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Page 77 of 871906 · PDF PAGE 219
…y and of pity, rebuked them not. But master ever of himself he abode alone, about and above. So saw he his virginity deflowered, and his thoughts were otherwhere. Now loosed they his body; he bade it leap the wall. The giant flower of ocean bloomed above him! He had fallen headlong into the great deep. As the green and crimson gloom disparted somewhat before his eyes, he was aware of a Beetle that steadily and earnestly moved across the floor of that Sea unutterable. Elim he followed; ‘‘for I wit well,” thought the Adept, “that he goeth not bac…
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
…kidneys; and I had to leave school altogether for two years. I should {64} add in fairness that there were other accusations against me, though, as you shall hear, almost equally silly. I learnt at last, through the intervention of my uncle, in a lucid interval, what I was supposed to have done. I was said to have tried "to corrupt Chamberlain" --- not our great patriotic statesman,
1904 · PDF PAGE 78
… this story was issued is inscribed. 2 Taphtatharath [sic., s. b. T aphthartharath — T.S.], the spirit of Mercury. “Now hate hath power, though not the power of love. So it came about that in his despair he fell into a trance; and in the trance Mara1 appeared to him. Never before had his spells availed to call so fearful a potency from the aby ss of matter. ‘Son’ cried the Accursèd One, ‘seven days of hate unmarred by passion milder, seven days without one thought of pity , these avail to call me forth.’ ‘Slay me my enemy !’ howled the wretch. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 226
…y to follow. He was bleeding profusely and going slowly. Again and again I fired, but he always got away. Nothing seemed to cripple him, though one would have thought that he must have been more hole than bull by this time. At last he turned at a small clearing. As I came out from the thick jungle, I saw him not ten yards away. He lowered his head to charge. My bullet struck him again in the Ajna Cakkra, if a bull has such a thing; anyway, in {377} 1. At that time headquarters of Evangelicalism. the middle of the forehead just above the eyes. T…
1906 · PDF PAGE 271
… L for Lovos—double, for he is both God and man, and H for Holy Ghost. S. The language of your Notariqon is tripartite too! On point (1) though, ’twas but by a slip. I fell: I was not pushed. Can you controvert my second defence? M. It isnot a defence at all. It is a trick to lure me away from the question. I admit that there is such a line, and that it does not exist—but might it not xegatively subsist, in the Ain, as it were? Further, whether it is or is not a concept, a noumenon, a psychosis, an idea — anything! does not matter. For since it…
1944 · PDF PAGE 43
…efini‐ tions were as circular as, but not more fugitive than, the definitions of the physicists of to‐day. Their methods were empirical, though they strove to make them accurate, as well as lack of precise measures and standard apparatus permitted, because they had not yet formulated any
1904 · PDF PAGE 64
…gether for good” out of its context, and call this verse “Chris- tian optimism ?” See Caird’s “Hegel.” Hegel knew how to defend himself, though. As Goethe wrote of him : “ They thought the master too Inclined to fuss and finick. The students’ anger grew To frenzy Paganinic.* They vowed they’d make him rue His work in Jena’s clinic. They came, the unholy crew, The mystic and the cynic : He had scoffed at God’s battue, The flood for mortal’s sin—Ic- thyosaurian Waterloo ! They eyed the sage askew ; They searched him through and through With viole…
1929 · PDF PAGE 32
…. The idea was that we should bicycle down to Torquay, but on reaching Gildford I was too ill to ride further and we went down by train. Though Douglas called himself a Christian, he proved to be both a man and a gentleman. I presume that poverty had compelled the camouflage. From the moment that we were alone together he produced a complete revolution in my outlook upon life, by showing me for the first time a sane, clean jolly world worth living in. Smoking and drinking were natural. He warned me of the dangers of excess from the athletic sta…
1929 · PDF PAGE 578
…error of any kind. There are not alive a dozen men today who could do as well. In practical Magick, he showed promise of the same order, though, of course, not having previously attempted any work of the kind, he had much to learn. Nevertheless, he progressed with astonishing rapidity. Within a fortnight, he was able to perform the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram sufficiently well to produce unmistakable modulations of the Astral Light. He acquired the faculty of visions in astonishing perfection from the very first. The usual preliminary pra…
1907 · PDF PAGE 232
…n in April. From April till September Berkeley filthiest dregs of mankind, pretends that there iis no such thing as natural aristocracy, though to be sure he gives himself away badly enough when confronted with either a nigger or a gentleman, since to ape EXTRACTS FROM THE BOOK OF THE SACRED MAGIC OF ABRAMELIN THE MAGE I resolved to absent myself suddenly and go away... and lead a solitary life. I am about here to set down in writing the difficulties, temptations, and hindrances which will be caused him by his own relations... . beforehand thou…
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…ried woman. She was still playing at Magick, as another might play at bridge. But her true life was dresses, dinners and dances; and her thought were taken up by her husband and her lover. (In hot countries, white men being relaxed by the climate, European women, over- stimulated for the same reason, almost inevitably practise polyandry.) And she had won the first prize at a fancy dress ball by appearing in her adept's robes and regalia! No hope here, then! Nay, nor elsewhere! I saw clearly enough that the Gods meant me to work out my own puzzl…
1907 · PDF PAGE 233
…t aftairs.”’ [3] ‘‘ Suddenly, and without the least previous notice of pain, he was removed to the enjoy- ment of eternal rewards, and although all possible means were instantly used, no symp- tom of life ever appeared after; nor could the physicians assign any cause for his death.” It is surely beyond doubt that Berkeley con- templated some operation of a similar charac- ter to that of Abramelin. Operation . . . the period of the Six Moons being expired, the Lord granted unto me His grace... ‘fa solitary life, which is the source of all good .…
1929 · PDF PAGE 218
…r before breakfast. We carried out this design. We had to go quietly for fear of awakening Gerald. The idea was that he might interfere, though I had no reason for supposing that he would do so. But apparently she had. {365} 46 So we stole out in the dim grey of the morning. I remember her furtive passage under his window, and how I murmured Wake Duncan with thy knocking? ....I would thou could'st recalling --- too late! --- the theatrical superstition that it is very unlucky to quote Macbeth at the beginning of an enterprise. We jogged along i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 133
…Japanese ladies of pleasure. In the matter of religion, the Hindus are (as everywhere else) servile, shallow, cowardly and hypocritical; though being mostly Shaivites, adoring frankly the power of Procreation and Destruction, they are less loathsome than Vishnavites, who cringe before a fetish who promises them Preservation and (as Krishna) claims to be the Original of which Christ is a copy. {232} The Christians are, of course, obscene outcasts from even the traditional tolerance of their clan; they have accepted Jesus with the promise of a jo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 273
…wn of their habits. Even their appearance has not been satisfactorily described. It is said by some that no white man has ever seen one, though others say that one or two have done so. Even the folk of the villages on the confines of the jungle have no knowledge of them, yet they carry on with them a regular traffic. Certain places outside the village are marked out, usually by white stones, and here they deposit rice and other products of cultivation at nightfall. In the morning these goods are found to have been replaced by various products o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 230
…been bribed to lie." I am really glad to think I cheered to old boys up; and I hope that the succeeded in fixing their hero with a halo, though I never heard what happened. I always hated Colombo. My diary reads "Weariness. Dentist." "More weariness and more dentist." "Throat XOP." "Doctor." "Oh sabbé pi dukkham." "Colombo more and more loathsome. Went up to Kandy." Kandy cured my symptoms instantly. The most dreadful thing about Colombo was that two English ladies had descended upon the Galle Face Hotel. They would have seemed extravagant at …
1913 · PDF PAGE 610
…all this is said one is still far from the core, for just when one thinks fo have discovered it, one finds that many obvious beauties of thought and expression have been over- looked, others misinterpreted. Sometimes one is even doubtful if the author himself could translate into definite terms the exact meaning of his aphorisms and paradoxes without detracting from the value of the book as artistic expression of is personality. This is, however, an individual appreciation. * jook of Lies” will be interpreted differently by each reader andjudge…
1913 · PDF PAGE 610
…all this is said one is still far from the core, for just when one thinks fo have discovered it, one finds that many obvious beauties of thought and expression have been over- looked, others misinterpreted. Sometimes one is even doubtful if the author himself could translate into definite terms the exact meaning of his aphorisms and paradoxes without detracting from the value of the book as artistic expression of is personality. This is, however, an individual appreciation. * jook of Lies” will be interpreted differently by each reader andjudge…
1929 · PDF PAGE 6
…te garment, being suddenly dipped and lifted from the water. He has also a clear auditory remembrance of words spoken solemnly over him; though they meant nothing, he was impressed by the peculiar tone. It is not impossible that this gave him an all but
1906 · PDF PAGE 246
240 mvsid it must sink down with the other forces. But by creating in thought an infinite Impersonal Personality, by defining it as such, all religions except the Buddhist and, as I believe, the Qabalistic, have sought to annihilate their own personality. The Buddhist aims directly at extinction; the Hindu denies and abolishes his own finity by the creation of an absolute. As this cannot be done in reality, the process is illusory; yet it is useful in the early stages—as far, at any rate, as the fourth stage of Dhyana, where the Buddha places i…