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Page 120 of 1591929 · PDF PAGE 347
…purity. Under Mathers, the Grades had become meaningless; to be an adept had meant no more than to be a peer of the realm does in modern times. It was for me to sweep away all this nonsense, to re-establish the ordeals, in spirit and in truth. I was at first ignorant enough of Magick to imagine that this could be done by the simple process of replacing sham formalities by real ones. I proposed, for example, to test people's courage by putting them in actual contact with the four elements, and so on, as was apparently done in ancient Egypt; but …
1929 · PDF PAGE 483
… continent after twenty-four hours? I replied, nevertheless, "I regard America as the hope of the planet --- the white hope." About this time Jack Johnson was hors concours. White hope had become a slang phrase for a challenger without a chance. Of course she did not see the joke. I became so weary of the woman's stupidity that she was bound to make a hopeless hash of what I had said. I told her to try something easier. Reporting a dog-fight would have been about her mark. She went off in a huff, a sagging, shapeless suet pudding. He then sent …
1910 · PDF PAGE 87
…ll insects. Outside it should be a small corridor with a raised seat and a well, and the whole should be surrounded by a wall... .* ili. Time. The hours in which Yoga should be performed vary with the instructions of the Guru, but usually they should be four times a day, at sunrise, mid-day, sunset and mid-night. iv. Food. According to the ‘“ Hatha-Yoga Pradipika”: “ Moderate good men but talk little; secondly, should eat little; thirdly, should renounce the company of men, the company of women, all company. He should practise in secrecy in a r…
1910 · PDF PAGE 87
…ll insects. Outside it should be a small corridor with a raised seat and a well, and the whole should be surrounded by a wall... .* ili. Time. The hours in which Yoga should be performed vary with the instructions of the Guru, but usually they should be four times a day, at sunrise, mid-day, sunset and mid-night. iv. Food. According to the ‘“ Hatha-Yoga Pradipika”: “ Moderate good men but talk little; secondly, should eat little; thirdly, should renounce the company of men, the company of women, all company. He should practise in secrecy in a r…
1922 · PDF PAGE 21
…ears of age he was still the most savage and implacable of publicists. “ 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…
1929 · PDF PAGE 33
…oking in the wrong place, said he suddenly, but very quietly and without moving. The thing I want lies at the base of the spine. This time I saw. In a blue heaven was coiled an infi- nite snake of gold and green, with four eyes of fire, black fire and red, that darted rays in every direction; held within its coils was a great multitude of laughing children. And even as I looked, all this was blotted out. Crawling rivers of blood spread over the heaven, of blood purulent with nameless formsmangy dogs with
1954 · PDF PAGE 271
…but I discovered immediately that I was totally incompetent. I therefore appealed to an Adept named Amalantrah , with whom I was at that time in almost daily communion. He came readily to my aid, and exhibited to me a codex of the original, which conveyed to me with absolute certitude the exact significance of the text. I was able to divine without hesitation or doubt the precise manner in which Legge had been deceived. He had translated the Chinese with singular fidelity , yet in almost every verse the interpretation was altogether misleading.…
1954 · PDF PAGE 453
… one when champagne is once again reasonably cheap) and all the other sensuous and sensual delights unstinted. The result is that by the time he is twenty-he was probably married at 12-he is no longer fitted
1929 · PDF PAGE 54
… as it is convenient to go to a good tailor. It was, in short, a political paganism. I don't suppose that I appreciated this fact at the time, in that way. My attitude was determined by the unquestionable beauty of ecclesiastical architecture and the comparative dignity of the ritual. But when I discovered that chapel was compulsory I immediately struck back. The junior dean halled me for not attending chapel, which I was certainly not going to do, because it involved early rising. I excused myself on the ground that I had been brought up among…
1922 · PDF PAGE 68
…al years—probably as much as eight or nine minutes by the clock—but what’s the use of talking about clocks when Einstein has proved that time is only another dimension of space? What’s the good of astronomers proving that the earth wiggles round 1000 miles an hour, and wiggles on 1000 miles a minute, if you can’t keep going? It would be absolutely silly to hang about and get left behind, and very likely find ourselves on the moon, and nobody to talk to but Jules \Verne, H. G. Wells, and that crowd.
1922 · PDF PAGE 338
…is your proof?’’ And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won’t find you have any time to get bored.’ ” She threw away her cigarette after lighting another from the butt. She seemed to be brooding, as if much deeper thoughts were passing through her mind than even those to which she was giving such airy expres- sion. : We watched her intently. The heroin had calmed and intensified our thought, which was intensely stimulated by her explanation. We had no wish to interrupt. We wished she coul…
1954 · PDF PAGE 25
…ey's protracted commentary that took years in the writing, under the title The Law Is for All. I think it is an urgent necessity at this time. But even in these letters comprising Magick without Tears, there are some fine gems of interpretation that should not be missed. (4) Finally, he was capable of what most present-day hippies are not-self-discipline. His entire life is a dynamic testimonial to that fact, demonstrating the practice of the disciplines of meditation and Magick-often without supervision. They transformed him so that when the g…
1954 · PDF PAGE 305
… which had interested and excited me during that period, and (b) the physical conditions of the moment. For instance, a good deal of the time of the experiment, I was sleeping in what might have been euphemistically called a houseboat. It was liable to leak; and on such occasions as I woke to find water trickling down my nose, I found that the dream from which I had wakened was an adventure of some sort in connection with water. (It is quite notorious, I believe, that many asthmatic subjects are pestered by dreams of having been guillotined in …
1929 · PDF PAGE 389
… heaps like dust devils, and each such chance aggregation asserts itself to be an individual and shrieks, "I am I!" though aware all the time that its elements have no true bond; so that the slightest disturbance dissipates the delusion just as a horseman, meeting a dust devil, brings it in showers of sand to the earth. Choronzon appeared in many physical forms to Omnia Vincam, while I abode apart in my magical robe with its hood drawn over my face. He took the form of myself, of a woman whom Neuburg loved, of a serpent with a human head, etc. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 436
…iolating the principle which protects him from theft. I trusted Cremers absolutely, though I knew this --- and even that she had, at one time, been the paid spy of some blackmailing vigilance society in America, which, under cover of moral indignation, forged false evidence against convenient candidates, implicating them in the white slave traffic, extracting hush money, or prosecuting when the victim was not worth despoiling or refused to pay up, and sometimes by way of "making an example", in order to frighten the next batch whose blood they …
1904 · PDF PAGE 52
… to protest against this unmeaning assault : but in vain. A string of girls and women seized my clitoris (I saw this now for the first time. What I had supposed to be a coil of rope on which she was sit- ting slowly arose and unwound itself. It was a clitoris indeed ! Ladys love-lump was a futile term : rather a fancy-fagots fuck-flapper, in Swinbournes faultless phrase. But all phrases are weak. It was Natures standing miracle.) which, as you will observe, is ninety-seven yards, two feet, and four and three quarter inches in length i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 139
…nown is their way ! Bursts me or brands me ; The sky’s heart? beyond her Nor Ileaven commands me, Sweet bosom they stray. Nor Space, nor Time. Shall these then obey me and hear? Shall Above, the supernal ! Below, the infernal ! Of all am I master. On Earth, the diurnal ! In all things eternal ! Life, love, or disaster ! Abiding unshaken, I sleep and I waken On wonderful wings; In depth and in height, In darkness and light, In weakness and might, In blindness and sight, In mercy and spite, In day and in night, Averse or aright, For dule or delig…
1909 · PDF PAGE 114
…eel He does not mean it. Mind and reason reel At this conception. Only in the soul Can we perceive the One Unchanging Whole, At the same time, the book is well worth study ; It summarises thought. The style is [We regret that our space will not admit a more extended review.—ED.] 104
1909 · PDF PAGE 114
…eel He does not mean it. Mind and reason reel At this conception. Only in the soul Can we perceive the One Unchanging Whole, At the same time, the book is well worth study ; It summarises thought. The style is [We regret that our space will not admit a more extended review.—ED.] 104
1922 · PDF PAGE 62
…iven us common sense enough to know that although we can borrow a bit, we have to pay back. We have drunk alcohol since the beginning of time; and it is in our racial consciousness that although ‘“‘a hair of the dog” will put one right after a spree, it won't do to choke oneself with hair. But with cocaine, all this caution is utterly abrogated. Nobody would be really much the worse for a night with the drug, provided that he had the sense to spend the next day in a Turkish bath, and build up with food and a double allowance of sleep. But cocai…