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Page 63 of 871922 · PDF PAGE 39
…rose not quite to the level of the table; and my face, hot, flushed, angry and eager, had bent down towards it. It seemed pure instinct, though I have little doubt now that it was the result of an unspoken suggestion. I drew the little heap of powder through my nostrils with one long breath. I felt even then like a choking man in a coal mine released at the last moment, filling his lungs for the first time with oxygen. I don’t know whether this is a common experience. I suspect that my medical training and reading, and hearing people talk, and …
1930 · PDF PAGE 62
…; an carnest and continuai aspiration is a con¬ dition, Without these antécédents even the Eucharist of the One and Seven is partiaily — though such is its intrinsic virtue that it can never be wholly — baulked of its effect. A Eucharist of some sort sliould most assuredly be cou* summated daily by every magician, and be sboitld regard if as the main sustenance of bis magica! life, It is of more importance than any other magical ceremony, because it is a complété circle. The whole of the force expended is completely re-absorbed 3 yet the virtue…
1922 · PDF PAGE 378
…ild dreads fire. We had the same trouble with teaching Hermes and Dionysus to swim. They found themselves in danger of being drowned and thought the best way was to avoid going near the water. But that didn’t help them to use their natural faculties to the best advantage, so I made them face the sea again and again, until they decided that the best way to avoid drowning was to learn how to deal with oceans in every detail. It sounds pretty obvious when you put it like that, yet while every one agrees with me about the swimming, I am howled down…
1922 · PDF PAGE 5
…ng ago!— ‘When to my blossom body clean as snow You pressed your bosom till desire was pain, And—then—that midnight! you did dare remain Though all my limbs were bloody with your mouth That tore their flesh to satiate its drouth, That was not thereby satisfied! And now A pallid coward, with sly, skulking brow, You must leave Sodom for your spouse’s sake. Coward and coward and coward; who would take The best flower of my life and leave me so, Still loving you—Ah! weak—and turn to go For fear of such a God! O blind! O fool! To heed these stranger…
1996 · PDF PAGE 102
…is the Garment of an actual Spermatozoon, the Tree sprung of that Seed, with power to multiply and to perpetuate that particular Nature, though without necessary consciousness of what is happening. In a deeper sense, the word “Death” is meaningless apart from the presentation of the Universe as conditioned by “Time.” But what is the meaning of Time? There is great confusion of thought in the use of the word “eternal,” and the phrase “for ever.” People who want “eternal happiness” mean by that a cycle of varying events all effective in stimulati…
1929 · PDF PAGE 26
…oneself, since both parties are equally born of necessity.) (25) Every man must do Magick each time that he acts or even thinks, since a thought is an internai act whose influence ultimately affects action, though it may not do so at the time. (Illustration: The least gesture causes a change in a man’s own body and in the air around him; it disturbs the balance of the entire Universe, and its effects continue eternally throughout ail space. Every thought, however swiftly suppressed, has its effect on the mind. It stands as one of the causes of …
1929 · PDF PAGE 535
…e power of trumpets to tell --- a token of the intense interest taken by the Almighty in His favourite child --- this course of conduct, though its more reasonable practitioners are ready to admit that it is rant and rubbish, is pursued as part of a calculated policy. They are ready to fool themselves in order to take advantage of the stimulating effect of optimism. The other side of the medal is this: when any man points to any fact that shakes this opium serenity, checks this cocaine self-assurance, that man takes a chance of a free ride out …
1922 · PDF PAGE 247
…ch. He follows me about with his eyes. He seems to be afraid that he will be caught out in something. It’s like it was when we had dope. Though we knew we were taking it, offering it to each other openly, yet whenever we took it ourselves, we were afraid lest the other should know. I think he has something that he wants to hide away, and is trying to get me out of the room so that I shan’t know where he has put it. Well, I don’t care, I’m not interested in his private affairs. I’ll go out and give him a chance. I'll hide this book in the magic …
1929 · PDF PAGE 107
…that of secrecy. An idea is perpetuated because it must never be mentioned. A Freemason never forgets the secret words entrusted to him, though these words mean, absolutely nothing to him, in the vast majority of cases; the only reason for this is that he has been forbidden to mention them, although they hâve been published again and again, and are as accessible to the profane as to the initiate. In such a work of practical Magick as the preaching of a new 1. The Master Therion has received this Word; it is communicated by Him to the proper pos…
1922 · PDF PAGE 107
… one has to be cautious. I bought the things I mentioned and paid for them. I refused to be tempted by a green pearl tie pin for myself, though I should have liked to have had it be- cause it would have reminded me of Lou’s eyes every time I put it on. But it was really rather expensive, and Mr. Wolfe had warned me very seriously about getting into debt, so I paid for the rest of the stuff, and we went off, and we thought we'd drive out to the Bois for lunch, and then we took some more snow in the taxi and Lou began to cry because I had bought …
1922 · PDF PAGE 322
…mselves, have been worn down by the languorous caresses of this invigorating breeze. That is one of the reasons why I came to live here, though one hardly needs support after one glance at the incomparable beauty of the place; a beauty which varies every day and never tires. Look at the sunset every night. It is good for two hours of grand opera. It is almost stupefying to sit on the terrace of the villa and watch the ever- changing glories of night-fall. And night itself! There stands the Pole Star over the rock. As the months move the Great B…
1954 · PDF PAGE 79
… unique in itself, and not to be apprehended by another, can mean nothing to one's neighbours. What happens, of course, is that similar, though not identical, Point-Events happen to many of us, and so we are able to construct a symbolic language. My memory of the mysterious Reality resembles yours sufficiently to induce us to agree that both belong to the same class. But let me furthermore ask you to reflect on the formation of language itself. Except in the case of onomatopoeic words and a few others, there is no logical connection between a t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 444
… Whether or no, a vast number of people did so in the dawn of speech. Even to-day children seem instinctively to say "Dad" for "Father," though no allowance can be made for cases of mistaken identity. And the most ancient Father-Gods of the oldest and simplest civilizations are thus named. In Sumer, He was AD, or ADAD, whence the later Egyptian Hadit, and the Semitic Adonai. (There are also words like AVO, the creative Magick.) So also the Greeks in Syria knew Adonis, and the Latin Deus is itself the general word for God. Again, Valhalla houses…
1930 · PDF PAGE 66
… life ; the collapse of the wall between the animal and vegetable kingdoms has shaken that which divided them from the minerai. But even though the advanced chemist might admit the possibi- lity of transmuting lead into gold, he could not conceive of that I. See R. K. Duncan, “The New Knowledge”, for a popularisation of recent results. Aleister Crowley held this doctrine in his teens at a period when it was the grossest heresy. 186
1906 · PDF PAGE 174
…rhaps, yet does its best To show its strong appreciation Of the humour of the situation— 155 In short, dimiss me, jeered and hooted, Who thought I sported Roland’s crest,*° With wisdom saddled, spurred, and booted, (As I my Jesus) with a jest.*! So here is my tribute —a jolly good strong ’un—— 160 To the eunuch, the faddist, the fool, and the wrong ’un ! It’s fun when you say “A mysterious way * God moves in to fix up his Maskelyne tricks. He trots on the tides, on the tempest he rides (Like Cosmo); and as for-his pace, we bethought us 165 Achi…
1922 · PDF PAGE 295
…, don’t get a fit of repentance and take too little to-day and to- ' morrow. If you do, you'll have another relapse. I know it sounds as though I were contradicting myself. Make the most of it, I don’t care. I’m going to do it again in the following elegant manner. “T want you to get the whole subject of heroin out of your mind; and that is the reason why [ insist so strongly on your keeping a record of every time you take it. It’s a psychological paradox that the best way to forget about a thing is to make a memorandum of it. “Now, good-bye, a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 434
… the night through and go a long walk in the morning. You may apply to her for details of the treatment ; I dare say she is still about, though I did hear that she moved to South America when she saw 1914 coming. In any case, you have had some
1996 · PDF PAGE 59
…aution or by prodigality, provides us with so great an excess of the substance that the reproduction of the human race need not slacken, though the proportion of men to women were no more than three to the thousand. The problem of efficiency consequently appears practically insoluble. We are now struck with the fact that Nuit commands us to exercise the utmost freedom in our choice of the method of utiliz ing the services of this our first, our finest and our fieriest talis man; the license appears at first sight unconditioned in the most exp…
1910 · PDF PAGE 198
…ard. [The smallest quantity of food injures one’s power immensely.] 10.21 pm. 10.44pm. Ajna 23 m, 20 breaks, [Used cotton wool in ears.] Thoughts of Ajna go obliquely up (from opening of pharynx about) and direct horizontally forward. This gives an idea to chase consciousness, ze, find by the obvious series of experiments the spot in which the thoughts dwell. Probably however this moves about. If so, it is a clear piece of evidence for the idealistic position. If not, “thinking of it” equals “ it thinking of itself,” and its falsity will become…
1910 · PDF PAGE 198
…ard. [The smallest quantity of food injures one’s power immensely.] 10.21 pm. 10.44pm. Ajna 23 m, 20 breaks, [Used cotton wool in ears.] Thoughts of Ajna go obliquely up (from opening of pharynx about) and direct horizontally forward. This gives an idea to chase consciousness, ze, find by the obvious series of experiments the spot in which the thoughts dwell. Probably however this moves about. If so, it is a clear piece of evidence for the idealistic position. If not, “thinking of it” equals “ it thinking of itself,” and its falsity will become…