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Page 59 of 831922 · PDF PAGE 26
…’ He had no use for humanity at the bottom of his heart, except as convenient shapes which he might model. He was bored and disgusted to find them pretending to be alive. The annoyance had grown until he had got into the habit of drinking a good deal more and a good deal more often than a lesser man might have needed. He was a much bigger man than I was physically, and he took me by the arm almost as if he had been taking me into custody. He poured into my ear an interminable series of rambling
1929 · PDF PAGE 62
… female. But the female produces life by the intervention of the male, while the neuter does so only when impregnated by Spirit. Thus we find the féminine AM A becoming AIMA 1 through the operation of the phallic Yod, while ALIM, the congress of dead éléments, only fructifies by the brooding of Spirit. This being so, how can we describe ALIM as containing a Magical formula ? Inquiry discloses the fact that this formula is of a very spécial kind. The word adds up to 81, which is a number of the moon. It is thus the formula of witchcraft, which i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 44
…I went to the Cathedral, revolving as I went all that had ever been saidthe superstitions of a hundred savage tribes. At bottom I could find no difference be- tween their barbarous rites and those of Christianity. However that might be, I was baffled. The priests refused to pray for the soul of a heretic. I hurried back to the house, resumed my vigil. There was no change, except a deepening of the fear, an in- tensification of the loneliness, a more utter absorption in the shame. I could but hope that in the ultimate stagna- tion of all vital …
1930 · PDF PAGE 46
…ical ideas on a subject would Write two totally different treatises upon it. 15) The general control of the Astral Plane, the ability to find — 250 —
1910 · PDF PAGE 193
…h to carry out the Sacred Operation of Abramelin. At this point of our history, in a prefatory note to one of Frater P.’s note-books, we find him recapitulating, in the following words, the events of the last four years: In the year 1899 I came to C . . . House, and put everything in order with the object of carrying out the Operation of Abramelin the Mage. I had studied Ceremonial Magic, and had obtained very remarkable success. My Gods were those of Egypt, interpreted on lines closely akin to those of Greece, In Philosophy I was a Realist of …
1910 · PDF PAGE 193
…h to carry out the Sacred Operation of Abramelin. At this point of our history, in a prefatory note to one of Frater P.’s note-books, we find him recapitulating, in the following words, the events of the last four years: In the year 1899 I came to C . . . House, and put everything in order with the object of carrying out the Operation of Abramelin the Mage. I had studied Ceremonial Magic, and had obtained very remarkable success. My Gods were those of Egypt, interpreted on lines closely akin to those of Greece, In Philosophy I was a Realist of …
1922 · PDF PAGE 101
… “* Any time you're out of a job, I'll give you ten thousand a year as a mascot.” Lou and I were both intensely excited. We could hardly find the patience to listen to the details of our friend’s plan. The figures were convincing; but the effect was simply to dazzle us. We had never dreamed of wealth on this scale. I got the vision for the first 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 …
1922 · PDF PAGE 190
…e who are trying to advance spiritually in the way we spoke about when you so charmingly dawned on my studio the other morning. “ Do you find, in particular, that there is any difficulty in calling a halt ? If so, is it not perhaps because you hear on all sides—especially from people quite ignorant of the subject, such as journalists, doctors and parrots
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
…e Egg (small a — the image of the Father) — The Massacre of the Innocents, tz (winepress) — The Draught of Ecstasy, y). The student will find it well worth his while to seek out these ideas in detail, and develop the technique of their application. There is also the Gnostic Name of the Seven Vowels, which gives a musical formula most puissant in évocations of the Soûl of Nature. There is moreover ABRAXAS; there is XNOUBIS; there is MEITHRAS; and indeed it may briefly be stated that every true name of God gives the formula of the invocation of t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 76
…personal anxiety may dérangé his judgment. A microscopist who trusts his eyes when his pet theory is at stake may falsify the facts, and find too late that he has made a fool of himself. In the case of initiation itself, history is scarred with the wounds inflicted by this Dagger. It reminds us constantly of the danger of relying upon the intellectual faculties. A judge must know the law in every point, and be detached from personal préjudices, and incorruptible, or iniquity will triumph. Dogma, with persécution, delusion, paralysis of progress…
1954 · PDF PAGE 446
… to research, by suggesting certain potential lines on which to attack the same, and perhaps even by giving you a few tips which you may find useful in practical Magick. The subject is closely bound up with Mantra-Yoga, and with Invocation. You will doubtless have noticed (for instance) that many chapters of the Q'uran have the letter L for a leit-motif. Islam attaches immense importance to this liquid L, as it appears in Allah (compare the Hebrew L-Gods, AL, Aloah, Elohim, A'alion, etc., and look up the L-idea in your Book of Thoth, and in Mag…
1939 · PDF PAGE 29
…anticipation of the luxury flatlet. We are to unite the subject and object of consciousness in the ecstasy which soon turns, as we shall find later on, into the more sublime state of indifference, and then annihilate both the party of the first part aforesaid and the party of the second part aforesaid. This evidently results in further partiesone might almost say cocktail partiesconstantly increasing until we reach infinity, and annihilate that, thereby recovering our original Nothing. Yet is that identical with the original Nothing? Yes and…
1954 · PDF PAGE 108
…its resulting etiolation of the native, its languid, bilious, anaemic, fever-prostrated, emasculation of the soul of man. We accordingly find few true equivalents of this School in Europe. In Greek philosophy there is no trace of any such doctrine. The poison in its foulest and most virulent form only entered with Christianity.1 But even so, few men of any real eminence were found to take the axioms of pessimism seriously. Huxley, for all his harping on the minor key, was an eupeptic Tory. The culmination of the Black philosophy is only found i…
1910 · PDF PAGE 125
…e factor. Let me hope that my return here (Mexico City) will work wonders. Three days after this entry on a certain Wednesday evening we find a very extraordinary mental experiment recorded in P.’s diary. D. A. made to P. the following suggestion for a meditation practice. 1. Imagine that I am standing before you in my climbing clothes. 2, When you have visualized the figure, forbid it to move its limbs, etc. 3. Then allow the figure to change, as @ whole, its illumination, position and appearance, 4. Carefully observe and remember any phenomen…
1910 · PDF PAGE 125
…e factor. Let me hope that my return here (Mexico City) will work wonders. Three days after this entry on a certain Wednesday evening we find a very extraordinary mental experiment recorded in P.’s diary. D. A. made to P. the following suggestion for a meditation practice. 1. Imagine that I am standing before you in my climbing clothes. 2, When you have visualized the figure, forbid it to move its limbs, etc. 3. Then allow the figure to change, as @ whole, its illumination, position and appearance, 4. Carefully observe and remember any phenomen…
1996 · PDF PAGE 116
… exposes our elements to unfamiliar conditions. The France of Louis XVI had to pass through the Terror before Napoleon could teach it to find itself. Similarly, any error in reaching the realiza tion of Hadit may abandon the Aspirant to the ambitions of every frenzied faction of his character, the masterless dogs of the Augean kennel of his mind. 28. Now a curse upon Because and his kin! Commentary: This is against these Intellectuals aforesaid. There are no “standards of Right.” Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its orbit. To hell wi…
1996 · PDF PAGE 177
…ee—Space splendid with stars; who have seen—who see—the Body of our Lady Nuit, all-pervading; and therein swallowed up, to have found—to find—no soul that is not wholly of Her. Woman! thou drawest us upward and onward for ever; and every woman is one among women, of Woman; one star of Her stars. 1 See “Liber D” [§206]. I see thee, Woman, thou standest alone, High Priestess art thou unto Love at the Altar of Life. And Man is the Victim therein. Beneath thee, rejoicing, he lies; he exults as he dies, burning up in the breath of thy kiss. Yea, sta…
1929 · PDF PAGE 217
… you're Captain Kidd!" "I have already stated my opinion as to the conversational value of puns. I'm going to turn in; you get busy, and find a neutral ship to rob." "I shall do my best to maintain the law of the sea." "Made by the pirate to suit his game. Good God! I can't see why we shouldn't be sensible. Why must we invoke Law and Gospel every time we want to do a dirty act? My character's strong enough to let me kill all the Germans I can without persuading myself that I'm saving them from Prusian Tyranny! Good-night!" "The youth is unintel…
1907 · PDF PAGE 26
…edient servant, ALEISTER CROWLE ¥. ? DEDICATIO MAJOR, My Friends, To you, Eastern of the Easterns, who have respectively given up all to find Truth ; you, Jinawaravansa,’ who esteemed the Yellow Robe 1 A Siamese prince who became a Buddhist monk, 20
1954 · PDF PAGE 38
…rmly and decisively, and say: "What must I do?" and having discovered that , set to work to do it, allowing of no interruption, you will find that living peace which (as you seem to see) is a dynamic and not a static condition. (There is quite a lot about this point in Little ,Issays Toward Truth, and also in The Vision and the Voice.