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Page 145 of 1541944 · PDF PAGE 78
…the framework within which all op‐ erations take place. Outside this again, at the corner of the card, are indicated balanced spheres of light and darkness, and constantly equilibrated rays from these spheres form a cur‐ tain, the interplay of all those forces which she sums up and adjudicates. One must go more deeply into philosophy; the Trump represents The Woman Satisfied. Equilibrium stands apart from any individual prejudices; therefore the title, in France, should rather be Justesse. In this sense, Nature is scrupulously just. It is impos…
1929 · PDF PAGE 571
…eth + Ayin + Shin + 93, which might be pronounced Thighs. Teth is the letter of Leo, the House of the Sun, and therefore a hieroglyph of Light. Ayin means an eye. Shin is the letter of fire or flame; while 93 signifies Thelema --- Will. Further 542 is a number which I had long sought to interpret as being the arithmetical mean between 418 (the Magical Formula of the New Aeon) and 666, my own cipher. I had never succeeded in finding a word to express this idea of the unification of my own nature with that of my dynamic structure. It must surely …
1929 · PDF PAGE 500
500 compared them. They showed a periodic function. Further analysis convinced me of the cause. Whenever a train passed, the light from the funnel became visible whenever the trees thinned out. I explored the woods, and found the gaps corresponded to these calculations. That ghost was laid. I could see only a narrow section of the river close to the shore. At 10:07 on the second night this section was traversed by a rowing boat manned by two men and a shapeless heap in the stern, which might have been a third or a cargo -- it was too dark to ma…
1906 · PDF PAGE 236
…lananda Swami. ‘‘ Mahabrahma had never been much more than an idea. He had only lived six days. 1 A contradiction in terms. 2 Arnold, ‘' Light.of Asia.”
1929 · PDF PAGE 423
…g, at that time wholly beyond my imagination to conceive, make it a most astonishing document. LIBER X. This book is called "The Gate of Light". It explains how those who have attained initiation, taking pity upon the darkness and minuteness of the earth, send forth a messenger to men. The message follows. It is an appeal to those who, being developed beyond the average of their fellows, see fit to take up the Great Work. This Work is then described in general terms with a few hints of its conditions. LIBER XI is a paraphrase of the instruction…
1929 · PDF PAGE 220
… on the breast of the world of spring! How shall the heart dissolved in joy take ....form and harmony and sing? How shall the ecstasy of light fall back to ....music's magic gloom? O China rose without a thorn, O honey-bee ....without a sting!
1904 · PDF PAGE 79
…ed the God to leave him alone. “Now he was still quite a y oung elephant when there came into the jungle, tripping merrily along, with a light-hearted song in its nucleolus, no less than a Bacillus. “And the elephant died. He was only seventeen years old.” VI. “A brief consultation ; and the Srotapatti was reincarnated as a parrot. For the parrot, said the wicked Jehjaour, may live 500 years and never feel it. “So a grey wonder of wings flitted into the jungle. So joy ous a bird, thought the God, could not but be influenced by the ordinary pass…
1911 · PDF PAGE 304
… the whole, we cannot help regretting that such splendid powers of imagination and expression are flung away in such literary rioting.” —Light. "Sometimes of much beauty of rhythm and phrase. . . .”—Times. “Poets who have any originality deserve to be judged by their own standard. . . . A Neo-mystic or semi-astrological pantheist. . . .”—Liverpool Echo. “Love-making appears to have an added halo in his eyes if it is associated with delirium or blood- shed. . . . Mr Neuburg hasa ‘careless rapture’ all his own; the carelessness, indeed, is just t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 304
… the whole, we cannot help regretting that such splendid powers of imagination and expression are flung away in such literary rioting.” —Light. "Sometimes of much beauty of rhythm and phrase. . . .”—Times. “Poets who have any originality deserve to be judged by their own standard. . . . A Neo-mystic or semi-astrological pantheist. . . .”—Liverpool Echo. “Love-making appears to have an added halo in his eyes if it is associated with delirium or blood- shed. . . . Mr Neuburg hasa ‘careless rapture’ all his own; the carelessness, indeed, is just t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 220
… went his ways. And he was bitterly a-cold, for that was the great Water he had passed. But our Father’s paps glittered with cold, black light, and likewise his navel. Wherefore. he was comforted. Now came the sudden twittering of heart lest the firmament beneath him were not stable, and lo! he danceth up and down as a very cork on waters of wailing. ‘‘ Woman,” he bade sternly, ‘‘be still. Cleave that with thy sword: or that must I well work?” But she cleft the cords, bitter-faced, smiling goddess as she was ; 1 The sacrifices are the ten Sephi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 594
… . “Our authors have maintained an admirably detached attitude . . . Mr. Carrington’s theory will stand many tests of application in the light of our present knowledge."—Westminster Gazette. Riders Complete Catalogue of Works in Mysticism, Occult Science and Psychology will be forwarded Post Free on application, WILLIAM RIDER & SON, Ltd., 8-11 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON, E.C.
1913 · PDF PAGE 594
… . “Our authors have maintained an admirably detached attitude . . . Mr. Carrington’s theory will stand many tests of application in the light of our present knowledge."—Westminster Gazette. Riders Complete Catalogue of Works in Mysticism, Occult Science and Psychology will be forwarded Post Free on application, WILLIAM RIDER & SON, Ltd., 8-11 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON, E.C.
1929 · PDF PAGE 28
…laint, but rather as Sir Richard Burton might have described his adventures among savages. Uncle Jonathan did not see the matter in that light at all. He made inquiries which confirmed my
1929 · PDF PAGE 26
…ua's account of the sin of Achan, impressively read. Next, an hour or two about the Lord's care of the school, the way He brought sin to light. Next, when well worked up and all our nerves on the jump, who stole what? Silence. Next, the Lord's care in providing a witness --- like the witnesses against Naboth! Then the witness and his story, as smooth as a policeman's. Next, sentence. Last, execution, with intervals of prayer! Champney's physique being impaired, one may suppose by his excessive devotion to Jesus, he arranged to give sixty stroke…
1929 · PDF PAGE 513
…ing historical details, in my Comment on The Book of the Law, ch. I, v. 59. It seems convenient to quote this in this place, as throwing light upon the progress of my inmost apprehension of the universe from this time forward. THE "STAR-SPONGE" VISION There is a vision of a peculiar character which has been of cardinal importance in my interior life, and to which constant reference is made in my magical diaries. So far as I know, there is no extant description of this vision anywhere, and I was surprised on looking through my records to find th…
1944 · PDF PAGE 55
…stronomers agree. But this theory certainly implies an identification of air and fire, and it seems as if they were thought of as before Light, that is, the Sun; before creative energy, that is, the phallus; and this idea continually suggests itself, that there is here some doctrine contrary to our own most reasonable doctrine: one in which the original confusion of the elements, the Tohu‐Bohu, is to be put forward as the cause of order, instead of as a plastic mass on which order imposes it‐ self. No system truly Qabalistic makes air in the co…
1929 · PDF PAGE 439
439 (e) The history of freemasonry has become more obscure as the light of research has fallen on the subject. The meaning of masonry has either been completely forgotten or has never existed at all, except insofar as any particular rite might be a cloak for political or even worse intrigue. (f) It has become impossible for people living in modern conditions to devote adequate time even to learning the merest formalities. (g) The complete lack of understanding which is now practically universal has made men inquire why in God's name they should…
1906 · PDF PAGE 232
…mer friend. His 1 Allan MacGregor Bennett (whose motto in the ‘‘ Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn,” was lehi Aour, z.e, ‘‘ Let there be light’’), now Ananda Metteya, to whom the volume in which this story was issuedis inscribed. 2 Taphtatharath, the spirit of Mercury. trance’ Mara! appeared to him. ‘*Now hate hath power, though not the power of love. So it came about that in his despair he fell into a trance; and in the Never before had his spells availed to call so fearful a potency from the abyss of matter. ‘Son,’ ‘cried the Accurséd One,“se…
1944 · PDF PAGE 23
…ce, which may be called the Son of the marriage of these elements, and is an advance into Matter. But also, in the ecstasy of the union, Light and Heat are disengaged; these phenomena are not material in the same sense as the hydrochloric acid is material; this product of the union is therefore of a spiritual nature, and corresponds to the Daughter. In the language of the alchemists, these phenomena were classified for convenience under the figure of four “elements”. Fire, the purest and most active, corresponds to the Fa‐ ther; Water, still pu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 111
….C.F. is really a 7° = 4ř. If yes (3) Then you will sing this paper; it contains a solemn reaffirmation of your obligation as a 5° = 6ř slightly expanded, and a pledge to support heartily the new regulations. If no (4) I expel you from this Order. II. The practice of masks is to be introduced. Each member will know only the member who introduced him. {195} Severe tests of the candidate's moral excellence, courage, earnestness, humility, refusal to do wrong, to be inserted in the Portal or 5° = 6ř ritual. III. Outer Order to be summoned. Similar…