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146 The Diary of a Drug Fiend charming, light, familiar way; but every smile was an insult, every caress was a stab. , We got back to the Savoy, utterly worn out and wretched. We kept on taking H. and C. all night; we couldn’t sleep, we talked about the drugs. It was just a long argument about how to take them. We felt we were somehow doing it wrong. I had been so proud of his medical knowledge, and yet it didn’t seem to throw any light. It seems that in the medical books, they speak of what they call “ Drug virginity.” The thing was to get it …
1913 · PDF PAGE 121
…is of his own emotions; for until these are overcome he will be incapable of judging others. This analysis may be carried out in various ways; one is the material- istic way. For example, if oppressed by nightmare, let him explain: " This nightmare is a cerebral congestion." The strict way of doing this by meditation is Mahasatipatthana,^ but ' See Crowley, "Collected Works," vol. ii, pp. 252-254.
1954 · PDF PAGE 530
EPISTOLA PENULTIMA 497 postulation of another being is not necessary. There is no way of refuting the solipsism if you feel like that. Personally I cannot accede to its axiom. The evidence for an external universe appears to me perfectly adequate. Still there is no extra charge for thinking on those lines if you so wish. I have paid a great deal of attention in the course of my life to the method of exalting the human consciousness in this way; and it is really quite legitimate to identify my teaching with that of the Yogis. I must however poin…
1909 · PDF PAGE 171
… mismanagement; that he will have a long and hard struggle, but will meet with help from friends; that his obstacles will gradually give way; and that after much anxiety he will eventually recoup himself for his previous losses. II L 161
1909 · PDF PAGE 171
… mismanagement; that he will have a long and hard struggle, but will meet with help from friends; that his obstacles will gradually give way; and that after much anxiety he will eventually recoup himself for his previous losses. II L 161
1906 · PDF PAGE 96
… guts Disturb their dinner’s process. Thus one man’s work is one man’s play; The melancholy help the merry. All tread the ordered stupid way At Paris, upon Dead Man’s Day, In Pére Lachaise his cemetery. 88
1961 · PDF PAGE 47
…e that Thought upon another by any Threat of Penalty in this World or any other World. Look now, though I enkindle thee to Effort in thy Way, yet it is the Way of thy Will, and I say not even that thou dost well to hasten therein, for the whole Matter lieth in thy Will, and to force thyself against thy Nature would be an Obstacle to thy Passage. But if I urge thee to run well this Race as an Athlete, it is because I have perceived in thy Nature that firce Lust and mighty Concentration in that Will, and I write this Letter unto thee, knowing wel…
1912 · PDF PAGE 53
…schoolsadvocate practising a mantra with the aid ofinstrumental music and dancing. Certainly very remarkable effects are obtained in the way of “magic” powers; whether great spiritual results are equally common is a doubtful point. Persons wishing to study them may re- member that the Sahara desert is within three days of London; and no doubt the Sidi Aissawa would be glad to accept pupils. This discussion of the parallel science of mantra-yoga has led us far indeed from the subject of Pranayama. Pranayama is notably useful in quieting the emot…
1912 · PDF PAGE 95
…eak my pride. I will speak with you, shamed. I would that I had died There at the hands of the mob : I might have matched you then. Make way there ! God bring all to favour, gentlemen ! [The mob in angry silence make way for him to pass. MONICA, raising her hands in blessing, retires from the window. SCENE III. The room of THE GOVERNOR. MONICA closes the window. MONICA. Leave me in peace, my lord, I shall not try to escape. GOVERNOR. With heartiest accord. [He goes out, with her gaolers. Faugh ! the perspiring ape. I may not dare to smile, lest…
1913 · PDF PAGE 388
THE EQUINOX itself with superstition and fanaticism, borrow from stupidity its blind prejudices, and would borrow perhaps in the same way from fanaticism its injustices and angers. Inquisitors or Septembrisors,’ what matter names? The religion of Jesus Christ condemns, and has always condemned, assassins. 1 Those who took part in the massacres of the Revolution of the 4th Septem- ber, 1792.—TRANS, go
1913 · PDF PAGE 388
THE EQUINOX itself with superstition and fanaticism, borrow from stupidity its blind prejudices, and would borrow perhaps in the same way from fanaticism its injustices and angers. Inquisitors or Septembrisors,’ what matter names? The religion of Jesus Christ condemns, and has always condemned, assassins. 1 Those who took part in the massacres of the Revolution of the 4th Septem- ber, 1792.—TRANS, go
1954 · PDF PAGE 351
…e Abyss; and there is no Path. That means that one must jump . You must get rid of "all that you have, and all that you are"-that is one way to put it. The Vision and the Voice, Aethyrs 16-end, gives an immense amount of detail ; it must be studied intensely, with diligence, with Will, and with imagination. Not only the attainment of the grade, but the events which go with, or come after, it; all these are described as actual Experience. Even so, it is all extraordinarily difficult until you have been through it yourself. But that part which an…
1954 · PDF PAGE 516
…ts money to produce; and who will produce anything which can only appeal to the very few-to none at all, soon, if these swine have their way. So, if it is new, is original, is worth one's while, it must be ignored . Besides, being new and incomprehensible to the great Us, it may be dangerous, and must be suppressed. In all literature I know no pages so terrifying as those in Louis Marlow's Mr. Amberthwaite, which describe his dream. I wish I could quote it, with Sinai as the orchestra; never mind, read it again. And we are on the way-far on the…
1922 · PDF PAGE 201
… I couldn’t find some and steal it. And I didn’t mean to let Peter know. On the top of everything else was the torture of shame. I had always been proud of my pride. A subtle serenity made my brain swim when I got into the street. It delighted me to be alone—to have got rid of Peter. I felt him as a restraining influence, and I had shaken him off. I despised myself for having loved him. I wanted to go to the devil my own way. I found Basil in, and alone. What luck! That hateful tall thin girl was out of the way. Basil received me with his usual…
1909 · PDF PAGE 58
…ng forth 56 from that one Fountain issued: whose Foundation is One, One and Alone.” As therefore Discipline of whatever kind is only one way of going into a wood at midnight on Easter Eve and cutting the magic wand with a single blow of the magic knife, etc. etc. etc., we can regard the Western system as the essential one. Yet of course Pranayama, for one thing, has its own definite magical effect, apart from teaching the practitioner that he must last out those three seconds—those deadly long last three seconds—even if he burst in the process. …
1919 · PDF PAGE 8
…ortrait by Henry B. Camp 129 THE LAMEN OF FRATER V.LO. 169 THE PANTACLE OF FRATER V.I.0. 170 BAPHOMET.—Portrait by Arnold Genthe 197 THE WAY, by Aleister Crowley Supplement 3
1961 · PDF PAGE 69
… FOLLY 57 Be De Necessitate Voluntatis (Of the Necessity of Will) ND how then (sayest thou?) shall I reconcile this Art Magick with that Way of the Tao which achieveth all Things by doing nothing? But this have I already declared to thee in Part, showing that thou canst do no Magick save it be thy Nature to do Magick and so the true Nothing for thee. For to do nothing signifieth to interfere with nothing so that for a Magician to do no Magick is to commit Violence on himself. Yet learn also that all Action is in some sense Magick, being an esse…
1938 · PDF PAGE 14
…o I learn how best to make myself fit to fulfil my Life, in the Life of the Master, and offer my blood to His Heart. 0. Know Naught! All ways are lawful to Innocence. Pure folly is the Key to Initiation. Silence breaks into Rapture. Be neither man nor woman, but both in one. Be silent, Babe in the Egg of Blue, that thou mayest grow to bear the Lance and Graal! Wander alone, and sing! In the King's Palace his daughter awaits thee. I. The True Self is the meaning of the True Will: know Thyself through Thy Way! Calculate well the Formula of Thy Wa…
1954 · PDF PAGE 430
…e, they shake one's resolution, kill one's enthusiasm, devitalize one's faith and courage. Yes, we all know such people. Mercury, by the way, is the planet responsible. I have examined a considerable number of nativities, both of murderers and of people murdered; in both cases it was not a "malefic" that did the dirty work, but poor tiny innocent silvery-shining Mercury! You, however, are thinking more of the vampire of romance. Bram Stoker's Dracula and its kindred. That is a splendidly well-documented book, by the way; he got his 397
1909 · PDF PAGE 8
…of giving the reins into the hands of others that I have written this record, not without pain. Others, reading it, will see the sort of way one sets to work ; they will imitate and improve upon it; they will attain to the Magistry; they will prepare the Red Tincture and the Elixir of Life—for they will discover what Life means.