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Page 88 of 1151919 · PDF PAGE 160
…er when it was little more than a recollection, also, when I first saw picture of man’s arm in Equinox, I rather dreaded to cut mine, so thought it best to carry out exercise and get over bodily dread of a little pain. I did so and am not sorry.” This letter from Fra P.A. giving new practice, etc., com- bined with some considerable dissatisfaction on Frater V.1.0.’s part, regarding his present state, caused him to un- dertake another regular spell of work for 32 days, after which he seems to have recorded very little until March 25 in the follo…
1922 · PDF PAGE 208
…roin would bring him round all right. I told him I had some. I had to tell him several times before he understood. When he did, the mere thought helped to restore him ; but there remained an ort of rage, and he told me to give it him, with a greedy snarl. If I had wanted to keep it from him, I shouldn't have let him know I had it. I brought him the stuff, sitting down by his side and lifting his head with one hand while I gave it to him on the back of the other. My heart sank like a stone in deep water. The old familiar attitude, the old famili…
1930 · PDF PAGE 36
…s fulfilled by the Phallus, “Naught and Two” because the plus and the minus hâve United in “love under will.” A is “the Fool”, Naught in Thought (Parzival), Word (Harpo- crates), and Action (Bacchus). He is the boundless air, the wander- ing Ghost, but with “possibilités”. He is the Naught that the Two hâve made by “love under will”. LA thus represents the Ecstasy of Nuit and Hadit conjoined, lost in love, and making themselves Naught thereby. Their child is begotten and conceived, but is in the phase of Naught also, as yet. LA is thus the Univ…
1910 · PDF PAGE 347
…’ English were equal to his imagination. Again and again a lack of perfect control over his medium spoils one of the finest stories ever thought, All the glamour of the Highlands is here; all love, IV zZ 329
1910 · PDF PAGE 347
…’ English were equal to his imagination. Again and again a lack of perfect control over his medium spoils one of the finest stories ever thought, All the glamour of the Highlands is here; all love, IV zZ 329
1929 · PDF PAGE 93
…usion of the prémisses postulated by the past. As an example, we may cite certain memories of the Master Therion. He followed a train of thought which led him to remember his life as a Roman named Marius de Aquila. It would be straining probability to présumé a connection between (a) this hieroglyphically recorded mode of self-analysis and (J3) ordinary introspection conducted on principles intelligible to himself. He remembers directly various people and various events connected with this incarnation ; and they are in themselves to ail appeara…
1954 · PDF PAGE 516
…th one accord, if haply they may crush it in the germ. Read a little of the History of Medicine! Any man who shows a sign of independent thought is watched. is thwarted. He persists and is threatened and bullied. He persists; every engine of oppression is set in motion against him. Then, something snaps; either they succeed in killing him (Ross, who defeated malaria, nearly starved to death) or they make him a baronet, or a peer, or make his death a Day of National Mourning, and bury him in the Pantheon-aux grands hommes fa patrie reconnaissant…
1996 · PDF PAGE 39
…r true Will is, you may be devoting the most laudable energies to destroying yourself. Remember that every word and deed is a witness to thought, that therefore your mind must be perfectly organized, its sole duty to interpret circumstances in terms of the Will so that speech and action may be rightly directed to express the Will appropriately to the occasion. Remember that every word and deed which is not a definite expression of your Will counts against it, indifference worse than hostility. Your enemy is at least inter ested in you: you may…
1899 · PDF PAGE 251
…ssing through the Swinburnian epoch. His verse is full of the influence of ‘Poems and Ballads’; it contains a riot of words without much thought at the back of them. We seem, for example, to have heard this sort of thing a good many times before : ‘The garland I made in my sorrow Was woven of infinite peace; The joy that was white on the morrow Made music of viols at ease. The thoughts of the Highest would borrow The roar of the seas.’ And yet, despite a good deal of bombast about ‘lust being one with love,’ and the like, Mr. Crowley has many p…
1922 · PDF PAGE 201
…urned like a startled snake just as I made for the door. ‘“‘ Where are you going, Lou? ” His voice was both piteous and harsh. I had not thought of inventing a pretext ; but a lie slipped ready- made from my tongue. ‘‘T am going to Basil, to see if he can’t give me something to help us out.” I knew he didn’t believe me, and I knew he didn’t care where I went or what I did. He was not shocked at my lying to him—the first time I had ever done so. I took a taxi round to the studio. My he was half truth. I was going to ask him to help in the cure; …
1929 · PDF PAGE 135
…the water touched the edge. And, to the eye of Iliel, it seemed as if the trembling of the moon's image were a stirring of vitality. The thought that followed was a mystery. She said that she looked up, as if recalled to her vigil, and found that the moon was no longer in the sky. Nor indeed was there any sky; she was in a grotto whose walls, fantastically draped with stalactites, glimmered a faint purplish blue — very much the effect, she explained, of luminous paint. She looked down again; the basin was gone; at her feet was a young fawn, sno…
1906 · PDF PAGE 106
…gour) that to me Came a swift pity—the enchanter’s bane. That I flung from me. But my subtle soul Struck its own bosom with the sword of thought, So that I saw not pity, but desire! CHORUS. Surely a bane more potent than the first. MEDEA. Love is itself enchantment ! CHORUS. Some kind god Whispers from this a little light of hope. MEDEA. Only the hopeless are the happy ones. CHORUS. But didst thou turn him from his gleaming goal? Cover that shame with sweeter shame than this? MEDEA. Thou knowest that his vigil was to keep, Invoking all Olympus …
1910 · PDF PAGE 353
… Is. net. The author of the Man-Cover is well-known to the readers of THE EQUINOX. His charm lays principally in the independence of his thought, the delicacy of his touch, in his spirit of pure joy, in his most holy childishness. He shows certainly a great lack of literary experience, an accumulation of various contra- dictory feelings which seem to fight one another for the conquest of his spirit. The scientific training of our order will give him that Mastery over self which alone can bring forth the full blossom of his rich imagination. The…
1910 · PDF PAGE 353
… Is. net. The author of the Man-Cover is well-known to the readers of THE EQUINOX. His charm lays principally in the independence of his thought, the delicacy of his touch, in his spirit of pure joy, in his most holy childishness. He shows certainly a great lack of literary experience, an accumulation of various contra- dictory feelings which seem to fight one another for the conquest of his spirit. The scientific training of our order will give him that Mastery over self which alone can bring forth the full blossom of his rich imagination. The…
1930 · PDF PAGE 4
He makes this confession prostrate J before the altar in agony and bloody sweat. He trembles at the thought of the operation which he has dared to undertake, saying, “Father, if it be Thy Will, let this cup pass from me ! Nevertheless not my will but Thine be done!”1 2 The dread answer cornes that It Must Be, and this answer so fortifies him with holy zeal that it will seem to him as if he were raised by divine hands from that prostrate position; with a thrill of holy exaltation he renews joyfully the Oath, feeling himself once again no longer …
1905 · PDF PAGE 88
…s, And pluck his meaning from his subtle words? AHINOAM, Who shall speak plain enough for such as these To understand?) Or so debase his thought As meet their minds, and seem as wisdem’s self? CHORUS. Leave now thy gibing in the hour of joy, And lend sweet wisdom to awaiting ears. Thy voice shall carry it, thy words shall bear Full fruit to-day. Speak only, it is done. AHINOAM, Iam grown old, and go not out to wars. But in the lusty days of youth my face Turned from the battle and pursuit and spoil Only to one face dearer than my soul, F
1905 · PDF PAGE 128
…geoning and clean Over the ripples of his native sea. Yet for the shores his eyes had lately seen, He kept a half-regretful memory ; And thought, when all the flower-strewn ways were green, ‘* Better love Circe than Penelope !” Yes. A govod woman’s love will forge a chain To break the spirit of the bravest Greek ; While with an harlot one may leap again Free as the waters of the western main, And turn with no heart-pang the vessel’s beak Out to the oceans that all seamen seek.
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
…ving the knowledge of facts never tili then existing in any human mind, and depending on the control of the arm of the scribe, though He thought Fie was writing consciously from dictation; and to weave into a single pattern so many threads of proof of different orders that every type of mind, so it be but open and just, may be sure of the existence of AIWAZ as a being independent of body, conscious and individual, with a mind mightier than man’s, and a power beyond man’s set in motion by will. In a word, the Book of the Law proves the prime pos…
1922 · PDF PAGE 192
…Drug Fiend Satirical, sneering stupidity—or is he a devil in- carnate, as Gretel told us he was? Does he gloat? I loathe the beast—and I thought—once—well, never mind! Peter took the letter. Anything, anything to distract the mind from its boredom! Yet we haven't the energy to do anything: we take whatever comes to us, and clutch at it feebly. “ It’s true,’’ said Cockie, to my amazement, “ and we've got to be able to ¢ell him we've won.”’ There was a long quarrel—as there is over every incident of any sort. That is natural, with this eternal in…
1930 · PDF PAGE 41
…under Mercury, and the intelligence of each card is fundamentally Mercurial. Such symbols are therefore peculiarly proper to communicate thought. Ihey are not gross, like the geomantic daemons; but, as against this, they are unscrupulous in deceiving the diviner.1 The Y i King is served by beings free from these defects. The intense purity of the symbols prevent them from being usurped by intelligences with an axe of their own to grind.2 It is always essential lor the diviner to obtain absolute magical control over the intelligences of the Syst…