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Page 52 of 801930 · PDF PAGE 77
…cle you would draw an eight-pointed star of yellow, at whose points you would place eight lamps. The Sigil of the Spirit (which is to be found in Cornélius Agrippa and other books) you would draw in the four colours with such other devices as your expérience may suggest. 4. And so on. We cannot here enter at length into ail the necessary préparations ; and the student will find them fully set forth in the proper books, of which the “Goetia” is perhaps the best example. These rituals need not be slavishly imitated; on the contrary, the student s…
1954 · PDF PAGE 57
…tharath, there would be little help indeed from any but the Qabalistic system; for that spirit's precise forms and numbers are not to be found in any other. The converse, however, is not so true. The Qabalah, properly understood , properly treated , is so universal that one can vamp up a ritual to suit almost "any name and form." But in such a case one may expect to have to reinforce it by a certain amount of historical, literary, or philosophic study-and research. 4. Quite right, dear lady, about your incarnation memories acting as a "Guide to…
1954 · PDF PAGE 503
… be baffled . Take one example . Evolution, working through thousands of years to establish a most subtle scheme of cross-fertilization, found, just as it was perfect, conditions so altered that it was completely useless. The "law of cause and effect" itself took a death-blow when Heisinger showed that the old formula "If A then B" was invalid, and must be altered to "If A, then B or C or D or E or ... " But at least we know enough phenomena to make it certain that Will and Intelligence do exist somehow apart from any nervous and cerebral syste…
1954 · PDF PAGE 508
… does not mind gross jests which admit complicity on the part of the other ; but any allusion to the Truth , and his soul shrieks : I am found out! Then apoplectic Fear puts on the mask of Indignation and Disgust. As for a serious discussion of anything concerned therewith, why, every word is a new rasping tear. The mind takes refuge in irrational and irrelevant outbursts of feigned rage and horror. I wonder how many lunatics there are in the "bughouse"
1929 · PDF PAGE 561
… regular restaurant was shut and meals served elsewhere. He bowed me into a sort of smoking-room and suddenly shut the door behind me. I found myself, with no little surprise, in the presence of six men, dressed in black sprinkled about the room. Only one was seated; and he jumped up and asked my my name. I told him. He asked for my papers. By the merest chance I had left my passport, which I usually carry with me, in the bedroom. I told him I would go and get it. Two men sprang to the door. My inquisitive friend snapped out, "Apportez-moi le b…
1922 · PDF PAGE 323
… whose natural expression it was to kiss. “‘ Hadn’t we better go on ? ” said Lou after a while, releasing herself. But at this moment we found ourselves confronted by a very extraordinary person indeed. It was a fair- haired boy of five years old, bare-footed but dressed in a short robe of rich blue with wide sleeves and a hood ; the lining was of scarlet. He had a very serious face, and accosted us with a military salute :— “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law,” said the little fellow stoutly, and held out his hand. “I’ve come to t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 345
…nd guarded. Basil treated him In every way as a responsible leader. Their progress was necessarily slow; but so was ours. Both Lou and I found it impossible to go more than twenty paces or so without a rest. We had plenty of time to watch them, and it was amazing to see the working of the mind of Hermes as problem after problem presented itself to him. There were many occasions on which it would have been easy for him to go around an obstacle, but he never attempted to do so. King Lamus had already implanted in his mind the idea that the fun of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 106
…is the bell \ though this is used not so much for actual conjuration as to mark stages in the ceremony. Of ail these the tom-tom will be found to be the most generally useful. While on the subject of barbarous names of évocation we should not omit the utterance of certain suprême words which enshrine (a) the complété formula of the God invoked, or (3 the whole ceremony. Examples of the former kind are Tetragrammaton, I.A.O., and Abrahadabra. An example of the latter kind is the great Word StiBeTTChe- PhMeFSHiSS, which is a line drawn on the Tre…
1954 · PDF PAGE 292
…d! I suppose so. It fits anybody who discovers it or claims to have done so. Not one little bit! For when the time came, and the Key was found, the finder's name in the Order was-and had been 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 c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 30
…ent my whole time trying to enrol myself under the royal banner; but this could only be done by cooperation and it was sometime before I found the means. To return to my tutors. Relations were invariably strained. On one occasion the Rev. Fothergill had taken me for the summer to a fishing centre near Lairg called Forsinard. We went fishing one day to a loch over the moors and in the course of some argument I threw his rod far into the water. {71} He attacked me with fury, but I got a good hold and threw him after it. I then went of in the boat…
1922 · PDF PAGE 271
…tention of doing what I did. But the moment I got to London I drove to the place where I knew I could get heroin. And when I got back, I found that Peter had been out trying to find the man who had sold him the cocaine before. I assure you it wasn’t deliberate.” “That’s exactly the trouble,” retorted Lamus.
1954 · PDF PAGE 334
…n battle under Hamilcar. How do such memories help him? Until he have thoroughly mastered the reason for every incident in his past, and found a purpose for every item of his present equipment,2 he cannot truly answer even those Three Questions that were first put to him, even the Three Questions of the Ritual of the Pyramid; he is not ready to swear the oath of the Abyss. But being thus enlightened, let him swear the Oath of the Abyss; yea, let him swear the Oath of the Abyss.3 2. A brother known to me was repeatedly baffled in this meditation…
1929 · PDF PAGE 494
…souls were plunged. I cannot think of Florida, but in my ears rings the exceeding bitter cry of poor little sixteen-year-old Alma, "I've found it doesn't pay to tell the truth." This visit opened up an expanse and depth of heartache which I had thought impossible. Cousin Lawrence saw how ill I was. The family fed on offal which I would not have thrown to a decent pig. He had stayed with us in England and realized that I could not be expected to eat such garbage, so he asked me kindly what I would like to eat so as to build up my strength. I sai…
1922 · PDF PAGE 87
…hemselves more conscious as [ lay. You know how thoughts fade out imperceptibly as one goes to sleep. Well, here they were, fading in. I found myself practically deprived of volition on the physical plane. It was as if it had become im- possible for me to wish to move or to speak. I was
1929 · PDF PAGE 22
…ded. The bullet broke his jaw, tore away four molars, smashed the cheek-bone, pulped the right eye, and, glancing from the frontal bone, found its billet in the ceiling. He lost consciousness and fell. His head struck the grate where yet smouldered the ashes of the photograph.
1954 · PDF PAGE 62
…when one presents a cheque at the wrong window of the Bank. There may be failure to employ the correct medium, as when Leonardo da Vinci found his masterpiece fade away. The force may be applied to an unsuitable object, as when one tries to crack a stone, thinking it a nut.) 4. The first requisite for causing any change is thorough qualitative and quantitative understanding of the conditions. (Illustration: The most common cause of failure in life is ignorance of one's own True Will, or of the means by which to fulfil that Will. A man may fancy…
1954 · PDF PAGE 269
…nd therefore adaptable, if managed adroitly, to describe any conceivable doctrine. It has been my continual study since 1898, and I have found it of infinite value in the study of The Tao Teh King. By its aid I was able to attribute the ideas of Lao-tze to an order with which I was exceedingly familiar, and whose practical worth I had repeatedly proved by using it as the basis of the analysis and classification of all Aryan and Semitic religions and philosophies. Despite the essential difficulty of correlating the ideas of Lao-tze with any othe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 146
…t to go; wishing to devote myself exclusively to spiritual progress. I wrote to this effect; but when I told Allan that I had done so, I found, to my surprise, that he thought I ought to go for Eckenstein's sake. It was the same problem as that about Abra-Melin and the Order. And I chose ion the same way. I wired Eckenstein that I would go. One of the results of this was that I began to grow a beard. Eckenstein had put me up to a lot of the points of conduct that should be observed in travelling among Mohammedans and I practised these conscient…
1922 · PDF PAGE 72
…ent of the cocaine had somehow solidified. Our minds had stopped still, and yet their arrest was as intense as their previous motion. We found ourselves looking into each other’s eyes with no less ardour than 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 e…
1922 · PDF PAGE 282
…n’t have it both ways. You really ought to make up your mind as to the purpose of taking a dose.” I replied rather piteously that we had found out long ago that we couldn’t sleep without it. Mabel Black had told us that. ‘And the result of that delusion,” returned Lamus “‘is that she’s dead. I think your experience has been influenced by her foolish remark. You have told me yourself that the delightful result, in the first instance, was to keep you lying awake all night in a state of suspended animation, with a most fascinating flow of fancies …