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Page 189 of 1971929 · PDF PAGE 102
…g genius of this place was a human skeleton, which I fed from time to time with blood, small birds and the like. The idea was to give it life, but I never got further than causing the bones to become covered with a viscous slime2. In The Equinox, vol. I, no. 1 is a story, "At the Fork of the Roads", which is in every detail a true account of one episode of this period. Will Bute is W. B, Yeats3, Hypatia Gay is Althoea Gyles, the publisher is Leonard Smithers. The demons connected with Abra-Melin do not wait to be evoked; they come unsought. One…
1929 · PDF PAGE 161
…eal, and shall be obeyed cheerfully and to the best of ability: except that no member of the party is to be obliged anywhere to risk his life, how own judgment to be the arbiter as to {278}
1906 · PDF PAGE 241
…ere is any place, not only for morals and religion, which we can very well do without, but for the most essential and continuous acts of life? Why should an infinite Ego fill a non-existent body with imaginary food cooked in thought only over an illusionary fire by a cook who is not there? Whyshould infinite power usesuch finite means, and very often fail even then?” What is the sum total of the Vedantist position? ‘‘I’ am an illusion, externally. In reality, the true ‘I’ am the Infinite, and if the illusionary ‘1’ could only realise Who ‘I’ re…
1929 · PDF PAGE 13
… about six years old his father moved from Leamington to Redhill, Surrey. There was some reason connected with a gravel soil and country life. The house was called The Grange. It stood in a large long garden ending in woods which overhung the road between Redhill and Merstham; about a mile, perhaps a little more, from Redhill. Alick lived here until 1886 and his memory of this period is of perpetual happiness. He remembers with the utmost clearness innumerable incidents and it becomes hard to select those which possess significance. He was taug…
1929 · PDF PAGE 138
…nt this free from confusion, so that people can concentrate from the very beginning of their training on the one thing that matters. Our life was delightfully simple. Allan taught me the principles of Yoga; fundamentally, there is only one. The problem is how to stop thinking; for the theory is that the mind is a mechanism for dealing symbolically with impressions; its construction is such that one is tempted to take these symbols for reality. Conscious thought, therefore, is fundamentally false and prevents one from perceiving reality. The num…
1907 · PDF PAGE 234
…to gloss it over by smooth talk, and to bury it beneath the ponderous tomes of his unwieldy erudition. I see it, too, and the way out to Life. But the labyrinth, if you please, before the clue: the Minotaur before the maiden ! Thank you, madam; would you care to look at our new line in Minotaurs at 2s. 3d. ? This way, please. I have taken a good deal of trouble lately to prove the proposition ‘‘All arguments are arguments in a circle.’ Without wearying my readers with the formal proof, which I hope to advance one day in an essay on the syllogis…
1907 · PDF PAGE 250
…Recall, my soul, the sight we twain have looked upon, il. 17 Red is the angry sunset, ii. 5 Rest, like a star at sea, i. 45 Roll, strong life-current of these very veins, iil, 171 Roll through the caverns of matter, i. 211 Rose of the World! iii. 51 Rose of the world! Ay, love, in that warm hour, ili. oI Rose on the breast of the world of spring, ill, Og So far my pen has touched with vivid truth, ili. 46 So fearful is the wrath divine, li. 120 So have the leaves departed, i. 127 So here is my tribute—a jolly good strong ‘un, il. 168 So, love, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 227
… fact that the early dis- ciples were poor men. You cannot bribe a rich man with loaves and fishes: only the overfed long for the Simple Life. True, Christ bought the world by the promise of Fasts and Martyrdoms, glutted as it was by its surfeit of Augustan glories; but the poor were in a vast majority, and snatched greedily at all the gross plea- sures and profits of which the educated and wealthy were sick even unto death. Further, the asceticism of surfeit is a false passion, and only lasts until a healthy hunger is attained; so that the cha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 299
…he Chinese and turned into a glowing patch of cultivated soil. The approach to Tali itself inspires the stranger with a certain awe, for life is seen wrestling with death in a supreme spasm. The pullulating towers and temples of the town seem literally to quake amid the rotten and restless ruins with which they are interspersed. And thereby hangs a tale. During eighteen years the province of Yunnan had been the theatre of civil war. Tali was the greatest stronghold of the Mohammedans, their opponents being (more or less) Mahayana Buddhists. The…
1907 · PDF PAGE 132
…reproached in some thoughtless or malicious quarters for his ignorance or tolerance of evil. But is this not because the holiness of his life and thought keeps him so close to his divine Master that he can only see good in all he gazes on? It is the eagle, ever steadfastly beholding the sun, that swoops down upon carrion, and thanks God for the meal. It is the urblind race of miserable men that turn fastidioust from wholesome and natural f . However this may be, it is undoubtedly no easy task to follow the royal bird in his dazzling flight throu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 239
…application. But the whole of my work, from the moment of its utterance, illustrates some phase of its potentiality, and the story of my life itself from this time on is no more than a record of my reactions to it. To recapitulate the historical basis of The Book of the Law, let me say that evolution (within human memory) shows three great steps: 1. the worship of the Mother, when the universe was conceived as simple nourishment drawn directly from her; 2. the worship of the Father, when the universe was imagined as catastrophic; 3. the worship…
1944 · PDF PAGE 41
…eral power. A per‐ son still more advanced in this science could get into real connection with the superior, be‐ cause subtler, forms of Life. He could perhaps cause them to manifest themselves to him in material shape. A good deal of this rests upon the Platonic ideology, which maintained that any mate‐ rial object was an impure and imperfect copy of some ideal perfection. So men who wished to advance in spiritual science and philosophy strove always to formulate for themselves the pure idea. They tried to proceed from the Particular to the Ge…
1929 · PDF PAGE 31
… its skull and, when it had been pretty thoroughly burnt, drowned it and threw it out of the window that the fall might remove the ninth life. In fact, the operation was successful; I had killed the cat. I remember that all
1906 · PDF PAGE 149
… who so com- mands alike my personal affection and moral admiration. My desire to find the Truth will be my pardon with him, whose whole life was spent in admiration of Truth, though he never turned its formidable engines against the Citadel of the Almighty. If I be appealed of blasphemy or irreve- rence in my treatment of these subjects,I will take refuge in Browning’s own apology, from the very poem I am attacking: ‘‘T have done: and if any blames me, Thinking that merely to touch in brevity The topics I dwell on were unlawful— Or worse, that…
1929 · PDF PAGE 243
…orks in order to have material for the essay. This offer led ultimately to far-reaching results; in fact, it determined the course of my life for a number of years. The winner of the prize became an
1929 · PDF PAGE 87
…of Eckenstein's greatest friends was Mrs. Bryant, whose beautiful death between Chamonix and Montanvers in 1922 was the crown of a noble life. She had brought her niece, Miss Nichols, who to intrepidity on rocks added playfulness in less austere surroundings. I formally accuse her of putting a kitten under Eckenstein's pillow in the barn while we were in the smoking- room after dinner. If it had been a cobra Eckenstein could not have been more upset! He had also an idiosyncrasy about artificial scent. One day my wife and a friend came home from…
1929 · PDF PAGE 101
…t I went to see her. She begged me to come back to her and offered to do anything I wanted. I said to her, "You're making a mess of your life by your selfishness. I will give you a chance to do an absolutely unfettered act. Give me a hundred pounds, I won't tell you whom it's for, except that it's {181} 1. WEH Note: Notwithstanding this and a more extreme diatribe against "Black Magic" in his "Magick in Theory and Practice", Crowley did accept remuneration for doing Astrological charts at a later period than this writing. In other instances he …
1929 · PDF PAGE 391
…ever known. At that moment we heard the coach and ran back. I dashed in, tore off my boots and spent the next quarter of an hour rubbing life back into my toes. So much for the superstition that the Sahara is a sweltering furnace. On clear nights the radiation is so rapid in that dry air, that the temperature of the ground falls below freezing point, even when the air six feet above does not strike one as specially cold. Bou Sada is one of the most beautiful spots in the world. It is frequented {626}
1929 · PDF PAGE 358
…e first decent meal since leaving Bayonne. The poverty of the country is really pitiful. As George Borrow recounts, the Church sucks the life-blood of the people. One can quite understand the moralizing of Protestant travellers. Prosperity varies inversely with piety. Italy is only flourishing today in those districts where the alimentary canal of industry has been cleared of the taeniae of Christianity. The only city of Spain which holds its own with the rest of the world today is Barcelona, a notorious hotbed of infidelity and freemasonry. It…
1929 · PDF PAGE 334
…ated myself and in September 1909 wrote my greatest magical poem "Aha!" in which the Cairo working is restored to its proper place in my life. I have made many insurrections since then; but they have always been quelled in very short order and punished as they deserved. This lengthy preamble will enable the reader to fit into their proper places the ostensibly incoherent events of 1907 and 1908. My own continuous illness, the birth of Lola Zaza and the tragedy of Rose had combined to complicate my ordinary business, making it impossible for me …