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Page 89 of 1121905 · PDF PAGE 128
…us impassioned queen For whom love dies; No warm imperious Messaline That slew with sighs. Fiercer desires may cast away All things most good ; A people may forget to-day Their motherhood. She will remain, unshaken yet By storm and sun ; She will remain, when years forget That fierier one. A race of clean strong men shall spring From her pure life. Men shall be happy ; bards shall sing The English wife. And thou, forget thou that my mouth EIas ever clung To flame of hell; that of the south The songs I sung. Forget that I have trampled flowers, …
1922 · PDF PAGE 96
…n’t want to let those birds into ‘the know’— they’d simply snap the whole thing up for themselves. By the way, that reminds me of a very good thing I heard of the other day——’”’ and he rattled off an amusing story which had no connection with what he had been saying before. I didn’t listen to what it was. My brain was working very fast with the champagne on top of the other things. His talk had brought to my mind that I should have to wire for another thousand to-day or to-morrow.
1922 · PDF PAGE 192
…on my face. My complexion’s entirely gone. My hair is lustreless and dry, and it’s coming out in handfuls. I think I must be ill. I’ve a good mind to send for a doctor. But I daren’t. It has been a frightful shock! ... I must pull myself together and write it up. —_—- It was about five o’clock when I got to Mount Street. If Mabel wasn’t in, I could wait. A strange man answered the door. It annoyed me. I felt frightened. Why had she changed Cartwright ? I felt faint. Had something told me? It embarrassed me to ask ‘‘ Is Mrs. Black at home ? ” Th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 51
…tes. Now the proof that one is in contact with an independent entity dépends on a sensation which ought to be unmistakeable if one is in good health. One ought not to be liable to mistake one’s own sensible impressions for somebody else’s! It is only Man’s incurable vanity that makes the Astral "Strayed Reveller” or the mystic confuse his own drunken babble with the voice of the Most High. The essence of the righî sensation consists in récognition of the reality of the other Seing. There will be as a rule some element of hostility, even when th…
1912 · PDF PAGE 298
…guessed by the level at which they rate that of cowans and eavesdroppers, They print their secret rituals for any one to buy; so (ar, so good, why shouldn’t they? But they print initials and finals of “missing words" which no single reader of??שושחלWar/Ely could mlSS. “Advance 3 short step with your l—~—t {—t," would not have baffled Edgar Allan Poe! They are even such b— f——s—(will they decipher this?—it stands for " bright fellows ")—that when by accident they do baffle you—— “Gives him the P——e, C—w, and S—,"—they print it full in another place…
1912 · PDF PAGE 298
…guessed by the level at which they rate that of cowans and eavesdroppers, They print their secret rituals for any one to buy; so (ar, so good, why shouldn’t they? But they print initials and finals of “missing words" which no single reader of??שושחלWar/Ely could mlSS. “Advance 3 short step with your l—~—t {—t," would not have baffled Edgar Allan Poe! They are even such b— f——s—(will they decipher this?—it stands for " bright fellows ")—that when by accident they do baffle you—— “Gives him the P——e, C—w, and S—,"—they print it full in another place…
1912 · PDF PAGE 296
…ssic, in a hundred years, for its historical interest. But it behoves somebody to write a commentary within the next twelve months, or a good third of the allusions will be for ever unintelligible, It is one of the most readable books I have struck for a long while ; alas! that so depressing a portrait should be so real, Anarchy would become the only lhinkable political creed if One of Us represented more than a negligible and almost outworn fringe of the antimacassar of society. ALEISTER CROWLEY. STRANGER THAN FICTION. By MARY L, LEWES. Willia…
1912 · PDF PAGE 296
…ssic, in a hundred years, for its historical interest. But it behoves somebody to write a commentary within the next twelve months, or a good third of the allusions will be for ever unintelligible, It is one of the most readable books I have struck for a long while ; alas! that so depressing a portrait should be so real, Anarchy would become the only lhinkable political creed if One of Us represented more than a negligible and almost outworn fringe of the antimacassar of society. ALEISTER CROWLEY. STRANGER THAN FICTION. By MARY L, LEWES. Willia…
1922 · PDF PAGE 182
…the force of a blow that the effect was not due to the H. at all, or hardly at all. When we got it again in Naples, it didn’t do us much good.
1929 · PDF PAGE 43
…usly, however, I put myself in the right. I have always failed to see that it is necessary to make a fuss about one's climbs. There is a good reason for describing a first climb. To do so is to guide others to enjoyment. One may also for the same reason describe interesting variations of a climb, or its accomplishment by a solitary man. Now as it happened, Jones had been blowing his trumpet about the first ascent of Kern Knotts Chimney; {90} the top pitch, however, he had failed to do unaided. He had been hoisted on the shoulders of the second …
1906 · PDF PAGE 75
… I bend above) Through bright lids filled thereof Perfect and pure, Thy bloom of maidenhood. I could not: if I could, I weuld not: being good, Also endure ! Cruel, to tear or mar The chaliced nenuphar; Cruel to press The rosebud 3 cruel to scar Or stain the flower-star With mad caress. But crueller to destroy The leaping life and joy Born in a careless boy From lone distress. More cruel then art thou The calm and chaste of brow, If thou dost this. Forget the feeble vow Ill sworn: all laws allow Pity, that is Kin unto love, and mild. List to the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 127
…normal breadth. Next, of normal height and of about double normal breadth. D. A’s comment on this meditation was that the result was not good. This practice was attempted again on the following day: and resulted in many superposed images of various sizes and at various distances. One of the figures had moustaches like the horns of a buffalo. The expression of the figures became bold and fierce; especially at four feet distance, where there were two very real images, one small and one large respectively. The comment of D. A. on this meditation w…
1910 · PDF PAGE 175
…nd could not think what I wished to find or where to find it; my mind having become a perfect blank. (Shri Maitrananda says this is very good, and means I approach “neighbourhood-concentration”). Six minutes more at 10, 20.30. Forty minutes in the A’sana. Mentally muttering “Namo Shivaya Namaha Aum” I did Dharana as before on my nose. I understand one Buddhist constipation now; for: I was (a) conscious of external things * We do not know what this means, unless the note of Shri Maitrananda’s bell was different from that of Frater P’s. + Wand. 1…
1910 · PDF PAGE 127
…normal breadth. Next, of normal height and of about double normal breadth. D. A’s comment on this meditation was that the result was not good. This practice was attempted again on the following day: and resulted in many superposed images of various sizes and at various distances. One of the figures had moustaches like the horns of a buffalo. The expression of the figures became bold and fierce; especially at four feet distance, where there were two very real images, one small and one large respectively. The comment of D. A. on this meditation w…
1910 · PDF PAGE 175
…nd could not think what I wished to find or where to find it; my mind having become a perfect blank. (Shri Maitrananda says this is very good, and means I approach “neighbourhood-concentration”). Six minutes more at 10, 20.30. Forty minutes in the A’sana. Mentally muttering “Namo Shivaya Namaha Aum” I did Dharana as before on my nose. I understand one Buddhist constipation now; for: I was (a) conscious of external things * We do not know what this means, unless the note of Shri Maitrananda’s bell was different from that of Frater P’s. + Wand. 1…
1910 · PDF PAGE 13
… further success. Let us add a short analysis of the present series of rites ; they may be taken as illustrating Humanity, its fate both good and evil. Man, unable to solve the Riddle of Existence, takes counsel of Saturn, extreme old age. Such answer as he can get is the one word “ Despair.” Is there more hope in the dignity and wisdom of Jupiter ? No ; for the noble senior lacks the vigour of Mars the warrior. Counsel is in vain without determination to carry it out.
1943 · PDF PAGE 4
…dingly well, for he knows the principles for which he fights. And whosoever does these things is welcome in our Camp, for he fights in a good cause. I height Don Quixote, I live on peyote, marihuana, morphine and cocaine. I never knew sadness but only a madness that burns at the heart and the brain. I see each charwoman ecstatic, inhuman, angelic, demonic, divine, Each wagon a dragon, each beer mug a flagon that brims with ambrosial wine. I went to the city and found it a pity the devil was playing at hell, And ten million mortals had entered h…
1954 · PDF PAGE 354
…IZE MASTERS 321 1 It was part of my plan for The Equinox to prepare a final edition of the work of Dr. Dee and Sir Edward Kelly. I had a good many of the data and promised myself to complete them by studying the manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford-which , incidentally, I did in the autumn; but it struck me that it would be useful to get my large paintings of the four Elemental Watch Towers which I had made in Mexico. I thought these were probably in Boleskine. I decided to go up there for a fortnight or so. Incidentally, I had the con…
1996 · PDF PAGE 42
…f the awful immorality of everybody but themselves and their choristers. Englishwomen over 30 have the vote; when the young ’uns get it, good-bye to the old marriage system. America has made marriage a farce by the multiplication and confusion of the Divorce Laws. A friend of mine who had divorced her husband was actually, three years later, sued by him for divorce!!! But America never waits for laws; her people go ahead. The emancipated, self-supporting American woman already acts exactly like the “bachelor-boy.” Sometimes she loses her head, …
1904 · PDF PAGE 3
…ed. But alas ! the very vivacity of the attack may leave the column without that support which might enable it, if checked, to retire in good order ; and it is with true pity for a gallant opponent — who would be wiser to surrender—that I find myself compelled to despatch half a squadron (no more !) to take him in flank. Our Author’s main argument for the Christian religion is that it is hated. To bring me as a witness to this colossal enthymeme, he has the sublime cou- rage to state that my “ Sword of Song ” begins with an effort to expound Bu…