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Page 50 of 911913 · PDF PAGE 294
…he cemeteries of ancient science, and he gives to his century a whole world of forgotten theorems, of syntheses as simple and sublime as nature, radiating always from unity, and multiplying themselves like numbers with proportions so exact, that the known demonstrates and reveals the unknown. To under- stand this science, is to see God. The author of this book, as he finishes his work, will think that he has demonstrated it. Then, when you have seen God, the hierophant will say to you:—“ Turn round!” and, in the shadow which you throw in the pr…
1913 · PDF PAGE 558
THE EQUINOX become a father in order that he may have more children to devour. To conquer love is to triumph over the whole of Nature. To submit it to justice is to rehabilitate life by devoting it to immortality; thus the greatest works of the Christian revelation are the creation of voluntary virginity and the sanctification of marriage. While love is 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 …
1913 · PDF PAGE 411
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES towards the organs in order to disengage it, and a reaction, of mechanical nature, takes place, which with the movement of the body equilibrates the light of the medium. It is for that reason that it so dangerous to wake somnambulists suddenly, for the gorged medium may then withdraw itself suddenly towards the common reservoir, and abandon the organs altogether; these are then separated from the soul, and death is the result. The state of somnambulism, whether natural or artificial, is then extremely dangerous, because…
1913 · PDF PAGE 411
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES towards the organs in order to disengage it, and a reaction, of mechanical nature, takes place, which with the movement of the body equilibrates the light of the medium. It is for that reason that it so dangerous to wake somnambulists suddenly, for the gorged medium may then withdraw itself suddenly towards the common reservoir, and abandon the organs altogether; these are then separated from the soul, and death is the result. The state of somnambulism, whether natural or artificial, is then extremely dangerous, because…
1919 · PDF PAGE 435
…. When thou hast reached that state, the Portals that thou hast to conquer on the Path fling open wide their gates to let thee pass, and Nature’s strongest mights possess no 113
1961 · PDF PAGE 181
…of a Carpenter; for She hath not the Organism that might make Use of this Opportunity. Of all this is she aware by her Instinct, for her Nature is to Understand, even without Knowledge; and if thou doubt herin the Wisdom of thy Sire, do thou seek out a Woman (but with Precaution) and affirm these my Words. So shall she wax woundily wrath, and look grisly upon thee, proclaiming in a shrill Voice her manifold Excellences, which she hath, and concern the Matter not a Whit. n
1906 · PDF PAGE 180
174 THE SWORD OF SONG But the results As by a lightning flash, solve doubt a concentra- And turn all Nature inside out : 390 ion do so. And, if such potency of might Hath Truth, once state the truth aright, Whence came the use for all those pages Milhons together—mighty sages Whom the least obstacle enrages? 395 Condemn the mystic if he prove Thinking less valuable than love? Well, let them try their various plans ! Do they resolve that doubt of man’s? How many are Hegelians? 400 This, though I hold him mostly true. But, to teach others that sa…
1907 · PDF PAGE 157
…Reverses life and fact : and so believes .' This last line practically contains the fundamental basis of all religion . Man finding that Nature was but 1 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 179 .
1911 · PDF PAGE 122
…e concealed One, and the creative Lingam; and Daleth, love; and Nun the serpent. And therefore this con- stitution was implicitly in the nature of Eden (f Liber L., L., 29, 30), so that the call of the Aethyrs could not have been any other call than that which it is. But they that are without understanding have interpreted all this askew, because of the Mystery of the Abyss, for there is no Path from Binah unto Chesed; and therefore the course of the Flaming Sword was no more a current, but a spark. And when the Stooping Dragon raised his head …
1919 · PDF PAGE 112
…s point, you are not wholly free. You must kill out desire, and kill out fear. The end of all is the power to live according to your own nature, without danger that one part may develop to the detriment of the whole, or concern lest that danger should arise. The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and 106
1913 · PDF PAGE 136
THE EQUINOX This was the way in which he would divine the forth- coming year. He did various things of a quite ordinary nature with an intense magical intention. He had asked a disciple to write him a message to be opened at midnight. The disciple, being a fool, wrote a foolish message, but none the less inspired. The diary continues thus— “Sought accidental symbols while looking for a black woman to represent Binah” (to which he was aspiring). “Entered by chance, firstly, Queen’s Hotel [can this refer to Binah?] and Leicester.” (Leicester was …
1913 · PDF PAGE 251
…Madras?” and the like; in short, he turned the world upside down to produce laboured disproof of the statements—themselves impossible in nature—of a Paris penny dreadful of the class of Nick Carter and Deadwood Dick. Relentlessly does he demolish his adversary. If Camden is spent Campden (which might happen to the best of French authors) he shrieks [séc/ / /]. Many other remarks of the future saint display a lack of any sense of proportion or humour which was deplorable, and, by his best friends, deplored. It was also unfortunate in a way that …
1913 · PDF PAGE 253
…itten that he should become!) made incursions upon Magic, with the unhappiest results. Fundamentally incom- petent to apprehend the very nature of the question, and utterly incapable of humour, the ingenious Lévi pulled his leg to the limit. The future saint! could see only contradictions in the profundities of the master, and in complaining that Lévi was always “‘ stultifying himself” (when he was merely indulging the irony of which he was one of the most brilliant exponents that have ever lived), branded stultus, stultioy, stultissimus upon h…
1913 · PDF PAGE 574
…f Providence when he is in the arms of his mother? Become children in heart, and you will remain young in body. The realities of God and Nature surpass infinitely in beauty and goodness all the imagination of men. It is thus that the world-weary are people who have never known how to be happy ; and those who are disillusioned prove by their dislikes 276
1913 · PDF PAGE 136
THE EQUINOX This was the way in which he would divine the forth- coming year. He did various things of a quite ordinary nature with an intense magical intention. He had asked a disciple to write him a message to be opened at midnight. The disciple, being a fool, wrote a foolish message, but none the less inspired. The diary continues thus— “Sought accidental symbols while looking for a black woman to represent Binah” (to which he was aspiring). “Entered by chance, firstly, Queen’s Hotel [can this refer to Binah?] and Leicester.” (Leicester was …
1913 · PDF PAGE 251
…Madras?” and the like; in short, he turned the world upside down to produce laboured disproof of the statements—themselves impossible in nature—of a Paris penny dreadful of the class of Nick Carter and Deadwood Dick. Relentlessly does he demolish his adversary. If Camden is spent Campden (which might happen to the best of French authors) he shrieks [séc/ / /]. Many other remarks of the future saint display a lack of any sense of proportion or humour which was deplorable, and, by his best friends, deplored. It was also unfortunate in a way that …
1913 · PDF PAGE 253
…itten that he should become!) made incursions upon Magic, with the unhappiest results. Fundamentally incom- petent to apprehend the very nature of the question, and utterly incapable of humour, the ingenious Lévi pulled his leg to the limit. The future saint! could see only contradictions in the profundities of the master, and in complaining that Lévi was always “‘ stultifying himself” (when he was merely indulging the irony of which he was one of the most brilliant exponents that have ever lived), branded stultus, stultioy, stultissimus upon h…
1913 · PDF PAGE 574
…f Providence when he is in the arms of his mother? Become children in heart, and you will remain young in body. The realities of God and Nature surpass infinitely in beauty and goodness all the imagination of men. It is thus that the world-weary are people who have never known how to be happy ; and those who are disillusioned prove by their dislikes 276
1954 · PDF PAGE 176
…ion of "everything," and one may consider this advantage, that it is quite impossible to go wrong. Every experience, whatever may be its nature, is just another necessary bump. Naturally one cannot realize this until one becomes a Master . of the Temple; consequently, one is perpetually plunged in sorrow and despair. There is, you see, a good deal more to it than merely learning one's mistakes. One can never be sure what is right and what is wrong, until one appreciates
1954 · PDF PAGE 442
… every case; in two, doubly. Guttur, moreover, is the Latin word for 'throat'. Both planets emphasize the soft open expansive aspects of Nature; they both refer accordingly to the feminine throat, the tube either of present or of future life. (J upiter, when in Sagittarius, has an aggressive, masterful, male side; but his letter when there is Samekh.) Now pronounce these letters; observe the motions of opening and expulsion of the breath. Well, then, you will no longer wonder at that list we had in another letter of the words Cwm, coombe, quean…