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…E are seven keys to the great gate, Being eight in one and one in eight. First, let the body of thee be still, Bound by the cerements of will, Corpse-rigid; thus thou mayst abort The fidget-babes that tease the thought. Next, let the breath-rhythmbe low, Easy, regular, and slow; So that thy being be in tune With the great sea’s Pacific swoon. Third, let thy life be pure and calm, Swayed softly as a windless palm. Fourth, let the will-to-live be bound To the one love of the profound. Fifth, let the thought, divinely free From sense, observe its en…
1902 · PDF PAGE 15
…easing persons the Phallicists. But should you travel to the East, and tell a Lingam-worshipping Sivite that his is a phallic worship he will not be pleased with you. Compare on this point Arnold, "India Revisited," 1886, p. 112. So much for the symbology of this, I fear, much-mangled drama. Drama indeed is an altogether misleading term ; monodrama is perhaps better. It is really a series of introspective studies ; not necessarily a series in time, but in psychology, and that rather the morbid psychology of the Adept than the gross mentality of…
1919 · PDF PAGE 347
… known only to members of the ninth degree of O.T.O. 45. Strive with thy thoughts unclean before they over- power thee. Use them as they will thee, for if thou sparest them and they take root and grow, know well, these thoughts will overpower and kill thee. 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
1929 · PDF PAGE 124
…essential magical work, apart from any particular operation, is the proper formation of the Magical Being or Body of Light. This process will be discussed at some length in Chapter XVIII. We will here assume that the magician has succeeded in developing his Body of Light until it is able to go anyy/here and do anything. There will, however, be a certain limitation to his work, because he has formed his magical body from the fine matter of his own element. Therefore, although he may be able to penetrate the utmost recesses of the heavens, or con…
1913 · PDF PAGE 59
…ce more easily. In a steamboat the engine must first overcome its own inertia before it can attack the resistance of the water. When the will has thus ceased to be intermittent, it becomes neces- sary to consider its size. Gravitation gives an acceleration of thirty-two feet per second on this planet, on the moon very much less. And a Will, however single and however constant, may still be of no particular use, because the circumstances which oppose it may be altogether too strong, or because it is for some reason unable to get into touch with …
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…
1902 · PDF PAGE 117
The Unknown Minstrel. Leave the wide circle—word and argument ! Move to the line—the steady will of man, That shall attract the Two, the Breath of Life, The Holy Spirit : land you in the Three, Where form is perfect— in the triangle. Tannhauser. My friend, the Three is infinitely small, Mere surface. And I seek the Depth divine ! The Unknown Minstrel. The solid ! But the triangle aspires To that same unity that you despise, And lo ! the Pyramid ! The Sages say : Unite that to the Sphinx, and all is done, Completion of the Magnum Opus. Tannhause…
1910 · PDF PAGE 231
221 LE BEAU NAVIRE I WILL recount to thee, enchantress smooth ! The varied beauties that adorn thy youth, And paint for thee thy loveliness Where infancy and womanhood caress. Sweeping the air with that broad skirt, to me Is imaged some tall ship that puts to sea With canvas spread, that treads a measure Of love-in-idleness and peace-with-pleasure ! On shining shoulder and soft rounded throat Thy poised head swaysstrange grace of melilote With a triumphant air and mild Thou passest on thy way, majestic child ! I will recount to thee, enchantre…
1909 · PDF PAGE 2
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1938 · PDF PAGE 24
…glory of God; and this: The thought of foolishness is sin. Now did I understand that all men live in sin, being baulked of their True Will, that is, of the free function of their essential nature. This restriction cometh much from their ignorance of what their True Will is, and much from external hindrance, but most of all from the interference of ill-controlled parts of their own instruments, the body and mind. For Freedom is not found in looseness and lack of governance, but in the right ruling of each individual of the common weal so as t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 71
…ur imagined body, let that body rise through the air to a great height. Stop. Look around you. Probably the eyes of your ‘“‘astral” body will be closed. It is sometimes difficult to open them. You will then perceive all sorts of forms, varying as you travel about. Their nature will depend almost entirely on your power of control. Some people may even perceive the phantoms of delirium and madness, and truly go mad from fear and horror. Let the “astral” body return and sit down, coinciding with the physical body. Closely unite the two: the experi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 71
…ur imagined body, let that body rise through the air to a great height. Stop. Look around you. Probably the eyes of your ‘“‘astral” body will be closed. It is sometimes difficult to open them. You will then perceive all sorts of forms, varying as you travel about. Their nature will depend almost entirely on your power of control. Some people may even perceive the phantoms of delirium and madness, and truly go mad from fear and horror. Let the “astral” body return and sit down, coinciding with the physical body. Closely unite the two: the experi…
1912 · PDF PAGE 89
73 say in this place, that Dhyana has to be classed as the most vivid and catastrophic of all experiences. This will be con- firmed by any one who has been there. It is, then, difficult to overrate the value that such an experience has for the individual, especially as it is his entire conception of things, including his most deep—seated conception, the standard to which he has always referred everything, his own self, that is overthrown; and when we try to explain it away as hallucination, temporary suspension of the faculties or something simil…
1913 · PDF PAGE 354
THE EQUINOX All is not well, but all will be well one day. God begins His work, and He will finish it. Without progress, evil would be immutable like God. Progress explains ruins, and consoles the weeping of Jeremiah. Nations succeed each other like men; and nothing is stable, because everything is marching towards perfection. The great man who dies bequeathes to his country the fruit of his works; the great nation which becomes extin- guished upon earth transforms itself into a star to enlighten the obscurities of History. What it has written …
1913 · PDF PAGE 354
THE EQUINOX All is not well, but all will be well one day. God begins His work, and He will finish it. Without progress, evil would be immutable like God. Progress explains ruins, and consoles the weeping of Jeremiah. Nations succeed each other like men; and nothing is stable, because everything is marching towards perfection. The great man who dies bequeathes to his country the fruit of his works; the great nation which becomes extin- guished upon earth transforms itself into a star to enlighten the obscurities of History. What it has written …
1898 · PDF PAGE 22
16 PREFACE last (the pious will quote James 2, 19, and the infidel will observe that he died in an asylum) ; then the full swing of the tide catches him, the mysteries of death become more and more an obsession, and he is flung headlong into Sadism, Necrophilia, all the mad- dest, fiercest vices that the mind of fiends ever brought up from the pit. But always to the very end his power is unexhausted, immense, terrible. His delirium does not amuse ; it appals ! A man who could conceive as he did must himself have had some glorious chord in his h…
1902 · PDF PAGE 69
…nst me, and new pangs consume This nest of scorpions where my heart once was. Yet to my fearful task of hate I set No faltering bosom. I will have this man, His life, his strength ; and live a little more. Life—shall I ever reach the splendid sword Of womanhood, and gird it, gain my will, A human soul, and from that altitude Renew the terrible war against the Gods ? I have called Chronos the devouring God My father—shall his desolating reign Never return } Ay me ! this heart of hate, Loathing the man, takes comfort in the beast, 67