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Page 54 of 801919 · PDF PAGE 164
THE EQUINOX A last note: TRUTH must ever be One. Whatever I expected, I found not. But why should I grieve because of having exposed some of my illusions? I have held to the truth, and the Truth remains, for the Truth is ever One, yea, the Truth is Ever One. Amen. SEcTION V. JANUARY IST, 1913, TO DECEMBER 3IST, I913 We must now pass on to Fra V.1.0.’s diary for the year 1913 E.V. I can find no written records of the period be- tween October 13th, 1912, when he finished the Retirement, and March 2nd, 1913, when he again began to keep a regular s…
1954 · PDF PAGE 379
…No. Three, "The Fairy Bank Note." One evening a man walked into an inn and asked for hospitality. In the morning, when his bill came, he found he had nothing but a £ I 00 note. "I'm afraid I've no change till the Banks open." "Oh, stick to it-I'll be back next week-I've enough petrol to take me home." "Handy," thought Boniface, "that will just square my brewer." That reminded the brewer to pay his cornchandler, who had been worrying him to settle . He wasn't nasty about it; he really needed the money for his farmer, a worthy man who wanted to b…
1929 · PDF PAGE 266
… nothing to do but await their return. In the meantime, I saw to my surprise that a large party had arrived at Camp 5. When I dot down I found that Tartarin's hysteria and Pighi's malignant stupidity had created yet another muddle. They had arrived at the camp, bringing with them some seventeen or twenty coolies, and they had not brought any of the things of which we stood in such need. Their behaviour was utterly unintelligible. The doctor did not seem to know what he was saying; his remarks were merely confusedly irritated. He did not seem to…
1929 · PDF PAGE 97
…equire a volume to itself. Briefly, however, the facts are as follows: Some time in the 'seventies or 'eighties, a cipher manuscript was found on a bookstall by a Dr. Woodman, a colleague in magical study of Dr. W. Wynn Westcott. It was beyond their powers to decipher it, though Mrs. Emery (Miss. Florence Farr) told me that a child could have done so. They called in a man named Samuel Liddell Mathers, a scholar and Magician of considerable eminence. The manuscript yielded to his scrutiny. It contained, among minor matters, the rubric of certain…
1929 · PDF PAGE 558
…k oneself whether the most optimistic estimate of success would not have to be weighed against the cost in patience and perseverance and found wanting. The great value of such men as Maitland and Neuburg to me has been to strengthen my conviction that in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. Combine in one man the strength of Hercules, the beauty of Apollo, the grace of Antinos, the wisdom of Athena, the intelligence of Hermes, and every other gift of every other god, unless the anat…
1910 · PDF PAGE 128
…myself in an egg of white light I travelled to Hong- Kong. This city is white and on a rocky hill, the lower part is narrow and dirty. I found F, in a room of white and pale green. She was dressed in a white soft stuff with velvet lapels, We conversed awhile. I remember trying to lift a cloisonné vase from the shelf to a table, but cannot remember whether I accom- plished the act or not. I said “Ave Soror” aloud (and I think audibly) and remained some time.* This astral projection is an operation of Chokmah; for the Chiah must vivify the Nephes…
1910 · PDF PAGE 128
…myself in an egg of white light I travelled to Hong- Kong. This city is white and on a rocky hill, the lower part is narrow and dirty. I found F, in a room of white and pale green. She was dressed in a white soft stuff with velvet lapels, We conversed awhile. I remember trying to lift a cloisonné vase from the shelf to a table, but cannot remember whether I accom- plished the act or not. I said “Ave Soror” aloud (and I think audibly) and remained some time.* This astral projection is an operation of Chokmah; for the Chiah must vivify the Nephes…
1919 · PDF PAGE 141
…gularly and with magical intent, that task becomes not only difficult, but well nigh impossible of performance. This is just what V.I.O. found, and no sooner had his task been set than all kinds of difficulties presented themselves, like the dog-faced demons mentioned by Zoro- aster, to prevent its fulfilment. He tried, but at the end of January he writes: “I cannot get on under these conditions. Had plenty of time to do exercises this morning, but was con- tinually interrupted. Did not robe myself as I have no place fit to call a temple.” How …
1929 · PDF PAGE 20
…when one présents a chèque 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 ihorough 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 ill. A man may fancy…
1954 · PDF PAGE 107
…en assumes a final fonn: How is that illusion to be destroyed. A fairly pure example of the first stage of this type of thought is to be found in the Vedas; of the second stage, in the Upanishads. But the answer to the question, "How is the illusion of evil to be destroyed?" depends on another point of theory. We may postulate a Parabrahm infinitely good, etc., etc., etc., in which case we consider the destruction of the illusion of evil as the reuniting of the consciousness with Parabrahm. The unfortunate part of this scheme of things is that …
1922 · PDF PAGE 207
… didn’t seem to know where I was. It was getting dark. He groped his way round the room looking for me; but he passed me twice before he found me. The third time he stumbled up against me, gripped me by the shoulder, and began to strike. I sat as if I were paralysed. I could not even scream. Again and again he swore and struck me savagely, yet so weakly that I could not feel the blows. Besides, I was dulled to all possible pain. Presently he collapsed, and rolled over on the. bed. I thought for a moment he was dead, and then he was seized by a …
1929 · PDF PAGE 177
…er-Shaftsbury; she formulated a dozen plans to solve the problem of poverty, root, branch, and leaf; and the next morning her dressmaker found her amid a sheaf of calculations. But a new style of costume being displayed, she had plunged with equal
1922 · PDF PAGE 222
…d when the first officer interrupted him, ‘‘ What I want from you, Mr. Mate, is silence, and precious damned little of that !’” Again we found ourselves laughing together. It was really very extraordinary the way in which talking to Basil or his pupils exhilarated the mind. I began to see why he was so distrusted and disliked. People always pretend to want to be lifted out of themselves, but in reality they’re terribly afraid of anything happening to them. And Basil always strikes at the root of one’s spiritual oak. He wants one to be oneself, …
1922 · PDF PAGE 354
…tate of mind. I went to look for Lou, but she had gone for a walk with Cypris, and when she came back, she wore an air of wisdom which I found insupportable. However, I told her my story. To my disgust, she simply nodded as if highly appreciative of some very obscure joke. There was no getting any sense out of her. I went to bed in a thoroughly bad temper.
1944 · PDF PAGE 167
… ambi‐ tion, the pursuit of Ignis Fatuus, superstition, and the tendency to waste time in idle dream‐ ing, are perils all too frequently found in such sons of the soil. Thomas Hardy has painted many admirable portraits of the type. Ill‐starred indeed and black with bile are those who have profaned the Sacred Fire, not enkindling Earth to new, more copious, more varied life, but peering in deceptive moonlight, turning their faces from their mother Earth.
1954 · PDF PAGE 19
…h were opposed to the stupidities his mother stood for. So he became the Beast. And since Revelation counted the number of the Beast and found it to be 666, the number of a Man, he turned all his Qabalistic and philosophical skill in later years toward finding this number in any meaningful word or motto that came his way. Still later, after he had received Liber Legis and was forced, as it were, to obey its precepts, then it was that he began to sign all communications with that significant number. Several of the letters describe a method for s…
1954 · PDF PAGE 193
…ompensate for the distraction caused by the complication. What I do observe to examine the situation of to-day is Transits. These I have found very reliable; but even with these I usually ignore aspects of minor importance. Truth to tell, conjunctions mean very much more than the rest put together. Thousands of books have been written on Astrology;
1922 · PDF PAGE 26
…lly nothing of the next half- hour. I felt a kind of forlorn sense of being lost in a world of incredibly stupid and malicious dwarfs. I found myself in Piccadilly quite suddenly. A voice purred in my ear, ‘ Good old Peter, good old sport, awfully glad I met you—we'll make a night of it.” The speaker was a handsome Welshman still in his prime. Some people thought him one of the best sculptors living. He had, in fact, a following of dis- ciples which I can only qualify as “ almost unpleasantly so.’”’ He had no use for humanity at the bottom of h…
1922 · PDF PAGE 105
…and kissed good-bye as if I were starting on a three years’ expedition to the South Pole. Then I caught up my hat, gloves, and cane, and found my young man at the door. The drink and the air of Paris had given him a sense of his own dignity. Instead of waiting humbly for me to get into the car, he was sitting there already; and though his greeting was still solemnly deferential, there was a little more of the ambassador about it. He had repressed the original impulse to touch his hat. I myself felt a curious sense of enjoyment of my own importa…
1922 · PDF PAGE 266
…t of hilarity. We never had a moment’s doubt about carrying out our programme. The waiter brought two Péches Melba; and as he retired we found that King Lamus was standing at our table. |