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Page 45 of 791954 · PDF PAGE 126
…, moreover, "Let my servants be few and secret; they shall rule the many and the known." (AL, I: 10) But are They then men, in the usual sense of the word? They may be incarnate or discarnate: it is a matter of Their convenience. Have They attained Their position by passing through all the grades of the A :. A :. ? Yes and no: the system which was given to me to put forward is only one of many. "Above the Abyss" all these technical wrinkles are ironed out. One man whom I suspect of being a Secret Chief has hardly any acquaintance with the techn…
1929 · PDF PAGE 20
… objection was that a public house in the neighbourhood was called the Drayton Arms. This is typical of my uncle's attitude to life. His sense of humour. When I called him "Uncle", he would {55} snigger, "Oh my prophetic soul, my uncle!" But the time came when I knew most of Hamlet by heart, and when he next shot off his "joke", I continued the quotation, replying sternly, "Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast!" --- I am, in a way, glad to think that at the end of his long and obscene life I was reconciled with him. The very last letter h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 456
…rches, and began to discover the rational explanation of its operation and the conditions of success. More important yet, in the deepest sense, was a feature of the result which I failed to observe at the time, and even for some years after. In veiled language are hints, unmistakable as soon a detected, that I was even then, by means of the working itself, being prepared for the initiation thereto. The actual ceremony (using the word in its widest and deepest sense) extended over some years and is in fact the sole key to the events of that peri…
1954 · PDF PAGE 507
…ias or gazelles? We tend to see the myriad flashing colours of the humming bird; the bird itself does not; it has no apparatus of colour-sense; to him all appears a neutral tint , varying only in degrees of brightness. Such were some of the fundamental facts that directed the course of my research, whose results you may read in The Psychology of Hashish, by Oliver Haddo in The Equinox Vol. I, No.2 . The general basis of this Essay is Sankhara; it shows how very striking are the analogies between (I) the
1907 · PDF PAGE 331
324 THE STAR IN THE WEST impressions are dependent on changes in the brain , we must include illusions , which are after all sense - impressions as much as “ realities ” are in the class of “ phenomena dependent on brain changes ." Magical phenomena , however , come under a special sub class , since they are willed , and their cause is the series of “ real ” phenomena called the operations of ceremonial Magic . But can any of the effects described in this our book Goetia be obtained , and if so , can you give a rational explanation of the circu…
1919 · PDF PAGE 380
…e’ brick; and when they have got to the end, they chase through the dic- tionary for some other epithet to brick, which shall excite the sense of wonder at the magnificent progress and super-prog- ress—I present the American nation with this word—which is supposed to have been made. Probably the whole thing is a bluff without a single fact behind it. Almost the whole of the Hindu psychology is an example of this kind of journal- ism. They are not content with the supreme God. The other man wishes to show off by having a supremer God than that, …
1922 · PDF PAGE 204
Igo The Diary of a Drug Fiend And I felt an inexpressible sense of relief. His tone implied that he had taken charge of us. “No,” I said, “‘ we used up the last grain some time ago.” “IT won’t ask you to remember when,” he replied. “* T know too well how muddled one gets. And besides, when one starts this experiment, the clock doesn’t tell one much, as you know.” My self-respect came back to me with a rush. He insisted on our regarding ourselves as pioneers of science and humanity. We were making an experiment; we were risking life and reason f…
1906 · PDF PAGE 107
…omes victorious Fleece-laden, he will rather CHORUS. Wilt thou then Further my ruin, making known this shame ! MEDEA. Here is the Argive sense of gratitude. Let me stir up its subtler thought, und show What favours ye may gather afterward From hands and lips ye scorn—not courte- ously. I love your leader with no mortal Jove, But with the whole strength of a sorceress. CHORUS. It seems indeed thy hot will can bewitch Our chaste one with one action impudent. MEDEA. I will not leave him ever in the world. CHORUS. Persistence in these ills—will cur…
1913 · PDF PAGE 437
… p. 52.—O. M. It is difficult to determine whether the words ‘act of love’ should be inter- preted in their gross, or in their mystical, sense. Perhaps Madrolle was himself intentionally ambiguous.—TRANS. 2 But the Marquis de Sade was, above all, a preacher. Three-fourths ot Justine are verbose arguments in favour of so-called vice. Again Levi trips in referring to an author whom he has not read.—TRANS. 139
1913 · PDF PAGE 437
… p. 52.—O. M. It is difficult to determine whether the words ‘act of love’ should be inter- preted in their gross, or in their mystical, sense. Perhaps Madrolle was himself intentionally ambiguous.—TRANS. 2 But the Marquis de Sade was, above all, a preacher. Three-fourths ot Justine are verbose arguments in favour of so-called vice. Again Levi trips in referring to an author whom he has not read.—TRANS. 139
1929 · PDF PAGE 82
…il. In spite of innumerable nights spent under the stars, I can recognize few constellations except the Great Bear and Orion. Besides my sense of direction on the large scale, I have a quite uncanny faculty for picking out a complicated route through rocks and ice falls. This is not simply a question of good judgment; for in any given route, seen from a distance, there may always be a passage, perhaps not twenty feet in height, which would render the whole plan abortive. This is especially the case with ice falls, where much of the route is nec…
1907 · PDF PAGE 57
…all a god answer a man? Frater Neophyte K. asks our S. H. Frater L. 8°= 3°. “Are there such things as elemental spirits in the scientific sense?” Now Frater L. knows that there are (just as Professor Ray Lankester would assure a Hottentot of the reality of microscopic objects), but he also knows that there are not, seeing that all is but an illusory veil of the Indicible Arcanum in the Adytum of God nourished Silence. Frater L. will therefore reply Yes! if he thinks Frater K. in danger of scepticism. He will reply No! if he thinks Frater K. is a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 440
…. I shall merely submit to you that the institution of the hierarchical infallibility in matters of dogma is reasonable in quite another sense, and far more incontestably true than all the miracles of the world. Besides, what sacrifices ought one not to make in order to preserve peace! Believe me, John Huss would have been a greater man if he had sacrificed one of his eyes to universal concord, rather than deluge Europe with blood! O sir! let the Church decide when she will that I have but one eye; I only ask her one favour, it is to tell me in…
1913 · PDF PAGE 440
…. I shall merely submit to you that the institution of the hierarchical infallibility in matters of dogma is reasonable in quite another sense, and far more incontestably true than all the miracles of the world. Besides, what sacrifices ought one not to make in order to preserve peace! Believe me, John Huss would have been a greater man if he had sacrificed one of his eyes to universal concord, rather than deluge Europe with blood! O sir! let the Church decide when she will that I have but one eye; I only ask her one favour, it is to tell me in…
1922 · PDF PAGE 42
… driving in the chariot of the Sun through the circus of the Universe. We didn’t know where we were going, and we didn’t care. We had no sense of time at*all. There was a sequence of sensa- tions; but there was no means of regulating them. It was as if one’s mental clock had suddenly gone mad. I have no gauge of time, subjectively speaking, but it must have been a long while before our mouths separated, for as this happened I recognised the fact that we were very far from the club. She spoke to me for the first time. Her voice thrilled dark unf…
1954 · PDF PAGE 66
…prevent it from leaking away; and I arrange to take advantage of water's accordance with the laws of Hydrostatics to fill it.) 19. Man's sense of himself as separate from, and opposed to, the Universe is a bar to his conducting its currents. It insulates him.
1907 · PDF PAGE 307
…ons . The nature of the facts in this case admits a prolonged attention , for the moral object, far from being exhausted like objects of sense in one single intuition , ex tends and increases the longer it is dwelt on . Such an object will express itself in the mind which is generous to give it persistent attention , under symbols which become more and more intense until the soul , all absorbed in them , is sub limely hallucinated , and returns to itself full of eloquence , enthusiasm , and courage . ? Thus Crowley again writes of this exalted …
1996 · PDF PAGE 44
…ancer, an independent growth in him, yet one from which he cannot get free. The idea of self-sacrifice is a moral cancer in exactly this sense. Similarly, one may say that not to do one’s will is evidence of mental or moral insanity. When “duty points one way, and inclination the other,” it is proof that you are not one, but two. You have not centralized your control. This dichotomy is the beginning of conflict, which may result in a Jekyll-Hyde effect. Stevenson suggests that man may be discovered to be a “mere polity” of many individuals. The…
1929 · PDF PAGE 81
…I never saw him attempt anything beyond his powers; and I never knew him in want of anything from lack of foresight. He had a remarkable sense of direction, thought inferior to my own. But his was based upon rational considerations, that is to say, he could deduce where north was from calculations connected with geology, wind and the law of probabilities; whereas my own finer sense was purely psychical and depended upon the subconscious registration in my brain as to the angles through which my body had turned during the day. One point, however…
1907 · PDF PAGE 69
…y. I see. When you are up in IO= I or thereabouts, and see that dog-faced demons are only illusions (with the rest of Maya), there is no sense in keeping them out. Once you realize the Universe as Infinite L.V.X., why, to Hell with the Circle—let it rush in! Bones. Good boy! Bowley. Very good: we are agreed; but the trouble is that you seem to me to rush up to Kether foran attitude, and then bring it down to Malkuth. You take the Virgin of the World and swear she has a Venerable Beard with thirteen Fountains of magnificent oil running down it. Al…