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Page 55 of 801910 · PDF PAGE 193
…e him leave matters alone, which he did. Not yet was the cup full. In April he journeyed to London, and the month of May 1903 once again found him amongst the fastnesses of the north in the house he had bought in which to carry out the Sacred Operation of Abramelin. At this point of our history, in a prefatory note to one of Frater P.’s note-books, we find him recapitulating, in the following words, the events of the last four years: In the year 1899 I came to C . . . House, and put everything in order with the object of carrying out the Operat…
1910 · PDF PAGE 193
…e him leave matters alone, which he did. Not yet was the cup full. In April he journeyed to London, and the month of May 1903 once again found him amongst the fastnesses of the north in the house he had bought in which to carry out the Sacred Operation of Abramelin. At this point of our history, in a prefatory note to one of Frater P.’s note-books, we find him recapitulating, in the following words, the events of the last four years: In the year 1899 I came to C . . . House, and put everything in order with the object of carrying out the Operat…
1922 · PDF PAGE 190
… has changed altogether, since we came to London. I feel there is some bad influence at work on him... . This place is full of vermin. I found what had been annoying me. I think I shall bob my hair. I’m awfully proud of its length, but one must be practical. . . I am lying down for a bit. It was a frightful nuisance getting ready to go out. Cockie nagged and bullied all the time. I’m stiff all over, and it seems such waste of time to wash and dress, besides, the irritation of the interruption, and my clothes are impossible. I’ve been sleeping i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 182
…ound. I shrink not ; I fall The warders are beaten To the blackness below They go in confusion; - With my soul aglow. Their place is not found. No taint of a fear ! The air hath eaten For I know, I know With wide-gaping jaws Eurydice near, A furious folk. Eurydice here! The purpose divine Thrills my soul as wine. NowI pass to the soul of the dark, confront- ing the innermost shrine. . Lost is the cause In Tartarean smoke. I, through the wall Of impassable gloom, Apart from the sun, Pass as a ghost, Hail to ye, warders Bearing the lyre. That gua…
1922 · PDF PAGE 378
… reason you did not use them was that a burnt child dreads fire. We had the same trouble with teaching Hermes and Dionysus to swim. They found themselves in danger of being drowned and thought the best way was to avoid going near the water. But that didn’t help them to use their natural faculties to the best advantage, so I made them face the sea again and again, until they decided that the best way to avoid drowning was to learn how to deal with oceans in every detail. It sounds pretty obvious when you put it like that, yet while every one agr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 222
…ked Antony of Prague," he went on, with sudden force and solemnity, "the marvellous things he did, and how he prospered — and how he was found by the roadside, his tongue torn out, and the dogs at feast upon his bowels! Do you know what has saved you so far? Only one [312] bar between you and destruction — the love of your wife, whom you have murdered!" With that Cyril cried aloud three words in a strange tongue, and giving the other no chance to reply, marched rapidly away with his friend. Douglas could not have recovered, in any case. He was …
1929 · PDF PAGE 549
…avengers, tries to escape by some desperate deed. Thus a boy robs the till to pay for his folly in gambling away his earnings, and being found out is maddened by the thought of jail, sees red and kills his employer. We should rather sterilize sin. The sense of shame is cowardly and servile. It is based on ignorance that one is a star. "Conscience makes cowards of us all." The man who respects himself will not act unworthily, but if we hammer into his head from infancy that most of his natural impulses are evil, we enslave his spirit. The most n…
1909 · PDF PAGE 374
…‘way. I say clever because it is a very simple scheme in its cleverness, and nobody would say it if not I, but nevertheless it had to be found—like the egg of the late C.C. I bought a fine hen pigeon, and kept it with the Man-Cover’s messenger, so that they could rub acquaintance. WhenI noticed the first symptoms of love I blessed the new pair and let them go. The new wife—as I thought she would—followed her husband. They returned to me with the following strange document, and I think Imust warn the reader against a certain feeling of sympathy …
1909 · PDF PAGE 374
…‘way. I say clever because it is a very simple scheme in its cleverness, and nobody would say it if not I, but nevertheless it had to be found—like the egg of the late C.C. I bought a fine hen pigeon, and kept it with the Man-Cover’s messenger, so that they could rub acquaintance. WhenI noticed the first symptoms of love I blessed the new pair and let them go. The new wife—as I thought she would—followed her husband. They returned to me with the following strange document, and I think Imust warn the reader against a certain feeling of sympathy …
1922 · PDF PAGE 335
…reme. They interpreted everything wrong, and expected the world to fall down and worship them for being wastrels. And at every turn they found the Big Lion in the way, to bring them back to reality. But the truth was too bitter medicine for them. If they had accepted the facts, they could have altered the facts; and learnt to do something worth while. But they preferred to cherish delusions of persecution. They persuaded themselves that they were being crucified when they were only having their faces washed. But the paint of self-esteem had bee…
1954 · PDF PAGE 224
…sing accuracy; but the vase remained intact! This is not one of my notorious digressions; and this is how transmutation comes into it. I found that by first taking the shape of a golden hawk, and resuming my own form after landing in her "temple" -a room she had fitted ad hoc-the whole operation became incomparably easier. I shall not indulge in hypotheses of why this should have been the case. A little over four years later-in the meantime we had met and worked at Magick together-we resumed these
1996 · PDF PAGE 177
…een—who see—Space splendid with stars; who have seen—who see—the Body of our Lady Nuit, all-pervading; and therein swallowed up, to have found—to find—no soul that is not wholly of Her. Woman! thou drawest us upward and onward for ever; and every woman is one among women, of Woman; one star of Her stars. 1 See “Liber D” [§206]. I see thee, Woman, thou standest alone, High Priestess art thou unto Love at the Altar of Life. And Man is the Victim therein. Beneath thee, rejoicing, he lies; he exults as he dies, burning up in the breath of thy kiss.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 535
…say, "But if, as you tell me, this green lamp is red, how do I know that it is a lamp, not a tiger? I have only my eyes to depend on." I found it impossible to persuade even the most intelligent people who came to me to take the first step --- that of clearing the ground of their minds of every preconceived idea. They yearned for me to fill them up to the neck with any ridiculous rubbish that flattered their vanity, fed their folly, doped their dread of death and damnation, and inflated their idle fancies, intoxicated their inane ideals. I simp…
1929 · PDF PAGE 554
554 He suddenly developed an entirely new defect. I had always found him truthful. He now adopted a policy of deliberate deceitfulness with the greatest subtlety. It was perfectly imbecile. He had only to say what he wanted and I should have done whatever I could to help him, whatever it was. He, however, persuaded himself that he must keep his plans dark and the final absurdity of the whole thing was that I was aware from the beginning exactly what he intended to do. Our relations ended, bar occasional correspondence, towards the end of the ye…
1929 · PDF PAGE 117
… the ceremony completely destroyed, by the embarassment caused by the discoverv of some such error, just as if a pre-occupied T-totaller found that he had strayed into a Temple of the Démon Rum! It is therefore impossible to neglect the theory of the Circle. 1. Equinox I, II, pp. 244-260. 2. Equinox I, VII, pp. 93 sqq. 3. The practical necessities of the work are likely to require certain movements. One should either exclude this symbolism altogether, or else think out everything beforehand, and make it significant. Do not let some actions be s…
1922 · PDF PAGE 159
…ore; and I love him so much! He went to the box office to see about tickets, and while he was gone—this was the really horrible thing— I found I was simply telling myself ‘I love him so much.” Love is dead. And yet that’s not true. I do love him with all my heart and soul; and yet, somehow, I can’t. I want to be able to love until I get back. Oh, what’s the good of talking about it! I know I love him, and yet I know I can’t love any one. , I took a whole lot of cocaine. It dulled what I felt. I was able to fancy I loved him. We went to the show…
1929 · PDF PAGE 89
…years, and even begun to suspect the identity, had not troubled (although an extravagant buyer of books) to get this particular work. He found, to his astonishment, tha^t almost everything that he had himself intended to say was there written. The resuit of this was that he abandoned writing his original work, and instead translated the masterpiece in question. 8. The style of the two men is strikingly similar in numerous subtle and deep-seated ways. The general point of view is almost identical. The quality of the irony is the same. Both take …
1922 · PDF PAGE 19
A Knight Out 5 Universe but you and the Boche you are trying to pot. There is something detached and god-like about it. And when I found myself put out on the streets by a grateful country, I became an entirely different animal. In fact, I’ve often thought that there isn’t any “1” at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion. Well, bother that! The plain fact is that I had become a desperate wild animal. I was too hungry, so to speak, even to w…
1930 · PDF PAGE 95
…g point, till he would be abjectly ridiculous if he were not so pitifully dangerous to himself and others. He also tends to take his new-found “truths of illumination” for the entire body of truth, and insists that they must be as valid and vital for ail men as they happen to be for himself. I. This corresponds to the emotional and metaphysical fog which is characteristic of the emergence of thought from homogeneity. The clear and concise différentiation of ideas marks the adult mind. — 299
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
…with red whiskers and a rope about his shoulders came towards me from the cliff. It was J. W. Robinson, a local farmer, who had laid the foundation of Cumberland climbing. He offered to show me some of the easier climbs. He had started that morning with a man named Owen Glynne Jones. Jones had insisted on trying to climb Steep Gill, which is for the most part a shallow gully of smooth slabs set at a dangerous angle. There is no reliable hold for hand or foot on the main pitch, which is some eighty feet high. As torrents of icy water were pourin…