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Page 138 of 2031909 · PDF PAGE 47
…rug and95per cent.magic ; but nobodywould have believed me. Remember that this record is for the British Public, “ who may like me yet.” God forbid! for I cannot echo Browning’s hope. Their greasiness, hypocrisy, and meanness are such that their appreciation could only mean my vileness, not their redemption. Sorry if I seem pessimistic about them! A nasty one for me, by the way, if they suddenly started buying me ! I should have, in mere consistency, to cut my throat! Calm yourself, my friend! There is no danger. At home again and robed. Am bot…
1909 · PDF PAGE 78
…d to him: Did you . . and so on; just as if one were overhearing a conversation in a railway carriage. I beheld also Khephra, the Beetle God, the Glory of Midnight. But let me compose myself again to sleep, as did the child Samuel. If He should choose to come, He can easily awaken me.
1910 · PDF PAGE 90
…accomplished, and the pinnacles of that Temple, whose foundations are laid deep in the black earth, are lost among the starry Palaces of God. In the “ Hatha-~Yoga Pradipika” we read that “there can be no Raja Yoga without Hatha Yoga, and vice versa, that to those who wander in the darkness of the conflicting Sects unable to obtain Raja Yoga, the most merciful Swatmar4ma Yogi offers the light of Hathavidya.” * In the practice of this mystic union which is brought about by the Hatha Yoga and the Raja Yoga exercises the conditions necessary are: 1…
1910 · PDF PAGE 137
…e breaks, but had headache. * Meditation upon Nirvana. + Le. no longer through reason or imagination. } Harpocrates being the meditative God. 121
1910 · PDF PAGE 90
…accomplished, and the pinnacles of that Temple, whose foundations are laid deep in the black earth, are lost among the starry Palaces of God. In the “ Hatha-~Yoga Pradipika” we read that “there can be no Raja Yoga without Hatha Yoga, and vice versa, that to those who wander in the darkness of the conflicting Sects unable to obtain Raja Yoga, the most merciful Swatmar4ma Yogi offers the light of Hathavidya.” * In the practice of this mystic union which is brought about by the Hatha Yoga and the Raja Yoga exercises the conditions necessary are: 1…
1910 · PDF PAGE 137
…e breaks, but had headache. * Meditation upon Nirvana. + Le. no longer through reason or imagination. } Harpocrates being the meditative God. 121
1913 · PDF PAGE 219
…ing oceans call to the listening skies; The hills stand dark and deep in steadfast gloom ; Twilight is slain by the old black, wandering god. Summer is buried. There is no more light. But in the breast of the world there stirs again The flaming heart that is my Rose, my Rose, My secret Rose, whom but to name, to name, Is a sacrament upon the altar of Fire: Oh! yellow Fire! Oh! aureate-petalled Rose! Because swift Sorrow hath stricken me, I sing Here in the wavering gloom, the sunless deep, Calling slow dreams from their immortal sleep ; Wakenin…
1913 · PDF PAGE 219
…ing oceans call to the listening skies; The hills stand dark and deep in steadfast gloom ; Twilight is slain by the old black, wandering god. Summer is buried. There is no more light. But in the breast of the world there stirs again The flaming heart that is my Rose, my Rose, My secret Rose, whom but to name, to name, Is a sacrament upon the altar of Fire: Oh! yellow Fire! Oh! aureate-petalled Rose! Because swift Sorrow hath stricken me, I sing Here in the wavering gloom, the sunless deep, Calling slow dreams from their immortal sleep ; Wakenin…
1919 · PDF PAGE 274
… THE PEopLe. So mote it be. (THE SAINTS) Tue Deacon. Lord of Life and Joy, that art the might of man, that art the essence of every true god that is upon the surface of the Earth, continuing knowledge from generation unto generation, thou adored of us upon heaths and in woods, on mountains and in caves, openly in the market- places and secretly in the chambers of our houses, in temples of gold and ivory and marble as in these other temples of our bodies, we worthily commemorate them worthy that did of old adore thee and manifest thy glory unto …
1919 · PDF PAGE 345
… the winds above the waves, whose step touches not the waters. This partly refers to certain Iddhi, concerning Under- standing of Devas (gods) etc.; here the word ‘wind’ may be interpreted as ‘spirit.’ It is comparatively easy to reach this state, and it has no great importance. The ‘walker of the sky’ is much superior to the mere reader of the minds of ants. 39. Before thou seti’st thy foot upon the ladder’s upper rung, the ladder of the mystic sounds, thou hast to hear the voice of thy INNER God in seven manners. The word “seven” is here, as …
1954 · PDF PAGE 506
… as to include some of the French whom when they are good are very good indeed , but when they are bad, they are horrid? - the presiding God/Gods of this Trinity is/are: l. Sex, 2. Religion, 3. "Drugs" ; and the greatest of these is Sex, actually the main root of which the other two are tough and twisted stems, each with its peculiar species of poisonous flowers, sometimes superficially so attractive that their nastiness passes for Beauty. I shall leave it to the psycho-analysts to demonstrate the reduction to Sex, merely remarking that though …
1903 · PDF PAGE 7
…D., * in his piteous and pitiful plaints against the logical results of the Advaitist School. But on his basal hypothesis of an infinite God; infinite space, time, and so on, no other conclusion is possible. Mr. Mansel is found in the impossible position of one who will neither give up his premisses nor dispute the validity of his logical processes, but who shrinks in horror from the inevitable conclusion ; he supposes there must be something. wrong somewhere, and concludes that the sole use of reason is to discover its own inferiority to faith…
1909 · PDF PAGE 64
… all this is unknown ground, or, as Frank Harris would say, Unpath'd Waters. We are getting dangerously near “mental arsenic ” and " all—god— good—bones—truth—lights—liver—mind—blessing —heart——-one and not of a series—ante and pass the buck." The common sense of the practical man of the world is good enough {or me! Will G. R. S. Mead or somebody wise like that tell me why it is that if I get out of my body and face (say) East, I can turn (in the “ astral body") as far as West-Sou’-West or thereabouts, but no further except with very great diffi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 26
…." See the eleventh Aethyr, Liber 418 ("Equinox V"). They keep off those forces of darkness which might otherwise break in. The names of God form a further protection. The Magician may consider what names he will use; but each name should in some way symbolise this Work in its method and accomplishment. It is impos- sible here to enter into this subject fully; the discovery or construction of suitable names might occupy the most learned Qabalist for many years. These nine lamps were originally candles made of human fat, the fat of enemies^ slai…
1913 · PDF PAGE 152
…t pours upon the Magician from above. It is of velvet for the softness of that divine kiss, and crimson for that it is the very blood of God which is its life. The band of gold is the eternal circle of perfection. The three pentagrams symbolize the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, while the hexagram represents the Magician him- self. Ordinarily, pentagrams represent the microcosm, hexagrams the macrocosm; but here the reverse is the case, because in this Crown of Perfection, that which is below has become that which is above, and that whic…
1913 · PDF PAGE 212
THE EQUINOX The old enchanted palace of the will Is thine, and god-like dreams of Eld are thine, Of the Underworld of the stars, beneath the sea, Beyond the cloudy palaces of the hills. Ah! never hath the dawn been nearer thee | Fallen to idle sleep, and borne within The temple of Mind, the soul of Night is laid Under the starry canopy of the worlds, And the lamp is set upon her bier; let be, Let her still slumber! Oh, my radiant one, Thou that art born of the dew and of the stars, Come thou to me, while that the soft night sleeps, O thou most …
1913 · PDF PAGE 212
THE EQUINOX The old enchanted palace of the will Is thine, and god-like dreams of Eld are thine, Of the Underworld of the stars, beneath the sea, Beyond the cloudy palaces of the hills. Ah! never hath the dawn been nearer thee | Fallen to idle sleep, and borne within The temple of Mind, the soul of Night is laid Under the starry canopy of the worlds, And the lamp is set upon her bier; let be, Let her still slumber! Oh, my radiant one, Thou that art born of the dew and of the stars, Come thou to me, while that the soft night sleeps, O thou most …
1907 · PDF PAGE 109
… summer , and Tannhäuser that of autumn and winter . He finds the latter chill season the best : But best is grim December , The Goatish God his power ; The Satyr blows the ember , And pain is passion's flower ; When blood drips over kisses , And madness sobs through wine : Ah mine ! The snake starts up and hisses And strikes and I am thine !3 In the above we still find the now almost dead echo of his higher self , yet Venus entices him on , compar ing their fierce lust to the lukewarm affection of those little lovers who strip their maidens ba…
1909 · PDF PAGE 69
…t go—as—you-please would be enough. I am well punished. This food, eaten in aYogin and ceremonial manner, is doing me good. I shall end, God willing, with coffee, cognac, and cigar. It is a fatal error to knock the body to pieces and leave the consciousness intact, as has been the case with me all day. It is true that some people find that if they hurt the body, they make the mind unstable. True ; they predispose it to hallu- cination. One should use strictly corporeal methods to tame the body; strictly mental methods to control the mind. This l…
1909 · PDF PAGE 132
THE EQUINOX 4.55. How infinitely subtler and nobler is the contempla— [30 tion of The Utmost God Hid i’ th’ middle 0’ matter, the inscrutable mystery of the nature of common things. With what awe does the wise man approach a speck of dust! And it is this Mystery that I approach! For Thou, Adonai, art the immanent and essential Soul of Things ; not separate from them, or from me; but That which is behind the shadow—show, the Cause of all, the Quintessence of All, the Transcender of all. And Thee I seek insistently; though Thou hide Thy- self in t…