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Page 20 of 1071919 · PDF PAGE 128
…han this of pure mathematics, since already therein are gross ideas made fine, and all is ordered and ready for the Alchemy of the Great Work. Thave already written to you of how, in the Will of Love, Light ariseth as the secret part of Life. And in the first, the little, Loves, the attained Life is still personal: later, it be- cometh impersonal and universal. Now then is Will arrived, mayI say so, at its magnetic pole, whence the lines of force point alike every way and no way: and Love also is no more a work, but a state. These qualities are…
1905 · PDF PAGE 118
DE PROFUNDIS IIT! Christ touched the leper and the widow’s son 3 And thou wouldst serve the work the Perfect One Began, by folding arms and gazing up To heaven, as if thy work were rightly done. I tell thee, Ile should say, if ye were met : ‘* Thou hadst a talent—ah, thou hast it yet Wrapped in a napkin! thou shalt drain the cup Of that damnation that may not forget ‘‘ The wasted hours!” Ah, bitter interest Of our youth’s capital—forgotten zest In all the pleasures of o’erflowing life, Wine tasteless, tired the brain, and cold the breast ! Ah! …
1929 · PDF PAGE 350
350 by secret slander, when the enemy become foolhardy by open misrepresentation, but if one is working in the eternal one may be sure that they harm no one but themselves. Suppose, for example, that I attack Lloyd George by saying that he had undergone seven years' penal servitude for burglary, and suppose Lloyd George treats me with the contempt I deserve. Well, at the moment there may be a few people silly enough to believe such nonsense, and to think that his allowing the statement to go unchallenged makes it probable that there is some tru…
1905 · PDF PAGE 187
…g, nervous lines, and some exalted thoughts.”—Daily News. Tannhäuser. 7s. 6d. A remarkable “ Pilgrim’s Progress ” in dramatic form. This work may be regarded as the culmination of the Author’s powers in lyrical and dramatic work : he has apparently said the last word possible on the subject of Regeneration, for no further book of the kind has yet issued form his prolific pen. Berashith. 5s. This rare pamphlet is almost exhausted. As most people know, Berashith is the first word of the Book of Genesis, and the
1913 · PDF PAGE 137
…stripped of all that he had and of all that he was. We know, too, that he made the obtaining of Samadhi a condition of his taking up the work, on the ground that no one without that experience could possibly carry it out, and we have seen this demand granted. We have seen him hailed by the Adepts of the Great White Brotherhood in England, as not only one of themselves, but as their Master, nay, as the Logos of the AZon. We have seen him refuse to admit it. Ultimately, when every obstacle had been cleared away, when the Adepts themselves urged h…
1913 · PDF PAGE 137
…stripped of all that he had and of all that he was. We know, too, that he made the obtaining of Samadhi a condition of his taking up the work, on the ground that no one without that experience could possibly carry it out, and we have seen this demand granted. We have seen him hailed by the Adepts of the Great White Brotherhood in England, as not only one of themselves, but as their Master, nay, as the Logos of the AZon. We have seen him refuse to admit it. Ultimately, when every obstacle had been cleared away, when the Adepts themselves urged h…
1954 · PDF PAGE 549
520 Golden Dawn, Order of The, (G :. D:.), 380, 427, 453 Golden Hawk, 191 Good and Evil, 54 Gordian Knot, 203 Grant, Gregor, 357 Great Work, 1,2,5,7,21,129, 133, 136, 140, 143, 221, 222, 225, 287, 297, 311, 318, 334, 336, 351, 376, 391, 394, 429, 440, 444, 471,483,492,503 Great Work "a tea party", 7 Greene, Grahame, 294 Guernica, 305 Gunas,12 Guru, 22, 287, 393 Hadit, 247, 249, 297 Haeckel, Ernst, 55, 199 Hammurabi, 53 Hanuman, 24, 466 Hardy, Thomas, 451 Harpocrates, 145, 153 Haseltine, Philip, 156 Hatha Yoga, 187,310 Hathor, 281 Hawk, Golden, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 302
…t : And here , my Christian friend , 's the gist of it ! " In “ Science and Buddhism ” there is a vivid de scription of Pratyâhâra : The work is comparable to that of an electrician who should sit for hours with his finger on a delicately adjusted resistance - box , and his eye on the spot of light of a galvano meter , charged with the duty of keeping the spot still , at least , that it should never move beyond a certain number of degrees , and of recording the more important details of his experiment . Our work is identical in design , though …
1903 · PDF PAGE 47
THE FIFTH DAY “ Thine eyes, sweet lady, have infected mine.” Richard III. All thought of work is almost cast aside. I followed like a dog the way she went, Speaking but seldom, very well content To day-dream, oft imagining a bride, A wife, a lover, even a sister, tied By some soft bond of twinning : thus I blent A real joy with a brighter element Of fancy free to wander far and wide. For as I followed by the shore and bended Over her footsteps in the wood, my will Rose to high strength assertive and transcended The petty forms of the seducer’s …
1954 · PDF PAGE 173
…s good for you. But I am not you; I don't know every detail of your life, every trick of your thought. You must do ninety percent of the work for yourself. Whether it is love, or your daily avocation, or diet, or friends, or amusements, or anything else, you must find out what helps you to your True Will and what hinders; cherish the one and eschew the other. I want to insist most earnestly that concentration is not, as we nearly all of us think, a matter of getting things right in the practices; you must make every breath you draw subservient …
1954 · PDF PAGE 294
…tion by the Magical Observation of publishing it. When this was done, it was done without proper perfection . Its commands as to how the work ought to be done were not wholly obeyed. There were doubt and repugnance in FRA TER PERDURABO's mind, and they hampered His work. He was halfhearted. Yet, even so, the intrinsic power of the truth of the Law and the impact of the publication were sufficient to shake the world so that a critical war broke out, and the minds of men were moved in a mysterious manner . The second blow was struck by the re-pub…
1954 · PDF PAGE 197
…ilarity in their lives with what the books will have led you to expect . Don't be afraid to criticise; on the contrary, do some research work on your own, and find cases which seem to contradict tradition . Instance: Saturn in the M.C. is said to cause a spectacular rise in a man's career, ending in an equally notable crash. Examples : Napoleon I and III, Oscar Wilde, Woodrow Wilson, Lord Northcliffe , Hitler. Look for figures with Saturn thus placed, whose natives have jogged along equably and died in the odour of sanctity. Find out why what w…
1911 · PDF PAGE 155
…cine conflicts in the course of redemption). And their dwelling places, let them forget their names. (This is, the arising of Nemo.) The work of man and his pomp, let them be defaced. (That is, in the Great Work man must lose his personality.) His building, let it be a cave for the Beast of the Field. (“ His building ” means the Vault of the Adepts, and the ‘‘ Cave” is the Cave of the Mountain of Abiegnus, and the “ Beast” is he upon whom BABALON rideth, and the “ Field” is the supernal Eden.) Confound her understanding with darkness. (This sen…
1996 · PDF PAGE 75
76 The Law is for All The second paragraph is perhaps in answer to some unspoken thought of my own that my work was accomplished. No: though I be “of the princes” with the right to enter into my reward, it is my destiny to continue my Work.1 1 “assuage thee”: satisfy thine aspiration to attainment, “absolve thee”: relieve thee from further duty. 54. Change not as much as the style of a letter; for behold! thou, o prophet, shalt not behold all these mysteries hidden therein. Commentary: The subject changes most abruptly, perhaps answering some u…
1954 · PDF PAGE 169
136 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Brothers."2 To refuse to fulfil any of one's possibilities is the direct negation of the Great Work. There is help & hope in other spells. Wisdom says: be strong! Then canst thou bear more joy. Be not animal; refine thy rapture! If thou drink, drink by the eight and ninety rules of art; if thou love, exceed by delicacy; and if thou do aught joyous, let there be subtlety therein! But exceed! exceed! Strive ever to more! and if thou art truly mine-and doubt it not, an if thou art ever joyous-death is the crown of all. Her…
1954 · PDF PAGE 102
…c/aimeth it; it directeth all, but without conscious control. 4. Unfortunately there is no translation at present published which is the work of an Initiate . All existing translations have been garbled by people who simply failed to understand the text. An approximately perfect rendering is indeed available, but so far it exists only in manuscript . One object of this letter is to create sufficient public interest to make this work, and others of equal value, available to the public.
1996 · PDF PAGE 151
…nx, the trembling hollow reed which needs but Breath to fill the world with Music, attracts Pan, the Goat-God of Ecstatic Lust, by whose Work the glory of Summer is established anew. It is obvious that “The length of thy longing” varies with the number of potentialities to be satisfied. In other words, the more complex the Khu of the Star, the greater the man, and the keener his sense of his own imperfections of the scope of his work, and of his need to achieve it. 75. Aye! listen to the numbers & the words: 76. 4638ABK24ALGMOR3YX24 89RPSTOV A …
1929 · PDF PAGE 121
121 My magical work was pushed into the background by the arrival of Eckenstein. He openly jeered at me for wasting my time on such rubbish. He being brutally outspoken, and I shy and sensitive, I naturally avoided creating opportunities for him to indulge his coarse ribaldry on a subject which to me was supremely sacred. Occasionally, however, I would take advantage of his unintelligence by talking to him in terms which I knew he would not understand. I find that it relieves my mind and helps me to clarify my thoughts if I inflict my jargon on…
1930 · PDF PAGE 68
…losely compared with Initiation; for the effective element of the Product is of the essence of its own nature, and inhérent therein; the Work similarly consists in isolating it from its accretions. Now just as the Aspirant, on the Threshold of Initiation, finds himself assailed by the “complexes” which hâve corrupted him, their externalization excruciating him, and his agonized réluctance to their élimination plunging him into such ordeals that he seems (both to himself and to others) to hâve turned from a noble and upright man into an unuttera…
1903 · PDF PAGE 72
…mandel; live alone, Hermits of love and pity, far Where tumbled banks of ice are thrown, Watched by yon solitary star, Sirius ; there to work together In sorrow and in joy but one, In black inhospitable weather, Or fronting the Numidian sun, Equally minded; till the hour Strike of release, and we obtain The passionless and holy power, Making us masters over pain, And lords of peace: the rays of light We fling to the awakening globe ; The cavern of the eremite Shall glow with inmost fire, a robe Of diamond energy, shall flash 70