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Page 68 of 1031910 · PDF PAGE 143
…er him slightly, and to cause him partially to doubt the reality of his present joy. In a week or so he is again drugged, dressed in his old rags, and abandoned in the same beggar’s haunt as be- fore. He wakes up utterly miserable, and consults the local Mullah as to his experience. “ My son ! ” replies the good man “ favoured of Heaven ! You have had a vision of the realms of Paradise.” He naturally wants to know how to get back, and the Mullah reiterates the well-known blessing on those who die, slaying infidels, and further indicates such an…
1911 · PDF PAGE 81
THE VISION AND THE VOICE the house opens, and I see in it an old man, sitting by the table. Heis blind. Yet he writeth in a great book, constantly. I see what he is writing: ‘The words of the Book are as the leaves of the flowers in the garden. Many indeed of these my songs shall go forth as maidens, but there is one among them, which one I know not, that shall be a man-child, whose name shall be NEMO, when he hath beheld the face of the Father, and become blind.” (All this vision is most extraordinarily pleasant and peace- ful, entirely withou…
1919 · PDF PAGE 192
… chil- dren by the operation of the law of the slave-gods was, one may say, the primum mobile of Our first aspiration to over- throw the Old Law. 6. By all manner of means shall all strive constantly to increase the power and freedom of the Headquarters of the O.T.O.; for thereby will come efficiency in the promulgation of the Law. Specific instructions for the extension of the O.T.O. are given in another epistle. Constant practice of these recommendations will develop skill in him or her that practiseth, so that new ideas and plans will be evo…
1922 · PDF PAGE 339
At Telepylus 325 no right but to do thy will.’ That is why the old hierophants shut up the candidate in silence and darkness. He had the choice between going mad or knowing himself. And when he was brought out into light and life, restored to love and liberty, he was in very truth a Neophyte, a man new-born. Big Lion puts us through it without our knowing what he’s doing. Though I’ve been through it myself, I didn’t know in this clear way what had really happened until I tried to explain it to you.” The sense of being enchanted came over me aga…
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
…e 'Misadventures of a pat of butter' Sonata. But the Tschaikowsky symphony was best: that was Atmosphere; it put me right back among the old familiar scenes; I thought I was somewhere on the South-Eastern Railway waiting for a train." Lisa flamed indignation. "She's the most wonderful dancer in the world." "Yes, she is that," said her lover, with affected heavy sadness. "Wonderful! My father used to say, too, that she used even to dance well when she was forty." The nostrils of la Giuffria dilated. She understood that it was a monster that had …
1911 · PDF PAGE 70
…as so mightily pleased that for awhile I forgot all else, and swam lustily in the stream for my pleasure. But now came a current of ice-cold water and enwrapped me; and when I looked, it bore spots of blood upon it. Then I went hastily into the ark that was ever near by; and, climb- ing to the roof by the ladder that I had before made, looked through. And all the sky was a hurricane, a madness of storm. Now in my eagerness I had approached closely to the roof, so that the storm whirled me away into itself. One might say that I was the storm. An…
1911 · PDF PAGE 70
…as so mightily pleased that for awhile I forgot all else, and swam lustily in the stream for my pleasure. But now came a current of ice-cold water and enwrapped me; and when I looked, it bore spots of blood upon it. Then I went hastily into the ark that was ever near by; and, climb- ing to the roof by the ladder that I had before made, looked through. And all the sky was a hurricane, a madness of storm. Now in my eagerness I had approached closely to the roof, so that the storm whirled me away into itself. One might say that I was the storm. An…
1919 · PDF PAGE 448
…ure of one’s Star, which led one into these “grave paths.” The only “wrong” is the thinking about anything at all; this is of course the old “Thought is evil” on a higher plane. One gets to un- derstand the Upanishad which tells us how The Original It made the error of contemplating itself, of becoming self- conscious; and one also perceives the stupendous transcen- dentalism concealed in the phrase of the Book of the Law: “Enough of Because! Be he damned for a dog!” This Universe—the IO PAN PAN and the OIMOI TALAINOI too—is a Play of Our Merry…
1922 · PDF PAGE 327
…as surrounded by a sun- blaze of rays. Behind him stood two women in robes similar to those of the boys. One was about twenty-five years old, and the other nearer forty. Both had bobbed hair; the younger woman’s of flaming chestnut, the elder’s a rich silvery gray. “ That’s the Bid Lion,” said Dionysus, “ with Athena and Cypris.” Hermes drew back and told us confidentially: ‘‘ Now you be the first to say ‘Do what thou wilt’ to show you're more awake than they are.” We nodded encouragingly, and carried out the pro- gramme with success. “Love is …
1929 · PDF PAGE 20
… vile a thing he was. I think this must have stirred his sense of shame. At least, I never received any answer. I suppose that the household at Thistle Grove was as representative of one part of England as could possibly have been imagined. It was nondescript. It was neither upper nor lower middle-class. It had not sufficient individuality even to belong to a category. My grandmother was a particularly charming old lady. She was inexpressibly dignified in her black silks and her lace cap. She had been imported from the country by the exigencies…
1929 · PDF PAGE 222
…s, and teaching the boys from the start that they were brought into the world in order to rule it, produced a class of men who were like Old Testament heroes. (Under George III we had a rehearsal. Can it be that long prosperous {370} reigns favour the production of such men? We had another crop under Elizabeth, when the restoration of the abbeys to the people of England gave a chance to the development of a daring and dominant breed.) But the influences which are commonly called civilized attenuate the aristocratic spirit. The existence of a co…
1909 · PDF PAGE 241
… and his prison. Then came the great awakening. Curious to say, it was towards the hour of midnight on the last day of the year when the old slinks away from the new, that he happened to be riding alone, wrapped in the dark cloak of unutterable thoughts. A distant bell chimed the last quarter of the dying year, and the snow which lay fine and crisp on the roadway was being caught up here and there by the puffs of sharp frosty wind that came snake-like through the hedges and the trees, whirling it on spectre-like in the chill and silver moon- li…
1909 · PDF PAGE 241
… and his prison. Then came the great awakening. Curious to say, it was towards the hour of midnight on the last day of the year when the old slinks away from the new, that he happened to be riding alone, wrapped in the dark cloak of unutterable thoughts. A distant bell chimed the last quarter of the dying year, and the snow which lay fine and crisp on the roadway was being caught up here and there by the puffs of sharp frosty wind that came snake-like through the hedges and the trees, whirling it on spectre-like in the chill and silver moon- li…
1929 · PDF PAGE 3
…nd physical adventure OSCAR ECKENSTEIN who trained me to follow the trail ALLAN BENNETT who did what he could P A R T O N E TOWARDS THE GOLDEN DAWN. PRELUDE "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." Not only to this autohagiography --- as he amusedly insists on calling it --- of Aleister Crowley, but to every form of biography, biology, even chemistry, these words are key. "Every man and every woman is a star." What can we know about a star? By the telescope, a faint phantasm of its optical value. By the spectroscope, a hint of its com…
1929 · PDF PAGE 54
… had slipped out of the reception-room to clothe themselves according to their dignity in the Order. They returned in a few moments. The old man was in a robe of the same pattern as Sister Cybele's — all the robes of the Order were thus fashioned — but it was of black silk, and on the breast was embroidered a golden eye within a radiant triangle. Cyril Grey was in a similar robe, but the eye was enclosed in a six-pointed star, and swords with undulating blades issued from each re-entrant angle. Their return broke up the conversation, and Sister…
1929 · PDF PAGE 37
…ere knowledgeand such mean vile knowledgeshould so puff one up with hideous pride. No wonder Satan fell! I began to understand all the old legends, and far more I told Doctor Kershaw that I was carrying out Ar- thur's last wishes. He raised no further opposition; but I saw him sign to the male nurse to keep an eye on me. The sick mans finger beckoned us. He could not speak; he traced circles on the counterpane. The doctor (with characteristic intelligence) having counted the cir- cles, nodded; and said: Yes, it is nearly seven oclock.
1906 · PDF PAGE 66
…k, which, indeed, I did not. But I felt in- spired. ‘* Ay me, they died—as I am dying now.” He turned to the wall and sought a bundle of old writing on a shelf. ‘‘ Take this,” he said. ‘‘ Edit it as if it were your own: let the world know how wonderful it was.” I took the manuscript from the frail, white hand. He seemed to forget me altogether. ‘* Namo tassa Bhagavato arahato samma- sambuddhasa,”’' he murmured, turning to his little black Buddha-rupa. There was a calm like unto—might I say, an afterwards? : ‘ There is an end of joy and sorrow, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 156
THE OLD BOTTLE 149 heavenly Father bids well to rival our earthly Parr ; but as long as we sprawl , what matters it what we sprawl before, if it be the shin -bone of an ass , or the pineal gland of our wretched imagination ? Whatever man has touched he has spoilt : one day he was struck with the mystic poetry of the waves , and he promptly hocussed slimy monsters from out the deep ; gazing on his lithe'and winsome daughter , he held her head under the green flood to satiate the rapacity of the offspring of his deluded imagination , who (he judg…
1909 · PDF PAGE 387
…hem at a dis- tance. Theychained me and drove me away. I fell unconscious. At my awakeningI found that I was alone by the shore with the old sailor, my willing successor. When he saw that I opened my eyes he spoke gently to me: “ Are you better now?” “What has happened?” said I, instead of answering his question. 379
1909 · PDF PAGE 387
…hem at a dis- tance. Theychained me and drove me away. I fell unconscious. At my awakeningI found that I was alone by the shore with the old sailor, my willing successor. When he saw that I opened my eyes he spoke gently to me: “ Are you better now?” “What has happened?” said I, instead of answering his question. 379