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Page 56 of 841913 · 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 …
1954 · PDF PAGE 30
…zy" adventurer who embodies .these characteristics, or the holy man, should also be read in conjunction with that lengthy section of The Book
1904 · PDF PAGE 12
ASCENSION DAY 5 Ho ! I adopt the number. Look At the quaint wrapper of this book !* I will deserve it if I can: It is the number of a Man.33 So since in England Christ still stands With iron nails in bloody hands Not pierced, but grasping ! to hoist high Children on cross of agony, I find him real for English lives. Up with my pretty pair of fives !34 I fight no ghosts. “But why revile” (You urge me) “in that vicious style The very faith whose truths you seem (Elsewhere)35 to hold, to hymn supreme In your own soul ?” Perhaps you know How mystic…
1904 · PDF PAGE 26
… 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 to 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 u…
1910 · PDF PAGE 86
… practice discover those more particularly suited to himself. i. The Guru. Before commencing any Yoga practice, according to every Hindu book upon this subject, it is first necessary to find a Guru,* or teacher, to whom the disciple (Chela) must entirely devote himself: as the “ Shiva Sanhita” says: 11. Only the knowledge imparted by a Guru is powerful and useful; other- wise it becomes fruitless, weak and very painful. 12. He who attains knowledge by pleasing his Guru with every attention, readily obtains success therein. 13. There is not the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 86
… practice discover those more particularly suited to himself. i. The Guru. Before commencing any Yoga practice, according to every Hindu book upon this subject, it is first necessary to find a Guru,* or teacher, to whom the disciple (Chela) must entirely devote himself: as the “ Shiva Sanhita” says: 11. Only the knowledge imparted by a Guru is powerful and useful; other- wise it becomes fruitless, weak and very painful. 12. He who attains knowledge by pleasing his Guru with every attention, readily obtains success therein. 13. There is not the …
1930 · PDF PAGE 87
… corne at last to the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel : thus sayeth the Beast, and prayeth His own Angel that this book be as a burning Lamp, and as a living Spring, for Light and Life to them that read therein. 666 !• The consonants of LOGOS, “Word”, add (Hebrew values,) to 93. And EIIH, “Words”, (whence “Epie”) has also that value: EIAE TA EUH might be the phrase here intended: its number is 418. This would then assert the accomplishment of the Great Work; this is the natural conclusion of the Ritual. Cf. CCXX.III. 75. 2…
1954 · PDF PAGE 438
…at is neither here nor there; there is but one material issue: how to acquire that kind of faith. Suppose we hunt it up in that precious Book of Lies! Any luck? Steeped Horsehair Mind is a disease of semen. All that a man is or mayljds hidden therein. Bodily functions are parts. of the1hachine; silent, unless in dis-ease. But mind, never at ease, creaketh "I." This I persisteth not, posteth not through generations, changeth momently, finally is dead. Therefore is man only himself when lost to himself in The Charioting. Nothing in that to contra…
1913 · PDF PAGE 160
…X. BABALON, the Lady of the City of the Pyramids, is revealed. In Liber VII is the first utterance of the Master of the Temple, and this book should be studied by those who seek a further understanding. 120
1913 · PDF PAGE 160
…X. BABALON, the Lady of the City of the Pyramids, is revealed. In Liber VII is the first utterance of the Master of the Temple, and this book should be studied by those who seek a further understanding. 120
1919 · PDF PAGE 271
…ents and feasts of the times. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. A feast for Tahuti and the children of the Prophet—se- cret, O Prophet! A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. 257
1996 · PDF PAGE 186
…ir scope only partial. 62. To Me do ye reverence! to me come ye through tribulation of ordeal, which is bliss. 63. The fool readeth this Book of the Law, and its comment; & he understandeth it not. 64. Let him come through the first ordeal, & it will be to him as silver. 65. Through the second, gold. 66. Through the third, stones of precious water. 67. Through the fourth, ultimate sparks of the intimate fire.
1904 · PDF PAGE 22
… ! and then we will sit down to a real morn- ings work over my reminiscences. These, dear girl, are for you. They form this pleasant book. Now strip yourself and get a can- dle ; lunge in front of a looking-glass and read and frig alternately. If you are grown up, a dog or a man to suck you saves labour of any sort and time. But I want you to swim in a perfect ocean of fuck as you read and please God if we ever meet what ho ! Ive a belly-full of boiling emo- tion-emulsion to shoot up your Two-penny-tube, your Penny-Pipe, or into yo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 46
THE EQUINOX Together for many months we studied and practised Ceremonial Magic, and ransacked the ancient books and MSS. of the reputed sages for a key to the great mysteries of life and death. Not even fiction was neglected, and it was from fiction that we gathered one tiny seed-fact, which (in all these years) has germinated to the present essay. Through the ages we found this one constant story. Stripped of its local and chronological accidents, it usually came to this—the writer would tell of a young man, a seeker after the Hidden Wisdom, w…
1909 · PDF PAGE 46
THE EQUINOX Together for many months we studied and practised Ceremonial Magic, and ransacked the ancient books and MSS. of the reputed sages for a key to the great mysteries of life and death. Not even fiction was neglected, and it was from fiction that we gathered one tiny seed-fact, which (in all these years) has germinated to the present essay. Through the ages we found this one constant story. Stripped of its local and chronological accidents, it usually came to this—the writer would tell of a young man, a seeker after the Hidden Wisdom, w…
1913 · PDF PAGE 269
…e is always being “ bullied” and treated with “injustice,” however kind people are to him. Here are two cases, accurately taken from the book, but rendered in dialogue. I. In class: MASTER. What do you know of Gustavus Adolphus ? BOY [wzth gloomy pride that he knows all about G. A.], R—r—r—gr! MASTER. Come now, surely you don’t mind telling us something about him. BOY [stung to madness by this senseless torture}. 1 know ail about Gustavus Adolphus. MASTER. Well, that’s splendid. Let’s see now, who was he? BOY [beyond himself] Tyrant! Monster! B…
1913 · PDF PAGE 421
…nguish of the threshold of eternity, were obliged to make a second attempt. A celebrated magnetist, Baron Dupotet, teaches in his secret book on Magic that one can kill by magic as by electricity. There is nothing strange in this revelation for 123
1913 · PDF PAGE 269
…e is always being “ bullied” and treated with “injustice,” however kind people are to him. Here are two cases, accurately taken from the book, but rendered in dialogue. I. In class: MASTER. What do you know of Gustavus Adolphus ? BOY [wzth gloomy pride that he knows all about G. A.], R—r—r—gr! MASTER. Come now, surely you don’t mind telling us something about him. BOY [stung to madness by this senseless torture}. 1 know ail about Gustavus Adolphus. MASTER. Well, that’s splendid. Let’s see now, who was he? BOY [beyond himself] Tyrant! Monster! B…
1913 · PDF PAGE 421
…nguish of the threshold of eternity, were obliged to make a second attempt. A celebrated magnetist, Baron Dupotet, teaches in his secret book on Magic that one can kill by magic as by electricity. There is nothing strange in this revelation for 123
1954 · PDF PAGE 551
522 Leviathan, 117 Levitation , 393 Liber Aleph, 176, 386, 432-436 -Legis , 128,133; Finding of MS. see also Book of The Law -OZ,441 -Resh vel Helois, 2, 149,382 -Thisarb, 3, 199, 243, 297, 299,300,301,492 -LII,IO -LXV, 10 -VII, 10 -LXVI, 137 Liber CCLXX, 137 -DCCCXXXI,137 -CLXXV,137 -CLVI,137 - 418=The Vision and the Voice, 66 -III vel Jugorum, 149 Lidice,305 Lilith, 110 Lingam, 12, 389 Little Essays Toward Truth,S , 17,296 , 385 Lion Serpent, 23 Litton, 398 Logic, 8, 58 Logos, 474 Loki, 466 London, Jack, 97 Longfellow, 428 Lost Horizon, 224 L…