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Page 64 of 711929 · PDF PAGE 7
…as of alpaca or even, it may be of smooth hard silk. And he remembers the first indication that his mind was of a logical and scientific order. Ladies will now kindly skip a page, while I lay the facts before a select audience of lawyers, doctors and ministers of religion. The Misses Cowper consisted of Sister Susan and Sister Emma; the one large, rosy and dry, like an overgrown radish; the other small, pink and moist, rather like Tenniel's Mock Turtle. Both were Plymouth Sister old maids. They were very repulsive to the boy, who has never sinc…
1929 · PDF PAGE 422
…er. In my spare time I began to make a list of Greek words connected with Magick and similar subjects, arranging them by their numerical order. The idea was to construct a dictionary of the Greek Cabbala1 similar to that of the Hebrew Cabbala on which I had been at work since 1899 and ultimately published in The Equinox, vol. I, No. VIII. But the Greek Cabbala presents difficulties which do not arise in the case of Hebrew. First, we have no sacred text in Greek save a few imperfect and most unsatisfactory gnostic documents2, the hopelessly garb…
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
…y that nature should be allowed to go her own way and he his! There was plenty of beauty in the world; why make oneself uncomfortable in order to see an extra? Also, you can't improve a waterfall by stagecraft! There is the skeleton of quite a philosophy of life in this. As to the Scottish Highlands, the boy's mind had been so poisoned by romance that he saw nothing that he can remember. The scenery was merely a setting for silly daydreams of Roderick Dhu! Three other episodes of the Redhill period are pertinent; not that they are in themselves…
1929 · PDF PAGE 275
…ould not have a moment's peace again until I had solved the great problem and I had no idea how to tackle it. I began to set my ideas in order. Returned again to Calcutta. One day I went over to Kalighat and sacrificed a goat to a goddess. That night I was sitting alone reading. She appeared to me and inspired me to write a poem to her. I quote the first two stanzas: {452} KALI
1906 · PDF PAGE 264
…ientific plane. They are (I have little doubt) for those who have attained to them mnemonic keys to whole classes of pheno- mena of the- order anciently denominated magical, phenomena which, since the human mind has had its present constitution, have been translated into language, classified, sought after, always above language, but not beyond a sane and scientific classification, a rigid and satisfactory method, as I most firmly believe. It is to establish such a method ; to record in the language, not of the temple but of the laboratory, its …
1929 · PDF PAGE 6
…is fact by questioning; curious, considering the dates. 5. On the strength of a text in the book itself: the logic is thus of a peculiar order. Chinese girl", that she painted in water-colour with admirable taste destroyed by academic training, and that her powerful natural instincts were suppressed by religion to the point that she became, after her husband's death, a brainless bigot of the most narrow, logical and inhuman type. Yet there was always a struggle; she was really distressed, almost daily, at finding herself obliged by her religion…
1929 · PDF PAGE 316
…byss, to emerge naked, a babe --- the Babe of the Abyss. {515} "Explore the River of the Soul," said Ananda Metteya, "Whence and in what order you have come." For three days --- the longest period allowed by the Buddhist law --- he remained in the choung, meditating on this matter; but nothing seems to have come of it. He set his teeth and settled down doggedly to this consideration of the eternal why. Here is a being in Rangoon. Why? Because he wanted to see Bhikku A. M. Why? Because --- and so on to the half-forgotten past, dark seas that pho…
1919 · PDF PAGE 458
MR. NEUBURG’S NEW VOLUME OF POEMS Imperial 1r6mo, pp. 200 Now ready. Order through The Equinox, or or any Bookseller THE TRIUMPH OF PAN Poems sy VICTOR B. NEUBURG This volume, containing many poems—nearly all of them hitherto unpublished— besides Tue TrrumpPH oF Pan, includes THe RoMANCE or OLIVIA VANE. The First Edition is limited to Two Hundred and Fifty copies; Two Hundred and Twenty on ordinary paper, whereof less than Two Hundred are for sale; and Thirty on Japanese vellum, of which Twenty-five are for sale. These latter copies are numbere…
1929 · PDF PAGE 212
…ote a very clear rsum of my progress. It will be as well to quote it. In the year 1899 I came to Boleskine House and put everything in order with the object of carrying out the Operation of Abra-Melin the Mage.
1912 · PDF PAGE 427
MR. NEUBURG’S NEW VOLUME OF POEMS Inperial 16mo, pp. 200 Now ready. Order through The Equinox, or of any Bookseller THE TRIUMPH OF PAN Porms sy VICTOR B. NEUBURG This volume, containing many poems—nearly all of them hitherto unpublished— besides Tue Trtumpx oF Pan, includes THE Romance oF OuiviaA VANE, The First Edition is limited to Two Hundred and Fifty copies; Two Hundred and Twenty on ordinary paper, whereof less than Two Hundred are for sale; and Thirty on Japanese vellum, of which Twenty-five are for sale. These latter copies are numbered…
1912 · PDF PAGE 427
MR. NEUBURG’S NEW VOLUME OF POEMS Inperial 16mo, pp. 200 Now ready. Order through The Equinox, or of any Bookseller THE TRIUMPH OF PAN Porms sy VICTOR B. NEUBURG This volume, containing many poems—nearly all of them hitherto unpublished— besides Tue Trtumpx oF Pan, includes THE Romance oF OuiviaA VANE, The First Edition is limited to Two Hundred and Fifty copies; Two Hundred and Twenty on ordinary paper, whereof less than Two Hundred are for sale; and Thirty on Japanese vellum, of which Twenty-five are for sale. These latter copies are numbered…
1907 · PDF PAGE 23
…a possible Part 11) (The humour of this curious poem is partly personal, and Crowley wished to omit it for this reason. let it drop.| IN order to avoid the misunderstanding, which I have reason to believe exists,! I append this simple personal explanation : let it serve, more- over, as the hors d' wuvre to a new feast. For it is not manifest that who wrote so much when all was mystery, should write yet more now all is clear? It is perhaps due to you, the bed- rock of my mountains of idealism, that I at- tained the magical force to make all thos…
1906 · PDF PAGE 270
…w wets, Cling close, show earth.” So. ‘Call’d dry ‘earth,’ wet ‘sea.’ Rubbed hands, smacked lips, said ‘ good.’ [Here John was seized By order of Augustus. He maintained, In spite of the imperial holograph, ‘My seizer must be Caesar,” with a smile: And for persisting in his paradox Was disembowelled : so Genesis got square.]
1913 · PDF PAGE 599
MR. NEUBURG’S NEW VOLUME OF POEMS Imperial 16mo, pp. 200 Now ready. Order through The Equinox, or of any Bookseller THE TRIUMPH OF PAN Porms sy VICTOR B. NEUBURG This volume, containing many poems—nearly all of them hitherto unpublished— besides THe TriumpH or Pan, includes THE Romance or Otivia Vang, The First Edition is limited to Two Hundred and Fifty copies; Two Hundred and Twenty on ordinary paper, whereof less than Two Hundred are for sale; and Thirty on Japanese vellum, of which Twenty-five are for sale. These latter copies are numbered,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 599
MR. NEUBURG’S NEW VOLUME OF POEMS Imperial 16mo, pp. 200 Now ready. Order through The Equinox, or of any Bookseller THE TRIUMPH OF PAN Porms sy VICTOR B. NEUBURG This volume, containing many poems—nearly all of them hitherto unpublished— besides THe TriumpH or Pan, includes THE Romance or Otivia Vang, The First Edition is limited to Two Hundred and Fifty copies; Two Hundred and Twenty on ordinary paper, whereof less than Two Hundred are for sale; and Thirty on Japanese vellum, of which Twenty-five are for sale. These latter copies are numbered,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 102
…d in the flat; but the temple door was wide open, the furniture disarranged and some of the symbols flung about in the room. We restored order and then observed that semi- materialized beings were marching around the main room in almost unending procession. When I finally left the flat for Scotland, it was found that the mirrors were too big to take out except by way of the black temple. This had, or course, been completely dismantled before the workmen arrived. But the atmosphere remained and two of them were put out of action for several hour…
1929 · PDF PAGE 136
…the conditions of their life. They have renounced the world and live as mendicants; but it may be stated roughly that the rules of their Order, which are very complex and often seem irrational or frivolous, are all devised in the interest of a single idea. Each rule meets some probably contingency. But in every case the object is to enable the bhikkhu to carry out his programme of spiritual development. There are no superstitious terrors, no propitiatory practices; the while object is to enable a man to free himself from the fetters of desire w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 138
…s been able to simplify the process of spiritual development by eliminating all dogmatic accretions. To get into a trance is of the same order of phenomena as to get drunk. It does not depend on creed. Virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success; just as certain diets, neither right nor wrong in themselves, are indicated for the athlete or the diabetic. I am proud of having made it possible for my pupils to achieve in months what previously required as many years. Also, of having saved the successful from the devastating delusion t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 129
… to develop this power consciously, I obtained considerable success. At the time of this journey I had arranged to visit a sister of the Order who lived in Hong Kong; at prearranged times, so that she might be looking out for me. Several of these visits turned out well. She saw and heard me; and on comparing notes, we found that our reports of the conversation agreed. But I was not able to act on "matter". I used to try to knock things off the mantelpiece, but in vain. On the other hand, when I reached Hong Kong, I recognized the place perfectl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 387
…ision definitely took form as a ceremony of initiation. I was examined by an assembly of adepts and my right to the Grades of the Second Order admitted. I was then allowed to be entitled to the Grade of a Babe of the Abyss and a Master of the Temple. They continued the examination and refused to accept me as a Magus. They then instructed me in various matters and made me make certain preparations for the vision following. On the afternoon of December 3rd I invoked the fourteenth Aethyr. Here was a veil so black and thick that I could not pass t…