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Page 148 of 1541929 · PDF PAGE 578
…tnight, he was able to perform the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram sufficiently well to produce unmistakable modulations of the Astral Light. He acquired the faculty of visions in astonishing perfection from the very first. The usual preliminary practice on unimportant explorations was unnecessary. In January I gave him a talisman symbolizing the alchemical mystery of V.I.T.R.I.O.L He travelled straight through to the corresponding plane of the Astral, and entered into relation at once with an intelligence who gave his name Neral, who demonst…
1904 · PDF PAGE 115
…sted? Suggested, for I admit that our present position is completely ag- nostic in respect to it, since we have no evidence which throws light on the m atter; and study of the subject would appear to be mere waste of time. But the suggestion is valuable as affording us a possibly rational explanation, conform- able to the waking man, which the dreamer would indignantly reject. Suppose, however, a dream so vivid that the whole waking man is abased before its memory, that his consciousness of it appears a thousand times more real than that of the…
1944 · PDF PAGE 102
…man, the sacred Harlot who is the lady of Atu XI. From this star, behind the celestial sphere itself, issue the curled rays of spiritual light. Heaven itself is no more than a veil before the face of the immortal goddess. It will be seen that every form of energy in this picture is spiral. Zoroaster says, “God is he, having the head of a hawk; having a spiral force”. It is interesting to notice that this oracle appears to anticipate the present Aeon, that of the hawk‐headed Lord, and also of the mathe‐ matical conception of the shape of the Uni…
1929 · PDF PAGE 7
… Trinity". It now appeared that, had these actual words been used, he was a pagan, his marriage void, Lola Zaza a bastard and his wife a light o'love! Crowley tried to help the wretched worm; but, alas, he remembered too well the formula: "I baptise thee Edward Alexander in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost." So the gallant colonel had to fork out for a dispensation from Rome. Crowley himself squandered a lot of cash in one way or another. But he never fell so far as to waste a farthing on the three-card trick, or the three-God…
1929 · PDF PAGE 133
…eels that one needs never do anything any more. It invites one to dream deliciously of deciduous joys --- and insists, with velvet hand, light and bright as a butterfly's wing, on the eyelids. The palms, the flowers, the swooning song of the surf, the dim and delicate atmosphere heavy with sensuous scents, the idle irresponsible people, purring with placid pleasure; they seem musicians in an orchestra, playing a nocturne by some oriental Chopin unconscious of disquieting realities. But more, Colombo is the "place where four winds meet", the cro…
1944 · PDF PAGE 118
…t I also should eat the Grass of the Arabians, and by Virtue of the Bewitchment thereof be‐ hold that which might be appointed for the Enlightenment of mine Eyes. Now then of this may I not speak, seeing that it involveth the Mystery of the Transcending of Time, so that in One Hour of our Terrestial Measure did I gather the Harvest of an Aeon, and in Ten Lives I could not declare it. DE QUIBUSDAM MYSTERIIS, QUAE VIDI Yet even as a Man may set up a Memorial or Symbol to import Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand, so may I strive to inform thine Unde…
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
…d has permitted to make a discovery of the hi hest im rtnnce in his illuminative philosophy of Crowleyanit , in the dazzling and flashing light 0 which t ere is nothing concealed which shall not be discovereJ It has taken 100,000,000 years to produce Aleister Crowley. The world has indeed laboured, and has at last brought forth a man. . . . He stands on the virgin rock of Pyrrhonic Zoroastrianism, which, unlike the Hindu world-conce tion, stands on neither Ele hnnt nor Tortoise, but on the Absolute Zero of the metaphysical abaltsts. . . . And he…
1929 · PDF PAGE 273
…hich, considering the heat of the plains, is equivalent to the fifty pounds of the hillman --- gives them perfect balance and makes them light on their feet. The skin is of that superb velvety black with is really rich deep purple. Primitive as these people are, they are as capable of aesthetics and the popes and princes of the Renaissance. They love with rapacious intensity, adorned with all the arts of Aphrodite. These folk are considered "wild men of the woods" by the sophisticated Hindus of the town. Yet there is a third proportional. In th…
1944 · PDF PAGE 94
… make it impossible to communicate it openly. Rising from the cauldron, as the result of the operation performed therein, is a stream of light which becomes two rainbows; they form the cape of the androgyne figure. In the cen‐ tre, an arrow shoots upwards. This is connected with the general symbolism previously ex‐ plained, the spiritualization of the result of the Great Work. The rainbow is moreover symbolical of another stage in the alchemical process. At a certain period, as a result of putrefaction, there is observed a phenomenon of many‐co…
1906 · PDF PAGE 264
…om exalted fanati- cism, from hysteria and intoxication; but from method and research. Shut the temple; open the laboratory ! XI. THE TWILIGHT OF THE GERMANS." It is a commonplace of scientific men that metaphysics is mostly moonshine ; that it is largely argument in a circle cannot easily be disputed; that the advance since Aristotle is principally verbal none may doubt ; that no parallel advance to that of science has been made in the last fifty years is certain. The reason is obvious. Philosophy has had two legitimate weapons —introspection …
1919 · PDF PAGE 458
… the whole, we cannot help regretting that such splendid powers of imagination and expression are flung away in such literary rioting.” —Light. “Sometimes of ‘much beauty of rhythm and phrase. . . .”—Times. “Poets who have any originality deserve to be judged by their own standard. mystic or semi-astrological pantheist.. . ."—Liverpool “Love-making appears to have an added haloin his eyes if it is associated with d: 0 bloodshed. . Mr. Neuburg has a ‘careless rapture’ all his own; the carelessness, indeed, is just the trouble, His .versification…
1904 · PDF PAGE 80
…mma and Papa Nat. “Blessed indeed was the fam ily. Five- and-forty feet1 away stood a most ancient a nd holy dagoba: and the children of light would gather round it in the cool of the evening, or in the misty glamour of dawn, and turn f orth in love and pity towards all mankind—nay , to the smallest grain of dust tossed on the utmost storms of the Sahara ! “Blessed and more blessed ! For one day came a holy Bikkhu from the land of the Peacock,2 and would take up his abode in t he hollow of their very tree. And little Perdu’ R Abu us ed to keep …
1912 · PDF PAGE 427
… the whole, we cannot help regretting that such splendid powers of imagination and expression are flung away in such literary rioting.” —Light. «Sometimes of much beauty of rhythm and phrase. . . .”—Times. “Poets who have any originality deserve to be judged by their own standard. . . . A Neo-mystic or semi-astrological pantheist. . . .”—Liverpool Echo. “Lovemaking appears to have an added halo in his eyes if it is associated with delirium or blood- shed. . . . Mr. Neuburg hasa ‘careless rapture” all his own; the carelessness, indeed, is just t…
1912 · PDF PAGE 427
… the whole, we cannot help regretting that such splendid powers of imagination and expression are flung away in such literary rioting.” —Light. «Sometimes of much beauty of rhythm and phrase. . . .”—Times. “Poets who have any originality deserve to be judged by their own standard. . . . A Neo-mystic or semi-astrological pantheist. . . .”—Liverpool Echo. “Lovemaking appears to have an added halo in his eyes if it is associated with delirium or blood- shed. . . . Mr. Neuburg hasa ‘careless rapture” all his own; the carelessness, indeed, is just t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 409
…s, refreshing the old Adam with coffee, potted pheasant and Garibaldi biscuits at not infrequent intervals. The morning was ecstasy. The light came over the sand, wave upon wave {651} of grey. The desert was dry. There was no water in the stream, save in rare pools. We struck camp early. We glanced up at the path which we had travelled; the ranges still glowed with unaccustomed snow; from the north-west the wind still struggled fitfully to assert its dominion, but we, with joy and praise in our hearts, turned our glad faces, singing to the assu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 503
…eon which he brings to pass1. The above is obscure. I perceived and deplore the fact. The idea may be more intelligible, examined in the light of history. Gautama Buddha was a Magus. His word was Anatta; that is, the whole of his system, which revolutionized the thought of Asia, may be considered as based upon and consecrated in that one word, which is his denial of the existence of the Atman or "soul" of Hindu philosophy. Later, Mohammed also partially overturned an age by uttering his word, Allah. But to us, practically, the most important ca…
1904 · PDF PAGE 86
…on. Now at the end of the darkness a fire glowed: she would have hindered him: clung she to his neck and wept. But the fire grew and the light dazzled her; so that with a s hriek she fell. But the beasts flung them selves against the burning gateway of iron, and it gave way. Our Father passed into the fire. Som e say that it consumed him utterly and that he died; howbeit, it is certain that he rose from a sarcophagus, and in the skies stood an angel with a trumpet, and on that trumpet he blew s o mighty a blas t that the dead rose all from thei…
1913 · PDF PAGE 599
… the whole, we cannot help regretting that such splendid powers of imagination and expression are flung away in such literary rioting.” —Light. © Sometimes of much beauty of rhythm and phrase. . . .”—Times. «Poets who have any originality deserve to be judged by their own standard. . . . A Neo-mystic or semi-astrological pantheist. . . .”—Liverpool Echo. a “Love-making appears to have an added halo in his eyes if it is associated with delirium or blood- shed. . . . Mr. Neuburg has a‘careless rapture’ all his own; the carelessness, indeed, is ju…
1913 · PDF PAGE 599
… the whole, we cannot help regretting that such splendid powers of imagination and expression are flung away in such literary rioting.” —Light. © Sometimes of much beauty of rhythm and phrase. . . .”—Times. «Poets who have any originality deserve to be judged by their own standard. . . . A Neo-mystic or semi-astrological pantheist. . . .”—Liverpool Echo. a “Love-making appears to have an added halo in his eyes if it is associated with delirium or blood- shed. . . . Mr. Neuburg has a‘careless rapture’ all his own; the carelessness, indeed, is ju…
1904 · PDF PAGE 99
…r does not fill it. If the form er, m atter is infinitely great; if the latter, infinitely small. Whether the matter-universe be 1010000 light-years in diameter or half a mile makes no difference; i t is infinitely sm all—in effect, Nothing. The unm athematical illusion that it does exist is what the Hindus call Maya. If, on the other hand, the matter-universe i s infinite, Brahm and God are crowded out, and the possibility of religion is equally excluded. 1 Lully, Descartes, Spinoza, S chelling. See their works. We may now shift our objective.…