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Page 45 of 871913 · PDF PAGE 436
…ras took it upon himself to dogmatize. One thing, however, is re- markable in the invectives of which he is the object: his adversaries, though straining every effort in order to scourge him, recognize the truth of his miracles, and content them- selves with attributing them to the devil. What, then, are these so authentic miracles of Vintras? On this subject we are better informed than anybody, as will soon appear. Affidavits signed by honourable witnesses, persons who are artists, doctors, priests, all men above re- proach, have been communic…
1954 · PDF PAGE 128
…Inertia; secondly, the recoil, the reaction, the rebound. 3. Things theoretically feasible are practically impossible when (a) desirable though their accomplishment may be, it is not the one feat essential to the particular Work in hand at the moment; (b) the sum total of available energy being used up by that special task, there is none available for side-issues; (c) the opposition, passive or active, is too strong, temporarily, to overcome. More largely, one cannot judge how a plan is progressing when one has no precise idea what it is. A sol…
1906 · PDF PAGE 275
…is a vain phrase, Scept. True; for those ‘‘ others” only exist for you inasmuch as, and in so far as, they are modifications of your own thought-stuff.! . Myst. Agreed, then; instead of looking through the glasses of the metaphysician, we will content ourselves with the simpler task of measuring our thoughts by the only stan- dard which is unquestionably valid, consciousness. Scept. But if that consciousness deceive us ? Myst. We are the more deceived! But it is after all indifferent ; for it is we who are deceived. Idle to pretend that any oth…
1907 · PDF PAGE 253
…Agnosticism , to their recon ciliation in a neo - Hermeticism , a neo - Rosicrucianism -which we have already called Crowleyanity .' Yet though he does not end at that barrier beyond which the Rationalist cannot proceed , he by no means rejects common sense and understanding as his Epode on Nature clearly shows . Nature my name is called . O fruitless veil Of the strange self of its own self begotten ! O vision laughterless ! O shadowy tale ! I am Nature and God : I reign ,I am , alone . None other may abide apart : they perish , Drawn into me …
1910 · PDF PAGE 11
…the Hall should come his way, and leave the first-best butcher lamenting, and the second-best bewil- dered. So that in my time the sect (though it is only fair to point out that they refused to be described as a sect, since what they had done was not to form a new sect, but to “ come out of sect ”, — this they maintained in spite of the fact that they were far more exclusive than any other religious body in Europe) was composed of a few of the old guard, my father the last of them all, and the meanest crew of canaille that ever wriggled. With m…
1911 · PDF PAGE 80
…d delight thereof; and next because it is written, ‘“‘ And Tetragrammaton Elohim planted a garden eastward in Eden.” And lastly, because though every flower bringeth forth a maiden, yet is there one flower that shall bring forth a man-child. And his name shall be called NEMO, when he beholdeth the face of my Father. And he that tendeth the garden seeketh not to single out the flower that shall be NEMO. He doeth naught but tend the garden. And I said: Pleasant indeed is the garden, and light is the toil of tending it, and great is the reward. An…
1919 · PDF PAGE 435
… doom, must be a voluntary absorption of Death in order to turn it into life. Never again must the Adept be deceived by his impressions, though there is that part of him which suffers. 59. For, as the diamond buried deep within the throbbing heart of earth can never mirror back the earthly lights, so are thy mind and Soul; plunged in Dhyéna-Marga, these must mirror nought of Maya's realm illusive. It is now evident that a most unfortunate metaphor has been chosen. A diamond is not much use when it is buried deep within the throbbing heart of ea…
1922 · PDF PAGE 49
… he observed, with bitter irony. For the next quarter of an hour he fought for the girl’s life. King Lamus was a very skilled physician, though he had never studied medicine officially. But I was not aware of what was going on. Cocaine was singing in my veins. I cared for nothing. Lou came over impulsively and flung herself across my knees. She held the goblet of Benedictine to my mouth, chanting ecstatically :-— “Q Thou sparkling wine-cup of light, whose foaming is the heart’s blood of the stars! I adore Thee, Evoe! I adore Thee, I A O!” We sw…
1961 · PDF PAGE 181
…dle in her Affair is Folly, for he comprehendeth not Quiet; so also for her to emulate him in his Office is Fatuity. Therefore in Magick though a Woman excel all men in every Quality that is profitable for her for Attainment, yet she is Naught in that Work, even as a Man without Hands in the Shop of a Carpenter; for She hath not the Organism that might make Use of this Opportunity. Of all this is she aware by her Instinct, for her Nature is to Understand, even without Knowledge; and if thou doubt herin the Wisdom of thy Sire, do thou seek out a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 180
…less valuable than love? Well, let them try their various plans ! Do they resolve that doubt of man’s? How many are Hegelians? 400 This, though I hold him mostly true. But, to teach others that same view ? Surely long years develop reason. After long years, too, in thy season Bloom, Concentration’s midnight flower ! 405 After much practice to this end I gain at last the long sought power (Which you believe you have this hour, - But certainly have not, my friend !) Of keeping close the mind to one 410 Thing at a time — suppose, the Sun. I gain t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 223
…form so trivial a task? Well, let it be so!” “Your scorn,” the Great White Spirit replied mildly, “ is perhaps not altogether justified. Though the hole be indeed but a bare inch—yet Graphiel owns himself beaten.” “T never thought much of Graphiel!” sneered the archangel, and his serpents echoed him till the world was filled with mocking laughter. But when he had left, he charged them straitly that the work must be regarded seriously. It would never do to fail! 205
1910 · PDF PAGE 223
…form so trivial a task? Well, let it be so!” “Your scorn,” the Great White Spirit replied mildly, “ is perhaps not altogether justified. Though the hole be indeed but a bare inch—yet Graphiel owns himself beaten.” “T never thought much of Graphiel!” sneered the archangel, and his serpents echoed him till the world was filled with mocking laughter. But when he had left, he charged them straitly that the work must be regarded seriously. It would never do to fail! 205
1922 · PDF PAGE 119
…od streams down their bodies, crazily crimson in the stabbing sunlight, and making little scabs of mire upon the torrid trampled sand. I thought of the mcenads and Bacchus; I saw them through the vivid eyes of Euripides and Swinburne. And still unsatisfied, I craved for stranger symbols yet. I became a Witch-Doctor presiding over a cannibal feast, driving the yellow mob of murderers into a fiercer Comus-rout, as the maddening beat of the tom- tom and the sinister scream of the bull-roarer destroy every human quality 1in the worshippers and make…
1922 · PDF PAGE 325
…tory,” explained Hermes, in the tone of a head master addressing an educational conference. “And what did you read last week?” said Lou, though she was rocking with laughter as much as I was. “ Shelley was being read to us,” he corrected. ‘“‘ We don’t read ourselves.” “The Tenth don’t dance,’”’ I quoted. “Don’t be an ass, Cockie,” said Lou. “Well, Hermes, but why don’t you read? ” “The Big Lion doesn’t want us to learn,” he said. “We have to learn to use our eyes, and reading spoils them.” “ But why?” asked Lou, in surprise. “I don’t understand…
1929 · PDF PAGE 38
…u a woman? No, said I, I am my husband's colleague. I think it is suggestion. You have hypnotized him? Never: but I can read his thoughts. Yes, I remember now; I read a very remarkable paper in Mind two years ago. That was child's play. But let me go on with my work. He gave some final instructions to the nurse, and went out. The suffering of Arthur was at this time unspeak- able. Chewed as he was into mere pulp that passed over the tongue of Dis, each bleeding fragment kept its own identity and his. The papillae of the tongue we…
1906 · PDF PAGE 241
AN ESSAY IN ONTOLOGY 235 being convinced on insufficient grounds.’ This is surely the last refuge of incompetence. But though, always on the original hypo- thesis of the infinity of space, &c., the Ad- vaitist position of the Vedantists and the great Germans is unassailable, yet on practical grounds the Dvaitists have all the advantage. Fichte and the others exhaust themselves trying to turn the simplé and obvious posi- tion that: ‘‘ If the Ego alone exists, where is any place, not only for morals and religion, which we can very well do without…
1907 · PDF PAGE 95
…r belly yearn for sacrifice . She leered like love on me , and smiled , and shammed , And did not pity for all her breast of spice.3 Man though he was , he is thrust into her Moloch arms . When lo ! a miracle ! he is plucked by his own fearlessness from the horrid maw , “ Free , where the blood of other men is wet ,” mingling in life till “ ten thousand little loves were brought to birth ”; then came the one woman who looked so deeply in his eyes till hers grew , shielding the sun , as a purple ring : Then in the uttermost profound I saw The ve…
1907 · PDF PAGE 182
… poem “ Aceldama .” The strife in the former from the kingdom to the crown , in the latter seems to be that of Vice towards Virtue , and though quite one of Crowley's earlier poems , it is, however , 1 The Tale of Archais , vol . i, p . 18 .
1907 · PDF PAGE 270
…its gigantic columns of intricate fractional figures , and close for ever the huge volume before them ; yet the multitude works on , and though individually they may falsify and erase , scribble over , or blot out ; yet never at any moment is the inaccu racy of one single mite discounted in the general balance ; so the bitter tears of one man go to blot out the sweet laughter of another , and as the spark ling stream and the muddy river both pour back their boiling waters into that great ocean , from out of which they sun - kissed arose , so do…
1911 · PDF PAGE 49
…hings of the spirit. (This holy alphabet must be written by sinners, that is, by those who are impure.) “Impure” means those whose every thought is followed by another thought, or who confuse the higher with the lower, the substance with the shadow. Every Aethyr is truth, though it be but a shadow, for the shadow of a man is not the shadow of an ape. (Note.—All this has come to me without voice, without vision, without thought.) (The shew-stone is pressed upon my forehead and causes intense pain; as I go on from Aethyr to Aethyr, it seems more …