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…exactly as he progresses, and by reason of that progress. However, it is no use crossing our bridges until we come to them, and we shall find that by laying down serious scientific principles based on universal experience they will serve us faithfully through every stage of the journey. 2. When I first undertook the investigation of Yoga, I was fortunately equipped with a very sound training in the fundamental principles of modern science. I saw immediately that if we were to put any common sense into the business (science is nothing but instru…
1905 · PDF PAGE 41
…mholz. 2 Compare this octet with that of the ‘*Sonnet to Sleep” of P. B. Marston, which Crowley had not at this time read. Whilst we may find in thee the secrets grey Of all things God would fain have hid for ever. IT, All things grow still before thine awful face. Now fails the lover’s sigh; Sleep’s angel clings About the children with her dreamy wings, And all the world is silent for a space. The waving of thy dusky plumes in heaven Alone breathes gentle music to mine ears, So that despair is fain to flee, and fear Cowers far away amid the sh…
1919 · PDF PAGE 171
…hat had long troubled me. Note: This was the point re Astral journeys, mentioned before. (This gave Fra. V.I.O. fresh confidence, and we find records of experiments at once. Ed.) Nov. 27, 11.6 to 11.28 P. M. Astral Journey. Rising on the Planes. Will try and recount this experience in detail as it was somewhat different from any 163
1905 · PDF PAGE 43
… and yet is here, Half guide, half tempter toward the stream of error, Oa whose fresh bosum many a mariner Puts out with silken sail-—to find his grave In tts voluptuous wave. Here are few rocks whereon a ship hath peril ; No storms inay ruffle tts insidious stream ; Oualy, no fish iivade its waters sterile, No white-winged birds above it glance and elaun, Only, i hath no shore, no wave, but ¢eloom Wraps it within her wok,
1919 · PDF PAGE 173
…November 30th, “THOU ART THAT,” without any attempt at comment, and on the following day “Ditto, but in a less degree.” On December 4 we find this entry: The reading of ‘Jnana Yoga’ revives very clearly the state of Unity produced by the practice of Raja Yoga. There is a clearer conception, and the feeling of be- ing very near the Truth. N.B. During meditation the Light above head was beginning to envelope the mind, but was disturbed by R. calling me to come to bed.’ (R. must be told not to call you to come to bed. The feeling that she may pos-…
1944 · PDF PAGE 61
women of the tribe every year into the jungle. Nor do we find any legend of any depth or spiri‐ tuality. Hanuman is certainly little more than the Ape of Thoth. The principal characteristic of Tahuti or Thoth, the Egyptian Mercury, is, firstly, that he has the head of the ibis. The ibis is the symbol of concentration, because it was supposed that this bird stood continuously upon one leg, motionless. This is quite evidently a symbol of the meditative spirit. There may also have been some reference to the central mystery of the Aeon of Osiris, t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 124
… the wonderful thrushes are sleeping. Where the brook trickles clear to the eye Below dew-spangled frondlets of willow We will wander to find by-and-by The sward of our delicate pillow, Yvonne ! Where the mosses so lusciously He For the sward of our delicate pillow. For a bride fairer far than the flower Ts the couch spread by fingers of even, The blossom of apples for bower, Its roof-tree the sapphires of heaven, Yvonne! For the bride of the mystical hour, Its roof-tree the sapphires of heaven ! With songsters the heavy sweet air Is trembling …
1929 · PDF PAGE 39
…hrough!" "Yes, but we can't get through!" "Don't let us lose our way! Enough to say that there might be such a world. But we must try to find a reason for thinking that there is one. Now the best reason of all is a very deep one; but try to understand it." Lisa nodded. "We know that the planets move at certain rates in certain paths, and we know that the laws which govern them are the same as those which made Newton's apple fall. But Newton couldn't explain the law, and he said that he found himself quite unable to imagine a force acting at a d…
1929 · PDF PAGE 59
places [84] where they should not be. I would occasionally find my socks stuffed tightly into my trousers' pockets, or my razor poised upon a mirror, when I realized that morning in the bowl of night had flung the stone that puts the stars to flight, and that the Hunter of the East had caught the Sultan's Turret in a noose of light. But in the second series of phenomena the faithful and intelligent animal had done far more than this, bringing into the house various objects from afar. It was evidently appreciated in the Beyond that a Poltergeist…
1905 · PDF PAGE 52
SUCCUBUS 45 SUCCUBUS.! WuHo is Love, that he should find me as I strive, Pale and weary, dumb and blind, where curses thrive, Fold my sleep within his wings, and lead my dreams Through a land of pleasant things, of woods and streams, Bind my slumber with a chain of pure delight, Though the canker of it stain at death of night, Fill with passion and distaste and wakened pleasure All the moments run to waste that else were treasure ? Who is Love ? a fury red with all men’s blood On his cruel altars shed, a deadly flood ? Or a veiléd vision black …
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
various other small objects. These had been "examined" with the utmost care, as who should examine the tail of a dog to find out whether he would bite. The history of spiritualism is that of blocking up every crack in a room with putty, and then leaving the door wide open. It may well be doubted whether even the most tedious writer could describe a seance with success. People generally have an idea that there is something exciting and mysterious about it. In reality, people who boast of their ability to enjoy their third consecutive sleepless n…
1913 · PDF PAGE 20
…the most notable of all, the Ancient and Primitive Rite which was established by him in Manchester in 1871. Very properly, therefore, we find that in 1870 the Royal Grand Council of Ancient Rites appointed him Royal Grand Superintendent of Lancashire of these and other old Orders. For his Masonic scholarship and literary work, he was elected a member of the Masonic Archeological Institute at its establish- ment in 1862, Thesame year he was created a Sovereign Prince Rose Croix of the Palatine Chapter of the A. and A. Rite by Brother Cruttenden,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 20
…the most notable of all, the Ancient and Primitive Rite which was established by him in Manchester in 1871. Very properly, therefore, we find that in 1870 the Royal Grand Council of Ancient Rites appointed him Royal Grand Superintendent of Lancashire of these and other old Orders. For his Masonic scholarship and literary work, he was elected a member of the Masonic Archeological Institute at its establish- ment in 1862, Thesame year he was created a Sovereign Prince Rose Croix of the Palatine Chapter of the A. and A. Rite by Brother Cruttenden,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 93
…rehearsed the whole scene merely to work her up in order to have the fun of dropping her again. Only the next morning she woke early, to find a pencilled sonnet on his table, a poem so spiritual, so profound, and of such jewelcraft, that she knew why the few people whom he had allowed to read his work thought him the match of Milton. So apt were the similes that there could be no doubt that he had thought it out line by line, in that trance which he had marred, for her, by his brutal anti-climax. She had asked him about it. "Some people," he ha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 77
…nd ’tis hard by the Church of St. Anselm, that is hard by,the river, and the hardest of all is that neither church, inn, nor river can I find this devil ofa night. [Catches FLORIMOND and shakes him by the shoulder. FLORIMOND. Know you are speaking to a captain in the army of Duke Charles! Moderate thy drunkenness, man, or I will call the watch. DENYs., Know me for a captain in the army of His Majesty King Charles of France, whom God preserve ! FLORIMOND. What, traitor ? DENYS. Traitor in thy teeth! I have a safe-con- duct from your pinchbeck du…
1905 · PDF PAGE 85
…idnight with magic reposes, And slumbers to visions bow. For the soul of man, being free, shall pass the gates of God, | And_ the spirit find the Sea by the feet of clim ? untrod, And the flesh, a lifeless ember, in ashen fear vrow cold, As the lives before remember the perished hours of gold. [ xeunt all but JEPHTHAH. JEPHTHAH. Surely, my God, now I am left alone Kneeling before Thy throne, T may grow beautiful, even I, to see Thy beauty fair and free. For on the vast expanses of the wold I hear the feet of gold, And over all the skies I see a…
1919 · PDF PAGE 168
… of the Divine Presence. (This is excellent for a beginner. But remember—all these divine illumina- tions are mere Breaks. O.M.) Note:—I find more and more difficulty in remembering any details of these practices the next day. Concentration was good. In this instance at end of practice could not remember what time I started, although I believe I am correct. I have thought several times lately about this loss of memory. Is it a result, or is it a fault? (It’s a good sign, as a rule. O.M.) May 9, 10.21-10.43 P.M. Dragon. Astral journey of no part…
1906 · PDF PAGE 30
…t darkened, I sat and listened, if God’s voice should break . _And pierce the hollow of my ear that hearkened, Lest God should speak and find me not awake> For his own sake. No voice, no song might pierce or penetrate That enviable universal state. The sun and moon beheld, stood still. Only the spirit’s axis, will, Considered its own soul and sought a deadlier deep, And in its monotone mood Of supreme solitude Was neither glad nor sad because it did not sleep ; But with calm eyes abode Patient, its leisure the galactic load, Abode alone, nor ev…
1905 · PDF PAGE 176
…e alway of pain? What have I done? In vain, in vain! I will not look at her; I dare not stay. I will go down and mingle with the throng, Find some debasing dulling sacrifice, Some shameless harlot with thin lips grown grey In desperate desire, and so with song And wine fling hellward. Yes, she does not rise— O if she opened once her eyes ! THE ALTAR OF ARTEMIS. WHERE, in the coppice, oak and pine With mystic yew and elm are found, Sweeping the skies, that grow divine With the dark wind’s despairing sound, The wind that roars from the profound, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 105
…that darkened, I sat and listened, if God's voice should break And pierce the hallow of my ear that hearkened, Lest God should speak and find me not awake --- For his own sake. No voice, no song might pierce or penetrate That enviable universal state. The sun and moon beheld, stood still. Only the spirit's axis, will, Considered its own soul an sought a deadlier deep, And in its monotone mood Of supreme solitude Was neither glad nor sad because it did not sleep; {187} But with calm eyes abode Patient, its leisure the galactic load, Abode alone,…