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Page 79 of 1031922 · PDF PAGE 178
… It destroyed her sense of proportion. It put all her ideas of straight dealing out of her mind. Her manner changed. She went off. Pete told me to go and see the dope girl myself. It’s the first time he ever spoke to me like that. All sexual feeling is dead between us. We've tried to work up the old passion. It was artificial, horrible, repulsive ; a degradation and a blasphemy. Why is it? The snow intensified love beyond every possibility. Yet I love him more than ever. He’s my boy. I think he must be ill. I wish I weren’t so tired. I’m not lo…
1922 · PDF PAGE 322
… with the inflexible rock. We breath those winds into our lungs to-day—the air is as fresh as ever. But see how those temples and strongholds, nay, the very crags themselves, have been worn down by the languorous caresses of this invigorating breeze. That is one of the reasons why I came to live here, though one hardly needs support after one glance at the incomparable beauty of the place; a beauty which varies every day and never tires. Look at the sunset every night. It is good for two hours of grand opera. It is almost stupefying to sit on t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 56
…ner than you think "Afloat in the aethyr, 0 my God! my God! ... White swan, bear thou ever me up between thy wings!" 3. Now then to your old Pons Asinorum about the names of the Gods! Stand in the corner for half an hour with your face to the wall! Stay in after school and write Malkah be-Tharshishim ve-ad-Ruachoth be-Schehalim 999 times! My dear, dear, dear sister, a name is a formula of power . How can you talk of "anachronism" when the Being is eternal? For the type of energy is eternal. Every name is a number: and "Every number is infinite:…
1930 · PDF PAGE 66
…lchemists cannot be explained away, From the Chemical standpoint it has seemed not à 'priori impossible that lead should be turned into gold. Our recent discovery of the periodicity of the éléments has made it seem likely, at least in theory, that our apparently immutable éléments should be modi¬ fications of a single one. 1 Organic Chemistry, with its metatheses and synthèses dépendent on the conceptions of molécules as geomet- rical structures has demonstrated a praxis which gives this theory body; and the properties of Radium hâve driven the…
1996 · PDF PAGE 43
…oman is only chaste when there is nobody around. She will snatch the babe from its cradle, or drag the dog from its kennel, to prove the old saying: “Natura abhorret a vacuo.”1 For she is the Image of the Soul of Nature, the Great Mother, the Great Whore. 1 [Lat., “nature abhors a vacuum.”] 2 [Ta Chi was the concubine of Chou Hsin, the last ruler of the Shang Dynasty (c. 1025 B.C.E.). Her sex drive is credited with its downfall.] 3 [Queen Elizabeth the First, 1533-1603.] 4 [The pen-name of of the French author Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin, Baron…
1996 · PDF PAGE 124
… everything, shirk nothing, make reputations in half a dozen different lines, have twenty simultaneous love affairs, and live to a green old age. The milksops and valetudinarians never get anywhere; usually they die early; and even if they lived forever, what’s the use? The body is itself a restriction as well as an instrument. When death is as complete as it should be, the individual expands and fulfils himself in all directions; it is an omniform samadhi. This is of course “eternal ecstasy” in the sense already explained. But in the time-worl…
1905 · PDF PAGE 247
…at? art thou mad? again. Forget this nightmare. Rather, tell me it, And I will soothe thee. Have I not a balm, A sovereign comfort in my old caress? Come close to me TANNHAUSER. I must begone. She waits. VENUS. Who waits? Come here! Let us talk fondly, set together still, Not with these shouts and wavings of the arms, Struts and unseemly gestures. Tannhauser ! TANNHAUSER. She waits for me, my sweet Elizabeth ! Venus or Lilith, I have loved thee well ! Now, to my freedom ! VENUS. Your Elizabeth ! TANNHAUSER. Ay, to those pure and alabaster brows…
1954 · PDF PAGE 41
…attitude, but at the same time you like very much the idea of Karma. You cannot have both. The question about money does not arise. This old and very good rule (which I have always kept) was really pertinent to the time when there were actual secrets. But I have published openly all the secrets. All I can do is to train you in a perfectly exoteric way. My suggestion about the weekly letter was intended to exclude this question, as you would be getting full commercial value for anything paid. Your questions about the Spirit of the Sun, and so on…
1938 · PDF PAGE 20
…led Khan, beheld that Vision and received this Voice upon the Holy Hill of Sidi Bou Said, in the country now called Tunisia, but from of old sacred with many sanctities. Thus far it is permitted me to speak freely of that which came to me in my long search for the True Wisdom; but to me in my long search for the True Wisdom; but to declare the Mode of mine Initiation, whereby I gained ingress to the Place called the Temple of Truth (but by some Dar-el-Jalal) it is forbidden. Nor may I disclose in what land that House is to be found, more openly…
1996 · PDF PAGE 76
…pent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God. All these old letters of my Book are aright; but li is not the Star. This also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. Commentary: “Love is the law, love under will” is an inter pretation of the general law of Will. It is dealt with fully in the Book Aleph. I here insert a pertinent passage from that Book. [EX — De Harmonia Voluntatis et Parcarum 142—On the Harmony of Will and Fate] This is the evident and f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 184
178 ORPHEUS I step to the river. The lyre-strings quiver ; The limbs of me shudder; So cold is the mist ; So dark is the stream ; So fearful the boat ; So horrid the rudder ; So black is the tryst ; So frightful the beam ; So fearing to float ; The steersman so dread, The shadowy shape of a ghost that guides the bark of the dead! Aged and foul, His locks wreathe about him. Horrid his scowl ! Haggard his soul ! My songs control While they fear him and doubt him. I step in the boat, And the waters ache, And the old boards shake. I shall hardly fl…
1929 · PDF PAGE 3
…a brooding, but a conspiracy. And these truths are evident above all to one who recognizes that London's heart is Charing Cross. For the old Cross, which is, even technically, the centre of the city, is so in sober moral geography. The Strand roars toward Fleet Street, and so to Ludgate Hill, crowned by St. Paul's Cathedral; Whitehall sweeps down to Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament. Trafalgar Square, which guards it at the third angle, saves it to some extent from the modern banalities of Piccadilly and Pall Mall, mere Georgian sh…
1954 · PDF PAGE 202
… Altar must fit exactly the square of Tiphareth; it is best made as a cupboard; of oak or acacia, by preference. It can then be used to hold reserves of incense and other requisites. Note that the height of the Altar has to suit your convenience. It is consequently in direct relation with your own stature; in proportion, it is a double cube. This then determines the size of your circle; in fact the entire apparatus and furniture is a geometrical function of yourself. Consider it all as a projection of yourself in terms of these conventional for…
1954 · PDF PAGE 223
…t, astonishment, bewilderment; at last, so normal had it become: "He's invisible again." One incident I remember very vividly indeed; an old friend and I were sitting opposite each other in armchairs in front of a large fire, smoking our pipes. Suddenly he lost sight of me, and actually cried out in alarm. I said: "What's wrong?" That broke the spell; there I was, all present and correct.
1996 · PDF PAGE 121
…the question “Why.” The greatest thinkers have been sceptics or agnostics: omnia exeunt in mysterium, and summa scientia nihil scire are old commonplaces.1 In my essays “Truth” (in Konx Om Pax), “The Soldier and the Hunchback,” “Eleusis” and others, I have offered a detailed demonstration of the self-contradictory nature of Reason. The crux of the whole proof may be summa rized by saying that any possible proposition must be equally true with its contradictory, as, if not, the universe would no longer be in equilibrium. It is no objection that…
1904 · PDF PAGE 45
…First, thou shalt know and observe the Moon’s Age for thy working. The best days be when the Moon Luna is 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, or 14 days old, as Solomon saith; and no other days be profitable. The Seals of the 72 Kings are to be made in Metals. The Chief Kings’ in Sol (Gold); Marquises’ in Luna (Silver); Dukes’ in Venus (Copper); Prelacies’ in Jupiter (Tin); Knights’ in Saturn (Lead); Presidents’ in Mercury (Mercury); Earls’ in Venus (Copper), and Luna (Silver), alike equal, etc. THESE 72 Kings be under the Power of AmMaymon, Corson, ZIMIMAY or…
1907 · PDF PAGE 81
THE SIRE DE MALETROIT’S DOOR trap. I break my sword on the old beast— give it up—up come stairs—ah ! stairs come up—I mean / come—a murrain on these courtly phrases! and here I stand [rzses and dows], Denys de Beaulieu, Damoiseau de Beaulieu, in the Province of Normandy, at your lordship’s service. ALAIN, That is your way of looking after the lady’s reputation. Hear mine! Allow me first to introduce myself as Alain de Malé- troit, Sire de Malétroit, and Warden of the Marches under his Majesty King Charles— DENYS. Whom God preserve ! [ Waves his…
1919 · PDF PAGE 382
THE EQUINOX dle, what America (God bless her!) calls ‘sob-stuff.’ When tipsy old ladies become maudlin, it is time to go. 44. Yet, if the “Doctrine of the Heart” is too high-winged for thee, if thou needest help thyself and fearest to offer help to others—then, thou of timid heart, be warned in time: re- main content with the “Eye Doctrine” of the Law. Hope still. For if the “Secret Path” is unattainable this “day,” it is within thy reach “To-morrow.” Learn that no efforts, not the smallest—whether in right or wrong direction—can vanish from th…
1922 · PDF PAGE 201
…duce him, no matter how, to give me at least one dose. I didn’t care how I got it. I would try pretending illness. I would appeal to our old relations, and I would look about slyly to see if I couldn’t find some and steal it. And I didn’t mean to let Peter know. On the top of everything else was the torture of shame. I had always been proud of my pride. A subtle serenity made my brain swim when I got into the street. It delighted me to be alone—to have got rid of Peter. I felt him as a restraining influence, and I had shaken him off. I despised…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
…s. The discovery of radioactivi'ty created a momentary chaos in chemistry and physics; but it soon led to a fuller interprétation of the old ideas. It dispersed many difficultés, harmonized many discords, and — yea, more! It shewed the substance of the Universe as a simplicity of Light and Life, possessed of limitless liberty to enjoy Love by combining its units in various manners to compose atoms, themselves capable of deeper self-realization through fresh complexities and organizations, each with its own peculiar powers and pleasures, each pu…