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Page 57 of 741944 · PDF PAGE 70
…cence, it is hard to deny that in the expression of the initiator is something mysterious, even sinister. He seems to be enjoying a very secret joke at somebody’s expense. There is a distinctly sadistic aspect to this card; not unnaturally, since it derives from the Legend of Pasiphae, the prototype of all the legends of Bull‐gods. These still persist in such religions as Shaivism, and (after multiple de‐ gradations) in Christianity itself. The symbolism of the Wand is peculiar; the three interlaced rings which crown it may be taken as represen…
1922 · PDF PAGE 84
…e recapitulated finally, “is the theory that everything human in us is before all things an obstacle in the way of holiness. That is the secret of the saints, that they renounce everything for one thing which they call the divine purity. It is not simply those things which we ordinarily call sins or vices—those are merely the elementary forms of iniquity—exuberant grossness. The real difficulty hardly begins till things of that sort are dismissed for ever. On the road to saintship, every bodily or mental manifestation is in itself a sin, even w…
1922 · PDF PAGE 117
…e possibilities! Yet almost before the words were out of our mouths, a sly smile crept over Lou’s loveliness and kindled the same subtly secret delight in my heart. _ She offered me a pinch of heroin with the air of communicating some exquisitely esoteric sacrament; and I accepted it and measured her a similar dose on my own hand as if some dim delirious desire devoured us. We took it not because we needed it ; but because the act of consummation was, so to speak, an act of religion. It was the very fact that it was not an act of necessity whic…
1929 · PDF PAGE 53
… human service; they had been used to heat the forge of art. For this woman was a great singer; and no one outside the Order knew of her secret aspirations, or that she retired from time to time to one or the other of the Profess-Houses of the Order, there to pursue a mightier transmutation of her being. She greeted Cyril with peculiar warmth — indeed, it had been she to whom he had once thrown a pair of socks. In a way, it was he that had made her a great artist; for his personality had broken down her dykes; not till she met him had she ever …
1996 · PDF PAGE 123
…and his Bride! 38. A feast for the three days of the writing of the Book of the Law. 39. A feast for Tahuti and the child of the Prophet—secret, O Prophet! 40. A feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the Equinox of the Gods. 41. A feast for fire and a feast for water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death! Commentary: The feasts of fire and water indicate rejoicings to be made at the puberty of boys and girls respectively. The feast for life is at a birth; and the feast for death at a death. It is of the utmost importance to ma…
1910 · PDF PAGE 96
…ad-Gita” upon this point says: In a pure place, established in a fixed seat of his own, neither very much raised nor very low . . . in a secret place by himself... . There . . . he should practise Yoga for the purification of the self. Holding the body, head and neck erect, immovably steady, looking fixedly at the point of the nose with un- wandering gaze. When these postures have been in some way mastered, the aspirant must combine with them the exercises of Pranayama, which will by degrees purify the Nadi or nerve- centres. These NAdis, which…
1910 · PDF PAGE 96
…ad-Gita” upon this point says: In a pure place, established in a fixed seat of his own, neither very much raised nor very low . . . in a secret place by himself... . There . . . he should practise Yoga for the purification of the self. Holding the body, head and neck erect, immovably steady, looking fixedly at the point of the nose with un- wandering gaze. When these postures have been in some way mastered, the aspirant must combine with them the exercises of Pranayama, which will by degrees purify the Nadi or nerve- centres. These NAdis, which…
1922 · PDF PAGE 280
…ption. But Lou’s eyes were fixed on him with an expression of delighted curiosity. I felt as though somehow or other she had divined the secret. She seemed intensely amused at my perplexity, and stroked my hair in her most patronising manner. “You poor brainless creature,” she seemed to be saying with her finger-tips Well, we all had heroin with our second cup of coffee, and my spirits rose immediately. Lamus produced two little note books which he had bought in the village, so that we might record our doses while we were-out and copy them on o…
1954 · PDF PAGE 454
…xious excess, he becomes a very champion of virility. More, he has been particularly trained for this form of asceticism by all sorts of secret methods and practices; some of these, by the way, I was able to learn myself, and found surprisingly efficacious. So we have the law of supply and demand at work as uncomplainingly as usual: the Holy Man prays for the threatened Dynasty, blesses the Barren Queen; and they all live happy ever after. This is not an Arabian Night's Tale of Antiquity; it is the same to-day; there are very few Englishmen who…
1899 · PDF PAGE 93
…ry analysis. That I have made Jephthah a Magician is also in accordance with tradition. Great captains were always great priests, in the secret Qabalistical sense. The priests themselves, then as to-day, were foolish old men trained to bolster up the externals of religion. The real rulers, then as to-day, were not, officially, priests ; the sceptre was wielded by those who, swathed in thick darkness, and enthroned on their own thunderclouds, looked with the eye of gods upon this earth, and carried out the designs of God with tranquil power. I h…
1954 · PDF PAGE 491
…s as if the Masters acquiesced in and helped to fulfil, the formula of the catastrophic succession of the Aeons. An analogy. We have the secret of the Elixir of Life, and could carryon in the same body indefinitely; yet at least some Masters prefer to reincarnate in the regular way, only taking care to waste no time in Amennti, but to get back to the Old Bench and pick up the New Tools with the minimum of delay. By having attained the Freedom of "Elysian, windless, fortunate abodes Beyond Heaven's constellated wilderness" "we are blessed; and b…
1996 · PDF PAGE 27
…e essences of things, their “Souls,” are indifferent to all conditions soever, for none can in any way affect them. 6. Be thou Hadit, my secret centre, my heart & my tongue! 7. Behold! it is revealed by Aiwass the minister of Hoor-paar- kraat. Commentary: Aiwass is the name given by Ouarda the Seer3 as that of the Intelligence Communicating.
1907 · PDF PAGE 129
… CASSE.) CONSUMMATE beauty built of ugliness, O broken-nose philosopher, is thine. Diamonds are deepest in the blue-mud mine ; So is the secret of thy strong success Demonic-glittering through the wear and stress Of tortured feature ; virtue’s soul doth shine, Genius and wisdom in the force divine That fills thy face; magnificence ! no less. Ay! thou shalt drink the hemlock; thou shalt suffer And die for self-respect, for love of others! To-day are men indissolubly brothers? Is my life smoother than the Greek’s or rougher ? The Greek at least s…
1996 · PDF PAGE 94
…5 8. Who worshipped Heru-pa-kraath have worshipped me; ill, for I am the worshipper. Commentary: Harpocrates is also the Dwarf-Soul, the Secret Self of every man, the Serpent with the Lion’s Head. Now Hadit knows Nuit by virtue of his “Going” or “Love.” It is therefore wrong to worship Hadit; one is to be Hadit, and worship Her. This is clear even from His instruction “To worship me” in verse 22 of this chapter. Confer Cap. I, v. 9. We are exhorted to offer ourselves unto Nuit, pilgrims to all her temples. It is bad Magick to admit that one is …
1996 · PDF PAGE 202
…he for tress, and the great mystery of the House of God. All these old letters of my Book are aright; but is not the Star. This also is secret: my prophet shall reveal it to the wise. 58. I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice. 59. My incense is of resinous woods & gums; and there is no blood therein: because of my hair the trees of Eternity.
1910 · PDF PAGE 211
…himself to the level of an occult Punch and Judy showman. He had attained to powers that were beyond the normal, and now he carried them secretly like some precious blade of Damascus steel, hidden in a velvet sheath, concealed from view, but ever ready to hand. He did not display his weapon to the wanton, neither did he brandish it before the * Nearly all the Masters have been cautious how they handled this power; generally refusing to expend it at the mere caprice of their followers or oppon- ents. The Siddhis are like the Gold of the Alchemis…
1910 · PDF PAGE 211
…himself to the level of an occult Punch and Judy showman. He had attained to powers that were beyond the normal, and now he carried them secretly like some precious blade of Damascus steel, hidden in a velvet sheath, concealed from view, but ever ready to hand. He did not display his weapon to the wanton, neither did he brandish it before the * Nearly all the Masters have been cautious how they handled this power; generally refusing to expend it at the mere caprice of their followers or oppon- ents. The Siddhis are like the Gold of the Alchemis…
1954 · PDF PAGE 508
…oman that has not seen Sex as it is, faced it, mastered it- you will find elsewhere in these letters sufficient on this matter-it is his secret guilt. Imagine, then, how at any reference however remote , the "sinner' quails, his inmost mystery laid bare, his evil conscience holding up a tarnished mirror to his deformed and hideous face! Often enough , he does not mind gross jests which admit complicity on the part of the other ; but any allusion to the Truth , and his soul shrieks : I am found out! Then apoplectic Fear puts on the mask of Indig…
1954 · PDF PAGE 292
…he third Key to this Law; and on the discovery of that fact, after years of constant seeking, what sudden splendours of Truth, sacred as secret, blazed in he midnight of my mind! Observe now; "this circle squared in its failure is a key also.' Now I knew that in the value of the letters of ALHIM, 'the Gods', the Jews had concealed a not quite correct value of n, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, to 4 places of decimals: 3.1415; nearer would be 3.1416. If I prefix our Key, 31 putting ()« 0, Set or Satan, before the old Gods,…
1954 · PDF PAGE 517
…ture is not so easily beaten; a few boys and girls will somehow escape, and either by instinct or by observation, have the sense to keep secret. Now whatever their own peculiar genius may select as their line, they will realise that nothing is possible in any way while the accursed system stands. Their first duty is Revolt. And presently some one will come along with the wit and the will and the weapon, and blow the whole most damnable bag of tricks sky-high. We had better busy ourselves about this while it is still possible to get back to free…