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Page 4 of 801929 · PDF PAGE 449
…le, which I did. I took it into my head that the Masters had sent this as a warning that treachery was at work in London. I returned and found that Cremers was intriguing against me; and that, in particular, she had corrupted the heart of Leila Waddell. The O.H.O., moreover, had found out that the Grand Hierophant of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Masonry, John Yarker, had died some months earlier and that his death had been concealed from his colleagues by the machinations of a sort of man named Wedgwood, in the interest of Annie Besant who…
1905 · PDF PAGE 102
… dead) I loosed the lightning, and in hate and dread Despairing, did I break the royal wand. Mortal, a plaything for a thousand fears, I found the earth ; I found a lonely place To gaze for ever on the ocean’s face, Lamenting through the lamentable years ; Without a god, deprived of life and death, Sensible only to that sombre breath. Thus wait I on the spring-forgotten shore ; Looking with vain unweeping eyes, for aye Into the wedding of the sea and sky, (That do not wed, ay me !) for evermore
1912 · PDF PAGE 27
…ur round : Sir Lancelot girt him there and then To ride to that enchanted ground Where amid timeless snows the den Of Palamedes might be found. 21
1922 · PDF PAGE 146
…d his shoulders. ‘‘ But where is he?” “Why,” she said, ‘he must be looking for us all over the town. When he got to the Fauno Ebbrio and found we weren’t there, and heard what had happened, he must have been very anxious about us.” . “In fact, I don’t see why he isn’t here now,” said the consul. ‘He must have known that you were arrested.” ““ Perhaps something’s happened to him,” suggested Lou. “ But that would really be too curious a coin- cidence.”’ , . ‘Well, these things do happen,’’ admitted the consul. He seemed somehow more at his ease w…
1922 · PDF PAGE 18
…, “is that you have an analytic brain.” Well, I suppose I have. That’s how I come to be writing this up. Anyhow, at the end of the war I found myself with a knighthood which I still firmly believe to have been due to a clerical error on the part of some official. As for Uncle Mortimer, he lived on in his crustacean way; a sulky, rich, morose, old bachelor. We never heard a word of him. And then, about a year ago, he died; and I found to my amazement that I was sole heir to his five or six thousand a year, and the owner of Barley Grange; which i…
1913 · PDF PAGE 121
TWO FRAGMENTS OF RITUAL (Translated by Fra. K. ®. 1x°. from a German MS, said to have been found among the papers of Weishaupt. It by no means appears that the fragments pertain to the Illuminati; Weishaupt’s MS. was probably a mere transcript from some older ritual which he valued on purely archeological grounds.—Eb.]
1913 · PDF PAGE 121
TWO FRAGMENTS OF RITUAL (Translated by Fra. K. ®. 1x°. from a German MS, said to have been found among the papers of Weishaupt. It by no means appears that the fragments pertain to the Illuminati; Weishaupt’s MS. was probably a mere transcript from some older ritual which he valued on purely archeological grounds.—Eb.]
1904 · PDF PAGE 12
…r enemies it is perhaps hard to say : it has sometimes seemed to me that human free- dom and happiness are our common goal, but that you found your muddied oafs in Gods, ministers, passive resisters, and all the religious team — the “ Brixton Barnshuts ” we might call them ; while I, at once a higher mystic and a colder sceptic, found my Messiah in Charles Watts, and the Devil and all his angels. While נחש and משיח alike add to 358, indeed, it is no odds : did you once see this you were not far off from the Heart of the Qabalah. The occasion of…
1913 · PDF PAGE 86
…tendrils of smoke, as mist at sunset upon the marsh-lands. ‘*And in the midst of the moon-pool of silver Thus the disciples that watched found a dead body kneeling at the altar. Amen!
1929 · PDF PAGE 445
…sions necessary for their support for a whole year; for so long and more did Noah stop in that Ark. But on a careful inquiry it has been found that only about one hundred different sorts of beasts, and not two hundred birds, are known, the greater part of them are of no bulk, and many exceedingly small, and it has been said all the creatures in the Ark would not take up the room of five hundred horses. After four thousand years human ingenuity cannot now contrive any proportions better adapted than that of the Ark for the purpose it was intende…
1898 · PDF PAGE 12
…ke in this, that, below the cloak of madness and depravity, the true heart of genius burns. No more terrible pe- riod than this is to be found in literature ; so many great minds, of which hardly one comes to fruition ; such seeds of genius, such a harvest of—whirlwind ! Even a barren waste of sea is less saddening than one strewn with wreckage. In England such wild song found few followers of any worth or melody. Swinburne stands on his solitary pedestal above the vulgar crowds of priapistic
1938 · PDF PAGE 26
With that word, the walls of the little chamber in the Temple upon the Mountain-top fell suddenly away from about me, and I found myself alone in a desert place, strange and remote. And of that which befell me there may I not now speak. For there is a Beauty which hath no fitter ornament than Silence.
1954 · PDF PAGE 361
…Great Work. Ab-ul-Diz had made no mistake. My recognition of the right place was not to depend on a mere matter of trees, which might be found almost anywhere. Recognition beyond all possibility of doubt was what he promised . He had been as good as his word. I was entirely overwhelmed. I jumped out of the car and ran up to the house. I found Virakam in the main room. The instant I entered I understood that it was entirely suited for a temple. The walls were decorated with crude frescoes which somehow suggested the exact atmosphere proper to th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 397
…ur round : Sir Lancelot girt him there and then To ride to that enchanted ground Where amid timeless snows the den Of Palamedes might be found. 21
1910 · PDF PAGE 397
…ur round : Sir Lancelot girt him there and then To ride to that enchanted ground Where amid timeless snows the den Of Palamedes might be found. 21
1912 · PDF PAGE 129
THE WOODCUTTER At the door, as carefully stacked as the rest, they found the severed limbs of the Honourable Diana. And in the forest the cheery, ringing thud of his axe led them to Placide Gervez, quietly, manfully chopping. They told him of a Widow Lady in Paris who could beat him at his own game. ALEISTER CROWLEY 87
1912 · PDF PAGE 129
THE WOODCUTTER At the door, as carefully stacked as the rest, they found the severed limbs of the Honourable Diana. And in the forest the cheery, ringing thud of his axe led them to Placide Gervez, quietly, manfully chopping. They told him of a Widow Lady in Paris who could beat him at his own game. ALEISTER CROWLEY 87
1961 · PDF PAGE 93
…N) ND after? This Dawn (for I have toiled through the Night in my great Love and Care of thee) how is it with me? it is well. For I have found myself; I have found my Will; the Obstacles that daunted me are seen to be by the Shadows of Shadows. Grace be unto Lady BABALON. Thus it is written in The Book of the Law: Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains. Learn then that it is in the contemplation of Division that Sorrow is, for Division is the F…
1954 · PDF PAGE 108
…is in the ancient days of Khem. There, a Neophyte presenting his mouth, under compulsion, to the pouting buttocks of the Goat of Mendez, found himself caressed by the chaste lips of a virginal priestess of that Goddess at the base of whose shrine is written that No man has lifted her veil. The basis of the Black philosophy is not impossibly mere climate, with its resulting etiolation of the native, its languid, bilious, anaemic, fever-prostrated, emasculation of the soul of man. We accordingly find few true equivalents of this School in Europe.…
1913 · PDF PAGE 94
…he murder of Osiris by Typhon. The limbs of Osiris were scattered in the Nile. Isis sought them in every corner of the Universe, and she found all except his sacred lingam, which was not found until quite recently {vide Fuller, "The Star in the West "). Let us take another example from this rich storehouse of magick lore.