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Page 61 of 711919 · PDF PAGE 156
…kle, I am entering it so as to try and formulate the proposition clearly. Now, the doubt enters my mind, that I have only put it down in order to appear honest to Fra. P.A., or anyone who may read this record. NO... . The foregoing thought seems to have a parallel in J. St. J. Again on Page 96 “I must attain or . . . an end to J. St. J.” seems similar to the state arrived at on Sept. 5, 1910, when I determined to ask the last WHY? and afterwards entered into Peace. On page 133 he says “subtly, simply, imperceptibly gliding I passed away into no…
1944 · PDF PAGE 171
…ld, the flesh, and the devil”, all which are essential to the plan of the Universe; it is cardinal to the Great Work for the Adept so to order affairs that “even the evil germs of Matter shall alike become useful and good”. The error of Christian Mystics on this point has been responsible for more cruelty, misery, and collective insanity than all others put together; its poison can be traced even in the teaching of Freud, who assumed that the Unconscious was “the devil”, whereas in fact it is the instinct which expresses, beneath a veil, the in…
1906 · PDF PAGE 59
…: no mortal knows his ultimate. There is no hell but earth. II. In all the skies the planets and the stars Receive us, where our fate in order plies. Somewhere we live between the savage bars In all the skies. 1 Space or Ether. The Hindus say that all actions, especially important (z.e. spiritual) ones, are written therein. It is an Automatic Recording Angel. Let God’s highest heaven receive the man who dies— All hath an end: he falls: the stains and scars Are his throughout unwatched eternities. The roses and the scented nenuphars Give hope—oh…
1944 · PDF PAGE 176
…incesses, who rule the Heavens around the North Pole. The Meridian is the Great Pyramid, and the Ele‐ ments rule, going Eastward, in the order of Tetragrammaton, Fire, Water, Air, Earth. Thus, roughly, Aces‐Princesses Wands cover Asia, Cups the Pacific Ocean, Swords the Americas, Disks Europe and Africa. To make this relationship clear, one may go a little into the symbol of the pentagram, or Shield of David. It represents Spirit ruling the four elements, and is thus a symbol of the Triumph of Man. The idea of the element of Spirit is very diff…
1929 · PDF PAGE 234
…n the wrong, no one respected himself or anyone else, and every one complained. I have dwelt on the character of my life at this time in order to emphasize that the event to be recorded in the next section was an absolute bolt from the blue. {389} P A R T T H R E E THE ADVENT OF THE AEON OF HORUS {391} {392} 49 This chapter is the climax of this book. Its contents are so extraordinary, they demand such breadth and depth of preliminary explanation, that I am in despair. It is so serious to me that my responsibility overwhelms me. My entire previ…
1939 · PDF PAGE 33
…antile sexual theories. I hope that no one here is going to bother me with that sort of nauseating nonsense. 15. Now it is necessary, in order to hold a position, to pay attention to it. That is to say: you are going to become conscious of your body in ways of which you are not conscious if you are engaged in some absorbing mental pursuit, or even in some purely physical activity, such as running. It sounds paradoxical at first sight, but violent exercise, so far from concentrating attention on the body, takes it away. That is because exercise …
1939 · PDF PAGE 65
…ith the Will. How do we achieve this? By exalting the will to the point where it is master of circumstance. And how do we do this? By so ordering every thought, word and act, in such a way that the attention is constantly recalled to the chosen object. 6. Suppose I want to evoke the 'Intelligence' of Jupiter. I base my work upon the correspondences of Jupiter. I base my mathematics on the number 4 and its subservient numbers 16, 34, 136. I employ the square or rhombus. For my sacred animal I choose the eagle, or some other sacred to Jupiter. Fo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 63
…rtues. When renegade Jews and clowns walk in to dinner before gentlemen, the latter may prefer to go without. I took my admission to the Order with absolute seriousness, keeping vigil over my arms in a wood. The theory of the Celtic Church was that Romanism was a late heresy, or at least schism. The finest cathedral in the world was too small for the Church, as Brand found. The mountains and forests were consecrated sports. The nearest thing to a material house would be a hermitage such as one was likely to encounter while traveling on the Ques…
1944 · PDF PAGE 226
…and apostle of infinite space”, “the prince‐priest the Beast”. (Liber AL. 1.15.) This is to be compared with the Sigillum Sanctum of the Order of A A. In the centre of all is yet another form of Tetragrammaton, the Phallus, showing Sol and Luna, with the number 666 duly inscribed, as if to equilibrate, to fit into the Vesica, with the seven sevens adding to 156 (BABALON 2 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 30 + 70 + 50=(7 + 7) / 7 + 77 + 77=156) as the Magick Square of 6 adds to 666 (i—62=ΤΟ ΜΕΓΑ ΘΗΡΙΟΝ 300 + 70 + 40 + 5 + 3 + 1 + 9 + 8 + 100 + 10 + 70 + 50=zoir…
1939 · PDF PAGE 60
…nd should be restricted to the exclusive use of the Foreign Office. It would, perhaps, be more sensible to suppose that the heads of the Order have really attained the greatest heights of spiritual knowledge and freedom, and it is quite possible that the best term to describe their attitude would be either Pantheistic or Gnostic. 7. These considerations should be of the greatest use to us now that we come to discuss in more detail the results of the Yoga practices. There is, it is true, a general similarity between the ecstatic outbursts of the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 162
162 whether such and such an order involves danger, whether from men, starvation, animals or other causes. 5. All members of the party pledge themselves to have nothing whatever to do with women in any way that is possibly avoidable: not to interfere in any way whatever with native prejudices and beliefs. This clause shall take effect from the accomplishment of (3). 6. Any dispute arising under this agreement shall be subjected to arbitration in the usual way and shall not be subject to appeal at law or otherwise. 7. Should a third, fourth or f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 372
…rdly worth a smile of contempt. As it happens, an almost parallel phenomenon came to pass ten years later. I propose to quote it here in order to show that the most ordinary events, apparently disconnected, are in fact only intelligible by postulating some such people as the Secret Chiefs of the A.'. A.'. in possession of some such prevision and power as I ascribe to them. When I returned to England at Christmas 1919, all my plans had gone to pieces owing to the dishonesty and treachery of a gang which was bullying into insanity my publisher in…
1929 · PDF PAGE 373
…e Poems". She has never had the slightest interest in occult matters and she has never done any work in her life, even of the needlework order. I had seen her once before since my escape from America, and she said she had something to show me, but I took no particular notice and she did not insist. My object in calling on this second occasion was multiple. I wanted to see the man with whom she was living, who had not yet {599} returned from Russia; I wanted to make love to her, and I wanted to smoke a few pipes of opium with her, she being a de…
1944 · PDF PAGE 89
…l with the ignorant is to bring them to the knowledge of their starry heritage. To do this, it is necessary to behave as must be done in order to get on good terms with animals and children: to treat them with absolute respect; even; in a certain sense, with worship. * * * Note on the Precession of the Aeons. “The Hanged Man” is an invention of the Adepts of the I.N.R.I.—J.A.O. formula; in the Aeon previous to the Osirian, that of Isis (Water), he is “The Drowned Man”. The two uprights of the gallows shewn in the Mediaeval packs were, in the pa…
1944 · PDF PAGE 97
…n the meditative madness of winter; for the Sun turns north‐ wards on entering this sign. The roots of the Tree are made transparent, in order to show the innumerable leapings of the sap; before it stands the Himalayan goat, with an eye in the cen‐ tre of his forehead, representing the god Pan upon the highest and most secret mountains of the earth. His creative energy is veiled in the symbol of the Wand of the Chief Adept, crowned with the winged globe and the twin serpents of Horus and Osiris. 1The Early Christians also were accused of worshi…
1939 · PDF PAGE 17
…s a normal circumstance of life. Test me! 9. There are a great many other injunctions, all of which have to be examined independently in order to find whether they apply to Yoga in general, and to the particular advantage of any given student. We are to exclude especially all those considerations based on fantastic theories of the universe, or on the accidents of race or climate. For instance, in the time of the late Maharajah of Kashmir, mahsir fishing was forbidden throughout his territory; because, when a child, he had been leaning over the …
1906 · PDF PAGE 266
… branch, since its promise is to break down the wall at which all Science stops. When Professor Ray Lankester has to write, ‘‘ The whole order of nature, including living and lifeless matter—man, animal, and 1 ¢.e, on normal planes, gas—is a network of mechanism, the main features and many details of which have been made more or less obvious to the wondering intelligence of mankind by the labour and ingenuity of scientific investi- gators. But no sane man has ever pre- tended, since science became a definite body of doctrine, that we know or ev…
1929 · PDF PAGE 18
…had made in his own circle had no interest in visiting my mother. I was thrown into the atmosphere of her family. She moved to London in order to be near her brother, whom till then I had hardly met.
1944 · PDF PAGE 48
… returning the energy to the father; by this cycle of change the stability and eternity of the Universe are assured. It is necessary, in order to understand the Tarot, to go back in history to the Matriar‐ chal (and exogamic) Age, to the time when succession was not through the first‐born son of the King, but through his daughter. The king was therefore not king by inheritance, but by right of conquest. In the most stable dynasties, the new king was always a stranger, a for‐ eigner; what is more, he had to kill the old king and marry that king’…
1907 · PDF PAGE 32
…m other than the stuff His dreams are made of! Aye! I shall endure ! I am destined Lord of many magic wills. Another Rosencreutz another order Founds—to a better end than his, be sure! Away ! away, my lad! and o’er the border I shall get myself a buxom bride, And ride—ride—ride ! [He rises. Ride to the blacksmith at Gretna Green, Kiss a fair lady and find her a queen ! O a Queen, for certain! It is I that ride, Ride in my youth and pride 1 The Indian generic term for any good spirit. 2 Rabbi Schimeon, who first wrote down the Zohar, the most sa…