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Page 58 of 841910 · PDF PAGE 135
… tried this and started by invoking the forces of Chokmah and Thoth, but omitted stating purpose of Operation in so many words. Yet with three projections (each way) I obtained a shadowy grayness somewhat human in shape. But found difficulty where least expected —in transferring consciousness to Simulacrum. God-form Thoth, 16m. Result fair. Akasa-Ak4sa, During the meditation the following Vision was seen. All things around me were surrounded by silver flashes or streaks. But about the human corpse which I saw before me there were fewer, and the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 135
… tried this and started by invoking the forces of Chokmah and Thoth, but omitted stating purpose of Operation in so many words. Yet with three projections (each way) I obtained a shadowy grayness somewhat human in shape. But found difficulty where least expected —in transferring consciousness to Simulacrum. God-form Thoth, 16m. Result fair. Akasa-Ak4sa, During the meditation the following Vision was seen. All things around me were surrounded by silver flashes or streaks. But about the human corpse which I saw before me there were fewer, and the…
1922 · PDF PAGE 284
…uted the order, I suddenly recollected that Lamus and Lala were coming in after lunch; the clothes couldn’t possibly reach us till after three o'clock. The best thing to do was to have some dressing- gowns sent up from Piccadilly. They sent people round with a selection at once, and what with that and sending out for some toilet things, and having in the hairdresser, we made ourselves fairly presentable by half-past one. That morning gave me the impression of a vaudeville turn or a farce. We had to dodge about from one room to another according…
1930 · PDF PAGE 69
…rnt, according to the numerous tables given in 777. 8. As you progress you will find that you are able to distinguish the suit correctly three times in four and that very few indeed inhar- monious errors occur, while in 78 experiments you are able to name the card aright as many as 15 or 20 times. 9. When you hâve reached this stage, you may be admitted for 369 —
1954 · PDF PAGE 534
…the work increase as that work proceeds. Take a simple matter like Mathematics as our analogy. The schoolboy struggling with the Rule of Three is a very rudimentary image of the advanced mathematician working on the differential calculus.
1929 · PDF PAGE 169
…lage, depended on local coolies or ponies, a hundred and fifty of one or fifty of the other. Occasionally the same set would make two or three marches with us, but as a rule they were changed every day. Except on one or two occasions when the ignorance and bad manners of the Austrians let to misunderstanding, everything went smoothly. The naivety of the natives was sometimes very amusing. The regular rate of pay was fourpence a day, and this princely profusion induced the inhabitants of distant side valleys to make sometimes as much as six days…
1922 · PDF PAGE 197
…petitions of the patient. Yet he must always be ready with his syringe, in case of a sudden collapse threatening life itself. There were three principal methods of cure: Cutting the drug off at once, and trust to the patient’s surviving ; then there was a long tedious method of diminishing the daily dose. It was a matter of months. During the whole of the time, the agony of the patient con- tinues in a diluted form. It was the choice between plunging into boiling oil and being splashed with it every day for an indefinite period. Then there was …
1922 · PDF PAGE 344
…tely lost his fear of such things. These principles were explained to us during the breathing spaces between the sets. Sister Cypris and three or four others came down from the other houses to take part in the game. The intense activity and lightheartedness of every- body amazed us. We were asked to join in the game, and our incompetence was a keen source of annoyance. We were too enfeebled by our indulgence in drugs to hold our own ; and the result was to inspire us with a passionate determination to emancipate ourselves from the thraldom. But…
1929 · PDF PAGE 195
…hat prospereth," and devoting "the signified and sealed, named and unnamed" to destruction. Then he turned to Balloch, and bade him act. Three minutes later the surgeon gave a curse, and blanched, as a scream, despite herself, burst from the bitten lips of the brave woman who lay upon the altar. "Why couldn't you let me give an anaesthetic?" he said angrily. "What's wrong? Is it bad?" "It's damned ugly. Curse it; not a thing here that I need!" But he needed nothing; he had done more even than he guessed. Mrs. Douglas, her face suddenly drawn an…
1930 · PDF PAGE 29
…s greatest and highest sense. Ipsissimus. — Is beyond ail this and beyond ail compréhension of those of lower degrees. But of these last three Grades see some further account in The Temple of Solomon the King, Equinox I to X and elsewhere. It should be stated that these Grades are not necessarily attained fully, and in strict consecution, or manifested wholly on ail planes. The subject is very difficulté and entirely beyond the limits of this small treatise. We append a more detailed account. 3. The Order of the S. S. is composed of those who h…
1954 · PDF PAGE 226
… every detail, as if it were yesterday. That secret is published only in that passage of that book. And-the book was not published until three years later, and from an address of which in 1910 I had not so much as thought of. The date of my adhesion to the O.T.O. (which, by the way, upset every principle and plan that I had ever held) is equally certain by virtue of subsequent published writings. Now go away and explain that! Well I've given you a fair account of some of the principal fascinations; as to the rest, bewitchments, sorceries, inhib…
1929 · PDF PAGE 272
…d of Orissa. In my wanderings I came to a range of hills of unparalleled wonder. It was between ten and twenty miles in length, and some three thousand feet high. The marvel of it is that it is composed very largely of pure iron pyrites, whose bare outcrop forms huge rounded bosses. I first saw these hills at sunset, and they glowed with crimson splendour too vivid to be merely mineral. It was like blood on a bull's shoulder in the sunlight. The maharajah knew the commercial value of his mountains, but he had no coal; to exploit his treasure he…
1929 · PDF PAGE 548
… on the level of, and quite indistinguishable from, Sunday School exaltation. Her pet persuasion was that she was to travel eastward for three years and after some adventure with a "M. Joperal", an Englishman (the well-known Shropshire or the Essex branch of that typically English tribe), she would proceed to Japan where her destined soul-mate was waiting to marry her, the climax being the birth of a Messiah. Amid this steaming midden of putrefying manure, I detected rare posies. She had got two or three symbols both intelligible and indicative…
1904 · PDF PAGE 47
…y ! Nor the shadow of it. Do that to me, dear heart ! Cried the randy Moll Muckmeabart. Not I, said the expert, you would not get up for three days and more : such is the pleasure. This made her only the keener, and when he saw that she would cry a rape unless he consented and you must see, darling, how necessary it is for anyone in my posi- tion to be able to do that at any moment the witnesses are all ready, and you would not stand a chance ! He abandoned the unequal con- test ; and the unique performance of Kluckchoo, the Human Cor…
1922 · PDF PAGE 308
…yed the effect of the cocaine I had taken. (It’s extraordinary how easy it is to break the spell). I went to the Tantalus and poured ont three brandies, dropping a pinch of snow into mine to make sure of getting back to where I was. Mrs. Webster had recovered her equipoise.
1954 · PDF PAGE 206
…ss. First cause: Ignorance. Way out, then, knowledge. O.K., that implies a knower, a thing known-and so on and so forth, through all the Three Waste Paper Baskets of the Law; analysed, it turns out to be nonsense all dolled up to look like thinking. And there is no genuine explanation of the origin of the Will to be. How different, how simple, how self-evident, is the doctrine of The Book of the Law! There are any number of passages dealing with this matter in my writings: let's forget them, and keep to the Text! Cap. I, v. 26: . .. my ecstasy,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 524
…as people found my name absent they would not buy it. Its sudden destruction was the greatest compliment I had ever received. During the three Chokmah days of my control of the paper I devoted every energy to proclaiming the Law of Thelma in its pages both directly and indirectly. My first important step in this direction, the thin end of the wedge, was an article "The Revival of Magick" which ran serially, ending in November. The last paragraph, a mere coxcombical flourish, though written with the quite serious idea of indicating to some perso…
1929 · PDF PAGE 529
…ting the solution which baffled me. Observe that the preparation of this was the problem in my article "The Revival of Magick" published three months earlier! This incident in itself is sufficiently startling. On the theory that Amalantrah is what he claims to be it is quite natural and simple. Any other theory, such as coincidence, or telepathy outrages reason. But this was not all. Besides his Americanized signature "Samuel A. Jacob", he gave his true name: "SHMUEL Bar AIWAZ bie YACKOU de SHERABAD". I could hardly believe my eyes. Till that m…
1922 · PDF PAGE 186
…nstinct, some obscure and obscene recollection of the lurking brute drives one to get up and go out. The dodge for doing this is to take three or four rather small sniffs in quick succession. C. would be much better, but we haven’t got any. September 1 What ages and ages have passed! These filthy lodgings have been Eden without the snake. Our lives have been Innocence ; no toil, no thought. We did not even eat, except the little food the woman brought in. We scared her, by the way. She can’t or won't get us any H. or C. The morphine girl has di…
1996 · PDF PAGE 24
…eat Kingdom is Heaven, with each star as an unit; the Little Kingdom is the Molecule, with each Electron as an unit. (The Ratio of these three is regu larly geometrical, each being 1022 times greater in size than its neighbour.) See “The Book of the Great Auk”1 2 for the demonstration that each “star” is the Centre of the Universe to itself, and that a “star,” simple, original, absolute, can add to its omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence without ceasing to be itself; that its one way to do this is to gain experience, and that therefore i…