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Page 63 of 781996 · PDF PAGE 166
…ds. Do this quickly! Commentary: “at them” may mean “at their house,” that is, one must “give” when one recognizes anyone as a potential king by accepting his hospitality. An alternative meaning is “in their honour.” 40. But the work of the comment? That is easy; and Hadit burning in thy heart shall make swift and secure thy pen. 41. Establish at thy Kaaba a clerk-house: all must be done well and with business way. 42. The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. Refuse none, but thou shalt know & destroy the traitors. I am…
1909 · PDF PAGE 327
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING A chain of thought is simply a series of vibrations arising from the contact of a sense with a symbol or a series of symbols. “If controlled by the Reasoning Power, and licensed by the Will, such vibrations will be balanced and of equal length. But if uncontrolled by the Lower Will and the Reason they will be unbalanced and inharmonious—that is, of uneven length.” This we find explained in a G.*. D.-. manuscript entitled: ‘The Secret Wisdom of the Lesser World, or Microcosm which is Man.” Further we learn from thi…
1909 · PDF PAGE 327
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING A chain of thought is simply a series of vibrations arising from the contact of a sense with a symbol or a series of symbols. “If controlled by the Reasoning Power, and licensed by the Will, such vibrations will be balanced and of equal length. But if uncontrolled by the Lower Will and the Reason they will be unbalanced and inharmonious—that is, of uneven length.” This we find explained in a G.*. D.-. manuscript entitled: ‘The Secret Wisdom of the Lesser World, or Microcosm which is Man.” Further we learn from thi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 183
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Dawn with Pranava. This, as I foresaw, retained the Dhyanic Consciousness. The Disk grew golden: rose clear of all its clouds, flinging great fleecy cumuli of rose and gold, fiery with light, into the aethyr of space. Hollow it seemed and rayless as the Sun in Sagittarius, yet incomparably brighter: but rising clear of cloud, it began to revolve, to coruscate, to throw off streamers of jetted fire! [This from a hill-top I beheld, dark as of a dying world. Covered with black decayed wet peaty wood, a few pines stoo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 183
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING Dawn with Pranava. This, as I foresaw, retained the Dhyanic Consciousness. The Disk grew golden: rose clear of all its clouds, flinging great fleecy cumuli of rose and gold, fiery with light, into the aethyr of space. Hollow it seemed and rayless as the Sun in Sagittarius, yet incomparably brighter: but rising clear of cloud, it began to revolve, to coruscate, to throw off streamers of jetted fire! [This from a hill-top I beheld, dark as of a dying world. Covered with black decayed wet peaty wood, a few pines stoo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 128
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING May; but this date seems to have been anticipated, for two days later we read the following: 10 p.m. Enclosing myself in an egg of white light I travelled to Hong- Kong. This city is white and on a rocky hill, the lower part is narrow and dirty. I found F, in a room of white and pale green. She was dressed in a white soft stuff with velvet lapels, We conversed awhile. I remember trying to lift a cloisonné vase from the shelf to a table, but cannot remember whether I accom- plished the act or not. I said “Ave Soror…
1910 · PDF PAGE 128
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING May; but this date seems to have been anticipated, for two days later we read the following: 10 p.m. Enclosing myself in an egg of white light I travelled to Hong- Kong. This city is white and on a rocky hill, the lower part is narrow and dirty. I found F, in a room of white and pale green. She was dressed in a white soft stuff with velvet lapels, We conversed awhile. I remember trying to lift a cloisonné vase from the shelf to a table, but cannot remember whether I accom- plished the act or not. I said “Ave Soror…
1922 · PDF PAGE 183
…phere of Mabel and the relief of my worry. With that came a rational fear of the drug. I asked her if she hadn’t had any troubles from taking it. “You can’t sleep without it,” she said, but not as if it mattered much, “ and it rather gets on one’s nerves now and then.” She had to rush off to meet her beau for dinner. I went back to our dirty little den, brimming over with joy. I found Cockie sprawling on the bed in the depth of dejection. He did not move whenI came in. I ran to him and covered him with kisses. His eyes were heavy and swollen an…
1929 · PDF PAGE 177
…eved with her whole soul [250] that her immediate impulse was the true Will of her whole Self. One night at the Savoy Hotel with Lavinia King, just before Christmas, the talk had turned on the distress then prevailing in London. Instantly she had dragged the whole party downstairs, provided it with the entire supply of silver money that the hotel happened to have on hand, and rushed it to the Embankment to rescue the unemployed. That night she was a super-Shaftsbury; she formulated a dozen plans to solve the problem of poverty, root, branch, an…
1954 · PDF PAGE 327
…a as well as in Magick. Now in practice, in everyday life, this unselfishness is always cropping up. Not only do you insult your brother King by your "noble self-sacrifice," but you are almost bound to interfere with his True Will. "Charity" always means that the lofty soul who bestows it is really, deep down, trying to enslave the recipient of his beastly bounty! In practice, I begin afresh, it is almost entirely a matter of the point of view. "That poor chap looks as if a square meal wouldn't hurt him"; and you chuck him a half-crown. You off…
1996 · PDF PAGE 150
…l. II, pp. 267-82. 74. The length of thy longing shall be the strength of its glory. He that lives long & desires death much is ever the King among the Kings. Commentary: One'does not need to be constantly popping in and out of Trance. One ought to do both actions with ever- increasing length and strength of swing. Hence one’s life-periods, where time counts, become gradually larger and more vivid, and one’s death-periods, though very short, perhaps, may be unfath- omably intense. The whole question of Time has been thoroughly investigated alre…
1922 · PDF PAGE 354
…ds together gleefully, and began to hum “ Tipperary.”’” His meaning was evident. He had drawn a bow in a venture; and it had pierced the King of Israel between the joints of his harness. He got up with alacrity, and went off with a wave of the hand. “Think it over, dear boy,” said he, “ and tell me your sad story in the morning.” ; I was in a very disturbed state of mind. I went to look for Lou, but she had gone for a walk with Cypris, and when she came back, she wore an air of wisdom which I found insupportable. However, I told her my story. T…
1944 · PDF PAGE 167
…t they are always irritably meddling about petty matters; they interfere with, and inevitably spoil, whatever comes their way. In the Yî King, the fiery part of Earth is represented by the 62nd hexagram, Hsiâo Kwo. This is as important as its complement, Kung Fû (see under Prince of Cups); it is a “big Khan”, the trigram of Luna with each line doubled. But it is also suggestive of the Geomantic figure Conjunctio, Mercury in Virgo, corresponding very closely indeed with the Fire of Earth attri‐ bution in the Qabalistic system. To the Chinese sag…
1922 · PDF PAGE 343
At Telepylus 329 try to conceal the amount you were taking from the very person with whom you were taking it openly. Another point is that privation always upsets the mental balance. A man who lacks food or money finds very queer thoughts come into his mind, and does things, not necessarily connected with his necessity, obsessing though that be, which are entirely out of keeping with his character.” I took a pencil, and wrote at once against the cross in column two “In order to make the most of Sister Athena’s illuminating discourse.” She laugh…
1910 · PDF PAGE 193
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING bodies were in prison; but their spirits were in the house of the fallen chief of the Golden Dawn. At first Frater P. was seized with horror at the sight, he knew not whether to direct a hostile current of will against D.D.C.F. and V.N.R., supposing them to be guilty of cherish- ing within their bodies the spirits of two disincarnated vampires, or perhaps Abramelin demons under the assumed forms of S.V.A.and M.S.R., or to warn D.D.C.F.; supposing him to be innocent, as he perhaps was, of so black and evil an offen…
1910 · PDF PAGE 193
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING bodies were in prison; but their spirits were in the house of the fallen chief of the Golden Dawn. At first Frater P. was seized with horror at the sight, he knew not whether to direct a hostile current of will against D.D.C.F. and V.N.R., supposing them to be guilty of cherish- ing within their bodies the spirits of two disincarnated vampires, or perhaps Abramelin demons under the assumed forms of S.V.A.and M.S.R., or to warn D.D.C.F.; supposing him to be innocent, as he perhaps was, of so black and evil an offen…
1922 · PDF PAGE 190
…! It’s a letter from Basil! (Note. The original of this letter was destroyed. It is now printed from the carbon copy in the files of Mr. King Lamus. Ed.) “DEAR UNLIMITED Lov,—Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. You will, I am sure, forgive me for boring you with a letter; but you know what a crank I am, and it is my mania just now to collect infor- mation about the psychology of people who are trying to advance spiritually in the way we spoke about when you so charmingly dawned on my studio the other morning. “ Do you find, in part…
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
advance to any of them. But an example of such an operation may be studied in Equinox I, VII, “The Temple of Solomon the King”, where an invocation of Horus on this formula is given in full. Note the réverbération of the ideas one against another. The formula of Horus has not yet been so fully worked out in details as to justify a treatise upon its exoteric theory and practice; but one may say that it is, to the formula of Osiris, what the turbine is to the reciprocating engine. III There are many other sacred words which enshrine formulæ of gr…
1944 · PDF PAGE 163
…to an ideal world of ratiocination which is purely formal and out of relation to any facts, even those upon which it is based. In the Yî King, the airy part of Air is represented by the 57th hexagram, Sun. This is one of the most difficult figures in the book, on account of its ambivalence: it means both flexibil‐ ity and penetration. Immensely powerful because of its complete freedom from settled principles, capable of maintaining and putting forward any conceivable argument, insusceptible of regret or re‐ morse, glib to “quote Scripture” aptl…
1954 · PDF PAGE 190
…e hardest path. I used often to make the background of my Talismans of four concentric circles, painting them, the first (inmost) in the King (or Knight) scale, the second in the Queen, the third in the Prince, and the outermost in the Princess scale, of the Sign, Planet, or Element to which I was devoting it. On this, preferably in the "flashing" colours , I would paint the appropriate Names and Figures. Lastly, the Talisman may be surrounded with a band inscribed with a suitable "versicle" chosen from some Holy Book, or devised by the Magicia…