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Page 78 of 1001996 · PDF PAGE 7
…kinson as his editor, and explains the problems encountered in editing the present book: He has no “vulgar sense”; having written for so long out of the ken of the general reader, he has forgotten that the gen eral reader is not a specialist. The result is that, even in his lighter work, there are often certain references and words which the general reader would find unintelligible and there fore disconcerting; references and words that might irritate him and “put his back up” because they would make him feel ignorant, exciting that famous “i…
1906 · PDF PAGE 14
…E TO ‘‘GREEN ALPS.”? FAREWELL, my book, whose words I have not given One tithe of those fierce fires that in me dwell ! Now, after these long nights that I have striven, Farewell ! My spirit burns to know, but may not tell, Whether thy leaves, by autumn breezes driven, Fly far away beyond the immutable ; Whether thy soul shall find its home in heaven, Or dart far-flaming through the vaults of hell— To him that loveth much is much _for- given. Farewell! 1 A volume which was never issued. MSS. and proofs have been carefully destroyed. Several of …
1929 · PDF PAGE 136
…assault. And then her attention was distracted. From her feet arose a swan, and took wing over the forest. It must have been there for a long time, for it had laid an egg directly between her sandalled feet. She suddenly realized that she was dreadfully hungry. She would go into the temple and have the egg for
1905 · PDF PAGE 123
…, sleep to-night. Our arms are inter- twined; Breath desires breath and hand imprisons hand ; Breezes cool faces, rosy with the brand Of long sweet kisses; sun shall dawn and find Two lovers who have passed the land Of sleep—-and found Death kind. MAN’S HOPE. Ere fades the last red glimmer of the sun ; Ere day is night, when on the glittering bar The waves are foaming rubies, and afar Streaks of red water, gold on the horizon, On summer ripples rhythmically run ; Ere dusk is weaned, there sails on silver car From the expectant East, the evening…
1929 · PDF PAGE 61
…litude and silence of the hermitage into which the Magician has shut himself. Mem is the letter of Water, and it is the Mem final, whose long fiat lines suggest the Sea at peace ; not the ordinary (initial and médial) Mem whose hieroglyph is a wave 2 And then, in the Centre of ail, broods Spirit, which combines the mildness of the Lamb with the horns of the Ram, and is the letter of Bacchus or “Christ”.8 After the magician has created his instrument, and balanced it truly, and filled it with the lightnings of his Will, then is the weapon laid…
1905 · PDF PAGE 180
… together! How we strained caresses ! How the swooning limbs sank fainting on the sward ! Kor the fiery dart raged fiercer ; in excesses Long restrained, it cried, ‘‘ Behold! I am. the Lord !” O Madonna of the Golden Eyes! Yes, we sat with modest eyes and murmur- ing lips Downeast at the table, while the husband drank his wine. 80 thy sly, slow hand stretched furtively; there slips Deadly in his throat the poison draught divine ! O Madonna of the Golden Eyes !
1929 · PDF PAGE 86
…, poured some [124] whisky into it, and dropped a five-franc piece into the middle. Then he began to make weird gestures, and to utter a long conjuration, harsh-sounding, and apparently in gibberish. Lastly, he set fire to the whisky in the saucer. When it was nearly burnt through, he blew it out. He took the coin, wrapped it in a piece of dark-red silk, and gave it to his pupil. "When Grey boards a traiin," he ordered, "go up to the engine-driver, give him this, and tell him to drive carefully. Let me know what the fellow looks like; get his n…
1906 · PDF PAGE 52
…ghts aye fixed on Law, the fame of |. that concentred shall endure. By Earnestness, by centred thought, by self- restraint, by suffering long, Let the wise man an island build against the fatal current strong. Fools follow after vanity, those men of evil wisdonr’s sect ; But the wise man doth earnestness, a precious talisman, protect. Follow not vanity, nor seek the transient pleasures of the sense : The earnest one who meditates derives the highest rapture thence. When the wise man by Earnestness hath Vanity to chaos hurled '{e mounts to wisdo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 112
…e’s own nature, one is doing ‘right’; and no such Wo^k can be criticised as ‘useless’, even in cases of the character here discussed. So long as one’s Will prevails, there is no cause for complaint. “To abandon one’s Magick would shew lack of self-confidence in one’s powers, and doubt as to one’s inmost faith in Self and in Nature.1 Of course one changes one’s methods as expérience indicates; but there is no need to change them on any such ground as the above. “Further, the argument here set forth disposes of the need to explain the modus opera…
1929 · PDF PAGE 111
…? For Arthwait was naturally slow of thought and speech; it took him some time to warm up to real eloquence; and then he became so [159] long-winded, and lost himself so completely in his words and phrases, that he would speak for many hours without conveying a single idea of any kind to his hearers, or even having one to convey. But the upshot of his conversation upon this occasion was that an attempt should be made to poison the household magically by bewitching the food supplied to them from the market. Certain succulent shell-fish, called v…
1909 · PDF PAGE 399
…ll never understand the minds of others until he understands his own. This our modern-day philosophers invariably seem to forget, and as long as they do so we cannot help further feeling that their grand generalisation must be as unbalanced as the minds of those asylum patients from which they are so fond of deducing them. “Know Thyself” comes before “Instruct Others.” Let this be well remembered by all such as would teach without learning and would lead others without seeing. F, This admirable manual of Physiological Psychology cannot fail to …
1909 · PDF PAGE 399
…ll never understand the minds of others until he understands his own. This our modern-day philosophers invariably seem to forget, and as long as they do so we cannot help further feeling that their grand generalisation must be as unbalanced as the minds of those asylum patients from which they are so fond of deducing them. “Know Thyself” comes before “Instruct Others.” Let this be well remembered by all such as would teach without learning and would lead others without seeing. F, This admirable manual of Physiological Psychology cannot fail to …
1906 · PDF PAGE 84
…t eyes ! The secret knowledge of our secrecies Shone from their distance with a subtle flame, And gave to pudency a rosier name When the long lashes drooped, and saintlier sighs Took softer meanings, till my arteries Throbbed with the glad desire that went and came. ‘¢ I charge you in the very name of love.” Quoth she: ‘* We have all day to steal below And snatch short kisses out of danger’s throat. Why beg you night: is not the day enough?” But I: ‘‘ The night is panting and aglow To feel our hair distraught and limbs afloat.” THE THIRTY-THIRD…
1929 · PDF PAGE 90
…ttle learning is a dangerous thing.' I think, Lisa, that we should sup at the Cheval Blanc before we start our walk to Barbizon. It is a long way, especially at night, and we want to cut away to the west so as to avoid Fontainebleau, for the sake of the romance of the thing." Lisa did not mind whether she supped at the White Horse, or on one. She realized that she had hold of a man of strength, wisdom, and foresight, far more than a match for their enemies. He stopped to speak to the officer in charge of the cordon as they passed him. "Among th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 77
…liard, or even make a break of a few strokes. But chance cannot account for consistent success, even if moderate, when it extends over a long period of time. And the ability of the expert to “name his shot” manifests a knowledge of the relations of cause and effect which confirms the testimony of his empirical skill that his success is not chance and coincidence. 2. This cynical statement is an absurdity of Black Magic. ï97 —
1910 · PDF PAGE 10
… he lay until the end. Crowley then made supplication to the goddess in a beautiful and unpublished poem. A dead silence ensued. After a long pause the figure enthroned took a violin and played—played with passion and feeling, like a master. We were thrilled to our very bones. Once again the figure took the violin, and played an Abend Lied so beautifully, so gracefully, and with such intense feeling, that in very deed most of us experienced that Ecstasy which Crowley so
1929 · PDF PAGE 75
…; Friar Bacon was credited with one such Homunculus; so was Albertus Magnus, and, I think, Paracelsus. "He had, at least, a devil in his long sword 'which taught him all the cunning pranks of past and future mountebanks,' or Samuel Butler, first of that dynasty, has lied. "But other magicians sought to make this Homunculus in a way closer to nature. In all these cases they had held that environment could be modified at will by the application of telesmata or sympathetic figures. For example, a nine-pointed star would attract the influence which…
1996 · PDF PAGE 80
…he idea of a number which is not increased by addition or multiplication, a series of infinite series, each one of which may be twice as long as its predecessor, and so on. There is no “mystical humbug” about this. As Mr. Russell shows, truths of this order are more certain than the most universally accepted axioms; in fact, many axioms accepted by the intel lect of the average man are not true at all. But in order to appreciate these truths, it is necessary to educate the mind to thought of an order which is at first sight incompatible with r…
1907 · PDF PAGE 113
…nny side of things—and ladies— Engages my attention. Well! You know enough of life in Hell. I was an altruist, my brothers ! My life one long kind thought for others : For me six maidens wear the willow :— Poisoning is a peccadillo. Hence I’m disposed to give advice Simple, if possibly not nice ; Shun life! an awkward task and deep. But if you cannot, then—shun sleep ! (Suppose I thus had prophesied, Gone to my wife to bed, and died !) EPILOGUE. THE KING-GHOST. THE King-Ghost is abroad. His spectre legions Sweep from their icy lakes and bleak r…
1910 · PDF PAGE 354
… and IV of one volume of a series of volumes. We are charitable enough to hope that Mr. Perrycoste may be spared to produce the rest, so long as we are spared reviewing them. ELIAs ASHMOLE. THE ANCIENT CONSTITUTIONAL CHARGES OF THE GUILD FREE Masons. By Joun YARKER. William Tait, 2s. 6¢. net. This is a most learned work; the author holds Solomon only knows how many exalted degrees; but besides the title-page there is much of interest to Masons in this little volume. Some of the ancient charges are quite amusing. “That no Fellow go into town in …