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Page 54 of 821909 · PDF PAGE 368
…f my logical faculties I cut my own right arm. Having no arm, I could no more kill my wife with an axe. God rewarded me by giving me the power of reading thought, which constitutes an extra sense for me; and to my nose He gave a voice of its own. I was a dentist. Indeed, I have found a new way of extracting teeth without gas. You merely press the neck of your patient, who faints in consequence, and you can then safely operate. How did you come to this? What caused you to take the attire of a man in place of the usual brown coat of a cover ?” Hi…
1911 · PDF PAGE 77
…tific Vision is no more, and the glory of the Most High is no more. There is no more knowledge. There is no more bliss. There is no more power. There is no more beauty. For this is the Palace of Understanding: for thou art one with the Primeval things. Drink in the myrrh of my speech, that is bruised with the gall of the roc, and dissolved in the ink of the cuttle-fish, and perfumed with the deadly nightshade. This is thy wine, who wast drunk upon the wine of Iacchus. And for bread shalt thou eat salt, O thou on the corn of Ceres that didst wax…
1954 · PDF PAGE 250
…sition all by itself in a postscript; to frame it. My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know; and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such Beings.
1911 · PDF PAGE 129
…was wrested untimely from the Tree of Life by the hand of a desperate magician. For it was the Master of that Magician who overthrew the power of the Christian church; but the pupil rebelled against the master, for he foresaw that the New (z.e., the Protestant) would be worse than the Old. But he understood not the purpose of his Master, and that was, to prepare the way for the overthrowing of the Aeon. There is a writing upon the Urn of which I can but read the (two) words: Stabat Crux juxta Lucem. Stabat Lux juxta Crucem. And there is writing…
1954 · PDF PAGE 152
… moon. And they bind themselves together with an oath, and with a great curse. And of their malice they conspire together, and they have power, and mastery, and in their cauldrons do they brew the harsh wine of delusion, mingled with the poison of their selfishness. Thus they make war upon the Holy One, sending forth their delusion upon men, and upon everything that liveth. So that their false compassion is called compassion, and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell. Yet of their own poison do t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 128
…eceiveth directly three rays from the supernals, and the others no more than one. So, therefore, they that have sought after majesty and power and victory and learning and happiness and gold, have been discomfited. And these sayings are the lights of wisdom that thou mayst know thy Master, for he isa Magus. And because thou didst eat of the Pome- granate in hell, for half the year art thou concealed, and half the year revealed. Now I perceive the Temple that is the heart of this Aethyr; it is an Urn suspended in the air, without support, above …
1929 · PDF PAGE 435
…rty and depended entirely on Mabel Collins for his daily bread. This man claimed to be an advanced Magician, boasting of many mysterious powers and even occasionally demonstrating the same. At this time London was agog with the exploits of Jack the Ripper. One theory of the motive of the murderer was that he was performing an Operation to obtain the Supreme Black Magical Power. The seven women had to be killed so that their seven bodies formed a "Calvary cross of seven points" with its head to the west. The theory was that after killing the thi…
1898 · PDF PAGE 18
…nd thou must envy me ! Gird all thy godhead to destroy a man Whose little moment is a single span, Whose small desire is nothingand thy power
1904 · PDF PAGE 17
… of fools, From Paul right downward to the Schools, That the Ascension’s self rehearsed Christ’s Godhead by its miracle. Grand !—but the power is mine as well ! In India levitation counts No tithe of the immense amounts Of powers demanded by the wise From Chela ere the Chela rise To knowledge. Fairy-tales ? Well, first, Sit down a week and hold your breath As masters teach49—until you burst, Or nearly—in a week, one saith, A month, perchance a year for you, Hard practice, and yourself may fly— Yes ! I have done it ! you may too ! Thus, in Ascen…
1907 · PDF PAGE 230
…f an idea , or the aptitude of one to produce the other ? This is a real creation , a pro duction of something out of nothing ... such a power is not felt, nor known , nor even conceivable by the mind We are now fairly on our road to Crowleyanity . Having left Berkeley in the dark , feeling on the dusty shelves of his reason for a flint and steel in the spirituality of God , whereby he may burn in twain the gordian knot into which he has tangled his under standing ; we now find Hume , in a similar manner , groping for the handle of some bricked…
1910 · PDF PAGE 138
…n, but failed. 3rd. Tried in vain two “practical volitions” but was too unwell to do any work. 4th, Nirvana,Selfish- 28 m. ness, Magical Power Hiero- phantship, etc. After this meditation I arrived at the following decision: I must not cling to the Peace.t It certainly has become real to me, but if * In this exercise the pendulum tends to swing out of plane. Here are Frater P.’s two methods of correcting it: (a) Fix mind on the two points of a pendulum-swing and move pendulum sharply like chronograph hand, keeping them fixed and equal in size. …
1910 · PDF PAGE 138
…n, but failed. 3rd. Tried in vain two “practical volitions” but was too unwell to do any work. 4th, Nirvana,Selfish- 28 m. ness, Magical Power Hiero- phantship, etc. After this meditation I arrived at the following decision: I must not cling to the Peace.t It certainly has become real to me, but if * In this exercise the pendulum tends to swing out of plane. Here are Frater P.’s two methods of correcting it: (a) Fix mind on the two points of a pendulum-swing and move pendulum sharply like chronograph hand, keeping them fixed and equal in size. …
1911 · PDF PAGE 40
…so instead he set up a humming very much like a big electric plant with dynamos going. Now the atmosphere is deep night-blue; and by the power of that atmosphere, the pillars kindle to a dull glowing crim- son, and the throne is a dull, ruddy gold. And now, through the humming, come very clear, bell-like notes, and farther still a muttering, like that of a gathering storm. And nowI hear the meaning ofthe muttering: Iam he who was before the beginning, and in my desolation I cried aloud, saying, let me behold my countenance in the concave of the…
1913 · PDF PAGE 157
…nt. Nor can any one be distinguished from the others. And the Angel sayeth: Behold where thine Angel hath led thee! Thou didst ask fame, power and pleasure, health and wealth and love, and strength, and length of days. Thou didst hold life with eight tentacles, like an octopus. Thou didst seek the four powers and the seven delights and the twelve emancipations and the two and twenty privileges and the nine and forty Manifestations, and lo! thou art become as one of These. Bowed are their backs, whereon resteth the 117
1913 · PDF PAGE 567
…us, loving, devoted, when one wishes sincerely to beso. One can give to one’s spirit the calm of justness, as to one’s will the almighty power of justice. One can reign in Heaven by virtue of faith, on earth by virtue of science. The man who knows how to command himself is king of all Nature. 269
1913 · PDF PAGE 157
…nt. Nor can any one be distinguished from the others. And the Angel sayeth: Behold where thine Angel hath led thee! Thou didst ask fame, power and pleasure, health and wealth and love, and strength, and length of days. Thou didst hold life with eight tentacles, like an octopus. Thou didst seek the four powers and the seven delights and the twelve emancipations and the two and twenty privileges and the nine and forty Manifestations, and lo! thou art become as one of These. Bowed are their backs, whereon resteth the 117
1913 · PDF PAGE 567
…us, loving, devoted, when one wishes sincerely to beso. One can give to one’s spirit the calm of justness, as to one’s will the almighty power of justice. One can reign in Heaven by virtue of faith, on earth by virtue of science. The man who knows how to command himself is king of all Nature. 269
1929 · PDF PAGE 19
…sults, with the necessary quantity of Gold: and so forth. Every Change has its own conditions. In the présent State of our knowledge and power some changes are not possible in practice ; we cannot cause éclipsés, for instance, or transform lead into tin, or create men from mushrooms. But it is theoretically possible to cause in any object any change of which that object is capable by nature ; and the conditions are covered by the above postulate.) III. THEOREMS. ( 1 ) Every intentional act is a Magical Act. 1 (Illustration: See “Définition” abo…
1907 · PDF PAGE 155
148 THE STAR IN THE WEST If we could be optimistic enough to believe in a (semi-)omnipotent power (pure omnipotency is ana chronistic ), we should believe this malady were in flicted on man as are the measles , the croup , and the chicken -pox , so as to stimulate romance , and retard that ultimate uninteresting state perfection. This not being so , we can only suggest that being descended from the flat - nosed simiae , besides being generally flat all round , man must have lost his wits with his tail , both being now exceedingly rudimentary . …
1910 · PDF PAGE 144
…Iddhi as the Buddhists call it. An Act, which is explained by the fair courtesan Bindumati as follows. When King Asoka asked her by what power she had caused the waters of the Ganges to flow backwards. She answered: Whosoever, O King, gives me gold—be he a noble, or a brahman, or a tradesman, or a servant—I regard them all alike. When I see he is a noble I make no distinction in his favour, If I know him to be a slave I despise him * Dhammapada, v. I. 128