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Page 58 of 761930 · PDF PAGE 82
… know why you are doing it. 1 After years of expérience in teaching, The Master Tuerion is not altogether convinced that this is not the right attitude. 1. This does not conflict with the “go-as-you-please” plan put forward in the previous note. An autocratie Adept is indeed a blessing to the disciple, not because he is able to guide the pupil “aright” in the particular path which happens to suit his personality, but because he can compel the beginner to grind away at the weariest work and thus acquire all-round ability, and prevent him from pi…
1930 · PDF PAGE 63
…suffered and overcome. 4. After the lightning flash, resteth in the zénith a minute point of light. And that light shall radiate until a right cône be established upon the sea, and it is day. With this thy body shall be rigid, automatically ; and this shalt thou let endure, withdrawing thyself into thine heart in the form of an upright Egg of blacknessj and therein shalt thou abide for a space. 5. When ail this is perfectly and easily performed at will, let the aspirant figure to himself a struggle with the whole force of the Universe. In this …
1929 · PDF PAGE 46
…forms." Another shock was to come. Cousin Gregor suddenly declared that he was engaged to be married and that he didn't think he had the right to climb any more on Beachy Head. My boyhood's idol was shattered at a blow. I received my first lesson in what the religions of the world have discovered long since, that no man who allows a woman to take any place in his life is capable of doing good work. (Similarly, men may be as foolish over dogs as old maids over cats.) A man who is strong enough to use women as slaves and playthings is all right. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 7
…ttract attention. When they saw him, he acted in the most conventional way possible; a smile, and a bow, and a formal handshake, and the right word of greeting. But the moment that introductions were over, he apparently vanished! The conversation became general; Amy Brough went to sleep; Blaustein took his leave; Arnold King followed; the pianist rose for the same purpose and looked round for his friend. Only then did anyone observe that he was seated on the floor with crossed legs, perfectly indifferent to the company. The effect of the discov…
1996 · PDF PAGE 105
…ing one’s own Nature, so as to discover what its pecul iarities are; this is accomplished partly by introspection, but prin cipally by Right Recollection1 2 of the whole phantasmagoria presented to it by experience; for since every event of life is a sym bol of part of the structure of the Soul, the totality of experience must be the “Name” of the whole of that part of the Soul which
1996 · PDF PAGE 67
…s ignorance and fear, shame and weakness, so often induce him to do. Whatever the act which expresses the soul, that act and no other is right. But, on the other hand, whatever the act may be it is always a sacrament; and, however profaned, it is always efficient. To pro fane it is only to turn food into poison. The act must be pure and passionate. It must be held as the union with God in the heart of the Holy of Holies. One must never forget that a child will be born of that deed. One must choose the environment appropriate to the particular …
1996 · PDF PAGE 126
…een fear, sorrow, and failure. To will and to dare are closely linked Powers of the Sphinx, and they are based on—to know. If one have a right apprehension of the Universe, if he know himself free, immortal, boundless, infinite force and fire, then may he will and dare. Fear, sorrow, and failure are but phantoms. 47. Where I am these are not. 48. Pity not the fallen! I never knew them. I am not for them. I console not: I hate the consoled & the consoler. 49. I am unique & conqueror. I am not of the slaves that perish. Be they damned & dead! Ame…
1906 · PDF PAGE 94
…ent with lies And gilded with most spacious promises, Cunningly angled for old Chiron’s! grace To catch me yet. Athena hears me swear To right all this—nay, answer me before Anger get all the spoil of me, and drink Thy life-blood in one gulp! Descend that dais ! Bend thou a suppliant at my awful knee, And thus—perhaps—at least get grace of life. .PELIAS. And if I say I will not yield the throne? JASON, I am of force to take it. PELIAS, Are my friends Not faithful? Who draws sword for Pelias? MEN. Shall we not slay thee this presumptuous fool? 1…
1996 · PDF PAGE 14
…self understand. I have not, however, left out a single word of The Book of the Law itself; following the strict and, without doubt, the right injunction that this should not be done. My scribe [...] shall not in one letter change this book; but lest there be folly, he shall comment thereupon [...] The Law itself must, therefore, stand wholly as it was transmitted; every sentence of it is integrated with every other; 1:36
1996 · PDF PAGE 148
… as the parts have found them selves, and settled down after fighting the matter out in the bal anced stability which represents their right reaction to each other, and to their environment. It is thus policy for an Aspirant to initi ation to analyze himself with indefatigable energy, shrewd skill, and accurate subtlety; but then to content himself with observing the interplay of his instincts, instead of guiding them. Not until he is familiar with them all should he perform the practices which enable him to read the Word of his Will. And th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 27
…ar-headed confidence of an onlooker, with intelligence unclouded by self-interest and power unimpaired by passion.) (28) Every man has a right to fulfil his own will without being afraid that it may interfère with that of others; for if he is in his proper place, it is the fault of others if they interfère with him. (Illustration: If a man like Napoléon were actually appointed by destiny to contrai Europe, he should not be blamed for exercising his rights. To oppose him would be an error. Any one so doing would hâve made a mistake as to his own…
1930 · PDF PAGE 52
… a kick and a curse every time the téléphoné gets out of order. The téléphoné people make no claim that it always Works and always Works right.1 Divination, with equal modesty, admits that «it often goes wrong; but it Works well enough, ail thmgs considered. The science is in its infancy. Ail we can do is our best. We no more prétend to infallibility than the mining expert who considers himself in luck if he hits the bulPs eye four times in ten.” The error of ail dogmatists (from the oldest prophet with his “literally-inspired word of God” to t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 52
…ed between an arm and hand on the one side, and a rude caduceus on the other. Figure 168 shows the person holding a rude caduceus in the right hand, and standing above a dolphin. This latter, as in the case of the horse in 165 and 166, is by far the best delineated. Figure 169, this also being from Constantine, shows the usual human hieroglyph between a caduceus and a crescent. Figure 170 is from the site of ancient Carthage. It is very rough in workmanship, and the designs are mere scratchings on the stone. The ensemble has the effect of an ev…
1930 · PDF PAGE 52
…at the first touch, even when exaltation and stimulation resuit from the joy of making an agreeable contact. There is a deeper eiïect of right reaction to a strange Self: the impact invariably tends to break up some complex in the Seer. The class of ideas concerned has always been tied up, labelled, and put away. It is now necessary to unpack it, and rearrange its contents. At least, the annoyance is like that of a man who has locked and strapped his bag for a journey, and then finds that he has forgotten his pyjamas. At most, it may revolution…
1996 · PDF PAGE 129
… an inkling of these ideas. I quote Ready- Money Mortiboy, Chapter xxiil: The big-bearded man stood towering over the children, with his right arm waving them out into the world—where? No matter where: somewhere away: somewhere into the good places of the world—not a boy’s heart but was stirred within him: and the brave old English blood rose in them as he spoke, in his deep bass tones, of the worth of a single man in those far-off lands;—an oration destined to bear fruit in after-days, when the lads, who talk yet with bated breath of the speec…
1909 · PDF PAGE 271
…turn, for thou canst not pass by! Hierophant: Let the Neophyte now advance by the Straight and Narrow way which inclineth neither to the right hand nor to the left. Hiereus and Hegemon: Whence comest thou? Kerux (for Neophyte) : Iam come from between the pillars and seek for the hidden Light of Occult Science. Hierophant; But the great Angel Sandalphon answered and said: ‘Iam the Reconciler for the Earth and the Soul of the Celestial therein. Equally is form invisible in total Darkness andin Blinding Light. . . . The Hiereus and Hegemon return …
1909 · PDF PAGE 271
…turn, for thou canst not pass by! Hierophant: Let the Neophyte now advance by the Straight and Narrow way which inclineth neither to the right hand nor to the left. Hiereus and Hegemon: Whence comest thou? Kerux (for Neophyte) : Iam come from between the pillars and seek for the hidden Light of Occult Science. Hierophant; But the great Angel Sandalphon answered and said: ‘Iam the Reconciler for the Earth and the Soul of the Celestial therein. Equally is form invisible in total Darkness andin Blinding Light. . . . The Hiereus and Hegemon return …
1929 · PDF PAGE 238
…I have not been inactive, Cyril," added the old man. "I have had my eye on our young friend for a long time. I put my hand on him at the right moment. I showed him that spying was a dog's [334] game, with a dog's death at the end of it. He has renounced his errors, and he is now a Probationer of our Holy Order." The young men greeted each other, the Turk stammering out an appeal for pardon, the other laughing off his embarrassment. "But you are ill, Cyril!" cried Sister Cybele. And in truth the boy could hardly stand. "Action and reaction are e…
1930 · PDF PAGE 38
…in most blasphemous bliss. This is in fact the formula of our Magick ; we insist that ail acts must be equal; that existence asserts the right to exist ; that uniess evil is a mere term expressing some relation of haphazard hostility between forces equally self-justihed, the universe is as inexplicable and impossible as uncompensated action 5 that the orgies of Bacchus and Pan are no less sacramental than the Masses of Jésus 3 that the scars of syphilis are sacrecl and worthy of honour as such. It should be unnecessary to insist that the above …
1909 · PDF PAGE 268
…, by word or deed!” The Hierophant then says: “Resume your seat in the N.W., and remember that your admission to this Order gives you no right to initiate any other person without dispensation from the greatly honoured chiefs of the Second Order.” Thus ends the Admission, after which the Closing takes place. THE CLOSING The Closing Ceremony is opened by the cry: “HEKAS, HEKAS, ESTE, BEBELOI!” and the greater part of its symbolism is explained in the Opening. The reverse circum- ambulation is intended to formulate the withdrawal of the Light of …