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…ut X4 ? There are no more spatial dimensions. Modem mathematics has (unfortunately, I think) agreed to consider this fourth dimension as time. Well, and XS? To interpret this expression , we may begin to consider other qualities, such as
…ogically indicated. Do see it simply; the word must in any event connote ideas of Neschamah, not of Ruach. "But you use the word all the time." Yes, I do, and rely on the context to crystallize this most fluid-or gaseous-of expressions. 'Us'. Why 'us'? Is this a reference to the Old School Tie, or that Finishing School in Brussels, and the ticket to the Royal Enclosure at Ascot? I do not suppose for a moment that you meant it that way: but it's there. And so- Anecdote of Lao-tze. The Old One was surrounded as usual by a galaxy of adoring discip…
…eks of my illness, I had hung on grimly to the preparation of these memoirs, but the weak flesh had overcome the willing spirit from the time of Raoul's death to the end of March. We now tackled it with renewed energy and, for the sake of fresh air and quiet, left the city for La Marsa, where we stayed at Au Souffle du Zephir working day and night, so far as my health permitted, for nearly two months, when O. P. V. joined me, while Alostrael returned to Cefalu for a rest. I had once more worked her beyond her strength. We were joined shortly af…
…n horseback; but naturally he had to be content with a somewhat sorry screw, wile my own pony was a fairly decent animal. He thought the time ripe to attempt to force me to "lose face": that is, to become an object of ridicule to the coolies. If he had succeeded, I need hardly point out, there would have been and end of all discipline and we should probably have been robbed and murdered in short order. His idea was to start out ahead of us on my pony. I did not find out what had happened for some time. When I did, I set out on foot at top speed…
…. Everything I did was sui generis and had no conscious connection with any other outburst of my genius; but I understood that from this time on I should find myself writing with a sense of responsibility, that my work would be coherent, each item (however complete in itself) an essential part of a pyramid, a monument whose orientation and proportions should proclaim my purpose. I should do nothing in future that was not as definitely directed to the execution of my true will as every step through Spain was taken with the object of reaching Mad…
… Feccles in the place that modern Christianity has decided to forget. But the least I could do was to ask him to lunch. But before I had time to put this
…cape that law, that relies on its strength, that becomes nigid, that endeavours to calla halt, is broken up by the irresistible waves of time. We think steel stronger than water; but we cannot build a ship to resist its
…ecessarily slow; but so was ours. Both Lou and I found it impossible to go more than twenty paces or so without a rest. We had plenty of time to watch them, and it was amazing to see the working of the mind of Hermes as problem after problem presented itself to him. There were many occasions on which it would have been easy for him to go around an obstacle, but he never attempted to do so. King Lamus had already implanted in his mind the idea that the fun of rock- climbing consisted in tackling the most difficult passages. The child would occas…
…ll the laws that we find in operation on various parts of the "Astral plane" are valid. Two things can occupy the same place at the same time . They are "swift without feet, and flying without wings." They change size, shape, appearance, appurtenances of all sorts, at will. Anything that is required for the purpose of the vision is there at will. They bring their own background with them. They are able to transfer a portion of their energy to the seer by spontaneous action without appreciable means. But here is where your question arises-what i…
…erence by nature. They fascinate, as all things vast beyond computation invariably do. I felt that if I lived with them for even a short time they would completely obsess me and possibly lure me to end my life with their eternity. I felt the same about the mountains of India, the expanse of China, the solitude of the Sahara. I feel as if the better part of me belonged to them, as if my dearest destiny would be to live and die with them. I went on to New York on May 15th and spent a rather hectic ten days sampling the restaurants and theatres. B…
…ddition to his thesis should not have been accepted with pious glee? Things went from bad to worse as I grew in moral power. Part of the time I was well enough to go to a day school in Streatham, where I learnt at long last the terrible secret which I had racked my brains to discover for nearly three years. Here was certainly a sin worth sinning and I applied myself with characteristic vigour to its practice. As my father had been accustomed to drink wine, I could not see how drinking could be a sin. There was, therefore, no object in doing it.…
…edom on every plane, all planes are in reality but one: and thus the lowest expression of any function of that Will is to be at the same time an expression of the highest Will, or only true Will, which is that already implied in the acceptance of the Law. Be it also well understood of you that it is not necessary or right to shut off natural activity of any kind, as certain false folk, eunuchs of the spirit, most foully teach, to the destruc- tion of many. For in every thing soever inhereth its own perfection proper to it, and to neglect the fu…
…novels by Balzac and Zola and Romain Rolland and D. H. Lawrence and those chaps. And you never get tired! You're on fourth speed all the time, and the engine purrs like a kitten, a big white kitten with the stars in its whiskers. And it’s always different and always the same, and it never stops, and you go insane, and you stay insane, and you probably don’t know what I’m talking about, and I don’t care a bit, and I’m awfully sorry for you, and you can find out any minute you like by the simple process of getting a girl like Lou and a lot of coc…
…maddens me that he takes no interest in me. But after all, I take no interest in him. I am as restless as the wandering Jew. At the same time, I can’t settle down to anything. I keep on scribbling this stuff in my diary. It relieves me somehow to write what I feel. What is so utterly damnable is that I understand what I am doing. This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love. What have I done to forfeit love ? I feel as if I had died and got forgotten in some beastly place where there was nothing but hung…
…vening, was on the Commander-in-Chief's right hand. "You have been very highly recommended to me," said the old Cavalry leader, when the time came to smoke, "and I look to you to distinguish yourself accordingly. You will be under the orders of Colonel Mavor, of course; you should report to him at once." "May I give you some information direct?" asked Cyril. "The matter hardly brooks delay, as I see it: you should know it at once, and — to be frank — I think this my best chance of your ever hearing it." "A damned funny beginning," growled the g…
…tion. One veiy effective method is to stop short, by a suprême effort of will, again and again, on the very brink of that spasm, until a time arrives when the idea of exercising that will fails to occur \ Inhibition is no longer possible or even thinkable, and the whole heing of the Magician, no minutes! atom saying nay, is irresistibly fJung forth. In blinding light, amid the roar of ten thousand thunders, the Union of God and man is consummated. If the Magician is stiJl seen standing in the Circle, quietly pursuing his invocations, it is that…
…ical side of the Art, and he went back to South Africa feeling himself fully equipped to deal with any problem that might arise. At that time we were particularly anxious to wind up the first volume of The Equinox with a No. 10, which should be a really massive contribution to Magical thought. That meant a very considerable increase in the cost of production. All this my Disciple, of course, knew, and on arriving in Johannesburg he said to himself "Well, here I am in a part of the world where the earth teems with gold and diamonds. I will procu…
…en platinum plus a few girls I have known on the vowels. Their incantations consist almost entirely of combinations of these. Seven at a time is very frequent; in fact it seems sometimes as if their theurgy depended on variations of these combinations . Their theology, too. Never mind that just now!
344 once in her studio she lost no time, and "The Black Mass', "The Adepts" and "The Vampire" describe with ruthless accuracy our relations. She initiated me into the torturing pleasures of algolagny on the spiritual plane. She showed me how to intensify passion by self-restraint. The formula is entirely analogous to the physical formula of the Arabs. She made me wonder, in fact, if the secret of puritanism was not to heighten the intensity of love by putting obstacles in its way. I regard the idea as entirely morbid and objectionable. Artifici…
… departure of Feccles and Haidée the lights were out. I had imagined that I should drop off to sleep instantly. In fact, it took me some time to realise that I had not done so. I was in an anesthetic condition which is hard to distinguish from dreaming. In fact, if one started to lay down definitions and explained the differences, the further one got the more obscure would the controversy become. But my eyes were certainly wide open; and I was lying on my back, whereas I can never sleep except on my right side, or else, strangely enough, in a s…