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Page 55 of 951912 · PDF PAGE 288
…s work demanded the most complete organization He therefore obtained a post under Government, so that, while touching a good salary, his whole time was free to devote to his great scheme. “Punctuality,” he often said to me, “is the thief of time; procrastination is the soul of business,” and would justify his paradox by pointing out that if you only left letters unanswered long enough, the need to answer them disappeared. His system, in fact, became extremely popular; even Charles Dickens playfully animadverts upon it in one of his novels. A se…
1919 · PDF PAGE 119
… of Love. And those are the best and truest which are most subtly written in symbol and image, especially in Tragedy and Comedy, for the whole nature of these things is in this kind, Life itself being but the fruit of the flower of Love. It is then of Life that I must needs now write to you, see- ing that by every act of Will in Love you are creating it, a quintessence more mysterious and joyous than you deem, for this which men call life is but a shadow of that true Life, your birthright, and the gift of the Law of Thelema. TI OF LIFE SYSTOLE …
1919 · PDF PAGE 186
…We now answer Thy filial petition that asketh good counsel of Us as to the means to be taken to extend the Law of Thelema throughout the whole world. Direct therefore now most closely thine attention to the Book of the Law itself. In It we find an absolute rule of life, and clear instruction in every emergency that may befall. What then are Its own directions for the fructification of That Ineffable Seed? Note, pray thee, the confidence with which we may proceed. “They shall gather my children into 174
1919 · PDF PAGE 430
…INOX If it means Nephesh, of course this ought to have been mastered long ago. It probably means Neshamah. If we take this to be so, the whole passage will become intelligible. In the beginning of progress we have the automatic Ego, the animal creator or generator of Nephesh in Yesod, the lowest point of the Ruach, and the marriage between these is the first regeneration. Nephesh is Syrinx, and Yesod is Pan. Nephesh is the elemental Soul which seeks redemption and immortality. In order to obtain it, it must acquire a Soul such as is possessed b…
1922 · PDF PAGE 229
Towards Madness 215 whole thing into ridicule. There are numerous other examples in Isterature of the same conflict between the genius and the mind which is its imperfect medium. For instance—at the other end of the scale—Mr. W. S. Maugham, in ‘The Magictan,” does his malignant utmost to make the “ villain’’ objectionable in every way, an object of contempt, and a failure. Yet in the very moment when his enemies succeed in murdering him and destroying his life’s work, they are obliged to admit that he has ‘‘ Accomplished the Great Work’’—of cre…
1954 · PDF PAGE 250
… not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know; and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such Beings.
1919 · PDF PAGE 411
…ectuals who edited his work have added bits of glass to make up the string. The result has been that many scholars have thought that the whole psychology of the East was pure bluff. A similar remark is true of the philosophy of the West, where the Schoolmen produced an equal obfuscation. Even now people hardly realize that they did any valuable work at all, and quote their controversies, such as that con- cerning the number of angels who can dance on the point of a needle, as examples of their complete fatuity and donnish- ness. In point of fac…
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
…followed. How did she know? was the universal query; for that I knew was evident. Ada Brown (Athanasia contra mundum) pooh- poohed the whole affair; Margaret Letchmere thought I must have heard something, perhaps a cry inaudible to
1911 · PDF PAGE 132
…le to hear the words: one catches a phrase here and there, or a glimpse of the idea. With every word he belches forth smoke, so that the whole Aethyr becomes full of it. And nowI hear the Angel: Every particle of matter that forms the smoke of my breath is a religion that hath flourished among the inhabitants of the worlds. Thus are they all whirled forth in my breath. Now he is giving a demonstration of this Operation. And he says: Know thou that all the religions of all the worlds end herein, but they are only the smoke of my breath, and I am…
1922 · PDF PAGE 140
…e a thought to Lou. It mattered nothing to me whether she were suffering or not. My own personal physio- logical sensations occupied the whole of my mind. I was taken before the Commissario as soon as he arrived. They seemed to recognise that the case was important. Lou was already in the office. The Commissario spoke no English, and no interpreter was immediately available. She looked absolutely wretched. There had been no conveniences for toilet, and in the daylight the disguise was a ridiculous travesty. | Her hair was tousled and dirty; her…
1922 · PDF PAGE 292
…mple of the same old story. However little we want a thing, we howl if we discover that we can’t get it; and the moment we've got it the whole business drops out of sight. “You'll find it’s the same with your drugs. You've ‘practically hypnotised yourself into thinking you can’t do without them. It’s not a real need, as you know. It’s a false and perverse appetite ; and as soon as you get out of the way of thinking that it’s vitally impor- tant, you'll begin to forget how much you depend on it.” Well, of course, I could see the sense of that ; …
1929 · PDF PAGE 301
…g of shooting, I may as well sum up the subject by saying that the part of China through which I travelled offers very poor sport on the whole; there is usually the chance of a pigeon for the pot, but that is all one can get {491} without taking a great deal of pins. I had heard so much of the gorgeous beauty of the Chinese pheasant and looked forward to bagging a few, but never so much as saw one during the whole march. As for quadrupeds, I never set eyes on as much as a rabbit or a marmot, let alone a deer. Foxes abound; but they did not come…
1904 · PDF PAGE 14
…o tolerate, perhaps even of the same value as a background is to a picture, a mere patch of neutral colour, yet serving to harmonize the whole. Certainly nothing but my silence saved me. The remark a few pages back about Hall Caine and Meredith would have caused my instant execution, by the most painful, if the least pro- longed, of deaths. Aye ! no society, since men gathered together, was ever so easy to approach, to seat oneself among, to slip away from, or to be hurled in derision from their midst ! Dreaded as they were by the charlatan, no…
1909 · PDF PAGE 245
…B. an alchemist of note} which though of no parti- cular importance in itself, was destined to lead to another meeting which changed the whole course of P.’s progress, and accelerated his step towards that Temple, the black earth from the foundations of which he had been, until the present, casting up in chaotic heaps around him. Knorr von Rosenroth’s immense storehouse of Qabalistic learning seems to have kept P. fully employed until the autumnal equinox, when B——, the alchemist of note, in- troduced him to a Mr. C (afterwards, as we shall see…
1909 · PDF PAGE 245
…B. an alchemist of note} which though of no parti- cular importance in itself, was destined to lead to another meeting which changed the whole course of P.’s progress, and accelerated his step towards that Temple, the black earth from the foundations of which he had been, until the present, casting up in chaotic heaps around him. Knorr von Rosenroth’s immense storehouse of Qabalistic learning seems to have kept P. fully employed until the autumnal equinox, when B——, the alchemist of note, in- troduced him to a Mr. C (afterwards, as we shall see…
1910 · PDF PAGE 7
…y, and no one will be admitted after that hour. They will occupy about two hours, and those who attend will be requested to centre their whole minds upon the idea of the evening, the object, of course, being to induce in the spectators a feeling of religious ecstasy. One hundred seats only will be available and the rent for these seats for the seven ceremonies will be five guineas. The proceeds will be devoted to THE EQUINOX, and the objects for which THE EQUINOX was established. The following is a description of a ceremony in honour of Artemis…
1910 · PDF PAGE 22
…laration — and the splendid and illuminating Union which constitutes Samadhi. Never forget that this great doctrine in- forms almost the whole of so-called Christian lite- rature ; St. Paul’s apostrophe (I Thess. iv. 16) if
1911 · PDF PAGE 33
THE VISION AND THE VOICE so that now the whole stone is like a thick mat of woven gold wires; and there come forth, one from each side of the stone, two women, and grasp each other by both hands, and kiss, and melt into one another; and melt away.* And now the veils open again, the gold parts, and the purple parts, and the silver parts, and there is a crowned eagle, also like the Assyrian eagles. And he cries: All my strength and stability are turned to the use of flight. For though my wings are of fine gold, yet my heart is the heart of a scor…
1913 · PDF PAGE 13
…nd ? Marines. ‘That sort of x Sconmo, KC. Hewas t Marien’. I believe he had just come into some £30,000. couPIO, K.C, He offered you the whole of his fortune in order to help you in your trouble with the revolting members? Marius. 1 wrote to thank loyal and! honourable offer.” ‘Sconrio, KC. Why did he make it? Marites, He believed my stories about James IV and the ‘Secret Chieis, I suppose. ‘Sconrio, KC, Madame Horos had promised you £2,000? Marines. "Yes Scourio, KC, Was that why you admitted superior? Mariuns, [refuse to answer the question. …
1919 · PDF PAGE 443
… Delusion? It is now seen that He should not do this, although He is able. He should on the contrary take up the burden of a Magus. This whole passage will be found in much clearer language in Liber One, Equinox VII. 78. Nay, O thou candidate for Nature’s hidden lore! If one would follow in the steps of holy Tathagata, those gifts and powers are not for Self. 121