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Page 59 of 921919 · PDF PAGE 193
… a great lake, and it is hidden in the woods. Man, therefore, is at odds with Wood and Water; and being a magician bethinketh Himself to take one of these enemies, Wood, which is both the effect and the cause of that excess of Water, and compel it to fight for Him against the other. What then maketh He? Why, He taketh unto himself Iron of Mars, an Axe and a Saw and a Wedge and a Knife, and He divideth Wood therewith against himself, hewing him into many small pieces, so that he hath no longer any strength against His will. Good; then taketh He …
1922 · PDF PAGE 30
… no affectation about being an artist. She happened to like these people in exactly the same way as a Methodist old maid in Balham might take an interest in natives of Tonga, and so she went about with them. Her mother didn’t mind. Probably, too, the way things are nowadays, her mother didn’t matter. You mustn’t think that we were any of us drunk,
1922 · PDF PAGE 173
… my destiny to give you any drugs this morning.” “ But you're interfering with my Will,” protested Cockie, almost vivaciously. “It would take too long to explain,” returned Lamus, “ why I think that remark unfair. But to quote the Book of the Law once more, ‘Enough of Because, be he damned for a dog.’ Instead, let me tell you a story.” We tactfully expressed eagerness to hear it. “The greatest mountaineer of his generation, as you know, was the late Oscar Eckenstein.” He went through a rather complicated gesture quite incomprehensible; but it v…
1922 · PDF PAGE 284
…al diminution. For one thing, taking the stuff by the nose, you can’t tell exactly how much you are getting, and a good deal of what you take is wasted. But the whole atmosphere had changed. We had been taking it till now in a steady, regular manner. It had become a continuous performance. But this morning each patch of craving and each dose were definite incidents. The homogeneity of the vice had been broken up into sections. The dull monotony of the drug had developed dramatic qualities. We were reminded of our early experiences with it. We h…
1922 · PDF PAGE 307
… supplies of cocaine; on the other I was enraged with mankind for having invented the substance that had ruined my life, and I wanted to take my revenge on it by poisoning as many people as I could. These ideas were tossed about in my mind like pieces of meat in boiling soup. The fumes intoxicated me. I shook Platt’s hand and promised to go down to my bank at once and make the necessary arrangements. I swelled with the delirious pride of the great man of _ affairs who sees the golden opportunity and grasps it. More crazily still, I enjoyed the …
1922 · PDF PAGE 320
…was a sublime intoxication, and yet its enchantment merely rubbed into our souls the shame of our wretched physical condition. We had to take several goes of heroin on the way. We didn’t see why we couldn’t have had a carriage part of the way. But it was part of King Lamus’s plan, no doubt, that we should be stung with the realisation of our impotence in so divine a spot, where every voice of nature swelled the chorus that spurred us to physical activity. Our invalidism had not seemed so horribly unnatural in London as it did in this consecrate…
1922 · PDF PAGE 334
…, and bored with each other, and were very insulted because every- body laughed at them. But they couldn’t see the way out, and wouldn’t take it when it was shown them. It made them physically ill, and they went away at last to every one’s relief to an environment where they could potter about indefinitely and pose as great genijses. The Big Lion does more in a day than they will ever do in their lives if they live into the next
1922 · PDF PAGE 368
… was turned to us; it was on the floor busily occupied in cleaning up. ‘This is Sir Peter Pendragon,” said Big Lion, “‘ who is coming to take charge of the laboratory.” My eyes were still unaccustomed to the gloom, but I could see the figure scramble to its feet, curtesy, and advance to me, where I stood in the shaft of sun- light that came through the half-open doorway. It was dressed in a knickerbocker suit of black silk. It wore sandals and black stockings. I recognised Lou. “ Big Lion said you might want to begin work this afternoon, Sir Pe…
1930 · PDF PAGE 69
II Physical clairvoyance. 1. Take a pack of (78) Tarot playing cards. Shufïle; eut. Draw one card. Without looking at it, try to name it. Write down the card you name, and the actual card. Repeat, and tabulate results. 2. This experiment is probably easier with an old genuine pack of Tarot cards, preferably a pack used for divination by some one who really understood the matter. 3. Remember that one should expect to name the right card once in 78 times. Also be careful to exciude ail possibilities of obtaining the knowledge through the ordinary…
1954 · PDF PAGE 165
… weapon, its use is hedged in with manifold precautions, and its abuse deprecated in injunctions heavily charged with menace .... "Also, take your fIll and will of love as ye will, when, where and with whom ye will! But always unto Me." If this be not aright; if ye confound the space-marks, saying: They are one; or saying, They are many; if the ritual be not ever unto me; then expect the direful judgments of Ra Hoor Khuit! This shall regenerate the world, the little world my sister, my heart & my tongue, unto whom I send this kiss . .. . But ec…
1954 · PDF PAGE 534
…al a hidden unity, and vice versa. Like every other science, both the subject and the object of the work increase as that work proceeds. Take a simple matter like Mathematics as our analogy. The schoolboy struggling with the Rule of Three is a very rudimentary image of the advanced mathematician working on the differential calculus.
1929 · PDF PAGE 47
…s hallu- cinations. Consciousness works strangely; the least dis- turbance of the blood supply, and it goes out like a can- dle, or else takes monstrous forms. Here was the overwhelming truth; in death man lives again, and lives for ever. Yet we might have thought of it; the phantasmagoria of life which throng the mind of a drowning man might have suggested something of the sort to any man with a sympathetic and active imagination. Worse even than the thoughts themselves was the apprehension of the thoughts ere they arose. Carbun- cles, boils, …
1954 · PDF PAGE 240
…ke 'hurt' and 'chief' cannot possibly mean anything. The fact is that if we are to get on peaceably in the Club, we have to know when to take any given expression in a Pickwickian sense. In the Ruach all the laws of logic apply: they don't in Neschamah. The real meaning of the passage is simple enough, if you understand that it refers to a specific result of Initiation. You have to be able to reckon up the Universe, as a whole and in every part; and to get rid of all its false or partial realities by discarding everything but the One Reality wh…
1954 · PDF PAGE 317
…ad, Bertie?' " The magistrate : "A very natural question!" Now, fifty years later, here am I in the dock. ("How can you expect people to take your Magick seriously!" I hear from every quarter , "when you write so gleefully about it, with your tongue always in your cheek?") The curate's twang, the solemnity of self-importance, all manners that do not disclose the real man, are abominations, "Anathema Maranatha" -or any other day of the week. These painted masks are devised to conceal chicanery or emptiness. The easy-going humorous style of Vivek…
1905 · PDF PAGE 240
…struggle—-and perhaps, for thee, For thee !—the veil may lift another fold. TANNHAUSER. Why dost Thou hate this vision? VENUS. She would take Thee from these arms ! TANNHAUSER. But she is beautiful With Thine own beauty: yet as if the God Cancelled its mortal comeliness, and came More intimate than maiter, closing in Keen on my spirit ; as if all I sought In Thine own symbol, Beauty, were con- cealed Under her brows—how wider than the air ! How deeper than the sea! How radiant Beyond the fire! VENUS. O shun her devilish lures ! That Beauty is t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 189
…slave, Where thy mother fashioned it, Oh heart of a fool, in thy breast. EACUS. Away, away to the skies! RHADAMANTHUS. That our dead may take their rest. MINOS. Arise to the air, arise ! cEACUS. Away to the mountain crest ! RHADAMANTHUS. Veil, veil from the awful eyes ! MINOS. Endure thy heart as it may, And steel thine heart, Thou shalt hear and know and obey As I say ‘‘ Depart” ; Lest the arrow find its way And the sternly-shapen dart. AL ACUS. A second our justice waits. RHADAMANTHUS. It falleth anon. MINOS. O fool of hopes and hates Arise a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 129
…s thus: x (5) Attach yourself to your Kether and imagine you see a 7 white light there. YONTIITN (6) Having thus formulated the letters, take a deep breath h and pronounce the name slowly making the letters flash. x (7) Invoke the Telesmatic image. Let it fill the Universe. 5 (8) Then whilst once again vibrating the Name absorb it y into yourself; and then will your aura radiate with whiteness. You should obtain your Divine White Brilliance before formulating the Image. There are two methods, the involving and the expanding whorls respectively.…
1910 · PDF PAGE 129
…s thus: x (5) Attach yourself to your Kether and imagine you see a 7 white light there. YONTIITN (6) Having thus formulated the letters, take a deep breath h and pronounce the name slowly making the letters flash. x (7) Invoke the Telesmatic image. Let it fill the Universe. 5 (8) Then whilst once again vibrating the Name absorb it y into yourself; and then will your aura radiate with whiteness. You should obtain your Divine White Brilliance before formulating the Image. There are two methods, the involving and the expanding whorls respectively.…
1922 · PDF PAGE 268
…ut that we were impotent to deal with them. Did you ever meet any one that had been indiscreet about taking drugs? Presumably not. Well, take my word for it, those people get into a state which is in many ways very like death. And the tragic thing about the situation is
1929 · PDF PAGE 44
Chapter5 OF THE THING IN THE GARDEN; AND OF THE WAY OF THE TAO "OH, little Brother!" said the old mystic sadly. "How long will it take you to work through this wretched business?" "I have omnipotence at my command, and eternity at my disposal," smiled the boy, using Eliphaz Levi's well-known formula. "I ought to explain," said Simple Simon, turning to Lisa. "This boy is a desperate magician confined within the circle of this forest. His plan is Action; he is all for Magick; give him a Wand and a host of Demons to control, and he is happy. For m…