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Page 186 of 1971929 · PDF PAGE 276
…lf suddenly forced into action by a set of circumstances of which I had no control, and which bore no relation to any past purpose of my life. But I believe they were arranged for me by the Secret Chiefs. My wife was due to arrive with the baby on the twenty-ninth and the natural thing would have been to see a little of Calcutta society, especially as I was naturally a bit of a lion, and then stroll across Asia somewhere, at our leisure. The Secret Chiefs arranged for me to be in a situation where I was at their mercy. They meant to initiate me…
1929 · PDF PAGE 134
…ism. Allan never knew joy; he disdained and distrusted pleasure from the womb. Is it strange that he should have been unable to conceive life as aught but ineluctable and fatuous evil? For myself, I saw pleasure as puerile, sorrow as senile; I was ready, when mine hour should arrive, to accept either amicably or dismiss both disdainfully. Meanwhile, I was simply an adept --- wandering round the world in the way adepts have --- bent on picking up any pearls that proved their pedigrees from honest oysters and were guaranteed rejected by swine. So…
1913 · PDF PAGE 594
…rnamental black cloth gilt, 8fin. x SBin., 552 pp. 58. net. SUMMARY OF CONTENTS Prerace. Part I. Physiological.—The Scientific Aspect of Life and Death. The Signs of Death. Trance, Catalepsy, Suspended Animation, etc. Premature Burial. Cremation, Mummification. The Causes of Death. Old Age: Its Scientific study. Conclusions. Parr Il, /istorical—I. Man's Theories of Immortality. II. The Philosophical Aspect of Death and Immortality. IIL, The Theological Aspect of Death and Immortality. 1V. The Common Arguments for Immortality. Parr IIL Psycholog…
1913 · PDF PAGE 594
…rnamental black cloth gilt, 8fin. x SBin., 552 pp. 58. net. SUMMARY OF CONTENTS Prerace. Part I. Physiological.—The Scientific Aspect of Life and Death. The Signs of Death. Trance, Catalepsy, Suspended Animation, etc. Premature Burial. Cremation, Mummification. The Causes of Death. Old Age: Its Scientific study. Conclusions. Parr Il, /istorical—I. Man's Theories of Immortality. II. The Philosophical Aspect of Death and Immortality. IIL, The Theological Aspect of Death and Immortality. 1V. The Common Arguments for Immortality. Parr IIL Psycholog…
1929 · PDF PAGE 28
…oks. She was too proud to marry and the repression preyed on her mind until she developed an ide fixe. For the last thirty years of her life she was constantly announcing her engagement and drawing up marriage contracts, which never came to anything. She was also possessed by the demon of litigation, and imagined herself wronged by various members of the family. My uncle married the governess of the children. This was a lady of a distinguished Saxon family, who could trace her pedigree to the time of Edward the Confessor. Tall, thin, distingui…
1929 · PDF PAGE 490
…here that I had ever met magically. The suggestion was of a putrefying and entirely bloodless flesh, as if a cannibal had sucked out its life to the last drop and flung it away. Her disciples corresponded. They moved about limp and listless, corpse-pallid, with the eyes of dead fishes. I got out of the cesspool without wasting time, but even so I had to pay for my imprudence. San Diego possessed one most attractive feature. It is within a short motor ride of the frontier of Mexico. One comes to a town, Tia Juanta, which thrives on refugees from…
1944 · PDF PAGE 51
… withstand the blandishments of the ladies in the garden of Kundry. Klingsor, the evil magician, who thought to fulfil the conditions of life by self‐ mutilation, seeing his em‐ pire threatened, hurls the sacred lance (which he has stolen from the Mountain of Salvation) at Parsifal, but it remains suspended over the boy’s head. Parsifal seizes it; in other words, at‐ tains to puberty. (This transformation will be seen in the other symbolic fables, below.) In the third act, Parsifal’s innocence has matured into sanctification; he is the initiate…
1944 · PDF PAGE 23
…er, each number has a significance of its own; each corresponds with all phe‐ nomena in such a way that their arrangement in the Tree of Life, as shown in the diagrams (pp. 266, 268, 270), is a map of the Universe. These ten numbers are represented in the Tarot by the forty small cards. THE TAROT AND THE FORMULA OF TETRAGRAMMATON What, then, are the Court Cards? This question involves another aspect of the system of development. What was the first mental process? Obliged to describe Nothing, the only way to do so without destroying its integrit…
1944 · PDF PAGE 180
…everything is sunk in sloth. THE FOUR EIGHTS The four Eights are attributed to Hod. Being in the same plane as the Sevens on the Tree of Life, but on the other side, the same inherent defects as are found in the Sevens will apply. Yet one may perhaps urge this alleviation, that the Eights come as (in a sense) a rem‐ edy for the error of the Sevens. The mischief has been done; and there is now a reaction against it. One may, therefore, expect to find that, while there is no possibility of perfection in the cards of this number, they are free fro…
1904 · PDF PAGE 82
…nity of the thought-formulated Abstract; and eternally that voice form u- lates a word which is gly phed in the vast ocean of lim itless life.2 Do I make myself clear ?’ ‘Perfectly . Who would have thought it was all so simple ? ’ The God cleared his throat, and rather diffidently, even shamefacedly, went on : “ ‘But what I really wished to know was about my incarnation. How is it I have so suddenly risen from change and death to the unchangeable ?’ “ ‘Child !’ answered Gautama, ‘your facts are wrong—you can hardly expect to make 1 Feet. 2 This…
1906 · PDF PAGE 17
…r the gate of death. So, blood and body furious with breath That pants through foaming kisses, let us stay Gripped hard together to kiss life away, Mouths drowned in murder, never satiate, Kissing away the hard decrees of Fate, Kissing insatiable in.mad desire, Kisses whose agony may never tire, Kissing the gates of hell, the sword of God, Each unto each a serpent or a rod, No whispered Thick sweet salt tears, till, A well of wine and fire, each unto each, Whose lips are fain convulsively to reach A higher heaven, a deeper hell. Ah! day So soon…
1929 · PDF PAGE 233
…d I prosecuted these studies in a strictly scholarly spirit. I worked very hard at them and made great progress accordingly; but my true life was still the honeymoon, slightly diluted by the ordinary pleasures of sport and society. I relapsed into golf after some fourteen years' total abstinence; took a few lessons from the pro at the Turf Club, and found that my St. Andrews swing and the canniness inculcated by Andrew Kirkaldy {388} made a fine basis for playing a fairly decent game. We went to Helwan on February 19th; and I played nearly ever…
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
…cal in any sense. All this strikes one as absolutely natural; what is extraordinary is the sequel. A letter dating from his early school life at Cambridge: Dear Papa & Mama, For my holiday work prize I have got a splendid knife, 2 blades, a saw, a screwdriver, a thing to pull out thorns, another to get stones out of horse's shoes, another I don't know what for, a leather piercer, a gimlet & a corkscrew and name plate. It is nicol plated in some parts, but the handle is ivory. The asphalt2 gave way near the middle. We were nearly blown hup bu th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 205
…a. Histoire de la Magie. History of England. A History of ourOwn Times. CEuvres. Histoire des Templiers. (Euvres. The Monks of the West. Life of Mr. Giadstone. History of the Dutch Re- public. History of the Peninsular War. History of the Conquest of Mexico. History of the Conquest of Peru. Vie de Jésus. Historical Essays. Napoleon. Histories. Transactions, Vols. I.- DCLXVI. A Footnote to History. History of the Jesuits. The Real History of the Rosicrucians. Marlborough. The above works and many others of less importance were carefully consulte…
1907 · PDF PAGE 29
… aware Of misery occult in youth, awake At the first touch of the diviner air Of manhood, that could bane and blessing make, The Lord of Life and Death, the secret of the Snake. The snake of Egypt hath a body twin ; It hath bright wings wherewith it well can fly ; It is of virtue and of bitter sin; It beareth strength and beauty in its eye ; Beneath its tongue are Hate and Misery ; Love in its coils is hidden, and its nature Is double everyway ; dost wonder why The poet worships every scaléd feature, And holds him lordliest yet of every kingly …
1929 · PDF PAGE 460
…ribus, on the numbers. Now numbers depend on the willingness and ability of women to make child-bearing and rearing the main business of life, and of the men to protect them and support them at their task. The surplus wealth may, nevertheless, be invested in another way, calculated to increase efficiency and potential; that is, in the support of a class which is not directly wealth producing as such, the class of the learned. This class must be abundantly supplied with leisure and the apparatus for research and freed from all anxiety or similar…
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…d the purity of the Virgin of the World: and "he whom thou now hast" was materialism (or modern thought). Other scenes also I saw in His Life: and behold I also was crucified! Now did I go backwards ion time even unto Berashith, the Beginning, and was permitted to see marvellous things. First the Abyss of the Water: on which I, even I, brooded amid other {192} 1. This incident was once quoted by one of my critics as illustrative of the absurdity of Magick --- as if Magick were responsible for the irrationality of dreams! 2. This horrible phrase…
1906 · PDF PAGE 242
…was limited in all sorts of ways. At the Fall, for instance, Tetragrammaton Elohim has to summon his angels hastily to guard the Tree of Life, lest he should be proved a liar. For had it occurred to Adam to eat of that Tree before their transgression was discovered, or had the Serpent been aware of its properties, Adam would indeed have lived and not died. So that a mere acci- dent saved the remnants of the already be- smirched reputation of the Hebrew tribal Fetich. 1 An expression they carefully avoid using.— 2 T retain this sly joke from the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 198
…ve acid. She writhed back from him, and then again approached him even more beautiful than she had been before. She was battling for her life now, and no longer for the blood of another victim. If she lost, hell yawned before her, the hell that every once-beautiful woman who is approaching middle age, sees before her; the hell of lost beauty, of decrepitude, of wrinkles and fat. The odour of man seemed to fill her whole subtle form with a feline agility, with a beauty irresistible. One step nearer and then she sprang at Frater P. and with an ob…
1907 · PDF PAGE 226
…is paper by the remark that Christianity, as long as it flourished, was content to assimilate Paganism, never attacking it until its own life had been sapped by the _ insidious heresies of Paul. Time passed by, and they bullied Manes and Cerinthus; history repeated itself until it almost knew itself by heart ; finally, at the present day, some hireling parasites of the decaying faith—at once the origin and the product of that decay—endeavour to take advantage of the ‘‘Greek movement” or the ‘‘ Neo-pagan revival” in the vain hope of diverting th…