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Page 74 of 911996 · PDF PAGE 48
Chapter I a Verse 51 49 Nuit. This being sure, we are urged to the fullest expansion of our several Natures, with special attention to those pleasures which not only express the soul, but aid it to reach the higher develop ments of that expression. The act of Love is to the bourgeois (as the “Christian” is called nowadays) a gross animal gesture which shames his boasted humanity. The appetite drags him at its hoofs; it tires him, dis gusts him, diseases him, makes him ridiculous even in his own eyes. It is the source of nearly all his neurose…
1905 · PDF PAGE 233
…grown A magic palace to enchanted eyes ; A wizard guerdon for a minstrel wise. Perhaps I am a fool to think that here, Merely by rending Nature’s h~"low veil, I may attain the Solitary Sphere, Achieve the Path ; or, haply, if I fail, Gain the Elixir, or behold the Grail.} I seek the mystery of Life and Time, The Key of all that is not and that is, And that which — climb, imagination ! climb !— Transcends them both—the mystical abyss Where Mind and Being marry, and are Bliss.” So have I journeyed—likea fool ! Ah, well! Let pass self-scorn, as lo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 75
… mountebanks,' or Samuel Butler, first of that dynasty, has lied. "But other magicians sought to make this Homunculus in a way closer to nature. In all these cases they had held that environment could be modified at will by the application of telesmata or sympathetic figures. For example, a nine-pointed star would attract the influence which they called Luna — not meaning the actual moon, but an idea similar to the poets' ideas of her. By surrounding an object with such stars, with similarly-disposed herbs, perfumes, metals, talismans, and so o…
1910 · PDF PAGE 362
… no more pitiful—tumbling for no kindlier laugh than that of contempt. (And he might have been so fine!) This is why success must in the nature of things spoil everybody. Make a hit with one arrow; you must never dare to do more than change the colour of the feathers—till your quiver is empty. And how empty is Mr. Blackwood’s! When it comes to a father hating his twin sons because (why?) he wanted one son very badly, going mad, and after his death turning the two into one in spite of a clergyman’s reading aloud of Job—— Well, hang it, Mr. Black…
1910 · PDF PAGE 362
… no more pitiful—tumbling for no kindlier laugh than that of contempt. (And he might have been so fine!) This is why success must in the nature of things spoil everybody. Make a hit with one arrow; you must never dare to do more than change the colour of the feathers—till your quiver is empty. And how empty is Mr. Blackwood’s! When it comes to a father hating his twin sons because (why?) he wanted one son very badly, going mad, and after his death turning the two into one in spite of a clergyman’s reading aloud of Job—— Well, hang it, Mr. Black…
1930 · PDF PAGE 53
… Horus, the Crowned and Conquering Child, the Aeon whose Logos is The Beast 666, whose name in the Outer Order was Frater Perdurabo. The nature of the proof of the separate existence of praeter- human Intelligence, independent of bodily form, is extremely complicated. Its main divisions may be briefly enumerated. He telephoned a friend named Feilding at the latter’s house, and was answered b)' Mr. Feilding’s secretary, who said that his employer had left the house a few minutes previously, and could only be reached by telephoning a certain offi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 207
…t mean salvation to one man, inducing in the lecherous a speedy concentration, it might be the greatest hindrance to another, who was by nature chaste.+ flax, a frog; ifa cow, a lizard; if a horse, a tiger; if roots or fruit, an ape; if a woman, a bear. “ Institutes of Manu,” xii, 55-67. * We find Christ insisting on this absolute chastity of body and mind, in a similar manner, and for similar reasons; for the Eastern Jew if he is not actually doing something dirty, is sure to be thinking about it. + The reason for this is very simple, Take for…
1910 · PDF PAGE 207
…t mean salvation to one man, inducing in the lecherous a speedy concentration, it might be the greatest hindrance to another, who was by nature chaste.+ flax, a frog; ifa cow, a lizard; if a horse, a tiger; if roots or fruit, an ape; if a woman, a bear. “ Institutes of Manu,” xii, 55-67. * We find Christ insisting on this absolute chastity of body and mind, in a similar manner, and for similar reasons; for the Eastern Jew if he is not actually doing something dirty, is sure to be thinking about it. + The reason for this is very simple, Take for…
1919 · PDF PAGE 291
…hess are entirely sui generis. He was different not only in kind, but in degree, from all other masters, and this, owing to the peculiar nature of the game of chess, resulted in the complete over-turning of the theory of the game. In chess problems, Sam Loyd and W. A. Shinkman displayed a precisely similar quality. Their problems are not well rounded and balanced, like those of other masters of the art. They are comparable with nothing else. One feels the emotion of a naturalist familiar with all other fauna who should suddenly be in- troduced …
1929 · PDF PAGE 66
… a thing with two heads and four legs which writhed or leapt in hideous ecstasy. She was so shaken that she did not even ask herself the nature of the vision, whether it was a dream, an hallucination, a picture of the past, or an actual happening. The bacchanal obscenity of it was overwhelming. Again
1929 · PDF PAGE 126
… different to Edwin Arthwait's treatment of the long-suffering English language. Knowledge is really confined to experience. The laws of Nature are, as Kant said, the laws of our minds, and, as Huxley said, the generalization of observed facts. It is, therefore, no argument against ceremonial magic to say that it is "absurd" to try to raise a thunderstorm by beating a drum; it is not even fair to say that you have tried the experiment, found it would not work, and so perceived it to be "impossible." You might as well claim that, as you had take…
1905 · PDF PAGE 161
… lie far in the West, Where the bright East is at peace on her breast : Opposite quarters unite. Soon is the nightfall of Destiny here ; Nature’s must pass as her hour is gone by. Only another than she is too near, Gloom in the sky. One who can never pass over shall sever Links that were forged of Love’s hand ; Love that was strong die away as a song, Melt as a cable of sand. But I am watching, with unwearied eye, The wayfare of the tragedy. I see the brightness of the home ; I see The grisly phantom of despair to be. I see the miserable past r…
1929 · PDF PAGE 49
…!" he cried, in a terrible voice. "In a case of this kind," said Simple Simon, who was standing unperceived within a foot of him, "where Nature has been outraged, an attempt made to interfere violently with her laws, it is permissible to act — or rather, to counteract just so much as is necessary to restore equilibrium. There was a seed of quarrel in the hearts of these young people; the blow aimed at you, when your own will became divided, struck aslant; their own division attracted the murder-force to them. "I will administer The Medicine." H…
1944 · PDF PAGE 95
…a tincture. It divides again into two forms, the gold and the silver, the red and the white; but its essence is always the same, and its nature is not to be understood except by experience. It is because the alchemists were dealing with substances on the borderland of “matter” that they are so difficult to understand. The subject‐ matter of chemistry and physics in modern times is what they would have called the study of dead things; for the real difference between living things and dead is, in the first instance, their behaviour. The initials …
1996 · PDF PAGE 71
…ed in every way to love each other, are totally debarred from expressing themselves by sheer ignorance of the technique of the act. What Nature declares as the climax of the Mass, the manifestation of God in the flesh, when the flesh is begotten, is so gross, clumsy and brutal that it disappoints and disgusts. They are horribly conscious that something is wrong. They do not know how to amend it. They are ashamed to discuss it. They have neither the experience to guide nor the imagination to experiment. Countless thousands of delicate-minded lov…
1930 · PDF PAGE 33
is man. In man are ail things hidden, Of these the Gods, Nature, Time, ail the powers of the universe are rebellions slaves. It is these that men must fight and conquer in the power and in the name of the Beast that hath availed them, the Titan, the Magus, the Man whose number is six hundred and three score and six. III Ihe practice of Rising on the Planes is of such importance that spécial attention must be paid to it. It is part of the essential tech¬ nique of Magick. Instruction in this practice has been given with such conciseness in Liber …
1943 · PDF PAGE 6
…e purposes, and sent regularly, to the Treasurer, P. O. Box 93, Pasadena, California. In the Great Ages man realized his relation to all nature and to the living universe about him. He felt his "oneness" with earth, air, sea and stars; and in his fullness of Life he worshipped the Sun as a visible symbol of the Supreme, the Author of all Life, Heat and Energy. In our frivolous ego- centric way of living we have lost much of this essential realization. But that we may once more move toward the Awareness of Life and Beauty, what more appropriate …
1929 · PDF PAGE 130
…Physiologists should make it their hrst duty to measure these phenomena; for their study is evidently a direct line of research into the nature of Life. The analogy between the living r.nd complex molécules of the Uranium group of inorganic and the Protoplasm group of organic éléments is extremely suggestive. The faculties of growth, action, self-recuperation, etc., must be ascribed to similar properties in both cases; and as we hâve detected, measured and partially explained radioactivity, it must be possible to contrive means of doing the sam…
1996 · PDF PAGE 81
…estioningly and treated with drab indifference because it had so long been assimi lated as a natural and necessary part of the order of Nature. At first I was shocked and disgusted to discover that a series of brilliant researches should culminate in a commonplace. But I soon understood that what I had done was to live over again the triumphant career of conquering humanity; that I had experienced in my own person the succession of winged victories that had been sealed by a treaty of peace whose clauses might be summed up in some such trite ex…
1929 · PDF PAGE 99
…eciate the meaning of the words “the harmony of the Universe”, so often used so stupidly and superficially by the ordinary apologist for Nature, and he will also perceive the true operation of the law of Karma. 2 Another notable injunction of the ancient Magick was that whatever appertained to the Work should be single. The Wand was to be eut with a single stroke of the knife. There must be no 1. It is, and the fact is still more important, utterly fatal and demora- lizing to acquire the habit of reliance on others. The Magician must know every…