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Page 53 of 801929 · PDF PAGE 142
…so well that, putting his hands on the ground, he could swing his body to and fro in the air between them. When I looked into his room I found him, not seated on his meditation mat, which was in the centre of the room at the end farthest from the window, but in a distant corner ten or twelve feet off, still in his knotted position, resting on his head and right shoulder, exactly like an image overturned. I set him right way up and he came out of this trance. He was quite unconscious that anything unusual had happened. But he had evidently been …
1922 · PDF PAGE 281
…e fashion unsatisfactory. We drove back to town, and had dinner in my new apartment, where they had an excellent restaurant service. , I found that during the day I had had fifteen sniffs of heroin. Lou had only had eleven. The reaction in my mind was this: If she can get on with eleven, why shouldn’t I? though I hadn’t sufficient logic to carry on the argument to the people, millions of them, who hadn’t had any at all, and seemed to be thriving ! We were both pretty tired. Just as Lamus and Lala rose to leave I took a final sniff. ‘‘ What did …
1922 · PDF PAGE 332
…inality about being so low, and it was certainly much more convenient to have our drinks and cigarettes on the floor than on a table. We found out that we had always gone about the world with a subconscious fear of knocking things over. I began to understand why a picnic on the grass gives such a sense of freedom. It was the absence of a worry which had annoyed us none the less because we had not been aware of it. Sister Athena stretched herself out on a folding chair, also very low. It was no trouble for her to pick up her glass from the groun…
1954 · PDF PAGE 29
…actice. Invariably it turns out that no real comparison can be made, though in these letters there is a maturity and clarity that is not found in either of the books just mentioned . Again, when he discusses Gods and Angels, he is so direct and matter of fact as to be altogether impressive. He makes no attempt to be sanctimonious, other-worldly or guru-like, but deals with abstruse problems easily, without being afraid to say occasionally "I don't know." One is impressed by his honesty and forthrightness. There is no other writer on this subjec…
1954 · PDF PAGE 480
…th, and muttered: "I will make these tales true!" Well, I have, haven't I? You said it yourself! Yes child, my deepest attitude is to be found in my life. I have been to most of the holy inaccessible places, and talked with the most holy inaccessible men; I have dared all the most dangerous adventures, both of the flesh and of the spirit; and 1 challenge the world's literature to match for sublimity and terror such experiences as those in the latter half of The Vision and the Voice.
1922 · PDF PAGE 21
…ixty years of age he was still the most savage and implacable of publicists. “ Red in tooth and claw,” as Tennyson said. Yet the man had found time to write great literature ; and his rough and tumble with the world had not degraded his thought or spoilt his style. Sitting next him was a weak, good-natured, working journalist named Vernon Gibbs. He wrote practically the whole of a weekly paper—had done, year after year with the versatility of a practised pen and the mechanical perseverance of an instrument which has been worn by practice into p…
1922 · PDF PAGE 174
…ps three thousand feet in ten minutes where people without that training would have had to go down step by step on the rope, and perhaps found themselves benighted in a hurricane in consequence. “But the best of it was this: I was in command of a Himalayan expedition some years ago; and the coolies were afraid to traverse a snow slope which overhung a terrific cliff. I called on them to watch me, flung myself on the snow head first, swept down like a sack of oats, and sprang to my feet on the very edge of the precipice. _“ There was a great gas…
1922 · PDF PAGE 272
…wing it, I took advantage of ali sorts of little incidents that cropped up to get back to the studio some hours before I had intended. I found myself out at once, of course, having learnt some of the tricks of the mind. And I sat and watched myself finding excuses for starting in. One gets into an absolutely morbid state, in which everything that happens has some bearing on the question, ‘Shall I or shall I not take it?’; and one gets so pleased with oneself for saying ‘no’ so often that one is tempted to reward oneself by saying ‘yes’ just onc…
1929 · PDF PAGE 6
…re in itself in such a place, where mildew grows on everything as fast almost as snow falls in happier climates. Well, sir, the governor found out that this man took a pleasure in the glint of the sun on the steel, and he forbade that man to clean his spade. A trifle, indeed. What do you know of what pris- oners think of trifles? The man went raving mad, and for no other reason. It seemed to him that such de- tailed refinement of cruelty was a final proof of the in- nate and inherent devilishness of the universe. Insanity is the logical consequ…
1996 · PDF PAGE 46
…ording to St. Bernard Shaw. See Works Cited.] Isa is the legendary “Jesus,” for which Canidian1 2 3 concoction the prescription is to be found in my book bearing that title, Liber 888} 50. There is a word to say about the Hierophantic task. Behold! there are three ordeals in one, and it may be given in three ways. The gross must pass through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest. Thus ye have star & star, system & system; let not one know well the other!
1922 · PDF PAGE 278
…rd story of some trifling adventure that had happened to him that morning. But despite his vivacity and the interest which he excited, I found my hands instinctively going to the little wooden box in which I kept my heroin. I took a dose. Lamus immediately broke off his remarks. “Goon,” I said feebly. ‘“ I didn’t mean to interrupt.”’ “ That’s all right,’ said Lamus. ‘I’m only waiting for you to put it down.”
1929 · PDF PAGE 208
…ually in every element of existence. It is the difference between hate and love. [292] He had been careful to examine her magically, and found no trace of "A.B." in her "aura." On the contrary, he concluded that her ambition was to supplant "A.B."; and that went well with his own ideas. But first he must get her into his Fourteen, and have a permanent hold over her. She, on the other hand, appeared singly desirous of making herself a treasure to him. She knew the one torment that gnawed continually at his liver, the hate of Cyril Grey. And she …
1954 · PDF PAGE 356
…"Thou hast no right but to do thy will." Had I bent my energies from the first to proclaiming the Law of Thelema I should doubtless have found no obstacle in my path. Those which naturally arise in the course of any work soever, would have been quietly removed by the Secret Chiefs. But I had chosen to fight against myself for five years, and "If Satan shall be divided against Satan, how shall his kingdom stand?" The more I strove, the more I encouraged an internal conflict , and stultified myself. I had been permitted to complete my initiation,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 436
…, surrounded by gold and diamonds, he might as well use geomancy to discover a deposit for his own benefit. Indifferent as to whether he found gold or diamonds, he thought to include both by framing his question to cover "mineral wealth". He was directed to ride out from the city by a given compass bearing. He did so. He found no indication of what he sought. He had given up hope and determined to return when he saw a range of low hills before him. He decided to push on and see if anything was visible from their summit. No, the plain stretched …
1905 · PDF PAGE 261
…yet In the morass of limit. THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. Be it so! But follow me through all the labyrinth, And ten rewards us. And your Zero’s found To have an actual value and effect On unity—your Will. ' & TANNHAUSER, What’s then to seek? THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. The fourth dimension, for the early step. LANDGRAVE. It seems this talk is merely mystical. This is no College of the Holy Ghost For Rosencreutz his mystifying crew !! A CourRTIER. A Poet’s tourney, and the theme is Love ! THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. There is a sequel to our poet’s song, And he wil…
1909 · PDF PAGE 114
…oncentration, and perhaps the best of the methods of determining the Sankhara-skanda of a.man. In your reviewer's own experience she has found it more reliable than either Geomancy or the Tarot, in questions genethliacal, at least. A careful study of the characteristics of the signs and planets is, moreover, of the very greatest assistance in the use of the Book 777. Unable as the Editor is to find space within the restricted pages of THE Equinox for astrological matters, we are glad to think that the subject has a specialised organ in competen…
1909 · PDF PAGE 114
…oncentration, and perhaps the best of the methods of determining the Sankhara-skanda of a.man. In your reviewer's own experience she has found it more reliable than either Geomancy or the Tarot, in questions genethliacal, at least. A careful study of the characteristics of the signs and planets is, moreover, of the very greatest assistance in the use of the Book 777. Unable as the Editor is to find space within the restricted pages of THE Equinox for astrological matters, we are glad to think that the subject has a specialised organ in competen…
1954 · PDF PAGE 357
…say, I crossed to Paris, where she had a flat, and carried her off to Switzerland to spend the winter skating. Arrived at Interlaken, we found that Murren was not open, so we went on to St. Moritz, breaking the journey at Zurich. This town is so hideous and depressing that we felt that our only chance of living through the night was to get superbly drunk, which we did. (Let me emphasize that this wild adventure had not the remotest connection with Magick. Virakam was utterly ignorant of the subject. She had hardly so much as a smattering of Chr…
1909 · PDF PAGE 327
… out with a definite object before him, namely, to see Sappho. The same might be said of Vision No. 7, but on consideration this will be found not to be the case, for, in No. 7, P. asks for strength to help his cousin, the very asking of which points to weakness ; besides it is to be expected that a concrete idea will 319
1909 · PDF PAGE 327
… out with a definite object before him, namely, to see Sappho. The same might be said of Vision No. 7, but on consideration this will be found not to be the case, for, in No. 7, P. asks for strength to help his cousin, the very asking of which points to weakness ; besides it is to be expected that a concrete idea will 319