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Page 101 of 1121906 · PDF PAGE 27
… whirling of the air, Of the all-rushing fire ; and every Spell And scourge of God the Vast One may be made Obedient unto me, to the All-Good And ultimate Redemption : Hear me, thou ! Eca, zodacare, Iad, goho, Torzodu odo kikale qaa ! Zodacare od zodameranu ! Zodorje, lape zodiredo Ol Noco Mada, das Iadapiel ! Ilas ! hoatahe Iaida ! 1 O crowned with. starlight! emerald Winged with 1 This conjuration is in the ‘‘ angelic” lan- guage of Dr. Dee. See the edition of Goetia published by the S.P.R.T. Wider than Heaven! O profounder blue Of the abyss …
1929 · PDF PAGE 351
…ect instrument whose methods are entirely empirical, whose terms lack precision, and whose theses cancel each other out. I might claim a good deal of credit for having written out, as far back as 1902, a reasonably complete demonstration of this conclusion whose premisses were not stated by the official leaders of thought till long afterwards. Yet the theory of initiation on which European adepts base their systems (derived, possibly, from the Egyptians and Chaldeans by way of the gnostics, Pythagoras and the neoplatonists), that of Lao tzu in …
1939 · PDF PAGE 16
…to the fact that pork in eastern countries was infected with the trichina; which killed people who ate pork improperly cooked. It was no good telling the savages that fact. Any way, they would only have broken the hygienic command when greed overcame them. The advice had to be made a universal rule, and supported with the authority of a religious sanction. They had not the brains to believe in trichinosis; but they were afraid of Jehovah and Jehannum. Just so, under the grouping of Yama we learn that the aspiring Yogi must become 'fixed in the …
1906 · PDF PAGE 282
…‘There is a glory,” or ‘*Glory is.” Myst. Glory be! Exactly. That is the test of Dhyana. J am glad to have met you. Scept. Same here. Be good enough to proceed with your exposition ! Myst. In a moment. There are other Westerns who study these matters? Scept. To follow up the line of thought you gave me but just now, we have a great number of philosophers in the West who have enunciated ideas which to the dull minds of the common run of men seem wild and absurd. Myst. You refer to Idealism. Scept. To more; to nearly all philosophy, save only tha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 480
…tched it strong. My conscience was clear. I had been loyal to England. I had suffered for her sake as much as any man; I had "fought the good fight, despising the shame", starvation and solitude of soul and body: I was content. But, as in a Greek tragedy, just when I thought myself most safe, the last straw was gently but firmly placed on my back by two of my oldest friends. The first of these is named George Cecil Jones. I had known him intimately since the autumn of 1898. We had been co-workers in the most arduous task known to mankind: that …
1906 · PDF PAGE 236
…I must really be off. I have an appoint- ment with Brother Mara at the Bo-Tree. He has promised to introduce his charming daughters , ‘“*Good-bye, and don’t do anything rash !’ ‘Rejoice! our Lord wended unto the Tree !2 As blank verse this scans but ill, but it clearly shows what happened. XI. ‘©The ‘Nineteenth Mahakalpa’ brought out its April Number. There was a paper by Huxlananda Swami. ‘‘ Mahabrahma had never been much more than an idea. He had only lived six days. 1 A contradiction in terms. 2 Arnold, ‘' Light.of Asia.”
1929 · PDF PAGE 441
…ccepted the task laid upon me by the most intelligent freemasons of the world, united as they were by their sincerity, understanding and good will, though divided by sectarian squabbles about jurisdiction. My first object was to answer the question, "What is freemasonry?" I collated the rituals and their secrets, much as I had done the religions of the world, with their magical and mystical bases. As in that case, I decided to neglect what it too often actually was. It would be absurd to judge Protestantism by the political acts of Henry VIII. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 23
…hat I considered schoolmasters as importunate and possibly dangerous beggars. I was not in a position to fight; and I could not afford a good sixpence, so I put them off with a bad one. It was their own fault for plaguing me. {61} 1. I quote from an obituary of him published during his life. 2. He devised a most ingenious method of teaching history by charts, each nation being represented by a river of greater or less breadth as it rose or fell, annexations by tributaries, etc., etc. 3. In Mexico City in 1900 Eckenstein counselled me to turn ba…
1929 · PDF PAGE 220
…e like a gentleman. So we drank a lot of champagne for dinner. We had been married on August {368} 12th and could give God glory for his good gift of grouse, and then --- What's champagne for, anyhow? Rose retired immediately after dinner; I sat in the smoking-room and pole-axed a stranger by making mysterious remarks until he thought I was mad, and fled. I had some more champagne and remembered that I was a poet. I got some paper and wrote the following rondel. Damn it, I had to play up to my partner! Rose on the breast of the world of spring,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 276
…ion of the problem of evil and sorrow, the interpretation of illusion by the initiate and its transmutation into truth. I saw as usual a good deal of Thornton. One morning, driving down the Maidan in his tum-tum, I said, "I cannot formulate a plan of action of any kind because there is no true continuity in phenomena." He turned on my quite simply, and said, "Quite so, but there is equally no continuity in yourself." That, of course, was no news to me. It was Hume's answer to Berkeley, for one thing. It was the essence ofSakkaya-Ditthi, for ano…
1929 · PDF PAGE 286
…stitution. I am sure that you have thoroughly enjoyed yourself, virtue being its own reward, and I am sure I can express no more welcome good wish than that fate may soon send you another real white man to treat you as you have treated me. I have the honour to be, Dear Sir, Saint E. A. Crowley The Assistant Commissioner, Bhamo I am not a snob or a puritan, but Eurasians do get on my nerves. I do not {468} believe that their universally admitted baseness is due to a mixture of blood or the presumable peculiarity of their parents; but that they a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 124
SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM 117 The mind is a machine that reasons; here are its results. Very good; can it do anything else? This is the question not only of the Buddhist; but of the Hindu, of the Mohammedan, of the My stic. All try their various methods; all attain results of sorts; none have had the genuine training which would have enabled them to record those results in an intelligible, orderly form. Others deliberately set their face agains t such an attem pt. I am not of them; humanity has grown up; if the knowledge be dangerous in unexpected w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 28
…ingly as Richard III; but he was merely weak and feeble-minded. Agnes inherited her father's aristocratic haughtiness and a share of his good looks. She was too proud to marry and the repression preyed on her mind until she developed an ide fixe. For the last thirty years of her life she was constantly announcing her engagement and drawing up marriage contracts, which never came to anything. She was also possessed by the demon of litigation, and imagined herself wronged by various members of the family. My uncle married the governess of the ch…
1944 · PDF PAGE 51
….) In the third act, Parsifal’s innocence has matured into sanctification; he is the initiated Priest whose function is to create; it is Good Friday, the day of darkness and death. Where shall he seek his salvation? Where is Monsalvat, the mountain of salvation, which he has sought so long in vain? He worships the lance: immediately the way, so long closed to him, is open; th£ scenery revolves rapidly, there is no need for him to move. He has arrived at the Temple of the Graal. All true ceremonial religion must be solar and phallic in character…
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
…ost eternally. The lot of the saved, even on earth, was painted in the brightest colours. It was held that "all things work together for good to them that love God and are called according to His purpose". Earthly life was regarded as an ordeal; this was a wicked world and the best thing that could happen to anyone was "to go to be with Christ, which is far better". On the other hand, the unsaved went to the lake of fire and brimstone which burneth for ever and ever. Edward Crowley used to give away tracts to strangers, besides distributing the…
1906 · PDF PAGE 269
…med, O mon Plate !—she would not say Platon, having already got one rhyme in ‘ mon ’—and the Italian took her up that omoplat was indeed good to support the head, wherein are ideas. But to our divided middle ! a Mf. As I should have said before I became a Christian:? ‘*OQ Bhavani! be pleased graciously to bow down to thy servants: be pleased to construe our prattlings as Japas our prayers as Tapas, our mantras as Kudradarshana, our bead-tellings as Devas ! be pleased moreover to accept our Badli for Sach-bat, our Yupi for Lalitasarira, _our sub…
1929 · PDF PAGE 238
… shown that the failure of previous religions is due, not so much to hostile criticism, but to their positive defect. They have not made good their claim. It has been shown above that The Book of the Law does demonstrate the prime position of religion in the only possible way. The only possible argument, on the other side, is that the communication cannot have been made by a discarnate intelligence, because there are none such. That indeed constitutes the supreme importance of The Book of the Law. But there is no a priori reason for doubting th…
1944 · PDF PAGE 23
…lso the only explanation of how a Being could create a world in which War, Evil, etc., exist. Evil is only an appearance, because (like “Good”) it cannot affect the substance itself, but only multiply its combinations. This is something the same as Mystic Monotheism; but the objection to that theory is that God has to create things which are all parts of himself, so that their interplay is false. If we presuppose many elements, their interplay is natural.” These ideas of Being, Thought and Bliss constitute the minimum possible qualities which a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 82
…I must really be off. I have an appoint- ment with Brother Mara at the Bo-Tree. He has promised to introduce his charming daughters—’ “ ‘Good-bye, and don’t do anything rash !’ “ Rejoice ! our Lord wended unto the Tree !2 As blank verse this scan but ill, but it clearly shows what happened. XI. “The ‘Nineteenth Mahakalpa’ brought ought its April Number. There was a paper by Huxlananda Swami. “Mahabrahma had never been much more than an idea. He had only lived six days. 1 A contradiction in terms. 2 Arnold, “Light of Asia.”
1906 · PDF PAGE 281
TIME 275 dreams !””—and a damned good way to look at death, by heaven ! Myst. Yes! But I meant that some dreams are more vivid than some waking states, even adult states hours long. You remember the ‘‘ Flying dream,” though I daresay you have not experienced it since childhood : it is part of your identity, ashape or defining idea of your mind: but you have forgotten the picnic at—-where you will. Scept. There is something to be thankful for in that. Then, there are incidents of sport Alyst. Mysteries of initiation —— Scept. Narrow escapes Myst…