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Page 56 of 831954 · PDF PAGE 414
…e horns." A practice easier to imitate was this following. In most great cities, always in Eastern cities, are black slums. Here one may find blind alleys, dark doorways open to unlighted houses. One may explore such places, looking for adventure-and it was rather a point of honour to accept the challenge in whatever form it took. Again, one may walk with deliberate carelessness into the traffic; this practice does not in my considerable experience, conduce to one's personal popularity . Another idea was to hasten to cholera-stricken cities, to…
1904 · PDF PAGE 6
INTRODUCTION III If the student has advanced spiritually so that he can internally , infallibly perceive what is Truth, he will find it equally well symbolised in most external faiths. It is curious that Browning never turns his wonderful faculty of analysis upon the funda- mental problems of religion, as it were an axe laid to the root of the Tree of Life. It seems quite clear that he knew what would result if he did so. We cannot help fancy ing that he was unwilling to do this. The proof of his knowledge I find in the following lines:— “I hav…
1922 · PDF PAGE 331
…etly; but Athena sat engrossed in studying us, ** In the absence of Lala,’ he said, ‘‘ Sister Athena is our chief psychologist. You will find her knowledge very useful to you and your work. I will leave her to talk things over with you for the next couple of hours. But, of course, the first thing is to get you rested from your journey.” He got up and walked off round the corner of the house. We didn’t feel that we needed rest, we were much too interested by the atmosphere of the place.
1922 · PDF PAGE 358
…t going to get out of it as easily as that. You don’t give up eating mutton because you ate too much one day and got indigestion. You'll find heroin pretty useful when you know how to use it. However, your gesture just now was automatic. It was evidence that your unconscious or true will objects to your taking heroin. So far so good for the negative side. But the question is, what does your true will actually want you to do in a positive way?”
1996 · PDF PAGE 55
…this, once love is taken for granted, the morbid fasci nation of its mystery will vanish. The pander, the prostitute, the parasite will find their occupa tion gone. Disease will go straight to the doctor instead of to the quack, as it does; the altars of Mrs. Grundy run red with the blood of her faithful! The ignorance or carelessness of a raw youth will no longer hound him to hell. A blighted career or a ruined constitution will no more be the penalty of a moment’s exuberance. Above all, the world will begin to appreciate the true nature of …
1909 · PDF PAGE 269
…he Ritual of the Neophyte had an important influence on P.’s mind, and on his Spiritual Progress; for, shortly after its celebration, we find him experiencing some very extraordinary visions, which we shall enter upon in due course. Suffice it to say that by December he had passed the easy examination necessary before he could present himself as a candidate for the 1°=10° grade of Zelator. 261
1909 · PDF PAGE 269
…he Ritual of the Neophyte had an important influence on P.’s mind, and on his Spiritual Progress; for, shortly after its celebration, we find him experiencing some very extraordinary visions, which we shall enter upon in due course. Suffice it to say that by December he had passed the easy examination necessary before he could present himself as a candidate for the 1°=10° grade of Zelator. 261
1922 · PDF PAGE 82
…u can’t take H. like you can C., and when you mix your drinks there’s the devil to pay. It’s like everything else in life; you’ve got to find out your limit. It’s very dangerous to move about when you're working H. or M., and it’s almost certain disaster to eat.” I must admit I felt an awful fool. After all, I had studied medicine pretty seriously; and this was the second time that a layman had read me the Riot Act. But Lou nodded cheerfully enough. The brandy had brought back the colour in her cheeks. “ Yes,’’ she said, ‘‘ I’d heard that all b…
1922 · PDF PAGE 123
Vedere Napoli e poi—pro patrid—mori 109 imagine that I’d let an old pal down. Any time you find yourself with a little loose cash, just weigh in. You can have it out of my bit.” “ Well, that’s really too good of you,” I said, “ and I won’t forget it. It’ll be all right, I suppose, now you’ve got the thing through, to wait till I get back to England.” “Why, of course,” he replied. ‘“ Don’t think about business at all. It was really rotten of me to talk shop to a man on his honeymoon.” Lou took up the conversation. ‘“ But do tell us,” she began, …
1954 · PDF PAGE 91
58 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS can always be reduced to "One"; and "One" itself is no better , because, among other things, it finds itself forced to deny the very premises on which it was founded . Shall we be any better off if we assume that Ex nihilo nihil fit is a falsehood , that the origin of All Things is Nothing? Let us see! O. Shall we first glance at the mathematical aspect of Nothing? (Including its identical equation in Logic.) This I worked out so long ago as 1902 e.g. in Berashith, which you will find reprinted in The Sword of Song, and …
1954 · PDF PAGE 503
… has he understood, still less explained, the causes of phenomena. Sometimes he cannot even reconcile different "laws of Nature ." So we find l.W.N. Sullivan exclaiming "The scientific adventure may yet have to be abandoned," and to me personally he confessed "It may yet turn out that the mathematical approach to Reality may have to be supplanted by the Magical." Now in Nature it leaps at one that Will and Intelligence are behind phenomena. Myoid friend and colleague Professor Buckmaster, who wrote a book on "Blood" which, he admitted, could no…
1954 · PDF PAGE 508
…ough ; he feels already the thrust to his vitals. To every man and woman that has not seen Sex as it is, faced it, mastered it- you will find elsewhere in these letters sufficient on this matter-it is his secret guilt. Imagine, then, how at any reference however remote , the "sinner' quails, his inmost mystery laid bare, his evil conscience holding up a tarnished mirror to his deformed and hideous face! Often enough , he does not mind gross jests which admit complicity on the part of the other ; but any allusion to the Truth , and his soul shri…
1929 · PDF PAGE 261
…ity. The following day showed me that such perversity was only too likely to put a spoke in the wheel. The arrangement was that I was to find my way to Camp 3, which I had already been able to choose through my glasses. I left Tartarin and Reymond in charge of the bulk of the coolies, having pointed out to them the best way across the glacier. It was more or less intricate going compared with Piccadilly, but it was certainly less trouble than an average march on the Baltoro. My object in going ahead was merely to make sure that Camp 3 was as fa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 302
302 We had been told that we should find ample supplies of fresh food of all sorts everywhere. Nothing could have been farther from the truth. We could get no fresh mild, the Chinese considering it obscene to extract it; but strangely enough, in even the smallest villages, we were able to buy an excellent brand of evaporated cream which some enterprising drummer had managed to unload along the track. There was no mutton to be had; and it was only seldom that we managed to but a goat or kid. Poultry and eggs were fairly plentiful in most places;…
1929 · PDF PAGE 362
…d was sui generis and had no conscious connection with any other outburst of my genius; but I understood that from this time on I should find myself writing with a sense of responsibility, that my work would be coherent, each item (however complete in itself) an essential part of a pyramid, a monument whose orientation and proportions should proclaim my purpose. I should do nothing in future that was not as definitely directed to the execution of my true will as every step through Spain was taken with the object of reaching Madrid; and I reflec…
1910 · PDF PAGE 348
…, and to stick a skean dhuibh in it somewhere and read the sentence it hits. Thus, perhaps, with perseverance and a lot of luck, one may find a coherent paragraph in the porridge of disconnected drivel, defaced with italics and capitals and inverted commas like a schoolgirl’s letter. And this is the coherent paragraph. “There are 3 apocryphal descriptions of the man Christ Jesus. . . . All agree in describing Him as ‘strikingly tall, ‘6 ft. high, and with curled or wavy locks. “This, to my mind, establishes the Identity of the Daibutsu with the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 348
…, and to stick a skean dhuibh in it somewhere and read the sentence it hits. Thus, perhaps, with perseverance and a lot of luck, one may find a coherent paragraph in the porridge of disconnected drivel, defaced with italics and capitals and inverted commas like a schoolgirl’s letter. And this is the coherent paragraph. “There are 3 apocryphal descriptions of the man Christ Jesus. . . . All agree in describing Him as ‘strikingly tall, ‘6 ft. high, and with curled or wavy locks. “This, to my mind, establishes the Identity of the Daibutsu with the…
1922 · PDF PAGE 93
…nk it was quite the thing to call attention to. However, I suppose the fellow had to have his cigarette case, and after all, when you do find a table upside down, it’s not much good pretending that you don’t notice it. And very likely, on the whole, the best way to pass over the incident pleasantly is to turn it into a kind of joke. _ And I must say that Feccles showed the tact of a perfect gentleman in avoiding any direct allusion to the circumstances that caused the circumstances that were responsible for the circumstances that gave rise to t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 54
…till more haughtily, you enjoy the pleasure of sailing. No, there is this factor in all success: self-confidence. If we analyze this, we find that it means that one is aware that all one's men tal and physical faculties are working harmoniously. The deadliest and subtlest enemy of that feeling is anxiety about the result; the finest gauze of doubt is enough to dim one's vision, to throw the entire field out of focus. Hence, even to be aware that there is a result in prospect must militate against that serenity of spirit which is the essence of …
1954 · PDF PAGE 396
…, the mere apparition of a God is subject to laws similar to those governing the visions of angels.) For one thing, all the laws that we find in operation on various parts of the "Astral plane" are valid. Two things can occupy the same place at the same time . They are "swift without feet, and flying without wings." They change size, shape, appearance, appurtenances of all sorts, at will. Anything that is required for the purpose of the vision is there at will. They bring their own background with them. They are able to transfer a portion of th…