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Page 166 of 2251907 · PDF PAGE 323
… the Lord thy God with all thy heart , and with all thy soul , and with all thy mind , and with all thy strength : this is the first com mandment , ” to all who would arrive at their true state of “ Self - hood .” God here represents any one object , for in the end all objects are the same . I look at a bug and my five senses tell me it is flat , of a certain odour , brown , etc. , etc .; only phenomena which I cannot get behind ; the mirror of my senses is defective , so I proceed to try one of a more perfect make — the “ superconscious ” 3— t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 375
THE MAN-COVER Carlyle puts it; and considering—as I think necessary to conclude, contrary to the immortal Scotsman—considering how very little more we know about the most important questions which concern the human race than did our tailed ancestors, it might strike the reflective mind with some surprise that, however unpleasant they may be froma personal point of view, the most wondrous and striking experiences which I am undergoing will doubtless be of no little help to the dond-fide thinkers of our present day. Dean Swift and Samuel Butler s…
1909 · PDF PAGE 375
THE MAN-COVER Carlyle puts it; and considering—as I think necessary to conclude, contrary to the immortal Scotsman—considering how very little more we know about the most important questions which concern the human race than did our tailed ancestors, it might strike the reflective mind with some surprise that, however unpleasant they may be froma personal point of view, the most wondrous and striking experiences which I am undergoing will doubtless be of no little help to the dond-fide thinkers of our present day. Dean Swift and Samuel Butler s…
1910 · PDF PAGE 138
…t seems very difficult nowadays to settle down. Red Cross, 22m. Ten breaks. Nirvana.t 13m. Not bad. I tried to put (astrally) a fly on a man’s nose. It seemed to disturb him much; but he did not try to brush it off. Tried the same with Chinaman, great success. Tried to make a Chinaman look round, instant success. Tried the same with a European, but failed. 3rd. Tried in vain two “practical volitions” but was too unwell to do any work. 4th, Nirvana,Selfish- 28 m. ness, Magical Power Hiero- phantship, etc. After this meditation I arrived at the f…
1910 · PDF PAGE 317
THE EYES OF ST. LJUBOV man and a philosopher. Therefore, what need is there for me to think, to fathom the depths of childish or human sorrow, to send my brains into a tiring process of elucidation? far more pleasant it is to remain a contemplative individual. Therefore, O Mexican Gaucho, pass me thy pellote pouch and let me take a helping of the leaves and root of thy wonderful mescal plant. And without thought and without fatigue, I can then SEE. Where was I, my little brethren, fathers of larva, sons of the she-goat? Ah, I know. Well, poor l…
1910 · PDF PAGE 138
…t seems very difficult nowadays to settle down. Red Cross, 22m. Ten breaks. Nirvana.t 13m. Not bad. I tried to put (astrally) a fly on a man’s nose. It seemed to disturb him much; but he did not try to brush it off. Tried the same with Chinaman, great success. Tried to make a Chinaman look round, instant success. Tried the same with a European, but failed. 3rd. Tried in vain two “practical volitions” but was too unwell to do any work. 4th, Nirvana,Selfish- 28 m. ness, Magical Power Hiero- phantship, etc. After this meditation I arrived at the f…
1910 · PDF PAGE 317
THE EYES OF ST. LJUBOV man and a philosopher. Therefore, what need is there for me to think, to fathom the depths of childish or human sorrow, to send my brains into a tiring process of elucidation? far more pleasant it is to remain a contemplative individual. Therefore, O Mexican Gaucho, pass me thy pellote pouch and let me take a helping of the leaves and root of thy wonderful mescal plant. And without thought and without fatigue, I can then SEE. Where was I, my little brethren, fathers of larva, sons of the she-goat? Ah, I know. Well, poor l…
1929 · PDF PAGE 29
… husband's thoughts from imperceptible movements of his face as easily as a trained deaf-mute can sometimes read the speech of a distant man from the movements of his lips. Gradually as we worked, day by day, I found my grasp of detail ever fuller. It is not only that I could read emotions; I could tell whether he was thinking 3465822 or 3456822. In the year following my illness we made 436 experiments of this kind, each extending over sev- eral hours; in all 9363, with only 122 failures, and these all, without exception, partial. The year foll…
1954 · PDF PAGE 469
436 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS only of Knowledge but of Life? For there is that in Man which is God, and there is that also which is Dust; and by our Magick we shall make these twain one Flesh, to the Obtaining of the Empery of the Universe. I suppose I might have put it more concisely: Classics is itself Initiation, being the key of the Unconscious; Mathematics is the Art of manipulating the Ruach, and of raising it to Neschamah; and Science is co-terminous with Magick. These are the three branches of study which I regard as fundamental. No others a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 50
the Seal of the Spirit required upon the other side thereof. It is to preserve thee from danger, and also to command the Spirits by. (Colours.—Circle and pentagram outlined in black. Names and Sigils within Pentagram black also. “Tetragrammaton” in red letters. Ground of centre of Pentagram, where “Soluzen” is written, green. Ex- ternal angles of Pentagram where “ Abdia,’ “ Ballaton,” “ Halliza,” etc., are written, blue.) THE MAGIC RING OR DISC OF SOLOMON. Tus is the Form of the Magic Ring, or rather Disc, of Solomon, the figure whereof is to b…
1909 · PDF PAGE 388
THE EQUINOX “Oh, you have been very ill for many days with brain- fever. You must not speak too much.” “What? Where is the coffin?” “The negroes have it; they have carried it away into the interior. But I suppose you are cured now?” he added in an anxious tone. I shall not repeat the conversation that ensued. Enough to mention that I discovered the old sailor to be absolutely mad. And being unable to persuade him that I was still firmly convinced of being the cover of the lost coffin, I found it better to agree with him. And soon he fell into t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 388
THE EQUINOX “Oh, you have been very ill for many days with brain- fever. You must not speak too much.” “What? Where is the coffin?” “The negroes have it; they have carried it away into the interior. But I suppose you are cured now?” he added in an anxious tone. I shall not repeat the conversation that ensued. Enough to mention that I discovered the old sailor to be absolutely mad. And being unable to persuade him that I was still firmly convinced of being the cover of the lost coffin, I found it better to agree with him. And soon he fell into t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 144
…i be a latter day interpolation, was highly thought of under the name of an “ Act of Truth.” Thus, though King Sivi gave his eyes to the man who begged them of him, he received others by an Act of Truth, by the gift of Siddhi, or Iddhi as the Buddhists call it. An Act, which is explained by the fair courtesan Bindumati as follows. When King Asoka asked her by what power she had caused the waters of the Ganges to flow backwards. She answered: Whosoever, O King, gives me gold—be he a noble, or a brahman, or a tradesman, or a servant—I regard them…
1910 · PDF PAGE 144
…i be a latter day interpolation, was highly thought of under the name of an “ Act of Truth.” Thus, though King Sivi gave his eyes to the man who begged them of him, he received others by an Act of Truth, by the gift of Siddhi, or Iddhi as the Buddhists call it. An Act, which is explained by the fair courtesan Bindumati as follows. When King Asoka asked her by what power she had caused the waters of the Ganges to flow backwards. She answered: Whosoever, O King, gives me gold—be he a noble, or a brahman, or a tradesman, or a servant—I regard them…
1910 · PDF PAGE 16
8 Introduction It is the sort of order that acquits a man of the charge of doing nothing for posterity, for assuredly nobody who knows India will try to raise false hopes in me that I may live long enough to see it. I would warn scholars that, unless they are in some way definitely mystics and truly acknowl- edged as such, they will do better to hunt for the lost books of Livy than for the Bagh-i- muattar. There is no copy in any public library here or in the East : not surprising, when one hears Platt in 1874 complain that of so famous a class…
1911 · PDF PAGE 133
THE VISION AND THE VOICE without whom the Fifth Aethyr would be perfect, even as the first. Yet unless he pass by me, can no man come unto the perfections. And the rule is ended that hath bound thee, and this shall be thy rule: that thou shalt purify thyself, and anoint thyself with perfume; and thou shalt be in the sunlight, the day being free from clouds. And thou shalt make the Call of the Aethyr in silence. Now, then, behold how the head of the dragon is but the tail of the Aethyr! Many are they that have fought their way from mansion to ma…
1913 · PDF PAGE 9
ScowPio, KC. You are not a careless man? Mariens. One eannot be too carefulin matters of magic. Scowrio, K.C. Did you ever leave any magical MSS. in a cab? Matuens, The best of ws may er. Even Homer nodded, ScowPio. K.C. These MSS. were taken to Scotland Yard? Maries, Icannot say, of my own knowledge Sconp1o, K.C. That would be the usual course? Mathes, [suppose so, Sconrto, KC. Dr. Westcott’s name and address being on them, the authorities would return them to him ? Matuens. I suppose so. Sconrio, K.C. Did they further intimateto Dr. Westeott …
1919 · PDF PAGE 114
…her breast: for in the uniting of elements of opposite polari- ties is there a glory of heat, of light, and of electricity. Thus also in mankind do we behold the spiritual fruit of poetry and all genius, arising from the seed of what is but an ani- mal gesture, in the estimation of such as are schooled in Philosophy. And it is to be noted strongly that the most violent and divine passions are those between people of utterly unharmonious natures. But now I would have you to know that in the mind are no such limitations in respect of species as p…
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
widow of the late Professor Blair. Her mind undoubtedly became unhinged through grief at her husband's death; the medical man who at- tended him in his last illness grew alarmed at her condi- tion, and had her watched. She tried (fruitlessly) to pur- chase dynamite at several shops, but on her going to the laboratory of her late husband, and attempting to manufacture Chloride of Nitrogen, obviously for the pur- pose of suicide, she was seized, certified insane, and placed in my care. The case is most unusual in several respects. (1) I have neve…
1906 · PDF PAGE 204
…ght up from the pit. But always to the very end his power is un- exhausted, immense, terrible. His delirium does not amuse; it appals! A man whocould conceive as he did must himself have had some glorious chord in his heart vibrating to the eternal principle of Boundless Love, That this love was wrecked is for me, in some sort a relative of his, a real and bitter sorrow. He might have been so great! He missed Heaven! ‘Think kindly of him! 169. Correctly rhymes.41—Such lines, how- ever noble in sentiment, as: ‘‘A bas les Anglais! The Irish up!” …