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Page 70 of 831919 · PDF PAGE 158
… not, and had got quite used to the idea of having to work out my own Path, without outside aid or encouragement. He was also pleased to find some of his own experiments more or less confirmed in Liber H.H.H. of which he writes: M.M.M. 2, ‘mentions the breath playing upon the skin, etc.’ I have experienced this, and asked Fra P.A. for instructions thereon. Sometimes, after hard breath- ing, I have been filled with the sensation. I think I understand the ‘lightning flash,’ but shall experiment. My present knowledge is more as a sheet of summer l…
1906 · PDF PAGE 57
…ets answer to its call? ‘‘Yon shallop?—leave to Galahad! Re- signed Yon hermit be to welcome Lancelot ! For me—the inn—what fate am I to find ? ‘Who cares? wot P— But in the outré, the obscure, the occult? My Master is of might to lift me what Shall I seek ever—do ye “Hangs, veil of glamour, on my ‘ Quisque vult,’ The morion’s motto: to exhaust the cross, Bidding it glow with roses—the result ‘¢ What way he will : may be adventure’s loss Is gain to common sense ; whereby I guess | Wise men have hidden Mount Biagenos? ‘ And all its height from f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 187
…sion springs In flowerless halls as these: awhile the mind Wanders on void unprofitable wings No whither : gains new strength at last to find Custom breed sight and hearing: in the hal] The sounds grow clear, the black fires fail to blind. I see the mighty buttress of the wall Lost in its mighty measure: hear again The lyre’s low notes and light distinctly fall A gentle influence in the place of pain. Oh now the central glory of the place Falls splendid on the unbewildered brain, And IT am found contemplating a face More passionless than mortal…
1907 · PDF PAGE 155
…e pentacle Builded of flesh; the wand its snake- head rears Swift energy : my labour is but lost. I, who thus thought all things to end, Find in the void no friend. I have but conjured up the fiend that most I trusted to abolish: all my toil Goes to give rest to life, and build anew These pinnacles of pain, Cupola upon cupola; the soil To comfort, to avail, to assoil with dew, To build the year again.
1939 · PDF PAGE 19
…me begin to unleash my indignation. My jobthe establishment of the Law of Thelemais a most discouraging job. It is the rarest thing to find anyone who has any ideas at all on the subject of liberty. Because the Law of Thelema is the law of liberty, everybody's particular hair stands on end like the quills of the fretful porpentine; they scream like an uprooted mandrake, and flee in terror from the accursed spot. Because: the exercise of liberty means that you have to think for yourself, and the natural inertia of mankind wants religion and et…
1919 · PDF PAGE 295
…of a very brief explanatory note. I may say that it is one of the most remarkable human documents ever produced, and it should certainly find a reg- ular publisher in book form. The authoress of the MS. claims that she was the wife of an angel. She expounds at the greatest length the philosophy connected with this thesis. Her learning is enormous. She finds traces of similar beliefs in every country in the world, and (having a similar experience of her own) she can hardly be blamed for arguing that one thing confirms the other. Mr. Schroeder is…
1905 · PDF PAGE 214
…ght ! springs again The Soul of Resurrection: thou art chief And lord of all thy mind: O patient thief Of God’s own fire! What mysteries find fane In the white shrine’ of thy white spirit’s reign, Thou man of Sorrows: O, beyond belief! thy purpose Let perfect Peace be with thee: let thy days Prosper in spite of thine unselfish soul ; And as thou lovest, so let Love increase Upon thee and about thee: till thy ways Gleam with the splendour of that secret goal Whose long war grows the great abiding peace. THE ROSICRUCIAN. A SA MAJESTE JACQUES IV D…
1906 · PDF PAGE 35
…Passion and pleasure and pain have stung me, and lost their stings. Only abides there a hollow, void as the heart of the earth. Echo may find it and follow, dead from the day of her birth. Life, of itself not insatiate; death, not pre- suming to be ; Share me intense and emaciate, waste me, are nothing tome. Still in the desolate place, still in the bosom that was Even as a veil for thy face, thy face in a breathed-on glass, Hangs there a vulture, and tears with a beak of iron and fire. I know not his name, for he wears no feathers of my desire…
1910 · PDF PAGE 361
THE BIG STICK he is so keen to find proof of Egyptian antiquity in everything. On p. 228 he quotes as an example of original sign-language that he “watched with interest our bluejackets leaning over the side of a man-of-war talking to one another” by means of their hands and fingers. Of course what they are really doing is semaphore signalling without flags after the official signalling with flags has ceased. In spite of these small over-eagernesses, this book is a revolutionary volume, a work that should stimulate argument and comment; and we …
1910 · PDF PAGE 361
THE BIG STICK he is so keen to find proof of Egyptian antiquity in everything. On p. 228 he quotes as an example of original sign-language that he “watched with interest our bluejackets leaning over the side of a man-of-war talking to one another” by means of their hands and fingers. Of course what they are really doing is semaphore signalling without flags after the official signalling with flags has ceased. In spite of these small over-eagernesses, this book is a revolutionary volume, a work that should stimulate argument and comment; and we …
1913 · PDF PAGE 7
…ieve under the impression that they were the revolted members : as subsequent events proved, they were only the ideas in his head. So we find Aleister Crowley still loyal, if a little sceptical, and searching within himself to discover a touchstone by which he might prove beyond doubt the authenticity of Mathers’ claim to represent the Masters. Now, there had been a good deal of talk of an adventure that happened to Mathers and Allan Bennett, who was guest in his house, in which a revolver figured prominently; but the story was only vague, and …
1905 · PDF PAGE 177
…en is fragrant for her feet ; The perfume of the grove is sweet As slumbering women furtive creep To bosoms where small kisses weep, And find in fervent dreams the kiss Most memoried of Artemis. Impenetrable pleasure dies Beneath the madness of new dreams ; The slow sweet breath is turned to sighs More musical than many streams Under the moving silver beams,
1906 · PDF PAGE 56
…broke sepulchre And all its phantoms desperate and doomed Began to gather flesh, to breathe, to stir. Such was the path, yet hard should find the work Glamour, to weave her web of gossamer Over such eyesight as the Earl’s for murk. He had watched for larve by the midnight roads, The stake-transpiercéd corpse, the caves where lurk The demon spiders, and the shapeless toads Fed by their lovers duly on the draught That bloats and blisters, blackens and cor- rodes. These had he seen of old ; so now he laughed, Not without bitterness deep-lying, tha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 253
…r and an idiot !"’ ii, 227 - You see I do not base my thesis, ii, 161 |You see, when I was young, they said, Who is Love, that he should find me as I ' You will not believe what I tell you? iii. 4x ii. 153 Who is that slinkard moping down the street, | You weary me with proof enough, ii. 178 ill. 99 Who is this maiden robéd for a bride, i. 237 ZOuRA the king by feathered fans, ii. 38 Why did you smile when the summer was' Zounds, man! have a care with thy goings, dying. i. 113 ili. 69
1904 · PDF PAGE 109
…to the whittlers or “ recon- cilers” on the one hand, nor to the A nimistic jugglers on the other. Apart from the Theosophic rubbish, we find Sir Edwin Arnold writing: “Whoever saith Nirvana is to cease, Say unto such they lie.” Lie is a strong word and should read “translate correctly.”1 I suppose it would not scan, nor rhyme: but Sir Edwin is the last person to be deterred by a little thing like that. Dr. Paul Carus, too, in the “Gospel of Buddha,” is pleased to represent Nirvana as a parallel for the Heaven of the Christian. It is sufficient…
1919 · PDF PAGE 177
…rneys, however interesting and even splendid and illuminating, don’t count unless they are willed. If you want to go to your office, and find yourself at the Town Hall in- stead, it’s no excuse that the Town Hall has fine columns! You should drop all “Meditations on Love.” What’s the matter with Hate, anyway? From beyond the Abyss, they look as like each other as two new pennies. You really mean “Reflections on Love”: “Jones’ Night Thoughts”: “Idle thoughts of an idle fel- low.” It’s a soul-destroying, mind-fuddling practice. If indulged in, it…
1919 · PDF PAGE 313
… own, far from apparent. The drooped eyelids, and the immobile pose do, indeed, express the idea of contemplation; but I am at a loss to find anything spiri- tual in the smooth, insipid faces.” Pig-mindedness can hardly go further. And yet— “In the Indian epics, the poets are always trying to outdo themselves and each other in their search for the marvellous, whether in virtue, prowess, gorgeousness, wickedness, demoniacal fury, or mere numerical extravagance. They are con- stantly creating records in exaggeration, which are as constantly broke…
1905 · PDF PAGE 117
…tant gloom Heaven springs, a fountain, out of Change’s woh ! ‘Time would all men within the grave inter :— For Time himself shall no god find a tomb? Glory and love and work precipitate The end of man’s desire—so sayeth Fate. Man answers: Love is stronger, work more sure, Glory more fadeless than her shafts abate. Though all worlds fail, the pulse of Life be still, God fall, all darken, she hath not her will Of deeds beyond recall, that shall endure: For us, these three divinest glasses fill, Fill to the brim with lustrous dew, nor fail To leav…
1939 · PDF PAGE 42
…re betrayed into using it, cut yourself sharply upon the wrist or forearm with a convenient instrument. There is also a practice which I find very useful when walking in a christian citythat of exorcising (with the prescribed outward and downward sweep of the arm and the words Apo pantos kakodaimonos) any person in religious garb. All these practices assist concentration, and also serve to keep one on the alert. They form an invaluable preliminary training for the colossal Work of genuine concentration when it comes to be a question of the fin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 93
…in very wide limits) the more experience a man has, the better is he equipped to make his way in the world. We think it wiser to let men find out for themselves what dangers lie ahead, and pay the penalty for imprudence while recovery is comparatively easy. Better learn how to fall before the bones become brittle. Another advantage of our idea of the relationship between long gowns and short is that, even if at the cost of some superficial respect, it is possible to establish more intimate communion in a spirit of comradeship between the old an…