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Page 179 of 2251922 · PDF PAGE 122
108 The Diary of a Drug Fiend inclemency. A small black moustache and imperial completed the disguise. But in addition, his manner of. dressing was a camouflage in itself. In Paris he had been dressed very correctly. He might have been a man about town of very good family. But now he was dressed like a courier, or possibly igh-class commercial traveller. His smartness had an element of commonness very well marked. I instinctively knew that he would prefer me not to mention his name. At this moment the train began to move, and we had to hop on. …
1922 · PDF PAGE 236
… keep from me. He always seems afraid of being spied on or overheard. I went up to the magic room to-night, Peter was sitting in the old man’s chair writing in a book. I couldn’t understand it at first. I had come straight up, and he was fast asleep downstairs! Then, of course, the whole mystery became clear. While he’s asleep, his astral double comes up and does magic. I knew it was very dangerous to disturb any one’s astral double, so I tiptoed out of the room ; but the double followed me noiselessly. Every time I looked over my shoulder he w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
…Paix in our beloved Paris. However, conversation in such circum- stances is a lengthy affair. During the whole march to our work he only managed to say, Escape soonplease God. Before his crime he had been an atheist. I was indeed glad to find that punishment had brought repen- tance. Bevan himself was relieved. He had carefully re- frained from admitting the existence of a French Free- mason; that one should have repented filled him with a sense of almost personal triumph. He began to like Duguesclin, and to believe in him. His wrong had be…
1954 · PDF PAGE 98
…CHOOLS OF MAGICK (I) 65 Nature, or to escape them by appeal to a postulated power which is assumed to have laid them down. The religious man is, as such, incapable of understanding what the laws of Nature really are. (They are generalizations from the order of observed fact.) The History of Magick has never been seriously attempted. For one reason, only initiates pledged to secrecy know much about it; for another, every historian has been talking about some more or less conventional idea of Magick, not of the thing itself. But Magick has led th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 524
…cheat him or her out of it at that. I was horribly ashamed of having to cadge contributions in this way, but very proud to remember that many brilliant people seemed only too glad to give their work. They felt it an honour to support a magazine with such high standards as I introduced. One little fact illustrates the position with lurid light. Having got my article free, the least I could do was to have half a dozen copies of the number in which it appeared sent to the authors. The proprietor would countermand such instructions behind my back, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 529
529 man: Th = 400 R = 200 I = 10 V = 6 N = 50," giving the spelling HB:Nun HB:Vau HB:Yod HB:Resh HB:Taw = 666. At the exact time, therefore, when the Wizard had told {834} me that this could be done, a stranger in a distant town was actually writing the solution which baffled me. Observe that the preparation of this was the problem in my article "The Revival of Magick" published three months earlier! This incident in itself is sufficiently startling. On the theory that Amalantrah is what he claims to be it is quite natural and simple. Any other…
1922 · PDF PAGE 32
…itan Police and go up in my ‘plane and drop a few bombs on the silly old House of Commons. And yet I was in no sort of sympathy with the man. The contempt of his tone irritated me. He was in- human, somehow; that was what antagonised me. He turned to Owen. ‘“‘ Better come round to my studio,” he drawled; ‘‘T have a machine gun trained on Scotland Yard.” Owen rose with alacrity. ‘‘T shall be delighted to see any of you others,” continued Lamus. ‘I should deplore it to the day of my death if I were the innocent means of breaking up so perfect a p…
1929 · PDF PAGE 210
…on their favourites. His pictures swim in a mist of rich soft delicate colour which heightens the effect of the character of his draughtsmanship; and that suggests the same qualities by means of a different system of hieroglyphics. {353} The most prominent member of the Chat Blanc symposia, after these, was Paul Bartlett. I found him brilliant and good natured; and his caustic speech gave a spice to his geniality. I thought very highly of his work; but he might have gone much further had it not been for the social and artistic success which act…
1929 · PDF PAGE 452
…ruption was so universal and open that on pay day an agent of the contractor sat at the next desk to the naval paymaster and handed each man his share of the profits of the organized system of swindling the government. One last luminous anecdote. The representative of a Birmingham munition factory called on our consul about some permit or other, and told him the following story. The Russian naval agent in England had accepted the tender of his firm for supplying an immense number of shells. "About the price, now," he said to the managing direct…
1904 · PDF PAGE 63
… performed my will without any falsity. THEN standing in the midst of the Circle, thou shalt stretch forth thine hand in a gesture of command and say: “By THE PENTACLE OF SOLOMON HAVE I CALLED THEE! GIVE UNTO ME A TRUE ANSWER.” Then let the exorcist state his desires and requests. And when the evocation is finished thou shalt licence the Spirit to depart thus : THE LICENCE TO DEPART. O THou Spirit N., because thou hast diligently answered unto my demands, and hast been very ready and willing to come at my call, I do here licence thee to depart …
1906 · PDF PAGE 92
…e One glory of the skies— Until the King shall die and live, Athena never shall forgive.” MEN, Surely, O friends, at last ’tis clear The man was mad indeed ! Such nonsense we did never hear As this prophetic screed ! More, as ’tis never like this land Should ever see an arméd hand. * This play, written when Crowley was studying Hindu religion, derives much of its colour and philosophical import from Pataiyali, the Upanishads and Sankarachariya’s commentary, Shaivite mysticism, the Bhagavat Purana, Bhagavat Gita, and Vedantist literature in gene…
1913 · PDF PAGE 17
… Crowley for not taking action ¢ Maruuns. Its very annoying. Sconrio, K.C. You're not very ready to take action yourself? Marites. "Tama man of peace. SconPI0, K.C. The* military bearing” is only for show? Maries. That's all. Seorri0, KC. Mr, Crowley has written books, which houses of the highest standing have published, in which you are openly called a common thief, an habitual swindler, a blackmailer, and accused of drunkenness and attempted assassination? Maris, Yes: but he supports hhis charges by unimpeachable documents, and witnesses of u…
1922 · PDF PAGE 18
…iend I had gone into the air service; did pretty well, though somehow I was never sure either of myself or of my machine. My squadron commander used to tell me that I should never make a great airman. “Qld thing,” he said, “ you lack the instinct,” qualifying the noun with an entirely meaningless adjective which somehow succeeded in making his sentence highly illuminating. “Where you get away with it,” he said, “is that you have an analytic brain.” Well, I suppose I have. That’s how I come to be writing this up. Anyhow, at the end of the war I …
1922 · PDF PAGE 264
…ever had one or imagined one ? All expression doesis to wake up in the reader theimpressionsin his own experience which are otherwise dormant. And he will interpret what is said or written only in terms of that experience. Lamus said the other day that he had given up trying to communicate the results of his researches to people. They couldn’t even be trusted to read words of one syllable, though they might have taken the best degrees in Humane Letters at Oxford. For example, he would write, ‘Do what thou wilt” to somebody, and would be attacke…
1922 · PDF PAGE 317
…is arms. She was trembling all over with ecstatic passion. I gripped the arms of my chair in futile rage. Before my very face the only woman I had ever loved had disowned me, cast me off with contempt, and was offering herself to another man with the same impulsive ardour that she had once shown toward me. No, by all the powers of hell, it was worse! For I had wooed her rapturously ; and he had made no effort. “One condition? ’’ her voice rang high and clear through the studio. “I’m giving you myself, my Lord and lover ; body and soul to have a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 3
… ISRAEL REGARDIE o What You Should Know About the Golden Dawn o Mysticism, Psychology and Oedipus - with C.S. Hyatt and J. Marvin Spiegelman o An Interview With Israel Regardie - with Christopher S. Hyatt o The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic 0 The Golden Dawn Tapes - Series I o The Golden Dawn Tapes - Series II 0 The Golden Dawn Tapes - Series III o The Eye in the Triangle 0 The Legend of Aleister Crowley o The Tree of life 0 The Tree and the Egyptian Gods o Energy, Prayer and Relaxation 0 The Lazy Man's Guide to Relaxation o Geomantic Di…
1954 · PDF PAGE 309
…Mage, are identical. But we cannot include this "Higher Self'; for the Angel is an actual Individual with his own Universe, exactly as a man is; or, for the matter of that, a bluebottle. He is not a mere abstraction, a selection from, and exaltation of, one's own favourite qualities, as the "Higher Self" seems to be. The trouble is (I think) that the Hindu passion for analysis makes them philosophize any limited being out of existence. This matter is of importance, because it influences one's attitude to invocation. I can, for instance, work my…
1954 · PDF PAGE 368
FAMILY 335 on the total renunciation of all family ties. He would not even allow a man to attend his father's funeral! Is the magical tradition less rigid? Not on your life! The one serious grimoire of the Middle Ages is The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage. He makes no bones about it. He even condescends to point out the family as the most serious of all the obstacles to the performance of the Operation, and he gives the correct psychological reasons why this should be so. You said it yourself! "Family pressure" was your pungent …
1996 · PDF PAGE 62
…. The misunderstanding of sex, the ignorant fear like a fog, the ignorant lust like a miasma, these things have done more to keep back humanity from realization of itself, and from intelligent cooperation with its destiny, than any other dozen things put together. The vileness and falseness of reli gion itself have been the monsters aborted from the dark womb of its infernal mystery. There is nothing unclean or degrading in any manifestation soever of the sexual instinct, because, without exception, every act is an impulsively projected image …
1929 · PDF PAGE 106
…hreat to perform it. It was obviously the part of prudence to have, if possible, an initiated on the spot. It is also very awkward for a man absorbed in intense magical effort to have to communicate with the external world about the business of everyday life. Jones did not see his way to come, so I asked Rosher, who consented. But before he had been there a month he found the strain intolerable. I cam down to breakfast one morning; no Rosher. I asked the butler why he was absent. The man replied, in surprise at my ignorance, that Mr. Rosher had…