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Page 55 of 841913 · PDF PAGE 291
…, the best key to the higher planes. It seems unnecessary to add anything to these few remarks. This is the only difficulty in the whole book, though in one or two passages Levi’s extraordinarily keen sense of humour leads him to indulge in a little harmless bombast. We may instance his remarks on the Grimoire of Honorius. We have said that this is the masterpiece of Levi. He reaches an exaltation of both thought and language which is equal to that of any other writer known to us. Once it is understood that it is purely a thesis for the Grade o…
1904 · PDF PAGE 86
AFTER THE FALL A Page from the Book of the Recording Angel. Adam had gone down to the Euphrates for a mornings sport with the Icthyosaurus. The day before he had no luck at all with a rather big fly (pterodactyl-wing and angel-hackle) and meant to spin with the artificial dodo for a bit before giving up the water as hopelessly over-fished. He had better have stayed home, though, and kept a sharp look-out with the gaff for the serpent. This is what happened in his absence. Eve had done her days work, and was sprawl- ing in the sun with her tai…
1907 · PDF PAGE 193
…f my virginity. The pain was sudden — and the joy was long . Persists that triumph , keenly , utterly ! Write , then , in thy mysterious book of song : “ Death chisels marble where life moulded clay. ” 1 And again : Dim winds shall whisper echoes of Our slow ecstatic breath , Telling all worlds how sweet is love , How beautiful is Death.2 Thus in this cup which Aleister Crowley offers us , we find that to sip the honey of Virtue is to quaff the wormwood of Vice ; they are one , and there must be no comparison . Outside our minds exists neither …
1913 · PDF PAGE 294
…oportions 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 presence of this sun of intelligences, there will appear to you the devil, that black phantom which you see when your gaze is not fixed upon God, and when you think that your shadow fills the sky,—for the vapours of the ear…
1913 · PDF PAGE 456
…asure for an archzologist! “My friend,” said he to his new disciple, “I am going to help you to find what you say you have lost. Take my book, observe the prescriptions of the ritual, and come again to see me in a week.” A week later he returned, but this time the workman declared that he had invented a life-saving machine of the greatest importance for the navy. The machine is perfectly 158
1913 · PDF PAGE 550
… the influence of Mr. Home. M. de Mirville has studied them carefully, and M. Gougenet Des- mousseaux has reprinted all the details in a book, published in 1854, entitled Mawrs et pratiques des démons. The most remarkable thing in this latter author is that he seems to divine the existence of the plastic medium or the fluidic body. “We have certainly not two souls,” said he, “ but perhaps we have two bodies.” Everything that he says, in fact, would seem to prove this hypothesis. He saw a shepherd whose fluidic form haunted a Presbytery, and who…
1913 · PDF PAGE 294
…oportions 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 presence of this sun of intelligences, there will appear to you the devil, that black phantom which you see when your gaze is not fixed upon God, and when you think that your shadow fills the sky,—for the vapours of the ear…
1913 · PDF PAGE 456
…asure for an archzologist! “My friend,” said he to his new disciple, “I am going to help you to find what you say you have lost. Take my book, observe the prescriptions of the ritual, and come again to see me in a week.” A week later he returned, but this time the workman declared that he had invented a life-saving machine of the greatest importance for the navy. The machine is perfectly 158
1913 · PDF PAGE 550
… the influence of Mr. Home. M. de Mirville has studied them carefully, and M. Gougenet Des- mousseaux has reprinted all the details in a book, published in 1854, entitled Mawrs et pratiques des démons. The most remarkable thing in this latter author is that he seems to divine the existence of the plastic medium or the fluidic body. “We have certainly not two souls,” said he, “ but perhaps we have two bodies.” Everything that he says, in fact, would seem to prove this hypothesis. He saw a shepherd whose fluidic form haunted a Presbytery, and who…
1929 · PDF PAGE 49
… except on one occasion near Madrid, when the entire sky was a kaleidoscopic network of flame for nearly two hours. {100} 1. But see The Book of Lies, cap. 32, "The Mountaineer". 11 In 1894 I had my first serious taste of the Alps. I went with my tutor to the Suldenthal in the Austrian Tyrol. I had discovered the Badminton Volume of Mountaineering. I looked on it very much as I had been taught to look on the Bible. It says much for my innocence previously described, that despite the data already in my possession, I failed entirely to realize th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 56
…ll! He, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God. All these old letters of my Book are aright ; but ¥ is not the Star. This also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. 58. I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice. 59. My incense is of resinous woods & gums; and there is no blood therein : because of my hair the trees of Eternity. 60. My number is 11, as all their n…
1913 · PDF PAGE 56
…ll! He, my prophet, hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God. All these old letters of my Book are aright ; but ¥ is not the Star. This also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. 58. I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice. 59. My incense is of resinous woods & gums; and there is no blood therein : because of my hair the trees of Eternity. 60. My number is 11, as all their n…
1929 · PDF PAGE 109
…urations to a benighted peasantry who wished to bewitch cows or to prevent their neighbours from catching fish. Arthwait had published a book to show the folly of such works, but in practice they were
1930 · PDF PAGE 74
“The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage”. “The Goetia”. aThe Hathayoga Pradipika”. “The Spiritual Guide of Molinos”. Erdmann’s “History of Philosophy”. “The Star in the West” (Captain Fuller). “The Dhammapada” (S.B.E. Sériés, Oxford University Press). “The Questions of King Milinda” (S.B.E. Sériés). a777 vel Prolegomena,etc.”. “Varieties of Religious Expérience” (James). “Kabbala Denudata”. “Konx Om Pax”. 3* Careful study of these books will enable the pupil to speak in the language of his master, and facilitate communications with …
1961 · PDF PAGE 181
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 169 #m De Formula Feminæ (Of the Formula of Woman) OW this is the right Power and Property of a Woman, to arrange and to adjust all Things that exist in their proper Sphere, but not to create or to transcend. Therefore in all practical Matters is she of Might and of Wit to produce an Effect consonant with her Mood. And her Symbol is Water, that seeketh the Level, whether for Wrath, eating away the Mountains (yet even in this making smooth the Plains) or for Love, in Fecundity of Earth. But it is the Fire of Man that …
1944 · PDF PAGE 250
…e with the matter in hand. II Purity is to live only to the Highest; and the Highest is All; be thou as Artemis to Pan. Read thou in the Book of the Law, and break through the veil of the Virgin. Pure, exalted and gracious influence enters the matter. Hence, change, alternation, in‐ crease and decrease, fluctuation. There is, however, a liability to be led away by enthusiasm; one may become “moon‐struck” unless careful balance is maintained.
1906 · PDF PAGE 167
… the true spiritual giant. I blame no weaklings, but decline To take their maunderings for mine. You see I do not base my thesis On your Book’s being torn in pieces By knowledge ; nor invoke the shade Of my own boyhood’s agony. Soul, shudder not! Advance the blade Of fearless fact and probe the scar ! You know my first-class memory ? Well, in my life two years there are Twelve years back—not so very far ! Two years whereof no memory stays. One ageless anguish filled my days So that no item, like a star Sole in the supreme night, above Stands up…
1909 · PDF PAGE 382
… EQUINOX morality, which could be transmitted as a new gospel for the special use of the Men-Covers of future times, I opened the second book to put down in it some equally useful aphorisms. But as I took my pencil the white, immaculate page appeared covered with brown characters. I had scarcely time enough to read and they had vanished. But I remember what I saw. “You must leave the study of the oyster-shells in order to perceive the invisible, to refine your senses and escape the delusions caused by them.” “The duty of man is not to believe o…
1909 · PDF PAGE 382
… EQUINOX morality, which could be transmitted as a new gospel for the special use of the Men-Covers of future times, I opened the second book to put down in it some equally useful aphorisms. But as I took my pencil the white, immaculate page appeared covered with brown characters. I had scarcely time enough to read and they had vanished. But I remember what I saw. “You must leave the study of the oyster-shells in order to perceive the invisible, to refine your senses and escape the delusions caused by them.” “The duty of man is not to believe o…
1913 · PDF PAGE 251
…k of any sense of proportion or humour which was deplorable, and, by his best friends, deplored. It was also unfortunate in a way that a book purporting to deal exhaustively with the inmost cabinet secrets of high- grade Freemasonry should be written by one who was not even a craft Mason. The ?result was that Dr. Wynn Westcott having been made to swear by all his gods that he was zof Consulting Chemist to the British Government Underground Secret Poison Factory at Gibraltar, and that he had never received at his house a lady whom everybody but …