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Page 99 of 1731909 · PDF PAGE 97
…e fond of telling us what things are.) It is useless to label the whole lot as insane: nor are they unimportant. In my view, most of the great men of the world have known them; themselves attributed their greatness to these experiences, and I really do not see why admittedly lesser men should contradict them. I hope to argue this point at greater length when I am better documented ; but at the very least, these states are of the most extraordinary interest. Even as insanities, they would demand the strictest investiga- tion from the light they …
1913 · PDF PAGE 258
…lf for support, and a copy of Azoth fell, and narrowly missing the inflamed organ, struck the nobler portions of his body, bruising both great toes severely. So critical did the condition of the aged saint become that Sir Coote O. Key Coote was called in, and found himself obliged to resort to amputation, for unluckily a friend of the aged saint had been offered a copy of Paracelsus for 3s. 8d., and mortification had set in. The operation was fortunately a complete success, and the physicians announced that their distinguished patient might ver…
1913 · PDF PAGE 295
…shall show how vain are the phantasies of our imagination before the fertile realities of movement and of life. We shall also invite the great poets of the future to create once more the divine comedy, no longer according to the dreams of man, but according to the mathematics of God. Mysteries of other worlds, hidden forces, strange revela- tions, mysterious illnesses, exceptional faculties, spirits, apparitions, magical paradoxes, hermetic arcana, we shall say all, and we shall explain all. Who has given us this power? We do not fear to reveal…
1913 · PDF PAGE 258
…lf for support, and a copy of Azoth fell, and narrowly missing the inflamed organ, struck the nobler portions of his body, bruising both great toes severely. So critical did the condition of the aged saint become that Sir Coote O. Key Coote was called in, and found himself obliged to resort to amputation, for unluckily a friend of the aged saint had been offered a copy of Paracelsus for 3s. 8d., and mortification had set in. The operation was fortunately a complete success, and the physicians announced that their distinguished patient might ver…
1913 · PDF PAGE 295
…shall show how vain are the phantasies of our imagination before the fertile realities of movement and of life. We shall also invite the great poets of the future to create once more the divine comedy, no longer according to the dreams of man, but according to the mathematics of God. Mysteries of other worlds, hidden forces, strange revela- tions, mysterious illnesses, exceptional faculties, spirits, apparitions, magical paradoxes, hermetic arcana, we shall say all, and we shall explain all. Who has given us this power? We do not fear to reveal…
1910 · PDF PAGE 265
…e members of the fantily were grouped. Rapidly that distance widened. The whole atmo- sphere seemed ductile, and spun endlessly out into great spaces surrounding me on every side. We were in a vast hall, of which my friends and I occupied opposite extremities. The ceiling and the walls ran upward witha gliding motion as if vivified by a sudden force of resistless growth. Oh! I could not bear it. I should soon be left alone in the midst of an infinity of space. And now more and more every moment increased the conviction that I was watched. I did…
1910 · PDF PAGE 268
…n had re- turned to its normal state, with the one exception mentioned; memery could not efface the traces of my having passed through a great mystery. No. I never should take it again. I did not know myself; I did not know hasheesh. There are temperaments, no doubt, upon which this drug produces, as a reactory result, physical and mental depression. With me this was never the case. Opium and liquors fix them- selves as a habit by becoming necessary to supply that nervous waste which they in the first place occasioned. The lassitude which succe…
1910 · PDF PAGE 265
…e members of the fantily were grouped. Rapidly that distance widened. The whole atmo- sphere seemed ductile, and spun endlessly out into great spaces surrounding me on every side. We were in a vast hall, of which my friends and I occupied opposite extremities. The ceiling and the walls ran upward witha gliding motion as if vivified by a sudden force of resistless growth. Oh! I could not bear it. I should soon be left alone in the midst of an infinity of space. And now more and more every moment increased the conviction that I was watched. I did…
1910 · PDF PAGE 268
…n had re- turned to its normal state, with the one exception mentioned; memery could not efface the traces of my having passed through a great mystery. No. I never should take it again. I did not know myself; I did not know hasheesh. There are temperaments, no doubt, upon which this drug produces, as a reactory result, physical and mental depression. With me this was never the case. Opium and liquors fix them- selves as a habit by becoming necessary to supply that nervous waste which they in the first place occasioned. The lassitude which succe…
1910 · PDF PAGE 137
…it is the scepticism of Huxley or Hume ; if a materialist, it is the materialism of Leibnitz or the earlier Kant. 3. Charles’ wain — the Great Bear, the Car of David, and many other names, all equally absurd.
1911 · PDF PAGE 96
… us! Ride back on a fresh horse, and bear aid to the prince. [Exit ACHMET LEDMIYA [at window]. There is a tumult in the courtyard, and a great wailing. [Wailing withaul. LAYLAH. The sun will be set in an hour. One hour more of favour and protection for my boy, oh God of Battles! THE CHILD. Our God is love! He will protect me, I know. LAYLAH. Imp! Be silent! How you startled me! And now I look at you—what is it? what is it? You frighten me. Take her away—there, with the pipe-slaves. [FATMA takes Με chi/d dawn stage to the pipe-Slaves. 88
1911 · PDF PAGE 124
…I will tell you the joke before lunch; so that you may repent in time if it is not amusing In your ear, enchantressl The truth is—I am a great man.” She saw it in a flash. ”Then, my friend, I must bury you I" " In your hair I ” he cried. She had huge rolling masses of 116
1911 · PDF PAGE 96
… us! Ride back on a fresh horse, and bear aid to the prince. [Exit ACHMET LEDMIYA [at window]. There is a tumult in the courtyard, and a great wailing. [Wailing withaul. LAYLAH. The sun will be set in an hour. One hour more of favour and protection for my boy, oh God of Battles! THE CHILD. Our God is love! He will protect me, I know. LAYLAH. Imp! Be silent! How you startled me! And now I look at you—what is it? what is it? You frighten me. Take her away—there, with the pipe-slaves. [FATMA takes Με chi/d dawn stage to the pipe-Slaves. 88
1911 · PDF PAGE 124
…I will tell you the joke before lunch; so that you may repent in time if it is not amusing In your ear, enchantressl The truth is—I am a great man.” She saw it in a flash. ”Then, my friend, I must bury you I" " In your hair I ” he cried. She had huge rolling masses of 116
1913 · PDF PAGE 495
… extraordinary leaps of the soul which seeks the unknown, and furnishes it naturally with the signs already found, but forgotten, of the great revelations of occultism. Thus are formed the pretended signatures of spirits, thus were produced the mysterious writings of Gablidone, who appeared to Dr. Lavater, the phantoms of Schroepfer, of St. Michel-Vintras, and the spirits of Mr. Home. If electricity can move a light, or even a heavy body, without one touching it, is it impossible to give by magnet- ism a direction to electricity, and to produce…
1913 · PDF PAGE 495
… extraordinary leaps of the soul which seeks the unknown, and furnishes it naturally with the signs already found, but forgotten, of the great revelations of occultism. Thus are formed the pretended signatures of spirits, thus were produced the mysterious writings of Gablidone, who appeared to Dr. Lavater, the phantoms of Schroepfer, of St. Michel-Vintras, and the spirits of Mr. Home. If electricity can move a light, or even a heavy body, without one touching it, is it impossible to give by magnet- ism a direction to electricity, and to produce…
1954 · PDF PAGE 320
… audience; then you break them without warning, explanation, apology or regret. You are always going to have ample time to devote to the Great Work; but that time is always somewhere after the middle of next week. If you put half as much enthusiasm into what you quite rightly claim to be the most important factor in life as other old ladies do into Culbertson Contract, you might get somewhere. What you need, in the way of a Guru, is some fat, greasy
1929 · PDF PAGE 416
…d help to them that dwell in the darkness of thought and drink of the poison of life." It was therefore for me to attend strictly to the Great Work which had been appointed for me by the Secret Chiefs, to dwell in communion with mine Holy Guardian Angel and to write down the instructions by following which men might attain "to the Summum Bonum, True Wisdom and Perfect Happiness". {661} P A R T F I V E THE MAGUS 69 I attended to the production of number five of The Equinox, but shortly after (my diary of 1911 is missing --- if, indeed, it was ev…
1909 · PDF PAGE 85
…ut now one is deliberately opening all the avenues of sense to admit Adonail One has destroyed one’s own Magic Circle. The whole of that great Building is thrown down. . . Therefore I am in a worse hole than] ever was before— and I‘ve onlyjust realised it. A footfallon the pavement is most acute agony—because it is not Adonai. My hearing, normally rather dull, is intensely sharpened; and I am thirty yards from the electric trams of the Boulevard Montparnasse at the busiest hour of the evening. . . . 83
1909 · PDF PAGE 318
… he glared round at me, so that his eyes looked like beads of glowing amber in the night; then he answered: “«T who stand in the boat am great; I have a star upon my forehead.’ “T did not reply, not understanding what he meant, and soon we reached the shore and entered a cave, in the mouth 310