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Page 107 of 1301930 · PDF PAGE 82
…go to a Hindu teacher, he treats you as less than an earthworm. You hâve to do this, and you hâve to do that, and you are not allowed to know why you are doing it. 1 After years of expérience in teaching, The Master Tuerion is not altogether convinced that this is not the right attitude. 1. This does not conflict with the “go-as-you-please” plan put forward in the previous note. An autocratie Adept is indeed a blessing to the disciple, not because he is able to guide the pupil “aright” in the particular path which happens to suit his personalit…
1930 · PDF PAGE 91
…re. It is useless to try to force oneself in these matters; the uninitiated Aspirant, however eager he may be, is sure to fail. One must know how to deal with each internai idea as it arises. It is impossible to overcome one’s inhibitions by conscious effort; their existence justifies them. God is on their side, as on that of the victim in Browning’s înstans Tyrannus. A man cannot compel himself to love, however much he may want to, on various rational grounds. But on the other hand, when the true impulse cornes, it overwhelms ail its critics; …
1919 · PDF PAGE 144
…the silent voices whispered “Welcome brother.” Then all was calm and Peace as before. The little ripple flowed on to let the whole world know, then, having delivered its message, all was still. Amen. Whatever the nature of this Illumination, probably a state of Dhyana, it left a very marked result on the consciousness of Frater V.1.O., and gave him the necessary energy to con- tinue his Work through many a dark and dismal period. He himself could not gauge its value at all at the time. He was alone in Vancouver and out of touch with the Order, …
1954 · PDF PAGE 245
…ay turn out to be wrong for a dozen different reasons without anybody getting seriously wounded in his tenderest feelings. The Statesman knows instinctively, or at worst, by his training and experience, what sort of assertion, harmless enough on the surface, may be "dangerous thinking," a death-blow to his own idea of what is "of all Truth," and strikes out wildly in a panic entirely justifiable from his own point of view. Exhibit No.1: Galileo and that lot. What could it possibly matter to the Gospel story that people should think that the Ear…
1929 · PDF PAGE 498
… holiday. "There is only one fly," I said, "in the apothecary's ointment. Like Adam in Eden, I lack an Eve." He laughed. "Don't worry! I know a girl game for any adventure. She has wonderful hair --- orange-red curls, calculated to produce delirium tremens at a moment's notice. Here's her name and address." At that moment a small crowd called and for the next half hour we rocked with laughter at the astounding imitation which Tony gave of me wooing a woman. I left a note for the girl --- Madeleine was her name --- at her hotel, asking her to dr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 94
…tity between the two men. Nobodv is shocked to observe that the ambition of Napoléon has diminished the average stature of Frenchmen. We Know that somehow or other every force must find its fulfilment; and those people who hâve grasped the fact that external events are merely symptoms of external ideas, cannot find any difficulty in attributing the correspondences of the one to the identities of the other. Far be it from any apologist for Magick to insist upon the objective validity of these concaténations! It would be childish to cling to the …
1996 · PDF PAGE 148
…itiation is so important to every aspirant that I shall illustrate how my own ignorance bred error, and error injury. My Will was, I now know, to be The Beast, 666, a Magus, the Word of the .¿Eon, Thelema; to proclaim this new Law to mankind. My passion for personal freedom, my superiority to sexual impulses, my resolve to master physical fear and weakness, my contempt for other people’s opinions, my poetic genius: I indulged all these to the full. None of them carried me too far, ousted the others, or injured my general well-being. On the cont…
1996 · PDF PAGE 68
…ct it from every disaster, so that the substance of the talisman may be as per fect as possible. One must calm the mind, increasing its knowl edge, organizing its powers, resolving its tangles, so that it may truly apprehend the Silent Self, judge partial pleas and unbalanced opinions, while supporting the concentration of the Will by its fortified frontiers, and, with unanimous enthusiasm, acclaiming the Lordship of the thought which expresses the act. The Will must seal itself upon the substance of the talisman. It must be, in alchemical la…
1907 · PDF PAGE 101
…e are too well ware How vain is prayer, How nought is great, since all is immanent, The vast content Of all the universe unalterable. We know too well THE light streams stronger through the lamps How no one thing abides awhile at all, of sense. Intelligence Grows as we go. Alas: its icy glimmer Shows dimmer, dimmer The awful vaults we traverse. Were the sun Himself the one Glory of space, he would but illustrate The night of Fate. Are not the hosts of heaven in vain arrayed ? | Their light dismayed Before the vast blind spaces of the sky? O gal…
1909 · PDF PAGE 72
…ories, poems, drawings, whereby, through the medium of art, those truths which are as yet too subtle for scientific analysis may be made known; (3) of the knowledge of methods of research, higher and lower ; (4) of any other literature or art which may be considered suitable. The A.*. A.*. consists of a number of persons who have Themselves attained that condition which has been variously described as “saintship,” “ Mahatma- ship,” ‘‘mastership,” ““adeptship,” and so on, according to the accidents of time and place. They consider that the time …
1907 · PDF PAGE 159
…ol. I, seeing the life Of the flowers renew, The victorious strife Of the spring run through, The child’s birth rife With loftier dew— I know the deep truth in myself; see acacia in cypress and yew.
1929 · PDF PAGE 69
… babbled Lisa, incoherent. But the child's ringing laughter silenced her. "I forgive you for spoiling my record," she bubbled over. "You know, I'm supposed to get them five times in six." Lisa stood bewildered. But Sister Cybele was wringing her hands and kissing her, and Cyril Grey was telling the child that he had first claim on the strangle-hold — And then they all suddenly melted from her. Simon Iff was walking toward her, and his hand was open. "I congratulate you, sister," he said solemnly, "upon your initiation to our holy Order. You hav…
1944 · PDF PAGE 268
…ames of the four Virtues of the Adept, those which enable him to overcome the resistance of the elements; they are: to Will, to Dare, to Know and to Keep Silence. By the harmonious exercise of these, the fifth Element of Spirit is formulated in the being of the Adept. It is the god within, the sun, which is the centre of the Universe from the human point of view, with its own particular virtue, which is to Go. The essential charac‐ teristic of the godhead is this faculty of Going; the free movements of space and time and all other possible cond…
1929 · PDF PAGE 41
…was. The cone goes on. The circle gets bigger and bigger. Suddenly, as the cone goes completely through, snap! "Now, what does the water know? "Nothing about any cone. If it got any idea that the various commotions were caused by a single object, which it would only do if it compared them carefully, noted a regularity of rate of increase in the size of the circle, and so on — in other words, used the scientific method - it would not evolve a theory of a [60] cone, for we must remember that any solid body is to it a thing as wildly inconceivable…
1954 · PDF PAGE 390
…w it was that Christ managed to be dead for three days and three nights between Friday night and Sunday morning. He said that he did not know, and (to a further question) that no one had ever explained it. This merely filled me with ambition to be the great exegetist who had explained it. I never thought of doubting the story. Well, all this time, and then through puberty, despite my romantic bent, my absorption in the gramarye of Sir Walter Scott, my imaginative life as one of his heroes, and the rest of it, I never had even a moment's illusio…
1905 · PDF PAGE 249
…d I perceive a Star That shames thy beauties and thy manifold Mind with Its tiny triple flame. I go! VENUS, Try not the impossible. Thou knowest my power. I shall renew the charm. TANNHAUSER. I see a Power Above thy mockery of witchcraft. Work Thy devilish lusts on me unfortunate ! There is no gateway to this fortalice? Thy fiends surround me? Hein! their pangs begin ! I have one word, one cry, one exorcism : Avé Maria ! VENUS. Mercy! Mercy, God! [ Zhunder rolls in the lightning-riven sky. All the illusion vanishes, and TANNHAUSER finds himself…
1929 · PDF PAGE 238
…by the Buddha, a meditation upon a corpse torn by wild beasts. I will take that." Simon Iff acquiesced without comprehending. He did not know that Cyril Grey had understood that the corpse of Douglas was his own; that the perception of the identity of himself with all other living things had come to him, and raised him to a great Adeptship. But there was one to comprehend the nature of that initiation. As Cyril walked, leaning on the arm of Sister Cybele, to the room appointed for his prescribed solitude, he beheld a great light. It shone seren…
1905 · PDF PAGE 33
…IAIS CHARICLES, Not a flower of them shall die, Every one shall blossom newly ; Stars shall lend them of their beauty, Rain and sunshine know their duty. ARCHAIS. Not a flower of them shall die That compose our canopy 5 Beech and chestnut, poplar tall, Birch and elm shall flourish all Dewed with ever-living spring. Song and dance shall close the day, CHORUS, Close this happy, happy day. . CHARICLES. Of your revels I'll -be king, ARCHAIS. I the queen of your array. Both. Foot it nimbly in the ring ! CHORUS. Stay, stars, and dance with us! Our so…
1929 · PDF PAGE 167
…troubled to bring libel actions. But he would not give in. He studied Vesquit's transcripts attentively, and with indecision. He did not know how far to trust the oracle, and he did not understand how Vesquit had come to die, since on that point even Arthwait had been silent. The demons whom he consulted were emphatic in favour of the document, but failed to explain how the fortress was to be reduced from the inside. He was clear in his mind as to the nature of Grey's operation; he saw perfectly that Lisa herself was the weak point in it; but h…
1996 · PDF PAGE 215
…st be done well and with business way. 42. The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. Refuse none, but thou shalt know & destroy the trai tors. I am Ra-Hoor-Khuit; and I am powerful to protect my servant. Success is thy proof: argue not; convert not; talk not overmuch! Them that seek to entrap thee, to overthrow thee, them attack without pity or quarter; de destroy them utterly. Swift as a trodden serpent turn and strike! Be thou yet dead lier than he! Drag down their souls to awful torment: laugh at their fear: spit up…