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Page 160 of 2031909 · PDF PAGE 232
…filth silts up and there is more trouble and annoyance. “So runs my dream,” and civilised man dreaming from his drain naturally pictures God as a kind of Omnipotent Sewer- Husher who everlastingly ought to trudge about with scoop, ladle, and rake, and keep gutters clean and drains in an inoffensive condition. So it happens that when gutters get blocked up and drains stink, the Free-thinker laughs and says: “You barmy fool, ‘there is no sich a person’”; and when they don’t, the Believer cries: ‘My poor benighted brother, ‘ He is like a refiner’s…
1909 · PDF PAGE 286
… of Anubis guarding the gates of the East and the West symbolised by the two Towers. The cray-fish is the sign Cancer, the Scarabzeus or God Kephera. “The emblem of the Sun below the horizon, as he ever is when the Moon is increasing above.’ The Hierophant then leads the Practicus to the Serpent of Brass, m2) and says: “This is the Serpent Nehushtan, which Moses made. ‘And he set it upon a Pole’ —that is, he twined it about the middle pillar of the Se- phiroth, because that is the reconciler between the fires of Geburah (Sera- phim, fiery serpe…
1909 · PDF PAGE 232
…filth silts up and there is more trouble and annoyance. “So runs my dream,” and civilised man dreaming from his drain naturally pictures God as a kind of Omnipotent Sewer- Husher who everlastingly ought to trudge about with scoop, ladle, and rake, and keep gutters clean and drains in an inoffensive condition. So it happens that when gutters get blocked up and drains stink, the Free-thinker laughs and says: “You barmy fool, ‘there is no sich a person’”; and when they don’t, the Believer cries: ‘My poor benighted brother, ‘ He is like a refiner’s…
1909 · PDF PAGE 286
… of Anubis guarding the gates of the East and the West symbolised by the two Towers. The cray-fish is the sign Cancer, the Scarabzeus or God Kephera. “The emblem of the Sun below the horizon, as he ever is when the Moon is increasing above.’ The Hierophant then leads the Practicus to the Serpent of Brass, m2) and says: “This is the Serpent Nehushtan, which Moses made. ‘And he set it upon a Pole’ —that is, he twined it about the middle pillar of the Se- phiroth, because that is the reconciler between the fires of Geburah (Sera- phim, fiery serpe…
1911 · PDF PAGE 96
…demon then laughed wildly and loud. (Upon the Scribe threatening him, the Demon proceeded, after a short delay.) They have called me the God of laughter, and I laugh when I will slay. And they have thought that I could not 94
1913 · PDF PAGE 332
…e, where the Governor of Egypt throws himself on the neck of Benjamin, with the great cry of “I am Joseph!” Israel becomes the people of God, that is to say, the con- servator of the idea, and the depositaries of the word. This idea is that of human independence, and of royalty, by means of work; but one hides it with care, like a precious seed. A painful and indelible sign is imprinted on the initiates; every image of the truth is forbidden, and the children of Jacob watch, sword in hand, around the unity of the tabernacle. Hamor and Shechem w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 394
…HE EQUINOX screncE. Admit that if religion has produced much good, she has also done much evil. FAITH. When one kills in the name of the God who said, “Thou shalt not kill,’ when one persecutes in the name of Him who commands us to forgive our enemies, when one propagates darkness in the name of Him who tells us not to hide the light under a bushel, is it just to attribute the crime to the very law which condemns it? Say, if you wish to be just, that in spite of religion, much evil has been done upon earth. But also, to how many virtues has it …
1913 · PDF PAGE 498
…, moreover, has been neg- lected, and for that reason divination is no longer believed in. 1 This isno more an argument than to say that God “abandoned” Christ. Martyrdom is usually cited on the other side. Besides, the fate of Cagliostro is unknown—at least to the world at large—O. M. 200
1913 · PDF PAGE 332
…e, where the Governor of Egypt throws himself on the neck of Benjamin, with the great cry of “I am Joseph!” Israel becomes the people of God, that is to say, the con- servator of the idea, and the depositaries of the word. This idea is that of human independence, and of royalty, by means of work; but one hides it with care, like a precious seed. A painful and indelible sign is imprinted on the initiates; every image of the truth is forbidden, and the children of Jacob watch, sword in hand, around the unity of the tabernacle. Hamor and Shechem w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 394
…HE EQUINOX screncE. Admit that if religion has produced much good, she has also done much evil. FAITH. When one kills in the name of the God who said, “Thou shalt not kill,’ when one persecutes in the name of Him who commands us to forgive our enemies, when one propagates darkness in the name of Him who tells us not to hide the light under a bushel, is it just to attribute the crime to the very law which condemns it? Say, if you wish to be just, that in spite of religion, much evil has been done upon earth. But also, to how many virtues has it …
1913 · PDF PAGE 498
…, moreover, has been neg- lected, and for that reason divination is no longer believed in. 1 This isno more an argument than to say that God “abandoned” Christ. Martyrdom is usually cited on the other side. Besides, the fate of Cagliostro is unknown—at least to the world at large—O. M. 200
1929 · PDF PAGE 135
… Blessed Trinity. Frater I.A.'s account was less of a strain upon P.'s faculties of belief. They had had, he said, an argument about the God Shiva, the Destroyer, whom I.A. worshipped because, if one repeated his name often enough, Shiva would one day open his eye and destroy the universe, and whom D.D.C.F. feared and hated because He would one day open His eye and destroy D.D.C.F. I.A. closed the argument by assuming the position Padmasana and repeating the Mantra: "Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, Shiva." D.D.C.F., angrier than ever, sought…
1907 · PDF PAGE 97
…space ; for it is love sublime , eternal , inscrutable ; its greatest foe is Lust , and the most fearful form of lust is Marriage : Whom God hath joined let no man put asunder . We have already seen marriage described in “ The Honourable Adulterers ” and in “ The Star and the Garter ”; we get a pregnant glimpse of it again in the one speech , “ A bargain's a bargain , a thousand a year and a flat in Mayfair are better than Farmer Tyson's butter and eggs . » 2 In these few words are practically summed up the raison d’être of all mariages de conv…
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
THE MOTHER 127 normal , love of man and woman for God is abnormal , and the abnormal in its turn breeds the lustful , whether the abnormality lies in the twists of the mind or the aberrations of the soul . Amnon lusted after Tamar , he was a mental monster ; Ezekiel devoured dung , he was a spiritual abortion . That a passionate nature is necessarily a lustful one , is often no more the case than that a lustful one need necessarily be passionate ; that lust as well as passion often inhabit the same mind is true enough , and that its forms are m…
1911 · PDF PAGE 149
…th, and his name is Misericordia Dei. And because he is the dyad, thou mayest yet understand in two ways. Of the first way, the Mercy of God is that Mercy which Jehovah showed to the Amalekites; and the second way is utterly beyond thine understanding, for it is the upright, and thou knowest nothing but the averse,—until Wisdom shall inform thine Understanding, and upon the base of the Ultimate triangle arise the smooth point. Veil therefore thine eyes, for that thou canst not master the Aethyr, unless thy Mystery match Its Mystery. Seal up thy…
1913 · PDF PAGE 450
…e a page from a German dluminé, the work of Ludwig Tieck : “Tf, for example, as an ancient tradition informs us, some of the angels whom God had created fell all too soon, and if these, as they also say, were precisely the most brilliant of the angels, one may very well understand by this ‘fall’ that they sought a new road, a new form of activity, other occupations, and another life than those orthodox or more passive spirits who remained in the realm assigned to them, and made no use of liberty, the appanage of all of them. ‘Their ‘fall’ was t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 450
…e a page from a German dluminé, the work of Ludwig Tieck : “Tf, for example, as an ancient tradition informs us, some of the angels whom God had created fell all too soon, and if these, as they also say, were precisely the most brilliant of the angels, one may very well understand by this ‘fall’ that they sought a new road, a new form of activity, other occupations, and another life than those orthodox or more passive spirits who remained in the realm assigned to them, and made no use of liberty, the appanage of all of them. ‘Their ‘fall’ was t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 102
…he Pleroma, Parabrahma, or the Allah of the Unity-adoring followers of Mohammed. (To the Musulman fakir, Allah is by no means a personal God.) Unity is thus unaffected, whether or no it be extended in any of the categories. But we have already agreed to look to 0 for the Uncaused. Now if there was in truth 0 “before the beginning of y ears,” THAT 0 WAS EX- TENDED IN NONE OF THE CATE- GORIES, FOR THERE COULD HAVE BEEN NO CATEGORIES IN WHICH IT COULD EXTEND! If our 0 was the ordinary 0 of mathematics, there was not truly absolute 0, for 0 is, as …
1905 · PDF PAGE 253
… dangerous leven to think of !—Dut to speak ! HEINRICH (aszde). These fools ! [He remains, thoughtfully regarding TANNHAUSER, LANDGRAVE. God avert omens! Soft you, Tannhauser, You heard the heralds? TANNILAUSER. Never a word of them! LANDGRAVE, You must remember my Elizabeth, My daughter—I designed to marry her To a most noble youth— TANNHAUSER. Von Aschenheim ? LANDGRAVE. The same. I would have wed her, but (‘tis strange !) The lady had a purpose of her own, And swore by all the Virgins in the Book She would wed nobody but—Tannhauser. So, like…
1907 · PDF PAGE 304
…cat. Dr. Johnson says it is a cat. Berkeley says it is a group of sensations. Çankaracharya says it is an illusion , an incarnation , or God , according to the hat he has got on , and is talking through . Spencer says it is a mode of the Unknowable . But none of them seriously doubt the fact that I exist ; that a cat exists ; that one sees the other . All -- bar Johnson --- hint - but oh ! how dimly ! -at what I now know to be true ? -no , not necessarily true , but nearer the truth . Huxley goes deeper in his demolition of Descartes . With him…