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Page 79 of 1291909 · PDF PAGE 86
…g these states are principally as follow : First, the cultivation of the “magical memory.” The practice is to remember the events of the day backwards; 7.e., first dinner, then tea, lunch, and breakfast. Except, of course, that by this time one has abandoned meals for ever! The memory acquires the habit, and eventually goes on work- ing backwards through sleep, back, back, through birth and previous states until (saith Bhikhu Ananda Metteyya) going ever back through the past one comes right round to the future—‘ Which is pretty, but I don’t kno…
1909 · PDF PAGE 178
…ternity. So also is the Ain Soph. From It proceed all Things: unto It all will return, when the Age of Brahman is over and done, and the day of Peace-Be-with-Us is declared by Thoth, * Here used in its true meaning of “the marshalling forth by number.” Qabalah, 71 p, by Tarot, “ The Mystery shown forth in balanced disposition by Command.” + “Hidden behind my Magic Veil of Shows, Iam not seen at all—Name not my Name.” 168
1909 · PDF PAGE 86
…g these states are principally as follow : First, the cultivation of the “magical memory.” The practice is to remember the events of the day backwards; 7.e., first dinner, then tea, lunch, and breakfast. Except, of course, that by this time one has abandoned meals for ever! The memory acquires the habit, and eventually goes on work- ing backwards through sleep, back, back, through birth and previous states until (saith Bhikhu Ananda Metteyya) going ever back through the past one comes right round to the future—‘ Which is pretty, but I don’t kno…
1909 · PDF PAGE 178
…ternity. So also is the Ain Soph. From It proceed all Things: unto It all will return, when the Age of Brahman is over and done, and the day of Peace-Be-with-Us is declared by Thoth, * Here used in its true meaning of “the marshalling forth by number.” Qabalah, 71 p, by Tarot, “ The Mystery shown forth in balanced disposition by Command.” + “Hidden behind my Magic Veil of Shows, Iam not seen at all—Name not my Name.” 168
1911 · PDF PAGE 96
…queror! ACHME'I‘. Indeed, he has slain twenty Christians with his own hand. And still he is in the front of the battle. He laughed: “ To—day I am a man, I need thee no more; be my Chamberlain and carry this toy to my mother.” I think she is a princess. THE CHILD. My father is the Grand Master of the Temple, and he is coming to cut all your heads off. LAYLAH. Leave her with us! Ride back on a fresh horse, and bear aid to the prince. [Exit ACHMET LEDMIYA [at window]. There is a tumult in the courtyard, and a great wailing. [Wailing withaul. LAYLA…
1911 · PDF PAGE 96
…queror! ACHME'I‘. Indeed, he has slain twenty Christians with his own hand. And still he is in the front of the battle. He laughed: “ To—day I am a man, I need thee no more; be my Chamberlain and carry this toy to my mother.” I think she is a princess. THE CHILD. My father is the Grand Master of the Temple, and he is coming to cut all your heads off. LAYLAH. Leave her with us! Ride back on a fresh horse, and bear aid to the prince. [Exit ACHMET LEDMIYA [at window]. There is a tumult in the courtyard, and a great wailing. [Wailing withaul. LAYLA…
1912 · PDF PAGE 52
…f “discipline." But nothing else. Indeed, there is absolute silence on all mystic matters until December 20, over a month later. On that day, jumping on to his Burmese pony, a few yards after fording the stream which marks the Chinese frontier, the animal backed before he was in the saddle, and fell with him over a cliff of some forty feet in height. “ Neither hurt,” he remarks. “ Later, kicked on the thigh by a mule.” lt is of no purpose here to deal with Fra. P.‘s private affairs; but one must mention that all this time of interior insanity h…
1912 · PDF PAGE 52
…f “discipline." But nothing else. Indeed, there is absolute silence on all mystic matters until December 20, over a month later. On that day, jumping on to his Burmese pony, a few yards after fording the stream which marks the Chinese frontier, the animal backed before he was in the saddle, and fell with him over a cliff of some forty feet in height. “ Neither hurt,” he remarks. “ Later, kicked on the thigh by a mule.” lt is of no purpose here to deal with Fra. P.‘s private affairs; but one must mention that all this time of interior insanity h…
1913 · PDF PAGE 528
…fidius, who has written on the manners and customs of the Japanese, tells us a very remark- able story. A troop of Japanese pilgrims one day, as they were traversing a desert, saw coming towards them a band of spectres whose number was equal to that of the pilgrims, and which walked at the same pace. These spectres, at first without shape, and like larvze, took on as they approached all the appearance of the human body. Soon they met the pilgrims, and mingled with them, gliding silently between their ranks. Then the Japanese saw themselves doub…
1913 · PDF PAGE 528
…fidius, who has written on the manners and customs of the Japanese, tells us a very remark- able story. A troop of Japanese pilgrims one day, as they were traversing a desert, saw coming towards them a band of spectres whose number was equal to that of the pilgrims, and which walked at the same pace. These spectres, at first without shape, and like larvze, took on as they approached all the appearance of the human body. Soon they met the pilgrims, and mingled with them, gliding silently between their ranks. Then the Japanese saw themselves doub…
1929 · PDF PAGE 578
…that she had never allowed anyone, not even her husband, to see her naked. This seemed strange in view of her career as a model, and one day she brought out a fat package of photographs of herself in the nude. But this was in no sense a confession that she had been {912} telling us lies. She maintained quite sincerely with the photographs under her eyes that no one had ever seen her naked. This incident is typical of her. Almost in the same breath, she would say that she had never known happiness till she came to the abbey, and that she had bee…
1907 · PDF PAGE 232
…uld you perform this Operation in a town, you should take a house which is not at all overlooked by any one, seeing that in this present day curiosity is so strong that you ought to be upon your guard; and there ought to be a garden (adjoining the house) wherein you can take exercise.”’ ‘Consider then the safety of your person, commencing this operation in a place of safety, whence neither enemies nor any disgrace can drive you out before the end.” ‘*the season of Easter. . . . Then first on the following day... I commenced this Holy
1904 · PDF PAGE 22
ASCENSION DAY 15 On just belief or unbelief ; And an involuntary act Make difference infinite in fact Between the right and left-hand thief ? Belief is not an act of will !” I think, Sir, that I have you still, Even allowing (much indeed !) That any will at all is freed, And is not merely the result Of sex, environment, and cult, Habit and climate, health and mind, And twenty thousand other things ! So many a metaphysic sings. (I wish they did indeed : I find Their prose the hardest of hard reading.) “But if,” you cry, “the world’s designed As …
1909 · PDF PAGE 70
THE EQUINOX 8.30. On the contrary, to use the spiritual forces to secure 68 health, as certain persons attempt to do to-day, is the vilest black magic, This is one of the numerous reasons for supposing that Jesus Christ was a Brother of the Left—Hand Path. Now my body has been treating me well, waking nicely at convenient hours, sleeping at suitable times, keeping itself to itself . . . an admirable body. Then why shouldn’t I take it out and give it the best dinner Lavenue can serve? . . . Provided that it doesn’t stop saying that mantra! It wo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 159
…h. ¢ [We respect the following noble attempt to rewrite Buddhism in the Universal Cipher, not unaware that the flatulent Buddhists of to-day will eructate their cacodylic protests. An orthodox Buddhist account is to be found in “The Sword of Song,” by A. Crowley, article “ Science and Buddhism.”—ED.] 143
1910 · PDF PAGE 159
…h. ¢ [We respect the following noble attempt to rewrite Buddhism in the Universal Cipher, not unaware that the flatulent Buddhists of to-day will eructate their cacodylic protests. An orthodox Buddhist account is to be found in “The Sword of Song,” by A. Crowley, article “ Science and Buddhism.”—ED.] 143
1911 · PDF PAGE 238
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS When the sun sinks, and royal rays Of moonrise flash across the day‘s. [He rise: and/"aces altar. I have risen ! I have risen ! as a mighty hawk of gold ! From the golden egg I gather, and my wings the world enfold. I alight in mighty splendour from the throned boats of light; Companies of Spirits follow me ; adore the Lords of Night. Yea, with gladness did they paean, bowing low before my car, In my ears their homage echoed from the sunrise to the star. I have risen! I am gathered as a lovely hawk of gold, I the first—born o…
1911 · PDF PAGE 238
THE RITES OF ELEUSIS When the sun sinks, and royal rays Of moonrise flash across the day‘s. [He rise: and/"aces altar. I have risen ! I have risen ! as a mighty hawk of gold ! From the golden egg I gather, and my wings the world enfold. I alight in mighty splendour from the throned boats of light; Companies of Spirits follow me ; adore the Lords of Night. Yea, with gladness did they paean, bowing low before my car, In my ears their homage echoed from the sunrise to the star. I have risen! I am gathered as a lovely hawk of gold, I the first—born o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 358
… will be dragged or trampled by events. Immense calamities may again hang over the world. The armies of the Apocalypse may, perhaps, one day, unchain the four scourges. The sanctuary will be cleansed. Rigid and holy poverty will send forth its apostles to uphold what staggers, lift up again what is broken, and anoint all wounds with sacred oils. Those two blood-hungered monsters, despotism and anarchy, will tear themselves to pieces, and annihilate each other, after having mutually sustained each other for a little while, by the embrace of thei…
1913 · PDF PAGE 358
… will be dragged or trampled by events. Immense calamities may again hang over the world. The armies of the Apocalypse may, perhaps, one day, unchain the four scourges. The sanctuary will be cleansed. Rigid and holy poverty will send forth its apostles to uphold what staggers, lift up again what is broken, and anoint all wounds with sacred oils. Those two blood-hungered monsters, despotism and anarchy, will tear themselves to pieces, and annihilate each other, after having mutually sustained each other for a little while, by the embrace of thei…