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Page 91 of 1121922 · PDF PAGE 130
…erly, and then open up when the word comes Over the top.” We pretended to pull ourselves together to please him, but I couldn’t blind my eyes to the fact that I was likely to lose my money, because the white elephant had turned into a quite ordinary Zebu or Brahman cow, or at the best a two-humped or Bactrian dromedary, in any case, an animal entirely unfitted by nature to carry the money of a cautious backer. Agitated by this circumstance, I was hardly in a condition to realise the nature of the proposals laid before the meeting by Worshipful …
1922 · PDF PAGE 286
…een mournful, as if his plans had been seriously disconcerted. That was another trick of his that put people off. It was Lou’s sparkling eyes that told me what he meant. And then I was brought up with a tremendous shock to realise what it meant to me. I went to the chart myself with excited curiosity, quite as if I had never seen it before. It did not need a mathematician to put the situation into English. The crosses for the last thirty-six hours were crowded into a few spaces, leaving large empty gaps. In other words, the indulgence had becom…
1930 · PDF PAGE 78
… touch the feet, quickly advance the left foot about 12 inches, throw forward the body, and let the hands (drawn back to the side of the eyes) shoot out, so that you are standing in the typical position of the God Horus, and at the same time imagine the Name as rushing up and through the body, while you breathe it out through the nostrils with the air which has been till then retained in the lungs. Ail this must be done with ail the force of which you are capable. (e) Then withdraw the left foot, and place the right forefinger I 2 I* This injun…
1930 · PDF PAGE 108
…during the practices, especially during the periods of Kumbhakarn, throw his will utterly towards his Holy Guardian Angel, directing his eyes inward and upward, and turning back his tongue as if to swallow it. 1. Note that in the early stages of concentration of the mind, such annoyances become negligible. 408 —
1996 · PDF PAGE 168
…I A Verses 46— 53 169 for though they be, or represent, the Magi of the past, the curse of their Grade must consume them. Thus it is the eyes of “Jesus” — his point of view—that must be destroyed; and this point of view is wrong because of his Magical Gesture of self-sacrifice. One must not for a moment suppose that this verse supports the historicity of “Jesus.” “Jesus” is not, and never was, a man; but he was a “god,” just as a bundle of old rags and a kerosene tin on a bush may be a “god.” There is a man-made idea, built of ignorance, fear, …
1910 · PDF PAGE 178
… becoming very bright. Tried drinking through nose; * but could not accomplish it properly. Tried Dharana on Nose as Ida was stopped up. Eyes watered, and the breathing was difficult, could not concentrate, Pranayama. Twenty-two minutes: 10. 20, 30. Could have gone on. Pranayama very difficult. Dharana on nose nine minutes. The nose is perhaps my least sensitive organ. Would I do better to try my tongue? Dharana, four minutes on tip of tongue. Burning feeling as usual. Can feel every tooth as if each had become a con- scious being. Pranayama. B…
1910 · PDF PAGE 178
… becoming very bright. Tried drinking through nose; * but could not accomplish it properly. Tried Dharana on Nose as Ida was stopped up. Eyes watered, and the breathing was difficult, could not concentrate, Pranayama. Twenty-two minutes: 10. 20, 30. Could have gone on. Pranayama very difficult. Dharana on nose nine minutes. The nose is perhaps my least sensitive organ. Would I do better to try my tongue? Dharana, four minutes on tip of tongue. Burning feeling as usual. Can feel every tooth as if each had become a con- scious being. Pranayama. B…
1944 · PDF PAGE 105
… horror and of fear. All prejudice, all superstition, dead tradition ‐ and ancestral loathing, all combine to darken her face before the eyes of men. It needs unconquerable courage to begin to tread this path. Here is a weird, deceptive life. The fiery sense is baulked. The moon has no air. The knight upon this quest has to rely on the three lower senses: touch, taste and smell.1 Such light as there may be is deadlier than dark‐ ness, and the silence is wounded by the howling of wild beasts. To what god shall we appeal for aid? It is Anubis, th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 148
THE EQUINOX or Soul; and a Selecting Power, which however is strenuously denied by the rigid law of Cause and Effect. However the mental eyes of the vast majority of his followers were not so clear as to pierce far into the darkness of metaphysical philosophy, and so it happened that, where the idealism of the Vedanta had failed the realism of Buddhism succeeded.* This denial ofa Universal Atman, and a personal Atman, soon brought the ethical and philosophical arguments of Gotama up against a brick wall (Kant’s “a priori”). As we have seen he c…
1910 · PDF PAGE 148
THE EQUINOX or Soul; and a Selecting Power, which however is strenuously denied by the rigid law of Cause and Effect. However the mental eyes of the vast majority of his followers were not so clear as to pierce far into the darkness of metaphysical philosophy, and so it happened that, where the idealism of the Vedanta had failed the realism of Buddhism succeeded.* This denial ofa Universal Atman, and a personal Atman, soon brought the ethical and philosophical arguments of Gotama up against a brick wall (Kant’s “a priori”). As we have seen he c…
1922 · PDF PAGE 131
…one, alone for ever, Lou and I in Capri, it was all much too good to be true! Sunlight and moonlight and starlight! They were all in her eyes. And she handed out the cocaine with such a provocative gesture! I knew what it was to be insane. I could understand perfectly well why the silly fools that aren’t insane are afraid of being insane. I'd been that way myself when I didn’t know any better. : : This rotten little race of men measures the world by Its own standard. It is lost in the vastness of' the
1996 · PDF PAGE 167
…the Sun is a Star in the Cosmos of Nuit. 1 [See verse 35.] 50. Curse them! Curse them! Curse them! 51. With my Hawk’s head I peck at the eyes of Jesus as he hangs upon the cross. Commentary: We are to consider carefully the particular attack of Heru-ra-ha against each of these “gods,” or prophets;
1910 · PDF PAGE 345
…so above. It is then with no uncleanness of mind that all races of men have adored an ithyphallic god; to those who can never lift their eyes above the basest plane the sacrament seems filth. Much, if not all, of the attacks upon Thomas Lake Harris and his worthy successor “Respiro” is due to this persistent misconception by prurient and degraded minds. When a sculptor sees a block of marble he thinks “ How beautiful a statue is hidden in this! I have only to knock off the chips, and it will appear!” This being achieved, the builder comes along…
1910 · PDF PAGE 345
…so above. It is then with no uncleanness of mind that all races of men have adored an ithyphallic god; to those who can never lift their eyes above the basest plane the sacrament seems filth. Much, if not all, of the attacks upon Thomas Lake Harris and his worthy successor “Respiro” is due to this persistent misconception by prurient and degraded minds. When a sculptor sees a block of marble he thinks “ How beautiful a statue is hidden in this! I have only to knock off the chips, and it will appear!” This being achieved, the builder comes along…
1922 · PDF PAGE 132
…e us. It was simply a case of mistaken identity to regard us as featherless bipeds at all. We may have looked like human beings to their eyes ; in fact, they sent in bills and things as if we had been human beings. But I refuse to be responsible for the mistakes of the inferior animals. I humour them to some extent in their delusions, because they’re lunatics and ought to be humoured. But it’s a long way between that and admitting that their hallucinations have any basis in fact. I had been in their silly world of sense a million years or so ag…
1929 · PDF PAGE 44
…duce him to remove the brain. At that moment I looked into the mirror, I saw that I must not speak. My hair was white, my face drawn, my eyes wild and bloodshot. In utter helplessness and misery I flung myself on the couch in the study, and puffed greedily at cigarettes.
1922 · PDF PAGE 216
… to get it: to fall in with the old fellow’s humour. I let my head fall on my breast and looked at him sideways out of the corners of my eyes. “You can’t expect a young girl to confess everything she has felt,’’ I whispered with a deep sigh, ‘‘ especially when she has had to kill it out of her heart. It does no good to talk of these things,’’ I went on. “I ought really not to have come. But how could I guess that you, a great doctor like you, had taken any notice of a silly kid like me? ” He jumped to his feet excitedly. “No, no,” I said sadly,…
1922 · PDF PAGE 23
A Knight Out 9 A dangerous look came into the eyes of the insane earl. He took a pace backwards and raised his stick. But Fordham, old campaigner that he was, had antici- pated the gesture. He had been to the Western States in his youth ; and what he did not know about scrapping was not worth being known. In particular, he was very much alive to the fact that an unarmed man sitting behind a fixed table has no chance against a man with a stick in the open. . He slipped out like a cat. Before Bumble could bring down his cane, the old man had dive…
1929 · PDF PAGE 222
debauchery, who staggered, her eyes rolling, her hair dishevelled, her mouth loose and wet, laughing with indecent and profane intoxication. "Good morning, Captain Grey; well met, well met indeed!" began Douglas, urbane in his triumph. "I trust you passed a pleasant time in Naples." "Very pleasant," returned Grey. "Dr. Balloch," continued Douglas, "crossed my path. I am glad you should have seen the end of him." "I am glad," said Cyril. "And what end do you think I have reserved for you?" said the sorcerer, with sudden foam of ferocity. "Someth…
1954 · PDF PAGE 460
…rk on gold, and gold must be cleansed with acid. I really cannot understand how you can be so inaccurate, with the very text before your eyes! You write- "you write that in Jan. 1899 etc." But I don't. Captain J.F.C. Fuller wrote it. A small point; but you must learn to be careful about every tiniest detail. Then you go on about "not only invisible chiefs l of the A:. A: .... but also the Chiefs of the Golden Dawn .. . " The Golden Dawn is merely the name for the Outer Order: see Magick pp. 230-231. You have never been taught to read carefully.…