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Page 103 of 1051929 · PDF PAGE 341
…ot into not dissimilar states while doing Pranayama, but those had been passive, and this was a --- no, active is a pitifully inadequate word --- I felt myself vibrating with the energy of the universe. It was as if I had become conscious of atomic energy or of the force of gravitation, understood positively and not merely as the inhibition to rising from the ground. I do not know how long I stood there holding myself in, but judging from subsequent calculations it must have been over an hour: the sense of time had entirely disappeared. But I b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 106
…he was absent. The man replied, in surprise at my ignorance, that Mr. Rosher had taken the early morning boat to Inverness. There was no word of explanation; I never saw him or heard of him for many years; and, when we met, though absolutely friendly and even intimate, we never referred to the matter. One day I came back from shooting rabbits on the hill and found a Catholic priest in my study. He had come to tell me that my lodgekeeper, a total abstainer for twenty years, had been raving drunk for three days and had tried to kill his wife and …
1929 · PDF PAGE 343
…m and so degrading themselves to the level of the other animals, or suppressing them and creating neuroses. I insist that every thought, word and deed should be consciously devoted to the service of the great work. "Whatsoever ye do, whether ye eat or drink, do all to the glory of God." One night in Granada I met one of these gypsies. The setting was supremely romantic. The burden of his life fell from the shoulders of the poet. I experienced that spontaneous and irresistible stroke of love which only exists when the beauty of the human form an…
1929 · PDF PAGE 248
…nnot bring myself to believe that anything which is going on at the present time has any real existence. It is a meaningless letter in a word and its value depends on the rest of the letters. "A" and "O" are in themselves mere varieties of breathing, yet one helps to make "hag", and the other "hog" --- one "cot", and the other "cat". Unless I know the consonants I cannot tell whether I need an "a" or an "o". Now this perception is obvious to everybody, yet everybody acts as if he knew exactly what would be the result of writing "a" instead of "…
1904 · PDF PAGE 71
THE SWORD OF SONG 64 149. Ra.26—The Sun-God. 149. Nuit.27—The Star-Goddess. 152. Campbell.28—“The waters w ild w ent o’er his child, And he was left lamenting.” 152. The Ibis Head.29—Characteristic of Tahuti. 157. Rolands crest.30—See “Two poets of Croisic,” xci. 159. A jest.31—See above : Ascension Day. 162. A mysterious way.32— “ God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform ; He plants His foodsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.” Intentional species ? 171. The old hymn.33—This hymn, quoted I fear with some failure of memory—I…
1929 · PDF PAGE 78
…nt. There could be no merit in abstention from vice. Vice indeed is vitium, a flaw or defect. This attitude is not antinomianism, as the word is usually understood. When St. Paul said, "All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient", he only went half way. One ought to leave no form of energy to rust. Every particle of one's personality is a necessary factor in the equation and every impulse must be turned to account in the Great Work. I perceived, moreover, that all conventional rules of conduct were valid only in relation to …
1929 · PDF PAGE 137
…d not solve this completely until my attainment of the Grade of Mater of the Temple in 1909, when at last I realized that every thought, word and act might be pressed into the service of the soul: more, that it must be if the soul were ever to be free. I "mixed up the planes" for many years to some extent, though never as badly as most mystics do. During this retirement I was fortunate in being under the constant vigilant supervision of Allan Bennett, whose experience enabled him to detect the firs onset of disturbing ideas. For instance, the r…
1929 · PDF PAGE 448
448 fertile than almost any other study, and that in a way despite itself. A word should be pertinent with regard to the question of secrecy. It has become difficult for me to take this matter very seriously. Knowing what the secret actually is, I cannot attach much importance to artificial mysteries. It is true that some of the so-called secrets are significant, but as a rule they are so only to those who already know what the secret is. Again, though the secret itself is of such tremendous import, and though it is so simple that I could discl…
1904 · PDF PAGE 66
…pt, as it predicates humanity of Christian-hate- Christian. J’accuse the English language : anthropo- phagous must always remain a comic word. 731. The Flaming Star.75—Or Pentagram, mystically referred to Jeheshua. 732. Zohar.76—“Splendour,” the three Central Books of the Dogmatic Qabalah. 733. Pigeon.77—Says an old writer, whom I translate roughly : “Thou to thy Lamb and Dove devoutly bow, But leave me, prithee, yet my Hawk and Cow : And I approve thy G reybeard dotard’s smile, If thou wilt that of Egypt’s crocodile.” 746. Lost ! Lost ! Lost !…
1929 · PDF PAGE 567
…ds, firstly with a plan for marketing the existing stock, and secondly with a proposal to write my memoirs. He promised to put in a good word for me as he knew Grant Richards well and was influential as being a man of sound business and literary judgment. I therefore called {895} and made my proposals. But after some consideration, Grant Richards could not see his way to accept my terms. I think we were both reluctant to part; and one night I was inspired to try him with a third artificial minnow. I would write a shocker on the subject which wa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 361
…re rarely well born, more rarely well bred, hardly ever sincere, and still less frequently honest even in the most ordinary sense of the word. It seemed to me that my first duty was to prove to the world that I was not teaching Magick for money. I promised myself always to publish my books on an actual loss on the cost of production --- never to accept a farthing for any form of instruction, giving advice, or any other service whose performance depended on my magical attainments. I regarded myself as having sacrificed my career and my fortune f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 205
…ir respective arts. Often have I sat, a privileged listener, while D---'s cold acumen and L---'s superb indignation, expressed in fiery swords of speech, would drive some luckless driveller from the room. Or at times they would hold down their victim, a bird fascinated by a snake, while they pitilessly exposed his follies to the delighted crowd. Again, a third, pompous and self-confident, would be led on by them, seemingly in full sympathy, to make an exhibition of himself, visible and hideous to all eyes but his own. L---, his eager face like …
1929 · PDF PAGE 495
…ship for me, spent sometime almost every day in my office chatting; we lunched and dined together quite often, but he never breathed one word of his intention to buy The International, and when the transaction became public, he went one better. He asked me to continue my contributions and even suggested that I should work jointly with him, yet all the time, his idea was to oust me altogether. He refused to print a single line from my pen, and that, although he was in despair about filling the number. He must too have known that the success of t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 298
… nature, and if I were to endeavour to give a name to the poetic quintessence of the province of Yunnan I should content myself with one word --- space. The Sahara Desert itself and the sea do not exceed this district in this respect, for they obtain their effects by what I may call the brutal method of sheer magnitude. Here the country is as diversified as Cumberland or Switzerland; the effect of immensity, of almost formless immensity, is obtained by slightly increasing the scale of quite normal types of hill, forest, lake and river, so that …
1906 · PDF PAGE 215
NOTES 209 The prosodist will note the ‘' false quantity ” of this word. But this is as it should be, for Ganesha pertains to Shiva, and with Shiva all quantity is false, since, as Parameshvara, he is without quantity or quality. 485. Carroll,4”7—See ‘' Alicein Wonderland,” Cap. Dit. : 508. AKusha-grass.*8—The sacred grass of the Hindus. 509. Mantra.*8—A sacred verse, suitable for constant repetition, with a view to quieting the thought. Anyone can see how simple and effective a means this is. 519. Gayatri,.°—This is the translation of the most …
1929 · PDF PAGE 496
…the story of my wife and put my foot down. I gave her to understand that if it happened again I was through. She knew me for a man of my word an quit, but a few days later it was as bad as ever. I gave her one more chance, but of course in vain. Early in October, I broke up the menage and transferred my headquarters to a studio in West 9th Street, which I shared with a friend of the Dog's, hereafter described as the Camel. Her name was Roddie Minor, a married woman living apart from her husband, a near artist of German extraction. She was physi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 232
…o my prolonged absence from civilised parts, and the consequent lack of opportunity for reference and comparison, I emphatically do. One word to the reviewers. It must not be taken as ungracious if I so speak. From nearly all I have received the utmost justice, kindness, and consideration: two or three only seem to take delight in deliberately perverting the sense of my remarks: and to them, for their own sake, I now address 1 In '‘Dr. Dee,” VOL, I. these words of elementary instruction. You are perfectly welcome to do with my work in its entir…
1929 · PDF PAGE 183
…ld be no difficulty in walking up the snow slopes on the east-south-east to the snowy shoulder below the final rock pyramid. I sent back word accordingly and went on much encouraged. There was still not difficulty of any kind; the snow was excellent; but after three and a half hours, I decided to stop at Camp 9 (17,332 feet) directly under the south face of the mountain. Above this camp the glacier becomes comparatively steep and I did not wish to take a change of getting my coolies into trouble. They had amused me very much, by the way, at Cam…
1904 · PDF PAGE 74
NOTES 67 The prosidist w ill note the “false quantity” of this word. But this is as it should be, for Ganesha pertains to Shiva, and w ith Shiva all quantity is false, since, as Parameshvara, he is without quantity or quality. 485. Carroll.47—See “Alice in Wonderland,” Cap. Ult. 508. Kusha-grass.48—The sacred grass of the Hindus. 509. Mantra.49—A sacred verse, suitable for constant repitition, with a view to quieting the thought. Any one can see how simple and effective a means this is. 519. Gayatri.50—This is the translation of the most holy v…
1929 · PDF PAGE 292
…he Bengali, which was an entirely different proposition. It was after nine o'clock before he joined us at the outskirts of the town. The word forward was given, and Forrest and I galloped furiously into the darkness. We kept up a tremendous pace as far as the foot of the hills. It was a wild and windy night; torn clouds scudded fitfully across a misty moon. Some rain had fallen and the broad smooth stones of the road were as slippery as glass. It was impossible to ride on the slopes; the tatu stumbled at every step. My mountain boots with their…