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…tion of this matter. Having completed this treatise, I discovered myself to be inspired to write a number of short stories based on The Golden Bough. They are "The Hearth", "The God of Ibreez", "The Burning of Melcarth", "The Old Man of the Peepul Tree", "The Mass of St Secaire", "The King of the Wood", "The Oracle of Cocytus" and "The Stone of Cybele". Now with regard to my magical work strictly speaking, its character was presumably determined by my Grade. The Magus corresponds to the Sephira Chokmah, whose manifestation in the universe is Ma…
1929 · PDF PAGE 490
…ver took advantage of this natural channel. I went down the Colorado River by Angel Trail. I wanted to make {772} sure I had not lost my old speed and surefootedness. The previous record from the edge of the cliff to the river was some minutes over two hours. I did it in one hour twenty minutes to a second! I paid the price; the nails of my big toes were so badly bruised that the came off completely. I rested by the river's edge and wrote this sonnet: I lie beneath the cliff of the canyon. ....Down the long trail I flitted like a swallow, ....D…
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
…der in which the family and the servants sat. A chapter of the Bible was read, each person present taking a verse in turn. At four years old he could
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
…ted to produce at moments of national crisis. My patriotism is of the blatant, unintelligent variety, popularized by Kipling. I like the old rime: Two skinny Frenchmen, one Portugee, One jolly Englishmen lick 'em all three. But I can find no moral excuse for my attitude. I am an animal with a family and a country. To hell with everybody! This animal is prepared to use its brains and its force as stupidly and unscrupulously as the Duke of Wellington. It is not convinced by its own philosophical opinions, which condemn patriotism as parochialism,…
1944 · PDF PAGE 55
tial doctrine of the Qabalah; and the thing most difficult to understand about the later de‐ based Old Testament tradition,1 is that it represents Tetragrammaton as masculine, in spite of the two feminine components. Zeus became too popular, and, in consequence, too many leg‐ ends gathered around him; but the important fact for this present purpose is that Zeus was peculiarly the Lord of Air.2 Men who sought the origin of Nature in the earliest days tried to find this origin in one of the Elements. (The history of philosophy describes the contr…
1906 · PDF PAGE 268
…. ‘‘ Existence,’ and ‘* Buddha,’”’ Mahaparinibbana Sutta, to whom the author wishes to express his acknowledg- ments. 4 This joke is the old one. Jones asks Smith, ‘‘Why are you so late?” Smith wittily answers: ‘‘Absurd! I must always come before tea; you can never come till after tea.’ Here ‘‘you” only comes after the ‘‘tea"’ in Scepticus, which shows that Scep- ticus was a tea-totaller. Mysticus is therefore the drinker; which proves (what Burton and all Eastern scholars affirm) that Omar Khay- yam means spiritual wine and not common alcoholi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 238
…eactions, not {397} merely of things which cannot be directly perceived by sense, but of forces which do not possess being at all in the old sense of the word. Yet the average man of science still denies the existence of the elementals of the Rosicrucian, the angels of the Cabbalist, the Nats, Pisachas and Devas of southern Asia, and the Jinn of Islam, with the same blind misosophy as in Victorian days. It has apparently not occurred to him that his position in doubting the existence of consciousness except in connection with certain types of a…
1905 · PDF PAGE 101
…p, no light is hard within To shame love’s lips and rouse the silky skin From its dull olive to a perfect white. For scarce an hour the golden rim of light Tinges the southward bergs; for scarce an hour The sun puts forth his seasonable flower, And only for a little while the wind Wakes at his coming, and beats cold and blind On the wild sea that struggles to release The hard grip from its throat, and lie at ease Lapped in the eternal summer. But its waves Roam through the solitude of empty caves {n vain ; no faster wheels the moon above ; And …
1906 · PDF PAGE 281
…rmal inspection —and this is a reasonable view !—the argu- ment simply goes to prove that matter, as the Ego, is divine. And this is our old vicious circle ! Myst. Also, since the object may be the Infinite. All Dhyana proves is that ‘‘ things are not what they seem.” Scept. Not content with our poets, you seem to have wandered into Longfellow. Myst. Also Tennyson. , Scept. I can sympathise: there is a blot on my own scutcheon. You are just, though, in your statement that the glorification of one of two factors Myst, At the moment of the disapp…
1906 · PDF PAGE 221
…e rose and came into his ancient temple, a temple of our Holy Order, O my Brethren, wherein sat that Hierophant who had initiated him of old. Now read he well the riddle of the Goat (Blessed be his name among us for ever! Nay, not for ever!), and therewith the Teacher made him a Master of the Sixfold Chamber, and an ardent Sufferer toward the Blazing Star. For the Sword, said the Teacher, is but the Star unfurled.2 And our Father being cunning to place Aleph over Tau read this reverse, and so beheld Eden, even now and in the flesh. Whence he so…
1929 · PDF PAGE 233
…Helwan on February 19th; and I played nearly every day, filled with a passionate ambition to become amateur champion. I had picked up my old form so rapidly that I imagined myself a heaven-born golfer. But the game haled its own. I never even got to scratch. I did a certain amount of pigeon shooting at odd times. I had practised a good deal with clay pigeons at Boleskine and become a really first-class shot. I was also quite good at wild pigeons; but for some reason, trapped pigeons were quite beyond me. I dare not boast that I am even second r…
1929 · PDF PAGE 231
231 And that is why I sit and spoil So much clean paper with such toil By Kandy Lake in far Ceylon. I have my old pyjamas on: I shake my soles from Britain's dust; I shall not go there till I must; And when I must! --- I hold my nose. Farewell, you filthy-minded people! I know a stable from a steeple. Farewell, my decent-minded friends! I know arc lights from candle-ends. Farewell-a poet begs your alms, Will walk awhile among the palms, An honest love, a loyal kiss, Can show him better worlds than this; Nor will he come again to yours While he …
1906 · PDF PAGE 237
…lied the neophyte, “they are unstable, everything ‘is sorrow, in them is no inward Principle, as some pretend, that can avoid, that can hold itself aloof from, the forces of decay.” ‘*And how do you know that, little Brother ?”’ smiled the Thrice- Honoured One. ‘‘Lord, I perceive this Truth whenever 1 Thirst: z.e. desire in its evil sense. 2 Ignorance. 3 Doubt. + ‘* Bliss-of-non-existence.'’ One of Crowley's eastern names. I consider the Universe. More, its con- sclousness seems ingrained in my very nature, perhaps through my having known this …
1944 · PDF PAGE 111
…elaborate symbols based upon them which are neces‐ sary in practical work. Saturn and Earth have certain qualities in common‐heaviness, coldness, dryness, im‐ mobility, dulness and the like. Yet Saturn appears in Binah in respect of its blackness in the Queen’s scale, which is the scale of Observed Nature; but always, as soon as the end of a proc‐ ess is reached, it returns automatically to the beginning. In Chemistry, it is the heaviest elements that are unable in terrestrial conditions to support the strain and stress of their internal struct…
1906 · PDF PAGE 242
… sense of the term we mean ‘‘ absence of extension in any of the categories.” When I say ‘‘ No cat has two tails,” I do not mean, as the old fallacy runs, that ‘* Absence-of-cat possesses two tails”; but that ‘‘In the category of two- tailed things, thereis no extension pf cat.’ Nothingnessis that about which no posi- - tive proposition is valid. We cannot truly affirm : ‘* Nothingness is green, or heavy, or sweet.’ Let us call time, space, being, heaviness, hunger, the categories.1_ If a man. be heavy 1 J cannot here discuss the propriety of r…
1906 · PDF PAGE 279
…ogression ? Scepft. I see what you would be at. You would say that of two men born on a day, dying on a day, one may be young, the other old. Alyst. Ay! But I would say this tc vitiate the standard you somewhat incau- tiously set up. Scept, Abrogateit then ! But where are we? jst. Were, that we may determine this most vital point ; how so to act that we may obtain the most from life; or, if existence, the word of which intuitions are the letters, be, as the Buddhists pretend, misery, how to obtain the least from it. Svept. Let us not speak ill …
1929 · PDF PAGE 509
…H 6° = 5 ř R.R. et A. C. is the humblest and simplest of the Brethren of the Order. He has worked with his hands since he was nine years old and he understands and loves the Law and its Logos as a child does its mother and father. He has my respect and affection as no other of my Brethren: for he represents to me mankind incarnate at its weakest (and therefore strongest) and noblest (and therefore most "common"). He is, in a word, that "Man" of whom I am, being 666 )the number of a man) and whom I love and serve. An illuminating incident: he ca…
1906 · PDF PAGE 234
… end of Genesis iii., and cut down the tree, and all the Nats perished. ‘‘Jehjaour heard and trembled. Perdu’ R Abu was only three years old. VIIL. ‘It really seemed as if fate was against him. Poor Jehjaour! In despair he cried to his partner, ‘O Ganesha, in the world of Gods only shall we be safe. Let him be born as a flute-girl before Indra’s throne!’ ‘Difficult is the task,’ replied the alarmed deity, ‘but I will use all my influence. I 1 The Government, in the interests of Bud- dhists themselves, reserves all ground within 50 feet of a dag…
1929 · PDF PAGE 542
…cordingly wired her to join me in Paris, which she did on January 11th, the first anniversary of our liaison. With her was her two- year-old son who appears in The Diary of a Drug Fiend as Dionysus. We were hoping to "put his nose out of joint" in February or March. My object in staying near London was as follows. When I left for New York, I had confided the administration of the O.T.O. to the Grand Treasurer, George Macnie Cowie, VIII°, Frater Fiat Pax, a Neophyte of A.'. A.'.. He was a man of over fifty years, the art editor of Nelson's, the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 34
…een on that. Kelly never denied it; even Stuart was sound in this matter, and Stoney himself (though reluctantly) gave his adhesion. To hold a meeting you must have two persons present . . . Well, I need hardly say that Mr. and Mrs. Cameron took opposite sides of the controversy. When the glad wires flashed the message that Mr. Raven in the meeting at Ealing had deliberately said with slow and weighty emphasis, "He that hath the Son hath eternal life", Mrs. Cameron almost wept for joy. When (the message continued) Major McArthy had risen to his…