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Page 72 of 1001912 · PDF PAGE 299
… but then again, perhaps the author has never read Kipling. The following, from “ The Leper,” is characteristic— " Here through the live-long day I wait, Allah! Allah! In the shadows flung by the city gate, Allah! Allah! My fingers have gone and my toes as well, And the leprous spots on my body swell, But Allah Eternal does all things well. Allah l Allah! Akbar !" BUNCO. THE 8001: OF REVELATIONS OF Jm CROW, J. & J. BENNETT. 1:. THE best of this book is that it reads well. Ithought a priori (a) it read very well weekly; in a lump it will bore; (b)…
1912 · PDF PAGE 299
… but then again, perhaps the author has never read Kipling. The following, from “ The Leper,” is characteristic— " Here through the live-long day I wait, Allah! Allah! In the shadows flung by the city gate, Allah! Allah! My fingers have gone and my toes as well, And the leprous spots on my body swell, But Allah Eternal does all things well. Allah l Allah! Akbar !" BUNCO. THE 8001: OF REVELATIONS OF Jm CROW, J. & J. BENNETT. 1:. THE best of this book is that it reads well. Ithought a priori (a) it read very well weekly; in a lump it will bore; (b)…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
… of its application, must be acquired partlv by expérience, that is, by induction, by recording and classifying one’s experiments over a long période and — this is the better part — by refining one’s ratiocination to the point where it becomes instinct or intuition, whichever one likes to call it. It is proper in cases where the sphere of the question is well marked to begin the divination by invocations of the forces thereto appropriate. An error of judgment as to the true character of the question would entail penalties proportionate to the e…
1930 · PDF PAGE 49
…lp from inside sources. One must use précautions similar to those recommended in the chapter on Divination. The Magician may go on for a long lime being fooled and flattered by the As Irais thaï lie has himself modified or manufacturée!. Their natural subservienee to himself will please him, poor ape! They wiîi prétend to show him marvellous my s Sériés, pageants of heauty and wonder unspeakably splendid; he will incline to accept them as true, for the very reason that they are images of himself idealized by imagination. But his real progress w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 177
… to save. Yet in her hands is nothing but a sword. It is a disturbance of the equilibrium to which the dying year has attained after its long joy and agony; and so to the soul which is at ease she comes with alarum and tocsin. A soul like Iliel's, naturally apt to receive every impulse, to multiply it, and to transform it into action, is peculiarly sensitive, without knowing it, to cosmic forces so akin to its own inborn turbulence. In her idlest moods, Lisa la Giuffria would have started for China at the least provocation, provided that she co…
1954 · PDF PAGE 327
… imagination! P.P.S. The day after I had written the above postscript I came upon a copy of Graham Greene's The Ministry of Fear-after a long search. He points out that pity is a mature emotion ; adolescents do not feel it. Exactly; one step further, and he
1996 · PDF PAGE 150
…s accomplishments.] 2 In previous notes. See also the essay “Time”: Crowley, Collected Works, Vol. II, pp. 267-82. 74. The length of thy longing shall be the strength of its glory. He that lives long & desires death much is ever the King among the Kings. Commentary: One'does not need to be constantly popping in and out of Trance. One ought to do both actions with ever- increasing length and strength of swing. Hence one’s life-periods, where time counts, become gradually larger and more vivid, and one’s death-periods, though very short, perhaps,…
1996 · PDF PAGE 160
…ay Evolution and Ethics pointed out the antithesis between these two ideas; and concluded that Evolution was bound to beat Ethics in the long run. He was apparently unable to see, or unwilling to admit, that his argument proved Ethics (as understood by Victorians) to be
1954 · PDF PAGE 19
…e years. His mother, in moments of exasperation no doubt, would call him a "beast." With his knowledge of the Bible, it did not take him long to find out about the Beast of the Book of Revelation, the Beast who was anti-Christ, the Beast whose number was 666. He ultimately identified himself with that Beast, without question aided and abetted by his mother. When the time came to revolt and to turn against the religion of his family, with all the venom and brilliance that he, and only he, could muster, there could be no alternative but that he h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 582
…statement of the whole episode drawn up by us and signed. She justified our faith in her better nature and gave us no further trouble as long as she remained with us. After Raoul's death, she came to me for comfort and I am glad to think that I helped her through the worst. It was arranged for her to return to England. Raoul's parents cabled and wrote, asking us to take various steps, and pledging themselves to repayment. It is hard to believe that any human beings should act as they did; repudiating all liabilities. They wouldn't pay to have t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 343
…he vertical lines painted on the wall or below a ledge about a foot from the ground. The ball may be struck with any part of the body so long as it is struck clean, and the game is bewilderingly fast to watch. After two games, the players were perspiring violently. The score was kept somewhat as in tennis, but each point had a monosyllabic name to economise time. It also had a certain startling implication—with the
1922 · PDF PAGE 39
… I have little doubt now that it was the result of an unspoken suggestion. I drew the little heap of powder through my nostrils with one long breath. I felt even then like a choking man in a coal mine released at the last moment, filling his lungs for the first time with oxygen. I don’t know whether this is a common experience. I suspect that my medical training and reading, and hearing people talk, and the effect of all those ghoulish articles in the newspapers had something to do with it. On the other hand, we must make a good deal of allowan…
1907 · PDF PAGE 123
… LAGE D’ATIRAIN. FRESH in the savage vivour of the time, The golden youth stands in the golden prime, Erect, acute, astrain. We look and long For those bronze lips to blossom into song. He is silent. We reflect. Ourselves grown old Yearn somewhat toward that sensuous glow of gold. All this is folly. Rodin made him so, Evoked the strength, the goodliness, the glow. The form is little: in the mind there dwells Force to avail the childish heart that swells With aught that is. The golden prime is past— Aye! but a nobler gain is ours at last Who see…
1954 · PDF PAGE 499
…'s children and we have the "intelligentsia" of Bloomsbury. I am very sorry about all this; but life must always be brutal and stupid so long as it depends upon animals and vegetables for nourishment.
1910 · PDF PAGE 125
…ces; but the main figure was very steady. Above and over the figure there towered a devil in the shape of some ante- diluvian beast. How long I mentally watched the figure I cannot say, but after a period it became obscure and difficult to see, and in order to prevent it vanishing it had to be willed to stay. After a further time the Plesiosaurus (?) above the figure became a vast shadowy form including the figure itself. The experiment being at an end D.A. put the following question to P. “How do you judge of distance of secondary replicas of …
1910 · PDF PAGE 125
…ces; but the main figure was very steady. Above and over the figure there towered a devil in the shape of some ante- diluvian beast. How long I mentally watched the figure I cannot say, but after a period it became obscure and difficult to see, and in order to prevent it vanishing it had to be willed to stay. After a further time the Plesiosaurus (?) above the figure became a vast shadowy form including the figure itself. The experiment being at an end D.A. put the following question to P. “How do you judge of distance of secondary replicas of …
1910 · PDF PAGE 116
…e upper and the lower lips. Draw a deep breath, close both the nostrils at once, and swallow the breath. . . . Keep the breath inside as long as you conveniently can; then expire it slowly.t * “Hatha Yoga Pradipika,” p. 28; the “Svetasvatara Upanishad;” and the “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. iii, 25. + “Hatha Yoga Pradipika,” p. 28. { “Shiva Sanhita,” p. xlix. This in the “Hatha Yoga Pradipika,” p. 91, is called the Shanmukhi Mudra. Enormous concentration is needed in all these Pranayd4ma exercises, and, if the aspirant wishes to succeed, he must infla…
1910 · PDF PAGE 116
…e upper and the lower lips. Draw a deep breath, close both the nostrils at once, and swallow the breath. . . . Keep the breath inside as long as you conveniently can; then expire it slowly.t * “Hatha Yoga Pradipika,” p. 28; the “Svetasvatara Upanishad;” and the “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. iii, 25. + “Hatha Yoga Pradipika,” p. 28. { “Shiva Sanhita,” p. xlix. This in the “Hatha Yoga Pradipika,” p. 91, is called the Shanmukhi Mudra. Enormous concentration is needed in all these Pranayd4ma exercises, and, if the aspirant wishes to succeed, he must infla…
1910 · PDF PAGE 94
…gic. Then, when the bigot has knowledge and the infidel faith, each may follow without prejudice his natural inclination; for he will no longer plunge into his former excesses. So also she who was a prostitute from native passion may indulge with safety in the pleasure of love; and she who was by nature cold may enjoy a virginity in no wise marred by her disciplinary course of unchastity. But the one will understand and love the other.* Once and for all do not forget that nothing in this world is permanently good or evil; and, so long as it app…
1910 · PDF PAGE 94
…gic. Then, when the bigot has knowledge and the infidel faith, each may follow without prejudice his natural inclination; for he will no longer plunge into his former excesses. So also she who was a prostitute from native passion may indulge with safety in the pleasure of love; and she who was by nature cold may enjoy a virginity in no wise marred by her disciplinary course of unchastity. But the one will understand and love the other.* Once and for all do not forget that nothing in this world is permanently good or evil; and, so long as it app…