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Page 55 of 1001904 · PDF PAGE 26
… All is black, Void of all cause, all aim ; unkenned, As if I had been dead indeed— All in Christ’s name ! And I look back, And then and long time after lack Courage or strength to hurl the creed Down to the heaven it sprang from ! No ! Not this inspires the indignant blow 660 666 670 675 680 685 690 695 700 Poem does not treat of Palæ- ontology : nor of poet’s youth : nor of Christian infamies. Poet forced to mystic position.
1910 · PDF PAGE 86
THE EQUINOX The Gnana Yoga P., as the student, had already long practised in his study of the Holy Qabalah; so also had he Karma Yoga by his acts of service whilst a Neophyte in the Order of the Golden Dawn; but now at the suggestion of D. A. he betook himself to the practice of Hatha and Raja Yoga. Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga are so intimately connected, that instead of forming two separate methods, they rather form the first half and second half of one and the same. Before discussing either the Hatha or Raja Yogas, it will be necessary to explai…
1910 · PDF PAGE 86
THE EQUINOX The Gnana Yoga P., as the student, had already long practised in his study of the Holy Qabalah; so also had he Karma Yoga by his acts of service whilst a Neophyte in the Order of the Golden Dawn; but now at the suggestion of D. A. he betook himself to the practice of Hatha and Raja Yoga. Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga are so intimately connected, that instead of forming two separate methods, they rather form the first half and second half of one and the same. Before discussing either the Hatha or Raja Yogas, it will be necessary to explai…
1911 · PDF PAGE 107
…dy of a woman, proud and delicate, and beyond imagination fair. She is like a child of twelve years old. She has very deep eye-lids, and long lashes. Her eyes are closed, or nearly closed. It is impossible to say anything about her. She is naked; her whole body is covered with fine gold hairs, that are the electric flames that are the spears of mighty and terrible Angels whose breast- plates are the scales of her skin. And the hair of her head, that flows down to her feet, is the very light of God himself. Of all the glories beheld by the seer …
1913 · PDF PAGE 475
…ome immensely rich, attract the notice of a great lady, and marry beyond the seas. It is by such promises that the phantom of the devil, long ago, lured Gilles de Laval, Seigneur of Retz, and made him wade from crime to crime. A man capable of evoking the devil, according to the rites of the grimoive of Honorius, has gone so far upon the road of evil that he is disposed to all kinds of hallucinations, and all lies. So, Verger slept in blood, to dream of I know not what abomin- able pantheon ; and he awoke upon the scaffold. But the aberrations …
1913 · PDF PAGE 475
…ome immensely rich, attract the notice of a great lady, and marry beyond the seas. It is by such promises that the phantom of the devil, long ago, lured Gilles de Laval, Seigneur of Retz, and made him wade from crime to crime. A man capable of evoking the devil, according to the rites of the grimoive of Honorius, has gone so far upon the road of evil that he is disposed to all kinds of hallucinations, and all lies. So, Verger slept in blood, to dream of I know not what abomin- able pantheon ; and he awoke upon the scaffold. But the aberrations …
1922 · PDF PAGE 243
… from the hunter... . Most of the time, when we have energy to talk at all, we discuss how to get more H. and C. The C. has been fmished long ago. It’s no good without the H. We could go to Germany and get it; or even to London, but something keeps us from decision. I, of course, know what it is. It is necessary for me to undergo these torments that I may be purified completely from the flesh. But Peter doesn’t understand at all. He blames me bitterly. We go over the whole thing again and again. Every incident since we met is taken in turn as t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 293
…stress While the sorrows of others thrill through you |! I love you because my life’s lost in your being ; You burn for me all the night long, and on seeing Me, jest at your tears—and allot mine! Because you elude me, a wave of the lake, Because you are danger and poison, my snake, Because you are mine, and are not mine!” Just as she had finished, Elsie arrived from Barley Grange with our trunks. Maisie and Lamus said they would leave us to unpack, and went off. She and Lala dropped in from time to time in the course of the next five days to ta…
1907 · PDF PAGE 264
…ress my view that when the Qabalists said Not , they meant Not , and nothing else . In fact, I really claim to have re - dis covered the long - lost and central Arcanum of those divine philosophers .' “ I ASSERT THE ABSOLUTENESS OF THE QABALISTIC ZERO .” “ When we say that the Cosmos sprang from O , what kind of O do we mean ? By O in the ordinary sense of the term we mean ' absence of extension in any of the categories .' " When I say “ No cat has two tails ,'I do not mean , as the old fallacy runs , that ‘ Absence of cat possesses two tails ,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 83
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH region of pure thought. In the case of the god Osiris, for example, he will no longer express his vision by the name Osiris or by the green face, by the white robes starred with the three active colours, by the crown and by the crook and scourge; nor will he chant wondrous hymns of the descent into Amennti, the death and resurrection of the God; but he will express all this by some pure symbol, such as the cross, the hexagram, or even the number 6. And those upon his plane will understand him. Here, too, we must class …
1909 · PDF PAGE 83
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH region of pure thought. In the case of the god Osiris, for example, he will no longer express his vision by the name Osiris or by the green face, by the white robes starred with the three active colours, by the crown and by the crook and scourge; nor will he chant wondrous hymns of the descent into Amennti, the death and resurrection of the God; but he will express all this by some pure symbol, such as the cross, the hexagram, or even the number 6. And those upon his plane will understand him. Here, too, we must class …
1954 · PDF PAGE 438
…son, at least no conscious truck, or it ceases to possess a moral meaning. It is that confidence l in oneself which assures one that the long shot at the tiger will fly true to the mark, that the tricky putt will go down, that the man one never beat before will go down this time; also its horrid contrary, the moral certainty that something will go wrong, even with the easiest problems, with one hundred to one in one's favour. I think the official answer is that one's certainty is in reality based upon subconscious calculation, so that faith has…
1906 · PDF PAGE 209
…oon. [Goon is no Scots, But Greek, Meester Watts.] We're awa’ tae Burma, Whaur th’ groond be firmer Tae speer th’ Mekong. Chin Chin! Sae long. [Long sald be lang: She’ll no care a whang.] Ve'’re Rautional babe, Aundra McAbe.” Note the curious confusion of personality. This shows Absence of Ego, in Pali Anatta, and will seem to my poor spiritually-minded friends an excuse for a course of action they do not understand, and whose nature is beyond them. 782. Christ ascends .8*—And I tell you frankly that if he does not come back by the time I have …
1907 · PDF PAGE 135
…osa Mun i an anaemic schoolboy? Why, it is enough to make a Scotchman laugh! Not onl is it a violation of the English language, but it belongs to that class of pure literary lism, which Crowley has arisen to overthrow. A second Prometheus, he has snatched the fire from the secret place of God's glory, and bro ht it down in the hollow tube of his ecstasy-waking flute, and in the white chalice o God’s awful Dawn, he now offers them the wine of the Via Lactea caught from the rosy nipples of the Virgin of the World, of which he hath drunk, whereby th…
1905 · PDF PAGE 172
…well hid in the shadow ; here I realized myself to be in that sepulchral sleep wherein were mirrored all these things of mystery. So the long passage steeply sliding ever up to my feet where I stood in the emptiness ; at last a sure abiding only in absolute ceasing of all sense, and all perceived or understood or knowable ; thus, purple and intense, I beheld the past that leads to peace, from royal heights of mastery to sleep, from self-control imperial to an end, therefore I shaped the seven tiers of the ascending corridor into seven strokes o…
1907 · PDF PAGE 66
…t, I am with you. I can never help suspecting you of morality, though ; you’re a devilish deep Johnny, but the atavism comes through. As long as you wear a tie that the Neanderthal cave man would have discarded as out of date I can never quite class you with this century. Bones. Before Abraham was, I am. Bowie]. [Taking no notice] I call it a Christian tie. Faith in your wife’s afi'ection surviving it; charity, which is not ashamed; hope—no, only Hope Brothers. Bones. This is in some ways a digression— Bowley. I can prove—— Bones. I know you can…
1909 · PDF PAGE 317
…n of the Adept’s _ Lhe Adept then turned from me and said: room and the attic ‘She is in a trance; she is dead; she has above. been dead long.’ And immediately her flesh becoming rotten, fell from her bones. “ Hurriedly I asked for an explanation, but scarcely had my words left my lips than I saw that she was recovering, and that her bones were becoming once again clothed with flesh. Slowly she rose up, and then suddenly rolled round and fell heavily upon her face. For a moment she remained still, and * These signs are given in Liber O. 309
1909 · PDF PAGE 317
…n of the Adept’s _ Lhe Adept then turned from me and said: room and the attic ‘She is in a trance; she is dead; she has above. been dead long.’ And immediately her flesh becoming rotten, fell from her bones. “ Hurriedly I asked for an explanation, but scarcely had my words left my lips than I saw that she was recovering, and that her bones were becoming once again clothed with flesh. Slowly she rose up, and then suddenly rolled round and fell heavily upon her face. For a moment she remained still, and * These signs are given in Liber O. 309
1910 · PDF PAGE 115
…has been mastered without any Rechaka or Puraka, there is nothing unattainable by him in the three worlds, He can restrain his breath as long as he likes through this Kumbhaka. He obtains the stage of Raja-Yoga. Through this Kumbhaka, the Kundalini is roused, and when it is so roused the Sushumné is free of all obstacles, and he has attained perfection in Hatha-Yoga.t Of the many Prandy4ma exercises practised in the East the following are given for sake of example. 1. Draw in the breath for four seconds, hold it for sixteen, and then throw it o…
1910 · PDF PAGE 115
…has been mastered without any Rechaka or Puraka, there is nothing unattainable by him in the three worlds, He can restrain his breath as long as he likes through this Kumbhaka. He obtains the stage of Raja-Yoga. Through this Kumbhaka, the Kundalini is roused, and when it is so roused the Sushumné is free of all obstacles, and he has attained perfection in Hatha-Yoga.t Of the many Prandy4ma exercises practised in the East the following are given for sake of example. 1. Draw in the breath for four seconds, hold it for sixteen, and then throw it o…