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Page 120 of 1291944 · PDF PAGE 85
… force another, King against King! Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath.” “There is a light before thine eyes, O prophet, a light undesired, most de‐ sirable. “I am uplifted in thine heart; and the kisses of the stars rain hard upon thy body. “Thou art exhaust in the voluptuous fulness of the inspiration; the expi‐ ration is sweeter than death, more rapid and laughterful than a caress of Hell’s own worm.” This Trump is assigned to the sign of Leo in the Zodiac. I…
1907 · PDF PAGE 243
…ass on reverse ; Title-page as above, Dedication on reverse; Introductory poem Nothung ; Half-title ; Prose Introduction to ‘¢ Ascension Day and Pentecost,” pp. ili- ix; Text, pp. 1-62; Notes, pp, 63-91; Appendices, pp. 93-127; ‘‘ N°WNID | an essay | in | ontology | with some remarks on | ceremonial magic,’ pp. 123-148; ‘‘Science and Buddhism,” pp. 149-192; Epilogue in verse, pp. 193-194; Index on last page, imprint on reverse, ‘‘ printed | by | Philippe Renouard | 19, rue des Saints- Péres, 19 | Paris.” Headlines throughout. Editions: 100 copi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 272
…f that dividing middle above all into other things in earth or heaven. We hold the balance fair and firm. M. (glad). How blessed is this day, Scepticus ! S. (Concedine the point, and catching the glow). Let us make a night of it! M. (Enjoying his triumph). We will. Do not forget twilight !. S. (2 holy rapture). cus, into Three ! M, (Ditto, only more so). Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. S. (fn the trance called Nerodha-Sama- patti). As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. M. (Ditto…
1906 · PDF PAGE 232
… in the Never before had his spells availed to call so fearful a potency from the abyss of matter. ‘Son,’ ‘cried the Accurséd One,“seven days of hate unmarred by passion milder, seven days without one thought of pity, these avail to call me forth.2. ‘Slay me my enemy!’ howled the wretch. But. Mara. trembled. ‘Enquire of Ganesha concerning him!’ faltered at last the fiend. ‘¢ Jehjaour awoke. IV. _6Ves!’ said Ganesha gloomily, ‘the young man has given me up altogether. He tells me I am as mortal as he is, and he doesn’t mean to worry about me any…
1929 · PDF PAGE 8
8 {37} 1. He has never been able to pronounce "R" properly --- like a Chinese! One day he said something to his mother which elicited from her the curious anatomical assertion: "Ladies have no legs." Shortly afterwards, when the Misses Cowper were at dinner with the family, he disappeared from his chair. There must have been some slight commotion on deck, leading to the question of his whereabouts. But at that moment a still small voice came from beneath the table: "Mamma! Mamma! Sister Susan and Sister Emma are not ladies!" This deduction was …
1904 · PDF PAGE 121
…eely admit, to defend so apparently mystical a s tatement, I m ay give the following from my own experience. In a certain meditation one day I re- corded: “I wa s (a) conscious of external things seen behind after my nose had vanished. (b) Conscious that I was not conscious of these things . Thes e ( a) and (b) were simultaneous.” I subsequently discovered this peculiar state of cons ciousness classified in the Ab- hidhamma. That it is a contradiction in terms I am perfectly aware; to as sign any meaning to it is frankly beyond me; but I am as …
1904 · PDF PAGE 87
…ed. But he knew better than to judge a goat from a goat’s head and hoofs. And the first week he s acrificed to that goat 1 a crown every day. The second a p hallus. The third a silver vase of blood. The fourth a roy al sceptre. The fifth a sword. The sixth a heart. The seventh a garland of flowers. The eighth a grass-snake. The ninth a sickle. And the tenth week did he daily offer up his own body . Said the goat: “Though I be not an ox, yet am I a sword.” “ Masked, O God !” cried the Adept. “ Verily, an thou hadst not sacrificed—” There was sil…
1929 · PDF PAGE 585
…st in that it relates to the events of this final chapter: "A villifying report of what took place at the time of the death of Raoul Loveday, at the Abbey of Thelema in Cefalu, having come to my attention, leads me to write a brief account of that unhappy event, as I was not only there during Raoul's brief sojourn at the Abbey, but I took care of him on his deathbed. "He arrived in Cefalu from London late in November, or early December, 1922, pale and aenemic, and had just recovered from a rather severe septic throat. "The weather at the time w…
1906 · PDF PAGE 242
…e though not infinite power. The Buddhists admit the existence of Maha-Brahma, but his power and knowledge are limited ; and his agelong day must end. I find evidence everywhere, even in our garbled and mutilated version of the Hebrew Scriptures, that Jehovah’s power was limited in all sorts of ways. At the Fall, for instance, Tetragrammaton Elohim has to summon his angels hastily to guard the Tree of Life, lest he should be proved a liar. For had it occurred to Adam to eat of that Tree before their transgression was discovered, or had the Serp…
1906 · PDF PAGE 147
…gold :— The world is old, and I am strong— Awake, awake, O Sword of Song ! * The name of Siegfried’s sword. INTRODUCTION TO ‘! ASCENSION DAY AND PENTECOST.” Nor a word to-introduce my introduction! Let me instantly launch the Boat of Dis- course on the Sea of Religious Speculation, in danger of the Rocks of Authority and the Quicksands of Private Interpretation, Scylla and Charybdis. Here is the strait; what God shall save us from shipwreck? If we choose to understand the Christian (or any other) religion literally, we are at once over- whelmed…
1929 · PDF PAGE 509
… the words, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law", and proceeded as best I could to explain their import. Again, on the last day of the year, whose midnight I habitually devote to a meditation on the past, culminating in a formulation of my future career, I was moved to write what was shortly afterwards published first as a pamphlet in England, secondly as an article in the International, New York, thirdly in The Equinox, vol. III, no. i, and fourthly as a pamphlet in Australia by Frater Ahah.1 In this I summarized shortly the event…
1906 · PDF PAGE 260
…y, ‘twill be a brave jest, my masters, to fling back on the materialists that-terrible gibe of Voltaire’s at the mystery- mongers of his day: ‘‘Ils nient ce qui est, et expliquent ce qui n’est pas.” Note To Section VIII. Transfigured Realism. I will not waste my own time and that of my readers by any lengthy discussion of Mr. Herbert Spencer’s ‘‘ Transfigured Realism.” I will not point out in greater detail how he proposes, by a chain of reasoning, to over- throw the conclusions he admits as being those of reason. But his statement that Idealis…
1929 · PDF PAGE 408
…e of boughs weighted with big stones and made tight with mud, was half broken through. A giant stone hung imminent, half-way fallen. All day we waited for the rain to stop falling in the place "where it never fell". Night came and the blizzard redoubled its violence; but the shelter allowed us a little sleep until the mud dissolved and the roof became a sieve. The rest of the night was a shower-bath. In the morning there was no great sign of improvement. I had to kick the camel driver into action and chase the camels with my own fair feet. He h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 329
…hment at Leicester. At the end of that time I took her climbing for a fortnight and she came back to London in excellent health; but ten days later the disease broke out with redoubled violence. I did everything that was humanly possible; but it was fighting a losing game. Finally, early in 1909, the doctor threw up the sponge. He told her that she must agree to be sequestrated for two years. She refused: I insisted upon a divorce. I loved her as passionately as ever --- more so than ever, perhaps, since it was the passion of uttermost despair.…
1944 · PDF PAGE 181
… all, to gain time; if his resources are sufficient, he always beats the market. This is the card of “putting something away for a rainy day”. Its attribution is Sol in Virgo; it is the card of the husbandman; he can do little more than sow the seed, sit back, and wait for the harvest. There is nothing noble about this aspect of the card; like all the Eights, it represents an element of calculation, and gambling is securely profitable if one has adjusted the cagnotte properly. There is yet another point which complicates this card. The Eight of…
1907 · PDF PAGE 231
…cular dealing of God with your soul. But if you come back from the celebration of the Eucharist and say, ‘‘ Mr. Hogwash was very dull to-day,” you will never get to heaven, where the good poets live, and nobody else ; nor to hell, whose inhabitants are exclusively bad poets. There is more hope for a man who should go to Lord’s and say he saw the angels of God ascending and descending upon C. B. Fry. It is God who sees the possibility of Light in Chaos ; it is the Churches who blaspheme the superb body of Truth which Adepts of old enshrined in t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 78
…to him. Never before had his spells availed to call so fearful a potency from the aby ss of matter. ‘Son’ cried the Accursèd One, ‘seven days of hate unmarred by passion milder, seven days without one thought of pity , these avail to call me forth.’ ‘Slay me my enemy !’ howled the wretch. But M ara trembled, ‘Enquire of Ganesha concernin him!’ faltered at last the fiend. “Jehjaour awoke. IV. “ ‘Yes !’ said Ganesha gloomily, ‘the young man has given me up altogether. He tells me I am as m ortal as he is , and he doesn’t mean to worry about me an…
1906 · PDF PAGE 240
234 mveid joss of Genesis to the intangible, but self- contradictory spectre of to-day. But if G be infinite, the other forces can have no possible effect on it. As Whewell says, in the strange accident by which he anticipates the metre of x Memoriam: ‘‘ No force on earth, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.” The definition of God as infinite therefore denies man implicitly; while if he be finite, there is an end of the usual Christian reasons for worship, though I daresay I…
1929 · PDF PAGE 252
… in that spot all the morning without moving, might, if observed, have detracted from the uncanny glory of that romantic scene. But next day at dinner, when we ate that haggis, the general hilarity passed unchallenged. The atmosphere had become wholly Homeric; there was no reason why the wildest glee should seem out of place. Tartarin sent the ram's head to be stuffed and mounted; a suitable inscription was to be engraved upon a plate of massive gold. For had not the gallant Swiss vindicated their race once more? Would not the Gazette de Lausan…
1929 · PDF PAGE 416
…d the vacuum of the universe caused by the annihilation of Aleister Crowley. I kept my body in perfect condition by walking almost every day to Fontainebleau and back, always choosing a new way through the forest so that by the end of the summer I knew every tree by name, as one might say. I had acquired a boundless love for that incomparable woodland, whose glorious beauty is still further hallowed by the romance which lurks in every glade. It was tame indeed in comparison with a hundred other jungles which I had known, but for all that it pos…