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Page 149 of 2251911 · PDF PAGE 164
…iterature; phylacteries increase about the hem of the perfect prig, prude, and Pharisee. Corollary to this attitude is the lack of all human virtue. The greatest magician, when he acts in his human capacity, acts asia man should. In particular, he has learnt kind— heartedness and sympathy. Unselfishness is very often his long suit. just this the mystic lacks. Trying to absorb the lower planes into the higher, he neglects the lower, a mistake no magician could make. I56
1911 · PDF PAGE 15
THE VISION AND THE VOICE unveiled. Let not her be put to shame that lieth among the lilies that are beyond the stars. O man, that must ever be opening, when wilt thou learn to seal up the mysteries of the creation? to fold thyself over thy- self as a rose in the embrace of night? But thou must play the wanton to the sun, and the wind must tear thy petals from thee, and the bee must rob thee of thy honey, and thou must fall into the dusk of things. Amen and Amen. Verily the light is hidden, therefore he who hideth himself is like unto the light;…
1913 · PDF PAGE 472
…; I present my humble compliments.” And they separated. The trial of the assassin began, and Eliphas, reading in the newspapers that the man was a priest, that he had belonged to the clergy of St. Germain |’Auxerrois, that he had been a country vicar, and that he seemed exalted to the point of madness, recalled the pale priest who, a year earlier, had been looking for the gvmoive of Honorius. But the description which the public sheets gave of the criminal disagreed with the recollection of the Professor of Magic. In fact, the majority of the p…
1913 · PDF PAGE 573
…reatest celebrity, he pretended to be over eighty. Ninon de !l’Enclos, in her very old age, was still a young, beautiful and seductive woman. She died without having grown old. Desbarrolles, the celebrated palmist, has been for a long while for everybody a man of thirty-five years. His birth certificate would speak very differently if he dared to show it, but no one would believe it. Cagliostro always appeared the same age. He pretended to possess not only an elixir which gave to the old, for an instant, all the vigour of youth; but he also pri…
1913 · PDF PAGE 472
…; I present my humble compliments.” And they separated. The trial of the assassin began, and Eliphas, reading in the newspapers that the man was a priest, that he had belonged to the clergy of St. Germain |’Auxerrois, that he had been a country vicar, and that he seemed exalted to the point of madness, recalled the pale priest who, a year earlier, had been looking for the gvmoive of Honorius. But the description which the public sheets gave of the criminal disagreed with the recollection of the Professor of Magic. In fact, the majority of the p…
1913 · PDF PAGE 573
…reatest celebrity, he pretended to be over eighty. Ninon de !l’Enclos, in her very old age, was still a young, beautiful and seductive woman. She died without having grown old. Desbarrolles, the celebrated palmist, has been for a long while for everybody a man of thirty-five years. His birth certificate would speak very differently if he dared to show it, but no one would believe it. Cagliostro always appeared the same age. He pretended to possess not only an elixir which gave to the old, for an instant, all the vigour of youth; but he also pri…
1961 · PDF PAGE 200
… Saint, Arhan, and Paramahamsa in one Person, is in his Kitchen. Confound not thou in any wise therefore the Degree of Attainment of any Man with his right Function in our Holy Order; for although by initiation cometh the Light, and the Right, and the Might to accom- plish all Works soever, yet these are inoperative save as they are able to use a Machine which is of the same Order of Things as the Effect required. As the best Swordsman hath Need of a Sword, so hath every magician of a Body and Mind capable to the Work that he willeth; and he ca…
1907 · PDF PAGE 228
…it possible to judge the relationship between cause and effect , or in other words the per ceived and not perceived ? “ The first time a man saw the communication of motion by impulse . . . (billiard balls ) . . . what alteration has happened to give rise to this new idea of connexion . Nothing but that he now feels these events to be connected in his imagination Hume thus arrives at the conclusion that cause and effect can only be inferred from each other , and never > 3 1 Gargoyles, vol . iii, p . 93 . 2 Every change of motion is proportional…
1909 · PDF PAGE 319
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING of which stood a man-like figure covered with brazen scales, horned and horrible. His colour was of verdigris; but his face was of a blackish tint. In his hand he held a club. “What is your name?’ I cried, advancing towards him. “*Jokam,’ he answered sullenly. “*Your sign?’ (I here repeated the omitted part of the ritual). He winced, and I could see that he was a coward; nevertheless, though it displeased him, he gave me his sigil. & “His name is spelt: o>. Having no further question to ask him, I left him, biddin…
1909 · PDF PAGE 319
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING of which stood a man-like figure covered with brazen scales, horned and horrible. His colour was of verdigris; but his face was of a blackish tint. In his hand he held a club. “What is your name?’ I cried, advancing towards him. “*Jokam,’ he answered sullenly. “*Your sign?’ (I here repeated the omitted part of the ritual). He winced, and I could see that he was a coward; nevertheless, though it displeased him, he gave me his sigil. & “His name is spelt: o>. Having no further question to ask him, I left him, biddin…
1911 · PDF PAGE 67
…of my forefathers? With that she bends down, and kisses me on the mouth, and says: “Yet a little, and on thy left arm shalt thou carry a man-child, and give him to drink of the milk of thy breasts. But I go dancing.” And I wave my hand, and the Aethyr is empty and dark, and I bow myself before it in the sign that I, and only I, may know. And I sink through waves of blackness, poised on an eagle, down, down, down. And I give the sign that only I may know. And now there is nothing in the stone but the black cross of Themis, and on it these words:…
1913 · PDF PAGE 313
… is all that we are not, He is the infinite opposed to the finite by hypothesis. Faith, and consequently hope and love, are so free that man, far from being able to impose them on others, does not even impose them on himself. “These,” says religion, “are graces.” Now, is it con- ceivable that grace should be subject to demand or exaction; that is to say, could any one wish to force men to a thing which comes freely and without price from heaven? One must not do more than desire it for them. To reason concerning faith is to think irrationally, s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 349
…of rights is that of dying in order not to kill. Intelligence and love should resist oppression unto death— but never unto murder. Brave man, the life of him who has offended you is in your hands; for he is master of the life of others who cares not for his own... Crush him beneath your greatness : pardon him! “ But is it forbidden to kill the tiger which threatens us?” “Tf it isa tiger with a human face, it is finer to let him devour us,—yet, for all that, morality has here nothing to say.” “But if the tiger threatens my children ?” “Let Natur…
1913 · PDF PAGE 313
… is all that we are not, He is the infinite opposed to the finite by hypothesis. Faith, and consequently hope and love, are so free that man, far from being able to impose them on others, does not even impose them on himself. “These,” says religion, “are graces.” Now, is it con- ceivable that grace should be subject to demand or exaction; that is to say, could any one wish to force men to a thing which comes freely and without price from heaven? One must not do more than desire it for them. To reason concerning faith is to think irrationally, s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 349
…of rights is that of dying in order not to kill. Intelligence and love should resist oppression unto death— but never unto murder. Brave man, the life of him who has offended you is in your hands; for he is master of the life of others who cares not for his own... Crush him beneath your greatness : pardon him! “ But is it forbidden to kill the tiger which threatens us?” “Tf it isa tiger with a human face, it is finer to let him devour us,—yet, for all that, morality has here nothing to say.” “But if the tiger threatens my children ?” “Let Natur…
1930 · PDF PAGE 60
…he Angel créâtes continually, wreathing His Wîll in clinging beauty, imperishably green. The Tiger, the symbol of the brutal passions of man, gambols about its master’s heelsj and He bestrides the Ass of Priapus; he makes his sexual force carry him whither He wills to go. Let the Magician therefore adventure himself upon the Astral Plane with the declared design to penetrate to a sanctuary of discarnate Beings such as are able to instruct and fortify him, also to prove their identity by testimony beyond rebuttal. Ail explana- tions other than t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 64
…f Angels and Archangels: Reschith. Hear the prayers of Thy servant who putteth his trust in Thee : Hagalgalim. Let thy Holy Angels be commanded to assist me at this time and at all times. Iehovah. God Almighty, God Omnipotent, hear my prayer: Hadonat. Command Thy Holy Angels above the fixed stars : Ophanim. To be assisting and aiding Thy servant: Tophiel. That I may command all spirits of air, water, fire, earth, and hell: Masloth. So that it may tend unto Thy glory and unto the good of man. Iehovah. God Almighty, God Omnipotent, hear my prayer…
1909 · PDF PAGE 29
3.0. 3.15. JOHN ST. JOHN felt to pulse and even to ache. Especially this is the case if one vibrates a mantra or Magical Name in a nerve-centre. At present I cannot do this at all. The Prana seems equilibrated in the whole organism: I am very peaceful—just as a corpse is. It is terribly annoying, in 3 sense, because this con- ditionis just the opposite of Dharana; yet one knows that it is a stage on the way to Samadhi. So I rise and give confidently the Sign of Apophis and Typhon, and will then regard the reflection of the sweet October Sun in th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 40
…olomon the King! All this the Hiereus seals with a knock and at the Hegemon’s new summons he—to his surprise-«finds himself as the Hanged Man of the Tarot. Each point of the figure thus formed they crown with light, until he glitters with the Flame of the Spirit.
1909 · PDF PAGE 54
… this effect (a) is the true effect; and that Ludlow’s “access of self-consciousness” is but the same operating on the organisation of a man evidently nervous and timid. 44