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Page 154 of 1971929 · PDF PAGE 64
…ul. The ordinary materialist usually fails to recognize that only spiritual affairs count for anything, even in the grossest concerns of life. The facts of a murder are nothing in themselves; they are only adduced in order to prove felonious intent. Material welfare is only important as assisting men towards a consciousness of satisfaction. From the nature of things, therefore, life is a sacrament; in other words, all our acts are magical acts. Our spiritual consciousness acts through the will and its instruments upon material objects, in order…
1910 · PDF PAGE 493
…at we can.”—Tie Literary World. “An earnestly written work entirely free from charlatanism.'"—Birmingham Post. THE SCIENCE OF THE LARGER LIFE. A Selection from the Essays of UrsuLa N. GEstTEreLp. ConTEents.—Preface. Part I. How we Master our fate—The Inventor and the Invention The Ascension of Ideas. Living by Insight or by Outsight. Destiny and Fate. The Origin of Evil. What is within the “Heir”? Words as Storage Batteries. How to Care for the Body. The Way to Happiness. You Live in your Thought-World. The Language of Sug- gestion. Constructiv…
1910 · PDF PAGE 493
…at we can.”—Tie Literary World. “An earnestly written work entirely free from charlatanism.'"—Birmingham Post. THE SCIENCE OF THE LARGER LIFE. A Selection from the Essays of UrsuLa N. GEstTEreLp. ConTEents.—Preface. Part I. How we Master our fate—The Inventor and the Invention The Ascension of Ideas. Living by Insight or by Outsight. Destiny and Fate. The Origin of Evil. What is within the “Heir”? Words as Storage Batteries. How to Care for the Body. The Way to Happiness. You Live in your Thought-World. The Language of Sug- gestion. Constructiv…
1929 · PDF PAGE 463
…at the artists were so impregnated with with the Buddhist ideal of impermanence that in even the costliest buildings they calculated the life of the plumbing as at no more than twenty years; that is, they expected, from one cause or another, that the building would be superseded within that period. The actual situation, by the way, is critical. There are, roughly speaking, two and a half of the seven and a half million people of Great New York put to grave inconvenience by the congestion and all alike are embarrassed by the ratio of rent to inc…
1922 · PDF PAGE 312
…egin. “ Tell him, Lou,” said Lamus suddenly. She started as if he had struck her. Then she turned and faced me. For the first time in my life I realised how tall she was. “‘ Cockie,” she said, “ I’ve come to the cross-roads.” She made a movement of swallowing, tried to go on, and failed. : King Lamus sat up in his chair. He had completely recovered himself; and was watching the scene with impersonal, professional interest. Lala bent over his chair, and whispered long and earnestly 1in his ear. He nodded. Again he cleared his throat, and then be…
1907 · PDF PAGE 249
…gs of fire! ili, 199 O light of Apollo! iii. 200 O Lord our God, i. 24 O love! and were I with thee ever! iii. 3 O Love! Pure mystery of life, 1. 247 O lover, I am lonely here, ii. 109 O Man of Sorrows: brother unto Grief, 1. 207 O master of the ring of love, i. 179 O mortal, tossed on life’s unceasing ocean, ll. 107 O Mother of Love, i. 17 One day from landing, ii. 80 One way sets free, ii. 53 On his couch Imperial Alpin, i. 1o1 O Night! the very mother of us all, i. 34 ‘On rocky mountain bare, i. 43 | O Rose of dawn ! _O rosy star, i. 22 O st…
1904 · PDF PAGE 73
…fe I imprisoned, to be fed upon their own children, and after upon each other, mutilating them as far as possible without de- stroying life. For my satisfaction, for the giving of these las- civious orders had all but turned my brain, I be- headed others, and plugged their windpipes with my rutilant ramrod, while the rest buggered me in turn. Not until night fell did I desist from the de- lightful sport, when my father exclaimed with a huge guffaw : By Gods bollocks, Galahad, but there is nobody to cook the dinner ! But my sister was as clev…
1905 · PDF PAGE 270
…nching temple and an altar earthen, A fire of herbs, a clayen water-jar; An olive grove to bind the sacred girth in Lone woods afar. Let life burn gently thence, as when the ember ) In one faint incense-puff to shrineward dies. | No care, no pain, no craving to remember, One leap toward the knees and destinies, Where shine Her lips like flames, Her breasts like amber, Like moons Her eyes. For my heart turns—ah still !—in Sorrow’s traces, Where sad chill footprints pash the sodden leaves ; Where ranged around me are the cold, gray faces 3 Fallen…
1922 · PDF PAGE 161
…nd he rang down for breakfast in bed. But when it came, we couldn’t either of us eat it. I remember what Haidée said about the spiritual life. We were being prepared to take our places in the new order of Humanity. It’s perfectly right that one should have to undergo a certain amount of dis- comfort. You couldn’t expect anything else. It’s nature’s way. ... We picked ourselves up with five or six goes of heroin. It’s no use taking cocaine unless you're feeling pretty good already... . The supply is really awfully small. Confound this silly holi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 381
… convenience of discussion) apply these principles to the spheres of all the other planets. You will very soon heighten the enjoyment of life beyond all measure and belief! Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1954 · PDF PAGE 397
364 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Ask yourself: "What do I know of Therion's mode of life? Whenever I see him, he's always on his best behaviour. I've hardly ever seen him eat; perhaps he does so only when I am there, so as not to embarrass me by a display of his holiness. His universe touches mine at only a very few points. The mere fact of his being a man, and I a woman, makes sympathetic understanding over a vast range of experience almost impossible, certainly imperfect. Then all his reading and his travels touch mine at very few points. And his ign…
1929 · PDF PAGE 556
…hedness kindled my pity and I invited them to spend their summer in the abbey at Cefalu. I really believed that a month or two of simple life, free from temptations and distractions, with the quiet discipline of our regulations, might put them on the right road. They arrived. The very next day I got the shock of my life. I must mention first that, some time earlier, Maitland had had some sort of job mining or planting in the East. On his journey out, his ship was standing off Colombo pending quarantine inspection. He was sitting on the rail tal…
1929 · PDF PAGE 120
… of the Cabbala. One of my results demands detailed record, because it proved later to be one of the foundations of the Great Work of my life. The word Abracadabra is familiar to everyone. Why should it possess such a reputation? Eliphas Lévi's explanations left me cold. I began to suspect that it must be a corruption of some true "word of power". I investigated it by means of the Cabbala. I restored its true spelling. Analysis showed it to be indeed the essential formula of the Great Work. It showed who to unite the Macrocosm with the Microcos…
1929 · PDF PAGE 543
…to look after her and I suggested her writing to this girl to join us. She brought her boy down from Paris. They gave me the shock of my life. The girl was bloodless, drooping like a thirsty flower, and she dragged her brat along listlessly, he as lifeless as she. His face was ghastly white and his limbs as a damp rag. I thrilled to the marrow with pity and made up my mind then and there to begin my work of saving mankind by bringing these two back to life. The new current of courage and confidence was irresistible. I found a charming house at …
1929 · PDF PAGE 240
…perstition today. What were those motives and on what basis did they rest? The old conception was that man was born to die; that eternal life had to be gained by a magical act, exactly as the sun had to be brought to life every morning by the priest. There is no need to develop the ethics of Thelema in detail, for everything springs with absolute logic from the singular principle, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." Or, to put it another way, "There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt." And, "thou hast no right but to do thy will.…
1910 · PDF PAGE 164
…ne with Nibbana.+ * Tbid., p. 216. + Another and perhaps a more comprehensive way of attributing the Noble Eightfold Path to the Tree of Life is as follows: The first and second steps— Right Comprehension and Right Resolution, may from their purging nature fitly be compared to Yama and Niyama and also to the Earthy and Lunar natures of Malkuth and Yesod. The third and fourth—Right Speech and Right Action, in their yearning and striving are by nature as unbalanced as Hod and Netzach which are represented by Fire and Water and by Mercury and Venu…
1910 · PDF PAGE 164
…ne with Nibbana.+ * Tbid., p. 216. + Another and perhaps a more comprehensive way of attributing the Noble Eightfold Path to the Tree of Life is as follows: The first and second steps— Right Comprehension and Right Resolution, may from their purging nature fitly be compared to Yama and Niyama and also to the Earthy and Lunar natures of Malkuth and Yesod. The third and fourth—Right Speech and Right Action, in their yearning and striving are by nature as unbalanced as Hod and Netzach which are represented by Fire and Water and by Mercury and Venu…
1919 · PDF PAGE 122
… ress, because all these enjoyments are dependent upon dual- ity, so that their true name is Sorrow of Illusion, like that of the normal life of man, which you have set out to transcend. Be it according to your Will, but learn this, that (as it is written) they only are happy who have desired the unattain- able. It is then best, ultimately, if it be your Will to find alway your chiefest pleasure in Love, that is, in Conquest, and in Death, that is, in Surrender, as I have written to you already. Thus then you shall delight in these delights afo…
1904 · PDF PAGE 53
British tars when the lifeboat overturned, and the Rocket apparatus jammed ; for I flung it aboard the distressed ship in the teeth of a fearful gale, and held it there for hours while the grateful sea- men swung to land in buckets. I have also, she continued more shyly, derived some gratification of a sensual nature from its employment. But noth- ing to the P......e League ! They got there, and they stayed there : they stayed there till the poor old emotion-knob was nearly torn to shreds. The Con- servative Female is a pretty randy proposition…
1907 · PDF PAGE 111
THE STONE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS 9] Shall I wreck my life with roses, hurt my flesh with flames and rods? All is vain l—for I have conquered both the mortals and the Gods. In the garden of Priapus, in the land of lost desire, I have made myself a monster and my soul a snake of fire. Ho! it stings me! Ho! it poisons! all the flesh is branded through, Branded with the steel of Vulcan, with the lava’s deadly dew. All the kisses of the satyr, all the punishments of Pan, All Eros hath given of arrows to the eyes of maid and man, At their lips and lives I s…