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Page 94 of 1591913 · PDF PAGE 353
…o deify death. Progress is the only reply that reason can give to the objections which the existence of evil raises. 1 Written about the time of the Crimean War, this indicates Levi’s attempt to use Imperialism as his magical weapon, just as Allan Bennett tried to use Buddhism. All these second-hand swords break, as Wagner saw when he wrote Siegfried, and invented a new Music, a Nothung which has shorn asunder more false sceptres than Wotan’s.—O. M. 55
1913 · PDF PAGE 465
… Eliphas, whose heart was sad, and consequently disposed to prayer, followed that way and entered the church. It might have been at that time about four o’clock in the afternoon. The church was full of the faithful, and the office was performed with great concentration, and extraordinary solemnity. The banners of the parishes of the city, and of the suburbs, bore witness to the public veneration for the virgin who saved Paris from famine and invasion. At the bottom of the church, the tomb of St. Geneviéve shone gloriously with light. They were …
1913 · PDF PAGE 466
…n his cross, walked slowly, and blessed to right and left the crowd which knelt about his path. Eliphas saw the Archbishop for the first time, and noticed the features of his countenance. They expressed kindliness and gentleness; but one might observe the expression of a great fatigue, and even of a nervous suffer- ing painfully dissimulated. The procession descended to the foot of the church, tra- versing the nave, went up again by the aisle at the left of the door, and came to the station of the tomb of St. Geneviéve; then it returned by the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 128
…en Bough”, where it is most learnedly set forth by Dr. J. G. Frazer. Enough has now been said to show that the bloody sacrifice has from time immémorial been the most considered part of Magick. 92 —
1954 · PDF PAGE 431
…ey lie outside the infinitesimally minute pilule of one's own personal experience. When I crossed the Burma-China frontier for the first time, who should I meet but our Consul at Tengyueh, the admirable Litton, who had by sheer brains and personality turned the whole province of Yunnan into his own Vice-royalty? We lunched together on the grass, and I hastened to dig into the goldmine of his knowledge of the country. About the third or fourth thing he said to me was this: "Remember! whatever anyone tells you about China is
1954 · PDF PAGE 438
…ong shot at the tiger will fly true to the mark, that the tricky putt will go down, that the man one never beat before will go down this time; also its horrid contrary, the moral certainty that something will go wrong, even with the easiest problems, with one hundred to one in one's favour. I think the official answer is that one's certainty is in reality based upon subconscious calculation, so that faith has nothing whatever to do with it. If there is any answer to this, I don't know it. After all, that is neither here nor there; there is but …
1909 · PDF PAGE 3
…idges with it. The only question is : did not perhaps the late Lord Tennyson foresee events, and leave it to be published when the right time came ? But in this case, how account for Eu- phemias possession of the dainty thing ? Anyway, its not Tennyson : dont worry : I was only teas- ing. She had originally picked up the unfinished M.S. to use as curl-papers. It was indeed written, as will be obvious from the style, on sheets of thin- nest, softest (and I believe sterilised) paper of a delicate and pleasing pale canary colour, mullioned at t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 115
…mple. 1. Draw in the breath for four seconds, hold it for sixteen, and then throw it out in eight. This makes one Pranayama. At the same time think of the triangle (the Maladhara Chakkra is sym- bolically represented as a triangle of fire) and concentrate the mind on that centre. At first practice this four times in the morning and four times in the evening, and as it becomes a pleasure to you to do so slowly increase the number. 2. Assume the Padmdsana posture; draw in the Prana through the Ida (left nostril), retain it until the body begins t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 115
…mple. 1. Draw in the breath for four seconds, hold it for sixteen, and then throw it out in eight. This makes one Pranayama. At the same time think of the triangle (the Maladhara Chakkra is sym- bolically represented as a triangle of fire) and concentrate the mind on that centre. At first practice this four times in the morning and four times in the evening, and as it becomes a pleasure to you to do so slowly increase the number. 2. Assume the Padmdsana posture; draw in the Prana through the Ida (left nostril), retain it until the body begins t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 255
…e more hints about the Sanctuary he belonged to, the fact being that his only teacher was an ex- Cantab, named Humphreys, who had at one time been tolerated by Crowley in order to analyze the soul (if any) of the kind of man who fills his rooms with the portraits of “actresses” whom he has never seen, and boasts of their devotion to him. His only other guide appears to have been a solicitor of the kind that writes you terrible threatening letters, and on being told rudely to do what the Oldest Inhabitant of the Northumbrian Capital actually did…
1913 · PDF PAGE 508
…t, and one remembers that the magi were the masters of primitive civilization, because they were the masters of all the science of their time. To know is to be able when one dares to will. The first science of the practical qabalist, or the magus, is the knowledge of men. Phrenology, psychology, chiromancy, the observation of tastes and of movement, of the sound of the voice and of either sympathetic or antipathetic impres- sions, are branches of this art, and the ancients were not ignorant of them. Gall and Spurzheim in our days have rediscove…
1913 · PDF PAGE 255
…e more hints about the Sanctuary he belonged to, the fact being that his only teacher was an ex- Cantab, named Humphreys, who had at one time been tolerated by Crowley in order to analyze the soul (if any) of the kind of man who fills his rooms with the portraits of “actresses” whom he has never seen, and boasts of their devotion to him. His only other guide appears to have been a solicitor of the kind that writes you terrible threatening letters, and on being told rudely to do what the Oldest Inhabitant of the Northumbrian Capital actually did…
1913 · PDF PAGE 508
…t, and one remembers that the magi were the masters of primitive civilization, because they were the masters of all the science of their time. To know is to be able when one dares to will. The first science of the practical qabalist, or the magus, is the knowledge of men. Phrenology, psychology, chiromancy, the observation of tastes and of movement, of the sound of the voice and of either sympathetic or antipathetic impres- sions, are branches of this art, and the ancients were not ignorant of them. Gall and Spurzheim in our days have rediscove…
1929 · PDF PAGE 75
…rification and consécra¬ tion, he is allowed for one moment to see the Lord of the West, and gains courage 1 2 to persist. For the third time he is purified and consecrated, and he sees the Lord of the East, who holds the balance, keeping him in a straight line. In the West he gains energy. In the East he is prevented from dissipating the same. So fortified, he may be received into the order as a néophyte by the three principal officers, thus uniting the Cross with the Triangle. He may then be placed between the pillars of the Temple, to receiv…
1929 · PDF PAGE 41
…the one who knows are not radically one person. This double personality is enormously ac- centuated at death. Another point was that the time-sense, which with men is usually so reliableespecially in my own case was decidedly deranged, if not abrogated altogether.
1930 · PDF PAGE 7
…s of prose. The object of this course of reading is to familiarize the student with ail that has been said by the Great Masters in every time and country. He should make a critical examination of themj not so much with the idea of discovering where truth lies, for he cannot do this except by virtue of his own spiritual expérience, but rather to discover the essential harmony in those varied Works. He should be on his guard against partisanship with a favourite author. He should familiarize himself thoroughly with the method of mental equilibriu…
1930 · PDF PAGE 123
…yet the Word is falsehood, and the LJnderstanding darkness. And this saying is of Ail Truth. 6. Nevertheless it is written; for there be times of darkness, and this as a lamp therein. 7. With the Wand createth He. 8. With the Cup preserveth He. 9. With the Dagger destroyeth He. 10. With the Coin redeemeth He. 11. His weapons fulfil the wheel; and on What Axle that turneth is not known unto Him. 12. From ail these actions must He cease before the curse of His Grade is uplifted from Him. Before He attain to that which existeth without Form. 13. A…
1929 · PDF PAGE 278
…cially as I do not know whether there are doors opening out of it or not. I will keep my forefinger on the trigger and {455} at the same time light a match to make sure of the archway. When I get out into the open street, I will walk away very quickly and very quietly, and go straight to the Dharamtolla road and take a gharry, and drive to Edward thornton and tell him what has happened. I carried out this programme to the letter. And now comes a curious circumstance. Me experiments in Mexico City in "making myself invisible" have been recorded …
1904 · PDF PAGE 22
…front of a looking-glass and read and frig alternately. If you are grown up, a dog or a man to suck you saves labour of any sort and time. But I want you to swim in a perfect ocean of fuck as you read and please God if we ever meet what ho ! Ive a belly-full of boiling emo- tion-emulsion to shoot up your Two-penny-tube, your Penny-Pipe, or into your mouth, or to splash all over your bubbies, your dear fat butter-pats, your rosy-buttoned titties, or wherever you like. And when I cant spunk any more, Ill suck you off till your back ach…
1907 · PDF PAGE 186
…ts of war ; the former ever as some leprous brach licking at her heels ; the latter a halo of sainthood to be cast o'er the skull of the time-cleansed skeleton , which was once a spongy mass of wriggling larvae . During his life the thief stole , he lied , and he cheated ; pursued , he was caught , judged , and nailed to a cross , and in death alone was he promised the subconscious longing of his life - Paradise . This duality of Virtue and Vice has rent the world , as with a sword , and her garment has been torn asunder . Some say “ this is mi…