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Page 123 of 1591922 · PDF PAGE 179
… and gave me a dose in the thigh. It doesn’t touch the spot like H., but it stops the worst of the suffering. She never gets up till tea-time. I left her a fiver. She promised to see what she could do that night with the man who gets it for her. She got very affectionate in a sentimental, motherly style, told me the story of her life, and so on, for ever it seemed. Of course, I had to pretend to be interested to keep her in good humour. Everything might depend on that. . But it was awful to have to let her kiss me when I went away. I wonder if …
1922 · PDF PAGE 217
…d paid his price to-day. The callous cynicism on both sides had one good effect from the moral point of view. It prevented me wasting my time in trying to cheat him. He went on with his gambit. He explained that my marriage made a great difference. With reasonable caution, for which we had every facility, there was not the slightest risk of scandal. Only one thing stuck in my conscience, and fought the corrosive attack of the heroin-hunger. After King Lamus had gone this morning, Peter and I had quar- relled bitterly. I had given up Basil, I ha…
1954 · PDF PAGE 121
…d with skill, will open every lock. From the deepest point of view, the greatest value of this formula is that it affords, for the first time in history, a basis of reconciliation between the three great Schools of Magick. It will tend to appease the eternal conflict by understanding that each type of thought shall go on its own way, develop its own proper qualities without seeking to interfere with other formulae, however (superficially) opposed to its own. What is true for every School is equally true for every individual. Success in life, on…
1922 · PDF PAGE 370
…ow half-shamefaced smile into my eyes. “And I lost you,” said I, “after tiffin, when I remembered myself and forgot my work. And all the time you were here helping me to do my work. And I didn’t understand.” We stood awhile in silence. Both our hearts were seething with suppressed necessity to speak. It was a long, long while before I found a word; and when it came, it was intense and calm and confident. “T love you.” Not all the concentration given by heroin, or the
1929 · PDF PAGE 12
…e to use the English alphabet for the basis of the cipher, and the spy spoke no language but his own, except a little Swiss.) From this time I shall communicate in a cipher of the direct additive nu- merical order, and the key shall be his name. It was only my incomparably strong constitution which enabled me to add the task of deciphering his conversation to that imposed by Government. To memorise perfectly a cipher communication of half-an- hour is no mean feat of mnemonics, especially when the deciphered message is itself couched in the o…
1938 · PDF PAGE 18
… in the Heart of the Master, so that he thinks no evil. For in that Light all is Truth. Falsehood is but a function of the conditions of Time and Space, and the idea of evil comes only from perceiving the oppositions which are transcended by Truth. So each thing that is hath its root in Necessity; were the least of these lost, the whole Work should be marred. LIFE wells in the Heart of the Master; Death is but the Systole of that marvelous pulse. Faint are the phantoms of Illusion; these, seized on by that vivid stream, thrill and throb with th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 150
ORPHEUS All we are shapen fair In many forms of grace, But change is everywhere, And time is all our share And all the ways of space. One lives an hour of day; One even man’s life exceeds; One loves to chase and slay; One loves to sing and play; Each soul to his own deeds ! A share of joy is ours, A double share of grief; So sum the many hours In many hopes and powers, All powers except the chief. Emotion fills our souls, And love delights us well, And joy of sense full rolls ; But leads us, and controls Life’s céntral citadel. Whence we were d…
1929 · PDF PAGE 107
…s the preaching of a new 1. The Master Therion has received this Word; it is communicated by Him to the proper postulants, at the proper time and place, in the proper circumstances. 2. Each man has a different Great Work, just as no two points on the circumference of a circle are connected with the centre by the same radius. The Word will be correspondingly unique. 71 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 50
…nd to order. The PRIEST takes the lance from the DEACON and holds it as beforey as Osiris or Ththah. He circumambulates the Temple three timeSy f ollowed by the DEACON and the children as before. (Thesey when not using their handsy keep their arms crossed upon their breasts.) At the last circumambulation they leave him and go to the place between the font and the small altary where they kneel in adorationy their hands joined palm to palmy and raised above their heads. Ail imitate this motion. The PRIEST returns to the East and mounts the first …
1929 · PDF PAGE 245
…d resumed Magical work, in a desultory way, on finding that Mathers was attacking us. He succeeded in killing most of the dogs. (At this time I kept a pack of bloodhounds and went man- hunting over the moors.) The servants too were constantly being made ill, one in one way, and one in another. We therefore employed the appropriate talismans from The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin against him, evoking Beelzebub and his forty-nine servitors. Rose had suddenly acquired the power of clairvoyance. Her description of these servitors is printe…
1954 · PDF PAGE 56
INTRODUCTION 23 at any time: that supersensible is getting on my nerves: do you mean "not in normal circumstances to be apprehended by the senses?" I suppose so. In a word: do fix a convenient season for going on the Astral Plane under my eye: half an hour (with a bit of luck) on not more than four evenings would put you in a- very different frame of mind. You will soon "feel your feet" and then "get your sea-legs" and then, much sooner than you think "Afloat in the aethyr, 0 my God! my God! ... White swan, bear thou ever me up between thy wing…
1954 · PDF PAGE 79
…eality. Yet we cannot confirm it; for it can never happen again precisely the same. What is even more bewildering is that since it takes time for the eye to convey an impression to the consciousness (it may alter in 1,000 ways in the process!) all that really exists is a memory of the Point-Event , not the Point-Event itself. What then is this Reality of which we are so sure? Obviously, it has not got a name, since it never happened before, or can happen again! To discuss it at all we must invent a name, and this name (like all names) cannot po…
1910 · PDF PAGE 172
…ipally at the spot concentrated on. August 28th. I hereby formulate unto myself a Vow of Silence for a period of at least three days, My time to be occupied by Nadi-Yama and A’sana, also by meditations of the Buddha and “Aum Mani Padme Hum.” The vow to begin from Midnight. This vow I took ceremonially. 29th. 11.40-12.7 Suddhi.* Very painful and jerky, especially Rechaka. pm. am. A’sana much pain on moving. 7:40-7.55 Suddhi. Result was better, but goes off whilst meditating am am. on“ Aum Mani Padme Hum.” 10.3-10-50 Began Mental Muttering of “Au…
1910 · PDF PAGE 172
…ipally at the spot concentrated on. August 28th. I hereby formulate unto myself a Vow of Silence for a period of at least three days, My time to be occupied by Nadi-Yama and A’sana, also by meditations of the Buddha and “Aum Mani Padme Hum.” The vow to begin from Midnight. This vow I took ceremonially. 29th. 11.40-12.7 Suddhi.* Very painful and jerky, especially Rechaka. pm. am. A’sana much pain on moving. 7:40-7.55 Suddhi. Result was better, but goes off whilst meditating am am. on“ Aum Mani Padme Hum.” 10.3-10-50 Began Mental Muttering of “Au…
1922 · PDF PAGE 106
… ought to have been paid a shilling an hour by the County Council. The world is full of injustice. However, we certainly didn’t have any time to have questions asked in Parliament. There was Lou almost in tears because she had nothing to wear ; practically no jewellery—the whole idea of being a knight is that when you see a wrong it is your duty to right it. Fortunately, there was no difficulty at the present moment. All we had to do was to drive down to the Rue de la Paix. I certainly almost fell down when I saw all those pearls on her neck. A…
1922 · PDF PAGE 159
…t of cocaine. It dulled what I felt. I was able to fancy I loved him. We went to the show. It was awfully stupid. I was thinking all the time how I wanted to love, and how I wanted dope, and how I wanted to stop dope so that. the dope might do me some good. I couldn’t really feel. It was a dull, blind sense of discomfort. I was awfully nervous, too. I felt as if I were somehow caught in a trap; as if I had got into the wrong house by mistake and couldn’t get out again. I didn’t know what might be behind all those doors ; and I was quite alone. …
1922 · PDF PAGE 19
…lusion. Well, bother that! The plain fact is that I had become a desperate wild animal. I was too hungry, so to speak, even to waste any time on thinking bitterly about things. And then came the letter from the lawyers. That was another new experience. I had no idea before of the depths to which servility could descend. “ By the way, Sir Peter,’’ said Mr. Wolfe, ‘it will, of course, take a little while to settle up these matters. It’s a very large estate, very large. But I thought that with times as they are, you wouldn’t be offended, Sir Peter…
1922 · PDF PAGE 295
…u to get the whole subject of heroin out of your mind; and that is the reason why [ insist so strongly on your keeping a record of every time you take it. It’s a psychological paradox that the best way to forget about a thing is to make a memorandum of it. “Now, good-bye, and come to dinner to-night at the studio. Perhaps you'll feel like dancing.”’ He went off with an airy wave of the hand. When we came back from the dance the porter told us that a lady and gentleman had called to see us. They hadn’t left their names. They would call again in …
1954 · PDF PAGE 36
…to exaggerate the importance of performing these small ceremonies regularly, and being as nearly accurate as possible with regard to the times. You must not mind stopping in the middle of a crowded thoroughfare-lorries or no lorries-and saying the Adorations; and you must not mind snubbing your guest-or your host-if he or she should prove ignorant of his or her share of the dialogue. It is perhaps because these matters are so petty and trivial in appearance that they afford so excellent a training. They teach you concentration, mindfulness, mor…
1996 · PDF PAGE 59
…enness served the turn of his two daughters, no less than Jupiter, who prolonged the night to forty-eight hours in order to give himself time to beget Hercules. Man is in actual possession of this supreme talisman. It is his “pearl of great price,”1 in comparison with which all other jewels are but gew-gaws. It is his prime duty to preserve the integrity of this substance. He must not allow its quality to be impaired either by malnutrition or by disease. He must not destroy it like Origen and Klingsor. He must not waste it like Onan. 1 [Matthew…