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Page 47 of 791910 · PDF PAGE 14
… ” by their best poets, such as Hafiz for example ; and they endeavour to make out that the text is to be taken in a mystic or spiritual sense, such as we apply to the “ song of Solo- mon.” It appears to me, however, that Hafiz writes upon this favourite theme just as naturally, and with as much gusto, as either Anacreon or Horace, who in this respect may be safely acquitted of the sins of mysticism. The first couplet of the Ghazal is called the Matla’, or “ the place of rising ” (of a heavenly body), which we may translate the “ Opening.” It i…
1911 · PDF PAGE 47
…is not perfect. I am only in the outer court of the vision, because I have undertaken it in the service of the Holy One, and must retain sense and speech. No recorded vision is perfect, of high visions, for the seer must keep either his physical organs or his memory in working order. And neither is capable. There is no bridge. One can only be conscious of one thing at a time, and as the consciousness moves nearer to the vision, it loses control of the physical and mental. Even so, the body and the mind must be very perfect before anything can b…
1954 · PDF PAGE 342
…esired shape at will, by dint of a little manipulation ; and if Thelema has freed him morally , as it should have done , from all the nonsense of Plato , Manu, Draco, Solon , Paul (with his harpy brood) , John Stuart Mill, and Kant, he can make his decision with purely objective judgment. (Where would mathematics be if certain solutions were a priori inadmissible?) But then , what about that plaguy first weapon in his armoury? It must be these instincts , simply because we have eliminated all the other possibilities . What are they? Two are the…
1996 · PDF PAGE 203
…ss. I love you! I yearn to you! Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, I who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you. Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you: come unto me! 62. At all my meetings with you shall the priestess say—and her eyes shall burn with desire as she stands bare and rejoicing in my secret temple—To me! To me! calling forth the flame of the hearts of all in her love-chant. 63. Sing the rapturous love-song unto me! Burn to me perfumes! Wear to me jewels! Drink to me, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 43
… his thought, or I could not read it. I had no reason to conjecture that any other thoughts could reach me. He must be alive in the true sense of the word; it was he and not another that
1929 · PDF PAGE 397
… pounds for each such offence. I sat down and poured in a broadside at close quarters. "My dear man," I said in effect, "do recover your sense of proportion, to say nothing of your sense of humour. Your contribution, indeed! I can do in two days what takes you six months, and my real reason for ever printing your work at all is my friendship for you. I wanted to give you a leg up the literary ladder. I have taken endless pain to teach you the first principles of writing. When I met you, you were not so much as a fifth-rate journalist, and now y…
1930 · PDF PAGE 85
…orsook him no more, but made Him a Magus, the Word of the Aeon of Horus ! For know this, that the Name IAF in its most secret and mighty sense declareth the Formula of the Magick of the BEAST whereby he wrought many wonders. And because he doth will that the whole world shall attain to this Art, He now hideth it herein so that the worthy may win to Elis Wisdom. Let I and F face ail j 2 yet ward their A from attack. The Hermit to himself, the Fool to foes, 1. But see also the general solution of the Riddle of Existence in the Book of the Law and…
1935 · PDF PAGE 6
… Samadhi. Magus. — Attains to wisdom, declares his law (See Liber I, vel Magi) and is a Master of all Magick in its greatest and highest sense. Ipsissimus. — Is beyond all this and beyond all comprehension of those of lower degrees. But of these last three Grades see some further account in The Temple of Solomon the King, Equinox I to X and elsewhere. It should be stated that these Grades are not necessarily attained fully, and in strict consecution, or manifested wholly on all planes. The subject is very difficult, and entirely beyond the limi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 124
…with his own eyes the famous phantom city. This yarn has for me a peculiar fascination. I am not sure that I do not believe that in some sense it is true, thought it would be hard to say in exactly what sense. I heard the story at least a dozen times; twice first-hand from serious informants. The story varies but slightly and only in unimportant details. It general tenor is this: A man on horseback, sometimes a solitary prospector, sometimes a member of a party temporarily separated from the rest, but always alone, loses his way in hilly wooded…
1929 · PDF PAGE 392
…essions depends less on external objects than on the modulations of one's moods. The solitude and silence of these shadowy groves soothe sense and thought so that the soul becomes aware of every modulation of its melody. A few miles beyond Bou Sada there is no road. The last link with civilization is broken. It is no longer possible to pretend that the world is a mere stage where we may strut and scream without facing the facts. Each man must match himself, alone as at the hour of death, with each inexorable fact that nature flings in his face…
1929 · PDF PAGE 465
…rated one to him. I need only observe there that Alexander Harvey, more subtle and ethereal than Poe himself, possesses a delicacy and a sense of humour as exquisite, elfish, elusive as any man that ever wrote. His irony is incomparably keen. That I should have missed the point taught me a much needed lesson. To pick up a book, persuaded that no good thing can come out of Nazareth, makes appreciation impossible. Harvey introduced me to Edwin Markham, whose The Man with the Hoe, and other poems is assuredly first-rate of its kind. His work is un…
1910 · PDF PAGE 70
…t beyond all that have preceded it. Destroy this consciousness, and the Unknowable may become the Known, or at least the Unknown, in the sense of the un- discovered. Thus we find the old Vedantist presupposing an Atman and a ciuBorov of it, so that he might better transmute * Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 2. 4. 12. + The illusion of thinking ourselves similar to the Unity and yet separated from It. 58
1910 · PDF PAGE 70
…t beyond all that have preceded it. Destroy this consciousness, and the Unknowable may become the Known, or at least the Unknown, in the sense of the un- discovered. Thus we find the old Vedantist presupposing an Atman and a ciuBorov of it, so that he might better transmute * Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, 2. 4. 12. + The illusion of thinking ourselves similar to the Unity and yet separated from It. 58
1930 · PDF PAGE 128
…il things con- nected with it, and let that subject be one which commonly occu- pies much of thy thought, being frequently stimulated by sense- perceptions or the conversation of others. — 428 —
1911 · PDF PAGE 131
…for each one nods gravely as if in solemn acquiescence, until the last one whispers the same words in my ears. But they have a different sense. I had taken them to be a denial of the existence of God, but the man who says them to me evidently means nothing of the sort: What he Iv Rk 129
1922 · PDF PAGE 151
…here _ can be no doubt at all that this man will be caught in a very few hours, and you'll have all your things back.’ a Of course I had sense enough to know that he didn’t believe a word of what he was saying. The proverb, “ Set a thief to catch a thief,” doesn’t apply to Italy. If a thief were worth stealing, that would be another story. , There was no boat back to Naples that night. There was nothing to do but to wait till the morning. The manager was extremely sympathetic. He got us some clothes, if not exactly what we were accustomed to, a…
1996 · PDF PAGE 151
… number of potentialities to be satisfied. In other words, the more complex the Khu of the Star, the greater the man, and the keener his sense of his own imperfections of the scope of his work, and of his need to achieve it. 75. Aye! listen to the numbers & the words: 76. 4638ABK24ALGMOR3YX24 89RPSTOV A L. What meaneth this, o prophet? Thou knowest not; nor shalt thou know ever. There cometh one to follow thee: he shall expound it. But remember, o chosen one, to be me; to follow the love of Nu in the star-lit heaven; to look forth upon men, to …
1911 · PDF PAGE 61
… because it is the Next Step. And those Mysteries which lie beyond, though they be holier, are not holy unto thee, but only remote. (The sense of this passage seems to be, that the holiness of a thing implies its personal relation with one, just as one cannot blaspheme an unknown god, because one does not know what to say to annoy him. And this explains the perfect inefficiency of those who try to insult the saints; the most violent attacks are very often merely clumsy compliments). Now the Angel is spread completely over the globe, a dewy film…
1954 · PDF PAGE 477
…the best opposing team of one-excuse my Irish! Well, what tortoise is that elephant based upon? Why, still obviously, upon the universal sense of individual weakness. We all want a big bruvver to tell of him! Hence the Gods and the Classes. It's fear at the base of the whole pyramid of skulls. How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as such knows the futility of appealing to intelligence, indeed to any other qualities than those of brutes. And so, whenever we f…
1954 · PDF PAGE 533
… practises therefore are devoted to exploring the worlds which surround (if you choose, or if you prefer-are contained in) the object of sense. If there is a tree in your garden, you want to find out whether that tree is occupied by a nymph or a nat, and if so, what are they like? How do they act? How can you make them useful to your purpose? It is in fact the ordinary every-day scientific method of exploration. The only difference is that in the course of one's experiments one becomes aware of parts of the nature of the object to be examined w…