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…count of the S.R., probably he also edited the ‘ Fama Fraternitatis,* or ‘History of the Society,’ which must have been derived from the old records of C. R.’s t pupils. . . . “The first order is a group of four grades: the second order is a group of three grades of adeptship. “ Highest of all are those great rulers who severally sustain and govern the Third Order, which includes Three Magic Titles of honour and supremacy; in case of a vacancy the most advanced 7° = 4°{ obtains by decree the well-earned reward. The grades of the first order are…
1913 · PDF PAGE 58
…se. 3. In the sphere I am everywhere the centre, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found. 4. Yet she shall be known & I never. 5. Behold! the rituals of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be cast away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! Then shall this Knowledge go aright. 6. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. 7. Iam the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube…
1913 · PDF PAGE 58
…se. 3. In the sphere I am everywhere the centre, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found. 4. Yet she shall be known & I never. 5. Behold! the rituals of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be cast away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! Then shall this Knowledge go aright. 6. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. 7. Iam the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube…
1907 · PDF PAGE 162
THE OLD BOTTLE 155 The limbs of agony about the trunk Of torture-rapture stabbing through-Maurya ! Ay , that was I ; and I the weeping wolf That howls about this hell that is my heart ; And I the icy and intangible That beholds all , and is not. ? Looking into the crystal globe he sees the future two thousand years after the horrid murder . The deed has thriven into a religion , and the victim into a god . As it was in the beginning , is now , and ever shall be : world without end .? mutters Rupha the hag of eternity , as Criosda falls dead bef…
1907 · PDF PAGE 190
…Temptation is the Armourer who tries the blade, and Resistance the quality of the steel. How many of the well -fed will bear the test of old Andrea ? How many would prove themselves a worthy blade to Ferrara ? Sadness stares around us with hollow tear -drowned eyes , and the days of our joys are wet with the weep ing of the night of sorrow . On , on we plod , through life's by -ways and alleys , through mud and slime , onward we must go if we are ever to win the gates of Wisdom and Understanding and attain the Kingdom of the Holy Crown . “ Self…
1909 · PDF PAGE 24
… instructions. And only when we have succeeded, when we have put a colossal ! against our vital ? need we inquire whether after all the soldier is not going to develop spinal curvature. Let us take the first step ; let us sing: “1 do not ask to see The distant path ; one step’s enough for me.” But (you will doubtless say) I pith your ? itself with another ?: Why question life at all? Why not remain “a clean-living Irish gentleman” content with his handicap, and contemptuous of card and pencil? Is not the Buddha’s goad “ Everything is sorrow” li…
1919 · PDF PAGE 434
…re thoughts prevail. It is another poetic image, and not a good one. Extraordinary how liable this unassailable Alaya- Soul is to catch cold! It isn’t woe to him; it’s woe to YOU! 57. Ere thou canst settle in Dhyéna-Mérga and call it thine, thy Soul has to become as the ripe mango fruit; as soft and sweet as its bright golden pulp for others’ woes, as hard as that fruit’s stone for thine own throes and sorrows, O conqueror of weal and woe. More trouble, more poetic image, more apparent sen- timentality. Its true interpretation is to be found in…
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
…often) that by them it may be sowed with salt, accursed for ever! May the maiden that passes it be barren and the pregnant woman that beholdeth it abort! May the birds of the air refuse to fly over it! May it stand as a curse, as a fear, as an hate, among men! May the wicked dwell therein! May the light of the sun be withheld therefrom and the light of the moon not lighten it! May it become the home of the shells of the dead and may the demons of the pit inhabit it! May it be accursed, accursed --- accursed for ever and ever! {63} And still, st…
1907 · PDF PAGE 172
THE OLD BOTTLE 165 1 Her body wearies of desire , and fails To satisfy the fury of her spirit ; The blood feasts sicken her and yield no strength ; She is made one with hell , and violent force Slips and is weakness , and extreme desire Spends supple . Inane revivals stir her muddy waters , as rise gusts of fetid gas from a disturbed cesspool . Maniacs like Piggott and Evans arise , as also do such religious Ananiases as Dowie and Torrey ; all battening as greedy vultures on the mental dead , as they take their place on the eternal towers of si…
1922 · PDF PAGE 17
… wave; some it rolls over, some it drowns, some it beats to pieces on the shingle; but some it shoots far up the shore on to glistening golden sand out of the reach of any further freaks of fortune. Let me explain. My name is Peter Pendragon. My father was a second son; and he had quarrelled with my Uncle Mortimer when they were boys. He was a struggling general practitioner in Norfolk, and had not made things any better for himself by marrying. However, he scraped together enough to get me some sort of education, and at the outbreak of the war…
1930 · PDF PAGE 11
… best under strong suspicion of heresy. I need not quote the obvious names. But there were certain bodies of people who did carry on the old knowledge, mostly by oral tradition, and who were perforce tolerated to a certain extent, because even the little knowledge that they did possess was so exceedingly useful. The best way to make armour, or to build Cathedrals, or to heal sickness would enable the Christian to get ahead of his friends. Therefore, although conscience evidently demanded the maximum amount of persecution compatible with the exi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 164
THE OLD BOTTLE 157 The Lord's Day. The foolish bells with their discordant clang Summon the harlot -ridden Hell to pray : The vicar's snout is tuned ; the curates bray Long gabbled lessons , and their noisy twang Fills the foul worshippers with hate ; the fang Of boredom crushes out the holy day , Where whore and jobber sit and gloom , grown grey For hating of each other ; the hours hang .' And the pen of Crowley like that of Saladin , Swin burne , and Shelley , is but another douche of cold water to wake the frowsy sleepers of the night , and …
1907 · PDF PAGE 254
…ideas contained in their books . In one degree at least they are right, for the mysticism as contained in these systems of thought is as old as thought itself . The great system of the Qabalah is one of emana tion -- a type of spiritual monism , an attempted ex planation of the nature of the Deity , within the limitations of mind . Its correspondence with the Talmud is more of method than material . That it was of slow growth is very certain , that it is a conglomer ated mass of a multitude of efforts is also most sure . The Zohar is its corner…
1910 · PDF PAGE 277
…n. Then from the muddy waters of our life, defiled by the centuries of degeneracy through which they have flowed, we shall ascend to the old-time original fount, and grow rapturous with its apocalyptic draught. I do not remember whether I have yet mentioned that in the hasheesh state an occasional awaking occurs, perhaps as often as twice in an hour (though I have no way of judging accurately, from the singular properties of the hasheesh time), when the mind returns for an exceedingly brief space to perfect consciousness, and views all objects …
1910 · PDF PAGE 277
…n. Then from the muddy waters of our life, defiled by the centuries of degeneracy through which they have flowed, we shall ascend to the old-time original fount, and grow rapturous with its apocalyptic draught. I do not remember whether I have yet mentioned that in the hasheesh state an occasional awaking occurs, perhaps as often as twice in an hour (though I have no way of judging accurately, from the singular properties of the hasheesh time), when the mind returns for an exceedingly brief space to perfect consciousness, and views all objects …
1919 · PDF PAGE 92
…s alone before Thee. 33. I trembled at Thy coming, O my God, for Thy mes- senger was more terrible than the Death-star. 34. On the threshold stood the fulminant figure of Evil, the Horror of emptiness, with his ghastly eyes like poison- ous wells. He stood, and the chamber was corrupt; the air stank. He was an old and gnarled fish more hideous than the shells of Abaddon. 35. He enveloped me with his demon tentacles; yea, the eight fears took hold upon me. 36. But I was anointed with the right sweet oil of the Magister; I slipped from the embrac…
1922 · PDF PAGE 36
…w how he dares to come to England at all,” she said. “ He lives in a place called Telepylus, wherever that is. He's over a hundred years old, in
1944 · PDF PAGE 40
…w can we best employ such‐and‐such a thing or idea for the purpose that, to us, seems fit? An example may make this clear. The Greeks of old were aware that by rubbing amber (which they called Electron) upon silk, the amber acquired the power of attracting to itself light objects such as small pieces of paper. But there they stopped. Their science was hoodwinked by theological and phi‐ losophical theories of the à priori type. It was well over 2,000 years before this phenomenon was correlated with other electrical phenomena. The idea of Measure…
1903 · PDF PAGE 12
10 When I say “No cat has two tails” I do not mean, as the old fallacy runs, that “ Absence-of-cat possesses two tails” but that “In the category of two-tailed things, there is no extension of cat.” Nothingness is that about which no positive pro- position is valid. We cannot truly affirm : ‘Nothingness is green, or heavy, or sweet.” Let us call time, space, being, heaviness, hunger, the categories. “ If a man be heavy and hungry, he is extended in all these, besides, of course, many more. But let us suppose that these five are all. Call the ma…
1904 · PDF PAGE 64
[62] CAPITULUM IX The secret of Leilas affection for me, said the good old man, withdrawing his dripping jiggling- bone from a six months kid spoilt by a sound, and inserting it in the still warm bowels of a still-born baby, was to be found in her fondness for the rapid and accurate repetition of the act of love. This I could supply, as you may imagine from my previ- ous story ; so we lived together in perfect harmony. Every month when her courses came on I revelled with peculiar lust in the miry bloodiness of her dearest bodily part. I would…