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Page 162 of 2251919 · PDF PAGE 456
“Books that have changed the course of Human Lives” We offer to Students of the Occult and Mystic all the literature of THE GREAT SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCE BY T.K. FLORENCE HUNTLEY DR. J. D. BUCK Tue Great Work, by T. K. GENIUS OF FREEMASONRY. Cloth . . + + $2.50 Morocco. J.D. Buck . . $2.00 Harmonics oF EvoLurion. A Stupy or Man. J.D. Buck. 1.50 Cloth . . . + 2.50 Constructive Psycuotocy. Tue GREAT PsycHozosIcat jJ.D.Buck. . . . . . 1.00 T Crowe. Cloth + 2.50 Tue New Avatar . . 2.00 HE on B Capt : v : » 100 Tye Gay GNANI OF Grncatee 1.00 Quest…
1954 · PDF PAGE 449
…e Self-Mastery of Percivale became the Self-masturbatery of the Bourgeois. Vir-tus has become "virtue. " The qualities which have made a man, a race. a city. a caste, must be thrown off; death is the penalty oj failure. As it is written: In the hour of success sacrifice that which is dearest to thee unto the Infernal Gods! The Englishman lives upon the excrement of his forefathers. All moral codes are worthless in themselves; yet in every new code there is hope. Provided always that the code is not changed because it is too hard, but because it…
1954 · PDF PAGE 552
…Mathematics, 436 Matriarchy, 303 Matterhorn, 466 Maya, 55 Means (does it justify the end?) , 308, 312 Medici, Catherine de, 164 Medicine Man, 73 Meinhold, 446 Mein Kampf, 438 Melander's Millions, 267 Mekarth , II,55,465 Mendez, Goat of, 75 Mercury, 12, 23, 157 Meru, 240 Messiach, 295 Messiah, 86, 295 Michelet, 466 Mikado, 458 Milinda, Questions of King, 206 Mill, John Stuart, 309 Minerval, 25 Ministry of Fear, 294 Minutum Mundum , 155 Mithras, ll, 55, 465 Mohammed , 35, 392,465 Mohammedan Orders , 6 Molinos, 199 Money, 8, 346, 348-352 Monist, M…
1929 · PDF PAGE 282
… and said that Shri Parananda's doctrine was not Buddhism! In any case, I resented those views. I clung passionately to my belief that a man's progress depended upon personal prowess. No doubt this is philosophically absurd, but I still maintain that it is practical good sense. The conversation, nevertheless, turned to considerations of what my Kamma had in store for me. "This might be discovered," he said, "by acquiring the Magical Memory." This is equivalent to Sammasati, Right Recollection, the seventh step on the Noble Eightfold Path. I mus…
1906 · PDF PAGE 93
…n of ‘Tyro and Poseidon? MEN. Iolchus’ King has here a dwelling-place. WOMEN. See you the sword shake—and the iron hand Not shaking? The man’s mood is full of wrath. MEN. Peace, foolish! Were it so, we would not see. WOMEN. Ay me! this stranger seems most ominous. JASON, Where is the son of Tyro and Poseidon? MEN. This is the Palace-place of Pelias, Son of Poseidon, of Iolchus King. JASON. Iolchus’ King is here, in very truth. Where is the son of Tyro? MEN. Who art thou? JASON. Know me for Jason and great Aeson’s heir. MEN. We learn good news, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 161
… dug and he dug , and he slew and he slew , religion growing fatter and fatter , spawning churches and breeding sects , till unfortunate man found himself so hedged in by the spiritual , that in order to maintain his life in this world he had to acknowledge the Church's supreme authority , and grovel before her in the dust of degradation . Crowley gives a curious example of this growth , and the ulti mate sameness of all religions in that gruesome and weird drama , “ The God - Eater ." Maurya the sister of Criosda says : Criosda , ever the same…
1910 · PDF PAGE 286
… most imperatively for another one to be prepared as quickly as possible, lest the flames should spread by waiting. In this way I kept a man busy with the composition of lemonade after lemonade, plunging my tube over the edge of the drained tumbler into the full one with a precipitate haste for which there were mortal reasons, until six had been consumed. I returned to hasheesh, but only when I had become hope- less of carrying out my first intention—its utter and immediate abandonment. I now resolved to abandon it gradually—to retreat slowly f…
1910 · PDF PAGE 286
… most imperatively for another one to be prepared as quickly as possible, lest the flames should spread by waiting. In this way I kept a man busy with the composition of lemonade after lemonade, plunging my tube over the edge of the drained tumbler into the full one with a precipitate haste for which there were mortal reasons, until six had been consumed. I returned to hasheesh, but only when I had become hope- less of carrying out my first intention—its utter and immediate abandonment. I now resolved to abandon it gradually—to retreat slowly f…
1911 · PDF PAGE 52
…teries of the ineffable light. Iam the aspiration unto the higher; I am the love of the unknown. I am the blind ache within the heart of man. I am the minister of the sacrament of pain. I swing the censer of worship, and I sprinkle the waters of purification. I am the daughter of the house of the invisible. I am the Priestess of the Silver Star. And she catches me up to her as a mother catches her babe, and holds me up in her left arm, and sets my lips to her breast. And upon her breast is written: Rosa Mundi est Lilium Coeli. And I look down u…
1913 · PDF PAGE 70
…y comment upon this the Book of the Law shall be printed beautifully in red ink and black upon beautiful paper made by hand; and to each man and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to abide in this bliss or no; it is no odds. Do this quickly! 40. But the work of the comment? That is easy; and Hadit burning in thy heart shall make swift and secure thy pen. 41. Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-house: all must be done well and with business way. 42. The ordeals thou shalt ov…
1913 · PDF PAGE 156
…t must illuminate the darkness of all. Having then received this last Initiation, this destruction of the opposition between One and the Many, he descended from the mountain, and awaited nightfall. The nature of the Initiation itself—its climax and comple- tion—can only be given in the sublime words of the Angel of the A&thyr itself. We therefore quote it in full— The Angel reappears. The blackness gathers about, so thick, so clinging, so penetrating, so oppressive, that all the other darkness that I have ever conceived would be like bright lig…
1913 · PDF PAGE 420
…e, do not look at her! sing! sing! do not scare away the butterfly of Psyche, which is about to alight on this flower! But the insensate man has seen the look of the woman whom he has raised from the dead, the Grand Hiero- phant gives place to the lover, his lyre falls from his hands, he looks upon Eurydice, he darts towards her, . . . he clasps her in his arms, he finds her frozen still, her eyes are closed again, her lips are paler and colder than ever, the sensitive soul has trembled, the frail cord is broken anew—and for ever. . . . Eurydic…
1913 · PDF PAGE 70
…y comment upon this the Book of the Law shall be printed beautifully in red ink and black upon beautiful paper made by hand; and to each man and woman that thou meetest, were it but to dine or to drink at them, it is the Law to give. Then they shall chance to abide in this bliss or no; it is no odds. Do this quickly! 40. But the work of the comment? That is easy; and Hadit burning in thy heart shall make swift and secure thy pen. 41. Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-house: all must be done well and with business way. 42. The ordeals thou shalt ov…
1913 · PDF PAGE 156
…t must illuminate the darkness of all. Having then received this last Initiation, this destruction of the opposition between One and the Many, he descended from the mountain, and awaited nightfall. The nature of the Initiation itself—its climax and comple- tion—can only be given in the sublime words of the Angel of the A&thyr itself. We therefore quote it in full— The Angel reappears. The blackness gathers about, so thick, so clinging, so penetrating, so oppressive, that all the other darkness that I have ever conceived would be like bright lig…
1913 · PDF PAGE 420
…e, do not look at her! sing! sing! do not scare away the butterfly of Psyche, which is about to alight on this flower! But the insensate man has seen the look of the woman whom he has raised from the dead, the Grand Hiero- phant gives place to the lover, his lyre falls from his hands, he looks upon Eurydice, he darts towards her, . . . he clasps her in his arms, he finds her frozen still, her eyes are closed again, her lips are paler and colder than ever, the sensitive soul has trembled, the frail cord is broken anew—and for ever. . . . Eurydic…
1919 · PDF PAGE 384
…which only waits the moment when it shall be burnt to ashes. 49. To perish doomed is he, who out of fear of Mara re- frains from helping man, lest he should act for Self. The pilgrim who would cool his weary limbs in running water, yet dares not plunge for terror of the stream risks to suc- cumb from heat. Inaction based on selfish fear can bear but evil fruit. A further warning against the doctrine of inaction. It is extraordinary how the Author insists again and again on this point. Orthodox Buddhism ostensibly teaches that creation of any Ka…
1905 · PDF PAGE 171
…s rest. Thence I with- drew my sight, the eyeballs cracked with stain of my endeavour, and my will struck up with subtler skill than any man’s that in fair Crete tracked through the laby- rinth of Minos, and awoke the cry to call his master ; grew a monster whirlwind of revolving smoke and then,
1907 · PDF PAGE 97
…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 convenance . The affluent m…
1909 · PDF PAGE 324
THE EQUINOX “ Before us glared a human face above a human body with arms and feet; but behind it, it was as the body of a lion. “Sappho then gave me the 0°=o° sign, which I returned, whereupon the great figure rose and blessed us, and we embraced. Then I knelt before Sappho and said: “You have given me of your strength and brought me into this place of blessing; I will now give you of mine.’ “For answer she held my hands in hers, and wonderful tinglings of glory and passion flowed into me like live fire. I raised my head to her bosom, and kisse…
1909 · PDF PAGE 324
THE EQUINOX “ Before us glared a human face above a human body with arms and feet; but behind it, it was as the body of a lion. “Sappho then gave me the 0°=o° sign, which I returned, whereupon the great figure rose and blessed us, and we embraced. Then I knelt before Sappho and said: “You have given me of your strength and brought me into this place of blessing; I will now give you of mine.’ “For answer she held my hands in hers, and wonderful tinglings of glory and passion flowed into me like live fire. I raised my head to her bosom, and kisse…