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…aven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.t And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.{ we obtain the right distance. In the above the Will takes the place of the hand. * See also “ The Yogasar…
1922 · PDF PAGE 80
…ecretary. I really did take to it like a duck to water, and things have gone very well for me ever since. But London isn’t the place for men with real ambition. It doesn’t afford the scope. It’s either Paris or New York for yours sincerely, Elgin Feccles.” I don’t know why I didn’t believe a word of the tale ; but I didn’t. The heroin was working beautifully. I hadn’t the slightest inclination to talk to Haidée. In the same way she took no notice of me. She never uttered a word. Lou was in the same condition. She was apparently listening to wha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 36
…ditions imposed artificial restraint on the sister appetite of hunger, decent citizens began to develop all kinds of loathsome trickery. Men and women will never behave worthily as long as current morality interferes with the legitimate satisfaction of physiological needs. Nature always avenges herself on those who insult her. The individual is not to blame for the crime and insanity which are the explosions consequent on the clogging of the safety valve. The fault lies with the engineer. At the present moment, society is blowing up in larger o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
…rfectly regular and certain, being determined by immutable laws, the operation of which can be foreseen and calculated precisely; the éléments of caprice, of chance, and of accident are banished from the course of nature. Both of them open up a seemingly boundless vista of possibilities to him who knows the causes of things and can touch the secret springs that set in motion the vast and intncate mechanism of the worid. Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike hâve exercised on the human mindj hence the powerful stimulus that b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 107
…erse crashes into dis¬ solution. Let the Magician eamestly seek this Lost Word, for its pronunciation is synonymous with the accomplish- ment of the Great Work. 1 2 In this matter of the efficacity of words there are again two formulæ exactly opposite in nature. A word may become potent and terrible by virtue of constant répétition. It is in this way that most religions gain strength. At first the statement “So and so is God” excites no interest. Continue, and you meet scora and scepticism: possibly persécution. Continue, and the controversy ha…
1930 · PDF PAGE 50
… of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat; O Nuit, con- tinuous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus, that men speak not of Thee as One but as None; and let them speak not of thee at ail, since thou art continuous. Euring this speech the PRIESTESS must hâve divesied her self completely of her robey See CCXX.1.61. The PRIESTESS. But to love me is better than ail things: if under the night-stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, …
1906 · PDF PAGE 98
92 THE ARGONAUTS THESEUS. ARGONAUTAE. | | Good Heracles ! Not all men owe thy strength —— ACTUS SECUNDUS. ARGO ARGUS. — Nay, let him try! ARGus the son of PHRIXUS, JASON, Take my toy hammer ! HERACLES, CASTOR, POLLUX, THE- SEUS, ORPHEUS. Chorus of Heroes. Chorus of Shipbuilders. SCENE: 472 open place near Lolchus. CHORUS OF SHIPBUILDERS. THE sound of the hammer and steel ! The song of the level and line! The whirr of the whistling wheel ! The ring of the axe on the pine! The joy of the ended labour, As the good ship plunges free By sound of pip…
1912 · PDF PAGE 303
…; viz., that the theory is an example of the fallacy Post hoc propter hoc, Are we to believe, asks the sceptic, that a number of learned men deliberately sat down and chose words for the sake of their numerical value? Language is a living thing, with many sources and diverse; can it be moulded in any such arbitrary fashion? The only reply seems to be a mere assertion that to some extent it certainly is so‘ Examples of a word being spelt deliberately wrong do occur; and such a jugglery as the changing 01 the names Abram and Sarai to Abraham and …
1912 · PDF PAGE 303
…; viz., that the theory is an example of the fallacy Post hoc propter hoc, Are we to believe, asks the sceptic, that a number of learned men deliberately sat down and chose words for the sake of their numerical value? Language is a living thing, with many sources and diverse; can it be moulded in any such arbitrary fashion? The only reply seems to be a mere assertion that to some extent it certainly is so‘ Examples of a word being spelt deliberately wrong do occur; and such a jugglery as the changing 01 the names Abram and Sarai to Abraham and …
1996 · PDF PAGE 131
…labour leaders to the principles here set forth. I conclude by quoting a chapter from Liber Aleph which bears on the subject. Ag—DE FUNDAMENTIS CIVITATIS [39—On the Foundations of the State] Say not, o my Son, that in this Argument I have set Limits to individual Freedom. For each Man in this State which I pur pose is fulfilling his own True Will by his eager Acquiescence in the Order necessary to the Welfare of all, and therefore of himself also. But see thou well to it that thou set high the Standard of Satisfaction, and that to every one be…
1922 · PDF PAGE 106
… hour by the County Council. The world is full of injustice. However, we certainly didn’t have any time to have questions asked in Parliament. There was Lou almost in tears because she had nothing to wear ; practically no jewellery—the whole idea of being a knight is that when you see a wrong it is your duty to right it. Fortunately, there was no difficulty at the present moment. All we had to do was to drive down to the Rue de la Paix. I certainly almost fell down when I saw all those pearls on her neck. And that cabochon emerald! By George, i…
1922 · PDF PAGE 377
…m not quite sure,’”’ I answered, dreamily watching Lou and Lala, who had arrived a week since with the apparatus I required for my experiments, as_ they waltzed together on the court. They were both radiant. It seemed as if the moon had endowed them with her pure subtlety and splendour. “IT asked you,” continued Big Lion, pulling at a big meerschaum and amber pipe of the Boer pattern, which he reserved for late at night, “‘ because I want you to take the fullest advantage of your situation. You have been tried in the crucible and come out pure …
1929 · PDF PAGE 89
…to suspect the identity, had not troubled (although an extravagant buyer of books) to get this particular work. He found, to his astonishment, tha^t almost everything that he had himself intended to say was there written. The resuit of this was that he abandoned writing his original work, and instead translated the masterpiece in question. 8. The style of the two men is strikingly similar in numerous subtle and deep-seated ways. The general point of view is almost identical. The quality of the irony is the same. Both take a perverse pleasure in…
1930 · PDF PAGE 95
… State of Union for several minutes, even at first. In any case he must rekindle his ardour, esteeming his success rather as an encouragement to more ardent aspiration than as a triumph. He should increase his efforts. Let him beware of the “lust of resuit”, of expecting too much, of losing courage if his first success is followed by a sériés of failures. For success makes success seem so incredible that one is apt to create an inhibition fatal to subséquent attempts. One fears to failj the fear intrudes upon the concentration and so fulfils it…
1954 · PDF PAGE 205
…am, but part and parcel of Experience for evermore, as real as any other manifestation of Reality through sense such as is common to all men. And this brings us-it has been a long way round-from the suggestion of your visit to the question (hitherto unanswered) in your letter. You raise so vast and razor-edged a question when you write of the supposed antinomy of "soul" and "sense" that it seemed better to withhold comment until this later letter; much meditation was most needful to compress the answer within reasonable limits; even to give it …
1954 · PDF PAGE 434
…to the continuity of life. When you can get these still alive to their function, it is best of all. That is why it is not so highly recommended to tear out and devour the heart and liver of your next-door neighbour ; you have gone far to destroy just that which is of most importance to you to keep alive. Doubtless you will reply with some apparent justice , indeed most plausible is such ratiocination, that by taking into your own body , and so preserving the life of, his heart and liver, the whole of his "vital energies" will desert the sinking…
1996 · PDF PAGE 59
… provides us with so great an excess of the substance that the reproduction of the human race need not slacken, though the proportion of men to women were no more than three to the thousand. The problem of efficiency consequently appears practically insoluble. We are now struck with the fact that Nuit commands us to exercise the utmost freedom in our choice of the method of utiliz ing the services of this our first, our finest and our fieriest talis man; the license appears at first sight unconditioned in the most express and explicit terms t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 124
…es 35-45 125 44. Aye! feast! rejoice! there is no dread hereafter. There is the dissolution, and eternal ecstasy in the kisses of Nu. Commentary: Do not be afraid of “going the pace.” It is better to wear out than to rust out. You are unconquerable, and of indefatigable energy. Great men find time for everything, shirk nothing, make reputations in half a dozen different lines, have twenty simultaneous love affairs, and live to a green old age. The milksops and valetudinarians never get anywhere; usually they die early; and even if they lived fo…
1996 · PDF PAGE 144
… death; and, being wholly itself, lives again by attracting its equal and opposite Counterpart, with whom “love under will” is the fulfilment of the Law, in a sublimer sphere. But there are no rules until one finds them: a man leaving Ire land for the Sahara does well to discard such “indispensable” and “proper” things as a waterproof and a blackthorn for a turban and a dagger. The “moral” man is living by the no-reason of Laws, and that is stupid and inadequate even when the Laws still hold good; for he is a mere mechanism, resourceless shoul…
1996 · PDF PAGE 112
…ion of the nature of Hadit as a self-conscious and individual Being, although impersonal. He is an ultifnate, independent, and unique element in Nature, impenetrably aloof. The negative electron seems to be his physical analogue. Each such electron is indistinguishable from any other; yet each is determined diversely by its relations with various positive complementary electrons. The verse is introduced at this juncture in order to throw light on the passage which follows. It is important to understand Hadit as the “core of every star” when we …