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Page 112 of 1591954 · PDF PAGE 538
…m which the enemy directs against your sun-kissed tower is thrown back from those glittering walls. You accept the criticism at the same time as you dismiss it with a laugh. On the whole therefore I continue to regard the discipline of Yoga as its most valuable feature. The results attained by pushing Yoga to its end are on their own showing worthless, whereas the attainment of Magick, however lofty, is still immune to all criticism and at every period of its construction has been perfectly sympathetic with the normal consciousness of man. On t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 207
…han that ever necessarily concentrated on the actual business of camp life. The rest, and the final revision, occupied a good deal of my time during the winter of 1902-1903. The MS. was accepted by the S. P. R. T. in May of this year, and after a post- final revision, rendered necessary by my Irish descent, went to press. 618. Hach life bound ever to the wheel,i2—Cf. Whately, ‘‘ Revelation of a Future State.” These original drafts |. 652. This, that, the other atheist’s death, 3— Their stories are usually untrue; but let us follow our plan, and…
1929 · PDF PAGE 12
…an hardly fail to imply the existence of an immanent spirit (the true self) which uses incarnations, and possibly many other means, from time to time in order to observe the universe at a particular point of focus, much as a telescope resolves a nebula. The congenital masochism of which we have spoken demands further investigation. All his life he has been almost unduly sensitive to pain, physical, {44} mental and moral. There is no perversion in him which makes it enjoyable, yet the phantasy of desiring to be hurt has persisted in his waking i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 330
…e autumn of 1911 she had to be put in an asylum, suffering from alcoholic dementia. Another seed of the past began to bear fruit at this time. I had never attempted to transmit my occult knowledge as such. I had never attempted to write prose, as such, apart from short accounts of my climbs, with the exception of the preface to White Stains (Collected Works, vol. II, pp. 195- 8). Berashith was my first serious attempt at an essay. That and "Science and Buddhism" were followed by a jeu d'esprit on Shakespeare (Collected Works, vol. II, pp. 185-9…
1913 · PDF PAGE 153
…30 A&thyrs, to which he had not paid attention since August 1900. It is evident that he was stopped from going beyond that point at that time. A study of these Cries will explain to students of intelli- gence the details of this Initiation, and it will be seen from the remarks at the end of the 13th A&thyr that it is not possible to proceed beyond the 16th for any one who is not a Master of the Temple. In the 19th A2thyr is the beginning of this x I 113
1913 · PDF PAGE 153
…30 A&thyrs, to which he had not paid attention since August 1900. It is evident that he was stopped from going beyond that point at that time. A study of these Cries will explain to students of intelli- gence the details of this Initiation, and it will be seen from the remarks at the end of the 13th A&thyr that it is not possible to proceed beyond the 16th for any one who is not a Master of the Temple. In the 19th A2thyr is the beginning of this x I 113
1922 · PDF PAGE 341
…ess of the heroin craving nearly drove me to take the stuff without my body telling me what it was doing. But I detected the movement in time. I thought a brisk walk might help me to pass through the critical moment. Just as I got out of the house, I was met by Sister Athena. “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law,” she said. It was the regular morning greeting at the Abbey. Accustomed as I was to the phrase, it still took me rather aback. “‘ Good-morning,”’ I said in a rather embarrassed way. ** The answer is ‘ Love is the law, love …
1954 · PDF PAGE 310
…ziness, lends most willing aid. One replaces reality more and more continuously by these exciting and flattering reveries, which by this time have no longer any shadow of a claim to be called mystic experiences at all. Now do remember this: it is the guarantee of wholesomeness in any Invocation that there should be contact with another. It is better to conjure up the most obnoxious demons from the most noisome pit of Hell than to take one's own excitations for Divine benediction; if only because there was never a demon yet so atrocious as that …
1996 · PDF PAGE 90
…ach new thing that we know about ourselves helps us to realize what we mean by our “Star.” 1 [Grk., “sea.”] Now, “the rituals of the old time” are no longer valid vehicles; Knowledge cannot “go aright” until they are adapted to the Formula of the New /Eon. Their defects are due principally to two radical errors. 1. The Universe was conceived as possessing a fixed centre, or summit; an absolute standard to which all things might be referred; an Unity, or God. (Mystics were angry and bewildered, often enough, when attaining to “union with God” th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 306
…us picture, very low in tone and undeniably depressing. The sky itself was uniformly leaden, though I suppose this was a question of the time of the year. There are few features in the scenery; a damp warmth broods upon the general dullness. On the twentieth we reached Hanoi, the capital, but only stayed for lunch. There is nothing particularly interesting about the town to people who have {498} been uninterruptedly intoxicated for months upon the beauty and grandeur of one of the wildest and noblest countries of the earth. We took the after no…
1929 · PDF PAGE 374
… player. Again, at roulette a run of one hundred on red might happen once in a thousand years by pure chance; but if it occurred a dozen times a night for a week it would prove that the table is furnished with a mechanical device by which the croupier could control the fall of the ball. {601} From this time I accepted the Law in its entirety; that is, I admitted its absolute authority. I was not, however, at the end of my difficulties. Much of the book was unintelligible, and many passages, especially in Chapter III, entirely repugnant. I was c…
1904 · PDF PAGE 83
…ht the Captain, being restless, sug- gested a tour of inspection, and the two lovers stole quietly out of their cabin. They came after a time to where Andrew and Ambrose were, and were lucky enough to catch the former in the very act of sacrificing at the most holy altar, while the boy, turned half round, was gently chewing and licking the armpit of the perspiring lieutenant. One finger of his free hand sought to penetrate the others shrine, while the hand underneath him titillated his own genitals in unison with the motions of his lover. The …
1909 · PDF PAGE 351
… the happiness in the world was in that look: for on that day the selkie did everything but speak. Mansie was a young man then, and some time afterwards he married and settled on the west of Eday. One evening when he was fishing for sillocks on an ebb-rock, which could only be reached dry-shod at low water, the fish took unusually well, so that he stood and filled his basket. Indeed they took so well that he forgot all about the tide, and soon found him- self cut off from the land. Mansie shouted and shouted, but he was far from any house, and …
1909 · PDF PAGE 351
… the happiness in the world was in that look: for on that day the selkie did everything but speak. Mansie was a young man then, and some time afterwards he married and settled on the west of Eday. One evening when he was fishing for sillocks on an ebb-rock, which could only be reached dry-shod at low water, the fish took unusually well, so that he stood and filled his basket. Indeed they took so well that he forgot all about the tide, and soon found him- self cut off from the land. Mansie shouted and shouted, but he was far from any house, and …
1910 · PDF PAGE 209
…s, which are the Yama and Niyama of Buddhism, he at once saw, in spite of Nagasena and prig Milinda, must be broken by every Arahat each time he inhaled a breath of air. They were as absurd as they were valueless. But behind all this tantalizing frou-frou, this lingerie de cocotte, beautifully designed to cover the narded limbs of foolish virgins, sits the Buddha in silent meditation; so that P. soon discovered that by stripping his body of all these tawdry trappings, this feminine under-wear, and by utterly discarding the copy-book precepts of…
1910 · PDF PAGE 209
…s, which are the Yama and Niyama of Buddhism, he at once saw, in spite of Nagasena and prig Milinda, must be broken by every Arahat each time he inhaled a breath of air. They were as absurd as they were valueless. But behind all this tantalizing frou-frou, this lingerie de cocotte, beautifully designed to cover the narded limbs of foolish virgins, sits the Buddha in silent meditation; so that P. soon discovered that by stripping his body of all these tawdry trappings, this feminine under-wear, and by utterly discarding the copy-book precepts of…
1919 · PDF PAGE 123
… impression on the memory equal to one year of the latter. One single experience, in duration it may be but a few seconds of terrestrial time, is sufficient to destroy the belief in the reality of our vain life on earth: but this wears gradually away if the conscious- ness, through shock or fear, adhere not to it, and the Will strive not continually to repetition of that bliss, more beauti- ful and terrible than death, which it hath won by virtue of Love. There be moreover many other modes of attaining the apprehension of true Life, and these t…
1919 · PDF PAGE 196
…hy step back again? You may have done so involuntarily, because the Light was so great that it seemed as Darkness. But do it again, this time more fully, and let us consider what the changes in our concept of the Universe will be. ; The moment we identify ourselves with the Sun, we real- ize that we have become the source of Light, that we too are now shining gloriously, but we also realize that the Sunlight 184
1922 · PDF PAGE 91
…t the idea of doing it didn’t appeal. I thought a bath and a shower would put me right; and I certainly felt a very different man by the time I had got my clothes on. , When I came back into the sitting-room, I found Lou dancing daintily round the table. She went for me like a bull at a gate; swept me away to the couch and knelt at my side as I lay, while she overwhelmed me with passionate kisses. She divined that I was not in any condition to respond. “You still need your nurse,” she laughed merrily, with sparkling eyes. and flashing teeth and…
1954 · PDF PAGE 23
…ever! Many of the young people of today are turning toward his writing with a view to resolving some of the most serious problems of our time-conflicts which affect them and our society most seriously. In this, I think they are showing some deep wisdom. But in many of their overt attitudes and behavior, it seems as if they are missing the boat entirely. This is why it is imperative that they become familiar with the tenets of these letters, to make them part and parcel of their own mental and spiritual equipment. They may find a variety of answ…