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Page 85 of 901904 · PDF PAGE 68
…nal babe, Audra McAbe.” Note the curious confusion of personality. This shows A bsence of Ego, in Pali A natta, and will seem to my poor spiritually-mind friends an excuse for a course of action they do not understand, and whose nature is beyond them. 782. Christ ascends.82—And I tell you frankly that if he does not come back by the time I have finished reading these proofs, I shall give him up. 783. Bell.83—The folios have “bun.” NOTES TO PENTECOST 22. With sacred thirst.1—“He, soul-hy- droptic with a sacred thirst. ” A Grammarian’s Funeral. 2…
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
…existence, was saddened and disillusioned. One incident was somewhat scandalously amusing. He was doing his {250} best to enter into the spirit of the thing and called my attention to the "strains of wild oriental music". I knew better. I had read Herrick's poem abut the young lady who left a glove in the royal presence, and remembered that Lady Clara de Vere de Vere has certain physiological properties in common with the elephant. Poor Allan was absolutely horrified when he realized his mistake. The scene was wild and somewhat sinister. The da…
1929 · PDF PAGE 239
…ossess any capacity for understanding the language of symbolism, he will be staggered by the adequacy and accuracy of the summary of the spirit of the New Aeon given in The Book of the Law.
1929 · PDF PAGE 287
…possible to interweave my three lives. My ordinary career becomes a welter of strange adventures, some of the most uncanny kind; yet the spiritual life is all-important and {469} absolutely simple. The one is linked to the other only by the fact that my adventures appear as if they were so many obstacles deliberately put in the way of my performing the Operation of the Sacred Magick of Abra-Melin the Mage. I shall deal first with the life of the senses. {470} 55 It is probably a rare incident for any young man to meet, in the flesh, the ideal o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 31
…r God will hold me up, etc. Again, I wrote a poem on the death of my Aunt Ada, which I thought good enough to include in my Songs of the Spirit, and is entirely irreproachable on the score of piety. It seems as if I possessed a theology of my own which was, to all intents and purposes, Christianity. My satanism did not interfere with it at all; I was trying to take the view that the Christianity of hypocrisy and cruelty was not true Christianity. I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated. It was only…
1906 · PDF PAGE 149
…bable,” I have endeavoured to avoid : yet I cannot but express the hope that my own enquiries into religion may be the reflection of the spirit of the age; and that plunged as we are in the midst of jingoism and religious revival, we may be standing on the edge of some gigantic precipice, over which we may cast all our impedimenta of lies and trickeries, political, social, moral, and religious, and (ourselves) take wings and fly. The comparison be- tween myself and the masters of English thought I have named is unintentional, though perhaps una…
1929 · PDF PAGE 391
…emples, which I twisted up into horns. I was thus able to pass him off as a demon that I had tamed and trained to serve me as a familiar spirit. This greatly enhanced my eminence. The more eccentric and horrible Neuburg appeared, the more insanely and grotesquely he behaved, the more he inspired the inhabitants with respect for the Magician who had mastered so fantastic and fearful a genie. Few tourists know even the most elementary facts about such simple matters as climate. I myself was amazed to find how many of the ideas which I had derived…
1929 · PDF PAGE 172
…ery than any dozen university professors receive for a lifetime of devoted labour on behalf of the race. The root of the mischief is the spirit of taking life too seriously. It is really almost expected of the man who happens to run over to Philadelphia from New York {293} for a day, that he should forthwith write an encyclopaedic history of the Quakers. It is hard to prophesy the issue of this tendency, but one can see already that the chivalry of sport is following that of arms into oblivion. {294} 36 Skardu, 2,228 metres above sea-level, is …
1904 · PDF PAGE 111
…e the dom ain of fact; but at leas t as far our knowledge extends, all or nearly all the operations of Nature are vanity and vexation of spirit. Consider food, the desire for which periodically arises in all conscious beings.1 The existence of thes e desires, or rather necessities, which I realise to be m ine, is unpleasant. It is this desire inherent in me for continued consciousness that is responsible for it all, and this leads us to the Third Noble Truth. (3) S ORROW’S CEASING.—The ces sation of desire is the cessation of sorrow. This is a …
1929 · PDF PAGE 123
…d had advanced automatically to prosperity. Science too had surged up from sporadic spurts into a system. And yet, somehow or other, the spirit of her age had killed everything we cared for. Smug, sleek, superficial, servile, {216} snobbish, sentimental shopkeeping had spread everywhere. Even Darwinism had become respectable. Even Bradlaugh had been accepted. James Thomson had been starved and classed with the classics. Swinburne had been whacked and washed and brushed and turned into a model boy. The Church of England had collapsed under the c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 99
…p with it. Consider the analogy of poetry. One could, to a certain extent, teach a man to write poetry, by offering to his soul a set of spiritual and emotional experiences, but his technique must be based on the study of grammar and so on, which have no essential relation with art. Talking over these matters with Jones and Baker, I found them quite in sympathy with my pint of view; but they insisted, rightly enough, that I was not in a position to judge the circumstances. I must first reach the Second Order. Accordingly, I took the grade of Ze…
1929 · PDF PAGE 177
…ote: Aside from a caution against bulimia in this question, there is an observation to make. Crowley speculated elsewhere that the human spirit might attach to the body after death in just such a manner as the vital principle in food. This led him to recommend cremation as a remedy for prolonged post- mortum agony. 37 From the hot spring one goes gently along the valley to Askole. The whole march is short, easy and delightful. It only occupied five hours, of which at least three were spent at the rope bridge and in the pool. The entire journey …
1907 · PDF PAGE 230
…e a spark of religion in you, that is, if you are properly a human being, that you will (at the very least) experience a deeper sense of spiritual communion than youghave ever obtained by any course of church-going. After which you will, if you are worth your salt, devote your life to the development of this communion, and to the search for an instructed master who can tell you more than I can. Now the earlier paganism is simply over- flowing with this spirit of communion. The boy goes down to the pool, musing, as boys will; is it strange that …
1929 · PDF PAGE 383
…of exactly this kind caused by so seemingly trivial a mistake as carelessness in consecrating the Circle for an evocation of an inferior spirit; claiming a Grade in the
1929 · PDF PAGE 228
… mimicked his behaviour. But surely, if there be anything in Sir William Hamilton's law of parsimony, it is much simpler to say that the spirit of the bat had entered into her. (As I revise these pages for the press, I find myself constantly annoyed {380} by having to try to find long roundabout "rational" explanations for all the wonders I have seen and heard. It is silly, too, now that we are getting clear at last of the obsession of Victorian cocksure materialism --- science disguised as a fat hausfrau!) {381} 48 Life in the jungle has many …
1929 · PDF PAGE 512
…I did so. The theory of the Operation was to identify the toad with the "Dying God" and slay it. At the same time I caused the elemental spirit of the slain reptile to serve me. The result was immediately apparent. A girl of the village, three miles away, asked me to employ her as my secretary. I had had no intention of doing any literary work; but as soon as I set eyes on her I recognized that she had been sent for a purpose, for she exactly resembled the aforesaid toad. I therefore engaged her to come out every morning an take dictation. I ha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
…t foul, strange and unnatural". I lay weight upon this episode because my attitude, as I remember it, seems imcompatible with my general spiritual life of the period, as will appear later. I was genuinely fond of my Aunt Ada. She was womanly in the oldfashioned sense of the word; a purely passive type. Naturally talented though she was, she was both ignorant and bigoted. In her situation, she could not have been anything else. But her opinions did not interfere with her charity. A woman of infinite kindness. Her health was naturally delicate; a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 155
…t are murmured, and rays of my soul strongly flung, never daunted; By gesture and tracery traced with a wand dappled white, I summon the spirits of earth from the gloom they for ages have haunted. O woman of deep red skin! Carved hair like the teak! O delight Of my soul in the hollows of earth --- how my spirit hath taunted . . . Away! I am here, I am laid to the breast of the earth in the dusk of the night, By palm and pagoda enchaunted.
1929 · PDF PAGE 555
… myself so passionately to making his path plain. One result of this Retirement is astounding from the point of view of the profane. The Spirit of the Lord descended upon him and opened his eyes to a a series of visions of a class far more exalted and intense and intimate than anything he had hitherto experienced. He was inspired to write these down during their actual occurrence, and here is the marvel. His education had been quite elementary. He could neither spell nor construct his sentences correctly, nor had he command of any extended voca…
1905 · PDF PAGE 230
…he fixed ideas of morality and religion which they employed as the motives of pathos or of horror are now shattered. Ibsen, otherwise in spirit and style purely Greek, and dealing as the Greeks did with the emotions of the soul, has realised the changed anc infinitely more complex conditions of life; our self- appointed spiritual guides notwithstanding, or, rather, withstanding in vain. Conse- quently it is impossible any more to divine whether virtue or vice (as understood of old) 1 Now ‘ The ‘Temple of the Holy Ghost.” “ Hidden places.