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Page 90 of 1121954 · PDF PAGE 361
…t ordinary dwelling houses often possess an atmosphere of their own ; some depress, some cheer; some disgust, others strike chill to the heart. Virakam of course was entirely certain that this was the Villa for us. Against this was the positive statement of the people in charge that it was not to be let. We refused to accept this assertion . We took the name and address of the owner , dug him out , and found him willing to give us immediate possession at a small rent. We went in on the following day, and settled down almost at once to consecrat…
1922 · PDF PAGE 223
…adiates light and life and love, leaping through the years in utter libert ” “ But what does she do now?” I asked with a dull pain at my heart. | “Why; her True. Will, of course!’’ came back the flaming answer. ‘‘ She knows that she came to this planet to bear witness to the Law of Thelema in her own person, and to help her Titan in his task!” Maisie was really stupefying. Every one knows that she was in love with Basil from the first, and is, and
1954 · PDF PAGE 350
A.C. AND THE MASTERS 317 As for me, I had a traitor in the heart of the citadel; my Karma for God knows how many Incarnations. (The acquisition of the Magical Memory, fragmentary as that is, has thrown a great deal of light on that matter. Your letter does in fact surmise that this is so.) You must understand that the arrival of a New Aeon knocks all the Rules sideways. I imagine that even the very strict Magical Code of Ethics looks like a cocked hat before They have done with it! My theory is that They chose me for (a) my literary skill, know…
1930 · PDF PAGE 78
…ugh the nostrils, imagining the name of the God desired entering with the breath. (c) Let that name descend slowly from the lungs to the heart, the solar plexus, the navel, the generative organs, and so to the feet. (d) The moment that it appears to touch the feet, quickly advance the left foot about 12 inches, throw forward the body, and let the hands (drawn back to the side of the eyes) shoot out, so that you are standing in the typical position of the God Horus, and at the same time imagine the Name as rushing up and through the body, while …
1909 · PDF PAGE 82
…es pity and disgust in equal proportions. If even then they had only turned to the “ Great Physician! ” But no! ‘ God hardened Pharach’s heart ”. Alas! no doubt that the reference is to our blessed Lordand Master, The barren fig-tree has been no doubt a stumbling-block to many weak souls. But the fig tree has here a Vin VI. VIL 33. IX. 9. 10, AIL. 1, AIT, deeper signification in its reference to certain loathsome forms of disease, and it is a symbol of lust, See Rosenbaum’s “ Plague of Lust ” Swollen neck. — A superstition of the an- cients was…
1912 · PDF PAGE 299
…E IN NIGERIA, By ADAMU (E. C. AD.-ms) FISHER UNWIN. μ. 6d. net. NO sentimental drivel in this little book, but songs sung by a man whose heart beats high and feels the good red blood tingling through his veins—who loves the scorching sun he curses, and the acrid country which gives him his splendid outlook upon life. In Artim/o Marti: is a volume of philosophy in itself, and should be circulated by the Religious Tract Society to all men, married or unmarried, in West Africa. A complaint could be made that this book is too reminiscent of Kipling…
1912 · PDF PAGE 299
…E IN NIGERIA, By ADAMU (E. C. AD.-ms) FISHER UNWIN. μ. 6d. net. NO sentimental drivel in this little book, but songs sung by a man whose heart beats high and feels the good red blood tingling through his veins—who loves the scorching sun he curses, and the acrid country which gives him his splendid outlook upon life. In Artim/o Marti: is a volume of philosophy in itself, and should be circulated by the Religious Tract Society to all men, married or unmarried, in West Africa. A complaint could be made that this book is too reminiscent of Kipling…
1922 · PDF PAGE 183
… teasing my darling. My love had come back in flood. I tingled with the pain of feeling that he did not respond. I hugged the pain to my heart. My blood beat hard with the joy of power. I held him in my hand. One dainty act, and he was mine. I hadn't the strength to enjoy myself to the full. Pity and tenderness brought the tears to my eyes. I shook out a dose of the dull white He sniffed it up with stupid lethargy like a man who has lost hope of life, yet still takes his medicine as a routine. He came up gradually, but was hardly himself till a…
1944 · PDF PAGE 105
…ot consider the matter in such terms at all. Whatever horrors may afflict the soul, whatever abominations may excite the loathing of the heart, whatever terrors may assail the mind, the answer is the same at every stage: “How splendid is the Adventure!”
1922 · PDF PAGE 207
…’s greatest king ; of him whose glamour had gilded the centuries with romance; to think that I might hold such royal heir- ship under my heart. What radiant rapture ! And Peter himself had shown himself worthy of his ancestry. Had not he too beaten back the heathen and saved England? So this was the end of my dream! This brawling ruffian was my man! I sat stupefied while his incoherent insults battered my brain; but my indignation was not for myself. I had deserved all I was getting; but what right had this foul-mouthed coward to takein his mou…
1954 · PDF PAGE 327
…t he will be the happiest. When you can do this sort of thing as it should be done, without embarrassment , false shame, with your whole heart in your words-do it simply, to sum up-you will find yourself way up on the road to that royal republic which is the ideal of human society . Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666 P.S. Let me insist that "pity" is nearly always an impostor. It is the psychic consolation for fear, the "pitiful man" really is a pitiful man! He has transferred his own fear of what may happen to himself to …
1954 · PDF PAGE 349
…ds. Do this quickly." I mistook "Comment" for "Commentary-a word-by-word exposition of every verse (and much of it I loathed with all my heart!) including the Qabalistic interpretation, a task obviously endless. What then about AL, III: 40? This problem was solved only by achieving the task. In Paris,2 in a mood of blank despair about it all, out came the Comment. Easy, yes; inspired, yes; it is, as printed, the exact wording required. No further cavilling and quibbling, and controversy and casuistry. All heresiarchs are smelt in advance for th…
1996 · PDF PAGE 36
…ledge! seek me only! Then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. This is so: I swear it by the vault of my body; by my sacred heart and tongue; by all I can give, by all I desire of ye all. Commentary: It is proper to obey The Beast, because His Law is pure Freedom, and He will give no command which is other than a Right Interpretation of this Freedom. But it is neces sary for the development of Freedom itself to have an organiza tion; and every organization must have a highly-centralized control. This is especially necessary in ti…
1907 · PDF PAGE 70
… his mind and body, perfect though they are, work, as it were automatically, in their own plane. At present I am quite unconscious of my heart heating; it is not even an illusion! Yet it maintains its just relation to the other illusory things. So, no doubt, an adept is quite unconscious of the acts and thoughts performed by him, acts and thoughts which seem to imply conscious volition. What about your poetry? Bowley. Certainly, I am never—very seldom—very very seldom— aware of what I am going to write, am writing, have written. I know, for exa…
1954 · PDF PAGE 384
…. Shaw says: 'Admirals always want more battleships" and J.F.C. Fuller: 'if a lawyer, more wretches to hang." It applies to anyone vhose heart is in his job. (Of course, in this case, money is ike all other things of value; nothing counts but the Job.) ['his, too, is sound Magical doctrine.
1954 · PDF PAGE 420
… attention, is an eternal fountain of pure joy springing, a crystal fragrance of reverberating light from the most inmost caverns of the Heart. It secretly informs one's dullest thought with sparkling wine, radiant in the Aethyr-see well! the least excuse, since it is always there, and champing at its bit, to turn the dreary cart-horse drudge into proud Pegasus himself! This is where I want to have you, with us who are come thus far, in a state utterly detached from the Ego, so that you appear the plain Jane Wolfe "doing your duty in the state …
1907 · PDF PAGE 185
… shaken With horrible groanings. Cryings and moanings And howlings draw near me. Lament- I tremble, I fear me ! My lyre is forsaken. The heart of the hollow Is helpless to bear The notes of Apollo Through Stygian air. But heavier shrieking Revolves and resounds In the ghastly profounds; And the voice unspeaking Of the hound of the damned Runs eager, and bounds, Malignantly crammed In my ears, and the noise Of infernal joys In the houses of sin :-— Let me pass to a direr place, to the terrors unspoken within ! Dead silence succeeds The sound of …
1922 · PDF PAGE 26
…act, a following of dis- ciples which I can only qualify as “ almost unpleasantly so.’”’ He had no use for humanity at the bottom of his heart, except as convenient shapes which he might model. He was bored and disgusted to find them pretending to be alive. The annoyance had grown until he had got into the habit of drinking a good deal more and a good deal more often than a lesser man might have needed. He was a much bigger man than I was physically, and he took me by the arm almost as if he had been taking me into custody. He poured into my ea…
1922 · PDF PAGE 216
…ct a young girl to confess everything she has felt,’’ I whispered with a deep sigh, ‘‘ especially when she has had to kill it out of her heart. It does no good to talk of these things,’’ I went on. “I ought really not to have come. But how could I guess that you, a great doctor like you, had taken any notice of a silly kid like me? ” He jumped to his feet excitedly. “No, no,” I said sadly, with a gesture which made him sit down again, very uneasily. ‘‘I should never have come. It was absolutely weakness on my part. The heroin was only my excuse…
1922 · PDF PAGE 376
…either of these, had slid out of her habit as insidiously, if I may use the word, as she had slid into it. But the culminating joy of my heart was the com- pleteness of the solution of all my problems. There was no possibility of a relapse, because the cause of my downfall had been permanently removed. I could understand perfectly how it was that Basil could take a dose of heroin or cocaine, could indulge in hashish, ether, or opium as simply and usefully as the ordinary man can order a cup of strong black coffee when he happens to want to work…