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Page 148 of 1731919 · PDF PAGE 155
…of John St. John, with the result that, later on, when he undertook a Retirement, that of J. St. J. subconsciously in- fluenced him to a great extent, although he would not and could not have admitted it at the time. In these things one must be Oneself, not try to be another. His entry of April 22 is a long one, and I quote it in part. I wish I could express myself better. On reading J. St. J. again I find that I can comprehend it ever so much better than when I first read it some three months after its publication. Then, it seemed like a dream…
1929 · PDF PAGE 159
…souls as they came into the [224] glow of the cone. They took human shape, and she was amazed to see among them the faces of many of the great men of the race. There was one very curious feature about the space in which this vision took place: this, that innumerable beings could occupy it at once, yet each one remain distinct from all the rest as the attention happened to focus it. But it was no question of dissolving views; for each soul was present equally all the time. With most of the faces there was little attachment, scarce more than a va…
1907 · PDF PAGE 126
… this most spiritual of Rodin's master- pieces. PAOLO ET FRANCESCA PAOLO ignites, Francesca is consumed. Loosened she lies, and breathes great gasps of love ; He, like an hunter, hungers, leaps above, Attains, exults, despairs. This love is doomed, Were there no hell. In granite walls en- tombed Lies the true spirit and the soul thereof. The body is here—yet is it not enough, These litanies unchanted, unperfumed? Live in the shuddering marble they remain : Here is the infinite credo of pure pain. Here let life’s agony take hold enough Of all th…
1907 · PDF PAGE 33
…s somewhere in the dark comers, but no! Yet I knew he was there somewhere, so I thought he must be in the box, for under the table was a great chest; and I was terribly sad because I felt something dreadful was going to happen. And sure enough, when I had the courage, I asked them to open the box, and the same people that made me crawl through that horrid hole, and lost my Fairy Prince, and nailed me to the red board, took away the table and opened the box, and there was my Fairy Prince, quite, quite dead. If you only knew how sorry I felt! But…
1929 · PDF PAGE 27
…eries of convulsive movements, which gradually died away, and were succeeded by deep sleep. Cyril took Lisa to one side. "This is really great magic! This is the old original confidence trick. Pretend to be
1929 · PDF PAGE 114
…orn in a small heap on the [164] ground; the pigeons unsuspectingly approached, and he threw a net over half a dozen of them. This was a great point gained; for the Black Lodge was in possession of living things that had come from within the guarded precinct; it would be easy to attack the inmates by means of sympathetic magic. As it chanced, two of the birds were male; but pigeons being of the general nature of Venus, it was decided to try to identify them with the least male persons of the garrison, namely the four women and the two boys. Acc…
1939 · PDF PAGE 58
… which complies with these conditions: the direct experience of spiritual truth. Here, and here only, do we find a position in which the great religious minds of all times and all climes coincide. It is necessarily above dogma, because dogma consists of a collection of intellectual statements, each of which, and also its contradictory, can easily be disputed and overthrown. 3. You are probably aware that in the Society of Jesus the postulants are trained to debate on all these highly controversial subjects. They put up a young man to prove any …
1943 · PDF PAGE 3
…n must realize that humanity has arrived at a cross road. Society over the whole earth is being rocked to its foundations, and change of great magnitude is facing all established human institutions. Years ago some few foresaw the approaching cataclysm, and a small minority saw the import thereof. In a poem written in 1900 and published in 1906, it is stated: "This is the birth hour of the age of gold, The false gold pales before the gold divine." And we read: "Perfection abideth not in the pinnacles, nor in the founda- tions, but in the ordered…
1907 · PDF PAGE 28
…ce at a time; that’s the best of being awake) through another passage, which was lighted by the Sun. Yet there were fairies dancing in a great green ring, just as if it was night. And there were two children playing by the wall, and my Fairy Prince and I played as we went; and he said: “ The difference is that we are going through. Most people play without a purpose; if you are travelling it is all right, and play makes the journey seem short.“ Then we came out into the Third (or Eighth, it depends which way you count them, because there are te…
1929 · PDF PAGE 18
…t in various abnormal circumstances, totally different personalities may chase each other through a single body. Do you know what is the great difficulty with regard to spiritualism? It is that of proving the identity of the dead man. In practice, since we [28] have lost the sense of smell on which dogs, for instance, principally rely, we judge that a man is himself either by anthropometric methods, which have nothing to do with the mind or the personality, or by the sound of the voice, or by the handwriting, or by the contents of the mind. In …
1996 · PDF PAGE 297
…lden Rule, the 36 Gomer 33 Gomorrah 54,72 government 38,115,128,132,185 responsibility to children 147 Goya 66 graal 29,63 grammar 23,76 Greater Mysteries 30 Great Work 14,32,60,63.67 Greece 85 Green Man 29 Guilbert, Yvette 65 Had 23,24,87,134 Hades 30 Hadit 28.30.33.34,35,48, 87-153,157, 159,163,166,167,171,192 Harmakhis (Harmachis, Hrumachis) 165 Harpocrates 29,30,31.95.103 as Heru-pa-kraath 95 as Hoor-paar-kraat 28,29,31 as Hoor-pa-kraat 165 hashish 84,110 Hathor (Ahathoor) 166,192 Hecuba 100 Heine, Heinrich 75 Helen of Troy 44 Heliogabalus …
1909 · PDF PAGE 329
…ver close with the essence of the Elohim, and he existed not apart, seeing that the Elohim took possession of his being.” This is also a great mystery which the Adeptus Minor must know: How the Spiritual Consciousness can act around and beyond the Sphere of Sensation, “ Thought ” isa mighty force when projected with all the strength of the Lower Will, under the Guidance of the Reasoning Faculty, and illuminated by the Higher Will. Therefore, it is, that in thine occult working thou art advised to invoke the Divine and Angelic Names, so that thy…
1909 · PDF PAGE 329
…ver close with the essence of the Elohim, and he existed not apart, seeing that the Elohim took possession of his being.” This is also a great mystery which the Adeptus Minor must know: How the Spiritual Consciousness can act around and beyond the Sphere of Sensation, “ Thought ” isa mighty force when projected with all the strength of the Lower Will, under the Guidance of the Reasoning Faculty, and illuminated by the Higher Will. Therefore, it is, that in thine occult working thou art advised to invoke the Divine and Angelic Names, so that thy…
1929 · PDF PAGE 63
…ns who perforai it in a very spécial wav. We may take note also of the correspond¬ ance of Nine with Teth, XI, Léo, and the Serpent. The great merits of this formula are that it avoids contact with the inferior planes, that it is self-sufhcient, that it involves no responsibilities, and that it leaves its masters not only stronger in themselves, but wholly free to fulfil their essential Natures. Its abuse is an abomination. 27
1929 · PDF PAGE 190
…peasants who tortured a blind relative that had been left to their charity. Such vileness as is written there by the divine hand of that great artist forbids emulation; the reverent reference must suffice. Enough to say that stifling of all natural impulse was a preliminary of the system of the Black Lodge; in higher grades the pupil took on the manipulation of subtler forces. Douglas' own use of his wife's love to vitriolize her heart was considered by the best judges as likely to become a classic. The inner circle, the fourteen men about Doug…
1905 · PDF PAGE 153
…her growing realm To seek her bloody fate, whose violence Even now makes the abyss of wrath divine Boil in the deep. Thou mayest be that great Osiris, bidding man’s high soul be free, Justified in its own higher self, made pure And perfect in its own eyes, being a god.
1906 · PDF PAGE 53
…nding’s unity. What foe may wreak on foe, or hate work on the hated from the hater, Surely an ill directed mind on us will do a mischief greater. Father and mother, kith and kin, of these can none do service kind So great to us, as to ourselves the good direction of the mind. IV. FLOWERS. O who shall overcome this earth, the world of God’s and Yama’s ! power ! Who find the well taught Path as skill of herbist finds the proper flower? 1 Hades plus Minos; he both rules and judges the dead, according to Hindu mytho- logy. The seeker shall subdue t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
…and knees; and even then I scraped ever such a lot of skin off my back; then you have to be nailed on a red board with four arms, with a great gold circle in the middle, and that hurts you dreadfully. Then they make you swear the most solemn things you ever heard of, how you would be faithful to the Fairy Prince, and live for nothing but to know him better and better. So the nails stopped hurting, because, of course, I saw that l was really being married, and this was part of it, and I was as glad as glad; and at that moment my Fairy Prince put…
1907 · PDF PAGE 26
…e is always doing that sort of thing. But he said I would be older one day, and not sleep so much, and every one slept a little, but the great thing was not to be lazy and contented with the dreams, so I mean to fight hard. By and by we came to a beautiful green place with the strangest house you ever saw. Round the big meadow there lay a wonderful snake, with steel gray plumes, and he had his tail in his mouth, and kept on eating and eating it, because there was nothing else for him to eat, and my Fairy Prince said he would go on like that till…
1929 · PDF PAGE 99
…it undesirable to communicate the news to Lisa. But he renewed his general warnings to her. "Child!" he said, "you are now ready for our great experiment. On Monday, the day of the New Moon, you take the oath of dedication; and we shall be able to resume those relations which we temporarily renounced. Now let me say to you that you are absolutely guarded in every way but one. The weak spot is this: we cannot abolish unsuitable thoughts entirely from your mind. It is for you to do that, and we have done our best to make the conditions as favoura…