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Page 57 of 791929 · PDF PAGE 4
4 The writer of any biography must ask, in the deepest sense, who is he? This questions who art thou?" is the first which is put to any candidate for initiation. Also, it is the last. What so-and-so is, did and suffered: these are merely clues to that great problem. So then the earliest memories of any autohagiographer will be immensely valuable; their very incoherence will be an infallible guide. For, as Freud has shown, we remember (in the main) what we wish to remember, and forget what is painful. There is thus great danger of deception as t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 186
… armed in that triple mail Of justice, virtue, truth: percipience Beyond the mute and melancholy veil That covers from the drowsy eye of sense The subtle thought that hides behind the mask. I fear indeed: but now the soul intense
1996 · PDF PAGE 126
…for here is the Impulse that setteth us to Magick, the Pain of the Conscious Mind. Having then Wit to find the Cause of this Pain in the Sense of Separation, and its Cessation by the Union of Love, it is the Summit of our Holy Art to present the whole Being of our Star to Our Lady in the Nuptial of our Bodily Death. We are then to make our whole Engine the true and real Appurte nance of our Force, without Leak, or Friction, or any other Waste or Hindrance to its Action. Thou knowest well how an Horse, or even a Machine propelled by a Man’s Fee…
1929 · PDF PAGE 113
…e personal équation as Love. “That is no reason why we should not study, practice and enjoy it • for it is a Science in exactly the same sense as biology; it is no less an Art than Sculpture 5 and it is a Sport as much as Moun- taineering. “Indeed, there seems to be no undue presumption in urging that no Science possesses equal possibilities of deep and important Knowledge ; 3 that no Art offers such opportunités to the ambi- 1. If it did so, how could we call it duplex? 2. The history of the Earth is included in the period of some such relatio…
1929 · PDF PAGE 234
"Nonsense, sir; you are not in a debating society or at a scientific tea- party." "That last, sir," replied Cyril coldly "is my unavailing regret." But Lord Juventius Mellor frustrated the effect of this impolitic speech. He fixed his languid eyes upon the red face of the veteran, and his voice came in a soft caressing whisper. "Pardon me; do let us be unofficial for five minutes more!" "Well, boy?" "I think it's only fair to let General Foch enjoy the joke. I hear he has been depressed lately." "He might not take it so easily. The French do [3…
1930 · PDF PAGE 42
which is not dépendent on cérébral structures consisting of matter in lise vulgar sense of the word ? 2) “Matter” includes ail that is moveable. Thus, electric waves are “matter”. There is no reason to deny the existence of Beings who perceive by other means those subtle forces which we only perceive by our instruments. 3) We can influence other Beings, conscious or no, as lion- tamers, gardeners, etc. ; and are influenced by them, as bv storms, bacilli, etc. 4) There is an apparent gap between our senses and their correspondances in consciousn…
1996 · PDF PAGE 14
…e able to understand some parts of the letter, he is sure to find other parts that are unmistakably addressed, in an intimately personal sense, to him. It is because the thought expressed in this Book of the Law was sometimes not easily intelligible to the transmitter that he wrote a Commentary upon it.1 2 He wished to explain, so far as he could, the messages that he had received. After some lapse of time he wrote a second Commentary,3 which superseded the first; so I have not included the first in this volume. And there is a good deal of the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
… case, individuality wouid not be inviolable. No man can communicate even the simplest thought to any other man in any full and accurate sense. For that thought is sown in a different soil, and cannot produce an identical effect. I cannot put a spot of red upon two pictures without altering each in diverse ways. It might hâve little effect on a sunset by Turner, but much on a nocturne by Whistler. The ïdentity of the two spots as spots wouid thus be fallacious. 2. This is not to say that it is advisable. O how shameful is human weakness! But it…
1929 · PDF PAGE 119
…. He wishes to formulate his will in Sound, and radiate it in every direction ; moreover, to influence that which lives by breath in the sense of his purpose, and to summon it to bear witness to his Word. The hands are used as symbols of his executive power, the bell to represent his consciousness exalted into music. To strike with the wand is to utter the fiat of création ; the cup vibrâtes with his delight in receiving spiritual wine. A blow with the dagger is like the signal for battle. The disk is used to express the throwing down of the pr…
1907 · PDF PAGE 101
…Of all the universe unalterable. We know too well THE light streams stronger through the lamps How no one thing abides awhile at all, of sense. Intelligence Grows as we go. Alas: its icy glimmer Shows dimmer, dimmer The awful vaults we traverse. Were the sun Himself the one Glory of space, he would but illustrate The night of Fate. Are not the hosts of heaven in vain arrayed ? | Their light dismayed Before the vast blind spaces of the sky? O galaxy Of thousands upon thousands closely curled! Your golden world Incalculably small, its closest clu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 90
…which Fate has been shame- less enough to perpetrate in his présent life, would naturally, one might think, reopen the wound. There is a sense which assures us intuitively when we are running on a scent breast high. There is an oddness about' the memory which is somehow annoying. It gives a feeling of shame and guiltiness. There is a tendency to blush. One feels like a schoolboy caught red-handed in the act of writing poetry. There is the same sort of feeling as one has when one finds a faded photo- graph or a lock of hair twenty years old amon…
1930 · PDF PAGE 24
… can, for example, pass tirough matter , and it can move freelv in every direction * ni ough space. But this is because “matter”, in the sense in which we commonly use the word, is on another plane 2. Now this fine body perceives a uni verse which we do not ordinarily . perceive. It does not necessarily perceive the universe which we do normally perceive, so although in this body I can pass through the roof, it does not follow that I shall be able to tell what the weather is like. I might do so, or I might not; Dut if I could not, it would not …
1996 · PDF PAGE 129
… my Law have been those of people who cannot bear to imagine the horrors which would result if they were free to do their own wills. The sense of sin, shame, self distrust, this is what makes folk cling to Christianity-slavery. People believe in a medicine just insofar as it is nasty; the meta physical root of this idea is in sexual degeneracy of the masochis tic type. Now “the Law is for all”; but such defectives will refuse it, and serve us who are free with a fidelity the more dog-like as the simplicity of our freedom denotes their abject…
1910 · PDF PAGE 153
…ion of the other irrespective of which is first—if either? Ananda Metteya carries his illustration further still. John Smith, then, in a sense, is immortal; nay, every thought he thinks is deathless, and will persist, somewhere, in the depths of infinity... . But it is not this part of his energy that results in the formation of a new being when he dies. ... We may then consider the moment of John Smith’s death... . During his life he has not alone been setting in vibration the great ocean of the ther, he has been affecting the structure of his…
1910 · PDF PAGE 153
…ion of the other irrespective of which is first—if either? Ananda Metteya carries his illustration further still. John Smith, then, in a sense, is immortal; nay, every thought he thinks is deathless, and will persist, somewhere, in the depths of infinity... . But it is not this part of his energy that results in the formation of a new being when he dies. ... We may then consider the moment of John Smith’s death... . During his life he has not alone been setting in vibration the great ocean of the ther, he has been affecting the structure of his…
1905 · PDF PAGE 237
…these same lovers in the golden sheaves Under the sun. The same, the fuller fruit, say you? But somehow, nearer to the end. Lost the old sense of mystery, and lost That curious reverence in sacrilege With Wonder—the child’s faculty! Less joy, Less laughter, yes! that symptom [ approve; Vet is that subtle fading-out of smiles 1 Sagittarius, Capricornus, in which is the Sun during November and December.
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
…'ence-smillm, protest: fiebly] Truth and falsehood in the British “ I’m a plain man, sir, and I like a plain answer to a plain question " sense are, on the lowest grounds, but details of Morality: Morality is but a branch of that Tree of Knowledge; and yet so far may the Adept fall from his Samadhic consciousness that he is found with atavistic ardour recalling his father’s last instructions ere he left home for school—“ and, Talbot, mind you always tell the truth, what ever comes of it I” the “ Talbot ” itself being a deliberate lie told under …
1929 · PDF PAGE 54
… on. At the conclusion of this a mental image of the God, infinitely vast and infinitely splendid, should be perceived, in just the same sense as a man might see the Sun. The second part begins with the words: '“Behold! I am yesterday, to~day, and the brother of to- morrow.” The magician should imagine that he is hearing this voice, and at the same time that he is echoing it, that it is true also of himself. This thought should so exalt him that he is able at its conclusion to utter the sublime words which open the third part: “Behold! he is in…
1929 · PDF PAGE 55
…onal and material views of the nature of things. They seem to hâve thought that there was an Archangel named Ratziel in exactly the same sense as there was a statesman named Richelieu, an individual being living in a definite place. Eté had possibly certain powers of a somewhat metaphysical order—he might be — 19 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 56
…fficulty. Being determined to instruct mankind, He sought a simple statement of his object. His will was sufficiently informed by common sense to décidé him to teach man T he Nexi Step, the thing which was immediately above him. He might hâve called this “God”, or “The Higher Self”, or “The Augoeides”, or “Adi-Buddha”, or 61 other things —but He had discovered that these w'ere ali one, yet that each one represented some theory of the Universe which would ultimately be shattered by criticism — for He had already passed through the realm of Reaso…