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… and faster, and less and less material. (P.S. --- this is a scientific hypothesis, directly contrary to that of Anna Kingsford.) And at last are whirling wheels of light; yet through them waved a thrill of an intenser invisible light in a direction perpendicular to the tangents. I asked to go yet farther back; and behold! I am floating on my back --- cast down: in a wind of Light flashing down upon me from the immeasurable Above. (This Light is of a bluish silver tinge.) And I saw hat Face, lost above me in the height inscrutable; a face of ab…
1906 · PDF PAGE 242
… the whole loathsome affair—let us make haste and take it!” . I am not so retiring in disposition ;' I per- sist in my inquiries, and at last the appalling question is answered, and the past ceases to’ intrude its problems upon my mind. Here you are! Three shies a penny! Change all bad arguments. | I -ASSERT THE ABSOLUTENESS OF THE QABALISTIC ZERO. When we say that the Cosmos sprang from 0, what kind of 0 do we mean? By O in the ordinary sense of the term we mean ‘‘ absence of extension in any of the categories.” When I say ‘‘ No cat has two ta…
1929 · PDF PAGE 509
… with the words, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law", and proceeded as best I could to explain their import. Again, on the last day of the year, whose midnight I habitually devote to a meditation on the past, culminating in a formulation of my future career, I was moved to write what was shortly afterwards published first as a pamphlet in England, secondly as an article in the International, New York, thirdly in The Equinox, vol. III, no. i, and fourthly as a pamphlet in Australia by Frater Ahah.1 In this I summarized shortly the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 324
…y as they had come, into the fringe of reeds across the lake. And that was all I saw. I remained unable to reply. At this time I was the last man in the world to take anything of the sort seriously; more I was resolved not to do so even {527} at the cost of restraining the theory of sensory hallucination. What struck me dumb was hearing an old shikari tell the story of Excalibur in language so near to that of Malory as to make no odds. Could one of his sahibs have told him the tale long ago, so that it popped up in this strange fashion with me …
1929 · PDF PAGE 408
…" "They were too hungry." --- From the man who hadn't brought food for them! "They were tired" --- and so on. But I got the party off at last and came in a couple of hours to a tomb with a coffin in it. There they sat down and refused to stir. I simply took no notice. My disciple took one camel and I took the other, and went off. We left them in the tomb, grousing. Steering by map and compass, I judged a good pass through the next range of mountains, and made for it. The flat desert was standing in water; and the streams were difficult for the …
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
…s rede ;? Care nought for his mercy or ire $ Reach impious hands to his lyre. Determined to die or control Those strings the immortal at last, though the strings of this heart of me bleed. Come life, or come death ; come disdain Or honour from mutable men, I cry in this passionate pain— My blood be poured out in the pen! Euterpe ! Espouse me ! Inspire My life looking up to Thy lyre! Of thy love, thine alone, am I fain! Be with me, possess me, reveal me the melodies never yet given to men. The starry and heavenly wheels, The earth and her glorio…
1929 · PDF PAGE 215
…ley, Life in Mind and Conduct.) The influence of The Golden Bough and the Spencerian philosophers whom I was reading is apparent. In the last paragraphs, too, is evidence that I still {360} clung to Shelley's dream of a regenerated humanity. There is a touch of the influence of a man named L. C. R. Duncombe Jewell, the eldest son of a Plymouth Brother at Streatham, who had "gone to the bad" by becoming a Roman Catholic. I had asked him to spend a week at Boleskine and he had managed somehow or other to settle down there as my factor. I suppose …
1944 · PDF PAGE 181
The Eight of Disks is called Prudence. This card is a great deal better than the last two, because, in purely material matters, especially those relating to actual money, there is a sort of strength in doing nothing at all. The problem of every financier is, first of all, to gain time; if his resources are sufficient, he always beats the market. This is the card of “putting something away for a rainy day”. Its attribution is Sol in Virgo; it is the card of the husbandman; he can do little more than sow the seed, sit back, and wait for the harve…
1904 · PDF PAGE 78
…ese avail to call me forth.’ ‘Slay me my enemy !’ howled the wretch. But M ara trembled, ‘Enquire of Ganesha concernin him!’ faltered at last the fiend. “Jehjaour awoke. IV. “ ‘Yes !’ said Ganesha gloomily, ‘the young man has given me up altogether. He tells me I am as m ortal as he is , and he doesn’t mean to worry about me any more.’ ‘Alas !’ sighed the deceitful Jeh- jaour, who cared no more for Ganesha and any indignities that m ight be offered him than his enemy did. ‘One of my best devotees too !’ muttered, or rather trum- peted, the elep…
1944 · PDF PAGE 43
…s not always been satisfactorily solved. One can (ignorantly) derive the Sitting‐down‐ Thirteen‐at‐Table nonsense from the legend of the Last Supper. (Incidentally, it can hardly have been the first time that those thirteen sat down to table.) But the really primitive superstitions cannot be explained so simply. It seems more probable that they arose from the unscientific habit (extremely common among men of sci‐ ence) of generalising from too few facts. It might happen by chance that on half a dozen occa‐ sions within a short period, a hunter,…
1906 · PDF PAGE 283
…osophers think it not fitting that man should discuss the ways of the inscrutable, the eternal God. Scept. I have you tripping fairly at last! What do you mean by “ eternal”? You who have uprooted my ideas of time, answer me that? Myst. A woodcock to mine own springe, indeed. I am justly caught with mine own metaphysic. 1 The science of the Purpose of Things. Certain of : Scept. Throw metaphysic to the dogs! I'll none of it. I will resolve it to you, then, on your own principles. The term, so con- stantly in use, or rather abuse, by your de- vo…
1911 · PDF PAGE 309
JENNINGS (Hargrave). The Rosicrucians: their Rites and Mysteries, thick 8vo, fourth and last edition, revised, Half morocco, teak» N-D. 75. 64. Portion of -Ever-burning Lamps; the Hermetic Philosophers; the Hermetic Brethren; Mystic History of the Fleur-devlis Fire; Fire-Theosophy of the Persiane; Ideas of the Rosicrucians as to the Character of Fire ments Raisedto Fire—Worship in all Countries; Druidical Stones and their Worship; the Round Towers of Ireland} Cabalistic Interpretations by the Gnostics ; Mystic Christian Figures and Talismans; t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 309
JENNINGS (Hargrave). The Rosicrucians: their Rites and Mysteries, thick 8vo, fourth and last edition, revised, Half morocco, teak» N-D. 75. 64. Portion of -Ever-burning Lamps; the Hermetic Philosophers; the Hermetic Brethren; Mystic History of the Fleur-devlis Fire; Fire-Theosophy of the Persiane; Ideas of the Rosicrucians as to the Character of Fire ments Raisedto Fire—Worship in all Countries; Druidical Stones and their Worship; the Round Towers of Ireland} Cabalistic Interpretations by the Gnostics ; Mystic Christian Figures and Talismans; t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 166
166 The last quarter of a century has swamped all these. The world is seething with the dissatisfaction that springs from insecurity. Men can adapt themselves to pretty well any conditions, but when they do not know from one day to another whether some fundamental principle may not be abolished in the interests of progress, they no longer know where they are. They tend to adopt the principles of the man who flits from one place to another, grabbing portable property and dodging creditors and policemen. Civilization has become a hysterical scram…
1929 · PDF PAGE 110
… best to resign quietly, but received a reply of the most staggering character. The letter is dated February 16th, 1900, and I quote the last two paragraphs in full. Now, with regard to the Second Order, it would be with the very greatest regret both from my personal regard for you, as well as from the Occult standpoint, that I should receive your Resignation as my Representative in the Second Order in London; but I cannot let you form a combination to make a schism therein with the idea of working secretly or avowedly under Sapere Aude under t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 101
…t of the whole loathsome affair—let us make haste and take it!” I am not so retiring in disposition; I per- sist in my inquiries, and at last the appalling question is answered, and the pas t ceases to intrude its problems upon my mind. Here y ou are! Three s hies a penny ! Change all bad arguments. I ASSERT THE ABSOLUTENESS OF THE QABALISTIC ZERO. When we s ay that the Cos mos s prang from 0, what kind of 0 do we mean ? By 0 in the ordinary sense of the term we mean “absence of extension in any of the categories.” When I say “No cat has two ta…
1929 · PDF PAGE 7
…since --- Guy's Cliffe at Warwick, and the Castle with its terrace and the white peacocks: all these are as clear as if he had seen them last week. He recalls no other room in the house except his own bedroom, and that only because he "came to himself" one night to find a fire lighted, a steam kettle going, a strange woman present, an atmosphere of anxiety and a feeling of fever; for he had an attack of bronchitis. He remembers his first governess, Miss Arkell, a grey-haired lady with traces of beard upon her large flat face and a black dress o…
1907 · PDF PAGE 27
…one among the puerile apologists of your detestable religion you hold a reasonably mystic head above the tides of criticism. You are the last champion of God; with you I choose to measure myself, Others I can despise; you are a force to be reckoned with, as Browning your wetellectual father was before you. Whether we are indeed friends or enemtes it is perhaps hard to say: it has sometimes seemed to me that human freedom and hap- piness are our common goal, but that you found your muddied oafs in Gods, ministers, passive resisters, and all the …
1904 · PDF PAGE 107
…he gentlem an in the brown billycock and frock coat, wearing a green tie and chewing a s traw, who was at the soirée of the Carlton Club last Monday night; no doubt ! but this means is seldom or never used in the similar contingency of a cow- elephant desiring her bull in the jungles of Ceylon. Meditation is not within the reach of every one ; not all possess the ability ; very few indeed (in the W est at leas t) have the opportunity. In any case what the Eas terns call “ one- pointedness” is an essential prelim inary to even early s tages of t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
…aled which shall not be discovereJ It has taken 100,000,000 years to produce Aleister Crowley. The world has indeed laboured, and has at last brought forth a man. . . . He stands on the virgin rock of Pyrrhonic Zoroastrianism, which, unlike the Hindu world-conce tion, stands on neither Ele hnnt nor Tortoise, but on the Absolute Zero of the metaphysical abaltsts. . . . And he shall called “lmmanuel"—that is, “ Gog; with us, or, being interpreted, Aleister Crowley, the spiritual son of Immanuel whose surname was nt. The author must have felt a go…