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Page 174 of 2251909 · PDF PAGE 298
…; but it is sheer waste of time to ask it: “ If twenty-four sprats cost a shilling, and one sprat will make a meal for two children, how many children can you feed for twopence halfpenny ?” before it knows that one plus one equals two. Ifa child is never taught to add one to one it is possible that even when grown up, the man to his dying day will look upon the setter of the twopenny-halfpenny sprat question as an advanced mathematician, perhaps even as an “advanced occultist.” But when he has learnt the meaning of one plus one equals two, he w…
1909 · PDF PAGE 298
…; but it is sheer waste of time to ask it: “ If twenty-four sprats cost a shilling, and one sprat will make a meal for two children, how many children can you feed for twopence halfpenny ?” before it knows that one plus one equals two. Ifa child is never taught to add one to one it is possible that even when grown up, the man to his dying day will look upon the setter of the twopenny-halfpenny sprat question as an advanced mathematician, perhaps even as an “advanced occultist.” But when he has learnt the meaning of one plus one equals two, he w…
1910 · PDF PAGE 21
…ll the world round more or less suggest the story of the Cruci- fixion and Resurrection, simply because the actual phenomena which every man is bound to observe in Nature are essentially the same in every clime : so also is Mysticism One, because the phy- siological constitution of mankind is practically identical the wide world over. We have then the right to buy our pigs in the cheapest market, and the Bagh-i-muattar will cer- tainly give us more reward for our trouble than any other work, the only possible competitors being the Bhagavad-gita…
1911 · PDF PAGE 71
…ted to steer; I saw him face to face. This then endured for a space; and with his aid I began ship—building. “ For” (said he) “there are many that swim, and find no boats. Be it thy task to aid them.” Of my journey to the House he spake nothing. But in the ship- building came the fair man my brother to my help ; and one evening as we sate at meat he said: May it please you to enter the House; for there is prepared for you a goodly bedchamber. But I would not at that time ; {or I was ashamed, being unclothed; not understanding that in the House r…
1911 · PDF PAGE 71
…ted to steer; I saw him face to face. This then endured for a space; and with his aid I began ship—building. “ For” (said he) “there are many that swim, and find no boats. Be it thy task to aid them.” Of my journey to the House he spake nothing. But in the ship- building came the fair man my brother to my help ; and one evening as we sate at meat he said: May it please you to enter the House; for there is prepared for you a goodly bedchamber. But I would not at that time ; {or I was ashamed, being unclothed; not understanding that in the House r…
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
…outh wide open, his Baedeker limp in his perspiring hand. She's riding astride! The molten mad- ness throbbed in his brain. She's got man's clothes on! The shocking truth must out: Theodore Bugg had come to Paris for Pleasure! He had only been able to spare two days, the Sun- day and Monday of Whitsuntide. He had travelled by the night boat on Saturday, arriving in Paris on Sunday morningthe first step downward! The air of Paris in- toxicated him; the Grands Boulevards ate into his moral fibre like a dragon chewing butter; and though he ha…
1954 · PDF PAGE 549
… party", 7 Greene, Grahame, 294 Guernica, 305 Gunas,12 Guru, 22, 287, 393 Hadit, 247, 249, 297 Haeckel, Ernst, 55, 199 Hammurabi, 53 Hanuman, 24, 466 Hardy, Thomas, 451 Harpocrates, 145, 153 Haseltine, Philip, 156 Hatha Yoga, 187,310 Hathor, 281 Hawk, Golden, 191 Hebrew, Alphabet, 409, 410 -Gods, 413 Heindel, Max, 102 Heinzelmanner, 358 Henley, W. E., 220 Henry VII, 246 Heraclitus, 235 Herbert, A.P., 137 Hermaphrodite of Panormita, 53 Hermes, 23, 115, 211, 466 Hermes Eimi, 15, 94 Hermit, 303 Herod,458 Herrick, 137 Hertz, 31, 35, 68 Heru-pa-kraa…
1904 · PDF PAGE 117
…cts here stated, I have nothing to s ay in this place. The facts are not at the disposition of all; from the nature of the s ubject each man must be his own witness. I was once twitted by som e shallow-pated person with the fact that my position cannot be demon- strated in the laboratory , and that therefore (save the mark!) I m ust be a m ystic, an occultist, a theosophist, a mystery-monger, and what not. I am none of these. The above criticism applies to every psychologist that ever wrote, and to the man who makes the criticism by the fact of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 257
…ta with a light heart. I had had good news too from Tartarin. He had persuaded a Swiss army officer, Alexis Pache, to join us. The other man of the party was named Remond, who had had a fair amount of guideless experience on the Alps. On the fifteenth I had a telegram from the doctor that he had been shipwrecked in the Red Sea. I might have known it! The three Swiss arrived on July 31st. I had got everything into such a forward state of preparation that we were able to start of August 8th. There was nothing to be done but to pack the baggage wh…
1911 · PDF PAGE 146
THE EQUINOX play the man, for behold! there shall be revealed unto thee the Great Terror, the thing of awe that hath no name. And this is the mystery that I declare unto thee: that from the Crown itself spring the three great delusions; Aleph is madness, and Beth is falsehood, and Gimel is glamour. And these three be greater than all, for they are beyond the words that I speak unto thee; how much more therefore are they beyond the words that thou transmittest unto men. Behold! the Veil of the Aethyr sundereth, and is torn, like a sail by the br…
1954 · PDF PAGE 342
…tes the need of defining the proper "End" ; for with us this becomes identical with the "True Will"; and we are bound to assume that the man himself is the sole arbiter ; we postulate that his "End" is self-justified. Then as to his "Means": as he cannot possibly know for certain whether they are suitable or not , he can only rely on his inherited instincts, his learning, his traditions, and his experience. Of these all but the first lie wholly in the intellectual Sphere , the Ruach , and can accordingly be knocked into any desired shape at wil…
1929 · PDF PAGE 370
370 It was part of my plan for The Equinox to prepare a final edition of the work of Dr. Dee an Sir Edward Kelly. I had a good many of the data and promised myself to complete them by studying the manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford --- which, incidentally, I did in the autumn --- but it struck me that it would be useful to get my large paintings of the four Elemental Watch Towers which I had made in Mexico. I thought these were probably in Boleskine. I decided to go up there for a fortnight or so. Incidentally, I had the conveniences…
1929 · PDF PAGE 534
…world, he had learnt to doubt himself. His will was sodden with scepticism. He could never make up his mind to do anything definite. The man had many great qualities, but the dollar- snatching charlatans that pullulate in America had driven him to drift and potter. He did not even understand that he might have saved his soul by devoting himself to the shallowest quack in Chicago, daring death and damnation for the hollowest humbug that ever wrote himself Rosicrucian without knowing how to spell it. Pluck would have pulled him through in the lon…
1929 · PDF PAGE 382
…rs in their beauty for the chamber of Righteousness! Stronger are your feet than the barren stone; and mightier are your voices than the manifold winds! For you are become a building such as is not, save in the Mind of the All-Powerful. (Second Key) I prefer to judge Kelly from this rather than from stale scandal of people to whom any Magician, as such, smelt of sulphur. If, on the other hand, Kelly did not write this, he may of course have been a common ignorant scoundrel, one of whose abnormalities was a faculty for seeing and hearing sublimi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 249
…by the loud big-breasted courtesan, ii. 36 Lust, impotence,-and knowledge of thy soul, i, 116 MAKE me a roseleaf with your mouth, ili. 4 Man’s days are dim, his deeds are dust, i. 8 Mary, Mary, subtle and softly breathing, iii. 61 May I who know so bitterly the tedium of this truly dreadful poem, ili. 126 Mere terror struck into our souls, ii. 81 Mightiest Self ! Supreme in Self-Contentment, li, 23 Mild glimpses of the quiet moon, ili. 146 Mistress and maiden and mother, il. 29 Mistress, I pray thee, when the wind, i. 184 Moreover (just a word)…
1929 · PDF PAGE 397
…doing nothing by halves. He forged my name to endorse cheques payable to me, cashed them and enjoyed the proceeds. I gasped. I liked the man and had no quarrel with him, but I could not exactly pretend not to notice incidents of this kind. I tackled him about it. He played the innocent and really he was fundamentally such a half-witted creature that I could not be angry. Unfortunately, there was something worse --- a matter that touched my honour. He had advertised Liber 777 and stated as an inducement to purchasers that less than one hundred c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 410
…absence of rivers, this means regular and plentiful rains. Again, the northern districts of the Sahara are full of large chott or lakes, many of which are below the present level of the sea. A French engineer, in fact, proposed to dig a canal from near Sfax so as to replenish a string of chott which extends inland for about two hundred and fifty miles. He thought, and I agree, that the existence of these vast shallow reservoirs would automatically change the climate, as the irrigation of Egypt by English enterprises has made a perceptible diffe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 547
… for finding the hotel so sordid, dirty and disgusting, I swore I would not spend a second night there. The gods rose to the occasion. A man named Giordano Giosus came round after breakfast and said he had a villa to let. Anyone who knows Italy will appreciate the magnitude of this miracle. To get the most trifling business through demands the maximum of good luck at least a month before the first move is made. Giosus took me up the hill and lo! a villa that might have been made to order. It fulfilled all my conditions; from possessing a well o…
1904 · PDF PAGE 73
…red with sugar, and rolled in an ant-heap : a third I disembowelled and forced to feed upon his own steaming guts : a fourth and fifth man and wife 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 …
1905 · PDF PAGE 188
…han to give confidence. Now he chooses to handicap himself by printing his poems in a type that must inevitably impose restrictions upon many readers, and we think that the diction, usually admirably simple, of the principal piece in ‘ Ahab and Other Poems ’ (Chiswick Press, pp. 34, 5s. net) suffers from an interruption of the fluency of its rhythms. Mr Crowley has amplified the Biblical narrative, and, with an obvious revolt of sympathy, has given to the savage figure of Ahab something of the nobility of reason that rebels against the tyranny …