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Page 101 of 1301954 · PDF PAGE 470
…governesses, private tutors, schools, private and public, the best of the Universities: how little I know! I have travelled all over the world in all conditions, from "grand seigneur," to "holy man"; how little I know! What then of the ninety-and-nine, dragged by the ears through suicide examinations, and kicked out of school into factory in their teens? They have learnt only just enough to facilitate the swallowing of the gross venal lies of the radio and the Yellow Press; or, if mother-wit has chanced to warn
1954 · PDF PAGE 480
…the most holy inaccessible men; I have dared all the most dangerous adventures, both of the flesh and of the spirit; and 1 challenge the world's literature to match for sublimity and terror such experiences as those in the latter half of The Vision and the Voice.
1905 · PDF PAGE 239
…leep-— What dreams betoken the dread solitude? VENUS. What dreams? Ah, dreamest not of me, my knight ? Of vast caresses that include all worlds? Of transmutation into molten steel Fusing with my intolerable gold In the red crucible of alchemy, That is—of clay? TANNHAUSER. I dream of no such thing. But of Thy likeness have I often seen The vast presentment—formless, palpable, Breathing. Not breathing as we use the word, When life and spirit mingle in one breath, Slay passion in one kiss—breathing, I say, Differently from Thee! VENUS. Explain, ex…
1922 · PDF PAGE 21
…ts. “ Red in tooth and claw,” as Tennyson said. Yet the man had found time to write great literature ; and his rough and tumble with the world had not degraded his thought or spoilt his style. Sitting next him was a weak, good-natured, working journalist named Vernon Gibbs. He wrote practically the whole of a weekly paper—had done, year after year with the versatility of a practised pen and the mechanical perseverance of an instrument which has been worn by practice into perfect easi- ness. Yet the man had a mind for all that. Some instinct tol…
1922 · PDF PAGE 272
…. The great thing I want you to remember is that you have to learn to take pleasure in what.is really the most pleasurable thing. in the world—introspection. You have got to find amusement in observing the details of the dis- comfort of being without the drug. And I don’t want you to overdo it, either. When the discomfort becomes so acute that you can’t enjoy it properly, then is the time to take a small dose and notice the effects. I hope, by the way, you’ve been a good little girl and kept that magical diary.” Lou was astonishingly pleased to…
1922 · PDF PAGE 319
…ating what the place itself is like, especially as not less than three thousand years ago it became one of the most famous places in the world. And one of its chief claims was that even then it was famous for the ruins of forgotten civilisations. To-day, the hand of man has left ephemeral scribbles all over the great rock which dominates the city. Approaching Telepylus from the west, we were astounded when that mighty crag burst into view as the train rounded a corner. Like another Gibraltar it stood out against a background of sky twelve hundr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 33
…, a Dr. Barbezieux, a most kind and thoughtful man. I am going to try, said Arthur, to penetrate my- self. Am I an animal, and is the world without a pur- pose? Or am I a soul in a body? Or am I, one and indi- visible in some incredible sense, a spark of the infinite light of God? I am going to think inwards: I shall possi- bly go into some form of trance, unintelligible to myself. You may be able to interpret it. The experiment had lasted about half an hour when he sat up gasping with effort. I have seen nothing, heard nothing, I said. …
1922 · PDF PAGE 223
…als— for she was very dead indeed—but she got to the other end of the tunnel all right. She’s a Great Soul, if ever there was one in the world, and he has raised her mortal into immortality. Her corruptibility has put on incorruption—and she radiates light and life and love, leaping through the years in utter libert ” “ But what does she do now?” I asked with a dull pain at my heart. | “Why; her True. Will, of course!’’ came back the flaming answer. ‘‘ She knows that she came to this planet to bear witness to the Law of Thelema in her own perso…
1929 · PDF PAGE 7
…hing of the sort; he had continued to exhibit the most stolid in- difference to the story. Yes, you are not mistaken; it was indeed the world- famous philosopher, the discoverer of Dodium, rarest of known elements, supposed only to exist in the universe to the extent of the thirty-thousand and fifth part of a milligramme, and that in the star called y Pegasi; it was Dodu who has shattered the logical process of obver- sion, and reduced the quadrangle of oppositions to the condition of the British square at Abu-Klea. So much you know; but this …
1954 · PDF PAGE 25
…ant "In my lifetime I have conquered the Universe by the force of Truth." Even then, he was not through with his self-discipline. During World War II, when he was in the United States, he pursued, stubbornly and steadfastly,
1954 · PDF PAGE 356
…stood what my Will was. My aspiration to be the means of emancipating humanity was perfectly fulfilled. I had merely to establish in the world the Law which had been given me to proclaim: "Thou hast no right but to do thy will." Had I bent my energies from the first to proclaiming the Law of Thelema I should doubtless have found no obstacle in my path. Those which naturally arise in the course of any work soever, would have been quietly removed by the Secret Chiefs. But I had chosen to fight against myself for five years, and "If Satan shall be…
1954 · PDF PAGE 425
…o power in Germany ; and it was American money that saved the Nazi party at the most critical moment. Cleverest move of all, he gave the world something to hate: the Communist and the Jew. His only trouble was that he couldn't count on his fingers! I perceive that I am turning into the late Samuel Smiles; having given you an example to imitate - but don't forget
1904 · PDF PAGE 56
…ive percent of the passers by. He was not happy unless he felt that he had an arsehole into which he could run for shelter from the cold world at a moments notice. He wanted to feel that he had but to crook his middle finger and nine-inch knockers would come running up by the thousands to grope their little Stevies brown crack. I loved his coarse-skinned handsome face ; I sucked with considerable élan his fine but over- worked sugar-stick ; I pumped the rare but treacly semen from his gland ; I wallowed in the inkstand of his arse. I mixed my…
1905 · PDF PAGE 68
…e for vengeance. So far have I risen, but not far enough to forget that you are the most abominable villain that plagues God’s beautiful world with his infesting life. BRANDON [ze2¢h setdden calnness|. This to his father! say, you wretch? PERCY [to VAUGHAN]. I will go, my true new father. Kiss Esmé for me a hundred times ! BRANDON [breaking from the Footmen]. Damn you; that’s your game, is it? No, you go with me, Sir Poet. [Rushing at his son, strikes. PERCY, warding off the unexpected blow, staggers. BRANDON, maddened by the idea of fighting, …
1922 · PDF PAGE 220
…’s nothing in either which is good or bad in itself. The only question is, what is the natural gesture?’ He thinks it his mission in the world to establish this Law of Thelema.” She saw my puzzled look. “‘ Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law,’ ”’ she quoted merrily. “‘ You must have heard those words before ! ”’ I admitted it. We laughed together over our friend's eccentricity. “ He says that to every one he meets,” she explained,
1922 · PDF PAGE 241
Cold Turkey 227 work to be done. I have become quite blind to the spiritual world. Keletiel never comes. I must wait, wait, wait for the Holy Spirit ; but that’s a memory so far, far off ! There are times when I almost doubt it, yet my faith is the only thing that prevents my going insane. I can't endure without H. The sympathy of suffering has brought Peter closer. We lie about and look at each other; but we can’t touch, the skin is too painful. We are both restless as it is impossible to describe. It irritates us to see each other like this, …
1996 · PDF PAGE 33
…e further how this verse agrees with the comment above, how every Star is to come forth from its veils, that it may revel with the whole World of Stars. This is again also a call to unite, or “love,” thus formulating the equation 1 + (-1) = 0,1 which is the general magical formula in our Cosmos. 1 The Hon. Bertrand Russell might prefer to write this: +1 + (-1) = 0. For Initiates of the ix° of o.T.o. it could be expressed: <p + k = r = 0, where <p-K= 0, and <f> and k are both positive integers. “Come forth”—from what are you hiding? “under the s…
1996 · PDF PAGE 83
…(O.T.O.) in Southern California, founded by Wilfred Talbot Smith (1885-1957) in 1935 E.v. “Liber XV” is now celebrated weekly around the world.] 2 The Equinox 1(9). [See “Liber 811,” Works Cited.] 63. Sing the rapturous love-song unto me! Burn to me perfumes! Wear to me jewels! Drink to me, for I love you! I love you! Commentary: All those acts which excite the divine in man are proper to the Rite of Invocation. Religion, as understood by the vile Puritan, is the very oppo site of all this. He—it—seems to wish to kill his—its—soul by forbiddin…
1906 · PDF PAGE 127
…back anon, As if the cedared crest uptorn Roared from uprooted Lebanon Down to the sea, its billows hurled Back, past the pillars of the world! 121
1909 · PDF PAGE 327
…and inharmonious—that is, of uneven length.” This we find explained in a G.*. D.-. manuscript entitled: ‘The Secret Wisdom of the Lesser World, or Microcosm which is Man.” Further we learn from this manuscript that : In the case of the drunkard, the equilibrium of the Sphere of Sensations, and con- sequently of the Nephesch, is disturbed, and the Thought Rays in consequence are shaken at each vibration; so that the sphere of the sensation of the Nephesch is caused to rock and waver at the extremities of the Physical Body, where the Ruach’s acti…