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Page 186 of 2251954 · PDF PAGE 357
…of the safeguards which I habitually employ. Virakam's vision contained elements perfectly familiar to me. This was clear proof that the man in her vision, whom she called Ab-ul-Diz, was acquainted with my system of hieroglyphics, literal and numerical, and also with some incidents in my Magical Career. Virakam herself certainly knew nothing of any of these. Ab-ul-Diz told us to call him a week later , when he would give further information. We arrived at St. Moritz and engaged a suite in the Palace Hotel.
1996 · PDF PAGE 128
…ing may choose his garment as he will: there is no certain test: but a beggar cannot hide his poverty. Commentary: Again we learn the permanence of the Nature of a Star. We are not to judge by temporary circumstances, but to penetrate to the True Nature. It has naturally been objected by economists that our Law, in declaring every man and every woman to be a star, reduces society to its elements, and makes hierarchy or even democracy impos sible. The view is superficial. Each star has a function in its galaxy proper to its own nature. Much mis…
1929 · PDF PAGE 187
…removed my physiological protection and the bug stated to buzz about. I was thus the proud possessor of another world's record; the only man who had had malaria at over twenty thousand feet! Incidentally, I was also the only poet at that altitude. I have always been very amused at Shelley's boast that he had "trodden the glaciers of the Alps" --- the Mer de Glace and the Glacier des Boissons! But I was actually writing poetry in these camps. Better poetry. Like the man who committed suicide when he learnt that the was unable to move his upper j…
1904 · PDF PAGE 42
…yment of a horse and a motor car would, at a time when your services were less necessary than at present, expose you to the gravest reprimand from the Censor of Plays, or possibly the London County Council, while I myself as a scientist should feel obliged to remind you that in the pre- sent state of our knowledge we are not acquainted with any means by which the motor car is able to reproduce its species. So he spoke, while I la- boured at the foaming oyster-catcher before me. I was now it was the fifteenth day since the last relief party ha…
1907 · PDF PAGE 16
…ONX OM PAX Alas! but either way is the Last Step; lucky are most of us if only we can formulate some circle—any circle! Nor avails it, 0 man, to transcend the reason by ignoring it. Thou must pass through the fire to Adonai-Melekh, child of earth! Thou canst not slip by on either side. Only when the Destruction of the Babel-Tower of Reason comes as an actual catastrophe of thy career canst thou escape from the ruins. Otherwise, what answer hast thou (0 perfect mystic !) to whom the doctor speaks of men “ self-hypnotized into cataleptic trances,”…
1909 · PDF PAGE 327
…the Lower Will and the Reason they will be unbalanced and inharmonious—that is, of uneven length.” This we find explained in a G.*. D.-. manuscript entitled: ‘The Secret Wisdom of the Lesser World, or Microcosm which is Man.” Further we learn from this manuscript that : In the case of the drunkard, the equilibrium of the Sphere of Sensations, and con- sequently of the Nephesch, is disturbed, and the Thought Rays in consequence are shaken at each vibration; so that the sphere of the sensation of the Nephesch is caused to rock and waver at the ex…
1909 · PDF PAGE 327
…the Lower Will and the Reason they will be unbalanced and inharmonious—that is, of uneven length.” This we find explained in a G.*. D.-. manuscript entitled: ‘The Secret Wisdom of the Lesser World, or Microcosm which is Man.” Further we learn from this manuscript that : In the case of the drunkard, the equilibrium of the Sphere of Sensations, and con- sequently of the Nephesch, is disturbed, and the Thought Rays in consequence are shaken at each vibration; so that the sphere of the sensation of the Nephesch is caused to rock and waver at the ex…
1922 · PDF PAGE 130
116 The Diary of a Drug Fiend Hang it all, one doesn’t want another man on one’s honeymoon |! So there was Feccles turning to me in a sort of limp, helpless protest, imploring me to put my foot down about it. So I said, ‘“‘ Feccles, old top, you’re the right sort. I always liked you at school, and I shall never forget what you've done for me these last thirty or forty years or whatever it is we've been in Capri, and Lloyd George can trust you to nip that blighter you're after, why shouldn’t I trust you to see us through this fun at the Gatto Fr…
1922 · PDF PAGE 286
…again as his dinner. He studied our charts as if they had been maps and he was trying to work out his overland route from Bokhara to Khatmandu |! Ultimately he said, “‘ There seems a very long gap here—fifteen hours—g to 12, that’s right, isn’t it?” He turned to Maisie for confirmation. He was, so he said, quite unable to trust himself to calculate. Maisie entered into the spirit of the absurdity and counted it solemnly out on her fingers. The tone of his voice had been mournful, as if his plans had been seriously disconcerted. That was another…
1930 · PDF PAGE 78
…at no simple and certain tests of success in this practice exist. 3. The Vibration of God-names. As a further means of identifying the human consciousness with that pure portion of it which man calls by the name of some God, let him act thus : 4. (a) Stand with arms outstretched \ (See illustration, in Equinox No. 2, p. 13.) (b) Breathe in deeply through the nostrils, imagining the name of the God desired entering with the breath. (c) Let that name descend slowly from the lungs to the heart, the solar plexus, the navel, the generative organs, a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 323
… certain in the long run to defeat its own object? Well, as to (a), everything is absurd. The Universe is not constructed to gratify the mania of "social planners" and their tedious kind. As to (b), there you said something; the refutation will lead us to open a new chapter. Ought not X to have laid down a comprehensive scheme, and worked out the details, so that he would not break down half-way through for lack of foresight and provision for emergencies? An example. Suppose that the next step in his Work involved the sacrifice of a camel in a …
1954 · PDF PAGE 455
…und for sins that they're inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." Perhaps we have now relaxed enough; we see that the "Holy man" is not such a fool as he looks; and we may get on with our excursions into the "morality" of the Law of the New Aeon, which is the Aeon of Horus, the crowned and conquering child; and-"The word of the Law is eEAHMA ." 3. So much of The Book of the Law deals directly or indirectly with morals that to quote relevant passages would be merely bewildering. Not that this state of mind fails to result from the f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 266
…ion that I had acted improperly in any way. From first to last it was merely the feeling of foreigners against being bossed by an Englishman. The same thing had happened with Pfannl on Chogo Ri. On the present occasion, however, the Englishman was in a minority of one. Fortunately I had never heard that a fact of that sort makes any difference to an Englishman. I did my best to reason with them and quiet them, like the naughty children they were. Reymond had nothing to complain of and was actively friendly. Indeed, I had much more to worry me t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 97
…that it would require a volume to itself. Briefly, however, the facts are as follows: Some time in the 'seventies or 'eighties, a cipher manuscript was found on a bookstall by a Dr. Woodman, a colleague in magical study of Dr. W. Wynn Westcott. It was beyond their powers to decipher it, though Mrs. Emery (Miss. Florence Farr) told me that a child could have done so. They called in a man named Samuel Liddell Mathers, a scholar and Magician of considerable eminence. The manuscript yielded to his scrutiny. It contained, among minor matters, the ru…
1907 · PDF PAGE 54
…ship; so also we may help those weaker brethren who animadvert scomfully upon the circumstance that a poet, a philosopher, an adept, an emancipated man of any sort, rarely speaks the truth in the sense that the witness in a divorce case is expected to, by indicating to them the true nature of those sparks of light shaken ofl" from the invisible Crown of Glory, sparks which they have mistaken for corpse-lights or marsh-vapours, surrounding—they think it an inexplicable paradox l—one who, in all other respects, is so high and pure a being. The firs…
1907 · PDF PAGE 55
…this subject; and all they say is none the less true because it is subtle or immoral, as the stupid and the puritan pretend. Cardinal Newman may have had his faults, but he is at least a pleasant con trast to Gladstone and Kensit. If my truth is not the truth of the Divorce Court, it is because my world (thank God i) is not the Divorce Court. I prefer Christ to Sir Gorell Barnes as an authority on the Seventh Commandment; and the Spiritual Interpretation of facts is the formula “ Solve ” of the Theurgic Alchemist. What is a poet? What are his p…
1912 · PDF PAGE 299
…Ινε OF LIFE IN NIGERIA, By ADAMU (E. C. AD.-ms) FISHER UNWIN. μ. 6d. net. NO sentimental drivel in this little book, but songs sung by a man whose heart beats high and feels the good red blood tingling through his veins—who loves the scorching sun he curses, and the acrid country which gives him his splendid outlook upon life. In Artim/o Marti: is a volume of philosophy in itself, and should be circulated by the Religious Tract Society to all men, married or unmarried, in West Africa. A complaint could be made that this book is too reminiscent …
1912 · PDF PAGE 299
…Ινε OF LIFE IN NIGERIA, By ADAMU (E. C. AD.-ms) FISHER UNWIN. μ. 6d. net. NO sentimental drivel in this little book, but songs sung by a man whose heart beats high and feels the good red blood tingling through his veins—who loves the scorching sun he curses, and the acrid country which gives him his splendid outlook upon life. In Artim/o Marti: is a volume of philosophy in itself, and should be circulated by the Religious Tract Society to all men, married or unmarried, in West Africa. A complaint could be made that this book is too reminiscent …
1904 · PDF PAGE 90
…y and raise her to my level rather than Damn that potato patch ! It must be dug over to- morrow, and only the old flint spade still. A man in Lord Gods position House of Lords, stake in the country, and all that ought to provide iron spades this is the only country planet for bil- lions of miles where science hasnt penetrated, so that young prince says dont believe hes a real prince, though took all that cursing from a sim- ple Lord like a lamb says its beneath his dignity to swear back. Id have had the bugger up for criminal …
1910 · PDF PAGE 148
…y, and so it happened that, where the idealism of the Vedanta had failed the realism of Buddhism succeeded.* This denial ofa Universal Atman, and a personal Atman, soon brought the ethical and philosophical arguments of Gotama up against a brick wall (Kant’s “a priori”). As we have seen he could not prop up a fictitious beginning by the supposition of the former, and he dared not use Nibbana as such, though in truth the Beginning is just as incompre- hensible with or without an Atman. But, in spite of his having denied the latter, he had to acc…