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129 Now though this Pantacle is composed only of shams, some shams somehow seem to be more false than others. The whole Universe is an illusion, but it is an illusion difficult to get rid of. It is true compared with most things. But ninety-nine out of every hundred impressions are false even in relation to the things on their own plane. Such distinctions must be graven deeply upon the surface of the Pantacle by the Holy Dagger. There is only one other of the elemental Instruments to be considered, namely the Lamp.
1905 · PDF PAGE 12
…write the whole in order to give it a philosophic unity. Gerald Kelly forcibly prevented me from throwing it into the river at Marlotte, though he admitted quite frankly that he could not read even through Book I. and did not see how any one could. Tell me, he said, conjuring the friendship of years, can you read it? Even a poet should be honest; I confessed that I could not! Taking it in sections, with relays and an ambulance, we could see no fault in it, however. It is clumsily built; it is all feet and face; but you cannot make a Monster sym…
1913 · PDF PAGE 268
Be wary, though, and never stir a step from your own ground. You have (for the first time in English) got French slang correct; but you clearly don’t know India, and some terrible old bore has planted the worst and feeblest form THE EQUINOX of a very stale cobra story on your innocence. There are several mistakes in these few pages—climate and natural history in particular. Figure to yourself that this bit of the book reads to me almost as Trléy reads to you !— THE YELLOW Wuat-Ho. A subterfuge in fugues. The Blue Grotto. No publisher. No price.…
1913 · PDF PAGE 268
Be wary, though, and never stir a step from your own ground. You have (for the first time in English) got French slang correct; but you clearly don’t know India, and some terrible old bore has planted the worst and feeblest form THE EQUINOX of a very stale cobra story on your innocence. There are several mistakes in these few pages—climate and natural history in particular. Figure to yourself that this bit of the book reads to me almost as Trléy reads to you !— THE YELLOW Wuat-Ho. A subterfuge in fugues. The Blue Grotto. No publisher. No price.…
1910 · PDF PAGE 18
… of Ha- fiz, the Song of Songs, the Ghazals of ‘ Ismat of Bokhara ’ — not to mention the obscene Chinese Aphorisms of Kwaw. Yet no doubt though Hafiz sings chiefly of wine, Solomon of Woman, and ‘ Ismat of harloty, we sooner pardon these freedoms because we our- selves can understand, though we can never ap- prove of them : but they seem innocent indeed
1907 · PDF PAGE 202
…phy finds its founder in the French philosopher Descartes ; for it was he who started to unravel the Penelope web of tangled philosophic thought , which had lain sleeping for a thousand years or more upon the sterile shelf of Christian impotence . His theories of “ Innate ideas ” raised the anger of Locke , the disciple of Aristotle and Bacon . Revolting from the cogito ergo sum of Descartes , he compared the mind to a tabula rasa , on which he in his turn wrote an equal absurdity in the words : nihil est in intellectu quod non antea fuerit in …
1906 · PDF PAGE 240
…n of God as infinite therefore denies man implicitly; while if he be finite, there is an end of the usual Christian reasons for worship, though I daresay I could myself discover some reasonably good ones. [I hardly expect to be asked, somehow.] The resulting equilibrium of God and man, destructive of worship, is of course absurd. We must reject it, unless we want to fall into Positivism, Materialism, or something of the sort. But if, then, we call God infinite, how are we to regard man, and Satan? (the latter, at the very least, surely no integ…
1904 · PDF PAGE 44
PENTECOST 37 An explanation different For this particular event. Though surely I my find it queer That you should talk of self-hypnosis, When your own faith so very close is To similar experience ; Lies, in a word, beneath suspicion To ordinary common sense And logic’s emery attrition. I take, however, as before Your own opinion, and demand Some test by which to understand Huxley’s piano-talk,* and find If my hypnosis may not score A point against the normal mind. (As you are please to term it, though ! I gather that you do not know ; Merely in…
1911 · PDF PAGE 62
…hty Angel, the Minister of Silence. And even as the shew-stone burneth thy forehead with its intolerable flame, so he who hath known me, though but from afar, is marked out and chosen from among men, and he shall never turn back or turn aside, for he hath made the link that is not to be broken, nay, not by the malice of the Four Great Princes of the evil of the world, nor by Choronzon, that mighty Devil, nor by the wrath of God, nor by the affliction and feebleness of the soul. Yet with this assurance be not thou content; for though thou hast t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 35
… . For we are many , and thy name is One .? Before we leave the glowing east , one more curious similarity still strikes us , it is that though in so many ways the ideas of Aleister Crowley are akin to those of Omar Khayyam , yet his fertile imagination also engenders flights as spiritual as those contained in the melodious ghazals of Jeláladdin . In more than one place we come across lines similar to these in Tannhäuser : I say , then , “ I; " and yet it is not “ I ” Distinct , but “ I ” incorporate in All . I am the Resurrection and the Life …
1907 · PDF PAGE 229
…y difficulty , or give me satisfaction in a matter of such importance . Can I do better than propose the difficulty to the public , even though , per haps ,I have small hopes of obtaining a solution ? We shall , at least , by these means , be sensible of our ignorance , if we do not augment our knowledge . “ I must confess that a man is guilty of unpardon able arrogance who concludes , because an argument has escaped his own investigation , that therefore it does not really exist .” ? And he continues further on : “ And though he should be conv…
1909 · PDF PAGE 10
… 10. It is an open secret that the late Herbert Spencer was solely inspired in his laborious la- bours by a desire to gratify his august though be- witching sovereign. It is related that in his early days as a student Her Majesty was visiting the school where he studied. What are you doing, Herbert ? asked the beautiful but insouciant girl, as she then, as she now is, was. Studying phi- losophy, miss ! was the brusque yet courtly reply. Why study it ? Rather synthesize it ! observed the thoughtful though dazzling monarch. I will, …
1910 · PDF PAGE 106
THE EQUINOX drinking it he will fill his whole body with life, and “even though he is bitten by the serpent Takshaka, the poison does not spread throughout his body.”* Further the “Hatha Yoga Pradipika” informs us that: “When one has closed the hole at the root of the palate... his seminal fluid is not emitted even though he is embraced by a young and passionate woman.” Now this gives us the Key to the whole of this lunar symbolism, and we find that the Soma-juice of the Moon, dew, nectar, semen and vital force are but various names for one and…
1910 · PDF PAGE 106
THE EQUINOX drinking it he will fill his whole body with life, and “even though he is bitten by the serpent Takshaka, the poison does not spread throughout his body.”* Further the “Hatha Yoga Pradipika” informs us that: “When one has closed the hole at the root of the palate... his seminal fluid is not emitted even though he is embraced by a young and passionate woman.” Now this gives us the Key to the whole of this lunar symbolism, and we find that the Soma-juice of the Moon, dew, nectar, semen and vital force are but various names for one and…
1909 · PDF PAGE 53
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH word which we call a thought, seem to stand at a definite dis- tance in space behind the thought, the thought being farther from the perceiving soul. Looking at each glyph, one perceives, too, that itself is made up of other glyphs yet nearer to the Self, these glyphs, however, being formless and nameless; they are not truly perceived, but one is somehow aware of them. Unfortunately, the tendency to fall into effect (6) makes it very difficult to concentrate on the analysis of these ideas, so that one is hurried on to …
1909 · PDF PAGE 53
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH word which we call a thought, seem to stand at a definite dis- tance in space behind the thought, the thought being farther from the perceiving soul. Looking at each glyph, one perceives, too, that itself is made up of other glyphs yet nearer to the Self, these glyphs, however, being formless and nameless; they are not truly perceived, but one is somehow aware of them. Unfortunately, the tendency to fall into effect (6) makes it very difficult to concentrate on the analysis of these ideas, so that one is hurried on to …
1911 · PDF PAGE 64
…hin the ark, could I reach it, might be some help of knowledge or power whereby that house might be attained. So I swam steadily toward, though with some fear, for the eddies in that great stream were numerous, and my sole guide was a slender snake of light that moved upon the water. Or so it appeared ; for I have since discovered that I had an interior sense of direction as trusty as the mariner’s com- pass; so that, though I knew it not, it was never possible for me to go astray. Now as I swam I came upon one floundering and spluttering in the…
1911 · PDF PAGE 64
…hin the ark, could I reach it, might be some help of knowledge or power whereby that house might be attained. So I swam steadily toward, though with some fear, for the eddies in that great stream were numerous, and my sole guide was a slender snake of light that moved upon the water. Or so it appeared ; for I have since discovered that I had an interior sense of direction as trusty as the mariner’s com- pass; so that, though I knew it not, it was never possible for me to go astray. Now as I swam I came upon one floundering and spluttering in the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 56
…is shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart & my tongue, unto whom I send this kiss. Also, o scribe and prophet, though thou be of the princes, it shall not assuage thee nor absolve thee. But ecstasy be thine and joy of earth: ever To me! To me! 54. Change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold! thou, o prophet, shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden therein. 55. The child of thy bowels, Ze shall behold them. 56. Expect him not from the East, nor from the West; for from no expected house cometh that child.…
1913 · PDF PAGE 56
…is shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart & my tongue, unto whom I send this kiss. Also, o scribe and prophet, though thou be of the princes, it shall not assuage thee nor absolve thee. But ecstasy be thine and joy of earth: ever To me! To me! 54. Change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold! thou, o prophet, shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden therein. 55. The child of thy bowels, Ze shall behold them. 56. Expect him not from the East, nor from the West; for from no expected house cometh that child.…