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Page 77 of 841929 · PDF PAGE 49
…h the disastrous result to be recorded later. There remains one remarkable incident of my climbing in Cumberland. I had been trying some new routes on the Pillar Rock one day, when I was {99} 1. See Collected Works, vol. 1, p. 127. caught by a terrific thunderstorm. Luckily for me, as it turned out, I was soaked to the skin in ten minutes. Any further serious climbing being impossible, I started back to Wastdale. In doing this one crosses the ridge of Pillar Mountain, along which runs a wire sheep fence. I crossed this; and, the storm increasin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 503
…ving exploded this fiction, mankind was ready to gain a further comprehension of its own parallel case. My own word, Thelema, supplies a new and scientifically sound basis for {795} 1. Cf. Rabelais: the final secret is in the bottle inscribed TRINC. ethics. Self-sacrifice is a romantic folly; death does not end life; it is a temporary phase of life as night and winter are of terrestrial activity. Many other conceptions are implied in this word, Thelema. In particular, each individual is conceived as the centre of his own universe, his essential…
1929 · PDF PAGE 161
…ail for Pindi. As luck would have it, the car reserved for the expedition was on the train. So I jumped in and was introduced to my four new comrades. The Chogo Ri expedition had begun. {277} 34 Agreement between Oscar Eckenstein and Aleister Crowley 1. By O.E.'s letter of Sept. 20th and cable of Oct. 3rd he agrees to A.C.'s proposal by cable and letter of August 23rd that they should together climb a mountain higher than any previously ascended by man: both agree to use their utmost endeavours in every respect to achieve this result. (On Augus…
1929 · PDF PAGE 235
…eason I invoked Thoth, the god of wisdom, presumably by the invocation printed in Liber Israfel (The Equinox, Vol. I, Vo. VII), which I knew by heart. I may also have been subconsciously wondering whether there was not something in her remarks, and wanted to be enlightened. The record says, "Thoth, invoked with great success, indwells us." But this strikes me as to some extent "written up" in a spirit of complacency, if not arrogance. I remember nothing of any result. March 18th. Possibly I repeated the invocation. The record says, "Revealed th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 295
…tchedly and comically illiterate Chinese) some villagers who happened to be carrying an idol in procession as part of the festivities of New Year's Day (January 25th). He might as well have spoiled a children's party on the ground that the fairy stories which amused them were not strictly true.
1906 · PDF PAGE 216
…gives out.| I took three Hottentots alive. Their scale was one, two, three, four, five, Infinity. To think of men so I could not bear: a new Colenso I bought them to assuage their plight, Also a book by Hall and Knight On Algebra. . I hired wise men To teach them six, seven, eight, nine, ten. One of the Hottentots succeeded. Few schoolboys know as much as he did! The others sank beneath the strain : It broke, not fortified, the brain. The Bard a Brainy Beggar. Now (higher on the Human Ladder) Lodge is called mad, and Crowley madder. (The shafts…
1929 · PDF PAGE 447
…nts and purposes the simplification and concentration of the whole of my magical knowledge. All my old methods have been unified in this new method. It does not exactly replace them, but it interprets them. It has also enabled me to construct a uniform type of engine for accomplishing anything that I will. My association with freemasonry was therefore destined to be more {708}
1907 · PDF PAGE 132
…ome few feet above the ground, we may say, “something attempted, something done.” And as we grow bolder, we shall be more at ease in the new ele ment, or even, like the sparrow on the eagle’s back, equal the splendid soaring of our princely pioneer. For those to whom much of Crowley is obscure, no better lamp can be found than this brilliant book of Captain Fuller. A. Quiller, in the Unsacraanm Ravraw, says: IN THE LAND OF OPHIR Here is a master-voice in song; here is a hand which has “ waked to ecstasy the living-lyre.” It him indeed been the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 287
…ery abominations which the snobbish inhumanity of their fellow-men expects of them. With the departure from Bhamo may be said to begin a new phase of my career. Up to this point, I have been able to interweave the strands of my three lives; the lives of the soul, the mind and the body; or, more accurately, in the language of the Cabbala, the Neschamah, the Ruach and the Nephesch. The Hebrew sages have made an admirably simple, significant and accurate classification. The Neschamah is that aspiration which in most men is no more than a void and …
1904 · PDF PAGE 75
…ives out.] I took three Hottentots alive. Their scale was one, two, three, four, five, Infinity. To think of men so I could not bear : a new Colenso I bought them to assuage their plight, Also a book by Hall and Knight On Algebra. I hired wise men To teach them six, seven, eight, nine, ten. One of the Hottentots succeeded. Few schoolboys know as much as he did ! The others sank beneath the strain : It broke, not fortified, the brain. The Bard a Brainy Beggar. Now (higher on the Human Ladder) Lodge is called mad, and Crowley madder. (The shafts …
1906 · PDF PAGE 149
…s, forexample, page 186. original eleven stone three Peacherine.—A. C. As a promise-keeper I am the } I must apologise (perhaps) for the new note of frivolity in my work: due doubtless to the frivolity of my subject: these poems being written when I was an Advaitist and could not see why—everything being an illusion—there should be any particular ob- ject in doing or thinking anything. How I have found the answer will be evident from my essay on this subject.* I must indeed apologise to the illustrious Shade of Robert Browning for my audacious …
1929 · PDF PAGE 243
…. 59 rue de Grenelle, Paris 14 Feby 1911 Dear Aleister Crowley, Many thanks. I am very glad to have the volume. I will mention it in The New Age, but I no longer write for T. P's. Weekly. Not a portrait of you --- my dear Crowley --- in the English Review! for all you sat for was the waistcoat, the title and the poetry. All these portraits are composite. Yours sincerely, ARNOLD BENNETT Alas! I lack the literary skill to construct composite portraits. My own poor effort is the most crude photography. Also, I beg him to excuse my personalities. H…
1929 · PDF PAGE 340
…go in England by the names of religion and love, had emasculated a man. Anglo-Saxonism is psychological phthsis. At the accession of the new sultan, his subjects took the opportunity of enjoying themselves, rejoicing in countries where the spirochaetas pallida of civilization does not make love luetic, liberty ataxic and life choreic. The people are spontaneous about amusements. To me nothing is more dreary than the policed processions of noble nonentities, famous puppets and beauties whose diet is skin food, whose athletics are face massage an…
1929 · PDF PAGE 282
…that the Navy, the one efficient service we possess, is officered by men who have not been to public schools. It is the plain truth. Our new intellectual Y.M.C.A. snobbery has sucked away our spinal marrow. I left my family in the hotel and went to stay with Allan, who had been advanced from a simple bikkhu to a sayadaw in his choung (monastery) some two miles from the city. Thornton's remark about the discontinuity of the ego had begun to take hold. I was anxious to confer with my old guru as thoroughly as possible. His view at this time was t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 406
…eally strange how polite propriety is always stumbling into Rabelaisian jests. I remember, for instance, writing in some article for the New York Vanity Fair, "Science offers her virgin head to the caress of Magick." The editor thought the word "virgin" a little risky and changed it to "maiden"!) Recovering from the first spasm of cynical appreciation, I saw that there was only one thing to be done in the interests of common decency and respect for Epstein. I detached the butterfly and put it under my waistcoat. The gate keeper did not notice h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 172
…ischief is the spirit of taking life too seriously. It is really almost expected of the man who happens to run over to Philadelphia from New York {293} for a day, that he should forthwith write an encyclopaedic history of the Quakers. It is hard to prophesy the issue of this tendency, but one can see already that the chivalry of sport is following that of arms into oblivion. {294} 36 Skardu, 2,228 metres above sea-level, is the capital of Baltistan, and contains some twenty thousand inhabitants. The mountains here seem to have conspired to stop…
1929 · PDF PAGE 281
…e induced to do anything which might contribute to their welfare or that of their religion; but they are ridiculously lavish in building new dagobas or regilding old ones. Shortly before my arrival an immense sum of money had been collected to lay plate of pure gold on the Htee of the Shwe Dagon, and while this operation was in progress, a tigress indiscreetly walked into the city one night, climbed the scaffolding and was shot by an Englishman. The outrage to the community, which objects to the slaying, even by accident, of an insect, was caus…
1929 · PDF PAGE 33
…me the sect (though it is only fair to point out that they refused to be described as a sect, since what they had done was not to form a new sect, but to "Come out of Sect" --- this they maintained in spite of the fact that they were far more {76} exclusive than any other religious body in Europe) was composed of a few of the old guard, my father the last of them all, and the meanest crew of canaille that ever wriggled. With my father's death the small schisms which had hitherto lopped off a few members every year or two were altogether surpass…
1929 · PDF PAGE 383
…imself to deception, and that probably of the deadly dangerous kind. God is never so turned away from man, and never so much sendeth him new paths, as when he maketh ascent to divine speculations or works in a confused or disordered manner, and as it adds, with unhallowed lips, or unwashed feet. For of those who are thus negligent, the progress is imperfect, the impulses are vain, and the paths are dark. (Zoroaster) I solemnly warn the world that, while courage is the first virtue of the Magician, presumptuous and reckless rashness has no more …
1929 · PDF PAGE 532
… strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. ..." I accordingly broke up my camp after a few days' holiday from magical work, and returned to New York. The next period is strangely confused. It was as if I were left in the Desert with no idea of direction and surrounded by a series of mirages. Innumerable people came into my life and passed out again, without leaving any trace. {840} 1. I find that I wrote it down plainly seventeen years ago! But I had no conception of its terror --- one must be a Magus to get that! The fact was that none of the peo…