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Page 63 of 1031913 · PDF PAGE 428
… epitome of all legends which forms the prologue to his great epic novel, The Wandering Jew.‘ The scene takes place at Corinth; it is an old-time wedding with its beautiful children crowned with flowers, bearing the nuptial torches, and singing gracious epithalamia flowered with voluptuous images like the poems of Catullus. The bride is as beautiful in her chaste draperies as the ancient Polyhymnia; she is amorous and deliciously provoking in her modesty, like a Venus of Correggio, or a Grace of Canova. The bridegroom is Clinias, a disciple of …
1919 · PDF PAGE 413
… on the way. 14. For, O Disciple! before thou wert made fit to meet thy Teacher face to face, thy MASTER light to light, what wert thou told? The old trouble recurs. We cannot tell quite clearly in what stage the Disciple is supposed to be with regard to any given piece of instruction. 15. Before thou canst approach the foremost gate thou hast to learn to part thy body from thy mind, to dissipate the shadow, and to live in the eternal. For this, thou hast to live and breathe in all, as all that thou perceivest breathes in thee; to feel thyself …
1929 · PDF PAGE 447
…ring the war the Grand Treasurer became insane. His character changed completely. He developed a form of persecution mania, in which his oldest and best friends seemed to him to be conspiring against him. Abetted by a dishonest solicitor, he alienated the whole of the property of the Order with extraordinary thoroughness. He actually destroyed a great part of the library; he falsified the figures; and after opposing all sorts of delays to the demand for his account, he actually made away with my {707} very underclothing. My only remaining resou…
1907 · PDF PAGE 200
…vine works of the Christian Fathers , the Alchymistic Philosophers , and the Mys tical Poets of Ancient and Modern times . 2 There is an old saying , “ All men are born either Platonists or Aristotelians .
1913 · PDF PAGE 162
…” In this supreme Initiation narrated in the 2nd Athyr the answer to this question is given. The word ‘“‘ Samadhi” is now deep down, “an old unhappy far-off thing.” By so much does this exceed that. In this supreme marriage of Infinite with Infinite comes the key to the Grade of Ipsissimus, which Grade is shadowed forth—but oh, how dimly !—in the 1st Aéthyr. It will be noticed by those who understand this A&thyr that when all is done there is a complete identification (on the very last page) of that highest thing with that lowest. The Master of…
1913 · PDF PAGE 502
…f the universal agent, is nothing else than the bearded devil of the alchemists. One knows that the members of the highest grades in the old hermetic masonry attributed to a bearded demon the accomplishment of the Great Work. At this word, the vulgar hastened to cross themselves, and to hide their eyes, but the initiates of the cult of Hermes-Pantheos understood the allegory, and were very careful not to explain it to the profane. Mr. de Mirville, in a book to-day almost forgotten, though it made some noise a few months ago, gives himself a gre…
1913 · PDF PAGE 162
…” In this supreme Initiation narrated in the 2nd Athyr the answer to this question is given. The word ‘“‘ Samadhi” is now deep down, “an old unhappy far-off thing.” By so much does this exceed that. In this supreme marriage of Infinite with Infinite comes the key to the Grade of Ipsissimus, which Grade is shadowed forth—but oh, how dimly !—in the 1st Aéthyr. It will be noticed by those who understand this A&thyr that when all is done there is a complete identification (on the very last page) of that highest thing with that lowest. The Master of…
1913 · PDF PAGE 502
…f the universal agent, is nothing else than the bearded devil of the alchemists. One knows that the members of the highest grades in the old hermetic masonry attributed to a bearded demon the accomplishment of the Great Work. At this word, the vulgar hastened to cross themselves, and to hide their eyes, but the initiates of the cult of Hermes-Pantheos understood the allegory, and were very careful not to explain it to the profane. Mr. de Mirville, in a book to-day almost forgotten, though it made some noise a few months ago, gives himself a gre…
1907 · PDF PAGE 201
…eep . Before the name of That which is beyond life and death , beyond matter and energy , beyond the human and the mortal ; he stands , holding before us as a stan dard , the homologue of the Labarum of old , “ In
1913 · PDF PAGE 530
THE EQUINOX grow hot, and imaginations wild; they believe in a miracle more startling than was of old the passage of the Red Sea. The Jews form in a close column, and run towards the sea; the rear ranks push the front ranks frantically: they think they see the pretended Moses walk upon the water. A shocking disaster resulted: almost all that multitude was drowned, and the hallucination was only extinguished with the life of the greater number of those unhappy visionaries. Human thought creates what it imagines ; the phantoms of superstition pro…
1913 · PDF PAGE 530
THE EQUINOX grow hot, and imaginations wild; they believe in a miracle more startling than was of old the passage of the Red Sea. The Jews form in a close column, and run towards the sea; the rear ranks push the front ranks frantically: they think they see the pretended Moses walk upon the water. A shocking disaster resulted: almost all that multitude was drowned, and the hallucination was only extinguished with the life of the greater number of those unhappy visionaries. Human thought creates what it imagines ; the phantoms of superstition pro…
1954 · PDF PAGE 11
…r the diagnosis-now for the remedy! One genius, inspired of the Gods, suggested recently that the riddle might be solved somewhat on the old and well-tried lines of "Dr. Brewer's Guide to Science," i.e., by having aspirants write to the Master asking questions, the kind of problem that naturally comes into the mind of any sensible enquirer, and getting his answer in the form of a letter. "What is it?" "Why should I bother my head about it?" "What are its principles?" "What use is it?" "How do I begin?" and the like. This plan has been put into …
1954 · PDF PAGE 71
…his subject with reasonable adequacy. I have been at the pains of translating it from his French, I hope not too much reminiscent of the old traduttore, traditore. I will revise it, divide it (like Gaul) into Three Parts and send it along. Love is the law, love under will. Fraternally, 666
1909 · PDF PAGE 389
…hat I might soon have achild whom I could bring up in the idea that he was to take my place. I could also shape an infant better than an old seaman. So I left him to the whales and other fishes, and proceeded towards the oasis. The two wives he had spoken of were the same women who caused my last illness. But their sweet smile prevented me from using any abusive language, which, in fact, they could not understand. Well aware that I was fated to conceal my thoughts for a very long while, I allowed them to advance and attend upon me. In that way …
1909 · PDF PAGE 389
…hat I might soon have achild whom I could bring up in the idea that he was to take my place. I could also shape an infant better than an old seaman. So I left him to the whales and other fishes, and proceeded towards the oasis. The two wives he had spoken of were the same women who caused my last illness. But their sweet smile prevented me from using any abusive language, which, in fact, they could not understand. Well aware that I was fated to conceal my thoughts for a very long while, I allowed them to advance and attend upon me. In that way …
1910 · PDF PAGE 320
… themselves, howling with intense pain and agony, all in a sweat, their bodies aching with all the torments of Fire. They could hear the old man, by his table, cursing them and hitting the wax figures with the hot poker, haphazard, careless of the spot where he struck; but he struck them all equally. The contortions of the men on the yellow painted floor were terrible. He took no heed of them, and went on, cursing them each by name and each time hitting one figure, corresponding to the name he was cursing. Finally, the red-hot iron had turned b…
1910 · PDF PAGE 320
… themselves, howling with intense pain and agony, all in a sweat, their bodies aching with all the torments of Fire. They could hear the old man, by his table, cursing them and hitting the wax figures with the hot poker, haphazard, careless of the spot where he struck; but he struck them all equally. The contortions of the men on the yellow painted floor were terrible. He took no heed of them, and went on, cursing them each by name and each time hitting one figure, corresponding to the name he was cursing. Finally, the red-hot iron had turned b…
1911 · PDF PAGE 178
…made ofthe preparations made by the ancient alchemists which were thought to have magic power. Short biographical sketches ofsome of the old masters of pharmacy appear, but after Liebig we have no special mention of the pharmacists of the last century. A interesting chapter on Poisons in History, introducing the stories of poisoners and the drugs employed, furnishes material for the budding novelist, to whom in fact the whole of this excellent work may be recommended. To the occult reader the concluding chapter on names and symbols would be of …
1911 · PDF PAGE 178
…made ofthe preparations made by the ancient alchemists which were thought to have magic power. Short biographical sketches ofsome of the old masters of pharmacy appear, but after Liebig we have no special mention of the pharmacists of the last century. A interesting chapter on Poisons in History, introducing the stories of poisoners and the drugs employed, furnishes material for the budding novelist, to whom in fact the whole of this excellent work may be recommended. To the occult reader the concluding chapter on names and symbols would be of …
1919 · PDF PAGE 151
…although the object of the practice was the control of the body by not crossing the legs, yet the attempt of the legs to drop into their old habits often had the effect of making him suddenly more careful in his speech, thus showing that there was an underlying connection in his subconscious mind resulting from his former work. These practices may then be said to have a cumulative effect, which makes them all the more valuable in helping towards the general control of body and mind. But what is of still greater importance as far as Frater V.1.0…