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…de Koran . But as regards that most irate and truculent old gentleman , J. H. V. H. , he has a considerable amount to relate . How “ All Power can be All Wickedness ," is a question that not only strikes Crowley's brain as ex ceptionally incongruous , but must so strike all who ever think at all . How God being Almighty as well as Beneficent can tolerate such a world of suffering as ours for one minute passes all understanding . The God idea in its infancy , as we have already seen , was the child of ignorance and revenge , and Jahveh , in his …
1907 · PDF PAGE 260
… the Vedas and Upanishads ; its concep tion of the supreme God was ineffable , for He bore neither name nor attribute , being beyond the power of human conception . Over the face of the whole world we find earnest thought arriving at or towards such a conclusion . In ancient China we hear Lao - Tze declaring : “ What is there superior in Heaven and 1 Songs of the Spirit , vol . i, p . 34 . ? The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 166 . 3 Berashith , vol . ii, p . 236 .
1909 · PDF PAGE 80
…thed them all so! it was terrible having to fly round and comfort and explain; the difficulty increases (I should judge) as about the fifth power of the number of wives . . . I'm glad I’m awake! Yea, and how glad when I am indeed awake from this glamour life, awake to the love of my Lord Adonai ! It is bitter chill at dawn. Aconsecrating cold it seems to me—yet I will not confront it and rejoice in it— I am already content, having ceased to strive. Again awake, deliciously rested and refreshed. Again awake, ditto.
1912 · PDF PAGE 145
…I D Al 86 words in this Enochian Call. [Invokes the whole Tablet of Spirit] TH Ε FIRST KEY I REIGN over ye, saith the God of Justice, in power exalted above the Firmament of Wrath, in whose hands the Sun is 25 2 sword, and the Moon 25 2 through thrusting Fire: who measureth your Garments in the midst of my Vestures, and trussed you together 25 the palms of my hands. Whose seats I garnished with the Fire of Gathering, and beautified your garments with admiration Το whom I made a law to govern the Holy Ones, and delivered ye 2 Rod, with the Ark of…
1912 · PDF PAGE 145
…I D Al 86 words in this Enochian Call. [Invokes the whole Tablet of Spirit] TH Ε FIRST KEY I REIGN over ye, saith the God of Justice, in power exalted above the Firmament of Wrath, in whose hands the Sun is 25 2 sword, and the Moon 25 2 through thrusting Fire: who measureth your Garments in the midst of my Vestures, and trussed you together 25 the palms of my hands. Whose seats I garnished with the Fire of Gathering, and beautified your garments with admiration Το whom I made a law to govern the Holy Ones, and delivered ye 2 Rod, with the Ark of…
1954 · PDF PAGE 427
…s advanced to a stage when Doubt would seem impossible; until you get there, you can have no idea how bad it is! Then, again, when these powers have sprung naturally and spontaneously from the exercise of one's proper faculties in the Great Work, they ought to be a little more than leaks. You ought to be able to organize and control them in such wise that they are of actual assistance to you in taking the Next Step. After all, what moral or magical difference is there between the power of digesting one's food, and that of transforming oneself i…
1944 · PDF PAGE 180
…, the Cardinal sign represents the swift, impulsive onrush of the idea. In the Kerubic sign, the element has come to its full balance of power; and in the other signs the force is fading away. Thus, Aries represents the rush of fire, Lightning; Leo, its power, the Sun; and Sagittarius, the rainbow, its sublimation. Similar considerations apply to the other ele‐ ments. See the Attributions section: The Triplicities of the Zodiac.) In the Eight of Wands, fire is no longer conjoined with the ideas of combustion and de‐ struction. It represents ene…
1907 · PDF PAGE 125
118 THE STAR IN THE WEST embedded in a slight verse of four lines the nucleus of all true patriotism , greater than power , wealth , or dominion , and that is motherhood : Fiercer desires may cast away All things most good ; A people may forget to - day Their motherhood . 1 This is the condition of the England of to - day : “ O England ! England , mighty England falls !” because she no longer knows how to bear Englishmen . Wealth cries for luxury , and luxury sniffs at the hem of lust , and lust rises o’er us a vampire kite to drink dry the blo…
1919 · PDF PAGE 420
THE EQUINOX of Bodhisattva’s virtues five, the fivefold source of Bodhi power, and of the seven steps in Knowledge. 28. Pass on! For thou hast brought the key; thou art secure. The row of dots in the text (after verse 25) appears to im- ply complete change of subject, though on other occasions it did not doso. Ihave already explained one of the technical meanings of Dana, and undoubtedly the Path seems attrac- tive at this stage. One thinks of the joyous reception into the Company of Adepts. One goes almost as a boy goes to meet his first sweet…
1944 · PDF PAGE 108
… philosophi‐ cally tenable conception of Reality. He is represented by a globe of fire, representing eternal energy; winged, to show his power of Going. As a result of the marriage of these two, the child Horus is born. He is, however, known under his special name, Heru‐ra‐ha. A double god; his
1903 · PDF PAGE 17
…rmally and really identical with it. ‘As to an infinite intelligence, any standing are agreed that all-love an all philosophers of d all-power are
1909 · PDF PAGE 39
…takes its station in the East and the officers salute it both by speech and silence in their signs; and they pronounce the secret Word of power that riseth from the Silence and returneth thereunto. All this they affirm; and in affirming the triangular base of the Pyramid, find that they have mysteriously affirmed the Apex thereof Whose name is Ecstasy. This also is sealed by that secret Word ; for that Word containeth All. Into this prepared Pyramid of divine Light there cometh a certain darkling wight, who knoweth not either his own nature, or his …
1910 · PDF PAGE 31
…winish multitude ! The old law, silence, is the master : therefore whoso looketh for my name, let him find it darkling in these lines of power ! R. is the Father, W. the Son, And E. the Holy Spirit, three and one : But if they esoterically are read My equal name shall glitter out instead. Yes ! we must not sing hymns to Pan to- day : we must pretend to be German professors, with a keen scientific interest in these very re- markable phenomena which look so much like madness, and which our own perfect sanity and the effulgence (possibly a shade a…
1912 · PDF PAGE 73
… more than ten minutes at a time, so as to avoid risk of overtiring the brain. In fact you will probably find that the Whole of your will-power is not equal to keeping to a sub- ject at all for so long as three minutes, or even apparently con— centrating on it for so long as three seconds, or three-fifths of one second. By “keeping to it at all” is meant the mere attempt to keep to it. The mind becomes so fatigued, and the object so incredibly loathsome, that it is useless to continue for the time being. In Frater R’s record we find that after dai…
1919 · PDF PAGE 422
THE EQUINOX “Close not thine eyes” may refer to sleep or to ecstasy, perhaps to both. Dorje is the whirling power which throws off from itself every other influence. Vairaga is a very definite stage in moral strength. The point is that it is one’s intense longing for ecstasy which makes one yield to it. If one does so, one is overwhelmed with the illusion, for even the highest ecstasy is still illusion. The result, in many cases, of obtaining Dhyana is that the workers cease to work. Vairaga is an indifference ap- proaching disgust for everythi…
1961 · PDF PAGE 184
…Books of Magick it is Man that selleth his Soul unto the Devil, but Woman that maketh Pact with him. For she hath constantly the Wit and Power to arrange Things at his Bidding, and she payeth this Price of his Alliance. But a Man hath one Jewel, and, bartering this, he becometh the Mockery of Satanas. Let then his tutor thee in thine own Art of Magick, that thou employ Women in all Practical Matters, to order them with Cunning, but Men in thy Need of Transfiguration or Transmutation. In a Trope, let the Woman direct the Chess-Play of Life, but …
1906 · PDF PAGE 185
…he door ; Your hand refuses to obey ; You throw the useless brush away. I think I hear the Word you say! I practice then, with conscious power Watching my mind, each thought controlling, Hurling to nothingness, while rolling The thunders after lightning’s flower, the evidence of its senses would lead it. A test. The artist's concen- tration on his work, Yogi but a more art’
1907 · PDF PAGE 140
…e enormity of her lust , the multitudes worship their Phædrian queen : But the mood passed , and we see A lecherous woman whose magician power Is broken , and the balance of her mind Made one with the fool's bauble , and her wand That was of steel and fire , like a reed , snapped !3 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . I, p . 104 . 2 The Fatal Force , vol . i, p . 143 . 3 Ibid .
1922 · PDF PAGE 199
…ards! Those pompous prophets of evil! Every time we came back to the resolution to stop, they pulled us off the rock. “It’s beyond human power.” But they know which side their breaq’s buttered. It’s their game to discourage their dupes. But they had over-played their hand. They had painted their picture in too crude colours. They revolted us. Again, the effect of Mabel’s death, and the fact that our supplies were so short, combined to drive us into the determination to stop at whatever cost. | We struggled savagely hour by hour. There were mome…
1907 · PDF PAGE 319
…. Myself being idle for an hour I dare one thing to speculate : Namely , that life hath cusps yet higher On this our curve : a prize , a power Lies in our grasp : unthinking Fate Shall build a brain to nestle nigher Under the ultimate Truth : I burn To live that later lives may learn . Wisdom and Love , intenser glow ! Beauty and strength , increase and burn Be brothers to the law of life ! Things as they are — their nature know !