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Page 97 of 1591919 · PDF PAGE 270
…E PRIEST. Ocircle of Stars whereof our Father is but the younger brother, marvel beyond imagination, soul of infinite space, before whom Time is ashamed, the mind be- wildered, and the understanding dark, not unto Thee may we attain, unless Thine image be Love. Therefore by seed and root and stem and bud and leaf and flower and fruit do we invoke Thee. Then the priest answered & said unto the Queen of Space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume of sweat; O Nuit, continuous one of …
1954 · PDF PAGE 187
…new dress to make a hit at a Reception, and doubt whether it is so much better than your present best, or whether it will be finished in time . Then, wear that present best to-night (wet , of course) knowing you are sure to soil it. 3. Obviously, all the usual conditions of a Magical Operation apply in this as in all cases; your aim must conform with your True Will, and all that; but there is one curious point about an Act of Truth: this , that one should resort to it only when there is no other method possible. In the explorer's case, above, i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 243
…he accouchement. I asked my Aunt Annie to preside over the household, and an old friend of Gerald's (Kelly) and mine, Ivor Back, at this time a surgeon at St. George's, to make up the house party. Ivor Back is one of the most amusing companions possible, to those who can stand him. He knows a good deal about literature and had published in The Hospital magazine some of the poems in which I had celebrated various diseases. I dedicated my In Residence, a collection of my undergraduate verses, to him, and he collaborated with me to a certain exten…
1929 · PDF PAGE 414
…eality an ignorant charlatan, had been the object of my onslaught. He had every reason to regard me as his bitterest enemy. In course of time, he was found out and arrested. I went at once to the police court. Only one of his hundreds of devoted followers --- and they were extravagantly devoted, thought he was no less than Jesus Christ come back to earth, and allowed him to mock, bully and swindle them to the limit without losing faith in him --- had stuck to him in his misfortune. I went to him and affirmed my belief in his innocence (he had b…
1907 · PDF PAGE 201
… WEST escas istence ontologic fiction , whilst the second rises from fact ; both , para doxical as it may seem , are at one and the same time contradictory and identical , merging into a perfect unity, not in the realms of a spiritual or material monism , but in those of a Hylo -Idealistic philosophy , which is Agnostic, and from thence into a Self- Illum inism which baffles definition . For many centuries now , European thought has been labouring under the damnosa hereditas of fore gone conclusions . And as religion in the attempt to anthropom…
1907 · PDF PAGE 209
…er may combine To form now water and now wine ; The element itself may be Changeless to all eternity , But compounds ever fluctuate With time or space or various state . ( Ask chemists else !) So I must claim Spirit and matter are the same Or else the prey of putrefaction .? And we intend to take it as such , otherwise , like This is the earlier Fichtean Crowley , though he has already passed through Schelling to Hegel , and grouped this triad in one , as it were Fichte in excelsis ; not the middle , who has called the triad “ Schelling ."; sti…
1910 · PDF PAGE 136
…ently with reference to idea of carrying away a physical token. The room was full of incense, which I took to materialize myself. At the time I was very tired and really not fit to travel. June 15th. The Buddha appeared to me in the Northern Heaven and said: “ Fear not for money.* Go and work, as thou hast intended.” JZ go. July 14th. Triangle of Fire. 1om. Middling to bad. Winged-Globe. 6m. Not good. RR. et A.C. ? Fairly good. [Somewhere on this journey (Yokohama to Hong-Kong) BECAME the GREAT PEACE. 15th. R.R. et A.C. 16m. An improvement. 16t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 136
…ently with reference to idea of carrying away a physical token. The room was full of incense, which I took to materialize myself. At the time I was very tired and really not fit to travel. June 15th. The Buddha appeared to me in the Northern Heaven and said: “ Fear not for money.* Go and work, as thou hast intended.” JZ go. July 14th. Triangle of Fire. 1om. Middling to bad. Winged-Globe. 6m. Not good. RR. et A.C. ? Fairly good. [Somewhere on this journey (Yokohama to Hong-Kong) BECAME the GREAT PEACE. 15th. R.R. et A.C. 16m. An improvement. 16t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 44
…ls meet, there is a blind- ing flash of glory. It must be understood that though so much detail is visible in the wheel, yet at the same time the impression is of a single, simple object. It seems that this wheel is being spun bya hand. Though the wheel fills the whole Aire, yet the hand is much bigger than the wheel. And though this vision is so great and splen- did, yet there is no seriousness with it, or solemnity. It seems that the hand is spinning the wheel merely for pleasure, it would be better to say amusement. A voice comes: For he is …
1913 · PDF PAGE 551
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES or wounded. At that time, in Normandy, the magnetic ill- nesses of mediums were hardly known, and this unhappy sleep-walker, who ought to have been cared for and cured, was roughly treated and even beaten, not even in his fluidic appearance, but in his proper person, by the Vicar himself. That is, one must agree, a singular kind of exorcism! If those violences really took place, and if they may be imputed to a Churchman whom one considers, and who may be, for all we know, very good and very respectable, let us admit tha…
1913 · PDF PAGE 551
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES or wounded. At that time, in Normandy, the magnetic ill- nesses of mediums were hardly known, and this unhappy sleep-walker, who ought to have been cared for and cured, was roughly treated and even beaten, not even in his fluidic appearance, but in his proper person, by the Vicar himself. That is, one must agree, a singular kind of exorcism! If those violences really took place, and if they may be imputed to a Churchman whom one considers, and who may be, for all we know, very good and very respectable, let us admit tha…
1910 · PDF PAGE 270
… home—soon, because it was not five squares off from where we sat down, yet ages, from the thirst which consumed me and the expansion of time in which I lived. I came into the house as one would approach a fountain in the desert, with a wild bound of exultation, and gazed with miserly eyes at the draught which my friend poured out for me until the glass was brimming. I clutched it—I 252
1910 · PDF PAGE 320
…ntortions of the men on the yellow painted floor were terrible. He took no heed of them, and went on, cursing them each by name and each time hitting one figure, corresponding to the name he was cursing. Finally, the red-hot iron had turned black again; and Elphénor’s arm was becoming tired. He gathered all the wax figures and went and threw them all into a large pail of water, pushing them down again and again as they came to the surface. His victims were gradually coming back to their senses. Once more he gathered their waxen images and repla…
1910 · PDF PAGE 270
… home—soon, because it was not five squares off from where we sat down, yet ages, from the thirst which consumed me and the expansion of time in which I lived. I came into the house as one would approach a fountain in the desert, with a wild bound of exultation, and gazed with miserly eyes at the draught which my friend poured out for me until the glass was brimming. I clutched it—I 252
1910 · PDF PAGE 320
…ntortions of the men on the yellow painted floor were terrible. He took no heed of them, and went on, cursing them each by name and each time hitting one figure, corresponding to the name he was cursing. Finally, the red-hot iron had turned black again; and Elphénor’s arm was becoming tired. He gathered all the wax figures and went and threw them all into a large pail of water, pushing them down again and again as they came to the surface. His victims were gradually coming back to their senses. Once more he gathered their waxen images and repla…
1919 · PDF PAGE 336
…ay be occasionally advisable even for the Adept to do this now and again. Of course during periods of actual concentra- tion there is no time whatever for anything but the work itself; but to make even the mildest asceticism a rule of life is the gravest of errors, except perhaps that of regarding Asceticism as a virtue. This latter always leads to spiritual pride, and spiritual pride is the principal quality of the brother of the Left-hand Path. ‘Ascetic’ comes from the Greek Askio, to work curiously, to adorn, to exercise, to train. The Latin…
1922 · PDF PAGE 129
CHAPTER IX THE GATTO FRITTO Ir was about the end of the third week, I discover from Lou’s Diary (I had lost all count of time myself), that he came in one day with a smile of subtle triumph in his eyes. “ T’ve got on to the ropes,” he said, ‘‘ but I think I ought in fairness to warn you that the Gatto Fritto is a pretty hot place. I wouldn’t mind taking you as long as you go in disguise and have a gun in your pocket, ~but I really can’t take it on my conscience to have Lady Pendragon along.”’ I was so full up with cocaine I hardly knew what he …
1929 · PDF PAGE 282
…erned by reason, either individually or politically. There is, therefore, some excuse for the anxiety of the administration. At the same time, the example of India should have been enough. British prestige in India rested on the real moral superiority of courage, truthfulness, justice an self-control. It has been destroyed by the attempt to replace this irrational lever of iron by the rotten laths of reason. We should never have shown our weakness to the Indian student who fills Bengal with the tale of his sexual conquest of white women, our se…
1929 · PDF PAGE 334
…t sight that the people responsible for their production had been at infinite pains to make these volumes testify against the tyranny of time1. He had them taken to his camp with the greatest care. Although he could not read a word of the letterpress, the illustrations were in the universal language, which he could read at sight. The first standard work of reference --- the key to the wisdom of the buried past. With this vision before us, we determined on making our record of the highest attainments of human spirits of our generation as worthy …
1907 · PDF PAGE 206
…will discard such mean scaffolding , or at least attain such a per fection in the art of constructing his temple of the Holy Ghost as in time to be able to do without such mental timber . Such scaffold poles are those which support and buttress up the frail edifice of science on the mud of ignorance , in which it and its superstruc ture will eventually be engulfed ; for its whole founda tion reposes upon the unequilibrated illusions of the mind , which so long as their influences remain un balanced , stand as impediments in the way of the inwar…