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Page 50 of 1031907 · PDF PAGE 119
…he'd worked that out as a boy, his alleged character might have forced him to its own path. When I was in Marrakesh, they lynched a poor old man because their mosque had been defiled in some real or imaginary way (with which he had in any case nothing to do, having been paralyzed for years). The excuse was, on the soles of his feet the creases formed the word Allah, so that he always trod upon the name of God! They killed Burckhardt for that, by the way. A pure invention in both instances. I saw his feet, and they were just like anybody else’s, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 280
THE NEW WINE 273 AGNOSTICISM Ex Oriente Lux . As old as the Vedas is the idea of Agnosticism , though in name it is not yet forty years of age . Everywhere we look we find the 'Ayvborq Oeq of Paul , midst the Greeks , the Egyptians , the Hebrews , the Chaldeans , the Aryans , and the Chinese , and its light is focussed in the greatest of the great : Socrates and Plato , Malebranche and Descartes , Locke and Spinoza , Hume and Berkeley , Swedenborg and Kant , Hegel and Comte , Tyndall , Spencer , and Huxley . Declining the mimetic , seeking the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 59
…the smitten noon ! O sworded with the majesty of light, O girded with the glory of the moon ! Angel of absolute splendour ! link of mine Old weary spirit with the All-Divine ! Ship that shalt carry me by many winds Driven on limitless ocean ! Mighty sword, By which I force that barrier of the minds Miscomprehension of its own true lord ! Listen, and answer, and behold my brow Fiery with hope ! Bend down, and touch it now ! Press the twin dawn of thy desirous lips In the swart masses of my hair ; bend close, And shroud all earth in masterless e…
1929 · PDF PAGE 130
14 Chapter AN INFORMATIVE DISCOURSE UPON THE OCCULT CHARACTER OF THE MOON, HER THREEFOLD NATURE, HER FOURFOLD PHASES, AND HER EIGHT-AND-TWENTY MANSIONS; WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE EVENTS THAT PRECEDED THE CLIMAX OF THE GREAT EXPERIMENT, BUT ESPECIALLY OF THE VISION OF ILIEL THE Ancients, whose wisdom is so much despised by those who have never studied it, but content themselves with a pretence of understanding modern science which deceives nobody, would have smiled to observe how often the "latest discoveries" are equivalent to some fancy of Aristo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 281
274 THE STAR IN THE WEST For the old gods indeed go down to death , But the new gods arise from rottenness . 1 2 The pantheistic idea , which is so near akin to the agnostic , we find set in the fine prayer of Jephthah , and still more so in the final words of Tannhäuser : I say , then “ I ”; and yet it is not “ I ” Distinct , but “ I " incorporate in All.3 It further finds development in the last four lines of “ Ode to Poesy ”: No man, No petty god , but One who governs all , Slips the sun's leash , perceives the sparrow's fall , Too high for …
1909 · PDF PAGE 48
…understand quite easily with the mantragoing; 8.22. 8.40. 9.0. 46 one can remember things. For example, I see my watch chain; I think. “Gold. Au, 196 atomic weight. AuClg, £s 105. od. an ounce ” and so on aw! infinitum; but the act of writing down these things stops the mantra. This may be (partly) because I always say under my breath each word as I write it. [P.S.-But I do so, though less possibly, as I read] As I am really awake, I may as well do a little Prana- yama. How little I know of magic and the conditions of success! My 17 cycles of b…
1910 · PDF PAGE 64
…in Nubian mire ; thou art fat ; thou stinkest ; thy voice is getting like a jackal’s, while thy podex is no more elastic than a ten year old
1919 · PDF PAGE 227
… Order, endow- ment is welcome.) 12. Every Brother shall show himself solicitous of, the comfort and happiness of any Brother who may be old, at- tending not only to all material wants, but to his amusement, so that his declining years may be made joyful. FIFTH HOUSE 13. Every Brother shall seek constantly to give pleasure to all Brethren with whom he is acquainted, whether by entertainment or conversation, or in any other manner that may suggest itself. It will frequently and naturally arise that love itself springs up between members of the O…
1961 · PDF PAGE 149
…to attain unto Samadhi, and to urge thyself perpetually to repetition of thy Successes therein, for it hath been said by Philosophers of old that Practice maketh Perfect, and that Manners, being the constant Habit of Life, maketh Man. t
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
…rundy cries shame as she squints askew through the half - closed fingers of her hand , but we refuse to see why this pudibonderie of the old “ Unco gude ” should make the discussion of “ nympho maniacs ” a tabooed subject, whilst she trumpets from the top of her holy bordel (St. Paul's ) deafening blasts of chaste ( !) “ bibliomania .” Often these unfortunates are of noble and generous character , who , striving against their fearful adversity , have not the strength of will to cast off and slay the dragon of their despair . The horror of this …
1944 · PDF PAGE 104
…f Resurrection (the letter Qoph means the back of the head, and is connected with the potencies of the cerebellum). In the system of the old Aeon, the resurrection of the Sun was not only from winter, but from night; and this card represents midnight. “There is a budding morrow in midnight”, wrote Keats. For this reason there appears at the bottom of the card, underneath the water which is tinged with graphs of abomination, the sacred Beetle, the Egyptian Khephra, bearing in his mandibles the Solar Disk. It is this Beetle that bears the Sun in …
1909 · PDF PAGE 33
…ust and indignation with Allah for not doing Hisjob properly. I say in vain “ Labbaik! ” [I am here—En] He answers, “ But I ’m not here, old boy—another leg-pull ! ” He little knows His man, though, if He thinks He can insult me with impunity. Andre, un sandwich l [Beyt Allah, the Mosque at Mecca, means " House of God ”—ED.] I shall stop mantra while I eat, so as to concentrate (a) on the chewing, (b) on defiling the House of God. Not so easy! the damned thing runs on like a prairie fire. Important then to stop it absolutely at will : even the Wo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 54
…t of all research students on the one hand and imaginative writers on the other. We can only express a new idea by combining two or more old ideas, or by the use of metaphor; just so any number can be formed from two others. James Hinton had undoubtedly a perfectly crisp, simple, and concise idea of the fourth dimension of space; he found the utmost difficulty in conveying it to others, even when they were advanced matematicians. It is (I believe) the greatest factor that militates against human progress that great men assume they will be und…
1907 · PDF PAGE 297
…tion . “ There fore , O Ananda , be ye lamps unto yourselves . Be ye a refuge to yourselves . Betake yourselves to no ex ternal refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp . Hold fast as a refuge to the truth . Look not for refuge to any one besides yourselves .” (Mahaparanibbana Sutta , ii , 33. ) ' YOGA » 2 Now comes the supreme question : How is this in ward mystery revealed ? And the answer is : In the East by Yoga , and in the West by Magic . “ Thus East and West from A to Z agree . In the East , by an entirely artificial and scientific metho…
1910 · PDF PAGE 16
…e done. I was said to have tried “ to corrupt Chamberlain ” — not our great patriotic statesman, shifty Joe — but a boy. (I was 12 years old, and quite ignorant of all sexual matters till long after). Also I had “ held a mock prayer mee- ting ”. This I remembered. I had strolled up to a group of boys in the playground, who were indeed holding one. As they saw me one said : “ Brother Crowley will now lead us in prayer ”. Brother Crowley was too wary, and walked away. But instead of doing what a wise boy would have done : gone straight to the hea…
1954 · PDF PAGE 295
…t and about at that hour. Their reason for being there was odd, too. They were there to assist at the publication of a book by a 62-year old magician, ALEISTER CROWLEY. Publication occurred at 6: 22 sharp, when the Sun entered Capricornus. Crowley made a short speech; as "the Priest of the Princes" proclaimed the Law of Thelema; handed copies of book to white, red, brown, black, yellow representatives. Representative of the "black" race was a dancing-girl. Indian was a non-English speaking Bengali Muslim, who seemed rather puzzled by the whole …
1954 · PDF PAGE 389
…incident, not quite relevant in this place, but yet of such supreme significance that I dare not omit it. I must have been about 6 years old. I was capering round 'my father during a walk through the meadows. He pointed out a bunch of nettles in the corner of the field, close to the gate (I can see it quite clearly to-day!) and told me that if I touched them they would sting. Some word , gesture, or expression of mine 356
1909 · PDF PAGE 137
…«The enemy of the great magician.’ “We went together to my house. I had begun to suspect some trick of Hell. The malice of that devilish old woman, it might be, had not slept, even at her death. She had hidden the house beneath a magicveil? Or had her death itself in some strange way operated to—to what? Even conjecture paled. “ But magic somewhere there must be, and Eliphaz Levi was the most famous adept in Paris at the time. “T told my story, just as I have told it to you, but with strong passion. “«There is an illusion, master!’ I ended. ‘Pu…
1909 · PDF PAGE 137
…«The enemy of the great magician.’ “We went together to my house. I had begun to suspect some trick of Hell. The malice of that devilish old woman, it might be, had not slept, even at her death. She had hidden the house beneath a magicveil? Or had her death itself in some strange way operated to—to what? Even conjecture paled. “ But magic somewhere there must be, and Eliphaz Levi was the most famous adept in Paris at the time. “T told my story, just as I have told it to you, but with strong passion. “«There is an illusion, master!’ I ended. ‘Pu…
1922 · PDF PAGE 47
…nto my mind: it was simply fatigue—I needn’t bother about that. As if in answer to my thought, Lou took a small cut-glass bottle with a gold-chased top from her pocket, unscrewed it and shook out some cocaine on the back of her hand. She flashed a provocative glance in my direction. The studio suddenly filled with the reverberation of her chant :— ‘“O Thou naked virgin of love, that art caught in a net of wild roses! I adore Thee, Evoe! I adore Thee, I A O!” ‘‘ Quite so,” agreed King Lamus cheerfully. “ You'll excuse me, I know, if I ask whethe…