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…s which compose the empire of Hermes are one and all obedient to him who knows how to pronounce duly the incommunicable name of Agla. In order to pronounce duly the great words of the Qabalah, R 241
ORDER OF ORIENTAL TEMPLARS attracted. But invariably, the more such a society grew in numbers, the more became attracted to its elements, such as were not able to understand or follow its principles; people who joined it for the purpose of gratifying their own ambition or for making the society serve their own ends obtained the majority over those that were pure. Thereupon the healthy portion of it retired from the field and continued their benevolent work in secrecy, while the remaining portion became diseased and disrupted, and sooner or late…
…s which compose the empire of Hermes are one and all obedient to him who knows how to pronounce duly the incommunicable name of Agla. In order to pronounce duly the great words of the Qabalah, R 241
…r about an hour's silence , the Scribe asked: "Is communication possible?" By this he meant merely to enquire whether it would now be in order for him to begin to ask his prepared list of questions. But the Adept thought that this was Question No. I : meaning "Is there any valid means of making contact between two minds?" He remained intensely silent-intensely, as opposed to his previous rather fidgety abstention from talking-for a very long time, and then broke slowly into a long seductive ripple of hushed laughter , suggestive of the possessi…
…stly, then, I would have thee to know that Spiritual Experience and Perfection have no necessary connection with Advancement in our Holy Order. But for each Man is a Path: here is a Constant, and there is a Variable. Seek ever herefore in thy Work of the Promulgation of the Law to discover in each Man his own true Nature. For in each Man his Inmost Light is the Core of his Star. That is, Hadit; and his Work is the identification of himself with that Light. It is not every Man who is called to the sublime Task of the A∴A∴, wherein he must master…
…their presence one feels one’s self irritated, and one leaves their presence angry ; yet, by a secret perversity, one looks for them, in order to experience the disturbance and enjoy the malevolent emotions which they give us. Such persons suffer from the contagious maladies of the spirit of perversity. The spirit of perversity has always for its secret motive 263
…their presence one feels one’s self irritated, and one leaves their presence angry ; yet, by a secret perversity, one looks for them, in order to experience the disturbance and enjoy the malevolent emotions which they give us. Such persons suffer from the contagious maladies of the spirit of perversity. The spirit of perversity has always for its secret motive 263
… Dr. CAROLUS REX. Is. This little work is very skilfully written; it is intended to induce members of the higher grades of the Universal Order of B... F.:. to pay “ Dr.” “Carolus” “Rex” sums of from Two to Twenty Guineas for “Magic Mirrors,” which we hope are worth as many pence. PROFESSOR JACOBUS IMPERATOR. Iv AA 345
… Dr. CAROLUS REX. Is. This little work is very skilfully written; it is intended to induce members of the higher grades of the Universal Order of B... F.:. to pay “ Dr.” “Carolus” “Rex” sums of from Two to Twenty Guineas for “Magic Mirrors,” which we hope are worth as many pence. PROFESSOR JACOBUS IMPERATOR. Iv AA 345
…ligence. If separated from this act of faith, the need of religion finds no satisfaction, and turns to scepticism and to despair. But in order that the act of faith should not be an act of folly, reason wishes it to be directed and ruled. By what? By science? We have seen that science can do nothing here. By the civil authority? It is absurd. Are our prayers to be superintended by policemen? There remains, then, moral authority, which alone is able to constitute dogma and establish the discipline of worship, in concert this time with the civil …
…ligence. If separated from this act of faith, the need of religion finds no satisfaction, and turns to scepticism and to despair. But in order that the act of faith should not be an act of folly, reason wishes it to be directed and ruled. By what? By science? We have seen that science can do nothing here. By the civil authority? It is absurd. Are our prayers to be superintended by policemen? There remains, then, moral authority, which alone is able to constitute dogma and establish the discipline of worship, in concert this time with the civil …
…T His secret place is the last of the invisible stations and he standeth with the Hiero- phant as though representing him unto the Outer Order. For while the Hierophant is 5°=6°, yet he is only shown as a Lord of the Paths in the Portal of the Vault. So that when he moveth from his place on the throne of the East, the seat of Aeshuri, he is no longer Osiris but Arouerist. And the invisible station of Arouerist may therefore be said to be that of the immediate past Hierophant. THE OFFICERS AND THE STATIONS OF THE OFFICERS The Hierophant. The pla…
… the grade of 4°= 7°. In the space of seven months from a mere student in the Mysteries, P. had risen to the grade of Philosophus in the Order of the Golden Dawn. A light had indeed been 283 D1aGRaM 51. The Fall.
…T His secret place is the last of the invisible stations and he standeth with the Hiero- phant as though representing him unto the Outer Order. For while the Hierophant is 5°=6°, yet he is only shown as a Lord of the Paths in the Portal of the Vault. So that when he moveth from his place on the throne of the East, the seat of Aeshuri, he is no longer Osiris but Arouerist. And the invisible station of Arouerist may therefore be said to be that of the immediate past Hierophant. THE OFFICERS AND THE STATIONS OF THE OFFICERS The Hierophant. The pla…
… the grade of 4°= 7°. In the space of seven months from a mere student in the Mysteries, P. had risen to the grade of Philosophus in the Order of the Golden Dawn. A light had indeed been 283 D1aGRaM 51. The Fall.
…EY OF THE MYSTERIES “A thing is not just because God wills it; but God wills it because it is just.” The idea of a perfect and immutable order in nature, the notion of an ascending hierarchy and of a descending influence in all beings, had furnished to the ancient hiero- phants the first classification of the whole of natural history. Minerals, vegetables, animals were studied analogically; and they attributed their origin and their properties to the passive or to the active principle, to the darkness or to the light. The sign of their election…
…d. . . . All that, one will say, happened in the imagination of the sufferers. But where, then, would you expect facts of a supernatural order to take place? What is certain is that all these visionaries have seen and touched, that they have had the most vivid feeling of a formidable reality. We speak of it from our own experience, and there are visions of our own first youth, passed in retreat and asceticism, whose memory makes us shudder even now. 205
…ication of the infinite; that invisible whom one cannot see without dying—without dying at least to intelligence and to reason, since in order to see the invisible, one must be mad; the phantom of Him who has no body; the confused form of Him who is without form and with- out limit; it is in ¢Za¢ that, without knowing it, the greater number of believers believe. He who 7s essentially, purely, spiritually, without being either absolute being, or an abstract 232
…EY OF THE MYSTERIES “A thing is not just because God wills it; but God wills it because it is just.” The idea of a perfect and immutable order in nature, the notion of an ascending hierarchy and of a descending influence in all beings, had furnished to the ancient hiero- phants the first classification of the whole of natural history. Minerals, vegetables, animals were studied analogically; and they attributed their origin and their properties to the passive or to the active principle, to the darkness or to the light. The sign of their election…
…d. . . . All that, one will say, happened in the imagination of the sufferers. But where, then, would you expect facts of a supernatural order to take place? What is certain is that all these visionaries have seen and touched, that they have had the most vivid feeling of a formidable reality. We speak of it from our own experience, and there are visions of our own first youth, passed in retreat and asceticism, whose memory makes us shudder even now. 205