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Page 16 of 711954 · PDF PAGE 82
…der!-the marvellous beauty and symmetry of the Qabalistic system. And then-what a weapon you will have forged! What power to analyze, to order, to manipulate your thinking! The Book of the Law itself insists upon the fact that it contains a Qabalah which was beyond me at the time of its dictation , is beyond me now, and always will be beyond me in this incarnation . Let me direct your spiritual attention at AL, I: 54; I: 56; II: 54-55; II: 76; III: 47. Now there was enough comprehensible at the time to assure me that the Author of the Book knew…
1944 · PDF PAGE 87
…an a little mad; and the lion also is aflame with lust. This signi‐ fies that the type of energy described is of the primitive, creative order; it is completely inde‐ pendent of the criticism of reason. This card portrays the will of the Aeon. In the background are the bloodless images of the saints, on whom this image travels, for their whole life has been absorbed into the Holy’ Grail. “Now ye shall know that the chosen priest & apostle of infinite space is the prince‐ priest the Beast; and in his woman called the Scarlet Woman all power is g…
1954 · PDF PAGE 24
PREFACE XXlll considerable magical training in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Whatever knowledge Allan had obtained about pharmacology was passed on to the disciple, Aleister Crowley, when he came under the tutelage of Allan. The result was that, long before he in turn developed asthma, he conducted experiments with a wide variety of drugs in order to determine whether by their means a door could be opened, or held open, to higher mystical states. But Crowley came to insist that these drugs be left severely alone until or unless you kne…
1954 · PDF PAGE 314
… this ideal. Now then , it is simple to answer the question of their development , their growing old and dying ; for , being of the same order of Nature as we are ourselves , almost anything which is true of us is true also of them. I have tended rather to elaborate this theme, because of the one personally important question which arises in more recent letters ; for I believe that the Holy Guardian Angel is a Being of this order. He is something more than a man, possibly a being who has already passed through the stage of humanity, and his pec…
1996 · PDF PAGE 165
…ht! May thy Body be the Temple of the Rosy Cross!1 1 [These are the words of Reception in the Adeptus Minor 5°=6° ritual of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. See Israel Regardie, The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic (Phoenix: Falcon, 1984), vol. 7, p. 52. This passage is omitted in Crowley’s account of this ritual in The Equinox 1(3) (1910). The formula does however occur in Liber 418, 9th Aithyr, and in “John St. John,” The Equinox 1(1) (1909).] 38. So that thy light is in me; & its red flame is as a sword in my hand to push thy order…
1913 · PDF PAGE 101
… upon this Wheel, revolving it in thy mind! Be this thy task, to see how each card springs necessarily from each other card, even in due order from The Fool unto The Ten of Coins. Then, when thou know’st the Wheel of Destiny complete, mayst thou perceive THAT Will which moved it first. [There is no first or last.| And lo! thou art past through the Abyss,
1907 · PDF PAGE 71
…lost his machine and must find another; and that’s the view from Binah; but the view from Chesed is “ Let me keep this machine in perfect order, in case our S.H. Frater wants to dictate.” Bones. Just so; and if Brother Bowley goes on lying, our S.H. Frater will one day strike the A key and find a B on the paper. Then he will probably say: Damn the machine l—and do it. Bowley. We are leaving exactitude and wallowing in analogy. We have run up and down the planes till we are less like Exempt Adepti than monkeys on sticks; we Bones. We had better g…
1954 · PDF PAGE 13
…cerning the Great Work, his organization of the A :. A :. , and what is expected of the student once he has become a probationer of that Order. As soon as the chapter letters are reached, however, one is plunged into intellectual and spiritual depths or heights which the author struggles to make reasonably clear. The first letter borrows the axioms, theorems and propositions written for an earlier book, Magick in Theory and Practice. They are certainly worth reviewing and contain more than appears at first sigh t. The order of the letters does …
1939 · PDF PAGE 59
…tincts, desires, or habits can intrude. He has freed his will of all these inhibitions. He is a perfect function of the machinery of the Order. In the General of the Society is concentrated the power of all those separate wills, just as in the human body every cell should be completely devoted in its particular quality to the concentrated will of the organism. 5. In other words, the Society of Jesus has created a perfect imitation of the skeleton of the original creation, living man. It has complied with the divinely instituted order of things,…
1944 · PDF PAGE 5
… upon this Wheel, revolving it in thy mind! Be this thy task, to see how each card springs necessarily from each other card, even in due order from The Fool unto The Ten of Coins. Then, when thou know’st the Wheel of Destiny complete, may’st thou perceive THAT Will which moved it first. [There is no first or last.] And lo! thou art past through the Abyss. The Book of Lies KEΦ.OH.
1954 · PDF PAGE 409
… one kind of trouble or another. It may in fact be regarded as a defect of concentration if communication between any two members of the Order should take place, except in cases of necessity. I know that it must seem hard to the weaker brethren of the Order that we should make so little appearance of success in the Great Work to which we are all pledged. It is so universal a convention that success should be measured by members. People like to feel that they have hundreds of Lodges from whom they can obtain assistance in moments of discourageme…
1929 · PDF PAGE 501
…icrucian racket, merrily disdainful of criticism based on his elementary blunders in Latin and his total ignorance of the history of the Order which he claimed to rule. The old lady was simple- minded, sincere and earnest. I did not grudge the labour of trying to get her to use common sense, but as almost invariable in America, and heartbreakingly common even in Europe, the task was beyond my powers. {791} Just as extreme hunger makes a man shovel down anything that looks like food, so the ache of the soul for truth makes it swallow whatever pr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 583
…illar. They succeeded in climbing both, to my great joy. The morning after their arrival, I was summoned to the police, who showed me an order from the Minister of the Interior expelling me from Italy. No reason was given, no accusation made. The policy of backstairs intrigue and foul strokes, whenever they felt sure that I could not defend myself or hit back was still the order of the day. The commissary of Police was staggered by the smiling calm with which I received this stab in the back. I did not even protest or ask for the reason of the …
1919 · PDF PAGE 165
…ope with, viz.: that he must choose between the continuance of that guidance, and the regular course of training mapped out in the Outer Order of the A..A.. He must either resign the grade of Neophyte just conferred upon him, severing his connection with the Outer Order, or cease to work under Frater P.A. altogether. The reasons for this cannot be dealt with fully in this place, nor would they be of the slightest interest to our readers, suffice it to say that Frater V.I.O. had pledged himself to work on cer- tain lines for six months and that …
1912 · PDF PAGE 18
… they sail In dancing dragons to the fight With man and sea, with ghoul and gale. Whom God shall spare, ride, ride! (so springs The iron order). Let him fly On honour’s steed with honour’s wings To warn the king, lest honour die! Then to the fury of the blast Their fury adds a dreadful sting : The fatal die is surely cast. To save the king—to save the king ! Hail! horror of the midnight surge ! The storms of death, the lashing gust, The doubtful gleam of swords that urge Hot laughter with high-leaping lust!
1913 · PDF PAGE 27
17 forms a link between the two symbols. The Pantacle is the food of the Magus; and some of it he gives up in order to give light to that which is without. For these lights are only apparently hostile to intrusion ; they serve to illuminate the Circle and the Names of God, and so to bring the first and outmost sym- bols of initiation within the view of the profane. These candles stand upon pentagrams, which symbolize Geburah, severity, and give protection; but also represent the microcosm, the four elements crowned by Spirit, the Will of man pe…
1924 · PDF PAGE 1
…sh gentleman and man of letters, and against the personal virtue of three very noble women who have renounced their private ambitions in order to help in his work. I. The case is as follows : Between November 1922 and March 1923, the Sunday Express published a series of sensa- I
1907 · PDF PAGE 53
…f wonder and the innocent eyes, and if you yell you will be deposited in the coal-hole. Superlativer Honoured Fratres and Sorores of the Order of The Tin Sunset-— compare Charles Baudelaire our Lord !—assist me to open the temple —my mouth, Mrs. Bones—Mouth is part of body, and body is Temple (Colossians, iv, 15), you may say I need no assistance—in the Grade of Ten equals One and don't you forget it! [Readsfrom MS.] noel An essay upon Truth by the boy O.M., Member of the Order of the A:‘: A:': To the first paragraph of “Ascension Day” (dearly b…
1903 · PDF PAGE 24
… to the light. Maurya. Il luck ? Criospa. A year’s delay. Maurya. Ah, let me gain one gift Whose sweet reversion hangs above me now : To order luck ! Criospa. Skill orders luck ! Maurya. The draught ! Crrospa. Hither, O Maurya ! Maurya. I will come to thee.
1916 · PDF PAGE 17
…re harmony with them. When the anarchy which exists in this country becomes obvious to its people, and the dictator is required to bring order out of chaos, they have only to turn to the portrait at the commencement of this volume, and exclaim: Ecce Homo!