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Page 66 of 901904 · PDF PAGE 116
…nets are carefully arranged, so th at no collision can occur; afterwards Jupiter and Saturn, until his whole system is safe. If then any body fall upon the Sun, he knows that it is not fr om any of those planets How any sane person can describe this process as delusive and unhealthy passes my comprehension; that any scientist should do so implies an ignorance on his part of the facts. I may add that the most rigid necessity exists for perfect health of body and mind before this practice can begin; as ceticism is as sternly discouraged as indulg…
1922 · PDF PAGE 113
… to be kicked out once and for all. Why, hang it, the man was all kinds of a scoundrel. Every one said so. Why did he want to butt in? Nobody asked him to meddle. I said something of the sort to Lou, and she told him off very wittily. “You've saidit, Cockie,” she cried. ‘‘ He’s a meddler, and his nature is to be rotten before he’s ripe.” I remembered something of.the sort in Shakespeare. That was the best of Lou; she was brilliantly clever, but she never forced it down one’s throat. At the same time, as I said, the man stuck in my gizzard. It a…
1922 · PDF PAGE 301
…which I shook out a dose. My pretence at sniffing with a critical air was ludicrously feeble. A child could have seen that I was shaken, body and soul, by the feverish lust to get it into my system after so long an abstinence. Time had purged my system of the poison. It found the house “empty and swept and garnished”; and seven devils entered into me instead of the ejected one. My malaise passed like a cloud swept by the wind from the face of the sun. I became physically buoyant as I had not been for months. I was filled with superb self-confid…
1922 · PDF PAGE 341
…is morning. But even as I stood and looked, the horrible restlessness of the heroin craving nearly drove me to take the stuff without my body telling me what it was doing. But I detected the movement in time. I thought a brisk walk might help me to pass through the critical moment. Just as I got out of the house, I was met by Sister Athena. “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law,” she said. It was the regular morning greeting at the Abbey. Accustomed as I was to the phrase, it still took me rather aback. “‘ Good-morning,”’ I said in a…
1996 · PDF PAGE 50
…they are artificial and unnatural aberrations. Such moral cripples resemble those manufactured by beggars by compressing one part of the body so that it is compensated by a monstrous exaggera tion in another part. But on the other hand we have no right to interfere with any type of manifestation of the sexual impulse on a priori grounds. We must recognize that the Lesbian leanings of idle and volup tuous women whose refinement finds the grossness of the average male repugnant, are as inexpugnably entrenched in Righteousness as the parallel pl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 332
…nishing , invocation , evocation , is chiefly a reminder of a single purpose , until the supreme moment arrives , and every fibre of the body , every force -channel of the mind , is strained , and in one overwhelming rush of the Will in the direction desired . Such is the real purport of all the apparently fantastic directions of Solomon , Abramelin , and other sages of repute . When a man has evoked and mastered such forces as Taphtatharath , Belial , Amaimon , and the great powers of the elements , then he may safely 1 The Sword of Song , vol…
1910 · PDF PAGE 209
…ned to cover the narded limbs of foolish virgins, sits the Buddha in silent meditation; so that P. soon discovered that by stripping his body of all these tawdry trappings, this feminine under-wear, and by utterly discarding the copy-book precepts of Baptistical Buddhists, the Four Noble Truths were none other than the complete Yoga, and that in The Three Characteristics + the summit of philosophy (The Ruach) had been reached. The terrific strain of Asana and Pranayama, the two chief exercises of Hathavidya, P., by months of trial proved to be …
1910 · PDF PAGE 209
…ned to cover the narded limbs of foolish virgins, sits the Buddha in silent meditation; so that P. soon discovered that by stripping his body of all these tawdry trappings, this feminine under-wear, and by utterly discarding the copy-book precepts of Baptistical Buddhists, the Four Noble Truths were none other than the complete Yoga, and that in The Three Characteristics + the summit of philosophy (The Ruach) had been reached. The terrific strain of Asana and Pranayama, the two chief exercises of Hathavidya, P., by months of trial proved to be …
1922 · PDF PAGE 25
fA Knight Out II absurd and ridiculous joke—that these two eyes belonged to a girl’s face. Across the moaning body of the blackmaier, I was looking at the face of a girl that I had never seen before. And I said to myself, “‘ Well, that’s all right, I’ve known you all my life.” And when I said to myself “my life,” I didn’t in the least mean my life as Peter Pendragon, I didn’t even mean a life extending through the centuries, I meant a different kind of life—some- thing with which centuries have nothing whatever to do. And then Peter Pendragon c…
1954 · PDF PAGE 222
…ges of the Buddha. Of these men, Allan was one. He could knot his legs so well that, putting his hands on the ground, he could swing his body to and fro in the air between them. When I looked into his room I found him not seated on his meditation mat, which was in the centre of the room at the end farthest from the window, but in a distant corner ten or twelve feet off, still in his knotted position, resting on his head and right shoulder, exactly like an image overturned. I set him right way up, and he came out of his trance. He was quite unco…
1996 · PDF PAGE 165
…tary: Stanza 3 suggests the Rosicrucian Benediction: May thy Mind be open unto the Higher! May thy Heart be the Centre of Light! May thy Body be the Temple of the Rosy Cross!1 1 [These are the words of Reception in the Adeptus Minor 5°=6° ritual of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. See Israel Regardie, The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic (Phoenix: Falcon, 1984), vol. 7, p. 52. This passage is omitted in Crowley’s account of this ritual in The Equinox 1(3) (1910). The formula does however occur in Liber 418, 9th Aithyr, and in “John St…
1906 · PDF PAGE 254
…ple who must be wheeled about and fed on whisky and bread and milk? And is J my difference from them so conspicuously less than from the body lying dead of which those who see it will say, “‘ This was Aleister Crowley”? What rubbish is it to suppose that an eternal substance, sentient or not, omniscient or not, depends: for its information on so absurd a series of bodies as are grouped under that ‘‘ Crowley” ! | Yet the Buddhist meets all arguments of the spiritual order with a simple statement which, if not certain, is at least not improb- abl…
1910 · PDF PAGE 100
… Sanhita,” chap. v. + Ibid. chap. v, 107, 108, 109. This is probably wrong, as the sun is usually placed in the Manipdra Chakkra. In the body ofa man the Pingala is the solar current, the Ida the lunar. In a woman these are reversed. $ Lbid., chap. v, 75. 838
1910 · PDF PAGE 100
… Sanhita,” chap. v. + Ibid. chap. v, 107, 108, 109. This is probably wrong, as the sun is usually placed in the Manipdra Chakkra. In the body ofa man the Pingala is the solar current, the Ida the lunar. In a woman these are reversed. $ Lbid., chap. v, 75. 838
1922 · PDF PAGE 334
…and the place nearly drove them insane. They were bored with the Abbey, and bored with each other, and were very insulted because every- body laughed at them. But they couldn’t see the way out, and wouldn’t take it when it was shown them. It made them physically ill, and they went away at last to every one’s relief to an environment where they could potter about indefinitely and pose as great genijses. The Big Lion does more in a day than they will ever do in their lives if they live into the next
1907 · PDF PAGE 76
…ise. In theory all were equal; in practice the permanent ofi‘icials, the real rulers of the country, were a distinguished and trustworthy body of men. Their interest was to govern well, for any civil or foreign dis turbance would undoubtedly have fanned the sparks of discontent into the roaring flame of revolution. And discontent there was. The unsuccessful cheesemongers were _ -
1922 · PDF PAGE 344
…s and three or four others came down from the other houses to take part in the game. The intense activity and lightheartedness of every- body amazed us. We were asked to join in the game, and our incompetence was a keen source of annoyance. We were too enfeebled by our indulgence in drugs to hold our own ; and the result was to inspire us with a passionate determination to emancipate ourselves from the thraldom. But the tribulations of the morning had only begun. It was the custom of the Abbey to celebrate the arrival of new-comers by a picnic …
1910 · PDF PAGE 129
…rawings of the Gods in their colours. (6) Figure of Adonai ha Aretz in colour. [See Illustration.] right and left at right angles to the body, in the left hand a gold cup and in right ears of ripe corn. From her shoulders dark spreading wings, »=A deep yellow-green robe, upon the breast of which is a square gold lamen decorated with four scarlet Greek crosses. Round her waist is a broad gold belt upon which in scarlet letters is written the name Yow 77 71 in the letters of the alphabet of Honorius. Her feet are flesh coloured, and she wears gol…
1910 · PDF PAGE 129
…rawings of the Gods in their colours. (6) Figure of Adonai ha Aretz in colour. [See Illustration.] right and left at right angles to the body, in the left hand a gold cup and in right ears of ripe corn. From her shoulders dark spreading wings, »=A deep yellow-green robe, upon the breast of which is a square gold lamen decorated with four scarlet Greek crosses. Round her waist is a broad gold belt upon which in scarlet letters is written the name Yow 77 71 in the letters of the alphabet of Honorius. Her feet are flesh coloured, and she wears gol…
1929 · PDF PAGE 195
…goddess had been stupendous indeed. All his exaltation returned: now would Hecate favour him above all men. Well, he had but to take the body upstairs. The old woman understood these things; he would certify the death; there would be no fuss made over a poor prostitute. He would return at once to London, and open up the negotiations with "A.B." [276]