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Page 99 of 1071929 · PDF PAGE 407
407 upon working for it, but it is ultimately as impossible to perform a given Operation in Magick to order as it is to write a poem to order, however one's technical ability seems to promise success. Experiences of this sort ultimately taught me that the will which is behind all magical working is not the conscious will but the true will. Success depends therefore, firstly, on making sure that one's powers are equal to any required demand; but, secondly, upon learning the kind of work for which they are really wanted. It is an excellent traini…
1929 · PDF PAGE 451
… me struck surer to the soul of Russia than anything of Dostoyevsky. Their witness fills me with more satisfaction as to the worth of my work than anything else has ever done. Another poem, "Morphia", has no ostensible reference to Russia, but the insight into the psychology of the "addict" was indubitably conferred by my illumination. I had no experience, even at second hand, of the effects of the drug; yet I was assured by a distinguished man of letters who had himself suffered from its malice, that I have expressed to the utmost the terrific…
1944 · PDF PAGE 116
…minister to proclaim its ad‐ vent. The Fourth Power of the Sphinx is Silence; to us, then, who aspire to this power :as the crown of our Work, it will be of utmost value to attain His innocence in all its fulness. We must understand, first of all, that the root 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.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 110
…on as my Representative in the Second Order in London; but I cannot let you form a combination to make a schism therein with the idea of working secretly or avowedly under Sapere Aude under the mistaken impression that he received an Epitome of the School of the Second Order work from 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 f…
1907 · PDF PAGE 27
WHY JESUS WEPT 21 more than your Lrincedom ; you, clchiha,} by sticking manfully to your Work in the World, yet no more allowing it to touch your Purpose than waters may wet the lotus leaf (to take the oldest and best simile of your oldest and best poets), must I dedicate this strange drama; for, like you, [would aban- don all; like you, I see clearly what is of value ; or, tf not, at least what is worthless ; already something! Thus do I wish you and myself the three great boons Stla, Samadht, and Salam. DEDICATIO MAXIMA. To my unborn child, W…
1929 · PDF PAGE 139
…t at classification of invading ideas. I am very proud of this apparently simple observation and it will aid the reader to understand my work in Kandy if I insert it. Breaks are classed as follows: Firstly, physical sensations. These should have been overcome by Asana. Secondly, breaks that seem to be dictated by events immediately preceding the meditation. Their activity becomes tremendous. Only by this practice does one understand how much is really observed by the senses without the mind becoming conscious of it. Thirdly, there is a class of…
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
…te of the lines and passages which he quotes. In the matter of startling phraseology Captain Fuller easily distances the writer of whose works his admiration 15 so chivalrous and profound. . . . There is something at the back of it all, but it is far beyond my comprehension. The DAILY CHRONICLE says: Here is a master-voice in song, and none the less masterly because of its being entirely unknown. At the fact of its masterliness some persons will cavil; others will doubt it, blaming me in their minds as an injudicious optimist who, in uncut ston…
1906 · PDF PAGE 264
…passes that of the wallowing reptiles which once held possession of this planet.”"—A. C, 2 A Note showing the necessity and scope of the Work in question.
1929 · PDF PAGE 6
…y assume) Emily Bertha Bishop, of a Devon and Somerset family. Her father had died and her brother Tom Bond Bishop had come to London to work in the Civil Service. The important points about the woman are that her schoolmates called her "the little {35} 1. "the younger" (1834-87). 2. It has been remarked a strange coincidence that one small county should have given England her two greatest poets --- for one must not forget Shakespeare (1550-1610). 3. Presumably this is nature's compensation for the horror which blasted mankind on that date in 1…
1929 · PDF PAGE 206
…fraid we were cruel enough to make him the butt of our wit when he visited the Cat Blanc. There is this excuse for us, that his earliest work was vamped over, his plagiarisms were beyond belief for impudence. When --- to parody the outburst of the heavy mother in Wilde's The
1906 · PDF PAGE 246
…heir hearts with devotion for the beloved Saviour, and this process is, in its ultimation, so similar to the earlier stages of the Great Work itself, that some confusion has, stupidly enough, arisen; but for all that the practice has been the means of bringing some de- votees on to the true Path of the Wise, un- promising as such material must sound to intelligent ears. The esoteric Christian or Hindu adopts a middle path. Having projected the Abso- lute from his mind, he endeavours to unite his consciousness with that of his Absolute, and of c…
1912 · PDF PAGE 427
…e amongst present-day poets. . . . Anenthusiastic devotion to classic song . . . sustained metrical charm, From first to last the poet's work is an important contribution to the century's literature.” —Publishers? Circular. “This [book] contains the answer to a very well-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the reeds by the River?’ Well, Mr. Victor Neuburg has discovered the answer, for he was obviously wandering near the river if…
1912 · PDF PAGE 427
…e amongst present-day poets. . . . Anenthusiastic devotion to classic song . . . sustained metrical charm, From first to last the poet's work is an important contribution to the century's literature.” —Publishers? Circular. “This [book] contains the answer to a very well-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the reeds by the River?’ Well, Mr. Victor Neuburg has discovered the answer, for he was obviously wandering near the river if…
1929 · PDF PAGE 179
… a day here to build a stone house to protect our supplies and to do the repacking necessary for my advance guard. In the course of this work, the trouble with our Pathan servants came to a head. We had had several complaints of their arrogance and overbearing behaviour towards the natives, and now we found that they had stolen some fowls from our travelling farmyard, which included, by the way, fifteen sheep and thirty goats. We also discovered that they had stolen and sold practically the whole of our reserve sugar. There was nothing to do bu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 396
…he language. He left me; the dog hath returned to his vomit again, and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire. His latest work is as lifeless and limp as it was before I took hold. The success of this form of invocation led me to develop the method. A large number of masonic rituals were at my disposal, and their study showed that the ancients were accustomed to invoke the gods by a dramatic presentation or commemoration of their legends. I decided to bring this method up to date, while incidentally introducing into such rituals,…
1929 · PDF PAGE 409
… finest concerts and operas, or such spectacles as the Russian ballet, alleviate the pain of existence by putting a positive pleasure to work against the pale persistent pang; but, as the Buddha has shown, the remedy increases the disease. I have long since come to the point in which I could say that I had enjoyed all possible forms of delight to the utmost possible extent. I am not blasé; I can still enjoy everything as well as I ever could. More: I know how to extract infinite rapture from the most insignificant incidents, but this faculty de…
1929 · PDF PAGE 462
…of degeneration, and those who, though sometimes exhibiting the most exquisite fruition, fail to attain full development and achieve the work of which they should be capable through their frailty. The men whose achievement is uniform are always constitutionally robust; despite all difficulties they attain a great age and produce continuously. Rodin, Browning, {731} Carlyle, Pasteur, Lister, Kelvin, Gladstone, Whitman were all grand old men. (That Carlyle was an invalid merely emphasizes this essential figure.) To insure the supply, we need only…
1929 · PDF PAGE 503
…riarchy vanished; self-sacrifice became the cardinal virtue, and so through infinite ramifications. This idea of accomplishing the Great Work by a voluntary death was bound up with the belief that the sun died, and was reborn with the hours and the seasons. Astronomy having exploded this fiction, mankind was ready to gain a further comprehension of its own parallel case. My own word, Thelema, supplies a new and scientifically sound basis for {795} 1. Cf. Rabelais: the final secret is in the bottle inscribed TRINC. ethics. Self-sacrifice is a ro…
1906 · PDF PAGE 275
…POSTSCRIPT ENTITLED A CHILD OF EPHRAIM* CHESTERTON’S COLOSSAL COLLAPSE MR. CROWLEY AND THE CREEDS By G. Mr. Aleister Crowley publishes a work, “The Sword of Song: Called by Christians ‘The Book of the Beast,’’’ and called, I am ashamed to say, ‘‘ Ye Sword of Song” on the cover, by some singularly uneducated man. Mr, Aleister Crowley has always been, in my opinion, a good poet; his ‘‘ Soul of Osiris,” written during an Egyptian mood, was better poetry than this Browningesque rhapsody in a Buddhist mood; but this also, though very affected, is ve…
1929 · PDF PAGE 308
308 {500} conscientious man, saving a fixed sum out of his salary, devoted to his work, free from vices and in no financial embarrassment. His junior was a careless youth, mixed up with women and known to be gambling heavily on the races. The postmaster confirmed this estimate of their characters. I inquired further and found that the junior clerk was responsible for the disappearance of the packet; which seemed reasonable enough. But then the cards apparently went crazy. They said that this clerk should not suffer for his act. The postmaster a…