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Page 62 of 841929 · PDF PAGE 517
…r perhaps rather to make impossible the point of view necessary to that kind of creative impulse. Love itself was to appear in a totally new form. I had never before understood its roots in the moral weakness and physical incompetence of our breed of monkeys. I had been familiar enough with its romantic and spiritual implication, with the social and economic complications which degrade its ideal, and even with the brutalities and blasphemies which lust and greed impose upon it. I had never understood it as the expression of the bitter need of d…
1930 · PDF PAGE 54
…at by the whole cultured world. In the sacred halls themselves the roofs rang loud with the scornful laughter of the high pnests as each new postulant approached with his unorthodox offeiing. 174 —
1996 · PDF PAGE 175
…ot gather in secret once again, if in your hoard of juggler’s tricks there be not one untried, or in your cunning and counsel one device new-false to save your pirate ship from sinking? It has always been so easy up to now! What is the blasting Magick in that Word, first thesis of The Book of the Law, that “every woman is a star.” Alas! it is I the Beast that roared that Word so loud, and wakened Beauty. Your tricks, your drowsy drugs, your lies, your hypnotic passes—they will not serve you. Make up your minds to be free men, fearless as I, fit…
1910 · PDF PAGE 353
…. Duff, D.D., does not understand the Qabalah. We can assure him it is not a “fancied philosophy wherein everything was in reality brand new,” as Zunz 335
1910 · PDF PAGE 353
…. Duff, D.D., does not understand the Qabalah. We can assure him it is not a “fancied philosophy wherein everything was in reality brand new,” as Zunz 335
1905 · PDF PAGE 128
A VALENTINE, ’98 121 Silent and slim and delicate The flower shall spring, Till there be born immaculate A fair new thing. Tall as the mother-lily, still By faint winds swayed ; Tender and pure, without a will— An English maid. No tree of poison, at whose feet All men lie dead ; No well of death, whose waters sweet Are tinged with red. No hideous impassioned queen For whom love dies; No warm imperious Messaline That slew with sighs. Fiercer desires may cast away All things most good ; A people may forget to-day Their motherhood. She will remain…
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…evelj man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself. (e) His power to interpret the Spirit of the New Aeon, the relapse into ruthless savagery of the most civilised races, at a time when war was discredited by most responsible men. ( (f) His power to comprehend and control these various orders of ideas and events, demonstrating thereby a mind and a means of action intelligible to, yet immensely above, ail human capacity; to bind the whole into a compact cryptograph displaying mastery of English, of mathema…
1930 · PDF PAGE 41
…yance, but this is rather like buying a safe to keep a brick in. Expérience is the only teacher. One acquires what one may almost calî a new sense. One feels in one’s self whether one is right or not. The diviner must develop this sense. It resembles the exquisite sensibility of touch which is found in the great billiard player whose fingers can estimate infinitésimal degrees of force, 1. This does not mean that they are malignant. They hâve a proper pride in their office as Oracles of Truth; and they refuse to be profaned by the contamination …
1930 · PDF PAGE 51
…rd, that the meeting has effected a definite change in oneself. One must hâve known and felt something a lien, and not merely tried on a new dress. 255 —
1907 · PDF PAGE 110
…d found her gone, in fury followed Lashing the pale path with his purple feet, Heedless of stones and serpents. Hail! he holloaed To the new Rahan! whom he bowed to greet Kissing the earth: O holy master, say If a fair female hath passed by this way ! Vv. The Bhikkhu blessed the irritated man. Then the slow sloka? serpentine began: ‘‘ Friend ! neither man nor woman owns This being’s high perception, owed Only to Truth ; nor beams nor stones Support the Arahat’s abode. Who grasps one truth, beholds one light, Becomes that truth, that light ; dis…
1910 · PDF PAGE 179
… was still saying “Shiva” for this purpose; on the second I was meditating on Devi [a name of Bhavani]. One Grand Pranayama. 30. 15. 60. New Pranayama of 25. 15. 50; twice. Pranayama, Seven minutes 10. 20. 30. Mental Muttering. “Aum Shivayavashi” Fifteen minutes, at rate when Ajna throbs. (N.B. Of late my many years’ habit of sleeping only on the right side has vanished. I now sleep always on my left side.) Pranayama. 10. 20. 30. Pranayama. Four minutes: 10. 20. 30. Mantra: “ Aum Shivayavashi” Twenty minutes. I feel on the brink of something ev…
1910 · PDF PAGE 179
… was still saying “Shiva” for this purpose; on the second I was meditating on Devi [a name of Bhavani]. One Grand Pranayama. 30. 15. 60. New Pranayama of 25. 15. 50; twice. Pranayama, Seven minutes 10. 20. 30. Mental Muttering. “Aum Shivayavashi” Fifteen minutes, at rate when Ajna throbs. (N.B. Of late my many years’ habit of sleeping only on the right side has vanished. I now sleep always on my left side.) Pranayama. 10. 20. 30. Pranayama. Four minutes: 10. 20. 30. Mantra: “ Aum Shivayavashi” Twenty minutes. I feel on the brink of something ev…
1930 · PDF PAGE 121
…to Germany ? And so during the whole méditation. 31. On another day, let him begin with a question of another kind, and every day devise new questions, not concerning his présent situation, but also abstract questions. Thus let him connect the prevalence of water upon the surface of the globe with its necessity to such life as we know, with the spécifie gravity and other physical properties of water, and let him perceive ultimately through ail this the necessity and concord of things, not concord as the school- men of old believed, making ail t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 182
… somewhere! ... I met Mabel Black coming out of the Burlington Arcade. She looked fine, all over smiles, a very short, white skirt and a new pair of patent leather boots almost up to her knees. She must find them frightfully -hot. She rushed me into a tea place, awfully smart with rose-shaded lights reflected up to a blue ceiling; the combination made a most marvellous purple. We got an alcove shut off by canary-coloured curtains ~ and a set of the loveliest cushions I ever saw. Two big basket chairs and a low table. They have the most delightf…
1905 · PDF PAGE 92
…hrough the crystal air of eve with a pean deep and vast. Jephthah ! SEMICHORUS OF MAIDENS II. Forth, maidens, with your hands White with new lilies ! Forth, maidens, in bright bands, Virgins whose one sweet will is To sing the victory of our God in all sky- girdled lands ! Jahveh! SEMICHORUS JI, With dancing feet, and noise Of timbrels smitten, With Tears and tender joys, With songs unwritten, With music many-mouthed, with robes in snowy cquipoise. Jephthah ! Semicnorus II. With hearts infused of fire, Eyes clear with many waters, With lips to …
1996 · PDF PAGE 17
…f real freedom, by such means, that will be compassed by the adoption of the religion of The Book of the Law. Further, this Book gives a new illumination of death, of the meaning of death. With death all religions have of course been much concerned; but the extent to which the various Christian sects have succeeded in dispelling the fear of death can be judged by the prevailing attitude towards death of the great majority of professing Christian persons. When they are not refusing to think about it, they are terrified of it. They speak of one w…
1907 · PDF PAGE 146
… ;— What song may be sung, or what tune may be told, or what word may be said ? All tropical scent, Blossom-kindled perfume Love-colours new-lent By the infinite womb, Gold subtlety blent With the scarlet bloom ;— Shall ye in my melody live? Shall my song be not rather your tomb? Most musical moves The head of the corn ; Strong glorious loves Of its being are born. Dim shadows of groves Of Demeter adorn The waves and the woods of the earth, the heart of the mother forlorn. Caves curved of the wind, Deep hollows of earth, Whence the song of the …
1930 · PDF PAGE 28
…or a course of action, or even to keep a solemn oath, mark indelibly those who hâve thus lost parts of their soûls. They wander from one new cuit to another even crazier. Occasionally such persons drift for a moment into the surroundmgs of The Master Therion, and are shot out by the simple process of making them try to do a half-hour5s honest work of any kind. In projecting the Astral, it is a valtiable additional safe- gnard to perform the whole operation m a properïy con- secrated circle. Proceed with great caution, then, but proceed. In time…
1954 · PDF PAGE 354
…and an Emmanuel man named Kenneth Ward, to come and stay with me. I had met Ward at Wastdale Head shortly before, having gone there to renew my ancient loves with the creeds of the gullies. It happened that Ward \\as very keen on skiing. I had several pairs and offered to give him some. This casual circumstance proved an essential part of the chain by which I was ultimately dragged behind the chariot of the Secret Chiefs. At least I thought it was a chain. I did not realize that steel of such exquisite temper might be beaten into a sword fit fo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 375
375 Sir Palamedes was the most ambitious attempt to describe the Path of the Wise as I knew it. It is in its way almost complete, but there is no attempt to show the necessary sequence of the ordeals described in each section. The last section, in which Sir Palamedes, after achieving every possible task and finding that all his attainments did not bring him to the end of his Quest, abandons the following of the Questing Beast; he returns, discomfited, to the Round Table, only to find that, having surrendered, the Questing Beast comes to him of …