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Page 47 of 711904 · PDF PAGE 77
…I said be- fore, with a brief but glad hymn of praise to the God who had made us, and I withdrew my dripping bushwhacker for a moment in order to wipe it dry nothing is so deleterious to the proper enjoy- ment of a game at Hey Gammer Cook as the too great slitheriness of the ladys rattle-bollocks and in returning it to its sheath, the lassie was so pleased that she forgot for a second her role for protecting herself against danger of impregnation. This has always been to constrict the vagina in two places : near the vulva, to tighten on th…
1906 · PDF PAGE 110
…s this? Thou hintest at some dangerous destiny. MEDEA. Come love, to the long years of love with me ! JASON. Form, heroes, and in solemn order stride; The body-guardians of the Golden Fleece ! MEDEA. Guarding your king and queen on every side— CHORUS. We sail triumphant to the land of Greece. MEDEA, A woman’s love, a woman’s power be told Through ages, gainers of thé Fleece of Gold. EXPLICIT ACTUS ‘TERTIUS. ARGONAUTAE. ACTUS QUARTUS. SIRENAE. JASON, MEDEA, ORPHEUS, THESEUS, HER- ACLES, Chorus of Heroes, ¢he Sirens. SCENE: Zhe -lrgo. MEDEA. Ay !…
1913 · PDF PAGE 523
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES The initiate, on the contrary, respects the hierarchy before all, he loves and preserves order, he bows before sincere beliefs, he loves all signs of immortality in faith, and of redemption by charity, which is all discipline and obedience. We have just read a book published under the influence of astral and magnetic intoxication, and we have been struck by the anarchical tendencies with which it is filled under a great appearance of benevolence and religion. At the head of this book one sees the symbol, or, as the magi…
1913 · PDF PAGE 523
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES The initiate, on the contrary, respects the hierarchy before all, he loves and preserves order, he bows before sincere beliefs, he loves all signs of immortality in faith, and of redemption by charity, which is all discipline and obedience. We have just read a book published under the influence of astral and magnetic intoxication, and we have been struck by the anarchical tendencies with which it is filled under a great appearance of benevolence and religion. At the head of this book one sees the symbol, or, as the magi…
1954 · PDF PAGE 70
…tiny, except in so far as it might be necessary for him to learn the lessons of defeat. The sun moves in space without interference. The order of Nature provides an orbit for each star. A clash proves that one or the other has strayed from its course. But as to each man that keeps his true course, the more firmly he acts, the less likely are others to get in his way. His example will help them to find their own paths and pursue them. Every man that becomes a Magician helps others to do likewise. The more firmly and surely men move, and the more…
1929 · PDF PAGE 533
…tiandom. During this winter, I was approached by a powerful body of high grade freemasons in Detroit. They knew only too well that their Order was at the best tomfoolery; and, for the rest, anything all the way down to fraud and blackmail. They desired the light which they knew me to possess. I offered to reorganize freemasonry, to replace the pomposities and banalities of their ragbag of rituals by a simple, lucid and coherent system. I soon saw that any effort would be a waste of time. Even their compact group was torn by bitter jealousies. T…
1909 · PDF PAGE 300
…al of the powers of a swimmer to let him swim without a cork jacket, notwith- standing the fact that it is a greater trial by far if you order him to leap into the water with a millstone round his neck; but this is scarcely “ cricket,” even if at the last moment you pull him out of the water and restore life by artificial respira- tion. Further, it is not teaching him how to swim, or how to improve his powers of swimming. In the 1°=10° Ritual the Neophyte enters the first sphere of the Elements, the Element of Earth, and is at once liable to fa…
1909 · PDF PAGE 300
…al of the powers of a swimmer to let him swim without a cork jacket, notwith- standing the fact that it is a greater trial by far if you order him to leap into the water with a millstone round his neck; but this is scarcely “ cricket,” even if at the last moment you pull him out of the water and restore life by artificial respira- tion. Further, it is not teaching him how to swim, or how to improve his powers of swimming. In the 1°=10° Ritual the Neophyte enters the first sphere of the Elements, the Element of Earth, and is at once liable to fa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 151
151 My first business at Calcutta was to learn Hindustani and Balti, in order to be an efficient interpreter on the expedition to Chogo Ri. As regards the latter, I had to content myself with the grammar and filed to learn much. Fortunately, we managed without it; but it was easy to get a munshi to teach me Hindustani and I spent most of my time in acquiring that language. The "native telegraph" now reappeared in a different form. Somehow or other my munshi got it into his head that I was a Magician. This was very curious, as I had done practic…
1929 · PDF PAGE 374
…obscure and subtle manifestations of energy;we are constantly advancing in our knowledge and control of them. Telekinesis is of the same order of nature as the Hertz rays or {600} the radium emanations. But what nobody before me has done is to prove the existence of extra- human intelligence, and my Magical Record does this. I err in the interpretation, of course; but it is impossible to doubt that there is a somebody there, a somebody capable of combining events as a Napoleon forms his plans of campaign, and possessed of powers unthinkably vas…
1919 · PDF PAGE 196
…e you got this idea clearly in your minds? You have stepped out of the Old Zon into the New. : Now let us consider what has happened. In order to get this mental picture of the ever-shining Sun, what did you do? You identified yourself with the Sun. You stepped out of the consciousness of this planet; and for a moment you had to consider yourself as a Solar Being. Then why step back again? You may have done so involuntarily, because the Light was so great that it seemed as Darkness. But do it again, this time more fully, and let us consider wha…
1954 · PDF PAGE 322
…e a fatal interruption; at the least, it involved the waste of one whole year. He was wrong; his gesture of setting the interests of the Order before his personal advancement was counted unto him for righteousness. There should be no need to extend this list; it could be
1929 · PDF PAGE 232
…t evident that they purposely smashed my career as mystic and Magician in the very hour of my success, when the world was at my feet, in order that they might the more utterly demonstrate their power to use me for their own purposes. We landed at Port Said on Monday, February the eighth, and went to Cairo on the following day. It was part of the plan of the gods that my romantic passion and pride, the intoxicated infatuation of my hymeneal happiness, should have induced me to play a puerile part on the world's stage. I had called myself Count S…
1922 · PDF PAGE 284
…t, was calling up Barley Grange on long distance. The house- keeper was to send up something to wear that morning. While she shouted the order, I suddenly recollected that Lamus and Lala were coming in after lunch; the clothes couldn’t possibly reach us till after three o'clock. The best thing to do was to have some dressing- gowns sent up from Piccadilly. They sent people round with a selection at once, and what with that and sending out for some toilet things, and having in the hairdresser, we made ourselves fairly presentable by half-past on…
1922 · PDF PAGE 368
…you might want to begin work this afternoon, Sir Peter,” she said with dignity, ‘‘so I have been trying to put the place in some sort of order.” I stood absolutely aghast. It was Lou, but a Lou that I had never seen or known. I turned to King Lamus for an explanation, but he was not there. A ripple of laughter ran over her face; the sunlight blazed in her magnetic eyes. JI trembled with in- describable emotion. Here was an undecipherable puzzle. Or was it by any chance the answer to a puzzle—to all my puzzles—the puzzle of life? I could think o…
1954 · PDF PAGE 233
… of the evolution of the species. The foetus displays essential characteristics of insect, reptile, mammal (or whatever they are) in the order in which these classes of animal appeared in the world's history. Now J want to put forward a thesis-and as far as I know it is personal to myself, based on my work at Cefalu-to the effect that the mind is constructed on precisely the same lines. You will remember from my note on "Breaks" in meditation how one's gradual improvement in the practice results in the barring-out of certain classes of idea, by…
1954 · PDF PAGE 408
…se functions which all We have done is to give him the right to perform and the knowledge how to perform. The further you advance in the Order the more will you fmd yourself pestered by people who have simply failed to understand this point of Magical theory. Another thing is that the business of teaching itself is a very tricky one; even such simple matters as travelling on the astral plane are not to be attained by any amount of teaching unless the pupil has both the capacity and the energy as well as the theoretical and intellectual ability …
1905 · PDF PAGE 189
…ith notes on all subjects, of interest extreme, and the printing is in red and black on beautiful paper. It is offered at cost price, in order to clear the first five editions in a month or so, to leave room for the popular editions at a still lower price, printed in a simpler form, and considerable condensed and abridged, this because much of the contents is of a very abstruse character, not suited for the mass of the people. You are particularly requested to subscribe to this work, if you wish well to the principle of honest religion. A schem…
1919 · PDF PAGE 127
…. For it is not only the number of its inter- pretation ArAUH, but also that of a Word unknown to you unless you be Neophyte of our Holy Order of the A.:.A.°. which word representeth in itself the arising of the Speech 121
1922 · PDF PAGE 344
…he fiend. If any one took it into his head to start a newspaper campaign against absinthe, it would become a public danger in very short order. King Lamus emancipated people’s minds by adopting the contrary formula. He had all sorts of dodges for compelling people to accept the most startling sights and sounds as commonplace. The very children were confronted with the most terrifying ideas while they were still too young to have acquired settled phobias. Hermes, at the age of five, was already accustomed to witness surgical operations and such …