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Page 106 of 1731913 · PDF PAGE 56
…love. There is the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God. All these old letters of my Book are aright ; but ¥ is not the Star. This also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. 58. 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. 59. My incense is of resinous woods & gums; and there is no blood therein : because of my …
1930 · PDF PAGE 74
… the work be accomplished duly; yea, let it be accomplished duly. (If any really important or remarkable results should occur, or if any great difficulty présents itself, the A .*. A .*. should be at once informed of the circumstances.) — 374
1906 · PDF PAGE 270
…is opportunity to introduce my system of continuous footnotes, on the analogy of continuous fractions. In this case they are recurring—a great art in itself, though an error ineso far that they fail to sub- serve the great object of all footnotes, viz. to distract the attention of the reader. h Text appended :— CALIBAN ON. PATMOS. Being the Last Adventure of the Beloved Disciple. [CoME, kids, lambs, doves, cubs, cuddle! Hear ye John Pronounce on the primordial protoplast Palingenetic, palzeontologic, And beat that beggar’s bleeding NWN IA With …
1912 · PDF PAGE 283
…he was born, organized a procession which, instead of taking so many hours to pass a given point, decided, in flattering imitation of its greatest son, to take several weeks to come to it. The “old family of Lovell," which boasts itself to be his ancestor through his mother, saw the culmination of its own fortunes in this great fortune of its fortune—telling scion, and gave itself the Glad Eye; the “earliest settlers in Connecticut," who were responsible for his father, wriggled with pleasure in their graves, like tickled children: the “orders a…
1912 · PDF PAGE 283
…he was born, organized a procession which, instead of taking so many hours to pass a given point, decided, in flattering imitation of its greatest son, to take several weeks to come to it. The “old family of Lovell," which boasts itself to be his ancestor through his mother, saw the culmination of its own fortunes in this great fortune of its fortune—telling scion, and gave itself the Glad Eye; the “earliest settlers in Connecticut," who were responsible for his father, wriggled with pleasure in their graves, like tickled children: the “orders a…
1919 · PDF PAGE 260
THE GRADES OF THE 0. T. 0. AND SCALE OF FEES APPOINTED FOR EACH IN U.S. AMERICA, _ IN GREAT BRITAIN. Initiation Annual Initiation Annual Fee.* Subscription.t Fee.* — Subscription.t O° Minerval . $5.0 . «A110. 5.0. $50... 110.41 10 50. 100... TIO. 20 50. 150... ILO. 30 “. Me. 5.0. IlO. IV° Companion of the Holy Royal Arch of Enoch .........eceeeee eens 100. 200... 220. 4 40 Prince of Jerusalem ............. 5.0. oO. Every man or woman that is of full age, free, and of good report, has an inde- feasible right to these degrees. Beyond this, admiss…
1919 · PDF PAGE 403
THE SEVEN PORTALS 4. The rugged Path of fourfold Dhyana winds on uphill. Thrice great is he who climbs the lofty top. 5. The Péramita heights are crossed by a still steeper path. Thou hast to fight thy way through portals seven, seven strongholds held by cruel, crafty Powers—passions incarnate. The distinction between the two Paths is now evident; that of Dhyana is intellectual, or one might better say, men- tal, that of Paramita, moral: But it may well be asked whether these Paths are mutually exclusive, whether a good man is always an idiot a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
52 THE STAR IN THE WEST greater than wisdom , greater than the power of the Gods themselves ; for they too must worship at the shrine of Love , the shrine of the great World Mother , the mystic Isis , goddess of beauty , mother of love , queen of laughter , mistress of pleasure . “ I am all that has been , that shall be, and none among mortals has hitherto taken off my veil.” Innocent friendship or platonic love can never be a success where the rapture of a kiss is burning on the lips of two lovers ; the first spells ignorance and the second fa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 574
…and dyed his hair; for scoffers and false savants must find some sort of explanation for the phenomena which they do not understand. The great magical means of preserving the youth of the body is to prevent the soul from growing old by preserving preciously that original freshness of sentiments and thoughts which the corrupt world calls illusions, and which we shall call the primitive mirages of eternal truth. To believe in happiness upon earth, in friendship, in love, in a maternal Providence which counts all our steps, and will reward all our…
1913 · PDF PAGE 574
…and dyed his hair; for scoffers and false savants must find some sort of explanation for the phenomena which they do not understand. The great magical means of preserving the youth of the body is to prevent the soul from growing old by preserving preciously that original freshness of sentiments and thoughts which the corrupt world calls illusions, and which we shall call the primitive mirages of eternal truth. To believe in happiness upon earth, in friendship, in love, in a maternal Providence which counts all our steps, and will reward all our…
1919 · PDF PAGE 97
…hy lips with vermilion; thou hast plastered thy cheeks with ivory enam- els. Thou hast played the wanton in every gate and by-way of the great city. The men of the city have lusted after thee to abuse thee and to beat thee. They have mouthed the golden spangles of fine dust wherewith thou didst bedeck thine hair; they have scourged the painted flesh of thee with their whips; thou hast suffered unspeakable things. 9. But I have burnt within thee as a pure flame without oil. In the midnight I was brighter than the moon; in the daytime I exceeded …
1954 · PDF PAGE 176
…rue , is superior; the perfection of the original has been enhanced and enriched by its experience. There is another way of defining the Great Work that explains to us the whole object of manifestation, of departing from the perfection of "Nothing" towards the perfection of "everything," and one may consider this advantage, that it is quite impossible to go wrong. Every experience, whatever may be its nature, is just another necessary bump. Naturally one cannot realize this until one becomes a Master . of the Temple; consequently, one is perpet…
1929 · PDF PAGE 136
…yogi. His injunctions to abandon family ties, to make no provision for the future, and so on, are typical. From this man, Allan learnt a great deal of the theory and practice of Yoga. When he was about eighteen, Allan had accidentally stumbled into {237} the trance called Shivadarshana, in which the universe, having been perceived in its totality as a single phenomenon, independent of space and time, is then annihilated. This experience had determined the whole course of his life. His one object was to get back into that state. Shri Parananda s…
1907 · PDF PAGE 265
…iscover its value by a simple mathematical process ! 0 0 ° = 01-2 O Multiply by 1 = ñ O Then O ' “ Now the multiplying of the infinitely great by the n o [ :] n n X O xoo n
1909 · PDF PAGE 188
…onquered Will. Add the Pahinl next two letters on either side, and we get AVA? ora concealed Tetragrammaton. And this also reads 0», the Great Sea, nx, Alpha and Omega, or Essence. Add the next two, so that the six central letters are obtained ; and we read mnxo, which signifies orn, swollen, extended, or expanded; and hence Zhou (¢.e., God, Ateh, the All) a extension. But by Metathesis of these six letters is obtained nox mn = “Truth Was,” as if affirming solemnly the presence in the Creation of the Supernal Truth. Now let us take the first an…
1909 · PDF PAGE 188
…onquered Will. Add the Pahinl next two letters on either side, and we get AVA? ora concealed Tetragrammaton. And this also reads 0», the Great Sea, nx, Alpha and Omega, or Essence. Add the next two, so that the six central letters are obtained ; and we read mnxo, which signifies orn, swollen, extended, or expanded; and hence Zhou (¢.e., God, Ateh, the All) a extension. But by Metathesis of these six letters is obtained nox mn = “Truth Was,” as if affirming solemnly the presence in the Creation of the Supernal Truth. Now let us take the first an…
1910 · PDF PAGE 84
…t made with hands. The letter [Persian text] itself (not [Persian text] but the Hebrew ב. Ed.) means house, and connotes (says Mahbub) a great Magus — “ The Magus of Power.” The passage means therefore that mystic Union is the key to Practical Magic. 3. This sort of individualization of ideas is common in Eastern literature. We had a bad attack of it ourselves with Thomas Haines Bayley and Co. “ Though Custom may frown upon Boyhood and Beauty, And Ethics take counsel with Prudence and Breeding, Morality smiles “ But if Patience be Duty, Should …
1930 · PDF PAGE 48
…ld the water and the salty and mixes them in the font. The PRIESTESS. Let the sait of Earth admonish the Water to bear the virtue of the Great Sea. (Genujlects). Mother, be thou adored! She returns to the Westy -j~ on PRIEST with open hand doth she makey over his foreheady breast and body. Be the PRIEST pure of body and soûl! The PRIESTESS takes the censer jrom the childy and places it on the small altar. She puis incense therein. Let the Pire and the Air make sweet the world! Genujlects. Father, be thou adored ! She returns W est y and makes w…
1947 · PDF PAGE 9
… though with fire and sword it be burnt down and shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox. Now this mystery of the letters is done, and I want to go on to a holier place. Also for beautys sake and loves ! Despise also all cowards ; all fools despise ! But the keen and the proud, the royal and the lofty ; ye are brothers ! As brothers fight ye ! There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. Love is the law, love under will.
1910 · PDF PAGE 180
… to this drug, which I had never previously taken). Recovering from the Laudanum. Pranayama and Dharana hopeless.* Another month of this great work commences, and though the toil has not been wasted the reward indeed seems still far off. On the first of the month P. writes:— “Blessed be thou, O Bhavani, O Isis my Sister, my Bride, my Mother! Blessed be Thou, O Shiva, O Amoun, Concealed of the Concealed. By Thy most secret and Holy Name of Apophis be Thou blessed, Lucifer, Star of the Dawn, Satan- Jeheshua, Light of the World! Blessed be Thou, B…