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Page 92 of 1071919 · PDF PAGE 168
…y of bliss about these practices which is peculiar to concentration but other- wise indescribable. (This is bad. You do things well, and work hard; but your point of view is all wrong. I feel a sort of sentimentality injuring your scientific attitude. O.M.) April 20, 2.40-3.10 P.M. Having left home about 2.15 I climbed up towards the mountain till I found a secluded spot; there I knelt down and did breathing exercise. Felt Prana all over body. Invoked Adonai and tried to unite with Him. A brilliant White light filled sphere of consciousness. Ar…
1905 · PDF PAGE 130
…s his morning beams that play With our sails rent and rifted white, and run Like summer lightning all about the deck, And laugh upon the work my sword had done When the feast turned to death for us; we reck Nothing to-night of all that past despair: Only to-night I watch your curving neck, And play with all the kisses of your hair, And feel your weight, as if you were to be Always and always—O my queen, how rare
1929 · PDF PAGE 107
…re of Grey's purpose. This information was essential; Douglas knew that it must be something tremendous; that the forces which Cyril was working to evoke were cosmic in scope. He knew it not only from his own divinations, but deduced it from the fact of the intervention of Simon Iff. He knew well that the old Master would not have lifted a finger for anything less than a world-war. Douglas therefore judged that if he could defeat Grey's purpose, it would involve the triumph of his own. Such forces, recoiling upon his head who had evoked them, w…
1905 · PDF PAGE 209
…be so! Lord Jesus, Sufferer for the sins of man, Thou didst invite me to Thy shame and loss. And Iam happy! Pity me! Bestow The right to work in the eternal Plan, The right to hang on the eternal Cross! THE LORD’S DAY. THE foolish bells with their discordant clang Summon the harlot-ridden Hell to pray : The vicar’s snout is tuned, the curates bray Long gabbled lessons, and their noisy twang Kills the foul worshippers with hate ; the fang Of boredom crushes out the holy day, Where whore and jobber sit and gloom, grown grey For hating of each oth…
1910 · PDF PAGE 356
…ome more criminal and degrading than ever. Money is not the basis of this so-called evil,as suggested, and public indigna- tion will not work a cure any more than public indignation against the Metropolitan Water Board will stop people drinking water. We must cease globe-polishing virtue and sand-papering vice. Away with our moral Monkey Brand and our ethical Sapolio, and back to a little genuine common-sense elbow-grease, When a girl ceases sowing her “ wild oats” and can enter any phase of life without being spat upon and “ chucked out,” degr…
1910 · PDF PAGE 356
…ome more criminal and degrading than ever. Money is not the basis of this so-called evil,as suggested, and public indigna- tion will not work a cure any more than public indignation against the Metropolitan Water Board will stop people drinking water. We must cease globe-polishing virtue and sand-papering vice. Away with our moral Monkey Brand and our ethical Sapolio, and back to a little genuine common-sense elbow-grease, When a girl ceases sowing her “ wild oats” and can enter any phase of life without being spat upon and “ chucked out,” degr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 380
…lixity, confines its ardour to Vishvarupa-darshana. Apart from this, it treats of Hindu dogma and ethics. At its best, it is a sectarian work. "Aha!" covers all religious experience, asserts no axioms, advocates no cut-and-dried codes. In some {609} eleven hundred lines I have described all the principal trances, from the three types of Dhyana (Sun, Moon, Agni) and the four elements (for instance, the Disc "like a black boundless diamond whirring with millions of wings"), to the spiritual beings that inhabit the invisible universe, and the Sama…
1909 · PDF PAGE 394
THE EQUINOX it is interesting reading, which is more than we can say of most recent works dealing with the Kénigsberg philosopher; except, however, two, which, as it happens, are also written by soldiers, viz., Captain William Bell McTaggart’s “Absolute Relativism,” and Captain J. F. C. Fuller’s “Star in the West.” This work, however, more than these two, which only deal with Kant en passant, shows him to be, as we have always considered him, the wild Irish- man of Teutonic thought, who recklessly gallops at the philosophic hurdles set up by th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 394
THE EQUINOX it is interesting reading, which is more than we can say of most recent works dealing with the Kénigsberg philosopher; except, however, two, which, as it happens, are also written by soldiers, viz., Captain William Bell McTaggart’s “Absolute Relativism,” and Captain J. F. C. Fuller’s “Star in the West.” This work, however, more than these two, which only deal with Kant en passant, shows him to be, as we have always considered him, the wild Irish- man of Teutonic thought, who recklessly gallops at the philosophic hurdles set up by th…
1911 · PDF PAGE 172
… to such as these the “Apocalypse Unsealed " will be a veritable " Revelation ” indeedi Mr James M. Pryse accepts it unreservedly as the work of the Apostle John, but we ought to mention that there is a long string of authorities against this view. Dionysius, who was surnamed the Great, of Alexandria, was a pupil of Origen, and he of Clement of Alexandria, all catechists of the Arcane Discipline which taught a Christianised version of the older Gnosis, which Clement and others had brought into the Church from the older secret, or occult, societ…
1911 · PDF PAGE 172
… to such as these the “Apocalypse Unsealed " will be a veritable " Revelation ” indeedi Mr James M. Pryse accepts it unreservedly as the work of the Apostle John, but we ought to mention that there is a long string of authorities against this view. Dionysius, who was surnamed the Great, of Alexandria, was a pupil of Origen, and he of Clement of Alexandria, all catechists of the Arcane Discipline which taught a Christianised version of the older Gnosis, which Clement and others had brought into the Church from the older secret, or occult, societ…
1906 · PDF PAGE 80
…he flowers lack scent, the birds are dumb, The fruits are tasteless : jewelled lea And all the many-leavéd greenery Is dwarf: French gem-work on a baby’s thumb. where the The Yankee God frowned also on the plan. We had enough, no more. But I insist, Still thinking I was master of my heart: Saying, ‘ Another month to be a man, Another month to kiss her and be kissed, And then—all time to Magic and to Art!” 1 That is, the imaginary author. 2 Japan. 3 The dollar. THE TWENTY-THIRD DAY. ‘* He has strangled His language in his tears.” K. Hen, VII. My…
1907 · PDF PAGE 21
…th the arcanum of the wise ; Love is the elixir, love the stone ; The rosy tincture shall arise Out of its shadowy cadences. Love is the Work, and love alone Rewards the ingenious alchemist. Chaste fervours chastely overthrown Awake the infinite monotone. So, Lady, if thy lips I kissed ; So, lady, if in eyes of steel I read the steady secret, wist Of no gray ghosts moulded of mist ; I did not bid my purpose kneel, Nor thine retire : I probe the scar Of self, the goddess keen and real Supreme within the naked wheel Of sun and moon and star and s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 108
… on the crosses. Our soulless missiles take for butts The passers’ hats, or in their guts Disturb their dinner’s process. Thus one man’s work is one man’s play ; The melancholy help the merry. , All tread the ordered stupid way At Paris, upon Dead Man’s Day, In Pere Lachaise his cemetery. AVE MORS. O VIRGIN ! O my sister! Ilear me, death! The tainted kisses of the harlot life Sicken me; hers is foul and fevered breath, This notsome woman I have made my wife. She lies asweat, aslime. QO hear me, thou! Wash with thy tears this desecrated brow ! W…
1929 · PDF PAGE 77
…t her mood was no longer the same. She put her hands in Simon Iff's. "I think you're a very noble man," she said, "and it's an honour to work in such a cause." Cyril took her in his arms. "Then you will come with me to Naples? To the Master's own villa?" She looked at Iff with a queer smile. "May I make a joke?" she said. "I should like to rechristen the villa — The Butterfly-Net!" Simple Simon laughed with her like a child. It was just the delicate humour that appealed to him; and the classical allusion to the Butterfly as allegorical of the S…
1919 · PDF PAGE 293
…continues to bore us with remarks upon “the art of both these unflinching realists.” Constance Garnett, one presumes, undertook the hard work of translating Rus- sian as a relief from the intolerable boredom of her pinchbeck husband. Thus an all-wise Providence brings good from evil, for she is an excellent translator, apt to catch the spirit of a masterpiece. Of course, Chekhov is the Russian Maupassant, for every Russian is under the curse of being a Russian something-European. There is nothing genuinely Russian in art or literature, because …
1938 · PDF PAGE 24
… particular need together. The Way of Perfection is thus twofold: first, the True Will must be consciously grasped by the Mind, and this Work is akin to that called the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. Second, as it is written: Thou hast no right but to do thy Will, each particle of energy which the Instrument is able to develop must be directed to the doing of that Will, and this is one fierce lion in the way, that until the second task be already far advanced, the confusion of the instrument is such t…
1944 · PDF PAGE 63
…n that its keys are to be communicated by those who possess them to all true aspirants. This card is thus very peculiarly a glyph of the work of the A A. Some idea of the formula is given in this other chapter of the Book of Lies: THE OYSTER
1944 · PDF PAGE 35
… the Great Light: when the Universe is perceived as one, yet with all its parts, each necessary and each distinct. The beginning of this work is, however, easy enough. One requires no more than ele‐ mentary classical knowledge. Roughly taking, for a start, the natures of the planets are de‐ scribed by those of the gods after whom the actual bodies in heaven were named, according to the old astrological ideas of their influence on the affairs of men. The same is true, to a less extent, of the Signs of the Zodiac. There is not so much information…
1929 · PDF PAGE 156
…s. All that Magick lacks to put it on a footing with hydrostatics or electricity is a method of quantitative estimation. The qualitative work is admirably accomplished. The moon was waxen beyond her first phase; she set well after midnight. The nights were yet cold; but Iliel's cradle had been made like a nest in cloudland with fleece of camels — for they are sacred to the moon; and she was covered with a quilt of silver fox. Thus she could lie in the open without discomfort, and yearn toward her goddess as she moved majestically across heaven.…