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…y realised ittheir best argument. What was the ultimate cause of the destruction of the great civilization of Rome ? What corrupted the spirit of a people unconquerable in arms ? What but the spread of the slave morality of the Jewish communists of the period ? If you will take your
… brought out . “ Thy love will stand while ocean winds en dure "; and again , “ Here I abandon all myself to thee .” ? In “ Songs of the Spirit ” we find this venera tion acutely portrayed , and the Christ as depicted in “ The Goad ” closely resembles the one as described in “ The Farewell of Paracelsus to Aprile .” Here is a passage from each : I contemplate the wound Stabbed in the flanks of my dear silver Christ . He hangs in anguish there ; the crown of thorns Pierces that palest brow ; the nails drip blood ; There is the wound ; no Mary by…
THE HASHEESH EATER I myself became insane, and leaping up and down, mimicked them all, and drank their demented spirit. Hasheesh is indeed an accursed drug, and the soul at last pays a most bitter price for all its ecstasies; moreover, the use of it is not the proper means of gaining any insight, yet who shall say that at that season of exaltation I did not know things as they are more truly than ever in the ordinary state? Let us not assert that the half-careless and uninterested way in which we generally look on nature is the normal mode of t…
THE HASHEESH EATER I myself became insane, and leaping up and down, mimicked them all, and drank their demented spirit. Hasheesh is indeed an accursed drug, and the soul at last pays a most bitter price for all its ecstasies; moreover, the use of it is not the proper means of gaining any insight, yet who shall say that at that season of exaltation I did not know things as they are more truly than ever in the ordinary state? Let us not assert that the half-careless and uninterested way in which we generally look on nature is the normal mode of t…
…ve hieroglyphs, known only to initiates of the first order. The first is the signature of Typhon. It expresses the blasphemy of the evil spirit by establishing dualism in the creative principle. For the crux ansata of Osiris is a lingam upside down, and represents the paternal and active force of God (the vertical line extending from the circle) fertilizing passive nature (the horizontal line). To double the vertical line is to affirm that nature has two fathers; it is to put adultery in the place of the divine motherhood, it is to affirm, inst…
…ve hieroglyphs, known only to initiates of the first order. The first is the signature of Typhon. It expresses the blasphemy of the evil spirit by establishing dualism in the creative principle. For the crux ansata of Osiris is a lingam upside down, and represents the paternal and active force of God (the vertical line extending from the circle) fertilizing passive nature (the horizontal line). To double the vertical line is to affirm that nature has two fathers; it is to put adultery in the place of the divine motherhood, it is to affirm, inst…
… of faith, despite all human foresight. One does not imagine revelations; one undergoes them, and one believes in them. In vain does the spirit protest against the obscurities of dogma; it is subjugated by the attraction of these very obscurities, and often the least docile of reasoners would blush to accept the title of “irreligious man.” Religion holds a greater place among the realities of life than those who do without religion—or pretend to do without it—affect to believe. All ideas that raise man above the animal—moral love, devotion, hon…
… of faith, despite all human foresight. One does not imagine revelations; one undergoes them, and one believes in them. In vain does the spirit protest against the obscurities of dogma; it is subjugated by the attraction of these very obscurities, and often the least docile of reasoners would blush to accept the title of “irreligious man.” Religion holds a greater place among the realities of life than those who do without religion—or pretend to do without it—affect to believe. All ideas that raise man above the animal—moral love, devotion, hon…
…est, thou canst not hear. To hear and see, this is the second stage. This is an obscure verse. It implies that the qualities of fire and Spirit commingle to reach the second stage. There is evidently a verse missing, or rather omitted, as may be understood by the row of dots; this presumably refers to the third stage. This third stage may be found by the discern- ing in Liber 831. 74. When the Disciple sees and hears, and when he smells and tastes, eyes closed, ears shut, with mouth and nostrils stopped; when the four senses blend and ready are…
…tever to the name of Jesus --- which they profess to adore more intelligently than the mob because it represents the descent of the Holy Spirit into the midst of that tremendous name of God which only occurs in {704} their ritual because of its power to annihilate the universe if pronounced correctly1. The intelligence of the average mason may be gauged by the following quotation from the R.A.M. degree. The twentieth century! --- and such stuff is solemnly offered as instruction to grown men! Some have doubted whether the Ark was capable of con…
…mself as the Hanged Man of the Tarot. Each point of the figure thus formed they crown with light, until he glitters with the Flame of the Spirit.
…persed me , gave me death ." This is pure Buddhism . In death is found release , freedom from desire , which fools alone reject . In the spiritual contemplation of life the slags of existence fall to the bottom of the burning furnace of the human soul ; the power of em pire and glory is shattered , “ The golden image with the feet of clay ,” and the marred vessels of the ( All) mighty potter are cast outside , from the wheel of Fate —why contemplate what is so unprofitable and use less ? Yet in this mysticism which is more intrinsically of the …
416 that the Magician has demanded that nature shall be for him a phenomenal mode of expressing his spiritual reality. The circumstances, therefore, of his life are uniformly adapted to his work. To take another analogy. The world appears to the lawyer quite otherwise than it does to the carpenter, and the same event occurring to the two men will suggest two quite different trains of thought and lead to two quite different results. My own errors of judgment, due to the annihilation of my ego and the consequent lack of leadership felt by my body…
…OIAN. And I said: ODO KIKALE QAA. Why art thou hid- den from me, whom I hear? And the voice answered and said unto me: Hearing is of the spirit alone. Thou arta partaker of the five-fold mystery. Thou must roll up the ten divine ones like a scroll, and fashion therefrom a star. Yet must thou blot out the star in the heart of Hadit. 26
…ept, Yet it is so! Myst. Ah! would it serve to reply that it is so! Butno! the materialistic position, fully allowed, is an admission of spirit... They must conceive spirit and matter both as un- knowable, as irresolvable, like x and y in a single equation (whose counterpart we seek in Dhyana), so that we may eternally evolve 1 Maudsley, ‘‘ Physiology of Mind,” asks why it should be more unlikely that consciousness should be a function of matter than that pain should be of nervous tissue. True. So also Huxley extended the meaning of ‘‘nature”’ …
…ning loveliness . To know you love me ; that your body leaps With the quick passion of your soul ; to know Your fragrant kisses sting my spirit so ; To be one soul where Satan smiles and sleeps ; Ah ! in the very triumph - hour of Hell Satan himself remembers whence he fell ! ? Again , such lines as these from the “ Triumph of Man " : And all the earth is blasted ; the green sward Burns where it touches , and the barren sod 1 The Tale of Archais , vol . I, p . 11 . ? The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 181 .
94 THE STAR IN THE WEST with Lust . As every one of us has been bred on dead flesh , so every one of us passes along our way spiritu ally encumbered with the dead bones of our ancestors ' opinions ; and living with them we die , only to add more mental tibias and spiritual metatarsals to the groaning back of the future . In the Kingdom of Love these extremes gave birth to two forces , “ Neronic Lust ” and “ Platonic Affec tion .” From a heterogeneous mass of ics , ists , and ians , sprang the idea that there was an inherent evil in the culminat…
…eils, exquisite Chinese ivories, and porcelains, and many other things of great and delicate beauty; for such things are informed by Her spirit, for they are cast off from her into the world of the Qliphoth, or shells of the dead, that is earth. For every world is the shell or excrement of the world above it. I cannot bear the Vision. A voice comes, I know not whence: Blessed art thou, who hast seen, and yet hast not believed. For therefore is it given unto thee to taste, and smell, and feel, and hear, and know by the inner sense, and by the in…
…ece of good luck ; in the house of a lady born in Poland, but thrice French by the nobility of her heart, the indescribable charm of her spirit, and the European celebrity of her name. The publication of this information in the Lstafette attracted to us at that time, without our particularly knowing 128
…ece of good luck ; in the house of a lady born in Poland, but thrice French by the nobility of her heart, the indescribable charm of her spirit, and the European celebrity of her name. The publication of this information in the Lstafette attracted to us at that time, without our particularly knowing 128