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Page 55 of 1141961 · PDF PAGE 195
THE BOOK OF WISDOM OR FOLLY 183 Za De Via Sola Solis (Of the One Way of the Sun) HIS is the Profit of mine Intoxication of this Holy Herb, the Grass of the Arab, that it has shewed me this Mystery (with many others) not as a new Light, for I had that aforetime, but by its swift Synthesis and Manifestation of a Long Sequence of Events in a Moment, I had Wit to analyse this Method, and to discover its Essential Law, which before had escaped the Focus of the Lens of mine Understanding. Yea, o my Son, there is no true Path of Light, save that which…
1906 · PDF PAGE 219
…pt. But the fire grew and the light dazzled her; so that with a shriek she fell. But the beasts flung themselves against the burning gateway of iron, and it gave way. Our Father passed into the fire. Some say that it consumed him utterly and that he died; howbeit, it is certain that he rose from a sarcophagus, and in the skies stood an angel with a trumpet, and on that trumpet he blew so mighty a blast that the dead rose all from their tombs, and our Father among them. ‘‘ Now away!” he cried. ‘‘I would look upon the sun!” And with that the fire…
1929 · PDF PAGE 141
…ion. The normal man looking form the top of the Jungfrau sees Monta Rosa, the Matterhorn, the Dent Blanche and other high peaks, all the way to Mont Blanc, sticking up out of the morning mists. The appear to him isolated phenomena. The mists clear and he becomes aware that these peaks are the summits of a range; they are joined by a ridge rising to lesser peaks and falling to passes. But these secondary irregularities are themselves based on smaller ones, and even on a level glacier on finds that the surface is not uniform; each separate crysta…
1907 · PDF PAGE 259
… who have failed : So I press on . Fresh strength from day to day Girds up my loins and beckons me on high . So I depart upon the desert way , So I strive ever toward the copper sky , With lips burnt black and blind in either eye . I move for ever to my mystic goal Where I may drain a fountain never dry , And of Life's guerdon gather in the whole , And on celestial manna satisfy my soul.3 All the “ Unholy phantom faces ” . of self, and of sin , will be lost , and all the misty distortions that crowd the brain will fade and wither : So shalt tho…
1919 · PDF PAGE 65
LIBER CAVS knew that the true way to attract the notice of such was to equilibrate the symbols. The temple must be builded before the God can indwell it. 22. Therefore by the order of D.D.S. did P. prepare all things by his arcane science and wisdom, choosing only those symbols which were common to all systems, and rigorously rejecting all names and words which might be supposed to imply any religious or metaphysical theory. To do this utterly was found impossible, since all lan- guage has a history, and the use (for example) of the word “spiri…
1919 · PDF PAGE 419
… Thou mayest enter. Vet, ere thou settest foot upon the dreary Path of Sorrow, *tis well thou should’ st first learn the pitfalls on thy way. It appears as if the condition of entering the Path was the Vision of Sorrow, and of course the present Commentator might be inclined to support this theory, since, in his own ex- perience, it was this Vision of Sorrow which caused him to take the First Great Oath. He had suddenly presented to him the perception of the Three Characteristics. This is fully narrated in Book 4, Part IV. It is also evident th…
1930 · PDF PAGE 11
…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 existence of villains, the Jews and the Arabs were at least allowed to live. Besides, the Arabs saw to that themselves. But no one was better aware than the Pope that knowledge was power. F…
1944 · PDF PAGE 267
…that prejudiced desire which is the poison of will, “For pure will, unassuaged of pur‐ pose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect”. It only makes things worse if one wishes that there were no Ten of Swords in the pack, or that the Five of Wands did not follow and upset the Four. DIAGRAM 6. THE ELEMENTS AND THEIR SYMBOLS This diagram is at first sight very disturbing, for it cannot be attributed in any straight‐ forward way to the Tree of Life. It will be best to state the problems, ab ovo. The Elements are four in number; alt…
1910 · PDF PAGE 18
…ad- ditions, to me. I have retained the paragraph to explain the occasional diversity of opinion in read- ing or interpretation, and the way in which ‘ I ’ and ‘ We ’ are alternatively used in the notes. Ed.) The verse rendering are in every case later pa- raphrases from the original drafts, and the prose has been carefully revised at leisure. I wished to put the whole into verse : but the ‘ prodigious difficulties of the monorhyme ’, as Bur- ton only too inadequately says, beat me as often as not. Had I been able to obtain the aid of a profes-…
1904 · PDF PAGE 105
…tter than Macbeth, better than the Cenci ; better than the Mother’s Tragedy. No! this praise is too fulsome, too indiscriminate; but any way, better than the other two. He groans like laurelled Martial in Burns’s poem ; yet his assassin does not tickle the ears of the groundlings with a coarse “ Crévé, nom de D !” but in supreme self-mastery, the iron con- trol of a lunatic whose sanity is at stake, enters stern and silent, his eyes glittering with fiendish joy — Baviére, thy poster is superb!—and develops with calm and scientific precision his…
1907 · PDF PAGE 202
…ctu quod non antea fuerit in sensu . Leibnitz in his day , perceiving the weakness in this axiom , ex tended its phraseology , but in no way its meaning , by adding Excipi nisi ipse intellectus . This weakness in Locke's system became only too apparent to his followers ; and Berkeley , as well as Hume , and later still Kant himself , travelling by slightly different roads , ultimately arrived at the same destination : we cannot go beyond experience .” In the first half of the last century Kant's immedi ate successors , such as Fichte , Schellin…
1909 · PDF PAGE 65
…le, at which I am very accurate. Further, I keep a mental record, quite unconsciously, of the time occupied on a march ; so that I can always tell the time within five minutes or so without consulting my watch. Further, I have another automatic recorder which maps out distance plus direction. Suppose I were to start from Scott’s and walk (or drive; it’s all the same to me) to Haggerston Town Hall (wherever Haggerston may be; but say it’s Ν.Ε.)͵ thence to Maida Vale. From Maida Vale I could take a true line for Piccadilly again and not go five min…
1909 · PDF PAGE 39
…o do so, and that figures appear, let him at all costs rise above them. Yea, though his very life tremble on his lips, let him force his way upward and onward! 5. Let him continue in this so long as the breath of life is in him. Whatever threatens, whatever allures, though it were Typhon and all his hosts loosed from the pit and leagued against him, though it were from the very Throne of God Himself that a Voice issues bidding him stay and be content, let him struggle on, ever on. 6. At last there must come a moment when his whole 29
1909 · PDF PAGE 39
…o do so, and that figures appear, let him at all costs rise above them. Yea, though his very life tremble on his lips, let him force his way upward and onward! 5. Let him continue in this so long as the breath of life is in him. Whatever threatens, whatever allures, though it were Typhon and all his hosts loosed from the pit and leagued against him, though it were from the very Throne of God Himself that a Voice issues bidding him stay and be content, let him struggle on, ever on. 6. At last there must come a moment when his whole 29
1919 · PDF PAGE 87
…ore the hour, falling dead into Thine infinite stream! 54. Also the stream of the stars floweth ever majestical unto the Abode; bear me away upon the Bosom of Nuit! 55. This is the world of the waters of Maim; this is the bitter water that becometh sweet. Thou art beautiful and bitter, O golden one, O my Lord Adonai, O thou Abyss of Sapphire! 56. I follow Thee, and the waters of Death fight strenu- ously against me. I pass unto the Waters beyond Death and beyond Life. 57. How shall I answer the foolish man? Inno way shall he come to the Identit…
1919 · PDF PAGE 363
…. Existence is one. He knows these things as facts, just as he knows that two and two make four. Consequently, although he has found the way of escape for that fraction of consciousness which he once called “I,” and although he knows that not only that consciousness, but all other consciousnesses, are but part of an illusion, yet he feels that his own task is not accomplished while there remains any fragment of con- sciousness thus unemancipated from illusion. Here we get into very deep metaphysical difficulties, but that cannot be helped, for …
1919 · PDF PAGE 386
THE EQUINOX 53. Point out the “Way’—however dimly, and lost among the host—as does the evening star to those who tread their path in darkness. The principal method of Karma Yoga indicated is the preaching of the good Law. Of course it will be understood that anyone thus unfortunately situated cannot understand the Law, but the Law is of such virtue that this is not a fatal disadvantage. See Liber CCC. 54. Behold Migmar (Mars), as in his crimson veils his “Eye” sweeps over slumbering Earth. Behold the fiery aura of the “Hand” of Lhagpa (Mercury)…
1930 · PDF PAGE 18
…t to find living people whom you could cut up to see what came of it. The surgeon was, in fact, not understood at all, except in the one way which such people were capable of understanding ; i.e., as the body-snatcher. The rest of his proceedings were perfectly mysterious to them. You notice that even Charles Dickenswho may yet go down to history for having wished to prosecute Holman Hunt, of all people in the world, for painting indecent picturestakes very much this popular view of medicine and pharmacy in Pickwick. I think, then, it is not …
1954 · PDF PAGE 45
…ur , Mercury , Salt, or Gunas , Sattvas , Rajas, Tamas - has the value 20. So also has the letter Yod2 spelt in full. One Gnostic secret way of spelling and pronouncing Jehovah is lAO' and this has the value 811. So has "Let there be," Fiat, transliterating into Greek . Resuming all these ideas, it seems that you can express your aspiration very neatly, very fully , by choosing for your motto the words FIAT YOD. Love is the Law, love under will. Fraternally , 666 P.S. Please study this letter , and these explanatory figures. (The author , BAPHO…
1961 · PDF PAGE 200
…um Operibus Diversis (Of Divers Works of the Illuminati) O thou understand how few be they whose Work in this their present Lives is our Way of Initiation. Yet it is written in The Book of the Law that the Law is for all, so that thou shalt in no wise err if thou establish it as the formula of the Æon, universal among Men. Also, even for them that are fitted to advance in our Light, there is Order and Diversity in Function, as regardeth their Work in our Sublime Brotherhood, Thus, it might well be that, in a Profess-House of the Temple, or Coll…