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Page 83 of 921912 · PDF PAGE 426
…edicatory Sonnet by Vicror B. NEusurG; and an Introduction by ALEISTER CROWLEY. PRICE ONE SHILLING NET _ {This is a whirlpool, and no mistake; a witches’ cauldron wherein suns and stars and souls, and Lilith and Sappho, and ‘whispering hair,’ and corpses and poppies, jostle one another in a heaving brew ofiridescent, quasi-putrescent, ultra-modemity. Quite good reading all the same, Take p. 44:— - « « « And we must thank the mysterious V. B. N. for a really inspired line— “Thou lyric laughter of the enfranchised male.’ ++... The naughty new ‘ma…
1913 · PDF PAGE 598
… Dedicatory Sonnet by Vicror B. NEusurG; and an Introduction by ALEISTER CROWLEY. PRICE ONE SHILLING NET “This is a whirlpool, and no mistakes a witches? cauldron wherein suns and stars and souls, and Lilith and Sappho, and ‘whispering hair,’ and corpses and poppies, jostle one another in a heaving brew of iridescent, quasi-putrescent, ultra-modernity. Quite good reading all the same. Take p. 44:—.. . « And we must thank the mysterious V. B. N. for a really inspired line— “Thou lyric laughter of the enfranchised male.’ + +... The naughty new ‘m…
1913 · PDF PAGE 598
… Dedicatory Sonnet by Vicror B. NEusurG; and an Introduction by ALEISTER CROWLEY. PRICE ONE SHILLING NET “This is a whirlpool, and no mistakes a witches? cauldron wherein suns and stars and souls, and Lilith and Sappho, and ‘whispering hair,’ and corpses and poppies, jostle one another in a heaving brew of iridescent, quasi-putrescent, ultra-modernity. Quite good reading all the same. Take p. 44:—.. . « And we must thank the mysterious V. B. N. for a really inspired line— “Thou lyric laughter of the enfranchised male.’ + +... The naughty new ‘m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 204
…uld feel any real interest in me. It never occurred to me that he might have read anything of mine and thought it promising. I took, and take, his action for sheer human kindness. I probably behaved with my usual gaucherie. The presence of anyone whom I really respect always awakes my congenital shyness, always overawes me. Henley's famous poem (which Frank Harris regards as "the bombast of Antient Pistol") appealed intensely to my deepest feeling about man's place in the universe; that he is a Titan overwhelmed by the gods but not surrendering…
1929 · PDF PAGE 445
… known, the greater part of them are of no bulk, and many exceedingly small, and it has been said all the creatures in the Ark would not take up the room of five hundred horses. After four thousand years human ingenuity cannot now contrive any proportions better adapted than that of the Ark for the purpose it was intended for. A Dutch merchant, two hundred years ago, built a ship answering in its respective dimensions to those of the Ark; its length being one hundred and twenty feet, breadth twenty feet, depth twelve feet; while building, this …
1906 · PDF PAGE 280
…estion that should give you a clue to my goal. Scept. It is so difficult to determine whether Sherlock Holmes? is dead or no that I will take no risks. But the answer to your query is obvious. He “eves the longest who remembers most. Myst. Insufficient. There are lives full of the dreariest incident, like a farmyard novel, or a window in Thrums, or the autobiography of the Master of a College,* who lives ninety years and begets sons and daughters, and there is an end of him by-and-by, and the world is nor richer nor poorer, scarce for an anecdo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 444
…ual ideas; and lastly, he is shown how, basing all his actions on this impregnable rock of justice, he may so direct his life as to undertake his Great Work with the fullest responsibility and in absolute freedom from all possibility of interferences. In the VIII°, the secret is once more manifested to him, more clearly than before; and he is instructed in how to train himself to use it by certain preliminary practices involving acquaintance with some of those subtler energies which have hitherto, for the most part, eluded the observation and c…
1906 · PDF PAGE 283
…ey were so enamoured of the Ananda—the bliss Scept. Presumably. Far be it from me to set myself up against them; but I may more modestly take the position that ‘‘self- consciousness” is a mere phenomenon; a bye-product, and no more, in the laboratory of life. Afyst. Alas: I can think no better of you for your modesty : whoso would make bricks without straw may as well plan pyramids as hovels. Sevpt. Your stricture is but too just. Teleo- logy * isa science which will make no progress until the most wicked and stupid of men are philosophers, sin…
1904 · PDF PAGE 115
…ribed is the state called Dhy ana by the Hindus and Buddhists. The method of attaining it is sane, healthy , and scientific. I would not take the pains to desc ribe that method, had not illiterate, and too often m ystical advo- cates of the practice obs cured the s imple
1929 · PDF PAGE 218
…that it was only necessary to go to the sheriff of the county and declare the intention to get married, in which case the marriage would take place there and then. "There and then?" I echoed in a hollow voice, for I had the instinctive feeling natural to a young man, that he is somehow or other putting his foot in it, that he is invoking unknown gods. "Then and there," he answered heavily and the syllables fell as if he had been throwing the sods upon my coffin. Armed with this satisfactory information, I returned to the hotel and had a short c…
1904 · PDF PAGE 5
…igion in question, whichever it m ay be, sufficiently indicate (as a rule) by the very method of their apology . The alter- native is to take the religion symbolically, esoterically; but to m ove one step in this direction is to start on a journey whose end cannot be determined. The religion, ceasing to be a tangible thing, an object uniform for all sane eyes, becom es rather that m ist whereon the sun of the soul casts up, like Brocken spectres, certain vast and vague images of the beholder himself, with or without a glory en-compassing them. …
1904 · PDF PAGE 119
…ley , that reason teaches us that the tes timony of conscious- ness is untrue; it is absurd, with Spencer, to refute reason ; instead we take means to bring consciousness to a sense of its impro- bity. Now our (empiric) diagnosis is that it is the dissipation of mind that is chiefly re- sponsible for its untruthfulness. We seek (also by empiric means, alas!) to control it, to con- centrate it, to obs erve more accurately—has this source of possible error been sufficiently recognised?—what its testimony really is. Experience has taught me, so fa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 27
…a,} by sticking manfully to your Work in the World, yet no more allowing it to touch your Purpose than waters may wet the lotus leaf (to take the oldest and best simile of your oldest and best poets), must I dedicate this strange drama; for, like you, [would aban- don all; like you, I see clearly what is of value ; or, tf not, at least what is worthless ; already something! Thus do I wish you and myself the three great boons Stla, Samadht, and Salam. DEDICATIO MAXIMA. To my unborn child, Who may learn by the study of this drama to choose the ev…
1929 · PDF PAGE 139
…y trifling variations from the vigilance itself. A fifth class of breaks seems to have no discoverable source in the mind. Such may even take the form of actual hallucination, usually auditory. Of course, such hallucinations are infrequent and are recognized for what they are; otherwise the student had better see his doctor. The usual kind consists of odd sentences or fragments of sentences, which are heard quite distinctly in a recognizable human voice, not the student's own voice or that of any one he knows. A similar phenomenon is observed b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
…n honest tradesman. I did this sort of thing on purpose to affirm magically that nothing mattered except the work of the moment. It was "Take not thought for the morrow" carried out in its most literal sense. I made a point of putting God on His honour, so to speak, to supply anything I might need by demonstrating to {147} him that I would not keep back the least imaginable fraction of my resources. I acquired this custom later on, when I had definitely discovered the direction of my destiny; but the moral basis of my attitude was already prese…
1944 · PDF PAGE 94
…ses of nature. Distillation, for instance, was not an operation to be performed by heating something in a retort over a flame; it had to take place naturally, even if months were required to consummate the Work. (Months, at that period of civilization, were at the disposal of enquiring minds.) A great deal of what people now consider ignorance, being themselves ignorant of what the men of old time thought, comes from this misapprehension. At the bottom of this card, for example, are seen Fire and Water harmoniously mingled. But this is only a c…
1944 · PDF PAGE 182
… having devised four elements, the current has derogated from the original perfec‐ tion. The Tens are a warning; see whither it leads‐to take the first wrong step! The Ten of Wands is called Oppression. This is what happens when one uses force, force, and nothing else but force all the time. Here looms the dull and heavy planet Saturn weighing down the fiery, ethereal side of Sagittarius; it brings out all the worst in Sagittarius. See the Archer, not shooting forth benign rays, but dealing the sharp rain of death! The Wand has conquered; it ha…
1913 · PDF PAGE 610
…d have attained to it if I bad persisted in my naked meditation on the floor, beyond the very bad cold that brought it to an end. Let me take another example -— “PHAETON.” 4 No," Yes,"—« Pethaps."—"0 1" Eye.""—" Hi!" ¥2"—" No,”—" Hail ! all ye spavined, gelded, hamstrung horses !""—Ye shall surpassthe planets in their courses.” —“ How? Not by speed, nor strength, nor power to stay, but by the Silence that succeeds the Neigh |? here are no notes to this chapter. it “This book,” another chapter tells us, “would translate Beyond-Reason into the wo…
1913 · PDF PAGE 610
…d have attained to it if I bad persisted in my naked meditation on the floor, beyond the very bad cold that brought it to an end. Let me take another example -— “PHAETON.” 4 No," Yes,"—« Pethaps."—"0 1" Eye.""—" Hi!" ¥2"—" No,”—" Hail ! all ye spavined, gelded, hamstrung horses !""—Ye shall surpassthe planets in their courses.” —“ How? Not by speed, nor strength, nor power to stay, but by the Silence that succeeds the Neigh |? here are no notes to this chapter. it “This book,” another chapter tells us, “would translate Beyond-Reason into the wo…
1944 · PDF PAGE 52
…tanding‐has not yet been formulated. In other words, there is no Mother. All one has is the impulse of this manifestation; and that must take place in si‐ lence. That is to say, there is as yet no more than the impulse, which is unformulated; it is only when it is interpreted that it becomes the Word, the Logos. (See Atu I.) Now consider the traditional form of Harpocrates. He is a babe, that is to say, innocent, and not yet arrived at puberty; a simpler form of Parsifal, he is represented as rose pink in colour. It is dawn‐ the hint of light a…