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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HASHISH XX “Tf thou extendest the Fiery Mind to the work of piety, thou wilt preserve the fluxible body.” “For three days and no longer need ye sacrifice.” —-ZOROASTER. We are at the end of our little digression upon mystic states, and may cheerfully return to the consideration of Scientific Iluminism. We have had, you may say, a poor half-pennyworth of Science to an intolerable deal of I]luminism. Well, that is what I wanted you to say. Were it not so, I would not have spent these two nights over this paper, when I want to be…
1919 · PDF PAGE 109
…son- ing and calculating what is probable. And to each will come the knowledge of his finite will, whereby one is poet, one prophet, one worker in steel, another in jade. But also to each be the knowledge of his infinite Will, his destiny to per- form the Great Work, the realization of his True Self. Of this Will let me therefore speak clearly unto all, since it per- taineth unto all. Understand now that in yourselves is a certain discon- tent. Analyse well its nature: at the end is in every case one conclusion. The ill springs from the belief …
1909 · PDF PAGE 86
… breakfast. Except, of course, that by this time one has abandoned meals for ever! The memory acquires the habit, and eventually goes on work- ing backwards through sleep, back, back, through birth and previous states until (saith Bhikhu Ananda Metteyya) going ever back through the past one comes right round to the future—‘ Which is pretty, but I don’t know what it means!” I think it right to mention that I never obtained any sort of success in this meditation, and only give it on hearsay. The real key to the stage is Sammasati—Right Recollec- …
1909 · PDF PAGE 178
…OX expressed by the Ten Voices or Emanations of God the Vast One—Blessed be He !—even the Holy Sephiroth. And the Method whereby I shall work shall be the One Absolute and inerratic Science: the Science of Number: which is that single Mystery of the Intellect of Man whereby he becometh exalted unto the Throne of Inflexible and Unerring Godhead. As it is written, “Oh, how the World hath Inflexible Intellectual Rulers” (Zoroaster). But before I may proceed unto the Qabalistical * enumera- tion and analysis of the Text, a certain preamble in the f…
1909 · PDF PAGE 86
… breakfast. Except, of course, that by this time one has abandoned meals for ever! The memory acquires the habit, and eventually goes on work- ing backwards through sleep, back, back, through birth and previous states until (saith Bhikhu Ananda Metteyya) going ever back through the past one comes right round to the future—‘ Which is pretty, but I don’t know what it means!” I think it right to mention that I never obtained any sort of success in this meditation, and only give it on hearsay. The real key to the stage is Sammasati—Right Recollec- …
1909 · PDF PAGE 178
…OX expressed by the Ten Voices or Emanations of God the Vast One—Blessed be He !—even the Holy Sephiroth. And the Method whereby I shall work shall be the One Absolute and inerratic Science: the Science of Number: which is that single Mystery of the Intellect of Man whereby he becometh exalted unto the Throne of Inflexible and Unerring Godhead. As it is written, “Oh, how the World hath Inflexible Intellectual Rulers” (Zoroaster). But before I may proceed unto the Qabalistical * enumera- tion and analysis of the Text, a certain preamble in the f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 416
…be for him a phenomenal mode of expressing his spiritual reality. The circumstances, therefore, of his life are uniformly adapted to his work. To take another analogy. The world appears to the lawyer quite otherwise than it does to the carpenter, and the same event occurring to the two men will suggest two quite different trains of thought and lead to two quite different results. My own errors of judgment, due to the annihilation of my ego and the consequent lack of leadership felt by my body and mind, produced their own immediate effect. I did…
1910 · PDF PAGE 157
…pelt [Persian text] not [Persian text] and equals 11, not 12. The number 11 however does represent the squaring of the circle, the Great Work, since there are 11 letters in Abrahadabra, whose symbolism is so enigmatical : [Persian text] is further the equation of [Persian text] 5 the Pen- tagram and [Persian text] 6 the Hexagram, Micro and Macro-prosopus, Man and God. 17. This is the extreme sceptico-mystical posi- tion : to admit that phenomena are perfectly mys- terious, while asserting a direct consciousness of the Absolute.
1929 · PDF PAGE 482
…ty pigeon-hole simply because I heard from my representative in London that my supposed pro-Germanism was a bar to the recognition of my work in England. I care nothing for public opinion. I care nothing for fame or success. I am perfectly happy in my retirement. The full leisure to work, the freedom from all interruption, the absence of temptations to distraction: Cefalu realizes my idea of heaven. But I am pledged to give my life to the establishment of the Law of Thelema: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law." So, if the operatio…
1919 · PDF PAGE 131
…selves accordingly with the Four Weapons: the Wand for Liberty, the Cup for Love, the Sword for Life, the Disk for Light: and with these work all wonders by the Art of High Magick under the Law of the New AZon, whose Word is @EAHMA. 125
1919 · PDF PAGE 397
… SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD is he. Here a.again we are-etold of the sweetness of the fruits. But even in the beginning the Magician has had to work entirely regardless of any fruits, and his principal method has been to reject any that may come his way. Again all this about the ‘sake of others’ and ‘suffering fellow-men,’ is the kind of sentimental balderdash that assures one that this book was intended to reach the English and not the Tibetan public. The sense of separateness from others has been weeded out from the consciousness long, long ago. The…
1910 · PDF PAGE 81
…d is aware that the mind possesses a power known as the reflective faculty. We hear ourselves talk; and we stand apart and see ourselves work and think. We stand aside from ourselves and anxiously or fearlessly watch and criticize our lives. There are two persons in us,—the thinker (or the worker) and the seer. The unwinding of the hoodwink from the eyes of the seer, for in most men the seer is, like a mummy, wrapped in the countless rags of thought, is what Yoga purposes to do: in other words, to accomplish no less a task than the mastering of…
1910 · PDF PAGE 81
…d is aware that the mind possesses a power known as the reflective faculty. We hear ourselves talk; and we stand apart and see ourselves work and think. We stand aside from ourselves and anxiously or fearlessly watch and criticize our lives. There are two persons in us,—the thinker (or the worker) and the seer. The unwinding of the hoodwink from the eyes of the seer, for in most men the seer is, like a mummy, wrapped in the countless rags of thought, is what Yoga purposes to do: in other words, to accomplish no less a task than the mastering of…
1913 · PDF PAGE 541
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES the world to work! What battles of giants! How many errors set forth and rebutted! How much deceived and irritated Christianity lies at the bottom of Protestantism, from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth! Human egotism, in despair at its defeats, has whipped up all its stupidities in turn. They have re-clothed the Saviour of the world with every rag and with every mocking purple. After Jesus the Inquisitor they have invented the sans-culotte Jesus ! Measure if you can all the tears and all the blood that have flow…
1913 · PDF PAGE 541
THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES the world to work! What battles of giants! How many errors set forth and rebutted! How much deceived and irritated Christianity lies at the bottom of Protestantism, from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth! Human egotism, in despair at its defeats, has whipped up all its stupidities in turn. They have re-clothed the Saviour of the world with every rag and with every mocking purple. After Jesus the Inquisitor they have invented the sans-culotte Jesus ! Measure if you can all the tears and all the blood that have flow…
1919 · PDF PAGE 138
…riding very comfortably ever since. From this time onward, according to the Rules of the Order, he began keeping a written record of his Work, and this makes our task easier; but since he himself became more serious from that moment, we must to a certain extent follow his example and treat what is recorded as the attempt of a struggling soul to obtain Light for himself and others. Whatever his mistakes, however poor his results, or laugh- able his failures, there is this much to be said for him, that he never turned back. Section II. DEcEMBER 2…
1919 · PDF PAGE 442
… Mayan himself. He has met and conquered the maker of illusion, become one with him, and his difficulty will then be so to complete that work, that it shall be centred on itself, and leave no seed that may subsequently germinate and destroy all that has been accomplished. 120
1929 · PDF PAGE 422
…merical order. The idea was to construct a dictionary of the Greek Cabbala1 similar to that of the Hebrew Cabbala on which I had been at work since 1899 and ultimately published in The Equinox, vol. I, No. VIII. But the Greek Cabbala presents difficulties which do not arise in the case of Hebrew. First, we have no sacred text in Greek save a few imperfect and most unsatisfactory gnostic documents2, the hopelessly garbled Apocalypse and a few oddments like the Emerald Table of Hermes, the Divine Pymander and the Golden Verses of Pythagoras. Seco…
1912 · PDF PAGE 53
…er self ”; a thing that the very villagers of Pu Peng could under- stand. Avoid refinements; leave dialectic to the slaves of reason. His work must, then, be to preach that one method and Ι3
1912 · PDF PAGE 53
…er self ”; a thing that the very villagers of Pu Peng could under- stand. Avoid refinements; leave dialectic to the slaves of reason. His work must, then, be to preach that one method and Ι3