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Page 47 of 781911 · PDF PAGE 136
…h, my Brothers (be began to speak aloud) give me wisdom as you have given me under- standing! Knowledge and grace and power? These are nothing and less than nothing. Is not this a precious thing that you have given into my charge? Am not I too young among you to bear so wonderful a burden? It is the first time that I have dared so far. The Abyssl The Razor- Edgel Frail bridge and sharp! Yet is it not a ray of the Evening Star, a ray of Venus, of the Love Supernal? . . Can I tell black from white? It seems I can—and then the certainty flickers, an…
1919 · PDF PAGE 120
…d is reborna change- ling with each breath? This: the consciousness of continu- ity given by memory, the conception of his Self as some- thing whose existence, far from being threatened by these changes, is in verity assured by them. Let then the aspirant to the sacred Wisdom consider his Self no more as one seg- ment of the Serpent, but as the whole. Let him extend his consciousness to regard both birth and death as incidents trivial as systole and diastole of the heart itself, and neces- sary as they to its function. To fix the mind in this a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 504
…ser and nobler every minute, as people did seventy years ago. In fact, one may suspect that the majority of well-instructed men expect nothing but that History will repeat itself, and our civilization go the way of all the others whose ruins we dig up in every quarter of the earth. Well, if we have to wait for the calamity, and for evolution to begin all over again in a number of centuries-with luck!-one thing is at least quite certain: we can do nothing about it. Any form of activity must be as futile and as fatuous as any other; and the only …
1996 · PDF PAGE 32
…culous, a senseless and inexcusable folly. It would throw us back on the dilemma of Manichaeism. The idea of incarnations “perfecting” a thing originally perfect by definition is imbecile. The only sane solution is as given previously, to suppose that the Perfect enjoys experience of (apparent) Imperfection. (There are deeper resolutions of this problem appropriate to the highest grades of initiation; but the above should suffice the average intelligence.) 9. Worship then the Khabs, and behold my light shed over you! Commentary: We are to pay a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 306
…should trouble the confidence of simple souls, and disturb the peace of universal communion ?? And the universal church, is it any other thing than a communion in the spirit of charity? It is by the spirit of charity that the church is infallible. It is the spirit of charity which is the divine virtue of the priesthood. Duty of man, guarantee of his rights, proof of his immor- tality, eternity of happiness commencing for him upon the earth, glorious aim given to his existence, goal and path of all his struggles, perfection of his individual, ci…
1913 · PDF PAGE 306
…should trouble the confidence of simple souls, and disturb the peace of universal communion ?? And the universal church, is it any other thing than a communion in the spirit of charity? It is by the spirit of charity that the church is infallible. It is the spirit of charity which is the divine virtue of the priesthood. Duty of man, guarantee of his rights, proof of his immor- tality, eternity of happiness commencing for him upon the earth, glorious aim given to his existence, goal and path of all his struggles, perfection of his individual, ci…
1907 · PDF PAGE 23
…be very silly children, don’t you think? There are people in the dream, too, who are quite grown up and horrid; but the really important thing is the wake-up person. There is only one, for there never could be any one like him. I call him my Fairy Prince. He rides a horse with beautiful wings like a swan, or sometimes a strange creature like a lion or a bull, with a woman’s face and breasts, and she has unfathomable eyes. My Fairy Prince is a dark boy, very comely; I think every one must love him, and yet every one is afraid. He looks through o…
1919 · PDF PAGE 116
THE EQUINOX But this Dryness hath its virtue, in that thereby the Soul is purged of those things that impeach the Will: for when the drouth is altogether perfect, then is it certain that by no means can the Soul be satisfied, save by the Accomplishment of the Great Work. And this is in strong souls a stimulus to the Will. It is the Furnace of Thirst that burneth up all dross within us. But to each act of Will is a particular Dryness correspond- ing: and as Love increaseth within you, so doth the torment of His absence. Be this also unto you for…
1954 · PDF PAGE 183
150 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS 1. Immediate physical interruption: Asana should stop these. 2. Things that are "on your mind ." 3. Reverie, and "Wouldn't it help if I were to- ?" 4. Atmospherics-e.g. voices apparently from some alien source. 5. Aberrations of the control itself; and the result itself. (Remember the practice of some Hindu schools : "Not that, not that!" to whatever it is that presents itself as Tat Sat-reality, truth.) Need I remind you how urgent the wish to escape will assuredly become, how fantastic are the mind's devices and excus…
1922 · PDF PAGE 200
…e fangs of the snake, Drips on venomous: udders Mountainous flanks that fret, And the spirit sickens and shudders At the hint of a worse thing yet.” We had, on the other side, some spasms of weakness ; a ghastly sensation of the sinking of the spirit. It’s the same unescapable dread that seizes one when one is in a lift which starts down too quickly, or when one swoops too suddenly in a ’plane. Waves of weakness washed over us as if we were corpses cast up by the sea from a shipwreck. A shipwreck of our souls. And in these hideous hours of help…
1929 · PDF PAGE 413
…ree times, once to the brute, once to the man and now to God. Her previous failure had been to surrender herself. She wanted to get everything and give nothing. This story marks a stage in my own understanding of the formula of initiation. I began to see that one might become a Master of the Temple without necessarily knowing any technical Magick or mysticism at all. It is merely a matter of convenience to be able to represent any expression as x + Y = 0. The equation may be solved without words. Many people may go through the ordeals and attai…
1922 · PDF PAGE 35
Over the Top ! ai as a snake would have done. She saw me at once, and ran almost into my arms excitedly. She whispered something in my ear. I didn’t hear it. The club had suddenly been, so to speak, struck dumb. Lou was coming through the door. Over her shoulders was an opera cloak of deep rich purple edged with gold, the garment of an empress, or (shall I say ?) of a priestess. The whole place stopped still to look at her. And I had thought she was not beautiful! She did not walk upon the ground. “ Vera incessu patuit dea,’ as we used to say a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 21
from the mystic's theories. The others left everything to her. She rattled off some details of Lavinia King's latest success. Then suddenly noticed that Cyril Grey had laid the table. For his eager cynical voice broke into the conversation. "I was there," he said, "I liked the first number: the Dying Grampus Phantasy in B flat was extraordinarily realistic. I didn't care so much for the 'Misadventures of a pat of butter' Sonata. But the Tschaikowsky symphony was best: that was Atmosphere; it put me right back among the old familiar scenes; I th…
1954 · PDF PAGE 300
…ichard III , Act I, Sc. 3) Now here's a story that's too good to lose; not the mistiest phantasm of an ideogram how to class it; for one thing, it's
1929 · PDF PAGE 323
…d by the entry of April 30th: (It has struck me --- in connection with reading Blake --- that Aiwass, etc., "Force and Fire" is the very thing I lack. My "conscience" is really an obstacle and a delusion, being a survival of heredity and education. Certainly to rely on it as an abiding principle in itself is wrong. The one really important thing is the fundamental hypothesis: I am the {536} Chosen one. All methods will do, if I only invoke often and stick to it.) I resented intensely being told that I was "the Chosen One". It is such an obvious…
1929 · PDF PAGE 360
…cted by events. I was able to observe what went on as few people can, for the average man's senses are deceived by his emotions. He gets things out of proportion and he exaggerates them even when he is able to appreciate them at all. I made up my mind that it should be an essential part of my system of initiation to force my pupils to be familiar with just those things which excite or upset them, until they have acquired the power of perceiving them accurately without interference from the emotions. It is all a branch of the art of concentratio…
1922 · PDF PAGE 198
…thered ; they were picked up, and the passers-by began talking about what was to be done. We realised the rashness of our rage. The last thing was to attract attention! We pulled the frowsy old curtains across, and put out the light. The reaction of our reading was terrific. We venomously contrasted the calm confidence of King Lamus with the croaking clamour of the “ authori- ties.’ Cockie summed up the situation with a quota- tion. “Quoth the Raven, ‘ Nevermore!’ ” Our thoughts splashed to and fro like an angry sea in a cave. These three days …
1919 · PDF PAGE 352
…iginal aspiration of the Disciple. By impurity is meant, and should always be meant, the mingling (as opposed to the combination) of two things. Do one thing at a time. This is particularly necessary in the matter of the aspiration. For if the aspira- tion be in any way impure, it means divergence in the will 30
1913 · PDF PAGE 540
THE EQUINOX one must pronounce them with a complete intelligence, with a will that nothing checks, an activity that nothing daunts. In magic, to have said is to have done; the word begins with letters, it ends with acts. One does not really will a thing unless one wills it with all one’s heart, to the point of breaking for it one’s dearest affections ; and with all one’s forces, to the point of risking one’s health, one’s fortune, and one’s life. It is by absolute devotion that faith proves itself and constitutes itself. But the man armed with …
1913 · PDF PAGE 540
THE EQUINOX one must pronounce them with a complete intelligence, with a will that nothing checks, an activity that nothing daunts. In magic, to have said is to have done; the word begins with letters, it ends with acts. One does not really will a thing unless one wills it with all one’s heart, to the point of breaking for it one’s dearest affections ; and with all one’s forces, to the point of risking one’s health, one’s fortune, and one’s life. It is by absolute devotion that faith proves itself and constitutes itself. But the man armed with …