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…t allowed to rest in Poet’s Corner. We treated Swinburne as if he were Crippen. And we have treated Mr. Aleister Crowleyin much the same way. Yet Mr. Crowleyis one of our few real poets. He has written thingsin ‘Ambergris’ which will never die. Some years ago a little book of verse appeared, called ‘Amphora,’ which being anony- 129 i
…he gravity of his manner, and rather disgusted by its solemn deference. Of course, one likes being treated as a kind of toy emperor in a way, but that sort of thing doesn’t go with Paris. Still less does it go with cocaine. It annoyed me that the fellow was so obviously ill at ease, and also that he was so obviously proud of himself for having been sent to Paris on important business with a real live knight. If there’s one thing flying teaches one more than another, it is to hate snobbery. Even the Garter becomes imperceptible when one is flyin…
254 The Diary of a Drug Fiend Lou answered mechanically, as if he had pressed a button :— “ Death is not a way out of it!” “Thank you,” he said. “It’s a great help to me that you should have been able to remember.” Something in his tone caught my imagination vividly. His eyes burnt through me. I began to wonder whether there were any truth in what was said about the diabolical powers of the man. Could he have divined the reason for our coming to the café? I had the absolute certainty that he knew all about it, though it was humanly impossible t…
…elements are themselves again. Imagine that each atom of each element possesses the memory of all his adventures in combination . By the way, that atom (fortified with that memory) would not be the same atom; yet it is, because it has gained nothing from anywhere except this memory. Therefore, by the lapse of time, and by virtue of memory, a thing could become something more than itself; thus a real development is possible. One can then see a reason for any element deciding to go through this series of incarnations, because so, and only so, can…
… years later, and from an address of which in 1910 I had not so much as thought of. The date of my adhesion to the O.T.O. (which, by the way, upset every principle and plan that I had ever held) is equally certain by virtue of subsequent published writings. Now go away and explain that! Well I've given you a fair account of some of the principal fascinations; as to the rest, bewitchments, sorceries, inhibitions and all that lot, it is enough if I say that they follow the regular Laws of Magick; in some, fascinations proper plays a prominent par…
…t the fear of death is the punctual and vigorous performance of Liber Resh. Meditate on the sun in each station: his continuous and even way: the endless circle. That formula in the Tarot book is most valuable. One excellent practice, the general idea of which can easily be adapted to a host of particular cases is the use of the imagination.
56 The Diary of a Drug Fiend ways, what price Lou! Queerest card in the pack, and I love her. ‘“‘ Give me another sniff off your hand.” Lou laughed like a chime of bells in Moscow on Easter ~ morning. Remember, the Russian Easter is not the same time as our Easter. They slipped up a fortnight one way or the other—I never can remember which— as long as you know what I mean. She threw the empty silk bag in the air, and caught it in her teeth with a passionate snap, which sent me nearly out of my mind again. I would have loved to be a bird, and ha…
…’s daughter is all-glorious within ; her raiment is of wrought gold, and she thrusts her face out to be kissed, like a comet pushing its way to the sun. Didn’t you know I was the king’s daughter ? ” she smiled, with such seductive sublimity that something in me nearly fainted with delight. “ Hold up, Cockie,’’ she chirped. ‘“‘It’s all right. You're it, and I’m it, and I’m your little wife.” I could have torn the upholstery out of the taxi. I felt myself a giant. Gargantua was a pigmy. I felt the need of smashing something into matchwood, and I …
… magnetic beauty and her evident aristocracy could not help but have their effect. I found myself admiring her immensely, in quite a new way. It had never occurred to me that she could rise to a situation with such superb aplomb. ‘Won’t you sit down ? ”’ said the consul, ‘“‘ I’m sure you must be very tired.” He put a chair for her, and went back to his seat on the sofa. “It’s a little awkward, you see,” he went on. “I don’t, as a matter of fact, believe all I read in the papers. And there are several very curious points about the situation whic…
dragging his feet in an irregular way. Ha! thought I, a drag for long, an ordinary pace for short. I imitated him eagerly, giving the Morse letter A. His alert mind grasped instantly my meaning; he altered his code (which had been of a different order) and replied with a Morse B on my own system. I answered C; he returned D. From that moment we could talk fluently and freely as if we were on the terrace of the Cafe de la Paix in our beloved Paris. However, conversation in such circum- stances is a lengthy affair. During the whole march to our w…
…ck, not of the thing itself. But Magick has led the world from before the beginning of history, if only for the reason that Magick has always been the mother of Science. It is, therefore, of extreme importance that some effort should be made to understand something of the subject; and there is, therefore, no apology necessary for essaying this brief outline of its historical aspects. There have always been, at least in nucleus, three main Schools of Philosophical practice. (We use the word 'philosophical' in the old good broad sense, as in the …
… on!") Note, please, how sophistically unconvincing are the Buddhist theories of how we ever got into this mess. First cause: Ignorance. Way out, then, knowledge. O.K., that implies a knower, a thing known-and so on and so forth, through all the Three Waste Paper Baskets of the Law; analysed, it turns out to be nonsense all dolled up to look like thinking. And there is no genuine explanation of the origin of the Will to be. How different, how simple, how self-evident, is the doctrine of The Book of the Law! There are any number of passages deal…
…a well-marked gully, through which pours a torrent from Mealfuarvonie. Eckenstein and I marked this down; but during his visits it had always been merely {406} a frantic waterfall. The long spell of dry weather made me think there was a chance to climb it, so I rowed over with Bott and Back, and started on the lowest pitch. This is a broad precipice of water- worn rock, perhaps a hundred to a hundred and fifty feet high. A good deal of water was coming over, but there seemed a possible way up. Starting outside the true left of the stream, I hop…
…st for five dollars and would try to cheat him or her out of it at that. I was horribly ashamed of having to cadge contributions in this way, but very proud to remember that many brilliant people seemed only too glad to give their work. They felt it an honour to support a magazine with such high standards as I introduced. One little fact illustrates the position with lurid light. Having got my article free, the least I could do was to have half a dozen copies of the number in which it appeared sent to the authors. The proprietor would counterma…
6 The Diary of a Drug Fiend animal hunting his job had been after all a rather happy animal in his way, just as the desperate god battling in the air, playing pitch and toss with life and death, had been happy. Neither of those men could be depressed by mis- fortune; but the prosperous young man about town was a much inferior creature. Everything more or less bored him, and he was quite definitely irritated by an overdone cutlet. The night I met Lou, I turned into the Café Wisteria in a sort of dull, angry stupor. Yet the only irritating incide…
…lives have been Innocence ; no toil, no thought. We did not even eat, except the little food the woman brought in. We scared her, by the way. She can’t or won't get us any H. or C. The morphine girl has disappeared.
…to the budding Brahman; as to "our own"-why our own?-scriptures, no intelligent person takes them seriously any more. Some folk whittle away merrily, and fashion a Saviour in their own images; others strain the text and concoct a symbolic interpretation which is more or less satisfying-as can be done with any bunch of legends. But such devices leave us without Accepted Authority, and without that nobody is going to gamble away his life. Thus the Path for men of spiritual integrity begins with absolute scepticism. Our methods must be exclusively…
… “star,” simple, original, absolute, can add to its omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence without ceasing to be itself; that its one way to do this is to gain experience, and that therefore it enters into combinations in which its true Nature is for awhile disguised, even from itself. Analogously, an atom of carbon may pass through myriad Proteus-phases, appearing in Chalk, Chloro form, Sugar, Sap, Brain and Blood, not recognizable as “itself” the black amorphous solid, but recoverable as such, unchanged by its adventures.
537 In one way or another practically every American is devoured by this demon of discontent, which is by no means the species which we call divine. The yearning of the poet to surpass all other singers, his rage at the resistance of the language to his rapture, have their root in his absolute trust in and worship of himself. I cried, Like Elijah: This is no country for the poet Aleister Crowley, or the adept, To Mega Therion, whose hope to help his fellow men has this one anchor: Truth shall make you free! {847} 87 However, now that we have be…
…eristic of Tahuti. 157. Roland's crest.2°—See ‘‘ Two Poets of Croisic,” xci. 159. A jest.21—See above : Ascension Day. 126, A mysterious way.??— ‘* God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform ; He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm,” Intentional species ? 171. The old hymn.®—This hymn, quoted I fear with some failure of memory—I have not the documents at hand—is attributed to the late Bishop of Natal, though I doubt this, as the consistent and trustful piety of its sentiment is ill-suited to the author of those d…