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…e should, however, avoid these terms for the present, on account of their implications. Let us rather speak of this sun as “some unknown thing whose presence has been masked by all things known, and by the knower.” It is probable, too, that our memory of Dhyana is not of the pheno- menon itself, but of the image left thereby on the mind. But this is duration of Dhyana. One can only say that, since it certainly occurred between such and such hours, it must have lasted less than that time. Thus we see, from Frater P. ’5 record, that it can certai…
1912 · PDF PAGE 111
… you good wine, and shapely limbs to weave Your dreams to more than dream. Besides, I promise this : You shall know how extreme abject a thing he is. And you may see, perhaps, a drama something apt Of how in his own traps the hunter may be trapped. 1ST MASK. Well, we accept the gage. We have upheld him well Till now.
1919 · PDF PAGE 347
…. Beware, Disciple, suffer not, e’en though it be their shadow, to approach. For it will grow, increase in size and power, and then this thing of darkness 25
1913 · PDF PAGE 72
6o Just as if you tell a child not to do a thing —no matter what —it will immediately want to do it, though otherwise the idea might never have entered its head, so it is with the saint. "We have all of us these tendencies latent in us; of most of them we might remain uncon- scious all our lives —unless they were awakened by our Magick. They he in ambush. And every one must be av^akened, and every one must be destroyed. Every one who signs the oath of a Proba- tioner is stirring up a hornets' nest. A man has only to affirm his conscious aspirat…
1913 · PDF PAGE 213
…-night Under the stars, and the yellow, drifting moon. We will love no more as Syrinx and Pan: Diana! Come unto me, and I will grant the thing Thou cravest! Oh! the foaming milk of the stars ! I bear the red-tipped lilies under the moon ! Rosa Ignota! Ah! the pale moon-flowers, The soft, shy glances, and the virgin unwon ! Oh! the sweet burden of the sunless hours: Love! I amconquered! Nay, love! I have won! O feeble moonlight! O sweet stars undone By the pale longing of eld! O virgin word! Under the silent moon I bear the sword ! Oh! the soft …
1913 · PDF PAGE 213
…-night Under the stars, and the yellow, drifting moon. We will love no more as Syrinx and Pan: Diana! Come unto me, and I will grant the thing Thou cravest! Oh! the foaming milk of the stars ! I bear the red-tipped lilies under the moon ! Rosa Ignota! Ah! the pale moon-flowers, The soft, shy glances, and the virgin unwon ! Oh! the sweet burden of the sunless hours: Love! I amconquered! Nay, love! I have won! O feeble moonlight! O sweet stars undone By the pale longing of eld! O virgin word! Under the silent moon I bear the sword ! Oh! the soft …
1919 · PDF PAGE 333
…, not till then, shall he forsake the region of ASAT, the false, to come unto the realm of SAT, the true. By “SAT, the true,” is meant a thing previous to the ‘REAL’ referred to above. SAT itself is an illusion. Some schools of philosophy have a higher ASAT, Not-Being, which is beyond SAT, and consequently is to Shivadarshana as SAT isto Atmadarshana. Nirvana is beyond both these. 9. Before the Soul can see, the Harmony within must be attained, and fleshly eyes be rendered blind to all illusion. By the “Harmony within” is meant that state in wh…
1909 · PDF PAGE 52
11.3. 11.38. 50 THE EQUINOX Rather pity myself, who cannot even make sensible “ considerations ” for a Ritual of Adeptus Major. The only thing to do in short is to go steadily on, with a little extra courage and energy—no harm in that !— on the same old lines. The Winding of the Way must necessarily lead me just where it may happen to go. Why deliberately go off to Geburah? Why not aspire direct by the Path of the Moon—Ray unto the Ineffable Crown? Modesty is misplaced here! Very good. Then how aspire? Who is it that standeth in the Moon-Ray? T…
1909 · PDF PAGE 105
…pt away, dashed to pieces on one rock or another. He, alone almost upon that angry stream, still held on, his life each moment the play- thing of giant forces, so enormous as to be (once they were loose) quite out of proportion to all human wit or courage or address—and he held on his course, humbly, 103
1909 · PDF PAGE 120
…ot for the definition of Adonai. Adonai is that thought which informs and strengthens and purifies, supreme sanity in supreme genius. Any- thing that is not that is not Adonai. Hence the refusal of all other Results, however glorious; for they are all relative, partial, impure. Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta: Change, Sorrow, Unsubstan- tiality; these are their characteristics, however much they may appear to be Atman, Sat, Chit, Ananda, Soul, Being, Knowledge, Bliss. But the main consideration was one of expediency.
1913 · PDF PAGE 152
…ne Unmanifest. But this matter is too great for an elementary treatise on Magick. The Serpent which is coiled about the Crown means many things, or, rather, one thing in many ways. It is the symbol of royalty and of initiation, for the Magician is anointed King and Priest.
1939 · PDF PAGE 49
…'s theory of relativity. I only want to recall to your minds the simplest element of that theorem; the fact that in order to describe anything at all, you must have four measurements. It must be so far east or west, so far north or south, so far up or down, from a standard point, and it must be after or before a standard moment. There are three dimensions of space and one of time. 6. Now what do we mean by space? Henri Poincaré, one of the greatest mathematicians of the last generation, thought that the idea of space was invented by a lunatic, …
1907 · PDF PAGE 262
…r to the simple Elizabeth's asser tion , “ but God is absolute Good ” ! God slips you , He is Undefinable ! Not good ! Not wise ! Not anything at all That heart can grasp , or reason frame , or soul Shadow the sense of !2 Such a definition whether applied to God or the Ain Soph is one and the same . In the Qabalistic Dogmas of Pistorius we read even as regards Kether , the Crown , “ There is no name among Qabalists by which the supreme King is designated ; they speak of the crown only , which proves the existence of the King , and they say that…
1912 · PDF PAGE 329
…e, hither ND 82 Angel of 9 Syms A prayer (Ch.) ‘yo Briatic Palace of Hod 713) 53 Kindly, righteous, holy son Laban; white yb The beloved thing; res grata MYND 783 Abbreviatura quatuor syste- )"N matum ‘The drops of dew. by shaw [Job xxviii. 28] Benajahu, son of Jehoiada YN) See 73 bp A flowing, wave ody Person, self; (Ch.) wing m Consecration ; dedicated mn Angel of 2 P. byasd To flee, put one’s things in yy safety, [Jerem. vi. 1] 7% 123 or (2+ 3)(2*x 3)—hence 84 esteemed by some A wing (army), squadron ; a FAN chosen troop [L.Z.Q. 699] ynAS [V…
1912 · PDF PAGE 329
…e, hither ND 82 Angel of 9 Syms A prayer (Ch.) ‘yo Briatic Palace of Hod 713) 53 Kindly, righteous, holy son Laban; white yb The beloved thing; res grata MYND 783 Abbreviatura quatuor syste- )"N matum ‘The drops of dew. by shaw [Job xxviii. 28] Benajahu, son of Jehoiada YN) See 73 bp A flowing, wave ody Person, self; (Ch.) wing m Consecration ; dedicated mn Angel of 2 P. byasd To flee, put one’s things in yy safety, [Jerem. vi. 1] 7% 123 or (2+ 3)(2*x 3)—hence 84 esteemed by some A wing (army), squadron ; a FAN chosen troop [L.Z.Q. 699] ynAS [V…
1919 · PDF PAGE 137
…n the one hand, and ‘The Europe,’ ‘The Leicester,’ and ‘The Cosy Corner’ on the other: last, but not least, into Mar- riage, a difficult thing to put on one side and perhaps best left onthe other. Having then plunged wholeheartedly into this 129
1912 · PDF PAGE 277
…riars; but it sounds better than plain ‘status' ; so he damned the extra ha’penny, and put it. To my mind it’s the shortest and plainest thing he's ever written, And I forgive him all.” The company, overborne by authority, acquiesced. Only Neuburg, always a pessimist, doubted. ”It’s unsignedl" he groaned, his lips, blood-stained bolsters dipped in ink, writhing like half-boiled lobsters. The Editor, with one shriek, one sob, and one sigh, thinking of the veil of the temple, tore a napkin in default of anything else to tear, and cried: " It is fi…
1912 · PDF PAGE 277
…riars; but it sounds better than plain ‘status' ; so he damned the extra ha’penny, and put it. To my mind it’s the shortest and plainest thing he's ever written, And I forgive him all.” The company, overborne by authority, acquiesced. Only Neuburg, always a pessimist, doubted. ”It’s unsignedl" he groaned, his lips, blood-stained bolsters dipped in ink, writhing like half-boiled lobsters. The Editor, with one shriek, one sob, and one sigh, thinking of the veil of the temple, tore a napkin in default of anything else to tear, and cried: " It is fi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 262
…oble Eightfold Path, of which I propose to give a short resumé. First, however, of the goal. It may be readily syllogised : All existing things are (by nature, inevi- tably) subject to change. In Nirvana is no change. .'. No existing thing is or can be in Nirvana. Now here is the great difficulty; for this syllogism is perfectly sound, and yet we speak of attaining Nirvana, tasting Nir- vana, &c. [We must distinguish the Hindu Nirvana, which means Cessation of Existence in certain Lokas; never absolute Cessation, as the ’ Or International Buddh…
1909 · PDF PAGE 63
…as lost on the ”Astral Plane.” All this, observe, is very meaningless, very vague at the best. What is the Astral Plane? Is there such a thing? How do its phantoms differ from those of absinthe, reverie, and love, and so on? We may admit their unsubstantiality without denying their power; the phantoms of absinthe and love are potent enough to drive a man to death or marriage; while reverie may end in anti-vivisectionism or nut— food-madness. On the whole, I prefer to explain the many terrible catastrophes I have seen caused by magic misunder— s…