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Page 70 of 921929 · PDF PAGE 234
…utes more!" "Well, boy?" "I think it's only fair to let General Foch enjoy the joke. I hear he has been depressed lately." "He might not take it so easily. The French do [328] not care to be played with when their country is at stake." "He can only shoot poor Cyril, mon vieux! Just give him two days leave, so that he can run over before reporting to Mavor." "Oh well, I dare say the Intelligence Department can get on without its champion guesser for a day or so. Trot along, Grey; but for your own sake I advise you to think up a fact or two." Cyr…
1904 · PDF PAGE 60
…a task so formidable accomplished b y a ny t hreepenny- bit-in-the-plate-on-Sunday morality, the “deceive others and self-deception will take care of itself” uprightness, but by the severe roads of austere self-mastery, of arduous scientific research, which constitute the Noble Eightfold Path. 101-105. Theres one. . . Six Six Six.31— This opinion has most recently (and most oppor- tunely) been confirmed by the Rev. Father Simons, Roman Catholic Missionary (and head of the Corner in K ashmir Stamps), Baramulla, Kash- mir. 106. Gallup.32—For inf…
1906 · PDF PAGE 76
…ul wing, Seeing our honour stood a citadel. I saw the foolishness of love that saith: ‘“*T am exalted over shame and death, But will not take my fill of death and shame.”’ For each kiss leaps, a more insistent breath, And adds fresh fuel to the amorous flame, Not quells it—Is not honour but a name? THE FIFTEENTH DAY. ‘* Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.” Sonnets to Sundry Notes of ALuste. ANOTHER day rose of unceasing fire: Kisses made monstrous for their sterile storm Maddening with sea-sounds, as of lute or shawm F…
1929 · PDF PAGE 119
…t, the bell. It may nevertheless be admitted that they become more important in the ceremony if the Magician considers it worth while to take up 1 an instrument whose single purpose is to produce them. Let it first be laid down that a knock asserts a connection between the Magician and the object which he strikes. Thus the use of the bell, or of the hands, means that the Magician wishes to impress the atmosphère of the whole circle with what has been or is about to be done. He wishes to formulate his will in Sound, and radiate it in every direc…
1929 · PDF PAGE 227
… a gloating smile. "But why did you not save him, master?" "Save him! It was I that destroyed him when he tried to betray me. Candidates take notice!" Abdul protested his loyalty and devotion. "The supreme test," continued Douglas, "cannot conveniently be imposed in time of war. There is too much to do just now. But — as a preliminary — ?" how do you stand with Germany?" Abdul shrank back, startled out of his presence of mind. "Germany!" he stammered at last. "Why, [319] Colonel," (he emphasized the title) "I know nothing. I have no instruction…
1996 · PDF PAGE 66
… satyrs, elves and the like began to populate those secret places of the earth which are not sensible by the organs of the normal man. I take it as certain that every offering of this talisman infallibly begets children on one plane or another of this our cosmos, whose matter is so varied in kind. Such a child must partake of its father’s nature; and its character will be determined, partly by the environment in which it is bred to manifestation, lives, and ulti mately changes in what we call death, and partly by the inmost will of the father,…
1906 · PDF PAGE 115
…the Races and the Games, The song, the chisel, and the lyre ; We have the altar, we the shrine, . And ours the joy of love and wine. Why take one pleasure, put aside The myriad bliss of life diverse? Unchanging joy will soon divide Into the likeness of a curse. Have we no maidens, slender, strong, Daughters of tender-throated song? I swear by Aphrodite’s eyes Our Grecian maids are fairer far ! What love as sweet as theirs is lies In Sun or planet, moon or star? What nymphs as sweet as ours are dwell By foreign grove and alien well? With every w…
1910 · PDF PAGE 176
…6.12-6.38 Pranayama. Four minutes and 6 minutes Io. 29. 30. p.m. p.m. Late Dharana. Became quite unconscious. Recovered saying: “and not take the first step on Virtue’s giddy road,” with the idea that this had some reference to the instructions to begin Suddhi with Ida. Forgot that I had been doing Dharana; but I felt quite pleased and a conviction that my thoughts had been very important. roth. 7.12-7.34 Pranayama. Seven minutes 5. 10. 20; and 10 minutes am.am. 10. 20. 30. The last was very good and regular. 11.50-12.5 Pranayama. Fourteen minu…
1910 · PDF PAGE 176
…6.12-6.38 Pranayama. Four minutes and 6 minutes Io. 29. 30. p.m. p.m. Late Dharana. Became quite unconscious. Recovered saying: “and not take the first step on Virtue’s giddy road,” with the idea that this had some reference to the instructions to begin Suddhi with Ida. Forgot that I had been doing Dharana; but I felt quite pleased and a conviction that my thoughts had been very important. roth. 7.12-7.34 Pranayama. Seven minutes 5. 10. 20; and 10 minutes am.am. 10. 20. 30. The last was very good and regular. 11.50-12.5 Pranayama. Fourteen minu…
1930 · PDF PAGE 25
…hâve served him better, for he thought the owner of the vest was a corn-chandler, instead of an earl, as he is. The Magician can hardi y take too much trouble to develop this power in himself. It is extremely useful to him in guarding himself against attack; in obtaining warnings, in judging character, and especially in watching the process of his Ceremonies. I. This is because there is a certain necessary correspondence between planes; as in the case of an Anglo-Indian’s liver and his temper. The relation appears “vague and indeterminate” only…
1954 · PDF PAGE 421
…What you need to do, then, is to knot all these ideas into a very close pattern; to make of them a consecrated Talisman. Then, when rage takes you, it can be thrown upon the fire to stifle it: to thrust against the Demon, to disintegrate him. The great point is to have this weapon very firmly constructed, very complete . Your rage will pass in one of those two ways, which are one: Rapture and Laughter. Astral Fligh t ! ! ! Excuse me if I mention it, but-no doubt the fault is mine-you seem to have failed to note any single one of all my prayerfu…
1906 · PDF PAGE 277
…which may mark its position. ‘‘ Does Mr. Crowley suppose that the Buddhists do not feel the poetical nature of the books of religion?” I take this to mean: ‘‘ You have no business to take the Bible literally !” I have dealt with this contention at some length in the ‘‘Sword of Song”’ itself (Ascen- sion Day, lines 216-247): but here I will simply observe that a poem which authorises the Archbishop of Canterbury to convey Dr. Clitford’s pet trowels, and makes possible the Gilbertian (in the old sense of pertaining to W. S. Gilbert) position of t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 114
…ched”;1 that is, “the secret serpent coiled about to spring” and “the flame that burns in every heart of man”— Hadit. In other words, we take up arms against falsehood; we cannot help it if that falsehood forces the King it has imprisoned to assent to its edicts, even to believe that his interests are those of his oppressor, and to fear Truth as once Jehovah did the Serpent. 1 [Mark 9:44, paraphrase; see also Isaiah 66:24.] 2 Beast-food; even The New York Times of November 13, 1918 E.v. has it. [This issue announced the end of World War I, givi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 238
…of your leave." "There is a meditation," said Cyril firmly, "given by the Buddha, a meditation upon a corpse torn by wild beasts. I will take that." Simon Iff acquiesced without comprehending. He did not know that Cyril Grey had understood that the corpse of Douglas was his own; that the perception of the identity of himself with all other living things had come to him, and raised him to a great Adeptship. But there was one to comprehend the nature of that initiation. As Cyril walked, leaning on the arm of Sister Cybele, to the room appointed f…
1954 · PDF PAGE 254
…. One can run away, or climb a tree, or shoot him, or (in your case) cow him by the Power of the Human Eye; but the way of the Tao is to take no particular notice. (This, incidentally, is not such bad Magick; the diversion of your attention might very well result in your becoming invisible, as I have explained in a previous
1906 · PDF PAGE 213
…od, alike only in the inability to reconcile the ultimate antinomies of a cosmogony only grosser for its pinchbeck spirituality; have, I take it, found their modern parallel in the ghastly laughter of Herbert Spencer, as fleshed upon the corpses of Berkeley and the Idealists from Fichte and Hartmann to Lotze and Tren- delenburg he drives the reeking fangs of his im- agination into the palpitating vitais of his own grim masterpiece of reconcilement, self-deluded and yet self-conscious of its own delusion. _ History affirms that such a deadlock i…
1905 · PDF PAGE 169
… passion, this intolerable Desire, this flame of hell ; you fed it full, Sunned it and watered—O my brain will snap !— Only to blast it. Take your story back ;
1930 · PDF PAGE 35
…self in Liber Samekh. But they hâve published such accounts as those in The Terrifie of Solomon the King and in John St. John. They hâve taken the only proper course; to train aspirants to this attainment in the theory and prac¬ tice of the whole of Magick and Mysticism, so that each man may be expert in the handling of ail known weapons, and free to choose and to use those which his own expérience and instinct dictate as proper when he essays the Great Experiment. He is furthermore trained to the one habit essential to Member- ship of the A.'.…
1996 · PDF PAGE 60
…ature, the innocent indulgence of irresistible impulse. We glance back to the previous verse—we examine our charter. We are permitted to take our fill and will of love as we will, when, where and with whom we will, but there is nothing said about why we will. On the contrary, despite the infinite variety of lawful means, there is one end held lawful, and no more than one. The act has only one legitimate object: it must be performed unto Nuit. Further reflec tion reassures us to some extent, not directly, in the manner of the jurist, but indire…
1906 · PDF PAGE 200
…s, infecting us, rotting our very bones with poisonous drunkenness. And so his cutting irony—drink no intoxicating drinks ! When I go to take Pansil,* it is in no spirit of servile morality; it is with keen sorrow gnawing at my heart. ‘These five causes of sorrow are indeed the heads of the serpent of Desire. Four at least of them snap their fangs on me in and by virtue of my very act of re- ceiving the commands, and of promising to obey them; if there is a little difficulty about the fifth, it is an omission easily rectified -- and I think we …