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Page 86 of 1151909 · PDF PAGE 374
… so that they could rub acquaintance. WhenI noticed the first symptoms of love I blessed the new pair and let them go. The new wife—as I thought she would—followed her husband. They returned to me with the following strange document, and I think Imust warn the reader against a certain feeling of sympathy towards the writer. The wickedness and cruelty with which he carries out his logical tendencies are too repulsive to permit of any sentiment of pity. His sufferings appear to be simply the consequences of a wild and unhindered imagination, and …
1922 · PDF PAGE 81
…ooked across at Lou. I saw she had changed colour. She looked dreadfully ill. It mattered nothing to me. I had a little amusing cycle of thoughts on the subject. I remembered that I loved her passionately; at the same time she happened not to exist. My indifference was a source of what I can only call diabolical beatitude. It occurred to me as a sort of joke that she might have poisoned herself. I was certainly feeling very unwell. That didn’t disturb me either. The waiter brought a bowl of mussels. We ate them dreamily. It was part of the day’…
1922 · PDF PAGE 217
…n and blushes were put on like so much paint on the cheeks of a Piccadilly street- walker. It didn’t even hurt his vanity to know that I thought him an offensive old ogre. He had the thing I wanted, I had the thing he wanted, and he didn’t care if I drugged myself to death to-morrow, provided I had paid his price to-day. The callous cynicism on both sides had one good effect from the moral point of view. It prevented me wasting my time in trying to cheat him. He went on with his gambit. He explained that my marriage made a great difference. Wit…
1954 · PDF PAGE 121
…econciliation between the three great Schools of Magick. It will tend to appease the eternal conflict by understanding that each type of thought shall go on its own way, develop its own proper qualities without seeking to interfere with other formulae, however (superficially) opposed to its own. What is true for every School is equally true for every individual. Success in life, on the basis of the Law of Thelema, implies severe self-discipline. Each being must progress, as biology teaches, by strict adaptation to the conditions of the organism…
1954 · PDF PAGE 249
…nsciousness." Splendid! but now 'belief has disappeared altogether; for the word has no sense unless it is subject to the laws of normal thought ... Tut! you must be feeling it yourself ; the further one goes, the darker the path. All I have written is somehow muddled and obscure, maugre my frenzied struggle for lucidity, simplicity . . . Is this the fault of my own sophistication? I asked myself. Tell you what! I'll trot round to my masseuse, and put it up to her. She is a simple country soul, by no means over-educated, but intelligent; capabl…
1996 · PDF PAGE 116
…he Law itself is full of phrases which imply causal ity. Nobody denies that causality is a category of the mind, a form or condition of thought which, if not quite a theoretical necessity, is yet inevitable in practice. The very idea of any relation between any two things appears as causal. Even should we declare it to be 1 [Fr., “to the lamppost (with them),” i.e. hang them.]
1913 · PDF PAGE 595
…horough examination of the evidence for and against the theory of Reincarnation, and an able study of the influence of the theory on the thought of yesterday and to-day. (Cheap Edition. Now Ready.) HYPNOTISM: Its History, Practice and Theory. by J. Mivne Bramwett, M.B., C.M. Author of ‘Hypnotism and Treatment by Suggestion.” Demy 8vo. Cloth gilt. 12s, 6d. net. ‘This important book, unanimously regarded by students as the standard work on Hypnotism, is offered ata price which should command a larger public than it bas hitherto reached. WILLIAM R…
1913 · PDF PAGE 595
…horough examination of the evidence for and against the theory of Reincarnation, and an able study of the influence of the theory on the thought of yesterday and to-day. (Cheap Edition. Now Ready.) HYPNOTISM: Its History, Practice and Theory. by J. Mivne Bramwett, M.B., C.M. Author of ‘Hypnotism and Treatment by Suggestion.” Demy 8vo. Cloth gilt. 12s, 6d. net. ‘This important book, unanimously regarded by students as the standard work on Hypnotism, is offered ata price which should command a larger public than it bas hitherto reached. WILLIAM R…
1922 · PDF PAGE 369
…rangers’ House, and put me through my paces. He made me tell him all my early life and especially the part just before I met you, when I thought I loved him. And he made me see that all I had done was to try to please myself, and that I had failed. My love for him was only that of a daughter for her father. I looked to him to lead me into life, but nothing meant anything to me till the night I met you. At that moment I began to live. It was you, and not Gretel’s beastly cocaine, that filled my soul with that Litany of Fuller’s. I had chanted it…
1929 · PDF PAGE 12
…our is no mean feat of mnemonics, especially when the deciphered message is itself couched in the obscurest symbolism. The spy must have thought his reason in danger if he succeeded in reading the hieroglyphs which
1922 · PDF PAGE 181
… way. Flighty—I can’t keep my mind on things like I could, except, of course, the one thing. And even that is confused. It’s not a clear thought. It’s an ache and a fear and a pain—anda sinister rapture. And I am suspicious of everybody I see. I wonder if they think I’m taking it, and if they can do something horrid. I’m always on the look-out for people to play me some dirty trick, but that isn’t a delusion at all. I’ve seen more meanness and treachery since the night I met Cockie than I knew in the rest of my life. We seem to have got into a …
1929 · PDF PAGE 101
…ack cloth 2. The oath which he takes is replaced by a “charge” in similar terms. The details of the préparation of each weapon should be thought out carefully by the magician. 1. See The Book of the Law and the Commentaries thereon for the true définition of this virtue. 2. This refers to the “formula of the Néophyte”. There are alter¬ natives. 65
1922 · PDF PAGE 107
…ensive, and Mr. Wolfe had warned me very seriously about getting into debt, so I paid for the rest of the stuff, and we went off, and we thought we'd drive out to the Bois for lunch, and then we took some more snow in the taxi and Lou began to cry because I had bought nothing for myself. So we took some more snow, we had plenty of time, nobody lunches before two o’clock.. We went straight back to the shop and bought the green pearl, and that got Lou so excited that the taxi was like an aeroplane; if anything, more so.
1929 · PDF PAGE 217
…ermans I can without persuading myself that I'm saving them from Prusian Tyranny! Good-night!" "The youth is unintelligible or immoral," thought Manners, as he turned his face to the spindrift; "but I bet he kills a lot of Germans!" [305]
1954 · PDF PAGE 79
…, kutta, and so on. All symbols, you see, my dear child, and it's no good your kicking! But it doesn't stop there. When we try to convey thought by writing, we are bound to sit down solidly, and construct a holy Qabalah out of nothing. Why would a curve open to the right, sound like the ocean, open at the top , like you? And all these arbitrary symbolic letters are combined by just as symbolic and arbitrary devices to take on conventional
1954 · PDF PAGE 537
…e Yogi to keep his mind constantly fixed on the fact that any idea soever is false. There is actually a Hindu proverb "That which can be thought is not true." Consequently the existence of any idea in the mind is an immediate refutation of it, but equally the contraries as well as contradictory of that idea are false, and the result of this is to knock the second law of formal logic to pieces. One puts up a sort of sorites-a is b, therefore a is not b; therefore not a is not b; and all these contrary statements are equally false, but in order t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 172
…ding self-luminous but rayless Buddha. 30th. 12.12-12.42 Suddhi. am, am, I passed a bad night, and in the morning my will and control of thought seemed shortened. 8.45-9.15 Suddhi. am. am. Thoughts hopelessly wandering. 9.45-10.29 Dharana on Buddha with “Aum Mani Padme Hum.” A am, a.m. much better meditation. I felt a spiral force whirring around * The same as Nadi-Yama. + Anahata Lotus, mystic ganglion in the heart. See diagram. 156
1910 · PDF PAGE 172
…ding self-luminous but rayless Buddha. 30th. 12.12-12.42 Suddhi. am, am, I passed a bad night, and in the morning my will and control of thought seemed shortened. 8.45-9.15 Suddhi. am. am. Thoughts hopelessly wandering. 9.45-10.29 Dharana on Buddha with “Aum Mani Padme Hum.” A am, a.m. much better meditation. I felt a spiral force whirring around * The same as Nadi-Yama. + Anahata Lotus, mystic ganglion in the heart. See diagram. 156
1922 · PDF PAGE 377
…d strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, and be drunk thereof | They shall not harm ye at all.’” ‘“ Yes,” I said slowly, ‘“ and I thought it a bit daring ; might tempt people to be foolhardy, don’t you think ? ” ‘Of course,”’ agreed Basil, ‘‘ if you read it carelessly, and act on it rashly, with the blind faith of a fanatic; it might very well lead to trouble. But nature is full of devices for eliminating anything that cannot master its environment. The words ‘to worship me’ are all- important. The only excuse for using a drug of any sor…
1929 · PDF PAGE 89
…éléments as possible. The pleasure seems to be derived from gratifying the sense of power, the power to compel every possible element of thought to contribute to the spasm. If the theory of reincarnation were generally accepted, the above considérations would make out a strong case. Frater Perdurabo was quite convinced in one part of his mind of this identity, long before he got any actual memories as such.1 II • « • * 1 * , . . Unless one has a groundwork of this sort to start with, one must get back to one’s life as best one can by the meth…