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Page 103 of 1301996 · PDF PAGE 108
…ploys a language which is not generally intelligible to all; in such cases he must be content to appeal to the few. He must wait for the world to awake to the value of his work. The greater he is, the more individual and the less intelligible he will appear to be, although in reality he is more universal and more simple than anybody. He must be indifferent to anything but his own integrity in the realization and imagination of himself. 22. I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenne…
1929 · PDF PAGE 535
…hat I had to meet. Spiritual attainment, magical; development, any line of work {844} soever whose material is subtler than the sensible world, demands (as the first condition of success) the most severe spirit of scepticism, the most scientific system of research. For immediately one becomes aware of impressions and ideas which are not subject to the criticism of sensory perception, they are inevitably influenced by the individual characteristics of the observer and the distortion is difficult to detect because, until one is very advanced inde…
1910 · PDF PAGE 346
…. OGILVIE. 4th edition. 1s. Elkin Mathews. A great deal of Mr. Ogilvie’s verse rings true, an honest sensitive Scots heart in this brave world of ours. If he rarely—perhaps never—touches the summit of Parnassus, at least he is always on the ridge. A.C AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KaBaLaH. By W. WyNN WESTCOTT. John M. Watkins. It is difficult to find words in which to praise this little book. It is most essential for the beginner. Lucid and illuminating, it is also illuminated. In particular, we are most pleased to find the correlation of the Qabalah …
1910 · PDF PAGE 346
…. OGILVIE. 4th edition. 1s. Elkin Mathews. A great deal of Mr. Ogilvie’s verse rings true, an honest sensitive Scots heart in this brave world of ours. If he rarely—perhaps never—touches the summit of Parnassus, at least he is always on the ridge. A.C AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KaBaLaH. By W. WyNN WESTCOTT. John M. Watkins. It is difficult to find words in which to praise this little book. It is most essential for the beginner. Lucid and illuminating, it is also illuminated. In particular, we are most pleased to find the correlation of the Qabalah …
1922 · PDF PAGE 71
…he same time that nothing is really worth doing, and that itself gives you a feeling of terrific superiority to every- thing else in the world. And so, from the objective point of view, it comes to nothing. But heroin does all that morphia does. It’s a derivative of morphia, you know—Diacetyl-Morphine is the technical name. Only instead of bathing you in philosophical inertia, you are as keen as mustard on carrying out your ideas, I’ve never taken any myself. I suppose we might as well start now.”
1922 · PDF PAGE 98
…ight since the war, as you know. What with the collapse in the foreign exchanges, the decrease in the purchasing power of money, and the world’s gold all locked up in Washington, things are pretty awkward. But then, you know, it’s just that sort of situation which provides opportunities to a man with real brains. Victorian prosperity made us all rich without our knowing anything about it or doing anything for it.” “Yes,” I admitted, “ the gilt edges seem to have come off the gingerbread securities.” “Well, look here, Pendragon,” he said, pullin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 12
…w Paris. Now thendraw a line from the Gare de lEst to the Etoile; erect an equilateral triangle on that line. Think of the name of the world-famous man who lives at the apex. (This was a touch of super- genius, as it forced me to use the English alphabet for the basis of the cipher, and the spy spoke no language but his own, except a little Swiss.) From this time I shall communicate in a cipher of the direct additive nu- merical order, and the key shall be his name. It was only my incomparably strong constitution which enabled me to add t…
1938 · PDF PAGE 18
… love, and marries it in turn to every other thought; and of each bridal night the fruits are twin, the Rapture of Silence, and some new World unguessed of Phantasy; of these behold one grim and one grotesque, this lyric and that lordly, the grievous and the gracious equal in His sight, for they know neither limit nor let in the infinite variety of their Beauty, making new Harmonies with every hour, beyond belief for Joy.
1954 · PDF PAGE 31
…ce, to have the foggiest idea of what moves or motivates an initiate whose illumination has imposed an entirely new point of view on the world and life in general. The whole of letter 79 on "Progress" should be read in this connection. It is also interesting to compare some of the weird historical facts quoted in letter 48 and others regarding Adolf Hitler, Soror I.W.E., and The Book of the Law, with some of the fairy stories and fantasies spun in a relatively recent book entitled The Dawn of Magic (some editions have entitled it The Morning of…
1906 · PDF PAGE 121
…hadowy sphere To conjure in our lady’s ear !— The voices fall and fail ; The light is lowered. O dim sleep, Over her eyelids creep ! The world of dreams is shapen fair Beyond a mortal’s nod: A fragrant and a sunny air Smiles : a man’s kisses vanish there, Grow kisses of a god ; And in dreams’ darkness subtly grows No Earth-flowered bloom of rose. O dreams of love and peace, draw nigh, Hover with shadowy wings ! I.et shining shapes of ecstasy Cover the frail blue veil of sky, And speak immortal things ! Dream, lady, dream through summer noon, Lu…
1910 · PDF PAGE 94
… disciplinary course of unchastity. But the one will understand and love the other.* Once and for all do not forget that nothing in this world is permanently good or evil; and, so long as it appears to be so, then remember that the fault is the seer’s and not in the thing seen, and that the seer is still in an unbalanced state. Never forget Blake’s words: “Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place and governs the unwilling.” + Do not restrain your desires, but e…
1910 · PDF PAGE 94
… disciplinary course of unchastity. But the one will understand and love the other.* Once and for all do not forget that nothing in this world is permanently good or evil; and, so long as it appears to be so, then remember that the fault is the seer’s and not in the thing seen, and that the seer is still in an unbalanced state. Never forget Blake’s words: “Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place and governs the unwilling.” + Do not restrain your desires, but e…
1913 · PDF PAGE 3
…s in Manchester that Brother Yarker entered on his Masonic career and took up those studies which were to make him famous throughout the world in his after-life. He was initiated at the age of 21 in the Lodge of Integrity, No. 189, Manchester, on the 25th day of October, 1854, and after an interval of three months was duly Passed and Raised. The year after saw him occupying the Senior Warden’s Chair of the Lodge of Fidelity, No. 6231‘, and in 1857 he was elected Master of this Lodge. He still retained his membership of his Mother Lodge and serv…
1922 · PDF PAGE 322
…ut of our consciousness. We had come from the ephemeral pretentiousness of cities to a land of eternal actuality. We were re-born into a world whose every condition was on a totally different scale to anything in our experience. A sense of innocence pervaded us. It was as if we had awakened from a nightmare; our sense of time and space had been destroyed; but we knew that our old standards of reality had been delusions. Clocks and watches were mechanical toys. In Telepylus, our time-keeper was the Nature of which we were part. We walked on for …
1954 · PDF PAGE 537
… between Yoga and Magick? Magick is extraversion, the discovery of and subsequently the classification of and finally the control of new worlds on new planes. So far as it concerns the development of the mind its object and method are perfectly simple. What is wanted is exaltation. The aim is to identify oneself with the highest essence of whatever world is under consideration. With Yoga you might easily slip into saying that it was identical, with the exception that the new worlds are from the start recognised as already existing within the hu…
1922 · PDF PAGE 106
…e lurch. I had to catch up. I literally shovelled the snow down. I ought to have been paid a shilling an hour by the County Council. The world is full of injustice. However, we certainly didn’t have any time to have questions asked in Parliament. There was Lou almost in tears because she had nothing to wear ; practically no jewellery—the whole idea of being a knight is that when you see a wrong it is your duty to right it. Fortunately, there was no difficulty at the present moment. All we had to do was to drive down to the Rue de la Paix. I cer…
1913 · PDF PAGE 19
…s in Manchester that Brother Yarker entered on his Masonic career and took up those studies which were to make him famous throughout the world in his after-life. He was initiated at the age of 21 in the Lodge of Integrity, No. 189, Manchester, on the 25th day of October, 1854, and after an interval of three months was duly Passed and Raised. The year after saw him occupying the Senior Warden’s Chair of the Lodge of Fidelity, No. 623+, and in 1857 he was elected Master of this Lodge. He still retained his membership of his Mother Lodge and serve…
1913 · PDF PAGE 19
…s in Manchester that Brother Yarker entered on his Masonic career and took up those studies which were to make him famous throughout the world in his after-life. He was initiated at the age of 21 in the Lodge of Integrity, No. 189, Manchester, on the 25th day of October, 1854, and after an interval of three months was duly Passed and Raised. The year after saw him occupying the Senior Warden’s Chair of the Lodge of Fidelity, No. 623+, and in 1857 he was elected Master of this Lodge. He still retained his membership of his Mother Lodge and serve…
1954 · PDF PAGE 205
…T TEARS approach to Sanctuaries which of necessity are closely guarded, but merely to the recognition of a new-comer to that part of the world in general. Of course all these miracles are very naughty of you; they mean that your magical power has sprung a few small leaks; at least, the water is oozing between some planks not sealed as Hermetically as they should be. But oh-and this is naughtier still-it is a blessed, blessed comfort that they happen, that chance, coincidence, and all the rest will simply not explain it all away, that your new v…
1996 · PDF PAGE 124
…imself in all directions; it is an omniform samadhi. This is of course “eternal ecstasy” in the sense already explained. But in the time-world karma reconcentrates the elements, and a new incarnation occurs. 45. There is death for the dogs. Commentary: The prigs, the prudes, the Christians, die in a real sense of the word; for although even they are “Stars,” there is not enough body to them (as it were) to carry on the individuality. There is no basis for the magical memory if one’s incarnation holds nothing worth remembering. Count your years …