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Page 98 of 1051912 · PDF PAGE 430
…rary Guide “He is a lofty idealist. He sings like a lark at the gates of heaven. Konx Om Pax is the apotheosis of extravagance, the last word in eccentricity. A prettily-told fairy-story ‘for babes and sucklings’ has ‘explanatory notes in Hebrew and Latin for the wise and prudent’—which notes, as far as we can see, explain nothing—together with a weird preface in scraps of twelve or fifteen languages. The best poetry in the book is contained in the last section—‘ The Stone of the Philosophers,’ Here is some fine work.” —.|
1910 · PDF PAGE 502
… Guide ” “He is a lofty idealist. He sings like a lark at the gates of heaven. ‘Konx Om Pax’ is the apotheosis of extravagance, the last word in eccentricity. A prettily-told fairy-story ‘for babes and sucklings’ has ‘explanatory notes in Hebrew and Latin for the wise and pradent "—which notes, as far as we can see, explain nothing—together with a weird preface in scraps of twelve or fifteen languages. The best poetry in the book is contained in the last section—‘ The Stone of the Philosophers.’ Here is some fine work.”
1910 · PDF PAGE 502
… Guide ” “He is a lofty idealist. He sings like a lark at the gates of heaven. ‘Konx Om Pax’ is the apotheosis of extravagance, the last word in eccentricity. A prettily-told fairy-story ‘for babes and sucklings’ has ‘explanatory notes in Hebrew and Latin for the wise and pradent "—which notes, as far as we can see, explain nothing—together with a weird preface in scraps of twelve or fifteen languages. The best poetry in the book is contained in the last section—‘ The Stone of the Philosophers.’ Here is some fine work.”
1913 · PDF PAGE 602
…rary Guide “He is a lofty idealist. He sings like a lark at the gates of heaven. Konx Om Pax is the apotheosis of extravagance, the last word in eccentricity, “A. prettily-told fairy-story ‘for babes and sucklings’ has ‘explanatory notes in Hebrew and Latin for the wise and prudent’—which notes, as far as we can see explain nothing —together with a weird preface in scraps of twelve or fifteen languages. The best poetry in the book is contained in the last section—‘The Stone of the Philosophers.’ Here is some fine work.”
1913 · PDF PAGE 602
…rary Guide “He is a lofty idealist. He sings like a lark at the gates of heaven. Konx Om Pax is the apotheosis of extravagance, the last word in eccentricity, “A. prettily-told fairy-story ‘for babes and sucklings’ has ‘explanatory notes in Hebrew and Latin for the wise and prudent’—which notes, as far as we can see explain nothing —together with a weird preface in scraps of twelve or fifteen languages. The best poetry in the book is contained in the last section—‘The Stone of the Philosophers.’ Here is some fine work.”
1929 · PDF PAGE 242
…set by the review of "Endymion"; but the correlative of this is over- sensitiveness about people whom I regard as authorities. The least word of admonition of Eckenstein about climbing would throw me into agonies of self-reproach. When Allan reproved me for some error in Yoga, I was overwhelmed with shame. My position was therefore very difficult. I was bound to the Secret Chiefs by the most solemn of obligations. I never dreamt of trying to minimize {404} my responsibility to them, yet they had cut across the whole trend of my aspiration. The …
1904 · PDF PAGE 88
… she laughed and let him pass. Now is our Father come to the Unstable Lands, ’Od wot, for the Wheel whereon he poised was ever turning. Sworded was the Sphinx, but he out-dared her in riddling : deeper pierced his sword: he cut her into twain: her place was his. But that would he not, my Brethren; to the centre he clomb ever: and having won thither, he vanished. As a hermit ever he travelled and the lam p and wand were his. In his path a lion ro ared, but to it ran a maiden, strong as a young elephant, and held its cruel jaws. But force he ran …
1906 · PDF PAGE 283
…contemplation of hap- piness. This quite unchanging, this single vivid state, is as near ‘‘ Eternity” as we can ever get—it is a foolish word. Afyst. That state isthen impersonal ? Scept. Ah!—Yes, I have described Dhyana. Myst. The heaven of the Christian is then identical with the daily relaxation of the Hindu? Sept. If we analyse their phrase, yes. But Christians mean ‘“‘eternal time,” a re- curring cycle of pleasant states, as when a child wishes that the pantomime ‘‘could go on for ever.” : Atyst. Why, do they ever mean anything? . . » But …
1904 · PDF PAGE 115
…ly . However this m ay be, the simple fact of the superior apparent reality—a conviction unshakable, inépuisable (for the English has no word), is a sufficient test. And if we condescend to argue, it is for pleasure, and aside from the vital fact; a skirmish, and not a pitched battle. This “dream” I have thus described is the state called Dhy ana by the Hindus and Buddhists. The method of attaining it is sane, healthy , and scientific. I would not take the pains to desc ribe that method, had not illiterate, and too often m ystical advo- cates o…
1944 · PDF PAGE 116
…of Moral Responsibility, on which man stupidly prides himself as distinguishing him from the other animals, is Restriction, which is the Word of Sin. Indeed, there is truth in the Hebrew fable, that the knowledge of Good and Evil brings forth Death. To regain Innocence is to regain Eden. We must learn to live without the murderous consciousness that every breath we draw swells the sails which bear our frail vessels to the Port of the Grave. We must cast out Fear by Love; seeing that every Act is an Orgasm, their to‐ tal issue cannot be but Birt…
1929 · PDF PAGE 110
… G. H. Soror, Sapiens Dominabitur Astros. For this forces me to tell you plainly (and, understand me well, I can prove to the hilt every word which I here say and more, and were I confronted with S. A., I should say the same) though for the sake of the Order, and for the circumstance that it would mean so deadly a blow to S. A.'s reputation, I entreat you to keep this secret from the "Order," for the present, at least, though you are at perfect liberty to show him this if you think fit, after mature consideration. He has NEVER been at any time …
1929 · PDF PAGE 422
…Ibsen and many others. I now turn to my magical writings during this astounding summer. In my spare time I began to make a list of Greek words connected with Magick and similar subjects, arranging them by their numerical order. The idea was to construct a dictionary of the Greek Cabbala1 similar to that of the Hebrew Cabbala on which I had been at work since 1899 and ultimately published in The Equinox, vol. I, No. VIII. But the Greek Cabbala presents difficulties which do not arise in the case of Hebrew. First, we have no sacred text in Greek …
1907 · PDF PAGE 27
…spelt in full,” it adds up to 666; as does Aleister E. Crowley. See the signature to the ‘* Dedicatio Extraordinaria.”’ 2 Nechesh is the word for serpent used in Genesis iii. Messiach is the expected Re- deemer. ‘Their identity is the Vindication of the Serpent and the revelation of Jehovah as the arch-enemy of man. The above doctrine is the most secret of Qabalistic arcana. you were not far of from the Heart of the Qabalah. The occasion of thts letter 1s. the insertion ofa scene equivalent toan “appreciation of the Brixton Chapel” in my master…
1904 · PDF PAGE 107
…entirely directed to attain this end, and form s a magnificent gymnasium for those who are not already finished mental athletes. By act, word, and thought, both in quantity and quality, the one object of the cerem ony is being constantly indicated. Every fumiga- tion, purification, banishing, invocation, evocation, is chiefly a reminder of the s ingle purpose, until the suprem e moment arrives, and every fibre of the body , every force- channel of the mind, is strained out in one overwhelming rush of the W ill in the direc- tion desired. Such i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 212
…stics of fifty-seven separate races, a number which I subsequently increased to eighty or ninety, when it became difficult to define the word "race". My ethnological results are not particularly striking; but the course of the research certainly helped to make it clear that no proposition could be judged as right or wrong, or even as true or false. It is always possible to derive a point of view from the circumstances of its holder. {356} The wildest dreams of Kew are the facts of Khatmandu, And the crimes of Clapham chaste in Martaban. Every c…
1906 · PDF PAGE 284
…in the orthodox travesty of Buddha's meaning, a mere survival of some fetichistic theophagy. Myst, Doesn’t it say somewhere that ‘* Long words butter no parsnips” ? Scept. It ought to. But pray proceed with your defence of religion—for I presume it is intended as such. Myst. I was saying that if unconsciousness be not reckoned as consciousness, the death- thought is eternal heaven orhell, as it chances to be pleasant or prinful. But, on the other hand, if it be so reckoned, if that and that alone has in death no awakening, no change, then is it…
1906 · PDF PAGE 246
…task of the Buddhist recluse is roughly as follows. He must: plunge every particle of his being into one idea: right views, aspirations, word, deed, life, will-power, medi- tation, rapture, such are the stages of his liberation, which resolves itself into a struggle against the law of causality. He cannot prevent past causes taking effect, but he can prevent present causes from having ‘any future results. The exoteric Christian and Hindu rather rely on another person to do this for them, and are further blinded by the thirst for ‘life and indiv…
1929 · PDF PAGE 409
…re so disordered and uncontrolled that at the slightest touch they give a leap and a squeal. Puritanism in the conventional sense of the word is, in fact, a neurosis. One ought to possess one's physical powers in the greatest measure but they should be so collected and controlled that they cannot be excited by inadequate stimulation. The puritan is always trying to make it impossible for those things which frighten him to exist. He does not understand that sensibility is not to be cured by protecting it from the obvious stimuli. The diseased ti…
1906 · PDF PAGE 275
TIME 269 Myst. Oh never! The word “real” im- plies to us subjectivity; a thing is only real to us so far as it is known by us; even its Un- knowability is a species of knowledge of it: and, by Savitri! when I say real Zo us, I say real absolutely, since all things lie to me in the radius of my sensorium. ‘‘ To others” is a vain phrase, Scept. True; for those ‘‘ others” only exist for you inasmuch as, and in so far as, they are modifications of your own thought-stuff.! . Myst. Agreed, then; instead of looking through the glasses of the metaphysi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 453
…al ritual intended for the use of an individual in his private work, I found myself, in the middle of a sentence, at a loss for the next word. I have already explained how swiftly and spontaneously my spirit soars from stanza to stanza without need of previous reflection or subsequent revision. In all these weeks my pen had swung like a skater over the paper. Now suddenly it stopped; an eagle in full flight stricken by a shaft. That sentence has never been completed. The inspiration was withdrawn from me. My light had gone out like an arc-light…