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Page 88 of 1081906 · PDF PAGE 87
…pair came laughter to my lover : ‘* All’s well as yet. I calculated wrong.” THE FORTY-FIRST DAY. ‘*T am sick.” Antony and Cleopatra. How things are changed since Alice was so ill ! I, being in high fever, lay in bed, While my love smoothed the pillows for my head: Her calm looks christened me with dew to still All chance of fever to the soul, and fill My heart with pure love like a snowfall shed Meekly, a blossom where frail white and red Were never frenzied at some mad god’s will. She sat and gazed upon me all day long. Sometimes she held my h…
1907 · PDF PAGE 101
… these unsavoury follies, Black melancholies Sit straddled on your bended backs. throne Of the unknown Base and The! Ah! men my: How all things fall, Fall from their seat, the lamentable place, Before their face, Weary and pass and are no more. Since hope must be, Look to the future, to the chance minute That life may shoot ‘Some flower at least to blossom in the night, Since vital light Is sure to fail us on the hideous way. What? Must we pray? Verily, O thou littlest babe, too weak To stir or speak, So we, Capable hardly of a thought, yet see…
1929 · PDF PAGE 90
…blances are usually misleading. One of the great tests of the genuineness of any recollection is that one remembers the really important things in one’s life, not those which mankind commonly classes as such. For instance, iUeister Crowley does not remember any of the décisive events in the life of Eliphas Levi. He recalls intimate trivialities of childhood. He has a vivid recollection of certain spiritual crises; in particular, one which was fought out as he paced up and down a lonely stretch of road in a fiat and desolate district. He remembe…
1930 · PDF PAGE 52
relation of two ideas each of winch is itself as subject to change without notice” as a musical programme. Divination, in the nature of things, can do no more than put the mind of the querent into conscious connection with another mind whose knowledge of the subject at issue is to bis own as that of an expert to a layman. The expert is not infallible. 1 he client may put his question in a misleading manner, or even base it on a completely erroneous conception of the facts. He may misunder- stand the expert’s answer, and he may misinterpret its …
1930 · PDF PAGE 39
…ith its Becoming, to médiate between identical extremes as their mean — the secret that sunders and seals them. It déclarés that ail somethings are equally shadows of Mothing, and justifies Nothing in its futile folly of pretending that something is stable, by making us aware of a method of Magick through the practice of which we may partake in the pleasure of the process. The Magician should devise for himself a definite technique for destroving “evil”. The essence of such a practice will consist in training the mind and the body to confront t…
1996 · PDF PAGE 61
…ine of the magical link. We no longer confuse the planes. We manipulate physical phenomena by physical means; mental by mental. We trace things to their true causes, and no longer seek to cut the Gordian knot of our igno rance by the sword of a postulated Pantheon. Physiology leaves us in no doubt as to the power of our inher ited talisman. And modern discoveries in psychology have made it
1910 · PDF PAGE 176
THE EQUINOX seen behind, after my nose had vanished, ze. altar, etc.; and (b) conscious that I was not conscious of these things. These twoconsciousnesses being simultaneous. This seems absurdand inexplicable, it is noted in Buddhist Psychology, yet J know it. September gth. 9.50-10.20 Pranayama. Ten minutes 5. 10. 20; 4 minutes 10. 25. 30; am. am. 6 minutes 10. 25. 30. Looking at the light at the top of my head. It was of a misty blue colour, its shape was that of an ordinary cone of flame, long and homogeneous. At intervals it dropped and ope…
1910 · PDF PAGE 176
THE EQUINOX seen behind, after my nose had vanished, ze. altar, etc.; and (b) conscious that I was not conscious of these things. These twoconsciousnesses being simultaneous. This seems absurdand inexplicable, it is noted in Buddhist Psychology, yet J know it. September gth. 9.50-10.20 Pranayama. Ten minutes 5. 10. 20; 4 minutes 10. 25. 30; am. am. 6 minutes 10. 25. 30. Looking at the light at the top of my head. It was of a misty blue colour, its shape was that of an ordinary cone of flame, long and homogeneous. At intervals it dropped and ope…
1929 · PDF PAGE 49
…cene of the drama: the gentle, exquisite youth with his foliowing (chiefly composed of women) seems to threaten the established order of things, and that Established Order takes steps to put an end to the upstart. We find Dionysus confronting the angry King, not with défiance, but with meekness; yet with a subtle confidence, an underlying laughter. His forehead is wreathed with vine tendrils. He is an effeminate figure with those broad leaves clustered upon his brow? But those leaves hide H
1929 · PDF PAGE 121
… is that a single knock has no spécial significance as such, because unity is omniform. It represents Kether, which is the source of ail things equally without partaking of any quality by which we discriminate one thing from another. Continuing on these lines, the number of knocks will refer to the Sephira or other idea Qabalistically cognate with that number. Thus, 7 knocks will intimate Venus, 11 the Great Work, 17 the Trinity of Fathers, and 19 the Féminine Principle in its most general sense. Analyzing the matter a little further, we remark…
1930 · PDF PAGE 25
…indeterminate relation between the Astrals and the Materials ; and it is possible, with great expérience, to deduce facts about material things from the astral aspect which they présent to the eyes of the Body of Light.1 This astral plane is so varied and so changeable that several clairvoyants looking at the same thing might give totally different accounts of what they saw; yet they might each make correct déductions. In looking at a man the first clairvoyant might say : “The lines of force are ail drooping”; the second : “It seems ail dirtv a…
1930 · PDF PAGE 44
…ractice of concentration leads to this resuit; in fact, it destroys the thing itself as we hâve hitherto conceived it; for the nature of things is always veiled from us by our habit of regarding them as in essential relation with ourselves and our reactions toward them. One can hardly expect the diviner to make Samadhi with his question — that would be going too far, and destroy the character of the operation by removing the question from the class of concatenated ideas. It would mean interpreting the question in terms of “without limit”, and t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 44
…anything is in itself. Ail we need is to know how to cast a bell that will please our ears, or how to evoke a “spirit” that will tell us things that are hidden from our intellectual faculties. 12) (a) Every object soever may be considered as possessed of an “Astral shape”, sensible to our subtle perceptions. This “astral shape” is to its material basis as our human character is to our physical appearance. We may imagine this astral shape: e.g. we may “see” a jar of opium as a soft seductive woman with a cruel smile, just as we see in the face o…
1904 · PDF PAGE 23
… tain Notes written by the Hand of God, without the which that Great King had never attained unto his great Wisdom, for thus he knew all things and all Sci- ences and Arts whe- ther Good or Evil. THEURGIA, and are to be sought for by Di- vine seeking, etc. (5) Tue FirtuH ParT is a Book of Orations and Prayers which Wise Solomon did use upon the Al- tar in the Temple. The which is called Ars Nova, the which was revealed to Solo- mon by that Holy Angel of God called Michael; and he also received many brief Notes written with the Finger of God, wh…
1929 · PDF PAGE 191
… to his enjoyment of the sufferings of his wife. Each new spurt of filth wrung her heart afresh; and withal she was aware that all these things were but the prelude to an act of fiendish violence more horrible than them all. Mr. Butcher, Cremers, and Abdul Bey, their functions ended, were led out of the cellar. Balloch remained to perform the operation from which the bulk of his income was derived. But there was yet much sorcery of the more secret sort to be accomplished. Douglas who, up to now, had confined himself to intense mental concentrat…
1899 · PDF PAGE 248
…e dominating diverse echoes that we hesitate whether to ascribe to literary influences or to co- incidence of temperament. For there are things that suggest the names of Goethe and of Baudelaire; others, such as ‘The Quest’ and that strange ‘ Philosopher's Progress,’ which begins ‘That which is highest as the deep Is fixed, the depth as that above ; Death’s face is as the face of Sleep; And Lust is likest Love,’ share at least Blake’s impenetrable simplicity of form, and their symbolism is, like his, curiously seductive, even where it seems tur…
1929 · PDF PAGE 41
…situation to that of the surface of the water? "The first impression of the savage about the universe is of a great mysterious jumble of things which come upon him without rime or reason, usually to smite him down. "Long later, man developed the idea of connecting phenomena, at least a few at a time. "Centuries elapse; he begins to perceive law, at first operating only in a very few matters. [61]
1930 · PDF PAGE 96
It is wise to keep silence about those things “unlawful to utter” which one may hâve heard “in the seventh heaven”. This may not apply to the sixth. The Adept must keep himself in hand, however tempted to make a new heaven and a new earth in the next few davs by trumpeting his triumphs. He must give time a chance to redress his balance, sore shaken by the impact of the Infinité. As he becomes adjusted to intercourse with his Angel, he will find his passionate ecstasy develop a quality of peace and intelligi- bility which adds power, while it in…
1954 · PDF PAGE 390
…moment's illusion that anything of the sort had ever happened to me. I went through all the motions; I haunted all the places where such things are reputed likely to happen, but nothing did happen. There is one exception, and one only. It was in 1896, at Arolla in the Pennine Alps. I took my cousin , Gregor Grant, a fine climber but with little experience beyond scrambles, and in poor physical condition, for the second (first guideless) ascent of the N.N.E. ridge of Mont Collon, a long and exacting climb of more than average difficulty. I had t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 238
…t Cyril Grey had understood that the corpse of Douglas was his own; that the perception of the identity of himself with all other living things had come to him, and raised him to a great Adeptship. But there was one to comprehend the nature of that initiation. As Cyril walked, leaning on the arm of Sister Cybele, to the room appointed for his prescribed solitude, he beheld a great light. It shone serenely from the eyes of the Mahathera Phang.