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Page 63 of 1141911 · PDF PAGE 92
…is unfortunately sheer nonsense; for the Aethyr that is the foundation of the universe was attacked by the Outermost Abyss, and the only way that I can express it is by saying that the universe was shaken. But the universe was zof shaken. And that is the exact truth; so that the rational mind which is interpreting these spiritual things is offended; but, being trained to obey, it setteth down that which it doth not understand. For the rational mind indeed reasoneth, but never attaineth unto Understanding; but the Seer is of them that understand…
1929 · PDF PAGE 414
…her he is in the right or no, unless that knowledge is necessary to efficient help. I can hardly explain why I act in this extraordinary way, but I think the theory is somewhat as follows: I being in relation with {658} the man, he is a part of my individuality, and my duty to myself is to see that he is flourishing. If I sprain my ankle I must use all my resources to put it right, and even if my ankle has damaged me in the course of the accident, by allowing me to fall and bump my head, my interests are none the less bound up with it. I make n…
1907 · PDF PAGE 72
…art ! ” man says “ Oh ! no you don't .” Around them are then speedily constructed such labyrinthine entangle ments , that few find their way out , and still fewer attempt so difficult a task-hence Churches and Brothels . If John , however, does not marry Mary , Ann squalls , but as the jailer can always let himself out of the prison , so can man , if he does not drop his keys through some matrimonial grating . Ann then locks up Mary in that Bastille of despair which is called Piccadilly ( this is no paradox ) -hence prudes F
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
…my white golden heart of glory !' Eternity is moulded in form of her kiss , and even if “ Hell belch its monsters one by one to stop the way ! I would be there ” cries Sir Percy as he and Molly rush backwards and forwards kissing and kissing before they can finally part . And no sooner has he parted with her , having sworn eternal love and to meet her at moonrise , than he stumbles across a bedizened hag of sixty - three ( society ), and in ten minutes , because she calls herself “ the wretchedest girl on the wide earth ,” discovers “ she is mo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 389
…erstand. Well aware that I was fated to conceal my thoughts for a very long while, I allowed them to advance and attend upon me. In that way began my new life as master of a harem. At first the negroes treated me with a certain reserve, even with hostility; but they soon changed, seeing me so tame and amiable. As the story goes, The King of France and forty thousand men They drew their swords and put them back again. But I now perceive that my narrative will appear almost incoherent if I do not at this point of the history pass over a few incid…
1909 · PDF PAGE 389
…erstand. Well aware that I was fated to conceal my thoughts for a very long while, I allowed them to advance and attend upon me. In that way began my new life as master of a harem. At first the negroes treated me with a certain reserve, even with hostility; but they soon changed, seeing me so tame and amiable. As the story goes, The King of France and forty thousand men They drew their swords and put them back again. But I now perceive that my narrative will appear almost incoherent if I do not at this point of the history pass over a few incid…
1922 · PDF PAGE 129
…e it on my conscience to have Lady Pendragon along.”’ I was so full up with cocaine I hardly knew what he was saying. It was the easiest way out to nod assent and watch the clouds fighting each other to get hold of the sun. I was betting on that big white elephant on the horizon. There were two black cobras and a purple hippopotamus against him; but I couldn’t help that. With those magnificent tusks he ought to be able to settle their business, and only to look at his legs you could see the old sun hadn’t got a dog’s chance. I can’t see why peo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 406
…r amusement. With unparalleled insolence, the authorities decided to mutilate Epstein's work. They employed a sculptor, who must, by the way, have been utterly lost to all sense of shame, to fix a bronze butterfly over the "objectionable" feature of the monument. This feature had been quite unnoticeable to any but the most prurient observer. The butterfly, being of different material and workmanship, clamoured for attention to exactly that which it was intended to make people forget. This incidentally is a characteristic of puritan psychology. …
1904 · PDF PAGE 46
… denominated “Love.” Indeed I think the man attained By some such means—I have not strained Out mind by chance of sense or sex To find a way less iron-brained Determining direction x;57 I know not if these Hindu methods Be best (’tis no such life and death odds, Since suffering souls to save or damn Never existed). So I fall Confessing : Well, perhance I am Myself a Christian after all ! So far at least. I must concede Christ did attain in every deed ; Yet, being an illiterate man, Not his to balance or to scan, To call God stupid or unjust ! H…
1907 · PDF PAGE 193
…His word whate’er betide. What worse? RHADAMANTHUS, The Gods thy guide! Go and assail him ! MINOS. Stay, The Queen of Hell! ALACUS. That way Leads to the light of day. RHADAMANTHUS. A woman’s heart may yearn, To a man’s love may turn. MINOS. Should she, the ravished, spurn A man whose love is reft? ZEACUS. Meadows and flowers she left To Him—O bosom cleft With a wife’s loss !—a wife. RHADAMANTHUS., Too doubtful is the strife. MINOs. Yet go! perchance to life. ZEACUS. Go! and the Gods above Guard thee, O soul of love! RHADAMANTHUS, I doubt me mu…
1907 · PDF PAGE 206
…poses upon the unequilibrated illusions of the mind , which so long as their influences remain un balanced , stand as impediments in the way of the inward development of the human race .' And as the gigantic edifice of the Christian Church was the child of the neuropathic mystagogues of the dark ages of religion , so now the colossal fabric of Scientific 1 Science here as a method is not attacked . For as such , scientific investigations have always triumphed over mystical aspirations , which to say the least , have been chaotic in the extreme …
1907 · PDF PAGE 245
238 THE STAR IN THE WEST From these ruins of experience Crowley now rises up a fiery phoenix , directing us to the only possible way which will lead us to our much -desired haven of rest . Motion must cease , irritation must be prevented , Time and Space annihilated , and the divine “ I ” set free from the sordid rags of the world , to be clothed in the brilliancy of God .' This added “ impulse " , which in the homogeneous protoplasm causes fission , is as mystical to - day as that added " something " which will cause the mind of one man to adm…
1907 · PDF PAGE 287
…n ; as I walk I literally leave shreds of myself behind me . I am no longer the “ I ” of five minutes ago , fleeting I pass along life's way . A minute gone by my footstep crushed a daisy , there is woe in the land of flowers ; yet a few seconds past and I slew a fly , there is weeping in the land of insects . I speed to catch the train , I slip , and in a dazzling flash am converted into a glutinous mass of jelly and crushed bones . Crumpled as some much written palimpsest I am thrown to the basket of the dead , a useless manuscript . When was…
1909 · PDF PAGE 232
…te, and nursed on the soured milk of Creed. And as with the individual so with the nation, the one or the many, it is taught to work its way into one narrow groove, and like the water in a drain or a gutter to flow for a time unobtrusively between dignified cobbles and over re- spectable cement, and then to vanish as genteelly as possible underground. Sometimes there is a stoppage ; too much filth has accumu- lated, and it refuses all conventional methods of being removed. Then comes a flood—a revolution—for a time there is a nasty mess, but so…
1909 · PDF PAGE 232
…te, and nursed on the soured milk of Creed. And as with the individual so with the nation, the one or the many, it is taught to work its way into one narrow groove, and like the water in a drain or a gutter to flow for a time unobtrusively between dignified cobbles and over re- spectable cement, and then to vanish as genteelly as possible underground. Sometimes there is a stoppage ; too much filth has accumu- lated, and it refuses all conventional methods of being removed. Then comes a flood—a revolution—for a time there is a nasty mess, but so…
1910 · PDF PAGE 286
…sted I called most imperatively for another one to be prepared as quickly as possible, lest the flames should spread by waiting. In this way I kept a man busy with the composition of lemonade after lemonade, plunging my tube over the edge of the drained tumbler into the full one with a precipitate haste for which there were mortal reasons, until six had been consumed. I returned to hasheesh, but only when I had become hope- less of carrying out my first intention—its utter and immediate abandonment. I now resolved to abandon it gradually—to ret…
1910 · PDF PAGE 286
…sted I called most imperatively for another one to be prepared as quickly as possible, lest the flames should spread by waiting. In this way I kept a man busy with the composition of lemonade after lemonade, plunging my tube over the edge of the drained tumbler into the full one with a precipitate haste for which there were mortal reasons, until six had been consumed. I returned to hasheesh, but only when I had become hope- less of carrying out my first intention—its utter and immediate abandonment. I now resolved to abandon it gradually—to ret…
1912 · PDF PAGE 289
…halfpenny a hundred, there was a small but sufficient margin of profit— or would have been but for the expense of getting the scheme under way. My uncle's genius never hesitated. “Of all the puppies on earth, the ‘pi‘ set at Cambridge are the most priggish," he exclaimed enthusiastically. So he got hold of a few, and called them Evangelists. They were to go down (of course, at their own expense) to the seaside—where the children with the pennies were, not to the slums, where there were plenty of children but no pennies— and hold “services," the o…
1912 · PDF PAGE 289
…halfpenny a hundred, there was a small but sufficient margin of profit— or would have been but for the expense of getting the scheme under way. My uncle's genius never hesitated. “Of all the puppies on earth, the ‘pi‘ set at Cambridge are the most priggish," he exclaimed enthusiastically. So he got hold of a few, and called them Evangelists. They were to go down (of course, at their own expense) to the seaside—where the children with the pennies were, not to the slums, where there were plenty of children but no pennies— and hold “services," the o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 70
…ning in thy heart shall make swift and secure thy pen. 41. Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-house: all must be done well and with business way. 42. The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. Refuse none, but thou shalt know & destroy the traitors. I am Ra-Hoor-Khuit; and I am powerful to pro- tect my servant. Success is thy proof: argue not ; convert not; talk not overmuch! Them that seek to entrap thee, to over- throw thee, them attack without pity or quarter; & destroy them utterly. Swift as a trodden serpent turn and str…