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Page 47 of 1061954 · PDF PAGE 443
…ionship , as in the previous list. Nor indeed is there , to my ear, any close connection in the sounds. Better luck , perhaps , with the last lot . Labials : 1. B 2. V 3. P Mercury . (or F) Vau. Taurus , house of Venus ; Luna exalted therein . Mars. Not a bit of it ; almost worse than before . Here, then , I say it, weeping , with agonized reluctance , the Holy Qabalah has let us down with a bump! (It did look , too , didn't it, as if it was all going to go so miraculously well!) All is not lost-not even honour! Suppose you reflect that (after …
1909 · PDF PAGE 75
…-Samapatti, the trance of Nibbana. I hope I shall be able to live up to this! Have been practising Asana, etc. I forgot one thing in the last entry: I had been reproaching Adonai that for six days I had evoked Him in vain. . . . I got the reply, “ The Seventh Day shall be the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” So mote it be! T/æ Seven/ll Day. I began this great day with Eight breath—cycles; was stopped by the indigestion trouble in its other form. (P.S.—Evidently the introduction of the Cascara into my sensitive aura made its action instantaneous.) …
1909 · PDF PAGE 303
THE SEER Ir is not to be wondered that the magic strain to which P. had been placed during the last seven months should have long since blossomed into flowers of weird and wonderful beauty. And so we find, as far back as the beginning of November 1899, the commencement ofa series of extraordinary visions as wild and involved as many of those of Blake or St. Francis. But before entering upon these visions, it will be necessary to explain that by a vision we mean as definite a psychological state and as certain and actual a fact to the mental eye…
1909 · PDF PAGE 303
THE SEER Ir is not to be wondered that the magic strain to which P. had been placed during the last seven months should have long since blossomed into flowers of weird and wonderful beauty. And so we find, as far back as the beginning of November 1899, the commencement ofa series of extraordinary visions as wild and involved as many of those of Blake or St. Francis. But before entering upon these visions, it will be necessary to explain that by a vision we mean as definite a psychological state and as certain and actual a fact to the mental eye…
1912 · PDF PAGE 56
…nd happiness to all men here to-day ! With homage to the Doge my word is well begun. Next to the most high prince invulnerable, his son. Last, to the lords who by their attitude applaud This day of burial to faction, feud, and fraud. God and his blessed Son and Holy Ghost attest Their sanction and their seal on whom we boast our best, When in the sacred bonds of Hymen he is wed To her we boast our fairest. Tyranny is dead In this great hour. For memy day of force is done ; My mission is achieved, my latest course is run. I have striven to save…
1912 · PDF PAGE 281
…DOSCH, Grand Inquisitor Com- mander, Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret, and SOVER— EIGN GRAND INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE THIRTY-THIRD AND LAST DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE: etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.” ”Send this,” quoth he, “to the Flapper-haunted fields where Prehistoric Peeps are frowned upon!…
1912 · PDF PAGE 281
…DOSCH, Grand Inquisitor Com- mander, Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret, and SOVER— EIGN GRAND INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE THIRTY-THIRD AND LAST DEGREE OF THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE: etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.” ”Send this,” quoth he, “to the Flapper-haunted fields where Prehistoric Peeps are frowned upon!…
1913 · PDF PAGE 89
…abandoned their homes and their possessions — could with steady calm and firm correctness abandon the Great Work itself; for this is the last and greatest projection of the Alchemist." The Master of the Temple has crossed the Abyss, has entered the Palace of the King's Daughter; he has only to utter one word, and all ' Liber LXI, the book given to those who wish to become Probationers of A.-. A...
1954 · PDF PAGE 319
…re pops up Zola again-this time he says J'Accuse! To-day's Hexagram for me is No. X. Li, the Tiger: and the Duke of Chau comments on the last line as follows: "The sixth line, undivided, tells us to look at the whole course that is trodden, and examine the presage which that gives. If it be complete and without failure, there will be great good fortune." O.K.; Let's! I t is now well over a year since you came to me howling like a damned soul in torment-and so you should be!- and persuaded me to take you as my pupil. What have you done with that…
1909 · PDF PAGE 18
…trating the axiom “ Post coitum animal triste" made me think of Baudelaire’s “ Une nuit que j'etais pres d'une affreuse Juive ": and the last line Obscurcir la splendour des tes froides prunelles. and Barbey d’Aurevilly’s “ Rideau Cramoisi ”suggested to me the following poem. [We omit this poem.—BD.] 11.30. Done! i’ th‘ rough! i’ th’ rough! Now let me go back to my room, and Work! (11.47.) Home—undressed—robed —attended to toilet-cut cross of Blood once more to affirm mastery of Body— sat down at 11.49 and ended the day with 10 Prana- yamas, whi…
1922 · PDF PAGE 115
…lian consulate to have our passport viséd, got our sleeping cars from the hotel porter, and had the maid‘ pack our things while we had a last heavenly dinner.
1928 · PDF PAGE 114
…ger, that the nail remained fixed in the wall with a long piece of rope still hanging to it. I darted forward rapidly to tear down these last traces of the catastrophe, and as I was going to throw them out of the open window the poor woman seized my arm and said to me in a voice too earnest to resist, Oh Sir, leave me that; I beg you, I beseech you. Her despair had doubtless, it seemed to me, so disturbed her brain that it had begotten a ten- derness for the instrument of her sons death,
1944 · PDF PAGE 217
…ous card has been altogether disintegrated. The historian is happy to observe two perfect illustrations of the mode of this card and the last in the birth of the Aeon of (I) Osiris, (2) Horus. He will note the decay of such Virtue as characterized Sparta and Rome, ending in the establishment of the Pax Romana. As Virtue de‐ clined, corruption disintegrated the Empire from within. Epicene cults, such as those of Dio‐ nysus (in its degraded form), of Attis, of Adonis, of Cybele, the false Demeter and the prosti‐ tuted Isis, replaced the sterner r…
1909 · PDF PAGE 119
…riment, reading through his proofs the while. One good thing; the Chittam is moving slowly. The waiters all hurry him—what a contrast to last night l Proofs read through again. John St. John feels far from well. A stroll down the Boul’ Mich’ and avisit to M—’s studio improve matters a good deal. The cure continued. No worry about the Work, but an effort to put it altogether out of the mind. A cafe creme, forty minutes at the Academic Marcelle —a gruelling bout without the gloves—and J St. Jr is at the Luxembourg to look at the pretty pictures. …
1911 · PDF PAGE 20
… Fifth Point. Next, let even the causes or tendencies that if unchecked ultimate in thoughts be discovered and annihilated. 6. Sixth and Last Point. Let the true Cause of Α111ι be unmasked and annihilated. 7. This is that which was spoken by wise men of old time concerning the destruction of the world by fire; yea, the destruction of the world by fire. 8. [This and the following verses are of modern origin] Let the Student remember that each Point represents a definite achievement of great difficulty. 9. Let him not then attempt the second until he…
1911 · PDF PAGE 20
… Fifth Point. Next, let even the causes or tendencies that if unchecked ultimate in thoughts be discovered and annihilated. 6. Sixth and Last Point. Let the true Cause of Α111ι be unmasked and annihilated. 7. This is that which was spoken by wise men of old time concerning the destruction of the world by fire; yea, the destruction of the world by fire. 8. [This and the following verses are of modern origin] Let the Student remember that each Point represents a definite achievement of great difficulty. 9. Let him not then attempt the second until he…
1919 · PDF PAGE 454
…emain unselfish till the endless end. Thou art enlightened—choose thy way. The anti-climax is now complete. Knowledge is by no means the last step. Knowledge has been finished with even by the Master of the Temple, and all this question of wedding woe, remaining unselfish till the endless end, is but poetic bombast, based upon misconception. It is as puerile as the crude conceptions of many Christian Sects. 100. Behold, the mellow light that floods the Eastern sky. In signs of praise both heaven and earth unite. And from the four-fold manifeste…
1954 · PDF PAGE 116
…inal proclamations, no official publications have been put forward. The essential secrets have been maintained inviolate. If, during the last few years, a considerable number of documents have been published by them, though not in their name, it is on account of the impending crisis to civilisation, of which mention will later be made. 83
1954 · PDF PAGE 400
59 Geomancy Cara Soror, Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Your last letter has really put me up a gum tree. I do not see how I can write you an account of Geomancy. At first sight it looks as if all I could do was to refer you to the official text book of that sublime and difficult art. You will find it in The Equinox, Vol. I, No.2. The first thing to remember about Geomancy is that although the various intelligences are attributed to the twelve signs of the Zodiac they all appertain to the element of earth. Anyone therefore who …
1904 · PDF PAGE 66
…ime. AN EXPLANATION OF SOLOMON’S TRIANGLE. Anephezeton. Thou great God of all the Heavenly Host: Primeumaton. Thou Who art the First and Last, let all spirits be subject unto us, and let the Spirit be bound in this triangle, which disturbs? this place : Michael. By Thy Holy Angel Michael, until I shall discharge him. (HERE ENDETH THIS First Book oF THE LEMEGETON, WHICH IS CALLED THE GOETIA.) ' Evidently meaning both the Hexagram and the Pentagram of Solomon. (See Figures 155 and 156.) * It is doubtful whether by “disturbs” is intended the Spiri…