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Page 68 of 1141929 · PDF PAGE 184
…old very effectively. The question was whether they would not slip on the hard snow. I was consequently very careful to pick the easiest way and to scrape large steps when necessary. I took the first few men up on a rope, explaining the use of it, and told them how to keep their eyes skinned for concealed crevasses. They were highly intelligent; picked up the trick of everything without argument or complaint, and made no mistakes. I ought to mention their ingenious defence against snow blindness. They wear their hair rather long, and them make …
1907 · PDF PAGE 77
…r and more ideal , but this idea has only grown out of man's entire ignorance regarding the physical relationships . The mother is in no way purer than the wife , neither is the virgin purer than the mother . The truest definition of chas tity is that as given by Benjamin Franklin , which de fines chastity as “ the regulated and strictly temperate satisfaction without injury to others , of those desires which are natural to all healthy adult beings .” The reason for this idea of uncleanliness though certainly obscure is traceable more particula…
1907 · PDF PAGE 279
… well , and be thankful if it but fit our little finger ; trusting that the flashing gems , fiery in its golden setting , will light our way to the discovery of the next , and the next ! -- and the next ! till we become one with the whirling gems of Eternity . This religion of Scientific - Buddhism , either through the narrow circumference of its founder's opinions , or through that of his followers , becoming rational , became absurd , when drawn out to its logical con clusions , as Crowley himself shows in “ Pansil ”1 and “ The Three Characte…
1913 · PDF PAGE 11
…r. Crowley do? Mariens, Senta friend with the letter and pamphlet to Dr. Berridge to warn him that he had an enemy, and offering to help way possible to defeat such anonymous assillants. KC. Why did Mr, Crowley act thus, if he had no respect for Dr. Berridge? Maruens. He would probably say it was becau much he disagreed witha man, he would not see him of foul play. ‘Scownio, K.C. And how did Dr, Berridge repay the ser Maries. - By perjuring himself to Mr. Crowley's disadvantage. ScoKPI0,K.C, ‘Thank you, Nowasto this" Rosierucian” Order Let mere…
1908 · PDF PAGE 2
… without much difficulty. At about the level of the top of the rock rib which divides the N. and S. branches of the glacier we found our way barred by an undercut ice cliff, which at its only assailable point rose some 14 (20) feet above the detached serrac on which we were standing. Standing on this serrac and leaning over the inter- vening crevasse the second man was able to sup- port the leader, who, standing on his shoulders, cut hand and footholds in the wall above. With some assistance from behind with an axe the lead- er arrived at the t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 331
… the geologic period" had been seized by Captain John Charles Frederick Fuller, of the First Oxfordshire Light Infantry. It had come his way through the Rationalist Press Association, to whose publications he subscribed. He had not done any serious writing before; his utmost had been a few insignificant articles and poems, which he contributed to the Agnostic Journal. He was fighting valiantly against Christianity by the side of "Saladin", William Ross Stewart, who was the leader of one of the main branches of militant agnosticism. The army of …
1929 · PDF PAGE 415
415 {659} given in three ways. The gross must pass through fire; let the fine be tried in intellect, and the lofty chosen ones in the highest. ... (V.50) The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. Refuse none, but thou shalt know & destroy the traitors. I am Ra-Hoor-Khuit; and I am powerful to protect my servant. ... (cap. III, v.42) These "blind" ordeals presumably refer to such tests of fitness as that of which we have been telling. In the ancient mysteries it was possible to appoint formal ordeals. A young man would go…
1929 · PDF PAGE 345
…Operation of the Sacred Magick was not sterile. After returning from Morocco, the spirit came upon me and I wrote a number of books in a way which I hardly know how to describe. They were not taken from dictation like The Book of the Law nor were they my own composition. I cannot even call them automatic writing. I can only say that I was not wholly conscious at the time of what I was writing, and I felt that I had no right to "change" so much as the style of a letter. They were written with the utmost rapidity without pausing for thought for a…
1919 · PDF PAGE 110
… to attain to the apprehension of unity. Now then let us suppose that you have come to the Mas- ter, and that He has declared to you the Way of this attain- ment. What hindereth you? Alas! there is yet much Free- dom afar off. Understand clearly this: that if you are sure of your Will, and sure of your means, then any thoughts or actions which are contrary to those means are contrary also to that Will. If therefore the Master should enjoin upon you a Vow of Holy Obedience, compliance is not a surrender of the Will, but a fulfilment thereof. For…
1954 · PDF PAGE 46
…having the value of 831, contain the secret meanings Pyramis and Phallos, which is the same idea in different forms; thus you have three ways of expressing the creative form, in its geometrical aspect, its human aspect, and its divine aspect. I am making a point of this, because the working out of this motto should give you a very clear idea of the sort of way in which Qabalah should be used. I think it is rather useful to remember what the essence of the Qabalah is in principle; thus, in your correspondence for Malkuth, Yesod, and Hod you are …
1929 · PDF PAGE 505
505 and no one would hear of publishing a book. Occasionally, a man promised great things; but the arrangements always fell through suddenly and unreasonably. I had a host of friends in the city, yet days and weeks would pass without my seeing a soul except in the most casual way. I was even unable to practise my personal Magick. An inscrutable paralysis had me by the spine. After many days I said to myself that I must break up these conditions forcibly; I would a-wooing go whether my mother would let me or no. I set my teeth and began my ritua…
1929 · PDF PAGE 531
…mber what had happened to me in Rome, Naples and Paris, I understood certain obscure instinctive feelings about those cities which had always been unintelligible,1 and were in direct conflict with my conscious ideas about them. I will summarize as follows: Shortly before the time of Mohammed, I was present at a Council of {838} 1. Revising this chapter, in Tunis, my Ape reminded me of how much of these past lives was spent in Sicily and North Africa; and that, when my present life came to an end (of a sort; all the forces which had till then ac…
1929 · PDF PAGE 539
… whom they desire. They cannot understand "There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: ... ", and they outrage others in every way in order to obtain the outward show of affection. It is the most hideous error conceivable, yet nearly all men make it, and nine tenths of the misery caused by wrong sexual relations is due to this determination to enslave the soul of another. It seems impossible to make men see what to me is obvious; that the only love worth having or indeed worthy of the name is the spontaneous sympathy of a free soul. S…
1907 · PDF PAGE 74
…d to his times , and it is this power that he has chosen to call — the Moral code ; notwithstanding the fact that it is not based in any way on the perceptions he has obtained from Nature's code as it now is reflected , but on that re flection which was obtained by his ancestors , a far less worthy appreciation . And in this inherent con servativeness and horror of change lie most of the tragedies of love ; for man trying to quench the natural flame of his desires in a torrent of chilly and criminal atavism , merely floods the virtuous path ,
1910 · PDF PAGE 143
Ecstasy beyond all price : but to be had by 135 him who casts away all other desires. 1. Cf. Canticles ; and Matthew, “ What shall a man give in exchange for his soul ? ” 2. Refers to the Ghazi, still a terror to our Fron- tier officials in N.W. India. The method of manu- facture is interesting. A poor and despairing man is selected and watched. One night, as he slinks through some deserted beggar’s haunt, he is se- cretly drugged and conveyed to a palatial house with gardens and fountains. He awakes to find himself robed in fine linen and purp…
1912 · PDF PAGE 18
…t all will be clear to him or her. The confidence which is required will also be of little service if it is only of a short duration. The way of the development 01 the soul, which leads to the awakening of the inner senses, is slow, and without patience and fortitude nothing will be accomplished. From all this it follows as a matter of course that the next requisite is obedience. The purpose of the disciple is to obtain the mastery over his own lower self, and for this reason he must not submit himself to the will of his lower nature, but follow…
1912 · PDF PAGE 18
…t all will be clear to him or her. The confidence which is required will also be of little service if it is only of a short duration. The way of the development 01 the soul, which leads to the awakening of the inner senses, is slow, and without patience and fortitude nothing will be accomplished. From all this it follows as a matter of course that the next requisite is obedience. The purpose of the disciple is to obtain the mastery over his own lower self, and for this reason he must not submit himself to the will of his lower nature, but follow…
1913 · PDF PAGE 12
… all will be clear to him or her. The confidence which is required will also be of little service if it is only of a short duration. The way of the development of the soul, which leads to the awakening of the inner senses, is slow, and without patience and fortitude nothing will be accomplished. From all this it follows as a matter of course that the next requisite is obedience. The purpose of the disciple is to obtain the mastery over his own lower self, and for this reason he must not submit himself to the will of his lower nature, but follow…
1913 · PDF PAGE 12
… all will be clear to him or her. The confidence which is required will also be of little service if it is only of a short duration. The way of the development of the soul, which leads to the awakening of the inner senses, is slow, and without patience and fortitude nothing will be accomplished. From all this it follows as a matter of course that the next requisite is obedience. The purpose of the disciple is to obtain the mastery over his own lower self, and for this reason he must not submit himself to the will of his lower nature, but follow…
1919 · PDF PAGE 444
THE EQUINOX It should be noticed that this is not quite identical with the way in which the Master of the Temple detaches the being that was once called “Self” to fling it down from the Abyss that it may ‘appear in the Heaven of Jupiter as a morning star or as an evening star, to give light to them that dwell upon the earth.’ This Magus is a much stronger person than the Master of the Temple. He is the creative force, while the Master is merely the receptive. But in these verses 78, 79, 80, it might be very easily supposed that it was merely a …