FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION
Search the corpus.
Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.
1,507 matching pages
Page 32 of 761961 · PDF PAGE 193
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 181 #y Sequitur de hac re (Further concerning this matter) HOU knowest right well, o my Son, how a Thought is imperfect in two Dimensions, being separate from its Contradiction, but also constrained in its Scope, because by that Contradiction we do not (commonly) complete the Universe, save only that of its Discourse. Thus if we contrast health with Sickness, we include in their Sphere of Union no more than one Quality that may be predicated of all Things. Furthermore, it is for the most Part not easy to find or to f…
1913 · PDF PAGE 329
…only the spur to toil. For the flock of men, suffering is like the shepherd dog, who bites the wool of the sheep to put them back in the right way. It is because of shadow that we are able to see light; because of cold that we feel heat; because of pain that we are sensible to pleasure. Evil is then for us the occasion and the beginning of good. But, in the dreams of our imperfect intelligence, we accuse the work of Providence, through failing to understand it. We resemble the ignorant person who judges the picture by the beginning of the sketc…
1913 · PDF PAGE 329
…only the spur to toil. For the flock of men, suffering is like the shepherd dog, who bites the wool of the sheep to put them back in the right way. It is because of shadow that we are able to see light; because of cold that we feel heat; because of pain that we are sensible to pleasure. Evil is then for us the occasion and the beginning of good. But, in the dreams of our imperfect intelligence, we accuse the work of Providence, through failing to understand it. We resemble the ignorant person who judges the picture by the beginning of the sketc…
1996 · PDF PAGE 217
…the wand of the Force of Coph Nia—but my left hand is empty, for I have crushed an Universe; & nought remains. 73. Paste the sheets from right to left and from top to bottom: then behold! 74. There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son. 75. The ending of the words is the Word Abrahadabra. The Book of the Law is Written and Concealed. Aum. Ha.
1909 · PDF PAGE 55
…slaughtered on the threshold of the consciousness. Of course, the honest and wary practitioner will have no difficulty in recognising the right kind of wandering; with this explanation there is no excuse for him if he does. I have another theory, though. Perhaps this is not a wandering at all, but a complete annihilation of all thought. Affirming Adonai, I lop off the heads of all others; and Adonai’s own head falls. But in the 53
1922 · PDF PAGE 346
…y nor his prudence, and he climbed with a sort of tem- pestuous genius. | At the top of the tongue, the goat track bends suddenly to the right, under the wall, to a point where there is a breach where one can crawl through very comfortably. Here we rejoined the climbers. “To-morrow,” said Hermes, “I shall take you up the Great Gully,” with the air of a full-fledged alpine guide. Dionysus shook his little head. ‘I don’t know if he tan det through the hole,” he lamented. | King Lamus had taken off the rope and made it into a coil by winding it ar…
1909 · PDF PAGE 340
… your heads, O ye Gates, &c. Iam come forth from the Path of the Waters: I stand in the World of the Power of God: I turn my face to the Right, and the Gate of the Lion is before me— Gate of the Path of the Lion, in the Sign of the Lion do thou open before my face. Lift up your Heads, O ye Gates, &c. I advance over the Path of the Leader of the Lion, By the Power of the Daughter of the Flaming Sword. About me the Lions are roaring for their prey; But I am Sekhet, of the Flaming Eyes. Turned is my face to the left, And the Priestess of the Silve…
1909 · PDF PAGE 340
… your heads, O ye Gates, &c. Iam come forth from the Path of the Waters: I stand in the World of the Power of God: I turn my face to the Right, and the Gate of the Lion is before me— Gate of the Path of the Lion, in the Sign of the Lion do thou open before my face. Lift up your Heads, O ye Gates, &c. I advance over the Path of the Leader of the Lion, By the Power of the Daughter of the Flaming Sword. About me the Lions are roaring for their prey; But I am Sekhet, of the Flaming Eyes. Turned is my face to the left, And the Priestess of the Silve…
1919 · PDF PAGE 364
…atoms, yet fails to reach the heart of all. Alas, that so few men should profit by the gift, the price- less boon of learning truth, the right perception of existing things, the knowledge of the non-existent! This is indeed a serious metaphysical complaint. The so- lution of it is not to be found in reason. 7. Saith the Pupil: O Teacher, what shall I do to reach Wisdom? O Wise One, what, to gain perfection? 8. Search for the Paths. But, O Lanoo, be of clean heart before thou startest on thy journey. Before thou takest thy first step, learn to d…
1909 · PDF PAGE 52
…centration. And I could doubtless go on gloriously, but that another disaster has occurred ! Enter Maryt, sitting and clothed and in her right mind —or comparatively so! I suppose, then, I must quit the game for a minute or two.
1909 · PDF PAGE 64
…uts, but no further except with very great difficulty and after long practice? In making the circle, just as I got to West, I would swing right back to West—Nor’-West: turn easily enough, in short, to any point but due West, within perhaps 5", but never pass that point. I have taught myself to do it, but always with an effort. Is this a common experience ? I connect it with my faculty of knowing direction, which all mountaineers and travellers who have been with me admit to be quite exceptional. If I leave my tent or hut by a door facing, say, S…
1910 · PDF PAGE 205
…venisoncant insult him with mere baron of beefpouding royale, glace . . . limpératrice, canapé royaleyoull be able to feed him all right ! MRS. OSSORY. How clever you are, Professor ! Thank you so much. Now who should we ask to meet him ? CARR. I rather expect youll have to meet him alone !
1912 · PDF PAGE 83
…walk past any guardian, such as a sentry or ticket-collector, if one can really act so that the man is somehow persuaded that you have a right to pass unchallenged. This power, by the way, is what has been described by magicians as the power of invisibility. Somebody or other has an excellent story of four quite reliable men who were on the look-out for a murderer, and had instructions to let no one pass, and who all swore subsequently in presence of the dead body that no one had passed. None of them had seen the postman. The thieves who stole …
1930 · PDF PAGE 57
…. (He mahes three crosses on Paten and Cup together. He uncovers the Cup, genuflectSy tahes the Cup in his left hand and the Host in his right. With the host he makes the five crosses on the Cup b) + i +3 +2 +5 +4 (He elevates the Host and the Cup.) (The Bell strikes.) Anos, Anos, Anos, iaq ! (He replaces the Host and the Cup and adores.) VIL Of the Office of the Anthem. The PRIEST. Thou who art I, beyond ail I am, Who hast no nature, and no name, Who art, when ail but thou are gone, — 357
1913 · PDF PAGE 378
THE EQUINOX John Calvin protested against the stakes of Rome, in order to give himself the right to burn Michael Servetus. Every people that liberates itself from a Charles I, or a Louis XVI, must undergo a Robespierre or a Cromwell, and there is a more or less absurd anti-pope behind all protestations against the legitimate papacy. The divinity of Jesus Christ only exists in the Catholic Church, to which He transmits hierarchically His life and His divine powers. This divinity is sacerdotal and royal by virtue of communion ; but outside of tha…
1913 · PDF PAGE 378
THE EQUINOX John Calvin protested against the stakes of Rome, in order to give himself the right to burn Michael Servetus. Every people that liberates itself from a Charles I, or a Louis XVI, must undergo a Robespierre or a Cromwell, and there is a more or less absurd anti-pope behind all protestations against the legitimate papacy. The divinity of Jesus Christ only exists in the Catholic Church, to which He transmits hierarchically His life and His divine powers. This divinity is sacerdotal and royal by virtue of communion ; but outside of tha…
1954 · PDF PAGE 413
…omine contradicente, of the Medical Profession was that I could certainly never live to be twenty-one. (Some people think that they were right!) But after a couple of years with tutors in the wildest parts of the country, I was found well enough to go to a Public School. They soon found me out! This kidney weakness causes depression and physical cowardice, 380
1909 · PDF PAGE 96
…donai! Exactly: the one difficulty] My best way out will be to concentrate on the New Ritual, learn it perfectly by heart, work it at the right moment. . . . I will go, with this idea, to have a Citron presse; thence to my Secret Restaurant, and dine, always learning the Ritual. I will leave off the mantra, though it is nearly as much part of me as my head by now; and instead repeat over and over again the words of the Ritual so that I can do it in the end with perfect fluency and comprehension. And this time may Adonai build the House! Instead I…
1909 · PDF PAGE 27
…n the Invisible, thine eyes fixed upon That which we call Nothing, because it is beyond Everything attainable by thought, or trance, thy right hand gripping the azure rod of Light, thy left hand clasped upon the scarlet scourge of Death; thy body girdled with a snake more brilliant than the sun, its name Eternity; thy mouth curved moonlike in a smile, in the invisible kiss of Nuit, our Lady of the Starry Abodes; thy body’s electric flesh stilled by sheer might to a movement closed upon itself in the con- trolled fury of Her love—nay, beyond all…
1961 · PDF PAGE 217
… the Theorick and Praxis of Magick. By it may he discover his true Nature, and its Will, and apply his Force and his Intelligence to the right Fulfilment thereof. It shall be a beacon to enlighten him, to comfort him, and to direct him; and it shall be a Witness and Memorial of my Word and of my Work, as of mine Attainment unto Wisdom. o