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Page 126 of 1541996 · PDF PAGE 127
128 The Law is for All 51. Purple beyond purple: it is the light higher than eyesight. Commentary: There is a certain suggestion in this “purple” as connected with “eyesight”, which should reveal a certain iden tity of Hadit with the Dwarf-Soul to those who possess— eyesight! 52. There is a veil: that veil is black. It is the veil of the modest woman; it is the veil of sorrow, & the pall of death: this is none of me. Tear down that lying spectre of the centuries: veil not your vices in virtuous words: these vices are my service; ye do well, & …
1904 · PDF PAGE 35
with a constant stream of gleet oozing from the raw and meaty orifice, it was (to complete the illusion) crowned by a light cloud of smoke, doubtless given off by the last gentlemans love-spunk. The pubic hair was ragged, and the skin torn as if by the rav- ages of lice and fingernails. But the anus made up for the same, for the shit sticking to the hair had well manured the growth, which was in some places more than two feet long, curling over in bil- lows. But there was more to that quim than may appear on the surface. Vast and cumbrous as i…
1905 · PDF PAGE 239
…ows upon the sense, A solitary lotus that pales forth In the wide seas of space and separateness. That radiance!— Amber-scented voice of light, Calling my name, ever, ever calling— 1 Taken as symbols of bright and open joys: violets as soft and sombre.
1910 · PDF PAGE 133
…neer; my father preaching with me in his old home; my mother; his mother; a man doing Rajayoga on white god-form. At last a wave of pale light, or rather of a silky texture passed through and over me; then one of the strange inhabitants passed through me unconscious of me, and I returned. Golden Dawn symbol. 14m. Three breaks. May 8th. Position 1. 22m. Seven breaks, Calvary Cross. 50m. Did I go to sleep? 11th. Designed Abrahadabra for a pantacle.* 12th. I performed a Magic Ceremonial at night, followed by attempt at Astral Projection. I prefer …
1910 · PDF PAGE 133
…neer; my father preaching with me in his old home; my mother; his mother; a man doing Rajayoga on white god-form. At last a wave of pale light, or rather of a silky texture passed through and over me; then one of the strange inhabitants passed through me unconscious of me, and I returned. Golden Dawn symbol. 14m. Three breaks. May 8th. Position 1. 22m. Seven breaks, Calvary Cross. 50m. Did I go to sleep? 11th. Designed Abrahadabra for a pantacle.* 12th. I performed a Magic Ceremonial at night, followed by attempt at Astral Projection. I prefer …
1929 · PDF PAGE 23
…ans. There is thus an inexhaustible suppiy of any particular kind of force that we may need. (Illustration: Heat may be transformed into light and power by using it to drive dynamos. The vibrations of the air may be used to kill men by so ordering them in speech as to inflame war-like passions. The hallucinations connected with the mysterious energies of sex resuit in the perpétuation of the species.) (16) The application of any given force affects ail the orders of being which exist in the object to which it is applied, whichever of those orde…
1929 · PDF PAGE 33
…he world without a pur- pose? Or am I a soul in a body? Or am I, one and indi- visible in some incredible sense, a spark of the infinite light of God? I am going to think inwards: I shall possi- bly go into some form of trance, unintelligible to myself. You may be able to interpret it. The experiment had lasted about half an hour when he sat up gasping with effort. I have seen nothing, heard nothing, I said. Not one thought has passed from you to me. But at that very moment what had been in his mind flashed into mine. It is a blind abyss,…
1922 · PDF PAGE 223
…r there was one in the world, and he has raised her mortal into immortality. Her corruptibility has put on incorruption—and she radiates light and life and love, leaping through the years in utter libert ” “ But what does she do now?” I asked with a dull pain at my heart. | “Why; her True. Will, of course!’’ came back the flaming answer. ‘‘ She knows that she came to this planet to bear witness to the Law of Thelema in her own person, and to help her Titan in his task!” Maisie was really stupefying. Every one knows that she was in love with Bas…
1954 · PDF PAGE 218
… of Empires. "Christ" is reported as having said: "If I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto me." Interpret this in the light of the Cross as a Phallic emblem, and-how lurid a flash! Compare AL, II: 26: "I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring; in my coiling there is joy. If I /ift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down my head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one. " This versicle is deep, devilish deep; and it is chock-a-block with the mysteries of Fascination. Di…
1954 · PDF PAGE 350
…my Karma for God knows how many Incarnations. (The acquisition of the Magical Memory, fragmentary as that is, has thrown a great deal of light on that matter. Your letter does in fact surmise that this is so.) You must understand that the arrival of a New Aeon knocks all the Rules sideways. I imagine that even the very strict Magical Code of Ethics looks like a cocked hat before They have done with it! My theory is that They chose me for (a) my literary skill, knowledge and judgment; (b) my scientific training; (c) my familiarity with Eastern w…
1996 · PDF PAGE 33
…can be no secrecy about that. The verse refers to specially chosen “servants”; perhaps those who, worshipping the Khabs, have beheld Her light shed over them. Such persons indeed consummate the marriage of Nuit and Hadit in them selves; in that case they are aware of certain Ways to Power. There is also a mystical sense in this verse. We are to organize our minds thoroughly, appointing few and secret chiefs, serving Nuit, to discipline the varied departments of the conscious thought. 11. These are fools that men adore; both their Gods & their …
1906 · PDF PAGE 127
AHAB AND OTHER POEMS DEDICACE. TO G. Cc. J. P1LGRIM of the sun, be this thy scrip! The severing lightnings of the mind Avail where soul and spirit slip, And the Eye is blind. Paris, December 9, 1902. RONDEL. By palm and pagoda enchaunted o’er- shadowed, [I lie in the light Of stars that are bright beyond suns that all poets have vaunted In the deep-breathing amorous bosom of forests of amazon might By palm and pagoda enchaunted. By spells that are murmured and rays of my soul strongly flung, never daunted ; By gesture of tracery traced with a w…
1919 · PDF PAGE 164
…rom the Chancellor of A..A.. passing Frater V.I.O. to the grade of Neophyte, contained the following passage, which is important, in the light of later events: “We wish our Body to be a Body of Servants of Human- ity. A time will come when you will obtain the experience of the 14th Athyr. You will become a Master of the Temple. That experience must be followed by that of the 13th Athyr, in which, the Master, wholly casting aside all ideas of per- sonal attainment, busies himself exclusively with the care of others.” The year 1913 was an importa…
1922 · PDF PAGE 212
…at’s-his-name in The Wrong Box when he had to have a false death certificate, and wanted a “ venal doctor.” It annoyed me that it was daylight, and I didn’t know where to go. Suddenly, out of nowhere, there came the name and address of the man who had helped Billy Coleridge out of her scrape. It was a long way off, and I was horribly tired. I was hungry, but the thought of lunch made me sick. I felt that people were looking at me strangely. Was it the scar by my eye? I bought a thick veil. The girl looked surprised, I thought. I suppose it was …
1930 · PDF PAGE 57
…o discovered in 1923 that the Hebrew Word for “to will” is also of the value of 93: and its spécial technical meanings throw yet further light on the meaning of OsLrçya as used by Aiwaz. — 261 —
1996 · PDF PAGE 168
…tward semblance — that is to be covered with His wings. The tenets of Islam, correctly interpreted, are not far from our Way of Life and Light and Love and Liberty. This applies espe cially to the secret tenets. The external creed is mere nonsense suited to the intelligence of the peoples among whom it was promulgated; but even so, Islam is magnificent in practice. Its code is that of a man of courage and honour and self-respect; con trasting admirably with the cringing cowardice of the damnation dodging Christians with their unmanly and dis…
1907 · PDF PAGE 54
…peaks the truth in the sense that the witness in a divorce case is expected to, by indicating to them the true nature of those sparks of light shaken ofl" from the invisible Crown of Glory, sparks which they have mistaken for corpse-lights or marsh-vapours, surrounding—they think it an inexplicable paradox l—one who, in all other respects, is so high and pure a being. The first point is, it takes two to make a lie. A. says to B.: “I have emptied all the water from the bottle,” and tells the truth. Student C. says the same words to Professor D., a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 128
…May; but this date seems to have been anticipated, for two days later we read the following: 10 p.m. Enclosing myself in an egg of white light I travelled to Hong- Kong. This city is white and on a rocky hill, the lower part is narrow and dirty. I found F, in a room of white and pale green. She was dressed in a white soft stuff with velvet lapels, We conversed awhile. I remember trying to lift a cloisonné vase from the shelf to a table, but cannot remember whether I accom- plished the act or not. I said “Ave Soror” aloud (and I think audibly) a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 178
….5 p.m. p.m. 8.40-9.23 p.m. p.m, THE EQUINOX Two practices of Pranayama: 30. 15. 60. Concentration on Ajna Chakkra. The effect was as of light gradually glimmering forth and becoming very bright. Tried drinking through nose; * but could not accomplish it properly. Tried Dharana on Nose as Ida was stopped up. Eyes watered, and the breathing was difficult, could not concentrate, Pranayama. Twenty-two minutes: 10. 20, 30. Could have gone on. Pranayama very difficult. Dharana on nose nine minutes. The nose is perhaps my least sensitive organ. Would…
1910 · PDF PAGE 128
…May; but this date seems to have been anticipated, for two days later we read the following: 10 p.m. Enclosing myself in an egg of white light I travelled to Hong- Kong. This city is white and on a rocky hill, the lower part is narrow and dirty. I found F, in a room of white and pale green. She was dressed in a white soft stuff with velvet lapels, We conversed awhile. I remember trying to lift a cloisonné vase from the shelf to a table, but cannot remember whether I accom- plished the act or not. I said “Ave Soror” aloud (and I think audibly) a…