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Page 3 of 791954 · PDF PAGE 219
186 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS never yields to reason. It destroys aU sense of values. Its origin is usually obscure. The least irrational base of it is the sense ofsmell. It was, ifI remember rightly, the Comte de St. Germain who advised Louise de la Valliere to fix her exquisitely broidered kerchief in such wise that it protected her from contact with her saddle, and then , after a morning's hard gallop, to find an excuse for using it to wipe the brows of the perspiring king. It took him years to recover! The story is well known, and the plan widel…
1903 · PDF PAGE 21
… is at once the most truthful writer and the most consummate liar of all time. He selects truth or falsehood without the slightest moral sense or idea of advantage; he asks himself “ Which is humorous ?” and acts accordingly. He chose his love deliberately, I am quite sure, with reference to his art alone. But if our Editor’s conjecture as to the real cause of his death is right, the fire he played with burnt him at last, and he died of the love he had invoked in play. It is the old-story of the magician strangled by the devil. As to what becam…
1905 · PDF PAGE 86
…chral womb. Fivefold: the child, the frail, the delicate: Then the strong laughing mischief: then the proud Fight toward manhood and the sense elate, Creative power and passion : then the loud Assertion of young will, the quickening rate And strength in blood, in youth with life endowed, And firmness fastening; the last lustre’s span Consolidates and shows the perfect man. Fivefold : the humour changes as his child Calls him first “father” ; sense of strength divine Fills him; then man’s work in the world, and wild Efforts to fame: then steadie…
1912 · PDF PAGE 434
… Through ΤΗΕ EQUINOX and all booksellers WIELAND 63 CO. SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF PRIMORDIAL MAN 3‘! ALBERT CHURCHWARD “ The book is in every sense a great book"—Equinox. Pm: 13/8 NET
1912 · PDF PAGE 434
… Through ΤΗΕ EQUINOX and all booksellers WIELAND 63 CO. SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF PRIMORDIAL MAN 3‘! ALBERT CHURCHWARD “ The book is in every sense a great book"—Equinox. Pm: 13/8 NET
1913 · PDF PAGE 70
…he most part below conscious- ness, and must be, as it were, awakened in order to be destroyed, so that the will of the Magician is in a sense trying to do two opposite things at the same time. Consciousness itself is only destroyed by Samadhi. One can now see the logical process which begins in refusing to think of a foot, and ends by destroying the sense of individuality. Of the methods of destroying various deep-rooted ideas there are many. The best is perhaps the method of equilibrium. Get the mind into the habit of calling up the opposite …
1954 · PDF PAGE 205
…new vision of life is not a dream, but part and parcel of Experience for evermore, as real as any other manifestation of Reality through sense such as is common to all men. And this brings us-it has been a long way round-from the suggestion of your visit to the question (hitherto unanswered) in your letter. You raise so vast and razor-edged a question when you write of the supposed antinomy of "soul" and "sense" that it seemed better to withhold comment until this later letter; much meditation was most needful to compress the answer within reas…
1922 · PDF PAGE 102
…rrific speed as on that first wild night. The intensity was even more extra- ordinary ; but we were not being carried away by it. In one sense, each hour lasted a fraction of a second, and yet, in another sense, every second lasted a life- time. We were able to appreciate the minutest details of life to the full. I want to explain this very thoroughly. “ William the Conqueror, 1066, William Rufus, 1087.” One can sum up the whole period of the reign of the Duke of Normandy in a phrase. At the same time, an historian who had made a special study …
1919 · PDF PAGE 360
…ls upon them shines from thyself, O thou who wast Dis- ciple, but art Teacher now. The five impediments are usually taken to be the five senses. In this case the term “Master of the sixth” becomes of profound significance. The ‘sixth sense’ is the race- instinct, whose common manifestation is in sex; this sense is then the birth of the Individual or Conscious Self with the ‘Dwarf-Self,’ the Silent Babe, Harpocrates. The “four modes of Truth” (noble Truths) are adequately described in “Science and Buddhism.” [See Crowley, Collected Works.] 84. A…
1996 · PDF PAGE 18
…ected by a husband towards his wife and by a wife towards her husband. The creation of this artificial “sin of sex,” the attachment of a sense of guilt to a basic natural function, has brought about a disastrous perversion of sane moral feeling. It has destroyed or numbed our awareness of what is the only real sin, of what alone should cause a sense of guilt in us; that is, obstruction or denial of our true will, or of the true will of another. The acceptance of, or the deference to these malignant sex-tabus, has done incalculable harm and is s…
1899 · PDF PAGE 117
…out like light, And noises horrible of death devoured The hateful suction of their clinging arms And wash of slipping bellies. Presently Sense failed, and Nothing! | Bye-and-bye we woke In a most beautiful canoe of pearl Lucent on lucent water, in a sun That was the heart of spring. But the green land Seemed distant, with a sense of aery height ; As if it were below us far, that seemed Around. And as we gazed the water grew Ethereal, thin, most delicately hued, Misty, as if its substance were dissolved In some more subtle element. We heard “O p…
1911 · PDF PAGE 104
…f himself, remembering afterwards scarcely a word of his speeches, some of which were long and seemingly eloquent. All the time he had a sense of being protected from Choronzon, and this sense of security prevented his knowing fear. Several times did the Scribe threaten to put a curse upon the demon; but ever, before he uttered the words of the curse, did the demon obey him. For himself, he knoweth not the words of the curse. Also is it meet to record in this place that the Scribe several times whistled in a Magical manner, which never before h…
1939 · PDF PAGE 67
…pressions which are so readily shaken by the first breath of the wind of intellectual analysis? Well, to answer first of all in a common-sense way, the difference is simply that the impression is deeper, is less to be shaken. Men of sense and education are always ready to admit that they may have been mistaken in the quality of their observation of any phenomenon, and men a little more advanced are almost certain to attain to a placid kind of speculation as to whether the objects of sense are not mere shadows on a screen. I take off my glasses.…
1907 · PDF PAGE 46
…zy light , And read her bosom 2 The extra half - step in “ shuddering ” in place of dis cordantly jarring on the metre produces a keener sense of agony in the reader's mind than a word which scanned correctly would do . In the next passage , taken from “ Tannhäuser , ” we find the introduction of a spondee carrying with it a curious sensation of slowness : Chaos , a speck ; and space , a span ; Ruinous cycles fallen in, And Darkness on the Deep of Time . Murmurous voices call and climb ; Faces , half - formed , arise ; and He Looked from the sh…
1910 · PDF PAGE 75
…us virginity) Are set in all the sky and earth and sea. Shining with solar fire, The single-eyed desire Of scent and sound and sight and sense perfuses The still and lambent light Of the essential night ; And all the heart of me is fain, and muses, As if for ever doomed to dream Or pass in peace Lethean adown the grey Lethean stream. So deep the sense of beauty, and so keen ! The calm abiding holiness of love Reigns ; and so fallen from the heights above Immeasurable, the influence unseen Of music and of spiritual fire, That the soul sleeps, fo…
1906 · PDF PAGE 63
EPILOGUE. PRAYER. THE light streams stronger through the lamps of sense. Intelligence Grows as we go. Alas: its icy glimmer Shows dimmer, dimmer The awful vaults we traverse. Were the sun Himself the one Glory of space, he would but illustrate The night of Fate. Are not the hosts of heaven in vain arrayed? Their light dismayed Before the vast blind spaces of the sky? O galaxy Of thousands upon thousands closely curled! Your golden world 55
1913 · PDF PAGE 165
…is simple. It involves no reference to facts. Frater Perdurabo may be a myth. The methods are experi- mental. Faith, in the conventional sense, is a condition of failure, not of success. The Word has been proclaimed. It is of no avail without the Work. 125
1913 · PDF PAGE 165
…is simple. It involves no reference to facts. Frater Perdurabo may be a myth. The methods are experi- mental. Faith, in the conventional sense, is a condition of failure, not of success. The Word has been proclaimed. It is of no avail without the Work. 125
1910 · PDF PAGE 139
…adly shrine, Pour the dark stream of blood, A sleepy and reluctant river Even as thou drawest, with thine eyes on mine, To me across the sense-bewildering flood That holds my soul for ever !
1905 · PDF PAGE 3
… Cumæ.1 They are called so because of the quotation from Vergil which I dis- remember, but hope to find when I can borrow an Æneid.2 The sense is of old leaves swept into the dusty corners of the mind, no part of the main current of my thought ; yet curious, not altogether bad, in a sense worth saving. Maybe I had done better to entitle the book “ Resurrec- tion Pie ” ; but all’s one.3 They are not completed, and never will be, till they fall under the eyes of the literary heir of the Chicago Professor who rewrote Keats. I cannot complete them,…