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Page 72 of 1291909 · PDF PAGE 63
…s- ness, and (it seems to me) it is this Avimdéd facie case that mystics have always needed to make out, and never have made out. But to-day I claim the hashish-phenomena as mental phenomenaof thefirst importance; and I demand investigation. I assert—more or less ex cathedré—that meditation will revolutionise our conception of the universe, just as the microscope has done. Then my friend the physiologist remarks: “But if you disturb the observing faculty with drugs and a special mental training, your results will be invalid.” And I reply: “ But…
1910 · PDF PAGE 38
…egan with Luther, perhaps, and went on with Wesley : but no matter ! — what I am trying to get at is the religion which makes England to-day a hell for any man who cares at all for freedom. That religion they call Christianity ; the devil they honour they call God. I accept these definitions, as a poet must do, if he is to be at all intelligible to his age, and it is their God and their religion that I hate and will destroy. THE POEM ITSELF I should really leave this to my friend Captain Fuller to dissect at his leisure, that he might bye-and-b…
1911 · PDF PAGE 114
…ir knights, so when they caught her at last—there you are! URCHIN. She’s a Saracen, isn’t she? ISAAC. Yes. If we only had a Jewess now-a—days like her! There was Deborah once, and Jael, and Judith. But the glory is departed, boy, the glory is departed. URCHIN. I’m a Saracen, you know ISAAC. You’re a heavy little old Man of the Sea ! URCHIN. The flames are creeping up her body now, Oh I I’m so angry ; I’m so angry. ISAAC. You mustn’t be angry, or you'll never be fat. URCHIN. I don't wan’t to be fat. I wan’t to kill all the people. ISAAC. Well, we…
1911 · PDF PAGE 114
…ir knights, so when they caught her at last—there you are! URCHIN. She’s a Saracen, isn’t she? ISAAC. Yes. If we only had a Jewess now-a—days like her! There was Deborah once, and Jael, and Judith. But the glory is departed, boy, the glory is departed. URCHIN. I’m a Saracen, you know ISAAC. You’re a heavy little old Man of the Sea ! URCHIN. The flames are creeping up her body now, Oh I I’m so angry ; I’m so angry. ISAAC. You mustn’t be angry, or you'll never be fat. URCHIN. I don't wan’t to be fat. I wan’t to kill all the people. ISAAC. Well, we…
1919 · PDF PAGE 137
…entry into this World by the usual and approved method, on April 2nd 1886 E.V., having only escaped becoming an April Fool by delaying a day to summon up enough courage to turn out once more into this cold and uninviting World. Having been oiled, smacked and allowed to live, we shall trouble no further about the details of his career until 1906, when, having reached the age of 20 years, he began to turn his attention toward the Mysteries, and to investigate Spiritualism, chiefly with the idea of disproving it. From this year his interest in the…
1909 · PDF PAGE 111
…n and was waged through many ages—so it seemed. And now all the enemies of Ο. Μ. banded themselves against him. The petty affairs of the day; even the irritations of his body, the emotions of him, the plans of him, worry about the Record and the Ritual and—- O! everything l—then, too, the thoughts which are closer yet to the great Enemy, the sense of separate- ness ; that sense itself at last—~50 O. M. withdrew from the conflict for a moment so that the duty of this Record done might leave him free for the fight. It may have been a snare—~may the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 59
50 AMBERGRIS Yea ! from the limit of the fallen day, And barren ocean of ungathered Time, Bring Night, and bring Eternity, and stay With white wings pointing where tired feet may climb : Even the pathway where shed blood ran deep To build red roses in the land of Sleep. O guardian of the pallid hours of night ! O tireless watcher of the smitten noon ! O sworded with the majesty of light, O girded with the glory of the moon ! Angel of absolute splendour ! link of mine Old weary spirit with the All-Divine ! Ship that shalt carry me by many winds …
1910 · PDF PAGE 27
…lue — they must seem miracles of virility and truth. Natural love and love of Nature are poetry everywhere ; and (idleness !) I hope one day to be able to leave the English hypocrites to their own beastliness, and live in my own world. Until I am wanted ; in the hour of battle. One thing I must ask ; let this book be assiduously
1911 · PDF PAGE 232
…[a flame]. There is no God—«but God! [ARIES and PROBATIONERS dance a war dance. [CAPRICORNUSslink:from temple. [MARS recites. This is the day which down the void abysm At the Earth~born’s spell yawns for Heaven’s despotism, And Conquest is dragged captive through the deep ; Love, from its awful throne of patient power In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour Of dead endurance, from the slippery steep, And narrow verge of crag~like agony, springs And folds over the world its healing wings. Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance— These are t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 232
…[a flame]. There is no God—«but God! [ARIES and PROBATIONERS dance a war dance. [CAPRICORNUSslink:from temple. [MARS recites. This is the day which down the void abysm At the Earth~born’s spell yawns for Heaven’s despotism, And Conquest is dragged captive through the deep ; Love, from its awful throne of patient power In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour Of dead endurance, from the slippery steep, And narrow verge of crag~like agony, springs And folds over the world its healing wings. Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance— These are t…
1912 · PDF PAGE 23
9 they accused Christ of “sedition.” When the Pope had all power it was necessary to prove an enemy a “ heretic.” Advancing to-day towards a medical oligarchy, we try to prove that our opponents are “insane,” and (in a Puritan country) to attack their “morals.” We should then avoid all rhetoric, and try to investigate with perfect freedom from bias the phenomena which occurred to these great leaders of mankind. There is no difficulty in our assuming that these men themselves did not understand clearly what happened to them. The only one who expl…
1910 · PDF PAGE 64
…they are no longer firm. This is because thou lingerest in bawdy talk in taverns, drinking forbidden liquors ; because thou dalliest all day with that camel-backed monocular from Nubia. He serveth thee without remission from the Wolf’s Tail2 to the Evening Star, O thou eaten up with beastliness ! and for this thou forgettest the manly games of youth. When I first had thee, thou wast like a young deer, bounding over the grassy plains ; now thou waddlest like a gravid she- ass. Puffy are thy cheeks and bloated, just as if the moon were turned by …
1954 · PDF PAGE 72
…that you grasped the fact that this apparently recondite and irrelevant information has an immediate bearing on your personal life of to-day. Still, I was not surprised that you should add: "But why should I make a special study of, and devote my time and energy to acquiring proficiency in, the Science and Art of Magick?" Ah, well then, perhaps you have not understood my remarks at one of our earliest interviews as perfectly as you suppose! For the crucial point of my exposition was that Magick is not a matter extraneous to the main current of …
1910 · PDF PAGE 37
… the poor sheep ! pota- toes ? bad for his fat ; artichoke ? bad for his gout. Tomatoes ? cause of cancer. Wine ? the great curse of our day, my dear sir. Milk ? a mere mass of tubercle bacilli. Water ? Typhoid ! do you want to poison me, my dear friend ? Beer ? Well, perhaps a little beer — for he has sha- res in a brewery. You have already seen how this awful fear of nature and of God is twisted into an engine of oppression and tor- ture against any one who declines to grovel and cringe before their filthy fetish. It is obvious that cowardice…
1907 · PDF PAGE 218
… is as follows : " Hosanna to the Son of David ! Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord . Hosanna in the highest ! " For this day there has been born in Albion a greater than David Hume , and a more illustrious than David Home ,' even had he been genuine . And he shall be called “ Immanuel ,” that is “ God i Vide Haeckel , “ Last words on Evolution ,” p . 120 . 2 12th October , 1875 . 3 D, D, Home , the Medium .
1909 · PDF PAGE 7
…y dread of murder or blackmail. Our happiness depends upon our state of mind. It is the mastery of these things that the Magicians of to-day have set out to obtain for humanity; they will not turn back, or turn aside. 5
1912 · PDF PAGE 348
…ON] spd 272 Earth NYO To consume, injure; brutish 4Y9 Percussione magna man 7p The evening: an ‘Arab,’ie. QY a person living in the West Day Demon of 3"¢ Dec. ¢ > 273 The stone which D337 YOND JIN the builders rejected [Ps. cxviii, 22] The Hidden Light Na WS Four yous Rebuked wi Took away yu Paths oot [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 72] DNS Domicilium pulchrum. NIA [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 395] Fluvius Iudieii. [Vide JN KD. LC. p. 117] Qy. Sruti “scripture” wD 275 32 3% (1-23) 276 Angel L.T.N. of =. PSII [Vide Liber 777, p. 29] A Cithara 5 Night Demon of 15 D…
1912 · PDF PAGE 348
…ON] spd 272 Earth NYO To consume, injure; brutish 4Y9 Percussione magna man 7p The evening: an ‘Arab,’ie. QY a person living in the West Day Demon of 3"¢ Dec. ¢ > 273 The stone which D337 YOND JIN the builders rejected [Ps. cxviii, 22] The Hidden Light Na WS Four yous Rebuked wi Took away yu Paths oot [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 72] DNS Domicilium pulchrum. NIA [Vide K.D. L.C.K. p. 395] Fluvius Iudieii. [Vide JN KD. LC. p. 117] Qy. Sruti “scripture” wD 275 32 3% (1-23) 276 Angel L.T.N. of =. PSII [Vide Liber 777, p. 29] A Cithara 5 Night Demon of 15 D…
1913 · PDF PAGE 6
…ommercial success of the process? Mavens. cannot say ScoRPIO, K.C, In point of fact, a precisely similar provess is being worked at this day with success? Marwens. Yes. Scorpio, KC. What was his moral character in regard to sexual matters? jown, perhaps, as “the regard to Allan Bennett
1917 · PDF PAGE 4
…ever feared could not see (if such should cross the way), ‘And therefore I am strange: my soul is scared With desolation of the Blinding day Tiare ome oo rom ye that fearful ihe Was not the Sun: my life has been the death, ‘This death may be the life: my spirit sight Knows that at last, at least. My doubtful breath Is breathing in a nobler air; I know, Tinowit in my soul, despite of thi ‘The clinging darkness of the Long Ago, Cruel as death, and closer than a kis, ‘This horror of great darkness. Iam come Into this darkness to attain the light: …