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Page 102 of 1151939 · PDF PAGE 18
…t his daily business; it becomes a very real trouble when you discover that the tranquillity of the mind is being disturbed by a type of thought whose existence had previously been unsuspected, and whose source is unimaginable. Then again there is no perfection of materials; there will always be errors and weaknesses, and the man who wins through is the man who manages to carry on with a defective engine. The actual strain of the work develops the defects; and it is a matter of great nicety of judgment to be able to deal with the changing condi…
1939 · PDF PAGE 51
…eiehAsher-Eheieh, I am that I am. 17. If there is any sense in any of this at all, we may expect to find an almost identical system of thought all over the world. There is nothing exclusively Hebrew about this theogony. We find, for example, in the teachings of Zoroaster and the neo-Platonists very similar ideas. We have a Pleroma, the void, a background of all possibilities, and this is filled by a supreme Light-God, from whom drive in turn the seven Archons, who correspond closely to the seven planetary deities, Aratron, Bethor, Phaleg and …
1944 · PDF PAGE 171
… happier than that given by the Qabalah, although in every way congruous with it. Practical considerations are never absent from Chinese thought, even at its most abstruse and metaphysical. The fundamental heresy of the Black Lodge is con tempt for “the world, the flesh, and the devil”, all which are essential to the plan of the Universe; it is cardinal to the Great Work for the Adept so to order affairs that “even the evil germs of Matter shall alike become useful and good”. The error of Christian Mystics on this point has been responsible for…
1907 · PDF PAGE 96
…er the walls. Light deceives, and the darkness lies. Love there is none; he is child of peace: Joy there is none; she is bride of force: Thought there is none; it is birth :—there fell Ages ago all hope of these. Lust is awake, and its friend remorse. Crime we snatch, between spell and spell. Man is aglare, and is off unheard. Woman hath speech, of a single word. Hell may be heaven, for earth is hell! So do I laugh, and the hideous coarse Peals like applause re-echo and cease. Here in the close and noisome cave, Drunk on the breath of the thiev…
1907 · PDF PAGE 166
…hangs, remembers ; it abides and feels As if God's vulture clung to it amain, And furies fixed with fiery darts and wheels Their horror, thought-exceeding, manifold, Vertiginous within me—and the cold Of Styx splashed on me, making me im- mortal, Invulnerable in its bitter mould5 Leaving its own ice, penetrating streams, Grim streaks, and dismal drops, abysmal beams Thrown from the gulph thorough the place and portal, Each drop o’erladen with a curse that steams Unnatural in the coldness: let me be Alone, inviolate of eternity! Let all the wind…
1939 · PDF PAGE 61
…pened was that I woke up in the night; my hand touched a nose; I immediately concluded that some one was in the room. Not at all; I only thought so because my nose had passed away from the region of my observation by the practice of concentrating upon it. 12. The same sort of thing occurs with adequate concentration on any object. It is connected, curiously enough, with the phenomena of invisibility. When your mind has gone so deeply into itself that it is unconscious of itself and its surroundings, one of the most ordinary results is that the …
1905 · PDF PAGE 259
… the roth ‘* call” in Dr. Dee’s book, referred to above. | Serve ye the lofty ones. Her members, let them differ ; be no soul Equal! Let thought, let reasonable things, Bow to thy wings, Thy manifest control, Vexation ! weeding out of one another. Their dwelling-places, let them lose their name ! The work of man, and all his pomp and power, Deface them: shatter the aspiring tower ! Let all his houses be as caves and holes, Unto the Beast I give them. And their souls— Lift up the shadowy hand !— | Confound with darkness them that under- stand ! …
1939 · PDF PAGE 33
…all conditions! You absolutely melt with maudlin good feeling. I have known pupils who have actually been betrayed into sparing a kindly thought for the Teacher! It is quite clear that there is something wrong about this. Fortunately, Time, the great healer, is on the job as usual; Time takes no week-ends off; Time does not stop to admire himself; Time keeps right on.[3] Before very long, you forget all about the pleasantness of things, and it would not be at all polite to give you any idea of what you are going to think of the Teacher. 14. Per…
1905 · PDF PAGE 24
…pallid bays Fringed with white foam. But, as in pity, yet The sun forgot his chariot, nor would set, VOL. I. Since as he sank the maiden thought to leap Within the bosom of the vaulted deep From that high pedestal. And seeing this, That yet an hour was left her, Archais Lift up her voice and prayed with zeal divine To Aphrodite, who from her far shrine Heard and flew fast to aid over the night-clad brine. PRAYER OF ARCHAIS. O Mother of Love, By whom the earth and allits fountains move In harmony, Hear thou the bitter overwhelming cry Of me, who…
1939 · PDF PAGE 65
…ow do we achieve this? By exalting the will to the point where it is master of circumstance. And how do we do this? By so ordering every thought, word and act, in such a way that the attention is constantly recalled to the chosen object. 6. Suppose I want to evoke the 'Intelligence' of Jupiter. I base my work upon the correspondences of Jupiter. I base my mathematics on the number 4 and its subservient numbers 16, 34, 136. I employ the square or rhombus. For my sacred animal I choose the eagle, or some other sacred to Jupiter. For my perfume, s…
1944 · PDF PAGE 57
…, cognisance must be taken of the unreal and the ir rational. Surds and infinite series are the very root forms of advanced mathematical thought. The apotheosis of mathematical physics is now the admission of failure to find reality in any single intelligible idea. The modern reply to the question “What is anything?” is that it is in relation to a chain of ten ideas, any one of which can only be interpreted in terms of the rest. The gnostics would undoubtedly have called this a “chain of ten aeons”. These ten ideas must by no means be considere…
1929 · PDF PAGE 438
…en? Sir, begone! You are not a Mason at all! As all the world knows, the people in Z--- are atheists and live with other men's wives." I thought this a little hard on my Reverend Father in God, my proposer; and I noted that, of course, every single English or American visitor to our Lodge in Z--- stood in peril of instant and irrevocable expulsion on detection. So I said nothing, but walked to another room in Freemasons' Hall over his head, and took my seat as a Past Master in one of the oldest and most eminent Lodges in London! Kindly note, fu…
1907 · PDF PAGE 17
THE STAR AND THE GARTER I! _ Shall this avail to stagger thought, Confuse the reason, bring to nought The rosebud, in reflecting: Hem! What beauty hath the flower and stem? Carbon we know, and nitrogen, And oxygen—are these a rose? But this though everybody knows, That this should be the same for men They know not. Death may decompose, Reduce to primal hyle perchance— I shall not do it in advance! So let the accidental fact That these are women, fall away To black oblivion: be the pact Concluded firm enough to-day, Not thus to err. So you are n…
1907 · PDF PAGE 162
…ed. O fruitless veil Of the strange self of its own self begotten ! O vision laughterless! O shadowy tale! O brain that halts before its thought for- gotten! Once all ye knew me—ere the earth grew pale, And Time began, and all its fruit lay rotten, Once, when thou knewest me indeed, and fed At these strong breasts—Ah! but the days are dead ! Now, in the dusty corridors of Time, I am forgotten: Gaian 1! language falters IfI would teach thee half an hint sublime Shed of the rayless fire upon my altars. Vain are the light and laughter of man’s rim…
1939 · PDF PAGE 31
…adually increasing slowness, that we become unconscious of their operation. 6. Let us deal first with the question of Asana. It might be thought that nothing would be more soothing than swinging or gentle massage. In a sense, and up to a certain point, this is so. But the activity cannot be continued because fatigue supervenes, and sooner or later the body protests by going to sleep. We must, therefore, make up our minds from the start to reduce bodily rhythm to its minimum. 7. I am not quite sure whether it is philosophically defensible, wheth…
1944 · PDF PAGE 39
…ers of the Sephiroth. It has puzzled the traditional writers on the Tarot that these numbers should run from 0 to XXI. They seem to have thought that it would be proper to as‐ sume that 0 was the Fool, because he was a cipher, a good‐for‐nothing. They made this as‐ sumption simply because they did not 1Some paragraphs of this section repeat, in slightly different phrases, statements already made in earlier pages. This is intended. know the secret doctrine of the Qabalistic Zero. They did not know elementary Mathematics. They did not know that m…
1919 · PDF PAGE 317
…ANK ried to a Canadian,” every one would say, “What a wholesome story!” The poi- son of puritanism has rotted through the whole of human thought. Conventional morality is the syphilis of the soul, and it is for the God Mercury, no one less, to oppose its action. Our trouble is rendered a thousand times more grievous because most of us do not recognize how foul is our disease. The words ‘marriage with a Canadian’ should be expunged from human language. People should be prose- cuted for printing so foul and obscene a phrase. Yet these things happ…
1909 · PDF PAGE 411
…rn writer's eloquence, he has knowledge of his subject, and he often expresses himself with a distinction of phrasing and a precision of thought which give real value to his work.” Daily Telegraph : "A good book. . . . This story reads like a page of real life written down by a man who actually did take part in the scenes described so vividly. . . . We follow their fortunes breath- lessly. . . . Descriptions as vivid as any Mr. Upton Sinclair ever painted, and they are never tedious nor overdone. .. . We must not leave the tale without mentioni…
1909 · PDF PAGE 411
…rn writer's eloquence, he has knowledge of his subject, and he often expresses himself with a distinction of phrasing and a precision of thought which give real value to his work.” Daily Telegraph : "A good book. . . . This story reads like a page of real life written down by a man who actually did take part in the scenes described so vividly. . . . We follow their fortunes breath- lessly. . . . Descriptions as vivid as any Mr. Upton Sinclair ever painted, and they are never tedious nor overdone. .. . We must not leave the tale without mentioni…
1939 · PDF PAGE 25
… to take cognisance of what is coming. It must here be remarked that because of his complete indifference to anything whatever (and that thought iswhen you get far enoughonly a primary point of wisdom) he is entirely unreliable. One of the most unfathomably dreadful dangers of the Path is that you must trust Mercury, and yet that if you trust him you are certain to be deceived. I can only explain this, if at all, by pointing out that, since all truth is relative, all truth is falsehood. In one sense Mercury is the great enemy; Mercury is mind…