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Page 99 of 1301996 · PDF PAGE 176
…true to Herself, finds that She can no longer be false to any man. She must hold Herself and Her Will in honour; and She must compel the world to accord it. The modern woman is not going to be dupe, slave, and victim any more; the woman who gives herself up freely to her own enjoyment, without asking recompense, will earn the respect of her brothers, and will openly despise her “chaste” or venal sisters, as men now despise “milksops,” “sissies,” and “tango lizards.” Love is to be divorced utterly and irrevocably from social and financial agreem…
1910 · PDF PAGE 74
THE EQUINOX From him,* who alone shines, all else borrows its brightness, The whole world bursts into splendour at his shining. And again in Maitrayana, 6. 24. When the darkness is pierced through, then is reached that which is not affected by darkness; and he who has thus pierced through that which is so affected, he has beheld like a glittering circle of sparks Brahman bright as the sun, endowed with all might, beyond the reach of darkness, that shines in yonder sun as in the moon, the fire and the lightning. Thus the Atman little by little c…
1910 · PDF PAGE 74
THE EQUINOX From him,* who alone shines, all else borrows its brightness, The whole world bursts into splendour at his shining. And again in Maitrayana, 6. 24. When the darkness is pierced through, then is reached that which is not affected by darkness; and he who has thus pierced through that which is so affected, he has beheld like a glittering circle of sparks Brahman bright as the sun, endowed with all might, beyond the reach of darkness, that shines in yonder sun as in the moon, the fire and the lightning. Thus the Atman little by little c…
1922 · PDF PAGE 355
… between sleep and waking, unable to call for assistance, unable to control my thoughts; and I was transported into a totally unfamiliar world. I did not exist at all, in any ordinary sense of the word. I was a mathematical expression in a complex scheme of geometry. My equilibrium was maintained by innumerable other forces in the same system, and what I called myself was in some mysterious way charged with a duty of manipulating the other forces, and these evaded me. When I strove to grasp them, they disappeared. My functions seemed to be to s…
1904 · PDF PAGE 9
… deeds done by him under the cover of a light practical joke or quaint whim. Still less need I speak of this side of my friend ; all the world knows more than I could say. His character was more than dual, how- ever. Not only did the r of predicor vanish and re- turn, as in the epigram of Priapus, but the devo- tion to literature of all kinds bore many diverse fruits. Before he was thirty he had published a volume of semi-sacred verse, a notable collection of Carmina Mariana, a short and most lucid history of the metaphysical controversies whic…
1996 · PDF PAGE 54
…ur own times Oscar Wilde, Sir Charles Dilke, Parnell, Canon Aitken and countless others, many of them engaged in first-rate work for the world, all wasted, because the mob must make believe to be “moral.” This phrase abolishes the Eleventh Commandment, Not to be Found Out, by authorizing Incest, Adultery, and Paederasty, which everyone now practices with humiliating precautions, which perpetuate the schoolboy’s enjoyment of an escapade, and make shame, slyness, cowardice and hypocrisy the conditions of success in life. It is also the fact that …
1922 · PDF PAGE 351
…. He has evolved to what he is, through making dangerous experiments. Heroin certainly helps me to obtain a new spiritual outlook on the world. I have no right to assume that the ruin of bodily health is injurious ; and ‘‘ whosoever will save his life shall lose it, but whoever loseth his life for My sake shall find it.” 23. So-and-so has taken it for years, and is all right. 24. So-and-so has taken it for years, and is still taking it, and he is the most remarkable man of his century. 25. I’m feeling so very, very rotten, and a very, very litt…
1954 · PDF PAGE 67
… by his mental power and capacity, and by the circumstances of his human environment. (Illustration: When a man falls in love, the whole world becomes, to him, nothing but love boundless and immanent; but his mystical state is not contagious; his fellow-men are either amused or annoyed. He can only extend to others the effect which his love has had upon himself by means of his mental and physical qualities. Thus, Catullus, Dante and Swinburne made their love a mighty mover of mankind by virtue of their power to put their thoughts on the subject…
1954 · PDF PAGE 326
…Compassion is the vice of Kings: stamp down the wretched and the weak; this is the law of the strong: this is our law and the joy of the world. That sets up a standard , with a vengeance! (Note "they feel not," twice repeated. There should be something important to the thesis herein concealed.) The passage becomes exalted , but a verse later resumes the the me, setting forth the philosophical basis of these apparently violent and arrogant remarks. "It is a lie, this folly against self." (AL. II: 22) This is the central doctrine of Thelema in th…
1904 · PDF PAGE 62
in the world, and that my duty was to my dead love. The Jesuit was subtle. To do this duty, he urged, you cannot remove this copper-stick of yours from the memorial stone. On the other hand I will assuredly cut it off if you do not so remove it, and that bloody quick ! I dont want to wait here all day : Ive a button-hole at home that needs my nosegay. Not so frigging fast, mister, if you please ! I retorted : there are two sides to every argument. Cut it off, if you can ! He instantly raised his sword, and directed a furious blow at the root …
1907 · PDF PAGE 58
…not, neither have they any understanding. Therefore, have the chance words of Adepts been ill-heard through the ages; therefore, has the world run red with blood because the Adepts have spoken Truth,
1907 · PDF PAGE 82
…itis, we do not condemn its use in simple indigestions. “ As above so beneath! said Hermes the thrice greatest. The laws of the physical world are precisely paralleled by those of the moral and intellectual sphere. To the prostitute I prescribe a course of training by which she shall comprehend the holiness of sex. Chastity forms part of that training, and I should hope to see her one day a happy wife and mother. To the prude equally I prescribe a course of training by which she shall comprehend the holiness of sex. Unchastity forms part of tha…
1910 · PDF PAGE 143
…nter- mingled with his Reason (Ruach), but the Buddha by means of his Reason (Ruach) alone. Buddha attempted to cut off all joy from the world, substituting in its place an implacable rationalism, a stern and inflexible morality, little seeing that the sorrows of Earth which his system substituted in place of the joys of Heaven, though they might not ruffle his self- conquered self, must perturb the minds of his followers, * We have seen how in the Chandogya Upanishad that all things, including even the four Vedas, are called “nama eva”—mere na…
1910 · PDF PAGE 208
THE EQUINOX He realized that there were in this world she-mules as well as she-asses, and that though the former would never foal in spite of all the stallions of Moultan, the latter seldom failed to do so after having been for a few minutes in the presence of a Margate jackass. Discarding Chastity (Brahmacharya)—a good purgative for the prurient—he wrote in its place the word “ Health.” Do not worry about this code and that law, about the jibber of this crank or the jabber of that faddist. To hell with ethical pigs and prigs alike. Do what you…
1910 · PDF PAGE 143
…nter- mingled with his Reason (Ruach), but the Buddha by means of his Reason (Ruach) alone. Buddha attempted to cut off all joy from the world, substituting in its place an implacable rationalism, a stern and inflexible morality, little seeing that the sorrows of Earth which his system substituted in place of the joys of Heaven, though they might not ruffle his self- conquered self, must perturb the minds of his followers, * We have seen how in the Chandogya Upanishad that all things, including even the four Vedas, are called “nama eva”—mere na…
1910 · PDF PAGE 208
THE EQUINOX He realized that there were in this world she-mules as well as she-asses, and that though the former would never foal in spite of all the stallions of Moultan, the latter seldom failed to do so after having been for a few minutes in the presence of a Margate jackass. Discarding Chastity (Brahmacharya)—a good purgative for the prurient—he wrote in its place the word “ Health.” Do not worry about this code and that law, about the jibber of this crank or the jabber of that faddist. To hell with ethical pigs and prigs alike. Do what you…
1917 · PDF PAGE 2
…in mind, that every act must be a ‘ritual, an act of worship, a sacrament. Live as the kings and princes, crowned and uncrowned, of this world, have always lived, as masters always live; but let it not be self-indulgence; make your self-indulgence your religion. When you drink and dance and take delight, you are not being “immoral,” you are not “risking your immortal soul”; you are fulfilling the precepts of our holy religion—provided only that you remember to regard your actions in this light. Do not lower yourself and destroy and cheapen your…
1922 · PDF PAGE 348
334 The Diary of a Drug Fiend the sensations of flying. There was the same detach- ment from the affairs of the world, the same visions of normal life in perspective; the ruddy brown roofs of the houses, the patches of tilled land, the distant hillsides with their fairy-like remoteness, the level plain of the sea, the receding coast line; all these things were so many witnesses of one great truth— that only by climbing painfully to a spot beyond human intervention, could one obtain a stable point of view from which to regard the Universe in due…
1954 · PDF PAGE 301
…bacconists under the sun, There is none, there is none, like the great Colin Lunn- of Sidney Street, Cambridge. When I started round the world, alas for fidelity! I began to forget him. By 1906 e.v. the operation was practically complete . In '42 e.v. I spent a few days with friends in Cambridge. Sauntering along K.P. (King's Parade to you , madam!) on my way back to the station with half an hour or so to kill, I thought I would pop in to Lunn's new shop there , and pass the time of day. He might have something to take my fancy. So I did. Needl…
1996 · PDF PAGE 55
…onger hound him to hell. A blighted career or a ruined constitution will no more be the penalty of a moment’s exuberance. Above all, the world will begin to appreciate the true nature of the sexual process, its physical insignificance as one among many parts of the body, its transcendent importance as the vehicle of the True Will and the first of the sheaths of the Self.