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…I understood what she was saying, I was part of it. I recognised, for one swift second, the meaning of my previous depression. It was my sense of inferiority to her! Now I was her man, her mate, her master! - I rose to catch her by the waist; but she whirled away down the floor of the club like an autumn leaf before the storm. I caught the glance of Gretel Webster’s eyes. I saw them glitter with triumphant malice; and for a moment she and Lou and cocaine and myself were all inextricably interlocked in a tangled confusion of ruinous thought. |
1954 · PDF PAGE 376
… is not really the opposition that on the surface there seems to be. Perhaps it is that we are talking about two kinds of Nature. In one sense it might be asserted that the final formula of Nature is Inertia; in other words, that the dyad of manifested existence is an arbitrary and artificial development of the Zero to which everything must always cancel out. Now by saying that, we have to all intents and purposes, answered the question which it poses; all positive
1909 · PDF PAGE 297
…guage which he cannot even read, he is cross-questioned in a foreign tongue and judged in words which at present convey not a symptom of sense tohim. As the Rituals pro- ceed it might be expected that these difficulties would gradually lessen, but this is far from being the case; for, as we have seen, the complexities already involved by the introduction of Ancient Egyptian deities, concerning whom it is probable the candidate has but little knowledge, are further heightened by a general intrusion on the part of Hebrew, Christian, Mace- donian …
1909 · PDF PAGE 297
…guage which he cannot even read, he is cross-questioned in a foreign tongue and judged in words which at present convey not a symptom of sense tohim. As the Rituals pro- ceed it might be expected that these difficulties would gradually lessen, but this is far from being the case; for, as we have seen, the complexities already involved by the introduction of Ancient Egyptian deities, concerning whom it is probable the candidate has but little knowledge, are further heightened by a general intrusion on the part of Hebrew, Christian, Mace- donian …
1913 · PDF PAGE 155
…er; still thought the mind more than the body, the soul more than the mind; did not see that these three must be one in exactly the same sense as the Christian Trinity (as under- stood by the truest Christians) is One. It was in the course of this illumination that the Truth was ceremonially conveyed to him on the Magical plane, although it was not for three years later that it fully illuminated his mind. This illusion, of which it is here spoken, is a most neces- sary step for the beginner, because to the beginner his ordinary life is not a sa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 155
…er; still thought the mind more than the body, the soul more than the mind; did not see that these three must be one in exactly the same sense as the Christian Trinity (as under- stood by the truest Christians) is One. It was in the course of this illumination that the Truth was ceremonially conveyed to him on the Magical plane, although it was not for three years later that it fully illuminated his mind. This illusion, of which it is here spoken, is a most neces- sary step for the beginner, because to the beginner his ordinary life is not a sa…
1954 · PDF PAGE 526
…mind is the essence of all Yoga practices. Magick explores and learns to control those regions of Nature which lie beyond the objects of sense. Reaching the highest parts of these regions, called the divine, one proceeds
1996 · PDF PAGE 140
…r souls. Could Paganini have expressed himself on the “fiddle for eighteen pence” that someone once bought when he was “young and had no sense?” Each of us is Hadit, the core of our Khabs, our Star, one of the Company of Heaven; but this Khabs needs a Khu or Magical Image, in order to play its part in the Great Drama. This Khu, again, needs the proper costume, a suitable “body of flesh,” and this costume must be worthy of the Play. We therefore employ various magical means to increase the vigour of our bodies and the energy of our minds, to for…
1907 · PDF PAGE 296
…at the Lord's Prayer , or any invocation with which you happen to be familiar , or one made up by yourself , or one consisting wholly of senseless and barbarous words . Repeat it solemnly and aloud , expectant of some great and mysterious result. I pledge myself , if you have a spark of religion in you , that is , if you are properly a human being, that you will (at the very least ) experience a deeper sense of spiritual com munion than you have ever obtained by a course of church going , The Irishman whose first question on landing at New York…
1954 · PDF PAGE 131
…vation. To reach Nirvana's bliss but to renounce it, is the supreme, the final step-the highest on Renunciation's Path. Follows a common-sense comment by Frater O.M. All this about Gautama Buddha having renounced Nirvana is apparently all a pure invention of Mme. Blava tsky, and has no authority in the Buddhist canon. The Buddha is referred to, again and again, as having "passed away by that kind of passing away which leaves nothing whatever behind. " The account of his doing this is given in the Mahaparinibbana Sutta; and it was the contention…
1954 · PDF PAGE 417
…h live thou and die! Thus shall His laughter be thrilled through with Ecstasy. Very good! Now where were we? in the 'blitz'? Oh, yes! No sense in scuffling or slinking or skulking: so one decide! to take no notice so far as practical action is concerned. So, the noise making work rather difficult, one lies down in Shavasana (the "Corpse-Position"-flat on the back, arm! by sides, everything relaxed) or the Templar (Sleep oj Siloam) position, which is that of the Hanged Man in Tarot. One then imagines a bomb dropping first in one place. then in a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 576
… player whose pieces are powerless to move except at his command, incidents of this surprising kind would bring me back with a jerk to a sense of reality. {910} 95 I broke the journey at Rome. All through northern Italy we had been held up by bandits of Fascisti, who had occupied the railway stations. It was the day of the coup d'état. For sometime I had interested myself in Fascismo which I regarded with entire sympathy even excluding its illegitimacy on the ground that constitutional authority had become to all intents and purposes a dead let…
1904 · PDF PAGE 11
…et C . . . the brilliant but debauched sculptor, caustic of wit, though genial to his friends ; N . . . , the great painter, whos royal sense of light made his can- vases into a harmonious dream ; he also the sweet friend of Bacchus, who filled him with a glow and melody of colour and thought. There, too, were D . . . and L . . . , the one poet and philosopher, the other painter and I fear pederast. Twins in thought, the two were invincible in argument as they were supreme in their respective arts. Often I have sat, a privileged listener, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
…otherhood, those who slip back oftenest to normal consciousness of the Universe, so that even their pure wings are soiled in the mire of sense, perception, reason, and their foul kind, some of those boys, I say, forget the Writing on the outer Veil of the Indicible Arcanum, that rune which is written, “No separate existence!” in golden letters on the silver of the veil (just as within is written “No existence!” in silver letters upon the gold of the veil). [BONES smiles, seeing the way to destroy the argument of the Paper. That rune these boys …
1922 · PDF PAGE 112
… of the best period unexpectedly visited by Apollo and Venus. We palpitated not only with our internal ecstasy but with the intoxicating sense that the whole world admired and envied us. We made them feel like the contents of a waste-paper basket. The head waiter himself became a high priest. He rose to the situation like the genius he was. He was mentally on his knees as he ventured to advise us in the choice of our lunch. It seemed to us the tribute of inferior emperors. And there was that fellow King Lamus five or six tables away |! The man …
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
…uch more than was good for him. He stared, fascinated as by a basilisk, his eyes starting further and further from his head as his moral sense dragged his body backwards along the Rue
1954 · PDF PAGE 94
…hen you have understood how 0=2 is the unique, the simple, and the necessary solution of the Riddle of the Universe, there will be, in a sense, little more for you to learn about the Theory of Magick. You should, however, remember most constantly that the
1929 · PDF PAGE 257
…fering from ill-health from various trifling causes. He seemed a shade irritable and fussy. I suspect the cause was partly physical. His sense of his own importance was hurting him. Reymond I liked well enough; a quiet if rather dour man, who seemed to have a steady mind and common sense. But Pache won my heat from the moment I met him --- a simple, unaffected, unassuming gentleman. He was perfectly aware of his own inexperience on mountains, and therefore in a state to acquire information by the use of his eyes rather than of his ears. Everyth…
1929 · PDF PAGE 551
…rmously above the average. You reason clearly and correctly. You have a fair command of English. You lack only the link between soul and sense. You admit yourself second-rate and refuse to believe in the possibility of becoming first-rate, despite my theoretical demonstration and the testimony of my previous successes. That despair is, itself, one complex which inhibits your genius. Today you have shown me another. A mere animal appetite sharpened by a few days of starvation can wreck your intellect, sweep every decent instinct overboard and ma…
1910 · PDF PAGE 8
…ares that if you repeat an in- vocation solemnly and aloud, “ expectant of some great and mysterious result,” you will experience a deep sense of spiritual communion. He is now holding a series of seances. I attended at the offices of THE EQUINOX. I climbed the inter- minable stairs. I was received by a gentleman robed in white and carrying a drawn sword. The room was dark ; only a dull-red light shone upon an altar.