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Page 80 of 1121929 · PDF PAGE 67
…overhanging wall and ultimately pulled myself over the edge. There was still some step-cutting to be done before I got to a sufficiently good place to pull up the others. I have never seen the performance of Travers equalled on any occasion. Hastings himself could hardly have been more strong, steady and enduring, to say nothing of the qualities required to allow a man to stand on his head and shoulders with sharp spikes! We now found that so far from this obstacle being the last, it was the first! I take a good deal of credit to myself for fin…
1904 · PDF PAGE 25
…or, you pimp, if you cant go tail- twitching her hairy old tuzzy-muzzy ? You shall suck the oysters out of the kidney pudding if youre good. Now my boy ! I complied with dignity, and in a moment found the Archbishop on my back gripping my hair with one violent hand and grappling at my breasts with the other, while his sharp-beaked pond snipe tore open the folds of my wrinkled arse, ill protected by their six weeks leaving of shit, and began pumping out its short and spitty spend with the sound of a kettle seething and crackling. Enough ! I…
1909 · PDF PAGE 276
…“Frater Pereclinos de Faustis: as in the grade of 1°=10° there were given the symbolical representations of the Tree of Knowledge of the Good and Evil of the gate of Eden and of the Holy Place: so in the 2°=9° of Theoricus the ‘Sanctum Sanc- torum’ with the Ark and the Kerubim is shown: as well as the garden of Eden, with which it coincides, while in the thirty-second path leading thereunto, through which you have just passed, the Kerubic Guardians are represented ; and the Palm-trees, or trees of Progression in the’Garden of Eden. Honoured Heg…
1909 · PDF PAGE 276
…“Frater Pereclinos de Faustis: as in the grade of 1°=10° there were given the symbolical representations of the Tree of Knowledge of the Good and Evil of the gate of Eden and of the Holy Place: so in the 2°=9° of Theoricus the ‘Sanctum Sanc- torum’ with the Ark and the Kerubim is shown: as well as the garden of Eden, with which it coincides, while in the thirty-second path leading thereunto, through which you have just passed, the Kerubic Guardians are represented ; and the Palm-trees, or trees of Progression in the’Garden of Eden. Honoured Heg…
1922 · PDF PAGE 309
…htening us all like this.” Platt and I put on our hats and coats. We were just shaking hands with Gretel, telling her to order herself a good lunch from downstairs, when we heard the latch-key put into the lock. “There she is,” cried Gretel gaily. ‘‘ What babies we have been!” The door opened; but it was not Lou who came in. It was Maisie Jacobs, and her face was stern and set. She gave two quick formal bows to the others, took my hand, and said in a deep, tense voice :-— “You must come with me at once, Sir Peter. Lady Pendragon needs you.” I w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 1
….; I might have known. I tell you, sir, this country is run by a ring, a dirty ring, a gang of Jews, Scotchmen, Irish, Welshwheres the good old jolly True Blue English- man? In the cart, sir, in the cart. The train gave a convulsive backward jerk, and lum- bered off in imitation of the solitary porter who, sta- tioned opposite the guards van, had witnessed without emotion the hurling forth of two trunks like rocks from a volcano, and after a moments contemplation had, with
1930 · PDF PAGE 87
… working. 5. Success in these verbal invocations is so subtle a matter, and its grades so delicately shaded, that it must be left to the good sense of the student to décidé whether or not he should be satisfied with his resuit. V. 1. Let the student be at rest in one of his prescribed positions, having bathed and robed with the proper décorum. Let the place of working be free from ail disturbance, and let the preliminary purifications, banishings and invocations be duly accomplished, and, lastly, let the incense be kindled. 2. Let him imagine h…
1954 · PDF PAGE 529
…to approach your guardian and ask him to enlighten you . It is clearly part of his function as guardian to do his best to help you. Very good, that is the first method, and a close parallel with what we understand by the word Magick. We are bothered by some difficulty about one of the elements-say Fire-it is therefore natural to evoke a Salamander to instruct you on the difficult point. But you must remember that your Holy Guardian Angel is not only far more fully instructed than yourself on every point that you can conceive, but you may go so …
1904 · PDF PAGE 89
…nt clippings of mastodon-hoof were effectual in restoring her, but Eves furs had fallen off again, and Adam di- vined the nature of his good ladys excitement. To think now, He observed, with pardonable pride, that the mere sight of me or would it be the smell ? Ill write a book about it and try to make up my mind that way. Poor girl ! I know it wont [89]
1909 · PDF PAGE 311
… I durst not enter; and when my guide, who was still with me, saw that I was seized with a great fear, he comforted me, bidding me be of good courage, so with him I entered. Before us in the very centre of the temple there sat a woman whose countenance was bright as the essence of many moons; and as I beheld her, fear left me, so I stepped towards her and knelt reverently at her feet. “ Then, as I knelt before her, she gave me a branch of olive and myrtle, which I folded to my heart; and as I did so, of a sudden a great pillar of smoke rose fro…
1909 · PDF PAGE 311
… I durst not enter; and when my guide, who was still with me, saw that I was seized with a great fear, he comforted me, bidding me be of good courage, so with him I entered. Before us in the very centre of the temple there sat a woman whose countenance was bright as the essence of many moons; and as I beheld her, fear left me, so I stepped towards her and knelt reverently at her feet. “ Then, as I knelt before her, she gave me a branch of olive and myrtle, which I folded to my heart; and as I did so, of a sudden a great pillar of smoke rose fro…
1910 · PDF PAGE 68
…escribed by a word or a name, the knowledge concerning it is Avidyd, “ignorance.” No sooner are the eyes of a man opened + than he sees “good and evil,” and becomes a prey to the illusions he has set out to conquer. He gets something apart from himself, and whether it be Religion, Science, or Philosophy it matters not; for in the vacuum which he thereby creates, between him and it, burns the fever that he will never subdue until he has annihilated both.{ God, Immortality, Freedom, are appear- ances and not realities, they are Maya and not Atman…
1910 · PDF PAGE 68
…escribed by a word or a name, the knowledge concerning it is Avidyd, “ignorance.” No sooner are the eyes of a man opened + than he sees “good and evil,” and becomes a prey to the illusions he has set out to conquer. He gets something apart from himself, and whether it be Religion, Science, or Philosophy it matters not; for in the vacuum which he thereby creates, between him and it, burns the fever that he will never subdue until he has annihilated both.{ God, Immortality, Freedom, are appear- ances and not realities, they are Maya and not Atman…
1954 · PDF PAGE 276
…diately useful point of view: "devotion to Nuit" must mean the eager pursuit of the fulfilment of all possibilities, however unpleasant. Good: now see how logical this is. For how else could one have reasonable "certainty," as contrary with "faith" (=interior conviction), otherwise than by the acquisition of the "Magical Memory" -the memory of former lives. And this must evidently include that of former deaths. Indeed "Freudian forgetfulness" is very pertinacious on such themes; the shock of death makes it a matter of displaying the most formid…
1996 · PDF PAGE 156
…he human race by the deliberate artificial protection of the unfit. What has been the net result of our fine “Christian” phrases? In the good old days there was some sort of natural selection; brains and stamina were necessary to survival. The race, as such, consequently improved. But we thought we knew oh! so much better, and we had “Christ’s law” and other slush. So the unfit crowded and contaminated the fit, until Earth herself grew nause ated with the mess. We had not only a war which killed some eight million men, in the flower of their a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 68
…must control not only my words, but my tones, the shape of my mouth, the mirth of my eyes, the ready ambiguity of my shoulders! Bones. A good exercise, Frater. Bowley. Another point. I am, after all, a Poet. That ’5 right about the lake-reflected sun illuminating the blooming bees. I often hold long conversations with people, and discover long after that I wasn’t there at all. I often dream and am honestly puzzled whether the events of it have or have not happened. Bones. Consciously refuse to admit that your sensorium is not another's—that is a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 418
…re. (Once more "Indifference" Op cit. pp. 39-44. How simple, how serene, how innocent a pleasure to write Op cit.! It does make one feel good!) Stage 4. "Neither indifference nor not-indifference ." One hardly knows what to make of this translation of the technical · Buddhist term: probably no meaning is really illuminating to one who has not experienced that state of
1996 · PDF PAGE 95
96 The Law is for All Were the world understood Ye would know it was good, A dance to a lyrical measure!1 1 [Crowley, paraphrase of his Orpheus, A Lyrical Legend (1905), bk. 4; see Collected Works, vol. Ill, p. 217.] 2 [“The Temple of Solomon the King,” The Equinox 1(7) (1912); this account was republished as Chapter 6 of “Genesis Libri AL” in The Equinox of the Gods (Book 4, Part ZV).] 3 [Apemantus is the gloomy prophet in Timon of Athens.] The nature of events must be “pure joy”; for, obviously, whatever occurs is the fulfilment of the will o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 248
…se ideas to the issue which we are discussing. I knew that a poet is incapable of recognizing his best work, but I knew also that though good technique does not mean good work bad technique does mean bad work. So I used to experiment with new forms by choosing a ridiculous or obscene subject, lest I should be tempted to publish a poem whose technique showed inexperience. Ivor and I, with some assistance from Gerald, collected such of these manuscripts as had not been destroyed, and with "the Nameless Novel", we composed a volume1 to carry on th…
1922 · PDF PAGE 27
…ion. “ Rotten! That fellow Fordham never seems to make a clean job of it anyhow. Say, look here, thisis my night out. You go ’way like a good boy, tell all those boys and girls come and have dinner.” The waiter knew well enough who was meant; and presently I found myself shaking hands with several perfect strangers in terms which implied the warmest and most unquenchable affection. It was really rather a distinguished crowd. One of the men was a fat German Jew, who looked at first sight like a piece of canned pork that has got mislaid too long …