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Page 80 of 841929 · PDF PAGE 396
…an he stood a better chance of getting free from the control of the conseil de famille.) I also undertook the publication of some of his books. His talent was {633} considerable. His imperfect acquaintance with English resulted in his inventing curiously fascinating terms of phraseology. He had remarkable imagination and a brilliant ability to use the bizarre. He made me the hero of several short stories under the name of Elphenor Pistouillat de la Ratis- boisičre and introduced several of my disciples. These stories describe in fantastic, exag…
1906 · PDF PAGE 275
… COLOSSAL COLLAPSE MR. CROWLEY AND THE CREEDS By G. Mr. Aleister Crowley publishes a work, “The Sword of Song: Called by Christians ‘The Book of the Beast,’’’ and called, I am ashamed to say, ‘‘ Ye Sword of Song” on the cover, by some singularly uneducated man. Mr, Aleister Crowley has always been, in my opinion, a good poet; his ‘‘ Soul of Osiris,” written during an Egyptian mood, was better poetry than this Browningesque rhapsody in a Buddhist mood; but this also, though very affected, is very interesting. But the main fact about it is that i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 44
… I meant to imply the bitterest contempt. I was not understood. He took me seriously and broke out into a passionate denunciation of the book. His manner was so ferocious that I was positively startled; and the interesting thing about the incident is this. I had been so long so alert lest I should be accused of disbelief, that it almost took my breath away to hear a man in authority speak so openly1. I have explained how I had vainly sought supreme wickedness in the Church of England. I had even gone to so-called "high" churches and on one occa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 378
…the Chinese brick of the previous note. Most countries have very different laws governing the sales and distribution of periodicals over books. For example, in the USA a periodical is not subject to sales tax, has a different postal rate and has provisions of constitutional protection quite different from those of a book. Very likely this became a question of what laws to follow, not one of social confusion but rather conflicting statute. {606} the landing with a candle, in hysterics, leaning over the balustrade and calling to know who was ther…
1929 · PDF PAGE 457
…viction of its unreality. {724} 75 It is one of the regular jokes in India that people on the strength of the season in Calcutta write a book about the peninsula, but even the tourist of genius, like Charles Dickens, is far more presumptuous when he tackles the United States. India indeed is huge and varied beyond hope of human comprehension, but America, though its population is only a third of that of Hindustan, is composed of elements infinitely more varied, besides which India does at least stand still and allow one to look at it, whereas t…
1944 · PDF PAGE 22
… enjoy them, it must explore these possibilities. One may here insert a parallel statement of this doctrine from the document called The Book of the Great Auk to enable the student to consider the position from the standpoint of two dif‐ ferent minds. “All elements must at one time have been separate.—That would be the case with great heat.—Now, when the atoms get to the Sun, we get that immense, extreme heat, and all the elements are themselves again. Imagine that each atom of each element possesses the mem‐ ory of all his adventures in combin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 270
…p with me, but I hardly knew it. They were now to shine, the bushel of Kangchenjunga having been rudely removed. My instinct against The Book of the Law had apparently had its way. It was as if the events of eighteen months before had never taken place. I was going on with Magick on the old lines, without any particular aqmbition, but quietly exercising the powers already obtained. For instance, I had established regular communications with Soror F. (Soror Fidelis --- Mrs. Elaine Simpson). We had long interviews, visiting each other alternately…
1929 · PDF PAGE 297
…ang, to this day, a fragrant memory in my mind. To do so would be to draw a culinary parallel with Le Jardin des Supplices. Not that the book is the real China; it is rather a wish phantasm of China by the delirium of a degenerate. Yunchang is noted for its temples. In one of those is a superb delineation of some of the Buddhist hells, where the penalties for various vices are depicted with what is sometimes very startling realism. I was sorry not to have been able to stay longer in this perfumed paradise of beauty and pleasure, where every ele…
1929 · PDF PAGE 511
…est form. All mental activity became distasteful. I turned into a mere vehicle of physical energy. I could hardly bring myself to read a book even of the lightest kind. I could not satisfy my instincts by paddling the canoe which I had imported. I spent about an hour every day in housework and cooking; the remaining fifteen hours of waking life were filled by passionately swinging an axe without interruption. I could hardly stop to smoke a pipe. There was no self-delusion about this, as I might have persuaded myself to believe in the absence of…
1906 · PDF PAGE 216
… 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 of Science who may dodge? I’ve not a word to say for Lodg…
1904 · PDF PAGE 75
…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 of Science who may dodge ? I’ve not a word to say for Lodg…
1929 · PDF PAGE 243
…er 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 save trouble to publish them myself. I decided to call myself the Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth, and issued The Argonauts, The Sword of Song, the Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King, Why Jesus Wept, Oracles, Orpheus, Gargoyles and The Collected Works. I had simply no idea of business. Besi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 541
…n on our part, without any quarrel or ostensible reason, they found themselves ejected into their "previous condition of servitude". The Book of the Law anticipates this: "... the slaves shall serve. ..." The bulk of humanity, having no true will, will find themselves powerless. It will be for us to rule them wisely. We must secure their happiness and train them for ultimate freedom by setting them tasks for which their nature fits them. In the past, the mob without will or mind have been treated without sense or scruple; a mistake socially, ec…
1907 · PDF PAGE 246
…e being sorrow, ii. 200 Exquisite fairy, flower from stone begotten, ili, 118 FAIRER than woman blushing at the kiss, i. 21 Farewell, my book, ii. 8 Farewell! O Light of day, i. 263 First. ‘‘ Here's a johnny with a cancer, ii. 209 First, here’s philosophy’s despair, ii. 166 First word of my song, ili, 131 Fivefold the shape sublime that lifts its head, ili, 150 Fling down the foolish lyre, the witless power ! ili, 159 Floating in the summer air, ii. 2 For, at first, this practice leads, ii. 176 Forged by God's fingers in His furnace, ii. 63 For…
1906 · PDF PAGE 244
…my equation, fantastic as it may seem, has a perfect and absolute parallel in logic. Thus: let us convert twice the pro- position ‘‘some books are on the table.” By negativing both terms we get “ Absence- of-book is not on the table,’ which is precisely my equation backwards, and a thinkable thing. To reverse the process, what .do I mean when I say “some pigs, but not the black pig, are not in the sty”? I imply that the black pig is in the sty. All I have done is to represent the con- version as a change, rather than as merely another way of ex…
1929 · PDF PAGE 281
…liefs. Fielding Hall, a judge, found himself quite unpopular in official circles on account of his excellent though somewhat sentimental book The Soul of a People. The Englishman in all the colonies that I have visited, except in India, which is not a colony, is childishly jealous of his supposed superiority to the native. He has convinced himself that he represents a step ahead in evolution and he is fantastically afraid of "going fanti"; so he has his knife into anyone who has a good word to say for the people. {461} Allan Bennett, by becomin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 177
…vations in natural history, photography, writing articles for the Swiss newspapers, keeping an elaborate journal for the purposes of his book on the expedition, and spending the rest of his spare time in playing chess with me. Eckenstein made himself quite unpleasant to me, which was utterly out of his character; and, by itself, evidence of the strain on his temper caused by the Austrian idiocies and vanities. I wasted no words. I merely shrugged my shoulders and said: either I took my books with me or I left the expedition. Needless to say, I …
1929 · PDF PAGE 469
…ean Blasted Mutt) did not know; he said it was impossible --- there might be a train in six weeks. Would Mr. Crowley write his name in a book to reserve a seat in that phantasmagoric train? Mr Crowley wrote it; the B. M. might be hard up one day and get a meal --- or an annuity --- by selling my autograph. But he didn't wait for the train. The "British Committee" --- headed by two gentlemen who sounded like a vaudeville combination, Mr Whitehead and Mr Waggett --- asked Mr Crowley what he would do. Mr Crowley would go to London; if there was a …
1929 · PDF PAGE 512
…of various insects and asked their professor, "What kind of a bug is this?" "Gentlemen," he replied, "this is a humbug." In writing this book, I was much assisted by Frazer's Golden Bough and, to a less extent, by Jung's Psychology of the Unconscious. But my main assets were my intimate knowledge of the text of the gospels, of the conditions of life and thought in the East, of the details of magical and mystical work, and of the literary conventions which old writers employed to convey their ideas.
1904 · PDF PAGE 110
…DDHISM 103 but here I have nothing to do with what is uncertain.1 There is an excellent tes t for the value of any passage in a Buddhist book. We are, I think, justified in discarding passages which are clearly Oriental fiction, jus t as m odern criticism, however secretly Theistic, discards the Story of Hasisadra or of Noah. In justice to Buddhism, let us not charge its Scripture with the Sisy phean task of seriously upholding the literal interpreta- tion of obviously fantastic passages. 2 May our Buddhist zealots be warned by the fate of old-…