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Page 71 of 1121913 · PDF PAGE 563
…ch sound false in contact with a degraded soul. The wicked can feel nothing, because they can love nothing: in order to love one must be good. Consequently for them everything is empty, and it seems to them that Nature is im- potent, because they are so themselves ; they doubt everything because they know nothing; they blaspheme everything because they taste nothing; they caress in order to degrade; they drink in order to get drunk; they sleep in order to forget; they wake in order to endure mortal boredom: thus will live, or rather thus will d…
1913 · PDF PAGE 29
… me here to-day. This is the hand which moves the wooden-headed pawn Wedgwood, hardly a man, certainly no Mason, and of what freedom and good report his present intrigue is the best evidence. This is why our Masonic Polonius has been interred hugger-mugger ! This is the secret object of the attempt to hold the election xxix
1913 · PDF PAGE 563
…ch sound false in contact with a degraded soul. The wicked can feel nothing, because they can love nothing: in order to love one must be good. Consequently for them everything is empty, and it seems to them that Nature is im- potent, because they are so themselves ; they doubt everything because they know nothing; they blaspheme everything because they taste nothing; they caress in order to degrade; they drink in order to get drunk; they sleep in order to forget; they wake in order to endure mortal boredom: thus will live, or rather thus will d…
1904 · PDF PAGE 21
THE SWORD OF SONG 14 But if you drink your mystic fill Under the good tree Igdrasil64 Where is at all your use for Christ? Hath Krishna not at all sufficed? I hereby guarantee to pull A faith as quaint and beautiful As much attractive to an ass, And setting reason at defiance, As Zionism, Christian Science, Or Ladies’ Leage,65 “Keep off the Grass !” From “Alice through the Looking-Glass.” Hence I account no promise worse, Fail to conceive a fiercer curse Than John’s third chapter (sixteenth verse). But now (you say) broad-minded folk Think that…
1906 · PDF PAGE 93
…King is here, in very truth. Where is the son of Tyro? MEN. Who art thou? JASON. Know me for Jason and great Aeson’s heir. MEN. We learn good news, most enviable sir ; That Aeson hath such grand inheritance. JASON. You have grown fat beneath an evil rule. Your period is at hand. Go, one of you, And drag the impious wretch before my sight ! MEN. Aeson? Thy father? JASON. Play not with my wrath ! My mood is something dangerous. MEN. Dangerous sir, I go indeed, to bring some danger more Hither. JASON. Poltroonery dislikes the wise. Fair maidens, I…
1907 · PDF PAGE 287
…‘ 1,' ” the Agnostic answers , You were never ‘I,' ” both merely state , -- see that on the papyrus of thy life thou in scribest what is good , what is beautiful , for others must read it, it is thy soul . Change , change , no stability . The “ is " is not as was ,” and the “ was ” is not as the “ will be "; every cause has its effect : “ Freewill ” is the postu late of Morality , “ Determination " of Science . Thus in Buddhism we find Anikka , Dukkha , and Anatta , and in Agnosticism Change , Sorrow , and Absence of an Ego ; and in both : That…
1909 · PDF PAGE 286
…ngst the Shells, and the Celestial Serpent of Wisdom. «But the Serpent of the Temptation was the Serpent of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and of Evil, and (Siey eNPIBIORS) Dracram 38. The Calvary Cross of Twelve Squares. i ‘The Serpent of Brass. not the Serpent of the Tree of Life.’” After which the Hiereus shows the Practicus “The Qabalah of the Nine Num- Dracram 40. L) ‘The Qabalah of Nine Diacram 41. bers,” and the tablet of the Chambers, “Forming the Tree of Life ‘The Tablet of the Three Columns, in the Tarot.” And the Hegemon: The tabl…
1909 · PDF PAGE 286
…ngst the Shells, and the Celestial Serpent of Wisdom. «But the Serpent of the Temptation was the Serpent of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and of Evil, and (Siey eNPIBIORS) Dracram 38. The Calvary Cross of Twelve Squares. i ‘The Serpent of Brass. not the Serpent of the Tree of Life.’” After which the Hiereus shows the Practicus “The Qabalah of the Nine Num- Dracram 40. L) ‘The Qabalah of Nine Diacram 41. bers,” and the tablet of the Chambers, “Forming the Tree of Life ‘The Tablet of the Three Columns, in the Tarot.” And the Hegemon: The tabl…
1913 · PDF PAGE 19
…“revolting”? Marites, Yes, that’s the bad part Sconvo, K.C. "Has not Mr. Crowley habitually reprinted all sorts of reviews of his works, good and bad, with a giant's contempt for reviewers? Mariuns, Of course. th deals with a subject
1909 · PDF PAGE 118
… strong impression of loathsome disease, entirely overpowering the intention of picturing inflicted pain. Roderic, who, far from being a good man, was actually a Freethinker, thought it a grimly apt symbol of the religion of our day. On His right stood a plaster Muse, with a lyre, the effect being decidedly improved by some one who had affixed a comic mask with a grinning mouth and a long pink nose; on His left a stone plaque of Lakshmi, the Hindu Venus, a really very fine piece of work, clean and dignified, in a way the one sanity in the room,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 118
… strong impression of loathsome disease, entirely overpowering the intention of picturing inflicted pain. Roderic, who, far from being a good man, was actually a Freethinker, thought it a grimly apt symbol of the religion of our day. On His right stood a plaster Muse, with a lyre, the effect being decidedly improved by some one who had affixed a comic mask with a grinning mouth and a long pink nose; on His left a stone plaque of Lakshmi, the Hindu Venus, a really very fine piece of work, clean and dignified, in a way the one sanity in the room,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 199
…ious. 4. Quaternary. Are closely connected with the control centre itself. Their nature is “How well I’m doing it,” or “Wouldn’t it be a good idea to. ..?” These are prob- ably emanations from the control, not messages to it. We might call them: “ Aberrations of control.” Of a similar depth are the reflections which discover a break, but these are healthy warnings, and assist. 5. Quinary, Neverrise intoconsciousness at all,being helddown by themost perfect control. Hence the blank of thought, the forgetfulness of all things, including the objec…
1910 · PDF PAGE 199
…ious. 4. Quaternary. Are closely connected with the control centre itself. Their nature is “How well I’m doing it,” or “Wouldn’t it be a good idea to. ..?” These are prob- ably emanations from the control, not messages to it. We might call them: “ Aberrations of control.” Of a similar depth are the reflections which discover a break, but these are healthy warnings, and assist. 5. Quinary, Neverrise intoconsciousness at all,being helddown by themost perfect control. Hence the blank of thought, the forgetfulness of all things, including the objec…
1913 · PDF PAGE 11
…o would understand Elizabethan literature must lay his account with an ocean of mighty flat and dull reading . In fine, we may reverence good poetry without wrapping a religious mystery about it. It is with poets as with bricklayers ,-- if you set a thousand to work you are likelier to discover genius than if you set a dozen ; and this in spite of all such sayings as poeta nascitur non fit and solus rex vel poeta non quotannis nascitur . For even as many youths have started with an impulse for poetry and failed to achieve it, so many others hav…
1919 · PDF PAGE 400
… actual experience. He should know them in detail. There is a great deal of pious gassing about most Teachers—it is very easy to say “Be good and you will be happy,” and I am afraid that even this book itself has been taken as little better by the majority of its ad- mirers. What the pupil wants is not vague generalisa- tions on virtue, not analyses of Nirvana and explorations in Hindu metaphysics, but a plain straightforward statement of a practical character. When a man is meditating and finds himself interfered with by some particular class …
1907 · PDF PAGE 29
…ate is truly a sad one ! Much verse is produced which might be placed with last year's store lists — you know where ; some is distinctly good , but it is soon lost in the raging sea of poetic dialect , and hackneyed naïveté . Here and there we come across a charming lyric , which the carping whisky - and - water critic will at once demolish as weak , troubled , vague , etc. , etc. Not long ago my eyes lit on the following which I considered a charming verse from a poetic point of view , if not from that of a morbid anatomist : Look down into th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 306
THE EQUINOX “Virtue,” he defines as: ‘‘the bent of mind towards self- command” (and evidently practises it). His morals are good; but his scientific conceptions really “take the cake!” ‘There are three kinds of animate creations in the world,” he writes: “They are the creations from (1) the womb; (2) Eggs; (3) Perspiration. ...” Another gem: “how is it that some of the bodies are male and some are female?” Answer: “If the male seed preponderates, a male body is produced; and if female, a female. While, when both are equally proportioned, an eun…
1910 · PDF PAGE 306
THE EQUINOX “Virtue,” he defines as: ‘‘the bent of mind towards self- command” (and evidently practises it). His morals are good; but his scientific conceptions really “take the cake!” ‘There are three kinds of animate creations in the world,” he writes: “They are the creations from (1) the womb; (2) Eggs; (3) Perspiration. ...” Another gem: “how is it that some of the bodies are male and some are female?” Answer: “If the male seed preponderates, a male body is produced; and if female, a female. While, when both are equally proportioned, an eun…
1911 · PDF PAGE 141
THE ORDEAL OF IDA PENDRAGON ever so many more than one would think. This proves that God is good. And then, you see, there are beetles. Beetles and beetles. And scorpions. Dear little amber beasts. There! one has stung me. It is the sacrament of hate. I Will Sleep in a bed of scorpions and rose-leaves. Scorpions are better than thorns. Why do I wander about naked? And why do I thirst? And this torment of cold? It ought to be hot in the desert. And it isn’t. Now that proves—0h yes, my cat! you shall have milk. I will strike a rock for you. Milk …
1911 · PDF PAGE 141
THE ORDEAL OF IDA PENDRAGON ever so many more than one would think. This proves that God is good. And then, you see, there are beetles. Beetles and beetles. And scorpions. Dear little amber beasts. There! one has stung me. It is the sacrament of hate. I Will Sleep in a bed of scorpions and rose-leaves. Scorpions are better than thorns. Why do I wander about naked? And why do I thirst? And this torment of cold? It ought to be hot in the desert. And it isn’t. Now that proves—0h yes, my cat! you shall have milk. I will strike a rock for you. Milk …