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Page 45 of 911906 · PDF PAGE 160
…thics individual. Exactly ! Grown my mental stature, I ponder much: but never yet © Can I get over or forget That bitter text’s accursed nature, The subtle devilish omission,*” The cruel antithesis implied, The irony, the curse-fruition, The calm assumption of Hell’s fevers As fit, as just, for unbelievers— These are the things that stick beside And hamper my quite serious wish To harbour kind thoughts of the “ Fish.” °8 Here goes my arrow to the gold! I’ll make no magpies! Though I hold Your Christianity a lie, Abortion and iniquity, The most …
1919 · PDF PAGE 398
…d of a Dhnamma-Buddha in whom such thoughts necessarily arise, thinks so; but this of course does not hap- pen, because it is not in the nature of a Dhamma-Buddha to think anything of the sort, and he even knows too much to think that it would be rather natural if there were some kinds of Dhamma-Buddha who did think something of the kind. But he is assuredly quite indifferent to the praise and blame of the ‘suffering fellow-men.’ He does not want their gratitude. We will now close this painful subject. 88. Behold! The goal of bliss and the long…
1929 · PDF PAGE 37
… conjunction of these infinités is called RA-HOOR-KHUIT, 2 3 a Unity which includes and heads ail tliings. 3 (There is also a particular Nature of Him, in certain conditions, such as hâve obtained since the Spring of 1904, e.v.) This profoundly mystical conception 1. I présent this theory in a very simple form. I cannot even explain (for instance) that an idea may not refer to Being at ail, but to Going. The Book of the Law demands spécial study and initiated appréhension. 2. More correctly, HERU-RA-HA, to include HOOR-PAAR- KRAAT. 3. The basis…
1961 · PDF PAGE 199
…ference), which Habit is proper to the Lion, as Grass to the Horse, so that his right Problem is solely thus, what is fitting to his own Nature. Or again, I suppose that he is in Vision, and an Angel, visiting him, imparteth a Truth contrary o his Prejudice, as it fell out in mine own Case, when I inhabited the Body of Sir Edward Kelly, or so do I in Part remember, as it seemeth dimly. This nevertheless is sure (or the learned Casaubon, publishing the Record of that Word with the Magician Dee, sayeth falsely) that an Angel did declare unto Kell…
1944 · PDF PAGE 181
…thing should stop changing for the fraction of a split second, it would go to pieces. It is the intense energy of the primal elements of Nature, call them electrons, atoms, anything you will, it makes no difference; change guarantees the order of Nature. This is why, in learning to ride a bicycle, one falls in an extremely awkward and ridiculous manner. Balance is made difficult by not going fast enough. So also, one cannot draw a straight line if one’s hand shakes. This card is a sort of elementary parable to illustrate the meaning of this aph…
1910 · PDF PAGE 161
…Master who will never desert him until he become one with him. Il. Right Resolutions or Right Aspirations. Having perceived the changing nature of all things, even of men’s minds, and having acquired that glorified vision by which he can distinguish between the permanent and the impermanent, he aspires to the attainment of a perfect knowledge of that which is beyond change and sorrow, and resolves that he will, by strenuous effort,t reach to the peace beyond; to where his heart may find rest, his mind become steadfast, untroubled, and serene.t …
1910 · PDF PAGE 161
…Master who will never desert him until he become one with him. Il. Right Resolutions or Right Aspirations. Having perceived the changing nature of all things, even of men’s minds, and having acquired that glorified vision by which he can distinguish between the permanent and the impermanent, he aspires to the attainment of a perfect knowledge of that which is beyond change and sorrow, and resolves that he will, by strenuous effort,t reach to the peace beyond; to where his heart may find rest, his mind become steadfast, untroubled, and serene.t …
1913 · PDF PAGE 366
…although the sacred alphabet has twenty-two letters ; but the first nineteen are the keys of occult theology. The others are the keys of Nature ; we shall return to them in the third part of this work. Let us resume what we have said concerning God, by quoting a fine invocation borrowed from the Jewish liturgy. It is a page from the qabalistic poem Kether-Malkuth, by Rabbi Solomon, son of Gabirol : “Thou art one, the beginning of all numbers, and the foundation of all buildings; thou art one, and in the secret of thy unity the most wise of men …
1913 · PDF PAGE 549
…nct of animals to arrive at the intelligence of man. The active portion of this will is dumb, but it preserves in writing the secrets of Nature. The free part can no longer read this fatal writing without instantaneously losing its liberty. One does not pass from dumb and vegetative contemplation to free vibrating thought without changing one’s surroundings and one’s organs. Thence comes the forgetfulness which accompanies birth, and the vague reminiscences of our sickly intuitions, always analogous to the visions of our ecstasies and of our dr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 366
…although the sacred alphabet has twenty-two letters ; but the first nineteen are the keys of occult theology. The others are the keys of Nature ; we shall return to them in the third part of this work. Let us resume what we have said concerning God, by quoting a fine invocation borrowed from the Jewish liturgy. It is a page from the qabalistic poem Kether-Malkuth, by Rabbi Solomon, son of Gabirol : “Thou art one, the beginning of all numbers, and the foundation of all buildings; thou art one, and in the secret of thy unity the most wise of men …
1913 · PDF PAGE 549
…nct of animals to arrive at the intelligence of man. The active portion of this will is dumb, but it preserves in writing the secrets of Nature. The free part can no longer read this fatal writing without instantaneously losing its liberty. One does not pass from dumb and vegetative contemplation to free vibrating thought without changing one’s surroundings and one’s organs. Thence comes the forgetfulness which accompanies birth, and the vague reminiscences of our sickly intuitions, always analogous to the visions of our ecstasies and of our dr…
1922 · PDF PAGE 34
…e me feel as if I were already a corpse. It was the limit. But I think the ordeal served to bring up in my mind some inkling of the true nature of my feeling for Lou. The Smoking Dog, now ingloriously extinct, was a night club decorated by a horrible little cad who spent his life pushing himself into art and literature. The dancing room was a ridiculous, meaningless, gaudy, bad imitation of Klimmt. Damn it all, I may not be a great flyer, but I ama fresh-air man. I detest these near-artists with their poses and their humbug and their swank. I h…
1944 · PDF PAGE 267
above the Abyss. The doctrinal point is that as this does not exist on the Tree in nature; it is the problem of the seeker after truth to penetrate the obscurity of Saturn, and to discover therein the Supernal Triad in a form linked to his own mind by its position in the Solar system. The tenth Sephira, which refers to Earth, is not shown on this figure. For this number represents the Nephesch, the animal soul of man, the crystallization of the mind, and the Daughter or Hé final of Tetragrammaton. In this edition very little attention has been …
1907 · PDF PAGE 141
… foulest fruit of thy incestuous womb .? 2 “ I am thy mother,” is her answer ; so , even in her frenzied madness , the greatest force in nature asserts itself. He stabs her , and stabs himself ! such also is filial love . In “ The Mother's Tragedy ” the characters are practically reversed . Ulric , who ravishes Cora , his mother , even sinks deeper in the mire of lust than Ratoum . It is a curious case of love baulked turning to the foulest lust . He is passionately in love with her , lustfully in love ; all the exuberance of his youth runs fir…
1907 · PDF PAGE 254
…s thought itself . The great system of the Qabalah is one of emana tion -- a type of spiritual monism , an attempted ex planation of the nature of the Deity , within the limitations of mind . Its correspondence with the Talmud is more of method than material . That it was of slow growth is very certain , that it is a conglomer ated mass of a multitude of efforts is also most sure . The Zohar is its corner - stone , and the date of its construction extends probably from the second to the seventh century of the present era . Much of its logic , p…
1910 · PDF PAGE 277
… more truly than ever in the ordinary state? Let us not assert that the half-careless and uninterested way in which we generally look on nature is the normal mode of the soul’s power of vision. There is a fathomless meaning, an intensity of delight in all our surroundings, which our eyes must be unsealed to see. In the jubilance of hasheesh, we have only arrived by an improper pathway at the secret of that infinity of beauty which shall be beheld in heaven and earth when the veil of the corporeal drops off, and we know as we are known. Then fro…
1910 · PDF PAGE 315
…ho was swearing at a peasant in the foulest of language. She was, of course, a favourite with all in the village: the simpler and nearer Nature their souls, the more they gave the child her proper place. But it must not be inferred that little Ljubov was either worshipped or freed from such menial works as children of her age are called upon to perform. Nor did her playmates realize her superiority. The alleged miracles and the reported cases of healing were heard of some ten years after her death, when eye-witnesses had all departed from this …
1910 · PDF PAGE 277
… more truly than ever in the ordinary state? Let us not assert that the half-careless and uninterested way in which we generally look on nature is the normal mode of the soul’s power of vision. There is a fathomless meaning, an intensity of delight in all our surroundings, which our eyes must be unsealed to see. In the jubilance of hasheesh, we have only arrived by an improper pathway at the secret of that infinity of beauty which shall be beheld in heaven and earth when the veil of the corporeal drops off, and we know as we are known. Then fro…
1910 · PDF PAGE 315
…ho was swearing at a peasant in the foulest of language. She was, of course, a favourite with all in the village: the simpler and nearer Nature their souls, the more they gave the child her proper place. But it must not be inferred that little Ljubov was either worshipped or freed from such menial works as children of her age are called upon to perform. Nor did her playmates realize her superiority. The alleged miracles and the reported cases of healing were heard of some ten years after her death, when eye-witnesses had all departed from this …
1919 · PDF PAGE 92
…he house of the Beloved, and the wine was like fire that flieth with green wings through the world of waters. 31. I felt the red lips of nature and the black lips of per- fection. Like sisters they fondled me their little brother; they decked me out as a bride; they mounted me for Thy bridal chamber. 32. They fled away at Thy coming; I was alone before Thee. 33. I trembled at Thy coming, O my God, for Thy mes- senger was more terrible than the Death-star. 34. On the threshold stood the fulminant figure of Evil, the Horror of emptiness, with his…