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Page 212 of 2251929 · PDF PAGE 438
…to join the Royal Arch, called on its venerable Secretary. I presented my credentials. "O Thou Great Architect of the Universe," the old man sobbed out in rage, "why dost Thou not wither this impudent impostor with Thy fire from heaven? Sir, begone! You are not a Mason at all! As all the world knows, the people in Z--- are atheists and live with other men's wives." I thought this a little hard on my Reverend Father in God, my proposer; and I noted that, of course, every single English or American visitor to our Lodge in Z--- stood in peril of i…
1939 · PDF PAGE 10
…g seen. (9) Now, there is nothing strange or wonderful about all this. The study of the principles of Yoga is very useful to the average man, if only to make him think about the nature of the world as he supposes that he knows it. Let us consider a piece of cheese. We say that this has certain qualities, shape, structure, colour, solidity, weight, taste, smell, consistency and the rest; but investigation has shown that this is all illusory. Where are these qualities? Not in the cheese, for different observers give quite different accounts of it…
1939 · PDF PAGE 59
…ion of the machinery of the Order. In the General of the Society is concentrated the power of all those separate wills, just as in the human body every cell should be completely devoted in its particular quality to the concentrated will of the organism. 5. In other words, the Society of Jesus has created a perfect imitation of the skeleton of the original creation, living man. It has complied with the divinely instituted order of things, and that is why we see that the body, which was never numerically important, has yet been one of the greates…
1944 · PDF PAGE 117
Attainment of the Virgin of the Absolute; who, being manifested, is the Player upon the seven‐ fold pipe, the Great God Pan, and, being withdrawn into the Perfection that he willed, is Si‐ lence. 2. DE SAPIENTIA ET STULTITIA1 O, my Son, in this the Colophon of mine Epistle will I recall the Title and Superscription thereof; that is, the Book of Wisdom or Folly. I proclaim Blessing and Worship unto Nuith our Lady and her Lord, Hadith, for the Miracle of the Anatomy of the Child Ra‐Hoor‐Khuit, as it is shewed in the design Minutum Mundum, the Tre…
1909 · PDF PAGE 411
…nctly not a book to be overlooked.”” Jacos Tonsow inthe New Age: «The illusion of reality is more than staggering; it is haunting. . . . Many passagesare on the very highest level of realistic art. . . . Lingg’s suicide and death are Titanic. In pure realism nothing better has been done, and I do not forget Tolstoy’s ‘ The De: of Ivan Ilyitch!’ It is a book very courageous, impulsively generous, and of a shining distinction. . . .” Saturday Review : “ He (Mr, Harris) is a born writer of fiction, ...Those two books of his, ‘ Elder Conklin’ and ‘…
1909 · PDF PAGE 411
…nctly not a book to be overlooked.”” Jacos Tonsow inthe New Age: «The illusion of reality is more than staggering; it is haunting. . . . Many passagesare on the very highest level of realistic art. . . . Lingg’s suicide and death are Titanic. In pure realism nothing better has been done, and I do not forget Tolstoy’s ‘ The De: of Ivan Ilyitch!’ It is a book very courageous, impulsively generous, and of a shining distinction. . . .” Saturday Review : “ He (Mr, Harris) is a born writer of fiction, ...Those two books of his, ‘ Elder Conklin’ and ‘…
1919 · PDF PAGE 299
…ile, Mr. Bishop writes a book to prove the truth of all this pre- historic nonsense. Mr. Bishop’s intelligence is very far beneath the human level. For example, he actually maintains that the claws and teeth of predatory animals have been given to them out of kindness towards their prey! You would think it was impossible for any one to miss the point of the argument that nature is cruel. The fact is that Mr. Bishop’s ideas of kindness are a little crude, like his ideas of writing a book. This is not really a book at all. It’s mere scissors and …
1929 · PDF PAGE 63
…ot the idea of chastity as a positive virtue. It was delightful to be pure. Previously, chastity had been my chief abomination; the sign-manual of cowardice, heartlessness and slavery. In the Celtic Church there was no fear of God, but a communion with Him as nobly familiar as the relations of Roland and Charlemagne. I still too everything very literally. Browning's quotation: Childe Roland to the dark tower came {121} was as real to me as the Battle of Waterloo. In a sense, perhaps, even more so. I think it was only due to my subconscious comm…
1939 · PDF PAGE 25
…on of all particular experience into the one experience. Oh yes, by the way, don't forget this. In a lesser sense Venus represents tact. Many of the problems that confront the Yogi are impracticable to intellectual manipulation. They yield to graciousness. 13. Our next planet is Mercury, and the Niyama which correspond to him are as innumerable and various as his own qualities. Mercury is the Word, the Logos in the highest; he is the direct medium of connection between opposites; he is electricity, the very link of life, the Yogic process itsel…
1939 · PDF PAGE 62
…c Vision, for always in the latter it is the heartthe Phrenwhich is involved; in the former it is the Nous, the divine intelligence of man, whereas the heart is only the centre of the intellectual and moral faculties. 17. But, so long as you are occupying yourself with the physical, your results will only be on that plane; and the principal effect of these concentrations on small parts of the body is the understanding, or rather the appreciation, of sensuous pleasure. This, however, is infinitely refined, exquisitely intense. It is often poss…
1905 · PDF PAGE 207
200 THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY GHOST Too light for fairy fingers to have woven, oo strong for mere archangels to have cloven With adamantine blades from the armoury Of the amazing forges of the sea: The folk that follow with undaunted mien The utmost beauty that their eyes have seen— O patient sufferers! yet your storm-scarred brows Burn with the star of majesty : your vows Have given you the wisdom and the power To weld eternities within one hour, To bind and braid the North wind’s serpent hair, And track the East wind to his mighty lair Even in t…
1939 · PDF PAGE 68
…h, our consciousness of any phenomenon is never the thing itself, but only a hieroglyphic symbol of it. Our position is rather that of a man with a temperamental motor-car; he has a vague theory that it ought to go, on general principles; but he is not quite sure how it will perform in any given circumstances. Now the experience of Magick and Yoga is quite above all this. The possibility of criticising the other types of experience is based upon the possibility of expressing our impressions in adequate terms; and this is not at all the case wit…
1905 · PDF PAGE 126
…ason ; for thou shudderest To hear the Voice of Love; it is no voice That men may hear, but an intensest rich Silence, that silence when man waits to hear Some faint vibration in the smitten air, And, if he hear not, die; but we who love Are beyond death, and therefore may commune In that still tongue ; it is the only speech And song of stars and sun; nor is it marred By one dissentient tremor of the air That girds the earth, but in lone ether spreads
1929 · PDF PAGE 315
…th a wife and child. I was no longer influenced by love for them, no longer interested in protecting them as I had been; but there was a man, Aleister Crowley, husband and father, of a certain caste, of certain experience, of travel in remote parts of the world; and it was his business to give them his undivided love, care and protection. He could do this very much more efficiently than before when I was aware of what he was doing, and consequently inclined to overplay the part. But with regard to my magical future --- why did I "intend to stic…
1910 · PDF PAGE 351
…too archaic for the dictionary. With open mouths they jostled each other to get a good view of the plunge of the white sewn outline of a man.” Now, Joseph, draw it mild; don’t put the sugar in your tea with a trowel! we have seen many burials at sea, more than we should care to count, but we have never seen the corpse surrounded by “ fag-ends” and a gay pyjamaed mob, Perhaps one of the passengers was on his way to the bath-room, in a Swan and Edgar “sleeping suit,’ when you went to have your own little peep—or have you borrowed a leaf from your…
1910 · PDF PAGE 351
…too archaic for the dictionary. With open mouths they jostled each other to get a good view of the plunge of the white sewn outline of a man.” Now, Joseph, draw it mild; don’t put the sugar in your tea with a trowel! we have seen many burials at sea, more than we should care to count, but we have never seen the corpse surrounded by “ fag-ends” and a gay pyjamaed mob, Perhaps one of the passengers was on his way to the bath-room, in a Swan and Edgar “sleeping suit,’ when you went to have your own little peep—or have you borrowed a leaf from your…
1905 · PDF PAGE 84
…n shall see a solemn sacrifice, And solemn vows, and long swords glittering, And moving columns that shall shake the earth With firm and manly stride; and victory Most like a dove amid the altar-smoke. CHORUS. We, passing here the night in prayer, will wait And with thee offer up propitious doves, And firstline males of all the flocks of us, JEPIVITIATE. Not so: but [ will have you hence in haste To gather food and arins and carriages, That all our soldiers may have sustenance, And fresher weapons. I alone will spend The long hours with Jehovah…
1905 · PDF PAGE 18
…hite, And fresh with newer flowers of the night In the pale fields supernal, when his sire Took from the nurse the child of his desire, Aman, the prayers of many maidens sent So sweet a savour through the firmament That no false spirit might draw nigh. And still THis angel ministers defend from ill The head they nurtured. Evil dreams and spells, Cast at the dimmest hour, the sword repels And drives them down the steep of [Tell. But dim Sweet faces of dead maidens drew to him ; (Quiet woods and streams and all the moun- tains tall, Cool valleys,…
1905 · PDF PAGE 28
THE TALE Or ARCIIAIS 21 From man to woman with a strange swift motion, . Like tide and ebb upon a summer ocean. Thus he went forth a girl; his steps he presses Through sickly wastes and burning wilder- nesses To the lascivious shade of Ida’s deep re- cesses. FAIRER than woman blushing at the kiss Of young keen Phoibos, whose lips’ nectar is More fresh than lies, whose divine embrace Flushes the creamy pallor of her face, And, even in those depths of azure sea Where her eyes dwell, bids them glint amorously, While the intense hushed music of his…
1929 · PDF PAGE 201
…e, grand agony In the coffin folds of the cloak, scarred mountains, lie, And pity hides i' th' heart. Grim knowledge grips The essential manhood. Balzac stands, and laughs. The upshot was that Rodin invited me to come and stay with him at Meudon. The idea was that I should give a poetic interpretation of all his masterpieces. I produced a number of poems, many of which I published at the time in the Weekly Critical Review, an attempt to establish an artistic entente cordiale. The entire series constitutes my Rodin in Rime. This book is illustra…