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…It will be the turning point in my official career. I don’t mind telling you they’ve treated me rather shabbily at home about one or two things I’ve done. But if I bag this bird, they can hardly say no to anything I may ask.” At the same time, it was clear that he took a genuine friendly interest in his love-birds, as he called us. He had had a disappointment himself, he said, and it had put him off the business personally, but he was glad to say it hadn’t soured his nature, and he took a real pleasure in seeing people so ideally happy as we we…
1911 · PDF PAGE 154
…ou for the government of the earth, and her unspeakable variety, furnishing you with a power of understanding, that ye might dispose all things according to the foresight of Him that sitteth on the Holy Throne, and rose up in the beginning, saying, The earth, let her be governed by her parts (this is the prostitution of BABALON to Pan), and let there be division in her (the formation of the Many from the One), that her glory may be always ecstasy and irritation of orgasm. Her course let it round with the heavens (that is, let her way be always …
1919 · PDF PAGE 191
…, than in thy capacity as of the A... A.’., for the former organ- ization is codrdinate and practical, and concerns itself with material things. But remember this clearly, that the Law cometh from the A... A.., not from the O.T.O. This Order is but the first of the great religious bodies to accept this Law officially, and its whole Ritual has been revised and re- constituted in accordance with this decision. Now then, leaving the Book of the Law, note, pray thee, the following additional suggestions for extending the Dominion of the Law of Thel…
1919 · PDF PAGE 396
… nature to.’ We want no credit, no thanks; we are sick of you; only, we have to goon. This verse is, one must suppose, an attempt to put things into the kind of language that would be understood by be- ginners. Compare Chapter Thirteen of the Book of Lies, where it explains how one is induced to follow the Path by false pretences. Compare also the story of the Dolphin and the Prophet in Liber LXV. 37. Behold! the Abyss of the Great Deep. Therein is a mighty dolphin, lashing his sides with the force of the waves. 38. There is also an harper of g…
1947 · PDF PAGE 8
seen of the seeing. Also I have a secret glory for them that love me. But to love me is better than all things : if under the night stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all ; but whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose all in that hour. Behold ! the rituals of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be cast away ; let the good ones be purged by the prophet !…
1910 · PDF PAGE 67
…p. 164, 165.) + Or the Unconsciously Known. t Deussen, 27d, p. 76. § “Rigveda” (Griffiths), i. 164. 46. “You may call the Creator of all things 55
1910 · PDF PAGE 67
…p. 164, 165.) + Or the Unconsciously Known. t Deussen, 27d, p. 76. § “Rigveda” (Griffiths), i. 164. 46. “You may call the Creator of all things 55
1909 · PDF PAGE 305
… knowledge; but when once it has seen one it is mere foolishness for other children to say: “Oh no, you didn’t really seea monkey ; such things as monkeys do not exist, and what proves it beyond all doubt is that we have never seen one ourselves!” This, it will be seen, is the Freethinkers’ * old, old conclusive argument: “There is not a God because we have no experience of a God.”+.. . “ There is not a South Pole because we have not trudged round it six times and cut our names on it with our pocket-knives !” Now what is knowledge ? Something i…
1909 · PDF PAGE 391
…r “La Vénus”; not a piece of art of any kind, save, mayhap, the skull of a monkey floating upon a new and fathomless Ocean. Worse even!|—things may be preserved that would lead to serious blunders for our successors. Think of their extremity if the students of our times should find as the only documents a complete edition of the works of Miss Corelli or some of the numerous Utopias that are poured on us at the 383
1909 · PDF PAGE 305
… knowledge; but when once it has seen one it is mere foolishness for other children to say: “Oh no, you didn’t really seea monkey ; such things as monkeys do not exist, and what proves it beyond all doubt is that we have never seen one ourselves!” This, it will be seen, is the Freethinkers’ * old, old conclusive argument: “There is not a God because we have no experience of a God.”+.. . “ There is not a South Pole because we have not trudged round it six times and cut our names on it with our pocket-knives !” Now what is knowledge ? Something i…
1909 · PDF PAGE 391
…r “La Vénus”; not a piece of art of any kind, save, mayhap, the skull of a monkey floating upon a new and fathomless Ocean. Worse even!|—things may be preserved that would lead to serious blunders for our successors. Think of their extremity if the students of our times should find as the only documents a complete edition of the works of Miss Corelli or some of the numerous Utopias that are poured on us at the 383
1911 · PDF PAGE 19
… a perfume which I cannot describe; it is like nothing that one can describe, but the suggestion is like lignum aloes. And now all these things are there at once in the same place and time. Now a veil of olive and silver is drawn over the stone, only I hear the voice of the angel receding, very sweet and faint and sorrowful, saying: Far off and lonely in the secret stone is the unknown, and interpenetrated is the knowledge with the will and the understanding. Iam alone. I am lost, because I am all and in all; and my veil is woven of the green e…
1911 · PDF PAGE 116
THE EQUINOX things, until thou art mightier than all the Kings of the earth, and all the Angels of the Heavens, and all the gods that are beyond the Heavens. Then shalt thou meet me in equal con- flict, and thou shalt see me as Iam. And I will overcome thee and slay thee with the red rain of my lightnings. I am lying underneath this pyramid of light. It seems as if I had the whole weight of it upon me, crushing me with bliss. And yet I know that I am like the prophet that said: I shall see Him, but not nigh. And the Angel sayeth: So shall it be…
1919 · PDF PAGE 121
… by many other names) and set yourself to travel in this Form, making systematic exploration of those worlds which are to other material things what your own Body of Light is to your own material form. Now it will occur to you in these travels that you come to many Gates which you are not able to pass. This is because your Body of Light is itself as yet not strong enough, or subtle enough, or pure enough: and you must then learn to dissociate the elements of that Body by a process similar to the first, your consciousness remaining in the higher…
1922 · PDF PAGE 135
…ort-skirted girl with a gaudy shawl and huge gold ear-rings was standing in the door. What with the long journey and the drugs and other things, we were a little drunk—just enough to realise that it was part of our policy to pretend to be a little more drunk than we were. We let our heads roll from side to side as we staggered to the door. We sat down at a little table and called for drink. They served us one of those foul Italian imitations of liqueurs that taste like hair-wash. But instead of nauseating us, it exalted us; we enjoyed it as par…
1930 · PDF PAGE 128
… Middle Gateway of the Crown ? 1. Here are practices. Each may last for a week or more. (a) Avoid thinking of a definite subject and ail things con- nected with it, and let that subject be one which commonly occu- pies much of thy thought, being frequently stimulated by sense- perceptions or the conversation of others. — 428 —
1954 · PDF PAGE 70
WHAT IS MAGICK? 37 himself superior to others; because he will not be an individual limited by transitory things, but a force of Nature, as impersonal, impartial and eternal as gravitation, as patient and irresistible as the tides. His system will not be subject to panic, any more than th" law of Inverse Squares is disturbed by Elections. He will not be anxious about his affairs because they will not be his; and for that reason he will be able to direct them with the calm, clear-headed confidence of an onlooker, with intelligence unclouded by s…
1906 · PDF PAGE 13
…ry weaves Far out of sight. Here we are lone, at last. Heaven is overcast Yet with no night. Ere her immortal wings Gather the thread of things Into her might, Up will the moon arise Through the black-azure skies : Birds shall sing litanies Still of delight. II. Let my lips wander where Tender moss grows, Where through their dusky air Beams a red rose. Where the bee honey sips Let my desirous lips, Kissing, unclose Delicate lips and chaste, Sweetness divine to taste While the sun glows ; There in the dusk to dwell By the sweet water-well In the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 145
… Not Being) allegorically fell by crying “It is I,” and how the great Hypocrisy arose by supposing individual Atmans for all beings, and things which had to incarnate again and again before finally they were swallowed up in the One Atman of the Beginning. This Individualistic Conception Gotama banned, he would have none of it; a Soul, a Spirit, a separate entity was anathema to him; but in overthrowing the corrupt Vedanta of the latter-day pundits, like Luther, who many centuries later tore the tawdry vanities from off the back of prostitute Ro…
1910 · PDF PAGE 145
… Not Being) allegorically fell by crying “It is I,” and how the great Hypocrisy arose by supposing individual Atmans for all beings, and things which had to incarnate again and again before finally they were swallowed up in the One Atman of the Beginning. This Individualistic Conception Gotama banned, he would have none of it; a Soul, a Spirit, a separate entity was anathema to him; but in overthrowing the corrupt Vedanta of the latter-day pundits, like Luther, who many centuries later tore the tawdry vanities from off the back of prostitute Ro…