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Page 48 of 781919 · PDF PAGE 380
THE EQUINOX some way of subtracting one from one which would leave a higher, superior kind of a nothing, or as if there were some way of blowing out a candle which would leave Moses in a much more Egyptian darkness than we ever supposed when we were children. This is not science. This is not business. This is Ameri- can Sunday journalism. The Hindu and the American are very much alike in this innocence, this naiveté which de- mands fairy stories with ever bigger giants. They cannot bear the idea of anything being complete and done with. So, the…
1922 · PDF PAGE 147
… under the protection of two of his men,” he smiled sarcastically, “ for fear you should get into any further trouble. You can have your things back except the guns, which are forbidden.” How little he knew what a surge of joy went through us at that last remark ! “I will send one of my clerks with you to Capri,” he said, “‘ and you will get your passports and money and whatever you need, and come back to me at once and put the position on a more regular footing.” We got our things from the sergeant, and made excuses for a momentary disappearan…
1922 · PDF PAGE 65
… the horse’s shoes that my father used to think funny when I was a kid. You know what I mean—Martin- gale principle and all that sort of thing. We certainly had been punishing the snow. Five sniffs! it wasn’t much in our young lives after a fortnight. Gwendolen Otter says :— ‘“‘ Heart of my heart, in the pale moonlight, Why should we wait till to-morrow night ? ”
1954 · PDF PAGE 117
…alchemy . Taking for "The First Matter of the Work" a neutral or substance (it is constantly described as the commonest and least valued thing on earth, and may actually connote any substance whatever) he deliberately poisons it, so to speak, bringing it to a stage of transmutation generally called the Black Dragon, and he proceeds to work upon this virulent poison until he obtains the perfection theoretically possible. Incidentally, we have an almost precise parallel with this operation in modem bacteriology . The apparently harmless bacilli o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 440
…es. ... Here, see what John Huss says in his letter, the forty-third letter, towards the end: “A doctor of theology said to me: “In everything I should submit myself to the Council ; everything would then be good and lawful for me.” He added: “If the Council said that you had only one eye, although you have two, it would be still necessary to admit that the Council was not wrong.” “Were the whole world,” I replied, ‘to affirm such a thing, so long as I had the use of my reason, I should not be able to agree without wounding my conscience.”’ I w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 440
…es. ... Here, see what John Huss says in his letter, the forty-third letter, towards the end: “A doctor of theology said to me: “In everything I should submit myself to the Council ; everything would then be good and lawful for me.” He added: “If the Council said that you had only one eye, although you have two, it would be still necessary to admit that the Council was not wrong.” “Were the whole world,” I replied, ‘to affirm such a thing, so long as I had the use of my reason, I should not be able to agree without wounding my conscience.”’ I w…
1954 · PDF PAGE 151
118 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS thyself; stand, play the man, for behold! there shall be revealed unto thee the Great Terror, the thing of awe that hath no name. (Ibid., 3rd Aethyr) And now She cometh forth again, riding upon a dolphin. Now again I see those wandering souls, that have sought restricted love, and have not understood that the "word of sin is restriction. " It is very curious; they seem to be looking for one another, or for something, all the time, constantly hurrying about. But they knock up against one another and yet will not see one …
1954 · PDF PAGE 162
…of the cards are almost blatantly revealing; so I have been rapped rather severely over the knuckles for giving children matches for playthings. My excuse has been that they have already got the matches, that my explanations have been directed to add conscious precautions to the existing automatic safeguards. The above remarks refer mainly to the technique of the business; and it is going a very long way to tell you that you ought to be able to work out the principles thereof from your general knowledge of Magick, but especially the Formula of …
1922 · PDF PAGE 55
…d with a good deal of hearty chaff. Dripping, in evening dress, at four o’clock in the morning! Like Hedda Gabler, “one doesn’t do these things.” But the cocaine helped me again. Why the devil should I care what anybody thought? | “Where can I get gas?” I said to the captain of the smack. He smiled grimly. “ She’ll want a bit more than gas.” I glanced at the ’plane. The man was perfectly right. A week’s repairs, at the least. “You'd better go to the hotel, sir, and get some warm clothes. Look how the lady’s shivering.” It was perfectly true. Th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
… with great care. 4. Works of fascination, such as operations of invisibility, and transformations of the apparent form of the person or thing concerned. This consists almost altogether in distracting the attention, or disturbing the judgment, of the person whom it is wished to deceive. There are, however, “real” transformations of the adept himself which are very useful. See the Book of the Dead for methods. The assumption of God-Forms can be carried to the point of actual transformation. 5. Works of Love and Hâte, which are also performed (as…
1954 · PDF PAGE 429
…es fall into place, and he finds himself able to construe the classical texts. You must be patient; you must go over and over again everything that is presented to you, and by obeying you will not only come to a clear comprehension of the subject, but find yourself automatically thinking in the language which you have been at such pains to acquire. I feel then that I must leave you with these descriptions and these charts until painfully at first, but at the end with intense pride and gratification, you find yourself spontaneously grasping the …
1996 · PDF PAGE 44
Chapter I * Verses 41-42 45 42. Let it be that state of manyhood bound and loathing. So with thy all; thou hast no right but to do thy will. Commentary: “manyhood bound and loathing.” An orga nized state is a free association for the common weal. My personal will to cross the Atlantic, for example, is made effective by cooperation with others on agreed terms. But the forced asso ciation of slaves is another thing. A man who is not doing his will is like a man with cancer, an independent growth in him, yet one from which he cannot get free. Th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 129
…rse is in Truth Zero, being an equation whereof Zero is the sum. Whereof this is the proof, that if not, it would be unbalanced, and something would have come from Nothing, which is absurd. This Light or Noth- ing is then the Resultant or Totality thereof in pure Perfec- tion; and all other states, positive or negative, are imperfect, since they omit their opposites. Yet, I would have you consider that this equality or iden- tity of equation between all things and No thing is most absolute, so that you will remain no more in the one than you di…
1922 · PDF PAGE 40
…reams—the unattainable. Leaving out of account the effect of the alcohol, this had left me with an intolerable depression. There was something brutish, something of the baffled rat, in my consciousness. “OQ Thou vampire Queen of the Flesh, wound as a snake around the throats of men! I adore Thee, Evoe! I adore Thee, I A O!” Was she thinking of Gretel or of herself? Her beauty had choked me, strangled me, torn my throat out. I had become insane with dull, harsh lust. I hated her. But as I raised my head; as the sudden, the instantaneous madness …
1922 · PDF PAGE 316
…'ll say thank you.” My own voice made me wince. Could it really be I who was indulging in this vulgar repartee ? It was an extraordinary thing the way everything that happened seemed to make my position less and less dignified. The thought was interrupted by Lou’s gleaming tones. “ There, Basil, he sets me free. I come to you without a stain. You can keep your promise without breaking your faith.” She got up from the sofa and went across to his chair. She threw herself at his feet, and buried her face in his knees; while her long arms reached u…
1922 · PDF PAGE 375
…hen he made the remark. It was so. destructive of all my ideas. “‘ Most ritual,” he agreed, “ is vain observance, but if there is such a thing as the so-called spiritual force in man, it requires to be generated, collected, controlled, and applied, by using the appropriate measures, and these form true ritual.” And, in fact, the weird ceremony in progress in his Titan tower produced a definite effect upon me, unintelligible as it was to me for the most part, on one hand, and repellent as it was to my Protestant instincts on the other. I could n…
1929 · PDF PAGE 265
…an had completely host his nerve and by the operation of that instinct which make a drowning man throw up his hands, began to do the one thing that could possibly have brought him to harm --- to untie himself from the rope. I ordered him to desist, but he was quite hysterical, uttered senseless cries and took no notice. There was only one thing to do to save him from the consequences of his suicidal actions, and that was to make him more afraid of me than he was of the mountain; so I reached out and caught him a whack with my axe. It pulled him…
1911 · PDF PAGE 51
… In Homini Salus and Instar Hominis Summus, and Imago Hominis deuS. And there are many, many other meanings, but they all imply this one thing; that nothing is of any importance but man; there is no hope or help but in man. And she says: Sweet are my kisses, O wayfarer that wan- derest from star to star. Sweet are my kisses, O householder that weariest within four walls. Thou art pent within thy brain, and my shaft pierceth it, and thou art free. Thine ima- gination eateth up the universe as the dragon that eateth up the moon. And in my shaft i…
1944 · PDF PAGE 11
…ing a grotesque effect; and she also observed that his teaching, in the course of his ex‐ planations went far higher and deeper than any‐thing in any accessible models. She accord‐ ingly forced him—the laziest man in three continents!—to undertake what is to all intent an original work, including the latest discoveries in modern science, mathematics, philosophy, and anthropology; in a word, to reproduce the whole of his Magical Mind pictorially on the skeleton of the ancient Qabalistic tradition. He accepted this colossal burden; it renewed his…
1954 · PDF PAGE 144
THE LEFT -HAND PATH 111 everything, and what is Knowledge but the very soul of Illusion? Refusing thus the true nourishment of all his faculties, they lose their structural unity, and must be fortified by continuous doses of dope in anguished self-preservation. Thus all its chemical equations become endothermic. To describe the alternative attitude should clarify, by dint of contrast; at least the contemplation should be a pleasant change. Every accretion must modify me. I want it to do so. I want to assimilate it absolutely. I want to make it …