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Page 45 of 831904 · PDF PAGE 18
…o. Will Christ return ? What ho ? What ho ! What ? What ? “He meditates above Still with his Sire for mercy, love,—” And other trifles ! Far enough That Father’s purpose from such stuff ! You see, when I was young, they said : “Whate’er you ponder in your head, Or make the rest of Scripture mean, You can’t evade John iii. 16.” * “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” 340 345 350 355 360 365 370 375 Former com- pared to Keru- bim; as it is wr…
1906 · PDF PAGE 164
…tian, but appalled Shrank when I dared suggest the hope God’s mercy could expand its scope, Extend, or bend, or spread, or straighten So far as to encompass Satan Or even poor Iscariot. Yet God created (did he not ?) Both these. Omnisciently, we know ! Benevolently? Even so! Created from Himself distinct (Note that !—it is not meet for you To plead me Schelling and his crew) These souls, foreknowing how were linked The chains in either’ Destiny. “You pose me the eternal Why?” Not I? Again, “ Who asks doth err.” But this one thing I say. Perchan…
1909 · PDF PAGE 56
THE EQUINOX hour, so mentally a less definite but far from indefinite number of thoughts makes an hour’s consciousness. Perhaps powerful and vivid thoughts count for a longer lapse of time than weak ones. Deep sleep passes like an invisible electric discharge. The apparently contrary fact that time seems short when we have been reading an interesting book or performing a pleasant and absorbing task is explained thus; the multitude of impressions is harmonised into one impression. Read an unharmonious and dull book, or an essay like this, and th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 56
THE EQUINOX hour, so mentally a less definite but far from indefinite number of thoughts makes an hour’s consciousness. Perhaps powerful and vivid thoughts count for a longer lapse of time than weak ones. Deep sleep passes like an invisible electric discharge. The apparently contrary fact that time seems short when we have been reading an interesting book or performing a pleasant and absorbing task is explained thus; the multitude of impressions is harmonised into one impression. Read an unharmonious and dull book, or an essay like this, and th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 365
…iety Shimei, he has spat against the wind, and his beard is befouled. True, every thought of Shaw is a great thought; and so equable and far-seeing is the artist, that its contradictory appears with it. His births are all Siamese twins; his god is Janus; his sign is Gemini . . . but his end is (I fear) not to rise above the equilibrium of contraries by a praeter-Hegelian dialectic, but to sink wearily between his two stools, a lament- able loon. . . . This Nulli Secundus, inflated with fermenting Grape-Nuts! For in all that mass of analysis luc…
1910 · PDF PAGE 365
…iety Shimei, he has spat against the wind, and his beard is befouled. True, every thought of Shaw is a great thought; and so equable and far-seeing is the artist, that its contradictory appears with it. His births are all Siamese twins; his god is Janus; his sign is Gemini . . . but his end is (I fear) not to rise above the equilibrium of contraries by a praeter-Hegelian dialectic, but to sink wearily between his two stools, a lament- able loon. . . . This Nulli Secundus, inflated with fermenting Grape-Nuts! For in all that mass of analysis luc…
1913 · PDF PAGE 162
…preme Initiation narrated in the 2nd Athyr the answer to this question is given. The word ‘“‘ Samadhi” is now deep down, “an old unhappy far-off thing.” By so much does this exceed that. In this supreme marriage of Infinite with Infinite comes the key to the Grade of Ipsissimus, which Grade is shadowed forth—but oh, how dimly !—in the 1st Aéthyr. It will be noticed by those who understand this A&thyr that when all is done there is a complete identification (on the very last page) of that highest thing with that lowest. The Master of the Temple …
1913 · PDF PAGE 162
…preme Initiation narrated in the 2nd Athyr the answer to this question is given. The word ‘“‘ Samadhi” is now deep down, “an old unhappy far-off thing.” By so much does this exceed that. In this supreme marriage of Infinite with Infinite comes the key to the Grade of Ipsissimus, which Grade is shadowed forth—but oh, how dimly !—in the 1st Aéthyr. It will be noticed by those who understand this A&thyr that when all is done there is a complete identification (on the very last page) of that highest thing with that lowest. The Master of the Temple …
1929 · PDF PAGE 414
…nal, it is incommunicable in the language of reason. II. Hence all mystics have written nonsense, and what sense they have written is so far untrue. III. Yet as a still lake yields a truer reflection of the sun than a torrent, he whose mind is best balanced will, if he become a mystic, become the best mystic. When a friend of mine, or an enemy either, gets into trouble, I go or write to him immediately and put myself entirely at his disposition. I don't so much as ask whether he is in the right or no, unless that knowledge is necessary to effic…
1906 · PDF PAGE 159
…ra® so, Will Christ return? What ho? What ho! What? What? ‘“ He mediates above Still with His Sire for mercy, love,—” And other trifles! Far enough That Father’s purpose from such stuff! You see, when I was young, they said: ‘“Whate’er you ponder in your head, Or make the rest of Scripture mean, You can’t evade John ill. 16.” Former com- pared to Keru- bim ; as it is written, Run- ning and Re- turning. Shri Para- nanda ap- plauds Yogi. Gerald jeers at JeSus. John iii. 16,* Its importance. Its implied meaning.
1907 · PDF PAGE 138
… only to enter the foul jaws of the sexual hell of shrieking flagellants , who rush upon us , as obscene Masochists grovel at our feet ; far into its depths we sink , and there at the altar of Phallommeda sits a foul vulture gloating over a corpse ; and its name is Necrophilia . Into the realms of sexual - neurasthenia Aleister Crowley takes us , and it is necessary that he should . His religion , his philosophy , and his psychology , all point to an ultimate blending of our extreme per fections and imperfections — vice and virtue — in one grea…
1913 · PDF PAGE 503
…ou think that in retracing those frightful dreams of maceration and fasting, the makers of legends have invented? No; they have remained far below the truth. The cloisters, in fact, have always been peopled with nameless spectres, and their walls have palpitated with shadows and infernal larvae. St. Catherine of Siena on one occasion passed a week in the midst of an obscene orgy which would have discouraged the lust of Pietro di Aretino; St. Theresa felt her- self carried away living into hell, and there suffered, between walls which ever close…
1913 · PDF PAGE 503
…ou think that in retracing those frightful dreams of maceration and fasting, the makers of legends have invented? No; they have remained far below the truth. The cloisters, in fact, have always been peopled with nameless spectres, and their walls have palpitated with shadows and infernal larvae. St. Catherine of Siena on one occasion passed a week in the midst of an obscene orgy which would have discouraged the lust of Pietro di Aretino; St. Theresa felt her- self carried away living into hell, and there suffered, between walls which ever close…
1954 · PDF PAGE 71
38 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS But there is a restricted and conventional sense in which the word may be used without straying too far from the above philosophical position . One might say: "Magick is the study and use of those forms of energy which are (a) subtler than the ordinary physical-mechanical types, (b) accessible only to those who are (in one sense or another) 'Initiates'." I fear that this may sound rather obscurum per obscurius; but this is one of those cases-we are likely to encounter many such in the course of our researches-in which we…
1904 · PDF PAGE 23
…tian, but appalled Shrank when I dared suggest the hope God’s mercy could expand its scope, Extend, or bend, or spread, or straighten So far as to encompass Satan Or even poor Iscariot. Yet God created (did he not ?) Both these. Omnisciently, we know ! Benevolently ? Even so ! Created from Himself distinct (Note that !—it is not meet for you To plead me Schelling and his crew) These souls, foreknowing how were linked The chains in either’s Destiny. “You pose me the eternal Why ?” Not I ? Again, “Who asks doth err.” But this one thing I say. Per…
1919 · PDF PAGE 151
…ich makes them all the more valuable in helping towards the general control of body and mind. But what is of still greater importance as far as Frater V.1.0. was concerned, they evidently had the effect—height- ened perhaps by a letter from his Neophyte—of causing him to make a fresh and more determined effort to perform the Mystical Exercises for a definite period and with regular- ity, according to his original A..A.. instructions. From January 30th, 1911 to April 30th of that year, he kept a sci- entifically tabulated diary and during the pr…
1904 · PDF PAGE 46
…odds, Since suffering souls to save or damn Never existed). So I fall Confessing : Well, perhance I am Myself a Christian after all ! So far at least. I must concede Christ did attain in every deed ; Yet, being an illiterate man, Not his to balance or to scan, To call God stupid or unjust ! He took the universe on trust : He reconciled the world below With that above ; rolled eloquence Steel-tired58 o’er reason’s “why?” and “whence?” Discarded all proportion just And thundered in our ears “I know,” And bellowed in our brains “ye must.” 675 680 …
1913 · PDF PAGE 34
…he left India for England about the end of March 1911 and returned to India only in the beginning of October 1911, during which time, so far as the plaintiff was aware, the boys were kept away from associating with the said Mr. Leadbeater. 6. In or about November 1911 the defendant told the plaintiff that the boys were making rapid spiritual progress and were approaching initiation by the Masters (a set of superhuman gurus living on the eastern slopes of the Himalayas) believed in by the Theosophists. She therefore proposed to keep the boys wit…
1913 · PDF PAGE 498
…l of his other-world suppers, where he made appear in flesh and blood the illustri- ous personages of the past? Cagliostro was, however, far from being an initiate of the first order, since the Great White Brotherhood abandoned him! to the Roman Inquisition, before whom he made, if one can believe the documents to his trial, so ridiculous and so odious an explanation of the Masonic trigram, L.°. P.*. D.. But miracles are not the exclusive privilege of the first order of initiates; they are often performed by beings with- out education or virtue…
1913 · PDF PAGE 34
…he left India for England about the end of March 1911 and returned to India only in the beginning of October 1911, during which time, so far as the plaintiff was aware, the boys were kept away from associating with the said Mr. Leadbeater. 6. In or about November 1911 the defendant told the plaintiff that the boys were making rapid spiritual progress and were approaching initiation by the Masters (a set of superhuman gurus living on the eastern slopes of the Himalayas) believed in by the Theosophists. She therefore proposed to keep the boys wit…