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Page 54 of 761922 · PDF PAGE 207
…pefied while his incoherent insults battered my brain; but my indignation was not for myself. I had deserved all I was getting; but what right had this foul-mouthed coward to takein his mouth the name of a man like King Lamus? My silence seemed to exasperate him more than if I had taken up the quarrel. He swayed and swore with blind ferocity. He didn’t seem to know where I was. It was getting dark. He groped his way round the room looking for me; but he passed me twice before he found me. The third time he stumbled up against me, gripped me by …
1954 · PDF PAGE 49
…cover what is helpful and harmful to these states in your way of life. For instance, the practice like the non-receiving of gifts is all right for a Hindu whose mind is branded for ten thousand incarnations by the shock of accepting a cigarette or a cup of tea. Incidentally, most of the Eastern cults fall down when they come West, simply because they make no allowance for our different temperaments. Also they set tasks which are completely unsuitable to Europeans-an immense amount of disappointment has been caused by failure to recognize these …
1922 · PDF PAGE 67
…’t under- stand the kind of hotel at which we were unfortunate enough to be staying. We had gone there thinking no harm whatever. It was right up near the Etoile, and appeared to the naked eye an absolutely respectable first-class family hotel for the sons of the nobility and gentry. Now don’t run away with the idea that I want to knock the hotel. It was simply because France had been bled white; but the waiter on our floor was a middle-aged family man and probably read Lamartine and Pascal and Taine and all those appalling old bores when he wa…
1922 · PDF PAGE 132
…erything that doesn’t happen to fit its own limits. Lou and I had discarded the miserable measures of mankind. That sort of thing is all right for tailors and men of science; but we had sprung in one leap to be conterminous with the Universe. We were as incommensurable as the ratio of a circle to its diameter. We were as imaginary and unreal from their point of view as the square root of minus one. _ We didn’t ask humanity to judge us. It was simply a case of mistaken identity to regard us as featherless bipeds at all. We may have looked like h…
1922 · PDF PAGE 343
…st, and the poor little thing won't have anything to do but run around your solar plexus and stroke all your little pussy-cat nerves the right way.” ; I took the advice and felt much better. At that moment King Lamus appeared, and challenged Sister Athena to a set of Thelema. I brought Lou out; and we sat in the courtyard and watched them play. Thelema is so called because of the variety of strokes. It is a sort of Fives played with an association football, but there are no side walls, only a low wall at the back over which, if the ball goes, i…
1930 · PDF PAGE 47
…rt entirely separate from that of Magick; y et it interpénétrâtes Magick at every point. The fundamental laws of both are identical. The right use of divination has already been explained; but it must be added that proficiency therein, tremendous as is its importance in furnishing the Magician with the information necessary to his strategical and tactical plans, in no wise enables him to accomplish the impossible. It is not within the scope of divination to predict the future (for example) with the certainty of an astronomer in calcuiating the …
1909 · PDF PAGE 395
…who asserts the contrary, and proves it by arguments unintelligible to the lay mind! How shocked is the Rationalist ! My good professor, right or wrong, I may be drunk, but I certainly see a pair of you. 387
1909 · PDF PAGE 395
…who asserts the contrary, and proves it by arguments unintelligible to the lay mind! How shocked is the Rationalist ! My good professor, right or wrong, I may be drunk, but I certainly see a pair of you. 387
1922 · PDF PAGE 39
…ered as she sang; and then some- thing, I hardly know what, made me turn and look into the face of Gretel Webster. She was sitting at my right; her left hand was beneath the table, and she was looking at if. I followed her glance. In the little quadrilateral of the veins whose lower apex is between the first and middle fingers, was a tiny heap of sparkling dust. Nothing I had ever seen before had so attracted me. The sheer bright infinite beauty of the stuff! I had seen it before of course, often enough, at the hospital ; but this was quite a d…
1922 · PDF PAGE 101
…time in my life of the power that wealth confers, and I realised equally for the first time how vast were my real ambitions. The man was right, too, clearly enough, about my being lucky. My luck in the war had been prodigious. Then there was this inheritance, and Lou on the top of that; and here I’d met old Feccles by a piece of absolute chance, and there was this brilliant investment. That was the word—he was careful to point out that it was not a speculation, strictly speaking—absolutely waiting for me. We were so overjoyed that we could hard…
1922 · PDF PAGE 216
… cost ?”’ “One doesn’t charge one’s friends for such slight services,” he answered loftily. “‘ The only doubt in my mind is whether it’s right for me to let you have it.” He took it out again and read the label. He rolled the bottle between his palms. “It’s terribly dangerous stuff,” he continued very seriously. ‘I’m not at all sure if I should be justified in giving it to you.” What absolute rubbish and waste of time, this social comedy! Every one in London knew McCall’s hobby for intrigues with ladies of title. He had invented the
1954 · PDF PAGE 190
LAMENS AND PANTACLES 157 engraved it neatly on his arm. I don't know how he proceeded to set to work; but his wife came back all right, and a very short time afterwards he killed himself. Then there are the Elemental Tablets of Sir Edward Kelly and Dr. John Dee. From these you can extract a square to perform almost any conceivable operation, if you understand the virtue of the various symbols which they manifest. They are actually an expansion of the Tarot . (Obviously, the Tarot itself as a whole is an universal Pantacle-forgive the pleonasm! …
1954 · PDF PAGE 229
…emory. Then came a candidate who was deaf-not merely "a little hard of hearing"; his tympana were ruptured-and the question was How? All right for most of it; one could show him the words typed on slips. But during part of the ceremony he was hoodwinked; one was reduced to the deaf-and-dumb alphabet devised for such occasions. I am as clumsy and stupid at that as I am at most things, and lazy, infernally lazy, on top of that. Well, when it came to the point, the communication of the words became abominably, intolerably tedious. And
1929 · PDF PAGE 540
…been the bane of all previous systems. The theocracies of antiquity broke down as soon as their theory was challenged by science. Divine right met with with disaster immediately that its absurdity became apparent, so that humanity will never repeat the experiment; despite the fact that in many cases the absurd axiom led to the greatest prosperity. Social systems founded upon philosophy have failed even more frightfully, for the premises of the syllogism were false. It was always implied that man as such possessed various virtues which are in re…
1922 · PDF PAGE 378
…protection. After the dance, we all four sat down on the wall of the court and I took up the thread of the conversation. — “You're quite right, of course, and I imagine you expected to be shouted at.” ‘““No,” laughed Lamus, ‘‘my love for humanity makes me an incurably optimistic ass on all such points. I can’t see the defects in my inamorata. I expect men to be rational, courageous, and to applaud initiative, though an elementary reading of history tells one, with appalling reiteration, how every pioneer has been persecuted, whether it’s Galile…
1954 · PDF PAGE 262
…ta, the Rosy Cross, the means whereby we demonstrate the Godhead of our Nature. See then how sweetly each idea slides into the next! How right this is, that the Quintessence should be
1929 · PDF PAGE 549
…er it is a glass of cognac, a piqu blue blouse or a dollar left lying about. They feel themselves helpless. Sin must follow temptation. Righteousness is only possible in the absence of an alternative. We of Thelema pursue a policy exactly contrary. We resist temptations through the moral strength and the enlightening experience which comes of making a series of systematic experiments with divers iniquities. A Few trials soon teach us that wrongdoing does not pay. We find also that as soon as the arbitrary penalties of misconduct, which society…
1922 · PDF PAGE 342
…at the pretended scolding had all the effect of the genuine article. Not knowing this, I was surprised when she continued : “ That’s all right, Cockie, we know you’re a new chum.” But her finger pointed sternly to column two. It was headed, “ Reason for taking the dose.” Well, Dionysus had shown me the way out of that, so I turned impudently around and said :— “Enough of Because, be he damned for a dog!” The effect was electric. We both broke into a duet of low musical laughter that seemed to me in exquisite harmony with the beauty of the April…
1930 · PDF PAGE 32
…dentification of himself with the impersonal idea of Love. Any néophyte of the Order (or, as some say, an y person soever) possesses the right to claim the Grade of Master of the Temple by taking the Oath of the Grade. It is hardly necessary to observe that to do so is the most sublime and awful responsibility which it is possible to assume, and an unworthy person who does so incurs the most terrifie penalties by his presumption. 7. The Order of the R. C. The Grade of the Babe of the Abyss is not a Grade in the proper sense, being rather a pass…
1910 · PDF PAGE 120
…e no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.{ we obtain the right distance. In the above the Will takes the place of the hand. * See also “ The Yogasara-Sangraha,” p. 74. t It is to be noted that the symbolism made use of here is almost identical with that so often made use of in the Yoga Shastras and in the Vedanta. The union of Kundalini (Shakti) and Shiva. t Revelation, xxi, 1-4. 106