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Page 65 of 911904 · PDF PAGE 52
…s love-lump was a futile term : rather a fancy-fagots fuck-flapper, in Swinbournes faultless phrase. But all phrases are weak. It was Natures standing miracle.) which, as you will observe, is ninety-seven yards, two feet, and four and three quarter inches in length it is the sor- row of my life that I have never touched the 100 yard mark ! And standing in a long row, began to frig and suck it madly. As you can see, I can coil and uncoil it at pleasure : I can wind myself up in it : I could hang myself in it if the whim took me. I have…
1922 · PDF PAGE 220
…es every individual in his idea of himself. He can’t feel free as long as there are slaves about. Of course, there are some people whose nature it is to be slaves; they must be left to serve. But there are lots of us who are kings and don’t know it ; who suffer from the delusion that they ought to bow to public opinion, all sorts of alien domination. He spends his life fighting to emancipate people in this false subjection, because they are parts of himself. He has no ideas about morality. His sense of honour, even, means nothing to him as such…
1954 · PDF PAGE 333
… to the Brothers of the A:. A:. if I cross the Abyss and am admitted to the City of the Pyramids? Now that he may clearly understand the nature of this question and the method of solution, let him study the reasoning of the anatomist who reconstructed an animal from a single bone. To take a simple example: Suppose, having lived all my life among savages, a ship is cast upon the shore and wrecked. Undamaged among the cargo is a "Victoria." What is its use? The wheels speak of roads, their slimness of smooth roads, the brake of hilly roads. The s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 47
47 fundamentally incapable of understanding the nature of work in itself. She must consent to co- operate with him in the dark. Her self-surrender is, therefore, really self-surrender, whereas with him it is {96} rather self-realization. It is true that if a woman persists long enough in the habit, she will ultimately find herself therein. For woman is a creature of habit, that is, of solidified impulses. She has no individuality. Attached to a strong man who is no longer himself by this work, she may become a more or less reliable mood. Otherw…
1910 · PDF PAGE 183
…hilst he was in deep meditation: “Whilst in this meditation, a kind of inverted Manichaeism seemed to develop and take possession of it, Nature appearing as a great evil and fatal force, unwittingly developing within * This is a mere thought-form induced by misunderstanding the instruction of Maitrananda Swami as to observing the phenomenon. 167
1910 · PDF PAGE 183
…hilst he was in deep meditation: “Whilst in this meditation, a kind of inverted Manichaeism seemed to develop and take possession of it, Nature appearing as a great evil and fatal force, unwittingly developing within * This is a mere thought-form induced by misunderstanding the instruction of Maitrananda Swami as to observing the phenomenon. 167
1922 · PDF PAGE 286
…the armies were evenly distributed along the line, it was a matter of trench warfare. Great victories and defeats were impossible in the nature of things. But once the troops were massed at points of vantage, aggregated in huge mobile units, it became possible to destroy them on the large scale. When a British square is broken, the annihilation of
1954 · PDF PAGE 379
…on of business. Oil in the engine. Very good, then; if instead of letting it flow as freely and smoothly as possible, you baulk its very nature; you prevent it from doing its True Will. So every "restriction" (that word again!) on the exchange of wealth is a direct violation of the Law of Thelema. Parable No. Three, "The Fairy Bank Note." One evening a man walked into an inn and asked for hospitality. In the morning, when his bill came, he found he had nothing but a £ I 00 note. "I'm afraid I've no change till the Banks open." "Oh, stick to it-…
1907 · PDF PAGE 54
… man of any sort, rarely speaks the truth in the sense that the witness in a divorce case is expected to, by indicating to them the true nature of those sparks of light shaken ofl" from the invisible Crown of Glory, sparks which they have mistaken for corpse-lights or marsh-vapours, surrounding—they think it an inexplicable paradox l—one who, in all other respects, is so high and pure a being. The first point is, it takes two to make a lie. A. says to B.: “I have emptied all the water from the bottle,” and tells the truth. Student C. says the sam…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
…udgej it must be beyond bribery and préjudice. It is impossible in practice to lay down rules for the inter¬ prétation of symbols. Their nature must be investigated by intel- lectual methods such as the Qabalah, but the précisé shape of meaning in any one case, and the sphere and tendency of its application, must be acquired partlv by expérience, that is, by induction, by recording and classifying one’s experiments over a long période and — this is the better part — by refining one’s ratiocination to the point where it becomes instinct or intui…
1929 · PDF PAGE 177
…K SIDE OF THE MOON THE spring gathered her garments together, then flung them wide over the Bay of Naples. Hers is the greatest force in Nature, because her clarion sounds the summons of creation. It is she that is the Vicegerent of the All- Father, and of His spirit hath He dowered her with a triple essence. In southern lands, even before the Equinox opens its gates before her conquering armies, one feels her imminent. Her light-armed troops swarm over the breached ramparts of the winter, and their cry is echoed in the dungeons of the soul by …
1944 · PDF PAGE 212
…He derives directly from his mother Binah through the Path of Zain, the sublime intuitive sense, so that he partakes ab‐ solutely of the nature of Neschamah. From his father, Chokmah, he is informed though the Path of Hé, the Great Mother, the Star, our Lady Nuit,1 so that the creative impulse is commu‐ nicated to him by all possibilities soever. Finally, from Kether, the supreme, descends directly upon him, though the Path of Gimel, the High Priestess, the triune light of Initiation. The Three‐ in‐One, the Secret Mother in her polymorphous ple…
1996 · PDF PAGE 150
…ath” have some deeper significance than appears? Scorpio, the Zodiacal Sign of Death, is really the Sexual or Repro ductive function of Nature. It is the Earth-transcending Eagle, the
1996 · PDF PAGE 160
Chapter III * Verses 19-20 161 But 718 is expressed openly; its nature is described sufficiently and unambiguously; and it meant nothing to anybody in the world, either then or for seventeen years after. And now the meaning falls so pat, so natural, so self-justified, so evidently the unique value of the “x” of the equation, that it is impossible to quibble. The law of probabilities excludes all theories but one. The simple Truth is what I have always asserted. There is a Being called Aiwaz, an intelligence discarnate, who wrote this Book of th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 267
…y of our Science is the history of all Science. If you choose to ape Christendom and put the pioneers of rational investigation into the nature of consciousness on the rack (2.e. into lunatic asylums) I doubt not we shall find our Bruno. But it will add an additional pang that persecution should come from the house of our friends. Let us, however, turn away from the aspect of criticism which an accidental controversy has thus caused me to notice, and so to anticipate the obvious line of attack which the more frivolous type of critic will employ…
1907 · PDF PAGE 70
… the arguments or apportion the speeches! A great deal of my verse is the mere reflec tion of my rapture—a rapture, may be, of dissimilar nature. I fall in love, and write “The God-Eater”; see Citlaltepetl, and out comes “ Night in the Valley!” “What be poured in at the mouth 0’ the mill as a 33rd Sonata (fancy now!) Comes from the hopper as bran-new Sludge, naught else, The Shakers’ Hymn in G with a natural F Or the Stars and Stripes set to consecutive Fourths.” I am not a poet; I am a typewriter. A very complex machine, and one capable of self…
1922 · PDF PAGE 133
…urist pro- testing about some trifle, sent the blood to my head. I only wanted a legitimate excuse for killing a few hundred people. But nature is wise and kind, and I was always able to take it out of Lou. The passions of murder and love are inseparably connected in our ancestry. All civilisation has done is to teach us to pretend to idealise them. The programme went off without the slightest hitch. Our room opened on to a terrace in deep shadow. At this time of year there was hardly any one in the hotel, of course. A little flight of steps at…
1922 · PDF PAGE 222
… look and stare upon me?’”’’ You know the girl hasn’t got an ounce of flesh on her body. She’s perfectly healthy ; she’s just a freak of nature. And while he sketched her he asked her to suggest a title for the picture. ‘ Paint me as a dead soul,’ she answered. He caught up the phrase with fiery enthusiasm, and began to work on an enormous screen, a triptych with the strangest beasts and birds and faces, all arranged to lead up to
1922 · PDF PAGE 26
…hat at this moment my mind was seized with sharp, black anger, entirely objectless. I had at the time not the faintest inkling as to its nature, but there it was. The café was intolerable—like a pest-house. I threw a coin on the table, and was astonished to notice that it rolled off. I went out as if the devil were at my heels. | I remember practically nothing of the next half- hour. I felt a kind of forlorn sense of being lost in a world of incredibly stupid and malicious dwarfs. I found myself in Piccadilly quite suddenly. A voice purred in m…
1954 · PDF PAGE 267
…it is that there is inherent in it a power (which however is not itself) by virtue whereof all beings appear in forms congruous with the nature of necessity. The Tao is also "the Way" -in the following sense. Nothing exists except as a relation with other similarly postulated ideas. Nothing can be known in itself, but only as one of the participants in a series of events. Reality is therefore in the motion, not in the things moved. We cannot apprehend anything except as one postulated element of an observed impression of change. We may express …