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Page 75 of 1081922 · PDF PAGE 48
…r Cordon Rouge; and now, feeling herself slightly indisposed, for some reason at which it would be presumptuous to guess, she is setting things right by an occasional indulgence in this pretty good stuff of yours.” He had turned away from me and was watching the girl intently. My glance followed his. I saw her deep blue skin fade to a dreadful pallor. She had lost her healthy colour; she suggested a piece of raw meat which is just beginning to go bad. ) I jumped to my feet. I knew instinctively that the
1904 · PDF PAGE 122
…po. Having realised the woe and transitoriness and soullessness of all life, there rises in the m ind this Right Aspi- ration. W hen all things suffer, we at least will not increase their burden, so we aspire to become pitiful and loving, to cherish ill- will toward none, to retire from those pleasures of sense which are the fruitful cause of woe. The will, we all know, is ever readier than the mind, and so, though w e aspire to renounce the pleasures of s ense, to love and pity all that lives, yet perhaps we often fail in the accom plishment o…
1911 · PDF PAGE 35
…re of every colour, so that the whole Aire is become like a web of mingled lights. But through it all drops dew. (I can’t describe these things at all. Dew doesn’t represent what I mean in the least. For instance, these drops of dew are enormous globes, shining like the full moon, only perfectly transparent, as well as perfectly luminous.) And now he shows the tablet again, and he says: As there are 49 letters in the tablet, so are there 49 kinds of cosmos in every thought of God. And there are 49 interpretations of every cosmos, and each inter…
1913 · PDF PAGE 391
… believed, for example, that a virgin could become a mother, without ceasing to be a virgin, in the physical, natural, positive order of things, in spite of all the laws of Nature; you do not affirm that a piece of bread is not only a God, but a real human body with its bones and its veins, its organs, its blood; such, in short, that you make of your children who eat this bread a little race of cannibals. FAITH. There is not a single Christian who would not be revolted by what you have just said. That sufficiently proves that they do not unders…
1913 · PDF PAGE 391
… believed, for example, that a virgin could become a mother, without ceasing to be a virgin, in the physical, natural, positive order of things, in spite of all the laws of Nature; you do not affirm that a piece of bread is not only a God, but a real human body with its bones and its veins, its organs, its blood; such, in short, that you make of your children who eat this bread a little race of cannibals. FAITH. There is not a single Christian who would not be revolted by what you have just said. That sufficiently proves that they do not unders…
1922 · PDF PAGE 46
…joke to fill up on coke—or words to that effect, Sir Peter.”’ How in the devil’s name did he know what I had been taking ? “Men who know things have no right to go about the world,’’ something said irritably inside myself. But something else obscurely answered it. “That accounts for what the world has always done —made martyrs of its pioneers.”’ I felt a little ashamed, to tell the truth; but Lamus put me at my ease. He waved his hand towards a huge arm-chair covered with Persian tapestries. He gave me a cigarette and lighted it for me. He pour…
1954 · PDF PAGE 63
…e, and at the same time adapt himself to his environment.) 10. Nature is a continuous phenomenon, though we do not know in all cases how things are connected. (Illustration: Human consciousness depends on the properties of protoplasm, the existence of which depends on innumerable physical conditions peculiar to this planet; and this planet is determined by the mechanical balance of the whole universe of matter . We may then say that our consicousness is causally connected with the remotest galaxies; yet we do not know even how it arises from-or…
1954 · PDF PAGE 261
…rpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect." (AL, I: 42-44) "Thus also the Sage, seeking not any goal, attaineth all things; he does not interfere in the affairs of his body, and so that body acteth without friction . It is because he meddleth not with his personal aims that these come to pass with simplicity." (The Tao Teh King, VII: 2) The ideal analogy seems to be that of a planet in its orbit. It has its "true motion"; it meets the minimum of friction from circumambient space. When it suffers the attraction of another bo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 131
… (Repeat spiral formula.) 5. Repeat 2. Above head. Triangle of Fire (red). 6. Invoke Light. Withdraw. See Golden Dawn Symbol. 7. Let all things vanish in the Illimitable Light. On the 22nd of April P., having bidden farewell to D. A., who had been to him both friend and master, left for San Francisco. * The Elemental Tablets of Dr. Dee; see Diagrams in “The Vision and the Voice.” + Ideas for mental Concentration. Concentration on Scarlet Sphere in Tiphereth. Let it slowly rise into Daath and darken, after which into Kether and be a white brilli…
1910 · PDF PAGE 131
… (Repeat spiral formula.) 5. Repeat 2. Above head. Triangle of Fire (red). 6. Invoke Light. Withdraw. See Golden Dawn Symbol. 7. Let all things vanish in the Illimitable Light. On the 22nd of April P., having bidden farewell to D. A., who had been to him both friend and master, left for San Francisco. * The Elemental Tablets of Dr. Dee; see Diagrams in “The Vision and the Voice.” + Ideas for mental Concentration. Concentration on Scarlet Sphere in Tiphereth. Let it slowly rise into Daath and darken, after which into Kether and be a white brilli…
1911 · PDF PAGE 127
THE VISION AND THE VOICE before the true vine could be planted upon the holy hill of Zion. Now again I stand in the centre, and all things whirl by with incessant fury. And the thought of the god entereth my mind, and I cry aloud: Behold, the volatile is become fixed; and in the heart of eternal motion is eternal rest. So is the Peace beneath the sea that rageth with her storms; so is the changeful moon, the dead planet that revolveth no more. So the far-seeing, the far-darting hawk is poised passionless in the blue; so also the ibis that is lo…
1922 · PDF PAGE 112
…iving, in a system of order. | . , It is monstrous and ridiculous to open and close by convention. We had to go to some place where such things didn’t annoy us... . An excessively irritating incident spoilt our lunch at the Cascade. We had made a marvellous impression when we came in. We had floated in like butterflies settling on lilies. A buzz went round the tables. Lou’s beauty intoxicated everybody. Her jewellery dazzled the crowd. I thought of an assembly of Greeks of the best period unexpectedly visited by Apollo and Venus. We palpitated …
1922 · PDF PAGE 300
… offer cigars, cigarettes, and various drinks to relieve the tension, but Mr. Platt’s Roman virtue did not permit him to indulge in such things. Mr. Platt, however, was so sensible of the hospitality of dear Sir Peter that he felt obliged to ask dear Sir Peter’s opinion of—and he suddenly whipped a ten- gramme bottle of cocaine out of his coat-tail pocket. “We believe,”’ he said, “ that this is a particularly puresample. There is strong scientific reason to believe,” he explained, and the atmosphere of the pulpit positively radiated from him, “…
1954 · PDF PAGE 21
…tails in The Eye in the Triangle (St. Paul: Llewellyn Publications, 1970). Magick without Tears is chock-full of descriptions of unusual things, strange events, weird people and stories which make for fascinating reading. Much of the material, for example, about the history as well as the possible application of Liber Legis is so extraordinary as almost to deserve extrapolation to form a small book by itself. There is one story briefly mentioned in letter 80 which Crowley must have written years earlier, though the manuscript has been lost and …
1907 · PDF PAGE 41
…ks at him.) And what if it were? ANGELA. My carriage waits—-yonder. Sir PERCY. Ah come, come, come ! ANGELA. Dare IP SIR PERCY. Dare all things! I will this delight; it shall be.- And in five years we can marry, or my guardian will consent before. ANGELA. Come! (Zhey go off slowly, closely entwined, kissing and whispering.) Sir PERCY. You are faint with passion, love. You walk heavily. ANGELA, Ay, love, it is to feel your strength support me! (Aside.) Will the doctors never catch up with the coiffeurs ? GREUMOCH (coming forward, as he sees them…
1922 · PDF PAGE 226
…ck to the top of our form in a week. Besides, we didn’t want that kind of excitement. We had enough in other ways. We found we could see things. That ass, Basil, was always talking about the danger of magic, and precaution, and scientific methods and all that bunk. We were seeing more
1996 · PDF PAGE 203
…ind, but the blue & gold are seen of the seeing. Also I have a secret glory for them that love me. 61. But to love me is better than all things: if under the night stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all; but whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose all in that hour. Ye shall gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jew els; ye shall ex…
1929 · PDF PAGE 64
… to the world. I now found that there was no {124} satisfaction here. I was not content to be annihilated. Spiritual facts were the only things worth while. Brain and body were valueless except as the instruments of the soul. The ordinary materialist usually fails to recognize that only spiritual affairs count for anything, even in the grossest concerns of life. The facts of a murder are nothing in themselves; they are only adduced in order to prove felonious intent. Material welfare is only important as assisting men towards a consciousness of…
1904 · PDF PAGE 70
…bey! inthe name of him who spake and it was, kasaremeé tofagilo tolteregi dDarebesa. JPilabé Ml, Das Fada oela to whom all creatures and things obey. Moreover JI, whom God _ made azodiazoDore Jada, Das i go-o-al marebi totsa jhipabe, larinuji tlasa in the likeness of God, who is the creator according to his living breath, stir thee up Do-0-i-ape Das i salada micaclazoDo Jada, El, micaelsodo0 od in the name which is the voice of wonder of the mighty God, El, strong and adapebabeta: ilasa gabe m@. Wd ol gobusa pujo ilasa, darebesa, unspeakable, O…
1907 · PDF PAGE 65
…ge, let us say) moving and reposing. But these are not opposites. Zero and unity are not opposites. Bowley. Yet in another sense any two things are opposites. Bones. That is in Kether again. If you wish to cancel a number, however, zero is no use to you; you need a minus quantity. Bowley. Which (you are no doubt going to say) demands a geo metrical interpretation, and a very conventional one at that. Bones. Yes; even the Ruach can in a sense get rid of the Opposites. How much more then when we observe the matter from the point of view of Samadh…