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Page 64 of 941909 · PDF PAGE 286
THE EQUINOX and Earth.” ‘The four Yodhs refer to the four letters of the Holy Name. The dogs are the jackals of Anubis guarding the gates of the East and the West symbolised by the two Towers. The cray-fish is the sign Cancer, the Scarabzeus or God Kephera. “The emblem of the Sun below the horizon, as he ever is when the Moon is increasing above.’ The Hierophant then leads the Practicus to the Serpent of Brass, m2) and says: “This is the Serpent Nehushtan, which Moses made. ‘And he set it upon a Pole’ —that is, he twined it about the middle pil…
1910 · PDF PAGE 132
…n 1. 6m. Three breaks, I seemed to collapse sud- denly. Went to Devachan{ on Astral Journey. I found myself sur- * In all cases when the name alone is mentioned a meditation practice is understood. Prithivi-Apas corresponds to water of earth. It is symbolized by a silver crescent drawn within a yellow square. See Diagram 84. +t Le, Self in Akasa between pillars with white ray descending. t Heaven. 116
1910 · PDF PAGE 132
…n 1. 6m. Three breaks, I seemed to collapse sud- denly. Went to Devachan{ on Astral Journey. I found myself sur- * In all cases when the name alone is mentioned a meditation practice is understood. Prithivi-Apas corresponds to water of earth. It is symbolized by a silver crescent drawn within a yellow square. See Diagram 84. +t Le, Self in Akasa between pillars with white ray descending. t Heaven. 116
1913 · PDF PAGE 156
…e spirit of man with the lust of light. I am the sightless storm in the night that wrappeth the world about with desolation. Chaos is my name, and thick darkness. Know thou that the darkness of the earth is ruddy, and the darkness of the air is grey, but the darkness of the soul is utter blackness. The egg of the spirit is a basilisk egg, and the gates of the understanding are fifty, that is the sign of the Scorpion. The pillars about the neophyte are crowned with flame, and the vault of the Adepts is lighted by the Rose. And in the 116
1913 · PDF PAGE 156
…e spirit of man with the lust of light. I am the sightless storm in the night that wrappeth the world about with desolation. Chaos is my name, and thick darkness. Know thou that the darkness of the earth is ruddy, and the darkness of the air is grey, but the darkness of the soul is utter blackness. The egg of the spirit is a basilisk egg, and the gates of the understanding are fifty, that is the sign of the Scorpion. The pillars about the neophyte are crowned with flame, and the vault of the Adepts is lighted by the Rose. And in the 116
1907 · PDF PAGE 97
… of his is tingling thus Now in thy veins indignant at our sin . ' Thus we find free love is the great , pure , and only true love . Its name has been soiled and fouled by the feculencies of Holywell Street , its celebration mis understood and prostituted by the Church , and its life threatened and blackguardized by the Law . But wherever two hearts beat in unison , there is its abode , North or South , East or West , it knows no locality , no time , no space ; for it is love sublime , eternal , inscrutable ; its greatest foe is Lust , and the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 262
…ts, misled by the much greater extent of gummy secretion in the latter, have distinguished it from its brother of the colder soil by the name Cannabis indica. The 244
1910 · PDF PAGE 262
…ts, misled by the much greater extent of gummy secretion in the latter, have distinguished it from its brother of the colder soil by the name Cannabis indica. The 244
1911 · PDF PAGE 149
… face of the Magician that thou hast not been able to behold,—of him from whom issue forth the severities that are upon Malkuth, and his name is Misericordia Dei. And because he is the dyad, thou mayest yet understand in two ways. Of the first way, the Mercy of God is that Mercy which Jehovah showed to the Amalekites; and the second way is utterly beyond thine understanding, for it is the upright, and thou knowest nothing but the averse,—until Wisdom shall inform thine Understanding, and upon the base of the Ultimate triangle arise the smooth p…
1919 · PDF PAGE 400
…hem in his own case. For one Teacher who knows his subject at all, there are at least ten thousand who belch pious platitudes. I wish to name no names, but Annie Besant, Prentice Mulford, Tro- ward, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and so on, down—right down 8
1919 · PDF PAGE 409
… of feeling as you do when you are making yourself invisible. Shila is in no way connected with the charming Irish col- leen of the same name. (Subsection III.) The “patience” here spoken of seems to imply courage of a very active kind. It is the quality which persists in spite of all opposition. It must not be for- gotten that the word “patience” is derived from Patior, I suffer. But, especially with the ancients, suffering was not conceived of as a purely passive function. It was keenly ac- tive and intensely enjoyable. There are certain word…
1909 · PDF PAGE 257
… the West at the limits of Malkuth; the robe of Darkness ; the sword; the Banner of the West; the Lamen. “* Avenger of the Gods,” is the name of the Hiereus, and he is “ Horus in the City of Blindness ” and of ignorance unto the Higher. The Hegemon. The place of the Hegemon is between the two pillars, whose bases are in Netzach and Hod at the intersection of the paths of ) and D in the symbolic gateway of Occult Science: as it were at the beam of the Balance at the equilibrium of the Scales of Justice, at the point of the intersection of the lo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 257
… the West at the limits of Malkuth; the robe of Darkness ; the sword; the Banner of the West; the Lamen. “* Avenger of the Gods,” is the name of the Hiereus, and he is “ Horus in the City of Blindness ” and of ignorance unto the Higher. The Hegemon. The place of the Hegemon is between the two pillars, whose bases are in Netzach and Hod at the intersection of the paths of ) and D in the symbolic gateway of Occult Science: as it were at the beam of the Balance at the equilibrium of the Scales of Justice, at the point of the intersection of the lo…
1911 · PDF PAGE 112
…s is made light. Then is light married with light, and the child of their love is that other darkness, wherein they abide that have lost name and form. Therefore did I kindle him that had not understanding, and in the Book of the Law did I write the secrets of truth that are like unto a star and a snake and a sword. And unto him that understandeth at last do I deliver the secrets of truth in such wise that the least of the little children of the light may run to the knees of the mother and be brought to understand. And thus shall he do who will…
1913 · PDF PAGE 159
…ought, and drink of the poison of life. Fifty are the gates of under- standing, and one hundred and six are the seasons thereof. And the name of every season is death. During all this speech, the figure of the angel has dwindled and flickered, and now it is gone out. And I come back in the body, rushing like a flame in a great wind. And the shew-stone has become warm, and in it is its own light. Bou-saada, December 3, 1909. 9.50-11.15 pr. Comment on this cry can but profane it, yet it is necessary to emphasize the very peculiar nature of the at…
1913 · PDF PAGE 159
…ought, and drink of the poison of life. Fifty are the gates of under- standing, and one hundred and six are the seasons thereof. And the name of every season is death. During all this speech, the figure of the angel has dwindled and flickered, and now it is gone out. And I come back in the body, rushing like a flame in a great wind. And the shew-stone has become warm, and in it is its own light. Bou-saada, December 3, 1909. 9.50-11.15 pr. Comment on this cry can but profane it, yet it is necessary to emphasize the very peculiar nature of the at…
1906 · PDF PAGE 63
…e pain, but enchanted : Her kiss is an opiate breath Amorously panted : Her fervours last granted Are sorrow, and death. Nor death as ye name in derision The change to a cycle of pain, To a cycle of joy as a vision Ye chase, and may capture in vain. Endeth you peace, and your change is Like the change in a measure that shrills And slackens and ranges; your passion estranges The love of the hills ! Nay ! death is a portal of passing To miseries other but sure. Yet the snow on the hills amassing The wind of an hour may endure ; But as day after d…
1909 · PDF PAGE 20
…nocks Samadhi to pieces, is such a stupendous Idea that it is far more of a! than all previous !’s whatever, for all its ? form. And the name of that Question is Nibbana. Take this matter of the soul. When Mr. Judas McCabbage asks the Man in the Street why he believes in a soul, the Man stammers out that he has always heard so; naturally McCabbage has no difficulty in proving to him by biological methods that he has no soul; and with a sunny smile each passes on his way. 128
1910 · PDF PAGE 32
24 we suspect) author of ‘ White Stains ’, and the nameless Aristophanes who wrote the ‘ Nameless Novel ’, nobody in modern times has dared to voice openly the supreme sanity, the splendid athletic- ism, and the unutterable spirituality of the male rapture of the passion between man and man. In treating of this matter I must first premise that by paederasty I mean actual sodomy as de- fined by British law1 — immissio penis in corpus vivum. “ Arse makes life golden, want of it dull yellow ; The rest is only leather and prunella.” At least, the r…
1922 · PDF PAGE 258
…s diary; but they are illegible, quite beyond conjecture. The only words decipherable are “‘sleep’’ near the beginning of the first; the name “ Basil” in the second ; and the word “ poison” in the third.)