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Page 65 of 1071913 · PDF PAGE 505
…entary and their laughter. All men who are really strong are magnetizers, and the universal agent obeys their will. It is thus that they work marvels. They make themselves believed, they make them- selves followed, and when they say, “This is thus,” Nature changes (in a sense) to the eyes of the vulgar, and becomes what the great man wished. “This is my flesh and this is my blood,” said a Man who had made himself God by his virtues; and eighteen centuries, in the presence of a piece of bread and a little wine, have seen, touched, tasted and ado…
1913 · PDF PAGE 505
…entary and their laughter. All men who are really strong are magnetizers, and the universal agent obeys their will. It is thus that they work marvels. They make themselves believed, they make them- selves followed, and when they say, “This is thus,” Nature changes (in a sense) to the eyes of the vulgar, and becomes what the great man wished. “This is my flesh and this is my blood,” said a Man who had made himself God by his virtues; and eighteen centuries, in the presence of a piece of bread and a little wine, have seen, touched, tasted and ado…
1954 · PDF PAGE 167
…. (Verse 54 is a hint to seek the secret.) In Greek letters TO MH adds to 418; it is identical with Abrahadabra, the cipher of the Great Work. Meditation should lead the student to considerations even deeper and more fruitful. Invoke me under my stars! Love is the law, love under will. Nor let the fools mistake love; for there are love and love. There is the dove, and there is the serpent. Choose ye well! He, my prophet hath chosen, knowing the law of the fortress, and the great mystery of the House of God. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter…
1996 · PDF PAGE 163
…strong in war. 29. Moreover, be they long kept, it is better; for they swell with my force. All before me. 30. My altar is of open brass work: bum thereon in silver or gold!
1904 · PDF PAGE 21
…ly glance at the newsmans disordered toi- let. May I order you a closed fly ? he added with a twinkle. But the reporter was hard at work scribbling down these scintillations in short hand. One must live, said the Daily M . . . er, look- ing up. I do not see the necessity retorted the other, straining after originality. But a pleasanter glance overspread his face, and lit his kindly grey eyes, for his own wit kept him in almost perpetual good humour let us say nothing of all this but what gentlemen should say. I might find …
1913 · PDF PAGE 560
…nd genius itself is, because light is. Genius is immortal because it understands that light is eternal. Genius contemplates truth as its work because it is the victor of light, and immortality is the triumph of light because it will be the recompense and crown of genius. But all spirits do not see with justness, because all hearts do not will with justice. There are souls for whom the true light seems to have no right to be. They content themselves with phosphorescent visions, abortions of light, hallucinations of thought; and, loving these pha…
1913 · PDF PAGE 560
…nd genius itself is, because light is. Genius is immortal because it understands that light is eternal. Genius contemplates truth as its work because it is the victor of light, and immortality is the triumph of light because it will be the recompense and crown of genius. But all spirits do not see with justness, because all hearts do not will with justice. There are souls for whom the true light seems to have no right to be. They content themselves with phosphorescent visions, abortions of light, hallucinations of thought; and, loving these pha…
1954 · PDF PAGE 39
…I obeyed the injunction to "buy a perfectly black hen, without haggling." I have spent over 100,000 pounds of my inherited money on this work; and if I had a thousand times that amount today it would all go in the same direction. It is only when one is built in this way, to stand entirely aloof from all considerations of twopence halfpenny more or fourpence halfpenny less, that one obtains perfect freedom on this Plane of Discs. All the serious Orders of the world, or nearly all, begin by insisting that the aspirant should take a vow of poverty…
1954 · PDF PAGE 160
…n one man, deliberately kept "in the wilderness" for decades as "unsound," "eccentric," "dangerous," "not to be trusted," "impossible to work with," to take over the country from the bewildered "safe" men? And what could he have done unless the people had responded? Nothing. So then there is still a remnant whose independence, sense of reality, and manhood begin to count when the dear, good, woolly flock scatter in terror at the wolfs first howl. Yes, they are there, and they can get us back our freedom-if only we can make them see that the ene…
1906 · PDF PAGE 150
…that’s the gold!” }# But don’t worry about it! theories OF ors I, you, or Simpkin * can get on without it! Browning’s "If life’s task be work and love’s (the soft-lippéd) ease, summary. Death’s be God’s glory ? discuss with Euripides ! 30 * The numbered notes are given at p. 190. + Bacon, ‘‘ Essay on Truth,” line 1. + ‘‘ Childe Roland to the dark Tower came.’ —BROWNING. 144
1922 · PDF PAGE 258
…ut to dinner and make a night of it.” November 6 ' We've arranged for a regular supply ; but the hellish thing is that the stuff doesn’t work any more. We get the insomnia and those things all mght, but we can’t get any fun out of it. We've tried all sorts of dodges. It’s no good. Being with it simply dulls the pain of being without. That’s the best I can say. What are we to do? (There are three more entries in this diary; but they are illegible, quite beyond conjecture. The only words decipherable are “‘sleep’’ near the beginning of the first;…
1954 · PDF PAGE 184
…oats, and I don't want to appear more of an eccentric than I need. It might detract from my personal influence, and so actually harm the Work that I am trying to perform. Love is the law, love under will. Yours fraternally, 666
1996 · PDF PAGE 213
…strong in war. 29. Moreover, be they long kept, it is better; for they swell with my force. All before me. 30. My altar is of open brass work: burn thereon in silver or gold! 31. There cometh a rich man from the West who shall pour his gold upon thee. 32. From gold forge steel! 33. Be ready to fly or to smite! 34. But your holy place shall be untouched throughout the centuries: though with fire and sword it be burnt down & shattered, yet an invisible house there standeth, and shall stand until the fall of the Great Equinox; when Hrumachis shall…
1907 · PDF PAGE 115
RODIN I'N RIME 1907 AUTHOR’S NOTE AUGUSTE RODIN AND THE NOMENCLATURE OF HIS WORKS A STUDY IN SPITE WHEN illegitimate criticism is met with a smart swing on the point of the jaw, and has subsided into an unpleasant and unpitiful heap; when its high-well-born brother has shaken hands—not without many years of friendly sparring—with the new pugilist, all his family are very disappointed, for Society takes no notice of them in its (to them un- seemly) adulation of the rising star. Their unfraternal feeling may even lead them to employ a sandbagger …
1929 · PDF PAGE 140
… of the principal operations of Magick is to invoke the god appropriate to the thing you want, identify yourself with Him and flood your work with His immaculate impulse. This is, in fact, to make Samadhi with that God. The two processes are essentially identical; the apparent difference arises merely from the distinction between the European and Asiatic conceptions of the cosmos. Most European religion, including orthodox Judaism, is anthropomorphic, an expansion of the moral ideas connected with the members of a family. Asiatic religions1, ev…
1929 · PDF PAGE 468
468 natural reaction to the opportunity. But this at least I do claim, that when I found how loathsome my work was, what humiliations and privations it involved, I set my teeth and stuck to the job. Now then, as to the form of my report. From time to time I sketched various statements intended for various readers. I have chosen the one which I wrote in a moment of heartbreak, when, after my work had been crowned with success, I found that my two oldest friends understood me so little that they thought it their duty to urge me to justify my cond…
1929 · PDF PAGE 544
…in expressions which propriety declares unsuited for publication. She had no skill in polite euphemisms and, of course, no idea that her work would ever be read, save by me. In fact, she tried to destroy it on my asking to see it and I only secured it after physical struggle. We must, I fear, bow in the temple of Rimmon to the extent of editing such passages, which I hate to do; their brutal obscenity is an essential element in her character. Should a tiger describe his sensations while eating a man, we should lose by amending his account so as…
1913 · PDF PAGE 135
…ms. The latteris ‘no tragedy of little tears,’ but the utterance of a god-like grief. ‘ The Priestess of Panormita’ is an extremely fine work of art; the right of selection has been exercised to the utmost, there are no superfluous words, no vague images, everything iis precise, clear-cut, and strong. ‘Bathyllus’ is a beautiful poem;... ‘The Ladder’ is a fine lyric describing the ascen- sion up the middle pillar of the Tree of Life, from Malkuth to Kether. ‘Telepathy,’ ‘The Opium Smoker,’ ‘ The Muse,’ are all poems which will grip and hold the …
1913 · PDF PAGE 36
…on made by Leadbeater. In any case, the boy who is not able to write a decent English letter is absolutely incapable of producing such a work. The plaintiff submits that this course of conduct is calculated to warp the moral nature of the boys and to make them moral degenerates. The defendant, beyond putting forward divine claims on behalf of the boys, has not been taking proper care of their education. The first boy has not picked up the rudiments of the English language in spite of three years of alleged tuition by English tutors. The plainti…
1913 · PDF PAGE 36
…on made by Leadbeater. In any case, the boy who is not able to write a decent English letter is absolutely incapable of producing such a work. The plaintiff submits that this course of conduct is calculated to warp the moral nature of the boys and to make them moral degenerates. The defendant, beyond putting forward divine claims on behalf of the boys, has not been taking proper care of their education. The first boy has not picked up the rudiments of the English language in spite of three years of alleged tuition by English tutors. The plainti…