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Page 93 of 1121929 · PDF PAGE 48
…u have found your will divided against itself — the will to live against the will to Nirvana, if I may call it so — and that is not even good magick." The boy groaned inwardly. He could understand just enough to realize how far the heights reached above him. His heart almost failed him at the thought — which was instinctive knowledge — that he must scale them, whether he would or no. "Take care!" suddenly cried Simon Iff. At almost the same instant a terrible scream shrilled out from a neighbouring studio. "It is my fault," murmured the old man…
1929 · PDF PAGE 88
…id old man, he [126] implored the driver, with the gift of the bewitched "cart-wheel," to be sure to drive carefully. He would drink the good fellow's health, to be sure — what name? Oh! Marcel Dufour. "Of the furnace — that is appropriate!" laughed the genial passenger, apparently reassured as to his security. But he did not enter the train. He dashed out of the station, and into a motor-cab, overjoyed to return to Douglas with so clean a record of work accomplished. He never gave the Turk another thought. But Akbar Pasha had had an idea. Ball…
1904 · PDF PAGE 59
…o quite so far as mine—it must be remembered that “scepticism” is merely the indication of a possible attitude, not a belief, as so many good fool folk thing; but Buddha not only denies “Cogito, ergo sum”; but “Cogito, ergo non sum.” See Sabbasava Sutta, par. 10.* At any rate, Sakkyaditthi, the delusion of personality, is in the very forefront of his doctrines; and it is this delusion that is con- stantly and inevitably affirmed in all normal consciousness. That Dhyanic thought avoids it is doubtful; even so, Buddha is here repre- sented as giv…
1996 · PDF PAGE 16
…ties to the general reader, to the layman like myself. I have aimed at making an abridgement that the general reader of intelligence and good will can assimilate, and by which he will powerfully gain. But I do not pretend that he will understand this Book and make it his own without any difficulty at all; it is only charlatan works that can be so quickly and easily grasped as that. It is impossible to write rewardingly on such matters as religion, death, sex, the conduct of life, and at the same time to make no more than slight and sim ple dem…
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
… my husband, and married again two years later." "That was the Marquis la Giuffria?" "Yes." "Well, then, you left him, although he was a good husband, and devoted to you, to throw in your lot with Lavinia King." "I have lived with her for five years, almost to a month." "Then why? I used to know her pretty well myself. She was, even in those days, heartless, and mercenary; she was a sponger, the worst type of courtezan; and she was an intolerable poseuse. Every word of hers must have disgusted you. Yet you stick to her closer than a brother." "…
1929 · PDF PAGE 128
…ngly, he took a large dose of a medicine known to the pharmacist as Hydrarg.Subchlor, adding the remark "If this be nature, may it do me good; and if this be magic, may it do himgood!" This occurred just as Arthwait reached his final operation, the evisceration of his enemy.
1904 · PDF PAGE 41
…hile he putteth on the Shape of a Man. His office is to make one Wonderful Knowing? in Astrology and all the Liberal Sciences. He giveth Good Familiars, and can bewray Treasure that is kept by Spirits. He governeth 36 Legions of Spirits, and his Seal is this, etc. (59.) Orzax, or Orntas.—The Fifty-ninth Spirit is Oriax, or Orias. He is a Great Marquis, and appeareth in the Form of a Lion,’ riding upon a Horse Mighty and Strong, with a Serpent’s Tail;* and he holdeth in his Right Hand two Great Serpents hissing. His Office is to teach the Virtue…
1910 · PDF PAGE 207
…poet, with his verses and rhymes. For the best foundation to build upon is always to be found upon that which a man doves dest. It is no good asking a glutton who does not care a row of brass pins for music, to turn music into a magical formula, neither is it of the slightest use to impress upon a clean-minded individual the necessity of living a chaste life. It is like tapping Samson on the shoulder, just after he has carried the gates of Gaza on 191
1910 · PDF PAGE 207
…poet, with his verses and rhymes. For the best foundation to build upon is always to be found upon that which a man doves dest. It is no good asking a glutton who does not care a row of brass pins for music, to turn music into a magical formula, neither is it of the slightest use to impress upon a clean-minded individual the necessity of living a chaste life. It is like tapping Samson on the shoulder, just after he has carried the gates of Gaza on 191
1905 · PDF PAGE 56
WHEAT AND WINE 49 Yet such a flower sprang here Within this soul of mine, WHEAT AND WINE. When foemen bade good cheer To foemen, grew one clear CLEAR, deep, and blue, the sky Concept, ideal, divine, Is silvered by the morn, Ofa god of light and laughter, of a god of And where the dewdrop’s eye Catches its brilliancy Strange lights and hues are horn: I have seen twelve colours hover on a single spray of thorn. There is a great grey tower! Cut clear against the deep ; In the sun’s wakening hour I think it has the power To touch the soul of sleep …
1929 · PDF PAGE 43
…e the Tree of Life by turning the Serpent of Wisdom upside down! Yet he could not even make his scheme symmetrical: bis little remaining good sense revolted at the suprême atrocities. Yet be succeeded in reducing the whole Magical Alphabet to nonsense, and shewing that he had never understood its real meaning. The absurdity of any such disturbance of the arrangement of the Paths is évident to any sober student from such examples as the following. Binah, the Supernal Understanding, is connected with Tiphereth, the Human Consciousness, by Zain, G…
1929 · PDF PAGE 126
… golf ball so long as he swings as he does, and uses that mechanically defective grip. It is also to be remarked that the contrary holds good; no method of doing anything has yet been found which cannot be bungled by the inept. So, as the Persian poet says: "Who hath the How is careless of the Why."
1930 · PDF PAGE 33
… also the only explanation of how a being could create a war in which war, evil, etc. exist. Evil is only an appearance, because, (like “good”) it cannot affect the substance itself, but only multiply its combinations. This is something the same as mystic monotheism, but the objection to that theory is that God has to create things which are ail parts of himself, so that their interplay is false. If we présupposé many éléments, their interplay is natural. It is no objection to this theory to ask who made the éléments, — the éléments are at leas…
1929 · PDF PAGE 135
…ethical implication. The danger is that one may get something which one does not want. This is “bad” by définition. Nothing is in itself good or evil. The shields of the Sabines which crushed Tarpeia were not murderous to them, but the contrary. Her criticism of them was simply that they were what she did not want in her Operation. 3. The habituai use of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (say, thrice daily) for months and years and constant assumption of the God-form of Harpocrates (See Equinox, I, II and Liber 333, cap. XXV for both…
1906 · PDF PAGE 112
…my tune and my desire ! The Sun himself my lover and my lyre! CHORUS. This song is sweeter than the honeycomb. MEDEA. Nearly as sweet as good friends quarrelling. JASON. Look, friends, methinks I see a silvern shape Like faint mist floating on the farthest sea. MEDEA. I see a barren rock above the tides. JASON. I hear a sound like water whispering. MEDEA. I hear a harsh noise like some ancient crone Muttering curses. JASON. Now [I hear a song. "Tis like some shape of sleep that moans for joy, Some bridal sob of love ! MEDEA. O Son of God ! My p…
1909 · PDF PAGE 396
… Reason ! And why all this pother? To reduce all men to their own lumpishness. These louts of the intelligence !_ These clods—Clodds! My good fellows, it is certainly necessary to plough a field sometimes. But not all the year round! We don’t want the furrows ; we want the grain. And (for God’s sake !) if you must be ploughmen, at least let us have the furrows straight ! Do you really think you have helped us much when you have shown that a horse is really the same as a cow, only different? 388
1909 · PDF PAGE 396
… Reason ! And why all this pother? To reduce all men to their own lumpishness. These louts of the intelligence !_ These clods—Clodds! My good fellows, it is certainly necessary to plough a field sometimes. But not all the year round! We don’t want the furrows ; we want the grain. And (for God’s sake !) if you must be ploughmen, at least let us have the furrows straight ! Do you really think you have helped us much when you have shown that a horse is really the same as a cow, only different? 388
1904 · PDF PAGE 33
…onové.—The Twenty-seventh Spirit is Ronové. He appeareth in the Form of a Monster. He teacheth the Art of Rhetoric very well, and giveth Good Servants, Knowledge of Tongues, and Favours with Friends or Foes. He is a Marquis and Great Earl; and there be under his com- mand 19 Legions of Spirits. His Seal is this, etc. (28.) Beriray.—The Twenty-eighth Spirit in Order, as Solomon bound them, is named Berith. He is a Mighty, Great, and Terrible Duke. He hath two other Names given unto him by men of later times, viz: BEALE, or Beat, and Borry or Bot…
1907 · PDF PAGE 93
…se, O my sons, to desire ! Change is the whole that we see By the light of a chaos on fire. Cease to desire—you are free !”’ Your words, good Gotama, are brave and true 3 Kasy to say, but difficult to do! TARSHITERING. NEPALI LOVE-SONG.! O KISSABLE Tarshitering ! the wild bird calls its mate—and I? Come to my tent this night of May, and cuddle close and crown me king! Drink, drink our full of love at last—a little while and we shall die, O kissable Tarshitering ! Droop the long lashes: close the eyes with eyelids like a beetle’s wing ! Light th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 486
…his and my work with Evangeline Adams kept me going through the summer. I had a glorious time, what with love and sea bathing. I wrote a good deal of poetry; in particular "The Golden Rose", and a set of lyrics, mostly sonnets to Hilarion, who appears later, in "the Urn", as "the Cat Officer". This woman possessed a unique atmosphere. I can only describe it as "sweetness long drawn out". This translated itself in terms of rhythm. I quote a typical sonnet: IN THE RED ROOM OF ROSE CROIX The bleeding gate of God unveils its rose; The cavernous Wes…