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Page 50 of 841904 · PDF PAGE 75
…m Your silence would match their awhile ! A Classical Research. [Protectionists may serve if the supply of Hottentots gives out.] I took three Hottentots alive. Their scale was one, two, three, four, five, Infinity. To think of men so I could not bear : a new Colenso I bought them to assuage their plight, Also a book by Hall and Knight On Algebra. I hired wise men To teach them six, seven, eight, nine, ten. One of the Hottentots succeeded. Few schoolboys know as much as he did ! The others sank beneath the strain : It broke, not fortified, the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 224
THE EQUINOX So for zons three hundred and twenty and five did they labour with all their might. But the crack was not diminished by an hair’s breadth; nay, it seemed bigger than before—a very gape in the womb of the Universe. Crestfallen, Kamael the mighty returned before the Great White Spirit, his serpents drooping behind him; and they grovelled before the throne of that All-powerful One. He dismissed them with a short laugh, and a wave of His right hand. If He was disturbed, He was too proud to show it. “This,” he said to himself, “is clearl…
1910 · PDF PAGE 224
THE EQUINOX So for zons three hundred and twenty and five did they labour with all their might. But the crack was not diminished by an hair’s breadth; nay, it seemed bigger than before—a very gape in the womb of the Universe. Crestfallen, Kamael the mighty returned before the Great White Spirit, his serpents drooping behind him; and they grovelled before the throne of that All-powerful One. He dismissed them with a short laugh, and a wave of His right hand. If He was disturbed, He was too proud to show it. “This,” he said to himself, “is clearl…
1911 · PDF PAGE 144
THE EQUINOX essence, for all the other Aethyrs are but as Malkuth to com- plete these three triads, as hath before been said. And this being the second reflection, therefore is it the palace of two hundred and eighty judgments. For all these paths* are in the course of the Flaming Sword from the side of Severity. And the other two paths are Zayin, which is a sword; and Shin, which is a tooth. These are then the five severities which are 280. All this is communicated to the Seer interiorly. “And the eye of His benignancy is closed. Let it not be…
1954 · PDF PAGE 71
…ating it from his French, I hope not too much reminiscent of the old traduttore, traditore. I will revise it, divide it (like Gaul) into Three Parts and send it along. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
…oner has he parted with her , having sworn eternal love and to meet her at moonrise , than he stumbles across a bedizened hag of sixty - three ( society ), and in ten minutes , because she calls herself “ the wretchedest girl on the wide earth ,” discovers “ she is most beautiful ”; “ How she speaks ! It is indeed an angel singing ,” and asks if he may call her Angela , and forgets his poor village girl , and utterly overcome when she says , “ I am a poor and simple girl , and my eyes are aching with the sight of you , and my lips are mad to ki…
1907 · PDF PAGE 71
64 THE STAR IN THE WEST from a virgin ; falling at once a prey to a bedizened old prostitute of sixty-three . Those who should think the passion displayed in this tale as unbecoming and lustful, must indeed have minds composed of dung and cantharides , disappointed sterile old maids , or sated old matrons , pornophobics of the worst description . We know well the class , half Exeter Hall , half Empire Music -hall ; “ douée " (as a charming little French brochure describes one of this type ), “ du plus voluptueux tempérament courut longtemps les…
1910 · PDF PAGE 320
… a mixed feel- ing of anger and desire for a power equal to his. Elphénor blew on the charcoal and incense, turned out the lamp over the three crystal globes, so that they were now almost in utter darkness, and took up the thread of his narrative. “The Lady who now comes before the footlights fell short 302
1910 · PDF PAGE 320
… a mixed feel- ing of anger and desire for a power equal to his. Elphénor blew on the charcoal and incense, turned out the lamp over the three crystal globes, so that they were now almost in utter darkness, and took up the thread of his narrative. “The Lady who now comes before the footlights fell short 302
1919 · PDF PAGE 151
…. instructions. From January 30th, 1911 to April 30th of that year, he kept a sci- entifically tabulated diary and during the prescribed three months he never missed a day in the performance of his appointed task. His results, during this period, were perhaps not of a very startling nature, but, as any true Student learns, it is the long and continued “grind,” the determined effort to carry out the work in hand or task set, in spite of every obstacle that may arise, that really counts when it comes to lasting results. It is the Will that needs …
1913 · PDF PAGE 19
…rds make other most wproper words.* Sconvio, KC. Did anyone discover this before you did ? Maras Sconr4o, K.C. Did Captain Poller in his three years’ laborious study of Mr, Crowley's works discover it? Marans, No, ‘onPIO, K.C, Is there any point in these—do you call thy jokes? Maruses. Nopoint at all Sconvi0, K.C. Are Mr, Crowley's jokes usually pointless? Maries. Alas, no! Sconbio, K.C. And did not the reviewers discover this? Maries, Unfortunately, no. On the contrary, Mr. G. K. Chesterton wrote a column in the Daily Nees, in which the book i…
1919 · PDF PAGE 248
…ntrary, this matter has been the excellent cause of general prosperity. In the majority of cases property is wasted. One has six houses; three remain unlet. One has 20 per cent. of the stock of a certain company; and is frozen out by the person with 51 per cent. There are a thousand dangers and drawbacks to the pos- session of this world’s goods which thin the hairs of those who cling to them. In the O.T.O. all this trouble is avoided. Such property 234
1911 · PDF PAGE 115
THE VISION AND THE VOICE And for three days after he shall remain from sunrise unto sunset in the temple, and he shall obey the counsel that his Angel shall have given unto him, and he shall suffer those things that are appointed. And for ten days thereafter shall he withdraw himself as shall have been taught unto him from the fulness of that communion, for he must harmonize the world that is within with the world that is without. And at the end of the ninety-one days he shall return into the world, and there shall he perform that work to which…
1913 · PDF PAGE 10
…little sense to commend it. I am writing this by a window which stands open above a two - mile beach , along which the tide has for some three hours been advancing . Parables , analogies , have usually a weak point somewhere ; and so I dare say has this , which I take for an illustration only . But the seventh or ninth wave which hurls itself in on so proud a crest , to capture whole yards of territory , owes its impetus to the moving mass of water behind , though
1913 · PDF PAGE 20
…ys, has not been taking proper care of their education. The first boy has not picked up the rudiments of the English language in spite of three years of alleged tuition by English tutors. The plaintiff submits that he, 20
1930 · PDF PAGE 46
…tend to the admis¬ sion. ) The DEACON advances and bows before the open shrine where the Graal is exalted. He hisses the Book of the Eaw three times, opens ity and places it upon the super-altar. He turns West. The DEACON. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I proclaim the Law of Light, Life, Love, and Liberty in the name of IAü. The CONGREGATION. Love is the law, love under will. The DEACON go es to his place between the altar of incense and the font, faces East, and gives the step and sign of a Man and a Br other. Ail imitât e hi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 111
…cessity on the other, form a clear idea of what are the Buddhist tenets with regard to the Cosm os; and, in particular, to man.2 IV. THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS. The Three Characteris tics (which we may predicate of all known existing things: (a) Change. Anikka. (b) Sorrow. Dukkha. (c) Absence of an Ego. Anatta. 1 Change is the great enem y, the im mediate cause of pain. Unable to arrest it, I slo w the process, and render it tem porarily painless, by eating. T his is a concession to weakness, no doubt, in one sense. Do I eat r eally in or der to…
1910 · PDF PAGE 306
…ards self- command” (and evidently practises it). His morals are good; but his scientific conceptions really “take the cake!” ‘There are three kinds of animate creations in the world,” he writes: “They are the creations from (1) the womb; (2) Eggs; (3) Perspiration. ...” Another gem: “how is it that some of the bodies are male and some are female?” Answer: “If the male seed preponderates, a male body is produced; and if female, a female. While, when both are equally proportioned, an eunuch is born” (!). At one of his male meetings—there were al…
1910 · PDF PAGE 306
…ards self- command” (and evidently practises it). His morals are good; but his scientific conceptions really “take the cake!” ‘There are three kinds of animate creations in the world,” he writes: “They are the creations from (1) the womb; (2) Eggs; (3) Perspiration. ...” Another gem: “how is it that some of the bodies are male and some are female?” Answer: “If the male seed preponderates, a male body is produced; and if female, a female. While, when both are equally proportioned, an eunuch is born” (!). At one of his male meetings—there were al…
1929 · PDF PAGE 99
… I took the grade of Zelator in December, of Theoricus in January and of Practicus in February. One could not proceed to Philosophus for three months, so I did not take that grade till May. The Philosophus cannot proceed to the Second Order in less than seven months; also he must be specially invited. In the spring of 1899, at some ceremony or other, I was aware of the presence of a tremendous spiritual and magical force. It seemed to me to proceed from a man sitting in the east, a man I had not seen before, but whom I knew must be Very Honoure…