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Page 177 of 2251930 · PDF PAGE 68
…attack combustible materials with the vehemence proper to the pure gas. We may summarize this thesis by sayîng that Àlcîiemy includes as many possible operations as tliere are original ideas inberent in nature. Alchemy resembles évocation in its sélection of appropriate material bases for the manifestation of the Will5 but differs from it in proceeding without personification, or the intervention of alien planes. 1 It may be more closely compared with Initiation; for the effective element of the Product is of the essence of its own nature, and …
1904 · PDF PAGE 15
himself to this one by his singular versatility and charm, his sincerity and brilliance. Once they grasped the many-sided nature of his mind an operation which took about two hours hard work on the part of D . . . and L . . . , for K . . . dissimu- lated, with amusing effrontery, the real harmony of his character they knew him for a man, and loved him. It was at the Red Dog that I first had the pleas- ure of meeting him. He was then living apart from his wife, who had returned to Cairo for the sake of its vice, and he occupied a small flat…
1909 · PDF PAGE 351
… stooped down and placed the little selkies near her, and the mother clasped them to her bosom with her megs and then she looked up into Mansie’s face, and all the happiness in the world was in that look: for on that day the selkie did everything but speak. Mansie was a young man then, and some time afterwards he married and settled on the west of Eday. One evening when he was fishing for sillocks on an ebb-rock, which could only be reached dry-shod at low water, the fish took unusually well, so that he stood and filled his basket. Indeed they …
1909 · PDF PAGE 351
… stooped down and placed the little selkies near her, and the mother clasped them to her bosom with her megs and then she looked up into Mansie’s face, and all the happiness in the world was in that look: for on that day the selkie did everything but speak. Mansie was a young man then, and some time afterwards he married and settled on the west of Eday. One evening when he was fishing for sillocks on an ebb-rock, which could only be reached dry-shod at low water, the fish took unusually well, so that he stood and filled his basket. Indeed they …
1910 · PDF PAGE 121
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Compare this with the following: That which is the night of all beings, for the disciplined man is the time of waking; when other beings are waking, then is it night for the Muni who seeth. He attaineth Peace, into whom all desires flow as rivers flow into the ocean, which is filled with water but remaineth unmoved—not he who desireth desires. He who, through the likeness of the Atman, O Arjuna, seeth identity in everything, whether pleasant or painful, he is considered a perfect Yogi.* Now that we have finished o…
1910 · PDF PAGE 121
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Compare this with the following: That which is the night of all beings, for the disciplined man is the time of waking; when other beings are waking, then is it night for the Muni who seeth. He attaineth Peace, into whom all desires flow as rivers flow into the ocean, which is filled with water but remaineth unmoved—not he who desireth desires. He who, through the likeness of the Atman, O Arjuna, seeth identity in everything, whether pleasant or painful, he is considered a perfect Yogi.* Now that we have finished o…
1919 · PDF PAGE 197
…re we have left behind us, and it is no more, yet there is “that which remains.” What remains? What has happened? We realize that “every man and every woman is astar.” We gaze around at our wider heritage, we gaze at the Body of Our Lady Nuit. We are not in darkness; we are much nearer to Her now. What (from the little planet) looked like specks of light, are now blazing like other great Suns, and these are truly our brothers and sisters, whose essential and Starry nature we had never before seen and realized. These are the ‘remains’ of those w…
1922 · PDF PAGE 44
…ppeared. Before all things, decorum ! The shock bit the incident deeply into my mind: I remember with the utmost distinctness paying the man off, and then being lost in absolute blank wonder as to how it happened that we were where we were.
1922 · PDF PAGE 91
…equired, but the idea of doing it didn’t appeal. I thought a bath and a shower would put me right; and I certainly felt a very different man by the time I had got my clothes on. , When I came back into the sitting-room, I found Lou dancing daintily round the table. She went for me like a bull at a gate; swept me away to the couch and knelt at my side as I lay, while she overwhelmed me with passionate kisses. She divined that I was not in any condition to respond. “You still need your nurse,” she laughed merrily, with sparkling eyes. and flashin…
1954 · PDF PAGE 23
…and the resemblance falls apart altogether. There is enough data presented in this striking set of letters, apart from anything else the man has written in his long literary life, to thoroughly destroy any such possibility. A bohemian and eccentric he may well have been-a hippy never! Many of the young people of today are turning toward his writing with a view to resolving some of the most serious problems of our time-conflicts which affect them and our society most seriously. In this, I think they are showing some deep wisdom. But in many of t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 314
…ay that change does not really affect them. Another way to put it would be that they are adjectives, not nouns. They are merely sensible manifestations of the elements to which they are attributed , and to the letters of their name. Now, on the othe: hand, there is an entirely different type of angel; and here we must be especially careful to remember that we include gods and devils, for there are such beings who are not by any means depend en t on one particular element for their existence. They are microcosms in exactly the same sense as men …
1954 · PDF PAGE 332
…iate causes. And let this be done very fully and minutely . Here for example, is a body erect and motionless. Let the adept consider the many forces which maintain it; firstly, the attraction of the earth, of the sun, of the planets, of the farthest stars, nay of every mote of dust in the room, one of which (could it be annihilated) would cause that body to move although so imperceptibly. Also the resistance of the floor, the pressure of the air, and all other external conditions. Secondly, the internal forces which sustain it, the vast and com…
1954 · PDF PAGE 344
…ounds easy! "Of course! Damn your integrity! Damn you! The Work is all that matters." All the same, I say NO. I should never be the same man again. I should have lost that confidence in myself which is the spine of my work. No need that the fraud should be discovered openly: it would appear in all my subsequent work, a subtle contamination. But suppose that it were not the matter of gulling a moribund half-wit; suppose that the price was a straightforward honest-to-God Bank Robbery under arms on the highway, should I hesitate then? Here I shoul…
1996 · PDF PAGE 165
…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
1929 · PDF PAGE 14
… cruel to me." The influence of Cousin Gregor at this time was paramount. When Gregor was Rob Roy, Alick was Greumoch, the outlaw's henchman in James Grant's novel. The MacGregors appealed to Alick as being the most royal, wronged, romantic, brave and solitary of the clans. There can be no doubt that this phantasy played a great part in determining his passionate. {47} Admiration of the chief of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a Hampshire man named Mathers who inexplicably claimed to be MacGregor of Glenstrae. The boy's attitude to his p…
1929 · PDF PAGE 69
69 The wild man wends his weary way To a strange and lonely pump. Yet it seemed somehow familiar. It drew nigh; yes, it was Arthur Ellis. I expressed surprise; but he said that he had felt so much better he thought he might as well come down, but it had been a long and terrible day. He had started at dawn. This was absurd, as it was only a couple of hours' easy walking from the hut. Ah yes, he said, but he had come down over the snout of the glacier and he had had to cut steps all the way --- no more glissading for him! This story was again rat…
1910 · PDF PAGE 100
…e chemical ones. * “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. v. + Ibid. chap. v, 107, 108, 109. This is probably wrong, as the sun is usually placed in the Manipdra Chakkra. In the body ofa man the Pingala is the solar current, the Ida the lunar. In a woman these are reversed. $ Lbid., chap. v, 75. 838
1910 · PDF PAGE 100
…e chemical ones. * “Shiva Sanhita,” chap. v. + Ibid. chap. v, 107, 108, 109. This is probably wrong, as the sun is usually placed in the Manipdra Chakkra. In the body ofa man the Pingala is the solar current, the Ida the lunar. In a woman these are reversed. $ Lbid., chap. v, 75. 838
1919 · PDF PAGE 193
…e We write these words. For it is a little cottage of red and green, by the western side of a great lake, and it is hidden in the woods. Man, therefore, is at odds with Wood and Water; and being a magician bethinketh Himself to take one of these enemies, Wood, which is both the effect and the cause of that excess of Water, and compel it to fight for Him against the other. What then maketh He? Why, He taketh unto himself Iron of Mars, an Axe and a Saw and a Wedge and a Knife, and He divideth Wood therewith against himself, hewing him into many s…
1922 · PDF PAGE 57
…right kind of nothing. But I divined a certain shrewd- ness in his eyes; it belied his mask of ostentatious innocence. There was another man there too, a kind of half- baked Nonconformist parson, one Jabez Platt, who had realised early in life that his mission was to go about doing good. Some people said that he had done a great deal of good—to himself. His principle in politics was a very simple one: If you see anything, stop it; everything that is, is wrong; the world is a very wicked place. He was very enthusiastic about putting through a la…