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Page 11 of 911929 · PDF PAGE 104
…ther planes. Thus, to evoke a spirit, you first obtain the objects necessary for its manifestation, and create subtler forms of the same nature from them. The Butterfly-net was worked on exactly the same lines. Morality enters into magick no more than into art or science. It is only when the effects react upon the moral nature of man that this question arises. The Venus de Medici is neither good nor bad; it is merely beautiful; but its reaction on the mind of an Antony Comstock or a harry Thaw may be disastrous, owing to the nature of such mind…
1909 · PDF PAGE 121
… over religion, love, or Wine. A German will take off his hat and dance and jodel to the sunrise—and nothing comes of it! Darwin studies Nature with more reverence and enthusiasm, but without antics—and out comes the Law of Evolution. 50 it is written “ By their fruits ye shall know them" But about this question of spiritual overfeeding—what did Darwin do when he got to the stage (as he did, be sure! many a time) when he wished every pigeon in the world at the devil? Now this wish has never really arisen in John St. John ; however bad he feels,…
1930 · PDF PAGE 80
… 4. Section G. surface of the dew, where his Soûl hides trembling. He takes them to be the first formulation in his consciousness of the nature of His Holy Guardian Angel. The “Gods” include ail the conscious éléments of his nature. The “Universe” includes ail possible phenomena of which he can be aware. The “Winds” are his thoughts, which hâve prevented him from attaining to his Angel. His Angel has made “Voice”, the magical weapon which produces “Words”, and these words hâve been the wisdom by which He hath created ail things. The “Voice” is …
1905 · PDF PAGE 30
…l that of them is, I bestow on thee, and this Also, mine eternal kiss! In one melody of bliss These and thou and I will mingle, Till all Nature’s pulses tingle, Hear and follow and obey thee, _ Thee, the lyrist; thee, the lyre! These shall hear and not gainsay thee, Follow in the extreme desire, Mingling, tingling, mixed with thee Even to all Eternity. These, and all that of them is, Take from Calliope in this Single-hearted, many mouthed, kiss. 31
1961 · PDF PAGE 195
… we were blind thereunto; lacking his Mode of Light. Yet were that Art of none avail unless we had already the Root of that Truth in our Nature, and a Bud ready to flower at the Summoning of that Sun. In Witness, nor a Boy nor a Stone hath Knowledge of the Sections of a Cone, and their Properties; but thou mayst teach these to the Boy by right Presentation, because he hath in his Nature those laws of Mind that are consonant with our Art Mathe- matical, and hath Need only of the Fledging (I may say his) so that he apply them consciously to the W…
1912 · PDF PAGE 137
…d not change. Yet? In the upshot he was English enough to try her before condemning her, German enough to lay a trap for her in the very nature of that trial. His consideration passed from judgment to execution, and his face set like a mask. Ultimately he went to a small safe in the wall, took out a half-hoop diamond ring, and dropped it into the coal-scuttle. Reward or punishment! Either the old trick—or a new one! He turned on his heel and went softly into the laboratory. Meanwhile Muriel Madox tripped along from the Escoffier in the bright Fe…
1912 · PDF PAGE 137
…d not change. Yet? In the upshot he was English enough to try her before condemning her, German enough to lay a trap for her in the very nature of that trial. His consideration passed from judgment to execution, and his face set like a mask. Ultimately he went to a small safe in the wall, took out a half-hoop diamond ring, and dropped it into the coal-scuttle. Reward or punishment! Either the old trick—or a new one! He turned on his heel and went softly into the laboratory. Meanwhile Muriel Madox tripped along from the Escoffier in the bright Fe…
1913 · PDF PAGE 434
…rofessor, then, Master Eliphas Levi, gave the persons assembled in Mme. de B——’s drawing-room the scientific explanation of the three signatures, and this is what he said : “These three signs belong to the series of sacred and primitive hieroglyphs, known only to initiates of the first order. The first is the signature of Typhon. It expresses the blasphemy of the evil spirit by establishing dualism in the creative principle. For the crux ansata of Osiris is a lingam upside down, and represents the paternal and active force of God (the vertical …
1913 · PDF PAGE 434
…rofessor, then, Master Eliphas Levi, gave the persons assembled in Mme. de B——’s drawing-room the scientific explanation of the three signatures, and this is what he said : “These three signs belong to the series of sacred and primitive hieroglyphs, known only to initiates of the first order. The first is the signature of Typhon. It expresses the blasphemy of the evil spirit by establishing dualism in the creative principle. For the crux ansata of Osiris is a lingam upside down, and represents the paternal and active force of God (the vertical …
1913 · PDF PAGE 300
THE EQUINOX fact; man is a religious animal. The word “religion” has then a necessary and absolute sense. Nature herself sanctifies the idea which this word represents, and exalts it to the height of a principle. The need of believing is closely linked with the need of loving; for that reason our souls need communion in the same hopes and in the same love. Isolated beliefs are only doubts: it is the bond of mutual confidence which, by creating faith, composes religion. Faith does not invent itself, does not impose itself, does not establish its…
1913 · PDF PAGE 300
THE EQUINOX fact; man is a religious animal. The word “religion” has then a necessary and absolute sense. Nature herself sanctifies the idea which this word represents, and exalts it to the height of a principle. The need of believing is closely linked with the need of loving; for that reason our souls need communion in the same hopes and in the same love. Isolated beliefs are only doubts: it is the bond of mutual confidence which, by creating faith, composes religion. Faith does not invent itself, does not impose itself, does not establish its…
1909 · PDF PAGE 40
…ives at stated times, each time preceded by a new ordeal and equilibration, the forces that surround him. Death he sees, and the Life of Nature whose name is Sorrow, and the Word that quickeneth these, and his own self—and when he hath recognised these four in their true nature he passes to the altar once more and as the apex of a descending triangle is admitted to the lordship of the Double Kingdom. Thus is he a member of the visible triad that is crossed with the invisible—behold the hexagram of Solomon the King! All this the Hiereus seals wi…
1939 · PDF PAGE 11
Contains in its nature the sum of the functions of being and thought. Still as I sit, and destroy all possible trace of the past, All germ of the future, nor joy nor knowledge alive at the last, It is vain, for the Silence is dowered with a nature, the seed of a name: Necessity, fearfully flowered with the blossom of possible Aim. I am Necessity? Scry Necessity mother of Fate! And Fate determines me I; and I have the Will to create. Vast is the sphere, but it turns on itself like the prettiest star, And I am the looby that learns that all thi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 429
…racles, hostile to the light, that fascinate a small number of pre- judiced or credulous witnesses. The apparent disorder in the laws of Nature is a lie: it is not then a miracle. The true miracle, the true prodigy always flaming in the eyes of all, is the ever constant harmony of effect and cause; these are the splendours of eternal order! We could not say whether Cagliostro would have per- formed miracles in the presence of Swedenborg; but he would certainly have dreaded the presence of Paracelsus and of Henry Khunrath, if these great men had…
1913 · PDF PAGE 429
…racles, hostile to the light, that fascinate a small number of pre- judiced or credulous witnesses. The apparent disorder in the laws of Nature is a lie: it is not then a miracle. The true miracle, the true prodigy always flaming in the eyes of all, is the ever constant harmony of effect and cause; these are the splendours of eternal order! We could not say whether Cagliostro would have per- formed miracles in the presence of Swedenborg; but he would certainly have dreaded the presence of Paracelsus and of Henry Khunrath, if these great men had…
1903 · PDF PAGE 22
…incalculable blue And years enwreathed in one close crown, And glimmering laughters echoing you From reverend shades of bard’s renown :— Nature alive and glad to hymn Your beauty, my delight : her God Weary, his old eyes sad and dim In his intolerable abode. 20
1929 · PDF PAGE 188
and bribe the legislature, as is done in America. But the laws of nature were not made by man, nor can they be set aside by man; they were not made at all. There are no laws of Nature in the usual sense of the word "law"; they are but statements, reduced to a generalized form in accordance with reason, of the facts observed in nature; they are formulae of the inherent properties of substance. It is impossible to evade them, or to suspend them, or to counteract them; for the effort to do so is itself in accordance with those laws themselves, and…
1904 · PDF PAGE 27
…his Seal or Character which thou shalt wear as a Lamen before thee. (3.) Vassaco.—The Third Spirit is a Mighty Prince, being of the same nature as Agares. He 1s called Vassago. This Spirit is of a Good Nature, and his office is to declare things Past and to Come, and to discover all things Hid or Lost. And he governeth 26 Legions of Spirits, and this is his Seal. (4.) Samicina, or Gamicin.—The Fourth Spirit is Samigina, a Great Marquis. He appeareth in the form of a little Horse or Ass, and then into * I am not responsible for this ultra-Arian …
1906 · PDF PAGE 161
…) Well, but another way remains. Caird's inter- Shall we expound the cosmic plan Heese his By symbolising God and man identification And nature thus? As man contains of it with ohris- Cells, nerves , grey matter in his brains, to be mystical. Each cell a life, self-centred, free His interpreta- Yet self-subordinate to the whole tion false. For its own sake—expand !—so we Molecules of a central soul, Time’s sons, judged by Eternity. Nature is gone—our joys, our pains, Our little lives—and God remains. Were this the truth—-why ! worship then Were…
1909 · PDF PAGE 6
…able to predict them. We know in what progression the Power to Speed co— efficient of a steamboat rises—and so on. But in our conquest of Nature, which we are making principally by the use of the rational intelligence of the mind, we have become aware of that world itself, so much so that educated men spend nine-tenths of their waking lives in that world, only descending to feed and dress and so on at the imperative summons of their physical constitution. Now to us who thus live the world of mind seems almost as savage and unexplored as the worl…