dope girl myself. It’s the first time he ever spoke to me like that. All sexual feeling is dead between us. We've tried to work up the old passion. It was artificial, horrible, repulsive ; a degradation and a blasphemy. Why is it? The snow intens…
1929 · PDF PAGE 217
…e he was getting fat on it, knew us for his real enemy. In `ninety-nine he came within [304] an ace of uniting Europe against us, at the time of the Fashoda incident. But we baffled him, and since then he has been getting deeper in every moment. He tried again over the Boer war. He tried threats, he tried diplomacy, he tried everything. The Balkan War and the Agadir incident showed him his utter helplessness. The kingdom of Albania! The war in Tripoli proved that he could no longer rely on Italy. And when Russia resorted to so shameless an assa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 81
… the adamant, to fill The gardens of the Lord With music , that the air be still , Dumb to its mighty chord . I stand above the tides of time And elemental strife : My figure stands above , sublime , Shadowing the Key of Life ; And the passion of my mighty rime Divides me as a knife . 62
1917 · PDF PAGE 2
ALEISTER CROWLEY ‘Though oft-time its most holy fre Lacks oil, whene’er my own Desire Before desire has dwindled, see the thin web binding me With thirteen cords of nity * Toward the calm centre of the sea, (O thou supernal mother !*) ‘The triple light my path divides ‘To twain and fifty sudden sides* Each perfect as each other. Now backwards, inwards still my mind Mast track the intangible and blind, ‘And seeking, shall securely find Hidden in secret places Fresh feasts for every soul that strives, New life for many mystic lives, ‘And strange …
1939 · PDF PAGE 49
… far up or down, from a standard point, and it must be after or before a standard moment. There are three dimensions of space and one of time. 6. Now what do we mean by space? Henri Poincaré, one of the greatest mathematicians of the last generation, thought that the idea of space was invented by a lunatic, in a fantastic (and evidently senseless and aimless) endeavour to explain to himself his experience of his muscular movements. Long before that, Kant had told us that space was subjective, a necessary condition of thinking; and while every o…