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Page 56 of 841922 · PDF PAGE 344
…, and Italy, is still sold freely in England, and no one ever met an English absinthe fiend. If any one took it into his head to start a newspaper campaign against absinthe, it would become a public danger in very short order. King Lamus emancipated people’s minds by adopting the contrary formula. He had all sorts of dodges for compelling people to accept the most startling sights and sounds as commonplace. The very children were confronted with the most terrifying ideas while they were still too young to have acquired settled phobias. Hermes, …
1922 · PDF PAGE 104
…et him keep you long,” said Lou, with a petulant pout, and ran into the bedroom after a swift embrace, so violent that it disarranged my new Charvet necktie. The man came up. I was a little bored by the gravity of his manner, and rather disgusted by its solemn deference. Of course, one likes being treated as a kind of toy emperor in a way, but that sort of thing doesn’t go with Paris. Still less does it go with cocaine. It annoyed me that the fellow was so obviously ill at ease, and also that he was so obviously proud of himself for having been…
1996 · PDF PAGE 88
…e mend these, and end those. This “Knowledge” is the initiated Wisdom of this /Eon of Horus. See Book 4, Part III, for an account of the new principles of Magick. Note that Knowledge is Daath, Child of Chokmah by Binah, and crown of Microprosopus; yet he is not one of the Sephiroth, and his place is in the Abyss. By this symbolism we draw atten tion to the fact that Knowledge is by nature impossible; for it implies Duality, and is therefore relative. Any proposition of Knowledge may be written “arb”: “a has the relation r to b.” 1:3
1904 · PDF PAGE 47
…omplaisance was however not without rea- son. Tell your old fumble monger, said he when her delirium was appeased, that I can give him a new sensation, and one of such delight that he will never have experienced the like, nay ! Nor the shadow of it. Do that to me, dear heart ! Cried the randy Moll Muckmeabart. Not I, said the expert, you would not get up for three days and more : such is the pleasure. This made her only the keener, and when he saw that she would cry a rape unless he consented and you must see, darling, how necessary it is f…
1910 · PDF PAGE 24
16 Introduction To return to the question on phallicism, I will not be so frivolous as to quote ‘ New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove ’ as an example of obscene symbolism in the Christian Church ; for there is no lack of serious identi- ty. The cross itself is notoriously the lingam : the vesica piscis — Christ being ιχθυς the fish — the Yoni. Now the vesica piscis is the foundation of all Christian architecture : that is to say, the female member lying open, and awaiting impregnation by the male, is the glyph of the chu…
1922 · PDF PAGE 146
… Her magnetic beauty and her evident aristocracy could not help but have their effect. I found myself admiring her immensely, in quite a new way. It had never occurred to me that she could rise to a situation with such superb aplomb. ‘Won’t you sit down ? ”’ said the consul, ‘“‘ I’m sure you must be very tired.” He put a chair for her, and went back to his seat on the sofa. “It’s a little awkward, you see,” he went on. “I don’t, as a matter of fact, believe all I read in the papers. And there are several very curious points about the situation …
1910 · PDF PAGE 105
…w that missionaries are Yogis. t+ Compare. “From the Skull of the Ancient Being wells forth Dew, and this Dew will wake up the dead to a new life.”—The Zohar, /dva Rabba. “I will be as a dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.”—Hosea, xiv, 5. } This is according to the “Shiva Sanhita.” “The Hatha Yoga Pradipika” places the Sun in the Svadisthana Chakkra. The Maniptira Chakkra is however probably the correct one. gi
1910 · PDF PAGE 105
…w that missionaries are Yogis. t+ Compare. “From the Skull of the Ancient Being wells forth Dew, and this Dew will wake up the dead to a new life.”—The Zohar, /dva Rabba. “I will be as a dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.”—Hosea, xiv, 5. } This is according to the “Shiva Sanhita.” “The Hatha Yoga Pradipika” places the Sun in the Svadisthana Chakkra. The Maniptira Chakkra is however probably the correct one. gi
1922 · PDF PAGE 230
…t know what they’ll do so far away from their mother. | It is horrible not being able to sleep. That, too, must be a preparation for the new life. I wandered up all alone to the magic room, and sat with my hands on the table opposite the old man, trying to get him to talk. His lips move, but I can’t hear what he says. I was disturbed, of course. I always am being dis- turbed. I am so tired. Why won’t they let me alone ? This time it was a shot. The magic room has windows all around it. I went to see who could have fired. It was very bright moon…
1929 · PDF PAGE 210
…o bored us and yet were as difficult to get rid of as the lumber that accumulates in a house. But sometimes a stranger would introduce a new note of genuine amusement. One day one of the Americans introduced the "great American artist, Penrhyn Stanlaws". His name was Stanley Adamson and his birthplace Dundee. He had begun his life in the traditional manner of the great by holding horses' heads and earning dimes. Somehow or other, while quite a youth, he had sprung into popular favour and was already earning two thousand pounds a year or more by…
1922 · PDF PAGE 18
…niless, out of a job, utterly spoilt by the war (even if I had had the money) for going on with my hospital, I had developed an entirely new psychology. You know how it feels when you are fighting duels in the air, you seem to be detached from everything. There is nothing in the
1929 · PDF PAGE 26
…cover exactly the nature and limit of my powers. The result, in a sense, was nil. For one thing, these powers kept on breaking out in a new place. I seemed to do all I did by perception of minute differences; but then it seemed as if I had all sorts of different apparatus. One down, tother come on, said Professor Blair. Those who have never made scientific experiments cannot conceive how numerous and subtle are the sources of error, even in the simplest matters. In so ob- scure and novel a field of research no result is trustwor- thy until…
1954 · PDF PAGE 3
…dy o The Vision and The Voice o The Best of Crowley o Yoga OTHER BOOKS FROM FALCON PRESS o Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson o The New Inquisition - Robert Anton Wilson o The Modern Jew in Search For His Soul- J. Marvin Spiegelman, et al o Buddhism and Jungian Psychology - J. Marvin Spiegelman & Mokusen Miyuki o Hinduism and Jungian Psychology - J. Marvin Spiegelman & Arwind U. Vasavada o The Tree - J. Marvin Spiegleman o The Knight - J. Marvin Spiegelman o The Quest - J. Marvin Spiegelman o The Love - J. Marvin Spiegelman o Zen Without Z…
1954 · PDF PAGE 99
…ous , to learn that the passage which we are about to quote, is a parable based on the least 2. Liber CDXVlII, The Vision and the Voice, new edition with Introduction and Commentary by 666. (Theiema Publishing Co., Barstow, California.) [Note: this is now out of print. Another revised edition is in preparation by the Sangreal Foundation, DaRas.-Ed.)
1929 · PDF PAGE 172
…l to attend punctually, and in canonical costume." "I'll dig the biretta out of the ice-box." After a further exchange of courtesies the new disciple took his leave.
1961 · PDF PAGE 163
…a Task impossible, for in that Plane they have Antipathy. (Even so may no Man form a Square Magical of Four Units.) But the Light of the New Æon revealeth this Sphinx as the true Symbol of this our Holy Art of Magick under the Law of Thelema. In Her is the equal Development and Disposition of the Forces of Nature, each in its Balanced Strength; also Her True Name has the Digamma for Phi, and endeth in Upsilon, not in Xi, so that Her Orthography is S#inu whose Numer-ation is Six Hundred and Three Score and Six. For the Root thereof is S#, which …
1919 · PDF PAGE 57
…is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu.” It all depends on your own acceptance of this new law, and you are not asked to believe anything, to accept a string of fool- ish fables beneath the intellectual level of a Bushman and the moral level of a drug-fiend. All you have to do is to be yourself, to do your will, and to rejoice. “Dost thou fail? Artthou sorry? Is fear in thine heart?” He says again: “Where I am, these are not.” There is much more of the same kind; enough has been quoted al- ready…
1929 · PDF PAGE 312
…, not theoretical; real not rational. Tyndall says somewhere that it is evidently possible for men to acquire at any moment the use of a new faculty which would reveal a new universe, as completely as the development of sight has done, or as the invention of the spectroscope, the electroscope, etc., has done, and shown us unsuspected material universes. It is to be carefully observed that we unhesitatingly class as "material" all sorts of ideas which are not directly appreciable by any of our senses. I was in no way apostasizing from my agnosti…
1909 · PDF PAGE 373
…water and the possibilities of its sweetening, after which the MS, comes to an end. I have sent back the pigeon, and expect to receive a new supply of facts—more precise than the vague and uncanny allegations contained in the first. If I may be allowed to make a personal suggestion, I am inclined to believe the writer to be as mad as any tormentor of his, real or imaginary. However, the MS. is human, and so . . . imprimatur! 365
1909 · PDF PAGE 373
…water and the possibilities of its sweetening, after which the MS, comes to an end. I have sent back the pigeon, and expect to receive a new supply of facts—more precise than the vague and uncanny allegations contained in the first. If I may be allowed to make a personal suggestion, I am inclined to believe the writer to be as mad as any tormentor of his, real or imaginary. However, the MS. is human, and so . . . imprimatur! 365