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Page 61 of 1151911 · PDF PAGE 140
…oly! I am God! I am I!” Her face was black and distorted with sudden passion. “ It‘s quite different to my own experience in many ways,” thought the watcher. ”Yet—is it not the essence of all ordeal, all initiation, that it should be unexpected? Other- wise, the candidate would have passed through the gate before he approached it. Which is absurd." The last word must have been audible. “Absurd!” she cried. “Indeed, it is not absurd. It is all rational. It is you who are absurd.” “ Do you understand what you are saying?" " No! No! I hate all who…
1911 · PDF PAGE 140
…oly! I am God! I am I!” Her face was black and distorted with sudden passion. “ It‘s quite different to my own experience in many ways,” thought the watcher. ”Yet—is it not the essence of all ordeal, all initiation, that it should be unexpected? Other- wise, the candidate would have passed through the gate before he approached it. Which is absurd." The last word must have been audible. “Absurd!” she cried. “Indeed, it is not absurd. It is all rational. It is you who are absurd.” “ Do you understand what you are saying?" " No! No! I hate all who…
1913 · PDF PAGE 295
…s of Pytha- goras, and is composed of absolute ideas attached to signs and numbers ; by its combinations, it realizes the mathematics of thought. Solomon represented this alphabet by seventy- two names, written upon thirty-six talismans. Eastern initiates still call these the “little keys” or clavicles of Solomon. These keys are described, and their use explained, in a book the source of whose traditional dogma is the patriarch Abraham. This book is called the Sepher Yetzirah ; with the aid of the Sepher Yetzirah one can penetrate the xiii
1913 · PDF PAGE 448
…ot. Matter is all, and spirit is only a fiction of this matter demented. Form is more than idea, woman more than man, pleasure more than thought, vice more than virtue, the mob more than its chiefs, the children more than their fathers, folly more than reason!” There is what was written in characters of blood upon the pretended miraculous hosts of Vintras! We affirm upon our honour that the facts cited above are such as we have stated, and that we ourselves saw and explained the characters according to magical science and the true keys of the Q…
1913 · PDF PAGE 295
…s of Pytha- goras, and is composed of absolute ideas attached to signs and numbers ; by its combinations, it realizes the mathematics of thought. Solomon represented this alphabet by seventy- two names, written upon thirty-six talismans. Eastern initiates still call these the “little keys” or clavicles of Solomon. These keys are described, and their use explained, in a book the source of whose traditional dogma is the patriarch Abraham. This book is called the Sepher Yetzirah ; with the aid of the Sepher Yetzirah one can penetrate the xiii
1913 · PDF PAGE 448
…ot. Matter is all, and spirit is only a fiction of this matter demented. Form is more than idea, woman more than man, pleasure more than thought, vice more than virtue, the mob more than its chiefs, the children more than their fathers, folly more than reason!” There is what was written in characters of blood upon the pretended miraculous hosts of Vintras! We affirm upon our honour that the facts cited above are such as we have stated, and that we ourselves saw and explained the characters according to magical science and the true keys of the Q…
1909 · PDF PAGE 86
THE EQUINOX thought! “Look not upon the Visible Image of the Soul of Nature; for Her Name is Fatality; it becometh not thy body to behold Her, until it be first cleansed by the Sacred Mysteries.” The methods most practical and easy of obtaining these states are principally as follow : First, the cultivation of the “magical memory.” The practice is to remember the events of the day backwards; 7.e., first dinner, then tea, lunch, and breakfast. Except, of course, that by this time one has abandoned meals for ever! The memory acquires the habit, a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 178
…re Ideas ; and the Ideas are the Powers, and the Powers are the Holy Elohim of Life.” That which is behind and beyond all Number and all thought (even as the Ain Soph with its Mighty Veils depending back from Kether is behind and beyond all Manifestation) is the Number 0. Its symbol is the very Emblem of Infinite Space and Infinite Time.+ Multiply by it any active and manifested number; and that number vanishes—sinks into the Ocean of Eternity. So also is the Ain Soph. From It proceed all Things: unto It all will return, when the Age of Brahman…
1909 · PDF PAGE 86
THE EQUINOX thought! “Look not upon the Visible Image of the Soul of Nature; for Her Name is Fatality; it becometh not thy body to behold Her, until it be first cleansed by the Sacred Mysteries.” The methods most practical and easy of obtaining these states are principally as follow : First, the cultivation of the “magical memory.” The practice is to remember the events of the day backwards; 7.e., first dinner, then tea, lunch, and breakfast. Except, of course, that by this time one has abandoned meals for ever! The memory acquires the habit, a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 178
…re Ideas ; and the Ideas are the Powers, and the Powers are the Holy Elohim of Life.” That which is behind and beyond all Number and all thought (even as the Ain Soph with its Mighty Veils depending back from Kether is behind and beyond all Manifestation) is the Number 0. Its symbol is the very Emblem of Infinite Space and Infinite Time.+ Multiply by it any active and manifested number; and that number vanishes—sinks into the Ocean of Eternity. So also is the Ain Soph. From It proceed all Things: unto It all will return, when the Age of Brahman…
1911 · PDF PAGE 76
…shall be hidden, because thou art passed beyond these things, beyond the need of these things, beyond the desire of these things. What I thought were shapes of rocks, rather felt than seen, now appear to be veiled Masters, sitting absolutely still and silent. Nor can any one be distinguished from the others. And the Angel sayeth: Behold where thine Angel hath led thee! Thou didst ask fame, power and pleasure, health and wealth and love, and strength, and length of days. Thou didst hold life with eight tentacles, like an octopus. Thou didst seek…
1913 · PDF PAGE 462
…singular an expression to his pallid counte- nance. He rose and took his leave without having given his name, and without any one having thought to ask him for it. Eliphas and Desbarrolles reconducted him as far as the staircase, in token of respect for his dignity as a priest. Near the staircase he turned and said slowly : “Before long, you will hear something. . .. You will hear me spoken of,” he added, emphasizing each word. Then he saluted with head and hand, turned without adding a single word, and descended the staircase. The two friends …
1913 · PDF PAGE 462
…singular an expression to his pallid counte- nance. He rose and took his leave without having given his name, and without any one having thought to ask him for it. Eliphas and Desbarrolles reconducted him as far as the staircase, in token of respect for his dignity as a priest. Near the staircase he turned and said slowly : “Before long, you will hear something. . .. You will hear me spoken of,” he added, emphasizing each word. Then he saluted with head and hand, turned without adding a single word, and descended the staircase. The two friends …
1929 · PDF PAGE 416
…er quite otherwise than it does to the carpenter, and the same event occurring to the two men will suggest two quite different trains of thought and lead to two quite different results. My own errors of judgment, due to the annihilation of my ego and the consequent lack of leadership felt by my body and mind, produced their own immediate effect. I did not yet understand the extent of my fault, or even its real cause and character, but I felt myself forced back into my proper orbit. I was the Spirit of solitude, the Wander in the Wilderness. I h…
1913 · PDF PAGE 126
…nd ‘The Fatal Force’ is also a dramatic poem of singular power. Mr. Crowley has a claim to recognition as a true poet. Most men who have thought deeply on life’s problems recognize that the current religion of nearly all their fellow men is an idle mockery.. We cannot shrink from looking behind the veil, and asking ourselves— What is life at best?. Mr. Crowley seems to hold that the worldis reek- ing with rottenness—and he is, to a great extent, right... . These daring verses contain a large share of elemental truth. But we liveina hypocritical…
1930 · PDF PAGE 72
…wheels, eccentrics, and governor. 5. During these practices the mind must be absolutely confined to the object determined upon; no other thought must be allowed to intrude upon the consciousness. The moving Systems must be regular and harmonious. 6. Note carefully the duration of the experiments, the number and nature of the intruding thoughts, the tendency of the object itself to départ from the course laid out for it, and any other pheno- mena which may présent themselves. Avoid overstrain ; this is very important. 7. Proceed to imagine livin…
1913 · PDF PAGE 289
INTRODUCTION Tuis volume represents the high-water mark of the thought of Eliphas Levi. It may be regarded as written by him as his Thesis for the Grade of Exempt Adept, just as his Ritual and Dogma was his Thesis for the grade of Major Adept. He is, in fact, no longer talking of things as if their sense was fixed and universal. He is beginning to see some- thing of the contradiction inherent in the nature of things, or at any rate, he constantly illustrates the fact that the planes are to be kept separate for practical purposes, although in th…
1913 · PDF PAGE 289
INTRODUCTION Tuis volume represents the high-water mark of the thought of Eliphas Levi. It may be regarded as written by him as his Thesis for the Grade of Exempt Adept, just as his Ritual and Dogma was his Thesis for the grade of Major Adept. He is, in fact, no longer talking of things as if their sense was fixed and universal. He is beginning to see some- thing of the contradiction inherent in the nature of things, or at any rate, he constantly illustrates the fact that the planes are to be kept separate for practical purposes, although in th…
1922 · PDF PAGE 51
…ling torrent of our passion swept us away. I had forgotten all about Lamus and his car. We were driving like the devil to Nowhere. A mad thought crossed my mind. It was thrown up by my “ Unconscious,” by the essential self of my being. Then some familiar object in the streets reminded me that I was not driving back to the studio. Some force in myself, of which I was not aware, had turned my face towards Kent. I was interpreting myself to myself. I knew what I was going to do. We were bound for Barley Grange; and then, oh, the wild moonlight rid…
1922 · PDF PAGE 206
…l laughter. The only feeling in my mind was that he was ill; that it was my duty to nurse him. I tried to go to the door to get help. He thought I was escaping, and flung me back right across the room on to the bed, howling with rage. “You can get away with it at once,” he said, “ but that’s enough. You wait right here, and see whether Mr. Bloody King Lamus will come to fetch you. Don’t fret ; I expect he will. He likes dirt, the filthy beast ! ” I burst out crying. The contrast between the two men was too shocking. And I belonged to this screa…