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Page 76 of 1141929 · PDF PAGE 65
…ccumulated and stored energy, in order to have the tooth removed and so to recover the consciousness of physical well-being. Put in this way, the magical theory of existence is self-evident. I did not apprehend it clearly at this time; but I unconsciously acted upon it as soon as I had discovered the worthlessness of the world. But I was so far from perceiving that every act is magical, whether one likes it or not, that I supposed the escape from matter to involve a definite invasion of the spiritual world. Indeed, I was so far from understandi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 452
… and the reports systematically falsified. On this discovery, he advised the President to agree with England quickly while he was in the way with her, which was done. The Russian ambassador {715} got wind of this affair; it suddenly struck him that Sebastopol might be in the same street as Toulon; he hurried to St Petersburg and put the matter personally before the Tsar. Investigation proved his fears well-founded. The Tsar was roused to bite. Every officer above a certain rank was left in a room with a revolver. They had the choice between sui…
1904 · PDF PAGE 38
…e ! And began. The slippery and lax bung-hole of the flatulent monarch was ill- suited to my boyish chink-stopper : but Love will find a way, and the head surgeon hastily ligatured its tapering delicacy to the protuberant and pendu- lous clitoris of the royal patient. Ten minutes later he was able to announce to the joyful crowd that the temperature had not risen further, and that under God England might owe the restored health of the nymphomaniac to the attentions of the hith- erto despised Frenchman. The news was flashed over the country, and…
1916 · PDF PAGE 2
…t noright bur to do thy will, Do that and no other shall say nay. For pore will, unaaaged ofpape, delivered from the Ina of reati ‘every way Take thi ere it seems to imply a theory that if ‘very man and every woman did his and her will—the true I—there would be no clashing. “Every man and every woman isa star”, and each star moves in an appointed path without interference, ‘There is plenty of room forall; it i ‘only dorder that creates confusion. From these considerations it should be clear that “Do what thou wilt” does not mean “ Do what you l…
1922 · PDF PAGE 18
…ying the noun with an entirely meaningless adjective which somehow succeeded in making his sentence highly illuminating. “Where you get away with it,” he said, “is that you have an analytic brain.” Well, I suppose I have. That’s how I come to be writing this up. Anyhow, at the end of the war I found myself with a knighthood which I still firmly believe to have been due to a clerical error on the part of some official. As for Uncle Mortimer, he lived on in his crustacean way; a sulky, rich, morose, old bachelor. We never heard a word of him. And…
1922 · PDF PAGE 264
250 The Diary of a Drug Fiend y foetor of the foul breath of the dragon who is on his _ way.to crunch you. = If you make up your mind to endure the disgusting Vsymptoms, the demon soon proceeds to more serious measures. u has explained in her diary more or less what these are. But even with the help of the poet, one cannot give any idea of what it is like. For example, the question of cold. The reader thinks at once of the cold of winter. If he has travelled a little and has some imagination, he may think of the chill spells of fever. But neith…
1922 · PDF PAGE 317
Out of Harm's Way 303 Pll cure you, and I’ll take you away with me. But will you let me make one condition? ” She lifted her face to his. In spite of the physical wreckage of the last few months, love was able to transform her bodily. She was radiantly beautiful. She only waited for him to take her in his arms. She was trembling all over with ecstatic passion. I gripped the arms of my chair in futile rage. Before my very face the only woman I had ever loved had disowned me, cast me off with contempt, and was offering herself to another man with…
1954 · PDF PAGE 13
…o less of him. In this respect , if in no other, this book is priceless. The first few letters with alphabet headings are essentially by way of introduction, setting the pace, as it were, for the later ones. But they are loaded with the most important details concerning the Great Work, his organization of the A :. A :. , and what is expected of the student once he has become a probationer of that Order. As soon as the chapter letters are reached, however, one is plunged into intellectual and spiritual depths or heights which the author struggle…
1954 · PDF PAGE 368
…r first yell; your personality is deliberately wrenched and distorted to the family code; and their zoology is so inadequate that they always feel sure that their Ugly Duckling is a Black Sheep. Even for their Fool they find a use: he can be invaluable in the Church or the Army, where docile incompetence is the sure key to advancement. Curse them! They are always in the way. In the Brahman caste, the aspirant to Yoga makes it a rule to fulfil his duties to the family and the State; once those jobs are definitely done, he cuts the painter, and b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 341
…n, leaping into the ring with a howl of "Allahu akbar!", getting hold of an axe and joining in the general festivity. It literally took away one's breath. The only way I can express it is that one breathed with one's heart instead of with one's lungs. I had got into not dissimilar states while doing Pranayama, but those had been passive, and this was a --- no, active is a pitifully inadequate word --- I felt myself vibrating with the energy of the universe. It was as if I had become conscious of atomic energy or of the force of gravitation, und…
1904 · PDF PAGE 89
…oils together under her skirts. The fire blazed up as she tended it, and Adam joyfully saluted his mate with the patronizing air a man always thinks it proper to adopt with a social, physical and intellec- tual inferior. She received it with all the docility which an unfaithful woman is careful to assume. But she was by no means as easy as her counte- nance would have indicated. Her serpentlover was taking a mean advantage of her confusion to attack her in two places at once-her worn-out passions were being frightfully stimulated, and she did n…
1922 · PDF PAGE 83
A Heroin Heroine 69 was a certain fascination in her complete lack of fascination. Please excuse this paradoxical way of putting it. I mean that she had all the qualities which normally attract. She had the remains of an astonishing, if bizarre, beauty. She had obviously a vast wealth of experience. She possessed a quiet intensity which should have made her irresistible; and yet she was absolutely devoid of what we call magnetism. It isn’t a scientific word—so much the worse for science. It describes a fact in nature, and one of the most import…
1929 · PDF PAGE 124
…scoverable. The effect upon his public was to impress them with the universality of his learning. Arthwait being thus well out of harm's way, Vesquit and Abdul set to work on the less arduous of the preparations. Four black cats were needed for the four points of the compass, and it was desirable to massacre a goat upon the altar, which would be no less than the corpse itself. Vesquit, declaring that the body was to be sent to England, had a dummy shipped off in a coffin, and kept Gates on ice, which may or may not have been a great comfort to …
1937 · PDF PAGE 6
such a way that he automatically bases every action of his daily life on its principles. (This is true of practically all men, whatever their race, caste, or creed.) This universally accepted basis of conduct is Science. 6. Science has attained this position because it makes no assertion that it is not prepared to demonstrate to all- comers. (This part is so well understood that all the false prophetsSpiritualism, Christian Science, eth- nological cranks, Great Pyramid puzzle-mongers, and the rest of the humbugsall pretend to appeal to evid…
1954 · PDF PAGE 55
…; only in rare cases does one fail. (It's incredible: one man simply could not be persuaded that intense physical exertion was the wrong way to do it. There he sat, with the veins on his forehead almost on the point of bursting, and the arms of my favourite chair visibly trembling beneath his powerful grip!) In your case, I notice that you have got this practice mixed up with Dharana: you write of "emptying my mind of everything except the one idea, etc." Then you go on: "The invoking of a supersensible Being is impossible to me as yet." The im…
1954 · PDF PAGE 345
…does not justify the means? Hardly that. Wha t I really mean is that these two terms are unconnected. One decides about the "End" in one way: about the "Means" in another. But every proposition in your sorites has got to justify itself; and, having done so, to estimate its exact weight in relation to all the other terms of your problem. "Confusion worse confounded?" I dare say it is; it's the best I can do with such a difficult question.
1929 · PDF PAGE 377
… and robbery are the only two sources of wealth, bar exceptional cases; and I suppose that after all the most honest and most honourable way of getting money is to sell one's writings. Yet I still feel there is something very wrong about it. Good work is priceless and bad work is worthless. Besides, even the best writers are tempted to do their worst work by the fact that publishers, as a class, are persuaded that the public prefer rubbish. The fact is that there are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enem…
1904 · PDF PAGE 84
…r, resisted. A sharp tap or two on the coc- cyx, however, reminded him that he had a bold lover, who would stick at nothing, and he gave way. The whole length of his lovers yard was en- gulfed in one great push, and, accustomed as he was to the Captains penis, he could hardly repress a cry of pain. The ravisher was far longer and thicker and cared a great deal less about any pain he [84]
1906 · PDF PAGE 117
…f the snake is bright ORPHEUS, - With one immortal star, ° But now Lighting her coils with living light I see the haze lift on the water-way, To where the nenuphar And hidden headlands loom again. Sleeps for her couch. All darkness dreams ‘The thing that is not, only seems. JASON. I know That star upon the serpent’s head Is called the soul of man : That light in shadows subtly shed The glamour of life’s plan. The sea whereon that lotus grows Is thought’s abyss of tears and woes. Leave Sirenusa ! Even Greece Forget ! they are not there! By worsh…
1929 · PDF PAGE 143
…as hitherto treated the immensely important subject of the Magical Link. It might almost be called the Missing Link. It has apparently always been taken for granted; only lay writers on Magick like Dr. J. G. Frazer hâve accorded the subject its full importance. Let us try to make considérations of the nature of Magick in a strictly scientific spirit, as well as, deprived of the guidance of antiquity, wc may. What is a Magical Operation? It may be defined as any event in Nature which is brought to pass by Will. We must not exclude potato-growing…