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… Lausanne literally foam at the mouth with the recital of so doughty an exploit? And so the contented Tartarin developed his plans for renewing the attack upon the Himalayas. Eckenstein had been approached, but for one reason or another had refused. I should have preferred it vastly if he had accepted; but I was a keen as ever to capture the only world's record which he and I did not, severally or jointly, hold; that of having reached a higher point on mountains than any other climbers. (This record was held either by Graham on Kebru --- a doub…
1929 · PDF PAGE 416
…lation of Aleister Crowley. I kept my body in perfect condition by walking almost every day to Fontainebleau and back, always choosing a new way through the forest so that by the end of the summer I knew every tree by name, as one might say. I had acquired a boundless love for that incomparable woodland, whose glorious beauty is still further hallowed by the romance which lurks in every glade. It was tame indeed in comparison with a hundred other jungles which I had known, but for all that it possesses an individual charm which endears it to me…
1929 · PDF PAGE 444
…re of the secret, it is explained to him fully. The conclusions of previous experiments are placed at his service. The idea is that each new initiate should continue the work of his predecessor, so that eventually the inexhaustible resources of the secret may be within the reach of the youngest initiate; for at present, we are compelled to admit that the superstitious reverence which has encompassed it in past ages, and the complexity of the conditions which modify its use, place us in much the same position as the electricians of a generation …
1906 · PDF PAGE 283
…ate of consciousness ”’ is atomic, and to measure is really to furnish the means for dissolution of a molecule, and no more, Thus in the New Jerusalem the song must be either a single note, or a pheno- menon in time. Length without change is equivalent to an increase in the vividness, as we said before. And after all the Ego can never be happy, for happiness is impersonal, is distinct from the contemplation of hap- piness. This quite unchanging, this single vivid state, is as near ‘‘ Eternity” as we can ever get—it is a foolish word. Afyst. Tha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…sistance from Allan. Perhaps because I had found my feet, he was, as will appear, allowed to guide them, in what seemed at first sight a new Path. I had got to learn that all roads lead to Rome. It is proper, more, it is prudent, more yet, it is educative, for the aspirant to pursue all possible Ways to Wisdom. Thus he broadens the base of his Pyramid, thus he diminishes the probability of missing the method which happens to suit him best, thus he insures against the obsession that the goat-track of his own success in the One Highway for all me…
1929 · PDF PAGE 482
…veral natives, in cold blood, was one of the less unmentionable ingredients. That was rather a hard test of comradeship, I think. But I knew my Eckenstein and I disdained to make investigations. I went on climbing with him as if the pompous humbugs of the English Alpine Club had never spoken. By paying guides to haul one over rocks like luggage, one can get a reputation --- in England --- as a hardy mountaineer. The envious snarls of such craven impostors did not disturb me. Yet there was something in it, too! There was enough for Eckenstein to…
1904 · PDF PAGE 115
…sciousness of it appears a thousand times more real than that of the things about him; suppose that his whole life is moulded to fit the new facts thus re- vealed to him; that he would cheerfully re- nounce years of normal life to obtain minutes of that dream -life; that his tim e s ense is uprooted as never before, and that these influences are perm anent. Then, you will say, delirium trem ens (and the intoxication of hashish, in respect more particularly of the time sense) afford us a parallel. But the phenomena of delirium tremens do not occ…
1944 · PDF PAGE 102
…his illusion of straightness. It is significant that Riemann, Bolyai and Lobatchewsky seem to have been the mathematical prophets of the New Revelation. For the Euclidian geometry depends upon the conception of straight lines, and it was only because the Parallel Postulate was found to be incapable of proof that mathemati‐ cians began to conceive that the straight line had no true correspondence with reality1. 1The straight line is no more than the limit of any curve. For instance, it is an ellipse whose foci are an “infinite” distance apart. I…
1911 · PDF PAGE 309
…nd Christian mention the “Key of Solomon” asa work of high authority, and the former especially refers to it repeatedly. Wants SurpLizp. New PUBLICATIONS SUPPLIED TO ORDER. Out of Print Books sought for and reported, Visitors to London who are interested should make a point of calling. FRANK HOLLINGS, 7 GREAT TURNSTILE, HOLBORN, W.C. Near to Chancery Lane, the Inns of Court, and First Avenue Hotels. A GREEN GARLAND vV. B. NEUBURG Green Paper Cover 2s. 6d. net “As far as the verse is concerned there is in this volume something more than mere pro…
1911 · PDF PAGE 309
…nd Christian mention the “Key of Solomon” asa work of high authority, and the former especially refers to it repeatedly. Wants SurpLizp. New PUBLICATIONS SUPPLIED TO ORDER. Out of Print Books sought for and reported, Visitors to London who are interested should make a point of calling. FRANK HOLLINGS, 7 GREAT TURNSTILE, HOLBORN, W.C. Near to Chancery Lane, the Inns of Court, and First Avenue Hotels. A GREEN GARLAND vV. B. NEUBURG Green Paper Cover 2s. 6d. net “As far as the verse is concerned there is in this volume something more than mere pro…
1929 · PDF PAGE 166
…r. Besides, the healthiest of them is usually more or less ailing in various minor {285} 1. Condensed from an article written in 1917 in New York. Luckily my own paper refused to publish it! respects. They are usually short-tempered from this and other causes, and any species of lack of self-control has a fatal effect on the attitude of the native.
1929 · PDF PAGE 451
…f phenomena with the most exalted and enthusiastic celebration of their sublimity. (This ritual has been published in The International, New York, March 1918, and in The Equinox, vol. III, No. 1.) {714} Numerous other poems, essays and short stories were written during this summer. In particular there is a sort of novel, The Lost Continent, purporting to give an account of the civilization of Atlantis. I sometimes feel that this lacks artistic unity. At times it is a fantastic rhapsody describing my ideals of Utopian society; but some passages …
1944 · PDF PAGE 116
…h case presents its own leculiar quantity and quality. It is impossible for inspiration itself to sound a dithyramb of Silence; for each new as‐ pect of Harpocrates is worthy of the music of the Universe throughout Eternity. I have simply been led by my loyal Love of that strange Race among whom I find myself incarnate to indite this poor stanza of the infinite Epic of Harpocrates as being the facet of His fecund Brilliance which has refracted the most need ful light upon mine own darkling Entrance to His shrine of fulminating, of ineffable God…
1929 · PDF PAGE 110
…inary people. For example, assume a Prime Minister who has private information that somebody {194} has discovered, and is cultivating, a new germ by means of which he intends to destroy the nation. To pass a "Short Act" would be to give the alarm and precipitate the disaster. It would be his duty to override the law and put his foot upon the mischief. Then again, the whole of Mathers' conduct might have been in the nature of a test. It might have been his way of asking the adepts whether they had the power of concentrating on the spiritual situ…
1929 · PDF PAGE 422
…in Theory and Practice" it was not published in Crowley's lifetime. The first publication came in the May 1979 e.v. issue of "The O.T.O. Newsletter", pp. 9 to 44. Unfortunately, when I edited the material together for that publication, I discovered that the most interesting entries had been lost. Crowley kept the Greek Cabbala on slips of paper in a cigar box. Apparently, whenever he wanted to use some entry for his various writings, he fished out a slip from the box. It would appear that he failed to replace most of the slips so extracted. A s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 27
…erwise; gird on thine armour for thy Christ, O Champion of the dying faith in a man dead! Arm! arm, and out; for the young war- rior ofa new religion ts upon thee; and his number ts the number of a man. mdm nds WHY JESUS WEDT. IN vain I sit by Kandy Lake. The broad verandah slides to mist. No tropic rapture strikes awake The grim soul’s candour to insist The pen reluctant. Beauty’s task Is but to praise the peace of earth ; If Horror’s contrast that should ask, Off from this Paradise of mirth ! Let andy Lake, the white soul, mirror The generali…
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
“The New Wine," and in which the philosophy of “ Crowleyanity ” is expounded at dire length, our admiration for Ca tain Fuller’s judgment is somewhat abated. “ Aleister Crowley," we are told, “ ist e artist Elias ” of whom Paracelsus prophesied: the marvellous being whom God has permitted to make a discovery of the hi hest im rtnnce in his illuminative philosophy of Crowleyanit , in the dazzling and flashing light 0 which t ere is nothing concealed which shall not be discovereJ It has taken 100,000,000 years to produce Aleister Crowley. The worl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 212
… problem, among others. As far as sexual charm is concerned, it is only reasonable to expect the expert to be more satisfactory than the new chum; and even, class for class, the professional than the amateur. The desire for exclusive possession is one of the most idiotic and bestial pieces of vanity in human psychology. But love can exist between man and woman entirely independent of any sexual relations between them. The condition of this love is that both parties should have completely mastered their sexual natures; for otherwise their mutual…
1929 · PDF PAGE 412
…re and find no record of the writing of "The Blind Prophet", but it may well have been during this wonderful week. It is an attempt at a new form of art, a combination of ballet and grand opera. The predominant vowels in any passage indicate an appropriate passion. Thus "i" goes with shrillness and the violin; "o" and "u" coo, like flutes. The Blind Prophet represents the deep broad a; the Queen of the Dancers the fluent e. With this sound scheme, goes a colour scheme. The Prophet is high-priest of a temple, and it is understood that if he utte…
1907 · PDF PAGE 23
… which I have reason to believe exists,! I append this simple personal explanation : let it serve, more- over, as the hors d' wuvre to a new feast. For it is not manifest that who wrote so much when all was mystery, should write yet more now all is clear? It is perhaps due to you, the bed- rock of my mountains of idealism, that I at- tained the magical force to make all those dreams come true: for that, then, this. Further, should Nietzsche play you false, and supply no key to this Joseph confection; a kid glove and an ortolan are alike to him—…