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Page 62 of 821954 · PDF PAGE 379
…OUT TEARS not at all; fear neither men, nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything. Money fear not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth." Then pretty well all the positive injunctions imply reckless enthusiasm. "Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us." (A L, II: 20) What's more, meanness does not even pay! I propose to tell you why this is, and how things work out. What is money? A medium of exchange devised to facilitate the transaction of bus…
1929 · PDF PAGE 558
…ound wanting. The great value of such men as Maitland and Neuburg to me has been to strengthen my conviction that in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. Combine in one man the strength of Hercules, the beauty of Apollo, the grace of Antinos, the wisdom of Athena, the intelligence of Hermes, and every other gift of every other god, unless the anatomist is careful to supply a spine to support the structure, you will have a mollusc and not a man. You must have a fulcrum, not only to m…
1922 · PDF PAGE 183
… in flood. I tingled with the pain of feeling that he did not respond. I hugged the pain to my heart. My blood beat hard with the joy of power. I held him in my hand. One dainty act, and he was mine. I hadn't the strength to enjoy myself to the full. Pity and tenderness brought the tears to my eyes. I shook out a dose of the dull white He sniffed it up with stupid lethargy like a man who has lost hope of life, yet still takes his medicine as a routine. He came up gradually, but was hardly himself till after the third dose. I took one, too, to k…
1910 · PDF PAGE 148
THE EQUINOX or Soul; and a Selecting Power, which however is strenuously denied by the rigid law of Cause and Effect. However the mental eyes of the vast majority of his followers were not so clear as to pierce far into the darkness of metaphysical philosophy, and so it happened that, where the idealism of the Vedanta had failed the realism of Buddhism succeeded.* This denial ofa Universal Atman, and a personal Atman, soon brought the ethical and philosophical arguments of Gotama up against a brick wall (Kant’s “a priori”). As we have seen he c…
1910 · PDF PAGE 148
THE EQUINOX or Soul; and a Selecting Power, which however is strenuously denied by the rigid law of Cause and Effect. However the mental eyes of the vast majority of his followers were not so clear as to pierce far into the darkness of metaphysical philosophy, and so it happened that, where the idealism of the Vedanta had failed the realism of Buddhism succeeded.* This denial ofa Universal Atman, and a personal Atman, soon brought the ethical and philosophical arguments of Gotama up against a brick wall (Kant’s “a priori”). As we have seen he c…
1913 · PDF PAGE 130
…wley obviously does not appeal) no other feeling than one of sheer bewilder- ment. Sometimes an oasis of beauty will reveal the author’s power to charm, the good-humoured egotism will tickle the fancy, the quaint allusive- ness of his notes will raise the eyelid of wonder.... With regard to the prose portions of the volume, the essay on ‘Science and Buddhism’ reveals some penetrating touches; but we have to confess that the discourse on ‘ Ontology’ baffles our comprehen- sion. The poetical epilogue is beautiful and con- tenting.” —Litevary Guid…
1996 · PDF PAGE 160
…ligence discarnate, who wrote this Book of the Law, using my ears and hand. His mind is certainly superior to my own in knowledge and in power, for He has dominated me and taught me ever since. But that apart, the proof of any discarnate intelligence, even of the lowest order, has never before been established. And lack of that proof is the flaw in all the religions of the past; man could not be certain of the existence of “God,” because though he knew many powers independent of muscle, he knew of no conscious ness independent of nerve. 20. Wh…
1906 · PDF PAGE 267
…k on faith, and all the rest of the nauseous mess of medieval superstition, | and we may just as well have vital principle, and creative power as not, for Science’ cannot help us. True, if we do not use. all the methods at our disposal! But we. go beyond. We admit that all mental methods known are singularly liable to, illusion and inaccuracy of every sort. So_ were the early determinations of specific: heat. Even biologists have erred. But to: the true scientist every failure is a stepping- : And the history of our Science is the history of al…
1922 · PDF PAGE 354
…as helped you so far?” ‘Well, of course,” I said, “it’s pretty clear I didn’t come to this planet to drug myself into my grave before my powers have had a chance to ripen. I’ve thought it necessary to keep off heroin in order to give myself a show. But I’m left flat. Life becomes more tedious every day, and the one way of escape is barred by flaming swords.” “ Bxactly,” he replied. ‘“ You’ve only discovered one thing that you don’t will; you have still to find the one thing that you do will. And yet there are quite a number of clues in this man…
1954 · PDF PAGE 384
…d the best salmon fishing on Deeside, do you? llis is the Greater Interpretation of the Injunction, that no quation is possible: Magical Power is immeasurably more aluable than any amount of money. But the Epigram is everely practical. It may sound a little romantic, but-here :oes! A community which thinks in terms of wealth is rich; rl terms of money, poor. How so? Because the former rlcludes the imponderables. A couple of Japanese wrestlers may be worth more than Ihidias, Robert Browning, Titian, and Mozart in terms of lutchers' meat. We migh…
1906 · PDF PAGE 141
THE GOD-EATER 135 Iam might. I am power. I am light For an hour. I am strong, I grow. Ho! Ho! I taught Criosda The evil runes. Mine were the tunes His passion sang. Mine is the clang Of the olden door. Half the secret I gave: no more! Half the secret Hidden I keep. Hide it deep! That is mine! I will work. He is nought. The runes divine Awry be wrought. Hail to the murk! [A adtstant whine ts heard. Cover me! Lurk, Rupha, lurk ! ’Tis a foe. Ho! Ho! [Clouds have been obscuring the moon ; zt is mow dark. A fox passes over the stage. Crafty ! Crafty…
1909 · PDF PAGE 282
… write emt tbe Meye a BY) D1AGRAM 31. ‘The Arrangement of the Temple for the Ceremony of Practicus in the 3° = 8° Ritual, represents the power of the spirit of life rising above the triangle of waters; and reflecting the triune therein, as further marked by the lamps at their angles : while the chalice of water placed at the junction of the cross and triangle represents the maternal letter Mem.” which, the tablet bearing the mystic seals and names drawn from the Kamea of Mercury * is shown the Theoricus, as well as the tablet of the seven plane…
1909 · PDF PAGE 282
… write emt tbe Meye a BY) D1AGRAM 31. ‘The Arrangement of the Temple for the Ceremony of Practicus in the 3° = 8° Ritual, represents the power of the spirit of life rising above the triangle of waters; and reflecting the triune therein, as further marked by the lamps at their angles : while the chalice of water placed at the junction of the cross and triangle represents the maternal letter Mem.” which, the tablet bearing the mystic seals and names drawn from the Kamea of Mercury * is shown the Theoricus, as well as the tablet of the seven plane…
1922 · PDF PAGE 101
… 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 war had been prodigious. Then there was this inheritance, and Lou on the top of that; and here I’d met old Feccles by a piece of absolute chance, and there was this brilliant investment. That was the word—he was careful to point out t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 224
…woman who loved him without jealousy, and, as things were, without envy? It was true, perhaps, after all, that he had some huge hypnotic power, and held them helpless, filed away like so many letters. But Maisie was bubbling over with energy and joy; it was absurd to think of her as vampirised, as a victim. I asked her about it point-blank. “‘ My dear Lou,” she laughed, ‘‘ don’t be too utterly gaga! My Will is to sing, and Lala’s is to help him in his work—why should we clash? Why should there be any ill-feeling? She’s helping me by helping him…
1922 · PDF PAGE 237
…lightest interruption from the senses, if it’s only the wind in the trees, is a terribly irritating thing. “* Satan is the prince of the power of the air,” it says in the Bible, so he sends these noises in the air to disturb my mind. How can I give birth to the Messiah if I am not caught up’ into the Seventh Heaven, and unconscious of material things? The world, the flesh, and the Devil. One in three and three in one. This evil trinity must be abolished. It knows that ; and that’s why it tries to interrupt me
1922 · PDF PAGE 376
…work late at night. He had become completely master of himself, because he had ceased to oppose himself to the current of spiritual will-power of which he was the vehicle. He had no fear or fascina- tion with regard to any of these drugs. He knew that these two qualities were aspects of a single reaction; that of emotion to ignorance. He could use cocaine as a fencing-master uses a rapier, as an expert, without danger of wounding himself. About a fortnight after our first visit to the tower, a group of us was sitting on the terrace of the Stran…
1929 · PDF PAGE 187
…ut only with the result of fortifying the immortal and divine self which was within his victim, so that [264] he would return with added power and wisdom; while all his success in aggrandizing himself — as he foolishly called it — would leave his better part exhausted and disintegrated beyond refreshment or repair. He was like a man who should collect all his goods about him, and set fire to his house; while the true adepts beggar themselves (to all appearances) by transforming all their wealth into a shape that fire cannot touch. The sorcerer …
1930 · PDF PAGE 72
ail magic power is dangerous. There are even more debased and evil forms, things in themselves black. Such is the use of spiritual force to material ends. Christian Scientists, Mental Healers, Professional Diviners, Psychics and the like, are ail ipso facto Black M agi ci ans. Thev exchange gold for dross. They sell their higher powers for gross and temporary benefit. That the most crass ignorance of Magick is their principal characteristic is no excuse, even if Nature accepted excuses, which she does not. If you drink poison in mistake for win…
1954 · PDF PAGE 262
…ted "The Way"; for it is the motion of the structure that we observe. There is no Being apart from Going. You are familiar with the Four Powers of the Sphinx, attributed by the Adepts of old time to their Four Elements. Air is to Know, Scire; Fire is to Will, Velie; Water is to Dare, Audere; and Earth is to Keep Silence, Tacere. But now that a fifth Element, Spirit, is generally recognized in the Qabalah, I have deemed it proper to add a Fifth Power corresponding: to Go, Ire. (The Book of Thoth, p. 275) Then, as Spirit is the Origin, the Essenc…