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Page 65 of 1001929 · PDF PAGE 303
…om the saddle into a thorn bush. It was quite impossible for him to extricate himself, the bush being very large and elastic, the thorns long and persuasive. So I waited, peacefully smoking, until the coolies began to arrive, when I got up and gave him a whack with my whalebone hip as each man passed. When all had gone by, I mounted my pony and followed. Johnny White was rescued by a subsequent caravan and turned up during the halt for tiffin. It was not I who had "lost face" with the coolies! And I had no more trouble of any kind for the rest …
1910 · PDF PAGE 107
…he breath, place the chin firmly on the breast, contract the anus and fix the mind on the Sushumna Nadi. Having restrained the breath as long as possible, he should then breathe out slowly. He should practise first on the left side and then on the right.§ 4. Maha Vedha. As a beautiful and graceful woman is of no value without a husband, so Maha Mudra and Maha Bandha have no value without Maha Vedha. The Yogi assuming the Maha Bandha posture, should draw in his breath * “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. iv, 1-11. Also see “Gheranda Sanhita,” p. 23. + The J…
1910 · PDF PAGE 107
…he breath, place the chin firmly on the breast, contract the anus and fix the mind on the Sushumna Nadi. Having restrained the breath as long as possible, he should then breathe out slowly. He should practise first on the left side and then on the right.§ 4. Maha Vedha. As a beautiful and graceful woman is of no value without a husband, so Maha Mudra and Maha Bandha have no value without Maha Vedha. The Yogi assuming the Maha Bandha posture, should draw in his breath * “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. iv, 1-11. Also see “Gheranda Sanhita,” p. 23. + The J…
1911 · PDF PAGE 55
…mpty God, my little flame shall utterly expire in thy great N.O.X.” There is no answer. . . . (20 minutes. O. V.)... . And now, after so long a while, the Angel* lifts me, and takes me from the room, and sets me in a little chamber where is another Angel like a fair youth in shining garments, who makes me partake of the sacraments; bread, that is labour; and fire, that is wit; and a rose, that is sin; and wine, that is death. And all about us isa great company of angels in many- coloured robes, rose and spring-green, and sky-blue, and pale gold…
1929 · PDF PAGE 534
…for the hollowest humbug that ever wrote himself Rosicrucian without knowing how to spell it. Pluck would have pulled him through in the long run; as Blake said, "if the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise." It did not take me long to see that the real object of this gang was to exploit me. They wanted something for nothing; instead I was the only man to profit --- I gained the knowledge of the astonishing variety of dirty tricks that men could play under the mask of friendship and respect. But I was immune to the virus. I poss…
1910 · PDF PAGE 66
…concretely as we once believed in “the reality,” seldom considering that all belief is illu- sionary, and that knowledge is only true as long as it remains unknown.* Now knowledge is identification, not with the inner or outer of a thing, but with that which cannot be explained by either, and which is the essence of the thing in itself, and which the Upanishads name the Atman. Identification with this Atman (Emerson’s “ Oversoul ”) is therefore the end of Religion and Philosophy alike. “Verily he who has seen, heard, comprehended and known the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 66
…concretely as we once believed in “the reality,” seldom considering that all belief is illu- sionary, and that knowledge is only true as long as it remains unknown.* Now knowledge is identification, not with the inner or outer of a thing, but with that which cannot be explained by either, and which is the essence of the thing in itself, and which the Upanishads name the Atman. Identification with this Atman (Emerson’s “ Oversoul ”) is therefore the end of Religion and Philosophy alike. “Verily he who has seen, heard, comprehended and known the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 31
…nee on the bridge, distorted by my over- sensitive organization. I said no more; Arthur looked grave. At night he asked abruptly after a long period of brooding, Was that my thought? I could only stammer that I did not know. Incidentally he complained of fa- tigue, and the listlessness, which before had seemed nothing to me, assumed a ghastly shape. There was something in him that was not he! The indifference had appeared transitory; I now became aware of it as con- stant and increasing. I was at this time twenty-three years old. You wonder t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 294
…tion of the Magical Link arises! No matter how mighty the truth of Thelema, it cannot prevail unless it is applied to and by mankind. As long as The Book of the Law was in Manuscript, it could only affect the small group amongst whom it was circulated. It had to be put into action by the Magical Observation of publishing it. When this was done, it was done without proper perfection . Its commands as to how the work ought to be done were not wholly obeyed. There were doubt and repugnance in FRA TER PERDURABO's mind, and they hampered His work. H…
1929 · PDF PAGE 74
…ll hands that another year would see me a master myself. I had been to St. Petersburg to learn Russian for the Diplomatic Service in the long vacation of 1897, and on my way back broke the journey in Berlin to attend the Chess Congress. But I had hardly entered the room where the masters were playing when I was seized with what may justly be described as a mystical experience. I seemed to be looking on at the tournament from outside myself. I saw the masters --- one, shabby, snuffy and blear-eyed; another, in badly fitting would-be respectable …
1929 · PDF PAGE 547
… I had taken for a token in the days of Ab-ul-Diz. I struck a bargain on the spot, sent for the family, and the furniture with all our belongings were installed the same day. We hired a man to market, cook and clean ship; and there we were as much at home as a mummy in a pyramid, in the loveliest spot of the entire Mediterranean littoral. A week or two later the Ape arrived, and I began to occupy myself with Magick, poetry and painting on my own account, and on theirs with a systematic training essential to establish the Law as the ethical basi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 192
…s she hobbled from the room. As Frater P. left the house, for some time he turned over in his mind these strange happenings, and was not long in coming to the opinion that Mrs. M. was not working alone, and that behind her probably were forces far greater than she. She was but the puppet of others, the slave that would catch the kids and the lambs that were to be served upon her master’s table. Could P. prove this? could he discover who the masters were? The task was a difficult one; it either meant months of work, which P. could not afford to …
1910 · PDF PAGE 192
…s she hobbled from the room. As Frater P. left the house, for some time he turned over in his mind these strange happenings, and was not long in coming to the opinion that Mrs. M. was not working alone, and that behind her probably were forces far greater than she. She was but the puppet of others, the slave that would catch the kids and the lambs that were to be served upon her master’s table. Could P. prove this? could he discover who the masters were? The task was a difficult one; it either meant months of work, which P. could not afford to …
1912 · PDF PAGE 24
…l, but it’s a bad packing-house when you’re the pig! Love is like champagne. You must drink it quickly; and if you keep it corked up too long, you find it has gone flat. It is a fine pick-me-up; but champagne all day is nastier than skilly. FRATER PERDURABO is a wise man. He never says “ Keep off the drink!” If you cannot drink soberly and decently you are not fit. If you can be your own master in the matter of love, you may perhaps master The Great Magician in the end. But if your Great Work means so little to you that the first from-fro” unsettles…
1912 · PDF PAGE 24
…l, but it’s a bad packing-house when you’re the pig! Love is like champagne. You must drink it quickly; and if you keep it corked up too long, you find it has gone flat. It is a fine pick-me-up; but champagne all day is nastier than skilly. FRATER PERDURABO is a wise man. He never says “ Keep off the drink!” If you cannot drink soberly and decently you are not fit. If you can be your own master in the matter of love, you may perhaps master The Great Magician in the end. But if your Great Work means so little to you that the first from-fro” unsettles…
1919 · PDF PAGE 396
…ind of nothing. It is with no hope of personal advancement that the Mas- ters teach. Personal advancement has ceased to have any meaning long before one becomes a Master. Nor do they teach because they are such Nice Kind People. Masters are like Dogs, which ‘bark and bite, for ’tis their nature to.’ We want no credit, no thanks; we are sick of you; only, we have to goon. This verse is, one must suppose, an attempt to put things into the kind of language that would be understood by be- ginners. Compare Chapter Thirteen of the Book of Lies, where…
1922 · PDF PAGE 161
…from Bond Street bored and stupefied. We went off unexpectedly to sleep ; and when we woke it was this morning. I can’t understand why a long sleep like that doesn’t refresh one. We're both absolutely fagged. Cockie said a meal would put us right, and he rang down for breakfast in bed. But when it came, we couldn’t either of us eat it. I remember what Haidée said about the spiritual life. We were being prepared to take our places in the new order of Humanity. It’s perfectly right that one should have to undergo a certain amount of dis- comfort.…
1954 · PDF PAGE 365
… go to prove that I am walking, not by faith but by sight, in my relations with the Secret Chiefs; and these are but two links in a very long chain. This account of my career will describe many others equally striking. I might, perhaps , deny my inmost instinct the right to testify were anyone case of this kind in question; but
1954 · PDF PAGE 488
… results in business, and therefore ultimately in war. That is, as soon as the stress set up by the conditions becomes insupportable. So long as "business" is confined to luxuries,· no great harm need result; but when interference with the flow of foreign trade threatens actual necessities, the
1929 · PDF PAGE 481
… dying one.1 His judgment cannot be what it used to be; but if his memory has not failed him, I will remind him of certain events in our long friendship. I met him at Wastdale Head during Easter week of 1898. We soon became climbing companions, a relation which endured so long as he was physically able to climb. We were together in the English, Welsh and Scottish mountains; in the Alps, in Mexico; and ultimately in the Himalayas. Between us, we hold all but one or two of the world's records for various feats of mountaineering, both amateur and …