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Page 24 of 1071954 · PDF PAGE 14
…lex and controversial issues. After due reflection however, I have decided to leave them in their present order, and allow the reader to work out his own approach to their contents. It is suggested that the reader first browse through the book as a whole in order to become familiar with the general nature of the material presented. Do remember that there is a table of contents and an index. Later, the reader could take one letter at a time, dealing with a certain topic, study it, and meditate on whatever sections of that letter seem to warrant …
1954 · PDF PAGE 460
MORALITY (2) 427 Soap! Yes, indeed. I work on gold, and gold must be cleansed with acid. I really cannot understand how you can be so inaccurate, with the very text before your eyes! You write- "you write that in Jan. 1899 etc." But I don't. Captain J.F.C. Fuller wrote it. A small point; but you must learn to be careful about every tiniest detail. Then you go on about "not only invisible chiefs l of the A:. A: .... but also the Chiefs of the Golden Dawn .. . " The Golden Dawn is merely the name for the Outer Order: see Magick pp. 230-231. You h…
1954 · PDF PAGE 522
…n I ever knew, the late Oscar Eckenstein , was once offered a job which gave him a fifty percent chance of survival. He calmly sat down, worked out his "expectation of life," his "expectation of income," and the Lord alone knows what other factors. It came out that the pay offered was a thousand pounds or so less than he might expect normally, so he turned down the offer. Not a trace of sentiment of any kind! Now let us consider an "A.B. case." John Jeremiah Jenkins sees a short cut to his performance of the Great Work. To seize this opportunit…
1906 · PDF PAGE 25
…Note.—This poem is very much taboo in Persia, as it is supposed to be little better than a pamphlet in favour of Christianity. The later work of Al Qahar, and especially his masterpiece, the Bagh-i-muattar, are, however, if not quite above suspicion, so full of positive piety of the Sufi sort that even the orthodox tolerate what the mystic and the ribald silently or noisily admire. 17 Cc
1912 · PDF PAGE 191
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1912 · PDF PAGE 191
…װ ,, IO ,, ,, 2 ,, Cups 3 n ., 4 u n LORD OF Pleasure lllusionary Success Swiftness Great Strength Oppression Harmonious Change Material Works Earthly Power Defeat . . Earned Success . Unstable Effort . Abandoned Success Material Happiness Perfected Success Dominion Established Strength . Perfected Work Material Trouble . Material Success . Success unfulfilled Shortened Force . Despair and Cruelty Ruin . Love Abundance . Blended Pleasure DECAN Θ vawomþwuumommtavxmeO-JZMu-am IN maabductam:«««xxxtiïziiädäsüwää I49
1930 · PDF PAGE 126
…u adorest, as if thou didst unité with Him in the adoration of That which is beyond Him. 7- Thus shalt thou ever be mindful of the Great Work which thou hast undeitaken to perform? and thus shalt thou be strengthened to pursue it unto the attainment of the Stone of the Wise? the Summum Bonum? True Wisdom and Terfect Happmess. — 426 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 554
…ive one {874} example to illustrate the impossibility of guiding him or even enlightening his mind. He was anxious to do certain magical work, which forms part of the task of a Grade which he had not attained. In order to devote himself to this, he proposed to neglect the work prescribed for the Grade which he actually possessed. I pointed this out, and after some show of sulks, he agreed. A day or so later, in discussing some point of magical theory, I happened to say, "I want you to understand very thoroughly what this implies." He retorted v…
1906 · PDF PAGE 98
… to play so dangerous a trick. ARGUS. True, Theseus—if he had but hit his thumb ! CASTOR. Cease this fool’s talk. The moon waits not the work. POLLUX. The sun will sink no later for your pleasure. On to thy work, man. THESEUS, He that traps a lion And baits him for an hour, and‘lets him go, Does well to think before he tempt again The forest paths. HERACLES. The wise man wisely thinks That nothing is but wisdom—and myself Think strongly that no other thing exists But strength: so with his subtleties of mind He baffles me ; and I lift up my club…
1929 · PDF PAGE 89
…for many years, and even begun to suspect the identity, had not troubled (although an extravagant buyer of books) to get this particular work. He found, to his astonishment, tha^t almost everything that he had himself intended to say was there written. The resuit of this was that he abandoned writing his original work, and instead translated the masterpiece in question. 8. The style of the two men is strikingly similar in numerous subtle and deep-seated ways. The general point of view is almost identical. The quality of the irony is the same. B…
1954 · PDF PAGE 36
…at and drink." He: "To what end?" You: "That my body may be fortified thereby." He: "To what end?" You: "That I may accomplish the Great Work." He: "Love is the law, love under will." You, with a single knock: "Fall to." When alone make a monologue of it: thus, Knock 3-5-3. Do what, etc. It is my Will to, etc., that my body, etc., that I may, etc., Love is, etc. Knock; and begin to eat. It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of performing these small ceremonies regularly, and being as nearly accurate as possible with regard to the times.…
1954 · PDF PAGE 83
… stick it down against that number in a book kept for the purpose. That may seem tedious and silly; why should you do all over again the work that I have already done for you? Reason: simple. Doing it will teach you Qabalah as nothing else could. Besides, you won't be all cluttered up with words that mean nothing to you; and if it should happen that you want a word to explain some particular number, you can look it up in my Sepher Sephiroth. By this method, too, you may strike a rich vein of words of your own that I have altogether missed. No d…
1899 · PDF PAGE 195
LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC. But on their foam did revel The likeness of a devil To work me bitter evil, This unredeeming pain. Here cruel winds and biting Descend upon the wold ; Here frost and snow are smiting The sons of earth with cold. The raw air steams and shivers Above the sluggish rivers, And birds are dumb, the givers Of melodies untold. Here death has quite forgotten An eager lover waits To pass in yonder rotten Black boat his icy gates. He will not free his lover Till Proserpine discover How near he hangs above her, And yearns towards the …
1922 · PDF PAGE 385
…of a boy’s last terms at a public school, a very sensitive, unusual boy, and it is in a sense a sequel to The Beautiful Years. It is the work of a very clever young writer whose nature essays have attracted the widest attention here and in America, and is utterly unlike the usual “school story.” It is a subtle and beautifully written study of character.
1935 · PDF PAGE 3
…, how piteous thy plight, The doubts that daunt, the ills that irk, Thou hast nor wit nor will to fight — How hope in heart, or worth in work ? No star in sight ! Thy gods proved puppets of the priest. “Truth ? All’s relation !” science sighed. In bondage with thy brother beast, Love tortured thee, as Love’s hope died And Lover’s faith rotted. Life no least Dim star descried. Thy cringing carrion cowered and crawled To find itself a chance-cast clod Whose Pain was purposeless; appalled That aimless accident thus trod Its agony, that void skies …
1996 · PDF PAGE 200
…here be folly, he shall comment thereupon by the wisdom of Ra-Hoor-Khu-it. 37. Also the mantras and spells; the obeah and the wanga; the work of the wand and the work of the sword; these he shall learn and teach. 38. He must teach; but he may make severe the ordeals. 39. The word of the Law is OeXrjfia. 40. Who calls us Thelemites will do no wrong, if he look but close into the word. For there are therein Three Grades, the Hermit, and the Lover, and the man of Earth. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
1911 · PDF PAGE 308
…g) The Mystery of the Sanctum Regnum; (2) The Rite of Lucie tuge.: (é) The Method of Honorius, etc.y etc., etc. ‘The main objects of the work’ are? (1) ‘To determine the connection, if any, between the literature of CEREMONIAL Masic anv THe SecreT TravitioN IN CuxistiAN Tistss; (2) To show the fantastic nature of the distinction between White and Black Magic, so far, at least, as the texts are concerned, ‘The work is issued in crowh to, and includes about 80 engravings, some of which are full-page plates. Price x58. net. Post free. Handsomely b…
1911 · PDF PAGE 308
…g) The Mystery of the Sanctum Regnum; (2) The Rite of Lucie tuge.: (é) The Method of Honorius, etc.y etc., etc. ‘The main objects of the work’ are? (1) ‘To determine the connection, if any, between the literature of CEREMONIAL Masic anv THe SecreT TravitioN IN CuxistiAN Tistss; (2) To show the fantastic nature of the distinction between White and Black Magic, so far, at least, as the texts are concerned, ‘The work is issued in crowh to, and includes about 80 engravings, some of which are full-page plates. Price x58. net. Post free. Handsomely b…
1904 · PDF PAGE 39
… the All-Father, may descend to bless Our labours, since delay grows dangerous, If haply by Her power and subtlety She please to aid the work, and to perform A prodigy to save us! Mighty Queen, That art the balance and the sword alike In cunning Argus’ brain—— HERACLES. Ay! Mighty Wisdom, Who thus can overshadow such a fool, And make him capable to build a ship. ARGUS. O Thou! Athena, whose bright wisdom shone In this beef-witted fellow, making him Competent even to sweep a stable out! Glorious task!—I shall return: anon. JASON. Nay, follow not…
1913 · PDF PAGE 104
James Elroy Flecker . II. But when I walk in Athens town That swims in dust and sun Perverse , I think of London then Where God 's brave work is done, And with what sweep at Westminster The rayless waters run . I ponder how from Attic seed There grew an English tree, How Byron like his heroes fell , Fighting a country free , And Swinburne took from Shelley 's lips The kiss of Poetry . And while our Poets chanted Pan Back to his pipes and power , Great Verrall , bending at his desk , And searching hour on hour Found out old gardens , where the w…