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Page 95 of 1071944 · PDF PAGE 171
…is con tempt for “the world, the flesh, and the devil”, all which are essential to the plan of the Universe; it is cardinal to the Great Work for the Adept so to order affairs that “even the evil germs of Matter shall alike become useful and good”. The error of Christian Mystics on this point has been responsible for more cruelty, misery, and collective insanity than all others put together; its poison can be traced even in the teaching of Freud, who assumed that the Unconscious was “the devil”, whereas in fact it is the instinct which expresse…
1907 · PDF PAGE 96
…odsman ; ‘‘ leaf and twig Divert the impact of the big Axe ; chop them first, the trunk is fit For a fair aim, a certain hit. How do you work yourself?” He spoke To empty space—the poet woke ; And catching up a carving-knife He slit the weasand of his wife. A NUGGET FROM A MINE. A MINER laboured in a mine. (The poet dreamed) By coarse and fine He shovelled dust into a trolley. ‘* But this” (the poet said) ‘‘is folly ! Take up your pick, engage in shock At the foundation of the rock !” The miner swore. ‘‘ You You clever —— ! go to school And col…
1944 · PDF PAGE 176
…tored” is incorrect, because there has been no disturbance. The Lord of Peace is therefore a better title: but it needs thinking hard to work this out, since the Sword is so intensely active. It may be helpful to study the Essay on Silence (p. 120) for a parallel: the Negative Form of the Positive Idea. See also the Essay on Chastity (Little Essays Toward Truth, pp. 70‐74) which concludes: Sir Knights, be vigilant: watch by your arms and renew your oath; for that day is of sinister augury and deadly charged with danger which ye fill not to over…
1906 · PDF PAGE 25
…let mimicking his posture, The doubting look and hair flung wide to wind ! A pity, eh? to see this merry hind, This beggar, actor out of work, this droll, Because he plays artistically his réle, Wishing to interest in his chanted woes Brooks, eagles, crickets, every flower that blows, And even to us the rubric old who made To howl out publicly his wild tirade?” I could have (for my pride is mountains high, And dominates cloud tops or demon’s cry)— I could have simply turned my sovereign head, Had I not seen, ’mid their obscene herd led, Crime, …
1905 · PDF PAGE 259
…gs, Bow to thy wings, Thy manifest control, Vexation ! weeding out of one another. Their dwelling-places, let them lose their name ! The work of man, and all his pomp and power, Deface them: shatter the aspiring tower ! Let all his houses be as caves and holes, Unto the Beast I give them. And their souls— Lift up the shadowy hand !— | Confound with darkness them that under- stand ! For why? Me, the Most High, It doth repent Me, having made mankind ! Let her be known a little while, and then A little while a stranger. Dumb and blind, Deaf to the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 107
…myself anew: By the Sword of Vengeance: By the Powers of the elements: By the Cross of Suffering: That I will devote myself to the Great Work: the obtaining of Communion with my own Higher and Divine Genius (called the Guardian Angel) by means of the prescribed course; and that I will use my Power so obtained unto the Redemption of the Universe. So help me the Lord of the Universe and mine own Higher Soul! This idea is further expanded in the obligation which I took in respect of the Operation. The influence of my initiation into the Second Ord…
1929 · PDF PAGE 421
421 Christ crown the work! Here is the blessing that He gave thee. 6. After both second and fourth feet: Come, let me hold my crystal cross up to the moon! A guess of gold were at a loss to tell its tune. 7. After the first and fifth feet: No news! No word of Mortadello's fate! No hope To bruise the head of the old snake, the State. No scope. 8. After the first half foot and the second foot: Come, save me, save Thy Maiden! Strike each barbed dart Home to the grave convent and cloister of my heart. 9. After the fifth foot: Last, to the lords who…
1939 · PDF PAGE 31
…cur in our practice. We must break away from our sorites, turn to the empiricism of experiment, and trust that one day we may be able to work back from observed fact to a coherent metaphysic. The point is that by sitting still, in the plain literal sense of the words, the body does ultimately respond to the adjuration of that great Mahatma, Harry Lauder, 'Stop your ticklin', Jock!' 8. When we approach the details of Asana, we are immediately confronted with the refuse-heap of Hindu pedantry. We constantly approach the traditional spiritual atti…
1944 · PDF PAGE 39
…letter Tzaddi was unsatisfactory; and the question arose, how to find an‐ other card which would take its place. An incredible amount of work was done on this; in vain. After nearly twenty years the solution appeared. The Star represents Nuit, the starry heavens. “I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof.” (AL. 1.22.) She is represented 1The old titles of these cards were respectively “Strength” and “Justice”: they are inadequate or misleading. with two vases, one pouring water, a symbol of Light, upon herself, the other upon the ear…
1919 · PDF PAGE 317
…almost normal and natural. There is no mistaking the great advance made by Mr. Wilkinson upon his pre- vious novel, The Buffoon. In that work, there was, indeed, power and wit. But it was on the whole a pleasant book. There was plenty of comic relief—e.g., Powys’ duodenum. In A Chaste Man the author moves stately and terrible from peak to peak of tragedy. The book reminds us a little of James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, in this respect. With infinite art the climax is set off by an ad- venture of the hero’s sister with a man dying of c…
1905 · PDF PAGE 268
…m the world ! I say, then, ‘‘ I”; and yet it is not “I” Distinct, but ‘‘ I” incorporate in All. I am the Resurrection and the Life ! The Work is finished, and the Night rolled back ! I am the Rising Sun of Life and Light, The Glory of the Shining of the Dawn! Iam Osiris! I the Lord of Life Triumphant over death— O Sorrow, Sorrow, Sorrow of the World! So dawns at last the HEINRICH. This was my friend. Deep night descends, perfused With unsubstantial glory from beyond. The stars are buried in the mist of light. Beyond the hill the world is, and l…
1939 · PDF PAGE 69
…e and inspiring Trance of Sorrow they have nothing but the miserable, cowardly, and selfish sense of guilt to urge them to undertake the Work. 15. I think we may dismiss altogether from our minds every claim to experience made by any Christian of whatever breed of spiritual virus as a mere morbid reflection, the apish imitation of the true ecstasies and trances. All expressions of the real thing must partake of the character of that thing, and therefore only that language is permissible which is itself released from the canon of ordinary speech…
1905 · PDF PAGE 207
… chanted music ; fierce and true Beams the bright diamond of the crowning sphere. 1A plate bearing the Names of God appro- priate to the work in hand, with other symbols of power, worn by the exorciser upon his breast.
1944 · PDF PAGE 92
…, in western Asia; in many other parts of the world are similar cults. Even in Christianity, Christ was represented as a fish. The Greek work IXThUS, “which means fish and very aptly symbolizes Christ”, as Browning reminds one, was supposed to be a notariqon, the initials of a sentence meaning “Jesus Christ Son of God, Saviour”. Nor is it an accident that St. Peter was a fisherman. The Gospels, too, are full of miracles involving fish, and the fish is sa‐ cred to Mercury, because of its cold‐bloodedness, its swiftness and its brilliance. There …
1939 · PDF PAGE 66
…began Yoga seriously, I had almost invented a Yogic method of practising Magick in the stress of circumstances. I had been accustomed to work with full magical apparatus in an admirably devised temple of my own. Now I found myself on shipboard, or in some obscure bedroom of Mexico City, or camped beside my horse among the sugar canes in lonely tropical valleys, or couched with my rucksack for all pillow on bare volcanic heights. I had to
1913 · PDF PAGE 593
… the pages of “Amphora,’ as the little walume was entitled when ptblihed anonymously two years. ago by Burn & Oates, we fel dem tobe the work ofa recipient of the tradition of Vaughan the Silurist, George Herbert, and Crashaw, although Mr. Crowley is smooth where they are rugged, plain where they are perplexing _ : “These poems indicate a mind full of earnest aspiration towards his spiritual Queen, a mind of an engaging naiveté, un- troubled by the religious and philosophical problems which weary more complex intelligences. This little work can…
1913 · PDF PAGE 593
… the pages of “Amphora,’ as the little walume was entitled when ptblihed anonymously two years. ago by Burn & Oates, we fel dem tobe the work ofa recipient of the tradition of Vaughan the Silurist, George Herbert, and Crashaw, although Mr. Crowley is smooth where they are rugged, plain where they are perplexing _ : “These poems indicate a mind full of earnest aspiration towards his spiritual Queen, a mind of an engaging naiveté, un- troubled by the religious and philosophical problems which weary more complex intelligences. This little work can…
1929 · PDF PAGE 162
…untaineering ability and experience available. We had, however, a Trinity man named Knowles, aged twenty-two, which is far too young for work of this kind, which requires endurance. He knew practically nothing of mountains, but he had common sense enough to do what Eckenstein told him; and as it was, he proved invaluable in Srinagar and even on the actual journey. He was a source rather of strength than of weakness. Then there was an Austrian judge named Pfannl, reputed the best rock climber in Austria, and his regular climbing companion Wessel…
1906 · PDF PAGE 231
…oom went merrily, but to the rhythm of a mantra; and the silk slipped through his fingers, but as if one told his beads. Where- fore the work was marred, and the hearts of the parents were woe because of him. But it is written that misfortune knoweth not the hour to cease, and that the seed of sorrow is as the seed of the Banyan Tree. It groweth and is of stature as a mountain, and, ay me! it shooteth down fresh roots into the aching earth. For the boy grew and became a man; and his eyes kindled with the lust of life and love; and the de- sire …
1939 · PDF PAGE 22
…e from all the grosser causes of trouble. The practical problem of Yama is therefore, to a great extent, 'How shall I settle down to the work?' Then, having complied with the theoretically best conditions, you have to tackle each fresh problem as it arises in the best way you can. 6. We are now in a better position to consider the meaning of Niyama, or virtue. To most men the qualities which constitute Niyama are not apprehended at all by their self-consciousness. These are positive powers, but they are latent; their development is not merely m…