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Page 13 of 1241906 · PDF PAGE 176
…sk chemists else!) So I must claim Spirit and matter are the same ” Or else the prey of putrefaction. This matters to the present action Little or nothing. Here’s your theories ! Think if you like: I find it wearies ! It matters little whether we With Fichte and the Brahmins preach That Ego-Atman sole must be ; With Schelling and the Buddha own Non-Ego-Skandhas are alone ; | With Hegel and—the Christian? téach That which completes, includes, absorbs Both mighty unrevolving orbs. In one informing masterless Master-idea of consciousness— All diff…
1909 · PDF PAGE 53
…ifth Day So beginneth the Fifth Day of this great Magical Retirement. With two and twenty breath—cycles did I begin. This practice was a little easier; but not much better. It ought to become quite simple and natural before one devotes the half-minute of Kam- bhakam (breath held-in), when one is rigid to a strong projectionofWill toward Adonai,ashas been mycustom. I hope to-day will be more hard definite magical Work, less discourse, less beatific state of mind—which is the very devil! the real Calypso, none the less temptress because her name ha…
1912 · PDF PAGE 10
…hought. I no longer aspired to be a poet ; I was content to be a Chinese God ; and of my success in this minor matter there is unhappily little doubt. Enough of this disastrous affair. The play is ruined ; if I offer it to the public, it is that they may learn the great moral lesson, not to mix their drinks. ALEISTER CROWLEY.
1904 · PDF PAGE 35
…k chemists else !) So I must claim Spirit and matter are the same37 Or else the prey of putrefaction. This matters to the present action Little or nothing. Here’s your theories ! Think if you like : I find it wearies ! It matters little whether we With Fichte and the Brahmins preach That Ego-Atman sole must be ; With Schelling and the Buddha own No-Ego-Skandhas are alone ; With Hegel and the—Christian ? teach That which compels, includes, absorbs Both mighty unrevolving orbs In one informing masterless Master-idea of consciousness— All differen…
1929 · PDF PAGE 130
…fancy of Aristotle, or some speculation of Heracleitus. The remoter Picay-universities of America, which teach farming or mining, with a little "useless" knowledge as a side-course, for show, are full of bumptious little professors who would not be allowed to sweep out a laboratory in London or Berlin. The ambition of such persons is to obtain an illustrated interview in a Sunday supplement, with a full account of their wonderful discoveries, which have revolutionized the art of sucking eggs. They are peculiarly severe upon back numbers like Ch…
1909 · PDF PAGE 48
…ay under my breath each word as I write it. [P.S.-But I do so, though less possibly, as I read] As I am really awake, I may as well do a little Prana- yama. How little I know of magic and the conditions of success! My 17 cycles of breath were not absolutely easy; yet I did them. After a big dinner!!! The sweating was quite suppressed, in spite of the heat of the night and the exercise ; and the first symptoms of the Bhuchari-Siddhi—the “jumping about like a frog" ——were well marked. I am encouraged to spend a few minutes (still in Asana) reading…
1910 · PDF PAGE 323
…e thought so beautiful, and take them to Ljubov. Suddenly, he sprang forward and his hands searched in the darkness for the ears. A tiny little sound, made by the Lady, as she turned round, helped him to find the place. His fingers closed on each side over the ears and he pulled out with a violent movement. The Lady fell unconscious without having uttered a sound, so acute and sudden had been the pain. Piotr went away slowly, his hands grasping two ear-rings with a little piece of human flesh attached to them. 305
1910 · PDF PAGE 323
…e thought so beautiful, and take them to Ljubov. Suddenly, he sprang forward and his hands searched in the darkness for the ears. A tiny little sound, made by the Lady, as she turned round, helped him to find the place. His fingers closed on each side over the ears and he pulled out with a violent movement. The Lady fell unconscious without having uttered a sound, so acute and sudden had been the pain. Piotr went away slowly, his hands grasping two ear-rings with a little piece of human flesh attached to them. 305
1907 · PDF PAGE 120
…eon exhaust and finishéd, And slumber steal upon the sun, My dear, when you and I are dead. LA CASQUE D’OR. A NINA OLIVIER, You laughing little light of wickedness, low ripples round you love and coils And twists the Casque of Gold about the child-face with a child-caress. O glory of the tangled net! O subtle vase of scented oils! You laughing little light of wickedness ! Through all the misty wind of light that glamours round you, sorceress, Your face shines out with feline grace, exults, a tiger in the toils! They shall not hold your passion …
1907 · PDF PAGE 38
…ors, and there is a noise that means when you understand it, “joy! Joy! joy!" There are violet flames darting through the air, each one a little sob of happy love. One began to see what the dream~world was really for at last; every time any one kissed any one for real love, that was a little throb of violet flame in this beautiful House in the Wake-World. And we bathed and swam in the pool, and were so happy you can’t think. But they said: “Little girl, you must pay for the entertainment.” [I forgot to tell you there was music like fountains make…
1907 · PDF PAGE 166
… shows , by quoting the parable of the sheep and the goats , that the historical (?) Christ was to a great extent devoid of pity , and a little further on in the same poem , “ Ascension Day ,” that he was but a cantankerous divider and obstreperous upstart : Give me omnipotence ? To call me God I would exert That power to heal creation's hurt ; Not to divide my devotees From those who scorned me to the close : A worm , a fire , a thirst for these ; A harp - resounding heaven for those !4 Concerning the mother of the eternal God , Crowley has li…
1909 · PDF PAGE 93
… Yogin coffee and sandwich, and return to my illumination of the Ritual. In the desert of my soul, where no herb grows, there is yet one little spring. I am still one—pointed, at least in the lower sense that I have no desire or ambition but this of accomplishing the Great Work. Barren is this soul of mine, in these 3% years of drought (the 3% coils of the Kundalini are implied by this) and this Ekagrata is the little cloud like an hand (Yod, the Lingam of great Shiva). And, though I catch up my robe and run before the chariot of the King into …
1904 · PDF PAGE 58
…obiography with which he has so far pleasantly and inoffensively regaled us. Ah ! You would, would you, you penny-a-peep flapper ? Well, little girls will be little girls. Adam fell for less than this Oh ! If you suck so I shall go mad Stop, for Gods sake ! This was the song.
1907 · PDF PAGE 123
…dulterers ” where women , the frailer sex , are the unfortunate victims . Man made God , and God made woman out of one of man's wretched little ribs . Regardless of manners , man sucks the wretched little bone as he would the leg of a chicken , tears off the flesh and casts it into the bin . The masses are but sheep , following the bell - wether convention ; deprive them of their initial , and they become neither lambs nor tigers but merely asses . Ahinoam in “ Jephthah " well described them when he addressed the assembled multitude as : 1 Ye a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 393
…implified “speling.” Who shall cleanse the astral cesspool of these mental necrophiles ? And think of having a name like Hudson Tuttle ! LitTLE Book OF SELECTIONS FROM THE CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT. By RuFus M. Jones, M.A., Litt-D. Headley Bros., 1s. 6d. net. I dislike Brochette de Paragraphes, and I dislike second-raters. “Let the dead bury their dead!” But Dr. Jones apologises prettily enough. May I point out to him that his clients (even) demand the focussing of the attention on something or other, and that this ‘Tit-Bits’ method is the contradi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 393
…implified “speling.” Who shall cleanse the astral cesspool of these mental necrophiles ? And think of having a name like Hudson Tuttle ! LitTLE Book OF SELECTIONS FROM THE CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT. By RuFus M. Jones, M.A., Litt-D. Headley Bros., 1s. 6d. net. I dislike Brochette de Paragraphes, and I dislike second-raters. “Let the dead bury their dead!” But Dr. Jones apologises prettily enough. May I point out to him that his clients (even) demand the focussing of the attention on something or other, and that this ‘Tit-Bits’ method is the contradi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 241
… Hope-of-ever-doing-something-in-the-Wide-Wide. But the bairns are alive: young Chemistry, already apt at repartee —I should say retort; little Biology, who’s rather a worm between you and me and the gate-post ; and poor puny, puling, sickly little Metaphysics, with only one tooth in his upper jaw! Oh, don’t cry! I love you as I always did and always shall. I'll see you through it somehow! But don’t talk foolishness about marriage! We are happy because when I come to see you I come to see you. If we were living together you would soon get to kn…
1910 · PDF PAGE 316
…arge cavities under her eye- lids. The force within the nutshells had drawn the eyes out of them. The Man ran away, carrying a treasured little box, and no more was ever heard of him in those parts. IV “What boots it to tell of the long, awful days of darkness through which poor little Ljubov lived before she grew accustomed to her blindness? I am not a medical philosopher; I like home and comfort far too much. If I journey, I must needs travel in state, and my staff includes both a medical 298
1910 · PDF PAGE 241
… Hope-of-ever-doing-something-in-the-Wide-Wide. But the bairns are alive: young Chemistry, already apt at repartee —I should say retort; little Biology, who’s rather a worm between you and me and the gate-post ; and poor puny, puling, sickly little Metaphysics, with only one tooth in his upper jaw! Oh, don’t cry! I love you as I always did and always shall. I'll see you through it somehow! But don’t talk foolishness about marriage! We are happy because when I come to see you I come to see you. If we were living together you would soon get to kn…
1910 · PDF PAGE 316
…arge cavities under her eye- lids. The force within the nutshells had drawn the eyes out of them. The Man ran away, carrying a treasured little box, and no more was ever heard of him in those parts. IV “What boots it to tell of the long, awful days of darkness through which poor little Ljubov lived before she grew accustomed to her blindness? I am not a medical philosopher; I like home and comfort far too much. If I journey, I must needs travel in state, and my staff includes both a medical 298