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Page 62 of 781929 · PDF PAGE 85
to the arsenal. The Lodge was always seething with hate; Theosophists themselves might have taken lessons from this exponent; and the result of Cyril's intervention had been to disintegrate the entire structure. Douglas found his prestige gone, and his income with it. Addiction to drink, which had accompanied his magical fall, now became an all-absorbing vice. He was never able to rebuild his Lodge on its former lines; but those who thirsted for knowledge and power and these he still possessed in ever increasing abundance as he himself decayed …
1904 · PDF PAGE 38
…he houses of Kings, and to carry it again in 1,200 years. If commanded he will fetch Horses at the request of the Exorcist, or any other thing. But he must first be commanded into a Triangle, A, or else he will deceive him, and tell him many Lies. He can discover all things that are Hidden, and not kept by Wicked Spirits. He giveth good Familiars, sometimes. He governeth 30 Legions of Spirits, and his Seal is this, etc. (45.) Vint.—The Forty-fifth Spirit is Viné, or Vinea. He is a Great King, and an Earl; and appeareth in the Form of a Lion,’ r…
1906 · PDF PAGE 84
…Y WITHOUT A NUMBER. ‘*© never shall the sun that morrow see.” Macbeth. WE lost a day! Nor kisses, nor regret, Nor fear, nor pain, nor anything at all! The day was lost, evanished past recall, That saw no sunrise, never saw sun set— For East and West invisibly were met In gateways neither glad nor musical Nor melancholy nor funereal. Nought is there to remember nor forget. Yet in my westward journey many hours I stole, and now must pay them back again. I plucked not one flower, but an hundred flowers ; I bore an hundred passions in my brain— Kin…
1930 · PDF PAGE 26
… person to use these methods; and, worst of ali, they are purely passive! You can see only what is shewn you, and you are probably shewn things perfectly pointless and irrelevant. The proper metnod is as followsi — Devciop the body oi Liglil until îî is jiisl ns real to y ou as your otlier body. teacli it îo travel to any desired Symbol, and enable it te perform ail neeessary Rites and Invocations. In sbort, edncate it. Ultimately, the relation of that body with your own must be exceedingly intimâtes but before this harmonizing takes place, you…
1996 · PDF PAGE 72
…g a thou sand dangers. It threatens him with death, disease, disaster in all manner of forms. He pays the coward’s price of fear and loathing when pedlar Sex holds out his Rat-Poison in the lead-paper wrap ping he takes for silver; and pays again with vomiting and with colic when he has gulped it in his greed. All this he knows, only too well; he is right, by his own lights, to loathe and fear the act, to hide it from his eyes, to swear he knows it not. With tawdry rags of sentiment, sacksful of greasy clouts, he swathes the corpse of Love, a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 128
…y wrought. The shrine is grand; the god is ravished thence. On clawing hands and hardened knees the King Exists, no more; is it a little thing? King Demos, hear my parable! We pass, We poets, see you grovel at our feet, Despise our love, and tender flesh, and wheat, Clamour for lust, and carrion, and grass. MORT D’ADONIS. ADONIS dies. (Imagination hears The hoarse harsh breathing of the ill-nurtured boar) Venus bends low, half mother and half whore, Whole murderess of boy’s budhood. Fall, black fears ! Ay! through her widowed, her unwedded tear…
1904 · PDF PAGE 29
…is such that the Magician cannot well understand unless he can compel him. This Spirit can teach all Arts and Sciences, and other secret things. He can discover unto thee what the Earth is, and what holdeth it up in the Waters; and what Mind is, and where it is; or any other thing thou mayest desire to know. He giveth Dignity, and confirmeth the same. He bindeth or maketh any man subject unto the Magician if he so desire it. He giveth good Familiars, and such as can teach all Arts. He is to be observed towards the West. He is of the Order of Do…
1904 · PDF PAGE 37
… steal Treasures out King’s Houses, and to carry it whither he is commanded, and to destroy Cities and Dignities of Men, and to tell all things, Past, and what Is, and what Will Be; and to cause Love between Friends and Foes. He was of the Order of Thrones. He governeth 30 Legions of Spirits; and his Seal is this, which wear thou as aforesaid. (41.) Focator.—The Forty-first Spirit is Focalor, or Forcalor, or Fur- calor. He isa Mighty Duke and Strong. He appeareth in the Form of a Man with Gryphon’s Wings. His office is to slay Men, and to drown…
1929 · PDF PAGE 61
…he lamp-shade. "A hasty reference to the dictionary not yet published by the Society for Psychical Research assured me that this sort of thing was a 'prepared phenomenon.' "Now, if you are going to prepare a phenomenon, you may as well prepare it properly; and I attended — you shall soon learn how — alike to decency and to asthetics. "Dinner was served; the Poltergeist supplied the conversation. Never before had he been so light, so genial, so anxious to assure us of our future in Summerland; but ever and anon he touched the minor chord, spoke …
1905 · PDF PAGE 172
…ey are known also as the ‘‘ cut off from God.” 2 Cf. the speech of the Dweller of the Threshold in Lytton’s ‘* Zanoni.” That caused this thing abominable. Come ! I will not hurt you in the killing you! [Me catches MADELINE geully by the hit, bending back her head. CORA sits thunderstruck, unable to mueve or speak.) MADELINE. Help, Cora, help! he means to murder me ! Jesus, my Saviour, save them from this deed! lielp! [ULRIC cuts her throat, ULRIC. So perish the Queen’s enemies ! Well, littie lover, have I done it well? Cora, my sweetheart, we a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 66
…It was wild and horrible beyond all imagination; the dancers were locked so closely that they appeared like a single monster of fable, a thing with two heads and four legs which writhed or leapt in hideous ecstasy. She was so shaken that she did not even ask herself the nature of the vision, whether it was a dream, an hallucination, a picture of the past, or an actual happening. The bacchanal obscenity of it was overwhelming. Again
1996 · PDF PAGE 71
…flesh, when the flesh is begotten, is so gross, clumsy and brutal that it disappoints and disgusts. They are horribly conscious that something is wrong. They do not know how to amend it. They are ashamed to discuss it. They have neither the experience to guide nor the imagination to experiment. Countless thousands of delicate-minded lovers turn against Love and blaspheme Him. Countless millions, not quite so fixed in refinement, accept the fact, acquiesce in the foulness, till Love is degraded to guilty grov elling. They are dragged in the dir…
1930 · PDF PAGE 33
is man. In man are ail things hidden, Of these the Gods, Nature, Time, ail the powers of the universe are rebellions slaves. It is these that men must fight and conquer in the power and in the name of the Beast that hath availed them, the Titan, the Magus, the Man whose number is six hundred and three score and six. III Ihe practice of Rising on the Planes is of such importance that spécial attention must be paid to it. It is part of the essential tech¬ nique of Magick. Instruction in this practice has been given with such conciseness in Liber …
1929 · PDF PAGE 146
…e thrust into the mouth of Gates, while the obscene clamour of the cats mingled with the maniac howls of his colleague. And then the one thing happened which they none of them expected. Abdul Bey flung himself down upon the carcasses, and began to tear them with his teeth, and lap the blood with his tongue. Arthwait shrieked out in terror that the Turk had gone mad: but Vesquit understood the truth. Abdul was the most sensitive of the party, and the least developed; it was in him that the spirit of Gates, demon-inspired, would manifest. A few m…
1996 · PDF PAGE 8
…ley and by Porson, or by half a dozen others, for that matter? Indeed, the scholar would be delighted; but no-one else would be. Another thing that Crowley has never realised is that readers are not, as a general rule, men and women of leisure and that they want things made reasonably quick and easy for them. He never troubles to condense for their benefit, he never does anything to save them time. In fact, he has never troubled to cultivate a single one of the practical, cunning tricks of the literary trade, and he never had any flair whatever…
1909 · PDF PAGE 396
… Both are in a way rationalists. Wolff gives us idea unsupported by fact, and argues about it for year after year; Treacle does the same thing for fact unsupported by idea. Nor does the one escape the final bankruptcy of reason more than the other. While the theologian vainly tries to shuffle the problem of evil, the Rationalist is compelled to ascribe to his perfect monad the tendency to divide into opposite forces. The éi8e plays leapfrog with the é, as the & has vaulted over the bar of the woAAa and the wav. So the whole argument breaks up i…
1909 · PDF PAGE 396
… Both are in a way rationalists. Wolff gives us idea unsupported by fact, and argues about it for year after year; Treacle does the same thing for fact unsupported by idea. Nor does the one escape the final bankruptcy of reason more than the other. While the theologian vainly tries to shuffle the problem of evil, the Rationalist is compelled to ascribe to his perfect monad the tendency to divide into opposite forces. The éi8e plays leapfrog with the é, as the & has vaulted over the bar of the woAAa and the wav. So the whole argument breaks up i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 199
…explore these dreadful realms — of illusion? of imagination? of darker and deadlier reality than life? It mattered little which; the one thing needful was to turn again to humanity, to the simple sensible life that she had always lived. It was not noble, not wonderful; but it was better than this nightmare of phantoms, cruel and malignant and hideous, this phantasmagoria of damnation. She wrenched herself away; for a moment she lost consciousness completely; then she found herself in her bed at the Villa. With feverish energy she sprang from th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 81
…sion emphasized the iden tity between the Universe and the mind. The search for simi les deepened. I had a curious impression that the thing I was looking for was somehow obvious and familiar. Ultimately it burst upon me with fulminating conviction that the simile for which I was seeking was the nervous system. I exclaimed: “The mind is the nervous system,” with all the enthusiasm of Archimedes, and it only dawned on me later, with a curious burst of laughter at my naïveté, that my great discovery amounted to a platitude. From this I came to …
1905 · PDF PAGE 223
…sons. The mist is gathering on the seer’s sight— I cannot see the future of thy state. Or, am I dazzled by resounding light? I know this thing—thy future shall be great ! Come war, come revolution! In their spite Thou mayst compel thy Fate. 1 The Jews. 2 The verdict of Rennes. O German Empire! Let thy sons beware, Not crowding sordid towns for lust of gold, Not all forgetful of the herdsman’s care, Not arming all men in an iron mould. Peaceful be thou: with watching and with prayer. But be not overbold. Fall, Austria! In the very day and hour T…