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Page 74 of 901996 · PDF PAGE 142
…is almost always due to the desire to excel other men, instead of referring the matter to the only competent judge, the true Will of the body. I myself used to “go all out” on moun tains; I hold more World’s Records of various kinds than I can reckon—for pace, skill, daring, and endurance. But I never wor ried about whether other people could beat me. For this reason my excesses, instead of causing damage to health and danger to life, turned me from a delicate boy, too frail for football, doomed by my doctors to die in my teens, into a robust…
1910 · PDF PAGE 153
…ikened to a charged leyden-jar, the nerve-paths radiating from it thrill betimes with its discharges, carrying its meaning through man’s body, and, through the A®ther, even to the infinitude of space. When it is functioning normally, its total discharge is prevented, so that never at any time can more than a fraction of its stored up energy be dissipated. ... And then Death comes; and in the moment of its coming, all that locked up energy flames on the universe like a new-born star.* Ananda Metteya then in a lengthy and lucid explanation demons…
1910 · PDF PAGE 153
…ikened to a charged leyden-jar, the nerve-paths radiating from it thrill betimes with its discharges, carrying its meaning through man’s body, and, through the A®ther, even to the infinitude of space. When it is functioning normally, its total discharge is prevented, so that never at any time can more than a fraction of its stored up energy be dissipated. ... And then Death comes; and in the moment of its coming, all that locked up energy flames on the universe like a new-born star.* Ananda Metteya then in a lengthy and lucid explanation demons…
1930 · PDF PAGE 96
…t does not deal in ambiguities and abstractions. It possesses form, and con¬ fesses law, in exactly the same way and degree as any other body of truth. It is to the truth of the material and intellectual spheres of man very much what the Mathematics of Philosophy with its “infinité sériés” and “Cantorian continuity” is to schoolboy arith- metic. Each implies the other, though by that one may explore the essential nature of existence, and by this a pawnbroker’s profits. This then is the true aim of the Adept in this whole operation, to assimilat…
1954 · PDF PAGE 364
…Work whereby I am a Magus began in Cairo (1904) with the discovery of the Stele of Ankh-f-n-Khonsu, in which the principal object is the Body of our Lady Nuit. It is reproduced in colours in The Equinox, Vol. I, No.6. Jane Cheron has a copy of this book. On Friday afternoon, then, I was in her apartment. I had attained none of my objectives in calling on her, and was a bout to depart. She detained me to show me this "something." She went and took a folded cloth from a drawer. "Shut your eyes," she said. When I opened them they saw a cloth four …
1919 · PDF PAGE 174
…ce. Aum. (This is very good. O.M.) Dec. 11th, 9.52-10.37 P.M. Meditation in Asana. Dragon as usual. Took a few long breaths, filling the body and mind with Love, and then ex- pelling it till it owed through me. Used Mantra: “The Self is Love. That Self am I” first part of the time, afterwards changing to “The Self is THAT, that Self am I.” 1“Not this, not this!” a Hindoo phrase used in the practice of rejecting all thoughts as they arise. 166
1922 · PDF PAGE 314
…e here. I’m half insane myself at this moment with craving for H.; but I won’t take it till I’ve seen this thing through. The pain of my body helps me to bear up against the mortal anguish of my soul. Oh, I know it’s heroics and hysterics—you can call me what you like—what you say. doesn’t count any more. But I want to live; and I have asked Basil to take me away as once he promised to do long before I met you. _He has promised to cure me, and I hold him to that. He has promised to take me away, and I hold him to that. You can get a divorce. Yo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 10
…small-talk — she had made up her mind. Or, more accurately, she had become conscious of herself. She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused. He was engaged' to …
1906 · PDF PAGE 11
…, Ileavy the clouds that hover Over our Hell to-day. “¢* Say, in our dark Gomorrah, Lord, can an angel find Fifty, but fifty, righteous— Body—I say not Mind.” Sadly the angel turneth— ‘* Stay, ere thou fleest, stay ; Canst thou not find me twenty?” ‘‘ Nay” is the answer, ‘‘ nay.” ‘* Are there not ten, bright spirit, Hidden, nor quickly seen, Somewhere in Hell’s dark alleys, Somewhere in Walham Green? ‘‘ Speak, for I see thy forehead Sadden in dark denial, Is there not one that standeth Tempter and longsome trial? ‘*Is not a candle burning Somew…
1996 · PDF PAGE 107
…h fearful fer vour; it is the face of his Fate that craves his kiss, and in her eyes Enigma blazes and smoulders; she is his death, her body his coffin where he may rot and stink, or writhe in damned dreams, self slain, or rise in incorruption self-renewed, immortal and identical, fulfilling himself wholly in and by her, splashing all space with sparkling stars his sons and daughters, each star an image of his own infinity made manifest, mood after mood, by her magick to mould him when his passion makes molten her metal. Thus then must every …
1930 · PDF PAGE 21
otherwise important. Nobody cares about Duncan having been murdered by Macbeth. It is only one of a number of similar murders. But Shakespeare’s account of the incident is a unique treasure of mankind. And, apart from the question of the value to others, there is that of the value to the magician himself. The record of the magician is his best asset. It is as foolish to do Magick without method, as if it were anything else. To do Magick without keeping a record is like tiying to run a business without book-keeping. There are a great manv people…
1930 · PDF PAGE 34
…atever he does leaves him without temptation to wander from the way of his True Will. Secondly, he must keep silence, while he nails his body to the tree of his Creative will, in the shape of that Will, leaving his head and arms to form the Symbol of Light, as if to make oath that his every thought, Word and deed should express the Light derived from the God with which he has identified his life, his love and his liberty — symbolised by his heart, his phallus, and his legs. It 238 —
1996 · PDF PAGE 101
…f the world. Think not, o king, upon that lie: That Thou Must Die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. Now let it be understood: If the body of the King dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever. Nuit! Hadit! Ra-Hoor-Khuit! The Sun, Strength & Sight, Light; these are for the servants of the Star & the Snake. Commentary: There is a good deal of the Nietzschean stand point in this verse. It is the evolutionary and natural view. Of what use is it to perpetuate the misery of tuberculosis, and such diseases, as we now do? Nature’s way is …
1905 · PDF PAGE 14
…a serpent pass, i Might rouse her reverie. So then, behold, Chance leant from Heaven with feet and face of gold, And hid the iron of her body bare With such warm cloudlets as the morning aii
1996 · PDF PAGE 146
… need of cautious care. But he would be no less foolish if he tried to prevent the used-up elements from eliminating themselves from his body. We respect the Will-to-Live; we should respect the Will-to Die. The race is auto-intoxicated by suppressing the excretory processes of Nature. Each case must of course be judged on its merits. His neigh bours do well to assist one who is weak by accident or misfor tune, if he wishes to recover. But it is a crime against the state and against the individuals in question to hinder the gambler, the drunka…
1906 · PDF PAGE 143
… O sea, swallow CriospA. Thou sinister one ! I duly did ; That drugged (and dancing with delight thereof The maiden’s mind) the maiden’s body prone Lay on her altar. Then she gave consent, And I smote once. RupHa. Ha! Ha! What came then? Criospa. I tore out her heart, and held its flame aloft. The blackening Thy rite blood Gushed on my arms—and then— Rupua. Ho! Ho! CriosDA. With red lips reeking from the sweet foul feast, I sang in tuneless agony the spell ; Rolled athwart space the black words: then some force Tore me: I heard the tears drop i…
1910 · PDF PAGE 194
…ation the mind is not restrained to the contemplation of a single object, and there is no interference with the natural functions of the body. It is essentially an observation-practice, which later assumes an analytic aspect in regard to the question: “ What is it that is really observed?” The Ego-idea is excluded; all bodily motions are observed and recorded; for instance, one may sit down quietly and say: “There is a raising of the right foot.” “There is an expiration,” etc., etc., just as it happens. When once this habit of excluding the Ego…
1910 · PDF PAGE 194
…ation the mind is not restrained to the contemplation of a single object, and there is no interference with the natural functions of the body. It is essentially an observation-practice, which later assumes an analytic aspect in regard to the question: “ What is it that is really observed?” The Ego-idea is excluded; all bodily motions are observed and recorded; for instance, one may sit down quietly and say: “There is a raising of the right foot.” “There is an expiration,” etc., etc., just as it happens. When once this habit of excluding the Ego…
1929 · PDF PAGE 91
…that things like bankruptcy, wedlock, and the gallows made no particular différence. They were only accidents such as might happen to anybody; they had no real bearing on the point at issue. One consequently remembers having one’s ears cropped as a lucky escape, while the casual jest of a drunken skeinsmate in an all-night café stings one with the shame of the parvenu to whom a poli te stranger has unsuspectingly mentioned “Mine Uncle”. The testimony of intuitions is, however, strictly subjective, and shrieks for collateral security. It would b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 155
…e must be initiated in a Truth which transcends the apparent facts. He must be aware that ail Nature isa continuum, so that his mind and body are consubstantial with the storm, are equally expressions of One Existence, ail alike of the self-same order of artifices whereby the Absolute appréciâtes itslf. He must also hâve assimilated the fact that Quantity is just as much a form as Qualityj that as ail things are modes of One Substance, so their measures are modes of their relation. Not only are gold and lead mere letters, meaningless in themsel…