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Page 91 of 1071929 · PDF PAGE 194
…73] wholly for gain, and as a handle for blackmail; the magical significance of the business had not occurred to him at all. His magical work had been almost entirely directed to the gratification of sensuality in abnormal and extra-human channels. So, while a fierce pride now thrilled him, there was mingled with it a sinking of the spirit; for he realized that its mistress had been sterility and death. And it was of death that he was most afraid. The cynical calm of Douglas appalled him; he recognized the superiority of that great sorcerer; an…
1906 · PDF PAGE 53
…s log, this body on the earth will lie Contemned of all, and void of sense and understanding’s unity. What foe may wreak on foe, or hate work on the hated from the hater, Surely an ill directed mind on us will do a mischief greater. Father and mother, kith and kin, of these can none do service kind So great to us, as to ourselves the good direction of the mind. IV. FLOWERS. O who shall overcome this earth, the world of God’s and Yama’s ! power ! Who find the well taught Path as skill of herbist finds the proper flower? 1 Hades plus Minos; he bo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 65
…the memory of the Thing in the Garden began to obsess her. Once again Simon Iff came to the rescue. She knew that her imagination was at work, and that,
1929 · PDF PAGE 149
…oung man Gates! " "I know I'm liable to be carried away by a Tarot divination; but he was himself attempting a magical murder. You can't work things except on their own plane. He who taketh the sword shall perish by the sword." "I dare say you're right; but I'm terribly afraid you've scared the game. I wanted to have Douglas and Balloch down here; then was the moment to turn loose those engines of destruction." "You might have told me." [211] "Ah, if I had only known!" Brother Onofrio gave a savage gesture. Once again he was being eluded. "I on…
1929 · PDF PAGE 125
…ost agreeable substitute, a profaned chapel; it was easy to rent a villa with a chapel attached, and, to a man of Vesquit's ability, the work of a moment to profane it. This he accordingly arranged through Abdul Bey. The mind of this youth was very forcibly impressed by the preparations of the old coroner. He had been brought up in the modern school, and could laugh at superstition with the best of us; but there were traces of hereditary faith in Islam, and he was not sceptical enough to spoil the magic of Vesquit. No man knew better than the n…
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…oman, that can touch such extremes, springing often from one to the other in a moment — according to the nature of the influence then at work upon her. Cyril Grey had once said, speaking at a Woman's Suffrage Meeting: "Woman has no soul, only sex; no morals, only moods; her mind is mob- rule; therefore she, and she only, ought to Vote." He had sat down amid a storm of hisses; and received fourteen proposals
1929 · PDF PAGE 236
…ghastly meal. A sword had been thrust through the belly of the corpse; the tongue had been torn out. One could recognize at a glance the work of Algerian troops — men who had lost a third of their effectives through the treacheries of the German spies. But, despite all mutilation, he recognized more than that: he recognized the carcass. This carrion had once been Douglas. Cyril Grey did a strange thing, a thing he had not done for many years: he broke into a strong sobbing. "I know now," he murmured, "that Simon Iff is right. The Way of the Tao…
1905 · PDF PAGE 41
…man hope at last With the invariable law of death Abundant in new life, and having filled The world with music, dost demand of us ‘Is my work meaningless?” O thou, supreme, Thou, First and Last, most inconceivable All-radiating Unity, thou sphere All-comprehensive, all-mysterious, Spirit of Life and Death, bow down and hear ! [Bends deeper and prays silently. The flame grows duller, and finally leaves the room in ab- solute darkness. Curtazz. SONNETS TO NIGHT. I. O NIGHT ! the very mother of us all, For from thy hollow womb we children came, A …
1907 · PDF PAGE 225
…rs and as such cannot be given. The rest I offer because it is hardly possible to close definitely, as I do now, a period of many years’ work, without reflecting upon that period as a whole. And, when I do so, I find you at the beginning like Ladas or Pheidippides of old, running —ready to run until you achieve the goal or your heart burst; but you are among a crowd. I join you. Eight years ago this day you, Hermes, led me blindfold to awake a chosen runner of the course. ‘In all my wanderings in darkness your light shone before me though I kne…
1906 · PDF PAGE 77
…own :! at the night we lay Four hours debating between fear andsin: Whether our love went deeper than the skin, 1 Meaning that spiritual work was aban- doned for the moment, and that he wished to use the room for a profane purpose.
1919 · PDF PAGE 173
…to raise consciousness, and to send out thoughts of Love. Perceived around me innumerable streams of thought, interlacing and like a net-work, and when the Love-thought was sent out, the whole net sparkled, as with little specks of gold. Continued in this thought for some minutes, and gradually returned to normal. Gave thanks and entered diary. (Very nearly in serious trouble, my young and rash friend! It seems that you must go up well outside earth-attraction if you wish to get good astrals. It sounds Sunday-school-talk, and I can-give no reas…
1907 · PDF PAGE 171
…d I wandered in the dell, Passed through the quiet glades of the wood, And sought the haunted well, Half hopeful that its solitude Might work some miracle. The oaks raised angry hands on high : The willows drooped for tears: The yews held solemn ceremony, Magical spells of years. I saw one cypress melancholy, A prince among his peers. So, turning from the arboreal seat And midmost hollow of earth. I followed Ilamadryads’ feet That made at eve their mirth To where the streamlet wandered fleet To show what time was worth. I watched the waters wak…
1929 · PDF PAGE 51
…re the marks of his fierce fight against a dozen deadly sicknesses. With hardly a week of even tolerable health in any year, he had done work that might have frightened the staff of a great University. Almost single-handed, he had explored the inmost doctrine of the Buddha, and thrown light on many a tangled grove of thought. He had reorganized Buddhism as a missionary religion, and founded societies everywhere to study and practise it. He had even found time and strength, amid these labours, to pursue his own hobby of electrical research. Misu…
1905 · PDF PAGE 124
A WOODLAND [DYLL So He who ordered this shall still work thus, And ere life’s lamp shall Hicker into death, And Time lose all his empire over us, A gleam of Ifope, of Knowledge, shall arise, A star to silver o'er Death’s glooming skies, And gladden the last labouring torch of breath. SONNET FOR G. FL KELLY’S DRAWING OF AN HERMAPHRODITE. O Bopy pale and beautiful with sin! O breasts with venom swollen by the snakes Of passion, whose cold slaver slimes and slakes The soul-consuming fevers that within Thy heart the fires of hell on carth begin! O …
1929 · PDF PAGE 97
…uch. I shall sleep with the men in the square tower yonder, which is kept magically separate from the rest of the house. We shall all be working constantly to invoke the moon's influence and to keep off intruders. Sister Clara is egregiously powerful in work of this special kind; she has made a particular study of it for twenty years; and during the past ten she has never spoken to a man, except in strict necessity. Her pupils
1910 · PDF PAGE 358
…veritable model of industry and research, but in spite of an excellent index, an index in the ordinary sense is almost out of place in a work of so complicated a character as this; what is really needed is a table of the numerical correspondences, similar in type to those we have already published in our 777. Then at a glance the student can see the various numerical values and what they refer to. J.F.CF. KantT’s ETHICS AND SCHOPENHAUER’S CRITICISM. By M. KELLY. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 2s. 6a. Last year we had the pleasure of reviewing Major…
1910 · PDF PAGE 358
…veritable model of industry and research, but in spite of an excellent index, an index in the ordinary sense is almost out of place in a work of so complicated a character as this; what is really needed is a table of the numerical correspondences, similar in type to those we have already published in our 777. Then at a glance the student can see the various numerical values and what they refer to. J.F.CF. KantT’s ETHICS AND SCHOPENHAUER’S CRITICISM. By M. KELLY. Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 2s. 6a. Last year we had the pleasure of reviewing Major…
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
…l a man, to ruin a life, to push a soul to every kind of crime; and there are not many "real" "material" things that have such weight in work. Phantoms, then, were apparent to the necromancers; and there was no doubt in any of their minds that they were dealing with actual and malignant entities. The hideous cries of the tortured cats mingled with the triumphant bleating of the goat and the nasal monotone of Arthwait as he mouthed the words of the Grimoire. And it seemed to all of them as though the air grew thick and greasy; that of that slime…
1944 · PDF PAGE 120
… that are consonant with our Art Mathematical, and hath Need only of Fledging (I may say this), so that he apply them consciously to the Work, when, all being in Truth, that is, in the necessary Relations that rule our Illusion, he cometh in Course to Apprehension.
1907 · PDF PAGE 33
…n that hour may strike None, not the wisest, may foretell. I fear A moment’s mischief may destroy these years Of grave solicitude, their work. This boy Thinks his grey father dead. These words (tapping a letter) shall speak Even from the tomb. These words shall be obeyed By force of ancient habit : these give me Supreme authority to exercise By stealth, not overt till the hour be come Should madness seat herself upon the lad, And he turn serpent on his friends. But no! There is too strong a discipline of sense, Too cool a brain, too self-contro…