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Page 48 of 821911 · PDF PAGE 44
THE EQUINOX 8. Now in this is the magical power known. 9. It is like the oak that hardens itselfand bears up against the storm. It is weather—beaten and scarred and confident like a sea-captain. 10. Also it straineth like a hound in the leash. 11. It hath pride and great subtlety. Yea, and glee also! 12. Let the magus act thus in his conjuration. 13. Let him sit and conjure; let him draw himself together in that forcefulness; let him rise next swollen and straining; let him dash back the hood from his head and fix his basilisk eye upon the sigil …
1913 · PDF PAGE 527
…he dupes of our mystifications. Like all Catholics, we believe in the existence of spirits of darkness, but we know also that the divine power has given them the darkness for an eternal prison, and that the Redeemer saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning. If the demons tempt us, it is by the voluntary complicity of our passions, and it is not permitted to them to make head against the empire of God, and by stupid and useless mani- festations to disturb the eternal order of Nature. The diabolical signatures and characters, which are produced …
1913 · PDF PAGE 527
…he dupes of our mystifications. Like all Catholics, we believe in the existence of spirits of darkness, but we know also that the divine power has given them the darkness for an eternal prison, and that the Redeemer saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning. If the demons tempt us, it is by the voluntary complicity of our passions, and it is not permitted to them to make head against the empire of God, and by stupid and useless mani- festations to disturb the eternal order of Nature. The diabolical signatures and characters, which are produced …
1907 · PDF PAGE 108
… !? But this cannot be . The dice are in God's lap , and in him alone rests the Ultimate goal . In “ Tannhäuser ' we find the great dual power of redemption , the inter minglings of the powers of Virtue and Vice . In him , as in the hero of “ The Nameless Quest , " they wage an eternal contest , it not being till he has passed through the Venusberg of mental and physical lust , that he attains the graal of his hopes and aspirations : O God , Thy blinding beauty , and the light Shed from Thy shoulders , and the golden night 1 Tannhäuser , vol . …
1910 · PDF PAGE 100
…hy spears Of love forth darting into myriad spheres, Which I the poet called this light, that flower, This knowledge, that illumination, power This and love that, in vain, in vain, until Thy beauty dawned, all beauty to distil Into one drop of utmost dew, one name Choral as floral, one thin, subtle flame Fitted to a shaft of love, to pierce, to endue My trance-rapt spirit with the avenue Of perfect pleasures, radiating far Up and up yet to where thy sacred star Burned in its brilliance : thence the storm was shed A passion of great calm about t…
1910 · PDF PAGE 208
…? Is the great secret truly transcendental ? We are like madmen, beating out our poor brains upon the walls of the Universe. Is there no Power that might reveal itself ? [Kneels.] Who art Thou before whom all things are equal, being as dust ? Who givest his fame to the poet, his bankruptcy to the rich man ? Who dost distinguish between the just and the unjust ? Thou keeper of all secrets, of this great secret which I seek, and have nowise found ! This secret for whose very shadowing-forth in parable I, who am young, strong, successful, beloved,…
1913 · PDF PAGE 290
… endowed with that human frailty called laziness, he hopes to find a weapon ready made. Thus we find the Christian Magus who imposed his power upon the world taking the existing worships and making a single system combining all their merits. There is no single feature in Christianity which has not been taken bodily from the worship of Isis, or of Mithras, or of Bacchus, or of Adonis, or of Osiris. In modern times again we find Frater Iehi Aour trying to handle Buddhism. Others again have attempted to use Freemasonry. There have been even except…
1913 · PDF PAGE 364
…death of the Saviour the veil of the Temple was rent, because that death manifested the triumph of devotion, the miracle of charity, the power of God in man, divine humanity, and human divinity, the highest and most sublime of Arcana, the last word of all initiations. But the Saviour knew that at first men would not under- stand him, and he said: “You will not be able to bear at present the full light of my doctrine; but, when the Spirit of Truth shall manifest himself, he will teach you all truth, and he will cause you to understand the sense …
1913 · PDF PAGE 511
… sickness or the health of others, according to the fatal influence of contracts, or the laws of the will. It is that which explains the power of benedictions and of bewitchments so clearly recognized by the great adepts, and above all by the wonderful Paracelsus. An acute and judicious critic, Mr. Ch. Fauvety, in an article published by the Revue philosophique et religieuse, appreciates in a remarkable manner the advanced works of Paracelsus, of Pomponacius, of Goglienus, of Crollius, and of Robert Fludd on magnetism. But what our learned frie…
1913 · PDF PAGE 290
… endowed with that human frailty called laziness, he hopes to find a weapon ready made. Thus we find the Christian Magus who imposed his power upon the world taking the existing worships and making a single system combining all their merits. There is no single feature in Christianity which has not been taken bodily from the worship of Isis, or of Mithras, or of Bacchus, or of Adonis, or of Osiris. In modern times again we find Frater Iehi Aour trying to handle Buddhism. Others again have attempted to use Freemasonry. There have been even except…
1913 · PDF PAGE 364
…death of the Saviour the veil of the Temple was rent, because that death manifested the triumph of devotion, the miracle of charity, the power of God in man, divine humanity, and human divinity, the highest and most sublime of Arcana, the last word of all initiations. But the Saviour knew that at first men would not under- stand him, and he said: “You will not be able to bear at present the full light of my doctrine; but, when the Spirit of Truth shall manifest himself, he will teach you all truth, and he will cause you to understand the sense …
1913 · PDF PAGE 511
… sickness or the health of others, according to the fatal influence of contracts, or the laws of the will. It is that which explains the power of benedictions and of bewitchments so clearly recognized by the great adepts, and above all by the wonderful Paracelsus. An acute and judicious critic, Mr. Ch. Fauvety, in an article published by the Revue philosophique et religieuse, appreciates in a remarkable manner the advanced works of Paracelsus, of Pomponacius, of Goglienus, of Crollius, and of Robert Fludd on magnetism. But what our learned frie…
1906 · PDF PAGE 246
…cluse is roughly as follows. He must: plunge every particle of his being into one idea: right views, aspirations, word, deed, life, will-power, medi- tation, 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 having ‘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 m…
1907 · PDF PAGE 143
… do not touch the carcass of myself That is abased , defiled , abominable .' Then Ulric enters , evidently now totally mad ; the fearful power of his Neronic lust has reft asunder the last thread of his sanity ; in his hand he carries a razor , first he slays Madeline , and then , at his mother's bidding , himself : A blood-gr vapour and a scorpion steam To poison the unrighteous life of God ! 2 Thus does this fearful tragedy end . Gruesome with lust and cruelty , Ulric , a horrible perversion , overcome by the violence of his desires , a secon…
1907 · PDF PAGE 193
… wormwood of Vice ; they are one , and there must be no comparison . Outside our minds exists neither one nor the other , alone there is Power , Eastwards it verges towards Virtue , Westwards towards Vice-Heaven and Hell - yet in neither is there vitality , for absolutes are without change . Our lives are vital because of the mingling of many dregs ; and as in the death of these we can alone check vitality or change , so also in that greater Death can we alone solve the mystery of pure being . Virtue and Vice they are one , being formless and e…
1913 · PDF PAGE 558
…s nothing but a desire and an enjoyment, it is mortal. In order to make itself eternal it must become a sacrifice, for then it becomes a power and a virtue. It is the struggle of Eros and Anteros which produces the equilibrium of the world. Everything that over-excites sensibility leads to depravity and crime. Tears call for blood. It is with great emotions as with strong drink; to use them habitually is to abuse them. Now, every abuse of the emotions perverts the moral sense; one seeks them for their own sakes; one sacrifices everything in ord…
1913 · PDF PAGE 558
…s nothing but a desire and an enjoyment, it is mortal. In order to make itself eternal it must become a sacrifice, for then it becomes a power and a virtue. It is the struggle of Eros and Anteros which produces the equilibrium of the world. Everything that over-excites sensibility leads to depravity and crime. Tears call for blood. It is with great emotions as with strong drink; to use them habitually is to abuse them. Now, every abuse of the emotions perverts the moral sense; one seeks them for their own sakes; one sacrifices everything in ord…
1910 · PDF PAGE 280
… sought to turn the current of his thoughts into another channel, but he had arrived at that place in his experience where suggestion is powerless. His world of the Real could not be changed by any inflow from ours of the Shadowy. I reached the same place in after days, and it was then as impossible for any human being to alter the condition which enwrapped me as it would have been for a brother on earth to stretch out his hands and rescue a brother writhing in the pangs of immortality. There are men in Oriental countries who make it their busi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 280
… sought to turn the current of his thoughts into another channel, but he had arrived at that place in his experience where suggestion is powerless. His world of the Real could not be changed by any inflow from ours of the Shadowy. I reached the same place in after days, and it was then as impossible for any human being to alter the condition which enwrapped me as it would have been for a brother on earth to stretch out his hands and rescue a brother writhing in the pangs of immortality. There are men in Oriental countries who make it their busi…
1911 · PDF PAGE 64
…pened, and I was left darkling. Yet I had this candle of hope, that within the ark, could I reach it, might be some help of knowledge or power whereby that house might be attained. So I swam steadily toward, though with some fear, for the eddies in that great stream were numerous, and my sole guide was a slender snake of light that moved upon the water. Or so it appeared ; for I have since discovered that I had an interior sense of direction as trusty as the mariner’s com- pass; so that, though I knew it not, it was never possible for me to go …