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Page 67 of 841910 · PDF PAGE 170
…d fixes itself upon the Nada to which it is first attracted until it becomes one with it.t Many other passages occur in this little text book on Yoga dealing with these mystical sounds some of them of a combined beauty and wisdom which is hard to rival. Such as: When the mind, divested of its flighty nature, is bound by the cords of the Nada, it attains a state of extreme concentration and remains quiet as a bird that has lost its wings, Nada is like a snare for catching a deer, z.2., the mind. It, like a hunter, kills the deer. The mind, havin…
1922 · PDF PAGE 203
…and.” 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 all gone west.…
1922 · PDF PAGE 303
… for luck. “Well, on the other hand, I discovered that, thanks to the very Act which I had so arduously laboured to put upon the Statute Book, that little bottle of yours which costs me less than five shillings to- manufacture, and was sold retail for a matter of fifteen shillings, can now be sold—discreetly, you understand—in the West End for almost anything one cares to ask—ten, twenty, even fifty pounds to the right customer. Eh? What do you say to that?”’ He laughed gleefully. ‘‘ Why, ill-natured people might say I had put through the Act f…
1930 · PDF PAGE 11
…e the formation of this body as recom- mended in Liber O, and learn to rise on the planes according to the instruction given in the same book, though limiting his arising” to the particular Symbol whose God he wishes to invoke. The second is to recite a mantra suitable to the God. The third is the assumption of the form of the God — by transmuting the astral body into LIis shape. This last method îs really essential to ail proper invocation, and cannot be too sedulously practised. There are many other devices to aid invocation, so many that it …
1954 · PDF PAGE 271
…, and I was as constantly disappointed when they declared that it did not impress them, especially as my preliminary descriptions of the book had aroused their keenest interest. I thus came to see that the fault lay with Legge's translation , and I felt myself impelled to undertake the task of presenting Lao-tze in language informed by the sympathetic understanding which initiation and spiritual experience had conferred on me. During my Great Magical Retirement on Aesopus Island in the Hudson River during the summer of 1918, I set myself to thi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 453
…nout. 2. Eight Lectures on Yoga gives a reasonable account of the essence of this matter, especially in the talks on Yama and Niyama. (A book on this subject might well include a few quotations, notably from paragraphs 8, 9, and lOin the former.) It might be summarized as "doing that, and only that, which facilitates the task in hand." A line of conduct becomes a custom when experience has shown that to follow it makes for success. "Don't press!" "Play with a straight bat!" "Don't draw to five!" do not involve abstract considerations of right a…
1922 · PDF PAGE 338
…ly thing and press the proper button, and if it goes it’s an automobile, and you’ve made no mistake. Didn’t you read what it says in the Book of the Law: “Success is your proof?’’ And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won’t find you have any time to get bored.’ ” She threw away her cigarette after lighting another from the butt. She seemed to be brooding, as if much deeper thoughts were passing through her mind than even those to which she was giving such airy expres- sion. : We watched …
1954 · PDF PAGE 536
… anyone is to cut one's cloth very sparingly if one is to make a fitting suit. I do not think I am going too far if I say that Part I of Book 4 and my Eight Lectures on Yoga form an absolutely sufficient guide to the useful practise of the subject ; anything else is almost certain to operate as a distraction . Swami Vivekananda summarised Yoga under four headings, and I do not think that one can improve on that classification. His four are: Gnana, Raja, Bhakta and Hatha, and comprise all divisions that it is desirable to make. As soon as one be…
1904 · PDF PAGE 56
…th such noisome stuff. (I can vouch for the faith- fulness of this description, for I know the swine well enough, and in no other than a book of filth would I have introduced any one of the three. Ed.) my artis- tic studies progressed but slowly, for much of my time was occupied with a liaison I had formed with Stephen Jimson, to whom the Ode (infra) is ad- dressed. This youth had the peculiar facility of spotting sodomites in the most unlikely places. He would in a short walk along the boulevard recog- nize as confreres in homosexual vice some…
1909 · PDF PAGE 349
…seal tribe. An animal of similar description was seen by several people at Deerness two years ago.” Mr. Dennison, in the above-mentioned book, only touches on seals once, but the story he gives is new to me and I have translated it and curtailed it from the Orcadian dialect. I wonder if the old Norseman who told it had ever heard of Androcles ? 341
1909 · PDF PAGE 349
…seal tribe. An animal of similar description was seen by several people at Deerness two years ago.” Mr. Dennison, in the above-mentioned book, only touches on seals once, but the story he gives is new to me and I have translated it and curtailed it from the Orcadian dialect. I wonder if the old Norseman who told it had ever heard of Androcles ? 341
1922 · PDF PAGE 73
…r a Pro-German or a Bolshevik, or whatever the favourite term of abuse happens to be at the time. Wells told us a bit about this in that book of his about giants, and so does Bernard Shaw in his Back to Methuselah. It’s nobody’s fault in particular, but there it is, and you can’t get over it. And here was I, a perfectly ordinary man, with just about the average allowance of brains, suddenly finding myself cut off from the world, in a class by myself— I felt that I had something perfectly tremendous to tell, but I couldn't tell even myself what …
1996 · PDF PAGE 33
…ols. 12. Come forth, o children, under the stars, & take your fill of love! Commentary: The whole doctrine of “love” is discussed in the Book Aleph (Wisdom or Folly) and should be studied therein. But note further how this verse agrees with the comment above, how every Star is to come forth from its veils, that it may revel with the whole World of Stars. This is again also a call to unite, or “love,” thus formulating the equation 1 + (-1) = 0,1 which is the general magical formula in our Cosmos. 1 The Hon. Bertrand Russell might prefer to write…
1954 · PDF PAGE 455
…w of the New Aeon, which is the Aeon of Horus, the crowned and conquering child; and-"The word of the Law is eEAHMA ." 3. So much of The Book of the Law deals directly or indirectly with morals that to quote relevant passages would be merely bewildering. Not that this state of mind fails to result from the first, second, third and ninety-third perusals! When Duty bellows loud "Thou must!" The youth replies, "Pike's Peak or Bust!" is all very well, or might be if the bellow gave further particulars. And one's general impression may very well be …
1996 · PDF PAGE 168
…ous gauds from Paganism, and Judaism. The subject of “Jesus” is, most unfortunately, too extensive for a note; it is treated fully in my book 888.1 1 [See Jesus: The Gospel According to St. Bernard Shaw in Works Cited.] 52. I flap my wings in the face of Mohammed & blind him. Commentary: Mohammed’s point of view is wrong too; but he needs no such sharp correction as “Jesus.” It is his face — his outward semblance — that is to be covered with His wings. The tenets of Islam, correctly interpreted, are not far from our Way of Life and Light and Lo…
1996 · PDF PAGE 117
…nce which has vertebrated human Knowledge above the slimy mollusc whose principle was Faith. We must not suppose for an instant that The Book of the Law is opposed to reason. On the contrary, its own claim to authority rests upon reason, and nothing else. It disdains the arts of the ora tor. It makes reason the autocrat of the mind. But that very fact emphasizes that the mind should attend to its own business. It should not transgress its limits. It should be a perfect machine, an apparatus for representing the universe accurately and impartia…
1944 · PDF PAGE 212
…er polymorphous plenitude; these, these alone, hail him thrice blessed of the Supernals! The card represents the Sword of the Magus (see Book 4, Part II) crowned with the twenty‐two rayed diadem of pure Light. The number refers to the Atu; also 22=2x11, the Magical manifestation of Chokmah, Wisdom, the Logos. Upon the blade, accordingly, is in‐ scribed the Word of the Law, Θελημα. This Word sends forth a blaze of Light, dispersing the dark clouds of the Mind.
1954 · PDF PAGE 349
316 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS in it is the word secret and not only in the English-and thy comment upon this the Book of the Law shall be printed beautifully in red ink and black upon beautiful paper made by hand; and to each man and woman that thou meetest were it but to dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to abide in this bliss or no; it is no odds. Do this quickly." I mistook "Comment" for "Commentary-a word-by-word exposition of every verse (and much of it I loathed with all my heart!) including the Qabalistic…
1996 · PDF PAGE 150
… their weapons at once, complain that I must go into the fight unfurnished? 1 [Joseph Smith (1805-1844), Mormon prophet who produced The Book of Mormon (1830); Crowley admired his accomplishments.] 2 In previous notes. See also the essay “Time”: Crowley, Collected Works, Vol. II, pp. 267-82. 74. The length of thy longing shall be the strength of its glory. He that lives long & desires death much is ever the King among the Kings. Commentary: One'does not need to be constantly popping in and out of Trance. One ought to do both actions with ever- …
1996 · PDF PAGE 167
…delight to slay. Success is your proof; courage is your armour; go on, go on, in my strength; & ye shall turn not back for any! 47. This book shall be translated into all tongues: but always with the original in the writing of the Beast; for in the chance shape of the letters and their position to one another: in these are mysteries that no Beast shall divine. Let him not seek to try: but one cometh after him, whence I say not, who shall discover the Key of it all. Then this line drawn is a key: then this circle squared in its failure is a key …