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Page 104 of 1141910 · PDF PAGE 500
…A Cure for Alcoholic Intemperance through the Law of Demand. Grace Before Meat; or the Science of Eating. What we need Strength for. One Way to Cultivate Courage. Some Practical Mental Recipes. The Use and Necessity of Recreation. Mental Tyranny: or, How We Mesmerise Each Other. Thought Currents. Uses of Diversion. “Lies breed Disease; Truths bring Health.” Woman’s Real Power. Good and Ill Effects of Thought. Buried Talents. The Power of Honesty. Confession. The Accession of New Thought. These four volumes constitute the cheapest and best editi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 500
…A Cure for Alcoholic Intemperance through the Law of Demand. Grace Before Meat; or the Science of Eating. What we need Strength for. One Way to Cultivate Courage. Some Practical Mental Recipes. The Use and Necessity of Recreation. Mental Tyranny: or, How We Mesmerise Each Other. Thought Currents. Uses of Diversion. “Lies breed Disease; Truths bring Health.” Woman’s Real Power. Good and Ill Effects of Thought. Buried Talents. The Power of Honesty. Confession. The Accession of New Thought. These four volumes constitute the cheapest and best editi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
…manner prescribed in the Book of Abra-Melin, without omitting the least imaginable thing of its contents; not to gloss or comment in any way on that which may be or may not be, not to use this Sacred Science to offend the Great God, not to work ill unto my neighbour: to communicate it to no living person, unless by long practice and conversation I shall know him thoroughly, well examining whether such an one really intendeth to work for the Good or for the Evil. I will punctually observe, in granting it, the same fashion which was used by Abra-…
1929 · PDF PAGE 542
…forth before the world and execute their purpose. At this point, then, I leave my memoirs. My individual life is ended forever. It was always a mere means of bringing The Book of the Law to mankind. No man yet lived whose personal adventures were worth wasting a word on. I feel a sort of shame at intruding myself in this way on the public. And yet this book will not be altogether an impudent inanity if it shows how every adventure may serve to bring about some achievement of eternal importance. {855} 88 The last lap! I sweep into the straight. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 329
…ay, either in our house or at my rooms. Directly the divorce was pronounced I returned from Algeria, whither I had gone to be out of the way during the trial, and we were photographed together, with the baby, at the Dover Street studios. I had written the agony of my soul in Rosa Decidua, which I dedicated to Lord Salvesen (not Salvarsan), the judge who presided at the trial. This poem was printed privately and a copy with the best of the photographs was sent to the judge, with a polite letter of thanks. (It is reprinted in The Winged Beetle, p…
1929 · PDF PAGE 34
…When Mr. Raven, stung to the quick, had shaken his fist at the major and yelled, "Brother, you're a sinful old man!" Mrs. Cameron "had always known there was something", and invented a ruined governess. But --- oh the laughter of her husband when the telegraph brought the major's retort, "Brother, have you no sin?" --- spoken with an accent of mildness which belied the purple of his face. In short, the meeting at Oban had split. Mr. Cameron had withdrawn from the Lord's supper!!! It was therefore absolutely necessary for both of them to assure …
1929 · PDF PAGE 215
…to spend a week at Boleskine and he had managed somehow or other to settle down there as my factor. I suppose he saved me trouble in one way or another, and was some sort of companion. He called himself Ludovic Cameron, being a passionate Jacobite and having a Cameron somewhere in his family tree. He was very keen on the Celtic revival and wanted to unite the five Celtic nations in an empire. In this political project he had not wholly succeeded: but he had got as far as designing a flag. And, oh so ugly! All this seemed childish to me, but no …
1944 · PDF PAGE 32
… leads to an understanding of the Unity of Nature (with its proper and spiritual exaltation) which could hardly be attained in any other way; it produces an internal harmony which ends in an acceptance of Life and of Nature. It is now almost time to analyse and define the traditional characteristics of these symbols; but perhaps it would be better, first of all, to build on a sure foundation by consid‐ eration of the number Two, which hitherto has not been taken into account. There are only two operations possible in the Universe, Analysis and …
1944 · PDF PAGE 40
…f a meretrix sat under an olive tree, it would bear no more fruit. If anything looked like something else, it partook in some mysterious way of its qualities. This sounds to‐day to many people mere superstitious ignorance and nonsense; but it is not altogether so. The old system of classification was sometimes good and sometimes bad, as far as it went. But in no case did it go very far. The natural ingenuity of their natural phi‐ losophers did compensate very largely for the weakness of their theory; and it did ultimately lead them (especially …
1929 · PDF PAGE 242
…ly eager to raise humanity. And lo! the Magical Formula denounced pity as damnable, acclaimed war as admirable and in almost every other way was utterly repugnant to my ideas. I did not understand the fundamental principles of {403} the initiation of mankind; and (in my own case) I did not realize that Aiwass was not necessarily responsible for the character of his message any more than the newspaper for reporting an earthquake. The Secret Chiefs had informed me that a New Aeon implied the breaking up of the civilization existing at the time; o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 379
…the drawing-room poker, but the room was so full of trumpery ornaments that there was no room to swing it. So we clinched. We fought our way to the hall. I finally got him down on the staircase. He kicked the balustrade to splinters; but I held on. Luckily, his hair was very long, so that I could knock his head on the edge of a stair whenever he tried to break away. I begged Mrs Gnaggs and the servants to send for help, but they were much too interested in watching the scrap. I had to hold him down for an hour and a half when another guest turn…
1929 · PDF PAGE 445
…t was found that it held one third more and sailed better than any other merchant vessel of the time. Thus we have a collateral proof no way inconsiderable that the Spirit of God, from whom commeth all understanding, directed Noah in that manner. Again, the central secret of a Master Mason is in a Word which is lost. This fact has induced various and ingenious persons to invent ceremonies in which it is found (in some more or less remarkable manner) amid the acclamations of the assembled populace, and proclaimed in pomp to the admiring multitud…
1929 · PDF PAGE 416
…ed by the annihilation of Aleister Crowley. I kept my body in perfect condition by walking almost every day to Fontainebleau and back, always choosing a new way through the forest so that by the end of the summer I knew every tree by name, as one might say. I had acquired a boundless love for that incomparable woodland, whose glorious beauty is still further hallowed by the romance which lurks in every glade. It was tame indeed in comparison with a hundred other jungles which I had known, but for all that it possesses an individual charm which …
1929 · PDF PAGE 444
…antage of mankind. Wherever freemasonry and allied systems contribute to these themes, their information has been incorporated in such a way as not to infringe the privileges, puerile as they often seem, which have been associated hitherto with initiation. Where they merely perpetuate trivialities, superstitions and prejudices, they have been neglected. I claim for my system that it satisfies all possible requirements of true freemasonry. It offers a rational basis for universal brotherhood and for universal religion. It puts forward a scientif…
1906 · PDF PAGE 285
TIME 279 7@:c¢::¢:a—an infinite process. The final factor is always unknowable—yet it is the one thing known. Afyst. And because it is always present, therefore it is unkenned. Scept. We are now nearer Spencer than appeared. For the fact that it must be there, unchanging in function, while con- sciousness persists, gives the idea of a definite substratum to subserve that function. Myst. I cannot but agree; and I would further observe that when, in Dhyana, it ceases to examine, and apperceives, the ‘‘ relative eternity,’ z.¢., the intense vividn…
1907 · PDF PAGE 232
…r Berkeley filthiest dregs of mankind, pretends that there iis no such thing as natural aristocracy, though to be sure he gives himself away badly enough when confronted with either a nigger or a gentleman, since to ape EXTRACTS FROM THE BOOK OF THE SACRED MAGIC OF ABRAMELIN THE MAGE I resolved to absent myself suddenly and go away... and lead a solitary life. I am about here to set down in writing the difficulties, temptations, and hindrances which will be caused him by his own relations... . beforehand thou shouldest arrange thine affairs in …
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…od, so be it! I had the sense to accept the Ordeal as a compliment. The umbilical cord was cut: I was an independent being, with his own way to make in the world. On the boat from Yokohama to Shanghai were two American spinsters of the faded variety, with parchment skin due to dryness of climate and devotion to virtue and cocktails. Hearing that I was interested in literature, hope revived. They told me their favorite poet was Rossetti. I was tactless enough to ask which of his poems they had read and preferred, but it did not runt to that. It …
1944 · PDF PAGE 102
…curve. For instance, it is an ellipse whose foci are an “infinite” distance apart. In fact, such use of the Calcultis is the one certain way of ensuring “straightness”. In the first chapter of the Book of the Law, the conclusion is of practical importance. It gives the definite formula for the attainment of truth. “I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice.” “But to love me is better than all things: if under the night‐stars in the des…
1906 · PDF PAGE 252
…ion of sorrow, This is a simple logical inference from the second Truth, and needs no comment. (4) THE NosLeE EIGHTFOLD ParH.— There f a way, to be considered later, of realising the Third Truth. But we must, before we can perceive its possibility on the one hand, or its necessity on the other, form a clear idea of what are the Buddhist tenets with regard to the Cosmos; and, in particular, to man.? IV. THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS. The Three Characteristics (which we may predicate of all known existing things): (a) Change. Anikka. (6) Sorrow. Dukk…
1929 · PDF PAGE 218
…e obscene forms of torture still lingered --- even in the Scottish Highlands. "Come, come," I said, "There must be a simpler and quicker way to get married than that." Surely, I said to myself, all that stuff about Gretna Green must have some basis in fact. He shook his head sorrowfully, a discomfortable which I checked by slipping him a half-crown. He then admitted {364} that it was only necessary to go to the sheriff of the county and declare the intention to get married, in which case the marriage would take place there and then. "There and …