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Page 49 of 781911 · PDF PAGE 35
THE VISION AND THE VOICE the music is, but it is so wonderful that one only lives in one’s ears; one cannot see anything any more. Now he stops playing and moves with his finger in the air. His finger leaves a trail of fire of every colour, so that the whole Aire is become like a web of mingled lights. But through it all drops dew. (I can’t describe these things at all. Dew doesn’t represent what I mean in the least. For instance, these drops of dew are enormous globes, shining like the full moon, only perfectly transparent, as well as perfectl…
1922 · PDF PAGE 150
… fantastic farrago. The courier had attended to business details with an efficiency worthy of the best traditions of the profession. The thing seemed to sink into Lou’s mind like a person seeing his way through a chess problem. Her face was absolutely white with cold and concentrated rage. ‘He must have watched us in Paris,’ she said. “He must have known that we had spent the money we were going to put into his swindle, and made up his mind that his best course was to get the jewellery and the rest of the cash. _ She sat down suddenly, collapse…
1929 · PDF PAGE 165
…emlock, etc. Amusements: Hunting, talking shop." [233] "You dear incorrigible boy!" He took her hand and kissed it. "And am I to see something of you now?" "Oh, we're all penny plain humans from now on. It's merely a question of defending you from the malice of Douglas and Co.; a much simpler job than blocking out nine-tenths of the Universe! Apart from that, we are just a jolly set of friends; only I see less of you than anyone else does, naturally." "Naturally!" "Yes, naturally. You have to be saved from all worry and annoyance; and if there'…
1929 · PDF PAGE 576
576 sure?" he said ... and then stopped. "I am not sure of anything," I retorted, "that's just where a critic of your ability comes in to guide our wanderings." He apologetically answered that nothing was further from his mind than to criticize anything I said. He agreed entirely; but what he wanted to know was -- well, to put it plainly, who I was, and why I had asked to see him? "But you're Mencken!" I gasped. "I certainly am," he admitted. "Well," said I, "I'm Aleister Crowley." He bowed deeply. "I don't doubt it for a second, but as I have …
1909 · PDF PAGE 184
…Creation accomplished: wherefore God rested on the Seventh Day. And 28 is 7 x 4, the seven stars shining throughout the four Worlds. One thing is significant, indeed. Let us take the Primal Three and convert those Numbers into Colours. So we get x, the Father, the Yellow Ray of the Dawning Sun of Creation ; », the Mother, the Blue Ray of the Great Primzval Waters ; w, the Son, the Red Ray: the Ruach Elohim,{ symbol of the Red Fire of God, which brooded (v. 2) upon the Face of the Waters: or like the Red Glory that lights up the Heavens at Dawn,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 184
…Creation accomplished: wherefore God rested on the Seventh Day. And 28 is 7 x 4, the seven stars shining throughout the four Worlds. One thing is significant, indeed. Let us take the Primal Three and convert those Numbers into Colours. So we get x, the Father, the Yellow Ray of the Dawning Sun of Creation ; », the Mother, the Blue Ray of the Great Primzval Waters ; w, the Son, the Red Ray: the Ruach Elohim,{ symbol of the Red Fire of God, which brooded (v. 2) upon the Face of the Waters: or like the Red Glory that lights up the Heavens at Dawn,…
1922 · PDF PAGE 112
…iving, in a system of order. | . , It is monstrous and ridiculous to open and close by convention. We had to go to some place where such things didn’t annoy us... . An excessively irritating incident spoilt our lunch at the Cascade. We had made a marvellous impression when we came in. We had floated in like butterflies settling on lilies. A buzz went round the tables. Lou’s beauty intoxicated everybody. Her jewellery dazzled the crowd. I thought of an assembly of Greeks of the best period unexpectedly visited by Apollo and Venus. We palpitated …
1910 · PDF PAGE 8
…ves that the gateway to Ecstasy can be reached through Ceremonial Magic. He has saturated himself with the magic of the East—a very real thing, in tune with the Eastern mind. He is well read in the modern metaphysicians, all of whom have attempted to explain the unexplainable. He abandons these. They appeal only to the brain, and once their jargon is mastered they lead nowhere ; least of all to Ecstasy. He goes back upon ceremony, because he thinks that it helps the mind to get outside itself. He declares that if you repeat an in- vocation sole…
1911 · PDF PAGE 47
… either his physical organs or his memory in working order. And neither is capable. There is no bridge. One can only be conscious of one thing at a time, and as the consciousness moves nearer to the vision, it loses control of the physical and mental. Even so, the body and the mind must be very perfect before anything can be done, or the energy of the vision may send the body into spasms and the mind into insanity. This is why the first visions give Ananda, which is a shock. When the adept is attuned to Samadhi, there is but cloudless peace. Th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 87
54 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Demiurge, a creative God behind whom is an eternal formless Greatness-anything to confuse the issue! Sometimes the Universe is supported by an elephant; he, in turn, stands on a tortoise ... by that time it is hoped that the enquirer is too tired and muddled to ask what holds up the tortoise. Sometimes, a great Father and Mother crystallize out of some huge cloudy confusion of "Elements" - and so on. But nobody answers the question; at least, none of these God-inventing mules, with their incurably commonplace minds. H. S…
1906 · PDF PAGE 37
…rt is listening ! In England now the leaf leaps, and the tree Gleams dewy, and the bird woos noisily. Here in the tropics now is no such thing. Dull heavy heat burns through the clouded sky, And yet no promise of the latter rains. Earth bears her fruit, but unrefreshed of death. In winter is no sorrow, in the dry Harsh spring no joy, while pestilence and pains Hover like wolves behind the summer’s breath.
1922 · PDF PAGE 95
The Giitter on the Snow 81 simply swept away by social engagements. I haven’t a thing for a week.” And just then the telephone rang. Lou did a two- step across to the instrument. “Qh, it’s for you, Mr. Feccles,” she said. ‘‘ However did any one know you were here? ”’ He gave his funny little laugh. “It’s just what I’ve been telling you, Lady Pen- dragon,” he said, as he walked over to the receiver. “I’m a very much wanted man. Every one seems. to want me but the police,” he giggled, ‘“ and they may get on to me any minute now, the Lord knows.” …
1922 · PDF PAGE 128
114 The Diary of a Drug Fiend into the most mysterious quarters. But everything that happened wove itself intoxicatingly into the tapestry of love. We went out on absurd adventures. Even when they were disappointing from the ordinary standpoint, the disappointment itself seemed to add piquancy to the joke. One couldn’t help being grateful to the man for his protecting care. We went into plenty of places where the innocent tourist is considered fair game; and his idiomatic Italian invariably deterred the would-be sportsman. Even at the hotel, he…
1922 · PDF PAGE 312
…f a teaspoonful of crémede menthe and about twenty drops of laudanum. You filter it through cracked ice. It’s really the most refreshing thing I know.” I accepted the luxuries automatically, but I couldn’t help fidgeting. I wanted to get down to business. I could feel that something urgent was on hand. I didn’t like the way Lou was acting. She stayed so absolutely still and silent, it was uncanny. Lamus had taken three matches to light his pipe and it kept on going out between almost every puff. By- and-by he threw it angrily on the carpet and …
1922 · PDF PAGE 56
… we said in a breath. ‘“ Let’s get the first train to London.” There are no incidents to record. We were both completely anzsthetised. Nothing bothered us. We didn’t mind the waiting on the platform, or the way the old train lumbered up to London. Everything was part of the plan. Everything was perfect pleasure. We were living above ourselves, living at a tremendous pace. The speed of the ‘plane became merely a symbol, a physical projection of our spiritual sublimity. The next two days passed like pantomime. We were married in a dirty little of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 72
…ng to be perfectly horrid," said Simon Iff, leaning over to Lisa, and measuring his words with the minutest care. "I am going to do everything possible to damp your enthusiasm. I would rather have you start from cold and spark up well as you go, than have you go off with a spurt, and find yourself without petrol in the middle of the big rise. "I want you to take up this research because of your real love of knowledge, not because of your passion for Brother Cyril. And I tell you honestly that I am mortally afraid for you, because you live in ex…
1910 · PDF PAGE 19
…th the poet of Salaman and Absal, “ on that divan which is only large enough for one ! ” Now I shall waste my rime if I prove that some- thing in the nature of sexual intercourse is the most fitting image of that passion ; for our Chris- tian theologian, anxious to avoid the reproach of the scoffer who quotes such passages as “ Me be- loved put in his hand by the hole, and my bowels were moved in me ” (Cant. v.4), have built a great rampart of argument to that effect.2 But Abdullah no doubt considered that the specific differences between man a…
1911 · PDF PAGE 60
…rk of silver. And he sayeth: Justice is the equity that ye have made for yourselves between truth and falsehood. But in Truth there is nothing of this, for there is only Truth. Your falsehood is but a little falser than your truth. Yet by your truth shall ye come to Truth. Your truth is your troth with Adonai the Beloved one. And the Chymical Marriage of the Alchemists beginneth with a Weighing, and he that is not found wanting hath within him one spark of fire, so dense and so intense that it cannot be moved, though all the winds of heaven sho…
1904 · PDF PAGE 53
…oteworthy figure in her way. She it was who conceived the idea of taking a Web- sters Unabridged Dictionary and erasing the name of any thing which could not be introduced into [51]
1919 · PDF PAGE 117
…to you of the importance of Purity in Love. Now this matter concerneth not in any wise the object or the method of the practice: the one thing essential is that no alien element should intrude. And this is of most particular pertinence to the aspirant in that primary and mundane aspect of his work wherein he establisheth him- self in the method through his natural affections. iI