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Page 91 of 1001910 · PDF PAGE 502
…Brethren of the Rosy Cross towards the Limbus, that outer, unknown world encircling so many a universe.” “John Bull,” in the course of a long review by Mr. HERBERT VIVIAN “The author is evidently that rare combination of genius, a humorist and a philosopher. For pages he will bewilder the mind with abstruse esoteric pronouncements, and then, all of a sudden, he will reduce his readers to hysterics with some surprisingly quaint conceit. I was unlucky to begin reading him at breakfast and I was moved to so much laughter that I watered my bread wi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 416
…the Brethren of the Rosy Cross towards the Lim! , that outer, unknown world encircling so many a universe,” “John Ball,” in the course o long review by Mr. HERBERT VIVIAN “The author is evidently that combination of genius, a humorist and a philosapher. For pages he will bewilder the mi, th abstruse esoteric pronouncements, and then, all of a suddea, he wii} reduce his readers _ysterics with some surprisingly quaint conceit. I was unlucky to begin reading him a’ fast and I was moved to so much laughter that I watered my dread with my tears ely …
1909 · PDF PAGE 416
…the Brethren of the Rosy Cross towards the Lim! , that outer, unknown world encircling so many a universe,” “John Ball,” in the course o long review by Mr. HERBERT VIVIAN “The author is evidently that combination of genius, a humorist and a philosapher. For pages he will bewilder the mi, th abstruse esoteric pronouncements, and then, all of a suddea, he wii} reduce his readers _ysterics with some surprisingly quaint conceit. I was unlucky to begin reading him a’ fast and I was moved to so much laughter that I watered my dread with my tears ely …
1913 · PDF PAGE 602
…e Brethren of the Rosy Cross towards the Limbus, that outer, unknown world encircling so many a universe.” John Bull, in the course of a long review by Mr. HERBERT VIVIAN “The author is evidently that rare combination of genius, a humourist and a philosopher. For pages he will bewilder the mind with abstruse esoteric pronouncements, and then, all of a sudden, he will reduce his readers to hysterics with some surprisingly quaint conceit. 1 was unlucky to begin reading him at breakfast, and I was moved to so much laughter that I watered my bread …
1913 · PDF PAGE 602
…e Brethren of the Rosy Cross towards the Limbus, that outer, unknown world encircling so many a universe.” John Bull, in the course of a long review by Mr. HERBERT VIVIAN “The author is evidently that rare combination of genius, a humourist and a philosopher. For pages he will bewilder the mind with abstruse esoteric pronouncements, and then, all of a sudden, he will reduce his readers to hysterics with some surprisingly quaint conceit. 1 was unlucky to begin reading him at breakfast, and I was moved to so much laughter that I watered my bread …
1929 · PDF PAGE 236
…ticular Egyptian deity said to rule the 2nd Decan of Aries, in 1904, from 1st April to 10th April. position by the old methods and did a long Tarot divination which proved perfectly futile. March 23rd to April 7th. I made inquiries about the stele and had the inscriptions translated into French by the assistant curator at Boulak. I made poetic paraphrases of them. Ouarda now told me to enter the room, where all this work had been done, exactly at noon on April 8th, 9th and 10th, and write down what I heard, rising exactly at one o'clock. This i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 204
…severe physical distress. Like Marcel Schwob himself, he was a martyr to constipation. He told me that the first half of every day was a long and painful struggle to overcome the devastating agony of his body. Only three weeks later he died. He was engaged in various tremendous literary tasks and yet he could give up a day to welcome a young and unknown writer! I could not pretend to myself that so great a man could feel any real interest in me. It never occurred to me that he might have read anything of mine and thought it promising. I took, a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 379
…y to the hall. I finally got him down on the staircase. He kicked the balustrade to splinters; but I held on. Luckily, his hair was very long, so that I could knock his head on the edge of a stair whenever he tried to break away. I begged Mrs Gnaggs and the servants to send for help, but they were much too interested in watching the scrap. I had to hold him down for an hour and a half when another guest turned up and restored peace. We sat down to dinner perfectly good friends. On second thoughts he realized that his suspicions had been absurd.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 445
…er the Ark was capable of containing two of every sort of creature, with provisions necessary for their support for a whole year; for so long and more did Noah stop in that Ark. But on a careful inquiry it has been found that only about one hundred different sorts of beasts, and not two hundred birds, are known, the greater part of them are of no bulk, and many exceedingly small, and it has been said all the creatures in the Ark would not take up the room of five hundred horses. After four thousand years human ingenuity cannot now contrive any …
1904 · PDF PAGE 83
…u’ R Abu alive was to h ave played into the hands of his enemies. My First Precept is m erely a general rule. 3 In 1 The Buddha had such long ear s that he could cover the whole of his f ace with them . Ears are referred to Spirit in Hindu sy mbolism, so that the legend means he could conceal the lower elements and dwell in this alone. 2 Here is the little rift within the lute which alienated Crowley f rom a ctive w ork o n Buddhist lines; the orthodox failing to see his attitude. 3 A more likely idea that the brilliantly logical nonsense of “P…
1904 · PDF PAGE 5
…ou resistless sword ! Raise the prone priestcrafts that appeal In agony to their prostrate Lord! Raise the duped herd—they have suffered long Awake, awake, O Sword of Song ! My strength this agony of the age Win through; my music charm the old Sorrow of years: my warfare wage By iron to an age of gold :— The world is old, and I am strong— Awake, awake, O Sword of Song ! * The name of Siegfried’s sword. INTRODUCTION TO “ASCENSION DAY AND PENTECOST” NOT a word to introduce my introduction! Let me instantly launch the Boat of Dis- course on the Se…
1904 · PDF PAGE 101
…to express my view that when the Qabalists said Not, they meant Not, and nothing else. In fact, I really claim to have re-discovered the long-lost and central Arcanum of those divine philosophers. I have no serious objection to a finite god, or gods, distinct from men and things. In fact, personally , I believe in them all, and admit them to possess inconceivable though not infinite power. The Buddhists admit the existence of Maha-Brahma, but his power and knowledge are limited; and his agelong day must end. I find evidence every where, even in…
1929 · PDF PAGE 133
…it with nicely balanced enthusiasm. Its climate is chronic; its architecture is an unhappy accident; its natives are nasty, the men with long hair cooped up by a comb, smelling of fish, the women with waists bulging black between coat and skirt, greasy with coconut oil, and both chewing betel and spitting it out till their teeth ooze with red and the streets look like shambles; its English are exhausted and enervated. The Eurasians are anaemic abortions; the burghers --- Dutch halfcasts --- stolid squareheads; the Portuguese piebalds sly sneaks…
1904 · PDF PAGE 119
SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM 112 this term. And I am convinced in my own mind that the Ananda (bliss) of Dhyana will surely arise long before one has passed even up to Sankhara. And for the reality, ’twill be a brave jest, my masters, to fling back on the materialists that terrible gibe of Voltaire’s at the m ystery- mongers of his day : “Ils nient ce qui est, et expliquent ce qui n’est pas.” NOTE TO SECTION VIII. Transfigured Realism. I will not waste my own time and that of my readers by any lengthy discussion of Mr. Herbert S pencer’s “ Transfigured…
1929 · PDF PAGE 139
139 Asana, "position", is the art of sitting perfectly still, so that the body can no longer send messages to the mind. Pranayama, "control of breath force", consists in learning to breathe as slowly, deeply and regularly as possible. The slightest mental irritation or excitement always makes one breathe quickly and unevenly; thus one is able to detect any disturbance of calm by observing this system. Also, by forcibly controlling the breath one can banish such ideas. Also one reduces to a minimum the consciousness that one is breathing. One ma…
1929 · PDF PAGE 277
…stand out stark as stars on a background of utter blackness. I had become, as by an enchanter's spell, the primeval caveman. Perhaps the long strain and horror of the Kangchenjunga tragedy had prepared me for this sudden outcropping of atavism. {454} However that might be, I remember nothing but these harsh clear thoughts, uninterfered with by the usual mental processes. I felt myself a "hum,an leopard"; something in me warned me that --- contrary to all common sense and evidence --- I had lured these men. I was, so to say, a Q-ship! I remember…
1944 · PDF PAGE 182
… The Ten of Swords is called Ruin. It teaches the lesson which statesmen should have learned, and have not; that if one goes on fighting long enough, all ends in destruction. Yet this card is not entirely without hope. The Solar influence rules; ruin can never be complete, because disaster is a sthenic disease. As soon as things are bad enough, one begins to build up again. When all the Governments have smashed each other, there still remains the peasant. At the end of Candide’s misadventures, he could still cultivate his garden. The Ten of Dis…
1929 · PDF PAGE 6
…oom, the disposal of its appointments, the little group of "brethren" surrounding him, and the surprise of finding himself, dressed in a long white garment, being suddenly dipped and lifted from the water. He has also a clear auditory remembrance of words spoken solemnly over him; though they meant nothing, he was impressed by the peculiar tone. It is not impossible that this gave him an all but
1929 · PDF PAGE 212
212 ancient Copts," replied Kelly and redoubled his aesthetic ardours. A long pause --- then she asked, "What does cryptic mean?" "The language spoken by the ancient Crypts," roared the rapin and abandoned hope of humanity. Another affectation of the women art students was to claim to be treated exactly as if they were men in every respect. Gerald, always eager to oblige, addressed one of his models as old fellow, to her great satisfaction. Then he excused himself for a momentary absence in the terms which he would have used to another man. On …
1904 · PDF PAGE 80
…ears. Of all Indra’s flute-girls she played and sang the sweetest. Yet ever some remembrance, dim as a pallid ghost that fleets down the long avenues of deodar and moonlight, stole in her brain; and her song was ever of love and death and music from beyond. “And one day as she sang thus the deep truth stole into being and she knew the Noble Truths. So she turned her flute to the new song, when—horror !—there was a mosquito in the flute. ‘Tootle ! Tootle !’ she began. ‘Buzz! Buzz!’ went the mosquito from the very vitals of her delicate tube. “In…