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Page 44 of 911910 · PDF PAGE 225
…f Great Shiva the Destroyer, who openeth his eye, and All is Not. And behold! He was balanced in the crack, and the void was filled, and Nature was content. And Elohim Gibor, and Kamael the mighty and his Seraphim, and Graphiel, and Bartzabel, and all the inhabitants of Madim shouted for joy and gave glory and honour and praise to the Great White Spirit; and the sound of their rejoicing filled the Worlds. Now for one thousand myriad eternities the Great White Spirit maintained Himself as the Pillar of Infinitude in the midst of the little crack…
1910 · PDF PAGE 225
…f Great Shiva the Destroyer, who openeth his eye, and All is Not. And behold! He was balanced in the crack, and the void was filled, and Nature was content. And Elohim Gibor, and Kamael the mighty and his Seraphim, and Graphiel, and Bartzabel, and all the inhabitants of Madim shouted for joy and gave glory and honour and praise to the Great White Spirit; and the sound of their rejoicing filled the Worlds. Now for one thousand myriad eternities the Great White Spirit maintained Himself as the Pillar of Infinitude in the midst of the little crack…
1911 · PDF PAGE 163
… pride as the mystic; he is occupied with things outside himself, and can correct his pride. Indeed, he is constantly being corrected by Nature. He, the Great One, cannot run a mile in four minutes! The mystic is solitary and shut up, lacks wholesome combat. We are all school- boys, and the football field is a perfect prophylactic of swelled head. When the mystic meets an obstacle, he “ makes believe" about it. He says it is “only illusion.” He has the morphine-maniacs feeling of bien-étre, the delusions of the general paralytic. He loses the po…
1911 · PDF PAGE 163
… pride as the mystic; he is occupied with things outside himself, and can correct his pride. Indeed, he is constantly being corrected by Nature. He, the Great One, cannot run a mile in four minutes! The mystic is solitary and shut up, lacks wholesome combat. We are all school- boys, and the football field is a perfect prophylactic of swelled head. When the mystic meets an obstacle, he “ makes believe" about it. He says it is “only illusion.” He has the morphine-maniacs feeling of bien-étre, the delusions of the general paralytic. He loses the po…
1913 · PDF PAGE 9
…losed 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 Most Holy, Most Ilustrious, Most Illuminat…
1913 · PDF PAGE 546
…hout it being asked of him, twenty thousand pounds to a bankrupt. One must act properly to one’s brothers. Mutual assistance is a law of nature. To aid those who are like ourselves is to aid ourselves. But above mutual 248
1913 · PDF PAGE 546
…hout it being asked of him, twenty thousand pounds to a bankrupt. One must act properly to one’s brothers. Mutual assistance is a law of nature. To aid those who are like ourselves is to aid ourselves. But above mutual 248
1930 · PDF PAGE 41
APPENDÏX III Notes on the nature of the “Astral Plane” \ i) What are “Astral” and “Spiritual” Beings? Man is one: it is a case of any consciousness assuming a sensible form. Microcosms and elementals. Maybe an elemental (e.g. a dog) has a cosmic conception in which he is a microcosm and man incomplète. No means of deciding same, as in case of kinds of space. 1 2 Similarly, our gross matter may appear unreal to Beings clad in fine matter. Thus, science thinks vulgar perceptions “error”. We cannot perceive at ail except within our gamut; as, conc…
1906 · PDF PAGE 279
…ries, but in compliment, and I can imagine none higher) put his finger on the very spot whence all research must begin : the illusionary nature of the time-idea. But I will leave you to study his books at your leisure, and try to give a more direct answer to your question, We have cases ofbrain dis- order, where grave local mischief survives the disappearance of general symptoms. One man may forget a year of his life; another the whole of it; while yet another may have odd patches effaced here and there, while the inain current flows undisturbe…
1944 · PDF PAGE 124
…n 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
…r , 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 dull , stale , tired bed , Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops , Got ' tween asleep and wake ? In “ Jephthah ” we find an almost identical rendering of the above , concerning the children of free love : 1 Mysteries : Lyrical and Dramatic , vol . i, p . 101 .
1907 · PDF PAGE 240
… , B. Having now settled with “ Pure Mathematics ,” he turns to “ Pure Natural Science ," again assuming at the outset apodictic laws of nature , which Berkeley also assumed , and which Hume proved to be sceptical ; such as “ substance continues permanent ”-a theory on the same footing as papal infallibility , and about a hundred years older-and that all that happens is “ determined by a cause according to fixed laws " (p . 42 ). Concerning which Huxley states : “ not one of these events is more than probable '; though the probability may reach…
1911 · PDF PAGE 14
…ght shall judge of these. 9. This Knowledge is not for all men; few indeed are called, but of these few many are chosen. 10. This is the nature of the Work. 11. First, there are many and diverse conditions of life upon this earth. In all 01 these is some seed of sorrow. Who can escape from sickness and from old age and from death ? 12᾿We are come to save our fellows from these things. For there is a life intense with knowledge and extreme bliss which is untouched by any of them. 13. To this life we attain even here and now. The adepts, the serv…
1911 · PDF PAGE 14
…ght shall judge of these. 9. This Knowledge is not for all men; few indeed are called, but of these few many are chosen. 10. This is the nature of the Work. 11. First, there are many and diverse conditions of life upon this earth. In all 01 these is some seed of sorrow. Who can escape from sickness and from old age and from death ? 12᾿We are come to save our fellows from these things. For there is a life intense with knowledge and extreme bliss which is untouched by any of them. 13. To this life we attain even here and now. The adepts, the serv…
1919 · PDF PAGE 373
… to thy “Silent Self’ Think not that when the sins of thy gross form are conquered, O Victim of thy Shadows, thy duty is accomplished by nature and by man. Once again the ascetic life is forbidden. It is moreover shown to be a delusion that the ascetic life assists liberation. The ascetic thinks that by reducing himself to the condition of a vegetable he is advanced upon the path of Evolution. It is not so. Minerals have no inherent power of motion save intramolecularly. Plants grow and move, though but little. Animals are free to move in every…
1961 · PDF PAGE 196
… Period appointed thou mayst have Wisdom concerning him, to confirm him in those Ways which are shewed thereby to be germane to his True Nature. h
1961 · PDF PAGE 218
… vital with Lust of Change, and enflamed with the Love of its opposite. Thus even Falsehood is not alien to Truth, for the Perfection of Nature com- prehendeth all. But all these Things are written in The Book of the Law, after which do I limp painfully; afar off, upon the poor Crutch of mine Understanding of its Word; yea, I am well assured that in that Book are writ all Things soever; but we, being mostly 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 who…
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
…nd heavenly wheels, The earth and her glorious dye, The light that the darkness reveals, The river, the sea, and the sky; 1 Counsel. All nature, or joyful or dire, Life, death, let them throng to the lyre, All sealed with the marvellous seals ! Let them live in my sob, let them love in my song, let them even be I! Let me in most various song Be seasons, be rivers that roll, Be stars, the untameable throng, All parts of the ultimate whole; All nature in various attire Be woven to one tune of the lyre, One tune where a million belong— Multitudino…
1903 · PDF PAGE 14
…limbo of all similar idle and pernicious perversions of truth. Infinity remains, but only as a mathematical conception, as impossible in 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 o…
1904 · PDF PAGE 34
…sagree With the first-born necessity. I come to tell you why I shun The sight of men, the life and fun You know I can enjoy so well, The Nature that I love as none (I think) before me ever loved. You know I scorn the fear of Hell, By worship and all else unmoved 190 195 200 205 210 215 220 225 Our logical method. Clas- sical allusion, demonstrating erudition of poet. Whether or not spirit and matter are dis- tinct, let us in- vestigate the fundamental necessities of thought. Impermanence of the soul.