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Page 198 of 2251930 · PDF PAGE 78
…e is such an operation, save to gratify curiosity or vanity ? One must add a Word on spiritism, which is a sort of indiscrimi- nate necromancy — one might prefer the word necrophilia — by amateurs. They make themselves perfectly passive, and, so far from employing any methods of protection, deliberately invite ail and sundrv spirits, démons, shells of the dead, ail the excre- ment and filth of earth and hell, to squirt their slime over them. This invitation is readily accepted, unless a clean man be présent with an aura good enough to frighten …
1906 · PDF PAGE 67
…t is our one sure light in passion and distress, Zhe sewelled stlence of the stars is, indeed, the light of a serener art; but love is human, and I give nothing for the tawdry gems of style when the breast they would adorn is ‘that of a breathing, living beauty of man’s love, the heart of all the world. Nor let us taint one sympathy with even a shadow of regret. Let us leave him where ‘* Sight nor sound shall war against him more, For whom all winds are quiet as the sun, All waters as the shore." } NoTE.—The sudden and tragic death of the Edito…
1929 · PDF PAGE 45
…the Negation of all these things. For there is no symbol of Thee." The listeners were thrilled to the marrow of their bones. But the old man merely gathered a handful of dittany leaves from the chased golden box where they were kept, and led the way to the garden. It was very dark; nothing could be distinguished but the outlines of the shrubs and the line of the fence beyond. "Do you see the Thing?" said Iff. Lisa strained her eyes. "You mustn't look for anything very definite," said the mystic. "It seems as if the darkness were somehow differe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 85
…e being, S.R.M.D. was still somebody. He was a wreck, but he was the wreck of something indubitably big. He had not only the habit of command, but the tone of fine manners. In his palmy days he had associated with some very highly placed people. It was said that the Third Section of the Russian Police Bureau had once found a use for him. "Is the Countess at home?" asked Balloch, apparently in courtesy. "She's on the Boulevard. Where else should she be, at this time of night?" It was the vilest thing charged against that vile parody of a man, hi…
1996 · PDF PAGE 147
…l things are surely lawful. But we must work without “lust of result,” taking everything as it comes without desire indeed, but with all manner of delight! Let thy Love-Madrigal to Death, thy Mother-Mistress, ripple and swell throughout the years, with all the Starry Heaven for thine Orchestra; but do not imagine that to attain Her is the sole satis faction. It is the yearning itself that is Beatitude. It may seem that in this verse the word “Death” is used in a sense somewhat other than that explained in the previous note. It is forbidden, ob…
1905 · PDF PAGE 151
…There is music and terrible light, Immutable. CHORUS. Thou art as proud and calm As statued Memnon. Thou art more than god And less than man. not. Thine eyelids tremble S’AFI. I shall avenge it asa god. The land Shall be made free. AMENHATEP. And the old gods have sway, Re-born from incorruption. S’AFI. The old gods ! I must muse deeply. Keep your ancient ways A little. I must play the part through so. CHORUS. In the ways of the North and the South Whence the dark and the dayspring are drawn, . We pass with the song of the mouth Of the notable …
1909 · PDF PAGE 399
…t agree with it, and would heartily do so if our worthy Professor had included in it all mental conditions explicable in the language of man. Semblances we feel they all are, sem- blances of a something beyond book or word,a something alone attainable by Titanic work. The individual, we feel, will never understand the minds of others until he understands his own. This our modern-day philosophers invariably seem to forget, and as long as they do so we cannot help further feeling that their grand generalisation must be as unbalanced as the minds …
1909 · PDF PAGE 399
…t agree with it, and would heartily do so if our worthy Professor had included in it all mental conditions explicable in the language of man. Semblances we feel they all are, sem- blances of a something beyond book or word,a something alone attainable by Titanic work. The individual, we feel, will never understand the minds of others until he understands his own. This our modern-day philosophers invariably seem to forget, and as long as they do so we cannot help further feeling that their grand generalisation must be as unbalanced as the minds …
1904 · PDF PAGE 59
…nly go quite so far as mine—it must be remembered that “scepticism” is merely the indication of a possible attitude, not a belief, as so many good fool folk thing; but Buddha not only denies “Cogito, ergo sum”; but “Cogito, ergo non sum.” See Sabbasava Sutta, par. 10.* At any rate, Sakkyaditthi, the delusion of personality, is in the very forefront of his doctrines; and it is this delusion that is con- stantly and inevitably affirmed in all normal consciousness. That Dhyanic thought avoids it is doubtful; even so, Buddha is here repre- sented a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 202
…the longer and more ambitious remains, How they were lost, and how those fragments we possess were saved, is best told vy relating the romantic and almost incredible story of his life. The known facts of this life are few, vague, and unsatisfactory; the more definite state- ments lack corroboration, and almost the only source at the disposal of the biographer is the letters of Mathilde Doriac to Mdme. J. S., who has kindly placed her portfolio at my service. A letter dated October 15, 1866, indicates that our author was born on the 23rd of that…
1929 · PDF PAGE 90
…s," said Cyril, as if he had heard of a change of programme at a theatre, "will add appreciably to the length — and, may I add, to the romance — of our proposed walk. When they reached Moret more than three hours [129] later, they found the rapide inextricably tangled with a heavy freight train. It had left the line at the curve and crashed into the slower train. Cyril Grey had still a surprise in store. He produced a paper of some sort from his pocket, which the officer of the police cordon received in the manner of the infant Samuel when over…
1930 · PDF PAGE 26
There are a great many ways of acquiring the power. Gaze into a crvstal, or into a pool of ink in the palm of the hand, or into a mirror, or into a teacup. Just as with a microscope the expert operator keeps both eves open, though seeing only through the one at the eye-piece of the instrument, so the natural eyes, ceasing to give anv message to the brain, the attention is withdrawn from them, and the man begins to see through the Astral eyes. These methods appear to The Master Therion to be unsatisfactory. Very often they do not work at ail. It…
1996 · PDF PAGE 72
… is an unclean gesture, hideous and grotesque. It is not his own act, but forced on him by a giant who holds him helpless; he is half madman, half automaton when he performs it. It is a gawky stumbling across a black foul bog, oozing a thou sand dangers. It threatens him with death, disease, disaster in all manner of forms. He pays the coward’s price of fear and loathing when pedlar Sex holds out his Rat-Poison in the lead-paper wrap ping he takes for silver; and pays again with vomiting and with colic when he has gulped it in his greed. All …
1929 · PDF PAGE 31
… and balls still pattered on the table like dancing hail. "Doctor Johnson once remarked that we need not criticize too closely the performance of a whistling cabbage, or whatever it was," he explained wearily, "the wonder being in the fact of the animal being able to do it at all. But I would venture to add that for my part I find wonder amply satisfied by a single exhibition of this kind; to fall into a habit appears to me utterly out of accord with the views of the late John Stuart Mill on Liberty." Lisa always found herself whirled about lik…
1929 · PDF PAGE 74
… view, a 'genius,' for its world is so incalculably greater than ours that one spark of its knowledge is enough to kindle a new epoch in mankind. "But heredity and environment usually manage to prevent any of this coming to light. No matter how full of whisky a flask may be, you will never make it drunk! "So we may perhaps conceive of some competition between souls for possession of different minds and bodies; or, let us say, to combine the ideas, different embryos. I hope you notice how this theory removes the objection to reincarnation, that …
1996 · PDF PAGE 48
…xpression. The act of Love is to the bourgeois (as the “Christian” is called nowadays) a gross animal gesture which shames his boasted humanity. The appetite drags him at its hoofs; it tires him, dis gusts him, diseases him, makes him ridiculous even in his own eyes. It is the source of nearly all his neuroses. Against this monster he has devised two protections. Firstly, he pretends that it is a Fairy Prince disguised, and hangs it with the rags and tinsel of romance, sentiment, and religion. He calls it Love, denies its strength and truth, a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 128
of these the wayfaring man may partake by a perusal of Dr. W. W. R. Ball's monograph upon the subject.[1] That able mathematician, however, neglects unpardonably the magical side of the matter. The theory is apparently based upon the fact that the most elusive objects, birds, butterflies, and fishes, may be taken by means of a net. It is argued, therefore, that anything whatever, no matter how elusive, such as the ghost of one's father or the soul of one's enemy, may be caught similarly, though of course the net must be adapted to the special g…
1996 · PDF PAGE 80
Chapter I * Verse 59 81 truths; to the acquisition of the power to think in a manner totally foreign to the normal mind, the rare possession of the greatest thinkers of the world. A further development of the vision brought the con sciousness that the structure of the universe was highly orga nized, that certain stars were of greater magnitude and brilliancy than the rest. I began to seek similes to help me to explain myself. Several such attempts are mentioned later in this note. Here again are certain analogies with some of the properties o…
1935 · PDF PAGE 7
…h of the Order, to devote their energy to assisting the Progress of their Inferiors in the Order. Those who accept the rewards of their emancipation for themselves are no longer within the Order. Members of the Order are each entitled to found Orders dependent on themselves on the lines of the R. C. and G. D. orders, to cover types of emancipation and illumination not contemplated by the original (or main) system. All such orders must, however, be constituted in harmony with the A A as regards the essential principles. All members of the Order …
1907 · PDF PAGE 113
IMMORTALITY 107 So are their pains the duller. Llell Is managed infinitely well From the peculiar standpoint of A god who says that he is Love. X. That was the poet Crowley’s point. I think 4zs nose is out of joint; He bet on justice being done ; And here—it’s really rather fun !-— The unlucky devil devil-spurred Writes, climbs, does Yoga like a bird ; Just as he was before he ‘‘ died,” The ass is never satisfied. Ife has only been here forty days, And has already writ six plays, Made eight new passes, one new peak, Is bound to do two more this…