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Page 43 of 871913 · PDF PAGE 9
…and Love, and their position is only disclosed under an oath of secrecy to those entitled to make use of them. ‘They are also temples of true worship, specially con- secrated by Nature to bring out of a man all that is best in him. 6. The authority of the O.T. O. is concentrated in the O. H. O. (Outer Head of the Order), or Frater Superior. The name of the person occupying this office is never disclosed except to his immediate representatives. __7- The Authority of the O. H.O. in all English-speak- ing countries is delegated by charter to the M…
1944 · PDF PAGE 124
…ble to direct the Operations of the Will. By Criticism and by re‐ corded Memory Man avoideth Error, and the Repetition of Error. But the true Word of Tahuti was A M O U N, whereby He made Men to understand their secret Nature, that is, their unity with their True Selves, or, as they then phrased it, with God. And he discovered unto them the Way of this Attainment, and its relation with the Formula of INRI. Also by his Mystery of Number he made plain the Path for His Successor to declare the Nature of the whole Universe
1907 · PDF PAGE 96
… he does not carry it further into the realms of Biblical vice . The children of what is known as an illicit love-which in most cases is true free love - have time after time proved themselves better and greater than those engendered in the unimpassioned embrace of the marriage - bed . Shakespeare brings this point out forcibly in King Lear , when Edmund speaks as follows : . why brand they us With base ? with baseness ? bastardy ? base , base ? Who in the lusty stealth of nature take More composition and fierce quality Than doth , within a dul…
1910 · PDF PAGE 156
…eration. 15. After all this mere envy must drive us to as- sume a mystical sense for these writings. 16. Hua — He. But it is further the true and secret unpronounceable Name of God, concealed by its obviousness. The 100th name, about which people make such a fuss, is simply Allah [Persian text] itself, the other 99 merely replacing Allah in the sentence Hua Allahu alazi wailaha illa Hua, thus : Hua Arrahmanu alazi etc., and so for the rest. How [Persian text] came to mean God ([Per- sian text] the God) is a question for the profoundest scholars…
1919 · PDF PAGE 373
… continuous and more untiring energy. 31. The blessed ones have scorned to do so. The Lion of the Law, the Lord of Mercy, perceiving the true cause of hu- man woe, immediately forsook the sweet but selfish rest of 51
1919 · PDF PAGE 378
…the speech of a politician who is thank- ing a famous general for having done some of his dirty work for him. 39. The Shangna robe, ’tis true, can purchase light eter- nal. The Shangna robe alone gives the Nirvana of destruc- tion; it stops rebirth, but O Lanoo, it also kills compassion. No longer can the perfect Buddhas, who don the Dharma- kéya glory, help man’s salvation. Alas! shall SELVES be sacrificed to Self; mankind, unto the weal of Units? The sum of misery is diminished only in a minute degree by the attainment of a Pratyeka-Buddha. T…
1922 · PDF PAGE 347
CHAPTER VI THE TRUE WILL Lov and I were both utterly exhausted by the climb; and King Lamus reminded us that this was the formula of the Abbey of Thelema at Telepylus, that every one had to reach the top, step by step, through his own exertions. There was no question of soaring into the air by alien aid; and in all probability coming to earth with a bump. We had found ourselves repeatedly out of breath during the ascent, though it had only occupied three- quarters of an hour, and we should certainly never have reached the top without recourse t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 260
…e apparently quite distinct. For instance, one sinologist calls it "Reason"; another, "The Way"; another "Tat" or "Shiva". These are all true in one sense or another. My own "White Hope" (see The Book of Thoth) is to identify it with the Qabalistic Zero. This last attribution is useful, as I will show presently, for hard practical reasons; it is an assumption which indicates the method of the Old Wise One who approaches the Tao. As you know, the supreme classic of this subject is The Tao Teh King; and I must suppose that you have read this in a…
1907 · PDF PAGE 88
THE VIRGIN 81 Such is True Love , whether it be the love of a virgin , a harlot , or a wife . No man -made law , no convention , no ceremony can create it ; for it is spontaneous , anarchic ; few are its children , and still fewer its warriors . All that this lover sees breathes “ Alice ”; all that he hears reverberates with her name ; all that he smells holds the clinging scent of her hair , Alice , Alice , Alice ! He feels she is beyond him ; yet in his ear whispers the Master ; whose power is rapture . I drew a hideous talisman of lust In ma…
1909 · PDF PAGE 121
…en years’ constant striving. Well, in the upshot, he will get back to Work at once, and hope that his few hours in the world may prove a true strategic movement to the rear, and not a euphemism for rout! There are further serious considerations to be made concerning Adonai. This title for the Unknown Thought was adopted by Ο. Μ. in November, 19--͵ in Upper Burma, on the occasion of his passing through the ordeal and receiving the grade which should be really attributed to Daath (on account of its nature, the 119
1907 · PDF PAGE 84
THE VIRGIN 77 we include here ; for such a one at any rate is not a true prostitute , rather a poor deluded girl , yearning to love and be loved , romantic and foolish , yet kind hearted and charitable to a fault : often the plaything of man , and oftener the means of livelihood of some bad woman . As Jenny wrapped in “ the homage of the dim boudoir , ” was Nina ; one of that large flotsam of fragile girlhood which forms the better drift of vice , the first to be swallowed in the social Maelstrom . Yes : Nina was a thing of nought , A little la…
1909 · PDF PAGE 90
…? The answer comes direct from Tahuti himself : Because you have learned to write perfectly, but have not yet taught yourself to suffer. True enough, the last part! Asar Un-nefer, thou perfected One, teach me Thy mysteries! Let my members be torn by Set and devoured by Sebek and Typhonl Let my blood be poured out upon Nile, and my flesh be given to Besz to devour! Let my Phallus be concealed in the maw of Mati, and my Crown be divided among my brethren ! Let the jaws of Apep grind me into poison ! Let the sea of poison swallow me wholly up I Let…
1911 · PDF PAGE 143
…ICH IS CALLED ZON There is an angry light in the stone; now it is become clear. In the centre is that minute point of light which is the true Sun, and in the circumference is the Emerald Snake. And joining them are the rays which are the plumes of Maat, and because the distance is infinite, therefore are they parallel from the circumference, although they diverge from the centre. In all this is no voice and no motion. And yet it seems that the great Snake feedeth upon the plumes of Truth as upon itself, so that it contracteth. But ever so littl…
1919 · PDF PAGE 369
…te Eastern image of the Wheel of the Good Law is difficult to Western minds, and the whole metaphor appears to us somewhat confused. 19. True knowledge is the flour, false learning is the husk. If thou would’st eat the bread of Wisdom, thy flour thou hast to knead with Amrita’s clear waters. But if thou kneadest husks with Maya's dew, thou canst create but food for the black doves of death, the birds of birth, decay and SOrrow. “Amrita” means not only Immortality, but is the techni- cal name of the Divine force which descends upon man, but whic…
1919 · PDF PAGE 434
…tone for thine own throes and sorrows, O conqueror of weal and woe. More trouble, more poetic image, more apparent sen- timentality. Its true interpretation is to be found in the old symbolism of this marriage of Chiah and Neshamah. Chiah is the male, proof against seduction; Neshamah the female that overcomes by weakness. But in actual practice the meaning may be explained thus,—you yourself have con- quered, you have become perfectly indifferent, perfectly energetic, perfectly creative, but, having united yourself to the Universe, you become …
1929 · PDF PAGE 37
…art IV of this Book 4. Hence I can only outline the matter in a very crude way; it would require a separate treatise to discuss even the true meaning of the terms employed, and to show how The Book of the Law anticipâtes the recent discoveries of Frege, Cantor, Poincaré, Russell, Whitehead, Einstein and others. I
1961 · PDF PAGE 195
…hod, and to discover its Essential Law, which before had escaped the Focus of the Lens of mine Understanding. Yea, o my Son, there is no true Path of Light, save that which I have formerly made plain; yet in every Path is Profit, if thou be cunning to perceive it and to clasp it. For we win Truth oftentimes by Reflection or by the Composition and Selection of an Artist in his Presentation thereof, when else we were blind thereunto; lacking his Mode of Light. Yet were that Art of none avail unless we had already the Root of that Truth in our Nat…
1944 · PDF PAGE 38
…considering the disposition of his forces at a given place and hme, and how best to employ them against his adversary. Thi5 is of course true not only of the Trumps, but of all the other cards; and it must be true of any specialised studies. If one goes into a shop and asks for a map of a certain country, one cannot get a complete map, because any such map would necessarily merge into the Universe as it approached completeness, for a country’s character is modified by the adjacent countries, and so on for ever. Nor would even any useful map be …
1906 · PDF PAGE 288
… ing. Let us pull down the church and the Free Library ;! with each stone torn thence let us build the humble and practical homes of the true ‘‘ holy men” of our age, the 1 The sarcasm is perhaps against the popu- larity of the worthless novel, as shown in Free Library statistics ; or against the uselessness of any form of reading to a man not otherwise educated. austere and single-minded labourers in the fields of Physics and Physiology. Myst. Here, moreover, is the foundation of race harmony ; here the possible basis for a genuine brotherhood…
1907 · PDF PAGE 172
… as Dowie and Torrey ; all battening as greedy vultures on the mental dead , as they take their place on the eternal towers of silence — true mutilators of corpses . Ulric in “ The Mother's Tragedy ," tells Cora that “ Excess is danger , equally in prayer as in debauchery .” 2 And this the howling mob of religionists can never grasp . We know of the spots in the Agapae , and we know to what they referred : Out ! out ! the ghastly torches of the feast ! Let darkness hide us and the night discover The shameless mysteries of God grown beast , The …