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Page 178 of 2251930 · PDF PAGE 69
… to exciude ail possibilities of obtaining the knowledge through the ordinary senses of sight and touch, or even smell. There was once a man whose fingertips were so sensitive that he could feel the shape and position of the pips and so judge the card correctly. 4. It is better to try first the easier form of the experiment, by guessing only the suit. 5. Remember that in 78 experiments you should obtain 22 trumps and 14 of each other suit 5 so that without any clairvoyance at ail, you can guess right twice in 7 times (roughly) by calling trumps…
1954 · PDF PAGE 140
WOOLLY POMPOSITIES 107 acquisition of new ideas. It is the difference between a man trying to pick a smut out of his wife's eye with clumsy greasy fingers coarsened by digging drains, and an oculist furnished with a speculum and all the instruments exactly suited to the task. Yet another point. Besides getting rid of the emotions and sensations which cloud the thought, the fact that you are constantly asking yourself "Now, in which drawer of which cabinet does this thought go?" automatically induces you to regard the system as the important fac…
1929 · PDF PAGE 454
…to stainless silence, was ready to spring, sublimely self-sufficient, to the summit of its starry stature, to grasp and grapple with the manifested majesty of the Most High ... In vain have I striven to compel language to convey the meaning of that miraculous voyage. It stands aloof, so pure and perfect in itself that naught can blur its beauty. It remains in my memory uncontaminated by the sordid stupidity of Stockholm, the tedium of the discomfortable dreariness of the return to London. I found my work precisely where I had left it. The tenth…
1907 · PDF PAGE 76
…ing of servants indeed at this time consisted solely of careful practical instruction in the art of falling down stairs; and the richest man in the country was an ex butler who, by breaking his leg on no less than thirty-eight occasions, had acquired a pension which put that of a field-marshal altogether into the shade. As yet, however, the country was not irretrievably doomed. A system of intrigue and blackmail, elaborated by the governing classes to the highest degree of efficiency, acted as a powerful counterpoise. In theory all were equal; in…
1919 · PDF PAGE 410
…membered that Nirvana lies (as it were) in no direction, like the fourth dimension in space. (Subsection V.) “Virya” is, etymologically, Manhood. It is that quality which has been symbolised habitually by the Phallus, and its importance is sufficient to have made the Phallus an universal symbol, apart altogether from rea- sons connected with the course of nature. Yet these confirm the choice. It is free—it has a will of its own quite inde- pendent of the conscious will of the man bearing it. It has no conscience. It leaps. It has no considerati…
1922 · PDF PAGE 380
…nt and dangerous expedients for increasing your natural powers, you must make sure that the end justifies the means. You're a scientific man; stick to the methods of science. Wisdom is justified of her children; and I shall be surprised if you do not discover within the next twelve months that your Great Experiment, despite the unnecessary disasters which arose from your neglecting those words, “to worship me,’ has been the means of developing your highest qualities and putting you among the first thinkers of our generation.”’ The mandolin of S…
1954 · PDF PAGE 240
"GOD" AND "SELF" 207 of Heaven and in the Superior Man. (Not George Nathaniel Curzon, however.) It was in the Blossoms of Springtide, and in the chilling winds that swept over from Siberia, and in the Wild Geese that it bore Southward when their instinct bade them. In short, the catalogue began to look as if it were going to extend indefinitely; and an impatient disciple, pointing to certain traces left by a mule in its recent passage, asked: And is the Tao also in that? The Master nodded, and echoed: Also in that. Then what becomes of this pri…
1954 · PDF PAGE 317
… mildewed parchments of obsolete laws until they found some long-forgotten piece of mischief that might stop it. The withered husks of womanhood, idle, frustrated, spiteful and malignant, called up their forces, blackmailed the Church into supporting them, and began a senseless string of prosecutions. Notable in infamy stands out the name of Mrs. Ormiston Chant. So here we had the trial of some harmless girl for "accosting"; it was a scene from this that inspired Raven Hill's admirable cartoon. A "pale young curate" is in the witness box . "The…
1929 · PDF PAGE 104
104 I took Lady Etheldreda to Scotland with me. I have had many dogs in my time; but she was sui generis. I had trained her to follow me on the mountains and she was not only an admirable rock climber but an uncannily prophetic tracker. For instance, I would leave her at the foot of a precipice beyond her powers and, after a climb, descend another precipice to another valley, often in mists so thick that I could not see ten years in any direction. But I would invariably find her at the foot of the rocks after making a detour of perhaps ten mile…
1907 · PDF PAGE 189
… wild justice of dread ! Lest shadows be fleeing In fear of the portent to lurk In a deeper-detested Cave, ere we wake to the work. RHADAMANTHUS, Black snakes many-crested, Arise ! lest the calm of the murk From our places be wrested. MINOS. Who art thou ? AL ACUS, “Vhat ails thee to irk From earth tender-breasted To the milkless dugs of the grave And the iron breasts of the pit? RHADAMANTHUS, Can a bodily presence save Against a shadowy wilt? MINOs. Thy hope doth dwell, O slave, Where thy mother fashioned it, Oh heart of a fool, in thy breast.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 127
…hat through the open window all the fragrance of Spain and its roses seemed to flow into the room. Only Arthur Gray never smiled. The big man looked at him. What is it? he said sharply. We are all Gods! (said Arthur) knowing good and evil, and that which is beyond. But I love Holbein House and London—dear vile London! What can I do? And he began moumfully to recite:
1919 · PDF PAGE 245
CONCERNING THE LAW OF THELEMA (I say) feel themselves immediately to be kings and queens. “Every man and every woman is a star” is the first state- ment in the Book of the Law. In the pamphlet, “The Law of Liberty,” this theme is embroidered with considerable care, and I will not trouble you with further quotation. You will say swiftly that the heavenly state of mind thus induced will be hard put to it to endure hunger and cold. The thought occurred also to our founder, and I will endeavour to put before you the skeleton of his plan to avert su…
1922 · PDF PAGE 268
…n vividly. His eyes burnt through me. I began to wonder whether there were any truth in what was said about the diabolical powers of the man. Could he have divined the reason for our coming to the café? I had the absolute certainty that he knew all about it, though it was humanly impossible that he should. “A very strange theory, that about death,” he said. “I wonder if there’s anything in it. It would really be too easy if we could get out of our troubles in so simple a fashion. It has always seemed to me that nothing can ever be destroyed. Th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 20
…nder- stood to be of a grossly immoral tendency. (Nasty filth about free love or something, isn't it?) Theodore Bugg was not a sensitive man; excess of intuitive sympathy had not made his life a hell; but he felt that his domestic relations were strained. Especially since that Mrs. Grahame had evinced a liking for Gertrude. Her husband's colonelcy was the gilding of the pill; but the pill was a bitter one, for Mrs. Grahame went motoring and even golfing on Sunday instead of going to Church, and once or twice had taken Gertrude with her, to th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 88
…e the centre, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found. Commentary: This is again interesting as throwing light on the thesis: “Every man and every woman is a star.” There is no place soever that is not a Centre of Light. This Truth is to be realized by direct perception, not merely by intellection. It is axiomatic; it cannot be demonstrated. It is to be assimilated by experience of the Vision of the “Star-Sponge.” 4. Yet she shall be known & I never. Commentary: See later, verse 13, “thou” (i.e. the Beast, who is here the Mask, or “persona,…
1904 · PDF PAGE 47
A....r and many another has sought every cranny of his natural orifices, every pox-hole of his worm- eaten flesh, every fat-fold of his obese person, yet his happiness was to be threatened, his faith in the Order of Things shaken, his whole soul thrown upon a novel and doubtful enterprise, and that at a moment when it might have been thought (go on, Hassan !) that Heaven itself had no more to offer him. It was one day of spring at W.nds.r. Mrs Ar- thur P...t lay in a bath of sticky sperm, not P...ts, not the K...gs ! Whose, then, you ask ? Th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 24
…ffering with her hands, apparently to the first comer, a vulva which is of the shape and relative size of a horse- collar ! Any ordinary man who attempted to in- dulge her fancy would find himself in the position of Baker’s blue-jay. But with God all things are possible. I am tempted to add that even plain paederasty, without any question of symbol at all, is perhaps not so incompatible with the virtues, religious, so- cial, moral, and domestic, as by good compatriots make such a point of asserting with a fine show of disgust and indignation, t…
1912 · PDF PAGE 304
iv PREFACE Human sacrifices are to-day still practised by the Jews of Eastern Europe, as is set forth at length by the late Sir Richard Burton in the MS. which the wealthy Jews of England have compassed heaven and earth to suppress, and evidenced by the ever-recurring Pogroms against which so senseless an outcry is made by those who live among those degenerate Jews who are at least not Cannibals. Is it to such people, indeed, that we are to look for the highest and subtlest spiritual knowledge? Το this criticism there are but two answers. The fir…
1912 · PDF PAGE 304
iv PREFACE Human sacrifices are to-day still practised by the Jews of Eastern Europe, as is set forth at length by the late Sir Richard Burton in the MS. which the wealthy Jews of England have compassed heaven and earth to suppress, and evidenced by the ever-recurring Pogroms against which so senseless an outcry is made by those who live among those degenerate Jews who are at least not Cannibals. Is it to such people, indeed, that we are to look for the highest and subtlest spiritual knowledge? Το this criticism there are but two answers. The fir…
1922 · PDF PAGE 70
…now now why I made it. It was the mere gesture of the male. I wanted to show off to Lou. I wished to impress upon her my importance as a man of science ; and all the time I knew, without being told, what it was. So did she. The longer I have known Lou, the more impressed I am with the extent and variety of her knowledge. “‘Oh, Gretel is too sweet,” she chirped. ‘She