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Page 60 of 761906 · PDF PAGE 192
…a sense antici- pated my discovery) but a mere Elizabethan. This the greatest poet of all time? Then we must believe that Gloucester was right, and that eclipses caused the fall of Lear ! Observe that before this Shakespeare has had a sly dig or two at magic. In King John, " My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night” _-but there is no eyewitness. So in Macbeth. In a host of spiritual suggestion there is always the rational sober explanation alongside to discredit the folly of the supernatural. Shakespeare is like his own Touchstone; he us…
1904 · PDF PAGE 51
…Constantine and show a figure raising its arms in adoration. In Figure 164, also from Constantine, the person bears a palm branch in the right hand. Above is a hieroglyphic representing either the Lunar Disc or the Sun in the heavens; but more probably the former. Figure 165 is a more complicated stele. Above is the symbol already mentioned, then comes the sign of the Pentagram, represented by a five- pointed star, towards which the person raises his or her hands. Besides the. latter is a rude form of caduceus. Ai brief inscription follows in t…
1905 · PDF PAGE 186
…ctions are injurious to others or not ? Mr Crowley seems to hold that the world is reeking with rottenness—and he is, to a great extent, right. His poems, ‘ Mors Janua Amoris ’ and ‘ The Whore in Heaven,’ will horrify the votaries of Mrs Grundy. At the same time, these daring verses contain a large share of elemental truth. But we live in a hypocritical age, and apparently the author of these extraordinary poems realises the fact, for his volume is ‘ privately printed.’ The epilogue, ‘ A Death in Sicily,’ is really a magnificent poem—pagan in i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 41
…clothes, and your baby clothes, and all your pleasure clothes, and your skin, and your flesh, and your bones, every one of them must come right off. And then you must take off your feeling clothes; and then your idea clothes; and then what we call your tendency clothes which you have always worn, and which make you what you are. After that you take off your consciousness clothes, which you have always thought were your very own self, and you leap out into the cold abyss, and you can’t thi how lonely it is. There isn’t any light, or any path, or …
1996 · PDF PAGE 158
…y to wring out a more or less plausible meaning by torture. Yet all such learned and ingenious fumblings reveal their own impotence; the Right Key opens the safe in a sec ond, so simply and smoothly as to make it ridiculous to doubt that the lock was made by a master smith to respond to that key and no other. The reader will have noticed that all the really important correspondences in this Book are so simple that a child might understand them. There are also my own creaking and lum bering scholar-dredgers, not one of which is truly illuminat…
1930 · PDF PAGE 36
…le to express himself without the aid of those three éléments of literary composition. 3. This is not in contradiction with the absolute right o f every person to do his own true Will. But any True Will is of necessity in harmony with the facts of Existence; and to refuse to accept the Book of the Law is to create a conflict within Nature, as if a physicist insisted on using an incorrect formula of mechanics as the basis of an experiment. 240 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 112
…that one should do one’s Will ‘without lust of resuit’. If one is working in accordance with the laws of one’s own nature, one is doing ‘right’; and no such Wo^k can be criticised as ‘useless’, even in cases of the character here discussed. So long as one’s Will prevails, there is no cause for complaint. “To abandon one’s Magick would shew lack of self-confidence in one’s powers, and doubt as to one’s inmost faith in Self and in Nature.1 Of course one changes one’s methods as expérience indicates; but there is no need to change them on any such…
1935 · PDF PAGE 9
…identification of himself with the impersonal idea of Love. Any neophyte of the Order (or, as some say, any person soever) possesses the right to claim the Grade of Master of the Temple by taking the Oath of the Grade. It is hardly necessary to observe that to do so is the most sublime and awful responsibility which it is possible to assume, and an unworthy person who does so incurs the most terrific penalties by his presumption. 7. The Order of the R. C. The Grade of the Babe of the Abyss is not a Grade in the proper sense, being rather a pass…
1929 · PDF PAGE 90
…[130] over my being such an ass as to try it; and that's always a gain." Lisa began to wonder whether her best chance of ever saying the right thing would not be to choose the wrong. His point of view was always round
1930 · PDF PAGE 77
… those Undines even where the case is hopeless; maybe it is necessary to ycu and to the child that it should die. An Exempt Adept on the right road will make no error here — an Adept Major is only too likely to do so. A through appréhension of this book will arm adepts of every grade against ail the more serious blunders incidental to their unfortunate positions. IV Necromancy is of sufficient importance to demand a section to itself. It is justifiable in some exceptional cases. Suppose the magician fail to obtain. access to living Teachers, or…
1930 · PDF PAGE 92
…onsible for the entanglement is one of the necessary éléments of the situation. Nothing is “wrong” in the end; and one cannot reach the “right” point of view without the aid of one’s particular “wrong” point. If we reject or alter the négative of a photograph we shall not get a perfect positive. 2. This means, free from ideas, however excellent in themselves, which are foreign to it. For instance, literary interest has no proper place in a picture. — 296 —
1996 · PDF PAGE 72
…akes for silver; and pays again with vomiting and with colic when he has gulped it in his greed. All this he knows, only too well; he is right, by his own lights, to loathe and fear the act, to hide it from his eyes, to swear he knows it not. With tawdry rags of sentiment, sacksful of greasy clouts, he swathes the corpse of Love, and, smirking, sputters that Love had never a naked limb; then as the brute in him stirs sleep ily, he plasters Love with mire, and leering, grunts that Love was never a God in the Temple Man, but a toothsome lump of …
1996 · PDF PAGE 125
…; so then it accomplisheth willingly the Sacra ment of a Second Death, and leaveth the Body of Light. But the Mind, cleaving closely by Right of its Harmony, and Might of its Love, to its Star, resisteth the Ministers of Dis ruption, for a Season, according to its Strength. Now, if this Star be of those that are bound by the Great Oath, incarnat ing without Remission because of Delight in the Cosmic Sacrament, it seeketh a new Vehicle in the Appointed Way, and indwelleth the Foetus of a Child, and quickeneth it. And if at this Time the Mind …
1930 · PDF PAGE 83
…ill practices are : i. The fortification of the Body of Light by the constant use of rituals, by the assumption of God-forms, and by the right use of the liucharist. 2.1 he purification and consécration and exaltation of that üody by the use of rituals of invocation. 3- The éducation of that Body by expérience. It must learn to travel on every plane; to break down every obstacle which may confront it This expérience must be as systematic and regular as possible ; for it is of no use merely to travel to the spheres of Jupiter and Venus, or even …
1904 · PDF PAGE 41
…reat Marquis, and appeareth in the Form of a Lion,’ riding upon a Horse Mighty and Strong, with a Serpent’s Tail;* and he holdeth in his Right Hand two Great Serpents hissing. His Office is to teach the Virtues of the Stars, and to know the Mansions of the Planets, and how to under- stand their Virtues. He also transformeth Men, and he giveth Dignities, Prelacies, and Confirmation thereof; also Favour with Friends and with Foes. He doth govern 30 Legions of Spirits; and his Seal is this, etc. * Should probably be 30. For these 72 Great Spirits …
1929 · PDF PAGE 100
… 'medicinally.' Or you would wish to rub your skin with eau-de-cologne; of course 'touch' really meant 'drink.'" "And I should really be right to be stupidly literal, like that?" "Yes, in a case where the mind, being under a magical strain, becomes unfit to judge. It's the story of Bluebeard; only you must alter it so that the contents of the fatal chamber exist only in the woman's imagination, that she had so worked herself up by what she thought she might see that she also thought she saw it. So be on your guard!" [143] On the last day of the…
1904 · PDF PAGE 37
…nd to guide Ships laden with Arms, Armour, and Ammunition, etc., thereon? And at the request of the Exorcist he can cause the seas to be right stormy and to appear full of ships. Also he maketh men to die in Three Days by Putrefying Wounds or Sores, and causing Worms to breed in them. He governeth 29 Legions of Spirits, and his Seal is this, etc. (43.) Sasnock.—The Forty-third Spirit, as King Solomon commanded them into the Vessel of Brass, is called Sabnock, or Savnok. He is a Marquis, Mighty, Great and Strong, appearing in the Form of an Arme…
1904 · PDF PAGE 51
…sense antici- pated my discovery) but a mere Elizabethan. This the greatest poet of all time ? T hen we must believe that Gloucester was right, and that eclipses caused the fall of Lear ! Observe that before this Shakespeare has had a sly dig or two at magic. In King John, “M y lord, they say five moons were seen to-night” —but there is no eyewitness. So in Macbeth. In a host of spiritual suggestion there is always the rational sober explanation alongside to discredit the folly of the supernatural. Shakespeare is like his own Touchstone; he use…
1909 · PDF PAGE 274
…the thirty-second, which leads to the 2°=9° grade of Theoricus, and which you must traverse before arriving at that degree. Take in your right hand the Cubical Cross, and in your left hand the Banner of Light, and follow your guide Anubis* the Guardian: who leads you from the Material to the Spiritual.” Kerux: “Anubis the Guardian spake unto the Aspirant, saying: ‘Let us enter into the Presence of the Lords of Truth.’ Arise and follow me.” * It will be noticed that from here this ritual becomes unnecessarily complicated with Egyptian deities—in…
1909 · PDF PAGE 274
…the thirty-second, which leads to the 2°=9° grade of Theoricus, and which you must traverse before arriving at that degree. Take in your right hand the Cubical Cross, and in your left hand the Banner of Light, and follow your guide Anubis* the Guardian: who leads you from the Material to the Spiritual.” Kerux: “Anubis the Guardian spake unto the Aspirant, saying: ‘Let us enter into the Presence of the Lords of Truth.’ Arise and follow me.” * It will be noticed that from here this ritual becomes unnecessarily complicated with Egyptian deities—in…