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Page 66 of 901954 · PDF PAGE 54
…o throw the entire field out of focus. Hence, even to be aware that there is a result in prospect must militate against that serenity of spirit which is the essence of self-confidence. As you well know, all our automatic physiological functions are deranged if one is aware of them. This then, is the difficulty, to enjoy consciously while not disturbing the process involved. The obvious physical case is the sexual act: perhaps its chief importance is just that it is a type of this exceptional spiritual-mental condition. I hope, however, that you…
1919 · PDF PAGE 118
…well understood of you that it is not necessary or right to shut off natural activity of any kind, as certain false folk, eunuchs of the spirit, most foully teach, to the destruc- tion of many. For in every thing soever inhereth its own perfection proper to it, and to neglect the full operation and function of any one part bringeth distortion and degenera- tion to the whole. Act therefore in all ways, but transform- ing the effect of all these ways to the One Way of the Will. And this is possible, because all ways are in actual Truth One Way, t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 238
…e. Nature.is under a curse because of sex, and so this world is in the power of the Evil One. But I am chosen to redeem it, and the Holy Spirit overshadows me and sends angels to guard me. That is how we got rid of the servants. Peter suddenly attacked me. He got me down, and put his knee on my chest, and tried to strangle me. But the angel smote him suddenly, and all his muscles relaxed and he rolled over. His eyes were wide open, but I could only see the whites. That is a sign that he is possessed by the Devil, and that the angels are protect…
1930 · PDF PAGE 112
lymph, etc. while I am the Unchanging and Immortal Spirit, uniform, not made, unbegotten, formless, self-luminous,” etc. _ 3- This practice being perfect for each part of the body, let him combine his workings until the whole body is thus ur.derstood as the non-Ego and as illusion. 4. Let then the Hermit, seated in his Asana, meditate upon the Muladhara Cakkra ana its correspondence as a power of the mind, and destroy it in the same manner as aforesaid. Also by reasoning: This émotion (memory, imagination, intellect, will, as it may be) is not …
1954 · PDF PAGE 517
…s, will have done wonders with the help of the bovine well-being to produce a race of robot boys. All independence, all imagination, all spirit of Adventure, will have been ground down and rolled out smooth by this ghastly engine. But-Nature is not so easily beaten; a few boys and girls will somehow escape, and either by instinct or by observation, have the sense to keep secret. Now whatever their own peculiar genius may select as their line, they will realise that nothing is possible in any way while the accursed system stands. Their first dut…
1935 · PDF PAGE 16
…by any student. In invocation the divine force must be made as manifest and unmistakable as the effects of chloroform; in evocation, the spirit called forth must be at least as visible and tangible as the heaviest vapours; in divination, the answer must be as precise as a scientific thesis, and as accurate as an audit; in meditation, the results must read like a specialist’s report of a classical case. But such methods, the A.. A... intends to make occult science as systematic and scientific as chemistry; to rescue it from the ill repute which,…
1938 · PDF PAGE 23
…w is the hour of Power come upon our Brother the Lion to utter His Word with full efficacy to the whole Earth. Now was he silent and my spirit was sore troubled; my face darkened, for I approached the Mystery of Sin. But the countenance of my Teacher was glad; and his years fell from him like a mask; and his voice thrilled with the rapture of release.
1907 · PDF PAGE 233
…: ( how can you conceive it pos sible that things should exist in God's mind )I own I have properly no idea , either of God or any other Spirit ; for these being active cannot be repre “ While we cannot give a satisfactory reason , why we believe , after a thousand ex periments , that a stone will fall , or fire burn ; can we ever satisfy ourselves concerning any determination , which we
1922 · PDF PAGE 281
…me reason or other I felt a natural disinclination to take the dose of heroin which was offered to me. It seemed out of keeping with the spirit of the surroundings. I took it and enjoyed it; but the act was mechanical, and the effect in some obscure fashion unsatisfactory. We drove back to town, and had dinner in my new apartment, where they had an excellent restaurant service. , I found that during the day I had had fifteen sniffs of heroin. Lou had only had eleven. The reaction in my mind was this: If she can get on with eleven, why shouldn’t…
1954 · PDF PAGE 480
…ble places, and talked with the most holy inaccessible men; I have dared all the most dangerous adventures, both of the flesh and of the spirit; and 1 challenge the world's literature to match for sublimity and terror such experiences as those in the latter half of The Vision and the Voice.
1905 · PDF PAGE 239
…ut of Thy likeness have I often seen The vast presentment—formless, palpable, Breathing. Not breathing as we use the word, When life and spirit mingle in one breath, Slay passion in one kiss—breathing, I say, Differently from Thee! VENUS. Explain, explain ! TANNHAUSER. As if were kindled into gold and fire The East ! VENUS. The East ! TANNHAUSER. As ifa flowerless moss Suddenly broke in passionate primroses !! VENUS. Violets, violets ! TANNHAUSER. Or as if a man Lay in the fairest garden of the world, In the beginning: and grew suddenly A livin…
1954 · PDF PAGE 271
…t myself impelled to undertake the task of presenting Lao-tze in language informed by the sympathetic understanding which initiation and spiritual experience had conferred on me. During my Great Magical Retirement on Aesopus Island in the Hudson River during the summer of 1918, I set myself to this work, but I discovered immediately that I was totally incompetent. I therefore appealed to an Adept named Amalantrah , with whom I was at that time in almost daily communion. He came readily to my aid, and exhibited to me a codex of the original, whi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 208
…t was a great point in the game of the astute Cremers to have pleased the sorcerer; and she began insensibly to gain ascendancy over his spirit. He had at first suspected her of being an emissary of his colleague, "A.B." who might naturally wish to destroy him. For the plan of the sorcerer who wishes to be sole and supreme is to destroy all rivals, enemies, and companions; while the magician attains supremacy in Unity by constantly uniting himself with others, and finding himself equally in every element of existence. It is the difference betwe…
1930 · PDF PAGE 133
…se; and thy vow is but the rustling of the wind on Mount Meru. 17. How shalt thou adore me who am the Eye and the Tooth, the Goat of the Spirit, the Lord of Création. I am the Eye in the Triangle, the Silver Star that ye adore. 18. I am Baphomet, that is the Eightfold Word that shall be equilibrated with the Three. *9- There is no act or passion that shall not be an hymn in mine honour. 20. Ail holy things and ail symbolic things shall be my sacraments. 21. These animais are sacred unto me 5 the goat, and the duck, and the ass, and the gazelle,…
1905 · PDF PAGE 68
…e home with you, you who broke my mother’s heart, and turned me from your doors penniless. BRANDON, Unnatural puppy ! PERCY. My mother’s spirit forgives you, and in my heart is no longer the desire for vengeance. So far have I risen, but not far enough to forget that you are the most abominable villain that plagues God’s beautiful world with his infesting life. BRANDON [ze2¢h setdden calnness|. This to his father! say, you wretch? PERCY [to VAUGHAN]. I will go, my true new father. Kiss Esmé for me a hundred times ! BRANDON [breaking from the Fo…
1905 · PDF PAGE 261
…ve the wide circle—word and argument ! Move to the line—the steady will of man, That shall attract the Two, the Breath of Life, The Holy Spirit: land you in the Three, Where form is perfect—in the triangle. TANNHAUSER, My friend, the Three is infinitely small, Mere surface. And I seek the Depth divine! THE UNKNOWN MINSTREL. The solid! But the triangle aspires To that same unity that you despise, And lo! the Pyramid! The Sages say : Unite that to the-Sphinx, and all is done, Completion of the Magnum Opus. TANNHAUSER. No! Each new dimension lands…
1907 · PDF PAGE 139
… stars, Unpastured, untethered, Unstricken of scars, Come forth! I invoke ye, O clouds! ye veils ! ye divine avatars ! THE CLOUDS. Sun’s spirit is calling ! We gather together, White wreaths, as appalling Pale ghosts of dead weather,
1922 · PDF PAGE 241
Cold Turkey 227 work to be done. I have become quite blind to the spiritual world. Keletiel never comes. I must wait, wait, wait for the Holy Spirit ; but that’s a memory so far, far off ! There are times when I almost doubt it, yet my faith is the only thing that prevents my going insane. I can't endure without H. The sympathy of suffering has brought Peter closer. We lie about and look at each other; but we can’t touch, the skin is too painful. We are both restless as it is impossible to describe. It irritates us to see each other like this, …
1954 · PDF PAGE 350
…premely important document , merely to jeer at the impotent resentment of the luckless scribe! It seemed to me downright ungenerous, the spirit of the triumphant schoolboy bully! But Their ways are not as our ways. It is most necessary that you should understand what happens when one goes from Adeptus Exemptus 7° = 40 to Magister Templi 8° = 3D • As you see from a glance at the Tree of Life, this advance
1904 · PDF PAGE 42
…as now it was the fifteenth day since the last relief party had fallen, for all England was now up in arms against what their freeborn spirit consid- ered an unwarrantable and tyrannical demand on their manhood it is a good thing, said George W.....m himself, to have a giants strength, but tyr- annous to use it like a giant while the sporting instinct of the race was equally aroused, and they were as one man (so the Pink Un voiced the gener- ous feeling of the community) in their resolve to stand away, and lets see the Frenchy have h…