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Page 51 of 791954 · PDF PAGE 292
…n from the moment of his admission as a Probationer-A chad , the Hebrew word for "One." And he came "after him" in the precise technical sense, that he was in fact the next person to undertake the Adventure of the Abyss. I hope you are not getting the idea that my Prophetic ambit is limited to these high-falutin' metaphysical masterpieces of Runic Lore. In case you do, I now propose to break your "seven green withes that were never dried"
1930 · PDF PAGE 16
… is usually embodied, except in Works of pure évocation, which after ali are comparatively rare, in sonie kind of talisman. In a certain sense, the talisman is the Charge expressed in hieroglyphics. Yet, every object soever is a talisman, for the définition of a talisman is: something upon which an act of will (that is, of Magick) has been performed in order to fit it for a purpose. Repeated acts of will in respect of i. The précisé meaning of these phrases is at first sight obscure. The spirit is merely a récalcitrant part of one’s own organis…
1930 · PDF PAGE 112
… Sahasrara Cakkra, let him remain eternally fixed in méditation thereupon. 7. AUM. THIRD METHOD. i; Tet the Hermit stimulate each of the senses in turn, concen- trating upon each until it ceases to stimulate. (The senses of sight and touch are extremely difficult to conquer. In the end the Hermit must be utterly unable by any effort to see or feel the object of those senses, O. M.) 2. This being perfected, let him combine them two at a time. For example, let him chew ginger (taste and touch), and watch a waterfall (sight and hearing) and watch …
1954 · PDF PAGE 517
…engine. But-Nature is not so easily beaten; a few boys and girls will somehow escape, and either by instinct or by observation, have the sense to keep secret. Now whatever their own peculiar genius may select as their line, they will realise that nothing is possible in any way while the accursed system stands. Their first duty is Revolt. And presently some one will come along with the wit and the will and the weapon, and blow the whole most damnable bag of tricks sky-high. We had better busy ourselves about this while it is still possible to ge…
1910 · PDF PAGE 30
…at these people are not the gracious children of God, but the evil and laborious gnomes of hell ; creatures whose lives are given to the sense- less lust of gold, the infamous toil of coynte, coun- ter and countinghouse. They understand us only enough to know that we are happy ; therefore they hate us ; therefore as they spat on Christ, forsaken of all but John, his sweet-voiced catamite, so does the cur to-day spit in the face of Oscar Wilde, as he goes from the judge to the prison.
1922 · PDF PAGE 299
…ocent it may appear, is in that particular case perverse. Sanity consists in the proper equilibrium of ideas in general. Thatis the only sense in which it is true that genius is connected with insanity. The conviction of Michael Angelo that his work was the most important thing in the Renaissance was not quite sane, even although in a way time has justified his belief. That is what is wrong with the majority of vaccina- tionists and anti-vaccinationists and vegetarians and anarchists and the “ irascible race of seers ’’ in general, that they ov…
1954 · PDF PAGE 422
…thers) to understand the appalling physical strain, when you reach remote , well-guarded, and exalted confines of the Universe. In every sense of the expression-SIT UP! (I'm "sitting up" myself to finish this letter . Here goes for the last lap!) Music. Justifiable? Why not? A help to your great Work, an aspect of your Will, nicht wahr? Go to it! Apollo is the God of Music, pre-eminently; but He is too all-comprehensive, all-pervading, to be much use in a Talisman except as a general background. But there are the Muses: Polymnia (or Polyhymnia)…
1922 · PDF PAGE 72
…before; but somehow it was a different kind of ardour. It was as if we had been released from the necessity of existence in the ordinary sense of the word. We were both wondering who we were and what we were and what was going to happen ; and, at the same time, we had a positive certainty that nothing could possibly happen. It was a most extraordinary feeling. It was of a kind quite unimaginable by any ordinary mind. I
1944 · PDF PAGE 141
…et evidently they represent four types of human being. They are those numerous “elemental” people whom we recognize by their lack of all sense of responsibility, whose moral qualities seem to lack “bite”. They are sub‐divided according to planetary predominance. Such types have been repeatedly described in fiction. As Eliphaz Levi wrote: “The love of the Magus for such creatures is insensate, and may destroy him”. The relations between these Four Elements of the Name are extraordinarily complex, quite beyond the limits of any ordinary treatise …
1996 · PDF PAGE 37
…id unto the Queen of Heaven; Write unto us the ordeals; write unto us the rituals; write unto us the law! Commentary: Law, in the common sense of the word, should be a formulation of the customs of a people, as Euclid’s proposi tions are the formulation of geometrical facts. But modern knav ery conceived the idea of artificial law, as if one should try to square the circle by tyranny. Legislators try to force the people to change their customs, so that the “business men” whose greed they are bribed to serve may increase their profits. “Law,” …
1922 · PDF PAGE 332
…ways gone about the world with a subconscious fear of knocking things over. I began to understand why a picnic on the grass gives such a sense of freedom. It was the absence of a worry which had annoyed us none the less because we had not been aware of it. Sister Athena stretched herself out on a folding chair, also very low. It was no trouble for her to pick up her glass from the ground. “ About what you asked,” she began, ‘“‘ it’s perfectly true that we have vanadium steel discipline in this
1929 · PDF PAGE 24
…revent it from leaking away; and I arrange to take advantage of water’s accordance with the laws of Hydrostatics to fill it.) (19) Man’s sense of himself as separate from, and opposed to, the Universe is a bar to his conducting its currents. It insulates him. (Illustration: A popular leader is most successful when he forgets himself, and remembers only “The Cause”. Self-seeking engenders jealousies and schism. When the organs of the body assert their presence otherwise than by silent satisfaction, it is a sign that they are diseased. The single…
1954 · PDF PAGE 120
…h they drew their adepts, have prepared a guide for mankind. This man, of an extreme moral force and elevation, combined with a profound sense of worldly realities, has stood forth in an attempt to save the White School, to rehabilitate its formula, and to fling back from the bastions of moral freedom the howling savages of pessimism. Unless his appeal is heard, unless there comes a truly virile reaction against the creeping atrophy which is poisoning them, unless they enlist to the last man under his standard, a great decisive battle will have…
1954 · PDF PAGE 470
…bove reminds me that I have said no word about the other side of the medal. There are many children who cannot be educated at all in any sense of the word. It is an abominable waste of both of them and of the teacher to push against brick walls. Yet one last point. I am as near seventy as makes no matter, and I am still learning with all my might. All my life I have been taught: governesses, private tutors, schools, private and public, the best of the Universities: how little I know! I have travelled all over the world in all conditions, from "…
1905 · PDF PAGE 232
…l I have received the utmost justice, kindness, and consideration: two or three only seem to take delight in deliberately perverting the sense of my remarks: and to them, for their own sake, I now address 1 In '‘Dr. Dee,” VOL, I. these words of elementary instruction. You are perfectly welcome to do with my work in its entirety what Laertes did with his allegiance and his vows: but do not pick out and gloat over a few isolated passages from the Venusberg scenes and call me a sensualist, nor from the Fourth Act and groan “Mysticism!”; do not quo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 483
…t admit the truth of such asinine balderdash, so said that by magical power I had caused him to see what was not, as indeed in a certain sense I had done. Cosegrave sent a sob sister to interview me on my arrival. She pestered me with a string of foolish questions, such as "What is your opinion of America?" I was insulted. What did she take me for that I should pronounce judgment on a continent after twenty-four hours? I replied, nevertheless, "I regard America as the hope of the planet --- the white hope." About this time Jack Johnson was hors…
1905 · PDF PAGE 239
… soul ! TANNHAUSER. And is my soul not slain within me now? Yet, I do hate her—in these waking hours. But in my sleep she grows upon the sense, A solitary lotus that pales forth In the wide seas of space and separateness. That radiance!— Amber-scented voice of light, Calling my name, ever, ever calling— 1 Taken as symbols of bright and open joys: violets as soft and sombre.
1929 · PDF PAGE 23
…eproduce images.) (14) Man is capable of being, and using, anytbing which he perçoives, for everything thaï he perçoives is in a certain sense a part of his being. He may thus subjugate the whole Universe of which he is conscious to his individual Will. (Illustration: Man has used the idea of God to dictate his Personal conduct, to obtain power over his fellows, to excuse his crimes, and for innumerable other purposes, including that of realizing himself as God. He has used the irrational and unreal conceptions of mathematics to help him in the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 33
… self. Am I an animal, and is the world without a pur- pose? Or am I a soul in a body? Or am I, one and indi- visible in some incredible sense, a spark of the infinite light of God? I am going to think inwards: I shall possi- bly go into some form of trance, unintelligible to myself. You may be able to interpret it. The experiment had lasted about half an hour when he sat up gasping with effort. I have seen nothing, heard nothing, I said. Not one thought has passed from you to me. But at that very moment what had been in his mind flashed i…
1922 · PDF PAGE 63
… sober continuity of thought is broken up. One goes off at a tangent, a fresh, fierce, fantastic tangent, on the slightest &kcuse. One’s sense of proportion is gone; and despite all the millions of miles that one cheerily goes out of one’s way, one never loses sight of one’s goal. While I have been writing all this, I have never lost sight for a moment of the fact that I am telling you about the box and the letter from Gretel. We met a girl in Paris, half a Red Indian, a lovely baby with the fascination of a fiend and a fund of the foulest stor…