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Page 190 of 2251906 · PDF PAGE 91
… fool, tossing a coin with Fate. If. Is love indeed eternal? Otherwise Is evolution an eternal plan? Must I move upward in the stream of Man, God-ward: my life as Christ to sacrifice, As Buddha to repress: to grow so wise, Space, time shall lie within my finger- span? I know not which I wish: either I can; Not both, unless all meditation lies. I am not sure: if love as great as ours May not be God to part of us at least, Leaving the rest to find its heights and powers In other spheres; that, night’s enamoured priest5 This, on the lake the dewy …
1907 · PDF PAGE 184
…he stream ; So fearful the boat ; So horrid the rudder ; So black is the tryst ; So frightful the beam ; So fearing to float ; The steersman so dread, The shadowy shape of a ghost that guides the bark of the dead! Aged and foul, His locks wreathe about him. Horrid his scowl ! Haggard his soul ! My songs control While they fear him and doubt him. I step in the boat, And the waters ache, And the old boards shake. I shall hardly float, So heavy the soul Of a living man On those waters that roll Nine times around The fatal ground; Yet still to my s…
1922 · PDF PAGE 298
…off all this as if she was in a violent hurry, punctuating her remarks by kissing Lou extravagantly. I could see that Lou resented the woman even more than I did, but she naturally took care not to show it. Hanging fatuously on the outskirts of the group was no less a person than the famous philanthropist, Jabez Platt. But he, too, had changed since we had seen him at the time of our marriage. Then he had been the very type of a smug, prosperous, contented Chadband ; a placid patriarch with an air of disinterested benevolence and unassuming san…
1922 · PDF PAGE 379
…, the ‘Snake that giveth Knowledge and Delight and bright glory’ which is the genius which lies ‘in the core of every star.’ And, ‘Every man and every woman is a star.’ The taking of a drug should be a carefully thought out and purposeful religious act. Experience alone can teach you the right conditions in which the act is legitimate, that is, when it assists you to do your will. If a billiard player slams the balls around indiscriminately, he soon takes the edge off his game. But a golfer would be very foolish to leave his mashie out of his b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 125
…imitation. One need not présumé to pass judgment. One can leave the decision to the will of each magician. The Book of the Dead contains many chapters intended to enable the magical entity of a man who is dead, and so deprived (according to the theory of death then current) of the material vehicle for executing his will, to take on the form of certain animais, such as a golden hawk or a crocodile, and in such form to go about the earth “taking his pleasure among the living.” * 1 As a general rule, material was supplied out of which he could con…
1929 · PDF PAGE 3
…uated upon the banks of the Thames. It is not likely that these facts were unfamiliar to James Abbott McNeill Whistler, a Scottish gentleman born in America and resident in Paris but it is certain that he did not appreciate them. For he settled quietly down to discover a fact which no one had previously observed; namely, that it was very beautiful at night. The man was steeped in Highland fantasy, and he revealed London as Wrapt in a soft haze of mystic beauty, a fairy tale of delicacy and wistfulness. It is here that the Fates showed partialit…
1904 · PDF PAGE 33
…”34 A Yogi ! Let our spirits see At least what primal need of thought This end to its career has brought : * “Who’s Griffiths ? The safe man.” A well-known advertisment, hence “Who’s Griffiths” = safe. Slowness of Divine Justice. Poet pockets Piety Stakes. National An- them of Natal. But this talk is all indigestion. Now for health. Reasons for undertaking the task. 150 155 160 165 170 175 180 185
1907 · PDF PAGE 164
158 ORPHEUS LIBER SECUNDUS VEL AMORIS TO MARY BEATON WHOM I LAMENT ‘* The Kabbalists say that when a man fallsin love with a female elemental—undine, sylph, gnome, or salamandrine, as the case may be—she becomes immortal with him, or otherwise he dies with her. . . . The love of the magus for such beings is insensate, and may destroy him.” —£iiphaz Levi. ‘Orpheus for the love he bare to his wife, snatcht, as it were, from him by untimely Death, resolved to go down to Hell with his harp, to try if he might obtain her of the in- fernal power." —7…
1907 · PDF PAGE 61
…xv, 26) 620, Kether. One cannot construct an Adept, train, breed, or even imagine or create one; but by destroying all the thoughts of a man—what remains? David, we conceive, entered into no intrigues to obtain the Crown of Israel ; on the contrary, he slew a lion and a bear‘ that rose up against him; and when he had further destroyed Goliath,2 the prophet sought him out and anointed him King over Israel. Surely who is anointed shall be crowned. Verily ; but when? When not only Saul the usurper, but Jonathan whom he loved more than his own soul…
1919 · PDF PAGE 160
…re lost the complete recollection of the state, or rather when it was little more than a recollection, also, when I first saw picture of man’s arm in Equinox, I rather dreaded to cut mine, so thought it best to carry out exercise and get over bodily dread of a little pain. I did so and am not sorry.” This letter from Fra P.A. giving new practice, etc., com- bined with some considerable dissatisfaction on Frater V.1.0.’s part, regarding his present state, caused him to un- dertake another regular spell of work for 32 days, after which he seems t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 254
… and took me out and taught me to shoot pheasants this morning. It was terribly exciting. I actually got one, my very first day. I got a man and wife and their daughter to come in and do for us, so we're really very comfortable, in a countrified way. I couldn’t have any one while Peter was raving. The waiter from the inn is a Swiss. He kept his mouth shut ; and I saw to it that he had no reason to regret the policy. What I can’t remember is how Peter began to get better: mentally, I mean. I ought to have kept this diary properly, I know, but as…
1922 · PDF PAGE 277
First Aid 263 that a few minutes before our arrival, a lady and gentle- man had called and were very anxious to see me. They would come back in half an hour. I couldn’t imagine who on earth it could be, and the matter slipped from my mind. I was hot and eager to get out of the dis- gusting atmosphere of those rooms. I wouldn't let Lala come in; but I found that I wasn’t strong enough to pack my stuff. The smell of the den was foul beyond all belief. Lou has not described a hundredth part of the dark abominations which had become habitual. In fa…
1930 · PDF PAGE 103
…ar Deity. But let him (1) consider that this belief is only a weapon in his hands, and (2) affirm sufficiently that his Deity is but an émanation or reflection or eidolon of a Being beyond him, as was said in Paragraph 2. For if he fail herein, since man cannot remain permanently in Samadhi, the memorised Image in his mind will be degraded, and replaced by the corresponding Démon, to his utter ruin. Therefore, after Success, let him not delight overmuch in his Deity, but rather busy himself with his other work, not permitting that which is but …
1996 · PDF PAGE 110
…heir failure to do so. We can therefore “enjoy all things of sense and rapture” according to their true nature. For example, the average man dreads tuberculosis. The “Christian Scientist” flees this fear by pretending that the disease is an illu sion in “mortal mind.” But the Thelemite accepts it for what it is, and finds interest in it for its own sake. For him it is a necessary part of the Universe; he makes “no difference” between it and any other thing. The artist’s position is analogous. Rubens, for instance, takes a gross pleasure in fem…
1996 · PDF PAGE 121
122 The Law is for All cease to rave. What is so unreasonable as man? The only Because in the lover’s litany is Because I love you. We want no skeleton syllogisms at our symposium of souls. Philosophically, “Because” is absurd. There is no answer to the question “Why.” The greatest thinkers have been sceptics or agnostics: omnia exeunt in mysterium, and summa scientia nihil scire are old commonplaces.1 In my essays “Truth” (in Konx Om Pax), “The Soldier and the Hunchback,” “Eleusis” and others, I have offered a detailed demonstration of the sel…
1929 · PDF PAGE 565
…ory, I have admitted that at Warner's suggestion two roundabout ways were tried. I was to make a fictitious sale of the stock to another man, and he, having taken them away, could transfer them to me. When he called he was assailed in the most intemperate language and the delivery refused. The second idea was to get my tailor to obtain judgment against me for the few hundreds I owed him, to be executed by seizing the stock. But the sheriff received the same treatment as everyone else. Warner started at once to heap insults upon, and hurl defian…
1929 · PDF PAGE 4
… there are any other terminals in London, I forget them; clear proof of their insignificance. But Charing Cross dates from before the Norman Conquest. Here Caesar scorned the advances of Boadicea, who had come to the station to meet him; and here St. Augustin uttered his famous mot, "Non Angli, sed angeli." Stay: there is no need to exaggerate. Honestly, Charing Cross is the true link with Europe, and therefore with history. It understands its dignity and its destiny; the station officials never forget the story of King Alfred and the cakes, an…
1930 · PDF PAGE 27
…sary for your astral body to be sent far off ; without moving an inch you will be able to “turn on” its eyes and ears — as simplv as the man with the microscope (mentioned above) can transfer his complété attention from one eye to the other. Now, however unsuceessful your geîting ouï of the body may apparently hâve been, it is most necessary to use every effort to bring it properly back. Make the Body of Light coincide in space with the physica! body, assume the God- Form, and vibrate the name of lïarpocrates with the utmost energy; then recove…
1930 · PDF PAGE 30
the Heavens to enlighten the Earth, so that he may possess a vehicle wherein he may communicate with mankind. The quality and position of this star, and its functions, are determined by the nature of the incarnations transcended by him. 4. The Grade of Ipsissimus is not to be described îully; but its opening is indicated in Liber I vel MagL There is also an account in a certain secret document to be published when propriety permits. Here it is only said this : The Ipsissimus is wholly free from ail limitations soever, existing in the nature of …
1954 · PDF PAGE 516
… class of men affected jump on it with one accord, if haply they may crush it in the germ. Read a little of the History of Medicine! Any man who shows a sign of independent thought is watched. is thwarted. He persists and is threatened and bullied. He persists; every engine of oppression is set in motion against him. Then, something snaps; either they succeed in killing him (Ross, who defeated malaria, nearly starved to death) or they make him a baronet, or a peer, or make his death a Day of National Mourning, and bury him in the Pantheon-aux g…