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Page 140 of 2251909 · PDF PAGE 27
12.0. 12.10. I 2.20. י12.45 JOHN ST. JOHN The Bath is over. Icontinued the mantra throughout, which much alleviated the torture of massage. But I could not get steady and easy in my Asana or even in the Hanged Man or Shavasana, the “ corpse-position." I think the heat is exciting, and makes me restless. I continue in the cooling-room lying down. I have ordered !2 oysters and coffee and bread and butter. O oysters! be ye unto me strength that I formulate the 12 rays of the Crown of HVA! I conjure ye, and very potently command. Even by Him who ru…
1909 · PDF PAGE 50
… for violent measures. If one were to slack off now and hope for the morning, like a shipwrecked Paul, one would probably wake up a mere man of the world. The Question then arises: What shall I do to be saved ? The only answer-and one which is quite unconnected with the question—is that a Ritual of Adeptus Major should display the Birth of Horus and Slaying of Typhon. Here again Horus and Harpocrates—the twins of the twin signs of o°=o" ritual—are the slayers of Typhon. So all the rituals get mixed: the symbols recur, though in a different aspe…
1909 · PDF PAGE 72
10.08. ! 0.20. 10.55. 70 THE EQUINOX I must come out of it either an Adept or a maniac. Thank the Lord for that! It saves trouble. Undressed and robed. Will do an Aspiration in the Hanged Man position, hoping to feel rested and fit by midnight. The Incense has arrived from London; and I feel its magical effects most favourable. Ο creature of Incense! I conjure thee by Him that sitteth upon the Holy Throne and liveth and reigneth for ever as the Balance of Righteousness and Truth, that thou comfort and exalt my soul with Thy sweet perfume, that I…
1913 · PDF PAGE 181
169 it. There is no harm in a man's experimenting with opium-smoking or feeding on nuts; but the moment he ceases to examine, to act from habit and without reflection, he is in trouble. We all of us eat too niucli, l)ecause people, liveried and obsequious, have always bustled up five times daily with six months' provisions, and it was less trouble to feed and be done with it, than to examine the question whether we were hungry. If you cook your own food, you soon find that you don't rook more or less than you want; and health returns. If, howev…
1913 · PDF PAGE 64
… not, an if thou art ever joyous !—death is the crown of all. 73. Ah! Ah! Death! Death! thou shalt long for death. Death is forbidden, o man, unto thee. 74. The length of thy longing shall be the strength of its glory. He that lives long & desires death much is ever the King among the Kings. 75. Aye! listen to the numbers & the words: 76.4638ABK24ALGMOR3YX 2489RP S TOV AL. What meaneth this, o prophet? Thou knowest not; nor shalt thou know ever. There cometh one to follow thee: he shall expound it. But remember, o chosen 24
1913 · PDF PAGE 64
… not, an if thou art ever joyous !—death is the crown of all. 73. Ah! Ah! Death! Death! thou shalt long for death. Death is forbidden, o man, unto thee. 74. The length of thy longing shall be the strength of its glory. He that lives long & desires death much is ever the King among the Kings. 75. Aye! listen to the numbers & the words: 76.4638ABK24ALGMOR3YX 2489RP S TOV AL. What meaneth this, o prophet? Thou knowest not; nor shalt thou know ever. There cometh one to follow thee: he shall expound it. But remember, o chosen 24
1919 · PDF PAGE 391
…t must be very complete for it to be so; but they certainly recur with very diminished intensity. Similar is the gradual immunization of man to syphilis, which was a rapidly fatal disease when fresh. Now we all have it in our blood, and are protected (to some extent, at least) against the ladies. 73. But if thou would’st Nirvana reach, or cast the prize away, let not the fruit of action and inaction be thy motive, O thou of dauntless heart. This verse is again very obscure, from overloading. The “fruit” and the “prize” both refer to Nirvana. 74…
1930 · PDF PAGE 53
…handmaiden, in thine office of gladness. The PEOPLE. So mote it be. (THE SAINTS) The 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 — 353 —
1961 · PDF PAGE 214
…he Apprehension of their Images in mind through Sense; as, how is Colour Real or Material to a blind may or a Law mathematical true to a man that is imbecile or demented? All things therefore exist in one form or another; but the Reality of any, though in itself absolute, is in regard of its Relation with any other thing dependent upon the Intercourse and Language between them, conscious or unconscious. Consider Azote, that hath nigh Four Parts in Five of the Air, how it is not real to the Perception of any human Sense, but yet most real to our…
1996 · PDF PAGE 204
…st away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! Then shall this Knowledge go aright. 6. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet there fore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. 7. I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a fool ish word: for it is I that go. 8. Who worshipped Heru-pa-kraath have worshipped me; ill, for I am the worshipper. 9. Remember all ye that existence is pure joy…
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
…ugh the post; he was also constantly preaching to vast crowds, all over the country. It was, indeed, the only logical occupation for a humane man who believed that even the noblest and best of mankind were doomed to eternal punishment. One card --- a great favourite, as being peculiarly deadly --- was headed "Poor Anne's Last Words"; the gist of her remarks appears to have been "Lost, lost, lost!" She had been a servant in the house of Edward Crowley the elder, and her dying delirium had made a deep impression upon the son of the house. By the …
1944 · PDF PAGE 85
strong, O man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this.” “Behold! these be grave mysteries; for there are also of my friends who be hermits. Now think not to find them in the forest or on the mountain; but in beds of purple, caressed by magnificent beasts of women with large limbs, and fire and light in their eyes, and masses of flaming hair about them; there shall ye find them. Ye shall see them at rule, at victorious armies, at all the joy; and there shall be in them a joy a million times gr…
1904 · PDF PAGE 33
…ark belonging to one of our local magnates, a famous distiller of old Scotch whisky, and reputed in venereal circles as a grand trencher man at a mutton-pie. But I was destined to unmask this fellow. He was, as I speedily discovered, but a worn-out reprobate, a fellow of Fumblers Hall, a mere butterfingers at coney-catching ! In a dingle of one of his numerous
1904 · PDF PAGE 58
…es with gleet and pus a- dripping, and your dung-stuffed clyster-pipes cho- ral in my ears and grateful to my smell. No, I say ! I am adamant, iron ! You may twist yourselves into the randiest positions you know ; you may cuddle my crimson chitterling till it chirps, soars and spurts into the blue Heaven of God : but I will N O T corrupt your morals with those degrading and sin- ful songs. I will never transcribe a word or a sylla- ble that the most modest woman need blush to hear : I will never be a party to the ruin of one in- nocent child-so…
1907 · PDF PAGE 33
…a contained in the following verse of “ De Profundis ”: I have dreamed life a circle or a line , Called God, and Fate , and Chance , and Man, divine . I know not all I say , but through it all Mark the dim hint of ultimate sunshine !? which is almost identical with that in Canto LIV of “ In Memoriam .” A poem written in the metre of Tenny Songs of the Spirit , vol . i, p . 53 . 2 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 113 .
1909 · PDF PAGE 32
… may defile the Holy Place, that the supreme Blasphemy may be spoken by Python in the ears of Isis. I want trouble. I want to say Indra’s mantram till his throne gets red-hot and burns his lotus-buttocks ; I want to pinch little Harpocrates till he fairly yells . . . and I will too! Somehow! I have now got into a sort of smug content, grinning all over like some sleepy Chinese god. No reason for it, Lord knows! I can’t make up my mind whether to starve or sand- wich or gorge the beast St. John. He’s not the least bit hungry, though he’s had noth…
1909 · PDF PAGE 82
…drug which will produce the desired result, whether that drug be what people commonly call poison or no. In short, I act like a sensible man; and I think I deserve every credit for introducingthis com- pletely new idea into religion. That function of my brain which says “You ought to be willing Adonai ” sometimes acts. But I am willing Him! It is so active because all this week it has been working hard, and doesn’t realise that its work is done. Just as a retired grocer wakes up and thinks “ I must go and open the shop.” In Hindu phrase, the th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 49
…exalting myself mystically and continuing my invocations while the drug dissolved the matrix of the diamond Soul, that diamond might not manifest limpid and sparkling, a radiance ‘not of the Sun, nor of the Moon, nor of the Stars’;” and then, of course, I remembered that this ceremonial intoxication con- stitutes the supreme ritual of all religions. First, however, it was necessary to determine the normal action of the drug upon my particular organisation. There are various preparations of Cannabis indica, all alike in this, that their action i…
1909 · PDF PAGE 70
…wards.”—ZOROASTER. Nama-Rupa.—Purely material, and therefore shadowy and meaningless, are the innumerable shapes which haunt the mind of man. In one sense we must here include all purely sensory phenomena, and the images which memory presents to the mind which is endeavouring to concentrate itself upon a single thought. In other systems of mysticism we must include all astral phantoms, divine or demonic, which are merely seen or heard without further reflection upon them. To obtain these it is sufficient to perform the following experiment: 60
1909 · PDF PAGE 49
…exalting myself mystically and continuing my invocations while the drug dissolved the matrix of the diamond Soul, that diamond might not manifest limpid and sparkling, a radiance ‘not of the Sun, nor of the Moon, nor of the Stars’;” and then, of course, I remembered that this ceremonial intoxication con- stitutes the supreme ritual of all religions. First, however, it was necessary to determine the normal action of the drug upon my particular organisation. There are various preparations of Cannabis indica, all alike in this, that their action i…