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Page 124 of 1591996 · PDF PAGE 144
…t of its value. We let the hen’s queer hatching take to water, and laugh at her alarms; and we protect the “ugly duckling,” knowing that Time will tell us whether it be a cygnet. Herbert Spencer,1 inexorably condemning the Unfit to the gal lows, only echoed the High Priest who protected Paul from the Pharisees. Sound biology and sound theology are for once at one! 1 [Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), British philosopher, whose works on psychology, biology, sociology and ethics influenced Crowley.] The question of the limits of individual Liberty is…
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
…, the greatest climber of his age, told me the same thing. Jones obtained the reputation of being the most brilliant rock climber of his time by persistent self- advertisement. He was never a first-rate climber, because he was never a safe climber. If a handhold was out of his reach he would jump at it, and he had met with several serious accidents before the final smash. But his reputation is founded principally on climbs which he did not make at all, in the proper sense of the word. He used to go out with a couple of photographers and have hi…
1905 · PDF PAGE 71
…of those Dzemons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true consent With Planet, or with Element. Some time let Gorgeous Tragedy In Sceptr’d Pall come sweeping by.” It Penseroso. Tdde viv éralpats Tats tua répmva Kddws aelow. | SAPPILO, ‘It need not appear strange unto you that this Book is not at all like unto so many others which I have, and which are composed in a lofty and subtle style.”— The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Mtelin the Mage. PRELIMINARY INVOCATION. TO A. C. S. In the blind hour of madness, …
1909 · PDF PAGE 331
…urneying. Little by little the language of his country changes, melting as it were into another not unlike it but yet different; this in time also changes, and so by degrees do all his surroundings, until he finds himself in a strange country, as different from the one from which he started as an equatorial forest is from the the ice-incrusted lands of the Pole. Sometimes the change of scenery is slight, sometimes vast, 323
1909 · PDF PAGE 331
…urneying. Little by little the language of his country changes, melting as it were into another not unlike it but yet different; this in time also changes, and so by degrees do all his surroundings, until he finds himself in a strange country, as different from the one from which he started as an equatorial forest is from the the ice-incrusted lands of the Pole. Sometimes the change of scenery is slight, sometimes vast, 323
1910 · PDF PAGE 198
July 11th, July 12th, THE EQUINOX BEGIN. END OBJECT. TIME. NO. OF BREAKS. [Difficult to set the sound Hyperaesthesia. Began to forget Mantra.]* 10.12} p.m. 1019p.m. Pranayama 6m. 30s. Very hard. [The smallest quantity of food injures one’s power immensely.] 10.21 pm. 10.44pm. Ajna 23 m, 20 breaks, [Used cotton wool in ears.] Thoughts of Ajna go obliquely up (from opening of pharynx about) and direct horizontally forward. This gives an idea to chase consciousness, ze, find by the obvious series of experiments the spot in which the thoughts dwell…
1910 · PDF PAGE 198
July 11th, July 12th, THE EQUINOX BEGIN. END OBJECT. TIME. NO. OF BREAKS. [Difficult to set the sound Hyperaesthesia. Began to forget Mantra.]* 10.12} p.m. 1019p.m. Pranayama 6m. 30s. Very hard. [The smallest quantity of food injures one’s power immensely.] 10.21 pm. 10.44pm. Ajna 23 m, 20 breaks, [Used cotton wool in ears.] Thoughts of Ajna go obliquely up (from opening of pharynx about) and direct horizontally forward. This gives an idea to chase consciousness, ze, find by the obvious series of experiments the spot in which the thoughts dwell…
1996 · PDF PAGE 112
…ictoria, Matthew Arnold was considered rather hot stuff as an infidel! Tempora mutantur, p.d.q.,1 when a Magus gets on the job. 1 [Lat. “times change” and slang “pretty damn quick.”] The quintessence of this verse is (however) its revelation of the nature of Hadit as a self-conscious and individual Being, although impersonal. He is an ultifnate, independent, and unique element in Nature, impenetrably aloof. The negative electron seems to be his physical analogue. Each such electron is indistinguishable from any other; yet each is determined div…
1929 · PDF PAGE 88
…y suggests a certain degree of suitability from a physical point of view. 3. Aleister Crowley wrote a play called “The Fatal Force” at a time when he had not read any of Eliphas Levi’s Works. The motive of this play is a Magical Operation of a very peculiar kincl The formula which Aleister Crowley supposed to be his original idea is mentioned by Levi. We hâve not been able to trace it anywhere else with such exact correspondent in every dtail. 4. Aleister Crowley found a certain quarter of Paris incom- prehensibly familiar and attractive to him…
1922 · PDF PAGE 24
…d the realisation of that is as frankly frightening as the other realisation, that one is eternally alone, is horrible. I slipped out of time altogether into eternity. I felt myself in the presence of some tremendous influence for good or evil. I felt as though I had been born—I don’t know whether you know what I mean. I can’t help it, but I can’t put it any different. ' It’s like this: nothing had ever happened to me in my life before. You know how it is when you come out of ether or nitrous-oxide at the dentist’s—you come back to somewhere, a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 91
…l plan? Must I move upward in the stream of Man, God-ward: my life as Christ to sacrifice, As Buddha to repress: to grow so wise, Space, time shall lie within my finger- span? I know not which I wish: either I can; Not both, unless all meditation lies. I am not sure: if love as great as ours May not be God to part of us at least, Leaving the rest to find its heights and powers In other spheres; that, night’s enamoured priest5 This, on the lake the dewy lotus-flowers That lift their jewelled hearts toward the East. AFTER. Now, when the sun falls…
1907 · PDF PAGE 184
…t, And the waters ache, And the old boards shake. I shall hardly float, So heavy the soul Of a living man On those waters that roll Nine times around The fatal ground; Yet still to my singing we move on the river Tartarean. So darker and colder The stream as we float: Blacker and bleaker, The mist on the river ! Stronger the shoulder Impels the sad boat. Sadder and weaker Shudder and quiver The notes of the lyre. Quenched is my fire In the fog of the air. Dim my desire Cuts through the snare. The cold confounds me ; The mist surrounds me; Life …
1910 · PDF PAGE 174
…of armed men. This grew more distant on closing ears, (3) The noise of a distant Siren, This grew stronger on closing ears. (For a short time I distinctly saw the head of a nun in the centre of the Chakkra.) Fifty-two Suddhi-Kumbhakas or Pranayamas. 5. ro. 20 for 30 minutes. 10, 15. 30 for 6 minutes. Pranayama. 5. 10. 20 for 31 minutes without any breaks. Dharana on the Shiva Pantacle given me by Maitrananda Swami, mentally muttering “Aum Shivaya Vashi.” * Nothing particular occurred, though (were I not fixed in the know- ledge of the vanity of…
1910 · PDF PAGE 174
…of armed men. This grew more distant on closing ears, (3) The noise of a distant Siren, This grew stronger on closing ears. (For a short time I distinctly saw the head of a nun in the centre of the Chakkra.) Fifty-two Suddhi-Kumbhakas or Pranayamas. 5. ro. 20 for 30 minutes. 10, 15. 30 for 6 minutes. Pranayama. 5. 10. 20 for 31 minutes without any breaks. Dharana on the Shiva Pantacle given me by Maitrananda Swami, mentally muttering “Aum Shivaya Vashi.” * Nothing particular occurred, though (were I not fixed in the know- ledge of the vanity of…
1922 · PDF PAGE 298
…rts of the group was no less a person than the famous philanthropist, Jabez Platt. But he, too, had changed since we had seen him at the time of our marriage. Then he had been the very type of a smug, prosperous, contented Chadband ; a placid patriarch with an air of disinterested benevolence and unassuming sanctity. If ever a man was at peace with himself and the world, it was Mr. Jabez Platt on the occasion of our first meeting. But to-day, he was a very different individual indeed. He seemed to have shrunk. His black clothes had fitted him l…
1922 · PDF PAGE 379
…iscriminately, he soon takes the edge off his game. But a golfer would be very foolish to leave his mashie out of his bag because at one time he got too fond of it and used it improperly, and lost important matches in consequence. Now with regard to you and Lou, I can’t see that she has any particular occasion for using any of these drugs. She can do her will perfectly well without them, and her natural spirituality enables her to keep in continual communion with her inmost self, as her magical diary shows clearly enough. Even when she had pois…
1929 · PDF PAGE 3
…St. Pancras, and King's Cross merely convey one to the provinces, even, perhaps, to savage Scotland, as nude and barren to-day as in the time of Dr. Johnson; Victoria and Paddington seem to serve the vices of Brighton and Bournemouth in winter, Maidenhead and Henley in summer. Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street are mere suburban sewers; Waterloo is the funereal antechamber to Woking; Great Central is a "notion" imported, name and all, from Broadway, by an enterprising kind of railway Barnum,
1919 · PDF PAGE 160
…) I did attain a state of consciousness which has had a lasting effect upon my life and made my view- point entirely different from that time. (3) The language I used to describe the state, came perfectly naturally to me, as the most convenient to describe a state foreign to any previous experience. (4) I might have used language of a higher plane than I was on, but I don’t see why. (5) I started control of body some months later when I had in some measure lost the complete recollection of the state, or rather when it was little more than a rec…
1930 · PDF PAGE 103
…combined. The Philosophus is peculiarly liable to this because from the nature of the Method he cannot remain sceptical; he must for the time believe in his particular Deity. But let him (1) consider that this belief is only a weapon in his hands, and (2) affirm sufficiently that his Deity is but an émanation or reflection or eidolon of a Being beyond him, as was said in Paragraph 2. For if he fail herein, since man cannot remain permanently in Samadhi, the memorised Image in his mind will be degraded, and replaced by the corresponding Démon, t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 223
…you are doing, it seems as though that unconsciousness were in some way contagious. The people around you just can't see anybody. At one time, in Sicily, this happened nearly every day. Our party, strolling down to our bathing bay-the loveliest spot of its kind that I have ever seen-over a hillside where there wasn't cover for a rabbit, would lose sight of me, look, and fail to find me, though I was walking in their midst. At first, astonishment, bewilderment; at last, so normal had it become: "He's invisible again." One incident I remember ver…