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Page 64 of 901910 · PDF PAGE 145
… were swallowed up in the One Atman of the Beginning. This Individualistic Conception Gotama banned, he would have none of it; a Soul, a Spirit, a separate entity was anathema to him; but in overthrowing the corrupt Vedanta of the latter-day pundits, like Luther, who many centuries later tore the tawdry vanities from off the back of prostitute Rome, approximating his reformed Church to the communistic brotherhood of Christ, Gotama, the Enlightened One, the Buddha, now similarly went back to Vedic times and to the wisdom of the old Rishis. But, …
1922 · PDF PAGE 64
…y of everything she said and did. Her eyes glittered, her lips twittered, her cheeks glowed like fresh blown buds in spring. She was the spirit of cocaine incarnate ; cocaine made flesh. Her mere existence made the Universe infinitely exciting. Say, if you like, she was possessed of the devil ! . Any good person, so-called, would have been shocked and scared at her appearance. She represented the siren, the vampire, Melusine, the dangerous, delicious devil that cowards have invented to explain their lack of manliness. Nothing would suit her moo…
1922 · PDF PAGE 145
…y only, would clear my mind of its confusion, and show me a way out of this rotten mess. I wanted them most of all morally. I lacked the spirit to stand up under this sudden burst of drum fire. But Lou stuck to it gamely. She was on her mettle, though I could see that she was almost fainting from the stress of the various circumstances,
1922 · PDF PAGE 301
… it into my hands outright. And then I realised how very badly I wanted it. “ Well, certainly, Mr. Platt,”’ I replied, entering into the spirit of the thing, ‘‘ I shall be only too glad to give you my opinion for what it may be worth.” I could not conceal the feverish eagerness with which I shook out a dose. My pretence at sniffing with a critical air was ludicrously feeble. A child could have seen that I was shaken, body and soul, by the feverish lust to get it into my system after so long an abstinence. Time had purged my system of the poison…
1954 · PDF PAGE 24
…known to the contemporary scene, for what he had to say could serve as a guide into the unknown and immeasurable regions of the mind and spirit. For a reprint of his essays about hashish with an acute analysis of mystical states in terms of the Buddhist skandhas, the reader should consult Roll A way the Stone (St. Paul: Llewellyn Publications, 1968). Some of the letters in Magick without Tears are particularly pertinent to this theme, where these topics are handled simply and directly and intelligently. For example, in letter 78 entitled "Sore …
1929 · PDF PAGE 563
…f anyone knew a suitable place. The vague reply was that there were plenty round the King's Road, Chelsea. I went off, weary in body and spirit. I could hardly drag one foot after the other. I had alighted at a horrible hotel in Russell Square thronged with hustling hooligans of the middle classes. My heart sank at the thought of going back there. I wanted to save the fivepenny bus fare. I came to the corner of Wellington Square and was suddenly seized with a direct inspiration to try my luck. "Try the sacred numbers, especially the Secret Key …
1954 · PDF PAGE 533
…he extraordinary discovery that the definition of matter as given by the physicist of to-day is very similar indeed to the definition of spirit as stated by the mystics of the middle ages. Henry Poincare has well pointed out that the results of
1910 · PDF PAGE 121
…ack egg in the centre. See 777, col. LXXV, p.16. See Diagram 84. § Apas-Vayu is the Element of Water and is symbolized by a black egg of Spirit in the Silver Crescent of Water. See 777, col. LXXV, p. 16. See Diagram 84. || The Golden Dawn symbol of the Flaming Sword. See Diagram 12. 107
1910 · PDF PAGE 121
…ack egg in the centre. See 777, col. LXXV, p.16. See Diagram 84. § Apas-Vayu is the Element of Water and is symbolized by a black egg of Spirit in the Silver Crescent of Water. See 777, col. LXXV, p. 16. See Diagram 84. || The Golden Dawn symbol of the Flaming Sword. See Diagram 12. 107
1904 · PDF PAGE 75
…ful governor Amaimon,’ _whoreigneth exalted in the Jaida Gl woresa tofijilo gabé do elonu-Dobe Ra-As, power of the only E] _—_ above all spirits in the kingdoms of the East, (Babaje, Bobanu, Lucala,) ol vinu od 30dakame ilasa 00-0-a-ipé (South, West, North), I invoke and move thee in the name of paoanu Mada, oD DO Gada soba ilasa iebe boaluabe: od do the true God, and in God whom thou worshippest : and in €metajisa qoadnu; od Do-o-a-ipe micacljoD0 Mada, Febevobe the seal of thy creation: and in the mighty names of God, Iehevohe Cetragrammaton d…
1929 · PDF PAGE 548
…ioms. I forced her to confess the incongruity of her assertions. I drilled holes in her vanity and self-satisfaction. I dug her critical spirit out of its corner, and made her clean off {864} the rust, sharpen the edge and the point, and polish the steel till it shone. When she saw it, she feared it all the more; but I forced her to grasp it and use it. At every stroke she split the skull of one of her dearest delusions and shrieked as if its destruction were her own. She dropped the sword every time my eye was off her, but I always made her pi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 40
…bdomen ; her spunk-besmeared grummet stuck ever closer to my ever wearier rubigo. So I made the best of a bloody bad job, and gave her a spirit-indeed-is-willing-but-the flesh-is-weak prick-scouring as if the last trump were going to sound in a minute, and I were afraid to be caught with my work half done on Judge- ment Day, as Browning says. So I leather-stretched wearily on. During all this time the Empress had kept up her strength by copious libations of whisky, (which stood in casks at a great height above her head, and trickled down in …
1912 · PDF PAGE 304
…ong those degenerate Jews who are at least not Cannibals. Is it to such people, indeed, that we are to look for the highest and subtlest spiritual knowledge? Το this criticism there are but two answers. The first, that an esoteric tradition of great purity may co-exist with the most crass exoteric practice, Witness the Upanishads in the land of Jagganath, hook-swinging, and the stupidest forms of HathaAYoga. Witness the Tipitaka (with such perfectiorisas the Dhammapada) in the midst of peoples whose science of torture would seem to have sprung f…
1912 · PDF PAGE 304
…ong those degenerate Jews who are at least not Cannibals. Is it to such people, indeed, that we are to look for the highest and subtlest spiritual knowledge? Το this criticism there are but two answers. The first, that an esoteric tradition of great purity may co-exist with the most crass exoteric practice, Witness the Upanishads in the land of Jagganath, hook-swinging, and the stupidest forms of HathaAYoga. Witness the Tipitaka (with such perfectiorisas the Dhammapada) in the midst of peoples whose science of torture would seem to have sprung f…
1954 · PDF PAGE 215
…nd (as a rule) complete futility against the deceptions of the common conjuror. They are not expecting any genuine manifestation of the "Spirit World" ; and this fact makes clear their true subconscious attitude. As for those mediums who possess magical ability, they almost always come from the most ignorant classes-Celts are an exception to this rule-and have no knowledge whatever of the technique of the business. Worse, they are usually of the type that delights in secret dirty affinities, and so naturally and gladly attract entities of the Q…
1906 · PDF PAGE 148
‘THE SWORD OF SONG If the student has advanced spiritually so that he can internally, infallibly perceive what is Truth, he will find it equally well symbolised in most external faiths. . It is curious that Browning never turns his wonderful faculty of analysis upon the funda- mental problems of religion, as it were an axe laid to the root of the Tree of Life. It seems quite clear that he knew what would result if he did so. We cannot help fancying that he was unwilling to do this. of his knowledge I find in the following lines :— ‘‘T have read…
1922 · PDF PAGE 381
…price which man had paid for the conquest of the air! How much greater must be the indemnity demanded by imertia for the conquest of the spirit! For we are of more value than many sparrows. How blind we had been! Through what appalling abysses of agony had we not been led in order that we might say that we had conquered the moral problem posed by the discoveries of organic chemistry. “The master of tide and thunder against the juice of a flower?” We had given the lie to the poet. “ This is the only battle he never was known to win.”
1996 · PDF PAGE 62
…vely projected image of the Will of the individual who, whether man or woman, is a star; the Pennsylvanian with his pig no less than the Spirit with Mary; Sappho with Atthis and Apollo with Hyacinth as perfect as Daphnis with Chloe or as Galahad vowed to the Graal. The one thing needful, the all perfect means of purification, consecration, and sanctification — independent of the physical and moral accidents circumstantial of the particular incident—is the realization of love as a sacrament. The use of the physical means as a Magical Operation …
1961 · PDF PAGE 163
…y is S#inu whose Numer-ation is Six Hundred and Three Score and Six. For the Root thereof is S#, which signifieth the Incarnation of the Spirit; and of Kin are not only the Sun, Our Father, but Sumer, where Man knew himself Man, and Soma, the Divine Potion that giveth Men Enlightenment, and Scin, Light Astral, and Scire also, by a far Travelling. But especially is this Root hidden in Sus, that is of the Sow, Swine, because the Most Holy must needs take its Delight under the Omphalos of the Unclean. But this was hidden by Wisdom in Order that th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 143
…Frazer hâve accorded the subject its full importance. Let us try to make considérations of the nature of Magick in a strictly scientific spirit, as well as, deprived of the guidance of antiquity, wc may. What is a Magical Operation? It may be defined as any event in Nature which is brought to pass by Will. We must not exclude potato-growing or banking from our définition. 1. The Hebrew legends furnish us with the reason for the respective virtues of water and lire. The world was purified by water at the Deluge, and will be consecrated by lire a…