FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION
Search the corpus.
Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.
3,063 matching pages
Page 120 of 1541954 · PDF PAGE 265
…e as possible omitting no school of thought however unimportant or repugnant. I made a critical examination of all these teachers in the light of my practical experience. The physiological and psychological uniformity of mankind guaranteed that the diversity of expression concealed a unity of significance. This discovery was confirmed, furthermore, by reference to Jewish, Greek, and Celtic traditions. One quintessential truth was common to all cults, from the Hebrides to the Yellow Sea; and even the main branches proved essentially identical. I…
1907 · PDF PAGE 30
lo KONX OM PAX It did seem a shame to go on; there was such a flashing green star to light it, and all the air was filled with amber-coloured flames like kisses. And we could see through the floor, and there were terrible lions, like furnaces for fury, and they all roared out: “ Holy! Holy! Holy!” and leaped and danced for joy. And when I saw myself in the mirrors, the dome was one mass of beautiful green mirrors, I saw how serious I looked, and that I had to go on. I hoped the Fairy Prince would look serious too, because it is a most dreadful busi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 289
…opened-out form of the double cube, and of the Altar of Incense.” And the Sixteenth Key of the Tarot : It represents a Tower struck by a lightning-flash proceeding from a rayed circle and terminating in a triangle, It is the Tower of Babel. The flash exactly forms the Astronomical symbol of Mars. It is the Power of the Triad rushing down and destroying the Column of Darkness. ‘The men falling from the tower represent the fali of the kings of Edom. ‘On the right-hand side of the Tower is Light, and the representation of the Tree of Life by Ten C…
1909 · PDF PAGE 289
…opened-out form of the double cube, and of the Altar of Incense.” And the Sixteenth Key of the Tarot : It represents a Tower struck by a lightning-flash proceeding from a rayed circle and terminating in a triangle, It is the Tower of Babel. The flash exactly forms the Astronomical symbol of Mars. It is the Power of the Triad rushing down and destroying the Column of Darkness. ‘The men falling from the tower represent the fali of the kings of Edom. ‘On the right-hand side of the Tower is Light, and the representation of the Tree of Life by Ten C…
1911 · PDF PAGE 43
…WHICH IS CALLED KHR The dew that was upon the face of the stone is gone, and it is become like a pool of clear golden water. And now the light is come into the Rosy Cross. Yet all that I see is the night, with the stars therein, as they appear through a tele- * This night I took the shew-stone to my breast to sleep, and immediately a Dhyana arose of the sun, seen more clearly afterwards as the Star. Exceed- ing was its brilliance. 41
1919 · PDF PAGE 101
…l I pour out the libation on Thine altars; all night will I burn the sac- rifice of blood; all night will I swing the thurible of my de- light before Thee, and the fervour of the orisons shall in- toxicate Thy nostrils. 46. O Thou who camest from the land of the Elephant, girt about with the tiger’s pell, and garlanded with the lotus of the spirit, do Thou inebriate my life with Thy madness, that She leap at my passing. 47. Bid Thy maidens who follow Thee bestrew us a bed of flowers immortal, that we may take our pleasure there- upon. Bid Thy s…
1919 · PDF PAGE 128
…e consid- erations, and a full understanding of the mysteries of the Numbers 666 and 418, you will be armed mightily in this Way of far flight. But you should also consider all numbers in their scales. For there is no means of resolution better than this of pure mathematics, since already therein are gross ideas made fine, and all is ordered and ready for the Alchemy of the Great Work. Thave already written to you of how, in the Will of Love, Light ariseth as the secret part of Life. And in the first, the little, Loves, the attained Life is sti…
1922 · PDF PAGE 285
First Aid 271 contrasted so strikingly with the deadly illness of our appearance | However, we could see the daylight afar off, and we sat down to lunch with a certain pleasure. Our appetites had not returned, of course, and we ate very little of the light and exquisite food we had ordered. But at least the idea of food did not disgust us, as had been too long the case. Lamus came in in time to join us at coffee. It was easy to see that he was pleased at the result so far obtained. Lala was not with him. Instead, he had brought Maisie Jacobs. I…
1929 · PDF PAGE 212
…n my grief," said Cyril, taking with languid grace a slip of paper from his pocket. "It came last week." Simon Iff turned it towards the light. "Horatii," he read. "A code word, I suppose. But this is dated from Iona, from the Holy House where Himself is!" "Himself" was the word used in the Order to designate its Head. "Yes," said Cyril, softly, "I was fortunate enough to interest Himself in the Experiment; so Sister Cybele has been there, under the charge of the Mahathera Phang!" "You young devil!" It was the first time that Simple Simon had b…
1944 · PDF PAGE 11
…IOGRAPHICAL NOTE—Continued His original idea had been to execute a pack after the tradition of the Mediaeval Edi‐ tors, corrected in the light of the descriptions given in The Equinox I, vii and viii. But she found technical difficulties, such as introducing “10rayed Angelic hands” all over the place, producing a grotesque effect; and she also observed that his teaching, in the course of his ex‐ planations went far higher and deeper than any‐thing in any accessible models. She accord‐ ingly forced him—the laziest man in three continents!—to und…
1954 · PDF PAGE 27
…from that letter. My special job was to preserve the Sacred Tradition, so that a new Renaissance might in due season rekindle the hidden Light. I was accordingly to make a Quintessence
1954 · PDF PAGE 64
…ay involves different orders of idea, connected with each other in a way beyond our present comprehension. (Illustration: We are able to light cities by rule-of-thumb methods. We do not know what consciousness is, or how it is connected with muscular action; what electricity is or how it is connected with the machines that generate it; and our methods depend on calculations involving mathematical ideas which have no correspondence in the Universe as we know it. 3 ) 12. Man is ignorant of the nature of his own being and powers. Even his idea of …
1911 · PDF PAGE 30
THE EQUINOX TARO; but the light is so dreadful that I cannot read the words. Iam going totry again. All these serpents are collected together very thickly at the edges of the wheel, because there are an innumerable number of sentences. One is: fves annos regimen ovracult, And another is: terribilis ardet rex why. And another is: Ter amb (amp?) (can’t see it) vosam oleo (?). And another is: 7vibus annulis vegna olisbon. And the mar- vel is that with those four letters you can get a complete set of rules for doing everything, both for white magic…
1911 · PDF PAGE 35
…es with his finger in the air. His finger leaves a trail of fire of every colour, so that the whole Aire is become like a web of mingled lights. But through it all drops dew. (I can’t describe these things at all. Dew doesn’t represent what I mean in the least. For instance, these drops of dew are enormous globes, shining like the full moon, only perfectly transparent, as well as perfectly luminous.) And now he shows the tablet again, and he says: As there are 49 letters in the tablet, so are there 49 kinds of cosmos in every thought of God. An…
1922 · PDF PAGE 374
… the ideas. I can only remember one or two clauses of the Credo : they ran thus :— “ And I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA. “‘ And I believe in the communion of Saints. ** And, forasmuch as meat and drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual substance, I believe in the Miracle of the Mass. “And I confess one Baptism of Wisdom, whereby we accomplish the Miracle of Incarnation. “‘ And I confess my life one, individual, and eternal, that was, and is, and is to come.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 520
…the soldier to a brainless bulk of brawn, to be manipulated as mechanically as a chessman, exercising his inherent energies without the slightest wish or power to think or act for himself. (This stage corresponds to that which we are rapidly approaching in industry.) Now at least we have reached a further stage. The complexity of a battle and its mere extent in space have made it impossible for {820} a single man to handle his troops as was done by Marlborough and Napoleon, and therefore it has become once more necessary for the subordinate off…
1904 · PDF PAGE 11
…. the brilliant but debauched sculptor, caustic of wit, though genial to his friends ; N . . . , the great painter, whos royal sense of light made his can- vases into a harmonious dream ; he also the sweet friend of Bacchus, who filled him with a glow and melody of colour and thought. There, too, were D . . . and L . . . , the one poet and philosopher, the other painter and I fear pederast. Twins in thought, the two were invincible in argument as they were supreme in their respective arts. Often I have sat, a privileged listener, while D .…
1907 · PDF PAGE 59
…ls that men call Time. [BONES boils ot/er. MRS. BONES strokes his marble brow. Now it hath occurred that some of the younger Adepts, the light hearted and foolish of the Great White Brotherhood, those who slip back oftenest to normal consciousness of the Universe, so that even their pure wings are soiled in the mire of sense, perception, reason, and their foul kind, some of those boys, I say, forget the Writing on the outer Veil of the Indicible Arcanum, that rune which is written, “No separate existence!” in golden letters on the silver of the…
1909 · PDF PAGE 298
…n the present case the seeker after Truth is called the Child of Earth and Darkness, and instead of being shown the beautiful garment of light he will one day be called upon to wear, is at once rolled in a heap of tinselled draperies, in mummy wrappings, outgrown togas and the discarded underwear of 290
1909 · PDF PAGE 298
…n the present case the seeker after Truth is called the Child of Earth and Darkness, and instead of being shown the beautiful garment of light he will one day be called upon to wear, is at once rolled in a heap of tinselled draperies, in mummy wrappings, outgrown togas and the discarded underwear of 290