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Page 20 of 2571913 · PDF PAGE 422
…ect who abandons himself to it at the mercy of the magnetizer. When communication is well-established, and the magnetizer can produce at will slumber, insensibility, catalepsy, and so on, it will only require a little further effort to bring on death. We have been told as an actual fact a story whose authenticity we will not altogether guarantee. We are about to repeat it because it may be true. Certain persons who doubted both religion and magnetism, of that incredulous class which is ready for all superstitions and all fanaticisms, had persua…
1954 · PDF PAGE 296
PROPHECY 263 "It's a bit hard of you to wish another war on us," I said to Crowley. "Oh, but if everyone will only do as I tell them to, " he replied, "the catastrophe can be averted. " Somehow I fear they won 't. "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." Then I issued a prospectus for the book , giving the facts as to previous publications and their results, and leaving blank a space after "The Fourth Publication" to wait the event. The First Publication nine months before the outbreak of the Balkan War, which broke up the Near East. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 64
…cy, he said, "for you have only to say what you see and hear to be laughed at for a liar. If this be our last meeting, we are quits. You will be taken to a little chapel leading from this room. There you will find a circle, which you must enter, being careful not to touch it, even with your dress; for that would be dangerous. Within that circle you must remain until we send for you, unless you wish to leave, in [92] which case you have only to pass through the white curtains in the north. You will find yourself in a lighted passage; open the do…
1909 · PDF PAGE 24
…ious or too dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all that he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness. Before entering upon any of these practices, the student should be in good health, and have attained a fair mastery of Asana, Pranayama, and Dharana. 5. There is little danger that any student, however idle or stupid, will fail to get some result; but there is great danger that he will be led astray, obsessed and overwhelmed by his results, even though it…
1909 · PDF PAGE 24
…ious or too dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all that he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness. Before entering upon any of these practices, the student should be in good health, and have attained a fair mastery of Asana, Pranayama, and Dharana. 5. There is little danger that any student, however idle or stupid, will fail to get some result; but there is great danger that he will be led astray, obsessed and overwhelmed by his results, even though it…
1913 · PDF PAGE 7
…of God, and Mary’s mouth! How hast thou dared it?” A mock-terrible scene follows, in which Giovanni tries to persuade his friend that it will make no real difference to their relations. Francisco pre- tends to be convinced, but determines to poison himself and his friend. So Francisco proposes to drink the health of Death as a kind of joke, saying= Giovanni; ‘'1 will drink to’our love and Death and thee.’ Francisco: ‘Nay, nay, I favour not that toast, javier What have we two to do with Death?” Francisco : ‘' Sweet feather ! How soon hast thou f…
1919 · PDF PAGE 228
THE EQUINOX great tact and courtesy are to be employed in dealing with them. 17. They, on their part, will render willing and intelligent service. 18. While in Lodge, and on special occasions, they are to be treated as Brothers, with perfect equality; such beha- viour is undesirable during the hours of service, and famili- arity, subversive as it is of all discipline and order, is to be avoided by adopting a complete and marked change of man- ner and address. 19. This applies to all persons in subordinate positions, but not to the Brethren Serv…
1909 · PDF PAGE 110
…his eyes fixed on the supreme glory of the Moon, in his heart and brain invoking Adonai, he hath now entered into his little chamber, and will prepare all things for the due performance of the New Ritual which he hath got by heart. Nearly ready. In a state of very intense magical strain—anything might happen. 9.48. Washed, robed, temple in order. Will wait until 10 11.5. 108 o’clock and begin upon the stroke. O.M. 7° = 4" will begin; and then solemnly renounce all his robes, weapons, dignities, etc., renouncing his grades even by giving the Sign…
1904 · PDF PAGE 58
…ce, intelligibly, and to mine understanding. IF HE come not yet at the rehearsal of these two first conjurations (but with- out doubt he will), say on as followeth ; it being a constraint : THE CONSTRAINT. I po conjure thee, O thou Spirit N., by all the most glorious and efficacious names of the Most GREAT AND INCOMPREHENSIBLE Lorp Gop oF Hosts, that thou comest quickly and without delay from all parts and places of the earth and world wherever thou mayest be, to make rational answers unto my demands, and that visibly and affably, speaking with…
1907 · PDF PAGE 47
…ns of gingerbread ; they are the flatulence of calf-sickness. I thought I had taught the boy more sense. He weakens, and I weary. As you will, my Lady Glen- strae! Hortense! (HORTENSE enters with a glass of brandy.) Brandy! HORTENSE. Iiere, milady. ANGELA. Not enough, you she-devil. More! More! [Exit. ANGELA falls back ¢o sleep. SCENE XI. Paris. ANGELA, LORD and LADY GLEN- STRAE, SIR PERCY DE PERCIVALE. ANGELA. You will not believe what I tell you? These friends will tell you what I mean, and if I mean it! You had your dismissal this morning. N…
1929 · PDF PAGE 99
…do that, and we have done our best to make the conditions as favourable as possible; but I warn you that the struggle may be bitter. You will be amazed at the possibilities of your own mind, its fertility of [142] cunning, its fatally false logic, its power of blinding you to facts that ought to be as clear as daylight — yes, even to the things before your very eyes. It will seek to bewilder you, to make you lose your mental balance — every trick is possible. And you will be so beaten and so blind that you have only one safe — guard; which is, …
1911 · PDF PAGE 95
…erse. And when the sand hath sucked up the blood of the victims, let him recite the Call of the Aethyr apart secretly as aforesaid. Then will the Vision be revealed, and the Voice heard. The Oath I, Omnia Vincam, a Probationer of A.-.A.°., hereby solemnly promise upon my magical honour, and swear by Adonai the angel that guardeth me, that I will defend this magic circle of Art with thoughts and words and deeds. I promise to threaten with the Dagger and command back into the triangle the spirit incontinent, if he should strive to escape from it;…
1909 · PDF PAGE 218
…at him who slew Babylon’s winged bulls and smote great numbers of the elves and fairies, when he is shorn of his hours and his years. We will shut him up in the Pyramid of Cheops, in the great chamber where the sarcophagus is. Thence we will lead him out when we give our feasts. He shall ripen our corn for us and do menial work. We will kiss thy painted face, O Sphinx, if thou wilt betray to us Time. And yet I fear that in his ultimate anguish he may take hold blindly of the world and the moon and slowly pull down upon him the House of Man. DuN…
1909 · PDF PAGE 218
…at him who slew Babylon’s winged bulls and smote great numbers of the elves and fairies, when he is shorn of his hours and his years. We will shut him up in the Pyramid of Cheops, in the great chamber where the sarcophagus is. Thence we will lead him out when we give our feasts. He shall ripen our corn for us and do menial work. We will kiss thy painted face, O Sphinx, if thou wilt betray to us Time. And yet I fear that in his ultimate anguish he may take hold blindly of the world and the moon and slowly pull down upon him the House of Man. DuN…
1912 · PDF PAGE 102
…all the pains Ive had lead onward to success. MORTADELLO. Where shall I lead you now ? MONICA. To my own house, I pray. MORTADELLO. And will your love allow the word I have to say ? MONICA. Ah, my lord, your fool will whisper by and by. I am faint yetwe rule in Venice, you and I ! [They go toward the door, her hand upon his shoulder, her face, turned away from him, illumined with a sinister smile.
1911 · PDF PAGE 28
THE EQUINOX II. I pour you lustral wine, that giveth you delight both at the sunset and the dawn. 12. Come with me, and I will give you allthat is desirable upon the earth. 13. Because I give you that of which Earth and its joys are but as shadows. 14.. They flee away, but my joy abideth even unto the end. 15. I have hidden myself beneath a mask: Iam a black and terrible God. 16. With courage conquering fear shall ye approach me: ye shall lay down your heads upon mine altar, expecting the sweep of the sword. 17. But the first kiss of love shall b…
1911 · PDF PAGE 28
THE EQUINOX II. I pour you lustral wine, that giveth you delight both at the sunset and the dawn. 12. Come with me, and I will give you allthat is desirable upon the earth. 13. Because I give you that of which Earth and its joys are but as shadows. 14.. They flee away, but my joy abideth even unto the end. 15. I have hidden myself beneath a mask: Iam a black and terrible God. 16. With courage conquering fear shall ye approach me: ye shall lay down your heads upon mine altar, expecting the sweep of the sword. 17. But the first kiss of love shall b…
1930 · PDF PAGE 120
… And it may be that he being but an Exempt Adept may hold ali to be savourless and full of sorrow. 25. This being so, without réluctance will he swear the Oath of the Abyss. 26. Second Method. — Let the Exempt Adept, fortified by the practice of the first method, enter the preliminary practice of the second method. 27. Second Method. — Preliminary Practices. Let him, seated in his Asana, consider any event, and trace it to its immédiate causes. And let this be doue very fully and minutely. Here, for example, is a body erect and motionless. Let …
1913 · PDF PAGE 322
THE EQUINOX evil, will be truly the angel of light when, having conquered liberty at the price of infamy, he will make use of it to submit himself to eternal order, inaugurating thus the glories of voluntary obedience. Right is only the root of duty; one must possess in order to give. This is how a lofty and profound poetry explains the fall of the angels. God hath given to His spirits light and life; then He said to them: “Love!” “What is—to love?” replied the spirits. “To love is to give oneself to others,” replied God. “Those who love will s…
1913 · PDF PAGE 322
THE EQUINOX evil, will be truly the angel of light when, having conquered liberty at the price of infamy, he will make use of it to submit himself to eternal order, inaugurating thus the glories of voluntary obedience. Right is only the root of duty; one must possess in order to give. This is how a lofty and profound poetry explains the fall of the angels. God hath given to His spirits light and life; then He said to them: “Love!” “What is—to love?” replied the spirits. “To love is to give oneself to others,” replied God. “Those who love will s…