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Page 70 of 801944 · PDF PAGE 124
1This image is to be found painted (usually on silk, and repeated in varying MISSING TEXT? that the tearing asunder is a crushing together.) All the double phenomena are only two ways of looking at a single phenomenon; and the single phenomenon is Peace. There is no sense in my words or in my thoughts. “Faces half‐formed arose.” This is the meaning of that passage; they are attempts to interpret Chaos. But Chaos is Peace Cosmos is the War of the Rose and the Cross. That was a “half‐formed face” that I said then. All images are useless. Yea, as …
1929 · PDF PAGE 143
…esult was good, showing that I was approaching the state of what is called "neighbourhood concentration". Another experience was this: I found myself at one and thee same moment conscious of external things in the background after the object of my concentration had vanished, and also conscious that I was not conscious of these things. To the normal mind this is of course sheer contradiction, but Buddhist psychology mentions this peculiar state. The higher faculties of the intelligence are not subject to the same laws as the lower. I continually…
1944 · PDF PAGE 56
…seen in the figures of Zeus Arrhenothelus and Babalon, and in the extraordinarily obscene representations of the Virgin Mother which are found among the remains of early Christian iconology. The subject is dealt with at considerable length in Payne Knight, where the origin of the symbol and the meaning of the name is investigated. Von Hammer‐Purgstall was certainly right in supposing Baphomet to be a form of the Bull‐god, or rather, the Bull‐slaying god, Mithras; for Baphomet should be spelt with an “r” at the end; thus it is clearly a corrupti…
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
…oul with my soul ! One soul with the wail of distress The ravished Persephone flung ; One soul with the song of success, Demeter’s, that found her and sung ; One soul with all spirits drawn nigher From invisible worlds to the lyre ;— They throng me and silently press The strings as I need them, and quicken my fingers and loosen my tongue ! And thou, O supreme, O Apollo! I have lived in Thy lands for a year, Under skies, where the azure was hollow, The vault of black midnight was clear. Think ! I who have borne Thee, nor tire— May I not lift up …
1929 · PDF PAGE 542
…esent. My original plan had been to join the Ape of Thoth in Switzerland where she was staying with her sister pending my arrival. But I found myself disinclined for some obscure reason to go there. I wanted to be within easy reach of London for the time being, and accordingly wired her to join me in Paris, which she did on January 11th, the first anniversary of our liaison. With her was her two- year-old son who appears in The Diary of a Drug Fiend as Dionysus. We were hoping to "put his nose out of joint" in February or March. My object in st…
1929 · PDF PAGE 329
…as obliged to take rooms in Jermyn Street in order to have a moment to myself. In the autumn of 1907 on returning from Tangiers, I {534} found that she had obtained one hundred and fifty bottles of whisky from one grocer alone in five months. Confronted with the fact, she broke down and agreed to take a cure for two months, in an establishment at Leicester. At the end of that time I took her climbing for a fortnight and she came back to London in excellent health; but ten days later the disease broke out with redoubled violence. I did everythin…
1906 · PDF PAGE 219
…aid. And though he passed out therewithal, yet ’twas his home until he had attained. So he came to a river, and sailing to its source he found a fair woman all naked, and she filled the river from two vessels of pure water. ‘‘She-devil,” he cried, ‘‘have I gone back one step?” For the Star Venus burned above. And with his sword he clave her from the head to the feet, that she fell clean asunder. Cried the echo: ‘Ah! thou hast slain hope now!” Our Father gladdened at Intellectus. Deus. Het S. V. A. Luna, Quid Umbra- tur In Mari. Deo Duce Comite …
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
…nt, told Mr. Champney that he had visited me (twelve years old) at my mother's house during the holidays --- true so far, he had --- and found me lying drunk at the bottom of the stairs. My mother was never asked about this; nor was I told of it. I was put into "Coventry", i.e. no master nor boy might speak to me, or I to them. I was fed on bread and water; during play hours I worked in the schoolroom; during work hours I walked solitary round and round the playground. I was expected to "confess" the crime of which I was not only innocent, but …
1929 · PDF PAGE 226
…ed for the first time the responsibility of the white man. I had to exhibit perfect aplomb. No sign of the bull! Presently, the trackers found the trail. My bullet having pierced his hoof, there was no blood. The only signs of his passage were bruised and broken twigs, and occasional footprints. We came up with him pretty soon. He was standing stock still, listening for his life, with his back turned to us. I was not thirty yards away and I aimed at the bull's eye ---pardon the introduction of a euphemism from ancient Egypt. It is the most effe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 236
… mankind. They remain essentially sceptics. They base their precepts on their own personal experience, saying, in effect, that they have found that the performance of certain acts and the abstention from others created conditions favourable to the attainment of the state which has emancipated them. The wiser they are, the less dogmatic. Such men indeed formulate their transcendental conception of the cosmos more or less clearly; they may explain evil as illusion, etc., but the heart of their theory is that the problem of sorrow has been wrongly…
1906 · PDF PAGE 240
…chool. But on his basal hypothesis of an infinite God, infinite. space, time, and so on, no other conclusion is possible. Dean Mansel is found in the im- possible position of one who will neither give up his premisses nor dispute the validity of his logical processes, but who shrinks in horror from the inevitable conclusion; he supposes there must be something wrong somewhere, and concludes that the sole use of reason is to discover its. own inferiority to faith. As Deussen? well points out, faith in the Christian sense merely amounts to 1 The …
1904 · PDF PAGE 83
…ours ?” “Children,” ans wered the Glorious One, “do not be so foolish as to think that death is necessarily an evil. I have not com e to found a Hundred Years Club, and to i nclude mosquitoes in the m embership. In this case to have kept Perdu’ R Abu alive was to h ave played into the hands of his enemies. My First Precept is m erely a general rule. 3 In 1 The Buddha had such long ear s that he could cover the whole of his f ace with them . Ears are referred to Spirit in Hindu sy mbolism, so that the legend means he could conceal the lower elem…
1906 · PDF PAGE 243
…innumerable categories, that an incalculably vast system was_ produced. Merely by chance, chance in the truest sense of the term, we are found with gods, men, stars, planets, devils, colours, forces, and all the materials of the Cosmos : and with time, space, and causality, the conditions limiting and involving them all.! Remember that it is not true to say that our 0° existed; nor that it did not exist. The idea of existence was just as much uns formulated as that of toasted cheese. But 0° is a finite expression, or has a finite phase, and our…
1929 · PDF PAGE 416
…ny words of mine to utter. Nature herself opposed no obstacle to my wooing. The summer of 1911 was intensely hot and fine. I have always found that dry air is essential to the well-being either of my body or of my genius. Damp air seems to interfere with my insulation; my genius leaks away and leaves me empty and depressed. This year indeed was another annus mirabilis for me. There was an almost continual outpouring of the Holy Spirit through my mind. The spring of poetry shot crystal clear from the hidden furnace of my being into the pure and …
1929 · PDF PAGE 578
…aining that her husband absorbed in his work was starving her. She would proceed to claim great credit for being faithful to him, but we found out that she was carrying on any number of intrigues with the young bloods of Cefalu. Raoul, on his part, amply justified my faith in his future. A few weeks' work enabled him to fill the gaps in his knowledge of Magick and to unify its elements. He showed an understanding of the subject which was almost enough to satisfy the requirements of the Grade 8° = 3ř. I admitted him as a probationer in the Order…
1906 · PDF PAGE 283
… only thing that saves it from being blasphemous. Myst. To be intelligible is to be misunder- stood. Scept. To beunintelligible is to be found out. $2
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…27 I sailed for Ceylon, chiefly because I had said I would go, certainly not in the hope of assistance from Allan. Perhaps because I had found my feet, he was, as will appear, allowed to guide them, in what seemed at first sight a new Path. I had got to learn that all roads lead to Rome. It is proper, more, it is prudent, more yet, it is educative, for the aspirant to pursue all possible Ways to Wisdom. Thus he broadens the base of his Pyramid, thus he diminishes the probability of missing the method which happens to suit him best, thus he insu…
1944 · PDF PAGE 102
…Revelation. For the Euclidian geometry depends upon the conception of straight lines, and it was only because the Parallel Postulate was found to be incapable of proof that mathemati‐ cians began to conceive that the straight line had no true correspondence with reality1. 1The straight line is no more than the limit of any curve. For instance, it is an ellipse whose foci are an “infinite” distance apart. In fact, such use of the Calcultis is the one certain way of ensuring “straightness”. In the first chapter of the Book of the Law, the conclus…
1929 · PDF PAGE 451
… nature which would not be endorsed by the most materialistic man of science. On the surface this may sound difficult; but in practice I found it perfectly simple to combine the most rigidly rational conceptions of phenomena with the most exalted and enthusiastic celebration of their sublimity. (This ritual has been published in The International, New York, March 1918, and in The Equinox, vol. III, No. 1.) {714} Numerous other poems, essays and short stories were written during this summer. In particular there is a sort of novel, The Lost Conti…
1944 · PDF PAGE 16
…st centred in ancient religions, and their traditions of initiation and thaumaturgy. Learned societies, some secret or semi‐secret, were founded or revived. Among the members of one such group, the Quatuor Coronati Lodge of Freemasonry, were three men: one, Dr. Wynn Westcott, a London coroner; a Dr. Woodford, and a Dr. Woodman. There is a lit‐ tle dispute as to which of these men went to the Farringdon Road, or whether it was the Far‐ ringdon Road to which they went; but there is no doubt whatever that one of them bought an old book, either fro…