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Page 84 of 841929 · PDF PAGE 554
…nd when asked to account for this, he took up the position that nothing was to be gained by winning. He was even ass enough to quote The Book of the Law about lust of result. He could hardly help seeing that unless one played to win, there was no point in playing at all. Nothing moved him. He simply gave up playing. The stupidity was really disheartening. He had a fine natural ability to judge position and invent combinations. A little technical knowledge of the openings, and a systematic study of the end game which he might have acquired in a …
1929 · PDF PAGE 38
…he devil is gloating over her soul, ..........Rotting away! Note that the title of this poem is ironical. It is taken from a goody-goody book, popular at that time, which describes the life of traveling barnstormers and how the only hope for them was to be converted. But the irony goes somewhat deeper. It was a genuine criticism of the shallow philosophy of optimism which went with the polite Christianity of the time. I was analysing life in the spirit of Schopenhauer. I couldn't see any sense in pretending that life was not full of horrors. De…
1929 · PDF PAGE 516
…is kind. While I have done my utmost to advance directly towards truth by the regular traditional magical and mystical methods which The Book of the Law had perfected, I have constantly sought pari passu to correlate my results with those of modern intellectual progress; indeed, to demonstrate that the deepest thinkers are unwittingly approaching the apprehension of initiated ideas, and are in fact, despite themselves, being compelled to extend their definition of the Ruach to include conceptions proper to Neschamah, that they are, in other wor…
1929 · PDF PAGE 525
…the greatest man is he who makes no difference between any one thing and any other thing. He becomes the "chief of all" as stated in The Book of the Law. {829} 85 We may now return to the subject of the initiation itself. Besides my work of proclaiming the Law to the profane and expounding it to the aspirant, I was set the task of analysing it in such a way as to illuminate the most advanced. During most of the winter I gave most of my spare time to the creation of literature which corresponded nobly with this three fold labour. I wrote the twe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 527
…y right wrist and fingers. I remember with absolute clearness that my consciousness appeared to start from a perfectly dead forearm. The book is written in prose, yet there is a formal circumscription more imminent than anything which would have been possible in poetry. I limited myself by making a point of dealing thoroughly with a given subject in a single page. It was an acute agony, similar to that of Asana, to write, and the effort removed me so far from normal human consciousness that there was something indicibly ghastly in its unnatural…
1929 · PDF PAGE 43
… stone into a convenient crack, and thus starting a foot higher up, I could get to the top, and did so. I recorded this in the Climbers' Book; and the following day a man named H. V. Reade, possibly in a sceptical mood, followed in my footsteps. He found my wedged stone, contemptuously threw it away, climbed the pitch without it, and recorded the feat. That was a double blow to Mr. Jones. It was no longer a convincing argument that if he couldn't do a thing it couldn't be done. But this was not all. Scafell is separated from Scafell Pikes by a …
1906 · PDF PAGE 201
…ome one would undertake the preparation of an English translation of Rabbi Jischak Ben Loria’s ‘‘De Revolutionibus Animarum,” and of the book ‘‘ Beth Elohim.” 139. Cain.?7—Gen. iv. 8. 152. Hunyadi,*8—Hunyadi Janos, a Hunga- rian table water. 161. Nadi,3°—For this difficult subject refer to the late Swami Vivekananda’s ‘‘ Raja Yoga.” 167. Tom Bond Bishop.*—Founder of the ‘*Children’sScripture Union” (an Association for the Dissemination of Lies among Young People) and otherwise knownasa philanthropist. His re- lationship to the author (that of u…
1929 · PDF PAGE 375
…ning; nothing can {602} stop me, not even success. I had some perception of this in these years of my life in London, for I wrote in The Book of Lies: "Only those are happy who have desired the unattainable." "The Equinox" should have been, on its merits, a very successful venture. Frank Harris had generously given me one of the best stories he ever wrote, "The Magic Glasses". Fuller had contributed a gargantuan preface to The Temple of Solomon the King (the title of the story of my magical career), a series of sublimely eloquent rhapsodies des…
1904 · PDF PAGE 60
…some one would undertake the preparation of an English translation of Rabbi Jischak Ben Loria’s “De Revolutionibus Animarum,” and of the book “Beth Elohim.” 139. Cain.37—Gen. iv. 8. 152. Hunyadi.38—Hunyadi Janos, a Hunga- rian table water. 161. Nadi.39—For this difficult subject refer to the late Swami Vivekananda’s “Raja Yoga.” 167. Tom Bond Bishop.40—Founder of the “Children’s Scripture Union” (an Association for the Dissemination of Lies among Young People) and otherwise known as a philanthropist. His re- lationship to the author (that of un…
1906 · PDF PAGE 277
…know all. this about the earth? Goodness gracious bless my How few among us can reach the supreme sanity of Dr. Henry Maudsley in such a book ‘¢ Life in Mind and Conduct ”! ” Hence I regard Agnosticism as little more than a basis of new research into spiritual facts, to be conducted by the methods won for us by men of science. I would define myself as an agnostic with a future. But to the enthymeme itself. enough to expose it. Other things have been hated before and since Christ lived —if he lived. Slavery was hated. A million men* died about i…
1906 · PDF PAGE 214
…in no state doubt them. 412. Ganesh.*%—The elephant-headed God, son of Shiva and Bhavani. He presides over obstacles. * Author of a text-book on ‘‘ Formal Logic.”
1904 · PDF PAGE 73
…in no state doubt them. 412. Ganesh.46—The elephant-headed God, son of Shiva and Bhavani. He presides over obstacles. * Author of a text-book on “Formal Logic.”