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… is probably the most dangerous and difficult of all kinds of rock. Its condition varies at every step. Often one has to clear away an immense amount of debris in order to get any hold at all. Yet indiscretion in this operation might pull down a few hundred tons on one's head. One can hardly ever be sure that any given hold is secure. It is, therefore, a matter of the most exquisite judgment to put on it no more weight than is necessary. A jerk or a spring would almost infallibly lead to disaster. One does not climb the cliffs. One hardly even …
1907 · PDF PAGE 186
…e adamant road Whose tangles and toils Lead on the abode, Where dwell in the light Of justice infernal The judges that smite, That judge men aright, Whose laws are eternal ! Those kings that in reigning For bribing or feigning Swerved never an hair From justice and truth ; Turned never a care To wrath or to ruth; Did justice, and died. Thither I haste To face the austere Faces of peace. Shall the lyre cease? Its music be waste? Themselves not hear? I stride to the presence and sing: and my soul is not conquered of fear. Now the road widens and …
1906 · PDF PAGE 97
…see thy face Ever again until the quest be won. Rule thou with justice in my sacred seat Until I come again. PELIAS. The Gods thy speed. MEN. The hardy hero goes to find The living Fleece of Gold ; Or else, some death may chance to bind Those limbs of manly mould. In sooth, I doubt if I shall earn The singer’s fee for his return. PELIAS. Think now—I feared that fool. It must be true That guilt is timorous, Ay! when danger’s none! Let but swords flash—and guilt grows God for might ! Indeed I rule—until he come again. Ay, when the stars fall, Jas…
1929 · PDF PAGE 94
of the Master Therion, it is assuredly the easiest and most reasona- ble explanation to assume an identity between the two men. Nobodv is shocked to observe that the ambition of Napoléon has diminished the average stature of Frenchmen. We Know that somehow or other every force must find its fulfilment; and those people who hâve grasped the fact that external events are merely symptoms of external ideas, cannot find any difficulty in attributing the correspondences of the one to the identities of the other. Far be it from any apologist for Magic…
1929 · PDF PAGE 227
"A thousand congratulations, dear young man, upon your brilliant victory! You have succeeded where older and more learned men failed badly. I called you here to-night to tell you that you are now eligible for a place in the Fourteen, the Ghaagaael, for a seat is vacant since this morning." "They executed Balloch?" Douglas nodded with a gloating smile. "But why did you not save him, master?" "Save him! It was I that destroyed him when he tried to betray me. Candidates take notice!" Abdul protested his loyalty and devotion. "The supreme test," co…
1996 · PDF PAGE 104
…se) the essential character of existence. We cannot extirpate or even alter in the minutest degree either the matter or manner of any element of the Universe, where each item is equally inherent and important, each consubstantial and coherent, each aequipollent, independent, and interdependent. We may thus acquiesce in the fact that it is apodeictically1 implicit in the Absolute to apprehend itself by self-expression as Positive and Negative in the first place, and to combine these primary opposites in an infinite variety of finite forms. 1 [Ce…
1907 · PDF PAGE 101
… vital ways from these unsavoury follies, Black melancholies Sit straddled on your bended backs. throne Of the unknown Base and The! Ah! men my: How all things fall, Fall from their seat, the lamentable place, Before their face, Weary and pass and are no more. Since hope must be, Look to the future, to the chance minute That life may shoot ‘Some flower at least to blossom in the night, Since vital light Is sure to fail us on the hideous way. What? Must we pray? Verily, O thou littlest babe, too weak To stir or speak, So we, Capable hardly of a …
1929 · PDF PAGE 90
It may be of sortie assistance to give a few characteristics of geunine Magical Memory; to mention a few sources of error, and to lay down critical mies for the vérification of one’s results. The first great danger arises from vanity. One should always beware of “remembering” that one was Cleopatra or Shakespeare. x4gain, superficial resemblances are usually misleading. One of the great tests of the genuineness of any recollection is that one remembers the really important things in one’s life, not those which mankind commonly classes as such. …
1996 · PDF PAGE 66
…ason—indeed, most of all to the sceptic—that our talisman, one microscopic serpent of which can build for itself such a house as to rule men’s bodies for a generation like Alexander, or their minds for an epoch like Plato, cannot be destroyed or diminished by any conceivable force. When this talisman comes forth from its fortress, its action begins. The ancient Jewish Rabbins knew this, and taught that before Eve was given to Adam, the demon Lilith conceived by the spilth of his dreams, so that the hybrid races of satyrs, elves and the like beg…
1905 · PDF PAGE 143
…Friendship of righteous fame, ol eace are spread heneath you and your And lordship of two worlds that time can oe. never tame. O race of men that slay the slaves of kings! __ | Stoop not and tender not an hour’s regret We, whom the foam-crowned ocean still For those wild words in trivial anger enrings, passed : We, whose strong freedom never brooked Forget your fools, as we their words forget, a blow, _And join our worlds in one amazing net Hail you now victors, hail you of the sword ' Of empire and dominion, till aghast Proved in the west the …
1907 · PDF PAGE 86
…w thousands only. lts height was equal to its breadth, and its length was equal to the sum of these, while the sum of these three measurements was precisely equal to ten times the age of Kwaw in units of the span of his hand. The walls were tremendously thick, and there was only one door and two windows, all in the eye of the sunset. One cannot describe the inside of the building, because to do so would spoil all the fun for other people. It must be seen to be understood, in any case; and there it stands to this day, open to anybody who is stro…
1996 · PDF PAGE 113
114 The Law is for All doctrine here put forth is that the initiate cannot be polluted by any particular environment. He accepts and enjoys everything that is proper to his nature. Thus, a man’s sexual character is one form of his self-expression; he unites Hadit with Nuit sacramen tally when he satisfies his instinct of physical love. Of course, this is only one partial projection; to govern, to fight, and so on, must fulfil other needs. We must not imagine that any form of activity is ipso facto incapable of supplying the elements of an Euch…
1996 · PDF PAGE 179
…of Lot, the wholesale rape of captured virgins, as well as the promiscuity of the first Christians, the prostitution of temple servants, men and women, the relations of Johannes with his master, and the putting of wan dering Prophets to stud, as well as the celibacy of such people as Paul. Jehovah went so far as to slay Onan because he balked at fertilizing his brother’s widow, condoned the adultery, with mur der of the husband, of David, and commanded Hosea to intrigue with a “wife of whoredom.”1 He only drew the moral line at any self-asser…
1907 · PDF PAGE 109
…e zephyr’s cooing kiss, Deep sleep at last from all the evil dreams, And rest, the possibility of bliss. THE MORIBUND) I. THE Seven Wise Men of Martaban 2 Sate round the dying man. They were so still, one would have said : If he were dying, they were dead! The first was aged ; ip his beard He muttered never a weird. The next was beautiful and gay : IIe had no word to say. The third was wroth and rusty red, Yet not a word he said. The fourth was open and bold: His silence girt him like fine gold. The fifth was ruddy and fair of face ; He held hi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 191
…he Marchese la Giuffria. The American priest next proceeded to confirm [269] them in the Christian religion, and to communicate the Sacrament. Finally, they were married. In this long profanation of the mysteries of the Church the horror lay in the business-like simplicity of the procedure. One can imagine the Charity of a devout Christian finding excuses for the Black Mass, when it is the expression of the revolt of an agonizing soul, or of the hysteria of a half-crazed debauchee; he can conceive of repentance and of grace following upon enlig…
1996 · PDF PAGE 129
…elp them, and you shall keep the rest.” He might have added that the employer would be better off without that percentage of yeast to ferment his infusion of harm less vegetable humans. No one is better aware than I am that the Labour Problem has to be settled by practical and not ideal considerations, but in this case the ideal considerations happen to be extremely practical. The mistake has been in trying to produce a standard article to supply the labour market; it is an error from the point of view of capital and labour alike. Men should n…
1996 · PDF PAGE 142
… in his early prime is the skeleton at every Boat Supper. But in such cases the excess is almost always due to the desire to excel other men, instead of referring the matter to the only competent judge, the true Will of the body. I myself used to “go all out” on moun tains; I hold more World’s Records of various kinds than I can reckon—for pace, skill, daring, and endurance. But I never wor ried about whether other people could beat me. For this reason my excesses, instead of causing damage to health and danger to life, turned me from a delic…
1930 · PDF PAGE 29
…ble so to disintegrate the the Body of Light even of a strong man that he will fall dead. Such operations demand not only power, but judgment. Nothing can upset the sum total of destiny — everything must be paid for the uttermost farthing. For this reason a great many operations theoretically possible cannot be performed. Suppose, for example, you see two men of similarly unhealthy astral appearance. In one case the cause may be slight and temporary. Your help suffices to restore him in a few minutes. The other, who looks no worse, is really op…
1996 · PDF PAGE 114
…assacre of Arme nians by the Turks, the first wholesale ethnic genocide of the century.] 25. Ye are against the people, O my chosen! Commentary: By “the people” is meant that canting, whin ing, servile breed of whipped dogs which refuses to admit its deity. The mob is always afraid for its bread and butter—when its tyrants let it have any butter—and now and then the bread has 60% substitutes of cattle-fodder.1 2 So, being afraid, it dare not strike. And when the trouble begins, we aristocrats of Freedom, from the castle or the cottage, the to…
1905 · PDF PAGE 229
…Twin souls are we, to one Star bound in Tleaven! we, to one Star bound in Not to thy presence in the veil and vision Of solemn lies that men miscall the world ; Not to thy mind the lightnings truthward hurled Tturn. IT laugh dead distance to derision !— Spirit to spirit: there our loves are curled, Not to thy presence in the veil and vision! 222