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… a poet or a prose-writer, but he is so pathetically at the mercy of ‘artistic principles,’ he is so Puritanically conscious of artistic right and wrong, that he can never give us so 282
…Some of the more sophisticated members of my audience may possibly be thinking that there is a catch in it somewhere. They are perfectly right. (16) The snag is simply this. Every element of which we are composed is indeed constantly occupied in the satisfaction of its particular needs by its own particular Yoga; but for that very reason it is completely obsessed by its own function, which it must naturally consider as the Be-All and End-All of its existence. For instance, if you take a glass tube open at both ends and put it over a bee on the …
…t of the way, and the Lion roared before him to bid the opposers beware of his coming. On the Bull he rode, and on his left hand and his right marched the Eagle and the Man. But his b ack was uncovered, seeing that he would not turn. And the Spirit of the Path met him. It was a y oung girl of two and twenty y ears, and she warned him that without the Serpent5 his way s were but as wool c ast into the dy er’s vat. Two-and-twenty scales had t he Serpent, and every scale was a path, and every path was alike an enemy and a friend. So he set out, an…
…the gaps in Mendelejeff's table of the Periodic Law. 17. Herschel represents the highest form of the True Will, and it seems natural and right that this should not rank with the seven sacred planets, because the True Will is the sphere which transcends them. 'Every man and every woman is a star.' Herschel defines the orbit of the star, your star. But Herschel is dynamic; Herschel is explosive; Herschel, astrologically speaking, does not move in an orbit; he has his own path. So the Niyama which corresponds to this planet is, first and last, the…
…dle this nephew aforesaid out of some property, and one of the arguments which he uses is, that if he gets this money to which he has no right, he will be able to have a stone put on the grave of his sister. I hope the readers of THE Egurnox have been ignorant hitherto that there are any people like this Mr. Bishop; that they imagine the peasants in Zola’s La Terre to be mostly imaginary :—not that Zola’s peasants are as disgusting as Mr. Bishop. He is certainly a very strong argument against evolution, though his book is not. After wearing out…
…form the practices, obtain the experience, and come to me yourself with the information. In this way you will know that you have got the right thing, whereas if I were to tell you now, you would very likely imagine it. 2. Automatic rigidity: the body becomes still, as the result of a spasm. This is perfectly normal and predictable. It is customary to do it with a dog. You stick him in a bell-jar, pump in oxygen or carbonic acid or something, and the dog goes stiff. You can take him out and wave him around by a leg as if he were frozen. This is …
…able parts, powers and faculties. And they are as much a nightmare as the external universe which it has created. Gad, sir, Patanjali is right! 15. Now how do we get over this difficulty of something coming from Nothing? Only by enquiring what we mean by Nothing. We shall find that this idea is totally inconceivable to the normal mind. For if Nothing is to be Nothing, it must be Nothing in every possible way. (Of course, each of these ways is itself an imaginary something, and there are AlephZero a transfinite numberof them.) If, for example…
…rtunately, Time, the great healer, is on the job as usual; Time takes no week-ends off; Time does not stop to admire himself; Time keeps right on.[3] Before very long, you forget all about the pleasantness of things, and it would not be at all polite to give you any idea of what you are going to think of the Teacher. 14. Perhaps the first thing you notice is that, although you have started in what is apparently the most comfortable position, there is a tendency to change that position without informing you. For example, if you are sitting in th…
…edly upon the world. He is clad in green, according to the tradition of Spring; but his shoes are of the phallic gold of the sun. In his right hand he bears the wand, tipped with a pyramid of white, of the All‐Father. In his left hand he bears the flaming pine‐ cone, of similar significance, but more definitely in‐ dicating vegetable growth; and from his left shoulder hangs a bunch of purple grapes. Grapes represent fertility, sweetness, and the basis of ecstasy. This ecstasy is shown by the stem of the grapes developing into rainbow‐ hued spir…
…Lieber Aleph: The Booh of Wisdom or Folly. that won Kingship in Monsalvat, and made whole the Wound of Amfortas, and ordered Kun‐ dry to Right Service, and regained the Lance, and revived the Miracle of the Sangraal; yea, also upon himself did he accomplish his Word in the end: “Höchsten Heiles Wunder! Erlösung dem Erlöser!” This is the last Word of the Song that thine Uncle Richard Wagner made for Worship of this Mystery. Understand thou this, O my Son, as I take leave of thee in this Epistle, that the Summit of Wisdom is the Opening of the Wa…
122 THE TALE OF ARCHAIS Righteous in ange:, doomed, for fiery sin Kindled by hell-flames, cherishéd within TTer lustful heart, for sin most damnable, To suffer torment in remotest hell, Where the grim fiend grinds down with fiery stones The unrepentant marrow of men’s bones, Or chills their blood with poisonous vials of death, Or dooms them tu the tooth and venomous breath Of foul black worms; and on the earth to dwell For a long space, and there (most terrible !) To change her shape at times, and on her take The fierce presentment of a loathly…
…pp., consisting, of Half-title, quotation on reverse from Browning's Master Hughes of Saxe-Gotha ; Title-page as above, on reverse ‘‘all rights reserved’; Dedication in verse, pp. 5-7; Prose preface, pp. 9-16, dated ‘* Kandy, Ceylon, Sept. rgo1."" Second Half-title; Text, pp. 18-142. Imprint at foot, ‘* ‘Turn- bull and Spears, Printers, Edinburgh.” Two pages of advertisements at end. No headlines. Edition: 6 copies on Japanese vellum, 500 copies on machine-made paper. Issued in royal-blue boards, linen backs, white paper back-label, ‘Crowley | …
…e; withat he knew what fearful task was before him. But slaying his disciples with long Nails, he interred them there, so that they were right sorrowful in their hearts. May all we die so! And what further befell him ye shall also know, but not at this time. Going forth of that Mountain he met alsothe Fool. Then the discourse of that Fool, my Brethren; it shall repay your pains. They think they are a triangle,? he said, they think as the Picture-Folk. Base they are, and little infinitely. Ain Elohim. They think, being many, they are one.* They …
…'But I was free born.' 18. It is not for us here to enquire as to how it should happen that certain human beings possess from birth this right of intimacy with the highest reality, but Blavatsky was of this same opinion that the natural gift marks the acquisition of the rank in the spiritual hierarchy to which the student of Magick and Yoga aspires. He is, so to speak, an artist in the making; and it is perhaps not likely that his gifts will have become sufficiently automatic in his present incarnation to produce the fruits of his attainment. Y…
…ness. There is only one honour connected with true knighthood, that of being a man of honour, of having taken the vows --- to uphold the right, to serve mankind, to protect the distressed, and generally to exercise the manly virtues. When renegade Jews and clowns walk in to dinner before gentlemen, the latter may prefer to go without. I took my admission to the Order with absolute seriousness, keeping vigil over my arms in a wood. The theory of the Celtic Church was that Romanism was a late heresy, or at least schism. The finest cathedral in th…
…; the Moon is the aspiration, the link of man and God; she is the supreme purity: Isis the Virgin, Isis the Virgin Mother; but she comes right down at the other end of the scale, to be a symbol of the senses themselves, the mere instrument of the registration of phenomena, incapable of discrimination, incapable of choice. The Niyama corresponding to her influence, the first of all, is that quality of aspiration, the positive purity which refuses union with anything less than the All. In Greek mythology Artemis, the Goddess of the Moon, is virgi…
…d, seeking out its medicine, Finds cessation of desire, and, seeking How so fierce a feat may be accomplished, Finds at first in Truth a right foundation, Builds the walls of Rightful Life upon it, Four-square, Word and Act and Aspiration Folded mystically across each other, Crowns that palace of enduring marble With sky-piercing pinnacles of Will-power Rightly carven, rightly pointed ; strengthens [Mind sole centred on the single object] _ All against the lightning, earthquake, thunder, Meteor, cyclone with strong Meditation. There, the sacred…
…to ring the bell. It may be that if you increase your sixty seconds to sixty-four the phenomena would begin immediately. That sounds all right but as you have nearly burst your lungs doing the sixty, you want this added energy to make the grade. That is only one example of the difficulty which arises with every practice. Mars, moreover, is the flaming energy of passion, it is the male quality in its lowest sense; it is the courage which goes berserk, and I do not mind telling you that, in my own case at least, one of the inhibitions with which …
…is for the greater glory of God RPA? We are travellers as well as mystics, we have been a score of journeys as long as yours and longer, right round the world twice—think of that, Jo! and all the cockle shells you could have collected! We know that the conversation “on board” is trivial, “very naughty,” as a little Cape Dutch girl once said to us, “but rather nice,” and that the ozone of the air and the brine of the waves make the ladies most charming on the boat deck. We are mystics and are never bored; we are mystics and are just as happy on …
…is for the greater glory of God RPA? We are travellers as well as mystics, we have been a score of journeys as long as yours and longer, right round the world twice—think of that, Jo! and all the cockle shells you could have collected! We know that the conversation “on board” is trivial, “very naughty,” as a little Cape Dutch girl once said to us, “but rather nice,” and that the ozone of the air and the brine of the waves make the ladies most charming on the boat deck. We are mystics and are never bored; we are mystics and are just as happy on …