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Page 43 of 951910 · PDF PAGE 271
…ravel,” and I had only to direct my thoughts strongly toward a particular part of the world previously to swallowing my bolus to make my whole fantasia in the strongest possible degree topographical. There are two facts which I have verified as universal by repeated experiment, which fall into their place here as aptly as they can in the course of my narrative. First: At two different times, when body and mind are apparently in precisely analogous states, when all circumstances, exterior and interior, do not differ tangibly in the smallest resp…
1910 · PDF PAGE 142
…sires. XXXIX THE BARGAININGS What shall a man give in exchange for the en- joyment of thy podex ? There is nothing in Iran, or upon the1 whole earth, that is worthy to be spoken of in this matter. The treasures of the sun and moon are not to be compared with it ; if the stars also were to be offered, they would not equal the joy of even the first rubbings of the member against its orifice. The desire of the fanatic is to cast away life at the feet of Heaven ; but for thy podex heaven and life2 together might be thrown away ; and all per- fectio…
1913 · PDF PAGE 325
…less precision. Any dogma constitutes but a belief, and belongs to our particular communion; faith is a sentiment which is common to the whole of humanity. The more one discusses with the object of obtaining greater accuracy, the less one believes; every new dogma is a belief which a sect appropriates to itself, and thus, in some sort, steals from universal faith. Let us leave sectarians to make and remake their dogmas; let us leave the superstitious to detail and formulate their superstitions. As the Master said, “ Let the dead bury their dead…
1913 · PDF PAGE 325
…less precision. Any dogma constitutes but a belief, and belongs to our particular communion; faith is a sentiment which is common to the whole of humanity. The more one discusses with the object of obtaining greater accuracy, the less one believes; every new dogma is a belief which a sect appropriates to itself, and thus, in some sort, steals from universal faith. Let us leave sectarians to make and remake their dogmas; let us leave the superstitious to detail and formulate their superstitions. As the Master said, “ Let the dead bury their dead…
1919 · PDF PAGE 265
…the Book of the Law three times, opens it, and places it upon the super-altar. He turns West. Tue Deacon. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I proclaim the Law of Light, Life, Love, and Lib- erty in the name of IAO. Tue ConGrEGATION. Love is the law, love under will. The Deacon goes to his place between the altar of incense and the font, faces east, and gives the step and sign of aMananda Brother. All imitate him. THE DEACON AND ALL THE PEOPLE. I believe in one secret and ineffable LORD; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of …
1930 · PDF PAGE 80
…ormal human consciousness, withdrawn to the physical bodyj the Adept must deliberately abandon his attainment, because it is not yet his whole being which burns up before the Beloved. The Adept, though withdrawn, shall hâve maintained the Extension of his Symbol. He now repeat the signs as before, save that he makes the Passive Invoking Pentagram of Spirit. He con- 284
1961 · PDF PAGE 218
… without Wit are not able to distinguish hem. For the Stature of Aiwass is beyond our Measure, seeing that he was able to comprehend the whole Mystery of Nuith and of Hadith, and yet to declare Their Message in the Language of Man. t
1903 · PDF PAGE 14
…nature as the square root of— 1. Against all this mathema- tical, or semi-mathematical, reasoning, it may doubtless be objected that our whole system of numbers, and of manipulating them, is merely a series of conventions. When I say that the square root of three is unreal, know quite well that it is only so in relation to the series 1, 2, 3eetc., and that is equally unreal if] make the /3, = 250 the members of a ternary scale. But this, theoretically true, is practically absurd. IfI mean “the number of a, b, and c”, it does not matter ifI writ…
1909 · PDF PAGE 26
… upon the lights, their number suggests Mercury; he smells the per- fumes, and again Mercury is brought to his mind. In other words, the whole magical apparatus and ritual is a complex system of mnemonics. [The importance of these lies principally in the fact that particular sets of images that the student may meet in his wanderings correspond to particular lineal figures, divine names, &c., and are controlled by them. As to the possibility of producing results external to the mind of the seer (objective, in the ordinary common-sense acceptatio…
1909 · PDF PAGE 26
… upon the lights, their number suggests Mercury; he smells the per- fumes, and again Mercury is brought to his mind. In other words, the whole magical apparatus and ritual is a complex system of mnemonics. [The importance of these lies principally in the fact that particular sets of images that the student may meet in his wanderings correspond to particular lineal figures, divine names, &c., and are controlled by them. As to the possibility of producing results external to the mind of the seer (objective, in the ordinary common-sense acceptatio…
1913 · PDF PAGE 322
…o die, to love. It is our duty!” The fallen angel is then he who, from the beginning, refused to love; he does not love, and that is his whole torture; he does not give, and that is his poverty; he does not suffer, and that is his nothingness; he does not die, and that is his exile. The fallen angel is not Lucifer the light-bearer; it is Satan, who calumniated love. To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to. love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to cast away…
1913 · PDF PAGE 322
…o die, to love. It is our duty!” The fallen angel is then he who, from the beginning, refused to love; he does not love, and that is his whole torture; he does not give, and that is his poverty; he does not suffer, and that is his nothingness; he does not die, and that is his exile. The fallen angel is not Lucifer the light-bearer; it is Satan, who calumniated love. To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to. love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to cast away…
1919 · PDF PAGE 194
…ndled. Now, son, hearken unto this Our reproof, and lend the ear of thine understanding unto the parable of this Magick. We have for the whole Beginning of Our Work, praise be eternally unto His Holy Name, the Fire of our Father the Sun. The inspiration is ours, and ours is the Law of The- lema that shall set the world ablaze. And We have many small dry sticks, that kindle quickly and burn through quickly, leaving the larger Wood unlit. And the great logs, the masses of humanity, are always with us. But our edged need is of those middle fagots …
1919 · PDF PAGE 369
…f elimination is here further developed. The favourite 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 o…
1905 · PDF PAGE 12
…is flatly contradicted by its climax. This is a pitiable sort of confession for a man to make ! What was I todo? I could not rewrite the whole in order to give it a philosophic unity. Gerald Kelly forcibly prevented me from throwing it into the river at Marlotte, though he admitted quite frankly that he could not read even through Book I. and did not see how any one could. Tell me, he said, conjuring the friendship of years, can you read it? Even a poet should be honest; I confessed that I could not! Taking it in sections, with relays and an am…
1910 · PDF PAGE 161
…wherein a man not only converses with his Holy Guardian Angel, but outwardly and inwardly lives up to His holy conversation, turning his whole life into * “The Noble Eightfold Path,” by James Allen, in “Buddhism,” vol. i, No. 2, p. 213. A most illuminating essay on this difficult subject. t The same as the “inflamed by prayer” of Abramelin. t Lbid., p. 213. Iv K 145
1910 · PDF PAGE 161
…wherein a man not only converses with his Holy Guardian Angel, but outwardly and inwardly lives up to His holy conversation, turning his whole life into * “The Noble Eightfold Path,” by James Allen, in “Buddhism,” vol. i, No. 2, p. 213. A most illuminating essay on this difficult subject. t The same as the “inflamed by prayer” of Abramelin. t Lbid., p. 213. Iv K 145
1912 · PDF PAGE 80
… experience of the earlier part of the “vision ᾽᾽in its fullness must find it totally impossible to imagine anything so subversive of the whole base, not only of the Ego, but of the Absolute behind the Ego. There are, however, many suggestive poetical descriptions which we advise our readers to study. Notable are “Aha !" (passage quoted below) and many portions of Liber LXV, 38
1912 · PDF PAGE 80
… experience of the earlier part of the “vision ᾽᾽in its fullness must find it totally impossible to imagine anything so subversive of the whole base, not only of the Ego, but of the Absolute behind the Ego. There are, however, many suggestive poetical descriptions which we advise our readers to study. Notable are “Aha !" (passage quoted below) and many portions of Liber LXV, 38
1930 · PDF PAGE 11
…e was power. For all he know, and he probably knew that he did not know much, the Jews and the Arabs might get together and overturn the whole construction of society. Had he not in his own records the very best example of such a catastrophe ? There is a large number of excellent people, possessed of even less that the minimum amount of brains required to grease a gimlet, who are always boring us with the bogey of the Jew-Bolshevist peril. But as most of them are Roman Catholic and unaware that Rome is laughing in its sleeve at them, they conve…