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Page 63 of 831954 · PDF PAGE 508
… and hideous face! Often enough , he does not mind gross jests which admit complicity on the part of the other ; but any allusion to the Truth , and his soul shrieks : I am found out! Then apoplectic Fear puts on the mask of Indignation and Disgust. As for a serious discussion of anything concerned therewith, why, every word is a new rasping tear. The mind takes refuge in irrational and irrelevant outbursts of feigned rage and horror. I wonder how many lunatics there are in the "bughouse"
1954 · PDF PAGE 292
…letter <. 0, is the third Key to this Law; and on the discovery of that fact, after years of constant seeking, what sudden splendours of Truth, sacred as secret, blazed in he midnight of my mind! Observe now; "this circle squared in its failure is a key also.' Now I knew that in the value of the letters of ALHIM, 'the Gods', the Jews had concealed a not quite correct value of n, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, to 4 places of decimals: 3.1415; nearer would be 3.1416. If I prefix our Key, 31 putting ()« 0, Set or Satan, bef…
1929 · PDF PAGE 65
…nd superior condition is created, a condition only rendered possible by the process of death. The Alchemists themselves taught this same truth. The first matter of the work was base and primitive, though “natural”. After passing through various stages the “black dragon” appeared; but from this arose the pure and perfect gold. Even in the legend of Prometheus we find an identical formula concealed; and a similar remark applies to those of Jésus Christ, and of many other mythical god-men worshipped in different countries.3 A magical ceremony cons…
1954 · PDF PAGE 383
…without these two advantages the most brilliant genius is practically paralysed . It can do much to secure health, or to restore it. The truth is that money is only troublesome when one begins to count it. Then there is travel , by which I do not mean globe-trotting; and privacy, less attainable every year as the Meddlesome Matties invade every corner of life. But this is by the way; the text , tenor and thesis of the illuminated and illuminating discourse is the above Epigram, which is not merely one of the extravagant absurdities for which I …
1909 · PDF PAGE 74
…gn unto mortal man.” “Go not forth when the Lictor passeth by.” “Direct not thy mind to the vast surfaces of the Earth; for the Plant of Truth grows not upon the ground. Nor measure the motions of the Sun, collecting rules, for he is carried by the Eternal Will of the Father, and not for your sake alone. Dismiss (from your mind) the impetuous course of the Moon, for she moveth always by the power of necessity. The progression of the Stars was not generated for your sake. The wide aerial flight of birds gives no true knowledge, nor the dissectio…
1909 · PDF PAGE 74
…gn unto mortal man.” “Go not forth when the Lictor passeth by.” “Direct not thy mind to the vast surfaces of the Earth; for the Plant of Truth grows not upon the ground. Nor measure the motions of the Sun, collecting rules, for he is carried by the Eternal Will of the Father, and not for your sake alone. Dismiss (from your mind) the impetuous course of the Moon, for she moveth always by the power of necessity. The progression of the Stars was not generated for your sake. The wide aerial flight of birds gives no true knowledge, nor the dissectio…
1922 · PDF PAGE 78
…boy to be expelled for any of the ordinary reasons. It was certainly something to do with the subtlety of his intellect. To tell you the truth, he had been a sort of hero of mine at school. He possessed all the qualities I most admired—and lacked—in their fullest expansion. I had known him very slightly ; but his disappearance had been a great shock. It had stuck in my mind when many more important things had left no trace. He had hardly changed from when I had last seen him. Of middle height, he had a long and rather narrow face. There was a t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 194
…e of the launching of the "Titanic" swallowed up the nativities of the victims of her wreck. Something of this sort is really an obvious truth. Flood in China, famine in India, pestilence anywhere,evidently depend on maps of a scale far more enormous than the personal. Then-on this point I feel reasonably sure-there may be
1905 · PDF PAGE 1
A_CAREER FOR AN ESSAY ‘THE SOCIETY for the PROPAGATION of RELIGIOUS ‘TRUTH offer a Prize of Ove Huxnnen Pouxps for an Essay upon the Worxs of Axrister Crowzey, under the following conditions — ‘The exay may be ether hostile of appreciative 2 In awarding the prize, the following esseatial points wil be taken into consideration (a) Thoroughness of treatment, (@) Breadth of treatment (© Execlenc of prove styl (6 Originality. (@ Scholarship. 4: As some of Mr Crowley's works are rare or altogether out of prin, it will not be necessary to deat with a…
1922 · PDF PAGE 282
…lying awake all night in a state of suspended animation, with a most fascinating flow of fancies filling your brain.” I had to admit the truth of what he said. “Heroin,” he explained, ‘‘is a modification of morphine, and morphine is the most active of the principles of opium. Now surely you remember what Wilkie Collins says in The Moonstone about opium and its preparations, that they have a stimulating effect followed by a sedative effect. Heroin is much more positive in its action than opium; and the reasonable thing to do, as it seems to me, …
1935 · PDF PAGE 16
… the evidence at their disposal. This paper has been written not only with the object of at- tracting individual seekers into the way of Truth, but of affirming the propriety of the methods of the A-. A.. as the basis for the next great step in the advance of human knowledge. Love is the law, love under will. O.M.7° == gO A.A Praemonstrator of the Order of the R... C... Given from the Collegium ad Spiritum Sanctum, Cefalu, Sicily, in the Seventeenth Year of the Aeon of Horus, the Sun being in 23° Virgo and the Moon in 14° Pisces.
1907 · PDF PAGE 48
…STRAE. Take her away. Less light ! GLENSTRAE. Ha! Ha! Sir PERCY. I cannot see your humour, Glenstrae— forgive me so far! And to tell the truth of it, I can do nothing and care to do less. Come, Molly! MOLLY. Must I, must I? Oh, sir, have pity ! G1! ENSTRAE. A bargain’s a bargain—bul there! there ! — what are you growling at? A thousand a
1996 · PDF PAGE 127
…an food is; but until people have got satisfaction of these natural hungers, it is useless to expect them to think of other things. This truth is vital to the statesman, now that women have some direct political power; they will certainly overthrow the Republic unless they obtain full sexual satisfaction. Also, women outnumber men; and one man cannot satisfy a woman unless he be skilful and diligent. The New /Eon will have a foundation of Happy Women. A Woman under tabu is loath some to Life, detested by her fellows, and wretched in herself. […
1929 · PDF PAGE 483
…ecimals --- observing that Kemp's statements involved numerous physical impossibilities took him to a notary and made him swear to their truth. I have told elsewhere how it came to be written. Hearing of my arrival Kemp hurried to implore me not to give him away. I contemptuously agreed to save his face. Of course, I could not admit the truth of such asinine balderdash, so said that by magical power I had caused him to see what was not, as indeed in a certain sense I had done. Cosegrave sent a sob sister to interview me on my arrival. She peste…
1922 · PDF PAGE 174
…te. He felt his manhood shamed that he was in the power of this blind black craving. He didn’t really believe that Lamus was telling the truth. He thought the man had risked his life to get those coolies across. It seemed impossible that a man could possess such absolute power and confidence. In other words, he judged King Lamus by himself. He knew himself not to be a first-rate airman. He had flattered himself that he had dared so many dangers. It cut him like a whip that Lamus should despise what people call the heroic attitude; that he looke…
1922 · PDF PAGE 203
…ame safe to land.” One’s familiarity with the New Testament makes a quotation somehow significant, however little one may believe in the truth of the book. I felt that his voice was the voice of a prophet. I felt myself already saved. “You take some of this,”’ he went on, bringing a white tablet from a little cedar cabinet, and a big glass of cold water. ‘“‘ Throw your head back, and get it well down, and drink all this right off. Here is another to take home to your husband, and don’t forget the water. It will calm you down; your nerves have a…
1930 · PDF PAGE 11
…mination. 1. There is the general metaphysical antithesis that Magick is the Art of the Will-to-Live, Mysticism of the Will-to-Die; but—“Truth cornes bubbling to my brim; Life and Death are one to Him!”. 2. The earliest and truest Christians used what is in ail essentials this method. See “Fragments of a Faith Forgotten” by G. R. S. Mead, Esa. B. A., pp. 80-81. There is a real connexion between what the vulgar call blasphemy and 131 —
1954 · PDF PAGE 25
…t decade of this century, he coined a Latin motto which, translated, meant "In my lifetime I have conquered the Universe by the force of Truth." Even then, he was not through with his self-discipline. During World War II, when he was in the United States, he pursued, stubbornly and steadfastly,
1938 · PDF PAGE 21
…erhood had been nigh utterly destroyed by a Great Sorcery of the Black Lodge, and the darkening of all Counsel, and the confusion of all Truth. I saw only one glimmer bare legible: PLOTINUS. And at the end of the darkness, amid many names which I could not read, JACOBUS BURGUNDUS MOLENSIS. for his name was in letters of fire. Did not the Order of the Temple prepare the Renaissance by fusing the Mysteries of the East and West? Then there burst out on a sudden a whiteness on the chart, as if the stain had been expunged (albeit not wholly by the s…
1954 · PDF PAGE 350
…scientific training; (c) my familiarity with Eastern ways, habits of thought , and sympathetic predisposition; (d) my stern adherence to Truth; (e) my moral courage ; (f) my dour persistence; and (g) my Karma as aforesaid. They prepared me by (a) pushing me rapidly forward both in Magick and in Yoga; (b) wearying me of both of them and making me despair of them both as a solution to the problem of Life, and (c) fixing me both in Buddhistic pessimism and scientific rationalism, so that their victory over me might be as difficult and solid an ach…