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Page 57 of 841930 · PDF PAGE 97
… then came he unto me abiding in my virgin heart, its Lord and Lover! Also He made me a Magus, speaking through His Law, the Word of the new Aeon, the Aeon of the Crowned and Conquering Child. 2 Thus he fulfilled my will to bring full freedom to the race of Men. Yea, he wrought also in me a Work of Wonder beyond this, but in this matter I am sworn to hold my peace. 1. See the maps “Minutum Mundum” in the Equinex i, 2 & 3 and the general relations detailed in Liber 777, of which the most important columns are reprinted in Appendix V. 2. For the …
1922 · PDF PAGE 273
…ng in me? Had I suddenly fallen in love with life, or had I simply become aware of the fear of death ? When we reached the fresh air, I knew it was the former. Lamus had made me feel. The effect of the drug had been to kill all feelingin me. My impulse to kill myself had not been so wholly negative’as I had thought. It was a positive craving for what I supposed to be the anzsthesia of death. The pain of life had been too much to endure, and the influence of King Lamus had been to brace me to meet life face to face, whatever it might have in sto…
1922 · PDF PAGE 355
…vaded me. When I strove to grasp them, they disappeared. My functions seemed to be to simplify complex expressions, and then to build up new complexes from the elements so isolated as to create simulacra of my own expression in other forms. This process continued, repeating itself with delirious intensity through endless zons. I suffered the intolerable pang of losing my individuality altogether by confusing it, so to speak, with some of the expressions that I had formulated. The distress became so acute that I felt the necessity of getting Lou…
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
…s as- similation by the demon. The coma of the dying man was a phenomenon altogether out of Time. The condi- tions of digestion were new to Arthur, he had no rea- son to suppose, no data from which to calculate the dis- tance of, an end. It is impossible to do more than sketch this process; as he was absorbed, so did his consciousness expand into that of the demon; he became one with all its hunger and corruption. Yet always did he suffer as him- self in his own person the tearing asunder of his finest
1954 · PDF PAGE 139
…r quite a long while, you cannot tell how amazingly your mnemonic power increases by virtue thereof . But be careful always to range the new ideas as they come along in their right order of importance. It is not unlike the system of keys used in big establishments, such as hotels. First, a set of keys, each of which opens one door, and one door only. Then, a set which opens all the doors on one floor only . And so on, until the one responsible who has one unique key which opens every lock in the building. There is another point about this whole…
1996 · PDF PAGE 123
124 The Law is for All bounded by death; and his spy-glass is smeared with the idea of sin. The New /Eon proclaims Man as Immortal God, eternally active to do His Will. All’s Joy, all’s Beauty; this Will we celebrate. In this verse we see how the awakening leads to ordered and purposeful action. Joy and Beauty are the evidence that our func tions are free and fit; when we take no pleasure, and find nothing to admire, in our work, we are doing it wrong. 36. There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. 37. A feast for the first nig…
1922 · PDF PAGE 279
…nly thing that saves them from being found out as the ignorant meddlers they are. Do you know that the post-mortems on people who die in New York hospitals show that about fifty per cent, of the cases have been wrongly diagnosed? No, Sir Peter, while you and I are wasting our time discussing. our troubles, there’s one thing working for us, never stops day or night, and that is Vts medicatrix nature.” Lala nodded emphatically. ‘“Didn’t you notice that even in the Red-Cross ?” she said to Lou. ‘“‘ The cases that got well were those that were left…
1922 · PDF PAGE 365
… is the classical expression, and it is customary to give a slight shudder; but perhaps a genius like yourself is justified in inventing new terms of abuse.” I was disconcerted abominably by the attitude of the audience, whose faces were fixed in broad grins, with the exception of Dionysus, who came straight up to me and said :— ‘“‘Sonna mabitch,” and hit me in the eye. “If you shoot my Bid Lion,” he added, “ I’ll shoot you.” The entire company broke into screams of uncontrol- lable laughter. Lamus rose with assumed indignation, and observed fe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
… my God! Damn it! he screamed, how did you get the keys of my little safe? The girl had frozen colder than the stone, but there was a new light in her eye, and if the curl of a lip could tread a worm into the dust, that lip was hers and that worm the author of her being. She had withdrawn as one who comes suddenly upon a toad, and the first flaming of her face had died instantly to deadlier ice. Bugg saw his mistake, his masses of mistakes. There being but one more to make, he made it; and, finding himself in the frying-pan of discovery, lea…
1954 · PDF PAGE 237
…ng, is to go out and grab what we want. We do this so thoroughly that we grow thereby, extending our conception of "I" by including each new accretion instead of remaining a closely delineated self, proud of possessing other things, as do the Black Brothers. We are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting oneself is anything from neurosis to downright lunacy; in particular, melancholia. You ask whether these remarks do not conflict with my repeated definition of Initiation as the Way In. Not at all; the Inmost is identical with the …
1954 · PDF PAGE 454
…ars and eyes. Vivekananda-certainly the best of the modern Indian writers on Yoga-complained bitterly that the old greymalkin witches of New York who called themselves his disciples had to be dodged with infinite precaution whenever he wanted to
1922 · PDF PAGE 351
…a right to spiritual ambition. He has evolved to what he is, through making dangerous experiments. Heroin certainly helps me to obtain a new spiritual outlook on the world. I have no right to assume that the ruin of bodily health is injurious ; and ‘‘ whosoever will save his life shall lose it, but whoever loseth his life for My sake shall find it.” 23. So-and-so has taken it for years, and is all right. 24. So-and-so has taken it for years, and is still taking it, and he is the most remarkable man of his century. 25. I’m feeling so very, very …
1922 · PDF PAGE 356
… consciousness so that my waking sleep merged into true sleep. The strangest part of the whole experience was that I woke up an entirely new man. I found myself en- grossed in abstruse calculations, loosely knit together, it is true, but very intense, with regard to an idea which - had not entered my mind for months. I was working out in my mind a plan for constructing a helicopter, the invention of which had occupied me deeply when I was out of a job. It had been driven completely out of my mind by my becoming heir to Uncle Mortimer’s estate. …
1954 · PDF PAGE 74
… it; all the complexities you can contrive are "Tom Fool" knots, and unravel at the proper touch. Always either Naught or Two! But every new re-arrangement throws further light on the possible tangles, that is, on the Nature of the String itself. It is always "Nothing" when you pull it out ; but becomes "Everything" as you play about with it,· since there is no limit to the combinations that you can form from it, save only in your imagination (where the whole thing belongs!) and that grows mightily with Experience. It is accordingly well worth …
1954 · PDF PAGE 521
…rcent red-blooded , clean-living, heir of the Eternities , takes his young fiancee and female counterpart to the "Old Absinthe House" in New Orleans to show her the terrible results of Wrong-Doing. They are going to avoid all that ; their child is going to be the Quintessence of Americanism. They marry and take a cottage by Lake Pasquaney . Presently , he being (so she said) away on a business trip, the tradesmen complained that she seemed to need very little pabulum. Somehow, people got suspicious , and sure enough, when they broke in, they fo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 564
…ver ten pounds. They had written several times to urge me to remove the stock, alleging lack of space in their warehouse. I called and renewed my friendly acquaintance with Jacobi who agreed to hold the books till the end of May, to give me time to arrange for their removal. He furnished me with a complete set of the books as samples. {890} I had approached Heinemann's with a scheme to dispose of the stock. They were to publish every month for a year a small volume of selections, lyrics, religious verses, essays, stories, plays, etc., with the …
1907 · PDF PAGE 320
THE NEW WINE 313 Act ! Nor for faith nor folly turn ! The hour is nigh when man and wife , Knowing , shall worship face to face , Beget and bear the royal race. ' This is the divine union of the active with the passive 17177 formulating Tetragrammaton , and of the w descending upon the 1717 ' formulating Christ . It is the old story of Dévaki or of Mary , in which the aspirant falling into an ecstatic state , is visited by the divine essence ; in the one case under the form of Mahadeva , in the other under that of the Holy Spirit ; and losing c…
1919 · PDF PAGE 148
THE EQUINOX This is certainly better. The three times during singing practice occurred while trying over new music with the choir of which I am a member, and it is very hard to leave out a word when singing. I find this practice makes one speak much less. The word chosen being a conjunction often results in the second part of a sentence remaining unspoken. I never before noticed how unneces- sary some of our speech is; in fact I have now no doubt that a great many things are better left unsaid. Monday, Jan. oth. Bedtime. Said word to-day for th…
1922 · PDF PAGE 371
Love under Will 357 exaltation of cocaine, could match that moment. The words were old; but their meaning was marvellously new. There had never been any “1” before, when I thought “I” was I, there had never been any “ you ” before when I thought of Lou as an independent being, and had not realised that she was the necessary com- plement of the human instrument which was doing “my” work. Nor had there been any love before, while love meant nothing but the manifold stupid things that people ordinarily mean by it. Love, as I meant it now, was an a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 28
…es calculated to assure the survival of the Wisdom worth saving until the time, perhaps three hundred or six hundred years later, when a new current should revive the shattered thought of mankind. The Equinox, in a word, was to be a sort of Rosetta Stone. It appears that he recognized that he should have published only the basic yoga and magical instructions known as the Official Instructions of the Order in order to preserve "the Sacred Tradition." Now that the original sets of The Equinox are out of circulation-there were only one thousand se…