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Page 48 of 711907 · PDF PAGE 39
…d internal corruption. and so on. And on each one I put “ No thoroughfare from here to the First House. The only way is out of doors. By order.” This was frightquy annoying, because in the old days we could walk about inside everywhere, and not get wet if it rained, but nowa days there isn’t any way from the Fourth to the Third House. You could go of course by chariot from the Fifth to the Third, or through the House where the twins live from the Sixth to the Third, but that isn’t allowed unless you have been to the Fourth House too, and go fro…
1910 · PDF PAGE 89
…at of endeavour.{ He who daves to will, will will to know, and knowing will keep silence; { for even to such as have entered the Supreme Order, there is no way found whereby they may break the stillness and communicate to those who have not ceased to hear.§ The guardian of the Temple is Adonai, he alone holds the key of the Portal, seek it of Him, for there is none other that can open for thee the door. Now to dare much is to will a little, so it comes about that though Hatha Yoga is the physical Yoga which teaches the aspirant how to control h…
1910 · PDF PAGE 89
…at of endeavour.{ He who daves to will, will will to know, and knowing will keep silence; { for even to such as have entered the Supreme Order, there is no way found whereby they may break the stillness and communicate to those who have not ceased to hear.§ The guardian of the Temple is Adonai, he alone holds the key of the Portal, seek it of Him, for there is none other that can open for thee the door. Now to dare much is to will a little, so it comes about that though Hatha Yoga is the physical Yoga which teaches the aspirant how to control h…
1919 · PDF PAGE 245
…ts. In the first place he availed himself of a certain organiza- tion of which he was offered the control, namely, the O.T.O. This great Order accepted the Law immediately, and was justified by the sudden and great revival of its activities. The Law was given to our founder twelve years ago; the O.T.O. came into his hands eight years later, in the vulgar year 1912. It must not be supposed that he was idle during the former period; but he was very young, and had no idea of taking practical measures to extend the Dominion of the Law: he pursued h…
1922 · PDF PAGE 104
…. I made him sit down and have a drink and cigarette before I would let him tell me his business. Of course, everything was perfectly in order. The point was simply this, that the six thousand pounds wasn't immediately available, so, as I needed it urgently,
1922 · PDF PAGE 268
…le a fashion. It has always seemed to me that nothing can ever be destroyed. The problems of life are really put together ingeniously in order to baffle one, like a chess problem. We can’t untie a real knot in a closed piece of string without the aid of the fourth dimension; but we can disentangle the complexities caused by dipping the string in water—and such things,”’ he added, with an almost malicious gravity in his tone. I knew what he meant. “It might very well be,” he continued, ‘ that when we fail to solve the puzzles of life, they remai…
1954 · PDF PAGE 226
… took the Oaths , was installed in the Throne of the Xo of O.T.O. as National Sovereign Grand Master General, and began to establish the Order as a going concern . Well, you say, that is a very simple story, nothing specially hard to believe in it. True, but consider the dates. That scene in Victoria Street, is as clear and vivid in my mind, in every detail, as if it were yesterday. That secret is published only in that passage of that book. And-the book was not published until three years later, and from an address of which in 1910 I had not s…
1996 · PDF PAGE 88
…Nuit, and knows Her, She being an object of knowledge; but He is not knowable, for He is merely that part of Her which She formulates in order that She may be known. 5. Behold! the rituals of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be cast away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! Then shall this Knowledge go aright. Commentary: The “old time” is the /Eon of the Dying God. Some of his rituals are founded on an utterly false metaphysic and cosmogony; but others are based on Truth. We mend these, and end those. This “Knowledge” is the i…
1904 · PDF PAGE 47
…s, every pox-hole of his worm- eaten flesh, every fat-fold of his obese person, yet his happiness was to be threatened, his faith in the Order of Things shaken, his whole soul thrown upon a novel and doubtful enterprise, and that at a moment when it might have been thought (go on, Hassan !) that Heaven itself had no more to offer him. It was one day of spring at W.nds.r. Mrs Ar- thur P...t lay in a bath of sticky sperm, not P...ts, not the K...gs ! Whose, then, you ask ? The sticky sperm of Kluckchoo, the Human Corkscrew. Fresh from his laure…
1910 · PDF PAGE 126
…xt day. This, however, was impossible; as on the next day, Friday, he was suffering severely from headache and neuralgia; so instead, in order to compose himself, he meditated upon a cross for an hour and a quarter. The next living object meditation he attempted is described in the diary as follows: To meditate upon the image of D. A. sitting with his hands on his knees like a God.t Spirals were seen moving up him to a great height, and then descending till they expanded to a great size. Besides this no other change took place. D. A.’s comments…
1910 · PDF PAGE 126
…xt day. This, however, was impossible; as on the next day, Friday, he was suffering severely from headache and neuralgia; so instead, in order to compose himself, he meditated upon a cross for an hour and a quarter. The next living object meditation he attempted is described in the diary as follows: To meditate upon the image of D. A. sitting with his hands on his knees like a God.t Spirals were seen moving up him to a great height, and then descending till they expanded to a great size. Besides this no other change took place. D. A.’s comments…
1911 · PDF PAGE 68
…phitheatre, with seven tiers, each tier divided into seven partitions. And they that sit in the Amphitheatre are the seven grades of the Order of the Rosy Cross. This Amphitheatre is built of rose- coloured marble, and of its size I can say only that the sun might be used as a ball to be thrown by the players in the arena. But in the arena there is a little altar of emerald, and its top has the heads of the Four Beasts, in turquoise and rock- crystal. And the floor of the arena is ridged like a grating of lapis lazuli. And it is full of pure qu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 9
… him eagerly, giving the Morse letter A. His alert mind grasped instantly my meaning; he altered his code (which had been of a different order) and replied with a Morse B on my own system. I answered C; he returned D. From that moment we could talk fluently and freely as if we were on the terrace of the Cafe de la Paix in our beloved Paris. However, conversation in such circum- stances is a lengthy affair. During the whole march to our work he only managed to say, Escape soonplease God. Before his crime he had been an atheist. I was indeed g…
1954 · PDF PAGE 98
…m down. The religious man is, as such, incapable of understanding what the laws of Nature really are. (They are generalizations from the order of observed fact.) The History of Magick has never been seriously attempted. For one reason, only initiates pledged to secrecy know much about it; for another, every historian has been talking about some more or less conventional idea of Magick, not of the thing itself. But Magick has led the world from before the beginning of history, if only for the reason that Magick has always been the mother of Scie…
1929 · PDF PAGE 260
…s life in a position of real responsibility, and without the background of an external authority to which he could appeal to enforce his orders, he was utterly at sea. On one occasion he actually threatened a disobedient coolie with his kukri and revolver, and the man, knowing he would not dare to use them, laughed in his face. The natives despised him as a weak man, which is the worst thing that can befall anyone that has anything to do with them. Tartarin too, though cheerful and genial, had forgotten the lesson of 1902. He was fussy and help…
1922 · PDF PAGE 309
…er hard for frightening us all like this.” Platt and I put on our hats and coats. We were just shaking hands with Gretel, telling her to order herself a good lunch from downstairs, when we heard the latch-key put into the lock. “There she is,” cried Gretel gaily. ‘‘ What babies we have been!” The door opened; but it was not Lou who came in. It was Maisie Jacobs, and her face was stern and set. She gave two quick formal bows to the others, took my hand, and said in a deep, tense voice :-— “You must come with me at once, Sir Peter. Lady Pendragon…
1922 · PDF PAGE 381
…irit! For we are of more value than many sparrows. How blind we had been! Through what appalling abysses of agony had we not been led in order that we might say that we had conquered the moral problem posed by the discoveries of organic chemistry. “The master of tide and thunder against the juice of a flower?” We had given the lie to the poet. “ This is the only battle he never was known to win.”
1954 · PDF PAGE 99
…e White School consider the present danger to mankind so great that they are prepared to abandon their traditional policy of silence, in order to enlist in their ranks the profane of every nation . We are in possession of a certain mystical document 2 which we may describe briefly, for convenience sake, as an Apocalypse of which we hold the keys, thanks to the intervention of the Master who has appeared at this grave conjuncture of Fate. This document consists of a series of visions , in which we hear the voice of the various Intelligences whos…
1954 · PDF PAGE 529
…ersation of the Holy Guardian Angel is consequently without doubt by far the simplest way by which you can yourself approach that higher order of being. That, then, is a clearly intelligible method of procedure. We call it Magick. It is of course possible to strengthen the link between him and yourself so that in course of time you become capable of moving and, generally speaking, operating on that plane which is his natural habitat. There is however one other way, and one only, as far as I can see, of reaching this state. It is at least theore…
1929 · PDF PAGE 446
… and Essays published in The Equinox, vol. III, no. I; and to set the example I transferred the whole of my property to trustees for the Order. The general idea is this; that every man should enjoy his possessions and the full fruits of his labours exactly as he does under his original individualistic system, but the pooling of such possessions by economy of administration, etc., leaves a surplus which can be used for the general purposes of the Order. I wished to introduce the benefits of co-operation without interfering with the individual ab…