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Page 125 of 1731996 · PDF PAGE 45
46 The Law is for All 43. Do that, and no other shall say nay. Commentary: The general meaning of this verse is that so great is the power of asserting one’s right that it will not long be disputed. For by doing so one appeals to the Law. In practice it is found that people who are ready to fight for their rights are respected, and let alone. The slave-spirit invites oppression. 44. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect. Commentary: This verse is best interpreted by defining “pure will” as…
1904 · PDF PAGE 77
…acker for a moment in order to wipe it dry nothing is so deleterious to the proper enjoy- ment of a game at Hey Gammer Cook as the too great slitheriness of the ladys rattle-bollocks and in returning it to its sheath, the lassie was so pleased that she forgot for a second her role for protecting herself against danger of impregnation. This has always been to constrict the vagina in two places : near the vulva, to tighten on the master of ceremonies : and at the cervix, to prevent any of the fertilizing fluid, or, as she loved to call it, t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 98
…n end !” And so the God , who is eternal Love , at present does — in the Lock Hospital or over Waterloo Bridge . Nevertheless there is a great truth hidden in this line . The truth that love shall triumph over mind , or rather that both shall agree . If the carnal act is foul , it is then as foul in the palace as in the brothel : mere prostitution of the body need not necessarily mean a similar prostitution of the mind , as we saw in the “ Tale of Archais .' Every woman's body is as free a possession of her own as that of every man is of his ow…
1910 · PDF PAGE 164
…is present; he is future. He is here, he is there. He is everything. He is nowhere. He is nothing. He is blessed, he has attained to the Great Deliverance. He IS; he IS NOT. He is one with Nibbana.+ * Tbid., p. 216. + Another and perhaps a more comprehensive way of attributing the Noble Eightfold Path to the Tree of Life is as follows: The first and second steps— Right Comprehension and Right Resolution, may from their purging nature fitly be compared to Yama and Niyama and also to the Earthy and Lunar natures of Malkuth and Yesod. The third an…
1910 · PDF PAGE 164
…is present; he is future. He is here, he is there. He is everything. He is nowhere. He is nothing. He is blessed, he has attained to the Great Deliverance. He IS; he IS NOT. He is one with Nibbana.+ * Tbid., p. 216. + Another and perhaps a more comprehensive way of attributing the Noble Eightfold Path to the Tree of Life is as follows: The first and second steps— Right Comprehension and Right Resolution, may from their purging nature fitly be compared to Yama and Niyama and also to the Earthy and Lunar natures of Malkuth and Yesod. The third an…
1910 · PDF PAGE 17
…s results go, I believe them to be right. I should observe that the translation itself, as well as many of the notes, is due in the very great- est degree to the earnest help of my munshi, and of a certain dealer in furs, with whom I travelled through L... h, A... r, and G... t, as well as in the C... s country, during two successive summers. Some two months after the completion of trans- lation, I fell in with the gentleman whose name ap- pears with mine on the title-page. He represented
1910 · PDF PAGE 19
…offer who quotes such passages as “ Me be- loved put in his hand by the hole, and my bowels were moved in me ” (Cant. v.4), have built a great rampart of argument to that effect.2 But Abdullah no doubt considered that the specific differences between man and woman vitiated the symbol, since man is formed in the image of God, and in Muslim theology is not supposed to have forfeited the same. It may here be remarked (as a bulwark to this contention) that el Haji is conspicuous — in fact, incurs reproach in consequence — for his in- novation in th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 121
… the first, your consciousness remaining in the higher and leaving the lower. In this practice do you continue, bending your Will like a great Bow to drive the Arrow of your con- sciousness through heavens ever higher and holier. But the continuance in this Way is itself of vital value: for it shall be that presently habit herself shall persuade you that the body which is born and dieth within so little a space as one cycle of Neptune in the Zodiac is no essential of your Self, that the Life of which you are become partaker, while itself subjec…
1922 · PDF PAGE 135
…wer animals indeed, first of all, in this matter of language. The use of language compels one to measure one’s thoughts. That is why the great philosophers and mystics, who are dealing with ideas that cannot be expressed in such terms, are constantly compelled to use negative adjectives, or to rebuke the mind by formulating their thoughts in a series of contradictory statements. That is the explanation of the Athanasian Creed. Its clauses puzzle the plain man. | , One must oneself be divine to comprehend divinity. The converse proposition is eq…
1954 · PDF PAGE 82
… knew at least as much Qabalah as I did. I discovered subsequently more than enough to make it certain without error that he knew a very great deal more, and that of an altogether higher order, than I knew; finally, such glimmerings of light as time and desperate (See Appendi x I The Constitution of Man)
1954 · PDF PAGE 92
… on I o = on - n = on -:- on = - X - . I 0" Of course on -:- I remains 0; but I -:- on = 00. That is, we have a clash of the "infinitely great" with the "infinitely small"; that knocks out the "infinity" (and Advaitism with it!) and leaves us with an indeterminate but finite number of utter variety. That is: 0° can only be interpreted as "The Universe that we know." R. So much for one demonstration. Some people have found fault with the algebra; but the logical Equivalent is precisely parallel. Suppose I wish to describe my study in one respect…
1954 · PDF PAGE 169
136 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Brothers."2 To refuse to fulfil any of one's possibilities is the direct negation of the Great Work. There is help & hope in other spells. Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art; if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein! But exceed! exceed! Strive ever to more! and if thou art truly mine-and doubt it not, an if thou art ever joyous-death is the crown of all. Her…
1954 · PDF PAGE 432
…nt is hard to reconcile with the whole body of evidence on the laws of the subject, it is rightly received with suspicion. A moment with great Huxley, and his illustration of the centaur in Piccadilly, reported to him (he humorously hypothesizes) by Professor Owen. What occasions Huxley's doubt, and inspires the questions by means of which he seeks to confirm or to discredit it? Just this, no more: here is the head and torso of a man fitted to the shoulders of a horse; how are the mechanical adjustments effected? In the same strain, he pointed …
1954 · PDF PAGE 515
…ing in that. But there are other kinds of Adventure. My imagination can set no limit to the possibilities of Science, or of Art: our own Great Work is evidence of that.
1910 · PDF PAGE 145
…commencement of this chapter how the Atman (that Essence beyond Being and Not Being) allegorically fell by crying “It is I,” and how the great Hypocrisy arose by supposing individual Atmans for all beings, and things which had to incarnate again and again before finally they were swallowed up in the One Atman of the Beginning. This Individualistic Conception Gotama banned, he would have none of it; a Soul, a Spirit, a separate entity was anathema to him; but in overthrowing the corrupt Vedanta of the latter-day pundits, like Luther, who many ce…
1910 · PDF PAGE 145
…commencement of this chapter how the Atman (that Essence beyond Being and Not Being) allegorically fell by crying “It is I,” and how the great Hypocrisy arose by supposing individual Atmans for all beings, and things which had to incarnate again and again before finally they were swallowed up in the One Atman of the Beginning. This Individualistic Conception Gotama banned, he would have none of it; a Soul, a Spirit, a separate entity was anathema to him; but in overthrowing the corrupt Vedanta of the latter-day pundits, like Luther, who many ce…
1922 · PDF PAGE 287
…ried, ‘They are mixed,’ and drove in despair from the field. He did not have to wait to see them destroyed.”’ Lou’s breath was coming in great gasps. She had understood the essence of our friend’s tactics. We looked abominably ill ; we were actually suffering at the moment from the craving, and embarrassed by the presence of Maisie Jacobs. We did not want to take it in front of her. And yet we knew that we had won the victory. It might be a matter of weeks or months ; we didn’t even care. We were content to have mastered the principle of the th…
1944 · PDF PAGE 87
…to her the stooping starlight.” This sacrament is the physical‐magical formula for attaining initiation, for the accom‐ plishment of the Great Work. It is in alchemy the process of distillation, operated by internal ferment, and the influence of the Sun and Moon. Behind the figures of the Beast and his Bride are ten luminous rayed circles; they are the Sephiroth latent and not yet in order, for every new Aeon demands a new system of classi‐ fication of the Universe. At the top of the card is shown an emblem of the new light, with ten horns of t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 121
… thinking. The image assumes a symbolic form, significant of its owner's moral and intellectual qualities. I practised these things with great assiduity; in fact, Eckenstein put the brake on. One must not overstrain the mind. Under his careful tuition, I obtained great success. There is no doubt that these months of steady scientific work, unspoiled by my romantic fancies, laid the basis of a sound magical and mystic technique. Eckenstein evidently understood what I was later to learn from The Book of the Law: "For pure will, unassuaged of purp…
1929 · PDF PAGE 122
…d literally nothing but champagne and Danish butter. We didn't care much; we had done what we had set out to do. Besides, I had learnt a great deal about camp life, the fine points of glissading, and the use of Steigeisen. In 1899, at the Montanvers, I had already found that his mechanically perfect "claws" worked miracles. We had shown a young man for Oxford, Dr. T. G. Longstaff, of what they were capable. Eckenstein would walk on a measured slope of over seventy degrees of hard black ice without cutting a step. On slopes up to fifty degrees h…