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Page 84 of 1291929 · PDF PAGE 188
…ts revenge. To talk of acclimatization is to adopt the psychology of the man who trained his horse gradually to live on a single straw a day, and would have revolutionized our system of nutrition, if the balky brute had not been aggravating enough to die on his hands. If you want to acclimatize yourself to mountain conditions, you can go and live a bit higher than the hillmen of Tibet. If you do this for fifteen generations or so, your descendants will acquire a thorax like a beer barrel and a heart capable of doing three times the work that it…
1930 · PDF PAGE 90
…ey must be like subordinate officers, expected to display self-reliance, initiative, and integrity in the execution of the Orders of the Day. The Adept should therefore be able to rely on these individual minds of his to control their own conditions without interférence from himself for the time required, and to recall them in due course, receiving an accurate report of their adventures. This being so, the Adept will be free to concentrate his deepest self, that part of him which unconsciously orders his true Will, upon the realization of his H…
1904 · PDF PAGE 22
…ith my boys, the goat, and the learned pig ; after that we will go and see the camel fed over a cigar, after which I will run through my days business you shall have a couple of whores to amuse you while you wait or you can watch my butler putting cream in the tea his only amusement, poor fellow, I sucked him dry years ago ! and then we will sit down to a real morn- ings work over my reminiscences. These, dear girl, are for you. They form this pleasant book. Now strip yourself and get a can- dle ; lunge in front of a looking-glass an…
1911 · PDF PAGE 253
…hone with my splendour. Light did first bedizen Earth with its clusters of fiery dew and spray, When I looked forth and cried, “ It is the day!” The stars are dewdrops on my bosom’s space; The sun and moon are glances through my lashes, Long, tender rays of night ; my subtle face Burns through the sky-dusk, lightens, fills, and flashes With solemn joy and laughter οἱlove; the grace Of all my body swaying stoops and dashes Swift to the daisy’s dawn of love: and swiftest, 0 Spirit of man, when unto me thou liftest! Dawn shakes the molten fire of my de…
1911 · PDF PAGE 253
…hone with my splendour. Light did first bedizen Earth with its clusters of fiery dew and spray, When I looked forth and cried, “ It is the day!” The stars are dewdrops on my bosom’s space; The sun and moon are glances through my lashes, Long, tender rays of night ; my subtle face Burns through the sky-dusk, lightens, fills, and flashes With solemn joy and laughter οἱlove; the grace Of all my body swaying stoops and dashes Swift to the daisy’s dawn of love: and swiftest, 0 Spirit of man, when unto me thou liftest! Dawn shakes the molten fire of my de…
1913 · PDF PAGE 451
…the law of equilibrium will save us, and already the great movement of reaction has begun. We continue the recital of the phenomena. One day a workman paid a visit to Eliphas Levi. He was a tall man of some fifty years old, of frank appearance, and speaking in a very reasonable manner. Questioned as to the motive of his visit, he replied: “You ought to know it well enough ; I am come to beg and pray you to return to me what I have lost.” We must say, to be frank, that Eliphas knew nothing of 153
1913 · PDF PAGE 451
…the law of equilibrium will save us, and already the great movement of reaction has begun. We continue the recital of the phenomena. One day a workman paid a visit to Eliphas Levi. He was a tall man of some fifty years old, of frank appearance, and speaking in a very reasonable manner. Questioned as to the motive of his visit, he replied: “You ought to know it well enough ; I am come to beg and pray you to return to me what I have lost.” We must say, to be frank, that Eliphas knew nothing of 153
1916 · PDF PAGE 6
… conditions do change. But in all fundamental points humanity has not altered since the cave man. A friend of mine was arguing the other day about this very matter. Nowadays, said his opponent, if you want a girl, you cannot twist your knuckles in her hair, Club her, and drag her bleeding to your cave. No, said my friend, things have changed a great deal since the eighth of July! It is just this capacity for seeing everything sub specie aeternatitis which distinguishes the great artist or the great seer, even to a certain extent the gre…
1937 · PDF PAGE 5
…haic weapons is the heritage of hypocrisy. The theories of Divine Right, aristocratic superiority, the moral order of Nature, are all to-day exploded bluffs. Even those of us who believe in supernatural sanctions for our privileges to browbeat and rob the people no longer delude ourselves with the thought that our victims share our superstitions. 4. Even dictators understand this. Mussolini has tried to induce the ghost of Ancient Rome to strut the stage in the image of Julius Cæsar; Hitler has invented a farrago of nonsense about Nordics and A…
1907 · PDF PAGE 256
…ysterious is a very different thing from being a mystic . That the author was the latter must surely be disproved on reading “ Ascension Day " and " Pentecost ," that he belongs to the neo mystics or theosophists is openly denied in a note to the former poem , and in the preliminary invocation to “ Jephthah .” In which latter poem the following may be aptly quoted as showing how that , when reason lies fallow , modern spiritism is steadily supplanting Christianity :
1907 · PDF PAGE 285
…Squeeze out my passions as a sponge , Till nought is left of terrene wine But somewhat deathless and divine ! 2 Huxley continues : “ The day - fly has better grounds for calling a thunderstorm supernatural than has man , with his experience of an infinitesimal fraction of dura tion , to say that the most astonishing event that can be imagined is beyond the scope of natural causes .” 3 And that there is no such thing as the violation of the laws of nature , but merely a violation of that under standing which falsely interprets a “ something ” wh…
1906 · PDF PAGE 196
… quence to carve myself a little niche in the same temple : the smallest contributions will be thank- fully received. NOTES TO ASCENSION DAY 1. 1 fung outof chapel,\—Browning, Xmas five, III. last line. 3. Venus’ Bower and Osiris’ Crowley, Zannhduser, 5. God.3—Hebrew DYN, Gen. iii. s. 5. gods.4—Hebrew onde, Gen. iii. 5. The Revisers, seeing this most awkward juxtaposition, have gone yet one step lower and translated both words by ‘‘God.” In other passages, however, they have been com- pelled to disclose their own dishonesty and translate ods by…
1907 · PDF PAGE 202
…y being, us from [lel], Or Zeus from Heaven ! TISIPHONE. Or else obey ! MEG-ERA. Obey ! ALECTO. Obey ! HADEs. O throne of Hell! Onight! Oday Of anguish exquisite beyond control, Fibre and substance of my inmost soul ! There is a power not mine, and yet in me Burning its cold and cruel agony O pain ! With icy flames, its cutting poison fangs Striking my being with detested pangs. Alas ! of me and not to be expelled, Conjured, assuaged, averted. Grey as eld The juice of blood that stagnates in my veins Appals their current with avenging pains :— …
1913 · PDF PAGE 428
…ed to come to his disciple’s wedding, but he does not arrive, and the fair bride breathes easier, for she fears Apollonius. However, the day is not over. The hour has arrived when the newly married are to be conducted to the nuptial couch. Meroe trembles, pales, looks obstinately towards the door, stretches out her hand with alarm and says in a strangled voice: “Here he is! It is he!” It was in fact Apollonius. Here is the magus; here is the master; the hour of enchantments has passed; jugglery falls before true 1 Some authorities attribute thi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 561
…therefore we wish to die! Poor children, it is not death that you need, it is life. Since you have been in the world you have died every day; is it from the cruel pleasure of annihilation that you would demand a remedy for the annihilation of your pleasures? No, life has never deceived you, you have not yet lived. What you have been taking for life is but the hallucinations and the dreams of the first slumber of death! All great criminals have hallucinated themselves on pur- pose; and those who hallucinate themselves on purpose may be fatally l…
1913 · PDF PAGE 428
…ed to come to his disciple’s wedding, but he does not arrive, and the fair bride breathes easier, for she fears Apollonius. However, the day is not over. The hour has arrived when the newly married are to be conducted to the nuptial couch. Meroe trembles, pales, looks obstinately towards the door, stretches out her hand with alarm and says in a strangled voice: “Here he is! It is he!” It was in fact Apollonius. Here is the magus; here is the master; the hour of enchantments has passed; jugglery falls before true 1 Some authorities attribute thi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 561
…therefore we wish to die! Poor children, it is not death that you need, it is life. Since you have been in the world you have died every day; is it from the cruel pleasure of annihilation that you would demand a remedy for the annihilation of your pleasures? No, life has never deceived you, you have not yet lived. What you have been taking for life is but the hallucinations and the dreams of the first slumber of death! All great criminals have hallucinated themselves on pur- pose; and those who hallucinate themselves on purpose may be fatally l…
1916 · PDF PAGE 13
…sea. It seems almost as if he grew physically much bigger. His personality fills the room. I have heard many of the great orators of the day, never one with one tithe of the passion and power of Mr. Stuart. Ben Tillett comes nearest. But Ben Tillett wastes his power in furious gesture. With Mr. Stuart the thunder of his tread and of his voice shake the house; but there is no loss of self-control. The speech is not diffuse, but extraordinarily concise and emphatic. The words rush out like molten steel from a converter under the blast. But each p…
1930 · PDF PAGE 57
… The Wheel turns to those effectuai methods of invocation employed in the ancient Mysteries and bv certain secret bodies of initiâtes to-day. The object of them is almost invariably1 the invocation of a God, that God conceived in a more or less material and personal fashion. These Rituals are therefore well suited for such persons as are capable of understanding the spirit of Magick as opposed to the letter. One of the great advantages of them is that a large number of persons may take part, so that there is consequently more force available; b…
1907 · PDF PAGE 146
…e smiling or awry ; we have become as gods knowing good and evil , and having become gods with much striving against adversity, may some day become men ; for -to become a god is but to become as the image created in the brain of man , but to become a man is to become a progenitor of gods ; and then perchance we may realize the sublimity of the Great Mother hood , whose children are as one , a flaming crown of glory twined and interwoven with roses both white and red . This mingling of the passionate and the chaste we find is the new ideal that …