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…Repetition of the Formula of that Truth. Note thou further that this which I tell thee is the Defence of Formalism; and indeed thou must work upon a certain Skeleton, but clothe it with live Flesh. m
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 165 #q De Opere suo (Of his Work) AM not I. Then, sayst thou, why is this Word? Know o my Son, that this first Person is but the common Figure of the Speech of Men whereof the Magus may avail himself without Implication of Metaphysick. Yet in the Mystery of Illusion, which is the Instrument of the Universal Will, I will not say he Harlot of its Pleasure, are manifested these many Stars, and amongst them that Logos of the Aeon of Horus whom thou callest TO MEGA QHRION and thy Father. And this is by-come hrough Virtue …
…nd Poison; then these others Alice the Singing Woman for an Owl; then Catherine the Dog of Anubis, and Ahitha the Camel that renewed the Work of Virakam, with Ollun the Dragon and but here I do restrict myself in Speech, for the End is wrapped about with a Veil, as the Face of a Virgin. But do thou meditate strictly upon these Things, distinguishing the right Property, Order, and Use of the one and the other in the Relative, even as thou makest them All-One, that is None, in the Absolute. m
…26 Path. The upshot is that it does not matter. Acquire full power of Concentration; the rest is only leather and prunella. Don’t worry; work! I shall now make a pantacle to aid the said faculty of concentration. The Voice 01 the Nadi (by the way) is resoundingwell, and the Chittam is a little better under control. Have worked well on the Pantacle, thinking of Adonai. Of course we are now reduced to a “low anthropo- morphic conception ”—but what odds ? Once the Right Thought comes it will transcend any and all conceptions. The objection is as s…
…ocation were most brilliant and important. They re— vealed the Brother ”?סנA A who communi— cated in Egypt as the Controller of all this work. Their importance belongs therefore rather to the history of those relations than of this simple invocation-method, and will be dealt with in
…ocation were most brilliant and important. They re— vealed the Brother ”?סנA A who communi— cated in Egypt as the Controller of all this work. Their importance belongs therefore rather to the history of those relations than of this simple invocation-method, and will be dealt with in
…, wisdom, and his own aims. He feels no responsibility to others, and although his abilities are so immense, he cannot be relied upon to work in harness. In the Yî King, the airy part of Water is represented by the 61st hexagram, Kung Fû. This is one of the most important figures in the Yî: it “moves even pigs and fish, and leads to great good fortune”. Its dignities and correspondences are manifold and great; for it is also a “big Li”, the trigram of Sol formed by doubling the lines. By shape it suggests a boat, but also the geomantic figure o…
… age he lived in. “ Tennyson,” he says, “ will die before sixty years are gone by : if I am to be beloved of men, it shall be because my work is for all times and all men, because it is greater than all the gods of chance and change, because it has the heart of the human race beating in every line. ” This is a patch of magenta to mauve, undoubtedly ; but—! The present collection of verses will hardly be popular ; if the lost works turn up, of course it may be that there may be found “ shelter for songs that recede.” Still, even here, one is, on…
… penetrateth where there is no opening. Here is the Virtue of Inertia. XLIII: 2: Few are they who attain: whose speech is Silence, whose Work is Inertia. XLVIII: 3: He who attracteth to himself all that is under Heaven doth so without effort. He who maketh effort is not able to attrac t it. LVIII: 3: The wise man is foursquare and avoideth aggression; his comers do not injure others. He moveth in a straight line, and tumeth not aside therefrom; he is brilliant, but doth not blind with his brightness. LXIII: 2: Do great things while they are yet…
…first groundings in mystical theory and practice. I spent some months of 1901 in Kandy, Ceylon with the latter, until success crowned my work. I also studied all varieties of Asiatic philosophy, especially with regard to the practical question of spiritual development, the Sufi doctrines, the Upanishads, the Sankhya, Veda and Vedanta, the Bhagarad-Gita and Purana, 231
…ic. Of course, one must be of good family to do anything much that is worth doing; but what is one to say when the question of the Great Work is posed? Bless you, the whole strength of the family is based on the fact that it cares for the family only: therefore its magical formula thus concentrated is of necessity hostile to so exclusively individual an aim as Initiation . Its sentiments are reciprocated. In every Magical, or similar system, it is invariably the first condition which the Aspirant must fulfil: he must once and for all and for ev…
…k me that this Operation is (among other things) an attempt to prove the proposition : Reward is the direct and immediate consequence of Work. Of all the holy illuminated Men of God of my acquaintance, I am the only one that holds this opinion. But I think that this Record, when I have time to go through it, and stand at some distance, to get the per— spective, will be proved a conclusive proof of my thesis. I think that every failure will be certainly traceable to my own dam foolishness; every little success to courage, skill, wit, tenacity. I…
…Go! If I keep silence—Or if I speak each word is anguish without hope. And I heard the Aethyr cry aloud “Return! Return! Return! For the work is ended; and the Book is shut; and let the glory be to God the Blessed for ever in the Aeons, Amen.” Thus far is the voice of TEX and no more. Tue Cry OF THE TWENTY AND NINTH AIRE OR AETHYR, WHICH IS CALLED RII The sky appears covered with stars of gold; the background is of green. But the impression is also of darkness. 6
…s accept provisionallythis explanation of greatness, and pass it by. Ambition has led us to this point; but we are now interested in the work for its own sake. A most astounding phenomenon has happened to us ; we have had an experience which makes Love, fame, rank, ambition, wealth, look like thirty cents; and we begin to wonder passionately, “What is truth?” The Universe has tumbled about our ears like a house of cards,
…, or one must admit the absolute principle of intelligence and of life. Is the universal light dead or alive? Is it vowed fatally to the work of destruction, or providentially directed to an immortal birth ? If there be no God, intelligence is only a deception, for it fails to be the absolute, and its ideal is a lie. Without God, being is a nothingness affirming itself, life a death in disguise, and light a night for ever deceived by the mirage of dreams. The first and most essential act of faith is then this. Being exists ; and the Being of be…
…, or one must admit the absolute principle of intelligence and of life. Is the universal light dead or alive? Is it vowed fatally to the work of destruction, or providentially directed to an immortal birth ? If there be no God, intelligence is only a deception, for it fails to be the absolute, and its ideal is a lie. Without God, being is a nothingness affirming itself, life a death in disguise, and light a night for ever deceived by the mirage of dreams. The first and most essential act of faith is then this. Being exists ; and the Being of be…
…en to thee who art long since Master of High Magick, it will be easy to shew how the Mass of the Holy Ghost, sung even in Ignorance, may work many a Wonder by Virtue of the Force generated being compelled to manifest on other than its own Plane. Here then is a Theory of the Mystery of the Æon, that I, being the Logos appointed thereunto, did create an Image of my little Universe in the Mind of the Woman of Scarlet; that is, I manifested my whole Magical Self in her Mind. Thus then in Her, as in a Mirror, have I been able to interpret myself to …
…n ourselves in Quietness and Modulation. But above all must we use all to our own End, adapting with Adroitness even our Weakness to the Work. a
…ut I feel faint for lack of food ; I must get back to strict Hatha—Yoga feeding. Half-dozen oysters and an entrecöte aux pommes. Back to work. I am in a very low physical condition ; quite equilibrated, but exhausted. I can hardly walk upright! Lord Adonai, how far I wander from the gardens of Thy beauty, where play the fountains of the Elixir! Wrote two pages; the previous were not really dry; so I must wait a little before illuminating. I will rest—if I can! In the Hanged Man posture. I soon went to sleep and stayed there. It is useless to pe…
…es, addresses and other details. ADOLESCENCE Too ill with albuminuria brought on by the savage treat- ment of Champney to do any regular work, I was sent away with various tutors, mostly young men from Cambridge, members of the unspeakable C. I. C. C. U. I remember in my first term at Cambridge how I was in the rooms of a leading light of the C. I. C. C. U., the Revd. Something Doddridge, my Uncle Tom’s trusted henchman. I remember how eloquently he held forth on the cou- rage to stop any “ impure conversation.” I remember how impressed we were…