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Page 101 of 1731919 · PDF PAGE 131
…Lastly, in the Way of Light this same versicle is the key to the conception of Evil. But here Restriction is in the failure to solve the Great Equation, and, later, to prefer one expression or phase of the Universe to the other. Against this we are warned in the Book of the Law by the Word of Nuit, saying: “None .. . and two. For I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union,” and therefore, “If this be not aright: if ye confound the space marks, saying: They are one: or saying, They are many . . . then expect the direful judgments. . .…
1919 · PDF PAGE 397
…e Bodhisattva who has won the battle, who holds the prize within his palm, yet says in his divine compassion: 87. “For others’ sake this great reward I yield” —accom- plishes the greater Renunciation. A SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD is he. Here a.again we are-etold of the sweetness of the fruits. But even in the beginning the Magician has had to work entirely regardless of any fruits, and his principal method has been to reject any that may come his way. Again all this about the ‘sake of others’ and ‘suffering fellow-men,’ is the kind of sentimental bal…
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
… supplicates no higher power: he sues the favour of no fickle and wayward being: he abases himself before no awful deity. Yet his power, great as he believes it to be, is by no means arbitrary and unlimited. He can wield it only so long as he strictly conforms to the rules of his art, or to what may be called the laws of nature as conceived by — XIII —
1930 · PDF PAGE 75
…, Pranayama and Dharana. 5. There is little danger that any student, however idle or stupid. will fail to get some resuit ; but there is great danger that he will be led astray, even though it be by those which it is necessary that he should attain. Too often, moreover, he mistaketh the first resting-place for the goal, and taketh off his armour as if he were a victor ere the fight is well begun. — 375 —
1904 · PDF PAGE 27
…s Hid or Lost. And he governeth 26 Legions of Spirits, and this is his Seal. (4.) Samicina, or Gamicin.—The Fourth Spirit is Samigina, a Great Marquis. He appeareth in the form of a little Horse or Ass, and then into * I am not responsible for this ultra-Arian confusion of persons.—ED. T3
1909 · PDF PAGE 72
…mmon. As one would expect, such forms leave little impress upon the memory. Yet they are seductive enough, and I am afraid that the very great majority of mystics live all their lives wandering about in this vain world of shadows and of shells. All this, too, is the pleasant aspect of the affair. Here belong the awful shapes of delirium and madness, which obsess and destroy the soul that fails to control and dismiss them. Here lives the Dweller of the Threshold, that concen- 62
1909 · PDF PAGE 72
…mmon. As one would expect, such forms leave little impress upon the memory. Yet they are seductive enough, and I am afraid that the very great majority of mystics live all their lives wandering about in this vain world of shadows and of shells. All this, too, is the pleasant aspect of the affair. Here belong the awful shapes of delirium and madness, which obsess and destroy the soul that fails to control and dismiss them. Here lives the Dweller of the Threshold, that concen- 62
1910 · PDF PAGE 88
…” p. 22. On the question of food Vivekananda in his “Bhakti Yoga,” p. 90, says: “The cow does not eat meat, nor does the sheep. Are they great Yogins? ... Any fool may abstain from eating meat; surely that alone gives him no more distinction than to herbivorous animals.” Also see “Gheranda Sanhita,” pp. 34-36. t “Shiva Sanhita,” iii, 37. t Lbid, iii, 33. 76
1910 · PDF PAGE 91
…playing to the reader a mass of middle-class “virtues,” their works will be given so exalted a flavour that they themselves will pass as great ascetics who have out- soared the bestial passions of life, whilst in fact they are running harems in Boulogne or making indecent proposals to flower-girls in South Audley Street. These latter ones gener- ally trade under the exalted names of Ze Mahatmas; who, * In all the Mysteries the partakers of them were always such as had not committed crimes. It will be remembered that Nero did not dare to present…
1910 · PDF PAGE 118
…his is called Dharana.” “The Steadiness of the mind arising from the recognition of Brahma, wherever it travels or goes, is the real and great Dharana.”* * “Unity of Jiva and Brahman, Srimat Sankaracharya,” paragraph 122. 104
1910 · PDF PAGE 341
…as ever a pang to her, and yielding was only less terrible than denial? “On my small insistent beat have lain heads that were heavy with great dreams: men of action and men of fancy who loved her and were loved, it may be, a little of her too. I have been the couch of treaties and the pillow of financial strifes, and on me much uncoined gold has slept through dreamless transparent nights. “Once a poet received her favours, and his head, bowed and weighted with its spongy amorphous magic, rested on me like a honeycomb, all giddy and vibrant with…
1910 · PDF PAGE 88
…” p. 22. On the question of food Vivekananda in his “Bhakti Yoga,” p. 90, says: “The cow does not eat meat, nor does the sheep. Are they great Yogins? ... Any fool may abstain from eating meat; surely that alone gives him no more distinction than to herbivorous animals.” Also see “Gheranda Sanhita,” pp. 34-36. t “Shiva Sanhita,” iii, 37. t Lbid, iii, 33. 76
1910 · PDF PAGE 91
…playing to the reader a mass of middle-class “virtues,” their works will be given so exalted a flavour that they themselves will pass as great ascetics who have out- soared the bestial passions of life, whilst in fact they are running harems in Boulogne or making indecent proposals to flower-girls in South Audley Street. These latter ones gener- ally trade under the exalted names of Ze Mahatmas; who, * In all the Mysteries the partakers of them were always such as had not committed crimes. It will be remembered that Nero did not dare to present…
1910 · PDF PAGE 118
…his is called Dharana.” “The Steadiness of the mind arising from the recognition of Brahma, wherever it travels or goes, is the real and great Dharana.”* * “Unity of Jiva and Brahman, Srimat Sankaracharya,” paragraph 122. 104
1910 · PDF PAGE 341
…as ever a pang to her, and yielding was only less terrible than denial? “On my small insistent beat have lain heads that were heavy with great dreams: men of action and men of fancy who loved her and were loved, it may be, a little of her too. I have been the couch of treaties and the pillow of financial strifes, and on me much uncoined gold has slept through dreamless transparent nights. “Once a poet received her favours, and his head, bowed and weighted with its spongy amorphous magic, rested on me like a honeycomb, all giddy and vibrant with…
1911 · PDF PAGE 9
…is contentment. Moreover, he has been able to prepare, under sublime guidance, a dozen Official Instructions of A.'.A.'., to conclude the great Qabalistic Dictionary of Gematria, and to begin the almost equally important Greek Dic- tionary on similar lines. He has had leisure to produce more plays, sketches, poems, and stories in this last year than he has done in any previous five years of his life. For all this his gratitude is due, and must be expressed, to the self- sacrificing devotion of our sworn sub-editor, Mr Victor ]. Ι. Neuburg. Rarely …
1911 · PDF PAGE 9
…is contentment. Moreover, he has been able to prepare, under sublime guidance, a dozen Official Instructions of A.'.A.'., to conclude the great Qabalistic Dictionary of Gematria, and to begin the almost equally important Greek Dic- tionary on similar lines. He has had leisure to produce more plays, sketches, poems, and stories in this last year than he has done in any previous five years of his life. For all this his gratitude is due, and must be expressed, to the self- sacrificing devotion of our sworn sub-editor, Mr Victor ]. Ι. Neuburg. Rarely …
1912 · PDF PAGE 101
…ut him; for, after a year in the Latin Quarter, if she has failed to surpass Degas and Manet and O‘Conor, she has at least conquered the great pianist VVlodywewsky, and it 59
1912 · PDF PAGE 101
…ut him; for, after a year in the Latin Quarter, if she has failed to surpass Degas and Manet and O‘Conor, she has at least conquered the great pianist VVlodywewsky, and it 59
1919 · PDF PAGE 34
…irty 7Ethyrs and a model of all visions, the cries of the Angels should be regarded as accurate, and the doctrine of the function of the Great White Brotherhood understood as the foundation of the Aspiration of the Adept. The account of the Master of the Temple should in particular be taken as authentic. The instruction in the 8th A‘thyr pertains to Class D, i.e. it is an Official Ritual, and the same remarks-apply to the account of the proper method of invoking 7Ethyrs given in the 18th Athyr. Liper LXV. Lrper Corpis Crnctit SERPENTE. An ac- c…