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Page 56 of 911907 · PDF PAGE 114
…Ghost grins the truth ! The King-Ghost boasts eternal usurpature; For in this pool of tears his fingers fret I had imagined, by enduring nature, The twin gods ‘‘ Thus-will-I”’ and “* May- be-yet.”” God, keep us most from ill, What time the King-Ghost grips the will ! Silver and rose and gold what flame re- surgesP What living light pours forth in emerald waves?P What inmost Music drowns the clamorous dirges? -—Shrieking they fly, the King-Ghost and his slaves. Lord, let Thy Ghost indwell, And keep us from the power of Hell ! Amen. Kneel down, d…
1913 · PDF PAGE 562
…ut these are the necessary and regular conclusions of the spirit of perversity; to aspire ceaselessly to suicide, to calumniate life and nature, to invoke death every day without being able to die. This is eternal Hell, it is the punishment of Satan, that mythological incarna- tion of the spirit of perversity; the true translation into French of the Greek word Diadolos, or devil, is fe pervers— the perverse. Here is a mystery which debauchees do not suspect. It is this: one cannot enjoy even the material pleasures of life but by virtue of the m…
1913 · PDF PAGE 562
…ut these are the necessary and regular conclusions of the spirit of perversity; to aspire ceaselessly to suicide, to calumniate life and nature, to invoke death every day without being able to die. This is eternal Hell, it is the punishment of Satan, that mythological incarna- tion of the spirit of perversity; the true translation into French of the Greek word Diadolos, or devil, is fe pervers— the perverse. Here is a mystery which debauchees do not suspect. It is this: one cannot enjoy even the material pleasures of life but by virtue of the m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 13
Chapter2 A PHILOSOPHICAL DISQUISITION UPON THE NATURE OF THE SOUL "THERE is little difference - barring our Occidental subtlety — between Chinese philosophy and English," observed Cyril Grey. "The Chinese bury a man alive in an ant heap; the English introduce him to a woman." Lisa la Giuffria was startled into normality by the words. They were not spoken in jest. And she began to take stock of her surroundings. Cyril Grey himself was radically changed. In fashionable London he had worn a claret-coloured suit, an enormous grey butterfly tie hidi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 82
… his expérience but a vague though vivid impression of complété release and ineffable rapture. Répéti¬ tion fortifies him to réalisé the nature of his attain* ment 5 and his Angel, the link once made, frequents him, and trains him subtly to be sensitive to his Holy presence, and persuasion. But it may occur, especially after repeated success, that the Adept is not flung back into his mortality by the explosion of the Star-spate, but identified with one particular “Lion-Serpent”, continuing conscious thereof until it finds its proper place in Sp…
1954 · PDF PAGE 68
…love to influence their political actions. The Magician, however well he succeeds in making contact with the secret sources of energy in nature, can only use them to the extent permitted by his intellectual and moral qualities. Mohammed's intercourse with Gabriel was only effective because of his statesmanship, soldiership, and the sublimity of his command of Arabic. Hertz' discovery of the rays which we now use f or wireless telegraphy was sterile until reflected through the minds and wills of the people who could take his truth, and transmit …
1909 · PDF PAGE 25
…sham, so that the religion may be universal enough for those few who are capable of its reality to nestle to its breast, and nurse their nature on its starry milk. But we anticipate! My message is then twofold; to the greasy bourgeois I preach discontent; I shock him, I stagger him, I cut away earth from under his feet, I turn him upside down, I give him hashish and make him run amok, I twitch his buttocks with the red-hot tongs of my Sadistic fancy—until he feels uncomfortable. But to the man who is already as uneasy as St. Lawrence on his sil…
1922 · PDF PAGE 111
…cal indications. One needs elasticity. It’s simply spiritual socialism to tie oneself down to fixed doses whether one needs them or not. Nature is the best guide. We had got on to the game. Our misadventure at the Petit Savoyard had taught us wisdom. We were getting stronger on the wing every hour. That chap Coué is a piker, as they say in America. “Every day, in every way, I get better and better,” indeed? The man must simply have been carried away by the rhyme. Why wait for aday? We had got to the stage where every minute counted. As the Scot…
1954 · PDF PAGE 125
92 MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS Of what nature is this Power, this Authority, this Understanding, this Wisdom-Will? (I go up from Geburah to Chokmah.) Of the passive side it is comparatively easy to form some idea; for the qualities essential are mainly extensions of those that all of us possess in some degree. And whether Understanding-Wisdom is "right" or "wrong" must be largely a matter of opinion; often Time only can decide such points. But for the active side it is necessary to postulate the existence of a form of Energy at their disposal which is…
1929 · PDF PAGE 464
…he moment of awakening arrives the disillusionment may shock them at first into insanity. Nothing less is likely to show them that human nature is a stubborn reality which no amount of humouring, befooling and bullying will alter. These preliminary speculations set forth, I will now try to justify the diagnosis by exhibiting the salient symptom. For convenience I have classed my observations under a few principal heads. I shall show how America differs from Europe in its attitude towards law and order. I shall give examples of the unfathomable …
1919 · PDF PAGE 56
…verse comes from the marriage of Nuit and Hadit; without this could no thing be. This eternal, this perpetual marriage-feast is then the nature of things themselves; and therefore everything that iis, is a crystalli- zation of divine ecstasy. Hadit tells us of Himself: “I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star.” He is then your own inmost divine self; it is you, and not another, who are lost in the constant rapture of the embraces of In- finite Beauty. A little further on He speaks of us: “We are not for th…
1919 · PDF PAGE 443
…he burden of a Magus. This whole passage will be found in much clearer language in Liber One, Equinox VII. 78. Nay, O thou candidate for Nature’s hidden lore! If one would follow in the steps of holy Tathagata, those gifts and powers are not for Self. 121
1929 · PDF PAGE 19
…tin, or create men from mushrooms. But it is theoretically possible to cause in any object any change of which that object is capable by nature ; and the conditions are covered by the above postulate.) III. THEOREMS. ( 1 ) Every intentional act is a Magical Act. 1 (Illustration: See “Définition” above.) i. By “intentional” I mean “willed”. But even unintentional actj so-seeming are not truly so. Thus, breathing is an act of the VŸ ill-to-Live. I. In one sense Magick may be dehned as the name given to Science by the vulgar. — XVII —
1929 · PDF PAGE 29
…plained my intuition as follows: The doc- tor (when you last saw him) did not know consciously that he had cancer; but subconsciously Nature gave warning. You read this subconsciously, and it sprang into your consciousness when you read on the nurse's face that he was ill. This, farfetched as it may seem, at least avoids the shallow theories about telepathy. From this time my powers constantly increased. I could read my husband's thoughts from imperceptible movements of his face as easily as a trained deaf-mute can sometimes read the spee…
1954 · PDF PAGE 65
…t his subtler principles are merely symptomatic of the changes in his gross vehicle. A similar order may be assumed to extend throughout nature. (Illustration : One does not confuse the pain of toothache with the decay which causes it. Inanimate objects are sensitive to certain physical forces, such as electrical and thermal conductivity; but neither in us nor in them-so far as we know-is there any direct conscious perception of these forces. Imperceptible influences are therefore associated with all material phenomena ; and there is no reason …
1907 · PDF PAGE 75
…tender heart of some young girl , or the ardent spirit of another , cramped by this unnatural bond , and denied the joys of a beneficent Nature , that yearning to love and be loved . But not with impunity do we thus triumph over our natures ; love cannot be sorudely sup pressed ; the primary want of our being must inevitably conquer . Looking back on history we find few parallels to the general lust of the present day . Two thousand years of the Cross have to - day left as token of its mor ality 80,000 prostitutes on the London streets alone .'…
1910 · PDF PAGE 189
… of his meditations has been pre- served, time was not idled away and exercises in meditation of a more exalted kind, on the vastness of Nature and the ungraspable might of God, were his daily joy and consolation. In September he returned to Srinnagar, and thence jour- neyed to Bombay where he remained for but a few days before his return journey to Europe. Arriving in Egypt he remained in that ancient land for some three weeks, somehow feeling that it was here that he should find what he had so long now been seeking for in vain. But realizing …
1910 · PDF PAGE 189
… of his meditations has been pre- served, time was not idled away and exercises in meditation of a more exalted kind, on the vastness of Nature and the ungraspable might of God, were his daily joy and consolation. In September he returned to Srinnagar, and thence jour- neyed to Bombay where he remained for but a few days before his return journey to Europe. Arriving in Egypt he remained in that ancient land for some three weeks, somehow feeling that it was here that he should find what he had so long now been seeking for in vain. But realizing …
1910 · PDF PAGE 16
…lt, the scribe ! The lovely script to heart by laid ! ” The reason is of course that it is held exquisitely sacred : and seeing that the nature of the symbol- ism renders it open to the prurient jest or prudish reproach of the notoriously foul-minded Anglo- Saxon, the Persian, who is nothing if not dignified, is justly chary of casting his pearls before swine. Indeed, a certain scent-seller with whom I once argued against all this secrecy replied by beg- ging my permission to depart, “ for a Jew had promised to spit on his beard before as sohri…
1913 · PDF PAGE 581
…it aside at the moment of our second birth. Human life compared to heavenly life is veritably an embryo. When our evil passions kill us, Nature miscarries, and we are born before our time for eternity, which exposes us to that terrible dissolution which St. John calls the second death. According to the constant tradition of ecstatics, the abortions of human life remain swimming in the terrestrial atmosphere which they are unable to surmount, and which 283