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Page 125 of 2251913 · PDF PAGE 89
OFFICIAL INSTRUCTIONS OF A... A... An elementary suggestive account of the work of the Order in its relation to the average man. The preliminary paper of M ... M .*. M .*. may be classed with this. Liper XLI.—7hien Tao (in Konx Om Pax). An advanced study of Attainment by the method of equilibrium on the ethical plane. Liser LV.—The Chymical Jousting of Brother Perardua. An account of the Magical and Mystic Path in the language of Alchemy. Liper LIX.—A4evoss the Gulf. A fantastic account of a previous incarnation. Its prin- cipal interest is tha…
1919 · PDF PAGE 42
…ir Para- MEDES the Saracen Knight and of his following of the Quest- ing Beast. A poetic account of the Great Work, and enu- meration of many obstacles. Liser CCXLIT. Awa! An exposition in poetic lan- guage of several of the ways of attainment and the results obtained. Lizer CCCXXXV. Apnonis. This gives an account in poetic language of the struggle of the human and divine elements in the consciousness of man, giving their harmony following upon the victory of the latter. Liser XVI. Lrper Turris VEL Domus Der. An in- struction for attainment by …
1919 · PDF PAGE 276
… in us may be health and wealth and strength and divine pleasure according to the Law of Lib- erty; let each pursue his Will as a strong man that rejoiceth in his way, as the course of a Star that blazeth for ever among the joyous company of Heaven. THE PrEopLe. So mote it be. (BIRTH) Tue Deacon. Be the hour auspicious, and the gate of life open in peace and in well-being, so that she that beareth children may rejoice, and the babe catch life with both hands. Tue Peopte. So mote it be. (MARRIAGE) Tue Deacon. Uponall that this day unite with lov…
1928 · PDF PAGE 33
…e during a shower I ran up to the rooms of an acrobat who begged me to design for her a costume as Vénustre. I paid court to a thea- tre manager who said, on saying good-bye: You would do well perhaps to address yourself to Z.; he is the dullest, the most foolish and the most celebrated of all my authors; with him you might perhaps arrive at some ar- rangement. See him, and then we shall see. I bragged (Why?) of several dirty actions that I have never done, and cowardly denied several other misdeeds that I joyfully performed; thus committing …
1928 · PDF PAGE 113
…ot to tell you that I had called loudly for help, but all my neighbours had refused to come; faithful so far to the customs of civilized man, who is never willing, I know not why, to mix himself up in the business of a suicide. At last a doctor turned dup who said that the child had been dead for several hours. When later on we had to unclothe him for burial the de- gree of rigor mortis was such that, despairing of bending the limbs, we were obliged to tear and cut the clothes to take them off him. The Commissary of Police, to whom natu- rally …
1961 · PDF PAGE 106
… fortify his Mind and Will. Know that the Technick of the Right Use of this Magick with Poisons is subtle; and since the Nature of every Man differeth from that of his Fellow, there entereth Idiosyncrasy, and thine Experience shall be thy Master in this Art. Heed also this Word following: The Right Use of these Agents is to gain a Knowledge preliminary of thine own Powers, and of High States, so that thou goest not altogether blindly and without Aim in hy Quest, ignorant of the Ways of thine own inner Being. Also, thou must work always for a de…
1929 · PDF PAGE 421
…, till then his mistress. She bids him retrieve the corpse from the canal, where he had thrown it. The crime is concealed and the dead woman is hidden as the guest of Monica. She dresses up the corpse and has it married to Mortadello in St. Mark's 2. Monica, cornered in a crypt, is praying passionately while her Negro lover is slain by their enemies. Her hysteria produces the stigmata; and this apparent proof of her sanctity overcomes the assailants, whose leader she {671} touches with the tip of a poisoned crucifix. He dies on the spot; his fo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 105
…how much more must we detest the crude melodramas of the Law! The proceeds are to be devoted to the artistic education of the Common Hangman—as a palliative measure. Wiertz and Beardsley, Sime and O’Sullivan? suggested the Scholar, separating his fingers widely to illustrate his “Three fingers only, please l " to their host. Now, doctor, said Basil, your Italian Prince! THE DISAPPOINTED ARTIST SHALL we sit here? Aflovely night !— \Vhat you were saying, though, is right: Man scorns repulsion and attraction; Woman is wholly reflex action.— I’ll tell…
1912 · PDF PAGE 110
… tell me tales, and fear no murmur lives, You need not lift your veils. 2ND MASK. [In the central throne.] There are alternatives. Young man, well parley first. You love the Doges wife ? ALESSANDRO. So thats the thunderburst ! I love her as my life. I need not say that she is cold and virtuous. She scarce supposes me 2ND MASK. You need not lie to us. ALESSANDRO. Sir, I would lie to God. 1ST MASK. Quite right, quite right. The lad Means well. ALESSANDRO. I may be odd, but not devoutly bad. 2ND MASK. More than yourselfs at stake. Listen, my…
1913 · PDF PAGE 282
REVIEWS Capt, Fuller— Bathshebah Tina Methusalah. A. Quiller. Sam Hardy. Alicia de Gruys. H,S. B. Rashith. Vishnu. Elias Ashmole. AQ. Norman Roe— Norman Roe. Neuburg— V. B. Neuburg. Vv. BLN. Victor. RN. Warren— RN. W. George Raffalovich— George Raffalovich. UNSIGNED A Modern Reading of St. Francis of Assisi— Crowley. After Death, What ?—Crowley. Buddhist Review—Crowley. Captain Margaret—Crow/ey. Comte’s Philosophy as Rectified by Schopen- hauer—Fuller. Contemporary Psychology—Crow/ey. Evolution from Nebula to Man—Fudller. Life of John Dee—Fudle…
1913 · PDF PAGE 442
…rites to me. You have then seen my excellent disciple Desbarrolles ?” “Yes, sir, and I have found in him a very amiable and very learned man. I think both you and him worthy of the truth which has been lately revealed by astonishing miracles, and the positive revelations of the Archangel St. Michael.” “ Sir, you do us honour. Has then the good Desbarrolles astonished you by his science ?” “Oh, certainly he possesses in a very remarkable degree the secrets of cheiromancy; by merely inspecting my hand, he told me nearly the whole history of my li…
1913 · PDF PAGE 282
REVIEWS Capt, Fuller— Bathshebah Tina Methusalah. A. Quiller. Sam Hardy. Alicia de Gruys. H,S. B. Rashith. Vishnu. Elias Ashmole. AQ. Norman Roe— Norman Roe. Neuburg— V. B. Neuburg. Vv. BLN. Victor. RN. Warren— RN. W. George Raffalovich— George Raffalovich. UNSIGNED A Modern Reading of St. Francis of Assisi— Crowley. After Death, What ?—Crowley. Buddhist Review—Crowley. Captain Margaret—Crow/ey. Comte’s Philosophy as Rectified by Schopen- hauer—Fuller. Contemporary Psychology—Crow/ey. Evolution from Nebula to Man—Fudller. Life of John Dee—Fudle…
1913 · PDF PAGE 442
…rites to me. You have then seen my excellent disciple Desbarrolles ?” “Yes, sir, and I have found in him a very amiable and very learned man. I think both you and him worthy of the truth which has been lately revealed by astonishing miracles, and the positive revelations of the Archangel St. Michael.” “ Sir, you do us honour. Has then the good Desbarrolles astonished you by his science ?” “Oh, certainly he possesses in a very remarkable degree the secrets of cheiromancy; by merely inspecting my hand, he told me nearly the whole history of my li…
1919 · PDF PAGE 266
… before the Graal. Having adored it, she descends, and with the children following her, the positive next her, she moves in a serpentine man- ner involving 3% circles of the temple. (Deosil about altar, widdershins about font, deosil about altar and font, widdershins about altar and to the Tomb in the West.) She draws her Sword, and pulls down the Veil, therewith. Tue Priestess. By the power of * Iron, I say unto thee, Arise. Inthe name of our Lord the Sun, and of our Lord ... that thou mayst administer the virtues to the Brethren. She sheathes…
1954 · PDF PAGE 227
… ambiguities, ignoring for the purpose of this argument all metaphysical subtleties. l I want to confine it to the outlook of the "plain man." What do we do when we "think"? There are two operations, and only two, possible to thought. However complex a statement may appear, it can 1. I mean criticisms such as "Definition is impossible"; "AIl arguments are circular"; "All propositions are tautological." These are true, but one is obliged to ignore them in aU practical discussions. 194
1919 · PDF PAGE 317
…HE TANK ried to a Canadian,” every one would say, “What a wholesome story!” The poi- son of puritanism has rotted through the whole of human thought. Conventional morality is the syphilis of the soul, and it is for the God Mercury, no one less, to oppose its action. Our trouble is rendered a thousand times more grievous because most of us do not recognize how foul is our disease. The words ‘marriage with a Canadian’ should be expunged from human language. People should be prose- cuted for printing so foul and obscene a phrase. Yet these things …
1901 · PDF PAGE 92
…h your chambers, where the secret bolt was drawn, To the chambers of the Highest and the secrets of the Dawn ! You have brought me to command you, and not to be denied ; You have taught me in perfection to be unsatisfied ; You have taught me midnight vigils, when you smiled in amorous sleep ; You have even taught a man the woman’s way to weep. So, even as you helped me, blindly, against your will,
1909 · PDF PAGE 385
IV I was a prisoner. An inextricable entanglement of tropical creepers encircled the little oasis. A small path had been managed, but it was severely guarded at the other end. What doom had been prepared for me? For what purpose had these two handsome creatures been left with me? I only reproduce here an infinitesimal part of the numberless thoughts which came to my mind in that moment. However—for this should prove a too long narrative— IT soon ceased ruminating upon the future, for the women began singing a sort of cheerless lay. ‘“ How, fah,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 385
IV I was a prisoner. An inextricable entanglement of tropical creepers encircled the little oasis. A small path had been managed, but it was severely guarded at the other end. What doom had been prepared for me? For what purpose had these two handsome creatures been left with me? I only reproduce here an infinitesimal part of the numberless thoughts which came to my mind in that moment. However—for this should prove a too long narrative— IT soon ceased ruminating upon the future, for the women began singing a sort of cheerless lay. ‘“ How, fah,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 72
…f my Habib. The smooth whiteness is now become a red roughness ; he is spotted like a leper. He is no more fit for the desire of a clean man ; even his seducers, the black-skinned swine ! having found a boy with tulip cheeks and coralline ; and a bosom of jessamine ; and eye- brows like Karenian3 bows for beauty of line ; and breath like wine ; and buttocks fair and firm and fine ; and a podex like a ruby mine ; have cast him off.4 Until Shahrava5 return he will no more pass current. Let him buy a dildo, for his cry for mem- bers is ceaseless a…