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Page 58 of 801922 · PDF PAGE 162
…fer a man twenty or thirty times what a thing is worth in itself, he’ll go to a lot of trouble to make you want to buy it.... : Well, we found this man was a fraud. He tried to sell us packets of snow in the dark. He tried to prevent Cockie examining the stuff by pretending to be afraid of the police. | But as it happened, Cockie’s long suit was chemistry. He was the wrong man to try to sell powdered borax to at a guinea a sniff. He told the man he’d rather have Beecham’s Pills. What I love about Cockie is the witty way he talks. But somehow or…
1930 · PDF PAGE 31
…each the goal, the consciousness of the fine body itself may do so, wherefore whoso travels in that body on a subséquent occasion may be found worthyj and its success will react favourably on the human consciousness, and increase its likelihood of success in its next magical operation. Similarly, the powers gained in this way will strengthen the magician in his meditation-practices. His Will becomes better able to assist the concentration, to destroy the mental images which disturb it, and to reject the lesser rewards of that practice which tem…
1954 · PDF PAGE 360
…ked. No villa was visible. I said so. She had to agree; yet stuck to her point that she saw it. I subsequently returned to that spot and found that a short section of wall, perhaps 15 feet of narrow edge of masonry, is just perceptible through a gap in the vegetation. We drove on; we came to a tiny piazza, on one side of which was a church. "That is the square and the Church," she exclaimed, "that I saw in my dream!" We drove on. The lane became narrower, rougher, and steeper. Little more than 100 yards ahead it was completely "up," blocked wit…
1909 · PDF PAGE 398
…destined to be the predominant one. Your reviewer ventures to prophesy that in the science whereof Kiilpe is a brilliant pioneer will be found the key to the ecstasy that is the Vision in all religions. The translator of “Outlines” is Mr. E. B. Titchener. He has succeeded admirably. V. B. NEUBURG. INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY. By OswaLD KiLpr. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 5s. An excellent introduction to formal Philosophy, explaining clearly the distinctions between the various schools that at present hold the field, The author is extremely calm an…
1909 · PDF PAGE 398
…destined to be the predominant one. Your reviewer ventures to prophesy that in the science whereof Kiilpe is a brilliant pioneer will be found the key to the ecstasy that is the Vision in all religions. The translator of “Outlines” is Mr. E. B. Titchener. He has succeeded admirably. V. B. NEUBURG. INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY. By OswaLD KiLpr. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 5s. An excellent introduction to formal Philosophy, explaining clearly the distinctions between the various schools that at present hold the field, The author is extremely calm an…
1954 · PDF PAGE 362
…on my work. (It will be related in due course how this condition of things came about, and why it was necessary for me to undergo it.) I found myself at Moret, on the edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, with nothing to do but wait. I did not throw up the sponge in passionate despair as I had done once before to my shame-I had been rapped sufficiently hard on the knuckles to cure me of that-but I said to the Gods, "Observe, I have done my damnedest, and here I am at a dead centre. I am not going on muddling through: I demand a definite sign fro…
1906 · PDF PAGE 111
… act Not proper to be done !—against the will Of priests or princes, sought the nuptial bed And ‘¢ Climbed the bed’s disastrous side, He found a serpent, not a bride ; And scarcely daring to draw breath, He passed the dumb night-hours with death, Till in the morning cold and gray The hooded fear glided away. Which morning saw ten thousand pay The price of jesting with a king !’— JASON. Indeed these toils and dangerous pursuits, Labours and journeys, go to make one mad. Well were it to beguile our weariness With song. MEDEA. And here is the sole…
1905 · PDF PAGE 93
…he altar that kept watch, Some faithful fellow—he is gone to God. JePHTHAH. ITow is’t the cattle have been driven home? I trusted we had found a tender lamb, A lamb of the first year, unblemished, white, To greet me, that we do meet sacrifice, Fulfilling thus my vow, and all our duty. [A noise of timbrels and singing. Surely some merriment—-our news hath reached. Glad news and welcome: God is very good. Enter ADULAH, ranntiug, followed by sensing Maidens. ADULAH. Father ! JEPHTHAH. My daughter ! [He suddenly stops, and blanches, understanding. …
1930 · PDF PAGE 98
…ne and ail. Intellectual exercises, moral exercises, they are not Love. Yet as a man, rubbing two dry sticks together for long, suddenly found a spark, so also from time to time will true Love leap unasked into thy méditation. Yet this shall die and be reborn again and again. It may be that thou hast no tinder near. In the end shall corne suddenly a great flame and devouring, and burn thee utterly. Now of these sparks, and of these splutterings of flame, and of these beginnings of the Infinité Fire, thou shalt thus be aware. For the sparks thy …
1929 · PDF PAGE 349
… the outside. Neuburg's society, the Pan society, did make its mark on the university; but that was not its fault. It was simply that he found people idiotic enough to make it invulnerable against the arrows of oblivion by dipping it into the Styx of persecution. Nothing could have been more helpful than the attitude of the Dean of Trinity, an idiot and inept. I have noticed that people who dislike me are invariable rendered so blind by malice that they give themselves away and make themselves ridiculous. There is an institution at Cambridge ca…
1929 · PDF PAGE 94
…that person in Rome and the Black Forest, matters nothing, either to him or to anybody else. What matters is this: True or false, he has found a symbolic form which has enabled him to govern himself to the best advantage. “Quantum nobis prodest haec fabula Christi!” The ‘falsity’ of Aesop’s bables does not diminish their value to mankind. The above réduction of the Magical Memory to a device for externalizing one’s interior wisdom need not be regarded as sceptical, save only in the last resort. No scientific hypothesis can adduce stronger evide…
1929 · PDF PAGE 110
…Revival meetings” here in question were deliberate exploitations of religious hysteria. 2. In a later entry we read that the diarist has found a similar train of argument in “Space, Time, and Gravitation ’, page 51* He was much encouraged by the confirmation of his thesis in so independent a System of thought. — 74
1929 · PDF PAGE 234
…hich he felt sure would carry conviction to the mind of the French commander. Arrived at the chateau where the general was quartered, he found no trouble in gaining audience. The Frenchman, splendidly built, his eyes glittering with restless intelligence, concentrated all his faculties [329]
1996 · PDF PAGE 14
Introduction 15 There is doubtless a further key to be found which will in the end elucidate the whole Book and make manifest the extremely elaborate nature of its pattern.1 1 [The source and authorship of this quotation is unknown.] 2 [Later termed the “Old Commentary”; published in The Equinox 1(7) (1912), pp. 387^00a.] 3 [Described by Crowley as the “New Commentary.”] The Book of the Law, however, is not only for mathematicians and mystics. In some one phrase or other of the Book there is a direct message for every human being. The best way …
1996 · PDF PAGE 148
…roportion of one’s various faculties; the fit will survive, and the perfection of the whole will be understood as soon as the parts have found them selves, and settled down after fighting the matter out in the bal anced stability which represents their right reaction to each other, and to their environment. It is thus policy for an Aspirant to initi ation to analyze himself with indefatigable energy, shrewd skill, and accurate subtlety; but then to content himself with observing the interplay of his instincts, instead of guiding them. Not un…
1904 · PDF PAGE 60
…ga- rian table water. 161. Nadi.39—For this difficult subject refer to the late Swami Vivekananda’s “Raja Yoga.” 167. Tom Bond Bishop.40—Founder of the “Children’s Scripture Union” (an Association for the Dissemination of Lies among Young People) and otherwise known as a philanthropist. His re- lationship to the author (that of uncle) has pro- cured him this rather disagreeable immortality. He was, let us hope, no relation to George Archibald Bishop, the remarkable preface to whose dreadfully conventionally psychopathic works is this. PREFACE* …
1905 · PDF PAGE 66
…CY. It is like your eyes. [Comes oud into corridor.) Esmé! I have looked into your eyes as your eyes look into ifleaven, and thereI have found my Ileaven. O serene depths! O faultless face of my desire! O white brow too clear! I sin against your holiness by my presence. Only the moon should see you, Esmé. EsSME [Aad 72 tears]. You don’t mean like that, Percy, quite. Why do you say that? Enter VAUGHAN 21 shadow. He draws back and stands watching. PERCY.° Oh, you are crying, my heart! Do you cry because I have spoken and touched with fire the swe…
1905 · PDF PAGE 264
…SER. You know? You know! The new illusion gone! Bitter, O bitter will it be to say ! THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. Due grace and courage will be found for you. Farewell, Tannhauser ! TANNHAUSER. Shall we meet again? THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. There is one glamour you must wreathe in gloom Before you come to the dark hill of dreams. TANNHAUSER. My soul is sick of riddling. Fare you well! [A.xz2¢ THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. Wake, wake, poor child, poor child, Eliza- beth! ELIZABETH. What says my dear one? I have been with God. TANNHAUSER (as7de). How shall I speak?…
1907 · PDF PAGE 159
…park Of my silvery sound Moves, or may mark The heaven’s dim bound. How strange! I have sought him in vain— perchance not in vain have I found! No! Life thrills in me; Vibrates on the lyre; The Fates still spin me Their thread of desire : Still, woo and win me Soft eyes, and the dire Low fervour of sensual phrase, song kin to the nethermost fire ! In silence I wait For his voice to roll, For the coming of Fate, The strength of my soul. My words create One glorious whole From the fragments divided that seem past a man’s or a god’s control. I, se…
1907 · PDF PAGE 86
…d there it stands to this day, open to anybody who is strong enough to force in the door. But when they asked for Kwaw, he was not to be found. He had left trained men to carry out the discipline and the initiations, these last being the chief purpose of the building, saying that he was home sick for the lions and lizards of Wei-Hai-Wei, and that anyway he hadn’t enjoyed a decent swim for far too long. There is unfortunately little room for doubt that the new and