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Page 139 of 1731954 · PDF PAGE 509
…ar. Here is the point at which they link up with sex and religion . Oh, how well nigh almighty is the urgency to him who reads those few great writers who understood the subject from experience : de Quincey, Ludlow, Poe and Baudelaire: into whom burn the pointed parallels between their adventures and those of all the mystics, East and West! The worst of this correspondence-form is that you are always asking simple elementary questions which require half
1996 · PDF PAGE 18
Introduction 19 the Church is inimical to Life.” The great majority of men and women do not now believe in “Christian morality”; do not believe in the flagrant absurdity that the impulse by which alone life is continued on our planet is sinful, and that its sinfulness can be expunged only if it is directed by a husband towards his wife and by a wife towards her husband. The creation of this artificial “sin of sex,” the attachment of a sense of guilt to a basic natural function, has brought about a disastrous perversion of sane moral feeling. It…
1906 · PDF PAGE 102
…ee Worlds! flicker and falter, And life and her love be dead ! In mysterious joy Awake—and destroy ! JASON. It is enough ! HERACLES, Too great for a god’s strength ! THESEUS. Speak ! CASTOR. Change! Not to be borne! POLLUX. But this is death ! ORPHEUS. Let the light fade. The oracle is past. JASON. The Voice is past. We are alive again. ORPHEUS. What spake That Silence? HERACLES. ‘* This is not a quest Where strength availeth aught.” I shall not go. 1 Of gods, men, and demons.
1906 · PDF PAGE 106
…, and a hot sweet body’s rush Lithe to embrace him, and a cataract Of amber-scented hair hissing about His head, and in the darkness two great eyes Flaming above him, and the whole face filled With fire and shapen as kisses. And those arms And kisses and mad movements of quick love Burnt up his being, and his life was lost In woman’s love at last ! CHORUS. Unseemly act ! Who dared thus break on meditation? MEDEA. CHORUS. Surely thy passion mastered thee, O queen !
1910 · PDF PAGE 353
…e independence of his thought, the delicacy of his touch, in his spirit of pure joy, in his most holy childishness. He shows certainly a great lack of literary experience, an accumulation of various contra- dictory feelings which seem to fight one another for the conquest of his spirit. The scientific training of our order will give him that Mastery over self which alone can bring forth the full blossom of his rich imagination. There is every reason for us to expect much of Mr. Raffalovich. Is he not a Gemini man, with Jupiter and Saturn culmin…
1910 · PDF PAGE 353
…e independence of his thought, the delicacy of his touch, in his spirit of pure joy, in his most holy childishness. He shows certainly a great lack of literary experience, an accumulation of various contra- dictory feelings which seem to fight one another for the conquest of his spirit. The scientific training of our order will give him that Mastery over self which alone can bring forth the full blossom of his rich imagination. There is every reason for us to expect much of Mr. Raffalovich. Is he not a Gemini man, with Jupiter and Saturn culmin…
1939 · PDF PAGE 28
…t comes up sweet to the hand, or it does not. You cannot explain it, and you cannot argue it away. 21. I have treated Yama and Niyama at great length because their importance has been greatly underrated, and their nature completely misunderstood. They are definitely magical practices, with hardly a tinge of mystical flavour. The advantage to us here is that we can very usefully exercise and develop ourselves in this way in this country where the technique of Yoga is for all practical purposes impossible. Incidentally, one's real countrythat is…
1954 · PDF PAGE 50
…o me that you should confine yourself very closely to the actual work in front of you. At the present moment, of course, this includes a great deal of general study ; but my point is that the terms employed in that study should always be capable of precise definition. I am not sure whether you have my Little Essays Toward Truth. The first essay in the book entitled "Man" gives a full account of the five principles which go to make up Man according to the Qabalistic system. I have tried to define these terms as accurately as possible, and I thin…
1996 · PDF PAGE 181
…hey wander wastrel in clubs and boudoirs and greenrooms; bridge, billiards, polo, petticoats puff out their emptiness; scratched for the Great Race of Life, they watch the Derby instead. Brave such may be; they may well be (in a sense) classed with the rat; but brainless and idle they must be, who have no goal beyond the grave, where, at the best, chance flings fast-withering flowers of false and garish glory. They serve to defend things vital to their country; they are the skull that keeps the brain from harm? Oh foolish brain! Wert thou not w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 71
… to build up an original theory of mountaineering. It was not till 1898 that I discovered the identity of my own ideas with those of the great climbers. But I discovered the extremely unpleasant fact that the English Alpine Club were bitterly opposed to mountaineering --- its members were incompetent, insanely jealous of their vested interests and unthinkably unsportsmanlike. Professor Norman Collie had proposed me for the club and Sir Martin Conway had been kind enough to second me; but the record of climbs which I put in to qualify for admiss…
1930 · PDF PAGE 35
…iated with genius; the power to perceive the universe accurately, to analyse, coordinate, and judge impressions is the foundation of ail great Work. An army is but a blundering brute unless its intelligence department Works as it should. The Magician obtains the transcendental knowledge necessary to an intelligent course of conduct directly in consciousness by clairvoyance and clairaudience; but communication with superior — 155
1930 · PDF PAGE 76
… selfish, short-sightedness, sensual, fickle, crazy, and desperate, to his True Will; to discipline, co-ordinate, and employ them in the Great Work, under the penalty of being torn asunder by the wild horses which he had bound fast to his own body by the act of “destroying” their independent consciousness and control of their chosen vehicle. See His Magical Record An XX, Q in bb and onward. 2. Examples of Rituals for several such purposes are given in the Equinox. 3. Moral : become an Adeptus Major ! — 196 —
1904 · PDF PAGE 74
…it N. in all things that are the names of glory op mikaelzod0. Jada Darisapa das i darilapi omepe, Adni Whvb and _—s power of God __ the Great One who is greater than understanding, Adni Ihvh C3zabaoth: niisa ole oanio: christeos faorejita afafas; imimuamare Tzabaoth, come forth in the 24th of a moment, let Thy dwelling-place be empty; apply thyself unto laiava oD Dorebesa na-e-el: soVamerann pujo-ooaona fetabe-are- the secret truthand obey my power: appear unto my eyes, visit us in peace, 300i, gobola faiada do-bianu oD Do-omepe. MDI larinuji-…
1930 · PDF PAGE 41
… whether one is right or not. The diviner must develop this sense. It resembles the exquisite sensibility of touch which is found in the great billiard player whose fingers can estimate infinitésimal degrees of force, 1. This does not mean that they are malignant. They hâve a proper pride in their office as Oracles of Truth; and they refuse to be profaned by the contamination of inferior and impure intelligences. A Magician whose research is fuily adapted to his Neschamah will hnd them lucid and reliable. 2. Malicious or pranksome elementals in…
1930 · PDF PAGE 49
… them. One more observation seems désirable while on this subject. Divination of any kind is improper in matters directly concerning the Great Work itself. In the Knowledge and Conversation of his Holy Guardian Angel, the adept is possessed of ail he can possibly need. To consult any other is to insnlt one’s
1906 · PDF PAGE 105
…favour of the gods themsel ves— Shall stead him in that peril. CHORUS. Yet we know Courage may conquer all things. AEETES. Such a man Is greater than the gods ! CHORUS. If only he Know who he is—that all these gods and men And things are but the shadows of himself! AEETES. I cannot give you hope. Await the end. CHORUS. We fear indeed that in the trap Of wiles our king is taken. Lachesis shakes a careless lap And dooms divine awaken ! A desolate and cruel hap In this sad hour is shaken. The desperate son and violent Of Helios hath designed A fat…
1929 · PDF PAGE 45
… most indirect way, to any other celestial body than our own. In the last few years, the semi-educated hâve got an idea that they know a great deal about the universe, and the principal ground for their fine opinion of themselves is usually the téléphoné or the airship. It is pitiful to read the bombastic twaddle about progress, which journalists and others, who wish to prevent men from thinking, put out for consumption. We know infinitesimally little of the material universe. Our detailed knowledge is so contemptibly minute, that it is hardly …
1907 · PDF PAGE 38
…am I; I took an honied kiss ; I revelled in true bliss ; Yet never thought to try A keepsake to obtain To wear my heart upon. Now God is great and gracious; Iere’s medicine for my pain. She has left it; she has gone! How sweet the air and spacious ! I am happy—let me see! I guess some verse inspired By all her soul desired, Purity, love, well-being—ay ! and me: [He opens the note, reads :— ‘To love you, Love, is all my happiness ; To kill you with my kisses ; to devour Your whole ripe beauty in the perfect hour That mingles us in one supreme ca…
1930 · PDF PAGE 117
…secondly, it will endeavour to évadé the difficulty by a trick. The brain will prétend to be workmg backwards when i. The formula of the Great Work “Solve et Coagula” may be thus interpreted. Solve, the dissolution of the self in the Infinité; Coagula, the présentation of the Infinité, in a concrète form, to the outer. Both are necessary to the Task of a Master of the Temple. He may appear in any other Heaven, according to his general nature, in his magical mask of initiation. — 4L —
1996 · PDF PAGE 28
… is the “Saviour,” being the Son who shall trample on the croco diles and tigers, and avenge his father Osiris. Thus we see him as the “Great Fool” of Celtic legend, the “Pure Fool” of Act I of Parsifal? and, generally speaking, the insane person whose words have always been taken for oracles. But to be “Saviour” he must be born and grow to manhood; thus Parsifal acquires the Sacred Lance, emblem of virility. He usually wears the “Coat of many colours” like Joseph the “dreamer”; so he is also now the Green Man of spring festivals. But his “fol…