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Page 144 of 2251913 · PDF PAGE 404
THE EQUINOX the double magnetization of it to the human body. The soul, by acting on this light through its volitions, can dissolve it or coagulate it, project it or withdraw it. It is the mirror of the imagination and of dreams. It reacts upon the nervous system, and thus produces the movements of the body. This light can dilate itself indefinitely, and communicate its reflec- tions at considerable distances; it magnetizes the bodies submitted to the action of man, and can, by concentrating itself, again draw them to him. It can take all the f…
1913 · PDF PAGE 408
…ple of sound minds; it should be easy to understand the reason of that: very little is required to turn completely the head of a drunken man, and one more easily acquires a disease when all the organs are predisposed to submit to its impressions, and manifest its disorders. Fluidic maladies have their fatal crises. Every abnormal tension of the nervous apparatus ends in the contrary tension, according to the necessary laws of equilibrium. An exaggerated love changes to aversion, and every exalted hate comes very 114
1913 · PDF PAGE 404
THE EQUINOX the double magnetization of it to the human body. The soul, by acting on this light through its volitions, can dissolve it or coagulate it, project it or withdraw it. It is the mirror of the imagination and of dreams. It reacts upon the nervous system, and thus produces the movements of the body. This light can dilate itself indefinitely, and communicate its reflec- tions at considerable distances; it magnetizes the bodies submitted to the action of man, and can, by concentrating itself, again draw them to him. It can take all the f…
1913 · PDF PAGE 408
…ple of sound minds; it should be easy to understand the reason of that: very little is required to turn completely the head of a drunken man, and one more easily acquires a disease when all the organs are predisposed to submit to its impressions, and manifest its disorders. Fluidic maladies have their fatal crises. Every abnormal tension of the nervous apparatus ends in the contrary tension, according to the necessary laws of equilibrium. An exaggerated love changes to aversion, and every exalted hate comes very 114
1919 · PDF PAGE 228
…ervice, and famili- arity, subversive as it is of all discipline and order, is to be avoided by adopting a complete and marked change of man- ner and address. 19. This applies to all persons in subordinate positions, but not to the Brethren Servient in the Profess-Houses of the Order, who, giving service without recompense, are to be honoured as hosts. 20. In case of the sickness of any Brother, it is the duty of all Brethren who know him personally to attend him, to see that he want for nothing, and to report if necessary his needs to the Lodg…
1919 · PDF PAGE 414
…e that the final result, or something very like it, is given as a qualification antecedent to the starting point; as if one told a blind man that he must be able to see through a brick wall before re- gaining his eyesight. 16. Thou shalt not let thy senses make a playground of thy mind. Following on the tremendous task of verse 15 comes the obvious elementary piece of instruction which one gives to a beginner. The best way out of the dilemma is to take verse 15 ina very elementary sense. Let us paraphrase that verse. “Try to get into the habit …
1922 · PDF PAGE 294
… had gone out of town ; but he turned up on the fifth day at eleven o'clock in the morning, and he came in his most serious professional manner. After a very brief greeting, he went straight to the charts and in- spected them attentively. Lou and I both felt very uncomfortable. He noticed it at once. “You've still got heroin on the brain, I see,” he remarked severely. ‘‘ You insist on considering your- selves as naughty children instead of as pioneers of humanity undertaking a desperate adventure for the good of the race.” I began a-sort of apo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 47
…purity would vitiate the Macrocosm of which it is the image, Eidolon, or Reflexion. For example, God is above sex; and therefore neither man nor woman as such can be said fully to understand, much less to represent, God. It is therefore incumbent on the male magician to cultivate those female virtues in which he is déficient, and this task he must of course accomplish without in any way impairing his virility. It will then be lawful for a magician to invoke Isis, and identify himself with her; if he fail to do this, his appréhension of the Univ…
1910 · PDF PAGE 96
…ircumcised, there is a difference in the technique of the operation which would enable an expert to tell at a glance to which religion a man belonged. It is alleged by some that the toughening and har- dening of the glans penis which results from the operation predisposes to sodomy, inasmuch as a greater intensity of friction is required to produce emission. True, but a moist and flabby vulva of gigantic size is poor fun for anybody. Undoubted- ly, a hardened tool does (in mathematical lan- guage) “ flatten the curve ” of rising excitement, and…
1919 · PDF PAGE 215
MANIFESTO OF THE 0.T.O. These houses are secret fortresses of Truth, Light, Power and Love, and their position is only disclosed under an oath of secrecy to those entitled to make use of them. They are also temples of true worship, specially conse- crated by Nature to bring out of a man all that is best in him. 5. The authority of the O.T.O. is concentrated in the O.H.O. (Outer Head of the Order), or Frater Superior. The name of the person occupying this office is never dis- closed except to his immediate representatives. 6. The Authority of th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 421
…n favours until one is ready for them. 33. Close not thine eyes, nor lose thy sight of Dorje (the Svastika);Méra’s arrows ever smite the man who has not reached Vairaga. 99
1922 · PDF PAGE 52
… about myself were stamped under foot by the undeniable facts. I had never driven better in my life. I got out the sea- plane as another man might get out a cigarette from his case. She started like an eagle. With the whirr of the engine came Lou’s soft smooth voice in exquisite antiphony :— “O Thou trembling breast of the night, that gleamest with a rosary of moons! I adore Thee, Evoe! I adore Thee, I A O!” We soared towards the dawn. I went straight to over three thousand. I could hear the beat of my heart. It was one with the beat of the eng…
1929 · PDF PAGE 18
…he withdrew the photograph from its leaf and half showed it to the proprietor with a whispered Comby- ang? Trente sous, said the shopman in his most rapid French. And in English, We take English money here, sir; ten shillings, if you please. May I wrap it up for you? But Bugg had thrust it into his inner pocket, and, pressing a sovereign into the man's hand, dashed with- out looking behind him from the shop, eager to put time and space between himself and his compromising posi- tion. He hurried to his hotel, not without many a suspi- ciou…
1904 · PDF PAGE 87
…ng was waxed well, dipped in a leaden pot wherein boiled amber and wine) and s hot through stormy heavens. And they that saw him saw a woman wondrous fair 3 robed in flames of hair, moon-sandalled, sun-belted, with torch and vase of fire and water. And he trailed comet-clouds of glory upward. Thus came our Father (Blessed be his name!) to Death, 4 who stood, scythe in hand, opposed. And ever and anon he swept round, and men fell before him. “Look,” said Death, “my sickle hath a cross-handle. See how they grow like flowers !” “Give me salt !” qu…
1906 · PDF PAGE 156
…he “ Fall” ‘‘ But those are legends, after all.” He has a hundred hills * to he in, But finds no final ditch * to die in. ‘“* Samuel was man ; the Holy Spook Did not dictate the Pentateuch.” With cunning feint he lures me on To loose my pompoms on Saint John ; And, that hill being shelled, doth swear His forces never had been there. I got disgusted, called a parley, (Here comes a white-flag treachery !) Asked: “ Is there anything you value, Will hold to?” He laughed, “‘ Chase me, Charlie !” But seeing in his mind that I , Would not be so conver…
1907 · PDF PAGE 187
…aspire ; I might-so gross am 1 --- take pleasure in These filthy holocausts , that burn to sin A damned incense in the hellish fire Of human lust - earth's joys no heaven may win ; Pain holds the prize In blood - stained hands ; Love laughs , with anguish in His eyes . Also he sees how dangerous it is to sip from the cup of “ little common sins . ” Sins nurtured by trust in man's forgiveness ; then struck with the horror of the still small voice , he bids God break his unrepentant will , and let the kiss of life : XXI . Melt on my lips to flame…
1909 · PDF PAGE 83
…autiful sun. Also to the chemist’s to have my finger attended to. The chemist refused to do anything; and so I did it myself. It is the romantic malady of ingrowing nail; a little abscess had formed. Devilish painful after the clean-up. Will go the walk aforesaid I ought to note how on this day there is a complete absence of all one‘s magical apparatus. The mantra has slowed down to (at a guess) a quarter of its old pace. The rest in unison. This is because the feeling of great power, etc. etc., is the mere evidence of con- flict—the thunder of t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 404
… are open to the heavenly melody of the Muses. So we have all the artifice—and perhaps the worst artifice ever invented—but no art, no humanity. As a mountaineer (I have seen very many of the greatest mountains of the earth) I must admit that “ : . . phantom fair Was Monte Rosa, hanging there, A thousand shadowy-pencilled valleys And dewy dells in a golden air” is a very decent word-picture of the great mountain. But a Man would have felt his muscles tighten; and the lust to match his force against the stern splendour of those glittering ridges…
1909 · PDF PAGE 404
… are open to the heavenly melody of the Muses. So we have all the artifice—and perhaps the worst artifice ever invented—but no art, no humanity. As a mountaineer (I have seen very many of the greatest mountains of the earth) I must admit that “ : . . phantom fair Was Monte Rosa, hanging there, A thousand shadowy-pencilled valleys And dewy dells in a golden air” is a very decent word-picture of the great mountain. But a Man would have felt his muscles tighten; and the lust to match his force against the stern splendour of those glittering ridges…
1910 · PDF PAGE 319
… like the French Southerner he was, missed the courteous element in life, and began to curse the twelve young men. He was a bad-tempered man, and a very theatrical one. He rose and walked to him who had caused them all to laugh. “T know you, sir,” Elphénor said, purple in the face, “IT know you, unwholesome monkey. Your father was adealer in pork sausages and cooked ham, a trader in swine. Nothing better could be expected from you than your pig-like groans.” His blood was boiling already, and these few words he uttered were but a preliminary le…