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Page 73 of 1001929 · PDF PAGE 103
…y flat and settled down at once to get everything in order for the great Operation, which one is told to begin at Easter. The house is a long low building. I set apart the south-western half for my work. The largest room has a bow window and here I made my door and constructed the terrace and lodge. In side the room I set up my oratory proper. This was a wooden structure, lined in part with the big mirrors which I brought from London. On first arriving at Boleskine, I innocently frightened some excellent people by my habit of taking long walks …
1910 · PDF PAGE 172
…loped into Pratyaharic Dharana; loss of Ego and a vision of mysterious power: loss of all objects mental and physical. I do not know how long this lasted I woke meditating Anahata.t The voice of Nada was like a far-off solemn song; it became “Aum” only, drop- ping “Mani Padme Hum,” and then was more like thunder without harmonics. Did Dharana on Anahata. 11.45-12.15 Suddhi. A’sana very painful. am. p.m, 12,15-1.0 Meditation on “ Aum Mani Padme Hum,” and sleep. p.m. p.m, 4-15-4.45 Dharana on Anahata with “Aum Mani Padme Hum.” The p.m. p.m, latte…
1910 · PDF PAGE 172
…loped into Pratyaharic Dharana; loss of Ego and a vision of mysterious power: loss of all objects mental and physical. I do not know how long this lasted I woke meditating Anahata.t The voice of Nada was like a far-off solemn song; it became “Aum” only, drop- ping “Mani Padme Hum,” and then was more like thunder without harmonics. Did Dharana on Anahata. 11.45-12.15 Suddhi. A’sana very painful. am. p.m, 12,15-1.0 Meditation on “ Aum Mani Padme Hum,” and sleep. p.m. p.m, 4-15-4.45 Dharana on Anahata with “Aum Mani Padme Hum.” The p.m. p.m, latte…
1922 · PDF PAGE 106
…u can always trust these chaps when you strike a really good man. What was missing was something red | I told you about Lou’s mouth; her long, jagged, snaky, scarlet streak always writhing and twisting as if it had a separate life of its own and were perpetually in some delicious kind of torture! The man saw immediately what was necessary. The mouth had to be repeated symbolically. That’s the whole secret of art. So he fished out a snake of pigeon’s blood rubies. My God! it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life, except Lou her…
1922 · PDF PAGE 377
Love under Will 363 the hospitality of the Abbey. Song and dance were in full swing. Basil and I fell into a quiet chat. ‘“* How long is it, by the way,” he said, “ since you last took a dose of anything ? ”’ ‘I’m not quite sure,’”’ I answered, dreamily watching Lou and Lala, who had arrived a week since with the apparatus I required for my experiments, as_ they waltzed together on the court. They were both radiant. It seemed as if the moon had endowed them with her pure subtlety and splendour. “IT asked you,” continued Big Lion, pulling at a b…
1954 · PDF PAGE 205
…for evermore, as real as any other manifestation of Reality through sense such as is common to all men. And this brings us-it has been a long way round-from the suggestion of your visit to the question (hitherto unanswered) in your letter. You raise so vast and razor-edged a question when you write of the supposed antinomy of "soul" and "sense" that it seemed better to withhold comment until this later letter; much meditation was most needful to compress the answer within reasonable limits; even to give it form at all is no easy matter. For thi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 434
…your spiritual sustenance? Have you excluded every source of error? Have you-here , you know the routine; write it all down and send it along to be vetted! Be that as it may, I once knew a lady of some seventy summers. She came of a noble Polish family; she was short, sturdy , rather plump but singularly agile; good-looking in a brutal sort of way. But-her eyes! For fifty years she had lived nearly all the year round in her chateau in Touraine. She had plenty of money, and had always surrounded herself with a dozen or more boys and young men. (…
1996 · PDF PAGE 59
… the will to create be consciously formulated. Lot in his drunkenness served the turn of his two daughters, no less than Jupiter, who prolonged the night to forty-eight hours in order to give himself time to beget Hercules. Man is in actual possession of this supreme talisman. It is his “pearl of great price,”1 in comparison with which all other jewels are but gew-gaws. It is his prime duty to preserve the integrity of this substance. He must not allow its quality to be impaired either by malnutrition or by disease. He must not destroy it like …
1929 · PDF PAGE 38
…istmas Day that I was first allowed to use my eyes for a few minutes. The explosion had been devastating. The windows were smashed for a long way round; and the bottles in the chemist's shop on the railway bridge --- a quarter of a mile and more away --- rattled, though the passage of trains had no such effect. Strangely enough, I was the only person injured. Throughout I enjoyed the episode; I was the hero, I had made my mark! The following year I was ready to go to a public school. My Uncle Jonathan wanted me to go to Winchester, as per the f…
1954 · PDF PAGE 18
…f gesture. Some people have felt that he made a laughingstock of himself by so doing, but for this kind of reproach he cared nothing. So long as he felt commanded by that book to behave in such a manner he proceeded to do so, come what may. The verses used are "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law" and "Love is the law, love under will." The command is to be found in the third chapter of Liber Legis: "and to each man and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to…
1929 · PDF PAGE 88
…and attractive to him. This was not the ordinary phenomenon of the déjà vu, it was chiefly a sense of being at home again. He discovered long after that Levi had lived in the neighbourhood for many years. 5. There are many curious similarities between the events of Eliphas Levi’s life and that of Aleister Crowley. The intention 6f the parents that their son should hâve a religious career; the inability to make use of very remarkable talents in any regular wây; the inexplicable ostracism which afflicted him, and whose authors seemed somehow to b…
1954 · PDF PAGE 246
… a merry dance of paradoxes, such as infest Logic and Mathematics. The repeated butting of the head against a brick wall is bound in the long run to shake up the little grey cells [as Poirot might say] , teach you to distrust any train of argument , however apparently impeccable the syllogisms, and to seek ever more eagerly the dawn of that Neschamic consciousness where all these things are clearly understood, although impossible to express in rational language.) The prime function of intellect is differentiation; it deals with marks, with limi…
1922 · PDF PAGE 209
…oothed him a great deal. I wished I had one for myself. I felt my irritability returning ; but I didn’t break out because it couldn’t be long till Basil came round. I looked forward to his coming as to a certain end to all our troubles... . What actually happened was quite different. I hardly know how to write it down. The shame and the disappointment are blasting. I feel that the doors of hope have been slammed in my face. I can imagine the grinding of the key as it turns in the lock, the screech of the rusty bolt as it is driven home. The mom…
1929 · PDF PAGE 220
shunning death, avoidance of danger; the other whose defence is attack." "Yes; we're all right so long as we make ourselves feared. But Victorian prudery turned our tigers into oxen; we found that it was wrong fight dangerous to drink beer, wicked to love; presently it was cruel to eat beef, immoral to laugh, fatal to breathe. We went in terror of the omnipresent germ. Hence we are fat, cowardly slaves. I hear that Kitchener is hard put to it to get his first 100,000 men. Only the public schools respond. Only gentlemen and sportsmen really love…
1996 · PDF PAGE 51
…980).] Why can’t they let one alone? I agree to agree; I only stipulate to be allowed to be inconsistent. I will confess their creed, so long as I may play the part of Peter until the cock crow thrice. They urge more strenuously still the claims of homosexuality to heal the hurts and horrors of humanity, almost the “complete cohort.” On this point I concur that they argue indisputably, with sober sense to support and stress of suffering to spur them. They prove with Euler’s3 exactness and Hinton’s4 passion that hetero sexuality entrains an inf…
1922 · PDF PAGE 379
…elieving itself by distracting your thoughts from the object of your calculations, a little heroin would calm their clamour sufficiently long to enable you to get the thing done. Now, it’s utterly wrong to force yourself to work from a sense of duty. The more thoroughly you succeed in analysing your mind, the more surely you become able to recognise the moment when a supreme effort is likely to result in definite achievement. Nature is very quick to warn one when one makes an error. A
1954 · PDF PAGE 202
…en-or do I call it park? If so, cut (with the magic knife-I would lend you mine) a bough, as nearly straight as possible, about two feet long. Peel it, rub it constantly with Oil of Abramelin (this, and his incense, from Wallis and Co., 26 New Cavendish Street , W.l.) and keep wrapped in scarlet silk. Constantly, I
1922 · PDF PAGE 208
…they hadn’t dared to do it.. They were suffering from a sense of insult about the new law, the Diabolical Dope Act. They had undergone a long and expensive training and had diplomas which made them responsible for the héalth of the community ; and now they weren’t allowed to prescribe for their own patients. It was natural enough that they should be indignant.
1929 · PDF PAGE 517
…m some totally unexpected source, in order to keep me on that psychological razor-edge whence one can always see the abyss as one can no longer do when one is in it. In this way, I saw all classes and all races, but no longer from the privileged standpoint, with the result that I was able to understand thoroughly what they were like to themselves and to each other. The horror and loathsomeness of those conditions left a permanent mark upon my character. It went far to destroy my capacity for lyrical expression, or perhaps rather to make impossi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 304
THE EQUINOX long as it is conditioned in Time; and that a dream is of as real a nature as awakenment, but on a different plane in existence, the conditions of which can alone be judged and measured by experimental science. Science advances by means of accumulating facts and con- solidating them, the grand generalisation of which merges into a theory when it has been accepted by universal inference. Thus, I infer that catching a ball is not a necessary sequitur to throwing a ball up in the air; however, if I had never thrown a ball up in my life…