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…n, he had maliciously deprived a woman of her sight. This is only a fairy tale, a bogey to frighten the children, and probably the worst way of influencing the young yet devised by human stupidity. ^ To surrender all, one must give up not only the bad but the good ; not only weak- ness but strength. How can the mystic surrender all, while he clings to his virtues?
… life, without the safeguard of an absolute external retirement and re- nunciation, such as is advocated by Eastern teachers. But in the Way of the A..A.. externals are of less account than essentials, and V.I.O. was under the guidance and guardian- ship of an Order whose Omniscience is impeccable, and Its ward sure. (To be continued) 170
…d, reason 1s raving. Feeling, examined, is patn. What heaven were to hope for a doubt of it! Life is anguish, insane; And death is—not a way out of it! “‘ Olya,” too, reminds me of myself. I have a morbid wish to be an impossible monster of cruelty and wickedness. , Lamus had told me that long ago. He said it was the phantasm which summed up my longing to “ revert to type.” La nostalgie de la boue. Cockie lost all his dignity. He pleaded for just one sniff. We weren't really very bad, but the description of the thirst in that horrible poem had …
…ehends that Nothing which is the only true and real form of existence. (But then it does not exist : in these regions of thought words always become nightmares of self-contradiction. This is as it should be.) In Magick, on the contrary, one passes through the veil of the exterior world (which, as in Yoga, but in another sense, becomes 'unreal' by comparison as one passes beyond,) one creates a subtle body (instrument is a better term) called the Body of Light; this one develops and controls; it gains new powers as one progresses, usually by mea…
…urdity ? " ; he promptly proceeds to travel along that road which he has warned others not to follow , and , having com pletely lost his way , and overloaded his thoughts with the darkness of night , finding it impossible to continue his journey , knocks at the creaky door of a miserable tavern , and regaling himself on the common wine of that strange country in which he has wandered , pro claims the hour of noon as the clock strikes midnight . “ I conclude,” states Philonous , “ not that they sensible things have no real existence , but that ,…
…AIRAGYA, indifference to pleasure and to pain, illusion conquered, truth alone perceived. 5. VIRYA, the dauntless energy that fights its way to the supernal TRUTH, out of the mire of lies terrestrial. 6. DHYANA, whose golden gate once opened leads the Narjol toward the realm of Sat eternal and its ceaseless contemplation. 7. PRAGNYVA, the key to which makes of a man a God, creating him a Bodhisattva, son of the Dhydnis. Such to the Portals are the golden keys. (Subsection I.) Charity and love are here used in their technical sense, Agape. “Love…
…, reason is Taving.. Feeling, examined, is pain. What heaven were to hope for a doubt of it! Life is anguish, insane; And death is—not a way out of it!”
…quired a shrewd knowledge of Nature, but finds no rational guide to the conduct of life. He observes many unsatisfactory elements in the way things go, and for his own sake would like to "remould them nearer to the heart's desire," to refurbish the cliche of Fitzgerald about "this sorry scheme of things." He is not in the least interested in the learned exposition of 0 = 2. But he is aware that the A :. A:. professes a sound solution of the problem of conduct and would like to know if its programme can be justified in terms of Common Sense. As …
…e , the illusions of spirit and mind dissolve to the desolate cry of “ Unready . Haggard and worn , back to the court he wends his weary way , back to the King , back to his self's de sire ; and there , taunted by the husband of the mis 1 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 191 . 2 lbid .
…leph, the microcosm of all-wandering air, the fool of the Taro, the aimlessness and fatality of things! It is very difficult then in any way io fashion this heavy Pantacle. We can engrave characters upon it with the dagger, but they will scarcely come to more than did the statue of Ozymandias, King of Kings, in the midst of the unending desert. We cut a figure on the ice ; it is effaced in a morning by the tracks of other skaters; nor did that figure do more than scratch the surface of
…s of Alchemists; and it should be interpreted as the best of them would have inter- preted it. 59. Then will she show thee the means and way, the first gate and the second, the third, up to the very seventh. And 29
…ngenium devise a Deed to represent the Universe. Let his Dominus Liminis approve thereof. Let the Philosophus perform the same in such a way that the Baculum may be partaker therein. Let it when finished be consecrated as he hath skill to perform, and kept wrapped in silk of fiery scarlet. Let the Dominus Liminis take pure lead, tin, and quicksilver, with platinum, and, if need be, glass. Let him by his understanding and ingenium devise a Magick Lamp that shall burn without wick or oil, being fed by the Aethyr. This shall he accomplish secretly…
…hac Formula Considerationes Kabbalisticæ (Qabalistic Considerations concerning this Formula) EHOLD moreover, my Son, the conomy of this Way, how it is according to the Tao, fulfilling itself wholly within thine own Sphere. And it is utterly in Tune with thine own Will on every Plane, so that every Part of thy Nature rejoiceth with every other Part, communicating Praise. Now then learn also how this Formula is that of the Word ABRAHADABRA. First, HAD is the Triangle erect upon twin Squares. Of Hadit need I not to write, for He hath hidden Himse…
…., well after the classic era of Persian poetry. But his style is highly praised by competent judges, though the older school regret the way in which he has broken away from tradition in : (a) the introduction of coarse expressions. (b) the undue exercise of poetic license : such as (1) his extension of the usual license re the genitive kasra to all kasra sounds. (2) his occasional breach of the rule which forbids two inert consonants to occur togeth- er, though a friendly commentator inge- niously asserts that he does this only to add to the g…
…e encouraged. 14. All children of Brethren are to be considered as chil- dren of the whole Order, and to be protected and aided in every way by its members severally, as by its organization collectively. No distinction is to be made with regard to the conditions surrounding the birth of any child. 15. There is an especially sacred duty, which every Brother should fulfil, with regard to all children, those born without the Order included. This duty is to instruct them in the Law of Thelema, to teach them independence and freedom of thought and c…
…he might seek me, to inspire and comfort me, and this was my Reward from the masters, and Consolation in the Years of my Sorrow. But the way that leadeth to the other Form of this Vision of Beatitude, to wit, Science is Gnana Yoga or Raja Yoga, of which I have written only here and there, as one who should throw great Stones upon the Earth in Disorder, by default of building them nobly into a Pyramid. And of this do I heartily repent me, and ask of the God Thoth that he may give me (albeit at the eleventh hour) virtue and with that I may compos…
…at mantra? Have drunk two citrons presses and gone to my room to work a mighty spell of magick Art. Having got rid of Maryt (who, by the way, is Quite mad), and thereby (one might hope) of Apophis and Typhon, I perform the Great Ritual DCLXXI with good results magically; i.e., I formulated things very easily and forcibly; even at one time I got a hint of the Glory of Adonai. But I made the absurd mistake of going through the Ritual as if I was rehearsing it, instead of staying at the Reception of the Candidate and insisting upon being really re…
…g is now “good.” This is why verse 53 says that these tears are the streams that irrigate the fields of charity immortal. (Tears, by the way. Think!) 53. These tears, O thou of heart most merciful, these are the streams that irrigate the fields of charity immortal. ’Tis on such soil that grows the midnight blossom of Buddha, more difficult to find, more rare to view, than is the flower of 27
…e obvious to them was hidden from my dull understanding. I turned on Basil point-blank. “What success ?”’ I said. “It’s true I do see my way through a formula that’s been bothering me. But I don’t see how you know about it. Do Hermes and Dionysus comprise a knowledge of the differential calculus in their attainments? ” “It’s very simple,” said the Big Lion. “ It involves a knowledge of nothing but the Law; and the Law, after all, is nothing but the plainest common sense. Do you remember my asking you before tiffin what was your true will?” “Yes…
…; my memory is excellent. EUPHEMIA. Of what you swore? caRR. I swore at the granite for not being moss. EUPHEMIA. You swore to love me always. carr. The champagne at the Mena House is not cham- pagne; it is—the cork of it is labelled “ Good intentions.” EUPHEMIA. Then you didn’t mean it? carR [kissing her]. Am I, or am I not—a plain question as between man and man—loving you now? EUPHEMIA. Oh, I know! But I am so worried that every- thing most sure seems all shaken in the storm of it! I was glad—glad, glad!—when that Mr. Todd came in with his n…