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Page 60 of 871954 · PDF PAGE 89
… sense of the word. Moreover memory reassures us. However vivid a dream may be at the time, however it may persist throughout the years (though it is rare for any dream, unless frequently repeated, or linked to waking impressions by some happy conjunction of circumstances, to remain long in the mind with any clear-cut vision) it is hardly ever mistaken for an event of actual life. Good: then, as waking life is to dream, so-yes, more sol-is Religious Experience as above described to that life common to all of us. It is not merely easy, it is nat…
1899 · PDF PAGE 93
NOTE. 71 of the written Qabalah, though, perhaps (a word to the wise is enough), truth lies hidden deeper yet in the ten volumes of that Qabalah which is unwritten, and which is only granted to those who by previous incarnations have fitted themselves for so sublime a knowledge. The brief sketch above will, however, make clear the Oath of the people and the Prayer of Jephthah, among other phrases which may seem at first sight less unin- telligible to ordinary analysis. That I have made Jephthah a Magician is also in accordance with tradition. G…
1922 · PDF PAGE 352
…ss some particular occasion arose for taking a dose. I was very annoyed that Lou should have got on faster than myself. Basil told me he thought I needed © more active exercise, though already I had begun to take some interest in the sports of the place. I had even got through a whole game of Thelema without having to sit down and gasp. But there was still an obscure hankering after the drug life. It had been burnt into me that normal interests were not worth while. King Lamus had taken me out climbing several times ; but while I experienced pr…
1954 · PDF PAGE 220
…eached the Bhuchari-Siddhi quite a number of times; but I never observed No.4. On several occasions other people have seen me levitated, though never to a height of more than a foot or so. Here is the best account of such an incident, of those at my immediate disposal. Nearly midnight. At this moment we stopped dictating, and began to converse. Then Fra. P. said: "Oh, if I could only dictate a book like The Tao Teh King!" Then he closed his eyes as if meditating. Just before I had noticed a change in his face, most extraordinary, as if he were …
1954 · PDF PAGE 409
…ior or the one of whom you are yourself in charge is discouraged in every possible way. There are of course exceptions. It is necessary, though regrettably so, for personal instruction in the practices to be given or received. For all that, I wish I could show you 200 or 300 letters that I have received in the last twenty years or so: they tell me without a shadow of doubt that anything like fraternization leads only to mischief. When you wish instruction from your superior, it should be for definite points and nothing else. Any breach of this …
1996 · PDF PAGE 27
…e the Children of men! Commentary: Here Nuit appeals, simply and directly, recog nizing the separate function of each Star of her Body. Though all is One, each part of that One has its own special work, each Star its particular Orbit. In addressing me as warrior lord of Thebes, it appears as if She perceived a certain continuity or identity of myself with Ankh-f-n- khonsu, whose Stele is the Link with Antiquity of this Revela tion.1 See Equinox 1(7), pp. 363-400, for the account of this event.1 2 1 [Ankh-f-n-khonsu (Ankhefenkhons i) was an Eg…
1929 · PDF PAGE 137
…ess. I did not solve this completely until my attainment of the Grade of Mater of the Temple in 1909, when at last I realized that every thought, word and act might be pressed into the service of the soul: more, that it must be if the soul were ever to be free. I "mixed up the planes" for many years to some extent, though never as badly as most mystics do. During this retirement I was fortunate in being under the constant vigilant supervision of Allan Bennett, whose experience enabled him to detect the firs onset of disturbing ideas. For instan…
1929 · PDF PAGE 448
… that some of the so-called secrets are significant, but as a rule they are so only to those who already know what the secret is. Again, though the secret itself is of such tremendous import, and though it is so simple that I could disclose it and the principal rules for turning it to the best advantage in a short paragraph, I might do so without doing much harm. For it cannot be used indiscriminately. Much fun has been made of the alchemists for insisting that the Great Work, an ostensibly chemical process, can only be performed by adepts who …
1910 · PDF PAGE 208
THE EQUINOX He realized that there were in this world she-mules as well as she-asses, and that though the former would never foal in spite of all the stallions of Moultan, the latter seldom failed to do so after having been for a few minutes in the presence of a Margate jackass. Discarding Chastity (Brahmacharya)—a good purgative for the prurient—he wrote in its place the word “ Health.” Do not worry about this code and that law, about the jibber of this crank or the jabber of that faddist. To hell with ethical pigs and prigs alike. Do what you…
1910 · PDF PAGE 208
THE EQUINOX He realized that there were in this world she-mules as well as she-asses, and that though the former would never foal in spite of all the stallions of Moultan, the latter seldom failed to do so after having been for a few minutes in the presence of a Margate jackass. Discarding Chastity (Brahmacharya)—a good purgative for the prurient—he wrote in its place the word “ Health.” Do not worry about this code and that law, about the jibber of this crank or the jabber of that faddist. To hell with ethical pigs and prigs alike. Do what you…
1906 · PDF PAGE 173
… straight and strong ! Don’t worry, but just get along. I used to envy all my Balti coolies #4 In an inversé kind of religious hysteria, Though every one a perfect fool is, To Judge by philosophic criteria, My Lord Archbishop. The name of Winchester, Harrow, or Eton * makes them not two inches stir. They know not Trinity, Merton, or Christchurch ; They worship, but not at your back-pews-high-priced Church. ‘Tve seen them at twenty thousand feet On the ice, in a snow-storm, at night fall, repeat | Their prayers 73—will your Grace do as much for …
1922 · PDF PAGE 363
…about nothing else. For the first time in your life your self- consciousness is obliterated, You even start to explain your ideas to me, though I know nothing whatever of the subject. It doesn’t require any particular genius to see that you have discovered your true will. And that accounts for the champagne and applause at lunch.” I scratched my head, still hardly comprehending. But one clause in the Big Lion’s roar had struck me with appalling force. I looked round the circle of faces. “Yes, I’ve discovered my will, all right,” I said, “I know…
1954 · PDF PAGE 416
… the Spirit of Islam, Ilfinite depth of wisdom adorned with the most exquisite nd delicate wit. Isaak ben Hiddekel was a Jew of Baghdad. Though not in Lis first or even second youth, he was in such health, enjoyed uch prosperity, and commanded such universal respect and levotion that every moment of his life was dear to him. lmong his pleasures one of the chief was the friendship of he aged Mohammed ibn Mahmed of Bassorah, reputed a sage f no common stature, for (it was said) his piety had been ewarded with such gifts as the power to communicat…
1996 · PDF PAGE 94
…nately into every possible experience; by doing so one is purged of those personal prejudices which we took so stu pidly for ourselves, though they prevented us from realizing our true Wills and from knowing our Names and Natures. The Aspir ant must well understand that it is no paradox to say that the Annihilation of the Ego in the Abyss is the condition of emanci pating the true Self, and exalting it to unimaginable heights. So long as one remains “one’s self,” one is overwhelmed by the Uni verse; destroy the sense of self, and every even…
1929 · PDF PAGE 205
… Chien Rouge, whose members are so honoured in the world of art. There he met C--- the brilliant but debauched sculptor, caustic of wit, though genial to his friends; N---, the great painter, whose royal sense of light made his canvases into a harmonious dream: he also the sweet friend of Bacchus, who filled him with a glow and melody of colour and thought. There too, were D- -- and L---, the one poet and philosopher, the other painter and --- I fear --- pederast. Twins in thought, the two were invincible in argument as they were supreme in the…
1922 · PDF PAGE 123
…did for England during the war—and take one thing with another, you're about my first pick.” He stopped short. We looked at him blankly, though we were seething with some blind suppressed excite- ment whose nature we could hardly describe. He took out a pipe, and began to nibble the vulcanite rather nervously. He drew a deep breath, and looked Lou straight in the face. “Does it suggest anything to you,” he murmured, _ almost inaudibly, ‘‘ a man’s leaving Paris at a moment's notice in the middle of a vast financial scheme, and turning up in Ital…
1954 · PDF PAGE 57
24 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS nearly so exalted: Hanuman hardly at all. Nor is Tetragrammaton lAO, though even etymology asserts the identity . In these matters you must be catholic, eclectic, even synchretic. And you must consider the nature of your work. If I wanted to evoke Taphthartharath, there would be little help indeed from any but the Qabalistic system; for that spirit's precise forms and numbers are not to be found in any other. The converse, however, is not so true. The Qabalah, properly understood , properly treated , is so universal that…
1929 · PDF PAGE 317
…ed that they had not the time or convenience for Magick, that they could do it without giving up their ordinary business or social life. Though I did not fully understand the implication of the dream, I managed to act as if I had done so. I must have had some suspicions that my old friends the Abra-Melin demons would go on the war path; at least I acted accordingly from the fourteenth. Finding myself with the glands of my throat badly swollen, and my mind distracted by worrying about them, I asked the Augoeides to remove my fear. This is danger…
1929 · PDF PAGE 22
… love, who misunderstand us and for whose love we are hungry. We want to make terms, we want to surrender. But I have always found that, though I could acquiesce in some such line of conduct, though I could make all preparations for accommodation, yet when it came to the point, I was utterly unable to do the base, irrevocable act. I cannot even do evil that good may come. I abhor Jesuitry. I would rather lose than win by strategem. The utmost that I have been able to manage is to consent to put forward my principles in a form which will not ope…
1907 · PDF PAGE 98
…nerve. If a man understand not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he understand God whom he hath not seen? Materialism is fertile, though it lead to its opposite. Theism is sterile. How would you treat an engine-driver who tried to make his engine go by prayer and philosophy? But I am mad. Here is my poem, then. Having the memory of a madman, he recited it by heart.