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Page 81 of 1301910 · PDF PAGE 280
… the current of his thoughts into another channel, but he had arrived at that place in his experience where suggestion is powerless. His world of the Real could not be changed by any inflow from ours of the Shadowy. I reached the same place in after days, and it was then as impossible for any human being to alter the condition which enwrapped me as it would have been for a brother on earth to stretch out his hands and rescue a brother writhing in the pangs of immortality. There are men in Oriental countries who make it their business to attend …
1910 · PDF PAGE 322
… before his eyes and he did not fail in his description of her. Well, little Piotr heard it all. As there was but one woman in the whole world whom he loved, the description of another woman did not in the least attract his attention. Only when mention was made of her magnificent jewels did his ears stand up. “What are ear-rings?” he asked of Ljubov, when he felt her tiny hand in his, a little later. “ They are beautiful things, Piotr,” she answered. “ They are beautiful to the eye.” “Hah!” he sighed—for that was the one thing he could not well…
1911 · PDF PAGE 17
…wered: Had he not been destroyed he had not come hither, for I am not save in the darkness in the womb of Her by whom came evil into the world. And this darkness swallows everything up, and the angel is gone from the stone; and there is no light therein, save only the light of the Rose and of the Cross. AUMALE, ALGERIA. November 23, 1909, between 8 and 9 p.m. THE Cry OF THE 27TH AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED ZAA There is an angel with rainbow wings, and his dress is green with silver, a green veil over silver armour. Flames of many-coloured fire dart…
1913 · PDF PAGE 377
…eyes of reason and of science them- selves the most perfect, that is to say the most complete, dogma which has ever been produced in the world. Let science and reason grant us so much; we shall ask nothing more of them. “God exists; there is only one God, and He punishes those who do evil,” said Moses. “God is everywhere; He is in us, and the good that we do to men we do it to God,” said Jesus. “ Fear” is the conclusion of the dogma of Moses. “Love” is the conclusion of the dogma of Jesus. The typical ideal of the life of God in humanity is inc…
1913 · PDF PAGE 439
…wine appears in empty chalices, and it is not an illusion, it is wine, a delicious wine. . . . celestial music is heard, perfumes of the world beyond fill the room, and then blood. . . . real human blood (doctors have examined it !), real blood, I tell you, sweats and sometimes flows from the hosts, imprinting mysterious characters on the altars! I am talking to you of what I have seen, of what I have heard, of what I have touched, of what I have tasted! And you want me to remain cold at the bidding of an ecclesiastical authority which finds it…
1913 · PDF PAGE 377
…eyes of reason and of science them- selves the most perfect, that is to say the most complete, dogma which has ever been produced in the world. Let science and reason grant us so much; we shall ask nothing more of them. “God exists; there is only one God, and He punishes those who do evil,” said Moses. “God is everywhere; He is in us, and the good that we do to men we do it to God,” said Jesus. “ Fear” is the conclusion of the dogma of Moses. “Love” is the conclusion of the dogma of Jesus. The typical ideal of the life of God in humanity is inc…
1913 · PDF PAGE 439
…wine appears in empty chalices, and it is not an illusion, it is wine, a delicious wine. . . . celestial music is heard, perfumes of the world beyond fill the room, and then blood. . . . real human blood (doctors have examined it !), real blood, I tell you, sweats and sometimes flows from the hosts, imprinting mysterious characters on the altars! I am talking to you of what I have seen, of what I have heard, of what I have touched, of what I have tasted! And you want me to remain cold at the bidding of an ecclesiastical authority which finds it…
1929 · PDF PAGE 453
…moon were stagnant, soulless spectres in a senseless sky --- like a ghost on the gusts of the gale. I went from miraculous Moscow into a world of inarticulate impressions. St Petersburg failed to rekindle the wonder and worship which it had awakened in me of old. The Nevski Prospekt seemed narrower, meaner; a mere street. St Isaacs no longer enthralled me. I was able to compare the Neva with the Nile, the Ganges, the Rangoon River, and even the Rhine, as coldly and critically as Baedeker. My spirit need infinite repose after its incomparable ef…
1910 · PDF PAGE 223
… inch—yet Graphiel owns himself beaten.” “T never thought much of Graphiel!” sneered the archangel, and his serpents echoed him till the world was filled with mocking laughter. But when he had left, he charged them straitly that the work must be regarded seriously. It would never do to fail! 205
1910 · PDF PAGE 223
… inch—yet Graphiel owns himself beaten.” “T never thought much of Graphiel!” sneered the archangel, and his serpents echoed him till the world was filled with mocking laughter. But when he had left, he charged them straitly that the work must be regarded seriously. It would never do to fail! 205
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
… than wisdom , greater than the power of the Gods themselves ; for they too must worship at the shrine of Love , the shrine of the great World Mother , the mystic Isis , goddess of beauty , mother of love , queen of laughter , mistress of pleasure . “ I am all that has been , that shall be, and none among mortals has hitherto taken off my veil.” Innocent friendship or platonic love can never be a success where the rapture of a kiss is burning on the lips of two lovers ; the first spells ignorance and the second failure, for love will out , and …
1907 · PDF PAGE 182
THE CUP 175 indeed become man , but not until the Word has be come woman will the world be saved ." It is this that Crowley sets vividly out before us in his following ethical philosophy . “ To behold sin in its naked Deformity , is the most certain method to oblige us to love Virtue ,” such is to be read in the prefatory note of a curious little volume to be found in the British Museum library under the attractive title of “ The prostitution of Quality or Adultery à- la- mode ." It was through the Garter that in the end the Star was seen , in …
1907 · PDF PAGE 270
THE NEW WINE 263 With infinite pains and dire fatigues To build another stupid soul For fools to call another world ? Where then thy fame, O soul sublime ? Where then thy victory over Time ?? Some few work out its gigantic columns of intricate fractional figures , and close for ever the huge volume before them ; yet the multitude works on , and though individually they may falsify and erase , scribble over , or blot out ; yet never at any moment is the inaccu racy of one single mite discounted in the general balance ; so the bitter tears of one…
1909 · PDF PAGE 14
…UINOX out works is dead,” so, good friends, Samadhi is all humbug unless the practitioner shows the glint of its gold in his work in the world. If your mystic becomes Dante, well; if Tennyson, a fig for his trances! But how does this tower of Samadhi stand the assault of Question-time? Is not the idea of Samadhi just as dependent on all the other ideas—man, time, being, thought, logic? If I seek to explain Samadhi by analogy, am I not often found talking as if we knew all about Evolution, and Mathematics, and His- tory? Complex and unscientific…
1913 · PDF PAGE 251
DEAD WEIGHT called Ramaswamy? in Madras?” and the like; in short, he turned the world upside down to produce laboured disproof of the statements—themselves impossible in nature—of a Paris penny dreadful of the class of Nick Carter and Deadwood Dick. Relentlessly does he demolish his adversary. If Camden is spent Campden (which might happen to the best of French authors) he shrieks [séc/ / /]. Many other remarks of the future saint display a lack of any sense of proportion or humour which was deplorable, and, by his best friends, deplored. It wa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 251
DEAD WEIGHT called Ramaswamy? in Madras?” and the like; in short, he turned the world upside down to produce laboured disproof of the statements—themselves impossible in nature—of a Paris penny dreadful of the class of Nick Carter and Deadwood Dick. Relentlessly does he demolish his adversary. If Camden is spent Campden (which might happen to the best of French authors) he shrieks [séc/ / /]. Many other remarks of the future saint display a lack of any sense of proportion or humour which was deplorable, and, by his best friends, deplored. It wa…
1912 · PDF PAGE 176
THE EQUINOX tales o‘ robbers; ’twere not so when I were young, lad. The world gets worse as we get older, Jack. JACK. Nonsense, Father, they won't attack us. Don’t the village know how I half—choked the life [HE mahesa murderous gesture, so violent that the OLD MAN shrinks] out of Bagstock, that was torturing the stray dog? MARTIN. Ay, lad, and well it served the brute. I'm off now, Jack, you’re a strong lad and a brave, but these nasty robbers have weapons, we must be careful, main careful JACK. Only one night-cap, Father! MARTIN. Ay, lad—I’m …
1912 · PDF PAGE 176
THE EQUINOX tales o‘ robbers; ’twere not so when I were young, lad. The world gets worse as we get older, Jack. JACK. Nonsense, Father, they won't attack us. Don’t the village know how I half—choked the life [HE mahesa murderous gesture, so violent that the OLD MAN shrinks] out of Bagstock, that was torturing the stray dog? MARTIN. Ay, lad, and well it served the brute. I'm off now, Jack, you’re a strong lad and a brave, but these nasty robbers have weapons, we must be careful, main careful JACK. Only one night-cap, Father! MARTIN. Ay, lad—I’m …
1913 · PDF PAGE 413
… of love for her; she outraged him and left him, and has continued to hate him ever since. Yet she, too, is a decent woman; the pitiless world, however, judges and condemns her. And yet, this was not her crime. Her fault, if one may be permitted to reproach her with one, was that, at first, she madly and passionately loved her husband. “But,” you will say, “is not the human soul, then, free?” No, it is no longer free when it has abandoned itself to the giddiness caused by passion. It is only wisdom which is free; disordered passions are the kin…
1913 · PDF PAGE 413
… of love for her; she outraged him and left him, and has continued to hate him ever since. Yet she, too, is a decent woman; the pitiless world, however, judges and condemns her. And yet, this was not her crime. Her fault, if one may be permitted to reproach her with one, was that, at first, she madly and passionately loved her husband. “But,” you will say, “is not the human soul, then, free?” No, it is no longer free when it has abandoned itself to the giddiness caused by passion. It is only wisdom which is free; disordered passions are the kin…