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Page 97 of 1211939 · PDF PAGE 28
…ma. You have got to earn the right to devote yourself to Yoga proper by arranging for that devotion to be a necessary stage in the fulfilment of your True Will. In Hindustan one is not allowed to become 'Sanyasi'a recluseuntil one has fulfilled one's duty to one's own environmentrendered to Caesar the things which are Caesar's before rendering to God the things which are God's. Woe to that seven months' abortion who thinks to take advantage of the accidents of birth, and, mocking the call of duty, sneaks off to stare at a blank wall in China…
1930 · PDF PAGE 58
… of the New Aeon, the relapse into ruthless savagery of the most civilised races, at a time when war was discredited by most responsible men. ( (f) His power to comprehend and control these various orders of ideas and events, demonstrating thereby a mind and a means of action intelligible to, yet immensely above, ail human capacity; to bind the whole into a compact cryptograph displaying mastery of English, of mathematical and philosophical conceptions, of poetic splendour and intense passion, while concealing in the letters and words a complex…
1954 · PDF PAGE 391
… my feet, threw the coiled rope over my shoulder, and started to run down. But I was too tired to run; I slackened off. Then, to my amazement, I saw on the slopes below me, two little fellows hopping playfully about on the scree. (A moment while I remind you that all my romance was Celtic; I had never even read Teutonic myths and fables.) But these little men were exactly the traditional gnome of German folk-tales; the Heinzelmanner that one sees sometimes on German beer-mugs (I have never drunk beer in my life) and in friezes on the walls of a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 110
…unto thought. There in their equilibrium They float—how still, how numb ! There must they rest, there will they stay Innocent of the judgment day. Remote from cause, effect retires. Act slays its dams and sires. There is no hill, there is no pit. They have no mark to hit. It is enough. Closed is the sphere. There is no more to hear. They perish not ; they do not thrive. They are at rest, alive, The Seven Wise Men of Martaban; And, moribund, the man. THE BEAUTY AND THE BHIKKHU: A TALE OF THE TENTH IMPURITY. (From the Pait.) I LISTEN! The venerab…
1929 · PDF PAGE 45
… téléphoné or the airship. It is pitiful to read the bombastic twaddle about progress, which journalists and others, who wish to prevent men from thinking, put out for consumption. We know infinitesimally little of the material universe. Our detailed knowledge is so contemptibly minute, that it is hardly worth référencé, save that our shame may spur us to increased endeavour. Such know¬ ledge 1 as we hâve got is of a very general and abstruse, of a philosopliical and almost magical character. This consists principally of the conceptions of pure…
1930 · PDF PAGE 121
…al properties of water, and let him perceive ultimately through ail this the necessity and concord of things, not concord as the school- men of old believed, making ail things for man’s benefit or convenience, but the essential mechanical concord whose final law is inertie. And in these méditations let him avoid as if it were the plague any spéculations sentimental or fantastic. 32. Second Method. The Practice Proper. — Having then perfected in his mind these conceptions, let him apply them to his own career, forging the links of memory into th…
1904 · PDF PAGE 18
Science can only suspend judgment, pending a proper and methodical in vestigation of the facts alleged. Unfortunately, we cannot stop there. Solomon promises us that we can (1) obtain information; (2) destroy our enemies; (3) understand the voices of nature; (4) obtain treasure; (5) heal diseases, etc. I have taken these five powers at random; considerations of space forbid me to explain all. (1) Brings up facts from sub-consciousness. (2) Here we come to an interesting fact. It 1s curious to note the contrast between the noble means and the ap…
1905 · PDF PAGE 160
THE FATAL FORCE 153 THE LEPER. Myself do know, I await the event. Inquire not of your fate ! Mayhap. Ye shall know. AMENHATEDP. We shall be patient, and we shall be strong. THE LEPER. The corridor This is the The noise of rushing feet ! Rings with their scurrying fear. end. [Luter a flying soldier, crying aloud, and seeks a hiding-place. Speak not, thou trembling slave: we under- stand ! [Zhe soldier slips on the marble floor, and lies groaning. AMENHATEDP. See that due silence greets catastrophe ! No word from now without command of mine. [Szl…
1930 · PDF PAGE 53
are infinitely more complex than Chess, a Chess played on an infinité boarci with men whose moves are indeterminate, and made still more difficult by the interférence of impondérable forces and unformulated laws; while its conduct demands not only the virtues, themselves rare enough, of intellectual and moral integrity, but intuition combining delicacy with strength in such perfection and to such extremes as to make its existence appear monstrous and miraculous against Nature. To admit this is not to discrédit oracles. On the contrary, the orac…
1910 · PDF PAGE 5
…ok upon the Great Deep—Hail unto the Lords of the Groves of Eleusis ! ” ALEISTER CROWLEY in “ Eleusis.” ALEISTER CROWLEY is one of those men who can never remain satisfied. His ambitions are insatiable. He desires the unattain- able with the fervour of a fanatic. Whether he is climbing volcanoes in Mexico or traversing the vast snowfields of Kinchinjunga, edit- ing a paper or playing golf, he proceeds on his way with swiftness and passion. In Ceylon he was a Buddhist. In Paris he was the beloved of Rodin. Wherever he may be he must lead the way…
1904 · PDF PAGE 3
— 4 — A casual carpenter wandered about a string of villages and suddenly a horde of rich men and sceptics and Sadducees and respectable persons rushed at him and nailed him up like vermin ; then people saw that he was a god. He had proved that he was not a common man, for he was murdered. And ever since his creed has proved that it is not a common hypothesis, for it is hated. Next week I hope to make a fuller study of Mr. Crowley’s interpretation of Buddhism, for I have not room for it in this column today. Suffice it for the moment to say tha…
1913 · PDF PAGE 270
… and not so serious—the serious portraying spiritual yearning with impelling earnestness and artistic imagery, and brimful of human sentiment. Through these poems runs the palpitating thrill of womanhood in its highest sense, refined, idealistic and restrained, as witness “A Poem to an Unborn Child.” These eighty pages of serious moods have the merit of a lightness and freshness which could never bore, even if one did not agree, The “not so serious” mood will be welcomed by readers blessed, or cursed, with a strain of gentle flippancy in their …
1913 · PDF PAGE 270
… and not so serious—the serious portraying spiritual yearning with impelling earnestness and artistic imagery, and brimful of human sentiment. Through these poems runs the palpitating thrill of womanhood in its highest sense, refined, idealistic and restrained, as witness “A Poem to an Unborn Child.” These eighty pages of serious moods have the merit of a lightness and freshness which could never bore, even if one did not agree, The “not so serious” mood will be welcomed by readers blessed, or cursed, with a strain of gentle flippancy in their …
1911 · PDF PAGE 177
…rdly any woman there at all. Yet not content with addiction to indiscriminate adultery and morphine, she finds pleasure in seducing young men and picking their pockets. Fie ! you can surely show us a prettier picture than that. Why not return to your earlier manner? Not necessarily the manner of “An Idyll in Blooms. bury," but you might advantageously find material in Brixton or in Bayswater. FELIX. THE SOUL OF THE MOOR. William Rider & Son. 2:. net. “Success meant life! Failurewworse than death, for there would be the everlasting self-reproach !…
1911 · PDF PAGE 177
…rdly any woman there at all. Yet not content with addiction to indiscriminate adultery and morphine, she finds pleasure in seducing young men and picking their pockets. Fie ! you can surely show us a prettier picture than that. Why not return to your earlier manner? Not necessarily the manner of “An Idyll in Blooms. bury," but you might advantageously find material in Brixton or in Bayswater. FELIX. THE SOUL OF THE MOOR. William Rider & Son. 2:. net. “Success meant life! Failurewworse than death, for there would be the everlasting self-reproach !…
1907 · PDF PAGE 199
…inyes, the charm of the One that is seven. By the Five that are One, And the One that is Ten ; By the snake in the sun And her mirror in men ; By the Four that run And return them again ; By the fire that is lit in the Lion, the wave in the Scorpion den ! By the One that is Seven, The whirling eyes ; The Two made Eleven, The dragon’s devise ; The Eight against Heaven, All crowns of lies ; Come forth! I invoke ye, Erinyes, move, answer, take shape and arise! By the cross and the wheel I call ye to hear ; By the dagger of steel I command ye, give…
1907 · PDF PAGE 52
…; and Tau the Sign of the Cross and the Virgin of the World. May be read by Tarot (McGregor Mathers) Fools hang Virgins! What about wise men? Hush, baby dear! Wait tillyou’re an Arahat on Ararat, and then you’ll know all about it, you beetle-headed little bitch! Nothing like early and clear in struction, Mrs. Bones. Train up a child and a moustache—why don't you get Cecil some Pommade Hongroise? I attribute Pommade Hongroise to Gemini; and it is called the Waxen or Sticky Intelli gence, because it sticketh together everything that is stuck toge…
1930 · PDF PAGE 119
…dept of some previous existence. Where this is possible, let it be checked by an appeal to facts, as follows : -— 22. It often occurs to men that on visiting a place to which they hâve never been, it appears familiar. This may arise from a confusion of thought or a slipping of the memory, but it is con- ceivably a fact. If, then, the adept arememberî? that he was in a previous life in some City, say Cracow, which he has in this life never visited, let him describe from memory the appearance of Cracow, and of its inhabitants, setting down their …
1905 · PDF PAGE 32
…elted like the snow :— Wake the song loudly; loose the leash of madness, Beat the loud drum, and bid the trumpet blow ! Semt-Chorus of Women. Let the lute thrill divinely low, Let the harp strike a tender note of sad- ness5 Louder and louder, till the full song flow, One earth-dissolving stream of utter glad- ness ! CHORUS. Free! ye are free! hear us ! Smile, Artemis, thy virgin leaves thy fold ! Star of the morning, fling thy blussom near us ! Phoibos, re-kindle us with molten gold ! Starbeams and woven tresses of the ocean, Vlowers of the rol…
1905 · PDF PAGE 255
…ch high worthiness sees nothing there In his own heart (save what is very Christ) .But wickedness ! TANNHAUSER (aside). This is my punishment ! This faith, this hope, this love—to me—to me! ELIZABETH. Yet, once my word went forth into the world, Suddenly came the fear that you were still Accessible to men—might hear, might come ! The kind, grave face of you—that light out- shone The mystical ideal. Therefore too I minded me cf our old baby-love, And—marriages are made in heaven, you know! Besides—Our Lady showed me in a dream How you would come…