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Page 157 of 2251929 · PDF PAGE 138
138 present moment, I feel able to promise any man or woman of average ability who has the germ of genuine aspiration, the essence of attainment within eight sessions. Of course it {239} depends on each postulant to determine the details. Some departments of occult science lie outside the scope of particular people; each one must fill in for himself his personal programme. But the supreme emancipation is the same in essence for all, and for the first time in history it has been possible to present this free from confusion, so that people can co…
1904 · PDF PAGE 12
ASCENSION DAY 5 Ho ! I adopt the number. Look At the quaint wrapper of this book !* I will deserve it if I can: It is the number of a Man.33 So since in England Christ still stands With iron nails in bloody hands Not pierced, but grasping ! to hoist high Children on cross of agony, I find him real for English lives. Up with my pretty pair of fives !34 I fight no ghosts. “But why revile” (You urge me) “in that vicious style The very faith whose truths you seem (Elsewhere)35 to hold, to hymn supreme In your own soul ?” Perhaps you know How mystic…
1904 · PDF PAGE 39
…Condemn the mystic if he prove Thinking less valuable than love ? Well, let them try their various plans ! Do they resolve that doubt of man’s ? How many are Hegelians ? This, though I hold him mostly true. But, to teach others that same view ? Surely long years develop reason.45 After long years, too, in thy season Bloom, Concentration’s midnight flower ! After much practice to this end I gain at last the long sought power (Which you believe you have this hour, But certainly have not, my friend !) Of keeping close the mind to one Thing at a ti…
1907 · PDF PAGE 241
… out to drag the infinite depths of eternity ; he defines the noumenon as the final term of an infinite series , and asserts that the permanence of the soul can only be proved in the life of man , “ the proof of which will not be required by us .” Then standing aghast as the phantasmagoria of his mind crowd past him ; states in the plainest words , that the Reason itself is at fault , and casting it into the balance of Pyrrho , weighs it out in due terms of Crowleyanity . The following are the four transcendent ideas , or four dialectical asser…
1907 · PDF PAGE 265
…o dimension or category '), the result is Unity , and the unknown factor X is eliminated . “ This is the Advaitist idea of the future of man ; his personality , bereft of all its qualities , disappears and is lost , while in its place arises the impersonal Unity , The Pleroma , Parabrahma , or the Allah of the Unity adoring followers of Mohammed . ( To the Mussulman fakir , Allah is by no means a personal God .) “ Unity is thus unaffected , whether or no it be ex tended in any of the categories . But we have already agreed to look to O for an U…
1907 · PDF PAGE 277
…e fairies of Grimm or Andersen , or the gnomes who spring through the flooring of Drury Lane to the amazement of little children . The human first adores images , then imaginations ; the little girl who loves her doll will neglect it to tend her youngest little brother or sister , whom she will kiss and pinch in the true fashion of the human ; and when scarcely in her teens will commence those necessary and attractive adornments to enable her shortly to have a real little doll of her own . The little boy will forsake his brave little man in tin…
1910 · PDF PAGE 114
…logical fact that the respiratory system, more so than any other, controls the motions of the body. Without food or drink we can subsist many days, but stop a man’s breathing but for a few minutes and life becomes extinct.* The air oxydises the blood, and it is the clean red blood which supports in health the tissues, nerves, and brain. When we are agitated our breath comes and goes in gasps, when we are at rest it becomes regular and rhythmical. In the “ Hatha Yoga Pradipika” we read: He who suspends (restrains) the breath, restrains also the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 114
…logical fact that the respiratory system, more so than any other, controls the motions of the body. Without food or drink we can subsist many days, but stop a man’s breathing but for a few minutes and life becomes extinct.* The air oxydises the blood, and it is the clean red blood which supports in health the tissues, nerves, and brain. When we are agitated our breath comes and goes in gasps, when we are at rest it becomes regular and rhythmical. In the “ Hatha Yoga Pradipika” we read: He who suspends (restrains) the breath, restrains also the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 54
46 The Innocence and Reputation of Man. za) on your face ? In order to stick a Ghazi to your bottom ! ” 3. Black-violet : so in text [Persian text]. A black mole, in Sufi cipher, means the “ point of in- divisible unity.” But El Haji more scandalously and obviously chooses the podex itself throughout most of his masterpiece. 4. Friday. This appears at first sight an obvious misreading. But (if you please) Mahbub says : “ When a boy opens his podex, the hairs depart one from another like true believers quitting the mosque on Friday. [Persian tex…
1912 · PDF PAGE 176
…e, Father, they won't attack us. Don’t the village know how I half—choked the life [HE mahesa murderous gesture, so violent that the OLD MAN shrinks] out of Bagstock, that was torturing the stray dog? MARTIN. Ay, lad, and well it served the brute. I'm off now, Jack, you’re a strong lad and a brave, but these nasty robbers have weapons, we must be careful, main careful JACK. Only one night-cap, Father! MARTIN. Ay, lad—I’m thinkingadrop 'ud do ye good now, Jack. A week and more ye’ve not been yourself altogether— though this I will say, never a k…
1912 · PDF PAGE 176
…e, Father, they won't attack us. Don’t the village know how I half—choked the life [HE mahesa murderous gesture, so violent that the OLD MAN shrinks] out of Bagstock, that was torturing the stray dog? MARTIN. Ay, lad, and well it served the brute. I'm off now, Jack, you’re a strong lad and a brave, but these nasty robbers have weapons, we must be careful, main careful JACK. Only one night-cap, Father! MARTIN. Ay, lad—I’m thinkingadrop 'ud do ye good now, Jack. A week and more ye’ve not been yourself altogether— though this I will say, never a k…
1913 · PDF PAGE 413
…e constant like nature, inexorable as fatality. A young artist full of courage, with her future all before her, had a husband, an honest man, a seeker after knowledge, a poet, whose only fault was an excess of love for her; she outraged him and left him, and has continued to hate him ever since. Yet she, too, is a decent woman; the pitiless world, however, judges and condemns her. And yet, this was not her crime. Her fault, if one may be permitted to reproach her with one, was that, at first, she madly and passionately loved her husband. “But,”…
1913 · PDF PAGE 475
…such promises that the phantom of the devil, long ago, lured Gilles de Laval, Seigneur of Retz, and made him wade from crime to crime. A man capable of evoking the devil, according to the rites of the grimoive of Honorius, has gone so far upon the road of evil that he is disposed to all kinds of hallucinations, and all lies. So, Verger slept in blood, to dream of I know not what abomin- able pantheon ; and he awoke upon the scaffold. But the aberrations of perversity do not constitute an insanity; the execution of this wretch proved it. 1 The g…
1913 · PDF PAGE 570
…ules Gérard has realized that chimera of the phalansterian? dreamer. But, one will say, in order not to fear lions, it is enough to be a man of courage and well armed. 1 Fourier was a Socialist who wrote a sort of “Utopia.” His social unit was the “ phalanstére.”—TRANS. 272
1913 · PDF PAGE 413
…e constant like nature, inexorable as fatality. A young artist full of courage, with her future all before her, had a husband, an honest man, a seeker after knowledge, a poet, whose only fault was an excess of love for her; she outraged him and left him, and has continued to hate him ever since. Yet she, too, is a decent woman; the pitiless world, however, judges and condemns her. And yet, this was not her crime. Her fault, if one may be permitted to reproach her with one, was that, at first, she madly and passionately loved her husband. “But,”…
1913 · PDF PAGE 475
…such promises that the phantom of the devil, long ago, lured Gilles de Laval, Seigneur of Retz, and made him wade from crime to crime. A man capable of evoking the devil, according to the rites of the grimoive of Honorius, has gone so far upon the road of evil that he is disposed to all kinds of hallucinations, and all lies. So, Verger slept in blood, to dream of I know not what abomin- able pantheon ; and he awoke upon the scaffold. But the aberrations of perversity do not constitute an insanity; the execution of this wretch proved it. 1 The g…
1913 · PDF PAGE 570
…ules Gérard has realized that chimera of the phalansterian? dreamer. But, one will say, in order not to fear lions, it is enough to be a man of courage and well armed. 1 Fourier was a Socialist who wrote a sort of “Utopia.” His social unit was the “ phalanstére.”—TRANS. 272
1922 · PDF PAGE 243
Cold Turkey 229 two people here. I, myself, am the Woman clothed with the Sun, writing down my experiences. The other is Lou Pendragon, an animal dying in agony from thirst. I said the last word aloud, and Peter caught it up. He crawled away from the grate towards me croaking out :— “Not the thirst benign That calls the worker to wine; Not the bodily thirst (Though that be frenzy accurst) When the mouth is full of sand, And the eyes are gummed up, and the ears Trick the soul till it hears Water, water at hand, When a man will dig his nails In h…
1930 · PDF PAGE 48
…PRIESTESS and gives the three penal signs. He then kneels and vsorships the Tance with both hands. Penitential music. The PRIEST. I am a man among men. He takes again the Tance and lowers it. He rises. The PRIEST. How should I be worthy to administer the virtues to the Brethren? The PRIESTESS takes jrom the chïld the water and the salty and mixes them in the font. The PRIESTESS. Let the sait of Earth admonish the Water to bear the virtue of the Great Sea. (Genujlects). Mother, be thou adored! She returns to the Westy -j~ on PRIEST with open han…
1947 · PDF PAGE 9
… not, an if thou art ever joyous !death is the crown of all. Ah ! Ah ! Death ! Death ! thou shalt long for death. Death is forbidden, o man, unto thee. The length of thy longing shall be the strength of its glory. He that lives long and desires death much is ever the King among the Kings. Fear not at all : fear neither men nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything. Money fear not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth. But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries : though …