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…over the least action that slippeth from the least of thy fingers. Thus bind thyself, and thou shalt be for ever free. III. o. The Ox is Thought. Man, rule thy Thought! How else shalt thou master the Holy Spirit, and answer the High Priestess in the Middle Gateway of the Crown ? 1. Here are practices. Each may last for a week or more. (a) Avoid thinking of a definite subject and ail things con- nected with it, and let that subject be one which commonly occu- pies much of thy thought, being frequently stimulated by sense- perceptions or the conv…
1930 · PDF PAGE 129
(b) By some device, such as the changing of thy ring from one finger to another, create in thyself two personalities, the thoughts of one being within entirely different limits from that of the other, the common ground being the necessities of life. 1 Of thine own Ingenium devise others. 2. On each occasion that thou art betrayed into thinking that thou art sworn to avoid, eut thyself sharply upon the wrist or forearm with a razor ; even as thou shouldst beat a disobedient dog. Feareth not the Ox the Goad of the Floughman ? 3. Thine arm then se…
1930 · PDF PAGE 93
14. Further, concerrimg the life of the devotee: — Let him eut away from his life any act, word or thought, that is hateful to the particular Deity; as, unchastity in the case of Artémis, évasions in the case of Ares. Besides this, he should avoid ail harshness or unkindness of any kind in thought, word, or deed, seeing that above the particular Deity is One in whom ail is One. \ et also he may deliberately practise cruelties, where the particular Deity manifests His Love in that manner, as in the case of Kali, and of Pan. And therefore, before…
1930 · PDF PAGE 66
…l that the spine be vertical. 1. In this practice the cavity of the brain is the Yonij the spinal cord is the Lingam. 2. Concentrate thy thought of adoration in the brain. 3. Now begin to awaken the spine in this manner. Concen¬ trate thy thought of thyself in the base of the spine, and move it gradually up a little at a time. By this means thou wilt become conscious of the spine, feeling each vertebra as a separate entity. This must be achieved most fully and perfectly before the further practice is begun. 4. Next, adore the brain as before, b…
1930 · PDF PAGE 43
…he Hudson River, he might remember the proverb and clutch at an imaginary straw. Words such as “truth” are like that straw. Confusion of thought is concealed, and its impotence denied, by the invention. This paragraph opened with, “We know”: yet, questioned, awe” make haste to deny the possibility of possessing, or even of defining, knowledge. What could be more certain to a parabola-philosopher than that he could be approached in two ways, and two only? It would be indeed little less than the whole body of his knowledge, implied in the theory …
1930 · PDF PAGE 72
…wheels, eccentrics, and governor. 5. During these practices the mind must be absolutely confined to the object determined upon; no other thought must be allowed to intrude upon the consciousness. The moving Systems must be regular and harmonious. 6. Note carefully the duration of the experiments, the number and nature of the intruding thoughts, the tendency of the object itself to départ from the course laid out for it, and any other pheno- mena which may présent themselves. Avoid overstrain ; this is very important. 7. Proceed to imagine livin…
1930 · PDF PAGE 71
…arkable phenomena will very probably occur during these practices. They must be carefully analysed and recorded. V. Dharana — Contre! of Thought. 1. Constrain the mind to concentrate itself upon a single simple object imagined. The five tatwas are useful for this purpose; they are : a black ovalj a blue disk j a silver crescent ; a yellow square ; a red triangle. 2. Proceed to combinations of simple objects ; e.g. a black oval within a yellow square, and so on. 3. Proceed to simple moving objects, such as a pendulum swinging, a whee.1 revolving…
1930 · PDF PAGE 88
… return to the body, but should any difficulty arise, practice (again) will make the imagination fertile. For example, one may create in thought a chariot of fire with white horses, and command the charioteer to drive earthwaras. It might be dangerous to go too far, or to stay too long; for fatigue must be avoided. The danger spoken of is that of fainting, or of obsession, or of loss of memory or other mental faculty. 12. Finally, let the student cause his imagined body in which he supposes himself to hâve been travelling to coincide with the p…
1930 · PDF PAGE 115
…e False. 3. One’s life has hitherto been guided by those false notions. There¬ fore on giving them up, one has no standard of control of thought or action; and, until the truth is born, one can move only by virtue of one’s momentum. It is jumping off. 415 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 131
… that thou attain to the Sacrament of the Graal in the Chapel of Abominations. 12. And behold ! If by stealth thou keep unto thyself onc thought of thine, then shalt thou be cast out into the abyss for ever; and thou shalt be the lonely one, the eater of dung, the afflicted in the Day of Be-With-Us. 13. Yea! verily this is the Truth, this is the Truth, this is the l'ruth. Unto thee shall be granted joy and health and wealth and wisdom when thou art no longer thou. 14. Then shall every gain be a new sacrament, and it shall not défile thee; thou …
1930 · PDF PAGE 102
called Atmadarshana might arise from simple concentration of the thought on an imagined triangle or on the heart. But as the union of two bodies in chemistry may be endothermie or exothermic, the combination of Oxygen with Nitrogen is gentle, while that of Oxygen with Hydrogen is explosive 5 and as it is found that the most heat is disengaged as a rule by the union of bodies most opposite in character, and that the compound resulting from such is most stable, so it seems reasonable to suggest that the most important and enduring Samadhi results…
1930 · PDF PAGE 94
…r. And let him not perform the act until he hath done this. As it is written : Liber VII, Cap. 5. — 22. aEvery breath, every word, every thought is an act of love with thee. 23. “The beat of my heart is the pendulum of love. 24. “The songs of me are the soft sighs. 25. “The thoughts of me are very rapture. 26. “And my deeds are the myriads of Thy Children, the stars and the atoms.” And Remember Well, that if thou wert in truth a lover, ail this wouldst thou do of thine own nature without the slightest flaw or failure in the minutest part thereo…
1930 · PDF PAGE 36
…s fulfilled by the Phallus, “Naught and Two” because the plus and the minus hâve United in “love under will.” A is “the Fool”, Naught in Thought (Parzival), Word (Harpo- crates), and Action (Bacchus). He is the boundless air, the wander- ing Ghost, but with “possibilités”. He is the Naught that the Two hâve made by “love under will”. LA thus represents the Ecstasy of Nuit and Hadit conjoined, lost in love, and making themselves Naught thereby. Their child is begotten and conceived, but is in the phase of Naught also, as yet. LA is thus the Univ…
1930 · PDF PAGE 119
…. 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 names. Let him further enter into details of the city and its customs. And having done this with great minuteness, l…
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nothing until brought into relation with other things. The first step is to distinguish one thought from another; this is the condi¬ tion of recognizing it. To define it, we must perceive its orientation to ali our other ideas. The extent of our knowledge of any one thing varies therefore with the number of ideas with which we can compare it. Every new fact not only adds itself to our universe, but increases the value of what we already possess. In AL this “The” or “God” arranges for “Countenance to behold countenance”, by establishing itself a…
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…e centre of ail, and my circumference the frame of mine own fancy. I am the Ail, for ail that exists for me is a necessary expression in thought of some tendency of my nature, and ail my thoughts are only the letters of my Name. I am the One, for ail that I am is not the absolute Ail, and ail my ail is mine and not another’s; mine, who conceive of others like myself in essence and truth, yet unlike in expression and illusion. I am the None, for ail that I am is the imperfect image of the perfect; each partial phantom must perish in the clasp of…
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…g in the presence of the Cône. His first conception must evidently be a frantic spasm, formless, insane, not to be classed as articulate thought. Yet, if he develops the faculties of his mind, the more he knows of it the more he sees that its nature is identical with his own whenever comparison is possible. The True Will is thus both determined by its équations, and free because those équations are simply its own name, spelt out fully. His sense of being under bondage cornes from his inability to read it; his sense that evil exists to thwart hi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 99
…ke the gross body of the symbol for the idea made concrète thereby. 32. Considérations of further danger to those not purged of material thought. — Let it be remembered that in the nature of the love itself is danger. The lust of the satyr for the nymph is indeed of the same nature as the affinity of quicklime for water en the one hand, and of love of Ab for Ama on the otherj so also is the triad Osiris, Isis, Horus like that of a horse, mare, foal, and of red, blue, purple. And this is the foundation of Correspondences. But it were false to sa…