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Page 63 of 831954 · PDF PAGE 405
…he failure occurs, or at what point it occurs; the only thing that is any use is for the pupil to go on and on and on eternally. He must find out for himself where the snag is, and he must continue his experiment until he acquires the knack. All this should be perfectly obvious; the same sort of thing applies to every kind of game which you know. There is a particular knack for instance in putting. It is not that your calculations are wrong, it is not that your stance is wrong, it is not that your grip is wrong, it is that for some reason or ot…
1996 · PDF PAGE 139
…ins, as we say to our selves at first; but in a little while are aware that even that Goal is less intoxicating than the Way itself. We find that it matters little whither we go; the Going itself is our gladness. I quote in this connection “Liber LXV,” 11:17-25, one of several similar passages in Our Holy Books. 17. Also the Holy One came upon me, and I beheld a white swan floating in the blue.
1922 · PDF PAGE 99
The Gitter on the Snow 85 mean the wild fancies that you find in a crank, but a good, wholesome, sound imagination.” In the ordinary way, I should have been embarrassed by so direct a compliment from a man who was so evidently in the know, a man who was holding his own with the brightest minds all over the world. But in my present mood I took it as perfectly natural. Lou laughed in my ear. ‘ That’s right, Cockie, dear,” she chirruped. ‘“ This is where you go right in and win. I’ve really got to have those pearls, you know.” _ “She’s quite right…
1909 · PDF PAGE 398
…wald Kilpe’s work is of an essentially Teutonic character, having nearly all the characteristics, both good and bad, that one expects to find ina German technical scientific work; eminently typical is “Outlines of Psychology” in its thoroughness. The experimental method, in which Kilpe is an adept, shows conclusively and absolutely the essential unity of body and mind. Psychology is still in its infancy; when it attains maturity it will be the most dread enemy that Supernaturalism has to face. The subjective view of life is undoubtedly destined…
1909 · PDF PAGE 398
…wald Kilpe’s work is of an essentially Teutonic character, having nearly all the characteristics, both good and bad, that one expects to find ina German technical scientific work; eminently typical is “Outlines of Psychology” in its thoroughness. The experimental method, in which Kilpe is an adept, shows conclusively and absolutely the essential unity of body and mind. Psychology is still in its infancy; when it attains maturity it will be the most dread enemy that Supernaturalism has to face. The subjective view of life is undoubtedly destined…
1904 · PDF PAGE 127
…ion in the spirit’s shadow-veil, Till the Knowledge-Lotus flowering hides the world beneath its stem; Neither I, nor God life-showering, find a counterpart in them. As a spirit in a vision shows a countenance of fear, Laughs the looker to derision, only comes to disappear, Gods and mortals, mind and matter, in the glowing bud dissever: Vein from vein they rend and shatter, and are nothingness for ever. In the blessed, the enlightened, perfect eyes these visions pass, Pass and cease, poor shadows frightened, leave no stain upon the glass. One la…
1907 · PDF PAGE 321
…t flowers , nor the voluptuous joys of carnal embraces. No , it is none of these that I love when I love my God ; and yet in this love I find a light , an inner voice , a perfume, a savour , an em brace of a kind which does not leave the inmost of myself . There in the depths of the soul glows something which is not in space, there a word is heard which has no syllables : thence there breathes a perfume which no breezes waft away : there food is always savoured and never eaten : there are embraces which never ask to end . . . Some times , O God…
1919 · PDF PAGE 144
…othing till January of the fol- lowing year. He however sent a post-card to say that he had obtained some result. About this same time I find an entry called “The Philos- ophy of V.I.0.” which seems of interest on account of some similarities to the Law of Thelema, of which he had heard nothing at that time. It reads as follows: Man is bound by but One Law. If he breaks a part of it, he hurts no one but himself. While he lives in unity with It, he is God. While he does not live in unity with It he is Man. While he lives in unity with it he beco…
1910 · PDF PAGE 150
…his separateness vanishes with it, things assume their correct proportion and may be equated to a state of bliss or Non- Sorrow. Thus we find that Nirvana and Nibbana are the same + in * Compare “ Mandtikya Upanishad,” 1, 16. In the infinite illusion of the universe The soul sleeps; when it awakes Then there wakes in it the Eternal, Free from time and sleep and dreams. t+ Most Buddhists will raise a terrific howl when they read this; but, in spite of their statement that the Hindu Nirvana, the absorption into Brahman, corresponds not with their…
1910 · PDF PAGE 171
… secluded spot for a magical retirement, which he now had made up his mind to perform. 19th. Concentrated on point of base of brain. [To find this imagine cross-wires drawn between (a) ear to ear, as if a line had been stretched between * Mental or bodily attributes. t See 777, col. lv, p. 17. { “Hatha Yoga Pradipika,” pp. 97-100. Also, Amritabindu Upanishad, 24. § Nadi-Yama or Control of the nerve-channels by regular breathing, without Khumbaka or holding the breath. || He whose Nadi are pure has (1) a clear complexion; (2) a sweet voice; (3) …
1910 · PDF PAGE 150
…his separateness vanishes with it, things assume their correct proportion and may be equated to a state of bliss or Non- Sorrow. Thus we find that Nirvana and Nibbana are the same + in * Compare “ Mandtikya Upanishad,” 1, 16. In the infinite illusion of the universe The soul sleeps; when it awakes Then there wakes in it the Eternal, Free from time and sleep and dreams. t+ Most Buddhists will raise a terrific howl when they read this; but, in spite of their statement that the Hindu Nirvana, the absorption into Brahman, corresponds not with their…
1910 · PDF PAGE 171
… secluded spot for a magical retirement, which he now had made up his mind to perform. 19th. Concentrated on point of base of brain. [To find this imagine cross-wires drawn between (a) ear to ear, as if a line had been stretched between * Mental or bodily attributes. t See 777, col. lv, p. 17. { “Hatha Yoga Pradipika,” pp. 97-100. Also, Amritabindu Upanishad, 24. § Nadi-Yama or Control of the nerve-channels by regular breathing, without Khumbaka or holding the breath. || He whose Nadi are pure has (1) a clear complexion; (2) a sweet voice; (3) …
1996 · PDF PAGE 126
…Consonance as of Bass with Treble; for here is the Impulse that setteth us to Magick, the Pain of the Conscious Mind. Having then Wit to find the Cause of this Pain in the Sense of Separation, and its Cessation by the Union of Love, it is the Summit of our Holy Art to present the whole Being of our Star to Our Lady in the Nuptial of our Bodily Death. We are then to make our whole Engine the true and real Appurte nance of our Force, without Leak, or Friction, or any other Waste or Hindrance to its Action. Thou knowest well how an Horse, or even…
1906 · PDF PAGE 94
…thou shalt die. JASON. Athena speaks. WOMEN. Ah, there’s a fine retort ! PELIAS. - Goddesses speak and men list reverently. Could he not find a fitter messenger? JASON. Her cause is Jason’s. Jason therefore speaks. PELIAS. Aha! A suppliant to our clemency ! I did mistake the gesture and the sword Angrily gripped, the foot flung terribly Foremost, the fierce, constrainéd attitude. But—as a suppliant ! Tell thy woeful tale, Sad youth ! Some woman thou hast loved and lost ? JASON. Thou hast robbed me of this kingdom. Thou hast kept My father (poor…
1906 · PDF PAGE 97
…l the quest be won. Rule thou with justice in my sacred seat Until I come again. PELIAS. The Gods thy speed. MEN. The hardy hero goes to find The living Fleece of Gold ; Or else, some death may chance to bind Those limbs of manly mould. In sooth, I doubt if I shall earn The singer’s fee for his return. PELIAS. Think now—I feared that fool. It must be true That guilt is timorous, Ay! when danger’s none! Let but swords flash—and guilt grows God for might ! Indeed I rule—until he come again. Ay, when the stars fall, Jason shall be king! EXPLICIT A…
1996 · PDF PAGE 14
… regard it as a letter written directly to himself. Even though he may not be able to understand some parts of the letter, he is sure to find other parts that are unmistakably addressed, in an intimately personal sense, to him. It is because the thought expressed in this Book of the Law was sometimes not easily intelligible to the transmitter that he wrote a Commentary upon it.1 2 He wished to explain, so far as he could, the messages that he had received. After some lapse of time he wrote a second Commentary,3 which superseded the first; so I …
1929 · PDF PAGE 81
… and Raphaël retained their respective points of view in ail stages of their art. The practical considération is that some aspirants may find it unusually difficult to attain certain grades; or, worse, allow their inhérent prédispositions to influence them to neglect anti- pathetic, and indulge sympathetic, types of work. They may thus become more unbalanced than ever, with disastrous results. Success in one’s favourite pursuit is a temptress; whose yields to her wiles limits his own growth. True, every Will is partial; but, even so, it can onl…
1919 · PDF PAGE 149
…n at 10.5, as I could not stand it any longer. I wanted to sing very much, and in fact did join in one song and made slip noted above. I find it very difficult to leave out a word throughout a song, even if singing with others. Thursday, Jan. 12, 7.35 P.M. Have felt much better to-day and had much more control so far. At 8.58 A.M. I recorded one failure, but this time not spoken audibly; the meaning however was in mind, so I count it. I was repeating the time after being told it by a friend, viz., one and a half minutes to nine. Again at 6.35 P…
1929 · PDF PAGE 5
…cavernously from a lantern-jawed American with blue cheeks. He was incongruously clad in a Greek dress, with sandals. It is difficult to find a philosophical reason for disliking the combination of this costume with a pronounced Chicago accent. But one does. He was Lavinia's brother; he wore the costume as an advertisement; it was part of the family game. As he himself would explain in confidence, it made people think he was a fool, which enabled him to pick their pockets while they were preoccupied with this amiable delusion. "Who said peaches…
1996 · PDF PAGE 179
…ven at that the fetters always leave an incurable ulcer; it is no good playing the game of respectability after one is divorced. Thus we find that almost the only love-affairs which breed no annoyance, and leave no scar, are those between people who have accepted the Law of Thelema, and broken for good with the tabus of the slave-gods. The true artist, loving his art and nothing else, can enjoy a series of spontaneous liaisons, all his life long, yet never suffer himself, or cause any other to suffer. Of such liaisons Beauty is ever the child; …