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Page 74 of 1001909 · 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…
1913 · PDF PAGE 307
…rt champion of orthodoxy as he was, resisted, and in 385 he went to Tréves to plead for the persecuted Priscillianists, He prevailed. So long as Martin stayed at court the Ithacan party was foiled. When he left they had the upper hand again, and Maximus gave the suppression of the heretics into the hands of the unrelenting Evodius. Priscillian was killed. Exile and death were the fate of his followers. Heresy blazed the stronger, 9
1913 · PDF PAGE 307
…rt champion of orthodoxy as he was, resisted, and in 385 he went to Tréves to plead for the persecuted Priscillianists, He prevailed. So long as Martin stayed at court the Ithacan party was foiled. When he left they had the upper hand again, and Maximus gave the suppression of the heretics into the hands of the unrelenting Evodius. Priscillian was killed. Exile and death were the fate of his followers. Heresy blazed the stronger, 9
1930 · PDF PAGE 14
…His Will and your will together make up that one will, because you and He are one. That one will is therefore divided against itself, so long as your will fails to aspire steadfastly. Also, His will cannot constrain yours. He is so much one with you that even your will to separate is His will. He is so certain of you that He delights in your perturbation and coquetry no less than in your surrender. These relations are fully explained in Liber LXV. See also Liber Aleph CXI. ~ 134 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 54
… are degenerate from them, or evolved from Simians, who dare deny that such a book may be possessed of unimaginable powers? It is not so long since the methods of modem science were scoffed at by the whole cultured world. In the sacred halls themselves the roofs rang loud with the scornful laughter of the high pnests as each new postulant approached with his unorthodox offeiing. 174 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
…e of a new dimension of thought, which seems so “inscrutably infinité” and “absurd” and “immoral”, etc. — because we hâve not studied it long enough to appreciate that its laws are identical with our own, though extended to new conceptions. The discovery of radioactivi'ty created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interprétation of the old ideas. It dispersed many difficultés, harmonized many discords, and — yea, more! It shewed the substance of the Universe as a simplicity of Light and Life, possessed of li…
1929 · PDF PAGE 105
…d of His magical resources) recited “From Greenland’s Icy Mountains”, and obtained His resuit. 1 It may be conceded in any case that the long strings of formidable words which roar and moan through so many conjurations hâve a real effect in exalting the consciousness of the magician to the proper pitch — that they should do so is no more extraordinary than music of any kind should do so. Magicians hâve not confined themselves to the use of the human voice. The Pan-pipe with its seven stops, corresponding to the seven planets, the bull-roarer, t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 50
…Your sub-questions a, b, and c are really answered by the above. All the terms you use are very indefinite . I hope it will not take too long to get you out of the way of thinking in these terms. For instance , the word "initiation" includes the whole process, and how to distinguish between it and enlightenment I cannot tell you . "Probation," moreover , if it means "Proving," continues throughout the entire process. Nothing is worse for the student than to indulge in these mild speculations about ambiguous terms. 5. You can, if you like, try t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 96
…nd irresponsibly with the lightness of champagne. He talked about himself and his amazing luck in financial matters; but he never stayed long enough on any subject to make a definite impression or, you might say, to allow of a reply. He interspersed his remarks with the liveliest anecdotes, and apologised towards the end of the meal for having been preoccupied with the deal which he had on at the moment. “I’m afraid it’s literally obsessing me,” he said. “ But you know it makes, or rather will make, a big difference to my prospects. Unfortunate…
1905 · PDF PAGE 148
… WuHy is thy back made stiff, unrighteous priest, Thy knee reluctant? Thine old eyes, grown blind, Stare into silence, and behold no god Longer. Thy forehead knows no reverence Nor sign of worship. Or sits mutiny Blasphemous on thy brows? For in thine eyes I see full knowledge, and some glittering fire Lurks in the rheumy corners ; yea, some fire Malignant, terrible—nay, pitiable, Thou poer fool stricken with senility, How spurred to passion? Yet behold thy god, Horus, lest anger take benignancy From his left hand and smite thee with his streng…
1922 · PDF PAGE 192
…s, and clutch at it feebly. “ It’s true,’’ said Cockie, to my amazement, “ and we've got to be able to ¢ell him we've won.”’ There was a long quarrel—as there is over every incident of any sort. That is natural, with this eternal insomnia and sleeping at the wrong time. I hated Peter (and K.L.) the more because I knew all the time he was right. If K.L. is a Devil, it’s up to us to get the last laugh. I tore the beastly letter into shreds. Peter has gone out—I hope he has gone to kill him. I want to be thrilled—just once more— if I had to be han…
1930 · PDF PAGE 34
…ise above them. Yea, though his very life tremble on his lips, let him force his way upward and onward ! “5. Let him continue in this so long as the breath of life is in him. Whatever threatens, whatever allures, though it were Typhon and ail his hosts loosed from the pit and leagued against him, though it were from the very Throne of God himself that a voice issues bidding him stay and be content, let him struggle on, ever on. “6. At last there must corne a moment when his whole being is swallowed up in fatigue, overwhelmed by its own inertia.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 519
…ant at Mohammedan morality, we may suspect the real trouble is that American hatters see no hope of disposing of their surplus stock, as long as the wicked Oriental sticks to his turban or tarbush. The exquisite, dignified and comfortable clothes of remote people, from Sicily to Japan, must give way to the vile shoddy products of foreign factories, and the motive is supplied by a worldwide campaign on behalf of social snobbery. The people are persuaded that they ought to try to look like a sporting duke or a bank president. Such plans obviously…
1904 · PDF PAGE 18
…is a mirror, wherein who sees muck is muck.) (3) A careful naturalist will understand much from the voices of the animals he has studied long. Even a child knows the difference of a cat’s miauling and purring. The faculty may be greatly developed. (4) Business capacity may be stimulated. (5) Abnormal states of the body may be corrected, and the involved tissues brought back to tone, in obedience to currents started from the brain. So for all other phenomena. There is no effect which is truly and necessarily miraculous. Our Ceremonial Magic fine…
1912 · PDF PAGE 296
…welve months, or a good third of the allusions will be for ever unintelligible, It is one of the most readable books I have struck for a long while ; alas! that so depressing a portrait should be so real, Anarchy would become the only lhinkable political creed if One of Us represented more than a negligible and almost outworn fringe of the antimacassar of society. ALEISTER CROWLEY. STRANGER THAN FICTION. By MARY L, LEWES. William Rider & Son, 3:.י611? net. ANY one who likes to read rubbish can get large quantities at a reasonable price by readi…
1912 · PDF PAGE 296
…welve months, or a good third of the allusions will be for ever unintelligible, It is one of the most readable books I have struck for a long while ; alas! that so depressing a portrait should be so real, Anarchy would become the only lhinkable political creed if One of Us represented more than a negligible and almost outworn fringe of the antimacassar of society. ALEISTER CROWLEY. STRANGER THAN FICTION. By MARY L, LEWES. William Rider & Son, 3:.י611? net. ANY one who likes to read rubbish can get large quantities at a reasonable price by readi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 160
…ike this Cower at death. For Egypt’s honour, | then ! Give me that spear. [Aszée.] That royalty’s own hand Should send this thing to his long misery ! [Zaking a spear, he runs through the soldter. The KING OF SYRIA, attended, enters. KING OF SYRIA. Your armies beaten back before my faxe, Your weapons broken, I am come t tuke The crown from her pale brows that s:‘teth there. THE LEPER. The Queen is dead: Iam the King of Egypt. To-day I saved the house from its own shame By strange ways: I will strike one blow to save The land from its invaders. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 140
…emoved, including the very one which we wished to invoke, for that force as existing in Nature is always impure. But this process, being long and wearisome, is not altogether advisable in actual working. It is usually sufficient to perform a general banishing, and to rely upon the aid of the guardians invoked. Let the banishing therefore be short, but in no wise slurred — for it is useful as it tends to produce the proper attitude of mind for the invocations. “The Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram” (as now rewritten, Liber 333, Cap. XXV) is the…
1996 · PDF PAGE 17
18 The Law is for All blasphemes against this godhead. In certain aspects, it has shown itself to be an arch-enemy of the soul of man. Long ago Henrik Ibsen declared that “mere democracy cannot solve the social question.” He might have added that there are many other questions that it cannot solve. But he implied this when he said that an element of aristocracy must be introduced into our life. Of course I do not mean the aristocracy of birth or of the purse, or even the aristocracy of intellect. I mean the aristocracy of character, of will, of…
1906 · PDF PAGE 201
…- mouth Brother, have scared their illiterate, since hypocrisy was born, with Abel, and spiritual tyranny, with Jehovah! Society, in the long run, is eminently sane and practical ; under the Second Empireit ran mad. If these things are done in the green tree of Society, what shall be done in the dry tree of Bo- hemianism? Art always has a suspicion to fight against; always some poor mad Max Nordau is handy to call everything outside the kitchen the asylum. Here, however, there is a substratum of truth. Consider the intolerable long roll of name…