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Page 59 of 841913 · PDF PAGE 427
…when, some one having just said that they were waiting for a qabalist, well known in the world of occult science by the publication of a book entitled Dogme et rituel de la haute magie, Mr. Home suddenly changed countenance, and said, stammering, and with a visible embarrassment, that he could not remain, and that the approach of this Professor of Magic caused him an incomparable terror. Everything one could say to reassure him proved useless. “TI do not presume to judge the man,” said he; “I do not K 129
1954 · PDF PAGE 374
…minds as it now is to every one that has contemplated the subject with clear vision. I know there is an answer to all this; in fact, The Book of the Law enables us to take it in our stride. But there is another aspect of "mother-love" which is urgent, practical, and in no way dependent upon ideal considerations. What do we find in practice as the immediate consequence of this 'sublime', this 'holy' instinct? Quite a few species of animals habitually devour their offspring; but women "know a trick worth two of that." Next witness: Dr. Doughty, w…
1911 · PDF PAGE 128
…the forest of the stars. But the Urn is the wonderful thing in all this; it is made of fixed Mercury; and within it are the ashes of the Book Tarot, which hath been utterly consumed. And this is that mystery which is spoken of in the Acts of the Apostles; that Jupiter and Mercury (Kether and Chok- 126
1919 · PDF PAGE 56
THE EQUINOX Tome!” And with these words “The Manifestation of Nuit is at an end.” III. In the next chapter of our book is given the word of Hadit, who is the complement of Nuit. He is eternal energy, the Infinite Motion of Things, the central core of all being. The manifested Universe 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: …
1922 · PDF PAGE 227
…an he ever saw in ten years. They are nothing to be afraid of. I should like to see the old Boy himself. I’d—— , September 18 We found a book in the library one rainy afternoon. It told us how to make the Devil appear. Cockie’s grandfather was great on that stuff. There’s a room in the north tower where he did his stunts. We went up after dinner. Everything had been left more or less the way it was. Uncle Mortimer never troubled to alter anything. There was a legend about this room too. For one thing, grandfather was a friend of Bulwer Lytton’s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 19
…“magical language” i.e. that which is understood by the people I wish to instruct; I call forth “spirits”, such as printers, publishers, booksellers, and so forth, and constrain them to convey my message to those people. The composition and distribution of this book is thus an act of __ . MAGICK by which I cause Changes to take place in conformity with my Will* 1) IL POSTULATE. ANY required Change may be effected by the application of the proper kind and degree of Force in the proper manner through the proper medium to the proper object. (Illus…
1930 · PDF PAGE 33
…ms raised so as to suggest a crescent. The head is thrown back (attitude of Baphomet, Isis in Welcome, the Microcosm of Vitruvius). (See Book 4, Part II). — 333
1910 · PDF PAGE 16
…scholars that, unless they are in some way definitely mystics and truly acknowl- edged as such, they will do better to hunt for the lost books of Livy than for the Bagh-i- muattar. There is no copy in any public library here or in the East : not surprising, when one hears Platt in 1874 complain that of so famous a classic as the Gulistan there is no genuine Persian MS., but only the garbled Indian copies, in either the India Office Library or the British Museum. If you question a Persian on the subject, he will “ begin to curse and to swear, sa…
1906 · PDF PAGE 204
…ou to suit the case. Your humble, obedient servant, ALEISTER CROWLEY. Mr. Congressman, cutta. While holding the see of Ceylon he wrote a book in which ‘‘ Buddhism ”’ is de- scribed as consisting of ‘‘ devil-dances.” Now, when a man, in a position to know the facts, writes a book of the subscription-cadging type, whose value for this purpose depends on the suppression of these facts, I think Iam to be commended for my moderation in using the term ‘‘ liar.” 212.—/bsen.43—Norwegian dramatist. This and the next sentence have nineteen distinct meani…
1919 · PDF PAGE 120
…cend even those attainments of Liberty and Love of which Ihave hitherto written, and this of Life which I now inscribe in this my little book which I am making for you so that you may come unto the Great Fulfilment. The first mode is the acquisition of the Magical Memory so-called, and the means is described with accuracy and clearness in certain of our Holy Books. But for nearly all men this is found to bea practice of exceeding difficulty. Let then the aspirant follow the impulse of his own Will in the decision to choose this or no. 114
1919 · PDF PAGE 242
THE EQUINOX take it. These persons cannot accept the Law. This also is understood and provided for in the Book of the Law: “The slaves shall serve.” But it is possible for any apparent slave to prove his mastery by fighting his oppressors, even as now; but he has this additional chance in our system, that his conduct will be watched with kindly eye by our authori- ties, and his prowess rewarded by admission to the ranks of the master-class. Also, he will be given fair play. You may now ask how such arrangements are possible. There is only one s…
1954 · PDF PAGE 209
…plies beautifully.) And none of it all matters a row of haricots verts sautes; for the conclusion must always be Doubt (see that beastly Book of Lies again-there's a gorgeous chapter about it) and the practical moral is this: these contradictions don't occur (or don't matter) in Neschamah. And if the above remarks should embolden you to exclaim: "Perhaps a little drink would do me no great harm" I shall feel that I have deserved well of my country! For-see Liber Aleph, after Rabelais-the Word of the Last Oracle is TRINe. This plaint of yours ta…
1996 · PDF PAGE 32
…rches of any other scientific man until the Sunday News papers have furnished him with a plausible explanation which explains nothing. (Book 4, Part III, must be read in this connection.) 1 [Ezekiel 4:1-2.] 2 [Hosea 1:1-2.]
1913 · PDF PAGE 21
… discovery of the circumstances connected with Leadbeater’s connection with the boys and on the con- fession of the boy himself that the book A! the Feel of f/ze Master was not written by Krishnamurti, and on the dis- covery of the preSent imperfect state of their education. These circumstances came to light only during the latter part 2I
1929 · PDF PAGE 536
…ariation on Sunday School sob stuff, or distorted by dreams of the dollar or the dread of disease; their information being based on some book purporting to be the secret instruction of a particularly prominent yogi, but in fact the illiterate rubbish of an unsuccessful horse doctor from Idaho who could hardly find India on the map --- even if you offered him a dollar to do it. This illiterature is distributed indiscriminately; a vast venomous vomit! There being no background of education, no standard of criticism, the reader has no means of dis…
1910 · PDF PAGE 152
…lly trained mind, knows that at each point upon the surface of the lake the particles of water are only rising and then falling in * The Book of Solemn Utterances, t Vol. i, No. 2, p. 293. 136
1910 · PDF PAGE 152
…lly trained mind, knows that at each point upon the surface of the lake the particles of water are only rising and then falling in * The Book of Solemn Utterances, t Vol. i, No. 2, p. 293. 136
1910 · PDF PAGE 12
…e a boy without asking ? and dissolved in laughter. He stammered, with the shamed smile of the Oriental, that he had a sacred and secret book treating of the ‘ hikmat ’ but that it was never shown to anyone but a Sufi of great and exception- al sanctity — such as “ the Protector of the Poor, my father and mother, who glances at the earth in the hot season, and the fields are immediately tall and green.” Me. The MS., produced, bore on its front the legend Bagh-i-muattar, in all the glory of the finest Talik calligraphy. Why ! I exclaimed, this i…
1913 · PDF PAGE 6
…od deal about Perkin Warbeck, a poem called “Jonquil and Fleur de Lys” of a very unhealthy character, and really very little else in the book. Then there is a poem called “ Prince Charming,” incredibly sickly and sentimental; but, worse than all, the poem called “ Two Loves,” beginning with the celebrated quotation from Shakespeare—‘ My better angel is a man right fair, my worse a woman tempting me to ill.” In a vision the “poet” sees two people; the first is joyous, and sings; the second walks aside :— “He is full sad and sweet, and his large …
1904 · PDF PAGE 69
…rudence, and so on, even to ecstasy on the one hand, and death or madness on the other. But can any of the effects described in this our book Goetia be obtained, and if so, can you give a rational explanation of the circumstances ? Say you so ? I can, and will. The spirits of the G oetia are portions of the human brain. Their seals therefore represent (Mr. Spencer’s * Thought is a secr etion of the br ain ( Weiss- man). Consciousness is a function of the brain (Huxley).—A. C. † Apart from its value in obtaining one- pointedness. On this subject…