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Page 62 of 871899 · PDF PAGE 253
…ne, it is in a fashion characteristic enough of their dis- reputable duties, but barely edifying. However, the ‘Gentleman of Cambridge,’ though he has not good taste, has a certain command of facile rhythm. This is a fair sample: ; ‘ ARCHAIS. ‘Cold is the kiss of the stars to the sea, The kiss of the earth to the orient grey That heralds the day ; Warmer the kiss of a love that is free As the wind of the sea, Quick and resurgent and splendid. ‘ CHARICLES. ‘ Night her bright bow-string has bended : Fast flies her arrow unsparing Through the beec…
1904 · PDF PAGE 56
… stand. Such specimens of worms I never hope to see or smell again, and I trust that you will forgive my polluting your ears, journalist though you are, with such noisome stuff. (I can vouch for the faith- fulness of this description, for I know the swine well enough, and in no other than a book of filth would I have introduced any one of the three. Ed.) my artis- tic studies progressed but slowly, for much of my time was occupied with a liaison I had formed with Stephen Jimson, to whom the Ode (infra) is ad- dressed. This youth had the peculia…
1904 · PDF PAGE 32
…t straight and strong ! Don’t worry, but just get along. I used to envy all my Balti coolies21 In an inverse 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 Eton22 makes them not two inches stir. 125 They know not Trinity, Merton, or Christchurch ; They worshi p, but not at y our back-pews-hi gh-priced Church. I’ve seen them at twenty thousand feet On the ice, in a snow-storm, at night fall, repeat Their prayer23—will your Grace do as much f…
1909 · PDF PAGE 114
…orcible and true, But yet his propositions will not do ; For when the full circumference is run We can resolve them gaily into one. Nay, though he talk of monism, we feel He does not mean it. Mind and reason reel At this conception. Only in the soul Can we perceive the One Unchanging Whole, At the same time, the book is well worth study ; It summarises thought. The style is [We regret that our space will not admit a more extended review.—ED.] 104
1909 · PDF PAGE 114
…orcible and true, But yet his propositions will not do ; For when the full circumference is run We can resolve them gaily into one. Nay, though he talk of monism, we feel He does not mean it. Mind and reason reel At this conception. Only in the soul Can we perceive the One Unchanging Whole, At the same time, the book is well worth study ; It summarises thought. The style is [We regret that our space will not admit a more extended review.—ED.] 104
1922 · PDF PAGE 241
…write of my sufferings; and besides, it is important for the spiritual life. Basil must have the record to read. I can’t remember dates, though. I don’t even know what year it is. The leaves in the park tell me it is autumn, and the nights are getting longer. The night is better than the day; there is less to irritate. We don’t sleep, of course, we fall into a torpor. Basil told me about it once. He called it the dark night of the soul. One has to go through it on the way to the Great Light. The light of day is torture. Every sense is an in- st…
1996 · PDF PAGE 128
…shalt obtain the order & value of the English Alphabet; thou shalt find new symbols to attribute them unto. 56. Begone! ye mockers; even though ye laugh in my honour ye shall laugh not long: then when ye are sad know that I have forsaken you. 57. He that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is filthy shall be filthy still. 58. Yea! deem not of change: ye shall be as ye are, & not other. Therefore the kings of the earth shall be Kings for ever: the slaves shall serve. There is none that shall be cast down or lifted up: all is ever as i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 47
…merely that it seemed improbable that it could be normal audition. I did not know at the time for certain that this was impossible, {97} though it was afterwards proved to be so by experiment. I had no reason for supposing the danger to be urgent: but I rushed madly to the top of the cliff, along it and down to the Grass Traverse. I reached her in time to save her life, though there were not many seconds to spare. She had shifted her position to to get a better view and had wandered off the traverse on to steep, dusty, crumbling slopes. She had…
1904 · PDF PAGE 42
…was but a boy !) when a yell of rage, like that of a famished tiger, resounded through the palace. Dashing aside all opposition, passive though it was, for the waiting-women could not get out of the way quickly enough, there rushed into the room a dark and gigantic mass of brawn. I was torn, regardless of the ligature, from my unsavoury perch, flung, in spite of my tender years, to the floor, and with a roar like the crash of a universe in its death-pang, a vast and hairy gut-stick plunged into the yawn- ing abyss which the lobster-pot of the g…
1996 · PDF PAGE 168
Chapter III A Verses 46— 53 169 for though they be, or represent, the Magi of the past, the curse of their Grade must consume them. Thus it is the eyes of “Jesus” — his point of view—that must be destroyed; and this point of view is wrong because of his Magical Gesture of self-sacrifice. One must not for a moment suppose that this verse supports the historicity of “Jesus.” “Jesus” is not, and never was, a man; but he was a “god,” just as a bundle of old rags and a kerosene tin on a bush may be a “god.” There is a man-made idea, built of ignoran…
1910 · PDF PAGE 148
…i”). As we have seen he could not prop up a fictitious beginning by the supposition of the former, and he dared not use Nibbana as such, though in truth the Beginning is just as incompre- hensible with or without an Atman. But, in spite of his having denied the latter, he had to account for Causality and the transmission of his Good and Evil (Karma) by some means or another. Now, according to Nagasena, the Blessed One refused to answer any such questions as “Is the universe everlasting?” “Is it not everlasting?” ‘‘Has it an end?” “Has it not an…
1910 · PDF PAGE 148
…i”). As we have seen he could not prop up a fictitious beginning by the supposition of the former, and he dared not use Nibbana as such, though in truth the Beginning is just as incompre- hensible with or without an Atman. But, in spite of his having denied the latter, he had to account for Causality and the transmission of his Good and Evil (Karma) by some means or another. Now, according to Nagasena, the Blessed One refused to answer any such questions as “Is the universe everlasting?” “Is it not everlasting?” ‘‘Has it an end?” “Has it not an…
1913 · PDF PAGE 130
…Soul of Osiris,’ written during an Egyptian mood, was better poetry than his Browningesque rhapsody in a Buddhistic mood; but this also, though very affected, is very interest- ing. But the main fact about it is, that it is the expression of a man who has really found Buddhism more satisfactory than Christianity. “Mr. Crowley begins his poem, I believe, with an earnest intention to explain the beauty of the Buddhistic philosophy; he knows a great deal about it; he believes in it.... But Mr. Crowley has got something into his soul stronger even …
1996 · PDF PAGE 150
…gth and strength of swing. Hence one’s life-periods, where time counts, become gradually larger and more vivid, and one’s death-periods, though very short, perhaps, may be unfath- omably intense. The whole question of Time has been thoroughly investigated already.1 2 The present remarks refer only to the conditions of “normal” consciousness, into which we throw ourselves at recur ring intervals. The doctrine here stated should be studied in the light of previous remarks; verses 61 to 74 inclusive form a coher ent passage: notice the words “de…
1996 · PDF PAGE 160
…lished. 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. Why? Because of the fall of Because, that he is not there again. Commentary: There is here a perception of the profound law which opposes thought to action. We act, when we act aright, upon the instructive wisdom inherited from the ages. Our ances tors survived because they were able to adapt themselves t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 70
…the perfect man. Bowley. Ob, brother, this is fulsome. Bones. Ass! . . . He lives (it is true) in Kether; but his mind and body, perfect though they are, work, as it were automatically, in their own plane. At present I am quite unconscious of my heart heating; it is not even an illusion! Yet it maintains its just relation to the other illusory things. So, no doubt, an adept is quite unconscious of the acts and thoughts performed by him, acts and thoughts which seem to imply conscious volition. What about your poetry? Bowley. Certainly, I am nev…
1922 · PDF PAGE 133
…out quietly and walk up and down till it’s over. You don’t want to get mixed up with a fuss.” — I could see the wisdom of his remarks, although, on the other hand, I was personally spoiling for a fight. The one fly in the apothecary’s ointment of the honey- moon, though I didn’t notice it, was that something in me missed the excitement of the daily gambling with death to which the war had accustomed me. The slightest reminder of the wilder passions—a couple of boatmen quarrelling, or even a tourist pro- testing about some trifle, sent the blood…
1954 · PDF PAGE 193
…n he says that a planet can have no influence at all, or very little, unless it is above the horizon; but he meant well, bless him! And, though he does not say so, I believe that I do my stuff in very much the same way as he did. Here is my system in a Number 000 Ampoule. Put up the figure at birth: study it, make notes of the aspects and dignities, concentrate - and turn on the Magical Tap! Occasionally, when I began, I set up the "progressed figure" to see how the patient was doing this week, but it never seemed to help enough to compensate f…
1922 · PDF PAGE 105
… Paris had given him a sense of his own dignity. Instead of waiting humbly for me to get into the car, he was sitting there already; and though his greeting was still solemnly deferential, there was a little more of the ambassador about it. He had repressed the original impulse to touch his hat. I myself felt a curious sense of enjoyment of my own importance. At the same time, I was in a violent hurry to get back to Lou. My brain was racing with the thought of her. I signed my name where they told me, and the consul dabbed it all over with stam…
1922 · PDF PAGE 343
… were taking it openly. Another point is that privation always upsets the mental balance. A man who lacks food or money finds very queer thoughts come into his mind, and does things, not necessarily connected with his necessity, obsessing though that be, which are entirely out of keeping with his character.” I took a pencil, and wrote at once against the cross in column two “In order to make the most of Sister Athena’s illuminating discourse.” She laughed merrily. “You see, it’s Adam and Eve all over again! You're trying to shift the blame on t…