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Page 93 of 1301929 · PDF PAGE 466
… figure stands apart, olympic and titanic in one. As I have tried to show in my essay (The Reviewer, July 1923) James Branch Cabell is a world genius of commanding stature. He comes of famous stock and occupies an excellent social position, being secluded on his own property in Virginia. The turmoil of Main Street and the animal noises of the jungle are born to him as echoes from afar. The realities of modern America consequently occupy only one salient of his battle front, which extends from the seat of Jove himself to deepest Tartarus. All pe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 473
…eigned the recognition and enthusiasm which I judged appropriate. Viereck is a man of considerable talent for conversation. He knows the world well. He is not deceived by the humbug of public men and the prostitute antics of the press. He is able to see both sides of any question. His point of view possesses the sanity which comes from the second rater's perception of the necessity of compromise. I was able to talk to him as I could have done with an Englishman of similar education. But his intelligence was not sufficiently subtle to comprehend…
1907 · PDF PAGE 49
…t once. I never felt better in my life. The devil take my trouble 1 A demagogue of the period. now! I shall go out and conquer the whole world. I shall be the great magician, the Lord of the Stars. I have it in me to write poetry. Yes, that, first. (Goes to table and takes pen and paper.) In praise of—what is your medicine called, dear Marchioness? LADY GLENSTRAE. Who calls me? What is it? alone ! Leave me Sirk PERcY. Tell me, dear Lady—Maud 3 LADY GLENSTRAE. Ah! you are the boy. Sir PERCY. Your boy, queen ! LADY GLENSTRAE. Oh, yes, my boy. Sir…
1909 · PDF PAGE 185
A NOTE ON GENESIS IGNIS DEI: which is also the AGNUS DEI, or Lamb of God that destroyeth (literally devs out) the Sins of the World. As it is written in the Ordinary of the Mass: the Priest goeth unto the South of the Altar and prays: “O Agnus Dei! qui tollis—qui tollis Peccata Mundi—Dona Nobis Pacem!” And this Fire, this Lamb of God, is 4vies, Symbol of the Dawn- ing Year: whose colour also is as the Red Fire, and which is the head of the Fiery Triplicity in the Zodiac. So also in the Grade of Neophyte in the Order of the Golden Dawn the Hiero…
1909 · PDF PAGE 185
A NOTE ON GENESIS IGNIS DEI: which is also the AGNUS DEI, or Lamb of God that destroyeth (literally devs out) the Sins of the World. As it is written in the Ordinary of the Mass: the Priest goeth unto the South of the Altar and prays: “O Agnus Dei! qui tollis—qui tollis Peccata Mundi—Dona Nobis Pacem!” And this Fire, this Lamb of God, is 4vies, Symbol of the Dawn- ing Year: whose colour also is as the Red Fire, and which is the head of the Fiery Triplicity in the Zodiac. So also in the Grade of Neophyte in the Order of the Golden Dawn the Hiero…
1954 · PDF PAGE 126
THE SECRET CHIEFS 93 political movement to culminate in a world-war; all in pursuit of some plan wholly beyond the purview or the comprehension of the deepest and subtlest thinkers. (It should go without saying that the adroit use of these vibrations enables one to perform all the classical 'miracles'.) These powers are stupendous. These powers move in dimensions of time and space quite other than those with which we are familiar. Their values are incomprehensible to us. To a Secret Chief, wielding this weapon, "The nice conduct of a clouded ca…
1929 · PDF PAGE 222
222 conditions, and teaching the boys from the start that they were brought into the world in order to rule it, produced a class of men who were like Old Testament heroes. (Under George III we had a rehearsal. Can it be that long prosperous {370} reigns favour the production of such men? We had another crop under Elizabeth, when the restoration of the abbeys to the people of England gave a chance to the development of a daring and dominant breed.) But the influences which are commonly called civilized attenuate the aristocratic spirit. The exis…
1909 · PDF PAGE 241
…e through the hedges and the trees, whirling it on spectre-like in the chill and silver moon- light. But dark were his thoughts, for the world had failed him. Freedom had he sought, but not the freedom that he had gained. Blood seemed to ooze from his eyelids and trickle down, drop by drop, upon the white snow, writing on its pure surface the name of Christ. Great bats flitted by 233
1909 · PDF PAGE 241
…e through the hedges and the trees, whirling it on spectre-like in the chill and silver moon- light. But dark were his thoughts, for the world had failed him. Freedom had he sought, but not the freedom that he had gained. Blood seemed to ooze from his eyelids and trickle down, drop by drop, upon the white snow, writing on its pure surface the name of Christ. Great bats flitted by 233
1929 · PDF PAGE 3
…are essential to any serious attempt at biography. An infant is not --- as our grandmothers thought --- an arbitrary jest flung into the world by a cynical deity, to be saved or damned as predestination or freewill required. We know now that "that, that is, is", as the old hermit of Prague that never saw pen and ink very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc. Nothing can ever be created or destroyed; and therefore the "life" of any individual must be comparable to that brief visible curve, and the object of writing it to divine by the proper…
1954 · PDF PAGE 101
…losophy. Since the discovery of Asiatic thought, however, we have 3. It is interesting to note that the three greatest influences in the world to-day are those of Teutonic Hebrews: Marx, Hertz and Freud.
1906 · PDF PAGE 230
…f the moustache, to each one; To ninety and one myriads of the Elohim, the hairs of the beard; to each thirteen, and the oil to ease the world ; To Shalach, the archdevil, the chin. So also with the lesser relics; of which are notable only : to the Order, the heart of our Father: to the Book of the Law, his venerable lung- space to serve as a shrine thereunto: to the devil Aot, the liver, to be divided: to the angel Exarp and his followers, the great intestine: to Bitom the devil and his crew, the little intestine: to Aub, Aud, and Aur, the ven…
1911 · PDF PAGE 67
… the master. There too I saw barren wood bear roses, and I heard the voice of the master. After that I was shewn all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and many other things of great use and beauty. Then I took my leave of the old man of the tower, and boarded the shallop that I had made, when he cried out piteously that he feared earthquake, and asked me for my aid. So with a heart both heavy and light I abandoned my shallop and the dreadful labour of its fashioning, and came back to him. Then came earthquake as he had foreseen; an…
1911 · PDF PAGE 67
… the master. There too I saw barren wood bear roses, and I heard the voice of the master. After that I was shewn all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, and many other things of great use and beauty. Then I took my leave of the old man of the tower, and boarded the shallop that I had made, when he cried out piteously that he feared earthquake, and asked me for my aid. So with a heart both heavy and light I abandoned my shallop and the dreadful labour of its fashioning, and came back to him. Then came earthquake as he had foreseen; an…
1947 · PDF PAGE 7
FROM THE BOOK OF THE LAW Every man and woman is a star. Every number is infinite : there is no difference. This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all. Obey my prophet ! follow out the ordeals of my knowledge ! seek me only ! Then the joys of my love will redeem ye from all pain. This is so : I swear by the vault of my body : by my sacred tongue and heart ; by all I can give, by all I desire of ye all. The word of the Law is Thelema. Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he l…
1954 · PDF PAGE 495
…think that the Masters need be unanimous. A practical plan might be for them to concentrate on one particular group , or one part of the world , and to keep this in as good shape as possible until the time has come for Nature to grow a new set. They will be grown on a new Formula, to meet the new needs , just as when our "permanent" (Alas, not much!) set replace our milk-teeth. You ask me if I think this change can be made without bloodshed. No. The obscure autocrats of Diplomacy and Big Business are infinitely stupid and short-sighted; they ca…
1929 · PDF PAGE 365
…his personal resemblance to that Darwinian desideratum. There was some substance in him which was on the borderland between the manifest world of matter and the astral world of sensation. In his presence I found it quite easy to produce phenomenal phantasms of almost any idea, from gods to demons, which I happened to need at the moment. I had of course a very wide experience of so-called material manifestations; but for the most part these had been independent of my will and often contrary to it. I have already mentioned a number of such phenom…
1904 · PDF PAGE 63
…he native name of “K 2” ; or Mount Godwin-Austen, as C ol. G odwin-Austen w ould call it. It is the second highest known mountain in the world, as Devadhunga is the first. 356. The History of the West.55— De Acosta (José) Natural and Moral His- tory of the Indies. Alison, Sir A. . History of Scotland. Benzoni . . . History of the New World. Buckle . . . H istory of Civilisation. Burton, J. H . . History of Scotland. Carlyle . . . History of Frederick the Great. Carlyle . . . Ol iver Cromwell. Carlyle . . . Pas t and Present. Cheruel, A. . . Dic…
1906 · PDF PAGE 107
…eress. CHORUS. It seems indeed thy hot will can bewitch Our chaste one with one action impudent. MEDEA. I will not leave him ever in the world. CHORUS. Persistence in these ills—will cure them not. ‘¢ Worst” is the hunter, ‘‘ worse’ the hound, when ‘ bad” Is the stag’s name. MEDEA, We rule Iolchus’ land. CHORUS. Indeed the hunter follows. I despise Lewd conduct in the lowest, and detest Spells hurtful to the head, when ancient hags Brew their bad liquors at the waning moon, Barking their chants of murder. Butto rule A land, and wive a king, and…
1907 · PDF PAGE 35
THE WAKE WORLD 15 married to the Fairy Prince, so I suppose we- shall always be near each other now. There was the way out of the little room with millions of changing colours, ever so beautiful, and it was lined with armed men, waving their swords for joy like flashes of lightning; and all about us glitter ing serpents danced and sang for joy. There was a winged horse ready for us when we came out on the slopes of the mountain. You see the Sixth House is really in a mountain called Mount Abiegnus, only one doesn’t see it because one goes throug…