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Page 58 of 921919 · PDF PAGE 122
…s: for so flowered are the meadows of this Eden, and so sweet the fruit of its orchards, that you will love to linger among them, and to take delight in sloth and dalliance therein. Therefore I write to you with energy that you should not do thus to the hindrance of your true prog- ress, because all these enjoyments are dependent upon dual- ity, so that their true name is Sorrow of Illusion, like that of the normal life of man, which you have set out to transcend. Be it according to your Will, but learn this, that (as it is written) they only a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 169
…ian parts of the world. Each type of race or culture has its own especial virtues. A. Study: The student should study, bear in mind, and take to heart, such classics as the Ananga-Ranga, the Bagh-i-Muattar of Abdullah el Haji, the Kama Shastra, the Kama Sutra, the Scented Garden of the Sheikh Nefzawi, and certain scientific or pseudo-scientific treatises (usually upon the deformities of nature, or the abuses of ignorance) by 2. See Chapter 12 of this book.
1929 · PDF PAGE 514
…rs were of greater magnitude and brilliancy than the rest. While at Montauk, I had put my sleeping bag to dry in the sun. When I went to take it in, I remarked, laughingly, "Your bedtime, Master Bag," as if it were a small boy and I its nurse. This was entirely frivolous; but the thought flashed into my mind that after all the bag was in one sense a part of myself. The two ideas came together with a snap, and I understood the machinery of a man's delusion that he is a teapot. From this I came to another discovery: I perceived why platitudes wer…
1909 · PDF PAGE 346
…ers and sisters, and then rushed down tothe sea. And the fisherman, when he returned home that evening, was just in time to see his wife take the form of a seal and dive into the water. He never saw her again, but sometimes she would call o’ nights, 338
1909 · PDF PAGE 346
…ers and sisters, and then rushed down tothe sea. And the fisherman, when he returned home that evening, was just in time to see his wife take the form of a seal and dive into the water. He never saw her again, but sometimes she would call o’ nights, 338
1915 · PDF PAGE 5
… of Bonaparte? But in a hundred crises he kept his head; he kept the peace. He had plenty of chances to smash France forever; he did not take them. An ambitious prince might have put a relative on the throne of Louis XIV while France was torn by the Boulanger affair, the Pa- nama scandal, the Dreyfus horror, when Diogenes might have gone through France with a modern search-light for his lantern without finding a single man who was not a traitor to his country, or at least to the Republic, and the most trustworthy man of affairs was he who could…
1919 · PDF PAGE 117
… of every one of you: for he shall teach you rightly if you but serve him with diligence and devotion even to abandonment. Nor shall you take umbrage or surprise at the strange pranks that he shall play: for He is a wayward boy and wanton, wise in the Wiles of Aphrodite Our Lady His sweet Mother: and all His jests and cruelties are spices in a con- fection cunning as no art may match. Rejoice therefore in all His play, not remitting in any wise your own ardour, but glowing with the sting of His whips, and making of Laughter itself a sacrament a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 19
…s, when it was safely locked up again, he would undress with a certain unction. Once even he at- temptedwith the aid of a bath towelto take the pose before the mirror. And he saw nothing ridiculous in that, just as he saw nothing beautiful in the photograph. Na- kedness is lust: so ran his simple gospel of aesthetics. Shame quickened him, too, to measures of expiation or precaution. He read family prayers twice a day in- stead of once, and he took the chair at the Annual Meet- ing of a Society for Sending Out Trousers to Converted Hindoos. As…
1954 · PDF PAGE 102
THREE SCHOOLS OF MAGICK (1) 69 no need to take our ideas at second-hand. The Yellow School of Magick possesses one perfect classic, The Tao Teh King. 4 It is impossible to find any religion which adequately represents the thought of this masterpiece. Not only is religion as such repugnant to science and philosophy, but from the very nature of the tenets of the Yellow School, its adherents are not going to put themselves to any inconvenience for the enlightenment of a lot of people whom they consider to be hopeless fools. At the same time, the t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 151
…efectives. The type of tailless simian who finds himself a mere forked radish in a universe of giants clamouring for hors d'oeuvres must take refuge from Reality in Freudian phantasies of “God.” He winces at the touch of Truth; and shivers at his nakedness in Nature. He therefore invents a cult of fear and shame, and makes it presumption and blasphemy to possess courage and self-respect. He burrows in the slime of “Reverence and godly fear,” and makes himself houses of his own excrement, like the earthworm
1922 · PDF PAGE 138
…s’”’ and “wops,’’ as they do in the United States, with the invariable epithet of “ dirty ’’; but we have the same feeling. _ I began to take the high hand with the sergeant; and that, of course, was quite sufficient to turn the balance against us. We found ourselves pinioned. He said in a very short tone that we should have to go to the Commissario. I had two conflicting impulses. One to shoot the dogs down and get away; the other to wish, like a
1922 · PDF PAGE 291
…ou know, and in some of those places there are still taboos about eating and hunting and fishing—all sorts of things which we in England take quite simply, in consequence of which they give no trouble. “ But where a man has to think of a thousand things before he has his dinner: what he eats, and how it was killed, and who cooked it, and so on for ever and ever, he gets no chance to develop his mind in more important ways. Taboo is responsible for the low mental and moral development of the peoples whom it afflicts, more than anything else. An …
1922 · PDF PAGE 341
…that made her so lovely this morning. But even as I stood and looked, the horrible restlessness of the heroin craving nearly drove me to take the stuff without my body telling me what it was doing. But I detected the movement in time. I thought a brisk walk might help me to pass through the critical moment. Just as I got out of the house, I was met by Sister Athena. “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law,” she said. It was the regular morning greeting at the Abbey. Accustomed as I was to the phrase, it still took me rather aback. “‘ G…
1954 · PDF PAGE 310
…mes a "Black Brother," or departs for the local loony-bin . Invocations of even the most positive Gods are dangerous, unless care can be taken to keep the personality of the God distinct from one's own. Athene is a superb deity ; but one does not want to be nothing but Athene, except in that supreme moment of Samadhi with Her which is the climax of the invocation. So, even in divine invocation, one should insist on definite communication of knowledge (or what not) which is incontestably not one's own. The fact that the self-begotten feelings an…
1907 · PDF PAGE 140
…ding scripture of his life a Buddhist Sutta (ii, 33): “Therefore, 0 Ananda, be ye lamps unto yourselves. Be ye a refuge to yourselves. Betake yourself to no external refuge." How is this inward m stery revealed? The answer is in the East by Yoga, and in the West by Magic; in the East by an entirely artificial and scientific method, in the West by a stimulation and sudden outflowing of the poetic faculty. The East, we may take it, is almost entirely static, whilst the West is wholely dynamic: Life flees Down corridors of centuries Pillar by illar, a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 17
IO THE STAR IN THE WEST contour of her form . But no vestal is Crowley , no mere milk -and -bun -walk , where we may rest and take our fill ; for he has unstrung the mystic lyre of life from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and of Evil , singing old songs and new , Alinging shrill notes of satire to this tumultuous world , as some stormy petrel shrilly crying to the storm ; or sweet notes of love , soft as the whispering wings of a butterfly . Here are the jewels of Heaven , of Havilah , and of Eden , with not a little of the fire of Hell , th…
1922 · PDF PAGE 44
… of a Drug Fiend accord she writhed into my arms; her hands and mouth were heavy on my heart. There’s some more poetry—that’s the way it takes one—rhythm seems to come natural—everything is one grand harmony. It is impossible that anything should be out of tune. The voice of Lou seemed to come from an enormous distance, a deep, low, sombre chant :— “© Thou low moan of fainting maids, that art caught up in the strong sobs of Love! I adore Thee, Evoe! I adore Thee, I A O!” | That was it—her engine and my engine for the first time working together…
1929 · PDF PAGE 4
…ere accomplices of the adul- tery, or if not, they should at any rate not witness their masters shame. I slew the gendarmes who came to take meservile hirelings of a corrupt republic. I set my castle on fire, determined to perish in the ruins. Unfor- tunately, a piece of masonry, falling, struck me on the arm. My rifle dropped. The accident was seen, and I was rescued by the firemen. I determined to live; it was my duty to my ancestors to continue the family of which I was the sole direct scion. It is in search of a wife that I am travelling …
1954 · PDF PAGE 332
… mind, the will, the consciousness. Let him continue this with unremitting ardour, searching Nature, leaving nothing out . Next, let him take one of the immediate causes of his position, and trace out its equilibrium. For example, the will. What determines the will to aid in holding the body erect and motionless? This being discovered, let him choose one of the forces which determined his will, and trace out that in similar fashion, and let this process be continued for many days until the interdependence of all things is a truth assimilated in…
1954 · PDF PAGE 489
…becomes normal in official circles; and is excused. I refer you to Mr. J. H. Thomas.) One evil leads to another; the seven devils always take possession of a house that is swept and garnished to the point at which people find it uncomfortable. But is not all this beside the point, you ask? No. It was needful to indicate this cumulative progression to social shipwreck, because, to-day an obvious peril of the most menacing. In 1904 no ordinary sane person foresaw anything of the sort. But special knowledge alters things, and it is certain that th…