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Page 72 of 1031929 · PDF PAGE 563
…. I had three kilts, a dress tunic and waistcoat, a tweed coat and vest and a green military tunic. Faute de mieux, I donned the garb of old Gaul which, if unusual, was dignified, and scrapping together very nearly ten pounds, I crossed the Channel in the first week of May. The first problem was to find rooms. I was taking tea with my old friend Gwendolen Otter and asked if anyone knew a suitable place. The vague reply was that there were plenty round the King's Road, Chelsea. I went off, weary in body and spirit. I could hardly drag one foot a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 207
…entagram, mystically referred to Jeheshua. 732. Zohar.*6— ‘*Splendour,” the Central Books of the Dogmatic Qabalah. 733. Pigeon.”—Says an old writer, whom I translate roughly : ‘‘ Thou to thy Lamb and Dove devoutly bow, But leave me, prithee, yet my Hawk and Cow: And I approve thy Greybeard dotard’s smile, If thou wilt that of Egypt’s crocodile.” 746. Lost / Lost! Lost / 78—See The Lay of the Last Minstrel. 759. Ain Elohim.78—‘' There is no God!” so our Bible. But this is really the most sublime affirmation of the Qabalist. ‘‘ Ain is God.” For t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 100
…ioned it to you at all except for two things. I know you're on the square —that goes without saying; but the real point is this, that I told you I rather believe in the Occult.” “Oh, yes,” cried Lou, “then, of course, you know King Lamus.”’ } Feccles started as if he had received a blow in the face. For a moment he was completely out of counten- ance. It seemed as if he were going to say several things, and decided not to. But his face was black as thunder. It was impossible to mistake the meaning of the situation. I turned to Lou with what I s…
1954 · PDF PAGE 310
…of Hell than to take one's own excitations for Divine benediction; if only because there was never a demon yet so atrocious as that same old Ego. You will discover the truth of these remarks when you
1996 · PDF PAGE 90
…l, each new thing that we know about ourselves helps us to realize what we mean by our “Star.” 1 [Grk., “sea.”] Now, “the rituals of the old time” are no longer valid vehicles; Knowledge cannot “go aright” until they are adapted to the Formula of the New /Eon. Their defects are due principally to two radical errors. 1. The Universe was conceived as possessing a fixed centre, or summit; an absolute standard to which all things might be referred; an Unity, or God. (Mystics were angry and bewildered, often enough, when attaining to “union with God…
1907 · PDF PAGE 17
…we may rest and take our fill ; for he has unstrung the mystic lyre of life from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and of Evil , singing old songs and new , Alinging shrill notes of satire to this tumultuous world , as some stormy petrel shrilly crying to the storm ; or sweet notes of love , soft as the whispering wings of a butterfly . Here are the jewels of Heaven , of Havilah , and of Eden , with not a little of the fire of Hell , the flames of Gehenna , and the darkness of Dûat . If we look for pyramids and colossi disappointment will be ou…
1909 · PDF PAGE 351
…“‘Geud bless the selkie that deus no’ forget,” for it was the same seal which he had seen on Hackness forty years before. She was a very old seal now but Mansie would have known her motherly face amongst a thousand. In the folklore of the Hebrides, also, the seal occupies a 343
1909 · PDF PAGE 351
…“‘Geud bless the selkie that deus no’ forget,” for it was the same seal which he had seen on Hackness forty years before. She was a very old seal now but Mansie would have known her motherly face amongst a thousand. In the folklore of the Hebrides, also, the seal occupies a 343
1919 · PDF PAGE 123
…Moon, and made partaker of the Sacrament of Wine that is the blood of the Sun. Yet at the first there may be shock and conflict, for the old thought persists by force of its habit: it is for you to create by repeated act the true right habit of this consciousness of the Life which abideth in Light. And this is easy, if your will be strong: for the true Life is so much more vivid and quintessential than the false that (as I rudely estimate) one hour of the former makes an impression on the memory equal to one year of the latter. One single exper…
1922 · PDF PAGE 91
… tip of one delicious little curling hair a crystal glimmer that I knew. She had been out in the snowstorm ! _ My cunning twisted smile told her that I was wise to the game. “Yes,” she said excitedly, ‘‘I see how it’s done now. You pull yourself together with H. and then you start the buzz-wagon with C. Come along, put in the clutch.” , , Her hand was trembling with excitement. But on the back of it there shimmered a tiny heap of glistening snow. I sniffed it with suppressed ecstasy. I knew that it was only a matter of seconds before I caught t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 196
…himaerae — were moving in the mist, a saturnalia of phantasms. Iliel impatiently awaited the moment of darkness, when she could meet the Old Lady and start for the Sabbath. She had noticed a long conference that day between Sister Clara and the two men; and she was sure that they were themselves arranging for their departure. The suspicion was confirmed when, one after the other, they came to wish her a good night. [277] She was more than ever determined to follow them to the Sabbath. By nine o'clock everything was still in the garden, save for…
1954 · PDF PAGE 314
…ature in their character approximates to this ideal. Now then , it is simple to answer the question of their development , their growing old and dying ; for , being of the same order of Nature as we are ourselves , almost anything which is true of us is true also of them. I have tended rather to elaborate this theme, because of the one personally important question which arises in more recent letters ; for I believe that the Holy Guardian Angel is a Being of this order. He is something more than a man, possibly a being who has already passed th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 14
…o doubt that this phantasy played a great part in determining his passionate. {47} Admiration of the chief of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a Hampshire man named Mathers who inexplicably claimed to be MacGregor of Glenstrae. The boy's attitude to his parents is one of the most remarkable facts of his early life. His father was his hero and his friend, though, for some reason or other, there was no real conscious intimacy or understanding. He always disliked and despised his mother. There was a physical repulsion, and an intellectual an…
1922 · PDF PAGE 30
…better regulated type of mid-Victorian mind, the best thing you can do is to sleep with your forefathers. So that’s that. Good-night. I told you that Lou was “ quite an ordinary and not a particularly attractive girl.” Remember that this was the first thought of my “ carnal mind” which, as St. Paul says, is ‘‘ enmity against God.” My real first impression had been the tremendous psychological experience for which all words are inadequate. Seated by her side, at leisure to look while she babbled, I found my carnal mind reversed on appeal. She wa…
1922 · PDF PAGE 41
Over the Top ! 27 But my physical body was lifting me. It was the same old, wild exhilaration that one gets from rising from the ground on one’s good days. I found myself in the middle of the floor without knowing how I had got there. I, too, was walking on air. Lou turned, her mouth a scarlet orb, as I have seen the sunset over Belgium, over the crinkled line of shore, over the dim blue mystic curve of sea and sky; with the thought in my mind beating in tune with my excited heart. We didn’t miss the arsenal this time. I was the arsenal too. I …
1922 · PDF PAGE 57
…about putting through a law for suppressing the evil of drugs. We smiled our sympathefic assent, with sly glances at our hostess. If the old fool had only known that we were full of cocaine, as we sat and applauded his pompous platitudes ! We laughed our hearts out over the silly incident as we sat in the train. It doesn’t appear particularly comic in perspective; but it’s very hard to tell, at any time, what is going to tickle one’s sense of humour. Probably anything else would have done just as well. We were on the rising curve. The exaltatio…
1922 · PDF PAGE 88
…rgil when recounting his hardships. (Quaint, by the way! I haven't thought of a Latin tag a dozen times since I left school. Drugs, like old age, strip off one’s recent memories, and leave bare one’s forgotten ideas.) _The most deeply seated instinct in us is our craving for experience. And that is why the efforts of the
1930 · PDF PAGE 69
… name it. Write down the card you name, and the actual card. Repeat, and tabulate results. 2. This experiment is probably easier with an old genuine pack of Tarot cards, preferably a pack used for divination by some one who really understood the matter. 3. Remember that one should expect to name the right card once in 78 times. Also be careful to exciude ail possibilities of obtaining the knowledge through the ordinary senses of sight and touch, or even smell. There was once a man whose fingertips were so sensitive that he could feel the shape …
1922 · PDF PAGE 124
…’m after gets on his guard, there'll be absolutely nothing doing.” ‘" Yes,” I said, ‘I see all that, but—well, we’d do anything for good old England—goes without saying, but how can we help you out?” _ “* Well,”’ said Feccles, ‘I don’t see why it should put you out very much. You needn't even see me. But if I could pose as your courier, go ahead and book your rooms and look after your luggage and engage boats and that sort of thing for you, I shouldn’t need to be explained. As things are, it might even save you trouble. They’re the most frightf…
1930 · PDF PAGE 54
…n heaths and in woods, on mountains and in caves, openly in the market-places and secretly in the chambers of our houses, in temples of gold and ivory and marble as in these other temples of our bodies, we worthily commemorate them worthy that did of old adore thee and manifest thy glory unto menyLao-tze and Siddartha and Krishna and Tahuti, Mosheh, DionysuSy Mohammed and To Mega Therion, with these alsoy Hermes, Pan, Priapus, Osiris, and Melchizedeck, Khem and Amoun and Mm tu y Heraclesy Orpheus and Odysseus; with Vergilius, CatulluSy Martiali…