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Page 54 of 841919 · PDF PAGE 320
THE EQUINOX A Boox or Preraces. By H. L. Mencken. Alfred A. Knopf. $2.00. Praise ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise in the con- gregation of saints. Beuteve me, I had hardly hoped to live to see this day when a book of criticism like this comes into my hand. Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. There are plenty of brains in America, and plenty of educated brains, but it is extremely rare to find these two combined in one being. Let them praise his name in the dance: l…
1929 · PDF PAGE 92
…ver, Cyril got his call, and Simon Iff his information, before seven o'clock. Long before Douglas, who had waited until midnight for the news of his triumph, had recovered from the sleep following its celebration, Iff in his fastest automobile had picked up the lovers at an agreed spot in the forest, the Croix du Grand Maitre, whirled them to Dijon, and put them into the train for Marseilles. There they took ship, and came to Naples by sea, without adventure. The enemy, in one way or another, had been thrown utterly off the track. [132] It was …
1954 · PDF PAGE 21
… predicated on the bad relationship he had with his own mother, of whom he has written at length in The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (New York: Hill and Wang, 1970). I have elaborated upon this in a rather different direction and with other details in The Eye in the Triangle (St. Paul: Llewellyn Publications, 1970). Magick without Tears is chock-full of descriptions of unusual things, strange events, weird people and stories which make for fascinating reading. Much of the material, for example, about the history as well as the possible appli…
1929 · PDF PAGE 197
197 to wander among business and family details, and putrefies it by reading newspapers. In the East, an active mind cannot go sprawling over the shallows. It is compelled by its relatively limited intellectual furniture to cut itself a constantly deepening course. Thus it occurs that very few people indeed, outside Asia and Africa, are aware of the existence of any of the higher states of mind. The imagine that consciousness connotes a single level of sanity; that is, that is consists in the mechanical movement of its elements in repose to the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 302
THE NEW WINE 295 With eyes well fixed on my proboscis ,' I soon absorbed the Yogi Gnosis . He taught me to steer clear of vices, The giddy waltz , the tuneful aria , Those fatal foes of Brahma - charya ; And said , “ How very mild and nice is One's luck to lop out truth in slices, And chance to chop up cosmic crises ! ” He taught me A, he taught me B , He stopped my baccy and my tea . He taught me Y, he taught me 2 , He made strange noises in my head . He taught me that , he taught me this , He spoke of knowledge , life and bliss. He taught me …
1907 · PDF PAGE 292
THE NEW WINE 285 This may be further amplified by the following quotation from Eckartshausen : In time and space knowledge is but relative. Is it not true that all which we call reality is but relative , for abso lute truth is not to be found in the phenomenal world . Thus your natural reason does not possess its true essence , but only the appearance of truth and light ; and the more the essence of light inwardly fades , and the man confuses him self with this appearance , and gropes vainly after the dazzling phantasmal images he conjures . Th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 474
…am still unable to agree with Captain (now Commodore) Gaunt (Director of the British Intelligence for some time, including this time, in New York) in classing him "as one of the lesser jackals around von Papen", as he wrote me during our correspondence on the subject. I claim further credit for perceiving the limitations of Viereck. Brilliant though he was, he was not old enough, solid enough or unselfish and high-minded enough to be trustworthy enough to handle a propaganda involving the destiny of a people. I looked for what the Americans cal…
1929 · PDF PAGE 547
…etry and painting on my own account, and on theirs with a systematic training essential to establish the Law as the ethical basis of the new social order of which I intended to construct a working model from such material as the gods might supply. My cornerstones represented considerable diversity. The Ape was German-Swiss, with long experience of America. Cypris, French; her son's father American, while the other boy was half English. More diverse still were the four personalities. To harmonize them should be most instructive. I had begun to g…
1954 · PDF PAGE 381
…agreed to take any money without question-and as long as we all do that, why, nobody's hurt!" I am not pretending that there is anything new about any of this; the whole theory of credit implies the probability of some such happenings. When I first landed in the U.S.A. (1900) I noticed instantly that practically everybody seemed to have money to bum, defying statistics. "Oh, that's simple!" explained a banker to whom I mentioned it; "in this country we reckon that money circulates 9 times as fast as in England. One dollar does the work of nine.…
1954 · PDF PAGE 494
… To maintain a form of social order in which the adventure of initiation is easy-to undertake! 3. To work out the Magical Formula of the New Aeon. "Ye-e-ss, I s-e-e." I doubt it. But what you are asking is how to decide upon your personal programme. The intelligent visitor from who knows what planet was puzzled. He chanced to have landed in England-to find a General Election in full blast. (The operative word is "blast.") They must be absolute imbeciles, was his first
1929 · PDF PAGE 120
… with deeper and truer understanding. I began to perceive the real implications of what I was doing. In particular, I gained an entirely new grip of the Cabbala. One of my results demands detailed record, because it proved later to be one of the foundations of the Great Work of my life. The word Abracadabra is familiar to everyone. Why should it possess such a reputation? Eliphas Lévi's explanations left me cold. I began to suspect that it must be a corruption of some true "word of power". I investigated it by means of the Cabbala. I restored i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 543
…ed to the marrow with pity and made up my mind then and there to begin my work of saving mankind by bringing these two back to life. The new current of courage and confidence was irresistible. I found a charming house at 11 bis rue de Neuville, Fontainebleau. We took it from February on. My new patients, who appear in The Diary of A Drug Fiend as Sister Cypris and Hermes, had joined us without any definite agreement as to {857} the future. Hermes was in shocking shape. He whined and wailed unceasingly like a puppy in pain. He clung to his mothe…
1930 · PDF PAGE 85
… see also the general solution of the Riddle of Existence in the Book of the Law and its Comment — Part IV of Book 4. 2. If we adopt the new orthography VIAOV (Book 4 Part III Chap. V.) we must read “The Sun-6-the Son” etc. for “ail”; and elaborate this interprétation here given in other ways, accordingly. Thus O (or F) will nat be “The Fifteen by function” instead of “Five” etc., and “in act free, firm, aspiring, ecstatic”, rather than “gentle” etc. as in the présent text. — 289 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 17
…the case of Alick, he was the only son of a father who was naturally a leader of men. In him, therefore, this spirit grew unchecked. He knew no superior but his father; and though that father ostentatiously avoided assuming authority over the other Brethren, it was, of course, none the less there. The boy seems to have despised from the first the absence of hierarchy among the Brethren, though at the same time they formed the most exclusive body on earth, being the only people that were going to heaven. There is thus an extreme psychological co…
1909 · PDF PAGE 391
…at might reduce to nothing all our proud civilisa- tion, leaving only the puniest and less fitted amongst human beings? All to be begun anew! As perhaps it has begun again more than once in one or another planet—even in our own little one—along the past centuries. Nothing, nothing will be left, perhaps ; not a book, even the Bible; not a statue, even “ Demeter” or “La Vénus”; not a piece of art of any kind, save, mayhap, the skull of a monkey floating upon a new and fathomless Ocean. Worse even!|—things may be preserved that would lead to serio…
1909 · PDF PAGE 391
…at might reduce to nothing all our proud civilisa- tion, leaving only the puniest and less fitted amongst human beings? All to be begun anew! As perhaps it has begun again more than once in one or another planet—even in our own little one—along the past centuries. Nothing, nothing will be left, perhaps ; not a book, even the Bible; not a statue, even “ Demeter” or “La Vénus”; not a piece of art of any kind, save, mayhap, the skull of a monkey floating upon a new and fathomless Ocean. Worse even!|—things may be preserved that would lead to serio…
1910 · PDF PAGE 70
… unknowable as long as consciousness of a separate Supremacy exists in the heart of the individual. Directly the seeker realizes this, a new reality is born, and the clouds of night roll back and melt away before the light of a breaking dawn, brilliant beyond all that have preceded it. Destroy this consciousness, and the Unknowable may become the Known, or at least the Unknown, in the sense of the un- discovered. Thus we find the old Vedantist presupposing an Atman and a ciuBorov of it, so that he might better transmute * Brihadaranyaka Upanish…
1910 · PDF PAGE 70
… unknowable as long as consciousness of a separate Supremacy exists in the heart of the individual. Directly the seeker realizes this, a new reality is born, and the clouds of night roll back and melt away before the light of a breaking dawn, brilliant beyond all that have preceded it. Destroy this consciousness, and the Unknowable may become the Known, or at least the Unknown, in the sense of the un- discovered. Thus we find the old Vedantist presupposing an Atman and a ciuBorov of it, so that he might better transmute * Brihadaranyaka Upanish…
1954 · PDF PAGE 432
…ined scien tific observer to record the appearance commonly called "St. Elmo's fire" indiscreetly revealing this fact in a letter to the New Yark Times. I was pestered for the next six months and more by professors of physics (and the rest) from all over the U.S.A. The existence of the phenomenon had been doubted until then because of certain theoretical difficulties. That, sister, is the point. If a statement is hard to reconcile with the whole body of evidence on the laws of the subject, it is rightly received with suspicion. A moment with gr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 224
…he birth of our love, hint at the prospect of its harvest, and weave the whole of the facts into a glowing tapestry of rapture. It was a new rhythm, a new rime. It marks a notable advance on any previous work for sustained sublimity. Physically and morally, Rose exercised on every man she met a fascination which I have never seen anywhere else, not a fraction of it. She was like a character in a romantic novel, a Helen of Troy or a Cleopatra; yet, while more passionate, unhurtful. She was essentially a good woman. Her love sounded every abyss o…