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Page 51 of 951913 · PDF PAGE 353
…he flocks of the earth under the crook of the:same shepherd! Such will be the conquests of progress, such is the end to- wards which the whole movement of the world is pushing us. Progress is movement, and movement is life. To deny progress is to affirm nothingness, and to deify death. Progress is the only reply that reason can give to the objections which the existence of evil raises. 1 Written about the time of the Crimean War, this indicates Levi’s attempt to use Imperialism as his magical weapon, just as Allan Bennett tried to use Buddhism.…
1913 · PDF PAGE 353
…he flocks of the earth under the crook of the:same shepherd! Such will be the conquests of progress, such is the end to- wards which the whole movement of the world is pushing us. Progress is movement, and movement is life. To deny progress is to affirm nothingness, and to deify death. Progress is the only reply that reason can give to the objections which the existence of evil raises. 1 Written about the time of the Crimean War, this indicates Levi’s attempt to use Imperialism as his magical weapon, just as Allan Bennett tried to use Buddhism.…
1954 · PDF PAGE 431
…r the first time, who should I meet but our Consul at Tengyueh, the admirable Litton, who had by sheer brains and personality turned the whole province of Yunnan into his own Vice-royalty? We lunched together on the grass, and I hastened to dig into the goldmine of his knowledge of the country. About the third or fourth thing he said to me was this: "Remember! whatever anyone tells you about China is
1929 · PDF PAGE 457
… jugglery the life of a totally different individual has intruded upon my own. Now, years afterwards, it still seems to me as if for the whole period of the initiation I had been transported into an unfamiliar world; their history is a magical history in the most comically complete sense. Its events are neither real nor rational --- save only in relation to the condition of an experiment, exactly as a candidate in freemasonry sees, hears, speaks and acts with his normal senses, yet in a way which has no relation to his previous experience. The …
1905 · PDF PAGE 172
…lline vigour of thought, so in each deed he was aright ; well-wrought all the man’s work ; and fifth, this hero strife grew one with his whole life, so harmonized to the one after-end his every conscious and unconscious strain, his peace and pleasure and pain, his reflex life, his deepest-seated
1909 · PDF PAGE 97
…and frowning, overcame me. And so for the sublime Path of Mem ; instead of that symbol of the Adept, his foot set firmly upon heaven, his whole figure showing forth the Reconciler with the Invisible, I found but the stagnant and bitter water of selfishness, the Dead Sea of the Soul. For all is Illusion. Who saith “ Ι " denieth Adonai, save only if he mean Adonai. And Daleth the Door of the Pylon, is that Tree where- on the Adept of Man hangeth; and Daleth is Love Supernal, that if it be inserted in the word ANI, “ I,” giveth ADNI, Adonai. Subtle a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 21
…vastness of the series? Is it not a series of geometrical progression, with a factor positive and incalculably vast? In the light of the whole process, then, we perceive that there is no absolute value in the swing of the pendulum, though its shaft lengthen, its rate grow slower, and its sweep wider at every swing. What should interest us is the consideration of the Point from which it hangs, motionless at the height of things! We I 129
1929 · PDF PAGE 75
…nd the last of his fetters is removed. Ail this is sealed by the sacrament of the Four Eléments. It will be seen that the effect of this whole ceremony is to endow a thing inert and impotent with balanced motion in a given direction. Numerous examples of this formula are given 1. See the Néophyte Ceremony, Equinox I, II. 2. Fear is the source of ail false perception. Even Freud had a glimpse of this fact. 39
1929 · PDF PAGE 41
…nd the noisy delirium began anew. My flesh and blood rebelled. Taken with a deathly vomit, I rushed from the room, and resolutely, for a whole hour, diverted my sensorium from thought. I had always found that the slightest trace of tobacco smoke in a room greatly disturbed my power. On this occasion I puffed cigarette after cigarette with excellent effect. I knew nothing of what had been going on. IV Arthur, stung by the venomous chyle, was tossing in that vast arched belly, which resembled the dome of hell, churned in its bubbling slime. I fel…
1907 · PDF PAGE 317
310 THE STAR IN THE WEST (a) Yoga teaches that by concentrating the whole mind upon “ horse " these ideas will be withheld , and the ultimate state arrived at will be “ horse " pure and simple (ec stasy). (But this theory involves Scholastic -Realism ; like all others , it is a false reflection of the L.V.X. ) mind , and was followed in quick succession by the idea of four legs, hoofs, teeth , rider , saddle, racing , cheating ; all of which ideas are connected in my experience with the im . pression , or the idea , of a horse and with one anot…
1910 · PDF PAGE 11
…ritual that runs like a thread of magic through these meetings of the A∴ A∴ I do not even know what the A∴ A∴ is. But I do know that the whole ceremony was impressive, artistic, and produced in those present such a feel- ing as Crowley must have had when he wrote : So shalt thou conquer Space, and lastly climb The walls of Time ; And by the golden path the great have trod Reach up to God ! THE WHY AND HOW OF ECSTASY “ There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign.” SO used some of us to sing in our childhood. And we used to think…
1911 · PDF PAGE 253
…ht From the fine flower and fragrance of my tresses! Sunset bids darken all my body’s light, Mixing its music with the sad caresses Of the whole world: I wheel in Wingless flight Through lampless space, the starless wildernesses! Beyond the universal bounds that roll, There is the shrine and image of my soul. I am Nature and God : I reign, I am, alone. None odzer may abide apart: they perish, Drawn into me, into my being grown. None other bosom is. to bear, to nourish, To be: the heart of all beneath my zone Of blue and gold is scarlet-bright to c…
1911 · PDF PAGE 253
…ht From the fine flower and fragrance of my tresses! Sunset bids darken all my body’s light, Mixing its music with the sad caresses Of the whole world: I wheel in Wingless flight Through lampless space, the starless wildernesses! Beyond the universal bounds that roll, There is the shrine and image of my soul. I am Nature and God : I reign, I am, alone. None odzer may abide apart: they perish, Drawn into me, into my being grown. None other bosom is. to bear, to nourish, To be: the heart of all beneath my zone Of blue and gold is scarlet-bright to c…
1911 · PDF PAGE 53
…I cannot see it for the blaze of light; but Iam given to understand that it appears in another Aethyr, of which it forms practically the whole content. And I am bidden to study the Holy Table very intently so as to be able to concentrate on it when it appears. I have grown greater, so that Iam as great as the Angel. And we are standing, as if crucified, face to face, our hands and lips and -reasts and knees and feet together, and her eyes pierce into my eyes like whirling shafts of steel, so that I fall backwards headlong through the Aethyr—and…
1913 · PDF PAGE 5
…f St. Germain, ec, etc, by Mr. Q. Scorpio, one of His Majesty's ‘Counsel learned in the Law, Sconrio, KC. What is your name? Marans. The whole lo ScowP1o, KC. The name on your birth certificate Maviens, Mathers Scorpio, K.C. You wereeducated at Bedord Grammar School? Marueus. Yes. ScoxPt0, K.C. And became a lieutenant in a Hampshire volunteer regiment? Mateus, Yes. ‘conPlo, K.C, Yet in Paris you were engaged in Jacobite ‘conspiracies to overthrow the throne of England? Maruuns. I pretended to be Sconrio, K.C, Were you actually so engaged? Maran…
1954 · PDF PAGE 468
…tter and wiser. Yea, 0 my son, in these Writings thou mayst study to come to the true Comprehension of thine own Nature, and that of the whole Universe, in the dimension of Time, even as the Mathematic declareth it in that of Space: that is, of Extension. Moreover, by this Study shall the Child comprehend the Foundation of Manners: the which, as sayeth one of the Sons of Wisdom, maketh Man. Sequitur (3) Scientifica Since Time and Space are the conditions of Mind, these two Studies are fundamental. Yet there remaineth Causality, which is the Roo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 85
… of politeness, and asked for Kwaw. “ He is on your lordship’s estate at Nikko,” the servants hastened to reply, “ and he has turned the whole place completely upside down. Millions of yen have been expended monthly; he has even mortgaged this very palace in which your lordship has been asleep; a body of madmen has seized the reins of government—” “The Synagogue of Satan ! " gasped the outraged Daimio. “ --And you are everywhere hailed as the Godfather of your country l ” “ Do not tell me that the British war has ended disastrously for us!” and…
1907 · PDF PAGE 171
…d of this infallible and august body of swindlers mocked as a mountebank , and his power as a “ barren staff .' In “ Ascension Day ” the whole Christian Church as a lie , “ abortion and iniquity ,” ? whose soldiers are no ardent warriors in triple steel , but loathly and disgusting worms , who only show fight when cornered and not always then- “ speared wild cats bravely spit .". Neither does Crowley spare that anachronism , Present - day Christianity , which fondly imagines it has succeeded in solving the problem of how to sit on two sides of …
1922 · PDF PAGE 22
…ose twitching with anger. Jack Fordham was not behindhand with the repartee. “Well roared, Bottom,’’ he replied calmly, as pat as if the whole scene had been rehearsed beforehand.
1909 · PDF PAGE 383
…They saluted me in a friendly manner when they saw me leave the box and walk towards them. I must have been a long time lying over it, a whole afternoon and night, maybe, during my unnatural sleep. I bowed gracefully before them; but they seemed amazed 375