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…essed by phantoms are usually exalted by too rigorous celibacy, or weakened by excesses. Fluidic phantoms are the abortions of the vital light; they are plastic media without body and without spirit, born from the excesses of the spirit and the disorders of the body. These wandering media may be attracted by certain degenerates who are fatally sympathetic to them, and who lend them at their own cost a factitious existence of a more or less durable kind. They then serve as supplementary instru- ments to the instinctive volitions of these degener…
1930 · PDF PAGE 60
… the Master. Particular pledges may be demanded, ordeals imposed, and initiations conferred. These are most serious matters; the Body of Light must be fully adult, irrevocably fixed, or it will be disintegrated at the outset. But, being fit to pass through such expériences, it is bound utterly to its words and acts. It cannot even appear to break an oath, as its fleshly fellow may do. Such, then is a general description of the Astral Plane, and of the proper conduct of the Magician in his dealings therewith. 264 —
1904 · PDF PAGE 24
…ul of creation’s pain Not dumb !—forgetful of the pangs Whereby each life laments and hangs, (Now as I speak a lizard71 lies In wait for light-bewildered flies) 580 585 590 595 600 605 610 615 heaven suffers Hell’s pangs, owing to re- proaches of bard. Ethical and eloquent de- nunciation of Christian Cos- mogony.
1904 · PDF PAGE 44
…ay You paint—I think you should one day Take me to seek your Studio— Tell me, when all your work goes right, Painted to match some inner light, What of the outer world you know ! Surely, your best work always finds Itself sole object of the mind’s. In vain you ply the brush, distracted By something you have heard or acted. Expect some tedious visitor— Your eye runs furtive to the door ; Your hand refuses to obey ; You throw the useless brush away. I think I hear the Word you say ! I practice then, with conscious power Watching my mind, each tho…
1906 · PDF PAGE 178
… all-Wickedness. —Nay! but it may! What shadows flit Across the awful veil of mist? What thoughts invade, insult, impress? There comes a lightning of my wit And sees—nor good nor ill address Itself to task, creation’s ill, But a mere law without a will,” Nothing resolved in something, fit Phantom of dull stupidity, And evolution’s endless stress All the inanity to knit Thence: such a dark device I see! Nor lull my soulin the caress Of Buddha’s “ Maya fashioned it.” # My mind seems ready to agree ; But still my senses worry me. Nor can I see wha…
1909 · PDF PAGE 40
…gemon’s new summons he—to his surprise-«finds himself as the Hanged Man of the Tarot. Each point of the figure thus formed they crown with light, until he glitters with the Flame of the Spirit.
1909 · PDF PAGE 97
…least, these states are of the most extraordinary interest. Even as insanities, they would demand the strictest investiga- tion from the light they throw upon the working of the brain. But as itis! All the sacred literature of the world is full of them ; all the art and poetry of all time is inspired by them ; and, by the Lord Harry! we know nothing about them. Nothing but what vague and troubled reflections the minds 87
1909 · PDF PAGE 97
…least, these states are of the most extraordinary interest. Even as insanities, they would demand the strictest investiga- tion from the light they throw upon the working of the brain. But as itis! All the sacred literature of the world is full of them ; all the art and poetry of all time is inspired by them ; and, by the Lord Harry! we know nothing about them. Nothing but what vague and troubled reflections the minds 87
1909 · PDF PAGE 6
…lled “vital scepticism” is but a device to avoid true questioning, and therefore its very antithesis, the devil disguised as an angel of light. [Or vice versd, friend, if you are a Satanist; ’tis a matter of words—words—words. You may write x for y in your equations, so long as you consistently write y for x. They remain unchanged—and unsolved. Is not all our “knowledge” an example of this fallacy of writing one unknown for another, and then crowing like Peter’s cock ?] I picture the true sceptic as a man eager and alert, his deep eyes glitteri…
1913 · PDF PAGE 46
…he most beautiful, and the dancers reverent; while the goal of the ideas, expressions, and dances is piety. “Thus drunken unto morning’s light with this fair drunkenness, with no head-heaviness or drowsiness, but with eyes and body fresher even than when they came to the banquet, they take their stand at dawn, when, catch- ing sight of the rising sun, they raise their hands to
1913 · PDF PAGE 158
… within the Masters of the Temple, that sit hooded, encamped upon the sea? Verily, there is no life in them. Their sandals were the pure light, and they have taken them from their feet and cast them down through the abyss, for this AEthyr is holy ground. Herein no forms appear, and the vision of God face to face, that is transmuted in the Athanor called dissolution, or hammered into one in the forge of meditation, is in this place but a blasphemy and a mockery. And the Beatific Vision is no more, and the glory of the Most High is no more. There…
1913 · PDF PAGE 46
…he most beautiful, and the dancers reverent; while the goal of the ideas, expressions, and dances is piety. “Thus drunken unto morning’s light with this fair drunkenness, with no head-heaviness or drowsiness, but with eyes and body fresher even than when they came to the banquet, they take their stand at dawn, when, catch- ing sight of the rising sun, they raise their hands to
1913 · PDF PAGE 158
… within the Masters of the Temple, that sit hooded, encamped upon the sea? Verily, there is no life in them. Their sandals were the pure light, and they have taken them from their feet and cast them down through the abyss, for this AEthyr is holy ground. Herein no forms appear, and the vision of God face to face, that is transmuted in the Athanor called dissolution, or hammered into one in the forge of meditation, is in this place but a blasphemy and a mockery. And the Beatific Vision is no more, and the glory of the Most High is no more. There…
1907 · PDF PAGE 37
… " speaks ) : Ha ! The rose has washed its petals , and the blood Pours through its burning centre from my heart . The fire consumes the light ; the rosy flame Leaps through the veins of blue , and tinges them With such a purple as incarnadines The western sky when storms are amorous And lie upon the breast of toiling ocean , Such billows to beget as earth devours In ravening whirlpool gulphs . My veins are full , Throbbing with fire more potent than all wine , All sting of fleshly pangs and pleasures . Oh ! The god is fast upon my back ; he ri…
1907 · PDF PAGE 181
174 THE STAR IN THE WEST darkness into light . “ The stone becomes a plant, the plant an animal , the animal a man , and man greatens into Deity ." I Nothing is absolutely evil , nothing is accursed for ever , not even the archangel of evil , for a time will come when his name and angelic nature will be restored to him .2 Thus we rise through the microprosopus of good and evil , to the great ethical macroprosopus which is equilibrated . Many are the tracks and by -paths of life which lead over the mountains , the swamps , the forests of existen…
1910 · PDF PAGE 20
…ord man and a traveller. He taught me sense and manhood, and I shall not easily forget my debt to him. I hear he is dead — may earth lie light upon him ! Of course my Mother and her brother my uncle Tom couldn’t stand him. (I must excuse my mother and my Uncle. The former was the best of all possible mothers, only marred beyond belief by the religious monomania which perhaps started in what one may call “ Hysteria of Widow- hood ” ; the latter a typical sexual degenerate.) They stole his letters and faked up some excuse for getting rid of him. …
1911 · PDF PAGE 131
…e is like a black leopard,” she purred. “Is anything in the world so beautiful as that lithe black body ? ” ”I have seen blood in the sunlight on a bull's shoulder," replied Rolles. “ I love to see the pure animal beat the mere brute. White men ought not to fight: they ought to think, and do lovely physical things, things gracious and of good report." “Ida! my Ida! Could you see your nostrils twitching! I can imagine you fighting with all their fierceness, incapable of keeping to the rules of boxing.” “ Ι hate you,” she said. “ In everything you s…
1911 · PDF PAGE 131
…e is like a black leopard,” she purred. “Is anything in the world so beautiful as that lithe black body ? ” ”I have seen blood in the sunlight on a bull's shoulder," replied Rolles. “ I love to see the pure animal beat the mere brute. White men ought not to fight: they ought to think, and do lovely physical things, things gracious and of good report." “Ida! my Ida! Could you see your nostrils twitching! I can imagine you fighting with all their fierceness, incapable of keeping to the rules of boxing.” “ Ι hate you,” she said. “ In everything you s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 360
…and the infernal boar has found death in its momentary victory. Lift yourselves up again, O Temples of Delphi and of Ephesus! The God of Light and of Art is become the God of the world, and the Word of God is indeed willing to be called Apollo! Diana will no more reign widowed in the lonely fields of night; her silvern crescent is now beneath the feet of the bride. But Diana is not conquered by Venus; her Endymion has wakened, and virginity is about to take pride in mother- hood! Quit the tomb, O Phidias, and rejoice in the destruction of thy f…
1913 · PDF PAGE 360
…and the infernal boar has found death in its momentary victory. Lift yourselves up again, O Temples of Delphi and of Ephesus! The God of Light and of Art is become the God of the world, and the Word of God is indeed willing to be called Apollo! Diana will no more reign widowed in the lonely fields of night; her silvern crescent is now beneath the feet of the bride. But Diana is not conquered by Venus; her Endymion has wakened, and virginity is about to take pride in mother- hood! Quit the tomb, O Phidias, and rejoice in the destruction of thy f…