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Page 80 of 921939 · PDF PAGE 59
…science and philosophy. It has done nothing in religion; or, rather, where it has meddled with religion it has only done harm. What a mistake! And why? For the simple reason that it was in a position to take no notice of religion; all these matters were decided for it by the Pope, or by the Councils of the Church, and the Society was therefore able to free itself from the perplexities of religion, in exactly the same way as the novice obtains complete freedom from his moral responsibilities by sinking his personal phantasies in the will of the …
1944 · PDF PAGE 117
…This is the last Word of the Song that thine Uncle Richard Wagner made for Worship of this Mystery. Understand thou this, O my Son, as I take leave of thee in this Epistle, that the Summit of Wisdom is the Opening of the Way that leadeth unto the Crown and Essence of all, to the Soul of the Child Horus, the Lord of the Aeon. This is the Path of the Pure Fool. DE ORACULO SUMMO And who is this Pure Fool? Lo, in the Sagas of Old Time, Legend of Scald, of Bard, of Druid, cometh he not in Green like Spring? O thou Great Fool, thou Water that art Air…
1905 · PDF PAGE 19
…th Of foul black worms; and on the earth to dwell For a long space, and there (most terrible !) To change her shape at times, and on her take The fierce presentment of a loathly snake To wander curst and lonely through the dire black brake. And this thing is my mother, whose foul tomb Is a black serpent, spotted with the gloom Of venomous red flecks, and poisonous sweat, While on her flat lewd head the mark is set Of utter loathsomeness ; and I, her child Born of incestuous lust, and sore defiled With evil parentage, am now (Most just Unpitying…
1906 · PDF PAGE 48
…is skies above, Because one flower is folded. Thus they floated Most deathlessly devoted Beyond the trees, and where the hills divide To take the nighted tide Into a darker, deeper, greener breast, Maybe to find—what rest? Now to those girdling mountains moon-exalted Came through the hills deep-vaulted That. pearly shallop: there the rocks were rent, And the pale element Flowed idly in their gorges: there the night Admits no beam of light ; Nor can the poet’s eye One ray espy. Therefore I saw not how the voyage ended, Only wherethrough those cl…
1909 · PDF PAGE 411
…lue to his work.” Daily Telegraph : "A good book. . . . This story reads like a page of real life written down by a man who actually did take part in the scenes described so vividly. . . . We follow their fortunes breath- lessly. . . . Descriptions as vivid as any Mr. Upton Sinclair ever painted, and they are never tedious nor overdone. .. . We must not leave the tale without mentioning the wonderful love- story of Rudolph and Eisie,a fine piece of psychology, as true as it is moving, and of a quality rarély to be found in fiction.”
1909 · PDF PAGE 411
…lue to his work.” Daily Telegraph : "A good book. . . . This story reads like a page of real life written down by a man who actually did take part in the scenes described so vividly. . . . We follow their fortunes breath- lessly. . . . Descriptions as vivid as any Mr. Upton Sinclair ever painted, and they are never tedious nor overdone. .. . We must not leave the tale without mentioning the wonderful love- story of Rudolph and Eisie,a fine piece of psychology, as true as it is moving, and of a quality rarély to be found in fiction.”
1939 · PDF PAGE 25
…s and ingenuity which helps us in our difficulties; he is the mechanical system, the symbolism which helps the human mind of the Yogi to take cognisance of what is coming. It must here be remarked that because of his complete indifference to anything whatever (and that thought iswhen you get far enoughonly a primary point of wisdom) he is entirely unreliable. One of the most unfathomably dreadful dangers of the Path is that you must trust Mercury, and yet that if you trust him you are certain to be deceived. I can only explain this, if at all…
1905 · PDF PAGE 207
…To bind and braid the North wind’s serpent hair, And track the East wind to his mighty lair Even in the caverns of the womb of dawn ; To take the South wind and his fire with- drawn And clothe him with your kiss ; to seize the West In his gold palace where the sea-winds rest, And hurl him ravening on the breaking foam ; ‘To find the Spirit in his glimmering home And draw his secret from unwilling lips ; To master earthquake, and the dread eclipse ; To dominate the red volcanic rage ; To quench the whirlpool, conquering war to wage Against all g…
1939 · PDF PAGE 68
…that the blurred surface will become clear when I do so. Of course, I may be wrong. I may have picked up some other body's glasses by mistake. I might go blind before I could get them into position. Even such confidence has limits; but it is a real confidence, and this is the explanation of why we go ahead with the business of life. When we think it over, we know that there are all sorts of snags, that it is impossible to formulate any proposition which is philosophically unassailable, or even one which is so from a practical standpoint. We adm…
1905 · PDF PAGE 37
… path is lit Just for a little by the sun, and I Watch his red face pass over, fade away To other streets, and other passengers, See him take pleasure where the heathen pray, See him relieve the hunter of his furs, All the wide world awaiting him, all folk Glad at his coming, only I must weep: Rise he or sink, my weary eyes invoke Only the respite of a little sleep; Sleep, just a little space of sleep, to rest The fevered head and cool the aching eyes; Sleep for a space, to fall upon the breast Of the dear God, that He may sympathise, Long has …
1939 · PDF PAGE 24
Let us take the example of Pranayama, a subject with which I hope to deal in a subsequent lucubration. Let us suppose that you are managing your breath so that your cycle, breathing in, holding, and breathing out, lasts exactly a minute. That is pretty good work for most people, but it may be or may not be good enough to get you going. No one can tell you until you have tried long enough (and no one can tell you how long 'long enough' may be) whether that is going to ring the bell. It may be that if you increase your sixty seconds to sixty-four…
1944 · PDF PAGE 92
…, means Serpent. But Fish is also the Vesica, or Womb, and Christ—and so on. This symbol resumes the whole Secret Doctrine. beginning to take shape the new forms which he creates in his dance; and these forms dance also. In this card the symbol of the fish is paramount; the fish (Il pesce, as they call him in Naples and many other places) and the serpent are the two principal objects of worship in cults which taught the doctrines of resurrection or re‐incarnation. Thus we have Oannes and Dagon, fish gods, in western Asia; in many other parts of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 315
… other heavenly bodies. Their influence had been removed. For the first time in my life I was really free. I had no personality left. To take a concrete case: I found myself in the middle of China with a wife and child. I was no longer influenced by love for them, no longer interested in protecting them as I had been; but there was a man, Aleister Crowley, husband and father, of a certain caste, of certain experience, of travel in remote parts of the world; and it was his business to give them his undivided love, care and protection. He could d…
1939 · PDF PAGE 34
…t!' But it may give you some idea of what is, after all, not too bad, when I say that in the last months of my own work it often used to take me ten minutes (at the conclusion of the practice) to straighten my left leg. I took the ankle in both hands, and eased it out a fraction of a millimetre at a time. 20. At this point the band begins to play. Quite suddenly the pain stops. An ineffable sense of relief sweeps over the Yoginotice that I no longer call him 'student' or 'aspirant'and he becomes aware of a very strange fact. Not only was that…
1939 · PDF PAGE 66
…lts as occur in straightforward Yoga. I think I ought to tell you a little more about these visions. The method of obtaining them was to take a large topaz beautifully engraved with the Rose and Cross of forty-nine petals, and this topaz was set in a wooden cross of oak painted red. I called this the shew-stone in memory of Dr. Dee's famous shew-stone. I took this in my hand and proceeded to recite in the Enochian or Angelic language the Call of the Thirty Aethyrs, using in each case the special name appropriate to the Aethyr. Now all this went…
1905 · PDF PAGE 84
…ory Of Heaven is flushed into light. For the night has a whisper to wake us, And the sunset a blossom to kiss, And the silences secretly take us To the well of the water that is?; For the darkness is pregnant with being, As earth that is glad of the rain, And the eyes? that are silent and seeing Are free of the trammels of pain. Like light through the portals they ? bounded, Their lithe limbs with cruelty curled, And the noise of their crying resounded To kindle the death of the world. For the heaven at sunset is sundered ; Its gates to the sag…
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
love, so far as he may be seen in a few lines, taken from amongst hundreds of their kind: To know you love me; that your bod lea 5 With the quick passion of your sou : to Know Your fragrant kisses sting my spirit so; To be one soul where Satan smiles and sleeps: Ah ! in the very triumph-hour of Hell Satan himself remembers whence he fell! These lines are not flawless; yet it needs no adjectives as drums to sound their praises. The palate that cannot appreciate such a vintage to the full knows not the taste of good wine. T11: Imperialism of Lam—I…
1919 · PDF PAGE 172
… should be repeated with ever-increas- ing persistence. The time occupied tells me its faults more than the text. A good ‘rising’ should take 134 to 3 hours. O.M.) Nov. 28, 11.5 to 11.27 P.M. Astral Journey. Drew, with wand, in front of me, a circle (three times round) and formed astral in that. Rose to a great height. Suddenly, as it were, a rope flashed round me and fell, forming a spiral, ever widening, at the top of which I sat. Stood up on this, only to fall, down, down, down, not quite vertically into the water. Rising again, and striking…
1919 · PDF PAGE 307
…ut I will get her to go over to England. That will put an end to the child, and very likely to her too, and then perhaps Paira Mull will take at least one of the children—his own—off my hands. Narada, too, is not legally my child.at all. He is just a nameless bastard.” 293
1906 · PDF PAGE 191
…ls with less dangerous topics. These are truly conventional, no doubt; we may pass them by; they are foreign to our purpose; but we will take that stupendous example of literary subterfuge—Azny Lear. Let me digress to the history of my own conversion. Syllogistically,—All great men (e.g. Shaw) are agnostics and subverters of morals. Shake- speare was a great man. Therefore Shakespeare was an agnostic and a subverter of morals. prtort this is then certain, But— Who killed Rousseau? I, said Huxley (Like Robinson Crusoe), With arguments true,—so I…