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Page 56 of 801929 · PDF PAGE 38
…back. I neither saw nor heard anything. I felt as if a brush of some warm tarry and gritty substance had been passed across my face; and found myself standing on the brink of a hole in the ground of no mean size. I wondered how on earth it could have happened that my experiment had failed. I remember apologizing for the failure and saying that I must go up to the house to wash my face. I discovered that I was being supported on the journey by my private tutor and my mother. Then I found myself in the headmaster's sanctum, receiving first aid. I…
1905 · PDF PAGE 71
…at Worlds, or what vast Regions hold The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook; And of those Dzemons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true consent With Planet, or with Element. Some time let Gorgeous Tragedy In Sceptr’d Pall come sweeping by.” It Penseroso. Tdde viv éralpats Tats tua répmva Kddws aelow. | SAPPILO, ‘It need not appear strange unto you that this Book is not at all like unto so many others which I have, and which are composed in a lofty and subtle style.”— The Book …
1930 · PDF PAGE 102
…thermie or exothermic, the combination of Oxygen with Nitrogen is gentle, while that of Oxygen with Hydrogen is explosive 5 and as it is found that the most heat is disengaged as a rule by the union of bodies most opposite in character, and that the compound resulting from such is most stable, so it seems reasonable to suggest that the most important and enduring Samadhi results from the contempla¬ tion of the Object most opposite to the devotee. On other planes, it has been suggested that the most opposed types make the best marriages and prod…
1954 · PDF PAGE 18
… may. The verses used are "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law" and "Love is the law, love under will." The command is to be found in the third chapter of Liber Legis: "and to each man and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to abide in this bliss or no ; it is no odds." He adapted these versicles to the exigences for grace before meals; see Letter A for this dialogue. Furthermore, he insisted that each student perform certain exercises and prayers at set ti…
1929 · PDF PAGE 88
… is mentioned by Levi. We hâve not been able to trace it anywhere else with such exact correspondent in every dtail. 4. Aleister Crowley found a certain quarter of Paris incom- prehensibly familiar and attractive to him. This was not the ordinary phenomenon of the déjà vu, it was chiefly a sense of being at home again. He discovered long after that Levi had lived in the neighbourhood for many years. 5. There are many curious similarities between the events of Eliphas Levi’s life and that of Aleister Crowley. The intention 6f the parents that th…
1938 · PDF PAGE 7
… shapes of madness are but distortions of one form upon the mountain-crest, a solitary shadowthe shadow of a Man! Lux. I stood erect. I found myself unhurt. I turned. I lifted up mine yes. Behold! The Hill! The apex of the colossal Pyramid is crowned by a stern silent figure, cut in sharp silhouette against the Orb of the Sun. I cried aloud: Hail unto Thee, O Star that art the Sun, Star that mountest the Height of the Heavens! But my heart answered me, mysteriously, yet so that it availed me to understand it; He riseth not nor sets! He goeth …
1922 · PDF PAGE 24
…uddenly been distracted. Bumble had made no attempt to get up. He lay there whimpering. I raised my eyes from so disgusting a sight, and found them fixed by two enormous orbs. I did not know at the first moment even that they were eyes. It’s a funny thing to say; but the first impression was that they were one of those thoughts that come to one from nowhere when one is flying at ten thousand feet or so. Awfully queer thing, I tell you—reminds one of the atmospherics that one gets in wireless; and they give one a horrible feeling. It is a sort o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 220
…ose defence is attack." "Yes; we're all right so long as we make ourselves feared. But Victorian prudery turned our tigers into oxen; we found that it was wrong fight dangerous to drink beer, wicked to love; presently it was cruel to eat beef, immoral to laugh, fatal to breathe. We went in terror of the omnipresent germ. Hence we are fat, cowardly slaves. I hear that Kitchener is hard put to it to get his first 100,000 men. Only the public schools respond. Only gentlemen and sportsmen really love England — the people that have been cursed these…
1910 · PDF PAGE 174
…f 3 minutes after each cycle. Pranayama. Two cycles of 5.10.20. The counting got mixed and things seem to tend to get buzzy and obscure. Found it difficult to follow clearly the second-hand of a watch. One cycle of 4 minutes of 10. 20. 30. * A Mantra, Shi= Peace, Va= Power. It means “Thy peace by power increasing In me by power to peace.” + The four characteristic results of Pranayama are (1) perspiration; (2) rigidity; (3) jumping about like a frog; (4) levitation. P. never experienced this last result. But it is possible that, if there was an…
1910 · PDF PAGE 174
…f 3 minutes after each cycle. Pranayama. Two cycles of 5.10.20. The counting got mixed and things seem to tend to get buzzy and obscure. Found it difficult to follow clearly the second-hand of a watch. One cycle of 4 minutes of 10. 20. 30. * A Mantra, Shi= Peace, Va= Power. It means “Thy peace by power increasing In me by power to peace.” + The four characteristic results of Pranayama are (1) perspiration; (2) rigidity; (3) jumping about like a frog; (4) levitation. P. never experienced this last result. But it is possible that, if there was an…
1996 · PDF PAGE 159
…ing; and I wrote in my Magical Record the Triumph for which I have warred for over seventeen years 718 XTHAH 666 NO FITTER NAME COULD BE FOUND, THAT WAS SURE... And then came a flash to confirm me, to chase the last cloud of criticism: the actual name of the Stèle, its ordinary name, the only name it ever had until it was called the “stélé of revealing”, in The Book of the Law itself, “its name” in the Catalogue of the Museum at Bülâq, was just this: “Stèle 666.” I have described this discovery at length because I wish to emphasize its importan…
1922 · PDF PAGE 208
…us would have said ; but it was my own responsibility, and I couldn’t refuse him. He went off to sleep very soon after. In the morning I found out what had happened to him. He had been round to some of the men he used to know in the hospital to get them to give him some H., but they hadn’t dared to do it.. They were suffering from a sense of insult about the new law, the Diabolical Dope Act. They had undergone a long and expensive training and had diplomas which made them responsible for the héalth of the community ; and now they weren’t allowe…
1954 · PDF PAGE 223
…y earliest films did. Possibly more work, after more skill had come to me, might have done the whole trick. But I did not persist when I found out how to do it by fascination. (Here we are at last!) Roughly, this is how to do it. If one is concentrated to the point when what you are thinking of is the only reality in the Universe, when you lose all awareness of who and where you are and what you are doing, it seems as though that unconsciousness were in some way contagious. The people around you just can't see anybody. At one time, in Sicily, t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 304
… cannot of itself remain suspended in the air ; that fire consumes wood and is extinguished by water; unless it be that these events are found agreeable to the laws of nature, and there is required a violation of these laws, or in other words a miracle, to prevent them ?”—Hume, iv., p. 133. “It is a miracle that a dead man should come to life, because that has never been observed in any age or country.”—Hume, iv., p. 134. + If a piece of lead were to remain suspended of itself in the air, the occurrence would be a ‘miracle,’ in the sense of a w…
1909 · PDF PAGE 304
… cannot of itself remain suspended in the air ; that fire consumes wood and is extinguished by water; unless it be that these events are found agreeable to the laws of nature, and there is required a violation of these laws, or in other words a miracle, to prevent them ?”—Hume, iv., p. 133. “It is a miracle that a dead man should come to life, because that has never been observed in any age or country.”—Hume, iv., p. 134. + If a piece of lead were to remain suspended of itself in the air, the occurrence would be a ‘miracle,’ in the sense of a w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 307
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES ture, they were found faithful. They showed to the multitude a living immortality in their death, and they watered the earth with a blood whose heat could not be extinguished, because they were burning with the ardours of charity. It is by charity that the Apostles built up their Creed. They said that to believe together was worth more than to doubt separately; they constituted the hierarchy on the basis of obedience—rendered so noble and so great by the spirit of charity, that to serve in this manner is to reign; they …
1913 · PDF PAGE 307
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES ture, they were found faithful. They showed to the multitude a living immortality in their death, and they watered the earth with a blood whose heat could not be extinguished, because they were burning with the ardours of charity. It is by charity that the Apostles built up their Creed. They said that to believe together was worth more than to doubt separately; they constituted the hierarchy on the basis of obedience—rendered so noble and so great by the spirit of charity, that to serve in this manner is to reign; they …
1922 · PDF PAGE 29
…was Laleham—and then again that it wasn’t. But I anticipate—don’t try to throw me out of my stride. All in good time. In the meanwhile I found I was expected to address her as Lou. ‘“ Unlimited Lou” was her nickname among the initiate. Now what I am anxious for everybody to understand is simply this. There’s hardly anybody who under- stands the way his mind works; no two minds are alike, as Horace or some old ass said; and, anyhow, the process of thinking is hardly ever what we imagine. So, instead of recognising the girl as the owner of the ey…
1922 · PDF PAGE 201
… as a restraining influence, and I had shaken him off. I despised myself for having loved him. I wanted to go to the devil my own way. I found Basil in, and alone. What luck! That hateful tall thin girl was out of the way. Basil received me with his usual greeting. It stung me to the quick like an insult. What right had he to reproach me? And why should “Do what thou wilt ’’ sound like a reproach? As a rule he added something to the phrase. He slid into ordinary conversation with a kind of sinuous grace. There was always something feline about …
1929 · PDF PAGE 135
…mage were a stirring of vitality. The thought that followed was a mystery. She said that she looked up, as if recalled to her vigil, and found that the moon was no longer in the sky. Nor indeed was there any sky; she was in a grotto whose walls, fantastically draped with stalactites, glimmered a faint purplish blue — very much the effect, she explained, of luminous paint. She looked down again; the basin was gone; at her feet was a young fawn, snow-white, with a collar of silver. She was impelled to read the engraving upon the collar, and was a…