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Page 59 of 831919 · PDF PAGE 402
…ge to obtain the experiences of the East by undertaking the prac- tices of the East. His own experience put into words would then form a far better translation of Oriental works on the same subject, than any translation which a scholar might furnish. I am inclined to think that this was Blavatsky’s method. So obvious a forgery as this volume only contains so much truth and wisdom because this is the case. The Master—alike of Language and of Experience—has at last arisen; it is the Master Therion—The Beast—666—the Logos of the A2on—whose Word is…
1930 · PDF PAGE 31
…storical Magi, and their Words, are given in Liber Aleph. This does not mean that only one man can attain this Grade in any one Aeon, so far as the Order is concerned. A man can make Personal progress équivalent to that of a “Word of an Aeon”; but he will identify himself with the current word, and exert his will to establish it, lest he conflict with the work of the Magus who uttered the Word of the Aeon in which He is living. The Magus is pre-eminently the Master of Magick, that is, his will is entirely free from internai diversion or externa…
1954 · PDF PAGE 180
ASTRAL JOURNEY 147 got so far; but then of course you must know if he is "one of the believing J inn." Briefly, is he a friend or an enemy? You accordingly say to him "The word of the Law is Thelema." It turns out that he doesn't understand Greek at all, so you were certainly right in choosing Hebrew. You put it to him, "What is the word of the Law?" and he replies darkly: "The word of the Law is Thora." That means nothing to you; any one might know as much as that , Thora being the ordinary word for the Sacred Law of Israel, and you accordingl…
1912 · PDF PAGE 298
…rom C. W. Daniel—the feeble, fluent, derived expression of a decadent and frail personality. Mr. Bax is a pupil of Victor Β. Neuburg, so far as form goes; but oh l what a lot he has to learn ! ST. MAURICE Ε. KULM. 256
1912 · PDF PAGE 298
…rom C. W. Daniel—the feeble, fluent, derived expression of a decadent and frail personality. Mr. Bax is a pupil of Victor Β. Neuburg, so far as form goes; but oh l what a lot he has to learn ! ST. MAURICE Ε. KULM. 256
1929 · PDF PAGE 45
…try. The method of operation in Magick is based on this, in very much the same way as the laws of mechanics are based on mathematics. So far, therefore as we can be be said to possess a magical theory of the universe, it must be a matter solely of fundamental law, with a J* Knowledge is, moreover, an impossible conception. Ali propositions corne ultimately back to “A is A”. 9 —
1996 · PDF PAGE 98
…mmentary: Hadit had to overcome the silly “knower,” who thought everything was Sorrow. Cf. “Who am I?”—“Thou knowest” in Chapter I. I am far from satisfied with the above interpretation of this verse. We shall see a little later, verses 27 sqq., a general objection to “Because” and “why”. Then how is it that Hadit does not dis dain to use those terms? It must be for the sake of my mind. Then, “for why” is detestably vulgar; and no straining of grammar excuses or explains the “me.” We have two alternatives. The verse may be an insult to me. My …
1922 · PDF PAGE 205
…se. The tablet has not made me sleepy; it seems to have calmed me. It has taken the edge off that hateful restlessness. I can bear it as far as that goes, if only I had something to do to take my mind off things. My mind keeps prowling around the little packet of paper in my bag. I turn a thousand corners; but it is always waiting behind all of them. There is something terrifying about the fatality of the stuff. It seems to want to convince you that it’s useless to try to escape. One’s thoughts always recur to lots of other subjects which we do…
1929 · PDF PAGE 157
…ethod of sympathetic vibrations. The necessity of timing the force has been ignored; and so most operations, even when well performed as far as invocation goes, are as harmless as igniting loose gunpowder. But, even allowing that Will is sufficient to détermine the direc¬ tion, and prevent the dispersion, of the force, we can hardly be sure that it will act on its object, unless that object be properly prepared to receive it. The Link must be perfectly made. The object must possess in itself a sufficiency of stuff sympathetic to our work. We ca…
1906 · PDF PAGE 151
…ms to me. Even as he takes two feasts to enlarge upon, So will I do too to Jaunch my old barge upon. Analyse, get hints from Newton ! or Faraday,” Use every weapon—love, scorn, reason, parody ! Just where he worships? Ah me! shall his soul, Far in some glory, take hurt from a mole Grubbing i’ th’ ground? Shall his spirit not see, Lightning to lightning, the spirit in me? Parody? Shall not his spirit forgive Me, who shall love him as long as I live? Love’s at its height in pure love? Nay, but after When the song’s light dissolves gently in laugh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 39
…at name as a brand to blot out all feeling from me for evermore. SIR PERCY (aside). How she speaks! singing. (Aloud.) Indeed, I read too far, It is indeed an angel ANGELA. Pity me! Sir PERCY. Dear lady, the joy to know, and so per- fectly to express such love is enough. ANGELA. You mock me! That girl—do you in truth love her? She is most beautiful. SiR PERCY. O she is my love, my dove, my star, my— Ah !—I hurt you! (Aszde.) O beast ! What is this doubt ? ANGELA (very close to him). I hear another anthem in those eyes. By God, lad, you are wonde…
1907 · PDF PAGE 65
…o the woodland! Shall I find Crowtoe, Violet, jessamine! I'll bind Garlands. I‘ancy ma princess. Where Go to? Persia, China, Finisterre? Far lands !” Only one Daisy Did she find. The sulking sun Slept still. Pity Dora ! Dora stamped her foot. Aurora Lazy Stirred not. Hush! A footstep. Dora Kept still. What a dreadful monster ! Mercy ! Shoot! (‘Twas a man.) Suppose the brute Ate her? By-and-by the rufhan grows ‘* Percy.” And she loves him now she knows Better. VII. FATIMA! FRAUGHT with the glory of a dead despair, My purple-eidola, my purple eid…
1904 · PDF PAGE 10
…eams to me. Even as he takes to feasts to enlarge upon, So will I do too to launch my old barge upon Analyse, get hints from Newton19 or Faraday,20 Use every weapon—love, scorn, reason, parody ! Just where he worships ? Ah me ! shall his soul, Far in some glory, take hurt from a mole Grubbing i’ th’ ground ? Shall his spirit not see, Lightning to lightning, the spirit in me ? Parody ? Shall not his spirit forgive Me, who shall love him as long as I live ? Love’s at its height in pure love ? Nay, but after When the song’s light dissolves gently …
1907 · PDF PAGE 56
…ut; from Blake and Byron to Dekker, Dickens, Dionysius, Dio Chrysostom, and Diogenes. Then said the Man: “It is not blue but gray; it is far-resounding and makes an anarithmical gelasm; it is salt; it is wet; it is a generator of ozone, or my olfactory organs are deceived—and oh! but my bowels are stirred within me like the young lady in the Song of Solomon when the young gentleman— ” “ Hush!” said the Angel. “ All this is delusion; examine more closely!” “It is a universe of living things ! ” exclaimed the Man, for it was Thames Water that he …
1954 · PDF PAGE 405
…hink of it the more I feel that the question of sensitiveness is of the greatest importance. In Yoga practices one does not, at least as far as my experience goes, come against the delicacy that one does in all magical and astral practices. The reason for that is, I think, quite obvious. All the Yoga practices are ultimately of the protective type, whereas with magical and astral practices one is exposing oneself to the contact of exterior (or apparently exterior) forces. In neither case however is there any sort of reason at all for discourage…
1922 · PDF PAGE 162
…or the next. I feel that it’s only round the corner; but a miss is as good as a mile. It makes it somehow worse to be so near and yet so far.... A very funny thing has just struck me. There's
1954 · PDF PAGE 481
…hes; one feels that as it goes out, so it comes in. This view is not incompatible with thrift and prudence, and all that lot of virtues; far from it, it tucks in with them quite easily. You must practise this; there's a knack in it. Success in this leads to a very curious result indeed; not only does the refusal to count (Fourpen'north of Yoga, please miss, and mum says can I have a penny if I bring back the bottle?), bring about the needlessness of counting, but also one acquires the power to command! A century ago, very nearly, there lived in…
1906 · PDF PAGE 111
…ber floors of sand: Light calls Apollo ! The shafts of fire fledged of the eagle follow The crested surf, and strike the shore, and flee Far from green cover, nymph-enchanted lea, Fountain, and plume them white as the sea- swallow, And turn and quiver in the ocean, seem- ing The glances of a maiden kissed, or dreaming. Light, as I swim through rollers green and gleaming, Sheds its most subtle sense to penetrate This heart I thought impervious to Fate, Now the sweet light, the full delight, is beaming 1 The song describes Waikiki Beach, near Hon…
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
… nature. Ail discussions upon philosophy are necessarily stérile, since truth is beyond language. Tliey are, liowever, useful if carried far enough — if carried to the point when it becomes apparent that ail arguments are arguments in a circle. * But discussions of the details of purely imaginary : qualifies are frivolous and may be deadly. For the great danger of this magical theory is that the student may mistake the alphabet for the things which the words represent. An excellent man of great intelligence, a iearned Qabalist, once amazed the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 94
…ely symptoms of external ideas, cannot find any difficulty in attributing the correspondences of the one to the identities of the other. Far be it from any apologist for Magick to insist upon the objective validity of these concaténations! It would be childish to cling to the belief that Marius de Aquila actually existed; it matters no more than it matters to the mathematician whether the use of the symbol X22 involves the ‘reality* of 22 dimensions of space. The Master Therion does not care a scrap of yesterday’s newspaper whether he was Mariu…