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Page 46 of 821903 · PDF PAGE 19
…cluse is roughly as follows; He must plunge every particle of his being into one idea: right views, aspirations, word, deed, life, will- power, meditation, rapture, such are the stages of his liberation, which resolves itself into a struggle against the law of causality. He cannot prevent past causes taking effect, but he can prevent present causes from haying any future results. The exoteric Christian and Hindu rather rely on another person to do this for them, and are further blinded by the thirst for life and individual existence, the most f…
1904 · PDF PAGE 64
…OOK LEMEGETON.' Eheie. Kether. Almighty God, whose dwelling is in the highest Heavens : Haioth. The great King of Heaven, and of all the powers therein : Methratton. And of all the holy hosts of Angels and Archangels: Reschith. Hear the prayers of Thy servant who putteth his trust in Thee : Hagalgalim. Let thy Holy Angels be commanded to assist me at this time and at all times. Iehovah. God Almighty, God Omnipotent, hear my prayer: Hadonat. Command Thy Holy Angels above the fixed stars : Ophanim. To be assisting and aiding Thy servant: Tophiel.…
1904 · PDF PAGE 44
…e door ; Your hand refuses to obey ; You throw the useless brush away. I think I hear the Word you say ! I practice then, with conscious power Watching my mind, each thought controlling, Hurling to nothingness, while rolling The thunders after lightning’s flower. * See his remarks upon the Rational pia no, and the conclusions to which the evidence of its senses would lead it. 595 600 605 610 615 620 625 A test. The artist’s concen- tration on his work. Yogi but a more vigorous artist. Indignation of poet suppressed by Yogi and philosopher alike…
1906 · PDF PAGE 178
…he word ‘* Who answers, as who asks, hath erred,” I must decidedly insist On asking why these things exist. My mind refuses to admit All-Power can be all-Wickedness. —Nay! but it may! What shadows flit Across the awful veil of mist? What thoughts invade, insult, impress? There comes a lightning of my wit And sees—nor good nor ill address Itself to task, creation’s ill, But a mere law without a will,” Nothing resolved in something, fit Phantom of dull stupidity, And evolution’s endless stress All the inanity to knit Thence: such a dark device I …
1913 · PDF PAGE 52
…know that the chosen priest & apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the Beast; and in his woman called the Scarlet Woman is all power given. They shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. 16. For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight. 17. But ye are not so chosen. 18, Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! 19. O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! 20. The key of the rituals is in the secret word whi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 158
…tific Vision is no more, and the glory of the Most High is no more. There is no more knowledge. There is no more bliss. There is no more power. There is no more beauty. For this is the Palace of Understanding: for thou art one with the Primeval things. Drink in the myrrh of my speech, that is bruised with the gall of the roc, and dissolved in the ink of the cuttle-fish, and perfumed with the deadly nightshade. This is thy wine, who wast drunk upon the wine of Tacchus. And for bread shalt thou eat salt, O thou on the corn of Ceres that didst wax…
1913 · PDF PAGE 295
…l faculties, spirits, apparitions, magical paradoxes, hermetic arcana, we shall say all, and we shall explain all. Who has given us this power? We do not fear to reveal it to our readers. There exists an occult and sacred alphabet which the Hebrews attribute to Enoch, the Egyptians to Thoth or to Hermes Trismegistus, the Greeks to Cadmus and to Pala- medes. This alphabet was known to the followers of Pytha- goras, and is composed of absolute ideas attached to signs and numbers ; by its combinations, it realizes the mathematics of thought. Solom…
1913 · PDF PAGE 52
…know that the chosen priest & apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the Beast; and in his woman called the Scarlet Woman is all power given. They shall gather my children into their fold: they shall bring the glory of the stars into the hearts of men. 16. For he is ever a sun, and she a moon. But to him is the winged secret flame, and to her the stooping starlight. 17. But ye are not so chosen. 18, Burn upon their brows, o splendrous serpent! 19. O azure-lidded woman, bend upon them! 20. The key of the rituals is in the secret word whi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 158
…tific Vision is no more, and the glory of the Most High is no more. There is no more knowledge. There is no more bliss. There is no more power. There is no more beauty. For this is the Palace of Understanding: for thou art one with the Primeval things. Drink in the myrrh of my speech, that is bruised with the gall of the roc, and dissolved in the ink of the cuttle-fish, and perfumed with the deadly nightshade. This is thy wine, who wast drunk upon the wine of Tacchus. And for bread shalt thou eat salt, O thou on the corn of Ceres that didst wax…
1913 · PDF PAGE 295
…l faculties, spirits, apparitions, magical paradoxes, hermetic arcana, we shall say all, and we shall explain all. Who has given us this power? We do not fear to reveal it to our readers. There exists an occult and sacred alphabet which the Hebrews attribute to Enoch, the Egyptians to Thoth or to Hermes Trismegistus, the Greeks to Cadmus and to Pala- medes. This alphabet was known to the followers of Pytha- goras, and is composed of absolute ideas attached to signs and numbers ; by its combinations, it realizes the mathematics of thought. Solom…
1930 · PDF PAGE 49
… PEOPLE : So mote it be. IV. Of the Ceremony of the opening of the Veil. The PRIEST. Thee therefore whom we adore we also invoke. By the power of the lifted Lance! He rais es the Rance. Ail repeat Hailing Sign. A phrase of triumphant music. The PRIEST takes the PRIESTESS by her right hand with his lefty keeping the Rcmce raised. I, PRIEST and KING, take thee, Virgin pure without spot; I upraise thee; I iead thee to the East; I set thee upon the summit of the Earth. He thrones the PRIESTESS upon the altar. The DEACON and the children followy the…
1907 · PDF PAGE 184
…reject . In the spiritual contemplation of life the slags of existence fall to the bottom of the burning furnace of the human soul ; the power of em pire and glory is shattered , “ The golden image with the feet of clay ,” and the marred vessels of the ( All) mighty potter are cast outside , from the wheel of Fate —why contemplate what is so unprofitable and use less ? Yet in this mysticism which is more intrinsically of the East , we find an intricate web of Egotism tangled with the utilitarianism of the West ; for it seems on reading further …
1911 · PDF PAGE 76
…nt. Nor can any one be distinguished from the others. And the Angel sayeth: Behold where thine Angel hath led thee! Thou didst ask fame, power and pleasure, health and wealth and love, and strength, and length of days. Thou didst hold life with eight tentacles, like an octopus. Thou didst seek the four powers and the seven delights and the twelve emancipations and the two and twenty Privileges and the nine and forty Manifestations, and lo! thou art become as one of These. Bowed are their backs, whereon resteth the universe. Veiled are their fac…
1909 · PDF PAGE 85
7.32. 7.50- JOHN ST. JOHN How is it that I expect the reward at once? Surely I am presuming on my magical power, which is an active thing, and therefore my passivity is not perfect. Of course, when IT happens, it happens out of time and space—now or ten years hence it is all the same. All the same to IT; not all the same to me, O.M. So 0.M. (the dog I) persists irrationally in wanting IT, here and now. Surely, indeed, it is a lack of faith, a pandering to the time-illusion . . . and so forth. Yes, no doubt it is all magically wrong, even magica…
1909 · PDF PAGE 318
…or her. “The Adept, noticing my sympathy, turned to me and said : ‘She is lust, fresh-fleshed and lovely, but rotten. She would clog the power of a man.” “T thereupon thanked the Adept. But he, taking no notice of my thanks, pointed out to me a distant star through a hole in the roof, and then said, ‘ Journey there.’ “This I did, streaming up towards it like a comet, dressed in long white robes, with a flashing scimitar in my hand. “ After much peril, on account of suns and things very hot and glowing, through which I sped, I arrived there safe…
1909 · PDF PAGE 318
…or her. “The Adept, noticing my sympathy, turned to me and said : ‘She is lust, fresh-fleshed and lovely, but rotten. She would clog the power of a man.” “T thereupon thanked the Adept. But he, taking no notice of my thanks, pointed out to me a distant star through a hole in the roof, and then said, ‘ Journey there.’ “This I did, streaming up towards it like a comet, dressed in long white robes, with a flashing scimitar in my hand. “ After much peril, on account of suns and things very hot and glowing, through which I sped, I arrived there safe…
1913 · PDF PAGE 113
…e Magick Sword is etched the name AGLA, a Notariqon formed from the initials of the sentence Ateh Gibor Leolahm Adonai, " To Thee be the Power unto the Ages, O my Lord." And the acid which eats into the steel should be oil of vitriol. Vitriol is a Notariqon of " Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Oc- cultum Lapidem." That is to say: By investigating everything and Sword, the letter H symbolises breath, and H is the letter of Aries— the House of Mars, of the Sword: and H is also the letter of the Mother; this is the link between the S…
1930 · PDF PAGE 7
…er of years. And there is no reason for doubting that Napoleon was born in Corsica, that he entered the French army, and rose rapidly to power by a combination of military genius and political intrigue. There is a vast body of indirect evidence which confirms these statements at every point. Taken as a whole, they would be totally inexplicable on any other hypothesis. But when we consider the character of Napoleon, we are at once involved in a mass of contradictions. Probably no one in history has been more discussed, and every writer gives a t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 124
…eak on! ALCESTIS. I cannot speak. JASON. Speak thou, Medea! MEDEA. The child Hath hewn her sire asunder, seething him In herbs of sacred power. ACASTUS. By thy decree? MEDEA. Nay ! MADNESS. | Safer is it to admit to these Fools—charge the child with lack of fortune ! MEDEA. Yea! I bade her take a waxen shape, carved well To look like the old man ALCESTIS. Nay! nay! the Sire Himself we stole on sleeping —— CHORUS. Hewn apart ! Ai Ai! MEDEA. I said not thus ! ALCESTIS. I am so wild, Bewildered with these tears. ACASTUS. Enough of this ! It is the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 66
… 17. Fear not at all; fear neither men, nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything. Money fear not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth. Nu is your refuge as Hadit your light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of your arms. 18. Mercy let be off: damn them who pity! Kill and torture; spare not; be upon them! 26