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Page 52 of 791922 · PDF PAGE 85
…ack and closed her eyes once more. I make no claim to be a philosopher of any kind; but it was quite evident to the most ordinary common sense that her position was unassailable if any one chose to take it. As G. K. Chesterton says, ‘ You cannot argue with the choice of the soul.” It has often been argued, in fact, that mankind lost the happiness characteristic of his fellow-animals when he acquired self-consciousness. This is in fact the meaning of the legend of “The Fall.” We have become as gods, knowing good and evil, and the D.D.F. F
1954 · PDF PAGE 268
…atonic concepts, than which nothing can be more alien to the essential quality of the Tao. Tao is neither 'being' nor 'not being' in any sense which Europe could understand. It is neither existence , nor a condition or form of existence . Equally, TO MH ON gives no idea of Tao. Tao is altogether alien to all that class of thought. From its connection with "that principle which necessarily underlies the fact that events occur" one might suppose that the "Becoming" of Heraclitus might assist us to describe the Tao. But the Tao is not a principle …
1904 · PDF PAGE 52
… she began, let me merely say that I was stripped and whipped by a bevy of lust-maddened wagtails, headed by a Marchioness. My unfailing sense of propriety led me to protest against this unmeaning assault : but in vain. A string of girls and women seized my clitoris (I saw this now for the first time. What I had supposed to be a coil of rope on which she was sit- ting slowly arose and unwound itself. It was a clitoris indeed ! Ladys love-lump was a futile term : rather a fancy-fagots fuck-flapper, in Swinbournes faultless phrase. But all p…
1922 · PDF PAGE 220
… his life fighting to emancipate people in this false subjection, because they are parts of himself. He has no ideas about morality. His sense of honour, even, means nothing to him as such. It is simply that he happened to be bornagentleman. ‘If I were a dog,’ he said to me once, ‘I should bark. If I were an owl, I should hoot. There’s nothing in either which is good or bad in itself. The only question is, what is the natural gesture?’ He thinks it his mission in the world to establish this Law of Thelema.” She saw my puzzled look. “‘ Do what t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 241
…nce. He called it the dark night of the soul. One has to go through it on the way to the Great Light. The light of day is torture. Every sense is an in- strument of the most devilish pain. There is no flesh on our bones. This perpetual craving for H! Our minds are utterly empty of everything else. Rushing into the void come tumbling the words of that abominable poem :— ‘‘A bitten and burning snake Striking its venom within it, As if it might serve to slake The pain for the tithe of a minute.”
1954 · PDF PAGE 330
… See Liber Thisharb (Magick, pp. 415-422); and go to it!! As to (2) it seems to me fairly obvious. The doctrine of Karma is plain common sense; and although a terrestrial set of causes might conceivably have their effects in other spheres of action, as of course they do, it seems less trouble for them to remain in their original ambit. As I pointed out long ago, the Law of Karma is the Law of Inertia. Nor is it necessary to assert that it always works out in this way; "sometimes" is quite good enough. Besides, to say "sometimes" explains (or ra…
1954 · PDF PAGE 393
…, while all I saw of them was a procession of "half-formed faces" moving shadowy through the dimly-lit room. When it was a matter of the sense of touch, it was far otherwise; I got it good and hearty-but that is not the su bject of this letter. I find all this excessively tedious; I resent having to write about it at all; I wonder whether I am breaking some beastly
1996 · PDF PAGE 33
…onsummate the marriage of Nuit and Hadit in them selves; in that case they are aware of certain Ways to Power. There is also a mystical sense in this verse. We are to organize our minds thoroughly, appointing few and secret chiefs, serving Nuit, to discipline the varied departments of the conscious thought. 11. These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their men are fools. 12. Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love! Commentary: The whole doctrine of “love” is discussed in the Book Aleph (Wisdom or Folly) and …
1909 · PDF PAGE 327
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING A chain of thought is simply a series of vibrations arising from the contact of a sense with a symbol or a series of symbols. “If controlled by the Reasoning Power, and licensed by the Will, such vibrations will be balanced and of equal length. But if uncontrolled by the Lower Will and the Reason they will be unbalanced and inharmonious—that is, of uneven length.” This we find explained in a G.*. D.-. manuscript entitled: ‘The Secret Wisdom of the Lesser World, or Microcosm which is Man.” Further we learn from thi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 327
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING A chain of thought is simply a series of vibrations arising from the contact of a sense with a symbol or a series of symbols. “If controlled by the Reasoning Power, and licensed by the Will, such vibrations will be balanced and of equal length. But if uncontrolled by the Lower Will and the Reason they will be unbalanced and inharmonious—that is, of uneven length.” This we find explained in a G.*. D.-. manuscript entitled: ‘The Secret Wisdom of the Lesser World, or Microcosm which is Man.” Further we learn from thi…
1922 · PDF PAGE 212
…e girl looked surprised, I thought. I suppose it was rather funny in September, and might attract still more attention; but it gave me.a sense of protection, and it was a very pretty veil —cream lace with embroidered zig-zags. I took a taxi to the doctor’s. Doctor Collins, it was, 61 or 71 Fairelange Street, Lambeth. I found him at home; a horrid, snuffy old man with shabby clothes; a dingy grimy office as untidy as himself. He seemed disappointed at my story. It wasn’t his line, he said, and he didn’t want to get into trouble. On the other han…
1929 · PDF PAGE 50
… started than the guide again lost whatever nerve he ever possessed. His employer had never been on a mountain before, but he had common sense and pluck; he behaved admirably in every respect; we half nursed and half chivvied that guide down that ridge. It was, of course, out of the question to follow the ridge, as I had just done, so that two or three thousand feet of the descent were accomplished by glissading down snow slopes. If I had been alone I could have got down by that route in under three hours. As it was, we took nine and a half. Bu…
1907 · PDF PAGE 54
…ert scomfully upon the circumstance that a poet, a philosopher, an adept, an emancipated man of any sort, rarely speaks the truth in the sense that the witness in a divorce case is expected to, by indicating to them the true nature of those sparks of light shaken ofl" from the invisible Crown of Glory, sparks which they have mistaken for corpse-lights or marsh-vapours, surrounding—they think it an inexplicable paradox l—one who, in all other respects, is so high and pure a being. The first point is, it takes two to make a lie. A. says to B.: “I h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…on. In this the crude objective theory is assumed as true. There is a god named A, whom you, B, proceed to pétition, in exactly the same sense as a boy might ask his father for pocket-mcney. The second method involves a little more subtlety, inasmuch as the magician endeavours to harmonize himself with the nature of the god, and to a certain extent exalts himself, in the course of the ceremony; but the third method is the only one worthy of our considération. This consists of a real identification of the magician and the god. Note that to do th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 530
…warnings as to the dangers of this line of research. For one thing there is no means of checking your results in the ordinary scientific sense. It is always perfectly easy to find a subjective explanation of any phenomenon; and when one considers that the greatest of all the dangers in any line of research arise from egocentric vanity, I do not think I have exceeded my duty in anything that I have said to deter students from undertaking so dangerous a course as Yoga. It is, of course, much safer if you are in a position to pursue in the Indian …
1944 · PDF PAGE 212
…, the first emanation of the creative Phallus. He derives directly from his mother Binah through the Path of Zain, the sublime intuitive sense, so that he partakes ab‐ solutely of the nature of Neschamah. From his father, Chokmah, he is informed though the Path of Hé, the Great Mother, the Star, our Lady Nuit,1 so that the creative impulse is commu‐ nicated to him by all possibilities soever. Finally, from Kether, the supreme, descends directly upon him, though the Path of Gimel, the High Priestess, the triune light of Initiation. The Three‐ in…
1954 · PDF PAGE 299
…m lones"-the name of a music-hall agent employed by her. Here comes another, this time completely crazy! Nothing "literary" about it; no sense anywhere; a pure freak. A friend of mine, A, rang up a friend of hers, B. at her flat in Holland Park, some 3 or 4 miles west, and a p'int to the Nor'rard, of Piccadilly Circus. After the usual series of "they don't answer," "line's engaged," "unobtainable," "line's out of order," "line's temporarily disconnected at the subscriber's request," an appeal to "Supervisor" got her connected instantly. Yet ano…
1907 · PDF PAGE 47
…s puberty. These are the very eructations of gingerbread ; they are the flatulence of calf-sickness. I thought I had taught the boy more sense. He weakens, and I weary. As you will, my Lady Glen- strae! Hortense! (HORTENSE enters with a glass of brandy.) Brandy! HORTENSE. Iiere, milady. ANGELA. Not enough, you she-devil. More! More! [Exit. ANGELA falls back ¢o sleep. SCENE XI. Paris. ANGELA, LORD and LADY GLEN- STRAE, SIR PERCY DE PERCIVALE. ANGELA. You will not believe what I tell you? These friends will tell you what I mean, and if I mean it!…
1922 · PDF PAGE 221
…the control of any human intelligence, it leads one to suppose that there is some individual at work somewhere beyond our limitations of sense who has made me a singer instead of a milliner.” “Oh, yes, Maisie,” I interrupted, ‘‘ but that’s the old argument that the design of the Universe proves the existence of God; and people have stopped be- lieving in God chiefly because the design was shown to be incompatible with a consistent character.” “Oh, certainly,” she admitted without a qualm. “The evidence goes to show that there are many different…
1922 · PDF PAGE 354
…ver, I told her my story. To my disgust, she simply nodded as if highly appreciative of some very obscure joke. There was no getting any sense out of her. I went to bed in a thoroughly bad temper.