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Page 50 of 831929 · PDF PAGE 568
…im to complete the work as best he could. {898} I wrote several times from America, but failed to get any reply. On my return I tried to find him, but without success. It became vitally important to re-establish relations as Cowie claimed that the missing property of the Order was in his charge. I tried all sorts of plans, but without result. One day, however, as the Ape and I were taking a short cut through Soho, she insisted on inquiring at one of his old addresses. I objected to waste time on a certain failure. But she insisted and went roun…
1909 · PDF PAGE 241
… lips, escapes from the stuffy cloisters of mildewed learning, and the colleges of dialectic dogmatics, and seeks, what as yet he cannot find in the freedom which in his youthful ardour appears to him to live but a furlong or two beyond the spires and gables of that city of hidebound pedants which had been his school, his home, and his prison. Then came the great awakening. Curious to say, it was towards the hour of midnight on the last day of the year when the old slinks away from the new, that he happened to be riding alone, wrapped in the da…
1909 · PDF PAGE 241
… lips, escapes from the stuffy cloisters of mildewed learning, and the colleges of dialectic dogmatics, and seeks, what as yet he cannot find in the freedom which in his youthful ardour appears to him to live but a furlong or two beyond the spires and gables of that city of hidebound pedants which had been his school, his home, and his prison. Then came the great awakening. Curious to say, it was towards the hour of midnight on the last day of the year when the old slinks away from the new, that he happened to be riding alone, wrapped in the da…
1954 · PDF PAGE 51
…nowledge grows by use-and books of reference. One cannot set a pupil definite tasks beyond the groundwork I am giving you, and we should find this correspondence taking clear shape of its own accord. You have really more than you can do already. And I can only tell
1904 · PDF PAGE 7
…ly draw a com- parison between my self and the great re- formers of eighty years ago. * So it is usually supposed. Maybe I shall one day find wor ds to com bat, perhaps to over throw, this position. P.S. As, f or exam ple, the Note to this I ntroduction. As a pr omise-keeper I am the original eleven stone three Peacherine.—A.C. I must apologise (perhaps) for the new note of frivolity in m y work : due doubtless to the frivolity of m y subject : these poems being written when I was an Advaitist and could not see why —everything being an illusion…
1922 · PDF PAGE 86
…ve you and Sir Peter back to your hotel,” said our host to Lou. “You've had a rather rough time. I prescribe a good night’s rest. You'll find a dose of H. a very useful pick-me-up in the morning, but, for Heaven’s sake, don’t flog a willing horse. Just the minutest sniff, and then coke up gradually when you begin to feel like getting up. By lunch time you'll be feeling like a couple of two-year-olds.” He paid the bill, and we went out. As luck would have it, a taxi had just discharged a party at the door. So we drove home without. any trouble.
1929 · PDF PAGE 70
… A bitterly cold wind was blowing from the north-west, so that we could not pass the night on the ridge or on that side of it. We had to find shelter on the eastern face. It was too dark to get down the cliffs, even if young Travers had been equal to the effort, and they were very steep. There was not even a reasonable ledge. However, we found a chimney where the boy could rest in moderate comfort and there was a sort of shelf which accommodated his brother. As for me, the best repose I could find was to wedge myself across the chimney with one…
1929 · PDF PAGE 82
…a consciousness of their own which is infallible. I am reminded of the Shetland ponies (see Wilkie Collin's The Two Destinies) which can find their way through the most bewildering bogs and mist. This faculty is not only retrospective --- I can find my way infallibly over unknown country in any weather. The only thing that stops me is the interference of my conscious mind. I have several other savage faculties; in particular, I can smell snow and water, though for ordinary things my olfactory sense is far below the average. I cannot distinguish…
1919 · PDF PAGE 48
…o another be appointed. It should now be perfectly simple for everybody to under- stand the Message of the Master Therion. Thou must (1) Find out what is thy Will. (2) Do that Will with (a) one-pointedness, (b) detachment, (c) peace. Then, and then only, art thou in harmony with the Move- ment of Things, thy will part of, and therefore equal to, the Will of God. And since the will is but the dynamic aspect of the self, and since two different selves could not possess identical wills; then, if thy will be God’s will, Thou art That. There is but …
1929 · PDF PAGE 113
…bidden to amuse themselves when the day's work was over. Till this time I had never been in any reputedly hot country. I was appalled to find New York intolerable. I filled a cold bath, and got in and out of it at intervals till eleven at night, when I crawled, panting, through the roasting streets and consumed ice-water, iced watermelon, ice- cream and iced coffee. "Good God," I said to myself, "and this is merely New York! What must Mexico be like!" I supposed that I was experiencing normal conditions, whereas in point of fact I had landed at…
1910 · PDF PAGE 112
THE EQUINOX called Pranayama. And thus it is that we find the Yogi saying that he who can control the Prana can control the Universe. To the perfect man there can be nothing in nature that is not under his control. If he orders the gods to come, they will come at his bidding. . . . All the forces of nature will obey him as his slaves, and when the ignorant see these powers of the Yogi, they call them miracles.* PRANAYAMA The two nerve currents Pingala and Ida correspond to the sensory and motor nerves, one is afferent and the other efferent. Th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 112
THE EQUINOX called Pranayama. And thus it is that we find the Yogi saying that he who can control the Prana can control the Universe. To the perfect man there can be nothing in nature that is not under his control. If he orders the gods to come, they will come at his bidding. . . . All the forces of nature will obey him as his slaves, and when the ignorant see these powers of the Yogi, they call them miracles.* PRANAYAMA The two nerve currents Pingala and Ida correspond to the sensory and motor nerves, one is afferent and the other efferent. Th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 20
…he Blasted Tower, and so on. As soon as this sort of work, which can be done in a quite ligh thearted spirit, becomes habitual. you will find your mind running naturally in this direction, and will be surprised at your progress. Never let your mind wander from the fact that your Qabalah is not my Qabalah; a good many of the things which I have noted may be useful to you, but you must construct your own system so that it is a living weapon in your hand. The novelist Philip Wylie, many years ago earned a reputation for himself by the writing of a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 484
…d Adorations and all such mnemonics, you are not likely to go very far wrong. Wands: this is obviously a pure question of Will. You will find as you go on that obstacles of varying degrees of difficulty confront you ; and the way in which you deal with them is most carefully watched. The best advice that I can give is to remember that there is little need of the Bull-at-a-Gate method , though that must always be ready in reserve; no, the best analogy is rapier-play. Elastic strength . Warfare shows us. That seems to cover your question more or …
1909 · PDF PAGE 376
…tensely everyday. A box so mighty needed a cover. In consequence, knowing that the hour of my death might strike at any moment, I had to find a man-cover to replace me in that event; one who would never forget to reintegrate the box every night. Proceeding in order, I looked around me; and at once 368
1909 · PDF PAGE 376
…tensely everyday. A box so mighty needed a cover. In consequence, knowing that the hour of my death might strike at any moment, I had to find a man-cover to replace me in that event; one who would never forget to reintegrate the box every night. Proceeding in order, I looked around me; and at once 368
1922 · PDF PAGE 184
…sunrise in spring. — “That’s talking,” he said. ‘‘I’m glad you've got the idea. Don’t think I’m trying to put you off, but if you should find it more difficult than you imagine, don’t be too proud to come to me! I really do know some fairly good tips.” I was glad that Peter took it in good part. Being in good form, he realised, I suppose, that it was a serious business. We might strike a snag. August 23 The night has been a miracle! We went on taking H. pretty steadily. I think the C. spoils it. Our love bloomed afresh as if it was a new creati…
1904 · PDF PAGE 48
…he cautious Kluckchoo withdrew, only to be summoned in all haste to the royal apartments three days later, when Mrs Arthur disclosed her find to her keeper. To make a long story short, the K..g was so de- lighted with the Appendix-fuck of Kluckchoo, that he did absolutely nothing else all day and all night. Affairs of state went by the board, and to the cringing official who dared to remind him of his approaching coronation, he replied : Bugger the Coronation ! This language shocked the prudish English, and damaged the K..gs popularity in Non-…
1954 · PDF PAGE 526
…HOD OF TRAINING 493 validity, of our system, is the matchless harmony of its elements. Always, when we pursue anyone path to its end, we find that it has become one with some other path which at the outset appeared utterly irreconcilable with it. ("Write down that the tearing apart is the crushing together" comes from an actual experience. See Liber 418, The Vision and the Voice, which teems with similar passages, and is itself an outstanding example of the unity of the Yogic and the Magical methods.) To study Yoga, you have my Book 4 Part I an…
1929 · PDF PAGE 11
…ord would cure her. But no word came. Incidentally she heard that Cyril Grey was playing golf at Hoylake; she had a mad impulse to go to find him; another to kill herself. But Lavinia King, perceiving after many days that something was wrong — after many days, for her thoughts rarely strayed beyond the contemplation of her own talents and amusements — carried her off to Paris. She needed her, anyhow, to play hostess. But three days after their arrival Lisa received a postcard. It bore nothing but an address and a question-mark. No signature; sh…