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…e amongst present-day poets. . . . Anenthusiastic devotion to classic song . . . sustained metrical charm. From first to last the poet's work is an important contribution to the century’s literature.” —Publishers? Circular. “This [book] contains the answer to a very well-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the reeds by the River?’ Well, Mr. Victor Neuburg has discovered the answer, for he was obviously wandering near the river if…
1913 · PDF PAGE 599
…e amongst present-day poets. . . . Anenthusiastic devotion to classic song . . . sustained metrical charm. From first to last the poet's work is an important contribution to the century’s literature.” —Publishers? Circular. “This [book] contains the answer to a very well-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the reeds by the River?’ Well, Mr. Victor Neuburg has discovered the answer, for he was obviously wandering near the river if…
1929 · PDF PAGE 102
… that the mirrors were too big to take out except by way of the black temple. This had, or course, been completely dismantled before the workmen arrived. But the atmosphere remained and two of them were put out of action for several hours. It was almost a weekly experience, by the way, to hear of casual callers fainting or being seized with dizziness, cramp or apoplexy on the stair case. It was a long time before those rooms were re-let. People felt {182} 1. Iehi Aour never had anything to do with this; and I but little: the object of establish…
1929 · PDF PAGE 453
…7} 74 As I was sitting at lunch one day in the Hermitage beginning a lyrical ritual intended for the use of an individual in his private work, I found myself, in the middle of a sentence, at a loss for the next word. I have already explained how swiftly and spontaneously my spirit soars from stanza to stanza without need of previous reflection or subsequent revision. In all these weeks my pen had swung like a skater over the paper. Now suddenly it stopped; an eagle in full flight stricken by a shaft. That sentence has never been completed. The …
1929 · PDF PAGE 13
…c on "bibles and brandy". He was, however, bitterly opposed to the Blue Ribbon Army. He said that abstainers were likely to rely on good works to get to heaven and thus fail to realize heir need of Jesus. He preached one Sunday in the town hall, saying, "I would rather preach to a thousand drunkards than a thousand T-totallers." They retorted by accusing him of being connected with "Crowley's Ales". He replied that he had been an abstainer for nineteen years, during which he had shares in a brewery. He had now ceased to abstain for some time, b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 378
… upon to take one out of the rut every few minutes. Some weeks later I went to spend the weekend with him. I was worn out with worry and work and had caught a bad chill. He was out when I got to the house. Mrs. Gnaggs
1907 · PDF PAGE 135
…ey’s fine poems. This we understand and like. It has certainly brought home to us more vividly the great beauty and insight of the poet's work. But in the latter part of the book, consisting of one long Chapter entitled
1929 · PDF PAGE 188
…is for fifteen generations or so, your descendants will acquire a thorax like a beer barrel and a heart capable of doing three times the work that it can at present. If you then get incarnated in your clan, you can lay siege to Chogo Ri with a reasonable prospect of success. As the hymn says, Patience and perseverance Made a Bishop of His Reverence. This programme is however hardly acceptable to Western minds, so little penetrated with Einstein's ideas that everything has to be done in a hurry. We may therefore leave "acclimatization" to the me…
1929 · PDF PAGE 270
…been insignificant. We had reached a height of approximately twenty-five thousand feet, and found life at that altitude as enjoyable and work as easy as anywhere else. I had written a detailed proposal to Eckenstein, suggesting that we should tackle the mountain in 1906 --- but no foreigners! {444} 53 I had been so concentrated on Kangchenjunga that the other facts of my life had not glittered perceptibly. They had kept up with me, but I hardly knew it. They were now to shine, the bushel of Kangchenjunga having been rudely removed. My instinct …
1929 · PDF PAGE 127
…kwardness warned me what to avoid. On May 1st I find in my diary the following words: "I solemnly began anew the operations of the Great Work." I had mapped out for myself a definite programme which was to combine what I had learnt from Eckenstein with the methods of the Order. For instance: I had extracted the Magical Formula of the Ritual of Neophyte and applied it to a Ceremony of Self-Initiation. I now simplified this and got rid of the necessity of the physical temple by expressing it in a series of seven mental operations. Other practices…
1907 · PDF PAGE 227
…EUSIS 221 Christian writers with benefit (such is the revivifying force of our Elixir) by seeking the esserce in the Iirst Matter of the Work; and we could» commend many of them, notably St. Ignatius and even the rationalising Mansel and Newman, if they would only concentrate upon spiritual truth, instead of insisting on the truth of things, material and therefore immaterial, which only need the touch of a scholar’s wand to crumble into the base dust from which their bloodstained towers arose. Whoso has been crucified with Christ can but laugh …
1906 · PDF PAGE 196
… SONG Putney) in their newly-demonstrated capacity as ‘‘unnatural”’ sons, daughters, fathers, and so on. But I leave it. I am content—my work will have been well done—if this trifling essay be accepted asa just instalment towards a saner criticism of our holiest writers, a juster appre- ciation of the glories of our greatest poet, a possibly jejune yet assuredly historic attempt to place for the first time William Shakespeare on his proper pedestal as an early disciple of Mr. George Bernard Shaw; and by conse- quence to carve myself a little ni…
1929 · PDF PAGE 511
… success. Experience had shown me that sometimes this was complete, but at others partial or even negligible, while not infrequently the work would result in failure, perhaps almost amounting to disaster. Just before leaving New York I had prepared by this method an elixir whose virtue should be to restore youth, and of this I had taken seven doses. Nothing particular happened at first; and it never occurred to me that it might be imprudent to continue. I was mistaken. Hardly had I reached my hermitage before I was suddenly seized with an attac…
1907 · PDF PAGE 132
…s coprophagic s cephanc . But Crowley, this second Hercules, has little to fear with so trusty an olaus by is side. In this epoch-making work—we might almost exclaim this one book of the geologic period—Captain Fuller has with a clarion blast, seldom heard in the Salvation hubbub of this age of boisterous bassoons, heralded in our unknown knight, who, with the ravaging roar of ten thousand thunders, has flung down before the world his adaman tine gauntlet of Ecstatic Truth, which has sent the Old World a-tottering like Bacchus in his cups, and t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 239
…d consistent system. Its scope is so vast that it is impossible even to hint at the universality of its application. But the whole of my work, from the moment of its utterance, illustrates some phase of its potentiality, and the story of my life itself from this time on is no more than a record of my reactions to it. To recapitulate the historical basis of The Book of the Law, let me say that evolution (within human memory) shows three great steps: 1. the worship of the Mother, when the universe was conceived as simple nourishment drawn directl…
1906 · PDF PAGE 149
…ginal eleven stone three Peacherine.—A. C. As a promise-keeper I am the } I must apologise (perhaps) for the new note of frivolity in my work: due doubtless to the frivolity of my subject: these poems being written when I was an Advaitist and could not see why—everything being an illusion—there should be any particular ob- ject in doing or thinking anything. How I have found the answer will be evident from my essay on this subject.* I must indeed apologise to the illustrious Shade of Robert Browning for my audacious parody in title, style, and …
1929 · PDF PAGE 243
…also responsible for numberous improvements in the preface {405} to Alice, An Adultery. He also edited the three volumes of my Collected Works, supplying learned notes to divers obscure passages. My activities as a publisher were at this time remarkable. I had issued The God-Eater and The Star & the Garter through Charles Watts & Co. of the Rationalist Press Association, but there was still no such demand for my books as to indicate that I had touched the great heart of the British public. I decided that it would save trouble to publish them my…
1904 · PDF PAGE 105
…eir hearts with devotion for the beloved Saviour, and this process is, in its ultimation, so similar to the earlier s tages of the Great Work itself, that some confusion has, s tupidly enough, arisen ; but for all that the practice has been the means of bringing some de- votees on to the true Path of the Wise, unpromising as such material must sound to intelligent ears. The esoteric Christian or Hindu adopts a middle path. Having projected the Abso- lute from his mind, he endeavours to unite his consciousness with that of his Absolute and of co…
1929 · PDF PAGE 340
…d there is only one God, and God is most great, and there is no strength but in Him, the Exalted, the Great. It does not take me long to work myself up by means of a mantra, even of this lengthy type, into a state of ecstasy, and to proceed, if desired, from that state to actual Dhyana, by concentrating upon any appropriate cakra. By ecstasy I do not mean anything characterized by extravagant action. It is merely that I seem to myself to be floating in the air or at least to weigh about one quarter of what I actually do; that I become completel…
1944 · PDF PAGE 73
… of the Law. (See Liber AL, chap. I, verse 39.) His shafts are quanta of Will. It is thus shown that this fundamental formula of magical working, analysis and synthesis, persists through the Aeons. One may now consider the Hermetic Marriage itself. This part of the Card has been simplified from “The Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosenkreutz”, a masterpiece too lengthy and diffuse to quote usefully in this place. But the es‐ sence of the analysis is the continuous see‐saw of contradictory ideas. It is a glyph of duality. The Royal persons conce…