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Page 52 of 841913 · PDF PAGE 268
…ocence. There are several mistakes in these few pages—climate and natural history in particular. Figure to yourself that this bit of the book reads to me almost as Trléy reads to you !— THE YELLOW Wuat-Ho. A subterfuge in fugues. The Blue Grotto. No publisher. No price. No anything. 230 KING CROWLEY of Bronchitis-town To Bernard Smith of great renown To set his shaven soul at ease These laryngeal lymphanies. Where Digitalis roams among The Endotherms, and on the tongue Follicular papilla weave Their lustral locks, and rosy eve Sheds her soft to…
1913 · PDF PAGE 268
…ocence. There are several mistakes in these few pages—climate and natural history in particular. Figure to yourself that this bit of the book reads to me almost as Trléy reads to you !— THE YELLOW Wuat-Ho. A subterfuge in fugues. The Blue Grotto. No publisher. No price. No anything. 230 KING CROWLEY of Bronchitis-town To Bernard Smith of great renown To set his shaven soul at ease These laryngeal lymphanies. Where Digitalis roams among The Endotherms, and on the tongue Follicular papilla weave Their lustral locks, and rosy eve Sheds her soft to…
1916 · PDF PAGE 15
…man with the sense of order so admirably developed as Mr. Stuart. He can lay his hands on any scrap of paper at a moments notice. Every book in his shelves has its proper place. His house is fitted with every convenience and even luxury, yet entirely without ostentation or extravagance. Nor is the order in which things are kept a visible order. No one would suspect it. It is
1919 · PDF PAGE 419
…im to take the First Great Oath. He had suddenly presented to him the perception of the Three Characteristics. This is fully narrated in Book 4, Part IV. It is also evident that aspiration implies dissatisfaction of some sort. But at the same time I do not think that in all cases it is necessary that this dissatisfaction should be so conscious and so universal as appears to be implied in the text. : 26. Armed with the key of Charity, of love and tender mercy, thou art secure before the gate of Dana, the gate that standeth at the entrance of the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 127
… and the transfiguring power of the rhythms.”—New York Nation. Mr. G. K. Chesterton also writes a_column and a quarter in praise of this book in the Daily News; we quote the following: ‘“To the side of a mind concerned with idle merriment [sic!] there is certainly something a little funny in Mr. Crowley’s passionate devotion to deities who bear such names as Mout, and Nuit, and Ra, and Shu, and Hormakhou. They do not seem to the English mind to lend themselves to pious exhilaration. Mr. Crowley says in the same poem: ‘The burden is too hard to …
1930 · PDF PAGE 68
… guished, even among ourselves. 7. The written record should be intelligently prepared so that others may benefit from its study. 8. The Book John St John published in the first number of the “Equinox” is an example of this kind of record by a very advanced student. It is not as simply written as we could wish, but will show the method. 9. The more scientific the record is, the better. Yet the émo¬ tions should be noted, as being some of the conditions. Let then the record be written with sincerity and carej thus with practice it will be found …
1912 · PDF PAGE 426
…nt influenced by the work of Mr, Aleister Crowley, but without losing an originality which is entirely their own.” —7.P.’s Weekly. “This book has all the defects and none of the qualities of Mr. Crowley’s work. . .. Miss Fthel Archer misses everything. There is no an in the work. She has none of the happy fluency of her master, and it requires much to carry off the cumbrous apparatus of esoteric epithets with which she is burdened. Miss Archer's mechanical abnormalities are ridiculous; she has mistaken jingle for music and incomprehensibility f…
1912 · PDF PAGE 426
…nt influenced by the work of Mr, Aleister Crowley, but without losing an originality which is entirely their own.” —7.P.’s Weekly. “This book has all the defects and none of the qualities of Mr. Crowley’s work. . .. Miss Fthel Archer misses everything. There is no an in the work. She has none of the happy fluency of her master, and it requires much to carry off the cumbrous apparatus of esoteric epithets with which she is burdened. Miss Archer's mechanical abnormalities are ridiculous; she has mistaken jingle for music and incomprehensibility f…
1913 · PDF PAGE 598
…nt influenced by the work of Mr, Aleister Crowley, but without losing an originality which is entirely their own.” —7.P.’s Weekly. “This book has all the defects and none of the qualities of Mr. Crowley’s work. . . . Miss Ethel Archer misses everything. There is no é/an in the work, She has none of the happy fluency of her master, and it requires much to carry off the cumbrous apparatus of esoteric epithets with which she is burdened, Miss Archer’s mechanical abnormalities are ridiculous; she has mistaken jingle for music and incomprehensibilit…
1913 · PDF PAGE 598
…nt influenced by the work of Mr, Aleister Crowley, but without losing an originality which is entirely their own.” —7.P.’s Weekly. “This book has all the defects and none of the qualities of Mr. Crowley’s work. . . . Miss Ethel Archer misses everything. There is no é/an in the work, She has none of the happy fluency of her master, and it requires much to carry off the cumbrous apparatus of esoteric epithets with which she is burdened, Miss Archer’s mechanical abnormalities are ridiculous; she has mistaken jingle for music and incomprehensibilit…
1911 · PDF PAGE 164
…sh. IfI criticise Mr X, he screams, and tries to injure me behind my back; if I say that Madame Y is not exactly St Teresa, she writes a book to prove that she is. Such persons “ swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread,” as Milton wrote of a less dangerous set of spiritual guides. For their unhappy followers and imitators, no words of pity suffice. The whole universe is for them but “the glass of their fool’s face”; only, unlike Sir Palamedes, they admire it. Moral and spiritual Narcissi, they peri…
1911 · PDF PAGE 164
…sh. IfI criticise Mr X, he screams, and tries to injure me behind my back; if I say that Madame Y is not exactly St Teresa, she writes a book to prove that she is. Such persons “ swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread,” as Milton wrote of a less dangerous set of spiritual guides. For their unhappy followers and imitators, no words of pity suffice. The whole universe is for them but “the glass of their fool’s face”; only, unlike Sir Palamedes, they admire it. Moral and spiritual Narcissi, they peri…
1913 · PDF PAGE 459
…eed in which no. one suspected that Black Magic had any part. Here is what happened: During the winter, at the beginning of last year, a book- seller informed the author of the Dogme et rituel de la M 161
1913 · PDF PAGE 526
…, in wood, and even in the heart of stones: thus are formed those natural figures to which Gaffarel has consecrated several pages in his book of Czriosités inouies, those stones to which he attributes an occult virtue, and which he calls gamahés ; thus are traced those writings and drawings which so greatly astonish the observers of fluidic phenomena. They are astral photographs traced by the imagination of the mediums with or without the assistance of the fluidic larve. The existence of these larvae has been demonstrated to us in a peremptory …
1913 · PDF PAGE 459
…eed in which no. one suspected that Black Magic had any part. Here is what happened: During the winter, at the beginning of last year, a book- seller informed the author of the Dogme et rituel de la M 161
1913 · PDF PAGE 526
…, in wood, and even in the heart of stones: thus are formed those natural figures to which Gaffarel has consecrated several pages in his book of Czriosités inouies, those stones to which he attributes an occult virtue, and which he calls gamahés ; thus are traced those writings and drawings which so greatly astonish the observers of fluidic phenomena. They are astral photographs traced by the imagination of the mediums with or without the assistance of the fluidic larve. The existence of these larvae has been demonstrated to us in a peremptory …
1919 · PDF PAGE 363
…sible for any one below the grade of Magister Templi even to begin to comprehend the resolution of them. This fragment of the imaginary ‘Book of the Golden Pre- cepts’ must be studied without ever losing sight of this fact. 3. Quoth the Teacher: The Paths are two; the great Perfections three; six are the Virtues that transform the body into the Tree of Know- ledge. The “Tree of Knowledge” is of course another euphe- mism, the “Dragon Tree” representing the uniting of the straight and the curved. A further description of the Tree under which Gau…
1919 · PDF PAGE 386
…ay in future “Days” again become two Suns. Such are the falls and rises of the Karmic Law in Nature. The astronomy of the Author of this book is not equal to her poetic prose. Mercury can hardly be said to have a fiery aura, or to bea silent watcher in the night. Nor is it easy to attach any meaning to the statement that Mars and Mer- cury were once Suns. The theories of transmigration of personality involved are a little difficult! 55. Be, O Lanoo, like them. Give light and comfort to the toiling pilgrims, and seek out him who knows still less…
1961 · PDF PAGE 164
…so is She of the Man and the Bull, in our Natures, but the Converse thereof in our Offices, as thou mayst understand by the Study of the Book of the Vision and the Voice. It is thus a Glyph of the Satisfaction and Perfection of the Will and of the Work, the completion of the True Man as the Reconcilor of the Highest with the Lowest, so for our Convenience conventionally to distinguish them. This then is the Adept, who doth Will with solid Energy as the Bull, doh dare with fierce Courage as the Lion, doth know with swift Intelligence as the Man,…
1961 · PDF PAGE 200
… Illuminati) O thou understand how few be they whose Work in this their present Lives is our Way of Initiation. Yet it is written in The Book of the Law that the Law is for all, so that thou shalt in no wise err if thou establish it as the formula of the Æon, universal among Men. Also, even for them that are fitted to advance in our Light, there is Order and Diversity in Function, as regardeth their Work in our Sublime Brotherhood, Thus, it might well be that, in a Profess-House of the Temple, or College of the Holy Ghost, each Knight or Brothe…