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… is not all zot-A. No 4 is not no zot-A. Fantastic as it seems, this is the simplest of the eighty-four primary ways of expressing these three laws in a single proposition. No zot-A is not no some not zot-A. * A distinguished author on philosophical and kindred subjects. See his ‘‘ works.’’ John Lane,» 1894. b Lane—a long one, with neither variable- 5S. No, for I say that the line is, like the Equator, imaginary. ness nor shadow of turning. Christian name John.¢ * Not to be confused with John, the beloved disciple, who wrote ‘‘ Caliban 4 on Pat…
1929 · PDF PAGE 453
… The inspiration was withdrawn from me. My light had gone out like an arc-light when the cable is cut. It was long before I wrote again. Three days later, the contract at the Aquarium was due to expire; and those days proved to me how perfectly my existence depended on inspiration. The city, from a crashing chorus of magical music, a pageant of passionate pleasure, became a cold chaos of inanity. The bells no longer sang; the sun and moon were stagnant, soulless spectres in a senseless sky --- like a ghost on the gusts of the gale. I went from …
1944 · PDF PAGE 123
…y, in the form of a circle. That is the greatest blasphemy of all (i.e., that the circle should be thus profaned. This evil circle is of three con‐ centric rings). On his feet hath he scythes and swords and sickles; daggers; knives; every sharp thing‐a millionfold, and all in one. And before him is the Table that is a Table of wicked‐ ness, the forty‐two‐fold Table. This Table is connected with the forty‐two Assessors of the Dead, for they are the Accusers, whom the soul must baffle; and with the forty‐two‐fold name of God, for this is the Myst…
1929 · PDF PAGE 136
…It is, in fact, a dream as defined by Freud's hypothesis. Allan was already at heart a Buddhist. The more he studied the Tripitika, "the three baskets of the law" --- waste paper baskets I used to call them --- the more he was attracted, but he was fearfully disappointed by the degeneracy of the Singalese bhikkhus. With rate exceptions, they were ignorant, idle, immoral and dishonest. At Anuradhapura, the sacred ruined city, there conduct is so openly scandalous as to have given rise to a proverb: "A bhikkhu is made, not born --- except at Anur…
1907 · PDF PAGE 234
…lly.” Really, we almost echo his despair. When, only too many years ago, I was learning chemistry, the text-books were content with some three pages on Camphor: to-day, a mere abstract of what is known occupies 400 closely printed pages: but Knowledge is in no wise advanced. It is no doubt more difficult to learn ‘‘ Paradise Lost’”’ by heart than ‘‘ We are Seven” ; but when you have done it, you are no better at figure-skating. I am not denying that the vast storehouses of fact do help us to a certain distillation (as it were) of their grain: b…
1907 · PDF PAGE 135
…ng comets, and the glittering cup of thine ll usions shalt thou hurl beyond the confines of Space over the very rim of Time. After two or three pages of this the reader may well echo the chapter’s concluding : “ Wine, wine, wine!” The first half of Captain Fuller’s book is a tolerably sober and often penetrative elucidation of the meaning of Mr. Crowley’s fine poems. This we understand and like. It has certainly brought home to us more vividly the great beauty and insight of the poet's work. But in the latter part of the book, consisting of one lo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 387
…y ardour increased with every vision and every vision became intenser and more intimate. I fortified myself by magical practices. Two or three times I had found it difficult to get into the Aethyr; there were bars which I understood as not to be passed by the profane. The progressive sublimity and solemnity made me tremble lest I should not be worthy to behold the mysteries that lay in the future. So I consecrated myself by reciting this chapter of the Koran: Qol: hua allahu achad: alahu assmad: lam yalid: walam yulad: ya lam yakun lahu kufwan …
1929 · PDF PAGE 475
…nd {751} sinker; and a poor little bookseller in London who had been agent for the paper for years, and had never read a line of it, got three months in prison! The truth is that the British lost all sense of humour when the war broke out. I wonder how many millions in blood and treasure it cost us to "jowk" with such "deeficulty"! I worked up Viereck gradually from relativey reasonable attack on England to extravagances which achieved my object of revolting every comparatively sane human being on earth. I proved that the Lusitania was a man-of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 278
…dst of them, went his way." I am aware that this sounds like a fish story. But as a matter of fact people who lived with me for the last three years or so have noticed that I make myself invisible quite frequently, and that (apparently) when I am not aware that I am doing so. There is a peculiar type of self-absorption which makes it impossible for people to be aware of one. In these recent cases, the observer who could see me quite plainly because in sympathy with me, could also see that the other people in the street --- or wherever it was --…
1929 · PDF PAGE 168
…uthed vases or like cabin trunks, and covered with raw hide to protect them from rough usage and bad weather. Our limit weight was fifty-three pounds. As a beast of burden, a mule is less efficient than a man, and a man that an woman. In Kashmir, however, one does not use women as coolies. The people are Mohammedans governed by a ruling caste of Hindus. This leads to complications; for one thing, though the river is full of mahsir, one is not allowed to fish for them, because one of them had swallowed the soul of the maharajah in his youth! Ano…
1929 · PDF PAGE 299
…aid to have been killed in the course of these struggles, but something like two thirds of the whole area of Talifu (some estimates gave three quarters) had been razed to the ground in the final storming of the stronghold. Dr. Clark, the medical missionary of Talifu, received us with great courtesy and hospitality. I hound him a sincere and earnest man; more, even an enlightened man, so far as it is possible for a missionary to be so; but that is not very far. I found him totally ignorant both of canonical Buddhism and of local beliefs. I tried…
1929 · PDF PAGE 447
…lothing. My only remaining resources were some twenty thousand pounds' worth of books which he could not touch without paying the sum of three hundred and fifty pounds or so, which was due to the people with whom they were stored. I paid this amount in 1921 and the warehousemen then refused to hand over the books or to pay me the balance owing to me on their own statement. They trusted to be able to steal them, having heard that I was unable to find the money necessary to sue them. I thus found myself after the war entirely penniless and withou…
1929 · PDF PAGE 239
…f my reactions to it. To recapitulate the historical basis of The Book of the Law, let me say that evolution (within human memory) shows three great steps: 1. the worship of the Mother, when the universe was conceived as simple nourishment drawn directly from her; 2. the worship of the Father, when the universe was imagined as catastrophic; 3. the worship of the Child, in which we come to perceive events as a continual growth partaking in its elements of both these methods. Egyptian theology foresaw this progress of humanity and symbolized it i…
1906 · PDF PAGE 149
…d. Maybe I shall one day find words to combat, perhaps to overthrow, this position. P.S. As, 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 subje…
1929 · PDF PAGE 243
…ghter kind. He and Gerald are also responsible for numberous improvements in the preface {405} to Alice, An Adultery. He also edited the three volumes of my Collected Works, supplying learned notes to divers obscure passages. My activities as a publisher were at this time remarkable. I had issued The God-Eater and The Star & the Garter through Charles Watts & Co. of the Rationalist Press Association, but there was still no such demand for my books as to indicate that I had touched the great heart of the British public. I decided that it would s…
1944 · PDF PAGE 73
…nd of the Bees which adorn the mantle of the Queen. The egg is grey, mingling white and black; thus it signifies the co‐operation of the three Supernals of the Tree of Life. The colour of the Serpent is purple, Mercury in the scale of the Queen. It is the influ‐ ence of that God manifested in Nature, whereas the wings are tinged with crimson, the colour (in the King scale) of Binah the great Mother. In this symbol is therefore a complete glyph of the equilibrium necessary to begin the Great Work. But, as to the final mystery, that is left un‐ s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 541
…d, of blunting the best minds by penning them with the herd. The Abbey of Thelema has thus demonstrated practically how to cope with the three main problems of our time: sex, economics and education. We dealt with a host of minor difficulties. But the most striking phenomenon of all was that the majority of petty worries never appeared at all. It became clear that many such troubles have no real root in the facts of life, but are artificial symptoms suggested by the fundamental diseases. My final interpretation of my five years in America may b…
1906 · PDF PAGE 244
238 TYR | whole system-of numbers, and of manipulating them, is merely a series of conventions When I say that the square root of three is unreal, I know quite well that it is only so in relation to the series 1, 2, 3, &c., and that this series is equally unreal if I make 4/3, 7, 2/50 the members of a ternary scale. But this, theoretically true, is practically absurd. If I mean ‘‘the number of.a, b, and c,”’ it does not matter if I write 3 or 3/50; the idea is a definite one; and it is the funda- mental ideas of consciousness of which we are tr…
1944 · PDF PAGE 50
…erve; the law‐giver may be an epileptic camel‐driver like Moham‐ med, a megalomaniac provincial upstart like Napoleon, or even an exile, three‐parts learned, one‐part crazy, an attic‐dweller in Soho, like Karl Marx. There is only one thing in common among such persons; they are all mad, that is’ inspired. Nearly all primitive people possess this tradition, at least in a diluted form. They respect the wandering lunatic, for it may be that he is the messenger of the Most High. “This queer stranger? Let us entreat him kindly. It may be that we ent…
1929 · PDF PAGE 72
…hey speak of precipitous cliffs and yawning {137} gulfs, though as a matter of fact there is not a rock on the mountain which a child of three years old could call scrambling. They were, in fact on ponies! Shelley's descriptions of Mont Blanc are comically exaggerated; his powers of observation must have been completely in abeyance.