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Page 68 of 901929 · PDF PAGE 384
…he excess of his merits. I remember one man who attributed his failure to perform Asana properly to his exceptional physical energy. His body, said he, was endowed with such force that he must be meant to move it - -- it was all very well for ordinary men to try to sit still, but for him it was clearly an unnatural notion. Five years later, he told me he had become the strongest man on the planet and begged me to empty my revolver at his chest if I didn't mind the bullets rebounding and breaking my windows. I spared my windows; besides, I hate …
1954 · PDF PAGE 67
…successful when he forgets himself, and remembers only "The Cause." Self-seeking engenders jealousies and schism. When the organs of the body assert their presence otherwise than by silent satisfaction, it is a sign that they are diseased. The single exception is the organ of reproduction. Yet even in this case self-assertion bears witness to its dissatisfaction with itself, since it cannot fulfill its function until completed by its counterpart in another organism.) 20. Man can only attract and employ the forces for which he is really fitted. …
1954 · PDF PAGE 491
…formula of the catastrophic succession of the Aeons. An analogy. We have the secret of the Elixir of Life, and could carryon in the same body indefinitely; yet at least some Masters prefer to reincarnate in the regular way, only taking care to waste no time in Amennti, but to get back to the Old Bench and pick up the New Tools with the minimum of delay. By having attained the Freedom of "Elysian, windless, fortunate abodes Beyond Heaven's constellated wilderness" "we are blessed; and bless" by refusing to linger therein, but shouldering once mo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 82
…alanced perfectly the Yang and the Yin. Easier still is it to rule the sixfold star of Intellect ; while for the base the control of the body and its emotions is the earliest step. “ Equilibrium is the great law, and perfect equilibrium is crowned by identity with the great Tao.” He emphasized this sublime assertion by adeliberate blow upon the protruding abdomen of the worthy Juju. “ Pray continue your honourable discourse!” exclaimed the half awakened Daimio. Kwaw went on, and I think it only fair to say that he went on for a long time, and t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 208
…. To hell with ethical pigs and prigs alike. Do what you like; but in the name of your own Higher Self wilfully do xo injury to your own body or mind by over indulgence or under indulgence. Discover your normal appetite; satisfy it. Do not become a glutton, and do not become a nut-cracking skindlewig. Soon after his arrival in Ceylon, and at the time that he was working with Frater I. A. the greatness of the Buddha, as we have already seen, attracted him, and he turned his attention to the dogmatic literature of Buddhism only to find that behin…
1910 · PDF PAGE 208
…. To hell with ethical pigs and prigs alike. Do what you like; but in the name of your own Higher Self wilfully do xo injury to your own body or mind by over indulgence or under indulgence. Discover your normal appetite; satisfy it. Do not become a glutton, and do not become a nut-cracking skindlewig. Soon after his arrival in Ceylon, and at the time that he was working with Frater I. A. the greatness of the Buddha, as we have already seen, attracted him, and he turned his attention to the dogmatic literature of Buddhism only to find that behin…
1922 · PDF PAGE 262
…he idea of death enabled me to do it. I found the same thing in the war; and so did lots of men. It seems as if the soul is tired of the body, and welcomes the chance to be done with it once and for all. But it wants to offer itself gallantly in a flight or a charge. It objects to dyingin a ditch passively. I am sure that .nothing less would have got us up from that foetid stupor. | We had some champagne before starting, and then tottered giddily over the unfamiliar streets. There was something faintly attractive about the bustle of humanity. T…
1930 · PDF PAGE 111
…n the circle. SECOND METHOD 1. Let the Hermit be seated in his Asana, robed, and let him meditate in turn upon every several part of his body until that part is so unreal to him that he no longer includes it in his compréhension of himself. For example if it be his right foot, let him touch that foot, and be alarmed, thinking, “A foot!... foot! What is this foot? Surely I am not alone in the Hermitage! ” And this practice should be carried out not only at the time of méditation, but during the day’s work. 2. This méditation is to be assisted by…
1954 · PDF PAGE 414
FEAR 381 and the other boys were not sympathetic about kidneys, regarding them mostly as satisfactory parts of the body to punch. Imagine my misery! The most powerful of all my passions-bar sloth-is Pride; and here was I, the object of universal contempt. So, when I was able to determine my own way of life, I observed mildly "Pike's Peak or bust!" and chose for my sports the two, mountain climbing and big-game shooting, reputed the most dangerous. It was a desperate remedy, but it worked. No half measures, either! I used to wander into the jung…
1954 · PDF PAGE 433
…d from his head. Something still alive or nearly so, and still part of the complex of energies that he included in his conception of his body. Best of all are fluids and secretions, notably blood and one
1996 · PDF PAGE 118
…ix your attention firmly on other matters, you can support the strain many times longer than if you allow yourself to think of what your body is doing. 32. Also reason is a lie; for there is a factor infinite & unknown; & all their words are skew-wise. Commentary: The “factor infinite & unknown” is the subconscious Will. “On with the revel!” “their words”—the plausible humbug of the newspapers and the churches. Forget it! Allons! Marchons!1 1 [Fr., “Let’s go! Let’s march!”] It has been explained at length in a previous note that “reason is a li…
1922 · PDF PAGE 331
… was said before beginning to eat in order to emphasise the fact that the only excuse for eating was that it was necessary to keep one’s body in con- dition to assist one in the performance of the Great Work, whatever that might be in any particular case. When any one had finished he or she got up and went away without ceremony, the interruption being over. Lamus now came out of the house in a flannel shirt and buckskin riding breeches. He sat down and began to drink his coffee and Benedictine. He was smoking a thin, black cigar, so strong that…
1954 · PDF PAGE 213
…. The next day the Shaman took him to a cave in the side of a hill in which there was a big transparent block of ice enclosing the naked body of a man-a white man, not a native-apparently about thirty years of age with no sign of a wound anywhere. The man's head, which was clean-shaven, was outside the block of ice; the eyes were closed and the
1954 · PDF PAGE 244
… is so only in reference to some other set of measurements which themselves tum out to be arbitrary; it is not of any ultimate import; nobody can dispute it, but it simply doesn't matter to anybody, apart from the particular case. It is not "Of all Truth." What Hermes means by this it will be well to enquire. May we call it "a truth of Religion"? (Don't be shocked! The original word implies a binding-together-again, as in a "Body of Doctrine"; compare the word Ligature. It was only later, by corruption, that the word came to imply "piety"; re-l…
1996 · PDF PAGE 55
…ew fashion in frocks. For the existing inter est in sexual matters is chiefly because, common as the act is, it is closely concealed. Nobody is excited by seeing others eat. A “naughty” book is as dull as a volume of sermons; only genius can vitalize either. Beyond this, once love is taken for granted, the morbid fasci nation of its mystery will vanish. The pander, the prostitute, the parasite will find their occupa tion gone. Disease will go straight to the doctor instead of to the quack, as it does; the altars of Mrs. Grundy run red with t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 317
…e of use to me in the accomplishment of the Great Work. I did not need an aeroplane: I had a magical carpet. I could travel in my astral body to my temple and perform the Operation, perhaps even more conveniently than in the flesh. Per contra, I could construct my own temple about me and perform the Operation in my physical body. For various reasons, I preferred the latter method. I was still entirely "off" The Book of the Law. I had with me my unique vellum copy of The Goetia and I proposed to use the Preliminary Invocation. I was to begin by …
1904 · PDF PAGE 113
…ipple who must be wheeled about and fed on whisky and bread and milk? And is 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 it is 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 groups under that “Crowley”! Yet the Buddhist meets all arguments of the spiritual order with a sim ple statem ent which, if not certain, is at least not im prob- able. The…
1907 · PDF PAGE 98
…ook at the inmost as well as the middle. Under correction, sir (politely to the doctor), I find that human beauty fades if we dissect the body. Yet your microscopist (in the first place) will find the detail of blood beautiful, just as I its banners in my lady’s face. And in the second place, does the dissection table reveal all? Is there no spirit, lovely even to me, of which my lady’s bones and nerves are but the weak expression? 50 strongly do I agree with you, returned the madman, that I have written a poem on the unattractive subject of ovari…
1930 · PDF PAGE 15
…spected. His need to check the vampiring of a lady in Paris by a sorceress once led Frater Perdurabo to the discovery of a very powerful body of black magicians, with whom he was obliged to war for nearly îo years before their ruin was complété and irrémédiable as it now is. Such a discovery will not necessarily impede the ceremony. A general curse may be pronounced against the forces hindering the operation (for ex hyfothesi no divine force can be interfering) and having thus temporarily dislodged them — for the power of the God invoked will s…
1930 · PDF PAGE 93
…mself to harden his soûl. To this end, I, the Beast, hâve made trial and proof of divers devices. Of these the most potent is to set the body to strive with I. Liber Al vel Legis, II, 61-68, where the details of the proper tech¬ nique are discussed. — 297 —